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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition (2-Disc Set)
»rank: 187
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an 0scar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ('practically perfect in every way,' and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The ...
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Enchanted (Widescreen)
»rank: 1083
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an 0scar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ('practically perfect in every way,' and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The ...
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Victor/Victoria (Widescreen)
»rank: 1627
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:With warmth, pride, and laughter as well as the ease of a long-married couple, Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews settle in to record the DVD commentary for their 20-year-old creation Victor/Victoria. They discuss costars Robert Preston, James Garner, and Lesley Ann Warren; Andrews's fear of cockroaches; and comparisons with the Broadway stage version and with their 1970 musical Darling Lily. Andrews mentions how Henry Mancini wrote one of her favorite songs, 'Crazy World,' specifically for her vocal range, a comment made poignant by the fact that her ...
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Apollo 13 (Collector's Edition) (Full Screen)
»rank: 2460
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance ...
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Beautiful Thing (Widescreen)
»rank: 6124
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:A grim, gritty South London housing estate makes an unlikley setting for a romantic fairy-tale, but Hetti MacDonald's gay teenage love story all but brings it off. Adapted by screenwriter Jonathan Harvey from his own stage play, Beautiful Thing tells how teenage loner Jamie falls for next-door neighbour Ste, one of the tough kids who bullies him at school. Amazingly, he finds his feelings reciprocated, and the two progress to a tender, tentative affair. Sidestepping conventional notions of working-class homophobia, the film succeeds in presenting its central ...
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Eloise: At The Plaza
»rank: 2331
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Kay Thompson's literary classic comes to life in this TV movie starring a free-spirited 6-year-old living in New York's Plaza Hotel. Sofia Vassilieva lights up the screen as Eloise, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hilary Knight's illustrated namesake, from her bright red ribbon to her dainty designer shoes. Equal parts irrepressible imp and cherubic charmer, Eloise has the run of the hotel under the (mostly) attentive eye of beloved Nanny, played 'rawther' marvelously by the timeless Julie Andrews. As the Plaza prepares for its debutante ball, a ...
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Noises Off!
»rank: 10167
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Kay Thompson's literary classic comes to life in this TV movie starring a free-spirited 6-year-old living in New York's Plaza Hotel. Sofia Vassilieva lights up the screen as Eloise, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hilary Knight's illustrated namesake, from her bright red ribbon to her dainty designer shoes. Equal parts irrepressible imp and cherubic charmer, Eloise has the run of the hotel under the (mostly) attentive eye of beloved Nanny, played 'rawther' marvelously by the timeless Julie Andrews. As the Plaza prepares for its debutante ball, a ...
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One Special Night
»rank: 10167
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf the title lt Happened 0ne Night hadn't already been taken for Frank Capra's romantic comedy classic, it would've worked just as well for this holiday charmer. Catherine (Julie Andrews) is a widowed pediatric physician (with no children of her own) and Robert (James Garner) is a contractor with a wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Due to an accident of fate (a winter storm), they end up spending Thanksgiving together in an abandoned cabin, away from their family and friends. The two initially wary strangers soon find ...
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Princess Diaries
»rank: 1907
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf the title lt Happened 0ne Night hadn't already been taken for Frank Capra's romantic comedy classic, it would've worked just as well for this holiday charmer. Catherine (Julie Andrews) is a widowed pediatric physician (with no children of her own) and Robert (James Garner) is a contractor with a wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Due to an accident of fate (a winter storm), they end up spending Thanksgiving together in an abandoned cabin, away from their family and friends. The two initially wary strangers soon find ...
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
»rank: 758
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 1920s. lt has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ('0h, banana oil'), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and James Fox, ...
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