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Front Cover                          December  1999

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HOT FLICKS

Savior
A devastating portrait of the war in the Balkans. Dennis Quaid makes an interesting mercenary.

Shakespeare in Love
Delightful entertainment. Catch Shakespeare in his underwear with his inspiration exposed. The anamorphic DVD looks divine. Shakespeare in Love is the inaugural ISF DVD Selection of the Month. Congratulations to Miramax and Disney.

October Sky
Soaring drama about four young men who rise above their coal mine origins. Great filmmaking from director Joe Johnston. Outstanding transfer. Not to be missed!

HOT LINKS

ReelClassics.com
A mountain of information on actors and actresses, directors and Hollywood, with more links than you can count. Want information on Ida Lupino? ReelClassics.com is a great recourse.  Elizabeth for does a yeoman-like maintenance job

Movieshock.com
A new site with many links to movie-related areas.

. Dvdrama 
A beautiful French DVD site (Yes, in French!) makes its web debut with reviews of region 1 and region 2 DVDs. Vivre la DVD!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


DVDAlerts

Charles Chaplin can be divine and City Lights(2/8/00) is one of his most beautiful achievements. Romantic, sentimental and uproarious at the same time, from Image.......... Streeting any moment from The Criterion Collection is a new DVD of The Third Man(11/30/99). I can't wait to revisit the shadows where Harry Lime lives.................... Any Number Can Win(2/29/00), the slick French film about a casino heist, makes it to the shiny discs from Image Entertainment. Jean Gabin stars alongside Alain Delon.......

 

Check the DVDAlerts page for more title recommendations.

 

The Features Archive has articles ranging from to the films of  Zhang Yi-mou to Frank Darabont and John Ford.

 

 

 

A  look at the funniest ladies to ever bare a Hollywood breast or show a bit of screen thigh. Click on the image for more.

 

 

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