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Miller's Crossing 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT Catalog: DVD Release date: 2003-05-20 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1990-10 Running time in minutes: 115 DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1990-10 Ean: 0024543073833 Upc: 024543073833  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on March 8, 2008 Summary: This was great! I watched this for the first time yesterday, and I have to say that I can't believe that I've gone all these years without watching it. I've always loved the Coen Bros. work, and this is no exception. I would rank it up on the list of some of the best gangster/noir flicks of all time. It is most definitely one of the best films of the '90s. The performances are all great, especially Albert Finney who is simply amazing in his role. The score by Carter Burwell is haunting, and one of the best. I will be buying this DVD along with the soundtrack very soon. Recommended, especially for those who have not seen it yet. Please do not miss this one! Written on March 7, 2008 Summary: GREAT COEN BROS FLICK THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOBSTER FILMS EVER MADE. GABRIEL BYRNE IS RUTHLESS. GOTTA LOVE THE COEN BROS Written on February 16, 2008 Summary: One of my favorite films I am fan of the gangster film genre, and this ranks way high on that list (along with Goodfellas and City of God). It definitely has that Coen bro's quirky touch, and with the great characters. It's very well acted, especially John Turturro, who has the most memorable scene (still frame of the is shown on front of the DVD cover). The story is very well layered, and like most Coen films it unfolds in an unorthodox manor, which will probably need more than one viewing to get the full narrative. This film isn't those for those looking for a violent shoot em up gangster movie (though it does have its moments, including a memorable tommy gun scene with the great Albert Finney), you will actually have to pay attention to the conversations and every action to get it. If you like Coen Bro's films, you must watch it. Written on October 12, 2007 Summary: Cinematic miracle - the Coen's fuse many audio/visual opposites into a coherent whole "Miller's Crossing" Is best described as that "stylish Coen Bros. Gangster Movie". Instead of the southwestern types populating "Raising Arizona" and "Blood Simple", we have the "Dapper Dans" and fast-talking molls of some nameless Prohibition-era metropolis. Seething with an endless array of illicit dealing (speakeasies, bookmaking, fight-fixing), the city is barely held together by boss Lee O'Bannon (Albert Finney). Even the Police Chief and the Mayor pay unquestioned deference to O'Bannon who, when times get desperate, proves he's still an artist with a Tommygun. Nobody gets big without O'Bannon's permission, but the crime boss has a weakness - Verna Birnbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Lee's obsession with Verna proves fatal because he feels obligated to protect her no-good brother Bernie, an utter creep marked for death by lower crime boss Johnny Caspar. Gabriel Byrne is Tommy Regan, Lee's right-hand man and also his conscience. Regan cautions his boss to dump Verna - he knows that both she and her brother aren't worth going to war over. But he's also fallen for Verna. When O'Bannon ignores Tom, he sparks a mob war that soon threatens his primacy and catapults Caspar to the ultimate power. Tom must navigate an uncertain path as Caspar's new confidante, one that brings him to blows with Caspar's right-hand man, and will see him realize his true feelings for Verna. This was a great movie, with an uncommon sense of sound and visual artistry. Putting aside the plot, full of characters with shifting motives, the Coens display their great ear for unforgettable dialog and expression. Their never-named city manages to be more cartoonishly realized than those that appeared in the many Batman-clones that appeared in the early 1990's when "Crossing" was released. The Coen's rely on their gift for visual irony - their city is populated with Cops who strut proudly even though conscious that they are tools of the bosses. (In my favorite scene, Tom takes a chair to an oversized enforcer sent to rough him up; his "victim's" expression - like a child on the verge of tears - is priceless.) At its heart, "Crossing" is an impossible mix of contradictions - with action both fast and slow, rough and smooth, heavy and light, best shown in a scene where Finney single-handedly turns the tables on would-be assassins, and the rat-a-tat of his submachine gun shares our attentions with the poignant sounds of "O Danny Boy". Not quite the collection of sight-gags familiar in stock Coen fare like "Intolerable Cruelty" or "O' Brother", the film is best compared to a dream that Gabriel Byrne's character describes to Verna, of chasing his hat through the wind. Byrne calls the sight of a grown man chasing something pathetic, but Verna thinks that hat an image that will change into something beautiful. Even if you don't buy the story, the film's mix of imagery will prove unforgettable. Written on September 2, 2007 Summary: The haunting sound track , and the hats This is one of my favorite movies, not least because of the haunting score that plays during the opening credits and recurs throughout. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this. The movie was filmed in New Orleans--I was there during its filming, and streets were constantly being blocked off--but I'd say it's intended to be New York or Boston. Note the Irish tenor of the gangs and the police chief. I don't know what the symbolism of the hats is. Does anyone? |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2003-05-20 | 2003-05-20 | 2003-09-30 | 2002-10-01 | 1999-08-03 | 1999-05-18 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1990-10 | 1991-08-21 | 1996-03-08 | 2002-04-16 | 1987-03-13 | 1994-03-11 |
| Running time in minutes | 115 | 116 | 98 | 116 | 94 | 111 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.85:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Picture format | - | - | - | - | Letterbox | Anamorphic Widescreen, Pan & Scan |
| Format | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| DVD layers | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| DVD sides | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Ean | 0024543073833 | 0024543073802 | 9780792858058 | 9780783275772 | 9786305499121 | 9780790740775 |
| Book Isbn | - | - | 0792858050 | 0783275773 | 6305499128 | 079074077X |
| Upc | 024543073833 | 024543073802 | 027616884152 | 025192249624 | 086162123023 | 085391316626 |
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