Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde


Starring:Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Evans Evans, Gene Wilder, Patrick Cranshaw, Mabel Cavitt, Clyde Howdy, Ann Palmer, Frances Fisher (II), Sadie French, Martha Adcock, Owen Bush, Ken Miller, Garry Goodgion, Stuart Spates
Director: Arthur Penn
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon
Bonnie and Clyde
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • When Warren and Faye were a lot younger.....
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Great Classic Gangster Flick
  • Intense and captivating
  • A picture that dares to be excessive!,
Bonnie and Clyde
Starring: Warren Beatty , Faye Dunaway , Michael J. Pollard , Gene Hackman , and Estelle Parsons
Director: Arthur Penn
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B00000ING1
Release Date: 1999-05-18

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One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars When Warren and Faye were a lot younger............2007-03-02

Warren either produced/and or directed this movie. This is entertaining and well acted, I'm not sure how historically accurate it is, I've seen black and white grainey pictures of the real Bonnie and Clyde and I would describe them as "hillbilly white trash" looking. Of course this movie started a barrage of similar anti-hero movies of the 60's and 70's. Some were good, some were lousey, but I'll bet none of them were historically accurate. But, I suppose if the truth were told nobody would pay to see it. Enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars Bonnie and Clyde.......2007-02-11

I've been looking everywhere for this movie and finally thought of Amazon and there it was at a reasonable price. Very quick on the delivery and would use Amazon again anytime. Wonderful service. Thanks

5 out of 5 stars Great Classic Gangster Flick.......2007-01-10

One of the greatest all time classic gangster flicks,with brilliant performances by the entire cast.

4 out of 5 stars Intense and captivating.......2006-12-31

The Bonnie and Clyde legend is given some needed realism in this intense and captivating drama. Rather than the "fame" they have oft been given, their more brutal criminal side is made apparent to temper the legend. It is relatively accurate historically and truthfull in the portrayal including the scene of their deaths in a lopsided gunbattle with law enforcement. An honest yet entertaining look at a life of crime that, in the end, leaves nothing to glorrify.

5 out of 5 stars A picture that dares to be excessive!, .......2006-12-19

This hugely influential rural gangster thriller combined black comedy, graphic violence, and a sense of spiritual boredom and moral confusion induced by the cultural and economic poverty of the '30s Depression, to evoke the anti-establishment rebellion of the late '60s... Crucially, Penn's sympathetic view of the Barrow gang was not clouded by sentimentality, and the film's initially funny tone steadily darkens to end in chaotic, bloody carnage...

'Bonnie and Clyde' is not a film about two real people famous for so many bank robberies and murders across the big country... It shows a new kind of violence in which people could be hurt by guns, when Bonnie is shot to death in the end, it really looks as though heavy duty bullets are ripping into her...

'Bonnie and Clyde', however, manages to convey the impression that these two youngsters enjoyed themselves robbing banks and stores... It also implies that it was very easy for them to fool the law - as certainly happened in real life... Though retribution caught up with them, audiences laughed at their exploits and wanted them to escape...

Since then, the screen has enlarged upon this violent mood... Censorship, too, has relaxed in United States of America and Europe... Today it is possible for the bad guys to evade their punishments - something which could never have happened even in the times of 'Scarface,' and 'Public Enemy.'

In 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Penn created a mood, an evocation of the 1930s filtered through his 1960s sensibility...

The sense of period in 'Bonnie and Clyde' reflects Penn's vision of how the 1930s Depression-era seemed, and for all the zany style and banjo score, this vision is highly personal...

What is also personal about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and constitutes its unique flavor, is its unusual mixture of comedy and horror, its poetry of crime as something that is fun, and that also leads to violent bloody deaths...

'Bonnie and Clyde' is both real and abstract... It is a gangster movie and a comedy-romance... It is a comedy that turns dark, a romance that ends with death...

An alternation between fun and darkness is important to the structure of the film... In their second bank robbery, a daring and cheerful action goes sour when Clyde is forced to shoot the bank manager, and real blood gushes from his face...

Bonnie and Clyde take adolescent pleasure posing for photographs with their captive, but when cornered by police in a motel, they turn into vicious outlaws fighting for their lives... C. W. Moss, particularly, evokes Baby Face Nelson, when he kills policemen with a blazing machine gun...

One of the poignant moments in the film occurs when Clyde chases Bonnie through a golden corn field, while a cloud crosses the sun and slowly shadows the landscape... Here the flavor of the Texas countryside and the dim mood of the story are both expressed... The famous reunion scene is taken from a certain distance but urned into an emotional, beautiful piece...

This kind of mythic, abstract, nostalgic flavor of the depression is evoked again when C.W drives the gang members into an Okie camp and the homeless farmers come around the car to look with fear and respect at the legendary outlaws...

The final "ballet of blood" has an extraordinary effect upon audiences too... Penn courts condemnation and risks disaster by putting so personal and unorthodox a conception upon the screen...

Penn's masterpiece was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture... It only won two, One for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and another for Best Cinematography)...

Baby of the Bride
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    Baby of the Bride
    Starring: Anne Bobby , Bonnie Burroughs , L. Scott Caldwell , Clyde Kusatsu , and David Doty
    Director: Bill Bixby
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    Release Date: 2006-09-26
    Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Starring: Kimberly Beck , Erich Anderson , Corey Feldman , Barbara Howard , and Peter Barton
    Director: Joseph Zito
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    ASIN: B00004WZ0E
    Release Date: 2000-10-17

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    Amateur butcher and enthusiastic hockey fan Jason Vorhees is back in business, and business is good. Can a plucky young boy stop the madness before Camp Crystal Lake's population report takes yet another machete-aided dip? The stalk-and-slash formula was pretty narcoleptic by this point, but this otherwise humdrum entry is distinguished by some unusual casting choices (Crispin Glover as a stud in training? Corey Feldman as a genius?) and the splattery return of makeup master Tom Savini. The fact that this installment was titled The Final Chapter may seem to contradict the existence of the numerous sequels that followed, but it's not as if logic was ever this series' strong point to begin with. --Andrew Wright

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars JASON.......2007-05-11

    THE SUSPENSE IS BACK IN THIS MOVIE!THIS MOVIE IS GREAT!THERE WAS A PARTY AT ONE HOUSE,AND VACATIONEERS AT THE OTHER HOUSE.A GUY GOT A CORKSCREW IN HIS HAND WHILE HIS HEAD WAS TURNED.TRISH AND TOMMY HAD MOST OF THE TROUBLE WITH JASON.TRISH JUMPED THROUGH GLASS.POOR TOMMY WENT NUTS.

    5 out of 5 stars JASON.......2007-04-28

    THIS MOVIE'S EXCELLENT!TRISH WENT THROUGH ALOT TO SAVE HER AND HER BROTHER-TOMMY.SHE JUMPED THROUGH GLASS,SHE FELL OFF A BALCONY,AND SHE FOUGHT JASON WITH A BROKEN SHOULDER.I FELT SORRY FOR TED.HE WAS AT A PARTY,AND NO GIRLS WANTED TO BE WITH HIM.JASON TOOK CARE OF THAT PROBLEM.TOMMY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

    5 out of 5 stars Not The Final Chapter, But An Excellent Chapter Indeed!.......2007-01-13

    Once again, this is another great installment of the series! When it comes to the story, this is some of the best writing I have seen in a horror movie, it really does make a lot of sense and it isn't all about sex. Jason looks awesome in this film and is one of his best and scariest looks. This movie is famous for introducing the character of Tommy Jarvis (played in the movie by the young Corey Feldman), who would appear in two more sequels. The acting in this movie is just as good as the story, some of the best in the series. From this movie on, the story and acting really felt professional. Highly recommend to those who have never seen one movie in the series, this is definitely one of the best. This movie also has Crispin Glover, who is now famous for the role of George McFly, Marty's dad on the Back to the Future trilogy. He is hilarious in this movie and makes the movie even better during his scenes!

    3 out of 5 stars Only, NOT the final chapter.......2007-01-06

    I sometimes really do wish these film makers could see into the future, then they wouldn't have given the fourth Friday 13th movie such a dumb title. There's another few sequels to follow on from this! Grrrr.

    Anyway, rant over. This is so far my favourite sequel, mainly because it has some actors in it who I actually recognise - Crispin Glover, although cover your eyes when he starts dancing! (And that's why I don't dance!) Also Corey Feldman, for all the children of the 80s out there.

    The deaths are getting gorier, with eyes popping out (bleurgh), and certainly a lot more to get you covering your mouth and holding your stomach. There's a grand total of 13 more elaborate deaths in this, including: Jason hacksawing someones throat, stabbings, meat cleavers getting stuck in, impaled on various objects, a knife plunged into the back of a head while someone else has a knife stuck through their throat. Gory? Yes.

    This is the second Friday 13th movie to NOT take place on Friday 13th. It takes place on Sunday the 15th. While the beginning with the coroners takes place during the night of Sunday the 15th, the rest of the movie takes place Monday the 16th and Tuesday the 17th being the climactic night.

    The finale was definitely the best in terms of actually leaving me open mouthed with horror. It will definitely send shivers up your spine with anticipation, and is definitely the more memorable out of the finales put together.

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    5 out of 5 stars The Best of the Best Monster Slasher Flciks of all times.......2006-11-19

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    Take the Money and Run - Uncut (Widescreen Edition)
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      Take the Money and Run - Uncut (Widescreen Edition)
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      ASIN: B000C15OF8

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      EDITORIAL REVIEW - Amazon Essential Video - Woody Allen's feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and standup jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell's absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage ("We're very close," Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil's escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Clyde, but you don't have to know the movies to enjoy this goofy, sometimes clumsy, but quite clever comedy. --Sean Axmaker [refers to VHS release]. ++++ DVD FEATURES: This officially licensed release from South Korea is All-Region NTSC Code 0 (playable worldwide). The FULL 91 minute film is presented in Widescreen display format, Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound in ENGLISH with optional (removable) English and Korean subtitles. Includes: Chapters, Story Line, Production Note and About Cast & Director.
      The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald / The Other Side of Bonnie & Clyde (Something Weird)
      Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
      • The Trial of Your Attention Span
      • Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
      The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald / The Other Side of Bonnie & Clyde (Something Weird)
      Starring: George Russell , George Edgley , Arthur Nations , Charles Mazyrack , and Joreta C. Cherry
      Director: Larry Buchanan
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      Release Date: 2003-11-11

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      3 out of 5 stars The Trial of Your Attention Span.......2007-01-23

      Larry Buchanan is remembered today mostly for a string of no-budget AIP remakes he was hired to direct in the mid-1960s. You know, Zontar, It's Alive, In The Year 2889...yeah, *those* pictures. Did you know that he also had a remarkably long career in overlooked genre of conspiracy films? See, I knew you were sharp. From the 'CIA murders' of Jimi Hendrix and that cozmik blues booze hag in "Down on Us", to a matching set of Marilyn Monroe biopics, if a public figure died under mysterious circumstances, bet the farm that Larry was casting the 'the real story' before the body was cold. He somehow missed Bruce Lee; then again, that market was pretty saturated. After years of obscurity, Something Weird has paired Mr. Buchanan's premiere forays into the land of tin foil together in one handy dandy package. The real surprise is how middle of the road they are compared with his later work.



      "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" is sure to disappoint all but the most ardent Court TV addict. It's not even that conspiratorial, operating from the assumption that Oswald was the lone gunman. Every once in awhile, something will break up the monotony of exposition, say a tape of the real LHO on a New Orleans radio station, but those moments don't crop up often enough. You may recognize a couple of the Buchanan stock players like William McGhee (Don't Look in the Basement) and Bill Thurman (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)among the crowd of witnesses. If cross examinations keep your riveted to the recliner, hey, this may be up your alley. The acting, sets and dialogue are competant. Personally, it took me three attempts to make it through ninety five minutes without dozing off. I have a feeling my experience may be the more common one.



      Billed as a response to the Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway film released months earlier, "The Other Side of Bonnie & Clyde" takes the side of law and order. Capt. Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who sprung the ambush where the infamous duo were gunned down in Louisiana, is the hero. Narrator Burl Ives seems to condemn the murder of police officers on the screen. Well, plenty of them drop in the reenactments of Bonnie & Clyde's crime spree here. Fnord, fnord. This ersatz documentary is loaded with surprising facts. Did you know Clyde Barrow played sax? Or that Bonnie Parker was a poetess, and wrote the epitaph that appears on her grave marker? Buchanan even insinuates Barrow may have been bi*sexual. Authentic footage of the bullet riddled Ford and their corpses being paraded in front of the media are included. Accomplice Floyd Hamilton submits to a polygraph test to dispel some myths that have spread over the years. Definitely interesting.



      Something Weird has a great reputation for delivering in the extras department. This disc is no exception. Both films sport feature length commentary tracks with Buchanan and moderator Nathaniel Thompson. Larry seems a little scatterbrained, breaking off onto tangents as he tells stories, and never getting back to the original point. Lenny Bruce lives, ladies and germs. (Yes, yes, I'm aware that Mr. Buchanan has since passed on). On several occasions during TTOLHO, he seems poised to reveal some secret information about the Kennedy assassination given up by one of Jack Ruby's strippers. The failure to pay off that tease may lead you to wonder to what degree the king of conspiracy films (Ollie Stone, you say? Pssh...) was just conning us all. Some may simply call it showmanship. A rube's a rube.



      There's also three older black and white shorts, all of the "true crime" variety. "You Can't Beat the Rap" is a couple minutes of Louis Sonney shooting the spit with ex-con Roy Gardner from a viewing post overlooking Alcatraz. The two versions of "Crime Marches On" are good for some "did anybody actually believe this stuff?" laughs. Our melodramatic narrator, Wedgwood Nowell, informs us that the root of criminal behavior is parents who cannot answer their children's questions! Those kids "exalted opinion(s) of (their) own superior mentality" leave the brats feeling "capable of outwitting fellow human beings"! The viewer is treated to a trip to the FBI's fingerprint center, a series of creepy wax busts of famous outlaws, actual clips of Chinese capital punishment, the mummified corpse of Elmer McGurdy, a dramatization of John Dillinger in the chair, and a tour of notable penitenteries. Do you ever stop and wonder if, sixty years from now, our grandchildren will look back at Fox News with the same bemusement reserved for these relics?



      Finally, there are seventeen trailers, seven of them Buchanan's. "The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde" is in rough shape, but still a nice addition, loaded with colorful graphics and a great theme song. "Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell" and "High Yellow" look like trashy fun. But wait, what do we have here? "The Loch Ness Horror"? A giant rubber dinosaur head devouring beachgoing teenagers? SWV, you MUST issue this film pronto! The square up: "The Trial" is flat, "Bonnie & Clyde" is interesting, and the extras are bonzo. This is not the type of disc that will rack up hours in the DVD player unless you really dig either subject matter. Renting before purchase may be a great choice. Give Larry credit, though. He knew how to market to an audience the major studios wouldn't touch. And four decades on, we're still talking about him.

      3 out of 5 stars Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald.......2005-06-19

      This dvd offers a weird set of films from exploitation/schlockmeister Larry Buchanan, the low rent director of such cult favorites as Mars Needs Women and Common Law Wife.

      *** - THE TRIAL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1964) is a black-and-white preenactment of the trial of John F. Kennedy's assassin had Oswald not been shot and killed by Jack Ruby a few days after his arrest. The movie places the audience in the jury box and keeps it there. Everything takes place in the courtroom, the drama consisting solely of whatever heat is generated by lawyers cross-examining witnesses, with a stray objection being tossed and sustained or overruled by the judge. It's an interesting piece of speculation that's severely hobbled by the dearth of facts as known at the time. The movie presumes that Oswald acted alone, so conspiracy buffs might find this one borders on the outrageous. The action is static and the scope of inquiry is limited, but to the best of my knowledge this is film to deal with the Kennedy assassination. Its fascination, for me, at least, derives from the fact that it's a first response to a national tragedy before the Warren Report, Jim Garrison, and suchlike made the scene and muddied up things.

      *** - Burl Ives narrates THE OTHER SIDE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968), a documentary that assumes a strong pro-law enforcement attitude and concentrates most of its attention on the man who brought Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow down, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. THE OTHER SIDE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE was released the year after the mega-hit (but now kind of forgotten) BONNIE AND CLYDE, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. If you aren't familiar with the Beatty-Dunaway movie this one's going to look like it's shadow boxing. The first movie made Robin Hood-like heroes out of the outlaws, combined comedy with violence, and made light of the number of law enforcement officials the duo killed. BONNIE AND CLYDE embraced the bad guys, while THE OTHER SIDE OF... recoils in horror. This one is valuable mainly because it interviews witnesses and participants, including Hamer's widow and son, a woman who had been kidnapped by the pair, and Floyd Hamilton, brother of Bonnie and Clyde gang member Raymond Hamilton and, for a while in the `30s, himself an FBI public enemy #1.

      I'm not familiar with any of Buchanan's cheese and sleaze movies, but after watching these two, I have to admire his opportunism. Neither of these movies are great, or even very good, but they followed hard on the heels and addressed controversial events and movies. Both are worth a look.
      The Best of the 60s (Bonnie and Clyde/Bullitt/Cool Hand Luke/The Wild Bunch - The  Director's Cut)
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      The Best of the 60s (Bonnie and Clyde/Bullitt/Cool Hand Luke/The Wild Bunch - The Director's Cut)
      Starring: Steve McQueen , Robert Vaughn , Jacqueline Bisset , Don Gordon , and Robert Duvall
      Director: Peter Yates , Sam Peckinpah , and Stuart Rosenberg
      Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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      ASIN: B00011ZBJ8
      Release Date: 2003-12-02

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars I've seen them all at least a .......2007-01-11

      dozen times.

      You should too.
      Remembering Bonnie and Clyde
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • A Worthwhile Purchase
      Remembering Bonnie and Clyde

      Manufacturer: CustomFlix
      ProductGroup: DVD
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      3. My Life With Bonnie & Clyde

      ASIN: B000O75VBM
      Release Date: 2007-03-09

      Description

      When the "Roaring Twenties" ended with a crash, the dark clouds of depression covered the body and soul. It reduced many of American's solid citizens to desperate people who would do anything they could to survive. Shanty towns, bread lines and riding the rails were common sights. Banks closed in many towns and cities, farmers were willing to go almost any place to improve their lives, even a little bit. The "dust bowl" certainly added to their misery, against this dark curtain a different kind of hero captured the imagination of many Americans. Desperados such as John Dillinger and Babyface Nelson drove through the Midwest robbing banks and gas stations. They were involved in wild "shoot-outs" with the law which captured newspaper headlines across the nation and a public following that rivaled movie stars and sports heroes. They became idols of sorts to the common man because they represented the law of survival. Leaving several dead men in their wake, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker had a career that lasted a little more than two years and yet, history has judged them to be two of the most fascinating criminals of that era. This video documentary is the factual story of Bonnie and Clyde as remembered by those people who knew them as family, friends, acquaintances and eye-witnesses to their escapades. This is their story as told by historians who have researched the facts to separate them from the fiction that seems to have followed Bonnie and Clyde as time goes by. This is the true story of Bonnie and Clyde; a twisted tale of love, family and violence. For Private Use only. All public and private schools, organizations or television interested in any other use must contact C.T.L. Productions at Cgratzer@knology.net

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A Worthwhile Purchase.......2007-06-08

      Although I did not learn much of anything new by watching this DVD, I enjoyed watching it immensely, especially the interview segments. Overall, a worthwhile purchase, particularly for those with a keen interest in the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
      Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • When Warren and Faye were a lot younger.....
      • Bonnie and Clyde
      • Great Classic Gangster Flick
      • Intense and captivating
      • A picture that dares to be excessive!,
      Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]
      Starring: Warren Beatty , Faye Dunaway , Michael J. Pollard , Gene Hackman , and Estelle Parsons
      Director: Arthur Penn
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      ASIN: B00004RYE6

      Amazon.com essential video

      One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars When Warren and Faye were a lot younger............2007-03-02

      Warren either produced/and or directed this movie. This is entertaining and well acted, I'm not sure how historically accurate it is, I've seen black and white grainey pictures of the real Bonnie and Clyde and I would describe them as "hillbilly white trash" looking. Of course this movie started a barrage of similar anti-hero movies of the 60's and 70's. Some were good, some were lousey, but I'll bet none of them were historically accurate. But, I suppose if the truth were told nobody would pay to see it. Enjoy!

      5 out of 5 stars Bonnie and Clyde.......2007-02-11

      I've been looking everywhere for this movie and finally thought of Amazon and there it was at a reasonable price. Very quick on the delivery and would use Amazon again anytime. Wonderful service. Thanks

      5 out of 5 stars Great Classic Gangster Flick.......2007-01-10

      One of the greatest all time classic gangster flicks,with brilliant performances by the entire cast.

      4 out of 5 stars Intense and captivating.......2006-12-31

      The Bonnie and Clyde legend is given some needed realism in this intense and captivating drama. Rather than the "fame" they have oft been given, their more brutal criminal side is made apparent to temper the legend. It is relatively accurate historically and truthfull in the portrayal including the scene of their deaths in a lopsided gunbattle with law enforcement. An honest yet entertaining look at a life of crime that, in the end, leaves nothing to glorrify.

      5 out of 5 stars A picture that dares to be excessive!, .......2006-12-19

      This hugely influential rural gangster thriller combined black comedy, graphic violence, and a sense of spiritual boredom and moral confusion induced by the cultural and economic poverty of the '30s Depression, to evoke the anti-establishment rebellion of the late '60s... Crucially, Penn's sympathetic view of the Barrow gang was not clouded by sentimentality, and the film's initially funny tone steadily darkens to end in chaotic, bloody carnage...

      'Bonnie and Clyde' is not a film about two real people famous for so many bank robberies and murders across the big country... It shows a new kind of violence in which people could be hurt by guns, when Bonnie is shot to death in the end, it really looks as though heavy duty bullets are ripping into her...

      'Bonnie and Clyde', however, manages to convey the impression that these two youngsters enjoyed themselves robbing banks and stores... It also implies that it was very easy for them to fool the law - as certainly happened in real life... Though retribution caught up with them, audiences laughed at their exploits and wanted them to escape...

      Since then, the screen has enlarged upon this violent mood... Censorship, too, has relaxed in United States of America and Europe... Today it is possible for the bad guys to evade their punishments - something which could never have happened even in the times of 'Scarface,' and 'Public Enemy.'

      In 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Penn created a mood, an evocation of the 1930s filtered through his 1960s sensibility...

      The sense of period in 'Bonnie and Clyde' reflects Penn's vision of how the 1930s Depression-era seemed, and for all the zany style and banjo score, this vision is highly personal...

      What is also personal about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and constitutes its unique flavor, is its unusual mixture of comedy and horror, its poetry of crime as something that is fun, and that also leads to violent bloody deaths...

      'Bonnie and Clyde' is both real and abstract... It is a gangster movie and a comedy-romance... It is a comedy that turns dark, a romance that ends with death...

      An alternation between fun and darkness is important to the structure of the film... In their second bank robbery, a daring and cheerful action goes sour when Clyde is forced to shoot the bank manager, and real blood gushes from his face...

      Bonnie and Clyde take adolescent pleasure posing for photographs with their captive, but when cornered by police in a motel, they turn into vicious outlaws fighting for their lives... C. W. Moss, particularly, evokes Baby Face Nelson, when he kills policemen with a blazing machine gun...

      One of the poignant moments in the film occurs when Clyde chases Bonnie through a golden corn field, while a cloud crosses the sun and slowly shadows the landscape... Here the flavor of the Texas countryside and the dim mood of the story are both expressed... The famous reunion scene is taken from a certain distance but urned into an emotional, beautiful piece...

      This kind of mythic, abstract, nostalgic flavor of the depression is evoked again when C.W drives the gang members into an Okie camp and the homeless farmers come around the car to look with fear and respect at the legendary outlaws...

      The final "ballet of blood" has an extraordinary effect upon audiences too... Penn courts condemnation and risks disaster by putting so personal and unorthodox a conception upon the screen...

      Penn's masterpiece was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture... It only won two, One for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and another for Best Cinematography)...

      Who the Hell's Bonnie & Clyde
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Who the Hell's Bonnie & Clyde
        Starring: Gabriella Hamori , Gabor Karalyos , Gyorgy Gaszo , Ildiko Raczkevy , and Mate Haumann
        Director: Krisztina Deak
        Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
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        Release Date: 2006-08-29
        Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]
        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
        • When Warren and Faye were a lot younger.....
        • Bonnie and Clyde
        • Great Classic Gangster Flick
        • Intense and captivating
        • A picture that dares to be excessive!,
        Bonnie and Clyde [Region 2]
        Starring: Warren Beatty , Faye Dunaway , Michael J. Pollard , Gene Hackman , and Estelle Parsons
        Director: Arthur Penn
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        ASIN: B00004CX85

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        One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars When Warren and Faye were a lot younger............2007-03-02

        Warren either produced/and or directed this movie. This is entertaining and well acted, I'm not sure how historically accurate it is, I've seen black and white grainey pictures of the real Bonnie and Clyde and I would describe them as "hillbilly white trash" looking. Of course this movie started a barrage of similar anti-hero movies of the 60's and 70's. Some were good, some were lousey, but I'll bet none of them were historically accurate. But, I suppose if the truth were told nobody would pay to see it. Enjoy!

        5 out of 5 stars Bonnie and Clyde.......2007-02-11

        I've been looking everywhere for this movie and finally thought of Amazon and there it was at a reasonable price. Very quick on the delivery and would use Amazon again anytime. Wonderful service. Thanks

        5 out of 5 stars Great Classic Gangster Flick.......2007-01-10

        One of the greatest all time classic gangster flicks,with brilliant performances by the entire cast.

        4 out of 5 stars Intense and captivating.......2006-12-31

        The Bonnie and Clyde legend is given some needed realism in this intense and captivating drama. Rather than the "fame" they have oft been given, their more brutal criminal side is made apparent to temper the legend. It is relatively accurate historically and truthfull in the portrayal including the scene of their deaths in a lopsided gunbattle with law enforcement. An honest yet entertaining look at a life of crime that, in the end, leaves nothing to glorrify.

        5 out of 5 stars A picture that dares to be excessive!, .......2006-12-19

        This hugely influential rural gangster thriller combined black comedy, graphic violence, and a sense of spiritual boredom and moral confusion induced by the cultural and economic poverty of the '30s Depression, to evoke the anti-establishment rebellion of the late '60s... Crucially, Penn's sympathetic view of the Barrow gang was not clouded by sentimentality, and the film's initially funny tone steadily darkens to end in chaotic, bloody carnage...

        'Bonnie and Clyde' is not a film about two real people famous for so many bank robberies and murders across the big country... It shows a new kind of violence in which people could be hurt by guns, when Bonnie is shot to death in the end, it really looks as though heavy duty bullets are ripping into her...

        'Bonnie and Clyde', however, manages to convey the impression that these two youngsters enjoyed themselves robbing banks and stores... It also implies that it was very easy for them to fool the law - as certainly happened in real life... Though retribution caught up with them, audiences laughed at their exploits and wanted them to escape...

        Since then, the screen has enlarged upon this violent mood... Censorship, too, has relaxed in United States of America and Europe... Today it is possible for the bad guys to evade their punishments - something which could never have happened even in the times of 'Scarface,' and 'Public Enemy.'

        In 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Penn created a mood, an evocation of the 1930s filtered through his 1960s sensibility...

        The sense of period in 'Bonnie and Clyde' reflects Penn's vision of how the 1930s Depression-era seemed, and for all the zany style and banjo score, this vision is highly personal...

        What is also personal about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and constitutes its unique flavor, is its unusual mixture of comedy and horror, its poetry of crime as something that is fun, and that also leads to violent bloody deaths...

        'Bonnie and Clyde' is both real and abstract... It is a gangster movie and a comedy-romance... It is a comedy that turns dark, a romance that ends with death...

        An alternation between fun and darkness is important to the structure of the film... In their second bank robbery, a daring and cheerful action goes sour when Clyde is forced to shoot the bank manager, and real blood gushes from his face...

        Bonnie and Clyde take adolescent pleasure posing for photographs with their captive, but when cornered by police in a motel, they turn into vicious outlaws fighting for their lives... C. W. Moss, particularly, evokes Baby Face Nelson, when he kills policemen with a blazing machine gun...

        One of the poignant moments in the film occurs when Clyde chases Bonnie through a golden corn field, while a cloud crosses the sun and slowly shadows the landscape... Here the flavor of the Texas countryside and the dim mood of the story are both expressed... The famous reunion scene is taken from a certain distance but urned into an emotional, beautiful piece...

        This kind of mythic, abstract, nostalgic flavor of the depression is evoked again when C.W drives the gang members into an Okie camp and the homeless farmers come around the car to look with fear and respect at the legendary outlaws...

        The final "ballet of blood" has an extraordinary effect upon audiences too... Penn courts condemnation and risks disaster by putting so personal and unorthodox a conception upon the screen...

        Penn's masterpiece was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture... It only won two, One for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and another for Best Cinematography)...

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