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Boogie Nights [DVD] [1998]
starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Rico Bueno
directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
![: Boogie Nights [DVD] [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5109Z6VV2DL.jpg)
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Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5024165809754 Format: Colour, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Entertainment in Video Languages: Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Entertainment in Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: May 21, 1999 Running Time: 149 minutes Studio: Entertainment in Video Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997 |
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List Price: £19.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £3.97 You Save: £16.02 (80%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.68 Third Party New Price: £0.99 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
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- one of my all time favouritiesboogie nigchts 1997 is a superb drama starring a good cast including mark wahlberg despite the great achting is paul thommas who makes this a good movie for the blu ray it looks and sounds very fantastic the extras are very good too so for the fans of this movie this is a must buy
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- New Widescreen Edition FinallyReceived from Amazon today.
I can confirm it is in widescreen, finally. No more "oogie night".
Can't believe we were screwed for all those years. You cannot watch a film of this quality of craft, pan and scanned.
Only special features seem to be audio commentary by director and another one by cast and crew. P.T. Anderson commentary shall be worth a watch/listen.
I haven't watched this edition yet as I just got it but I can say from previous viewings that it ... Read More
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- LOVE this filmI'm a big fan of nostalgic films. This was a brilliant film i sky+'d it one night and eventually watched it and as soon as it had finished i knew i had to buy it. it was just brilliant made me laugh, made me feel kinda sad and eventually made my jaw hit the floor, but i found out later that it was a prosthetic made from rubber. i loved this movie it was brilliant i was captivated. now after watching that film everytime i see heather graham in anything i just remember that scene on the sidewalk with ... Read More
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- Terrible DVD edition of a great filmI would have to reiterate what someone has already said. I have just watched the DVD and the way the film is cropped has ruined the cinematography. There is a scene early in the film where Jack Horner is talking to Dirk Diggler in a living room, each sitting on a different chair/sofa on opposite sides of the room. All you see are their feet/legs, so you are essentially watching an empty room having a conversation. It's absurd. And sadly, due to the format of the film, the whole film leaves you ... Read More
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- Boogie Nights - Tongue in Cheek'Boogie Nights' presents not only an incredibly impressive cast (I'm sure we wouldn't have seen most of them in this if it had been made 6 years later) but a sound script and tight dialogue. It's an interesting insight into how the porn industry used to be, but it's certainly starting to show its age.
A good watch.
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