Product Description: One of the most versatile and acclaimed actors of recent years, famous for the uncompromising method approach he brings to roles ranging from the psychotic Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's seminal "Taxi Driver", to the nerveless robber of Michael Mann's "Heat" and the loser in Tarantino's "Jackie Brown".
Jack Hunter (author of film studies Inside Terradome and Eros in Hell) has selected his own chronological Top Ten of Robert De Niro's most engaging or offbeat movies, roles or performances, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by some of the best cutting-edge film critics of today. The result is both an incisive overview of Robert De Niro as an actor, and an anthology of films by some of the leading cult directors of recent decades such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci and Francis Ford Coppola.
Feature films include: "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Angel Heart", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Jackie Brown", "King of Comedy", "Heat", "1900", "Cape Fear", and "Godfather II".
Movie Top Tens: A series of film studies which each focus on an individual actor/ actress, seeking to re-evaluate their screen persona and career by analysing their ten most engaging or offbeat films, roles or performances. With dozens of photographs, filmography, introduction and index.
Product Description: An unauthorized biography of the Academy Award-winning actor draws on extensive contacts with friends and colleagues to capture the reclusive De Niro's personality on screen and off and explores his remarkable film career and the relationship between the characters he plays and his real life. IP.
Description: A troubled Vietnam vet pays a visit to an old war buddy. Finding his buddy in a depressed drunken state, with only his sister for company, the vet works toward freeing the buddy from his past and provides the sister with the tender love she has never known.
Description: Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brotherÂ...and rock the foundation of his beloved church.
Description: One of those rare films that grabs you by the gut and never lets go, Men of Honor was inspired by the life of Carl Brasher (Cuba Gooding Jr.), an African American who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a bigoted training officer (Robert DeNiro) and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl never gives up and achieves the impossible in an incredible finish that will leave you cheering.
Product Description: An introspective and disillusioned young film maker becomes involved with high-living jet-setters / A black comedy featuring a fast-talking drug addicts quest to score. All star cast and award-winning film maker Ivan Passer.
Turk and Rooster, two aging NYPD detectives who have been longtime partners are faced with a serial killer who is murdering sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues, and when they start working with a younger team, Perez and Riley, tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend, also a homicide detective.
Description: An L.A. cop (Al Pacino) becomes fixated on a deadly thief (Robert Dinero) and his crew ( Val Kilmer & Jon Voight) who are taking Los Angeles to the cleaners. This movie includes one of the most spectacular shoot outs in film history as Dinero and Kilmer rip through downtown Los Angeles with both guns blazing.
Product Description: Paul vitti is one of new yorks most powerful mobster. But when its time to assume his role as leader of the crime family he starts suffering anxiety attacks. Suburban psychiatrist ben sobol is unsatisfied with his patients routine problems. Features: interactive menus filmographies scene access & more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Robert De Niro Lisa Kudrow Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: Harold Ramis
Description: Rodrigo Mendoza (ROBERT DE NIRO) was a violent soldier-for-hire in 1750s South America. Now he is a man of peace serving the Rain Forest Indians he once enslaved. But armies of Spain and Portugal threaten the lifestyle and safety of the native peoples. Now Rodrigo may have to pick up his sword and musket once again. From the producer of Chariots of Fire and the director of The Killing Fields comes a powerful epic co-starring JEREMY IRONS and graced with dazzling Academy Award-winning cinematography, set to a memorable music score and scripted by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Man for All Seasons and Doctor Zhivago.
Product Description: When expert safecracker nick wells decides it might be time to settle down with his girlfriend diane and stick to his legitimate business running a jazz nightclub in montreal his friend and partner max has other plans. Heavily in debt to a crime boss max needs nick to pull one last heist. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2005 Starring: Robert De Niro Angela Bassett Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R Director: Frank Oz
Description: In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emergedfree agent killers! Featuring "high-octane action" (Gene Shalit, "Today"), a "first-rate cast" (L.A. Daily News) and exhilarating car chases that "are nothing short of sensational" (The New York Times), Ronin is "the real deal in action fireworks" (Rolling Stone) directed by "a master of intelligent thrillers" (Roger Ebert). The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin," are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive asother underworld organizations vie for the same prize...and to get the job done, the members of Ronin must do something they've never done beforetrust each other!
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