Welcome to the Michael
(Rizzo) Chessman movie reviews website
This site is intended for the following purposes:
Consumer advocacy and critical
reviews of major works in the areas of
Film, art and theatre. Content of interest includes discontinued or rare
footage and foreign film and domestic agenda items.
Site
is intended to edify with the hope of a better secure outcome for our future
as a race (human) that has its best foot forward in this respect. (we
purchase mainly at regular discounts
offered by the now bankrupt Columbia
House Canada DVD club, ebay, local discount outlets) Along with many ,
"out of prints"from whatever sources we are able to find, ebay
especially
Lists below last updated
April 13th, 2012
Movie Reviews
12 Angry men (Henry Fonda) based on the play
12 Angry men (Russian version) based
"loosely" on the American original
A beautiful mind (2001) Russel Crowe
A
Clockwork orange (1971) - (Stanley Kubrick)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik Ibsen - (Norwegian rendition)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik Ibsen -
(Anthony Hopkins rendition)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik Ibsen - (Jane Fonda rendition)
A Dolls House (1973)
Fassbinder (Director) - "Nora Helmer" (German rendition)
A Man for all Seasons (1966) Paul
Scofield
A passage to India (1984) (Mr. David
Lean, Director)
A woman in Berlin (2008) Ms. Nina Hoss
Absence of Malice (Mr Paul Newman, Ms Sally Field)
Along for the ride (2000) with
Ms. Melanie Griffith
Breaker Morant (1980) Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Beau-père (1981) Bertrand Blier
Being there (1979) Peter Sellers
Carrington (1995) Ms. Emma Thompson
Body Heat (1981) William Hurt,
Kathleen Turner
Das Boot (1981) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Death of a Salesman (1985) Dustin Hoffman
Deathtrap (1982) Michael Caine Ms. Dyan
Cannon
Dons Party Directed by Mr. Bruce Beresford
Evelyn (2002) Pierce Brosnan
Far from Heaven (2002) Ms.
Julianne Moore
Fiddler on the roof (1971) Norman Jewison
Gallipoli (1981) Directed by Mr. Peter Weir
Germany Pale Mother (1982)
GlenGarry Glen Ross (1992) Al Pacino -
Pullizter Prize winner!
Good evening Ms. Wallenberg (1990)
Sweden
Grease (1978) Ms. Olivia Newton John Mr.
John Travolta
Habemus
Papam "We have a Pope" (2011) Ms. Margherita Buy
Inherit the wind (1960) Spencer Tracy Donna Anderson
Jerichow (2008) Germany!
My dinner with Andre (1981)
Kavanagh QC (1995-2001) Television
Series with Sir John Thaw
Kadosh (1992) Directed by Amos Gitai
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Mr. Peter
O'Toole
La Cage aux folles (1978)
English subtitles
Le Survenant
(Written by Erik Canuel)
La Stazione (The Station) Sergio Rubini
Director
Life is beautiful (La vita e bella) (1997) Roberto Benigni
Mary Poppins (1964) Ms. Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke
Mississippi Burning (1988) Mr.
Gene Hackman
Murder on the Orient
Express (2010 - Made for TV version)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
France
One fine day (1996) Michelle Pfeiffer George Clooney
Oxen (The Ox -
Sweden, 1991 Sven Nykvist)
Pride and Prejudice
(Jane Austen -1995) Ms. Jennifer Ehle - Colin Firth
Reds (Directed
by Warren Beatty, also with Diane Keaton)
Rob Roy (1995) Ms. Jessica Lange
Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock (Jimmy
Stewart)
Saturday Night Fever
(1977) John Travolta Ms. Karen Lynn Gorney
Scarface (1983) Mr. Al Pacino Ms. Michelle Pfeiffer
Sense and sensibility (1995) Ms. Emma Thompson,
Mr. Hugh Grant
Sleuth (1973) Michael Caine Sir Lawrence Olivier
Song for a Raggy Boy (Ireland Film
Board)
Tall Guy (1989) Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum
The accidental tourist (1988) Mr. William Hurt, Ms. Kathleen Turner
The Black book (2006) Holland (The Netherlands)
The Black Windmill (1974) Michael Caine with Ms Delphine Seyrig
The Day of the Jackal (1973) written by Fredrick Forsyth
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) Ms.
Michelle Pfeiffer
The Four feathers (2002)
The Godfather Trilogy Mr. Al Pacino Ms. Diane Keaton
The House of games (1987) Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna
The Last days of Disco (1998) Chloe Sevigny Kate Beckinsale
The Last King of Scotland (2006) Ms. Gillian Anderson
The Long good friday (1979) Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren
The
Planet of the apes (1968)
The Pianist (2002) Roman Polanski Director
The Red Violin (1998) (Greta Scacchi)
The Remains of the Day - Emma Thompson Anthony Hopkins
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Gerard
Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
The Russia House (1990) Michelle Pfeiffer Sean Connery
The Sound of Music (1965) Julie Andrews
The Sting (1973) Robert Redford, Paul Newman
The Untouchables (1987) Sean Connery Kevin Costner
The Verdict (1982) Mr. Paul Newman
The White Ribbon (2009) Germany
Tin Men (1987) Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito
White Material (2009) Ms.
Isabelle Huppert
White Mischief (1988) Ms. Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance
Witness for the prosecution (1957) Marlene
Dietrich
Victor Victoria (Ms. Julie Andrews, Robert
Preston)
Wallander (Television Series 2005-2006)
(Sweden)
When a man loves a woman (Ms. Meg
Ryan, Andy Garcia)
