The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her love for the mysterious white hunter.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 23-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD

Sydney Pollack’s 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous andemotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen’s gradual discovery of her life and voice. One downside: while we may all love Redford, he is as convincingly British as Kevin Costner is in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. –Tom Keogh

“Out Of Africa” has always been one of my all-time favorite films. Rarely has a movie excelled in all components of the cinema, everything from the acting to the direction to the story. Meryl Streep plays a woman named Karen Blixen who marrys a philandering man in Kenya. Soon, Karen falls in love with both the land and a white hunter, played by Robert Redford. The movie depicts Karen’s story on running a coffee plantation, the problems she encounters in running her business, and her love affair with this mysterious man who has stolen her heart. “Out Of Africa”, based on a true story, swept the 1985 Academy Awards, winning for Best Picture, Best Director for Sydney Pollack, Best Cinematography, Original Score, Art Direction, and Sound. The music to the film is one of the most haunting in film history and adds to the intense drama. Roger Ebert says, “Out Of Africa” is one of the great epic romances”. The special edition DVD comes with commentary by Pollack, an original documentary entitled “Song Of Africa”, the trailer, and production notes. The film is 2 hours and 41 minutes, and the sound is 4.1. Simply, a perfect movie.

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A CIA agent returns from lunch to discover his entire office staff murdered, and must go into hiding to avoid his own murder by agents within the agency.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD

Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Electric Horseman, and Out of Africa, among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that made Pollack’s The Firm so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. –Tom Keogh

Joe Turner (Robert Redford) works in New York at the “Historical Society”, which is the front for a CIA operation that reviews all literature, books, magazines, etc. from all over the world for possible plots and schemes. All ideas are fed into a computer that compares with CIA plots and international issues and threats. Joe is just a researcher, not a CIA Agent, but learns a lot about espionage, just reading books and other materials through his job.

Joe is late to work one rainy day in December and his boss corners him to let him know that a letter he sent the Langley CIA office was dismissed. Joe folds up the letter and puts it in his pants pocket to deal with later. His letter noted a realization that strong relationships were developing between Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other oil producing countries and thought it was worth the CIA’s effort to look into it.

We meet all of Joe’s co-workers – 6 of them besides Joe. He starts his work and feeds pertinent information into the computer. Around 11:30 he is the designated person to do the lunch run to the Deli a block away. He ducks out a back entrance to avoid much of the rainy areas. While he is gone, the mailman is rung in the front door security. Other men come with him as they tear up the security tapes. Everyone in the office is killed within minutes and the killers leave. When Joe returns he finds the front door open and his co-workers shot. He soon realizes this is a hit and takes the receptionist’s gun to protect himself as he runs to a phone booth to call the main CIA office.

His CIA code name is Condor – and he calls to give his section chief the information of the hit. He is told not to hang up the phone and to call again in two hours. The CIA “clean-up” team arrives within minutes to clear the carnage. They verify the killings to the main office. The New York section chief is stunned and wants to know why a research office would be gunned down. He calls his supervisor at CIA Headquarters.

Joe in the meantime is totally paranoid and dodges and hides until he is to be brought “in from the cold” – but realizes a set up in a back alley is meant to kill him. The agents he was to meet are an old friend (he trusts) and another CIA department head. He realizes his own department head is trying to kill him and shoots him with the gun he picked up. The Department head then shoots the other unknowing agent (a friend that Joe trusted). Now Joe feels he can trust no one. He is desperate and kidnaps a woman that he saw in a clothing store, Kathy (Faye Dunaway). They drive to her apartment and she lets him hide there, although he uses the gun to scare her. He just needs time to figure out what to do next.

The plot thickens and the action escalates. There are exciting twists and turns. Eventually Joe has his revenge. A very rewarding spy movie!

The other interesting notes on this movie is the technology 35 years ago. The computers and phone systems are archaic, but did not detract from the plot. Also the world issues on oil needs of the U.S. seem to always be in the news.

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