Release date: 1996-07-18
Price: $19.99
Review Mas Negro Que La Noche / Oxxo Compania (do Not Use):
Run time: 88 min.
Review Hiroshima Mon Amor / Timeless Video Inc.:An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U. S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present, and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Kwok Chu Wong
- Sheng Chiang
- Peter Chang (III)
- Pao-Shu Kao
- Feng Lu
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $19.99
Review Fight Among the Supers (Sub Sp) / Ground Zero:
Actors & Directors
- Siu-Tin Lei
- Kenneth Tsang
- Shingo Tsurumi
- Ho-Kwong Tang
- Yonfan
- Cherie Chung
Price: $39.99
Review Last Romance / Tai Seng Video:
Release date: 2001-02-06
Price: $19.95
Review El Impertio De La Fortuna / Oxxo Compania (do Not Use):
Actors & Directors
- Naoko Iijima
- Takako Kitagawa
- Koji Enokido
- Misayo Haruki
- Miho Suzuki
Run time: 81 min.
Price: $4.99
Review Zero Woman: Final Mission (Dub) / Tokyo Shock:
Release date: 1994-09-20
Price: $19.98
Review America Haciendo Historia / Musical Productions:
Actors & Directors
- Brian Gibson
- Jon Finch
- Phil Daniels
- Jonathan Pryce
- Peter-Hugo Daly
- Hazel O'Connor
Run time: 94 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Breaking Glass / Paramount:
Release date: 1999-07-15
Price: $39.99
Review Xiu Nu / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Tina Engel
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Katharina Thalbach
- Marius Müller-Westernhagen
- Silvia Reize
- Peter Schneider
Run time: 93 min.
Price: $39.95
Review The Second Awakening of Christina Klages / Water Bearer Films:Margarethe von Trotta, the most audible female voice of the New German Cinema, had acted for film, written screenplays, and even codirected (The Lost Honor of Katrina Blum with her former husband Volker Schlondorff) before finally embarking on her first solo project in 1977. The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, based on the true story of a social worker who robs a bank to fund a failing day-care center, is an uncompromising work that tackles politics and social issues with a radical fervor and feminist perspective unseen in the work of her contemporaries. Tina Engel plays Christina, a militant revolutionary who becomes a fugitive hunted as much for her politics as her crime, while the young woman she held hostage tries to track her down for her own personal reasons. Von Trotta brings an impassioned intensity to Christina's voyage of self-discovery, which pulls the film through slow passages, blunt political messages, and an occasionally clumsy style, creating a dramatically powerful work that builds to a climactic epiphany at the film's mesmerizing conclusion. After this remarkable debut, von Trotta built on her work in her stylistically assured second film, Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness. Be forewarned that the poor print source results in a muddy-looking tape well below the quality of most commercial tapes. -Sean Axmaker.
Release date: 2001-11-20
Run time: 88 min.
Price: $39.99
Review Out of the Dark / Tai Seng Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Alfredo Adame
- Guillermo Herrera
- Sergio Véjar
- Patricia Rivera
- Mário Almada
- Azela Robinson
Price: $9.99
Review El Salario DE LA Muerte / Millon Dollar Video Corp.:
Actors & Directors
- Enrique Murillo
- Eleazar Garcia Jr.
- Jorge Victoria
- Masiela Lusha
- Carlos Cardán
- Valeria Palmer
Price: $14.99
Review Las Muertas De Juarez (Spanish) (Sub) / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- Ali Pérez
- Félix Solis
- Mickey Albuquerque
- Rafael Decena
- Nelson Peña
- Frank Molina
Price: $49.95
Review Circulo Vicioso (Spanish) (Sp) / Ground Zero:
Release date: 2000-03-01
Price: $8.99
Review La Marca Del Coyote / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- Liz Poitel
- Fernando Casanova
- Barbara Nelli
- Ángela Cavo
- Paul Piaget
- Agustín Navarro
Price: $8.99
Review Sonaron Cuatro Balazos / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- Elisabeth Stepanek
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Angelika Thomas
- Rainer Friedrichsen
- Eva Mattes
- Ernst Jacobi
Run time: 123 min.
List Price: $79.95
Price: $75.95
Review Germany, Pale Mother / Facets Multimedia:
Actors & Directors
- Ana Milosavljevic
- Vera Jovanovic
- Pera Milosavljevic
- Dusan Makavejev
- Ivan Zivkovic
- Bratoljub Gligorijevic
Run time: 78 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Innocence Unprotected / Facets:
Actors & Directors
- Martin Burke (III)
- Hekiru Shiina
- Yasunori Matsumoto
- Kazunori Ikegami
- Masami Kikuchi
- Lainie Frasier
Run time: 55 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $39.88
Review Sonic the Hedgehog (Dub) / Adv Films:True to its Sega video-game roots, this futuristic 60-minute movie includes a lot of yelling, crashing, and exploding on the way to saving the world. Sonic and his sidekicks are determined to thwart a plan that would turn their Land of the Sky into the equivalent of The Land of Darkness, which lurks beneath the surface (and is obviously the former planet Earth). So they plow through to the center of the planet and the ancient city of Robotropolis (the former New York City?) to do righteous battle. The big question of the day is whether the usually evil Dr. Robotnik is telling the truth for once or sending the good guys into a trap. The tape's producers suggest viewers be at least 7 years old because of its violence, but the rudimentary nature of the animation will probably make it appealing only to hard-core action fans among the older-kid crowd. -Kimberly Heinrichs.
Actors & Directors
- Erich von Stroheim
- Jean Renoir
- Jean Gabin
- Julien Carette
- Pierre Fresnay
- Dita Parlo
Run time: 111 min.
Price: $14.99
Review La Grande Illusion / Hollywood Select Video:It's long been one of the revered classics of international cinema, but there is no fine layer of dust over La Grande Illusion. Jean Renoir's film is just as vibrant, exciting, and wise as it has ever been. The story is set during World War I, mostly in a couple of German POW camps, where two very different French prisoners plot to escape: the working-class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the French Spencer Tracy) and the upper-class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The suspenseful backbone of the story is formed by these escape attempts, but Renoir is primarily concerned with the way people treat each other, and especially with how class and nationality inform human relations. Most compelling of all the film's characters is the aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, unforgettably incarnated by stiff-backed Erich von Stroheim; although he runs a prison camp, von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. There is nothing dewy or naive about Renoir's vision (and two years after the release of this antiwar film, Europe was plunged into another world war), yet Grand Illusion is one of those movies that makes you feel good about such long-outmoded ideas as sacrifice and brotherhood. After it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1937, the Nazis declared the film "Cinematographic Enemy Number One. " There can be no higher praise. -Robert Horton.
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