Actors & Directors
- Harriet Eder
- Thomas Kufus
- Erich von Manstein
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $39.99
Review Mein Krieg / Kino Video:Amateur movies shot with small handheld cameras by six German infantrymen on the Eastern Front during World War II form the core of this documentary. The men who took the movies appear on camera as old men to provide narration (in German, with subtitles), and they provide a perspective not often heard. As might be expected, they distance themselves from atrocities, and as they were foot soldiers in the Wehrmacht, their denials of involvement are probably true. One of the men still owns the camera he carried in the war, and he demonstrates how its small size made it perfect for impromptu filming in the field. Clips of smiling troops on the move is accompanied by an old man talking about how happy they were to be going to an unknown destination, likening it to "the joy one feels when on a journey. " It turns out the gleeful trip he recalls was actually the beginning of the invasion of Poland and thus the beginning of the war in Europe. Later footage shows combat conditions in Russia, and the grisly aftermath of vicious combat. The rarity of the film footage, some of which was shot in color, makes this documentary worth watching. But the recollections of the amateur cameramen also provide an unusual insight into the German war machine, such as when one of the old veterans mentions how he eventually realized, "This was no defensive war forced upon us, it was an idiotic war of aggression. " -Robert J. [+]McNamara.
Actors & Directors
- Wei Lo
- Hui Lou Chen
- Ling Lung Yu
- Ching Hsia Chiang
- Man Tai Lee
- Kuo Wang
Run time: 106 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $2.73
Review To Kill With Intrigue / Simitar Ent.:
Actors & Directors
- Riccardo Garrone
- Valerio Zurlini
- Jacques Perrin
- Renato Baldini
- Claudia Cardinale
- Luciana Angiolillo
Run time: 111 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $39.99
Review Girl With a Suitcase / Ivy Classics Video:
Actors & Directors
- Julie Glenn
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Bernadette Lafont
- Clothilde Baudon
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Claude Miller
Run time: 95 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $35.00
Review L'Effrontee / Fox Lorber:This sweet, sad movie about the yearning of an adolescent girl brought acclaim to French starlet Charlotte Gainsbourg. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte (Gainsbourg) bickers with her family, has become an outcast at school, and generally feels that her life lacks all beauty and happiness. When she accidentally meets a beatific young piano prodigy named Clara, Charlotte hopes this girl will become her friend and take her away to a better world-but in order to worm her way into Clara's life, Charlotte lets a creepy sailor into hers. Director Claude Miller (Alias Betty, The Accompanist) formerly worked with François Truffaut, whose influence can be seen here-L'Effrontée has a light, relaxed tone that allows small, human details to emerge without apparent effort. Gainsbourg gives a winning performance, mostly by letting Charlotte be sullen, difficult, and innnocently self-deluding; she feels remarkably real. -Bret Fetzer Charlotte, a disillusioned teenager living in Savoie, realizes the joys and sorrows of adolescence after becoming enamored with a sophisticated young pianist visiting her town.
Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $34.95
Review Wutang Matrix (Sub Ep) / Ground Zero:
Actors & Directors
- Chi-Sing Cheung
- Christine Ng
- Bobby Yip
- Francis Ng
- Christy Chung
- Ching Wan Lau
List Price: $39.99
Price: $37.99
Review I Wanna Be Your Man / Tai Seng Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Srdjan Todorovic
- Bajram Severdzan
- Florijan Ajdini
- Branka Katic
- Emir Kusturica
- Ljubica Adzovic
Run time: 127 min.
List Price: $14.95
Price: $79.99
Review Black Cat White Cat / Polygram USA Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dita Parlo
- Erich von Stroheim
- Jean Gabin
- Jean Renoir
- Julien Carette
- Pierre Fresnay
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.
Actors & Directors
- Tobin Bell
- Tyler Mane
- Teresa Herrera
- Jon Polito
- Hark Tsui
- Andrew Bryniarski
Run time: 101 min.
Price: $14.94
Review Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Spanish) / Sony Pictures:This outlandish comic book of a movie stars newcomer Andy On as the genetically altered warrior played by Jet Li in the original Black Mask. As Zeus-the gigantic brain-in-a-vat that created Black Mask-sends his newest super-warrior to track Black Mask down, the nefarious owner of a professional wrestling network has a plan to genetically alter his wrestlers and turn them into animalistic half-humans-meanwhile, Black Mask falls in love with a beautiful geneticist who's paralyzed with phobic anxiety whenever a man touches her. None of the plot makes much sense, but sense is hardly the point. Though the computer-generated special effects are fairly crude, the relentless camera movement and rapid-fire editing of Hong Kong action master Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues, Time and Tide) and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix) keep the spectacle rolling along entertainingly. Also featuring Traci Lords as a kick-ass wrestling queen. -Bret Fetzer.
Actors & Directors
- Isabelle Huppert
- Gerard Depardieu
Run time: 110 min.
Price: $59.99
Review Loulou (Sub) / New Yorker Video:
Actors & Directors
- Albert Lupo
- Anton Guilio Majano
List Price: $9.95
Price: $32.50
Review Atom Age Vampire / Wea-Des Moines Video:
Actors & Directors
- Marie Bourseiller
- Juliet Berto
- Helena Bielicic
- Yves Beneyton
- Christophe Bourseiller
Run time: 84 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Two or Three Things I Know About Her / New Yorker Video:
Actors & Directors
- Benkei Shiganoya
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Chiyoko Okura
- Isuzu Yamada
- Seiichi Takegawa
- Shinpachiro Asaka
Run time: 71 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Osaka Elegy / Homevision:From one of the world's greatest directors of women comes a candid and revealing look at discrimination against women in 1930's Japan. The highly acclaimed film chronicles the heartbreaking fall of a young telephone operator who consents to become her boss' mistress in order to support her alcoholic father and put her brother through school. Isuzu Yamada is tremendous as the tough heroine condemned by society for behavior that would have been tolerated if she were a man.
Actors & Directors
- Hui Lou Chen
- Philip Kwok
- Chun Lei
- Fu Chiang Chi
- Tad Horino
List Price: $9.98
Price: $34.99
Review Tiger & Crane Fist / Ground Zero:
Actors & Directors
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Adolf Hitler
- Hans Frank (III)
- Heinrich Himmler
- Fritz Reinhardt
Run time: 120 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $57.49
Review Triumph of the Will / Synapse Video:Triumph of the Will is one of the most important films ever made. Not because it documents evil-more watchable examples are being made today. And not as a historical example of blind propaganda-those (much shorter) movies are merely laughable now. No, Riefenstahl's masterpiece-and it is a masterpiece, politics aside-combines the strengths of documentary and propaganda into a single, overwhelmingly powerful visual force. Riefenstahl was hired by the Reich to create an eternal record of the 1934 rally at Nuremberg, and that's exactly what she does. You might not become a Nazi after watching her film, but you will understand too clearly how Germany fell under Hitler's spell. The early crowd scenes remind one of nothing so much as Beatles concert footage (if only their fans were so well behaved!). Like the fascists it monumentalizes, Triumph of the Will overlooks its own weaknesses-at nearly two hours, the speeches tend to drone on, and the repeated visual motifs are a little over-hypnotic, especially for modern viewers. But the occasional iconic vista (banners lining the streets of Nuremberg, Hitler parting a sea of 200,000 party members standing at attention) will electrify anyone into wakefulness. -Grant Balfour.
Actors & Directors
- Eva Ras
- Dusan Makavejev
- Aleksander Kostic
- Slobodan Aligrudic
- Ruzica Sokic
- Miodrag Andric
Run time: 70 min.
Price: $29.95
Review "Love Affair: Or, The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator " / Facets:
Actors & Directors
- Roland Toutain
- Jean Delannoy
- Madeleine Sologne
- Junie Astor
- Jean Marais
- Jean Murat
Run time: 100 min.
Price: $24.95
Review The Eternal Return / Homevision:In his adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde legend, Jean Cocteau modernizes its eternal theme while making his mark as a master of poetic realism. The tragic story of a young man who falls hopelessly in love with his uncle's wife conjures both beauty and agony through intense dramatic performances, romantic Wagnerian music, and imaginative settings.
Actors & Directors
- Maggie Cheung
- Stephen Chow
- Sheila Chan
- Leslie Cheung
- Vincent Kok
Run time: 120 min.
Price: $39.99
Review "All's Well, Ends Well " / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Release date: 2003-01-28
Price: $9.99
Review Caligula: Sins of Rome (aka Spartaco) / Vci Video:
Release date: 1990-02-08
Run time: 102 min.
Price: $59.99
Review Madame Bovary / Hens Tooth Video Movies:
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