Release date: 2002-01-01
Price: $29.95
Review Assassin / Unicorn Video:
Actors & Directors
- Brahms
- Munich Philharmonic
- Barenboim
Run time: 109 min.
Price: $29.97
Review Johannes Brahms: The Piano Concertos / Elektra / Wea:
Actors & Directors
- Bernard Giraudeau
- Patti D'Arbanville
- Gilles Kohler
- David Hamilton
- Mona Kristensen
- Mathieu Carrière
Review Bilitis:
Release date: 2004-11-30
Price: $19.95
Review Perfume De Violetas / Libros Sin Fronterras:
Actors & Directors
- Aria Noelle Curzon
- Hannah Swanson
- Anndi McAfee
Review The Land Before Time Sing-along Songs:A departure from the preceding, story-driven films in the series, this presents Littlefoot and his dinosaur friends from the Great Valley in song. Intended primarily for the youngest fans of the characters. -Tom Keogh.
Review Scandalosa Gilda:
Actors & Directors
- Paolo Taviani
- Vittorio Taviani
- Claudio Bigagli
- Margarita Lozano
- Massimo Bonetti
- Miriam Guidelli
- Omero Antonutti
Review Night of the Shooting Stars:With its subtle mixture of wartime hardship, comedic interludes, and a hallucinatory hint of Italian magic realism, The Night of the Shooting Stars was named the best film of 1982 by the prestigious National Society of Film Critics. Drawing inspiration from their own experiences in Nazi-occupied Italy, the codirecting Taviani brothers (Paolo and Vittorio) remade this feature from their 1954 debut short "San Miniato, July 1944," framing its touching yet occasionally vague tale of wartime survival as a bedtime story, told by a loving mother from her memories as a 6-year-old, fleeing her Tuscan village in the closing days of World War II. American liberation is promised within days, but the Nazis have rigged village houses with mines, so the residents of San Martino flee to the countryside, where encounters with fascists are common and deadly. The film's dreamy nostalgia isn't as satisfying as, say, Cinema Paradiso, but it's still a lovely film, filled with quintessentially Italian vitality while proving, as one character observes, that "even true stories can end well. " -Jeff Shannon.
Release date: 2000-03-07
Price: $39.99
Review Wanted / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Actors & Directors
- Wulf Kessler
- Michael Verhoeven
- Werner Stocker
- Oliver Siebert
- Ulrich Tukur
- Lena Stolze
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Mario Krebs
List Price: $72.00
Price: $72.00
Review The White Rose:The beautiful Lena Stolze stars in this acclaimed feature based on the true story of five German students and their professor who formed a secret society dedicated to protesting the Nazi regime. Known collectively as the "White Rose", the Munich-based group distributed anti-Hitler literature in a resistance effort which cost them their lives. Initially, the German government refused to allow the film to be shown abroad due to an epilogue which pointedly observed that the legal judgment condemning the White Rose society had never been rescinded. Ultimately, the political controversy surrounding Verhoeven's film directly caused the German government to officially invalidate the Nazi "People's Court" system that sentenced the group to death.
Actors & Directors
- Leon Dai
- Yaoxuan Shu
- Chao-te Yin
- Chi Yin
- Li-Kong Hsu
- Lei Huang
- Rene Liu
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Ming-xia Wang
List Price: $59.99
Price: $56.99
Review Fleeing By Night (Sub) / Strand Home Video:
Release date: 2001-09-11
Price: $39.95
Review Dragon Father and Tiger Son / Tai Seng Video Marketing:
Price: $42.06
Review Cheerleader Ninjas / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Andrzej Szalawski
- Aleksander Ford
- Grazyna Staniszewska
- Andrzej Szalawski
- Grazyna Staniszewska
Run time: 175 min.
List Price: $49.95
Price: $39.99
Review Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyzacy):Certainly one of the highest achievements of the 1960 Polish cinema, and a stirring nationalistic epic. Based on a classic novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Knights of the Teutonic Order is a vivid portrayal of customs and life in medieval Poland, brilliantly directed by Aleksander Ford. Cast: Andrzej Szalawski and Grazyna Staniszewska. Color, 175 mins. 1960.
Actors & Directors
- Carlos Castañón
- Paul Leduc
- Juan Ángel Martínez
- Claudio Obregón
- Ernesto Gómez Cruz
- Eduardo López Rojas
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Juan Tovar
List Price: $29.95
Price: $73.29
Review Reed: Insurgent Mexico / Mirada:
Actors & Directors
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Nikolai Sergeyev
- Nikolai Grinko
- Anatoli Solonitsyn
- Irma Raush
- Ivan Lapikov
Review Andrei Rublev:At last, the complete version of Andrei Tarkovski's 1966 masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter (a film suppressed by the Soviet Union and unseen until 1971) is available. It's a complex and demanding narrative about the responsibility of the artist to participate in history rather than documenting it from a safe distance. A landmark in Russian cinema, Andrei Rublev is a beautifully lyrical black-and-white film about harmony and soulful expression. As the late filmmaker says in a supplementary interview, each generation must experience life for itself; it cannot simply absorb what has preceded it. In fact, a whole host of supplements accompanies the film in this Criterion Collection release. Stick with it; it's worth the effort. -Bill Desowitz.
Actors & Directors
- Antonio Raxel
- Humberto Dupeyrón
- Roberto Rodríguez
- Rocío Rozales
- Santanón
- Edmundo Benitez
- Manuel San Fernando
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Sergio Magaña Hidalgo
Price: $9.98
Review Puss N Boots / Rhino / Wea:
Actors & Directors
- Ornella Muti
- Nicola Farron
- Sabrina Ferilli
- Gianfranco Mingozzi
- Philippe Noiret
- Chiara Argelli
Creator: Tonino Guerra
Review Il Frullo del passero:
Actors & Directors
- Sean Runnette
- Jill Novick
- Kenneth Schapiro
- Valerie Perrine
- Deborah Gibson
- Chris Bruno
Review My Girlfriend's Boyfriend:
Actors & Directors
- Andréa Ferréol
- Michel Piccoli
- Philippe Noiret
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Marco Ferreri
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Rafael Azcona
List Price: $19.98
Price: $39.98
Review La Grande Bouffe / Image Entertainment:Marco Ferreri's greatest international success, "La Grande Bouffe" scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collapse won the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Award. The New York Times called it "vulgar vaudeville on an epic scale. a mordant, chilling, hilarious dirty movie. " Nearly 30 years later, it continues to challenge audiences' sensibilities and test the limits of shockability.
Actors & Directors
- Humphrey Bogart
- John Ridgely
- Lauren Bacall
- Dorothy Malone
- Martha Vickers
- Howard Hawks
Creator: William Faulkner
Review The Big Sleep:Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made screen history together more than once, but they were never more popular than in this 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, directed by Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not). Bogart plays private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy socialite (Bacall) to look into troubles stirred up by her wild, young sister (Martha Vickers). Legendarily complicated (so much so that even Chandler had trouble following the plot), the film is nonetheless hugely entertaining and atmospheric, an electrifying plunge into the exotica of detective fiction. William Faulkner wrote the screenplay. -Tom Keogh.
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