Actors & Directors
- Luke Edwards
- Wendy Phillips
- Sam McMurray
- Vince Trankina
- Todd Holland
- Dea McAllister
Review The Wizard:Less raunchy than Tommy and more conventional than Tron, The Wizard also revolves around gaming. There's even a Bridges on board. In Tron it was Jeff, in The Wizard it's Beau. As opposed to the rock opera’s pinball-playing "deaf, dumb, and blind kid," however, quasi-catatonic Jimmy (Luke Edwards) is a video game wiz. While the nine-year-old lives with his mother, half-brothers Corey (Fred Savage, circa The Wonder Years) and Nick (Christian Slater, fresh from Heathers) live with their father, Sam (Bridges). When Jimmy, who recently lost his sister, is placed in a home, Corey busts him out for a trip to California. (Today, Jimmy's condition would be labeled post-traumatic stress disorder. ) As they're leaving Utah, they join forces with gaming enthusiast Haley (Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis), who suggests LA's National Video Game Championships. So, off they go by foot, skateboard, and the kindness of strangers. Sam, Nick, and obnoxious bounty hunter Putnam (Will Seltzer) are close behind. [+]The outcome may be a foregone conclusion-the fractured family makes their peace-but The Wizard still offers a nostalgic, Nintendo-laden look at 1980s gamer culture (Power Glove, Super Mario Bros. 3, etc. ). Plus, sharp-eyed viewers will spot Toby Maguire milling around before the showdown at Universal Studios Theme Park. If not for the hitchhiking, gambling, and reckless automotive destruction-after Putnam takes a knife to Sam's tires, Sam smashes his headlights with a shovel-the movie would be appropriate for all ages. In other words, it earns its PG rating. -Kathleen C. Fennessy.
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Review Genesis 4: Joseph / Vision Video:
Actors & Directors
- Otto Gebühr
- Hilde Körber
- Agnes Straub
- Lil Dagover
- Johannes Meyer
- Käthe Haack
Creator: Walter von Molo
Review Fridericus / International Historic Films (IHF):
Actors & Directors
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Christian Doermer
- Burt Kwouk
- Otto Alexander Jahrreiss
- Christine Reinhart
- Sarah Lam
Creator: Wolfgang Limmer
Review Chinadream:
Actors & Directors
- Jean Girault
- Tony Aboyantz
- Michel Galabru
- Louis de Funès
- Guy Grosso
- Maurice Risch
- Jacques François
Review Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes:
Actors & Directors
- Hideaki Nitani
- Ryuji Kita
- Chieko Matsubara
- Seijun Suzuki
- Tetsuya Watari
- Tsuyoshi Yoshida (II)
Review Tokyo Drifter:Seijun Suzuki transforms the yakuza genre into a pop-art James Bond cartoon as directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The near-incomprehensible plot is almost negligible: hitman "Phoenix" Tetsu (Tetsuya Watari), a cool killer in dark shades who whistles his own theme song, discovers his own mob has betrayed his code of ethics and hits the road like a questing warrior, with not one but two mobs hot on his trail. In a world of shifting loyalties Tetsu is the last honorable man, a character who might have stepped out of a Jean-Pierre Melville film and into a delirious, color-soaked landscape of a Vincent Minnelli musical turned gangster war zone. The twisting narrative takes Tetsu from deliriously gaudy nightclubs, where killers hide behind every pillar, to the beautiful snowy plains of Northern Japan and back again, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Suzuki opens the widescreen production in stark, high-contrast black and white with isolated eruptions of color that finally explode in a screen that glows in oversaturated hues, like a comic book come to life. His extreme stylization, jarring narrative leaps, and wild plot devices combine to create a pulp fiction on acid, equal parts gangster parody and post-modern deconstruction. Andrew Sarris described Sam Fuller's films as works that "have to be seen to be understood," a characterization that applies even more in this case. Mere description cannot capture the visceral effect of Suzuki's surreal cinematic fireworks. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Cornelia Froboess
- Waltraut Haas
- Werner Jacobs
- Gunther Philipp
- Peter Weck
- Rudolf Prack
Review Mariandls Heimkehr:
Actors & Directors
- Dumbo dubbed into French with NO English subtitles
- Walt Disney
Price: $39.00
Review Dumbo (French Version) / Walt Disney Home Video:
Run time: 77 min.
Price: $39.00
Review Asterix et La Surprise de Cesar / Action Film Ltee:Pour les offrir en cadeau a Cesar, un centurion romain fait enlever par ses troupes deux jeunes gaulois, tragicomix et falbala.
Review Star Trek: Voyager:
Price: $39.03
Review 18 Wheels of Justice {A Family Upside Down (#2.18)}:
Actors & Directors
- Color
- French/Spanish with English Subtitles
- John Nestor
- Orlando Jimenez Leal
- Nestor Almendros
- Rare Documentary
Creator: Fidel Castro
Review Improper Conduct (aka Mauvaise Conduite) / CineVista Video:This powerful documentary is simply a series of interviews with a fascinating array of Cuban intellectuals and homosexuals who have been persecuted under the Castro regime. The directors are themselves exiles, and they have created a convincing indictment of El Jefe, implicating also those who would turn a blind eye towards repression from the left.
Actors & Directors
- Ruy Guerra
- Peter Berling
- Klaus Kinski
- Helena Rojo
- Del Negro
- Werner Herzog
Creator: Lucki Stipetic
Review Aguirre: The Wrath of God:Quite simply a great movie, one whose implacable portrait of ruthless greed and insane ambition becomes more pertinent every year. The astonishing Klaus Kinski plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his soldiers into the Amazon jungle in an obsessive quest for gold. The story is of the expedition's relentless degeneration into brutality and despair, but the movie is much more than its plot. Director Werner Herzog strove, whenever possible, to replicate the historical circumstances of the conquistadors, and the sheer human effort of traveling through the dense mountains and valleys of Brazil in armor creates a palpable sense of struggle and derangement. This sense of reality, combined with Kinski's intensely furious performance, makes Aguirre, the Wrath of God a riveting film. Its unique emotional power is matched only by other Herzog-Kinski collaborations like Fitzcarraldo and Woyzek. -Bret Fetzer.
Actors & Directors
- Terence Hill
- Dominic Barto
- Nancy Morgan
- Fritz Sperberg
- Terence Hill
- Bo Greigh
Review Lucky Luke:
Actors & Directors
- Christophe Galland
- Isaach De Bankolé
- Claire Devers
- Jacques Martial
- Joséphine Fresson
- Benoît Régent
Review Noir et blanc:
Actors & Directors
- Winona Ryder
- Dianne Wiest
- Johnny Depp
- Anthony Michael Hall
- Tim Burton
- Kathy Baker
Review Edward Scissorhands:Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood-but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. [+]Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. -Bret Fetzer Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood-but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. -Bret Fetzer.
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Review Super Book #3 / Vision Video:
Actors & Directors
- Toshirô Mifune
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Kyôko Kagawa
- Yutaka Sada
- Akira Kurosawa
- Tatsuya Mihashi
Review High and Low / Criterion Collection, The:Although best known for his samurai classics, Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa proved himself equally adept at contemporary dramas and thrillers, and 1962's High and Low offers a powerful showcase for Kurosawa's versatile skill. The great Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist who has just raised a large sum of money to execute his planned takeover of a successful shoe manufacturer. Fate intervenes when he receives a phone call informing him that his son has been kidnapped, and by unfortunate coincidence the ransom demand is nearly equivalent to the amount Mifune has raised for his corporate coup. A philosophical dilemma emerges when it is revealed that the executive's son is safe, and that it is actually his chauffeur's son who has been taken. What follows is both a tense detective thriller, as the police attempt to track down the kidnapper, and a compelling illustration of class division in Japan-the "high and low" of the title. Far be it from Kurosawa to make a mere thriller, however; this loose adaptation of the Ed McBain novel King's Ransom provides the director with ample opportunity to develop a visual strategy that perfectly enhances the story's sociological themes. The Criterion Collection DVD of this extraordinary film is presented in the original "Tohoscope" aspect ratio of 2. 35:1. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Didier Bezace
- Claude Miller
- Raoul Billerey
- Simon de La Brosse
- Clotilde de Bayser
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
Review The Little Thief:A project developed by the late François Truffaut but left unrealized by him after his death, The Little Thief was completed by French filmmaker Claude Miller (The Accompanist) and partially revised in script form by several writers. The result is a slight hodgepodge of story ideas about an adolescent girl (a strong performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg) intrigued by adult mysteries, anxious to lose her virginity, and dabbling in petty crimes until she is caught by the law. After a somewhat rocky first act, the film settles into a strong groove and begins to feel very much like Truffaut in his prime. The poignant and witty (if somewhat abrupt) introduction of the idea of the heroine rediscovering the world through a camera lens-and being saved from her wayward existence by the discovery-can't help but make fans of the New Wave pioneer misty-eyed. A good movie, full of ghosts and sweet memories. -Tom Keogh.
Price: $39.03
Review Videos:NTSC videotape, a retrospective of the group's finest songsvia 20 of their outstanding videos. Featuring appearances byP. J. Harvey, Kylie Minogue & Shane MacGowan, the 98 minute long release includes 'The Ship Song', 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', 'Into My.
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