Actors & Directors
- Richard Harris
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Carlo Chionetti
- Rita Renoir
- Monica Vitti
- Xenia Valderi
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Tonino Guerra
Price: $29.99
Review Red Desert / Connoisseur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dante
- Duncan Lamont
- Anna Magnani
- Nada Fiorelli
- Jean Renoir
- Odoardo Spadaro
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Prosper Mérimée
List Price: $24.95
Price: $45.00
Review The Golden Coach / Kino Video:Jean Renoir's love of the theatrical life was rarely more colorfully expressed than in this wry comedy, which is lit from within by the life force of Anna Magnani. The Golden Coach is set in a colonial town in South America, where a traveling troupe of actors arrives on the same boat that carried the local viceroy's overpriced gold-covered carriage. Magnani has a beau, and the viceroy and a celebrated bullfighter are quickly dazzled by her charms. Her presence soon becomes an affair of state, but Renoir leaves no doubt that he finds the affairs of the heart of primary importance. Most eloquent of all is the poignancy of Magnani's dilemma-that she is most alive when performing, that life can never equal the charge of applause and footlights. Within his proscenium frame, Renoir gears the movie to his leading lady, and hands her one of the great happy-sad final lines in cinema. -Robert Horton.
Actors & Directors
- Jean Renoir
- Jean Gabin
- Julien Carette
- Erich von Stroheim
- Dita Parlo
- 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.
Release date: 1990-02-08
Run time: 102 min.
Price: $59.99
Review Madame Bovary / Hens Tooth Video Movies:
Actors & Directors
- Philippe Noiret
- Louis Malle
- Catherine Demongeot
- Vittorio Caprioli
Run time: 88 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $69.95
Review Zazie Dans Le Metro / New Yorker Video:
Actors & Directors
- Louis Jouvet
- Lyne Clevers
- Jean Murat
- Jacques Feyder
- Françoise Rosay
- André Alerme
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $14.99
Review Carnival in Flanders / Homevision:
Actors & Directors
- Wladyslaw Godik
- Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska
- Jerzy Leszczynski
- Wladyslaw Walter
- Aleksander Ford
- Jerzy Pichelski
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Ludwik Starski
List Price: $49.95
Price: $29.97
Review Border Street / Sisu Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- M. Filimonova
- Serafima Birman
- Nikolai Okhlopkov
- Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
- Dmitri Vasilyev
- Nikolai Cherkasov
- Andrei Abrikosov
- Sergei M. Eisenstein
Run time: 297 min.
Creator: Pyotr Pavlenko
Price: $79.95
Review Last of Eisenstein: Sound Films (Ivan the Terrible Part I& II/ Alexander Nevsky) / Homevision:Alexander NevskyCommissioned by Stalin in 1938 to stir public sentiment against a threatened German invasion, cinematic giant turned to the thirteenth century prince who defeated an army of Teutonic Knights as the subject of his first sound fil
Actors & Directors
- André Alerme
- Lyne Clevers
- Françoise Rosay
- Louis Jouvet
- Jean Murat
- Jacques Feyder
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Robert A. Stemmle
List Price: $24.99
Price: $23.73
Review Carnival in Flanders / Henstooth Video:
Actors & Directors
- Ganjiro Nakamura
- Kon Ichikawa
- Yoichi Funaki
- Tamao Nakamura
- Raizô Ichikawa
- Tatsuya Nakadai
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Yukio Mishima
List Price: $19.95
Price: $44.98
Review Enjo / New Yorker Video:
Release date: 2000-06-06
Run time: 317 min.
Creator: Federico Fellini
Price: $79.95
Review Masina Directed By Fellini (La Strada/ Variety Lights/ Nights of Cabiria) / Homevision:La Strada is the heart-wrenching story of a slow-witted innocent who idolizes an abusive, circus strongman. This lyrical masterpiece has won over 50 international awards. One of the greatest achievements of his career, Nights of Cabiria is Fellini's poignant tale of an eternally hopeful prostitute working the streets of post-World War II Rome. Variety Lights is Fellini's directorial debut. A beautiful woman joins a band of traveling entertainers, beguiles the group's manager, and breaks the heart of his mistress.
Actors & Directors
- Charles Blavette
- Régine Blaess
- Jean Renoir
- Marguerite Cassan
- Paul Meurisse
- André Brunot
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Ginette Doynel
Price: $59.99
Review Picnic on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) / Interama Video Classics:
Actors & Directors
- Max Ophüls
- Olga Tschechowa
- Magda Schneider
- Paul Hörbiger
- Luise Ullrich
- Gustaf Gründgens
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Hans Wilhelm
Price: $24.95
Review Liebelei / Kino Video:This early Max Ophüls melodrama became his first big success. A young philandering army officer, trapped in a loveless affair with the wife of a strutting baron, falls in love with a shy young seamstress but cannot escape repercussions of his past. As the giddy lovers frolic through an idyllic romance (a lovely sleigh ride through the snow-covered forest becomes a swooning expression of their emotional innocence), the suspicious baron demands honor be served. Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler (whose Reigen Ophüls later adapted for La Ronde), Liebelei contrasts the obsession with appearances and social decorum of high society with the rash sincerity and energy of youth in a style more visual than verbal. The restless camera of Ophüls's later work is only hinted at here, but the handsome photography and lush décor create a constrictive world where tradition rules. The opening opera house scene is especially striking, where character and class become defined simultaneously, and the haunting climax is so effective that Ophüls revived and refined it for The Earrings of Madame de. The 1933 production was subsequently suppressed by the Nazis for its jaundiced view of honor and Prussian authoritarianism, and they attempted to destroy all copies of the film. [+]Its survival is a minor miracle; the footage is at times choppy but overall surprisingly clean and clear. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Gérard Philipe
- Michel Simon
- Nicole Besnard
- Carlo Ninchi
- René Clair
- Simone Valère
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Armand Salacrou
Price: $29.95
Review Beauty and the Devil / Water Bearer Films:
Actors & Directors
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Minosuke Bandô
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Toshiko Iizuka
- Hiroko Kawasaki
- Kôtarô Bandô
Creator: Yoshikata Yoda
Review Utamaro and His Five Women / New Yorker Video:
Actors & Directors
- Abel Gance
- Paul Amiot
- Line Noro
- Marie Lou
- Jean-Max
- Victor Francen
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Steve Passeur
Price: $29.95
Review J'Accuse / Connoisseur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Omar Sharif
- Zubeida Tharwat
- Henri Barakat
Run time: 159 min.
Price: $4.99
Review A Man in our House / AFD:Based on the famous novel by Ihsan Abdel Qoddous, this 1961 classic is set prior to the 1952 revolution and stars the legendary Omar Sharif in one of his most memorable roles. Sharif plays Ibrahim, a member of the underground resistance who seeks refuge from the so-called "political police" by taking shelter in the home of a civil servant and his family. Directed by Henri Barakat, this film offers a vivid depiction of the Egyptian resistance to the British occupation and features some of Egypt's finest filmmaking talents.
Actors & Directors
- Daniel Cauchy
- Madeleine Delavaivre
- Michel Galabru
- Jean Girault
- Geneviève Grad
- Louis de Funès
Run time: 95 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.95
Review Le Gendarme De Saint-Tropez / Video France:The gendarme Ludovic Cruchot is an ambitious man. So, when he is transferred to the laid-back post of Saint-Tropez, he sees an ideal opportunity to advance his career. Everything goes as planned until his daughter has a little too much fun on the beach.
Actors & Directors
- Carlo Chionetti
- Monica Vitti
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Richard Harris
- Xenia Valderi
- Rita Renoir
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Tonino Guerra
List Price: $19.98
Price: $69.99
Review Red Desert / Image Entertainment:Richard Harris and Monica Vitti star in writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece. An alienated Italian wife searches for meaning in the industrial lunar landscape of Northern Italy, to no avail. Highly acclaimed as a masterpiece of visual form and the winner of the International Critics Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1964.
Actors & Directors
- Mimi Kozakura
- Michio Akiyama
- Kôji Wakamatsu
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: Masao Adachi
List Price: $19.98
Price: $24.99
Review Go, Go Second Time Virgin / Image Entertainment:
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