Actors & Directors
- Semyon Strugachyov
- Vadim Danilevsky
- Dima Davydov
- Mariya Barabanova
- Yefim Gribov
- Lyubov Rumyantseva
Run time: 118 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $66.00
Review We Are Going to America (My Yedem V Ameriku) / Facets:
Release date: 1998-11-11
Run time: 84 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Passion for Life / Water Bearer Films:
Actors & Directors
- Jules Berry
- René Lefèvre
- Odette Talazac
- Florelle
- Jean Renoir
- Marcel Lévesque
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $179.95
Review The Crime of Monsieur Lange / Interama Video Classics:Little known stateside but long esteemed in Europe, The Crime of Monsieur Lange is simply one of the very greatest films directed by Jean Renoir (it was made a few years before Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game). René Lefèvre (Le Million) takes the title role of a nebbish who clerks for a penny-press publisher by day, and by night writes feverish potboilers about a Western hero named "Arizona Jim. " Lange's encyclopedically venal boss (Jules Berry) discovers his secret and immediately starts exploiting it, as he exploits everybody and everything within range. Life sublimely imitates pulp fiction and vice versa in the brilliant screenplay by Jacques Prévert (who would later write Children of Paradise). The movie blends sociopolitical protest, tender satire, and astonishing poetry without breaking a sweat, and its climax-an amazing synthesis of theme, dramatic emotion, and inspired camerawork-is one of the transcendent moments in screen history. -Richard T. Jameson.
Actors & Directors
- Pierre Barbaud
- Bernard Fresson
- Emmanuelle Riva
- Alain Resnais
- Eiji Okada
- Stella Dassas
Review Hiroshima mon amour: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
- David Dixon
- Simon Jones
- Kevin Davies
- Mark Wing-Davey
- Sandra Dickinson
- Peter Jones
List Price: $14.98
Price: $64.50
Review The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / BBC Warner:
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Karl Schwetter
Review Die Fledermaus / Taurus Video 000 933:Waltzermetropole Wien: Prinz Orlofsky ladt ein zum Ball. Unter den Gaster: ein prominenter Strafgefangener - sein Stubedmadchen, als Grafin verkleidet - eine beruhmte russische Tanzerin, angeblich die Zwillingsschwester seiner Ehefrau. eine amusante Verfilmung der Johann Strauss - Operette.
Actors & Directors
- Carlos Vilán
- Paco de Lucía
- Manolo Sanlúcar
- Carlos Saura
- Rocío Jurado
- Los Romeros de la Puebla
Run time: 55 min.
Price: $39.95
Review Sevillanas / Mirada:
Release date: 1991-10-04
Run time: 73 min.
Price: $59.95
Review The Overcoat / Hens Tooth Video Movies:
Actors & Directors
- Pierre Rousseau
- Claude Rich
- Odile Versois
- Jean Rochefort
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Aurore Clément
Run time: 120 min.
Price: $59.95
Review Le Crabe Tambour / Interama Video Classics:
Release date: 1994-07-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $29.95
Review L'Annee Sainte / Video France:
Actors & Directors
- Katja Rupé
- Caroline Chaniolleau
- Wolf Biermann
- Maximiliane Mainka
- Alexander Kluge
- Wolfgang Bächler
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Hans Peter Cloos
- Joachim Bissmeier
- Heinz Bennent
Run time: 124 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Germany in Autumn / World Artists:
Actors & Directors
- Lewis Gilbert (II)
- William Holden
- Susannah York
- Tetsuro Tamba
- Michael Goodliffe
- Capucine
Run time: 123 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $98.88
Review The 7th Dawn / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Toby Robins
- Anicée Alvina
- Sean Bury
- Lewis Gilbert (II)
- Ronald Lewis
- Joan Hickson
Run time: 101 min.
Price: $14.95
Review Friends / Paramount:
Actors & Directors
- Doris Dowling
- Checco Rissone
- Silvana Mangano
- Raf Vallone
- Vittorio Gassman
- Giuseppe De Santis
Run time: 106 min.
Price: $19.95
Review Bitter Rice / Homevision:One of Italy's most commercially successful films, Bitter Rice packed theaters around the world despite being banned by the Legion of Decency in the United States. Though intended as a scathing indictment of harsh conditions endured by women laboring in Italy's rice fields, the film's enormous popularity was largely attributed to the erotic appeal of young Silvana Mangano. The former Miss Rome became a star overnight for her sultry debut as an impoverished yet voluptuous laborer who turns down the chance to emigrate to a better life in South America in favor of a steamy affair with her best friend's lover. Ironically, Marxist writer and director Giuseppe De Santis, one of the founders of Italy's post-World War II neorealist movement, virtually brought the genre to an end with Bitter Rice by demonstrating that sex was a far greater draw than social criticism.
Release date: 2001-01-09
Run time: 52 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $66.00
Review Herdsmen of the Sun / Kino Video:
Actors & Directors
- Raimu
- Robert Vattier
- Charles Blavette
- Fernand Charpin
- Ginette Leclerc
- Marcel Pagnol
Run time: 124 min.
List Price: $59.95
Price: $64.00
Review The Baker's Wife / Interama Video Classics:
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: John Richardson
Price: $19.99
Review Black Sunday / Hollywoods Attic:Commonly cited as cinematographer Mario Bava's directorial debut, this film is a beautiful, visual feast, and is thought to be the definitive example of Gothic horror produced by Continental filmmakers. The lovely Barbara Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who, gruesomely executed in the 17th Century, promises retribution against the family of those who killed her. Two centuries later she is resurrected by a loyal servant, and rises from her dank tomb to seek revenge. An immortal classic of the horror genre, very likely the best such film ever made in Italy. Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Massimo De Rita and Lou Rusoff. Co-screenplay and cinematography by Bava. Directed by Mario Bava. English dubbed.
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $65.00
Review French Fried Vacation (Les Bronzés) (1978) / Video France:Africa, a vacation haven for consenting adults. This sexy comedy is a side-splitting take-off on Club Med as it started out - where having a good time depended on how many partners you had, no matter who they were!.
Actors & Directors
- Gabriel Jabbour
- Moshé Mizrahi
- Geneviève Fontanel
- Simone Signoret
- Michal Bat-Adam
- Samy Ben-Youb
Run time: 104 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $149.99
Review Madame Rosa / Henstooth Video:
Actors & Directors
- Doris Schade
- Vérénice Rudolph
- Jutta Lampe
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Rüdiger Vogler
- Barbara Sukowa
Run time: 106 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Marianne & Juliane / New Yorker Video:
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