Actors & Directors
- Chantal Darget
- Michel Delahaye
- Louisa Colpeyn
- Claude Brasseur
- Sami Frey
Run time: 95 min.
List Price: $24.99
Price: $24.99
Review Band of Outsiders / Henstooth Video:Described by its maker, Jean-Luc Godard, as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," this 1964 film noir stars Anna Karina as a naive woman who takes up with couple of would-be bad guys (Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey) in a disastrous effort to rob her aunt of a fortune. Along the way, the motley group joins the Godardian (and Hollywood gangster) tradition of characters who walk a line between reality and invention, in this case distracting themselves by running around the Louvre, taking a stab at learning English, stumbling through some dance steps, and reenacting the death of Billy the Kid. A uniquely spontaneous work in Godard's canon, Band of Outsiders also continues the Brechtian strain in the director's merged relationship with Karina, his then-wife and artistic muse. Yet it is also more buoyantly unpredictable in its sense of romantic doom than any of the director's movies since his seminal debut, Breathless (also a gangster film, not coincidentally). -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Annie Girardot
- Hubert Deschamps
- Catherine Alric
- Paulette Dubost
- Philippe de Broca
- Philippe Noiret
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Jean-Paul Schwartz
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.95
Review Tendre Poulet / Cinema 5 Distributing:A charming comedy thriller about an unconventional female police detective investigating the murders of three senate deputies. A film full of inventive gags, serious 'policier' undertones, and touching romance.
Release date: 1997-03-01
List Price: $9.99
Price: $24.95
Review Rebelion En La Selva / Anchor Bay Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Pastor Vega
- Samuel Claxton
- Alina Sánchez
- Germán Pinelli
- Raúl Pomares
- Elsa Gay
Run time: 103 min.
List Price: $19.95
Price: $120.00
Review Portrait of Teresa / New Yorker Video:
Actors & Directors
- Massimo Girotti
- Laura Antonelli
- Ettore Scola
- Bernard Giraudeau
- Valeria D'Obici
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
Run time: 117 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $199.95
Review Passione D'Amore / Kino International:
Actors & Directors
- Istvan Bujtor
- Reszo Szoreny
- Cecilia Esztergalyos
- Erika Bodnar
- Andras Balint
Run time: 84 min.
Price: $59.95
Review Happy New Year (BUÃK! / 1979) / Facets:
Actors & Directors
- Colombaioni
- Bario
- Alex (XV)
- Riccardo Billi
- Anita Ekberg
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $19.95
Price: $30.00
Review The Clowns / Henstooth Video:
Actors & Directors
- Antonio Aguilar
- René Cardona
- Alejandro Reyna
- Maricruz Olivier
- Víctor Manuel Mendoza
- Jaime Fernández (II)
- Tito Novaro
Run time: 91 min.
List Price: $9.99
Price: $24.95
Review El Caballo Bayo / Anchor Bay Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Password-Una Mirada En La Oscuridad
Run time: 92 min.
Price: $14.95
Review Password: Una Mirada En La Oscuridad (Spanish) / Venevision:
Release date: 1998-06-18
Price: $39.99
Review Erotic Passion / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Cynthia Khan
- Lung Ti
- Collin Chou
- Shun Lau
- Rosamund Kwan
Price: $39.99
Review Blade of Fury / Tai Seng Video:
Actors & Directors
- Michel Colombier
- Richard Berry
- Caroline Bongrand
- Anouk Aimée
- Nino Castelnuovo
Run time: 90 min.
Price: $14.98
Review The Universe of Jacques Demy / Fox Lorber:Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Agnès Varda's (Vagabond, One Hundred and One Nights) third tribute to her late husband, Jacques Demy, is a loving look at his brilliant vision and techniques. Included are clips from Demy's films featuring Lola, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Bay of Angels along with interviews of those who worked with him and knew him best including Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli, Harrison Ford, composer Michel Legrand, Demy's children and fans. The film also includes rare home video footage of the director with François Truffaut and Jim Morrison.
Actors & Directors
- Toño Mauri
- Pedro Fernández
- Charly Valentino
- Edith González
- Marisol Santacruz
- Pedro Galindo III
Price: $9.99
Review Trampa infernal / Anchor Bay Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- James Coco
- Marco Ferreri
- Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Gail Lawrence
- Gérard Depardieu
- Marcello Mastroianni
Run time: 110 min.
Price: $19.99
Review Bye Bye Monkey / Jef Films/Mvd:
Actors & Directors
- Chitrakorn Sundarapakshin
- Supakorn Srisawat
- Deux Doksadao
- Kazuki Nakashima
- Euthana Mukdasanit
- Rohan Dadlay
Run time: 134 min.
List Price: $39.95
Price: $59.80
Review Sunset at Chaopraya / Connoisseur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Joseph Stalin
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Sergei Yursky
- Aleksandr Kerensky
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Andrei Zagdansky
Run time: 50 min.
Price: $29.95
Review Interpretation of Dreams / Facets:
Actors & Directors
- Tenmei Kano
- Masahiko Shimada
- Kan Mikami
- Ryû Murakami
- Sayoko Amano
- Miho Nikaido
Run time: 112 min.
List Price: $29.98
Price: $30.00
Review Tokyo Decadence / Orion:The fourth feature film written and directed by the Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami (Coin Locker Babies) revels in S&M episodes that seem to owe less to the Japanese tradition of the "pink film" than to such Euro art-bondage movies as Maitresse and A Woman in Flames. Visually, the sequences stop well short of hard core, and emotionally they are amorphous, too, even less unsettling than standard porno fare. What ultimately saps the movie's strength is its schematic approach to character. The loosely structured picture tags along after a timid young woman named Ai (Miho Nikaido), a recent college graduate who has found work in the big city as a hooker specializing in low-impact bondage. Ai seems less a character than a convenient object for Murakami's flip sense of high-tech alienation. (She claims to have learned only one thing in life: "That I have no talent of any kind. ") The nonstick surfaces of her daily life, like her personality, are almost completely without distinguishing features; the only gestures she makes toward taking control are some superstitious rituals prescribed by a sidewalk fortuneteller. Ai herself is such a hazy presence that nothing that happens to her stays with us. -David Chute.
Actors & Directors
- Tatsuya Fuji
- Yasuko Matsui
- Aoi Nakajima
- Eiko Matsuda
- Meika Seri
- Nagisa Oshima
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Kôji Wakamatsu
List Price: $14.98
Price: $45.99
Review In the Realm of the Senses (Uncut NC-17 Version) / Surrogate:Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda) whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though it did run into legal trouble both in the U. S. and Japan), it has an air of palpable doom, suggesting that sex can be a doorway to suicide. Lest this sound like grunge-era noodling over dreams of self-destruction, be assured that the Kyoto-born Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) takes a somewhat formal, middle-aged perspective on the conjunction of various mysteries of existence. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- Maggie Cheung
- Anne Fontaine
- Darry Cowl
- Guy Casabonne
- Stéphanie Zhang
- Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc
Creator: Sylvie Gadmer
Price: $59.95
Review Augustin / Kino International:
Actors & Directors
- Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Jieh-Wen King
- Jack Kao
- Li-Chin Lu
- Giong Lim
- Annie Shizuka Inoh
Run time: 108 min.
Price: $19.98
Review Good Men, Good Women / Fox Lorber:Liang Jing's diary is stolen and the pages re faxed back to her forcing her to review this difficult period in her life. The pain of 2 generations are visited upon her: she is preparing to play the part of an anti-Japanese guerrilla in 1940's China in a movie entitled "Good Men, Good Women" and the pages from her diary evoke her past as a drug-addicted barmaid involved with a gangster.
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