Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast including John Travolta Uma Thurman Andr 3000 Steven Tyler and The Rock and bursting with the hottest music in the biz Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!
Agnieszka Holland's 'Europa Europa' is the fascinating fact-based story of Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) a German Jew who survived the Holocaust by concealing his identity literally within enemy ranks. When Nazi thugs smash into the Perels' house 13-year-old Solly manages to flee. Upon his reunion with his family they head for Poland hoping to find safety but war soon overcomes that land and once again Solly is forced to run this time with his brother. They become separate
Having swept the board at the Academy awards Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history winning eleven oscars in 1959 including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive million budget this 1950''s epic movie has always represented a cinematographic feat that has rarely been bettered...
Blackbeard's Ghost (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1968): Award-winning actor Peter Ustinov stars in this hilarious fantasy as the ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard. The once blackhearted scoundrel materializes in a small New England town cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team... that hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning! Blackbeard finds himself full of team spirit and dispensing his own brand of invisible coaching... in this warmhearted comedy that will have you laughing from his first fade-in to his final fade-out! Treasure Island (Dir. Byron Haskin 1950): In this swashbuckling high-seas adventure Walt Disney has vividly brought to life Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of buccaneers and buried gold - presented for the first time in it's original uncut theatrical version! Authentic locales and musket-roaring action set the stage for the stouthearted heroics of young Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and the skullduggery of that wily one-legged pirate Long John Silver.
Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards
Summer Magic: Hayley Mills brings a joyful enthusiasm to this nostalgic musical and bighearted adventure. When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune they find a wealth of family secrets young love and charming summer nights in Beulah Maine. A good-natured postmaster pretentious cousin Julia and the mysterious absentee landlord Mr. Hamilton populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast including Burl Ives Dorothy McGuire and Deborah Walley this classic and wondrous tale will delight the entire family and belongs in every Disney collection. The Moon-Spinners: When Nikki Ferris and her aunt took a trip to a small Greek island they never expected to get involved in jewel theft and murder. A strangely reluctant innkeeper a handsome Englishmen a missing boy and a mysterious yacht all play a part in this mystery / romance based on a Mary Stewart novel.
When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy occupied Burma Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure The Bridge on the River Kwai. Spectacularly produced The Bridge on the River Kwai captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Actor (Alec Guinness) and Best Director. Even its theme song an old WWI whistling tune the ""Colonel Bogey March"" became
Devil's Island Lovers (1974): A love-sick man is determined to woo his deceased wife's sister and get his hands on the family fortune... Night Of The Assassins (1976): A castle's residents are stalked by a masked killer who is intent on seeing each is on the receiving end of an exceedingly grisly death...
A devious housekeeper convinces her master to cut his worthy grandson out of his will and to leave the riches to her instead. The grandson disguised as the projectionist of a travelling cinema show flatters his way into the home to project a film of Tartuffe in an attempt to open his grandfather's eyes. F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Moliere's satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year shortly followed by 'Faust'. By presenting the play as a fi
ALAIN DELON, GIAN MARIA VOLONTà and YVES MONTAND star as the elegant, mis-matched trio, locked in an elaborate and dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the inscrutable police inspector (ANDRà BOURVIL), who is determined to foil their attempts to pull off the perfect crime, despite being drawn irresistibly to his prey. As the day of the heist dawns, the story unfolds, with all four players determined to cheat fate. Extras: The Perfect Circle Under the Name of Melville Interview with Bernard Stora Interview with José Giovanni Ginette Vincendeau Presentation of Le Cercle Rouge
The Tin Drum is the newest entry into Umbrella's sub-label 'World Cinema' directed by Volker Schlöndorff. This drama is an adaptation of the 1959 novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and was mostly shot in West Germany. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards.When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass.As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II.With the help of Luis Buñuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndoff turns Günter Grass' magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.BANNED IN OKLAHOMA (2004) A film by Gary D. Rhodes: A documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film The Tin Drum due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensuedAn Interview by Volker SchlondorffVolker Schlöndorff on the Director's CutVolker Schlöndorff on the Making of The Tin Drum, Cannes 2001 (French with English subtitles)Theatrical Trailer (English subtitles)
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