One rainy night, Dr. Garondet is summoned to the castle of Professor Orloff. Making it to the castle on foot, the good doctor meets Cecile, Orloff's daughter, a seemingly deranged girl who is convinced that an invisible phantom is at large on the premises. Orloff explains the story behind Cecile's insanity to the doctor--a tale involving premature burial, grave-robbing and flagellation--and invites him to stay over. As Garondet spends an uneasy night at the castle, he finds himself sharing in Cecile's delusions.
Groundbreaking, visually stunning and totally unforgettable, Zu Warriors is credited by famed director John Carpenter as the original inspiration for his flamboyant box-office smash-hit Big Trouble in Little China, and director Ang Lee borrowed heavily to re-create the stylish visuals for his multi-oscar-winning epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Featuring an all-star cast led by acrobatic genius Yuen Biao, Zu Warriors depicts the adventures of a young soldier (Dik Mingkei) caught in a war between two rival armies. To escape certain death he takes sanctuary in a cave within the ominous Zu Mountain, where he becomes entangled in a battle with all-powerful supernatural forces threatening to destroy the World. Guided by a mysterious swordsman (Adam Cheng), Dik Mingkei must harness the power of two mystical swords; the only weapons on Earth capable of defeating his omnipotent enemy. Special Features: Feature-length audio-commentary with Acclaimed Director Tsui Hark and Hong Kong Cinema Expert Bey Logan Trailer Gallery Interview Gallery with Moon Lee and Mang Hoi The Wizards Cave (Containing Extensive Additional Footage with Yuen Biao and Moon Lee) Featuring breath-taking art design, striking cinematography and magical visual effects, Zu Warriors inspired a generation of filmmakers from all around the World, and has earned its place as one of the pre-eminent classics of the genre! Now restored and re-mastered on DVD for the first time ever!
Richard Strauss's wildest and most passionate opera gets an almost ideal performance in this 1989 production with three great female singers at the height of their powers. Marton is terrifyingly unreasonable as Elektra, determined to mourn her dead father in the face of her mother who had him killed, and to hope and pray for the vengeance that her brother will one day bring. Told he is dead, her emotional collapse is equally total, and her eventual self-destructive dance of triumph is a bittersweet ecstasy of anger and joy. Studer gives the sometimes underplayed role of the normal, compromising "feminine" sister the weight and sympathy Strauss intended it to have. Fassbaender is electric as Clytemnestra, collapsing under the weight of her guilt and paranoia, but still scarily sexy and regal in her manipulation of those around her. Abbado's conducting is electric--from the opening "Agamemnon" chords to the final dying fall of Elektra's dance, he never puts a foot wrong or misjudges the pacing of this most difficult of opera scores. The DVD has subtitles in English, German and French. --Roz Kaveney
In 1986 Roberto Succo escaped from an Italian mental institution where he had been incarcerated for the brutal murder of his parents and went into hiding in France. Travelling between the Mediterranean and the mountains of Savoy Succo left a trail of inexplicable murders rapes and abductions which the police investigators struggled to connect. Cedric Kahn's gripping dramatisation of true events gives a terrifying insight into the disturbed mind of a serial killer and also follows
Veronique living with her divorced mother is going on easter's holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a nice looking boy Benjamin she manages to complicate the situation several times because she makes up a story where her father is presented as her lover and in addition he is a hero and secret agent but with somewhat criminal past.
Includes 34 songs and a two hour long programme on Brigitte Bardot....
A pair of society women dressed in all their finery stand in the middle of an abattoir, animal carcasses hanging behind them and blood splashed across the floor. Giggling and fidgeting, they drink their prescribed glass of ox blood. The startling, unreal image of high-society manners in the midst of gore and death pitches Jean Rollin's 1979 feature Fascination into a turn-of-the-century culture come unhinged. When a well-dressed rogue, fleeing from angry partners he double-crossed, takes refuge in a lavish, moat-protected mansion, servant girls Franca Mai and Brigitte Lahaie cajole, tease and seduce him into staying for their night-time soiree. "You have stumbled into Elizabeth and Eva's life, the universe of madness and death", mutters one of them as they await the cabal where he is the guest of honour. Shot on a starvation budget and populated with stiff performers, Rollin's direction is arch and at times sloppy and his story never more than an outline. It's the mix of dreamy and nightmarish imagery that gives Fascination its fascination: blonde Lahaie stalking victims with a scythe, the bourgeois blood cult swarming over a fresh victim like wild animals, alabaster faces streaked in blood. While it lacks the delirious spontaneity of his earlier vampire films Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the languid pace and austere beauty creates an often-mesmerising fantasy. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
The woman who changed the look' of the entire century. The fascinating, elegant, unreachable Gabrielle Coco Chanel was a girl from humble origins that sought liberation through her work. Her success was due to her talent and undying determination. She changed the image and role for women forever - but her only real desire was just to be loved.
Chungking Express tells two stories loosely connected by a Hong Kong snack bar. In one, a cop who's been recently dumped by his girlfriend becomes obsessed with the expiry dates on cans of pineapple; he's constantly distracted as he tries to track down a drug dealer in a blonde wig (played by Brigitte Lin, best known from Swordsman II and The Bride with White Hair). Meanwhile, another cop who's recently been dumped by his girlfriend (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, from John Woo's Hard-Boiled and A Bullet in the Head) mopes around his apartment, talking to his sponge and other domestic objects. He catches the eye of a shop girl (Hong Kong pop star Faye Wang) who secretly breaks in and cleans his apartment. If you're beginning to suspect that neither of these stories has a conventional plot, you're correct. What Chungking Express does have is loads of energy and a gorgeous visual style that never gets in the way of engaging with the charming characters. The film was shot on the fly by hip director Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together, Ashes of Time), using only available lighting and found locations. The movie's loose, improvisational feel is closer to Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless than any recent film--and that's high praise. Quirky, funny, and extremely engaging, Chungking Express manages to be experimental and completely accessible at the same time. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
The definitive DVD boxset from the French filmmaker of the 20th Century. 14 disc collection of work from movie auteur Jean-Luc Godard Set Comprises: Le Mepris Alphaville Passion A Bout De Souffle Made In USA Pierrot Le Fou Une Femme Est Une Femme La Chinoise Le Petit Soldat Detective Notre Musique Helas Pur Moi Elogue De L'Amour Bonus Disc
The grapes used to produce the wine for a village's annual Grape Harvest Festival has been polluted by toxic chemicals and induces a form on zombified insanity in the villagers who have drunk the wine. The victims' flesh also melts adding another layer of torment to their crazed suffering and madness. For director Jean Rollin Grapes of Death was a major departure from his usual dream-like vampire films in that he set out to frighten and horrify rather than to captivate and astound and he does so with great success.
Chungking Express is the ultra-stylish film by internationally acclaimed Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai. Using gorgeous Hong Kong stars and perfect pop music 'Chungking Express' tells two stories of lovelorn cops dangerous drug smugglers and California dreamers. The first story takes place in the infamous Chungking Mansions as melancholic Cop No 223 meets a mysterious woman in a wig and dark glasses in a late night bar little dreaming she's a big-time heroin smuggler up to her neck in trouble. The second story is set around the Midnight Express fast-food joint where Cop No 663 played by Hong Kong heart-throb Tony Leung orders his dinner each night. So broken-up over an air hostess who's flown away 663 fails to notice that the girl who serves his food (Hong Kong rock star Faye Wong) has a massive crush on him. Until to the soundtrack of California Dreaming she takes drastic action to mend his broken heart...
With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot Metropolis is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on Blade Runner and Star Wars among countless other films). Directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (M Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse The Big Heat etc.) its jaw-dropping production values iconic imagery and modernist grandeur - it was described by Luis Bu'uel as a captivating symphony of movement - remain as powerful as ever. Drawing on - and defining - classic sci-fi themes Metropolis depicts a dystopian future in which society is thoroughly divided in two: while anonymous workers conduct their endless drudgery below ground their rulers enjoy a decadent life of leisure and luxury. When Freder (Gustav Fr''hlich) ventures into the depths in search of the beautiful Maria (Brigitte Helm in her debut role) plans of rebellion are revealed and a Mariareplica robot is programmed by mad inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) and master of Metropolis Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) to incite the workers into a self-destructive riot. A Holy Grail among film finds Metropolis is presented here in a newly reconstructed and restored version as lavish and spectacular as ever thanks to the painstaking archival work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the discovery of 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. Lang's enduring epic can finally be seen - for the first time in 83 years - as the director originally intended and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927.
Ursual (Bardot) a young girl recently released from a convent runs away with the man who seduced her aunt and murdered her uncle. Pursued by the police their relationship is to prove deadly...
Richard WagnerDie Meistersinger Von NurnbergOper in drei Akten.
Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and French doctor Dino Barron (Alain Delon) are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances. Hoping to help a friend who has embezzled some bonds Barron tries to break into a safe in the dead of night. Sneaking into an underground vault he is surprised to discover that his old pal Propp is also on the premises likewise intending to crack the saf
The 'Swordsman' series continues with the reappearance of the isolated transgender character ""Asia the Invincible"" (Brigitte Lin) to repudiate those who have used his name for fame and power... Played out against the conflicts of the Ming dynasty 'Swordsman 3: East Is Red' features spectacular land and sea battle sequences among the Han clan the Sun Moon Sect the Spaniards and Japanese ninjas!
More classic French erotica in another raunchy romp from the French producer responsible for the Naughty DVD sex epics Education Anglaise and Dressage! French erotic sensation Brigitte Lahaie stars as Juliette an ex-prostitute whose twin passions in life are men and money. When she isn't indulging in steamy sex sessions Juliette and her lover Chris plan to blackmail young heiresses by photographing them in highly compromising situations and their task is abetted when Juliette's sister Diana - who works as a high-class hooker - gives the couple a list of the daughters of wealthy businessmen who are looking for a bit of rough. So Chris picks up the posh totty in various nightclubs and it's back to his place for bedroom shenanigans whilst Juliette takes some highly incriminating and embarrassing photographs and also gets down and dirty with the delectable girls. Meanwhile a private detective (Marcel Charvey from Belle De Jour) is hired by the father of one of the wayward wenches to track down the blackmailers and soon starts sifting through the sleaze to find the shocking snaps before it's too late. If you want steamy sex scenes a tour of the very finest of sleazy Paris nightspots burleque saucy French lingerie and naked girls playing classical music this is the DVD for you. So enjoy these Scandalous Photos in the privacy of your own home and see what develops!
'Masculin Feminin' stars Truffaut favourite Jean-Pierre Leaud Chantal Goya and Brigitte Bardot; set against a background of an edgy France gripped by political upheaval the Vietnam war and an election in which Charles De Gaulle kept his grip on power much to the frustration of the disgruntled Left. Structuring the film around 15 scenes of varying lengths Godard takes the deceptively simple story of the relationship between an ex-army recruit Paul (Leaud) and aspiring pop singe
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