Steven Soderbergh's contemporary comedy about life and love in 24 hours of LA life.
A critical look at the tyranny of appearances.What makes a man turn around on a woman? What images of women are offered to men's consumption. The social corset wonders about the tyranny of fashion.A vertiginous reflection on social images of women , this film succeeds in deconstructing the social stage of our unconscious desires.With the participation of major world fashion designers, philosophers, psychoanalysts, directors of women monthlies, and the many models and women who give flesh to the social corset.Participants :Sharon StoneFlorent PagnyKad MeradCatherine Breillat (director)Jacques Abeille (writer)Catherine Perret (philosopher)Christina Lacroix (stylist)Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (minister)Jean Charles de CastelbajacLio (singer)Pascal Ory (historical writer)Tina Kieffer (publicist)Sarah Stern (psychiatrist)Chantal Thomas (stylist)Marie Darrieusecq (writer)Isabelle Marant (stylist)Marie Franoise Collombani (Elle)
13 episodes of the US series The Border. Episodes Comprise: Pockets of Vulnerability Gray Zone Bodies on the Ground Gross Deceptions Compromising Positions Physical Assets Family Values Enemy Contact Restricted Access Normalizing Relations Civil Disobedience Grave Concern Blowback
Edith Piaf is generally regarded as France's greatest ever popular singer and was the most popular French performer from the thirties right through to her early death in 1963. She has remained hugely influential ever since and this concert at Montreux in 2004 is a testament to her enduring popularity even 40 years after her death. Backed by a small jazz ensemble led by pianist Baptiste Trotignan local stars Michael von der Heide Rgine and Catherine Ringer are joined by international artists Ute Lemper Barbara Morrison and Anglique Kidjo to pay homage to the little sparrow as Piaf was affectionately known. Tracklisting: 01: Padam Padam (instrumental) - Baptiste Trotignan 02: Sous Le Ciel De Paris - Baptiste Trotignan 03: Mon Dieu - Michael von der Heide 04: Amants D'un Jour - Michael von der Heide 05: Elle Frquentait La Rue Pigalle - Ute Lemper 06: Embrasse-Moi - Ute Lemper 07: Accordoniste - Ute Lemper 08: Padam Padam - Rgine 09: Mon Mange Moi - Rgine 10: Autumn Leaves - Barbara Morrison 11: C'est Hambourg - Catherine Ringer 12: La Fille Et Le Chien - Catherine Ringer 13: La Goualante Du Pauvre Jean - Catherine Ringer 14: Johnny Tu N'es Pas Un Ange - Anglique Kidjo 15: Non Je Ne Regrette Rien - Anglique Kidjo 16: La Foule - Anglique Kidjo 17: La Vie En Rose - Everyone
ARTH 101356; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica
From makers of Shrek and Madagascar comes The Croods! Join the first modern family as they embark on the journey of a lifetime across a spectacular and unforgettable landscape. When their cave is destroyed everything the Croods have ever known is rocked by seismic shifts and generational clashes as they discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures - and their world is changed forever. If they don't evolve they'll be history!
The Weight Of Water: A century old double murder haunts Jean a photographer who travels to the scene of the crime to investigate. The sole survivor of the slaughter was a woman whose unhappy marriage mirrors Jean's. Past and present collide when a cataclysmic storm burgeons into jealousy and suddenly it becomes clear to Jean who the real killer is... Basic Instinct: Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell a cold calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. But would she be so obvious as to write about a crime she was going to commit? Or is she being set up by a jealous rival? Obsessed with cracking the case Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount bodies fall and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival... Light Sleeper: In Paul Schrader's compelling character study 'Light Sleeper' John Le Tour (Willem Dafoe) is loyal decent lumbering: A 40 year old drug runner who suffers from insomnia but seems to be sleepwalking through life. When John's boss the bubbly but sharp witted Ann (Susan Sarandon) decides to retire John must rethink his life's path. But breaking out of the life he's led will take some doing especially after coming into contact with his ex-girlfriend (Dana Delany) a recovering drug addict and becoming embroilled in a mysterious murder. With echoes of Schrader's script for 'Taxi Driver' 'Light Sleeper' is one of the director's most memorable explorations of the underbelly of American life.
American Pie Presents: Band Camp: Get ready for another hilarious slice of American Pie. In American Pie Presents: Band Camp Stifler's younger brother Matt is sentenced to a summer at the infamous band camp where he creates even more mischief with hidden cameras and hot counsellors. But when he falls for fellow 'bandie' Elyse his efforts to stifle his Stiffmeister ways will surely meet with outrageous results. Jim's dad (Eugene Levy) returns as a quirky counsellor who tries to help Stifler's little brother get back on track. With utterly hilarious scenes and more laugh-out-loud antics join the band in this must-see continuation of the American Pie series! 40 Year Old Virgin: Better late than never... Some may say 40 year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has it all: a great job working at an electronics store; an awesome collection of superhero figures and comic books; friendly elderly neighbours who he watches TV with; and a few cool friends. However there's just one small problem... he's still a virgin! Once his co-workers find out about his secret they start a mission to get Andy laid ASAP! But nothing seems to work... until Andy meets 40 year-old mother of three Trish - a woman who doesn't want sex in her relationships!
Dick Fleming is arrested and charged with the murder of Cyrus Wentworth, but female reporter Bobbie Logan believes him to be innocent. Logan enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son.
The opening of Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's second feature film, is one of the signal moments of the French New Wave--an inspired intersection of grim fatality and happy accident, location shooting and lurid melodrama, movie convention and frowzy, uncontainable life. A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching over his shoulder for pursuers, the running man charges smack into a lamppost. The figure that helps him to his feet is not one of the pursuers (they've oddly disappeared) but an anonymous passer-by, who proceeds to escort him for a block or two, genially schmoozing about the mundane, slow-blooming glories of marriage. The Good Samaritan departs at the next turning, never to be identified and never to be seen again. And the first man--who, despite this evocative introduction, is not even destined to be the main character of the movie--immediately resumes his helter-skelter flight from an as-yet-unspecified and unseen menace. At this point in his career--right after The 400 Blows, just before his great Jules and Jim--the world seemed wide for Truffaut, as wide as the Dyaliscope screen that he and cinematographer Raoul Coutard deployed with unprecedented spontaneity and lyricism. Anything might wander into frame and become part of the flow: an oddball digression, an unexpected change of mood, a small miracle of poetic insight. The official agenda of the movie is adapting a noir-ish story by American writer David Goodis, about a celebrated concert musician (Charles Aznavour) hiding out as a piano player in a saloon. He's on the run as much as the guy--his older brother--in the first scene. But whereas the brother is worried about a couple of buffoonish gangsters, Charlie Koller is ducking out on life, love and the possibility that he might be hurt, or cause hurt, again. Decades after its original release, Shoot the Piano Player remains as fresh, exhilarating, and heartbreaking--as open to the magic of movies and life--as ever. --Richard T Jameson
ARTH 101355; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica
By focusing on those "keeping the home fires burning" and largely ignoring politics, Army Wives appeals to fans of great drama all over the political spectrum. The Season One box set shows a key reason for its strength: the first-rate cast, led by Catherine Bell (JAG) as Denise and Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue) as Claudia, but also featuring the seasoned TV actress Wendy Davis (Joan) and plucky newcomer Sally Pressman (Roxy). There's also one prominent Army husband, Claudia's husband Roland, played by the handsome Sterling K. Brown. The chemistry among these women, living together at an Army base while most of their husbands are off at war--or helping to orchestrate the battles afar--is as undeniable as in any great TV ensemble, reminiscent of the early days of ER. This territory has been for some reason largely unexplored by Hollywood, but what a rich territory it is: Americans may exhort "Support our troops", but the ones who do that day in and day out, on a deep emotional level, are the troops' families. In one moving mid-season scene, Claudia gives a speech, exclaiming, "We serve too!" which is no less moving for being obvious. The series also doesn't stint on its visuals and sets. Shot on location in South Carolina, using a variety of vacant military bases and stately historic homes, Army Wives has a richness, a depth rarely seen on TV. The optional commentary, by the episode's director and its visual effects director, helps the viewer appreciate the cinematic techniques employed in the shots--lingering tracking shots, for example, and fewer cuts back and forth. But Army Wives is not without humor. When Roxy overhears a conversation in a ladies' room about one wife's possibly being beaten, she announces for the full room to hear: "He hits you once, hit him back. Hits you again, shoot him in the b--ls!" Cut to closed stall, where a couple has been trying to have a secret tryst, stifling laughter. The laughs leaven the tears, but the drama of the series overall is always first-rate --A.T. Hurley
Two young freedom fighters try to save the Earth's environment in this futuristic Korean animation.
If only the designers builders and owners hadn't bought into the untimely fatal myth of her being unsinkable...If only the chairman of the White Star Line hadn't declined in a fit of corporate hubris to try to chop a day off the trans-Atlantic crossing record by ordering the Titanic's speed increased to a dangerous 22-plus knots even though icebergs were a well-known menace...If only the Titanic had been adequately supplied with lifeboats. There were in fact places for only 1 200 people although 2 228 passengers and crew were aboard the glittering palace for her maiden - and final - voyage. What makes the Titanic saga so compelling of course are the private stories of those who embarked on the fateful crossing many of whom we meet in this gripping drama.
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