In Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah weighs in on World War II from the German point of view. The result is as bleak, if not quite as bloody, as one expects from the director of The Wild Bunch, in part because this 1977 film was cut to ribbons by nervous studio executives. The assorted excerpts that remain don't constitute an exhilarating or even an especially thrilling battle epic. The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like James Coburn's Steiner are grimly aware that it's a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals (viz., the martinet played by James Mason) seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiner's men than the inexorable enemy. Not even Peckinpah's famous sensuous exuberance when shooting violence is much in evidence; the picture is a depressive, claustrophobically overcast experience. The bloody high (or low) point isn't a shooting; it's a wince-inducing de-penis-tration during oral sex. For a fun time with the men in (Nazi) uniform, try Das Boot instead. --David Chute, Amazon.com
A brutal coast-to-coast annual race in America in the year 2000. Spectacular action in this win-at-all-costs movie.
Nazi Germany, 1942. Ernst, 13, is committed to a mental ward but he soon discovers the hospital's façade. With a plan to sabotage the euthanasia program to help his new found friends, his actions may get him into trouble
Also known as AEROBICIDE, this heady mix of exercise and innards does exactly what it says on the tin, as a host of super-permed spandex-wearing sirens are stalked and sliced by a sicko with a thing for eighties hair-dos and Jane Fonda workout regimes! Made in 1987, just as the golden age of teen-kill flicks was coming to its conclusion, KILLER WORKOUT was helmed by B-movie maverick David A. Prior - whose CV also includes the action epic DEADLY PREY and Pamela Anderson's notorious trash totem RAW JUSTICE. Yet it is this splatter-tastic schlock-fest that continues to be a certified fan favourite - and, after watching this lovingly restored 88 Films presentation of a VHS staple, you will most certainly understand why! Touch your toes, raise your arms and get ready to sweat because KILLER WORKOUT is back to cut out a place in your movie-maniac loving heart as part of the Slasher Classics Collection! Extra: Trailer
For more than two decades Jackson Browne has been one of the most compelling artists in popular music. In August 1994 The Disney Channel presented Jackson Browne: Going Home a chronicle of Jackson's remarkable career. Jackson Browne: Going Home contains interviews performances and rare footage spanning twenty-five years featuring Don Henley Bonnie Raitt David Crosby Graham Nash The Eagles David Lindley Jennifer Warnes and many more. Selections: 1. I'm Alive 2. Farther On 3. Doctor My Eyes 4. These Days 5. Birds of St. Marks 6. Your Bright Baby Blues 7. Take It Easy 8. In the Shape of A Heart 9. Everywhere I Go 10. World In Motion 11. You Can Get It If You Really Want It 12. Good Morning Little Mutant 13. All Along the Watchtower 14. The Pretender 15. For Everyman 16. Lives In The Balance 17. Knock On Any Door 18. My Problem Is You 19. Too Many Angels 20. Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate 21. Sky Blue and Black 22. Before the Deluge 23. Running On Empty/ Credits
Curt Taylor is a handsome con manstraight out of prison. He's paid his dues but not his debts. Underworld King Pin Phil Drexler wants back payment for protecting Taylor while he was inside. He makes Taylor an offer he can't refuse - and through a string of coincidences gets him a job as a secretary to the beautiful star Cartier Rand. But it's Iarceny Drexler's after and demands that Taylor steal the key to the security system of the star's mansion and plans a daring plot to heist her jewels. But the tables turn when the unlikely pair eventually fall in love and plan a heist themselves - to steal the jewels back....
Beautiful young women with gorgeous figures handsome muscle-bound young men aerobics classes weight rooms tanning booths saunas locker rooms and juice bar. All the things one might expect to find in a modern Southern Californian health spa. This one in particular however is slightly different in nature. Its members are not only exercising for a better life: they’re dying for it....
A moving and highly personal documentary about one of the great unsung heroes of jazz. This meditative portrait of Scott's odyssey of loss and redemption weaves together extensive interviews archival photos and international concert footage to create an intimate and personal document of Scott's lifelong struggle to confront exploitations to reunite his family and to find solace through his art. As a musician and a human being 'Little' Jimmy Scott is easily recognised. His small st
""If they scatter go for the mother and baby..."" In the year 2000 hit and run isn't a crime; it's the national sport! Auto racing is now not only how fast you drive but how many pedestrians you hit.... David Carradine takes on Sylvester Stallone in this adrenaline thriller that will surely make you look both ways before you cross!
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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