Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting France's most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literature's meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must lendhis words of love to another man to woo the woman he yearns for. Rappeneau spared no expense in taking this Edmond Rostand play into realistic locations for the battle scenes in the second act, making the film as exciting as it is romantic and funny. Depardieu attacks the role in great gulps, consuming all the oxygen in any room he enters. Macho but sensitive, he creates a larger-than-life Cyrano, whose wrenching sadness at the lack of interest from his lady love will have you reaching for the tissues. --Marshall Fine
The horrendous true story of a cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a devious kidnapper who targets the children of rich families in Los Angeles.
Edward G Robinson won the 1949 Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his powerhouse performance as a domineering Italian father in this gripping drama directed by four times Oscar winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Gino Monetti (Edward G Robinson) is a self made man, an Italian immigrant who has dragged himself up from the slums of New York to be president of his own bank. The struggle has made him hard and bitter - alienating him from three of his sons. Monetti is still close to his fourth son Max (Richard Conte), a sharp lawyer with an even sharper society girlfriend (Susan Hayward). As Monetti's banking empire begins to crumble, tensions within the family reach boiling point - and thoughts turn to revenge - and murder... Special Features: Digitally Remastered Picture and Sound Audio Commentary with Film Historian and Author Foster Hirsch Poster Gallery Production Stills Gallery Unit Photography Gallery Theatrical Trailer Collectors Booklet
Children Of The Corn Traveling through Nebraska Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) stop in a small town to report the death of a child on the highway. There they discover something strange about the community: all the grownups are gone and the children seem to belong to a strange cult. What's worse it's a cult that sacrifices adults to the dreadful 'he who walks behind the rows'... Children Of The Corn 2 A young couple uncovered the horrors that lay hidd
On one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956 Bertolt Brecht prepares to leave his tranquil lakeside house in Brandenburg for Berlin and the upcoming theatre season. Most of the many women in his life are there: his wife daughter old lovers and latest flames including a beautiful young actress and a women whose affections and body he shares with her political activist husband. The serenity of the countryside stands a stark contrast to the deep volatile emotions o
A four-man team sent from headquarters to repair a com-station suddenly falls into a terrorist ambush on the peaks of a mountain. Two conscripted soldiers, one an educated, wealthy young man, the other a coarse street-smart ruffian, have to put aside their differences and learn to trust each other to survive an unforgiving situation. Cut off behind enemy lines, the mountain is their only way out
With Dagon, director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon returns once more to author HP Lovecraft, this time for an adaptation of the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with the setting switched from the coast of New England to the creepy Spanish fishing village of Inboca. After a sudden storm and a yacht-wreck, a bespectacled and bewildered Paul Marsh (Ezra Gooden) finds himself stranded in the literally fishy town, which has thrown over Catholicism to devote itself to the worship of the Philistine sea-god Dagon. His influence means that the inhabitants are transforming into pop-eyed, tentacled and gilled creatures. Though Gooden perhaps strikes too strident a note to convince as an everyday guy, director Gordon orchestrates the rising terrors well. These range from a supremely damp and uncomfortable hotel room through an impressive flashback about the rise of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to some sinister business with a mad-eyed mermaid (Macarena Gomez), human sacrifice and nasty surprises all round. Unfortunately, Gordon still can't quite distinguish between acceptably gruesome and downright nasty, especially when it comes to disposing of secondary female characters. On the plus side, Dagon boasts an excellent score, which even tries to set to music some of Lovecraft's invented language ("Ia Ia Cthulhu fh'tagn"). --Kim Newman
A male Parisian driving school owner who complains of feeling run down goes to see his doctor and is pronounced four months pregnant... A delightful French farce from Jacques Demy starring the luminescent Catherine Deneuve.
Journey Together is widely recognised as one of the most important and accomplished aviation documentaries of the Second World War. Starring Richard Attenborough and Edward G. Robinson, this acclaimed feature-length documentary drama film was written by Terence Rattigan, directed by John Boulting and produced by the RAF. It vividly shows the arduous selection and training process for RAF pilots and aircrew during the Second World War in preparation for their first gripping mission - a night b.
It is high summer in the south of France and one family's peace is about to be disturbed by Elle (Isabelle Adjani) a young woman with revenge on her mind. Elle is a beautiful moody and unsettlingly provocative 19-year-old who returns to the quiet Provence village of her birth to look after her crippled father and German mother. Initially her arousing presence enlivens the usually staid village captivating the young men Pin Pon (Alain Souchon) in particular. But as Elle gradu
In the original Predator, Rambo meets Alien in a terrific science fiction thriller directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a load of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The sequel, Predator 2, suffers from the lack of both original star Schwarzenegger and director McTiernan. Danny Glover does serviceable work as the hard-bitten city cop tracking the near-invisible Predator, who this time has chosen to do a bit of hunting on the streets of LA instead of the jungle. Look out for an Alien skull in the creature's trophy room --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Los Angeles. The summer of 1981. John Holmes (Val Kilmer) is at the end of his extraordinarily prolific career as the world's biggest porn star. ln a state of financial and pharmaceutical ruin Holmes is now devoted to his teenage girlfriend Dawn (Kate Bosworth) while still married to his wife Sharon (Lisa Kudrow). Increasingly involved with a group of local drug dealers on Laurel Canyon's Wonderland Avenue Holmes finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous world of gangland rivalry and violence. But after the home of a notorious crime boss becomes the target for their criminal activities members of the Wonderland gang are found brutally murdered and it is unclear who is implicated in the crime. Can a faded porn star turn into a calculating killer? Based on a true story Wonderland unflinchingly captures the shocking sights sounds and sensations of LA's sleazy underbelly in the 1980s.
A sinister plot is afoot and only one schoolteacher - a special agent with an affinity for rare books can stop it. She is Ms. Yomiko Readman - better known to her colleagues in Section A of Library Special Operations as ""Agent Paper"". Someone is bent upon procuring a rare lost Beethoven manuscript and has enlistedia few of history's most extraordinary personalities through stolen DNA to aid in the endeavor. Readman and her fellow super-powered operatives must tangle with the likes
Following the failed 1956 coup in Hungary a militant lesbian journalist returns to her job as a reporter for a Budapest newspaper where she falls mutually in love with the wife of an army officer. Their relationship - and its doomed consequences - reflects the intransigence and oppression of forced Soviet rule over a would-be sovereign nation. For her efforts Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak won Best Actress Winner at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
Contains some of Brando's finest but lesser known performances: Burn The Formula Bedtime Story The Men One Eyed Jacks (also directed by Brando). Burn (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo 1969): (English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono / Fullscreen) Manipulative English mercenary Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is posted to a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean. Once there he uses his skills to engineer a slave revolt as part of his calculated plans for the English to seize control of t
The legendary production of Wagner's Der Ring de Nibelungen directed by Harry Kupfer at Bayreuth Festival Opera with designs by Hans Schavernoch and conducted by Daniel Barenboim is considered one of the greatest productions of this titanic work ever staged. For their innovative staging Kupfer and his team turned away from the work's time of origin and located The Ring at a crossroads of history a meeting-place of past present and future which sets the scene for the story's struggles of power and love. The world-class cast for is led by Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried Anne Evans as Brunnhilde John Tomlinson as the Wanderer and Graham Clark as Loge.
A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The Queen' Barbara Stanwyck! Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder 1944): Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler ('The Big Sleep') adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But of cou
Set in St. Eligius Hospital South Boston St. Elsewhere was another ensemble drama in a similar vein to Hill Street Blues. Following the lifes loves and careers of a group of doctors and nurses the show earned much acclaim for its articulate controversial and innovative scripts. Featuring a plethora of Movie and television actors of some note it operated as a springboard for a number of big-name stars and character-actors including: Denzel Washington David Morse and Ed Begley Jr; not to mention an incredibly talented number of directors and scriptwriters such as: Kevin Hooks (Lost 24) and Tom Fontana (the creator of HBO's Oz). Many have noted the influence it has had on E.R. and several other hospital-based dramas which followed in its success. The comparisons are not misguided as this is just as good as its contemporary offspring if not better. Featuring all the episodes from the first season. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Bypass 3. Down's Syndrome 4. Cora and Arnie 5. Samuels and the Kid 6. Legionnaires 7. Legionnaires 8. Tweety and Ralph 9. Rain 10. Hearts 11. Graveyard 12. Release 13. Family History 14. Remission 15. Monday Tuesday Sven's Day 16. The Count 17. Brothers 18. Dog Day Hospital 19. Working 20. Craig in Love 21. Baron Von Munchausen 22. Addiction
The Woman In The Window
Murnau's last German film features astonishing photography magnificent art direction and special effects which retain the power to amaze. Freed from the constraints of psychological narrative Murnau's mastery of cinematic technique places Faust at the pinnacle of the silent era its barrage of visceral and apocryphal imagery contrasting with the simplicity and directness of its spiritual theme. Faust's tale is a classic one of a man who sells his soul to the devil. In an attempt
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