A terrific film noir full of skewed camera angles and mysterious whose-shoes-are-those shots, Kiss Me Deadly is about as dark and exciting as noir gets. A young woman (Cloris Leachman) in bare feet and a trench coat throws herself into the traffic to flag down help and the car she stops belongs to detective Mike Hammer. Not even 15 minutes into the film and there's already been a murder, a mysterious letter, an attempt to kill Hammer and, of course, a warning to stay out of it. Hammer, tired of lowlife divorce cases, smells something big and can't let it go. Mike Hammer is a detective so cool he can win a fight with nothing more than a box of popcorn as a weapon; he knows his opera singers as well as his amateur prize-fighters and he makes the ladies swoon--but he's far from a conventional hero. In fact, he's emphatically not a nice guy; Hammer happily whores out his secretary-girlfriend Velma to cinch up those divorce cases and has a penchant for slamming other people's fingers in drawers. Even the bad guys know he's a sleazebag ("What's it worth to you to turn your considerable talents back to the gutter you crawled out of?"). Ralph Meeker plays Hammer's ambivalence brilliantly, swinging easily between sexy and just plain mean. --Ali Davis
Staged at the Gran Teatro Del Liceu in Barcelona October 2003 this opera - written by Ambroise Thomas - is performed by the Symphony Orchestra And Chorus of the Gran Teatro Del Liceu; conducted by Bertrand De Billy.
Pushing the limits of passion, deception and betrayal to their very extremes, The Hidden Face is a breathless, intoxicating thriller with a gut-wrenching climax to rival SE7EN or SAW. When the relationship between musical prodigy, Ramirez, and his obsessive girlfriend, Belen, goes south, Ramirez begins an intense affair with a colleague. However, the revelation of Belen s disappearance arouses both the suspicions of the local police and the anxiety of Ramirez who thinks Belen may still be.s.
Imagine travelling from New Orleans to Seville throughout the English countryside to the Jazz clubs of Europe and America and all in an hour and a half within your own living room. See before you on this DVD a stunning line-up of some of the World's greatest acoustic guitarists playing together for the first time. Each one a virtuoso in his own right and together offering a taster of paradise. Tracklist: 1. La Pasion Del Lamento 2. Kwame / Kiko 3. Jasper Songbird / Spoonful
A deranged young woman with amnesia is hynoptised so that she may explore her own mind. Whilst trying to recover lost memories she discovers that her mind is a nightmare landscape of violence and horror...
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