Jackpot (DVD)
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Jackpot (DVD)
Twin brothers Mark and Michael Polish, who collaborated on the cult hit, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, a quirky but contemplative film about a woman in love with a Siamese twin, move in a slightly different direction with their follow-up, JACKPOT. The title of the film can be taken ironically, as JACKPOT documents the career path of Sunny Holiday (Jon Gries), who left his wife (Daryl Hannah) and daughter to tour as a karaoke singer. His manager, Les (Garrett Morris of Saturday Night Live fame), tries to keep Sunny out of trouble (especially with women), but his career advice is frequently off the mark. A singer of minimal talent, Sunny manages to win very few contests. JACKPOT is an odd but engaging comedy. The Polish brothers have even cast the film eccentrically with talented 1970s and 1980s TV stars. In addition to Morris are Peggy Lipton, Crystal Bernard, Mac Davis, and Anthony Edwards. Playing two losers chasing an impossible dream, Gries and Morris have an entertaining rapport. JACKPOT was shot on a Sony 24P digital video camera (also used to shoot STAR WARS: EPISODE 2), and the film looks great, capturing the grimy details of a low-budget life on the road.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Michael Polish - Director TrailersInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies
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Safe (DVD)
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Safe (DVD)
SAFE is an unnerving story about a housewife, Carol (brilliantly played by Julianne Moore), who falls physically and psychologically ill from her environment. Director Todd Haynes casts an instantly eerie spell with hypnotic cinematography as Carol's stoic, perfect world is introduced. Her home is exquisite, her husband (Xander Berkeley) loving, her son (Chauncey Leopardi) typical, her best friend loyal. But after Carol learns her friend Linda's (Susan Norman) brother has died mysteriously, Carol begins to experience her own strange symptoms. Her illness eventually transforms her seemingly protected, upper middle-class existence into a terror of everyday life. She becomes so ill--with her doctor and friends concluding it's all psychological--that she begins to investigate a cult-like healing center that provides a protective bubble from what its followers call the twentieth century disease--a kind of allergy to everything modern or chemical. With its stunning art direction and an impressive performance by its star, SAFE is both a chilling tale of existential dread and a witty commentary on modern suburban life.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - French Dolby Digital Mono - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary: 1. Todd Haynes - Director, Christine Vachon - Producer,
Julianne Moore - Star Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
2. THE END OF THE AFFAIRInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies Liner Notes from Director Todd Haynes
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Sexual Predator (DVD)
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Sexual Predator (DVD)
Photographer J.C. Gale (Richard Grieco) is convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a young woman dies while engaging in kinkly sexual games with him. Sexy probation officer Beth Spineta (Angie Everhart) is assigned to Gale's case and must monitor him accordingly. Gale however, doesn't realize that Beth is the dead woman's best friend, and she intends to make him pay--but Gale exhibits a strange power over her, and revenge will not come so easy for Beth.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English Dolby Digital Stereo - FrenchInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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I Dreamed of Africa (DVD)
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I Dreamed of Africa (DVD)
Based on the book of the same name, I DREAMED OF AFRICA is the true story of Kuki Gallman (Kim Basinger), a wealthy Italian socialite whose life changes abruptly after a near fatal car crash. Vowing to appreciate her life more deeply, she agrees to marry Paolo Gallman (Vincent Perez), a man she does not know well, and sets off with her young son, Emmanuelle (Liam Aiken), for a new life in the countryside of Kenya. A cattle ranch in the Lakipani region of Kenya becomes the Gallmans' new home, far away from the creature comforts of their posh household in Italy. Kuki is beset with the daily challenges of life in Africa, including harsh weather, dangerous animals, and the absence of her husband, who spends days away hunting with his new friends. Forced to face many challenges alone, Kuki experiences a cultural awakening, inspired by an intense and emotional connection to the land, animals, and rhythm of Africa. Finding her new purpose in life, Kuki becomes an activist for endangered African animals, most notably elephants and rhinoceroses. Her resulting battles with those opposing her ideas provide the greatest conflicts in this inspiring and lyrical film that features an impassioned performance by Basinger. Director Hugh Hudson effectively captures the breathtaking beauty of both the African landscape and the animals that Kuki dedicated her life to help save.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CasePan& Scan - 1.33Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Dual Side - Single LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer Making-of - 1. HBO On Location Isolated Audio Track - 1. ScoreInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Biographies - 1. Cast& CrewAdditional Products: Booklet
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The Lady and the Duke (DVD)
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The Lady and the Duke (DVD)
This visually breathtaking film from New Wave director Eric Rohmer uses hand-painted sets that depict 18th-century Paris, the English lady's home, and the surrounding countryside with a vivid effect that looks like a realist oil painting brought to life. Set in the mid-1700s during the French Revolution, THE LADY AND THE DUKE tracks the profound friendship between Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), an English woman who lives in Paris and insists on staying there throughout the war, and The Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), the cousin of Louis XVI and Grace's former lover. Russell (FOLLOWING) gives a superb performance as the headstrong, political, beautiful, and daring Grace Elliot, whose real-life memoirs inspired Rohmer to make the film. Dreyfus (DELICATESSEN) plays her perfect counterpart--powerful and unwavering, yet charming, caring, and honest. As each scene of the film magically bleeds into the next, the painterly backdrops make it difficult to discern 3-D objects such as chairs from the trompe l'oiel flat painted sets. Characters enter or exit with shocking life as the camera matches them to the color and texture of the painting. Majestic black horses that pull carriages over the cobblestone streets shimmer with velveteen realness. Meanwhile, tension brought on by the war adds strain to the friendship between the lady and the duke, and as the audience endures the fall of the Bastille, the September Massacres, and the finally, the king's execution, they are captivated, entertained, and historically nourished.This film screened in October 2001 as part of the 39th New York Film Festival, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Dolby Digital 2.0 - FrenchInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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Macbeth (DVD)
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Macbeth (DVD)
William Shakespeare's immortal play about a Scottish warrior (Jon Finch) whose wife's lust for power transforms him into inhuman monster is given it's rawest, most brutal screen treatment in this version by Roman Polanski (ROSEMARY'S BABY, CHINATOWN). Filmed in suitably bleak locales and imbued with nudity not usually seen in the works of Shakespeare--along with realistically gory murders--this MACBETH is singular and sensational, but is not for the young or faint of heart.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 2.35Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun (DVD)
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun (DVD)
Set in Hanoi, Vietnam, THE VERTICAL RAY OF THE SUN is a rich visual banquet overflowing with lush, artful images that unfold with the same languorous slowness with which the the film's enigmatic characters and relationships develop. Three sisters, Lien (Tran Nu Yen-Khe), Khanh (Le Khanh), and Suong (Nguyen Nhu Quynh), and their brother, Hai (Ngo Quang Hai), come together to prepare a feast in remembrance of their deceased parents. They end up discovering that they each harbor important secrets.The two older sisters, Suong and Khanh, are both married, one to a novelist and one to a photographer. Though their marriages seem quite tranquil and happy on the surface, there is trouble brewing for both sisters. Their scenes of dreamy domesticity become more poignant as the fragility of this bliss--which the sisters try to hide both from themselves and from each other--is revealed. Their younger sister, the gorgeous Lien, lives with their brother, Hai, a struggling actor. Lien is both naive (she isn't quite sure how a woman gets pregnant) and very sensual. At night she sneaks into her brother's bed; she claims it is to stay warm, but there's an ambiguous sexuality in her feelings for her brother which adds another layer of complexity to the film.Director Tran Anh Hung's first two films, THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA and CYCLO were also masterful explorations of Vietnamese life; THE VERTICAL RAY OF THE SUN is perhaps the most elegiac and serene of the three, weaving a very delicate fabric of relationships which are as elusive as the dappled, changeable Hanoi sunshine.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - Vietnamese Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies
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The Luzhin Defence (DVD)
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The Luzhin Defence (DVD)
Based on the novel THE DEFENSE by Vladimir Nabokov, director Marleen Gorris's THE LUZHIN DEFENCE is set in Italy in the 1920s as the world reknowned chess master Alexander Luzhin (John Turturro) from St. Petersburg, Russia, arrives for a match with his only known rival. Almost immediately after he arrives, Luzhin meets a glowing, graceful aristocratic woman, Natalia (Emily Watson), who is attending the match with her mother. Surrounded by potential suitors, Natalia is busy behaving like a lady and presenting various young men to her mother for approval. However, she is curious about the slovenly, unconventional, quirky Luzhin from their first meeting, and she sees past his social ineptitude, believing him to be a true genius. Luzhin is utterly smitten, and practically forgets his determination to win the match when he proposes marriage to Natalia. From there, THE LUZHIN DEFENCE spirals downward as Natalia becomes a maternal figure to Luzhin, who is haunted by ghosts from his past and is nearly driven insane by the nagging, torturous pressure to figure out the one move (a flawless defense) that will allow him to win the chess match.With beautiful imagery depicting the lavish Italian resort where the match is held, elegant costumes, and a triumphant, stirring classical score, THE LUZHIN DEFENCE is an evenly acted, well-paced film about love, intrigue, and going that extra mile.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Marleen Gorris - Director Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Featurette - 1. Making of THE LUZHIN DEFENCE Deleted ScenesInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries Filmographies
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The Long Gray Line (DVD)
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The Long Gray Line (DVD)
John Ford cast former matinee idol Tyrone Power against type in the true story of Marty Maher, a humble Irish immigrant who rose through the ranks to become one of West Point's most revered instructors. Arriving at the hallowed military academy near the turn of the 20th century, Maher first gets a job as a cafeteria dishwasher but realizes that the enlisted men receive better treatment and quickly becomes one. The life of military discipline is no easier for the Irishman, and he soon finds himself in the guardhouse after getting in a fight with an officer he mistakenly accuses of a crime. Upon his release, Capt. Herman Koehler (Ward Bond), who saw the fight and admired his pugilistic skill, offers Marty a job as the school's boxing coach. Koehler also introduces him to the quiet Irish-born cook, Mary (Maureen O'Hara), who will become his wife. As the years pass, Marty's role expands beyond his place in the athletic department as he gradually becomes one of the most beloved characters in the school's history, a second father to thousands of grateful cadets. This warmly sentimental, typically Fordian tribute to a life of service--the director's first film following a year off because of eye surgery--features a fine performance by Power as the volatile, big hearted Hibernian.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 3.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailer - 1. Original TheatricalInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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Nil by Mouth (DVD)
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Nil by Mouth (DVD)
First-time director Gary Oldman offers a gritty, profane look inside the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse hold sway. Score by Eric Clapton. Winner of the Best Actress award for Kathy Burke at the Cannes Film Festival.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.78Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English
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Little Secrets/Wish Upon a Star DVD 2-Pack (DVD)
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Little Secrets/Wish Upon a Star DVD 2-Pack (DVD)
This DVD 2-Pack includes two family titles, LITTLE SECRETS (2001)
and WISH UPON A STAR (1996), both from the team of director Blair Treu and writer Jessical Barondes. See individual titles for details.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLITTLE SECRETS:Widescreen - 1.85Full ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 2.0 - French Dolby Digital 2.0 - Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 - PortugueseAdditional Release Material: Filmmakers' Commentary Trailers Featurettes - 1. Making-of Blooper ReeInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: FilmographiesAdditional Products: Music CD (while supplies last)WISH UPON A STAR:Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Surround - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Blair Treu - Director
2. Jessica Barondes - Screenwriter TrailersInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies
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Memento/Following 2-Pack (DVD)
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Memento/Following 2-Pack (DVD)
MEMENTO is packaged along with FOLLOWING, the film debut of MEMENTO writer/director Christopher Nolan, in this DVD 2-Pack. See individual titles for details. Please note that the edition of MEMENTO included here is not the 2-disc Special Edition.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseDisc 1: MEMENTO - Theatrical VersionWidescreen - 2.35Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital Surround - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
2. TV Spot
3. FOLLOWING Additional Footage - 1. IFC Interview with Chris NolanInteractive Features: Interactive Motion Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Biographies - 1. Director and Cast Content from MEMENTO Website Tattoo GalleryDisc 2: FOLLOWINGFull Screen - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - OptionalAdditional Release Material:
Trailers
Audio Commentary - 1. Christopher Nolan - Director
Alternate Angle - 1. Director's Shooting ScriptInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection Ability to Restructure the Story ChronologicallyText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies Biographies - 1. Cast and Crew
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