Counsellor at Law (DVD)
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Counsellor at Law (DVD)
Hollywood legend John Barrymore stars in this edgy pre-code drama as George Simon, a powerful New York lawyer who counts some of the city's most wealthy and influential figures among his clients. Simon, however, uses his position to engage in dubious insider trading and to bilk his wealthy clients out of thousands of dollars to help out those who live in working-class neighborhoods like he did while growing up. When his Robin Hood practices are discovered by a political enemy, Simon finds himself confronted with past indiscretions that could have him disbarred. As this public disgrace ruins his private life, Simon falls back on his prodigious legal talents to uphold his reputation with the help of only his loving secretary.Adapted by Elmer Rice from his own play and directed by William Wyler (ROMAN HOLIDAY, BEN-HUR), COUNSELLOR AT LAW is a thought-provoking drama that exposes the shaky moral and ethical ground that lawyers must tread upon. Long considered one of the finest films made about the American legal system, COUNSELLOR AT LAW ranks among Wyler's finest films.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Mono - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos
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The Night Porter - Criterion Collection (DVD)
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The Night Porter - Criterion Collection (DVD)
Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by theAmerican actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force.Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, is astonished when a past victim-lover (Rampling), checks into the hotel with her husband. Despite the horrific nature of their former relationship--glimpsed in flashbacks of rape, torture and humiliation--their sadomasochistic sexual bond is soon rekindled. Eventually, the SS wants to eliminate the woman, as she is a witness to war crimes. THE NIGHT PORTER is not only an operatic and disturbing cult film that deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture, but an unconventional love story. Based on writer-director Liliana Cavani's interviews with an actual concentration camp survivor, THE NIGHT PORTER is one of the more controversial films of the 1970s, examining aspects of human interaction few works dare to touch.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Mono - English
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Criterion Collection (DVD)
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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Criterion Collection (DVD)
When a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian finishing school embark on a Valentine's day excursion to an unusual outcropping of volcanic rock, four members of the party are drawn towards the summit, where they experience powerful forces of time, nature, and eroticism, and vanish into thin air. This meticulously crafted Australian film displays a remarkable sense of eerie foreboding and lush surrealist sensibility, which have earned it a rabid cult following.Director's Cut.
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Blood and Sand (DVD)
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Blood and Sand (DVD)
Rudolph Valentino stars in this silent era drama as Juan, a young Spaniard who wants to become a famous toreador. Determined to escape poverty and support his widowed mother, Juan quickly rises to national prominence as a bullfighter and marries Carmen, his longtime love. However, as Juan celebrity grows, his devastatingly good looks and growing appetite for everything leave him vulnerable to the throngs of women who want him. When Dona Sol (Naldi), an beautiful and exotic society woman, seduces Juan, it marks his fall from grace as, gradually, his fame, wife, and mistress desert him.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Introduction - 1. Orson Welles - Director Bonus Short - 1.Valentino's Funeral
2. 1924 Parody Starring Will Rogers Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Tales From the Gimli Hospital (DVD)
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Tales From the Gimli Hospital (DVD)
An eerie piece of cinema in which two men share a hospital room at the turn of the century near Manitoba, Canada. Though at first they are friendly, gradually they grow to loathe, envy and despise each other as they head toward death.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseAdditional Release Materials: Audio Commentary - 1. Guy Maddin - Director Short - 1.The Dead Father
(23 min., 1986)
2.Hospital Fragment (4 min., 1999)Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection (DVD)
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Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection (DVD)
Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm, which Fuller created in 1963, has lost none of its force over time. In addition, the film's treatment of journalistic hubris foreshadows the contemporary problem of media becoming corrupted by its compliant association with governmental elites. In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit. As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego. Things go terribly awry, and although he gets his story, he pays a high price for his success.The Home Vision Cinema VHS version is digitally remastered with original color sequences and letterboxed at the original aspect ratio. The print is from the Janus collection.
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Port of Shadows - Criterion Collection (DVD)
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Port of Shadows - Criterion Collection (DVD)
Based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, Marcel Carne's PORT OF SHADOWS is a defining film in the genre of poetic realism. In the tragic story of doomed love, a fugitive and a malevolent trustee's beautiful charge risk everything to have each other for just one night. Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert's award-winning film features the first lead performance of beauty Michele Morgan.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Mono - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Interviews - 1. Marcel Carne - Director
2. Jacques Prevert - Writer
3. Jean Gabin - Star
4. Michele Morgan - Star Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Image Galleries: Poster Gallery Essay - 1. Luc Sante - Cultural Historian
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The Belle of Amherst (DVD)
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The Belle of Amherst (DVD)
Julie Harris reprises her Tony Award-winning Broadway role as Emily Dickinson in this one-woman interpretation of the great literary figure's life. Set against a re-creation of Dickinson's 19th-century Amherst, Massachusetts home, Harris reads from the reclusive poet's poems, letters, and diaries to offer a fully nuanced portrait of the artist as both a real human being and an often-tortured genius.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Bleak Moments (DVD)
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Bleak Moments (DVD)
Writer-director Mike Leigh's BLEAK MOMENTS provides a glimpse into the life of several seemingly insignificant London residents. Sylvia (Anne Raitt) is a secretary who spends her evenings drinking sherry and taking care of her mentally disabled sister, Hilda (Sarah Stephenson). Lonely for some male company, she begins to see Peter (Eric Allan), an uptight schoolteacher. That's when Norman (Mike Bradwell) appears. Norman is a guitar-playing hippie who has rented out Sylvia's garage for a place to duplicate copies of a magazine. Hilda loves listening to Norman play his guitar, and eventually Sylvia invites him inside for coffee and a chat. One night Peter and Sylvia go out to eat at a Chinese restaurant, while Sylvia's coworker Pat (Joolia Cappleman) cares for Hilda. Upon returning home and drinking more sherry, Sylvia makes a pass at Peter, who shyly declines her offer. When Norman decides to leave the garage for good, Sylvia and Hilda are left alone once again, to combat the boredom and mundanity of their lives. Leigh's early made-for-television drama captures daily existence in a way that most filmmakers do not. He allows situations to unfold on their own terms, without forcing them as a writer, creating an intimate, bittersweet drama.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case
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War Photographer (DVD)
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War Photographer (DVD)
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank. This noble and serene film eschews politics and events leading to war, and instead limits itself to Nachtwey, a soft-spoken man on a relentless quest to change the world through photography.Unlike films such as HARRISON'S FLOWERS and UNDER FIRE which dramatize the experiences of American photographers at risk overseas, WAR PHOTOGRAPHER shows the real thing with detailed honesty. The film is best in its illustrations of chaotic and often awkward scrambles to safety amid senseless violence. The filmmakers use miniature video cameras mounted atop Nachtwey's still camera to create a you-are-there feeling that is often sickeningly real. There's no avoiding a keen sense of panic as clouds of tear gas completely obscure Nachtwey's vision, and he labors painfully to take a breath.WAR PHOTOGRAPHER heroically grapples with the moral responsibility of journalists who make a living documenting other peoples' pain. Other journalists interviewed for this film (including CNN's Christiane Amanpour) express the same reservations. Nowhere is this more abundantly clear than when Nachtwey movingly recounts how he begged an angry mob to spare the life of an innocent victim. WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is an important, skillfully crafted film.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital - English Dolby Digital - GermanAdditional Release Material: Interviews With James Nachtwey& Christian Frei Trailer Crew Protagonists Locations
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Medea (DVD)
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Medea (DVD)
Euridipides' Greek tragedy MEDEA is transposed to Denmark in this 1988 television entry from Lars von Trier. Following Jason's betrayal of the woman he once loved, Medea vows revenge upon her former lover and the children she has had with him. This tragic retelling is based on a script by silent film master and von Trier's fellow countryman Carl Theodore Dreyer (THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC).DVD Features:All RegionKeep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Foolish Wives/The Man You Loved to Hate (DVD)
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Foolish Wives/The Man You Loved to Hate (DVD)
This special double feature contains Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece FOOLISH WIVES along with the documentary about von Stroheim, THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE.FOOLISH WIVES (1922)Erich von Stroheim's psychologically penetrating and visually gorgeous study of innocent Americans abroad, and their inability to understand the longstanding rules of behavior followed by their sophisticated European counterparts. An American diplomat and his wife journey to Monte Carlo, where he proceeds to bury himself in work. His wife, bored and upset with her husband's inattentiveness, and longing to experience the Continental nightlife, gradually succumbs to the flirtations of an elegant and charming Count -- who, in actuality, is merely a Russian military officer out to seduce her. As events come tumbling to a disastrous conclusion, the woman learns a valuable lesson about the meaning of true nobility, and the difference between appearance and reality.THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE (1978):This documentary explores the life and work of Erich Von Stroheim, one of cinema's earliest geniuses and a notoriously obsessive artist. Using interviews, rare photographs and clips from von Stroheim's masterworks as well as his more obscure films, THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE presents a compelling picture of the enigmatic writer, actor, and director.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseAdditional Release Material: Outtakes Audio Commentary - 1. Richard Koszarski - Biographer Audio Interview - 1. Valerie von Stroheim and Paul Kohner Additional Footage - 1. New York Censor Board CutsInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Essay - 1. A Note on the Film - Erich von Stroheim
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