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Based on the one-act play by August Strindberg, MISS JULIE takes place during a midsummer festival in late-19th-century Sweden. The title character, played by Saffron Burrows, is the daughter of the the lord of the manor; bored, restless, and lonesome, she finds herself at the servants' party flirting with the footman, Jean (Peter Mullan). He has his own ambitions--dreams of a better life--and he and Julie soon find themselves playing more than just a game with one another. Each is trapped, by class and temperament, and is looking so desperately for a means of escape that they risk destroying each other in the process.Director Mike Figgis is not afraid to let the film feel like a play--the dialogue gets its due and the characters stay in one room throughout--but the film is visually lush as well. Figgis experiments with fade-outs and split screens, the latter prefiguring his long experiment in TIME CODE. In fact, the camera spends most of its time focused tightly on Burrows, who, notwithstanding her offscreen romance with Figgis, gives a powerful performance to merit the attention.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Single Side - Single LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material:
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An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the early 1930s, Martin Ritt's SOUNDER is so simple and effective that it evokes an emotional response from viewers of all ages. Even so, SOUNDER is not a children's film by any means; it treats serious, adult issues, and features some of the most deeply felt performances and mature relationships ever captured on film. SOUNDER's title comes from the name of the Morgan family dog that young David Lee Morgan takes with him while hunting with his father, Nathan. Unfortunately, times are so hard for the Morgans that when Nathan tries to steal a ham for his family, he is caught and sent to a labor camp. David, now the man of the house, sets out on a journey to find the camp where his father was sent. On his way, he comes across an all-black school where he enrolls, learning empowering lessons about black achievement in America. Based on the Newberry Award winning novel by William H. Armstrong, SOUNDER not only improves on its source material, but it is also one of the rare films about the black experience that moves people of all races.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material:Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene AccessText/Photo Gallery: Biographies Filmographies Photo Gallery
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This dark, eerie, multi-layered drama may stand as Cronenberg's masterpiece. The film is loosely based on the true case of the Marcus Twins and the novel about them, TWINS by Bari Wood.The Mantle brothers, Beverly and Elliot, are brilliant gynecologists with an upscale Toronto practice. Elliot is charismatic and outgoing, Beverly is shy and hard-working; emotionally inseparable, the brothers function like psychological Siamese twins. They share everything, including women, until Beverly--the weaker of the two--falls in love with a neurotic, drug addicted, actress. Forced to separate from his brother for the first time, Beverly becomes hooked on drugs and suffers a complete mental breakdown. Elliot, unable to exist independently of his twin, soon joins Beverly in a nightmarish descent into madness and self-destruction. Irons plays the brothers (achieved with seamless camera trickery), whose award winning research in gynecology has brought them international acclaim. Wholly original and uniquely disturbing, it could have been made by an alien, providing he had David Cronenberg's healthy disregard for commercial cinema and a unique sense of the human condition.
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Nine years after the underground success of his cult film SONNY BOY--voted by VILLAGE VOICE critic Dennis Dermody as the best film of the decade-this complex, disturbing psychological drama once again addresses controversial themes, taking another cast of unknowns and drawing gripping, evocative performances from them. Lu Ann (Mariam Parris), was an abandoned infant who has grown into a troubled young woman. Working at an LA coffee shop and living among the city's dank tenements, she finds out she is pregnant by her artist boyfriend. Unable to make ends meet, she makes the decision to sell her child, against her lover's will. Ultimately, however, it comes to light that the couple that wants to buy the baby are hiding a secret much darker than Lu Ann's own.
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The gangland family saga continues, with the Don's ambitious son ascending to the throne of the crime family. But his reign faces two new threats from within: an FBI agent infiltrates his home, disguised as his daughter's tutor, and his aunt seeks vengeance for his murder of his son.DVD FeaturesRegion 1Keep CasePan& Scan - 1.33Dual Side - Single LayerAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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