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The final installment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudorealism, fabricated melodrama, and the priciples of the Dogme 95 genre to a dangerously intense level. The story concerns Selma (Bjork), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, in order to save up enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene of the same disease. To pass the time, Selma fantasizes that her own life is a musical, one in which her friends join her in sweeping song-and-dance routines. After her neighbor Bill (David Morse) discovers Selma's hidden savings and steals them from her, she is forced to perform an act of salvation that will condemn her forever. As the innocent Selma, Bjork is one of the most fragile and heartbreaking presences the screen has ever seen. Her unbearably moving performance is enough to keep the viewer mesmerized throughout, even amid the story gaps and inconsistencies. Featuring compassionate supporting turns by Catherine Deneuve and Peter Stormare, DANCER IN THE DARK is an unrelenting gut punch that will have sympathetic audiences quivering with uncontrollable emotion.
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Adapted from the William Golding novel.
This Americanized 1990's version pits the young boys, survivors of a plane crash against nature and eventually each other.
The consensus that rules should be maintained in the wilderness is soon forgotten as one boy threatens the group's coexistence and even the very lives of the individuals when he begins to draw members into a separate group.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Stereo 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
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Igmar Bergman`s (PERSONA) 1968 masterpiece about the ravages war wreaks on the soul is simple and effective, its allegorical nature rendering it prescient even today. Eva (Liv Ullman, SARABAND) and Jan (Max von Sydow, SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) are orchestra musicians living a near-idyllic life, tending their farm on an unspecified island and making plans for the future. The young married couple is soon disturbed by encroaching war--one of whose causes they, and we, are never apprised--and are forced to run for cover. Soon they find themselves accused of a crime they didn`t commit, and after a series of Kafka-esque encounters with authorities who refuse to believe their claims of being apolitical, a local official comes to their aid. His help is not without a price, however, and it is one that will shame the sensitive Jan, changing him irrevocably.
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Logan Reese (Jason Robards) owns the sawmill that employs nearly the entire town of Deroy. Reese's unwillingness to completely strip the forest of its redwoods lands him in debt, leading the the threat of a large corporation shutting down the mill. An unlikely ally for Reese surfaces in the form of Frank Burris (Eddie Mills), the town outcast who lives alone in the woods. Frank causes an uproar by romancing the mill manager's daughter (Hilary Swank). But after discovering gold in the woods, Frank develops a plan that could possibly put Reese back in the black.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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Stanley Kubrick's final film is a mature, highly intelligent, thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Cruise stars as Bill Harford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexual fantasy that his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to him. Although the fantasy (involving a naval officer) occurred only in Alice's mind, Bill can't get it out of his own head; his obsession leads him through a series of potential sexual encounters, each one surrounded by the specter of death. His whole world threatens to unravel as he falls deeper and deeper into a web of mystery, lies, and deceit.Kubrick's film breathes with vivid blues, reds, and blacks, the threat of illicit sex and death lurking around every corner. Cruise and Kidman, who are married in real life, are utterly convincing as a happy couple suddenly forced to reexamine their faith in each other. Sidney Pollack, Todd Field, Julienne Davis, Marie Richardson, and Vinessa Shaw sparkle in minor roles. Based on the novella TRAUMNOVELLE by Arthur Schnitzler, EYES WIDE SHUT is a brilliant examination of the psychological nature of sex and marriage, of faith and faithlessness, of obsession and desire. Kubrick said that his last film (he died shortly before the film opened) was my best film ever; while that is debatable, there is no doubting that the film is a splendid finale to a glorious career.DVD Features:Region 1Snap CaseFull Frame - 1.33Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Interviews - 1.Tom Cruise - Star








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