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Written by Academy Award winner Horton Foote, the film follows the life of a young woman who shocks the people of her small southern town by marrying a man from the wrong side of the tracks. They marry on Valentine's Day and take a room in the house of an impoverished family where their lives soon become intertwined with their fellow boarders.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.78Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English
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In this pulpy crime drama, a murder stirs up trouble at London's Cotton Club, threatening the livelihood of its controlling owner. When Steve Marco (Jack LaRue) kills a club employee who was blackmailing him, he also steals a valuable string of pearls. Scotland Yard jumps on the case, and recruits club beauty Ruby Lane (Sandra Storme) to try to retrieve the pearls. However, the club's goons see the exchange, and the result is so surprising that no one could have predicted it! Notable talent in this cast includes Jack LaRue, who developed a reputation in the 1930s and 1940s for playing a series of tough characters, and Bernard Lee, who went on to fame as James Bond's M.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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The final chapter of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's historical trilogy (which also includes A CITY OF SADNESS and THE PUPPETMASTER) stars Annie Shizuka Inoh in a dual role as real-life historical figure Chiang Bi-Yu (who was an anti-Japanese resistance fighter) and Liang Ching, an actress who is preparing to play her in a film. As Liang gets further involved in the role and the details of Chiang's tumultuous life (parts of which are shown throughout), she must also deal with the problems of her own life. Liang receives anonymous phone calls from someone who faxes her pages of her stolen diaries: pages that remind her of her troubled days as a drug-addicted barmaid, and the death of her lover, Ah Wei, a small-time crook killed by his business rivals. The film's narrative journeys through different time periods, lives, and realities, which serves to compare and contrast the past and present. Hou deftly handles the complicated narrative shifts through the use of bold color schemes, black and white footage, and lack of synchronous sound.
A complex film that requires the viewer's active attention, GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN is an invigorating, satisfying cinematic experience that explores the meaning and importance of ideals, character, memory, and love.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85:1Audio: Stereo - Mandarin Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Materials: Trailers - 1. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAIInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusDVD-ROM Features: Weblink
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Ray Lawrence's LANTANA is an intelligent, well-written, well-acted film that is much more than just another cop thriller--it's more like YOU CAN COUNT ON ME with its realistic, complex relationships and believable characters. The film opens with a slow pan over a dead body, eerily reminiscent of BLUE VELVET. Anthony LaPaglia stars as Leon, a Sydney police detective who is cheating on his wife, Sonja (Kerry Armstrong), with a married woman from their dance class (Rachael Blake), even though he still loves his wife. There's something missing from his life, but he's not sure what. His relationship with his son is strained, and even his partner, Claudia (Leah Purcell), knows something is wrong. But as his affair heats up and a murder mystery that seems to involve all of the people in his life begins to consume his attentions, he is forced to reexamine his future both as a family man and a cop.LANTANA won seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including best picture, best director for Lawrence, best actor for LaPaglia, best actress for Armstrong, best supporting awards for both Blake and Colosimo, and best adapted screenplay by Andrew Bovell, who based the script on his play SPEAKING IN TONGUES. As the murder investigation gets more complicated and the tangled web leads to even more lying, cheating, and deception, the acting intensifies, and the sharp dialogue allows the characters to blossom as beautifully as the lantana bush referred to in the title.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary Trailer Behind-the-Scenes Footage Deleted ScenesInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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Summer Dreams (DVD)
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