Juliette Binoche, John Turturro and Nick Nolte star in this edge-of-your-seat conspiracy thriller. Ten days before 9/11, Elliott (Nolte), a CIA agent who is holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappear appears.
Irene (Binoche), a French agent, along with Elliott's abandoned son and daughter, follow the trail from Paris to Venice in a race against time to uncover the truth.
A Few Days in September was gratifying! You have to hear this movie! A unheard-of performance by Juliette Binoche & John Turturro make A Few Days in September a "ought to conceptualize" movie!
The surprising cast includes Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Nick Nolte, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley. This cast just make A Few Days in September the more awesome!
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's Jazz Age satire, A Handful of Dust is a brutal story of a failed marriage with shattering consqunces. James Wilby stars as a country gentleman, Tony Last, who loves rattling around his expansive estate, Hetton Abbey.
Tony's wife, Brenda (Kristin Scott Thomas), however, pines for London's excitement and commences an affair in the city with penniless aristocrat John Beaver (Rupert Graves). The fallout of Brenda's betrayal includes a family tragedy and creative divorce settlement ultimately undone when fed-up Tony goes on a naturalist trek through Brazil and becomes the hostage of a mad, illiterate explorer (Alec Guinness).
One might wonder whether it's more appropriate to laugh or tremble at these events, and director Charles Sturridge's handsome, graceful production ingeniously accomodates the story's streaks of dark comedy and horror. With brief, memorable supporting roles for Anjelica Huston and Stephen Fry. -- Tom Keogh
A Handful of Dust was likable! You have to make no doubt this movie! A supereminent performance by James Wilby & Kristin Scott Thomas make A Handful of Dust a "need to have information about" movie!
The wondrous cast includes James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench. This cast just make A Handful of Dust the more wonderful!
Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam.
Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa, he finds himself plagud by journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his wife ("A Man and a Woman's" Anouk Aimee).
Caught between past, present, and fantasy, he longs to make a pure and honest film while his producer goads him into shooting a big budget science fiction spectacle. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, this visually dazzling feast also stars Claudia Cardinale (The Pink Panther), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday), and Rossella Falk (Modesty Blaise). Outrageous and unforgettable! 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film.
8 1/2 was felicific! You have to appraise this movie! A glorious performance by Marcello Mastroianni & Claudia Cardinale make 8 1/2 a "need to imagine" movie!
The overwhelming cast includes Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk. This cast just make 8 1/2 the more astonishing!
Terence Hill stars as 'Nobody' - the fastest gun in the West, in a film which takes a more satirical view of how things really happened than the history books would suggest.
Superb supporting roles by Klaus Kinski as 'Doc Foster' and Patrick McGoohan as the less than honest cavalry officer make this a thoroughly enjoyable spaghetti western.
Sergio Leone co-directed this film but chose to remain uncredited.
A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe was desirable! You have to smell this movie! A noteworthy performance by Rik Battaglia & Mario Brega make A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe a "need to look" movie!
The breathtaking cast includes Rik Battaglia, Mario Brega, Raimund Harmstorf, Terence Hill, Klaus Kinski. This cast just make A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe the more dazzling!
Previously screened only at selected theaters across the country, this special collection of OSCAR nominated short films celebrating the 2003 75th Annual ACADEMY AWARDS® is now available to compel and delight the filmmaker and film lover. Best Animated Short Film: The ChubbChubbs! (USA - Columbia - A Sony Pictures Imageworks Production) On a planet in the far reaches of the imagination, clumsy but well-meaning Meeper dreams of entertaining people as an R&B vocalist.
But first he must find a way to save the patrons of the Ale-E-Inn nightclub from the vicious and voracious invaders known as the ChubbChubbs. (6 minutes) Other Animated Nominees: Rocks "Das Rad" (Germany - A Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg GmbH Production) Observing the passage of centuries with bewildered fascination, two rock piles comment on the rise and fall of human history.
(8 minus) Mike's New Car (USA - Buna Vista - A Pixar Animation Studios Production) One-eyed Mike from Monster's Inc drives himself nuts trying to take his friend Sulley for a spin in his new car. (4 minutes) The Cathedral (Poland - A Platige Image Production) A man enters a forest-like cathedral and discovers that the trees are made of people. (6 minutes) Mt. Head "Atama Yama" (Japan - A Yamamura Animation Production) An obsessed loner encounters a hairy problem: the Cherry tree growing out of his head is attracting crowds.
(10 minutes) Best Live Action Short Film: This Charming Man "Der Er En Yndig Mand" (Denmark - An M&M Production for Novellefilm Production) Taking advantage of a mix-up at the unemployment office, Lars Hansen becomes Pakistani immigrant El Hassan. Will his masqurade land him a job and the affection of his politically correct school teacher?
(29 minutes) Other Live Action Nominees: I'll Wait for the Next One "J'attendrai Le Suivant" (France - A La Boite Production) A lonely young woman boards the subway and meets a panhandler who's begging for love rather than money. (4 minutes) Gridlock"Fait D'Hiver" (Belgium - An Another Dimension of an Idea Production) Stick in traffic, a harried businessman calls home on his new cell phone - and dials up a nightmare.
(7 minutes) Dog "Inja" (Australia - An Australian Film & Radio School Production) In South Africa, a long-brutalized dog comes between a whie landowner and his black farmhand - with fateful results. (17 minutes) Extra Feature: How To Submit Your Short Film to the Academy - Academy Member and Award-winner for his 1997 live action short film Visas & Virtu, Chris Donahu informs filmmakers and fans of the eligibility rules and procedures for submitting a short film to the Academy for OSCAR consideration.
75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films was complaisant! You have to hazard this movie! A golden performance by Dustin Adair & Eric Armstrong make 75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films a "ought to bet" movie!
The remarkable cast includes Dustin Adair, Eric Armstrong, Yakov Baytler, Mary Biondo, Sumit Das. This cast just make 75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films the more miraculous!
42nd Street was fair and pleasant! You have to visualize this movie! A magnificent performance by Warner Baxter & Bebe Daniels make 42nd Street a "ought to look" movie!
The staggering cast includes Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee. This cast just make 42nd Street the more wondrous!
Two star basketball players, Donnell, a black kid from the inner city, and Jason, a white kid from the afflunt suburbs, are sentenced to 30 days' labor in each other's communities following a brawl between their two teams.
When they return to their home turf, both see their new attitudes put to the test: Donnell struggles to stay clear of trouble as his brother maintains an uneasy gang truce, while Jason becomes disillusioned with his family and friends when he realizes how spoiled and insensitive they can be.
Tragedy ultimately creates a bond of friendship between the two former enemies, and their fierce rivalry is replaced by shared goals and teamwork.
Scarlett Johannson and Helen Hunt give Oscar Wilde's popular play Lady Windermere's Fan a lavish jazz-age treatment in A Good Woman.
An adventuress (Hunt, As Good as It Gets) flees scandal in New York and lands in Italy, where she crosses paths with a young businessman (David Hasselhoff look-alike Mark Umbers) and his very upright young wife (Johansson, Lost in Translation).
Before long, tongus are wagging about the adventuress and the businessman, possibly driving the wife to a rash act.
A Good Woman retains Wilde's plot - though its 19th century moral concerns don't have the same punch in 1930s Italy - and tosses aside most of his impeccable dialogu, sprinkling his clever epigrams here and there in the otherwise undistinguished dialogu.
Johansson, perhaps the most physically sensual actress since Brigitte Bardot, is miscast as the moral prig; Hunt, looking pinched and austere, is miscast as the jaded courtesan.
The movie's great saving grace is Tom Wilkinson as a rich man who hopes Hunt will warm his older years. Wilkinson brings a worldly benevolence to every moment he's on screen, making the lines that weren't written by Wilde sound as crisp and wise as if they were. -- Bret Fetzer
A Good Woman was fair! You have to stand pat this movie! A exquisite performance by Helen Hunt & Scarlett Johansson make A Good Woman a "must discover" movie!
The astonishing cast includes Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Milena Vukotic, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers. This cast just make A Good Woman the more eye-opening!
Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetee (which is included on the DVD Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquly imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the year 2035, where a virulent plagu has forced humans to live in a squalid, oppressively regimented underground.
Bruce Willis plays a societal outcast who is given the opportunity to erase his criminal record by "volunteering" to time-travel into the past to obtain a pure sample of the deadly virus that will help future scientists to develop a cure.
But in bouncing from 1918 to the early and mid-1990s, he undergoes an ordeal that forces him to qustion his own perceptions of reality. Caught between the dangers of the past and the devastation of the future, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) who is initially convinced he's insane, and a wacky mental patient (Brad Pitt in a twitchy Oscar-nominated role) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus.
Equal parts mystery, tragedy, psychological thriller, and apocalyptic drama, 12 Monkeys ranks as one of the best science fiction films of the '90s, boosted by Gilliam's visual ingenuity and one of the finest performances of Willis's career. -- Jeff Shannon
12 Monkeys was desirable! You have to remark this movie! A unprecedented performance by Joseph Melito & Bruce Willis make 12 Monkeys a "want to catch" movie!
The mind-boggling cast includes Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, Jon Seda, Michael Chance, Vernon Campbell. This cast just make 12 Monkeys the more overwhelming!
Bullets fly and bodies pile up in this Prohibition-era crime drama. A gripping tale of gangsters at war which lets you relive the explosive prohibition years when 'Tommy' guns did the talking and vice was king.
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York was cheerful! You have to plunge this movie! A unheard-of performance by Tony Anthony & Adolfo Celi make 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York a "need to appraise" movie!
The stupendous cast includes Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Richard Conte, Corrado Gaipa, Lucretia Love. This cast just make 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York the more breathtaking!
The original cyborg superhero in a live-action adventure. When a ruthless band of drug dealers gun down a promising young cop, an experimental operation is performed, transforming the dying cop into a cyborg.
Using his new superhuman power, 8 Man works with the police to rid Tokyo's streets of violence.
8 Man was honeyed! You have to see to it this movie! A heavenly performance by Mickey Curtis & Jo Shishido make 8 Man a "have to catch" movie!
The staggering cast includes Mickey Curtis, Jo Shishido, Sachiko Ayase, Etsushi Takahashi, Daisuke Shima. This cast just make 8 Man the more astonishing!
For generations an uneasy truce has existed between the beautiful, blood-drinking prostitutes of Bathory House and a band of vampire-hunting mercenaries sworn to destroy them should any townspeople be killed or "turned."
But now a young woman wanting a new life has given herself body, blood and soul to Bathory's Madame, and there will be hell to pay - and plenty of it.
A Feast of Flesh was pleasure-giving! You have to drop in this movie! A egregious performance by Amy Lynn Best & Debbie Rochon make A Feast of Flesh a "have to look" movie!
The prodigious cast includes Amy Lynn Best, Debbie Rochon, Stacy Bartlebaugh-Gmys, Zoe Hunter, Steve Foland. This cast just make A Feast of Flesh the more startling!
All your favorite TV detectives are here . DIGITALLY RESTORED ON DVD!!! Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday searches for "just the facts" on DRAGNET . Ralph Byrd fights for law and order as DICK TRACY . Richard Denning and Barbara Britton are the sophisticated married couple who love unraveling murder mysteries on MR. & MRS. NORTH.
Plus, PETER GUNN, SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE LONE WOLF, MARTIN KANE PRIVATE EYE, GANGBUSTERS and more!!! This collection of "family-friendly" super sleuths includes 4 complete TV shows on each of the 3 DVDs - 12 shows in all - 5 hours of viewing fun!
DVD #1
Dragnet 11-06-52 "The Big Seventeen" w/ Jack Webb . Peter Gunn 01-19-59 "Let's Kill Timothy" w/ Craig Stevens . Treasury Men In Action 06-09-55 "The Case of the Shot in the Dark" w/ Charles Bronson . Mystery Theatre presents. Mark Saber of the Homicide Squad 1952 "The Case of the Hair of the Dog" w/ Tom Conway
DVD #2
Dick Tracy 1952 "Shaky's Secret Treasure" w/ Ralph Byrd . Mr. & Mrs. North 10-03-52 "Weekend Murder" w/ Richard Denning and Barbara Britton . Sherlock Holmes 1954 "The Case of the Cunningham Heritage" w/ Ronald Howard . The Lone Wolf 1954 "The Werewolf Story" w/ Louis Hayward
DVD #3
Gangbusters 1955 "Dillinger" w/ Myron Healey . I am the Law 06-19-53 "The Killer" w/ George Raft . Man Against Crime 11-12-52 "The Victim Is Venus" w/ Ralph Bellamy . Martin Kane, Private Eye 02-15-51 "Movie Theatre Murder" w/ William Gargan
1950s TV's Greatest Detectives was fair and pleasant! You have to decide this movie! A tremendous performance by Ronald Howard & Barbara Britton make 1950s TV's Greatest Detectives a "must look in" movie!
The confounding cast includes Ronald Howard, Barbara Britton, Richard Denning, Ralph Byrd, Tom Conway. This cast just make 1950s TV's Greatest Detectives the more extraordinary!
Scott and Ralph (Sutherland and Downey), two small-town class-of- 67 high school graduates, venture off to college to sow some wild oats and stay one step ahead of the draft board.
But when Ralph is expelled from school, he suddenly becomes a prime candidate for serving in his country's armed forces.
And when the lifelong friends take drastic and illegal measures to ensure Ralph's freedom, they trigger a chain of events that will forever change theirfriendship, their lives and how a town thinks of war.
1969 was felicitous! You have to have in sight this movie! A enigmatic performance by Robert Downey Jr. & Kiefer Sutherland make 1969 a "want to respond" movie!
The surprising cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder. This cast just make 1969 the more astounding!
Legendary Hungarian actors Mari Torocsik and Ivan Darvas reunite with master director Karoly Makk for his last feature film, a contemporary romantic drama set in picturesqu Budapest.
Darvas stars as Ivan, an aging retiree who was forced to leave Hungary during the `56 revolution. He lives in comfortable retirement with his wife in Switzerland, but a phone call prompts him to return to his homeland.
He is reunited with a former lover (Mari), who has lived with many secrets that will change his life.
Over thirty years before the release of A LONG WEEKEND, Torocsik and Darvas, a popular romantic team in Hungarian films, starred in Makk's internationally acclaimed LOVE, which daringly explored the theme of lovers separated by the state. The three legends of Hungarian cinema now reunite for Makk's final theatrical film.
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda was welcome! You have to sit in this movie! A noticeable performance by Mari Torocsik & Ivan Darvas make A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda a "have got to consider" movie!
The breathtaking cast includes Mari Torocsik, Ivan Darvas, Eszter Nagy-Kalozy, Dezsõ Garas, Eileen Atkins. This cast just make A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda the more prodigious!
