When it appears as though the end is in sight the pilots flight crew and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger which we carry within ourselves. Directed by the internationally acclaimed Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar with cameo appearances from Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Special Features: Making Of UK Theatrical Trailer UK Theatrical Teaser Trailer Spot 10 Spot 25 Making of VFX Creation of Airplane Crash site
HE SOUGHT THE ULTIMATE IN HUMAN AGONY... One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later. This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices. Jospeh Cotten (Citizen Kane, The Third Man) has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer (Lisa and the Devil), who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava's modst memorably atmospheric set-pieces.
In Labyrinth of Passion Celia Roth portrays Sexi a nymphomaniac punk rocker whose gynecologist father (Fernando Vivanco) specializes in artificial insemination. Spanish heartthrob Imanol Arias is Riza Niro the gay son of the Emperor of Tehran who has fled his father's island to have some fun in Madrid. The two meet and eventually fall in love but that's just the tip of the iceberg in this whirlwind comedy. A very young Antonio Banderas plays one of Riza's lovers and Almodvar himself appears as a lead singer of a band in one of the film's hilarious concert scenes singing ""Grang Ganga"" and ""Suck it to Me.""
Undeniably one of the toughest and most powerful gangster thrillers of the 70's 'Across 110th Street' hits hard with a thrill ride through the hell-raisin' hoods of Harlem! When a crew of gangsters make the fatal mistake of crossing a Mafia heist in Harlem things turn very ugly. But as the bullets start flying and the cops start dying a pair of New York's finest are forced to work together to bring justice to the streets before the Mafia brings the Ghetto to its knees! Up against
As the empire kneeled in defeat one man stood in triumph. In 42 BC Rome is in the middle of a civil war. Together with his friend Agrippa the young Augustus goes to Spain in order to help Julius Caesar in his struggle against the troops of Pompey. Caesar honours his adopted son Augustus with a triumphal entry into Rome and then sends him to Greece together with his friends Agrippa and Maecenas. There Augustus hears the news of Caesar's assassination and he returns to Rome with his friends. Back in Rome he is able to gain both the support of the people and political power. In his struggle with the conspirators against Caesar he finds an ally in Marc Antony. Augustus and Marc Antony are able to defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Phillipi. But now Augustus has to share his empire with Marc Antony who in the meantime has become the lover of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Augustus declares war on both of them and after a successful military campaign he becomes the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. During his rule Rome not only experiences a period of peace and prosperity it is also an age in which both art and culture flourish. His new wife Livia Drusilla becomes his most important political advisor. It is she who discovers that Iullus (the son of Marc Antony and lover of Augustus' daughter Julia) is plotting to murder the emperor...
Nocturnal and steeped in sinister chiaroscuro, Pedro Costa's latest film follows Ventura, the enigmatic lead of Costa's earlier groundbreaking Colossal Youth (2006), as he traverses a seemingly endless night populated by the ghosts of his and his country's past. From the restless spirits that haunt this decaying urban landscape, Costa turns his exploration of memory and the night into a spellbinding cinematic experience. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival and featured in many Top 5 Films of the Year lists worldwide, Horse Money is a hauntingly beautiful contemplation of Portugal's tumultuous past and uncertain future from a true poet of contemporary European cinema. Marking Second Run's first ever Blu-ray release - and also available on DVD format - Horse Money is presented from a superb new director-approved HD master, and also includes Pedro Costa's short film O nosso homem, plus exclusive new special features including an introduction by filmmaker Thom Andersen and a Pedro Costa in conversation with Laura Mulvey at London's ICA Cinema as well as Trailers and Teasers for the film, and a booklet featuring essays on the film by Jonathan Romney and Chris Fujiwara.
Italian horror maestro Dario Argento made his name by turning homicide into modern art with a cinematic flourish, but with Phenomena he takes his stylish mayhem in new directions. The film opens with the dreamy grace of a fairy tale: a young girl wandering the green meadows of Switzerland and discovering a gingerbread house, wherein lives a monster more modern than mythic, a psychopathic maniac who plunges the picture into a lush nightmare. Jennifer (Jennifer Connelly in her first starring role), a gifted young girl at a Swiss school, has a psychic link to the insect world and develops a connection with the killer through midnight sleepwalks. With the help of a lonely, wheelchair-bound entomologist (genre stalwart Donald Pleasence, who inflects his sonorous tenor with a gentle Scottish burr) she turns telekinetic detective, which only draws her closer to the killer's lair. The densely plotted story becomes muddled at times (this is the busiest film in Argento's oeuvre) but the lyrical cinematography and gorgeous nocturnal imagery--dreamy sleepwalks, nightmarish murders, hideous horrors that emerge in the dark of night--take on a poetic elegance not seen in his previous work, providing the tale with a kind of dream logic. This is a slasher film reborn as an exquisitely grim fantasy: Jennifer in Argentoland. --Sean Axmaker
Nowhere is food as much a part of everyday life as Italy, a country whose unique topography has resulted in distinct regional differences that are vibrantly alive and passionately celebrated. In this second series, the kings of Italian cuisine, Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo, return to Italy to remember their pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats. In each of the four hour-long episodes, Antonio and Gennaro create dishes using recipes, ingredients and influences they discover along their journeys as well as some of their own favourite traditional meals. Throughout this series we explore both town and country, seeing how every Italian province has a unique culinary palette as inspired by its spectacular geography. Includes 4 Recipe Cards.
In a future world ruled by good-looking people a terrorist group of mutants leaded by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo a rich businessman to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship Ramon trys to kill his gang in order to get all the ransom. The trip ends abruptly when they crash in Axturiax the planet of the crazy miners where no woman lives.
Benoit Jacquot's filmed Tosca treads a fine line between operatic staginess and cinematic contrivance. As per the libretto, each act takes place in a single setting, but with the singers here miming to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Jacquot freely reminds us of the conceit with cutaways to the recording session itself--revealing conductor, orchestra and soloists at work--thus a bridge is made between the on-screen action and the music-making itself, and the inherent duality of any opera production is laid refreshingly bare. The same cannot be said for the director's decision to interpolate spoken dialogue over the music in key places--a distraction not an enhancement. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are glamorous and attractive enough to make the most of their Hollywood-style close-ups; their singing easily bears similar close scrutiny--as anyone who owns the CD soundtrack album will surely already know. If Alagna lacks a little power as Cavaradossi on record, his charismatic screen presence happily compensates; Gheorghiu is both vocally and physically almost ideal as Tosca. Ruggero Raimondi's Scarpia completes an outstanding trio, and in the pit (or, rather, in the studio) conductor Antonio Pappano handles the drama of Puccini's score without missing a single nuance. Both musically and visually, then, this is a Tosca to treasure. On the DVD: Tosca on disc looks vibrant in this warm, widescreen picture accompanied by a DTS 5.1 soundtrack. Three filmed interviews--with Gheorghiu, Pappano and Jacquot--provide some insight into the making of this production. --Mark Walker
Bille August's adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-selling novel stars Meryl Streep as the supernaturally gifted Clara and Jeremy Irons as her controlling husband Esteban. The House Of The Spirits is a haunting tale of romance and passion which spans three generations of the Trueba family. It's a timeless classic which deals with secrets seduction revenge and forgiveness and most importantly the power of love to overcome anything.
An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.
Susan Stevenson and her brother Arthur go to Manilla for the purpose of organising a search party for Susan's husband a famous anthropologist who has disappeared during a mysterious expedition on one of the larger islands of the archipelago. No one knows for sure the purpose of his expedition not even Dr.Foster Stevenson's close friend and collaborator. By examining the last parts of the film shot during Stevenson's expedition they are able to ascertain that he penetrated the
A lonely schoolteacher (Audran) develops an inexplicable attraction toward an ex-army butcher (Yanne) who may or may not be a serial killer plaguing a small town... Drawing on Hitchockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets writer/director Claude Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between the two characters that marries unspoken self-awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond.
Nana Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters Moretti uses the experiences of travelling on his motor-scooter cruising with his friend around a set of remote islands in search of peace to finish his new film and consulting a series of medical experts to cure his annoying rash and cast a humorous look at his life and those around him. 'Oh my Vespa' 'Islands' and 'Doctors' each create a visual and verbal atmosphere of despair humor and laughter through which hope emerges.
THE BIG HIT follows the professional and romantic misadventures of Mel (Mark Wahlberg), a beleaguered hitman
This DVD is in fact the break a leg version which sees Joyce DiDonato perform her role in a wheelchair - a story which has occupied international headlines last year - and definitely a DVD which will stand out. The DVD includes bonus features like an interview with Joyce on her stage accident and subsequent wheelchair performances. Captured at London's Royal Opera House with an unbeatable cast in a sparkling colourful production this Barbiere offers a unique dramatic twist: Joyce DiDonato who had broken her leg on the first night of the run insisted on performing. As she said : Being trapped in the wheelchair was a quite literal way of demonstrating Rosina's huge desire to break free.
At his school in Madrid ex-bullfighter Diego Montes teaches his students the Corridor - 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angelo sexually repressed and mother fixated is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego's girlfriend. Failing in his attempt and consumed by guilt he confesses to murders he did not commit - the victims are killed with bullfighting instruments at the moment of sexual climax. Angel is
Out-of-work actor Victor Bukowski (Douglas Henshall) is desperate to stop his ex-girlfriend Sylvia (Lena Headey) from marrying another man. Then miraculously he is given a second chance to go back and correct the mistakes which led to their relationship breaking down. But will turning back the clock really change anything at all?
A criminal psychologist with a brilliantly incisive mind Dr Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) is coolly in control of her life - until she embarks on a passionate affair with Tony Ramierez (Antonio Banderas) a charming stranger whose fiery combination of innocence and danger succeeds in breaking through Sarah's emotional walls. As a new life unfolds for her a series of increasingly disturbing events threaten to destroy it - and Sarah finds herself searching for the stranger behind th
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