Scientists discover time travel with horrible consequences when they inadvertently bring a giant carnivorous dinosaur back to modern Los Angeles.
This DVD is designed to work from beginner to advanced with modifications for the beginner.
This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs
The BFI’s acclaimed Jacques Tati remaster series continues with the world premiere High Definition release of Tati’s multi-award-winning third feature, Mon Oncle, in two different versions. This 1958 box-office hit confirmed his reputation as the foremost comic artist of his day and picked up a string of awards, including the 1959 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.Tati’s second outing as the accident-prone Monsieur Hulot takes him to Paris where the high-tech lifestyle of his relatives, the Arpels, is contrasted with his old-fashioned ways in a scruffy part of town. With an eye on the international market, and wishing to avoid subtitles (which he always disliked), Tati shot two versions of the film – Mon Oncle and My Uncle, the latter replacing French signs such as ‘Ecole’ and ‘Sortie’ with their English equivalents and dubbing much of the main dialogue into English. This specially remastered edition contains both versions.
Adolphe Adam - Giselle - Ballet-Pantomime In Two Acts.Recorded Live At The Opera National De Paris/Palais Garnier, December 2006.
Seventeen-year-old Claire Moutiers (Lola Naymark) has managed quite well since moving off her parents' farm and into a quaint studio in Angouleme. Her supermarket cashier's job pays the bills but more importantly it promises Claire enough spare time to design the intricately beautiful embroideries that are her passion. Claire's parents see little of their daughter but they know she's OK. The ""mysteriously vanishing"" heads of cabbage that Claire regularly swipes from the family farm
Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp a young opera singer from San Fransisco this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp....
Running away 12-years-old Céline hides in a red truck. She meets Peter a Scottish truck driver in his forties. Along the roads the stops and the encounters Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood with lightness and trust. She wants to see it all to discover it all. Peter becomes the friend of her dreams. He offers this wounded child a chance to finally have a normal life.
On September 12 2004 just two-and-a-half days before Johnny Ramone's death a group of musicians and friends staged a benefit concert to celebrate The Ramones' 30th anniversary and to raise money for cancer research. Mandy Stein's touching rockumentary captures that unforgettable evening.
Ricky Tomlinson and Phil Daniels star in this dark new British comedy about two neighbours whose disagreements soon escalate.
This sorely-neglected opera comes from Mozart's early catalogue. Written in 1774 it tells the story of a Countess who disguises herself as a gardener in order to find and forgive her lover who thinks he has killed her in a quarrel. The opera contains elements of both opera seria and opera buffa and contains a rich and full orchestration with prominent parts for wind in particular being an unusual feature. Stage direction comes from Swedish director Goran Jarvefelt who sadly die
Le Nozze Di Gigaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performed by Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor and Wiener Philharmoniker. Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Prokofiev: L' Amour des trois Oranges.
One bad apple...ripe for revenge. A group of high school graduates are ready for a weekend of serious partying at a remote camp ground. With the booze flowing and hormones raging the weekend looks set to be a blast. But four years ago in the same area an entire family was killed in a terrible fire and now someone out there carries a grudge... and an axe. As darkness falls a murderer begins hacking away at a grisly secret that binds the friends together.
In Claude Chabrol's fiftieth film two lifelong partners in crime Betty (Isabelle Hupert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) operating out of a small RV criss-cross the country hopping from convention to convention and scamming bourgeois businessmen out of petty sums of money. They make enough however to maintain a comfortable if elusive lifestyle. When Victor discovers that Betty has been carrying on her own scam for over a year the blurry lines between secrets and lies break down.
Remember when Laura got her toestuck in a hotel bathtub? When Rob dreamed about ever-presentwalnuts and an alien with no thumbs that looked like Danny Thomas? Trip into the living room of comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) along with his lovely wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) wisecracking co-workers and nutty neighbors. Consistently ranked among the top TV comedies of all time and renowed for its top-notch cast and stellar writing.
Le masque de la Méduse was, sadly,to be Jean Rollin s last film and was, strangely, very similar to his first, Le Viol du Vampire (1968), in that both were filmed as short features and then returned to by Rollin who filmed additional material to make an extension to the original film. Masque reinvents the legend with Medusa alive in the modern world, her memory gone she wonders from place to place and ends up at The Théatre du Grand-Guignol,the source of much inspration for Rollin in real-life. Here the film, fittingly perhaps, is part theatre and part cinema, but all Rollin. Surreal, dreamy, macabre, erotic and beautiful it is a fittingly creative end for one of cinema s most original directors. Extras: Stills gallery, original trailer, Salvation trailers, interview with Jean Rollin by Dr Patricia MacCormack, Jean Rollin documentary Vampires and Virgins.
La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivire). However his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian (Mathieu Carrire) who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may hav
Over the course of a summer two cousins Jess, age 18 and Moss, age 12 embark on a strange and exhilarating journey exploring deep secrets and the hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow. Through a series of memories and beautifully crafted vignettes, director Clay Jeter, in his acclaimed first feature, produces a lyrical tale of two solitary, young souls and creates a world where mundane elements swell to bursting and demonstrate the power of cinema to capture the sensation of memory, the beautiful and tragic feeling of the fleeting and the preciousness of youth and all of its disasters. Shot entirely on location 'Jess + Moss' captures the evocative and haunting character of the dark fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky.
""Funny adventurous wonderful!"" -New York Times Cheryl a young black woman working in a video store is making a documentary about an obscure black actress from the 1930's. When she discovers that the actress (known as ""the Watermelon Woman"") had a white lesbian lover Cheryl just happens to fall in love with a very cute white woman herself! Attacked by conservative Congressmen winner of multiple audience awards in major film festivals and lavishly praised by audiences for being
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