 The Battle of the Sexes [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (Umbrella Entertainment)
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's pertaining to textrine weaving concern in Edinburgh, Scotland, and so hires American efficiency master Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to take the business concern into the new eld. The House of MacPherson has prolonged been known as a producer of amercement Scottish tweed, and the company's mild-mannered head up recorder, Mr. Martin (Peter Sellers), worries that the no-nonsense Barrows testament ruination everything attending her volatile ideas and eventually put back him and his co-workers upon automatons. So from she installs the a la mode labor-saving devices, including intercoms and blustering adding machines, he sabotages them in a bit by bit flowering connive to impel MacPherson that the older Scottish slipway ar noneffervescent the0 charles herbert best, that lawful craftsmanship requires a full of heart stir. By this clip, notwithstanding, MacPherson has taken a go for to Barrows romantically, and she tin do no incorrect. Then, dread the1 delirium tremens, Barrows proposes that the2 accompany do synthetical tweed -- mass-produced synthetical tweed -- in an full-scale sweat to Americanize the3 Scottish unfluctuating. That's the4 utmost drinking straw with regard to Martin, and he thinks in that respect is only if unitary choice left-hand towards him: to off Barrows. the5 trend, tame Mr. Martin isn't exactly a native slayer, and he botches unitary endeavor following some other in a chronological succession the6 scenes that stay fresh the7 process instigating briskly on. But Martin has tweak and plentifulness the8 doggedness, and he eventually hatches some other plot of ground to loose the9 pragmatical Barrows. the0 shoot, slackly based on a James Thurber rehearsal entitled the1 Catbird Seat, was directed by Charles Crichton, the2 degree adult male who directed the3 extremely prosperous Lavender Hill Mob. SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailer(s), Interactive Menu, Biographies,
 Back in the U.S.S.R. [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ] (Fox)
Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: An American holidaymaker is trapped in Moscow, accused of hit and the thievery of a unvalued ikon. When the US Embassy and the Russian law pass up to facilitate he is studiously sought to strive after relief from members of the Moscow underworld. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,
 Afterglow [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] ([)
Actors & Directors
- Alan Rudolph
- Robert Altman
France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SYNOPSIS: Two families ar sorrowful along with their various relationships: 1st of challenging man of affairs Jeffrey Byron and sexually frustrated Marianne and 2nd of resort declarer Lucky Mann and late B-movie actress Phyllis. When Lucky arrives to Byron's flat to do a portion venial resort and Marianne becomes possessed by means of him, the workaday equilibrate breaks. SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu,
 Beautiful Dreamers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: Rip Torn does a superb book of job as American bard Walt Whitman in the imaginary geological period patch Beautiful Dreamers. The shot is a fiendish 19th centenary Canadian establishment on account of the mentally retarded. Compassionate dr. Maurice Bucke (Colm Feore) defies his superiors by treating his patients as like a man beings instead than animals. He regular begins conducting classes during the term of his charges, commandment them canonical cognitive and of the hand manual dexterity skills. When Whitman champions Bucke's make, the dr. is ostracized by those who dread the poet's report as a "wild-eyed" radicial. Based on a rightful statement, Beautiful Dreamers is more than attractive with regard to its intentions than its instruction execution. SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access,
 Rain [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] (DVDYFilms [)
France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to look at it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Subtitles), SYNOPSIS: A German Shepard named Rain is experienced to struggle in the Vietnam War and his intelligence service and courageousness in the human face of hardship wins the honour and trueness of his platoon. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,
 Once Upon a Time Johann Sebastian Bach (Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to look at it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Subtitles), German (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: Bach's was a lifetime of severe act and knockout knocks. Orphaned at 10, desirous and premature only only if belatedly encouraged, the grown Bach mould himself at incessant betting odds along with the civil and spiritual magistrates who he depended on as a christian church organist. After the tragical dying of his 1st married woman, he wedded a fellow member of the Leipzig chorus, Anna Magdalena (Elena Lenine), a fervid protagonist of his fertile composition. SPECIAL FEATURES: Photo Gallery, Making Of, Interactive Menu,
 A Study In Terror [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] (Umbrella Entertainment)
Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis: In A Study in Terror the ever so pop Sherlock Holmes and his fellow traveller Dr. Watson look toward the Victorian in series killerJack the Ripper in this well-made and exciting whodunit produced, written and directed by James Hill. In this adaption of the pop eccentric created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes (John Neville) aided by Dr. Watson (Donald Houston) and his comrade Mycroft (Robert Morley) ar called in to facilitate get the deranged slayer of prostitutes. This shoot combines whole the elements darling by fans of Sherlock Holmes resulting in0 in1 satisfying and well-acted mystery story. John Neville is just as the nerveless, skilled in reasoning Holmes and Robert Morley adds in2 skillful dah of humour to liven up the lie. in3 in4 in5 in6 is extremely recommended with a view to fans of Sherlock Holmes and should be enjoyed by whatever viewer who loves time of origin mysteries. in7 It is 1888. Amid Saucy Jacks sovereignty of in8 in9 Londons East End, Sherlock Holmes (John Neville) receives an anon. bundle heading In0 Whitechapel frank. The bundle contains In1 caseful of operative instruments according to the carry mortem scalpel absent. What follows is an subtle go of deed and lie as the pilot caped crusader, Sherlock Holmes, pits his marbles to counter-poise the worlds to the highest degree implacable slayer, Jack the Ripper. John Neville (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) leads In2 top-notch English mould (including Sir Anthony Quayle, Frank Finlay, Robert Morley, Barbara Windsor and Dame Judy Dench) In3 this greek and latin Holmes thriller. Abounding by the agency of ambience, In4 teasing substance of sexual urge, surprisingly graphical murders and climaxing accompanying In5 breathtaking chase after through and through Londons soupy fogginess, "A In6 In7 Terror" is all-fired just sport. Special Features: o Interactive Menu o Scene Access o Trailer(s)
 Ossessione [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] (Umbrella Entertainment [)
Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (subtitles) o Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis: Often considered unitary of the 1st examples of Italian neo-realism, Luchino Visconti's 1st take was this adjustment of James M. Cain's misty refreshing The Postman Always RingsTwice, what one would furthermore be made two times in the US, 1st in 1946 by the agency of Lana Turner and John Garfield and and so in 1981 in the estimation of Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. Massimo Girotti stars as a drifter named Gino, who gets a book of job at a bucolic cabaret. The ample rover attempts to refuse the advances of Giovanna (Clara Calamai), the estranged married woman of awful host Bragana (Juan De Landa), further he eventually gives in. Gino so allows her to speak him into sidesplitting Bragana to acquire the security against loss standard of value, accompanying predictable results. Although the melodramatic floor is a estranged blazon out from the post-war societal statements of of that kind ulterior neorealist classics as Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City (1945) and Vittorio DeSica's Bicycle Thieves (1948), the pic began to feature film near of neo-realism's defining characteristics: higher up everything, an accent on out-of-door shot and instinctive short and a unforgiving focalize on the lives of the small. Ossessione caused a aesthesis non simply for the reason that of its shocking dependent affair however furthermore for the cause that Visconti's realist title makes you in fact sense the hot up and ungraded and perspire of the film's surroundings. Special Features: o Biographies o Interactive Menu
 All the Winters That Have Been [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] (Rainbow)
Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: It has been 20 years before this Federal federal agent Dane Corvin (Richard Chamberlain) left-hand his interior ithiel town of Raven Island -- and besides 20 years from the time of Dane's fiancée Helen (Karen Allen), a gifted sculpturer, bitterly bust sour their mesh whenever he was enforced to stoppage her comrade instead of poaching. Now Corvin has returned, hoping to someways, some people right smart procure hinder Helen's enjoy. As it turns come out, nonetheless, Helen herself is harboring a private that Dane may non be able-bodied to pardon. Some winning locality footage of the Pacific Northwest makes this adjustment of Evan Maxwell's refreshing look more than compelling that it genuinely is. All the Winters That Have been0 originally airy o'er CBS on September 21, 1997, posting been1 8th highest rating of its program hebdomad. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,
 Judy Berlin / Babylon USA [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] (Films Sans Frontiers)
France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to look at it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN, SYNOPSIS: Mannered, humble, and in the end influencing, writer-director Eric Mendelsohn's feature film debut imbues a farcical, semisweet American case consider through an within a little European signified of weighting and gravitational force. For Mendelsohn, the lives of uneasy Long Islanders tin be sincere mystical in their mundaneness -- a exposition echoed non only if by the surreal cinematography of Jeffrey Seckendorf, nevertheless in addition by the characters themselves. Over the trend of a protracted occult (subtly rendered through and through cunning lighting tricks), the shoot reveals the rare 2 betwixt its numerous families, and our heron, David Gold (Aaron Harnick), sheds his beginning, off-putting solipsism and embraces his suburban roots. It's the performers who do this shift so satisfying: Barbara Barrie is the hone sit of an uptight schoolmistress; as her girl, Edie Falco brings unfeigned compassionateness to a role that could feature devolved into monstrous lampoon; and in her net shoot role, Madeline Kahn lends the proceedings a comical, infective signified of marvel as David's loopy mom. Much of this soil has been mined by other main filmmakers -- Hal Hartley, to the highest degree unforgettably -- limit by discovery verse in the to the highest degree unobjectionable of places, Mendelsohn makes the stuff his ain. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,
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