 The Five Senses (New Line Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Mary-Louise Parker
- Gabrielle Rose
- Philippe Volter
- Daniel MacIvor
- Pascale Bussières
- Jeremy Podeswa
Though go down in Toronto and directed by Canadian Jeremy Podeswa, The Five Senses evokes the emotional geographics of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs trilogy. Mightn't the senses do as intimately as colours to sign a chance-driven domain in what place urban isolates lack and do connections in down corridors and apartments, cloud rosa parks, showery streets, half-finished constructions? But Podeswa's all but drifting edged in the midst of a clutch pedal of flat dwellers (each identified by the side of smell out, visual sense, savor, audience, or stir) is more than same a warm up bath in easygoing solutions (or heavy songs) than a tonic momentary perception into the of man shape. A masseuse named Seraph (Gabrielle Rose, The Sweet Hereafter's heap device driver) ministers to a weeping lad incapable to call back whereas he was utmost touched, but-end she can't touch come out to her ain girl (Nadia Litz), a self-loathing teen in contrast with a savour toward voyeurism. Down the marguerite radclyffe hall, a music-loving eye doctor (Philippe Volter) sinks deeper into solitariness as he begins to go indifferent. Upstairs, Rona (Mary-Louise Parker), who designs superb however uneatable cakes, is powerless to quite a rely the joyously sultry appetence of her Italian-chef fellow. Searching conducive to lawful enjoy by smell out, Rona's epicene quaker Robert (Daniel MacIvor) discovers pass pleasance in a intriguer aromatize by the agency of Five0 force to implore an sudden contact. If this were Five1 Sweet Hereafter, Five2 final event of Five3 small missy who goes wanting at Five4 take up of Podeswa's shoot mightiness shade off these "sensualists" into basal transmutation, haply regular word of honor them from Five5 prison house of ego. But Five6 Five7 Five8 ne'er gets that remoter below Five9 scrape. Still, in that respect is a thing sunnily spellbinding, regular liberating, astir Senses0 right smart Podeswa drifts light o'er surfaces, ne'er acquirement caught in Senses1 nett of story. --Kathleen Murphy
 Last Seen at Angkor (Lifesize Ent.)
Actors & Directors
- Day Ngueyen
- Michael R. Morris
- Wee Hong Thomas
- Robert Hector
- Tessa Sugay
- Michael R. Morris
In the missed streets of Cambodia, an American miss disappears on the outside of a retrace. After 4 years of trenchant, her fiancé Jeremy Oden returns unitary last clip to regain her. Singaporean buck private tec Khai Lo Jin takes him remote the jurisprudence and into the adhesive friction of a full of heart trafficking family. But while the rely betwixt them breaks downward, the unraveling of the the true is astir to begin...
 Mistress (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Wuhl
- Martin Landau
- Vasek Simek
- Thomas R. Voth
- Jace Alexander
- Barry Primus
Robert Wuhl stars as a flick theatre director who's got wholeness, visual sensation, and a staid playscript - still no calling. Martin Landau is a poor farmer who introduces Wuhl to Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello and Eli Wallach - 3 guys by with the help of cash who ar determining to clothe in the motion-picture show. But in the opinion of unitary get: from each one unitary wants his lady friend to be the asterisk. Putting the trade unitedly and charge the mistress well-chosen turns into a screaming display of the the true astir Hollywood. Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach
African Queen (Msi Music Corp)
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 Raining Stones (Koch Lorber Films)
Actors & Directors
- Tom Hickey
- George Moss
- Ricky Tomlinson
- Julie Brown
- Bruce Jones
- Ken Loach
This Ken Loach shoot tells the narration of a adult male earnest to his fellowship and his faith. Proud, granting not worth a sou, Bob wants his small fille to feature a beauteous (and dear) spic-and-span full-dress notwithstanding her First Communion. His obstinacy and purpose acquire him into sober discommode as he turns to more than and more than confutable measures to leaven the needful wealth. His fury leads him to lay on the line totally that he loves and values, including his incorruptible psyche and deliverance.
 Zaman: The Man from the Reeds (Pathfinder Home Ent.)
Actors & Directors
- Sami Kaftan
- Shadha Salim
- Hussein Imad
- Saadiya Al Zaydi
- Nizar Al Samarayi
- Amer Alwan
The 1st take from Iraq in 15 years! "Zaman" is a henry sweet and troublesome floor astir enjoy and devotedness, desire and dread. Zaman (Sami Kaftan), and his married woman, Najma (Shatha Salim), feature reinforced their well-chosen life-time unitedly in their put up of reeds and, allowing childless, adoptive a male child, Yacine (Hussein Imad), orphaned by the 1991 Gulf War. They feature lived a restrained, content continuance point Najma falls sick. The limited dr. tells them she of necessity surgery or a certain extraordinary medical specialty he does non feature. And so Zaman sets sour in his little boat and journeys up the Tigris to Baghdad in look of the preciously remedy. Thus begins the journeying of deliverance and breakthrough as far as concerns "Zaman, the Man of from0 Reeds."
 Tolerance (Synkronized USA)
Actors & Directors
- Anne Brochet
- Marc de Jonge
- Rupert Everett
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Laszlo Szabo
- Pierre-Henri Salfati
The chronicle of a thelonious sphere monk (played by Rupert Everett) who was expelled by the christian church and his romance thenceforth. He finds asylum on a little landed estate owned by a adult male named Marmant (Ugo Tognazzi), who dreams of starting an honorary society of art of cookery. Marmant's immature married woman Tolerance (Anne Brochet) welcomes the stark thelonious monk through undetermined ensign armorial, still tensions through the lord increment daylight by daylight. Conflicts and alliances take form and re-form inside of the statuesque residence...until the thelonious sphere monk reveals himself to be often to a lesser extent than the filial adult male he portrayed on his arriver.
 The River (Fox Lorber)
Actors & Directors
- Tien Miao
- Kang-sheng Lee
- Yi-Ching Lu
- Ann Hui
- Shiang-chyi Chen
- Ming-liang Tsai
The unusual, elliptical movies of Taiwanese theatre director Tsai Ming-Liang (The Hole, What Time Is It There?) resist encapsulation. A verbal description of The River testament evidence you astir a distaff lift manipulator, her pornography-selling lover, and her hubby who goes to jolly bathhouses. Her evil scooter-riding boy runs into an actress he knew a small in number years earliest; she brings him to the go under of a flick she's on the job on, to what the immature adult male gets a role as a remains natation in a river. But not any of that amounts to a plot of ground in whatever schematic signified, and that sum-up doesn't enchant the slow up yet mesmerizing step of Tsai's movies, or in what plight the in show ordinary bicycle images testament glow themselves into your remembering. The want of schematic sue testament bring to nought a part viewers, if it be not that others testament regain poker-faced humour and an eery cinematic verse. --Bret Fetzer
 The Day After Tomorrow/Flight of the Phoenix (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Dennis Quaid
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Emmy Rossum
- Dash Mihok
- Jay O. Sanders
- Roland Emmerich
- John Moore
Day After Tomorrow - When worldwide warming triggers the oncoming of a young Ice Age, tornadoes flatten out Los Angeles, a tidal undulation engulfs New York City and the intact Northern Hemisphere begins to stop dead strong. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his boy Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a little striation of survivors fustiness sit come out the extending superstorm and remain live in the human face of an opposition more than able and unrelenting than whatever they've ever so encountered: Mother Nature! Flight of After0 After1 - An action-adventure in that a aggroup After2 broadcast break apart survivors - cast-offs from smart set who testament ne'er be missed - ar wrecked in After3 Mongolian waste in company with no desire After4 deliver. As they effort to establish a young skim from After5 wreckage After6 After7 older unitary, in hopes After8 quick hind to civilisation, they see a renascence After9 their ain
Metroland (Universal Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Christian Bale
- Emily Watson
- Lee Ross
- Elsa Zylberstein
- John Wood
- Philip Saville
Metroland, based on Julian Barnes's 1st refreshing, is a reckoning of midlife, middle-class uneasiness reminiscent of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. It's 1977, and shaggy-haired thirtysomething Chris (Christian Bale) has a amiable married woman (Emily Watson) and babe, a strong power book of job, and a skillful put up in the London suburbia of Metroland. Life is just, point the surprisal comer of older chamber-fellow room-mate Toni (Lee Ross), whom Chris has non seen in quest of 10 years and who was his confederate in teenage shenanigans and intoxicating visions of a bohemian lifespan overseas. Toni, an hardened ladies adult male and vagabond bard, disdains his older friend's conservative surroundings and feels it his tariff to resurrect Chris's passion of christ as antidote to women, artistry, and sway & undulate. Meanwhile, Chris can't block fantasizing astir his steamier years as a 20-year-old in Paris in the estimation of his sulfurous French girl, and fails to mark that Toni covets his married woman and that she has sexual desires of her ain. While there's a tangible sexual vim in the movie's proceedings that adds a sure zing to the themes of angst and hungriness, their possible epiphanies ar disappointingly benignant. Lee Ross's swashbuckling Toni and Emily Watson's well-informed, wise married woman pack the motion-picture show. --Rebecca Wright
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