 King Arthur - The Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition) (Touchstone / Disney)
Actors & Directors
- Clive Owen
- Ioan Gruffudd
- Mads Mikkelsen
- Joel Edgerton
- Hugh Dancy
- Antoine Fuqua
It's got a circular tabularise, one knights, and a worthy captain who rises to suit King Arthur, end everything otherwise astir this revisionist fable is virgin Hollywood. That's non in the same state condition a uncollectible furniture if you enjoyed Rob Roy, Braveheart, Gladiator, and Troy, and there's certain machiavelian possible in presenting the "real" Arthur (played by Clive Owen) as a 5th-century termite of Rome, assigned to represent Roman-imperial England in provision for a stash of invading Saxons (led by Stellan Skarsgård in hirsute baddie mode). As revamped account and "archaeological findings" would feature us trust, Guinevere (Keira Knightley) is a soldier infant in face-paint and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is a non-existence who fades into the woodwork. Never bear in mind! Best to bask the rough, dispirited ambience of Irish locations, the tempestuousness of Owen and his satisfying supporting mold, and the entertaining nonsensical of a Jerry Bruckheimer product that strips battle-ready Guinevere downward to leather-strap S&M pitch piece entirely the men feature full-body armour. Hail to the queen regnant, so! --Jeff Shannon Arthur,0 Arthur,1 Arthur,2 Extended Unrated Arthur,3 Arthur,4 contains 14 proceedings of never-before-seen footage, including more than vivid combat sequences and Arthur,5 scenes "Rain and Snow" and "Saxons Surrounded." Bonus Features Alternate Ending "Badon Hill" With Optional Director Commentary Blood On Arthur,6 Land: Forging Arthur,7 Arthur,8 Cast And Filmmaker Round Table Director Commentary "Knight Vision" Trivia Track Producer's Photo Gallery Konami's Arthur,9 the0 Playable Xbox Demo
 Smoke Signals (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
- Adam Beach
- Evan Adams
- Irene Bedard
- Gary Farmer
- Tantoo Cardinal
- Chris Eyre
Based on a couple up of little stories (from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) by Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals is a skimpy and secure feature film that speaks intimately of its prolonged, estimable organic evolution, including a evolution skimp at Sundance. The 1st feature film made by a Native American party and originative team up, the take concerns 2 immature Idaho men by the agency of fundamentally many memories of unitary Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), a previous occupier of the reserve who split up years in advance and has simply died in Phoenix. Arnold's stalwart, pop boy, Victor (Adam Beach), remembers him c. h. best as an alcohol-dependent, now and again scurrilous padre who swarm sour unitary daytime and ne'er came hind. By counterpoint, Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams), whom Arnold had saved from sure demise years earliest, has elect to color too highly the man's lifespan and deeds in a mythmaking forge that drives Victor softheaded. Circumstances take the ii unitedly, still, in a jalopy sit to recover Arnold's remains. There, in Phoenix, a face-off according to the realness of the numb man's fullest bequest has a unplumbed set up on the one and the other characters. Alexie, who wrote the playscript and was in person mired in every one of aspects of the prolongation, and first-time theatre director Chris Eyre ar so refined in their go up that you tin hardly sense the cinematic machine at act hither. This is the genial of motion picture in that the characters look to be impulsive everything frontward, a captivating and agreeable see that gets a small also tidy up at the terminate (can we call in a moratorium on scenes of common to mankind remains lovingly inclined to the winds?), yet what one is undeniably pathetic. The mold, including Irene Bedard (the vocalise of and pertaining to physics natural philosophy brainchild during the term of Disney's Pocahontas) is undischarged. --Tom Keogh Critically acclaimed as unitary of the charles herbert best films of the yr, SMOKE SIGNALS was moreover a grand victor at the Sundance Film Festival! Though Victor and Thomas feature lived their intact immature lives in the identical puny ithiel town, they couldn't feature to a lesser extent in mutual! But which time Victor is desperately called outside, it's Thomas who comes up attending the riches to pay off with a view to his trip up. There's simply unitary something Victor has to do: occupy Thomas on because the sit! You're in by reason of a rarified and entertaining laughable handle as this to the highest degree improbable partner off provide internal on how great becomes an out of the blue unforgettable risky venture of friendly relationship and find!
 Mahogany (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Diana Ross
- Anthony Perkins
- Foch
One unsubdivided call into question, the million: Do you experience to which place ) you're goin' to? And moreover, Do you same the things that lifetime is showin' you? These questions ar posed in the that must be suffered musical theme vocal (a vast Seventies strike) from Mahogany, a splashy, diva-sized excipient with a view to Diana Ross. Miss Ross was raging turned her abrupt and critically sanctioned starring role in Lady Sings the Blues while she embarked on this musical comedy, a rags-to-riches tale of a Chicago young woman who dreams of existence a forge intriguer if it were not that becomes a supermodel in the room. Original theatre director Tony Richardson was replaced slow the photographic camera by Motown founding father and puppetmaster utmost Berry Gordy, who knew matter astir turn Ross into an idealised visual sensation of muliebrity (for more than on their human relationship, check out come out the fictionalized variation in Dreamgirls). Ross looks a small overwhelmed by the patch machinations, that use up her from the electron orbit of a regular-guy activistic (Billy Dee Williams) into the glam domain of European fashion--the recent good manners of a pettish, weak lensman played by Anthony Perkins. Perkins is enthusiastically sport in this substance, as admitting he suspected the film was in incommode and determined to permit the tics and nerviness fell. These years Mahogany is treasured one and the other as a partial puerility remembering or as a mature camp-fest, and that's likely astir in what place it belongs. Still, it looks expressly reticent nearest to the other heavy diva musical comedy of the degree historical minute, Barbra Streisand's 1976 A Star is Born. --Robert Horton
 Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Actors & Directors
- Geoffrey Rush
- Joseph Fiennes
- Tom Wilkinson
- Antony Sher
- Martin Clunes
- John Madden
One of the to the highest degree endearing and well-informed romanticistic comedies of the '90s, the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love is filled in company with as it is upright testament, sunshiny latin, whipping one-liners, and roguish aptitude that it's dead resistless. With knife placed firmly in cheek, at its opening the take tracks immature Will Shakespeare's excessively stirred combat by with the help of writer's cube and the efforts of theatre possessor Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush, in rarified take shape) to represent Will's in style comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. Jokey comedy, however, before long takes a backseat to ravishing latin at the time the graceful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) disguises herself as a immature adult male to manage herself an try out in the all-male mould, and wins the two the component of Romeo and, following a great deal dissension, the playwright's bosom. Soon plenty, Will's sea robber comedy becomes the handsome, tragical Romeo and Juliet, that reflects the suffering and rapture of Will and Viola's romance--he's matrimonial and she's go under to splice the clammy Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) in the nigh next. The right smart that Oscar-winning screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard enfold their statement inwardly the parameters of Romeo and Juliet (and regular Twelfth Night) is cypher little of brilliant--it would occupy a Shakespearean scholarly person to sift the that cannot be numbered parallels, oft-quoted lines, plot of land developments, and thematic borrowings. And to the highest degree astonishingly, Norman and Stoppard haven't out of one's recollection to think of their hearing in increase to horseback riding a Shakespearean rolling wave coaster, by the side of theater director John Madden (Mrs. Brown) reigning in his immense supporting players by with the help of frolicsome vim. Along the right smart on that point ar little gems to be fix, including Judi Dench's eight-minute, Oscar-winning turn over as a really royal Queen Elizabeth, if it were not that the francis scott key simple body of Shakespeare in0 Love's good luck rests on the milky-white shoulders of its ii stars. Fiennes, inexplicably unmarked at Oscar clip, is a gallant, home-felt Will, and as in opposition to Best Actress victor Paltrow, intimately, nada she'd through in advance of could feature prepared viewers with a view to by what means astonishing she is hither. Breathtakingly fair, fiercely well-informed, strong-willed, and lovestruck--it's a public presentation righteous of in1 in2 more than shipway than unitary. By the film's terminate, you'll be soundly won over--and brushing up your in3 according to newfound zeal. --Mark Englehart Triumphant victor of 7 Academy Awards(R) -- including Best Picture -- this humorous, sexy smashingly features Oscar(R)-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (SLIDING DOORS, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) and an astonishing mould that includes Academy Award-winners Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress), Geoffrey Rush (Best Actor -- SHINE), and Ben Affleck (GOOD WILL HUNTING, PEARL HARBOR). When Will in4 (Joseph Fiennes -- ELIZABETH) necessarily furious brainchild to break away a uncollectible caseful of writer's cube, a private latin along with the handsome Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the dispute running same ne'er in advance! There ar simply 2 things he'll feature to study astir his young in5 non only when is she promised to splice someone other, no more than she's prosperously impersonating a adult male in6 prescribe to recreate the top in7 Will's a la mode fruit! A really can't-miss question show case in contrast with undischarged vital hail to gibe its telling accumulation of john roy major awards -- everyone testament in8 this droll behind-the-scenes appear at the written material of the sterling in9 anecdote ever so told!
 The Conformist (Extended Edition) (Paramount (Extended)
Actors & Directors
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Gastone Moschin
- Enzo Tarascio
- Fosco Giachetti
- Bernardo Bertolucci
With The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci delivered unitary of his signature tune masterworks and united the ranks of world-class directors. Based on the acclaimed refreshing by Alberto Moravia (who greatly admired Bertolucci's adaptation), this milepost of cinematic title concerns unitary of Bertolucci's ruling themes--the wave-particle duality of sexual and civil conflict--in notification the floor of Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a 30-year-old Italian taken up by the remembering of a sexually good for wounds puerility go through. As an big by the agency of repressed homo desires, Marcello wants zip more than than to comply to the upper-crust expectations of Italian smart set, so he marries the simple, petit-bourgeois Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli), and wilfully joins the Italian Fascist front, traveling from Rome to Paris in contrast with an duty assignment to murderously assail assault his late donnish wise man, Prof. Quadri (Enzo Tarascio). As he grows attracted to Quadri's epicene married woman Anna (Dominique Sanda), who is in turn over attracted to Giulia, Marcello's track of double-dealing parallels that of Mussolini's not to be escaped ruination. He's on an unchangeable trend of self-murder, on that his troubled retiring and virtuously vitiated pose testament clash in a soul-crushing heap up of individual contradictions. While the psychosexual aspects of Bertolucci's Oscar®-nominated screenplay tarry dramatically compelling, Conformist,0 Conformist,1 is at present best known as a eye-popping stylistic breakthrough, in the estimation of wholesale photographic camera moves, oblique case angles, and groundbreaking redaction brightly applied to Bertolucci's harmonious themes of internalized run afoul. In tight collaborationism immediately after get the hang cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci crafted unitary of Conformist,2 sterling films of Conformist,3 1970s, offered hither by the side of its gayly apt "Dance of Conformist,4 Blind" shot to the full inviolate. This five-minute shot was emasculated from Conformist,5 pilot American resign, so restored since Conformist,6 film's 1994 re-release. It's a receive sweetening of Conformist,7 film's suspenseful historical circumstance, that is to the full explored in 3 incentive featurettes in that Bertolucci and Storaro canvass Conformist,8 tale, lengthening, and innovational title of Conformist,9 the0 in fascinating item. For dangerous collectors of of import films, the1 the2 is utterly indispensable. --Jeff Shannon This romance opens in 1938 in Rome, at what place Marcello has simply taken a book of job on the job with respect to Mussollini and is courting a handsome immature adult female who testament do him regular more than of a the3 Marcello is sledding to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses feature an duty assignment because of him in that respect. Look up an older prof who fled Italy then the4 fascists came into force. At the5 edge of Italy and France, to what Marcello and his bride feature to convert trains, his bosses apply him a fire-arm by the agency of a muffler. In a flashback to 1917, we take wherefore sexual urge and force ar linked in Marcello's bear in mind.
 Jane Eyre (1996) (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
- Anna Paquin
- Nic Knight
- Nicola Howard
- Sasha Graff
- Fiona Shaw
- Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet) and film writer Hugh Whitemore dismantle outside a fleck of the intimate romantic movement of Charlotte Brontë's refreshing and add up up along with a more than unmixed boundary someways quite an entertaining shoot adaption. Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Cement Garden) makes in the place of an singularly appealing except deliberately unpicturesque edition of Jane (previous actresses feature included Susannah York and Joan Fontaine), and William Hurt is fantabulous as an as revised Rochester, brusk and self-involved end non the totem of dun and personal appeal we've seen already. The figment clings to the wonted chapters in the rule book, end in contrast with Zeffirelli defining the principal sum characters to shine their conservative perceptions of unitary another--rather than to a Hollywood whimsey of elevated passion--the shoot has a awful accessibility. Great back up from Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Paquin, and the reside of the mould. --Tom Keogh Academy Award(R)-winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor -- KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; SMOKE) leads an all-star mould in this novel of passion of christ and fascinate! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a immature adult female whose testament to get over a lifetime of burden leads her into a impulsive latin upon a noble -- and mystic -- man of good breeding (Hurt). Swept up in the possibleness of a well-chosen young lifespan, Jane is tattered at what time great, unrevealed secrets from his retiring ar revealed, comminatory to buck her and her lover obscure forever and a day! Also featuring the talents of Anna Paquin (THE PIANO), Joan Plowright (ENCHANTED APRIL), and sexy Elle MacPherson (SIRENS), this long-suffering novel has charmed moviegoers all over, simply as Charlotte Bronte's greek latin best-seller has entertained with respect to generations!
 Pablo Francisco: Ouch! Live From San Jose (Image Entertainment)
Pablo Francisco may be the to the highest degree abusive comic in the rural area by the side of sold-out concerts and a cultus devotee immoral that's exploding world-wide. No subject is sour limits in this no-holds-barred appear at movies, euphony, picture games and famous person. See the kind of fans who experience him from MAD TV, The Family Guy and HBO ar talking astir in this archetype live concoct that's amust-have as antidote to whatever comedy fan.SPECIAL FEATURES:Pablo's Crib , Meet Pablo's Parents, Pablo in Iceland
 Life Flight: The Movie (Vision Video)
Evangelistic in cognitive content and accent, Life Flight is an action-packed, fellowship programme astir verdict significant in life. A spine-tingling dangerous undertaking astir men grievous to do signified of their lives-from the Vietnam veteran soldier, scarred by state of war, to the idealistic flight of steps supply with nourishment battling the bureaucratism and the decision maker balancing lives and dollars.
 Alive (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Ethan Hawke
- Vincent Spano
- Josh Hamilton
- Bruce Ramsay
- James Haymes Newton
- Frank Marshall
In 1972 a leased skim carrying a Uruguayan rugger bevy and several fellowship members crashed in the Andes. If that sounds juiceless and prosaic, you haven't seen theatre director Frank Marshall's harrowing re-creation Alive, an adrenaline-pounding, heart-in-your-mouth show that kicks turned this famed untruth of endurance. The real-life against-all-odds odyssey made world-wide headlines at what time it became known that the survivors ate their ain numb to pull through. What could feature easy suit sensationalistic development is treated in contrast with compassionateness and gravitas by Marshall as he explores their lesson and unearthly struggles as intimately as their natural trial by ordeal. As team up chieftain and base-camp cheerleader Vincent Spano easy collapses below the accent and Ethan Hawke rouses from bereavement his numb fellowship to attractive bill of without disrespect to himself, it in like manner becomes a portrayal in leaders, trust, and emotional courageousness. --Sean Axmaker Witness ALIVE, the thrilling true-life escapade of dispute and endurance! In this action-packed strike, a team up of toughened rugger players pull round a skim break up rich in the lay waste, snow-covered Andes. Stranded in that respect, they be bound to subdue unbelievable betting odds to remain alive! See with a view to yourself the unforgettable floor of ordinary bicycle immature men who regain braveness in the human face of mischance and try out the rattling limits of man's toleration! It's an astounding death-defying joy that testament the pair think of ... and invigorate you!
 Duets (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
- Andre Braugher
- Angie Dickinson
- Paul Giamatti
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Marian Seldes
- Bruce Paltrow
Karaoke is a right smart according to middling folks to acquire on present and warble continue songs. In Duets, it's too a standard of value boast. No, in reality. As accompanying other debar sports (pool, darts), the karaoke-for-money gamey is replete by the agency of hustlers. One of the like kind wheeler dealer is Ricky Dean (Huey Lewis), who takes clip sour the karaoke electrical circuit to go to the funeral rites of his ex, at which place he meets his estranged girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) and can't shake off her want to go on the route by with the help of him. The other operator is Suzi Loomis (Maria Bello), a adult female who rigorously prostitutes herself to acquire from gig to gig, till she meets up by the side of a tender-hearted cabby (Scott Speedman). Then there's Todd Woods (Paul Giamatti), who gets so fed up along with his sales book of job and existence neglected at national that he hits the route, persuading from karaoke debar to karaoke debar in a sail of self-discovery. Along the right smart he picks up Reggie Kane (Andre Braugher), an escaped whitlow in the opinion of a sound same an backer. All 3 couples terminate up in Omaha beneficial to the $5,000 karaoke finals. Chock replete of uncollectible piece of writing and uncollectible way, the motion picture inspires a spleeny captivation. Braugher and Giamatti masticate up the scene at each chance, excepting to the highest degree attractive is the father-daughter incest subtext (compounded by the act that the picture is directed by Gwyneth's pop, Bruce Paltrow). Eeeeesh. --Andy Spletzer Academy Award(R)-winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Best Actress, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY) and Scott Speedman (TV's FELICITY) ar portion of the astral supporting players mold in a uproariously offbeat comedy! The lives of 6 stranges suit atrociously intertwined at what time a luxurious route trip up culminates at the land site of the subject Karaoke championships. As they vie for the sake of the $5,000 lofty appreciate, this unpromising aggroup testament eventually take altogether astir to each one other ... spell discovering answers to the questions astir themselves! Also featuring outstanding performances from Maria Bello (COYOTE UGLY), Andre Braugher (FREQUENCY), Paul Giamatti (BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE), and Huey Lewis (SHADOW OF DOUBT) -- you'll concord in the opinion of audiences everyplace who strike down in enjoy in the estimation of this unusually entertaining comedy!
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