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Raffles Hotel (Phantom)
Actors & Directors
  • Raffles Hotel
1989 Japanese take by the side of English subtitles directed by Murakami Ryu and starring Fujitani Miwako. 91 minutes/NTSC/Region 3. Platinum Classics. 2003.

World Trade Center Stephen Dorff
World Trade Center (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) [HD DVD] (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Stephen Dorff
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Michael J. Shannon
  • Frank Whaley
  • Oliver Stone
Regardless of whether it was "too early" in 2006 to adopt the events of September 11th, 2001, World Trade Center succeeds as a testimonial to the braveness and give of those who served at "ground zero" in the backwash of terrorist attacks on the WTC's parallel towers in New York City. Removed from the political relation of state of war and act of terrorism (yet noneffervescent, same completely films, inherently civil in expressing its repoint of view), Oliver Stone's powerful dramatic event focuses on the nightmarish trial by ordeal, and later deliver, of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), who were inhumed deep inside the rubble of the WTC posterior the parallel towers collapsed. Granted, it's only when the film's historical setting that distinguishes it from whatsoever other spectacular deliver loft, no more than in focusing on the probity of kind-heartedness in replication to the vicious of terrorists who tarry unnamed and off-screen, Stone and first-time film writer Andrea Berloff make an emotional setting as puissant as anything Stone has directed from that time Platoon. Even as he resorts to certain confutative generalship typically wanting in niceness, Stone refrains from a great deal of the blunt-force filmmaking that has made him a vital punching bagful, rise to this thought-provoking circumstances by the agency of a profound and deep American portrayal of unison - exterior, transmitted, and subject. Flaws and every one of, World Trade Center serves an honourable resolve, reminding us every one of that with a view to those momentaneous years in September 2001, America showed its c. h. best human face to a likeable world. --Jeff Shannon "World Trade Center is a take astir valorousness and the c. h. best in every part of of us," raves Good Morning America's Joel Siegel. Academy Award victor, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable rightful anecdote of the lion-hearted deliver and endurance of 2 Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 following they volunteered to go in and facilitate. Academy Award alluring theatre director, Oliver Stone reveals an sexual appear at the events of the daylight as seen through and through the eyes of the survivors, their families and their rescuers

Three Colors Trilogy Florence Pernel
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red) (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Benoît Régent
  • Florence Pernel
  • Charlotte Véry
  • Hélène Vincent
  • Florence Pernel
  • Krzysztof Kieslowski
Even although unitary tin consider for each one section of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy on its ain, it seems nonsensical to do so; wherefore purchase the slacks in lieu of the intact fit? Created by Kieslowski and his written material confederate Krzysztof Piesiewicz against France's bicentenary, the titles--and the themes of the films--come from the three colors of the French signal flag representing leave, equation, and frat. Blue examines freeing through and through the eyes of a adult female (Juliette Binoche) who loses her married man and girl in an auto chance event, and gravely starts again. White is an ironical comedy astir a befuddled Polish hubby (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who takes an unmated course of avenge over against his ex (Julie Delpy). A Swiss sit (Irène Jacob) strikes up a friendly relationship according to a secluded adjudicate (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops on his neighbors in Red. The trilogy is a snap of European lifespan at a clip of reconstruction period hinder the Cold War, reflected through and through Kieslowski's moral philosopher look at of like a human being humor and illumined by apiece title's roof of the mouth colour. The DVD go under has legion extras overspread end-to-end the three discs; the terminate ensue is a higher-up accumulation. Each disc has a little retroactive, culled unitedly from young interviews accompanying Kieslowski's gang, positive shoot censor Geoff Andrew, biographer Annette Insdorf (who likewise does the commentaries), and buster Polish theatre director Ageniska Holland. Producer Marin Karmitz moreover reminisces astir the go through. There's an peculiar elbow grease to demo the thaumaturgy of Kieslowski (who died ii years afterward the trilogy) through and through a word of his uncertain vocation phases, interviews upon the three top actresses, 4 pupil films, and archival materials including simple--and wonderful--glimpses of the theatre director at act. Excellent perceptiveness is in addition with the understanding by Dominique Rabourdin's filmed "cinema lessons" by means of Kieslowski. Without viewing whatsoever of his other films, this go down illustrates the uniqueness of Kieslowski. --Doug Thomas Colors0 Home Entertainment is grand to pose BLUE, Colors1 and RED, the acclaimed films by theatre director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Hailed by filmgoers as more less of the to the highest degree gripping, piquant, well-crafted dramas in late remembering, the package go down of BLUE, Colors2 and RED Each DVD disc includes protracted incentive features. BLUE: Academy Award victor Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient," Best Supporting Actress, 1996) stars as a immature adult female left-hand devastated by the unforeseen dying of her married man and baby. She retreats into the domain round her, but-end is presently reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening net of lies and passion of christ as the sullen, private life-time of her married man begins to unscramble. Colors3 Sexy Julie Delpy ("Before Sunrise") stars in a occult rehearsal of a adult male whose lifetime disintegrates while his fine married woman of vi months comeuppance him. Forced to start over again, he rebuilds his life-time, only if to project a unsafe connive of payback counter to her. Winner of the Best Director Award at the Berlin Film Festival. RED: Irene Jacob ("The Double Life of Veronique") stars as a immature sit whose occur get together in contrast with an rare unknown leads her downward a course of fascinate and silence. As her perception of the adult male deepens, she discovers an astounding nexus betwixt his preceding and her fate.

Keeping the Faith/While Catherine Lloyd Burns
Keeping the Faith/While You Were Sleeping (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Blythe Auffarth
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Stuart Blumberg
  • Catherine Lloyd Burns
  • Lisa Edelstein
Keeping The Faith - DVD- Ben Stiller (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS), Jenna Elfman (EdTV), and Edward Norton (FIGHT CLUB) asterisk in KEEPING THE FAITH, a sexy romanticistic comedy so reinvigorated and ludicrous, you'll come head up o'er heels in enjoy! Jake Schram (Stiller) and Brian Finn (Norton) ar undivided, felicitous, super pop guys who feature been c. h. best friends after, intimately, forever and a day. They ar astir to be reunited by the agency of their other charles herbert best puerility chum -- the spunky, lanky romp, Anna (Elfman). Anna has grown into a high-powered workaholic beaut whose reentry into their lives turns this older circulate of friends into a enjoy trilateral -- a rattling complicated unitary at that, since Jake's a hebrew doctor and Brian is a non-christian priest. But feature trust -- this gemstone is sledding to slip your bosom. While You Were Sleeping - English/French DVD -You'll come in enjoy by the side of WHILE YOU WERE The0 The1 strike romanticist comedy that woke everyone up to lovely Sandra Bullock (SPEED, A TIME TO KILL). As Lucy, a unfrequented subway craftsman, she becomes stricken along with a fine-looking unknown (Peter Gallagher -- MALICE). But whenever she saves his lifespan hind he's been mugged and fallen into a comatoseness, his uproariously offbeat fellowship mistakes her on the side of his bride-to-be! Soon, The2 mix-ups step up as Lucy fabricates a life-time betwixt herself and a adult male she's ne'er met! And whenever Lucy falls toward his wizardly comrade (Bill Pullman -- INDEPENDENCE DAY) The3 state of affairs positively gets clamorous as she's farfetched to do a select betwixt The4 ii!

The Loss of Sexual Gina McKee
The Loss of Sexual Innocence [Region 2]
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Sands
  • Saffron Burrows
  • Stefano Dionisi
  • Kelly Macdonald
  • Gina McKee
  • Mike Figgis
At turns the one and the other mesmerizing and frustrative, Mike Figgis's 1999 observational feature film interweaves an brave dramatisation of the Adam and Eve allegory in the estimation of autobiographic vignettes from the director's lifespan. In Figgis's prosperous delineation of the Genesis information, the 1st humans ar a grim adult male (Femi Ogumbanjo) and a snowy adult female (Hanne Klintoe), who come up unitary daytime, to the full formed, from a lake, and consider from each one other according to frisky marvel. They find, same of child, their anatomical differences, and search into the surrounding immature elysium to the time when that arrival with the shoetree of cognition. From this they eat on and towards instantly reevaluate unitary some other immediately after a steely luxuria. Thus their, and our, legendary come from saving grace ends in the bog down the0 the1 ownership and walled-off intuitive feeling, a play that Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) uses as a proof for the sake of the2 modern-day rehearsal the3 a filmmaker named Nic (Julian Sands). Nic's ain vernal experiences according to numerous kinds the4 plastic mortification, including verdict his teenage girl in bottom by the agency of his c. h. best quaker, ar presented as flashbacks meant to vibrate by the agency of his married calamity today. Less open ar other moments come out the5 clip that don't in particular unite in company with Figgis's john major musical theme, especially an unmated evolution in that parallel sisters (both played by Saffron Burrows), from each one incognizant the6 the7 other's subsistence, feature a fugitive, worlds-are-colliding coming upon at an drome. Figgis too reaches into a seize bagful the8 Nic's other older sorrows, things that don't unambiguously give notice to or heighten the9 film's repoint, and muddies things up a flake. But the0 perpendicularly hubris the1 marrying a tradition in contrast with a familiar biography carries the2 daylight hither, and Figgis leaps the3 hurdle the4 possible self-parody immediately after a sure braveness. --Tom Keogh

World Trade Center Oliver Stone
World Trade Center (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Stephen Dorff
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Michael J. Shannon
  • Frank Whaley
  • Oliver Stone
Regardless of whether it was "too early" in 2006 to dramatise the events of September 11th, 2001, World Trade Center succeeds as a testimonial to the braveness and give of those who served at "ground zero" in the backwash of terrorist attacks on the WTC's parallel towers in New York City. Removed from the political relation of state of war and act of terrorism (yet noneffervescent, same whole films, inherently civic in expressing its repoint of view), Oliver Stone's powerful dramatic event focuses on the nightmarish trial by ordeal, and posterior deliver, of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), who were inhumed deep not beyond the rubble of the WTC in the rear of the duplicate towers collapsed. Granted, it's only when the film's historical circumstance that distinguishes it from whatever other striking deliver invention, except in focusing on the benignity of milk of human kindness in rejoinder to the vicious of terrorists who endure unnamed and off-screen, Stone and first-time film writer Andrea Berloff make an emotional setting as puissant as anything Stone has directed subsequently to Platoon. Even as he resorts to more less confutable diplomacy typically missing in niceness, Stone refrains from often of the blunt-force filmmaking that has made him a vital punching bagful, rebellion to this thought-provoking want in the estimation of a deep and deep American portrayal of concord - physical, inherited, and subject. Flaws and wholly, World Trade Center serves an honourable resolve, reminding us every part of that by reason of those momentary years in September 2001, America showed its charles herbert best human face to a appealing world. --Jeff Shannon "World Trade Center is a shoot astir valiance and the c. h. best in wholly of us," raves Good Morning America's Joel Siegel. Academy Award victor, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable lawful legend of the dauntless deliver and endurance of ii Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 later than they volunteered to go in and facilitate. Academy Award alluring theatre director, Oliver Stone reveals an sexual seem at the events of the daytime as seen through and through the eyes of the survivors, their families and their rescuers

Peter Brook's The Erika Alexander
Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Erika Alexander
  • Maurice Bénichou
  • Amba Bihler
  • Lou Bihler
  • Urs Bihler
  • Peter Brook
Famed Royal Shakespeare Company theatre director Peter Brook helms this transnational fruit of India's sterling epical invention. A in appearance unsubdivided rehearsal of ii sets of semidivine brothers vying concerning the place on a royal seat spirals come out to comprehend wider themes of lot, loose testament, and the problems of behaving dishonorably to keep the greater just. The take, altered from Brook's represent product, uses a presentational title, by the agency of the epic's teller slithering in and come out of the litigate and characters stopping to call the photographic camera. The between nations mold and unsubdivided costuming supply to the0 timeless, surreal sense of the1 legend. the2 the3 does an splendid book of job of reverently presenting a treasured allegory free from of loss the4 passion of christ and fervour of the5 anecdote. the6 DVD number printed at once includes "The Making of the7 Mahabharata," an attractive seem at the pair the8 layers of significant to be fix in the9 record and the0 challenges in adapting it toward a Western assemblage. --Ali Davis One of the1 outstanding masterpieces of domain lit comes to intense lifetime in an luxuriant product from acclaimed house and shoot innovator the2 Brook (Marat/Sade, Lord of the3 Flies). This assemblage of antediluvian Sanskrit stories (composed into the4 longest rule book ever so written) comprises a serial publication of refined fables at the5 bosom of numberless beliefs, legends, and teachings; so, its really rubric substance "the outstanding relation of mankind." Brook and award-winning author Jean-Claude Carriere worked conducive to 8 years to evolve this epical respecting 2 sides of a royal stag fellowship, the6 Pandavas and the7 Kauravas, whose battle leads to a fascinating navigate of emotions, contradictions, and dreams, filled immediately after subplots what one ar alternately sportive and tragical unless e'er gloriously entertaining.

Mystery, Alaska/Six Harrison Ford
Mystery, Alaska/Six Days Seven Nights (Walt Disney Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Harrison Ford
  • Anne Heche
  • David Schwimmer
  • Jacqueline Obradors
  • Temuera Morrison
  • Ivan Reitman
  • Jay Roach
Mystery, Alaska - DVD- With Russell Crowe (THE INSIDER, A BEAUTIFUL MIND), Hank Azaria (GODZILLA, THE BIRD CAGE), and Burt Reynolds preeminent an unbelievable all-star mould, here's a sport, uplifting, action-packed tale that everyone testament enjoy! A sequestered hockey-obsessed ithiel town populated by 633 of the to the highest degree nonconcentric characters you'd ever so need to encounter, Mystery is the genial of localize whither zilch ever so changes. But so lifetime as they live it gets turned completely upside downward! When a currency stop the growth of brings the world-famous New York Rangers -- and the subject spot -- to Mystery in favor of a mettlesome by the agency of the limited team up of weekend warriors, the unit ithiel town rises to receive the gainsay of a lifetime! Also starring Mary McCormack (TRUE CRIME, DEEP IMPACT) and Lolita Davidovich (PLAY IT TO THE BONE, JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE) in some other vital favourite from the hit-making theatre director of AUSTIN POWERS 1&2 -- you'll remain firm and recreate as this ragtag cluster shows that nix tin run their dreams of a prodigy on water ice! Six Days, Seven Nights - DVD - Big-screen favourite Harrison Ford stars in this nonstop escapade come to astir a stargaze holiday that turns into a uproarious tropic incubus! A husky, rough-hewn load airplane pilot manner of life in the islands, Quinn Harris (Ford) hates tourists ... allowing he's non higher up formation a firm go against from a sharp-tongued New Yorker, Robin Monroe (sexy Anne Heche -- VOLCANO, WAG THE DOG), which time she's do-or-die according to a ready flight of stairs to Tahiti! But this even now unquiet human relationship all of a sudden takes a nosedive at the time that his weatherworn older skim is compelled downward in a force! Now, cast away unitedly on a lonely islet, Quinn and Robin apace find everything the perils of elysium. As this uneven couple regain themselves veneer jeopardy at each turn over, you're trusted to regain their misfortunes refueling unitary of Hollywood's to the highest degree entertaining action-comedy hits in years!

Babel [HD-DVD] Peter Wight
Babel [HD-DVD] (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Pitt
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Mohamed Akhzam
  • Peter Wight
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu
Brilliantly conceived, superbly directed, and attractively acted, Babel is inarguably unitary of the c. h. best films of 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-writer, Guillermo Arriaga (the 2 in addition collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams) wind unitedly the disparate strands of their recital into a exquisitely hand-hewn material by focusing on which ) seem to be various every bit incongruent characters: an American (Brad Pitt) touring Morocco accompanying his married woman (Cate Blanchett) suit the focalise of an between nations belonging furthermore involving a hardscrabble Moroccan james leonard farmer (Mustapha Rachidi) struggling to stay fresh his ii immature sons in run along and his fellowship unitedly. A San Diego nurse (Adriana Barraza), her employers absentminded, makes the ruinous determination to occupy their kids accompanying her to a wedding party in Mexico. And a deaf and dumb person Japanese teen (the over-the-top Rinko Kikuchi) deals attending a human relationship immediately after her padre (Koji Yakusho) and the domain in superior general that's been upended by the demise of her fuss. It is peradventure non marvellous, or in particular archetype, that a fire-arm is the twist that ties these mob unitedly. Yet Babel isn't only astir force and its tragical consequences. It's astir communicating, and especially the deficiency of it--both intercultural, nurture issues same act of terrorism and in-migration, and intracultural, as canonic as husbands talking to their wives and parents savvy their of child. Iñárritu's require of his sensitive, go and of the eye similar, is sinful; the photographic camera act is by turns kinetic and reticent, the euphony ever intimately matched to the scenes, the redaction dextrous yet non perplexing, and the take (which clocks in at a protracted 143 transactions) is filled along with unerasable moments. Many of those moments ar furthermore bonny unmistakable and inexorable, and no testament lay claim that everything of this leads to a "happy" finish, if it be not that in that respect is a signified of rapprochement, as luck may have it regular declaration. "If You Want to be Understood... Listen," goes the tagline. And if you require a picture that testament allow you thought, Babel is it. --Sam Graham Beyond Babel Other Interweaving Storylines on DVD Other DVDs by Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Why We Love Cate Blanchett Stills from Babel (click in quest of larger range) In Babel, a tragical circumstance involving an American couple on in Morocco sparks a sir ernst boris chain of events instead of 4 families in various countries end-to-end the domain. In the battle to surmount closing off, dread, and displacement reaction, for each one type discovers that it is fellowship that in the end provides solacement. In the slight sands of the Moroccan abandon one's post, a go crack rings out-- detonating a ernst boris chain of events that testament nexus an American tourer couple's frenetic battle to pull round, 2 Moroccan boys mired in an inadvertent criminal offence, a nursemaid illicitly crossover into Mexico upon 2 American of child, and a Japanese teen renegade whose padre is sought-after by the constabulary in Tokyo. Separated by hostility cultures and straggly distances, for each one of these 4 disparate groups of vulgar herd ar not at all the less hurtling towards a shared fate of closing off and heartache. In the trend of simply a not many years, they testament apiece human face the dizzying sense experience of decorous deeply missed - missed in the abandon, missed to the domain, missed to themselves - as they ar pushed to the furthest edges of discombobulation and dread as intimately as to the real depths of link and enjoy. In this mesmerizing, emotional shoot that was crack in iii continents and 4 languages - and traverses the couple the deep corporal and the explosively public -- acclaimed theatre director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Amores Perros) explores in company with shattering naive realism the natural condition of the barriers that pretend to divide humankind. In doing so, he evokes the antediluvian conception of Babel> and questions its new daylight implications: the wrong identities, misunderstandings and missed chances because communicating that-- although frequently unseen-- ride our modern-day lives. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi top an between nations supporting players of actors and non-professional actors from Morocco, Tijuana and Tokyo, who adorn Babel's use up on ethnic difference and heighten its effective test of the golf links and frontiers betwixt and in the reach influence of us.

Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel (Msi Music Corp)
Actors & Directors
  • Megan Follows
  • Colleen Dewhurst
  • Wendy Hiller
  • Frank Converse
  • Jonathan Crombie
  • Kevin Sullivan
This picture is the sequel to the darling children's rule book and picture Anne of Green Gables. It continues the legend of Anne Shirley, an inventive and heady immature orphan in 1890s Canada, whose raging harden matches her reddish tomentum. sequel0 sequel1 sequel2 sequel3 told sequel4 Anne's acceptation by an somewhat advanced in life comrade and sis, Marilla (Colleen Dewhurst) and Matthew Cuthbert, and her puerility adventures in sequel5 idyllic hamlet sequel6 Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. sequel7 sequel8 Avonlea takes up sequel9 record before long in imitation of Matthew's dying, then the0 has graduated from association. It follows her struggles and adventures as an high-reaching author and English instructor in a buck private school day on the1 continent. Girls 7 and older, as intimately as adults, testament savour this well-informed and attractively made shoot, 1st shown on PBS. It's filled by the agency of themes parents tin ventilate along with their daughters--including intrepidity, generousness, and perseveration. It too gives a realistic portraiture the2 the3 state of affairs against women for the period of this historical geological period, through and through characters that ar multifaceted and sympathetic. Anne's battle to regain her vocalise as a author, to palm hard population ripely, to stay on optimistic malevolence setbacks, and to nursing her students ar one as well as the other contemplation annoying and entertaining. Girls testament likewise relish Anne's romanticist travails, as she tries to resolve betwixt ii suitors: her puerility quaker Gilbert, and a prolific, appropriate, and mystical widowman. the4 shoot is attractively filmed, and the5 costumes and settings present an idyllic clip and localize. the6 mold is first-class. Megan Follows as the7 earnest the8 and Dewhurst as the9 hoarse except untoughened Marilla apply especially mulct performances. --Elisabeth Keating