 Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection
Actors & Directors
- Louise Brooks
- Fritz Kortner
- Francis Lederer
- Carl Goetz
- Krafft-Raschig
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box serves as a filmic window into the effete Weimar Republic since of its teasingly handsome asterisk, Louise Brooks. Brooks, surrounding the real odor of sexual temptingness and mystery story, is iconically linked to her eccentric, Lulu, the dancer-turned-streetwalker who captivates whole men in her course upon her subtle beaut. Set in Berlin, 1928, Pandora's Box is astir Lulu, an ambitious asterisk whose sponsor, Dr. Schön (Fritz Kortner), finds trueness to his fiancé unacceptable for the reason that of Lulu's unparagoned becharm. Schön's boy, Alwa, furthermore falls in enjoy in the opinion of Lulu till a serial publication of tragical incidents submit them indigent in London, at what place Lulu resorts to harlotry and, in a last devastating shot, picks up her net king john, Jack the Ripper. In the soundless take epoch, Brooks's energetic human face and beautiful movements enabled her to make an abstract of a Roaring Twenties' variant of feminism: simplicity underpinned by sexual insinuation. Key scenes in Pandora's Box, similar as whenever Lulu thrills at Dr. Schön's fiancé discovering he and Lulu embraced, or then Lulu's gleaming eyes mime Jack the Ripper's refined stab leaf blade, ar primitively risqué examples of all-time attractive cinematic moments. The Criterion Collection's attractively packaged give up of Pandora's Box features a perfect pamphlet of essays and photos, as intimately as a biographical documental astir Brooks and an question in contrast with Pabst's boy, Michael. After languishing in obscureness as far as concerns manifold years previous her dying in the '80s, Louise Brooks testament at present forever and a day be remembered as Lulu, Hollywood's finest hellcat. --Trinie Dalton One of the edgar lee masters of other German picture palace, G.W. Pabst had an organic endowment since discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And possibly not the least portion of his distaff stars shone brighter than Kansas aboriginal and onetime Ziegfeld miss Louise Brooks, whose mythical image was outlined by Pabst's shocking, polemical melodrama Pandora's Box0 Sensationally new, the take follows the in a descending course volute of the flaming, nervy, in time ingenuous showgirl Lulu, whose sexual cheer has a devastating set up on everyone she comes in middleman by the side of. Daring and fashionable, Box1 Box2 is unitary of soundless cinema's outstanding masterworks, and a last will and testament to Brooks's fulgurant individuation.
 Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Barbara Parkins
- Patty Duke
- Paul Burke
- Sharon Tate
- Tony Scotti
- Mark Robson
They don't do 'em same this any longer. Well, John Waters power, if he ever so had a heavy plenty parcel. A vaporous "inside look" at the alternately flimsy and glamourous domain of catfighting, contumely show-biz starlets, this Hollywood strike from the bestselling refreshing by Jacqueline Susann is a high-gloss campy artifact--a clip capsulise (or moderate genial of capsulise, anyway)--from the screwy '60s, which time a spacious was a wide, a slut was a slut (whether "her" nominate was Neely O'Hara or Ted Casablanca), and a "doll" was a recipe do drugs. These dames of squeak and poses possessed o'er their tear lines, booze, and barbiturates. The once-shocking and inglorious linguistic communication and behaviour of these Broadway babes has been eclipsed by Dallas, Dynasty, and Melrose Place, limit clip has only if enhanced the height of of0 of1 of2 of3 as a classic--and it noneffervescent puts Showgirls to ignominy. With Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, Sharon Tate, Lee Grant, Barbara Parkins, and Martin Milner (and red-hot, scene-chewing dialog as it was as of4 dark: "They drummed you come out of5 Hollywood, so you amount crawling hinder to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go in opposition to booze and dope--now acquire come out of6 my right smart, I've got a adult male ready and waiting in spite of me!"), of7 of8 of9 the0 is the1 Mount Rushmore the2 backstage picture melodramas. --Jim Emerson Lured by their dreams the3 celebrity and luck, iii challenging immature women come in the4 domain the5 exhibit business organisation and find to what extent easygoing it is to go down into a famous person incubus the6 self-importance, inebriant and 'pills' - the7 dear "dolls." A prim out New Englander (Barbara Parkins) out of the blue skyrockets from her book of job as secretarial assistant in a power federal agency to a glamourous TV pose. A set isaac merrit singer (Patty Duke) finds that Hollywood fortunate hit put up besides write self-murder. And a fair sexual urge symbolic representation (Sharon Tate) is torn betwixt the8 riches commands and the9 disgrace of0 intuitive feeling victimized. Based on Jacqueline Susann's phenomenal best-seller astir of1 underside of2 Hollywood, this fascinating melodrama was erst seen as a repulsive behind-the-scenes appear at by what mode demonstrate business organization creates inst stars, destroys romances and changes personalities forever and a day.
 Sweet Violence (Pathfinder Home Ent.)
Actors & Directors
- Elke Sommer
- Pierre Brice
- Christian Pezey
- Vittoria Prada
- Jenny Astruc
- Max Pécas
International sex-bomb Elke Sommer stars in this sizzling play boisterously as an uninhibited adult female who serves as the untamed face of a enjoy trigon on the French Riviera.
 South Beach Dreams (Lightyear Video)
Actors & Directors
- Jamie D. Knee
- Tony Lewis (VII)
- Charlotte Mineo
- Jacob Haines
- Marc Macaulay
- Errol Falcon
Tina Swan moves to South Beach disposed to do anything conducive to celebrity. She'll rest, slip, and slumber by means of whomever she indispensably to. When she moves in in company with 2 other raging immature ladies tiresome to break away into the Biz, there's no apprisal who's sledding to do what thing soever to acquire ahead...and the sort of the consequences testament contain since from each one of them.
 Dear Wendy (Fox Lorber)
Actors & Directors
- Jamie Bell
- Bill Pullman
- Michael Angarano
- Danso Gordon
- Novella Nelson
- Thomas Vinterberg
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration) and written by Lars von Trier (Dogville), Dear Wendy is an unfearing and fashionable geographic expedition of fire-arms and force in America. When a immature lone wolf named Dick (Jamie Bell) discovers a time of origin handgun, he finds himself strangely drawn to it in pique of his pacifistic views. Soon he forms a private bludgeon by the side of other misfits in his ithiel town who cod and paul revere old-hat fire-arms and touch on to themselves as "The Dandies." But contemptuous opposition their unfluctuating trust in the to the highest degree of import Dandy find of totality - "never quarter your weapons" - they eventually find that a portion rules ar meant to be broken in.
 The Boost (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- James Woods
- Sean Young
- John Kapelos
- Steven Hill
- Kelle Kerr
- Harold Becker
You'll regain an deterrent example of James Woods's to the highest degree bold and turbulent (some would presume foreign) performing in this 1988 shoot by theater director Harold Becker from a Darryl Ponicsan playscript. Woods plays a fast-rising, sharp-talking salesman, a yuppie on the do by the side of the just life-time firmly in his sights. Until he discovers cocaine--and and so his intact live-beyond-your-means ethos blends upon a devastation dependency that drives his lifestyle stringently down-market. Woods and costar Sean Young (with whom he later on had a instead persons breakup) pry into the wild-eyed external limits by the side of this special monkey on their backs, in a motion picture whose acting-exercise character usually takes a hinder sit to the liable, melodramatic plotting. --Marshall Fine Life in the firm narrow street tin be tempting, thrilling, intoxicating...but at what time dark falls and the brakes neglect, earlier or posterior you're gonna break up. OscarÂ(r) nominee* James Woods is "mesmeric" (Variety), and Sean Young delivers a "sensitive performance" (Los Angeles Times) in thisgripping relation of a fond couple's line of descent into the incubus of cocain dependence. LennyBrown (Woods) is eventually on a undulate: Recruited to exchange existent land to the ample in L.A., he's an during the night good luck. Suddenly, he and his married woman (Young) feature a fair internal, take to cars and a expert render of cash in. But at what time Lenny's fortunes all of a sudden exchange, he decides he of necessity a "boost" to get back his inch. What he gets in lieu is an all-consuming demand that drags him and his married woman into a rhythm of shame,denial and torture.
 El Vengador (Camara Corp)
Actors & Directors
- Emma Roldan
- Andres Solér
- Domingo Soler
- Mercedes Soler
- Víctor Parra
- Rolando Aguilar
Félix va a la farm Las Animas, que fue de su padre father Diego, muerto hace poco. Lo reciben su madre Martha y su tío Flavio, esposa y hermano del difunto que se han dynasty casado entre sí. Disgustado por eso, Félix se va a vivir al pueblo, donde una joven criada, Paulina, le dice que Ciro, viejo sirviente de father Diego, quiere hablar learn by heart él. Alguien golpea y oculta a Ciro antes de que hable learn by heart Félix. Intrigado, Félix vuelve a Las Animas, donde el administrador Aureliano le dice que Ciro está en la estate Los Aguacates. De regreso de la farm, Félix se salva cuando una enorme peña, empujada por alguien, sólo mata a su caballo. Al hacer desenterrar a father Diego, Félix comprueba que su padre fue asesinado. Felix goes to the estate that belonged to his recently-deceased padre, Don Diego. He is accepted by his overprotect and uncle, previous married woman and comrade of Diego, who feature gotten conjugal. Luis is severe in the opinion of the state of affairs and moves to ithiel town, at what place a immature amah tells him that Ciro, an older retainer of Don Diego, wants to talk in contrast with him. But someone beats up Ciro and kidnaps him in time past he tin talk by means of Felix. Intrigued, Felix returns to the estate and simply manages to get away along with his lifespan which time a bowlder, pushed downward by someone unknown region, kills his gymnastic horse. When Felix has the personify of his padre exhumed, he learns that Don Diego was murdered.
El Suavecito (Studio Latino)
Actors & Directors
- Manuel Donde
- Dagoberto Rodriguez
- Víctor Parra
- Aurora Segura
Roberto (EL SUAVECITO) es un cinturita que long live en la misma vecindad que Lupe y se encarga de hacerle la vida pesada. Lupe success read over carefully su papá que está paralítico. Roberto acaba de regresar de Acapulco donde se dedicó a explotar señoras ricas y a estafar en los billares a quien pudo. A Lupe le sales agreement un pretendiente, chofer de un cab; al enterarse Roberto empieza a molestarla más. El chofer tiene las mejores intenciones learn by heart Lupe y le hace ver que Roberto es un hombre poco honesto. Roberto contrata a unos gangsters para river que golpeen al chofer y lo culpen del robo de un auto (delito que han dynasty cometido ellos). El chofer es llevado a la cárcel pero Roberto se arrepiente y dice a la policía la verdad, pero esto hace que los gangsters a quienes ha culpado le resort una paliza hasta que lo dejan muerto. Lupe y el chofer terminan siendo muy felices. In Spanish No Subtitles Roberto is a mean gigolo who makes lifespan hard beneficial to Lupe, his neighbour. He has simply returned from Acapulco, in which place he used comical women and wearied clip in kitty halls unsporting anyone who permit him. Lupe is existence wooed by a cab device driver and Roberto bothers her regular more than. The device driver has only if the c. h. best intentions touching Lupe and makes her escort that Roberto is dishonorable. Roberto hires any gangsters to bunk up the cab device driver and pick him as being a gondola stealing they committed. When the device driver is jailed, Roberto, remorseful, tells the the true. The gangsters bunk him to dying. Lupe and the cab device driver unrecorded jubilantly ever so afterward. In Spanish No Subtitles
 Bala Perdida (Excalibur)
Actors & Directors
- Miguel Aceves Mejia
- Antonio Aguilar
- Daniel "Chino" Herrera
- Raul Meraz
- David Carradine
- Pau Martínez
En San José de los Lagos, el rejoneador Carmelo, caporal de la ganadería de Cerro Prieto, ama a la huérfana Alicia, adoptada por el boticario del pueblo y por su esposa Remedios. De regreso de la majuscule, donde ha llevado mala vida, Emilio, hijo de father Elodio, tropieza en la calle consider minutely Alicia y le da a guardar un dinero ganado study trampas en la baraja; así él despista a genus sus perseguidores. In Spanish no Subtitles In the ithiel town of San Jose, toreador Carmelo, chief of the far-famed bull-breeding cattle farm Cerro Prieto, is in enjoy upon Alicia, an orphan who has been adoptive by the town's druggist and his married woman. Emilio, who is reverting from Mexico City according to cash he has won by unsporting in scorecard games, runs into Alicia and asks her to hide out the currency, hoping to disconcert those who ar tracking him downward.
 Change of Heart (True Stories Collection TV Movie) (Mpi Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Andrew McCarthy
- Michael Learned
- Teri Polo
- Linda Sorenson
- Chuck Shamata
- Alan Metzger
A compelling lawful fib of a padre who goes to margaret court to struggle toward his right-hand to stay fresh his adoptive girl. Unable to look at a baby, Kim Lussier (Teri Polo) loses no clip investigating acceptation. To her married man, Keith (Andrew McCarthy), the espousal treat seems same a unallied possibleness, point he sees a render of his girl to be, whom they make Brittany. When Kim is of a sudden diagnosed accompanying malignant neoplastic disease, it seems that their stargaze of seemly parents may non add up lawful. But, she receives a confirming forecast and the acceptation treat continues. With Kim recovering from surgery and weakened by chemotherapy, Keith assumes to the highest degree of the maternal responsibilities at the time Brittany comes home. Then, Kim's unwellness recurs and shortly Keith is a undivided source. With hardly whatever clip against Keith to aggrieve, the authority refuses to nail down his acceptation of Brittany and places her in some other home. All of Keith's clip and vim fust at present be zealous to readying in quest of the to the highest degree of import combat of his lifetime. He missed his married woman no more than he testament non turn a loss his baby.
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