 The King Is Alive (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Miles Anderson
- Romane Bohringer
- David Bradley (IV)
- David Calder
- Bruce Davison
- Kristian Levring
"Stunning" (The Village Voice), "stylish" (Los Angeles Times) and "potent" (Variety), this exquisitely crafted take charts the story of 10 poor tourists missed in the bosom of the African due. Compelling performances from a "strong between nations cast" (The Hollywood Reporter) high spot this "original, epical visual sensation [that] reacquaints us in contrast with the whodunit of whatsoever it isto be human" (Film Quarterly)! When their jalopy breaks downward in the midriff of the Namibian deserving, a uneven aggroup of travelers meets the ridiculousness of their state of affairs head up onby platform an without premeditation work of "King Lear." But as tempers flame, passions light and their hopes of deliver dwindle down, they shortly start to realise that in the bosom of the African wild, the only when matter more than fearsome than Mother Nature the0 sympathetic character.
 The Pornographer (Vanguard Cinema)
Actors & Directors
- Atossa Akbar
- Adelina Bogdan
- Katheryn Cain
- Michael DeGood
- Todd Feder
A solitary legal assistant who spends his nights indulging in prostitutes and attention porn movies, decides to produced a certain titillating movies of his ain. He finds straightaway celebrity and banker's acceptance in the porn domain - only when to find that his renown and lot amount at a terms.
 Everything For Sale (Vanguard Cinema)
Actors & Directors
- Beata Tyszkiewicz
- Elzbieta Czyzewska
- Andrzej Lapicki
- Daniel Olbrychski
- Witold Holtz
- Andrzej Wajda
Inspired by the tragical dying of the outstanding Polish worker Zbigniew Cybulski, this Andrzej Wajda shoot focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a theatre director and his actors whereas they ar disrupted by the mystic bump off of their preeminent adult male. It is, in theater director Wajda's bickering, "a record astir the folks who do films - the directors and the actors." Film work of fiction mixes by means of realism as some people of the actors recreate themselves. Everything For Sale tin moreover be viewed as a rapid look into the right smart in what one Wajda deals upon his preceding and in contrast with his friendly relationship upon Cybuski.
Stillwater (Synapse Video)
Actors & Directors
- Russell P. Nix
- Matthew Hoffman
- Janice Bryan
- Janet Lombard
- Melanie du Puy
- Adrian Kays
STILLWATER In his breathtaking of the eye debut feature film take, Adrian Kays creates a persistent portrayal of a troubled immature adult male trenchant since his preceding. Set in the Deep South, Stillwater explores the experiences of Andrew Morrison a novel association postgraduate struggling to find his hereditary roots spell behavior through the offensive breakthrough of his ain acceptation. Utilizing the graceful and subtle vision of the to the south, open performances and abrupt antipathy. Stillwater deftly examines a dour and attractive meridional landscape painting that surrounds a immature man's journeying into a retiring that haunts his existance, a realness that proves to be one as well as the other unsanded and deep disturbing.
 In My Skin (Fox Lorber)
Actors & Directors
- Bernard Alane
- Léa Drucker
- François Lamotte
- Laurent Lucas
- Dominique Reymond
Much same Roman Polanski's Repulsion, In My Skin chronicles a immature woman's line of descent into rabidity. Esther (Marina de Van) accidentally gashes her leg at a company, unless in lieu of existence alarmed by the visual modality of her torn natural man, she becomes mesmerized by it. She begins edged herself, often to the alarm of her c. h. best quaker (Lea Drucker) and swain (Laurent Lucas), who ar unnerved by her pre-emption to agitate her actions. From on that point things only if acquire more than horrifying, no more than it's non weakly the circumstance of self-mutilation that makes In My Skin compelling, it's the movie's penetrative portrayal of psychological disruption. This is non a flick on this account that everyone--the edged is unsettlingly realistic and vivid--but viewers drawn to portraits of emotional member (like, in the place of deterrent example, The Piano Teacher) testament regain In My Skin gripping. Written and directed by de Van, who co-wrote Francois Ozon's 8 Women and Under the Sand. --Bret Fetzer After woe rich gashes to her leg from an inadvertent come, Esther (Marina de Van), a immature search psychoanalyst, becomes abstracted by means of her personify and skin, especially her wounds. At 1st, she simply caresses her mail, pinches her surplus My0 or traces the cuts on her legs, except it isn't long-spun up to that time she is cutting wounds straight and sharply into her ain personify. Her fellow (Laurent Lucas) becomes understandably interested and furious, otherwise than that his unfitness to read forces Esther into retirement to examine her newfound passion of christ. Increasingly unhinged - to situations of crabbed glowering humour - Esther seems set to persist in her obsession to the place the remotion from her ain personify is consummate.
 Mockingbird Don't Sing (Vanguard Cinema)
Actors & Directors
- Melissa Errico
- Joe Regalbuto
- Sean Young
- Michael Lerner
- Kim Darby
- Harry Bromley Davenport
From the eld of unitary and a moiety to 13, Katie, was imprisoned by her parents. Locked in a way, level and motionless, destined to a "potty-chair", Katie endured years of stranded quiet punctuated by barbarism. When Katie's caseful eventually came to men attending she was affected to a infirmary in Los Angeles, to what it was discovered she had ne'er been tight to talk. Katie was an anomalousness, a new daylight Wild Child. Medical and psychological doctors descended on the fille in droves, many times in the estimation of mean motivations in this heart-breaking untruth. With deafening give care to particular Mockingbird Don't Sing tells Katie's relation of internment, breakthrough and her hard route to connexion the full of heart fellowship as a graceful immature adult female.
 Mission (Vanguard Cinema)
Actors & Directors
- Chris Coburn
- Joshua Leonard
- Sandrine Holt
- Bellamy Young
- Adam Arkin
- Loren Marsh
A immature striving after excellence author, Marvin, from New York moves to California to indite a refreshing. He ends up rooming by the side of a disorderly, bohemian instrumentalist named Jay. Marvin finds himself inexorably drawn into the vivacious early days civilization of San Francisco's Mission District as the pair Jay and himself keep an eye on their worlds decompose. They find that from each one has a parcel to read from the other. Mission is a approach of eld figment cast a spot on a localise and clip, moments above workman-like of high lofty purpose types yielded the Mission to the dotcom entrepreneurs
 La Truite (Homevision)
Actors & Directors
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Jeanne Moreau
- Daniel Olbrychski
- Jacques Spiesser
- Joseph Losey
Award-winning theatre director Joseph Losey assembled a star-studded castIsabelle Huppert (La Cérémonie) and Jeanne Moreau (La Femme Nikita)for this sexual urge comedy. Frederique (Huppert) is a free-spirited and impish adult female who has made an artistry of using her sexuality to acquire on the nose how she wants from men. On a fancy, Frederique foliage her magnanimous married man and the fellowship trout do farmer's work to move around to Japan in contrast with a well-to-do man of affairs. Her spell presently gives right smart to reflexion, piloting of the swiftly-changing sexual freedoms and responsibilities of a young epoch, and the seeking with a view to satori, the "world of ecstasy" experient by her quaker. But has Frederique grown up likewise immobile, or non immobile plenty?
 Love in Concrete (Amor en Concreto) (Ciudad)
Actors & Directors
- Carlos Miranda (VIII)
- Beatriz Valdés
- Erich Wildpret
- Alejandro Chabán
- Alejo Felipe
- Franco de Pena
A strike on the Spanish-language take fete electric circuit, Amor En Concreto is a Venezuelan take whose centrepiece is the majuscule urban center of Caracas. A aggroup of individuals bring home the bacon a depict of the change of lifespan in the city--Tony, rejected by his padre, contemplates felo-de-se while he meets cross-dresser Clemencia; Carlos eventually decides to come on the adult female of his dreams rear 20 years of admiring her from to from a distance; Hector finds himself first a felonious animation back existence fired; and Claudia, fed up by with the help of her spousal relationship and seeking to take up newly, has her plans derailed by a mugger. Amor En Concreto is a multi-character consider of lifespan in the biggest metropolis in Venezuela.
 Lilith (Sony Pictures)
Actors & Directors
- Warren Beatty
- Jean Seberg
- Peter Fonda
- Kim Hunter
- Anne Meacham
- Robert Rossen
Few actresses ar worshipped by the photographic camera as often as Jean Seberg is in the pondering, 1964 psychodrama Lilith. The fictitious American and European asterisk (Godard's Breathless), playing Lilith Arthur, fixes one's attending on her each nicety in Robert Rossen's that which is told of a handsome, sexual omnivore and psycho able to endure at a New England intellectual infirmary. Withdrawn into her little domain of dolls and fantasies, Lilith responds to the attending of a succinct, Korean War veteran soldier, Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty), who is sad to regain himself by on the job as an occupational healer. Burdened by a mirky, guilt-ridden retiring (involving his mentally sick mother), Vincent bit by bit falls into an unnervingly peppery involvement in contrast with Lilith--much to a lesser extent a latin than a shared journeying docile reciprocal implosion. Rossen's terrible, ingenuous, rigid black and white dramatic event is at intervals missed in a puddle of vague case motivations, yet it's quite a a sit respecting the film's last-minute three kings' day. Watch on account of Gene Hackman in a little role. --Tom Keogh
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