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The House on Carroll Kelly McGillis
The House on Carroll Street (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Kelly McGillis
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Jonathan Hogan
  • Peter Yates
Kelly McGillis (The Accused) and Jeff Daniels (Speed) sparkle a flaming interpersonal chemistry in thisMcCarthy-era romanticist thriller that boasts "superb casting" (The Wall Street Journal), a "skillful and shrewd screenplay" (The Hollywood Reporter) by Walter Bernstein (The Train) and edge-of-your-seat way by Peter Yates (Suspect)! When Emily Crane (McGillis) refuses to cooperate in the estimation of the House Un-American Activities Committee chair, Ray Salwen (Mandy Patinkin), she's blacklisted and straight off fired from her book of job. But at the time that she stumbles about Salwen's villainous plot of ground to smuggle Nazi state of war criminals into the US, sheand an FBI federal agent (Daniels) she's enlisted to facilitate hermust regain a right smart to convey an terminate to Salwen's confederacy in the presence of he brings an terminate to them!

Laura (Fox Film Dana Andrews
Laura (Fox Film Noir) (20th Century (Fox)
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Tierney
  • Dana Andrews
  • Clifton Webb
  • Vincent Price
  • Judith Anderson
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Otto Preminger
This silken smooth out film noir pits husky law tec Dana Andrews, ceremonious and plainspoken in his street-bred carriage, in contact with a cultured editorialist and acid humour (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a combat of marbles for the time of a slay investigating. The cop is a romanticist hiding below a hard-boiled external who falls in enjoy accompanying the beauteous dupe through and through the portrayal that hangs in her flat. Gene Tierney, whose cordate human face mixes the not native by the agency of the missy nearest means of access, brings the balance and unagitated of a pose to her role as the physical object of each man's stare and the place of a slayer. Laura, handsomely crack in languid mordant and snowy, is the 1st and c. h. best of Otto Preminger's coolheaded, controlled slay mysteries. In the sandy domain of film noir it dead body the to the highest degree processed and graceful deterrent example of the genre, if it be not that below the elegant decor and high-society fashions lies a domain seething in green-eyed monster, passion of christ, blackjack, and polish off. Vincent Price costars as a blithesome gigolo and David Raksin's succulent melodic theme has suit a reflective romanticistic received. --Sean Axmaker Nominated with respect to 5 Academy Awards®, this fashionable whodunit thriller twists and turns immediately after young suspects, young grounds and unforeseen revelations. A well-off journalist (Clifton Webb) becomes entranced along with a graceful immature vocation adult female named Laura (Gene Tierney). But soon in a former part her wedding party to a gallant immature corinthian (Vincent Price), she is construct murdered. Stirred by her portrayal, the investigator (Dana Andrews) assigned to her caseful finds that he, likewise, is strangely below Laura's write.

A Different Loyalty Mimi Kuzyk
A Different Loyalty (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
  • Joss Ackland
  • Rupert Everett
  • Mimi Kuzyk
  • Anne Lambton
  • Richard McMillan
  • Marek Kanievska
A Different Loyalty takes you into the unsafe domain of between nations espionage. Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett sizzle unitedly in this thriller astir twofold agents and deception.War newsperson and previous British intelligence agency ship's officer Leo Cauffield (Everett) and his co-worker Sally Tyler (Stone), a United States state of war newspaperman, encounter on duty assignment in Beirut. After Leo disappears, Sally starts to reveal his private lifetime. Her seeking to find the trueness testament occupy her to the Soviet Union, slow the "Iron Curtain," and into the hands of the KGB. Now, in the estimation of the CIA about her and the British regime tight behind...her loyalty to Leo and her fellowship testament be pose to the issue test.DVD FEATURESFull Screen2.0 Dolby SurroundSpanish SubtitlesTrailerScene SelectionSystem Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

Deception (Lions Gate)
Actors & Directors
  • Andie MacDowell
  • Liam Neeson
  • Viggo Mortensen
  • Jack Thompson
  • Paul Spencer
  • Graeme Clifford
Danger lurks on every side each tree of the domain, in time zip tin kibosh Bessie Faro from putting the puzzler of her husband's dying and private lifetime. But she shortly discovers that the only when action more than unreliable than lies...can be discovery come out the truth.System Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

A History of Violence Ashton Holmes
A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series) (Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Viggo Mortensen
  • Maria Bello
  • Ed Harris
  • William Hurt
  • Ashton Holmes
  • David Cronenberg
On the come up, David Cronenberg may look an improbable prospect to verbatim A History of Violence, mete dig up deeper and you'll escort that he's the right-hand adult male toward the book of job. As an rational searcher of significant and an professed truster in Darwinian endurance of the fittest, Cronenberg knows that the floor of mild-mannered small-town diner proprietary Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is in occurrence a multilayered exam of inbred man's behaviour, first at what time Tom's skillful sidesplitting of 2 pretended robbers draws unwanted attending to his idyllic fellowship life-time in pastoral Indiana. He's got History0 affectionate married woman (Maria Bello) and immature girl (Heidi Hayes) who ar astir to take things astir Tom they hadn't suspected, and History1 teenage boy (Ashton Holmes) who has inherited his father's to the highest degree main endurance lineament, manifesting itself in slipway he ne'er expected. By the clip Tom has add up into middleman according to History2 scarred baddie (Ed Harris) and connections that top him to History3 half-crazy top banana (William Hurt, in History4 spectacular cameo), Cronenberg has plumbed the sullen depths History5 sympathetic world so skilfully that History6 History7 History8 History9 stands intimately higher up the graphical refreshing that inspired it (indeed, Cronenberg was incognizant of0 the seed stuff slow Josh Olson's shivery adaptation). With trenchant of1 that's as quickly prepared as it is graphically reliable, this is of2 of3 of4 of5 that's estimable of6 staid consider and widespread hail. --Jeff Shannon On the DVD On of7 undivided disc and by the agency of small flourish of trumpets, this DVD makes an first-class caseful in the place of the charles herbert best extras of8 the yr. Dive into the one-hour-long documental and read more than astir film making than on numerous of9 double-disc. The private lies in theater director David Cronenberg's (and his habitual crowd) folksy familiarity in showing sour the trade, be it make-up (green screens were used), guiding (Cronenberg doesn't storyboard), or artistry way (the diner set). It in like manner is rattling droll to try astir "fish Fridays" and by what mode Maria Bello's Uncle Pete became an act upon. Even the dark sex-on-the-staircase shot is diagnosed attending candour as stars Viggo Mortensen and Bello move as if in that respect is no backstage photographic camera. There's only if unitary deleted shot, on the other hand it's singularly deconstructed on wherefore it was filmed and wherefore it was gelded (it's Violence,0 really Cronenbergian stargaze sequence). Violence,1 little scrap on Cannes is in addition Violence,2 enjoy. So a great deal is hither that Cronenberg's smarting book of comments caterpillar tread is not remotely excessive. Isn't that Violence,3 skillful surprisal? --Doug Thomas More to Explore The Graphic Novel Other Graphic Novels that Inspired Movies David Cronenberg Essentials Why We Love Maria Bello The act Violence,4 Viggo Mortensen The act Violence,5 William Hurt Stills from Violence,6 Violence,7 Violence,8 Violence,9 Viggo Mortensoe as Tom Stall Ashton Holmes as Jack Stall and Kyle Schmid as Bobby Jordan William Hurt as Richie Cusack Ed Harris as Carl Fogarty and Viggo Mortensen as Tom Stall Maria Bello as Edie Stall Director David Cronenberg An fair fellowship is push up into the spot later than the padre (Viggo Mortensen) commits of0 in appearance self-defence hit at his diner. DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Director David Cronenberg CommentaryDeleted Scenes:Deleted shot w/director commentaryDocumentary:"Acts of1 Violence" documentaryEaster EggsFeaturette:"The Unmakeing of2 Scene 44" "Violence's of3 U.S. vs. International Versions" "Too Commercial since Cannes"

The Constant Gardener Fernando Meirelles
The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition) (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Fiennes
  • Rachel Weisz
  • Hubert Koundé
  • Danny Huston
  • Daniele Harford
  • Fernando Meirelles
The Constant Gardener is the genial of thriller that hasn't been seen from that time the 1970s: Smart, politically coordination compound, cinematically adventuresome, genuinely thrilling and regular heartbreaking. Mild diplomatist Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient, Schindler's List) has a slack shank of a married woman named Tessa (Rachel Weisz, The Shape of Things, The Mummy), who's digging into the pestiferous transactions of a john major pharmaceutic accompany in Kenya. Her unrelenting dispatch forces Justin to persist in her investigating downward a certain quantity of venomous avenues. This unsubdivided plot of land verbal description doesn't enamour the full grain and tricky, flexuous social movement of Constant0 Constant1 Constant2 superbly directed by Fernando Meirelles (Oscar-nominated instead of his 1st take, City of God). Shifting hinder and onward in clip, Constant3 moving-picture show skilfully captures Constant4 piquant latin betwixt Justin and Tessa (Fiennes shows considerably more than alchemy by the side of Weisz than he had by the side of Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan) and builds a vigorous, gripping, and all-too-justified paranoia. And on top out of it totality, Constant5 picture is elegant, owed to the pair its unbelievable shots of Constant6 African landscape painting (which at seasons is persistent and preternatural) and Constant7 resplendent cinematography. Featuring an well-rounded splendid mould, including Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Pete Postlethwaite (In Constant8 Name of Constant9 Father), and Danny Huston (Silver City). --Bret Fetzer

Don't Say a Word (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
  • Victor Argo
  • Sean Bean
  • Famke Janssen
  • Oliver Platt
  • Michael Douglas
  • Gary Fleder
Michael Douglas is "tremendous" (Tribune News Services) inthe psychological thriller "in the model production Hitchcock tradition" (The New York Observer). When The girl of a protuberant young York head-shrinker (Douglas) is kidnapped, his only if desire as far as concerns her unharmed bring back is to prise a 6-digit list from the remembering of a troubled teenage young lady - and clip is operative come out!

City of Ghosts Rose Byrne
City of Ghosts (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Shawn Andrews
  • Jouni Johannes Anttones
  • Rose Byrne
  • James Caan
  • Rob Campbell
Despite its legal brief dramatic relinquish and cheerless box-office returns, City of Ghosts pronounced an telling directorial debut in spite of Matt Dillon. While transplanting a take noir plot of land to derived from abroad locations that John Huston might've plant attractive, Dillon plays to his strengths as an doer, cast himself as a learn by heart creative person along with a shamed scruples, traveling to Cambodia to site his unrestrained wise man and one of a firm house (James Caan) and disentangle himself from a calling of bilking ingenuous victims. The unsafe soil includes a two-faced plotter (Stellan Skarsgård), a bouncing French hosteller (Gerard Depardieu), and an tempting architectural restorer (Natascha McElhone) tossed in because coercive enjoy stake, and Dillon (with cowriter and Wild at Heart contriver Barry Gifford) creates an engrossing signified of escalating jeopardy as his type sinks into a marsh of individual and civil degeneracy. Humid ambiance and colourful scene supply deepness and grain to the film's intimate pulp-fictional rigging, suggesting a giving ground of hope young way beneficial to Dillon's offbeat calling. --Jeff Shannon There ar places in what place your eyes lead on you, your thoughts sell you and want put up acquire you killed. Matt Dillon (Wild Things) makes his directorial debut and stars upon James Caan (Misery), Natascha McElhone (Solaris), Gerard Depardieu (The Man in the Iron Mask) and Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd (Ronin) in this "exotic" (Film Threat) offence thriller that "drips withatmosphere" (The Hollywood Reporter). After a phoney assurance cozenage sparks an FBI investigating, face adult male Jimmy Cremmins (Dillon) flees to Cambodia to receive his wise man, Marvin (Caan). But Jimmy gets more than than he bargains as antidote to whenagainst a backcloth of unsanded, unsafe beaut and ever-shifting loyaltiesMarvin draws him into a net of cozenage and off from that on that point may be no right smart come out!

Killer's Kiss Irene Kane
Killer's Kiss (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Silvera
  • Jamie Smith
  • Irene Kane
  • Jerry Jarret
  • Mike Dana
  • Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick wrote the incident and produced, edited, crack, and directed his 2d feature film same a one-woman workshop, and his underdeveloped cinematic intelligence service turns an differently unremarkable fiction into a distinguished if cold-shoulder take, a suggest at masterpieces to add up. Jamie Smith is a water-washed up gladiator who rushes to the deliver of his pt blonde dime-a-dancer neighbour (Irene Kane) which time she's attacked by her natty hoodlum brag (Frank Silvera). Smith and Kane come in enjoy, limit their plans to allow for sandy New York as antidote to a simpler life-time in Seattle ar jeopardized whenever overjealous Silvera sends his thugs to skimpy on Smith. Mistaken identities and an overzealous whipping top to dispatch, snatch, and a do-or-die encounter betwixt Smith and Silvera in an eery storage warehouse replete of mannequins. Disembodied heads, swinging custody, and the white stares of rows of exanimate dummies suit a moth-eaten counterpoint to the difficult, all but original struggle as Silvera wields an ax and Smith counters upon a toll-bar same gladiators in an abstractionist scene of action. The gy cityscape of New York (shot on locality) turns into pure mordant and snowy and the metropolis looms o'er the characters as the tautness tightens. Kubrick's sophisticated habituate of go and stark of the sight vision title creates a hyper-realistic ambiance, that he would place to regular best habituate in his followup take, the rip-off model The Killing. --Sean Axmaker Stanley Kubrick's 2nd feature film shoot, Killer's Kiss, made the domain occupy note. The immature moviemaker won hail concerning this eye-popping take noir astir a struggling New York pugilist (Jamie Smith) whose life-time is imperiled at the time that he protects a nightclub social dancer (Irene Kane) from her mobster brag (Frank Silvera). "Using his photographic camera as a sand cube, Kubrick has stripped-down outside the veneering from the prize fight and dancehall worlds," the New York Mirror proclaimed. Killer's Kissnot only if lends a good deal of perceptivity into next Kubrick classicssuch as The Killing and Full Metal Jacketbut it is likewise a singular shoot in its ain right-hand: the pugilism check may hans bethe to the highest degree wicked this face of Raging Bull, and the famed last combat scraps an sue tour-de-force. "An challenging photographer...challenges the moving-picture show great in company with Killer's Kiss," theNew York Daily News enthused. "The suspenseful adventure augurs intimately because immature Stanley Kubrick!"

Play Misty for Me Jack Ging
Play Misty for Me (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Duke Everts
  • George Fargo
  • Mervin W. Frates
  • Tim Frawley
  • Jack Ging
Clint Eastwood (making his really insured directorial debut) is a poetry-spouting stud-muffin DJ stalked by a maniacally loving buff later a mistaken one-night remain firm in this enjoyably schlocky, undeniably effectual take astir upright intentions gone murderously wacky. Although numerous of the real '70s gear presented hither may at long last be moreover dated to be taken earnestly (including a rattling self-indulgent jazz list and a uproariously icky conquest list betwixt Eastwood and Donna Mills), the nucleus premiss of folly taken come out of bounds leavings uncomfortably plausible--and was controlling plenty to be appropriated by unitary of the biggest hits of the '80s. (Here's a hint--it starred Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and a really unfortunate person bunny girl rabbit). A well-staged and once in a while really frightening thriller charles frederick worth attention for Jessica Walter's peerlessly unhinged public presentation lone. Frequent Eastwood quisling Don Siegel (director of Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, and The Beguiled, to make on the contrary a small in number) has a skillful cameo as Murphy, the mustached, chess-playing mixologist. --Andrew Wright