Art House & International VHS Movies
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M Butterfly
Price: $84.95
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon Directed By: David Cronenberg Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Jeremy Irons gives another superb and underrated performance in M Butterfly, an elegant adaptation of the Broadway hit by playwright David Henry Hwang. Irons plays a French diplomat in China in 1964 who falls in love with a star of the Beijing Opera, not realizing that the entrancing performer holds secrets that will ruin his life--that the singer is a spy for the Communist government is only the beginning of the diplomat's troubles. Though M Butterfly may seem like a departure for director David Cronenberg (best known for horror and science fiction flicks like The Fly and Scanners), the themes of desire and self-deception fit comfortably into his oeuvre, alongside his adaptations of difficult novels like Naked Lunch and Crash. M Butterfly, like the more popular movie The Crying Game, is a cunning examination of love and denial. |
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Sense and Sensibility
List Price: $9.95 Now Only: $1.69 You Save: $ 8.26 (83%)
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet Directed By: Ang Lee Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. |
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Building Strength with Susan Powter
List Price: $19.98 Now Only: $0.99 You Save: $ 18.99 (95%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea Starring: Susan Powter Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. |
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Shake Hands With the Devil
Price: $64.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave Directed By: Michael Anderson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. |
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Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo
Price: $92.65
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Mca Starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Pina Cei Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. |
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Once Upon a Time in America
List Price: $29.98 Now Only: $12.20 You Save: $ 17.78 (59%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld Directed By: Sergio Leone Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. |
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Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $2.63 You Save: $ 7.35 (74%)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page, Rosemarie Ford, Michael Gruber Directed By: David Mallet Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now. The video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium. The video cast, assembled from London, Amsterdam, and New York productions, is competent. |
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The Tamarind Seed
Price: $59.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Avid Home Ent Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy, Sylvia Syms Directed By: Blake Edwards Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now. The video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium. The video cast, assembled from London, Amsterdam, and New York productions, is competent. |
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Surviving Picasso
Price: $45.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Dennis Boutsikaris Directed By: James Ivory Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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After their brilliant collaborations on Howards End and The Remains of the Day, director James Ivory and Anthony Hopkins reunited (along with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) for this controversial film about the life and loves of the great artist Pablo Picasso. Hopkins is outstanding in the title role, portraying Picasso as a brilliant, manipulative egotist who used his power over women to fuel his artistic impulse and voracious sexual appetite. But Surviving Picasso is not intended to be a screen biography and, as many critics noted in mixed reviews, this 1996 film fails to provide any substantial insight into Picasso's complex personality. It's more about Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the aspiring artist who was one of the few women to "survive" Picasso's love and emerge as a stronger, more confident person with a life of her own outside of Picasso's often destructive sphere of influence. |
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The Lover
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $0.48 You Save: $ 14.50 (97%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud Directed By: Jean-Jacques Annaud Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Lovely to look at, this story reveals little more than the characters' nude bodies. Like couples whose only attraction is physical, this has little to offer once it leaves the bedroom. We never learn the interests or inner workings of the lovers in question. They become nothing more than attractive bodies, which makes this little more than a shallow exercise in sexuality. |
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