Art House & International VHS Movies
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Ponette
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 Publisher: Fox Lorber Starring: Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Léopoldine Serre, Marie Trintignant Directed By: Jacques Doillon Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Fresh, attentive, and emotionally shattering, the French film Ponette is an attempt to enter the world of a 4-year-old girl whose mother has just been killed in a car accident on one of the winding roads in the mountainous countryside near Lyon. Played by pudgy, sad-eyed Victoire Thivisol (winner of a controversial but perfectly understandable Best Actress award at the 1996 Venice Film Festival), Ponette turns her grief into something else, something more childish and yet more mature. Convinced that her mother has been visiting her in her dreams, and that some day she will return in flesh and blood, Ponette invents a religion for herself with the specter of her mother at its center. By keeping his camera eye level with his young actors (who include Matiaz Bureau Caton and Delphine Schiltz as Ponette's know-it-all cousins) and miking the children so closely that their voices have the presence and authority of grown-up speech, director Jacques Doillon taps directly into the private world of childhood. |
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Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt, Siân Phillips Directed By: Herbert Ross Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Robert Donat won an Oscar for his portrayal of the humble British don in the 1939 film Goodbye, Mr. Chips--and Peter O'Toole was nominated for his version of the role in this lackluster musical (he, along with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight of Midnight Cowboy, lost to John Wayne in True Grit). O'Toole is affecting as the shy English schoolteacher at a private boys' school who is brought out of his shell by the love of a good woman, then goes on to become a teaching legend after her tragic death. But the idea of turning this touching tale into a musical (with totally forgettable songs by John Williams and Leslie Bricusse) was almost as wrong-headed as having O'Toole do his own singing--or as casting singer Petula Clark as his wife. --Marshall Fine. |
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Castaway (1987)
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber, Tony Rickards Directed By: Nicolas Roeg Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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True story that started with an executive in London placing an ad for a woman to share a tropical paradise and wedded bliss, dreaming of sexual abandon. Unfortunately his partner doesn't share his dreams.. |
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A Man and a Woman--20 Years Later
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix, Marie-Sophie L. Directed By: Claude Lelouch Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Sequel to the 1960's film classic finds former script girl-turned producer reuniting with race car driver on the Paris-Dakar rally.. |
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Stalin (1992)
Price: $75.00
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Joan Plowright Directed By: Ivan Passer Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Sequel to the 1960's film classic finds former script girl-turned producer reuniting with race car driver on the Paris-Dakar rally.. |
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The Wrong Box
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Columbia Tristar Starring: John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore Directed By: Bryan Forbes Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Sequel to the 1960's film classic finds former script girl-turned producer reuniting with race car driver on the Paris-Dakar rally.. |
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The Go-Between
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard Directed By: Joseph Losey Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Sequel to the 1960's film classic finds former script girl-turned producer reuniting with race car driver on the Paris-Dakar rally.. |
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Jamon Jamon
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Fox Lorber Starring: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Javier Bardem Directed By: Bigas Luna Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna's Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavor, but there is an edge, perhaps a heavy-handedness, to the dark humor that is either Luna's success or his downfall. |
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The New Land
List Price: $29.98 Now Only: $12.91 You Save: $ 17.07 (57%)
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall Directed By: Jan Troell Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A pioneer couple struggles to settle in Minnesota and start a new life.. |
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The Crimson Pirate
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter Directed By: Robert Siodmak Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Released well after Douglas Fairbanks's and Errol Flynn's heydays, this good-natured Burt Lancaster vehicle is, nevertheless, a superior example of the classic swashbuckler: set in the 16th century, along the Spanish Main, this lusty adventure both expands on and explodes genre conventions. Lancaster, a circus acrobat before turning to movies in the '40s, gives what may be his most physical performance as sword-for-hire Captain Vallo, a.k.a. the Crimson Pirate. Nick Cravat, Lancaster's real-life circus buddy, matches the star leap for leap, somersault for somersault as Vallo's mute sidekick. |
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