Cul-de-sac [VHS]

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Cul-de-sac [VHS] Review

Bizzare, to say the least about two gangsters, one critically wounded, who take to inviting themselves into an even more bizzare couple's castle home. Worthy follow up to Polanski's previous, "Repulsion" - the film that put him on the map for American audiences. Good cast, and hysterical to see a very serious, Donald Pleasence of "Halloween" fame dressed in drag with makeup. Oh, yes this is different...

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The Wicker Man

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The Wicker Man Review

THE WICKER MAN

(UK - 1973)

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Theatrical soundtrack: Mono

First-time director Robin Hardy and acclaimed writer Anthony Shaffer (twin brother of Peter, and author of FRENZY and SLEUTH [both 1972], the latter based on his stageplay) attempted to revise the horror genre with this cult favorite concerning a deeply religious police sergeant (Edward Woodward, in a note-perfect performance) whose search for an apparently missing schoolgirl on a remote Scottish island exposes a Pagan society rooted in old superstitions and the worship of vengeful gods. To the accompaniment of a haunting score by Paul Giovanni, comprising variations on traditional songs and folk music, THE WICKER MAN depicts an isolated community at odds with the world at large, steeped in ancient beliefs and ruled with deceptive benevolence by a patriarchal figure (Christopher Lee, in unusually subtle form) whom the script suggests is a monstrous con man, maintaining the island's customs not through genuine convictions, but because the islanders - all of them true disciples of the cause - simply know no other way.

The central mystery (Woodward's search for the missing girl) is genuinely engrossing, and the bawdy songs which greet the sergeant's arrival are soon replaced by an earthy sensuality as the true extent of the islanders' belief in regenerative powers - divorced from traditional notions of 'morality' - become apparent. Lee's assessment of God verges on blasphemy ("He had His chance and... blew it!"), but ultimately, neither Christianity or Paganism emerges with any dignity from the devastating finale. There's real magic in every frame of this extraordinary film, though it's clearly not for everyone: If you don't 'get it' within the first ten minutes, then the careful pace and deliberate absence of familiar horror motifs may seem a little long-winded, even dull. Everyone else, however, will be enchanted by this unique, one-of-a-kind movie.

The filmmakers themselves have roundly condemned the shorter 'theatrical version' (88 minutes) which crept into UK theaters in 1973 as support for Nicolas Roeg's DON'T LOOK NOW. However, most viewers were first introduced to TWM via the shorter print, simply because it was the only available version for many years, and despite the makers' protestations to the contrary, it's still a remarkable experience.

The filmmakers' preferred print (100m) underlines the script's major themes and streamlines the narrative, and will be a revelation to anyone who's only ever seen the theatrical print or the 95m version unearthed by the BBC. There are a few bits and pieces in the theatrical version which are exclusive to that print, and the BBC edition includes an animated 'Sun God' which appears after the closing credits, filling the screen before shooting backwards into darkness. The loss of this brief, iconic fragment from most extant versions is inexplicable.

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Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman

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Another Emmanuelle movie

Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman Review

Strange...I have the full 92 minute version (with French Subtitles) and it is made by Fox Lorber. Anyway, that is the movie I will review...Sylvia Kristel knows what female sexuality is. She does not have a fantastic body and her face looks typically Dutch, but she has this mystical look that most women nowaday have no clue about (Catherine Deneuve has this same look). She plays the now experienced Emmanuelle (from the first movie), who now has a new husband and lives in Hong Kong. There is little plot, and the movie is based on a series of vignette sexual encounters, but the European soundtrack and exotic locations are so sexual. If there is a movie to put anyone in the mood, without being obvious, this is it. I feel that it is better than the first one, which was very seventies, raunchy and had artsy dialogue. The DVD is still pretty bare, but the transfer is very good (absolutely neccessary for such a visual movie). Sound is average, but hell, I read much of the dialogue anyway (I absolutely love the emmanuelle song).So, you want to a little raunch in your collection, skip Pamela Anderson and all those fake blondes and try this erotic gem that will show you the true meaning of sexiness......Rating: B Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment�Comment

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Hamlet (The Shakespeare Collection) (1980) [Region 2]

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Hamlet (The Shakespeare Collection) (1980) [Region 2] Review

God be thanked one hundred thousand times, this Hamlet is not cut up and sliced down to a caricature. It is worth its nearly four hours and we can finally enjoy all the levels of that play. And first of all its wit. Numerous scenes, even the most dramatic, are adorned with gems of wit and jest, humor and fun. No subject is exempt and even death becomes a joke. At times a nostalgic joke, a joke nostalgic of a joke and a jester, like with the skull of Yorick.

This production of Hamlet sets an important emphasis on the use of folly, craziness, derangement to create the very tragic plot. We never know whether Hamlet, or Ophelia, or even Laertes are really mad or if they are playing mad. The play is very careful to play on both aspects and possibilities and to make the divide between the two nearly impossible to capture.

This production uses very well the potential of the play to make it a real event that can take the dimension of real life. The play in the play is a long episode in which the spectators are playing and the actors are watching and vice versa. Real life becomes the play and the play becomes the mirror of real life. It is so intricate that we wonder if Hamlet is not finding some balance in that juggling game. The play proves he did not find any balance but one supplementary reason to pursue his foolishness.

The main core of the play is of course emphasized by the presence of the full dress and adornments of the drama. The king appears all the more guilty when all the details are given, including his own doubts about what he has done, because he doubts he has been able to do it. That brings behind the play a force that is at work in human life all the time: the desire to conquer new territories, if possible from someone close to you. Man is a conqueror, a thief, a bandit, a highwayman, and especially against his own relatives, parents, ascendants and descendants. It is not so much a fight for power but a fight for control. It is not the survival instinct that is at work here but the instinct of possession that can only come with the dispossession of others who end up possessed by the devil of vengeance and the angel of insanity.

But the play emphasizes tremendously the nearly all male distribution. Only two female characters: the mother and queen who is the willing/unwilling accomplice of a crime, knows it and enjoys it because it keeps her on the throne. She is called all kinds of abusive names that she deserves from beginning to end. Ophelia is the second woman and she is both the center of the play but nothing but a prop used when necessary. The target of insults and verbal aggression from Hamlet. The illustration of female derangement finding its voice in the language of flowers. The dead suicidee in a tomb causing the anger of the clergy, the craze of her brother Laertes and the violent intervention of Hamlet. It is a play that rejects women as being at best the profiteers of what men are doing, and at worst their victims.

But this brings a whole different line of questioning. In that all-male universe what can happen? An all-male universe is a pot full of spiders and they have to kill one another to the last, and there is no survivor in the pot that will be taken over by a spider coming from outside when all the killing is done. Shakespeare adds to that the fact that this chaotic spider war is always started by some gross irregular action of one of these men to conquer the territory he does not control. The disruptive act here is double: the killing of a king by his own brother and the marrying of the widowed queen by this aforesaid brother. The first consequence is that the proper heir is rejected into some kind of death sooner or later to clear the way to the new usurping king.

The last characteristic is that the play is always bringing together men, friends and more friends and among all these friends there are some real friends and the play is quite careful not to introduce any ambiguity on that subject. The only real embrace between Hamlet and Horatio is when Hamlet is dying in Horatio's arms. This production is careful to disarm some of the wit that could be ambiguous with a wink or a small detail or inflection. Even the two traitors known as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who are inseparable and are like direct gambling and night time pleasure revelers for Hamlet himself, those two with their obvious Jewish names, predestined names, one to be a death garland and the other nothing but a surface of gold to hide the rest, even them are nicely over-painted as cruel and uncaring people who are ready to take anyone, even their professed friends to the scaffold.

But, one more time, all this could not be if the play were reduced by one third as is the case in mot production. Our modern audiences are supposed to be in a hurry and they do not have four hours to spend for only one play, two maybe but not one.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Cr�teil, CEGID

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Batman Beyond Return Of The Joker

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• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
• Warner Home Video

Product Description

In latter-21st-century Gotham City, The Jokerz, a street gang enamored of the city's infamous Clown Prince Of Crime, is breaking into a high-tech engineering plant to steal a powerful generator, a crime stopped by the new Batman (Terry McGuiness) and which puzzles Terry and his mentor, the elderly original Batman Bruce Wayne. The reason for this and other "geek junk" thefts is a mystery even to The Jokerz gang, who are now working for someone claiming to be the original Joker himself. When he makes an appearence at a charity function attended by Bruce Wayne (cover to steal another generator), the Joker taunts Wayne, and later sends his minions to attack Terry McGuiness while he attacks the Batcave. But the original Joker died forty years earlier, and why does this new Joker want high-tech items? When a shaken Barbara Gordon explains the fate of the original Joker, Terry begins to piece the twin mysteries together, culimating in a confrontation with the Joker that literally threatens the very existence of Gotham City

Batman Beyond Return Of The Joker Review

This review is not for the actual movie, suffice it to say it is one of the best products to come out of the DCAU. Rather this review is to clear up the misconceptions caused by other reviewers on this site. I own all 3 currently available versions of ROTJ: the edited DVD, the unedited DVD, and this bluray release. Now to make this perfectly clear, here's what you need to know.

1) The bluray version is UNEDITED. It contains all the scenes removed from the edited version including both shootings and all blood that was removed from the original release.

2) The bluray version is full frame because that is how the movie was originally animated. If you want widescreen use the zoom feature on your TV or bluray player and you'll have the exact widescreen animation as the previous unedited release. The issue is that the movie was originally animated for television, so it was animated 4:3. However the producers thought ahead to the rise of widescreen TVs so they blocked the animation to work in widescreen as well. When you zoom the picture on the 4:3 to fill a 16:9 screen with whatever function your TV has for "widescreen fit" or "fit zoom" or "smart zoom" you are not losing any actual animation, you're just removing extra space above and below the frame the animators originally included for TV broadcast. Again, IF YOU ZOOM IN IT'S THE EXACT SAME PICTURE AS YOU'D HAVE ON THE ORIGINAL WIDESCREEN RELEASE.

3) This is a true 1080p HD transfer, no upscaling. WB did an absolutely brilliant job and the movie has never looked better.

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The Vienna Boys' Choir - Silk Songs Along the Road and Time / A Film by Curt Faudon / NTSC / Region 0 / English Subtitles and Sound, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chimese Subtitles, Mandarin and Cantonese Sound / 86 min

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The Vienna Boys' Choir - Silk Songs Along the Road and Time / A Film by Curt Faudon / NTSC / Region 0 / English Subtitles and Sound, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chimese Subtitles, Mandarin and Cantonese Sound / 86 min / Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Curt Faudon brings to life an intimate and unique view of the Vienna Boy's Choir, the most famous boy's choir in the world. The film takes the viewer for a whirlwind spin around the world and deep into the choir's history, with music to match

The Vienna Boys' Choir - Silk Songs Along the Road and Time / A Film by Curt Faudon / NTSC / Region 0 / English Subtitles and Sound, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chimese Subtitles, Mandarin and Cantonese Sound / 86 min Review

Very professionally done. For those who have seen and heard the choir in person, this film shows the hard work these young boys have to go through and the sacrifices that are made for there love of music. Also I was surprised to find out that the choir isn't just Austrian boys, but instead they are recruiting boys from all over the world.

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