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From the mind of Kaneto Shindo comes ONIBABA, a haunting folk nightmare.In medieval Japan, a peasant woman and her daughter stay alive by murdering stray soldiers and selling their armor for food.
A crafty warrior saves his life by seducing the daughter - until the mother's witchcraft exacts her revenge. A truly original film, Shindo's stark, erotic vision will stick in viewer's heads for days.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseDual LayerWidescreen - 2.35Audio: Mono - JapaneseAdditional Release Material: Interview - 1. Kaneto Shindo - Writer/Director Rare Super-8 Footage (Provided by Actor Kei Sato) Trailers - 1. Original TrailerText/Image Galleries: Stills Gallery Featuring Production Sketches and Promotional Art Rare English Translation of the Original Short Buddhist Fable That Inspired the Film Filmmaker's Statement From Kaneto Shindo
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Part of the 2000 SEEN BY... series in which six directors filmed their vision of the night of December 31, 1999, Laurent Cantet's film finds a group of people escaping to a small island to remove themselves from the hubbub surrounding Paris. Led by Francois, the group, consisting of some of his friends and their children, wastes no time in boring themselves to tears. Adding to the tension, Francois and the island's caretaker plainly do not like each other, causing the group to feel ill at ease. It isn't long before the tensions cause people's frustrations and anxieties to boil over, creating confrontations that rival the fireworks in France's capital.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies& AwardsDVD-ROM Features: Weblink
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With the dramatic crime thriller RIFIFI, blacklisted American director Jules Dassin returned to the cinema triumphantly. In addition to directing, Dassin co-wrote the script and appeared (under the name Perlo Vita) as Cesar the Italian safecracker. Cesar is one of the gang formed by the gaunt Tony (Jean Sevais), who has just returned to Paris from prison. The others are family man Jo (Carl Mohner) and the ebullient Mario (Robert Manuel). The four men plan a jewelry heist--and the almost 30-minute long robbery scene at the center of the film has become one of the cinema's classic sequences. They break into an upstairs apartment, tie up the couple who live there, and smash through the floor--carefully collecting the debris in an umbrella. Then, they lower themselves into the jewelry store, drill through the safe, and return the way they came. Dassin forgoes both music and dialogue as he shows the robbery in meticulous detail--and the sequence is riveting. The gang has barely completed the job, when unplanned incidents threaten, the police appear unexpectedly, a rival gang gets wind of the robbery, there is a kidnapping, and in the skullduggery that follows, only the honor of the gang survives.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerRSDLAudio: Mono - French Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Production Interview - 1. Jules Dassin - Director Trailers - 1. Original TheatricalText/Photo Galleries: Production Art Producion Stills
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An elderly gentleman remembers how, in the 1950's, when he was a little boy in a small town, he fell in love with a neighbor girl. He feared that she would not like him, but he still longed to see her up close, so he utilized a brochure of magic tricks to attempt to make himself invisible. This charming, technically lovely tale of youth in rural Colombia was that nation's Best Foreign Film submission to the 2002 Academy Awards.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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In this, the fifth and final entry in the TOMIE series (based on the popular manga by Junji Ito), a man can not stop thinking about the lost love of his youth, Tomie, for whom he has even named his daughter. When his daughter, who is shy and unpopular, befriends another girl named Tomie, he is surprised to find that this new friend looks just like the girl he left behind 25 years ago. Unfortunately for him, she harbors some dark secrets.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers For All Five TOMIE Films Featurette - 1. Making Of
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