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MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT, a beautifully crafted and delectably delivered mystery suspense story directed by Claude Chabrol, stars the icy Isabelle Huppert as Mika, the perfect wife, mother, and career woman who runs a chocolate factory passed down from her father. But something is amiss. Mika has recently remarried the famous concert pianist Andre Polonski (a handsome, charming Jacques Dutronc), whose second wife died tragically. While that dark event hangs unpleasantly over their heads, it is Mika who tries to make things work again, lavishing praise upon her husband and her teenage step son, Guillaume (Rodolphe Pauly), and serving them homemade hot chocolate every evening. Meanwhile, Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young woman who was born on the same day in the same hospital as Guillaume, delights in her natural gift for playing the piano, eager to learn more. When Jeanne hears a strange story about how, on the day of her birth, she was momentarily confused as Andre Polonski's baby, she cannot dismiss the bizarre coincidence of her talent for piano, and wonders if somehow she is his true daughter. Curious, she goes to Andre's house where she becomes tangled in Mika's chocolate web. Dense with symbolism and subtle, brilliant camerawork, MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT is Claude Chabrol's 48th film, another masterpiece adding to long list of excellent films including LES BICHES, LA CEREMONIE, and MADAME BOVARY.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.66Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Introduction - 1. Claude Chabrol - Director Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer






2. Additional TrailersText/Galleries: Stills/PhotosInteractive Features: Scene Access
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Visiting an old master, Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) learns that problems have arisen in the village. Robberies have occurred and the women of the village are being forced into prostution.
The blind swordsman looks to help, but upon the murder of his former teacher and the prostituting of the instructor's daughter, Ichi is compelled to act. Justice is then served with a sword in this tenth Zatoichi picture.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Additional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerAdditional Products: Poster
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Brutal terrorist T was a government agent until his agency used him as a pawn against his will, turning his own government against him. Now, his former government associate, Jay, is on his trail. They will come to blows during a busy weekday rush hour when Jay's would-be girlfriend, Kay, calls him from a subway train to notify him that T has boarded the train with a large amount of explosives--which he threatens to detonate unless his demands are met. This big, Western-style Korean action film is the directorial debut from Baek Woon-hak, who was an assistant director on the internationally successful SHIRI (2002).DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - Korean Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French Subtitles - English, French - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Trailers Featurette - 1. Making Of Music Video
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A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL is one of director R.W. Fassbinder's most powerful pictures. Brought together by a jeering barmaid, Emmi and Ali are surprised to find that, after their initial meeting, they like one another. After a somewhat awkward courtship, the two unlikely lovers marry, angering Emmi's children and revealing the startling prejudices that pervade everyday German life.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Mono - GermanAdditional Release Material: Introduction - 1. Todd Haynes - Filmmaker Interviews - 1. Brigitte Mira - Star








2. Thea Eymesz - Star Additional Short - 1. FEAR IS THE SOUL (2002) Featurette - 1. SIGNS OF VIGOROUS LIFE: NEW GERMAN CINEMA (35 Mins.) Additional Footage - 1. Excerpt from THE AMERICAN SOLDIER Starring Margarethe von Trotta Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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An idealistic novice nun, hoping to practice good works in the world, opens the doors of her ancestral estate to a ragtag collection of the poor, tired, and hungry. But her charity backfires when the recipients of her benevolence don`t warm to her ministrations, choosing to go on living just as they were--in the gutter. A scathing indictment of perceived Catholic self-righteousness from surrealist master Bunuel.
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