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Daniel Burman`s LOST EMBRACE is a charming, effervescent portrait of a twentysomething man who can`t seem to find his place in a rapidly shifting world. After dropping out of college, Ariel (Daniel Hendler) returns home to work in his mother`s lingerie store in a Buenos Aires shopping mall. Through his eyes, viewers meet the mall`s various shop owners: Osvaldo, who owns a stationary store; the Levin Brothers, who run a fabric business; Rita, who runs the nearby Internet cafi, and enjoys getting intimate with Ariel in his shop`s dressing room; and many more. While helping beautiful woman try on skimpy clothing isn`t the worst job in the world, Daniel nonetheless dreams of something bigger. He decides to take advantage of his grandmother`s Polish heritage and obtain a Polish passport, which will enable him to embrace an entirely new culture. But when his long-lost father, Elias (Jorge D`Elia), returns, Ariel must finally stop chasing his daydreams and face up to reality. After discovering the real reason Elias abandoned his family, Ariel comes to a wholly unexpected, and deeply profound, realization. Filmed with fly-on-the-wall immediacy by cinematographer Ramiro Civita, LOST EMBRACE is a humane slice-of-life dramedy that features an incredible performance from Hendler.
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The tenants of a Manhattan apartment are terrorized by deadly spirits. Among other equally gruesome things, they are decapitated, clawed to death by cats, burned, and attacked by a knife-wielding killer. Another stylish horror opus from the incomparable Argento. INFERNO acts as a semi-sequel to his previous film SUSPIRIA (1977), involving the same witch-lore. This time around, there are a few very memorable set-pieces, most notably an eerie, breathtaking underwater scene. Stylish, violent, and classy all at the same time.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Production Interview - 1. Dario Argento - Director Trailers - 1. Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText Photo Galleries: Still Gallery Talent Bios
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In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect and Sophie proves to be a bit bizarre, but a real pearl according to Madame Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie remains distanced from the family and only comes out of her shell when she meets Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), the spirited and gruff local postal clerk with a grudge against the Lelievres. The two spark a friendship based on their mutual distrust of the slightly aloof Lelievres and they soon learn that they have similar secret pasts. But as Sophie and the postal clerk work themselves into a veritable frenzy of hatred and disdain, Sophie hides an even more troubling secret that fills every moment of her life with shame and terror, and only serves to increase her antagonism towards the Lelievres.Claude Chabrol masterfully guides what starts as a seemingly slight drama into his patent Hitchcockian terrain of explosive psychological melodrama, all couched within a brutal yet detached critique of the bourgeoisie. Bonnaire is icily terrifying as the intense and mysterious Sophie, and both Huppert and Bisset give powerhouse performances in this vision of the evil that lurks just below the surface of civilized society.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Stereo 2.0 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Documentaries - 1.The Making of LA CEREMONIE (20 Minutes) Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Image Galleries: Essays - 1. Jonathan Rosenbaum - Film Historian and Critic
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Producer Tsui Hark (ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA) once again leaves his whimsical stamp on this live action/animated comedy that star the popular animated characters Master Q, Potato, and Mr. Chun. Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung star as a young couple who, thanks to Master Q's bumbling, lose their memory. Determined to help the people he's hurt, Master Q recruits Potato and Mr. Chun to help him get the couple's memory back.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseLetterboxedAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Cantonese DTS Surround 5.1 - Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1 - Mandarin DTS Surround 5.1 - Mandarin Subtitles - English - Optional Subtitles - Chinese - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Making-of TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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After his bicycle is stolen on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, a pedicab driver reluctantly forges professional ties to a sadistic pimp in order to eventually regain his legitimate livelihood. But soon he's travelling down the inexorable path to degradation, as is his sister, who is forced into prostitution to support the family. Winner of the award for Best Picture at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenAdditional Release Material: Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Selections
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