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Derived from a medieval ballad, THE VIRGIN SPRING was director Ingmar Bergman`s first film to win an Academy Award. The movie represents a return to simpler themes for Bergman after the philosophical complexity of THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES. On its most basic level, it s the story of violent crime violently avenged, but it can also be interpreted as a religious allegory on Christian forgiveness. A young girl, Karin (Birgitta Pettersson), is raped and killed by two herdsman on her way to church. Her foster sister, played by Gunnel Lindblom, witnesses the crime and reports back to Karin s parents (Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg) shortly after the perpetrators arrive at the couple s home seeking shelter for the night, unaware of their hosts` identity. Karin s grief-stricken father decides to take brutal revenge on his daughter s murderers. THE VIRGIN SPRING represents Bergman s first full collaboration with director of photography Sven Nykvist, who had previously worked as a co-director of photography on SAWDUST AND TINSEL.
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This intelligent New Zealand drama takes on the great joys of life--friendship, sex, and love--and explores the ways that they can become the great pains of life as well. WHEN LOVE COMES, directed by the acclaimed Kiwi auteur Garth Maxwell (JACK BE NIMBLE) tells the story of 6 good friends--singer Katie, her gay best friend and roommate Stephen, former hustler Mark, hedonistic rockers Fig and Sally, and Katie's admirer, Eddie. A drama of emotional complexity and humor, this film is warm and engaging even while exploring heady topics.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English
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Jean Rollin, the French auteur who shocked and delighted audiences during the 1970s with his wildly gothic and erotic vampire films, returns to that style in THE FIANCEE OF DRACULA. In it, a professor and his assistant enter a parallel universe while searching for the remains of Count Dracula, where they encounter such garish and sensual beings as an ogress who devours babies, a jester and his vampire lover, and the scarlet She-Wolf. Desperate to escape this ghoulish dimension, the professor finds himself in a showdown with the beautiful Isabelle, who is possessed by an evil force, that will decide his fate.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAudio: Stereo - French Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Kaizo Hayashi, in THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE, creates a witty, action-packed homage/spoof to French New Wave cinema, American film noir, and Japanese gangster films. Detective Maiku Mike Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) is used to dealing with the underworld, but he takes on more than he can handle when he meets a mah-jongg parlor waiter with a gang secret that could blow up the underworld. As Hama becomes further entwined with the waiter, he descends into a hell of gang wars, revenge, and deception that will forever change his life.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Additional Release Material: Theatrical TrailerText/Photo Galleries: Trailer Gallery Stills Gallery
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Hong Kong writer/director Vincent Kok fashions a POLICE ACADEMY-like romp with his zany action-comedy DRAGON LOADED 2003. Cantonese pop star Ronald Cheng stars as spoiled rich kid Dragon Lung, who spends his days idly loafing with his fellow teenaged trust-fund brats, Sue-hei (Sam Lee) and Gold (Tat-ming Cheung). When the trio`s frustrated fathers force their sons to attend a police academy for some much-needed discipline (or else face the loss of their hefty inheritances), the would-be cadets bungle their way through boot camp in a series of madcap, gun-fueled hijinx.
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