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Would you ever consider dying for the love of riding bulls? This shocking program takes an inside look at the world of'Jaripeo' or bullriding which sometimes leads to a violent, trampled death!DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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A meditation on revolutionary fervor, adapted from the Tolstoy story by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN stars Guilio Brogi as Giulio Manieri. An aristocrat by birth, he is the impassioned leader of an anarchist movement in 1875 Italy. When his threadbare forces are defeated in the attempted takeover of a village, Guilio kills the mayor with a Parthian shot. Although condemned to die, the anarchist has his sentence changed to life in prison by the governor, who is trying to avoid creating a martyr. Locked in solitary confinement, Giulio makes the hours pass by fantasizing about a glorious future in which his actions will be regarded as heroic, even holding imaginary conversations with fellow partisans who assure him of his place in the pantheon of anarchism. After a decade of incarceration, Giulio boards a boat to be relocated to another prison, and encounters a younger group of dissidents, who have foresworn his brand of revolutionary extremism for a more pragmatic, reformist politics. Naturally, this comes as a sobering revelation to the firebrand. A distanced contemplation of revolutionary politics, ST. MICHAEL HAD A ROOSTER is a powerful, meaningful film.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Full Frame - 1.33
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In the first feature film produced within the Palestinian West Bank Green Line, Michel Khleifi's FERTILE MEMORY combines documentary and narrative elements to examine the lives of Palestinian women living in a conflicted culture. Romia works in an Israeli factory and continually fights Israeli authorities for the rights to her family land. Sahar works as a novelist, and finds a struggle in her life as a young, divorced mother. Through the experiences of these women, the film finds the voice of Palestinian women, caught in a predominantly masculine political conflict.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseAnamorphic Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.85
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The film that introduced brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani to a worldwide audience, an adaptation of Gavino Ledda's autobiographical PADRE PADRONE: THE EDUCATION OF A SHEPHERD, stars Severio Marconi as the the young Ledda. When he is only seven years old, the boy's harshly patriarchal father (Omero Antonutti) hauls him off
to the craggy hills of their native Sardinia, to live and work as a shepherd, the father's occupation. The father beats the boy virtually at a whim for committing the slightest error, and his cruelty is never softened by any demonstration of love. Solace comes only in the form of isolation since camaraderie with neighboring shepherd boys angers the father. When he is 20 years old, Gavino's liberation comes, ironically, in the form of military conscription. For the first time in his life, he's able to mix in society and lead something close to a normal life. Eventually he discovers his calling in the academic world, and goes on to become an outstanding linguist. After many years, he again sees his father, an embittered man, incapable of understanding his son's life. While at times lacking in cinematic fluency, the enormous power of this seemingly simple story makes up for any shortcomings.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingInteractive MenusProduction CreditsFilmographiesScene AccessKeep Case
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Like a Mexican folk version of gangsta rap, narco-corrido blends the traditional sounds of accordion and 12-string guitar with lyrics that glorify the violent, gun-toting subculture of the border drug trade. AGARRON DE BANDAS offers a collection of performances from popular narco-corrido artists El Chapo de Sinaloa, Banda Santa Cruz, Banda Sinaloense Alcoysin, and the movement's notorious godfather-figure Pedro Rivera.DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseSingle Side - Single LayerFull Frame - 1.33
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