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Filmed in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia, COBRA VERDE is a visually astonishing 19th-century true-life tale about a Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde (played by the ever-intense Klaus Kinski) who is exiled to West Africa to rejuvenate the slave trade. Once he's in Africa, his sanity is put to the ultimate test, as he is an unwanted outsider in a foreign, uncultivated world. Holed up in a deserted slave fortress on the coast, Cobra Verde, like many Herzog/Kinski creations before him, goes about constructing an elaborate and unlikely scheme--in this case to build up a vast slave trade ruled under his iron fist. His plans fall apart, however, when the civil wars waged by the insane Leopard King come crashing down on Cobra Verde and his plans. When the bandit is rescued by the king's equally crazy brother, Cobra Verde gathers a vast army of Amazon women warriors and plans to regain his dominance. The exquisitely photographed dusty and alien landscape of the African coast is juxtaposed evocatively with the ridiculous behavior of the slave traders as represented by Cobra Verde. Herzog crafts a deft and powerful vision of human folly and the eventual tragedy that follows, chronicling Cobra Verde's descent into total madness and self-destruction.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.77Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - German Dolby Surround - EnglishAdditional Release Materials: Audio Commentary - 1.Werner Herzog - Director Trailers:
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Rival Chinese gangs use an alluring and intelligent prostitute as a go-between, subtly tempting each other to make a false move in this acclaimed thriller.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby SurroundAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer Bonus Trailer - 1.BIZET'S CARMEN










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Yasujiro Ozu is universally regarded as one of world cinema's most important directors. This release contains two of the master's most heartbreaking films, which tell the same tale: A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (1934) and FLOATING WEEDS (1959). When an actor returns to the small town that raised him, a tumultuous reunion with his former flame and illegitimate son wreaks havoc on his relationship with his current partner. Whether in black-and-white or color, or silent or with sound, Ozu delivers profound works of drama that touch the human spirit.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseDual-LayerFull-Screen - 1.33Audio: Mono - JapaneseDISC ONEA STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (1934, B&W)Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Donald Richie - Japanese Film Historian New Score by Composer Donald SosinDISC TWOFLOATING WEEDS (1959, Color)Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Roger Ebert - Film CriticText/Image Galleries: Essay - 1.Stories of Floating Weeds by Donald Richie
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During the Republican era of China, when warlords battle each other for land and power, one warrior is sought after by all sides. He chooses instead to stand alone. This epic adventure, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Lueng Kar-Yan, is an exciting and inventive action movie that, in one scene, features a dangerous chase on ice.DVD Features:Region 0: All RegionsKeep CaseChapter SearchTheatrical TrailersFilmographies
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With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time shifts and generations merge as a single extraordinary actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the narrator's former wife as well as his mother. Tarkovsky's memories as well as those of his mother are intermingled as a dark, sumptuous, and dreamlike pre-World War II Russia is evoked, accompanied throughout by the voice of Tarkovsky's father reading his own elegiac poetry. The spectacle of nature and its ubiquitous and ever-shifting presence is captured by Tarkovsky's camera as if by magic--the family cabin nestled deep in the verdant woods, a barn on fire in the middle of a gentle rainstorm, a gigantic wind enveloping a man as he walks through a wheat field--all creating indelible images with deep if mysterious emotional resonance. As the timeline shifts between the narrator's generation and his mother's, newsreel footage of Russian wars, triumphs, and disasters are juxtaposed with imagined scenes from the past, present, and future, crafting a silently lucid cinematic panopticon of memory, history, and nature.Yellow Electronic Subtitles
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