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In director Werner Herzog's most conceptual and perhaps most challenging film, HEART OF GLASS, a small Bavarian town is plunged into a mysterious and haunted despair when the owner of the town's preindustrial glass factory dies, failing to pass on the secret formula for its special ruby-colored glass. The aesthetic and narrative paths merge as the film leads viewers deep into the hypnotic and at times gothic plight of the workers and townspeople who stumble through the town, mesmerized and dazed, verging on murder and madness.Herzog sets the tone not only with the highly stylized performances of his actors, who were actually hypnotized, but also by his signature attention to landscape and ethereal environments, creating a mystical plane of unreality. Vistas of fog-ensconced gothic landscapes merge hypnotically with magical interior scenes of premodern glassblowing as Herzog's evocatively absurd melodrama plays out its somnambulant trajectory toward a slow and submerged climax in which art and life collide in a symbolic and allegorical spectacle.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic - 1.66Audio: Mono - German Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Werner Herzog - Director, Norman Hill TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Biographies - 1. Werner Herzog - Director
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The final installment of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's brilliant THREE COLORS trilogy, RED stands for Fraternity (of Liberty and Equality) in the French flag and national motto. Valentine Dussaut (the angelic Irene Jacob), a young student and model, accidentally hits a dog with her car. She attends to its injuries, only to discover that the animal's bitter owner, Judge Joseph Kern (Jean-Louis Trintignant), doesn't care for it--or anything--anymore. Valentine adopts the dog, but it runs away, straight back to the judge's home. When she returns to fetch the animal, she is shocked to find the judge eavesdropping on his neighbors' telephone conversations. Although initially morally disgusted, Valentine finds herself mesmerized by him; his sorrow and isolation intrigue her, and mirror her own feelings of sadness. Soon their relationship evolves into a platonic, yet passionate love that frees the judge from his guilt and cynicism, and opens a future of happiness for Valentine. Kieslowski's last film as a director is a bona fide work of art--aesthetically pleasing, philosophically challenging, and supremely engaging. As in the other films of the trilogy where he makes intentional use of the colors of the titles BLUE and WHITE within the films, here he employs the color red, on several levels, to further explore and illuminate the themes of this particular story. Although the director's early death was a tragic loss for the film world, his THREE COLORS trilogy will stand forever as one of cinema's most profound achievements.
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Orthodox Jewish writer-director Joseph Cedar tells a story of romance and intrigue on an Israeli settlement on the West Bank in TIME OF FAVOR. Menachem (Aki Avni) is a deeply religious young man and a superb soldier. Thanks in part to the influence of Rabbi Meltzer (Assi Dayan), Menachem gets the chance to create his own elite Orthodox unit for the Israeli army. Menachem also has a quiet crush on the rabbi`s daughter, Michal (Tinkerbell). He and Michal are both distraught when the rabbi tries to arrange Michal`s marriage to his best Yeshiva student, Pini (Edan Alterman), who is also Menachem`s friend. Michal is a fiercely independent young woman, who resents her father`s devotion to
Greater Israel
at the expense of his family. The situation gets far more complicated when Menachem is implicated in a fanatical plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Cedar has created a moving romantic drama with elements of a tense political thriller, all captured against the beautiful backdrop of the Judean hills. Avni and Tinkerbell deliver nuanced and graceful performances. The film subtly extols the virtues of devout faith, while condemning religious and political fanaticism.
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A brigade of cutthroat police inspectors use narcs to supply them with information regarding a drug syndicate. Most of the paid informants end up dead, so they are forced to recruit a new insider, one who is close to the action. The violent vice cop picks Dede, a charming and connected pimp, to rat on his former boss who is now his arch enemy. LA BALANCE features another striking performance from French beauty Nathalie Baye.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Stereo - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. U.S. Theatrical Trailer
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Not another sequel in the BETTER TOMORROW series, but similar in that bullets and loyalties fly all over the place. Beyond that...an upwardly mobile triad member finds himself on the organization's hit list after a doublecross by his former mentor. Hunted by the cops and the gang--and with his glamorous fiancee descending into heroin addiction--he's got to fight his way to justice.DVD Features:Region 0 (All Regions)Keep CaseLetterboxedAudio: Dolby Digital - Chinese/ Cantonese Dolby Digital - Chinese/ Mandarin
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