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After suffering some deep gashes to her leg from an accidental fall, Esther (Marina de Van), a young business writer, becomes preoccupied with her body and skin, especially her wounds. At first she merely caresses her arms, pinches her excess skin, or traces the cuts on her legs, but it isn't long before she is incising wounds directly and aggressively into her own body. Her boyfriend (Laurent Lucas) becomes understandably concerned and angry, but his inability to empathize alienates Esther, and she seeks reclusion to explore her newfound practice. With increased urgency, she turns an unapologetic knife or razor upon her own skin, alternately gorging on the vampiric ecstasy or the brutally masochistic annihilation of her own flesh and blood. The film stays ominously quiet as to what and why this is happening--social, professional, biological pressures all seem relevant but somehow insufficient explanations--and Esther is too indifferent to question her new predilections, too servile to them. While deeply influenced by the work of David Cronenberg (THE FLY, NAKED LUNCH, CRASH), the film is more reliant on feminist and avant garde performance art from the sixties and seventies, namely the work of Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann, and Hermann Nitsch. Intensely graphic, IN MY SKIN examines the body as a boundary and as a battleground for the worlds it stands in between.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseAnamorphic Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - FrenchAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Weblinks Subtitle ControlText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies
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A night spent with a suspected terrorist is the catalyst for a smear campaign against the otherwise unimportant life of Katharina Blum (Angelina Winkler). Katharina's life is thrown in the balance as both police and the news media strip her of all her dignity and sanity in this shocking German attack on power abuse and yellow journalism. Directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta, the 1975 film is based on an equally menacing novel by Heinrich Boll.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Interviews - 1. Volker Schlondorff - Director, Margarethe von Trotta - Director








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Part of Anchor Bay's GIALLO COLLECTION, which celebrates the often graphic Italian thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s, THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW certainly contains enough sex and violence to qualify for that genre. In it, a college student named Stefano returns home from school to Venice in order to visit his brother, Don Paolo, who is a Catholic priest in a small Venetian town. Upon arrival, Stefano sees immediately that his brother is troubled and learns that the source of troubles are the seances being held at a local woman's house where some of the town's most unsavory characters congregate. Most vexing is a rich pedophile whose crimes go unpunished because of his wealth. However, Don Paolo's life becomes far more complicated after a murder in the town's square that eerily echoes one that happened many years ago signals that a new rash of murders has begun. Using the serpentine waterways of Venice as a backdrop, THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW is an atmospheric and highly entertaining thriller.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1Audio: Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Production Interview - 1.Solamente Bildo with Antonio Bido - Director TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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A stylish thriller set in Italy, a ten-year-old boy runs for his life when his family is murdered by local criminals.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widesceen - 1.66Audio: Mono - ItalianAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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The simple and vibrant story of the shy daughter of an impoverished, once-genteel household, who gets the chance to escape when she falls in love with a young man from Athens. He is too immature to respond to her until a disaster shocks him into a new awareness of himself. Writer and director Cacoyannis' (STELLA, A MATTER OF DIGNITY) third film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film in 1957.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingInteractive MenusScene AccessFilmographies& AwardsWeblink
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