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A documentary on a vitally important aspect of Iranian society, OUR TIMES looks at the changing role of women to a backdrop of the 2002 Iranian elections. Shot by female director Rakshan Bani-Etemad, the film focuses on an audacious run for president by a woman who is part of a wider group of politically-charged Iranian females who have decided to run for office. Naturally this is all a bolt out of the blue for the ultraconservative Iranian society that spawned them, but makes for fascinating viewing for the rest of us.
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Dramatizing a year in the life of northern Italian peasants at the turn of the century, Ermanno Olmi's THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS pays loving tribute to both the neo-realist style of filmmaking and a rural way of life that no longer exists. Hoping to create a better life for themselves, a poor family decide to send their young son to school despite the crushing sacrifice involved. When the boy's wooden clogs break on the long journey home, the seemingly minor incident sets into motion a series of tragedies that reverberate throughout the peasants' lives. Olmi's slice-of-life film--which he wrote, directed, shot, and edited--uses this central story as a launchpad to document, in moving detail, rural life under oppressive poverty. As the camera lingers patiently over women handwashing laundry on the banks of a river or farmers preparing a pig for slaughter, the quasi-documentary images transform these mundane tasks of peasant life into an almost sacramental epic of grace and beauty.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Italian Dolby Surround - ItalianAdditional Release Material: TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Taking place during the latter half of World War II, just as the Third Reich is beginning to crumble, ELSA FRAULEIN SS is a somewhat perverse exploitation/thriller about an SS sanctioned madam, the titular Elsa. Presiding over a brothel situated on a train that travels around the Fatherland, Elsa and her girls use sex to ferret out traitors to the Reich. However, though Elsa has been given the rank of Colonel and was appointed by Hitler himself, she finds that her rule is crumbling as fast as the Reich itself. Enmeshed in a kinky relationship with a disgruntled SS Major, Elsa suspects that one of her girls is actually a French Resistance spy and that her lover may be helping her.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Andres is a sixteen year-old game show champion who has become very popular with the public. His unusual success on the show has prompted the producers to look into the possibility that he may have cheated. They hire Raul Gamboa (Fernando Guillen Cuervo), a blind private detective, to look into the case. Gamboa and his team discover that Andres is, in fact, cheating, with the help of a gang of internet hackers called The Chip Pirates. LOS CORSARIOS DEL CHIP is a unique crime caper from Spain.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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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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