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In 1938, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Germany invites a group of Spanish filmmakers to Berlin in order to make two film versions of the hit Andalusian musical production The Girl of Your Dreams, one in German and one in Spanish. The German Minister of Propaganda under Hitler welcomes them with open arms, if only to get in the good graces of Spanish leading lady Macarena Granada (Penelope Cruz). Their situation becomes even more uncomfortable when the only Andalusian-looking extras they can find for their film are the prisoners in a neighboring concentration camp. When Macarena befriends a prisoner and attempt to help him escape, the filmmakers find that they may have trouble getting out of Germany alive.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Featurette - 1. Behind the Scenes Trailers OuttakesText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies
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In early 1960s Mexico, two young Jewish girls--Oshinica (Claudette Maille) and Refke (Maya Mishalska)--experience the life-changing events of their teen years against the turbulent backdrop of the decade. As they fall in love, attend Zionist day camps, and flirt with radical politics, they find themselves constantly caught between the traditions of their heritage and the ever-changing face of Mexican society. LIKE A BRIDE was the winner of five Ariel Awards, including Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material:Text/Photo Galleries: Biographies
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From its dramatic opening shots to its powerfully heart-wrenching climax, Jean Delannoy's spectacle THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME retells Victor Hugo's remarkable novel with gripping theatrical energy. It is 1492, in and around the imposing Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, where the Festival of Fools has begun. Pierre Gringoire's play entitled The Quest for Beauty is being performed; which is ironic because during it, the hideous, hunchback bell-ringer Quasimoto (Anthony Quinn) is tormented and teased by a band of gypsies. Nothing can touch Quasimoto, though, as he is protected by Frollo, the Chief Justice. Frollo has his own problems, the worst being a pious conscience that keeps wrestling with an attraction to sexy gypsy dancer Esmerelda (Gina Lollobridgida). When Frollo sends Quasimoto to fetch Esmerelda for him, the poor hunchback only frightens her and gets arrested, sending Esmerelda into the arms of Phoebus, a confident, though dim-witted and smarmy, army captain. Esmerelda soon pities Quasimoto, attempting to sooth him as he is held in the gallows. But when Phoebus is stabbed to death, there seems to be little any of Esmerelda's admirers can do to prove her innocence. In this film about injustice, prejudice, and obsession, cinematographer Kelber's camerawork finds drama in every crevice, arch, and window of the cathedral itself, and Quinn is heartbreaking as the misunderstood hunchback.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35:1Audio: Mono - French Mono - English Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard's film is about nothing and everything as a man continually speaks of his project, with many of the characters conversing offscreen in fabulously vague and confusing parables and platitudes. The plot comes in bits and pieces, in memorable shots and bizarre scenes: a man reads a blank book; an attractive woman passes by a car and flashes the passengers; Hollywood wants to buy the story of an older couple who fought in the French Resistance; and such familiar Godardian themes as death, art, politics, and religion are discussed, however anamorphically. And then, suddenly, the 35mm black-and-white film is awash in reds and oranges as Godard switches to color digital video when the story goes back two years into the past, and the camera starts and stop, freezing on various shots, then moving on. As with the best of Godard, IN PRAISE OF LOVE is challenging, difficult, nonlinear, and wholly original, so unlike anything else.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenSingle Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access
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JUST ONE LOOK stars pop sensations Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi, better known as TWINS and provides thoughtful romantic comedy. Choi and Chung play mysterious women who become the love interests of a pair of friends, Fan and Ming, who sell items outside a local cinema. Along the road to romance, Fan plots revenge against a gangster whom he believes killed his father. This tale of loyal friendship and burgeoning love will satisfy even viewers who aren't lured by the TWINS star status.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseLetterboxed WidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - MandarinAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Selection
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