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Estranged father Juan Denevi (Victor Laplace) gets the surprise of his life on his fiftieth birthday when he finds out that he's become a grandfather. Juan hasn't seen his son Facundo (Pablo Rago) in many years, and in the interim, Facundo has married and had a son. Facundo's wife and son find Juan at his birthday party and beg him to come help Facundo with a family crisis. The resulting story touches on love, dreams, and the nature of family.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case
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When a stoic, icily professional assassin is witnessed leaving the scene of a nightclub
hit
by a barroom pianist who doesn`t let on to the cops, he discovers that he`s being set up for something worse than jail. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy darling of the
Cahiers du Cinema
crowd. Based on the novel
The Ronin
by Joan McLeod.
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A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers.DVD FeaturesRegion 1Keep CaseDolby Digital 5.1 Surround SoundAmerican and Japanese TrailersArt GalleryScene SelectionBehind-The-Scenes DocumentaryCast ProfilesFilmographiesProduction Stills
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The final collaboration, following PANDORA'S BOX, between G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks, the American silent film star whose look defined the Jazz Age, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a similarly lurid tale of a young woman's life. Brooks stars as Thymiane, a young girl life whose life collapses when she is raped and made pregnant by her father's young assistant. After a reform school escape she ends up in a brothel, which, ironically, leads her to a salvation of sorts. Silent film with piano and jazz ensemble score.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: StereoAdditional Release Material: Bonus Short - 1.Windy Riley Goes to HollywoodInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film heartthrob Tadanobu Asano), a masochistic yakuza lieutenant, has slits in his cheeks through which he blows cigarette smoke and gleefully hacks off his own tongue to apologize for his impudence. Then there's eponymous assassin (Nao Omori), a painfully shy but sadistic young voyeur who wears a leather superhero outfit to work. Manipulated by the cagey and mysterious Jijii (English translation: Gramps, Shinya Tsukamoto), Ichi lashes out and massacres those Jijii deems bullies, and basically anyone else who upsets his frail psyche. Jijii uses the demented lad to start a bloody war between rival yakuza factions. Miike's film is full of grotesquely over-the-top violent set pieces, including flying entrails, graphic mutilations, and even a severed human face splattered against a wall and slowly sliding to the ground. It's all captured with kinetic camerawork and hyperactive editing. It's not for everyone, but bolder viewers will find it uniquely entertaining.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English
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