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With MALENA, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily, the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the wife of a local soldier. One of the boys, Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), a dreamer who yearns for freedom from his war-bound village, revels in the exquisite beauty of the enchanting newcomer. He becomes her shadow, following her through the cobble stone streets and spying on her most intimate moments, overwhelmed with romantic longing for the first time. Malena has a magical spellbinding effect on the male villagers; her presence inspires fantasy and escape from their daily lives. But the women of the village, hardened by war, are quick to judge the nubile outsider. Malena becomes the focus of desire and seething jealousy in the town and she is eventually forced to face the female villagers in a bittersweet climax. Reminiscent of Federico Fellini's nostalgic masterpiece AMARCORD, native Sicilian Tornatore revisits the dusty village streets of his childhood where adolescent boys learn about sex, desire, and ultimately, love. Like Tornatore's critically acclaimed CINEMA PARADISO, he bathes the film in the sun-drenched light of his homeland, giving it a dreamy, earthy sensuality and a poetic spirit. Monica Bellucci is a delicious revelation, the camera lingers seductively on her bewitching beauty. Inspired by the story MA L'AMORE NO... by Luciano Vincenzoni.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - Italian Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer






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Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters of the likeable boys, one of whom depends on his sister while another is a careless Lothario.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Additional Footage - 1. The Making Of I VITELLONI Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Additional Text - 1. Essay By Tom Piazza
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Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND, ZOMBI), the Godfather of Gore, helms this CARRIE inspired shocker about a girl named Kathy whose stint at St. Mary's School is cut short when the other girls play a prank on her that sends her into a coma. However, from within her coma, Kathy uses her powers of telekinesis to take over the body of Eva and exact her revenge on the girls of St. Mary's through her. Featuring the justly famed snail attack, AENIGMA is filled with the imaginative and gruesome horror sequences that are Fulci's trademark.DVD Features:Region 0Snap CaseLetterboxed - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Told with much compassion, two stories from Nobel Prize-winning writer Luigi Pirandello are brought to the screen from Italian masters the Taviani Brothers (PADRE PADRONE). In the first, an aging baritone singer in the opera is forced to give up his profession due to heart trouble. As he attempts to give up his dreams, his wife notices a strange phenomenon that literally keeps her awake at nights. Her husband, despite his personal sadness, is laughing uproariously in his sleep. The retiring singer tries to remember what tickles him so during his slumber and in turn analyzes what makes him laugh and what makes him live. The second story compares two kidnappings in Sicily that took place a century apart.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Biographies
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Captain Pantaleon Pantoja (Salvador del Solar) is a straightlaced Peruvian military man with a new wife and a child on the way. Honest and hardworking, he has no choice but to follow orders when he is given the assignment of supplying prostitutes to troops stationed in the Amazon so that they will stop hassling the limited supply of local girls. Trouble arises though, when Pantoja faces great sexual temptation in the form of one of the working girls (Angie Cepedas) and his cover is under threat of being blown by local authorities. Based on the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, CAPTAIN PANTOJA is spicy arthouse romp.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Trailers TV SpotsInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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