Foreign Films on DVD

In a "bouncy Bollywood meets Hollywood romantic comedy" (BBC Films), <b>Ali Larter stars as feisty B-list actress Marigold Lexton, who, stranded and broke in Goa, India, after financing flops on her low-budget film, lands a role in a musical to pay her way home. Eager to prove herself, she seeks famed choreographer Prem Rajput's (Bollywood superstar <b>Salman Khan) guidance, and a whirlwind romance begins...until Marigold discovers Prem holds a powerful, inescapable past--and a future that holds no place for her.

ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love) is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel <i> 'The Idiot', L'Amour Braque is a mad love-triangle: Léon (The Prince Of Idiots), Marie (<i>The Virgin Whore), and Mickey (<i>The Immoral Gangster). Zulawski's postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of <b>Bande-Dessinée. Abundant with images that persist and last in memory, from start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where "notions of 'performance as madness' are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet." L'Amour Braque displays craftwork of originality and imagination in which "moments of brilliance happen under the watchful eye of a knowing master."

AWARDS:

NOMINATIONS:
Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film: Andrzej Zulawski

DVD CONTENTS:

MONDO VISION presents the first ever North American release of Andrzej Zulawski's 6th film L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love, 1985) in a gorgeous new transfer UNCUT & Fully Uncensored with all new English Subtitles Supervised By Director Andrzej Zulawski.

• Digitally Restored High Definition Transfer Mastered For Progressive Scan
• Feature Length Audio Commentary With Director Andrzej Zulawski And Writer Daniel Bird<li> Exclusive New Video Interview With Sophie Marceau: <i>'Becoming Marie' [24:00]<li>Video Interview With Director Of Photography J.F. Robin [24:00]<li>Rare Archival Interviews & Behind The Scenes Footage From 1985 [16:00]- Andrzej Zulawski Interview
  - Francis Huster Interview<br>- Sophie Marceau Interview<br>- Behind The Scenes Footage
  
• Theatrical Trailer<li>Image Gallery
• 28-page Booklet Featuring a Newly-Written Essay by Daniel Bird<li>Case Type: Digipak with Hardcover Slipcase <b>TECHNICAL NOTES:
  L'Amour Braque is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 and original Mono French soundtrack as intended by Andrzej Zulawski. This Dual Layer disc has been transferred and encoded using a high-frequency process which preserves as much of the detail and texture from the original film as is possible on the NTSC DVD format.<br><br><b> Note Regarding English Subtitles: (Optional) Available in White & Yellow <br>The dialogue of L'Amour Braque presents a number of challenges for the translator. Roda-Gil s dialogue abounds with rhymes and puns, not to mention a plethora of (mainly French) cultural and political references, often specific to the 1980s. Director Andrzej Zulawski prepared the subtitles for this DVD release in collaboration with Daniel Bird. It was decided quickly that a technically precise translation of the original French into English would lose the playful, anarchistic character of Roda-Gil's dialogue. The title L'Amour Braque has usually been translated into English as 'Mad Love' which is usually how 'L'Amour Fou' has been translated into English. 'Crazy Love', offers a closer fit, but it sounds banal in English in a way in which braque in French does not. Here, Zulawski has opted for the title <b>Limpet Love . The character of 'Marie' has been changed to 'Mary' , so as to retain the Christian aspect of the character's name. For rhymes in French, equivalents in English have been sought. Therefore, a looser approach has been adopted, which strives to offer something of the flavor of the original.<br><br><b>Catalog#: MVSE003

Servais, a reporter and photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier, an actress who is forced to earn her living by accepting roles unworthy of her real talent. She is married to Jacques, a delightful sort of disenchanted clown who runs away from the realities of life. Nadine and Servais soon discover how important their encounter was and neither one of them wants to dismiss it as a mere fling...

ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S<b> L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love) is a film of dishevelled lyricism, bursting with noise and anger; an insane storm-tainted flamboyant opera; a visual symphony with apocalyptic emphasis featuring sleaze-bags, clowns, drop-outs, wimps, bastards, and <i>"puppet shows depicting lives of complete scoundrels" and "ruined careers". Where some people will see nothing but a graphic canvas of pain, horror and a bloody parade of violence, others who analyze the darkness will see a call for compassion. This is the story of a fragile woman, Nadine Chevalier, who supports her failure-obsessed companion to the bitter end, and who meets a photographer weighed down by remorse. This vibrant & captivating cinema of art, music and sound is down to the genius of Zulawski, and his sensual and sentimental power of evocation, which together create something which reflects the deep and perhaps unconfessed anxiety inside every one of us. It is, as Dostoyevsky said at the end of Crime and Punishment , <i>"the story of a generation".

AWARDS:
César Awards, France<br><i>Best Actress: Romy Schneider

NOMINATIONS:
César Awards, France<br><i>Best Editing: Christiane Lack<br><i>Best Production Design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

DVD CONTENTS:

MONDO VISION presents the first ever North American release of Andrzej Zulawski's 3rd film L'important C'est D'aimer (The Important Thing Is To Love, 1975) in a gorgeous new transfer UNCUT & Fully Uncensored with all new English Subtitles Supervised & Approved By Director Andrzej Zulawski.<br><br><ul><li>Digitally Restored High Definition Transfer Mastered For Progressive Scan <li>Feature Length Audio Commentary With Director Andrzej Zulawski And Writer Daniel Bird

Video Interview With Director Andrzej Zulawski

Remastering: Before & After<li>Theatrical Trailer<li>Image Gallery

24-page Booklet Featuring a Newly-Written Essay by Daniel Bird<li>Case Type: Digipak with Hardcover Slipcase

TECHNICAL NOTES:
L'Important C'est D'aimer is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 and original Mono French soundtrack as intended by Andrzej Zulawski. After evaluating the quality of the provided materials, Mondo Vision cooperated with Director Andrzej Zulawski to return the film to its original appearance as closely as possible. In addition to color correction, many instances of dirt, dust and scratches have been painstakingly removed by hand. Simply put, the film has never looked this good since its theatrical premier in 1975! This Dual Layer disc has been transferred and encoded using a high-frequency process which preserves as much of the detail and texture from the original film as is possible on the NTSC DVD format. <br><br><b>Audio:<br><ul><li>Original French 2.0 Mono<li>English Dub (Optional)

German Dub (Optional)

Subtitles: English (Optional) Available in White & Yellow<br><b>Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen<br><br><b>UPC: 837654037904<br><b>Catalog#: MVSE002

A blonde Sophia Loren, an unknown Marcello Mastroianni and a comic turn by BICYLCE THIEF director Vittorio de Sica are the active ingredients in the Italian treat, TOO BAD SHE’S BAD. <P>"SHE" of course is the Italian "anatomic bomb" Loren, stealing hearts as a lusciously larcenous petty thief. Mastroianni is the naïve young cabbie who tries to set her straight, while de Sica, as Loren’s smooth con man papa makes sure his not so little girl stays on the crooked and narrow.

Already the "Number 1 Cover Girl of Europe," "New York Times" critic Bosley Crowther wrote of her attributes: "One striking point is the luxurious Sophia Loren, who is something to look at from any angle or any side . . . she displays such a full and shapely figure she makes it a pleasure to consider being robbed."

Artfully directed by Alessandro Blasetti, TOO BAD SHE’S BAD is a delightful romp , the first pairing of Lorena & masrotinana not too mention the historic first appearance together of these three legends of Italian cinema.

Director Peter Greenaway's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is famous for it's intense production values, striking tableaux and interesting sound design. A must for any Greenaway fan. In this new DVD edition, each of the books is a chapter. *** Prospero, once the Duke of Milan, now reigns over a faraway island, living there with his only daughter, Miranda. Twelve years earlier Prospero's brother, in league with the King of Naples, had exiled Prospero and his daugther from their home. One evening, Prospero imagines creating a storm powerful enough to bring his old enemies to his island. He being to write a play about his Tempest, speaking aloud the lines of each of the characters.

Disc 1:

- Lady Chatterley: Extended European Edition 201 MINUTES (40 MINUTES OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FOOTAGE)<br>- In French with Optional English subtitles
- Enhanced for 16x9 TVs<br><br>Disc 2:<br><br>- Interviews with Pascale Ferran, Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc h and Hippolyte Girardot<br>- Individual Scene Commentary by Cast and Crew
- Photo Gallery

Winner of five Cesars (the French Oscar) and at the top of 2007 ten best lists when it debuted in America, Pascale Ferran s Lady Chatterley was praised as a filmic adaptation that found the soul of the celebrated D.H. Lawrence novel (Los Angeles Times) and ranks as one of the sexiest, smartest page-to-screen transfers ever made (Time Out New York). Kino is now proud to present Lady Chatterley in a new, two-part, Extended European Edition featuring nearly an hour of additional material excluded from the film s theatrical cut that explores the emotional and sensual borderlands uniting sex, love, and loyalty with even more intelligence, passion, and power than before. Through extra footage never seen in the US release, director Pascale Ferran s rapturous visual tone poem (New York Times) becomes both a highly erotic immersion into Lady Chatterley and Parkin s passion and an equally frank and unsentimentally provocative portrayal of a marriage hobbled by war and ultimately torn apart by hypocrisy. Ferran and her cast, led by the award-winning Marina Hands in the title role, Jean-Louis Coulloc h as Parkin, and Hippolyte Girardot as Sir Clifford Chatterley, dramatize D.H. Lawrence s tug of war between social classes with a narrative precision and poetic detail rivaled only by Lawrence s novel itself.

Cast list<P> Kiri Te Kanawa: Arabella<br> Wolfgang Brendel: Mandryka
Marie McLaughlin: Zdenka
David Kuebler: Matteo
Helga Dernesch: Adelaide
Donald McIntyre: Count Waldner
Charles Workman: Count Elemer
Kim Josephson: Count Dominik
Julien Robbins: Cound Lamoral<br> Natalie Dessay: The Fiakermilli<br> Jane Shaulis: A fortuneteller<P> Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Christian Thielemann, conductor

During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, a Christian taxi driver brings an untraditional Shiite woman from Beirut to the heart of the conflict in the country s south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for her son, who was sent to live with her traditional family while she was staying with her husband in Dubai, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. And during their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death striking all around them. The film was shot entirely on location during the summer of 2006, in the middle of the ruins of war-torn Lebanon. Aractingi only hired two professional actors, the rest are real refugees, journalists, soldiers, etc..., playing themselves.

WINNER Altre Visioni and Human Rights Film Award Venice Film Festival <BR><b>WINNER Golden Pony Award, Best Actress Dubai Intl Film Festival <BR><b>WINNER The Critics Award Eurasia Film Festival
WINNER Grand Jury Prize Namur Intl Francophone Film Festival<BR><b>NOMINATED Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION Seattle Intl Film Festival, Stockholm Intl Film Festival, Amiens Intl Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival

SINOPSIS: Arráncame la Vida En un mundo de política, corrupción, adulterio y asesinato, se desarrolla Arráncame la Vida, una película basada en la exitosa novela de Ángeles Mastretta, que retrata la historia de una mujer que se atrevió a romper los esquemas de su tiempo. Catalina es una mujer poblana en los años treinta que encuentra en Andrés Ascencio, un hombre simpático y poderoso, una vía para salir de su pequeño mundo y vivir grandes experiencias. Pronto descubre que al haber ligado su vida a la de Andrés, está perdiendo su libertad, aunque en todo momento es seductor, generoso y protector. Pero liberarse de ese hombre tan poderoso, en el México de 1930, es poco menos que imposible. Catalina empieza a vivir como mujer cuando en el Palacio de Bellas Artes conoce al director de orquesta Carlos Vives, un joven que es la antítesis de Andrés, idealista e intenso y con quien Catalina redescubre el verdadero significado del amor. Con las extraordinarias actuaciones de Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana Claudia Talancón y José María de Tavira, Arráncame la Vida es una película que te atrapará.