La Sentinelle
 Subtle, symbolic: The son of a diplomat (read espionage agent) chooses to become a pathologist and in turn treats the individuals he meets with more dignity and respect than the world of diplomats that surround him. Mathias is not easily shaken, as one [... more]
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Tieta Of Agreste
Sonia Shines: This review refers to the DVD(Fox Lorber) edition of "Tieta of Agreste" Tieta is brash and sassy. She's worldly and flashy, beautiful and wealthy. She wasn't always all these things though. Banished from her poor, small village [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Ran
Amazon.com Essential Video: As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age 75, could bring the [... more]
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Habit
From Amazon.com: New York indie filmmaker Larry Fessenden wrote, directed, and stars in this 1997 tale of urban vampirism overlooked in the wake of two similar productions, Michael Almereyda's Nadja and Abel Ferrara's The Addiction. Less precious then [... more]
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Circle
From Amazon.com: It's a girl. The first words spoken in Jafar Panahi's The Circle should be celebratory, but instead the mood of the scene is mournful. The relatives will be furious. Director Jafar Panahi leaves the innocence of his delightful The White [... more]
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Couch in New York (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: When Dr. Henry Harriston (William Hurt) makes the uncharacteristically spontaneous decision to swap apartments with someone in Paris, he opens his life up to the possibility of new things. The woman who answers his ad is Beatrice [... more]
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Boyfriends And Girlfriends
From Amazon.com: The title of Eric Rohmer's sixth and final film in his Comedies and Proverbs series, Boyfriends and Girlfriends, makes much more sense in its original French form: L'ami de mon amie (The Friend of My Friend). In this series, each stand- [... more]
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Full Moon In Paris
From Amazon.com: Louise (Pascale Ogier), a restless designer bored with sleepy suburban life outside of Paris, lives with her lover, Remy (Tcheky Karyo), a stable architect happy with a calm home life and a long-term relationship. The independent Louise [... more]
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Padre Padrone (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani first garnered critical attention with this adaptation of Gavino Ledda's autobiography, winning both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at Cannes in 1977. Gavino's father pulls him out of elementary school [... more]
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Love And Anarchy
From Amazon.com: Lina Wertmuller and her favorite actor, Giancarlo Giannini, took large steps toward establishing their international reputations with this 1973 tragi-comedy about an oaf who gets it into his head to assassinate Mussolini right after the [... more]
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Union City
worst transfer of film to DVD ever: This would be a great DVD if only the transfer were at least mediocre. It is in fact possibly the worst transfer of film to DVD I've ever seen. I remember seeing this film at the Filmex film festival many years ago, [... more]
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Summer (1986)
From Amazon.com: Gloomy young Parisian Delphine (Marie Rivière) faces her summer alone when her best friend cancels their travel plans to stay with her new boyfriend. Determined to have her vacation, she tries a number of alternatives but feels [... more]
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