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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark/Transylvania 6-5000 (DVD)
A goofy, campy, poke at puritanism and a sly wink at a host of horror films, ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK is much more fun than it has any right to be. Dreaming of financing her own show in Las Vegas, Elvira leaves Hollywood in her customized Macabremoblie to claim what she thought was an inheritance. However, upon arriving in Fallwell, MA, all she finds is two drooling yokels, an overzealous morality brigade and a creepy great-uncle with more on his mind than long-lost relatives. With her penchant for double entendres and low cut dresses, Elvira scandalizes the town and soon finds herself in danger of being burned at the stake, jeopardizing her chances of ever making it to Vegas.
Two fearless journalists travel to Transylvania to search for proof of the region`s legendary monsters and vampires. Instead of Dracula, however, they find a mayor-cum-hotel manager transforming castles into theme hotels, and madcap doctors performing wild and wacky experiments. An uproarious spoof of vampire thrillers.PG-13"
Director: James Signorelli
ACTORS: Elvira, Edie McClurg, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley
Imitation of Life (DVD)
In Douglas Sirk`s emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life`s work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner is Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson, a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie`s daughter, Sarah Jane, favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother`s black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith`s rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie`s scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.NR"
Director: Douglas Sirk
ACTORS: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Dan O`Herlihy, Susan Kohner
Hopscotch (DVD) Criterion Collection; Widescreen A fired CIA agent decides to get even with the organization by publishing a book which outlines years of dirty secrets. As a result of his actions, both the CIA and the KGB decide to do their best to pr...
A fired CIA agent decides to get even with the organization by publishing a book which outlines years of dirty secrets. As a result of his actions, both the CIA and the KGB decide to do their best to prevent him from furthering his literary career.
R"
Director: Ronald Neame
ACTORS: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty
The Enemy (DVD)
Terrorists have kidnapped a world-renowned scientist and stolen a deadly biological weapon and are now threatening to kill millions of innocent people. A beautiful CIA agent (Olivia D`Abo) and the scientist`s son (Luke Perry) are now in a race against the clock to rescue his father and prevent the use of the deadly weapon.NR"
ACTORS: Luke Perry, Olivia d`Abo, Roger Moore, Tom Conti, Horst Bucholz
All Quiet on the Western Front (DVD) Limited Edition Packaging Lewis Milestone`s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque`s anti-war novel is a masterpiece whose power to disturb remains undiminished by the passage of time. The film stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who...
Lewis Milestone`s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque`s anti-war novel is a masterpiece whose power to disturb remains undiminished by the passage of time. The film stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. The youths quickly realize that the patriotic hogwash they had been fed by their schoolmaster has absolutely has nothing to do with the horror they observe and experience on the front lines.
NR"
Director: Lewis Milestone
ACTORS: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray
