Carrington (DVD)
A young, vivacious painter in 19th Century England indulges in sexual escapades to drown her undying love for the distinguished author Lytton Strachey, whose love she will never win. Winner of the 1996 Special Jury Prize at Cannes.R"
Director: Christopher Hampton
ACTORS: Jonathan Pryce, Emma Thompson
Colors (DVD)
After the events of the previous decade in Los Angeles, this 1988 film about L.A. street gangs as seen through the eyes of the LAPD represented a serious effort to throw some light on the appalling carnage of that world in which, for example, 400 gangbangers were killed in 1987, the year the film was in production. It stars Robert Duvall as Mike Hodges and Sean Penn as Danny McGavin, veteran/rookie cop partners attached to CRASH, the LAPD`s gang-supression unit. Hodges has been working South Central for years and has the gangbangers` respect for his low-key, quid pro quo demeanor. Despite his partner`s admonitions, McGavin wants to play Rambo, bringing the hammer down on gang members at every opportunity. Ultimately the rage that drives the younger man destroys his relationship with his girlfriend, Louisa Gomez (Maria Conchita Alonso), and raises questions as to whether he should even be allowed to wear a badge. While considerable attention is paid to the complicated rubrics of gang culture, the gangbangers remain shadowy, nearly anonymous figures, especially compared to later portrayals. COLORS is a solid film, featuring superb performances by Penn and Duvall, excellent photography by Haskell Wexler, and a killer soundtrack.R"
Director: Dennis Hopper
ACTORS: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Rand Brooks, Jack Nance
American Gigolo (DVD) Sensormatic Richard Gere is Julian Kay, a slick emotionally and spiritually deprived L.A. hustler in AMERICAN GIGOLO. While servicing an upscale clientele in the Hollywood area, he becomes involved with a rich senator`s wife (Lauren Hu...
Richard Gere is Julian Kay, a slick emotionally and spiritually deprived L.A. hustler in AMERICAN GIGOLO. While servicing an upscale clientele in the Hollywood area, he becomes involved with a rich senator`s wife (Lauren Hutton), their relationship extending beyond Julian`s normal encounters. Little does he know he is about to be framed for murder, forcing him to rely on alibis from Madame Anne (Nina Van Pallandt), a crooked pimp (Bill Duke), or the senator`s wife herself. A stylishly sleazy look at moral decay and redemption, director Paul Schrader combines a European cinematic sensibility with his usual themes of moral drift and emotional alienation in this vivid portrait of early 1980s chic Hollywood decadence.
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Director: Paul Schrader
ACTORS: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, Robert Wightman
Sakura Wars TV - Vol. 2: Overture (DVD)
It`s 1920 and dangerous mechanical soldiers are descending on Japan. Fortunately, the Kanzaki Industries` engineers have developed steam-driven robots to fight the advancing forces, if only the right pilots can be found. Enter the Imperial Flower Combat Troop, a group of young women with the proper combination of virtue and spirit that allows them to pilot the robots. In these episodes, the troop takes on two new members named Kouran the Brain and Kanna the Brawn, and just in time, too, because the Evil Darkness has gained some new members of their own.NR"
Exit to Eden (DVD)
A sexually repressed man (Paul Mercurio) travels to a resort island for the BDSM set and falls for the club`s head dominatrix (Dana Delaney). Meanwhile, two police detectives (Dan Akyroyd and Rosie O`Donnell) on the trail of diamond smugglers go undercover on the island, resulting in a slapstick mix of leather gear and bondage jokes. Based on a novel by Anne Rice.R"
Director: Garry Marshall
ACTORS: Rosie O`Donnell, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Hector Elizondo
