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Great Performances (DVD)
This boxed set contains three films that feature great performances by their respective leading actors: FRANCES (Academy Award Nominee for Best Actress - Jessica Lange), PLENTY (featuring Oscar winner Meryl Streep), and TENDER MERCIES (for which Robert Duvall won a Best Actor Oscar). See individual titles for details.NR"
Director: Fred Schepisi|Bruce Beresford|Graeme Clifford
ACTORS: Robert Duvall, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, John Gielgud
Maze OVA (DVD)
Maze has gained incredible powers traveling through time and space, but she has also acquired one rather large problem: every night she turns into a really horny man. Unfortunately, Maze must rescue an equally lascivious princess from a mysterious warrior cult. Still, the male version of Maze would rather be chasing tail than rescuing willing princesses.NR"
The Good Thief (DVD)
Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, MICHAEL COLLINS) and veteran actor Nick Nolte combine their talents for this breezy heist picture. Bob (Nolte) is a retired master thief and gambler living as an expatriot in France. His past robberies are the stuff of underworld legend, but he`s given it all up, and fallen into a twilight life of heroin addiction and seedy gambling dens. Then a chance encounter with an attractive young runaway (Nutsa Kukhianidze) inspires him to clean up his act and take one last big job; an elaborate modern art heist at a swanky Riviera casino. Standing in his way is a cagey police inspector (Tchiky Karyo) who is determined to bring him down, even though the two are longtime friends.
The twisty caper plotting compliments a fun cast (including Emir Kusturica and Girard Darmon as two of Bob`s brothers in crime), clever dialogue, stylish direction, and pretty Riviera scenery. Loosely modeled on Jean Pierre Melville`s BOB LE FLAMBEUR, this is something of a pet project for Jordan and it`s obvious he`s invested himself into every detail of the production. The result is both elegant and warmly quirky. As for Nolte, he seems to be having a terrific time; the charming old rascal role fits him perfectly, and Kukhianidze proves his match with an aplomb beyond her years. Ralph Fiennes has a small role as a disreputable art dealer.R"
Director: Neil Jordan
ACTORS: Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Emir Kusturica
The Last Tattoo (DVD)
Set in 1940s New Zealand, THE LAST TATTOO finds that nation deluged by American servicemen on leave from combat. Kelly Towne (Fox), a local nurse, is in charge of tracking and trying to stop the spread of venereal disease, which the US troops have brought in abundance. When she discovers an untreatable strain of the clap, nurse Towne accidentally stumbles upon what seems to be a cover-up for the murder of a US troop. As she tries to track down the source of the disease, she meets up with an Army captain who is trying to find out the truth behind the murder she discovered. Atmospheric and imbued with a sense of lingering menace, THE LAST TATTOO is an effective and exciting neo-noir thriller.R"
Director: John Reid
ACTORS: Tony Goldwyn, Kerry Fox, Desmond Kelly, Katie Wolfe, Mark Rafferty
In This House of Brede (DVD)
The story of a woman named Phillipa (Rigg) and her quest for love in the sequestered world of the Benedictine nuns at Brede Abbey. She becomes involved in relationships with two women: one a young and confused novice, and the other an older and frigid conservative. Phillipa comes to the conclusion that both women can be loved equally. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden and filmed on location in Irish and English convents.NR"
Director: George Schaefer
