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Absence of the Good (DVD)
After the death of his only child, Homicide Detective Caleb Barnes is haunted by nightmares and visions of the boy, upsetting both his home and professional lives. While his wife`s sorrow spirals further downward, he finds the chance for redemption in the pursuit of a killer whose diverse and seemingly random victims include an elderly couple, a waitress, and a drug addict. As the victims multiply, Caleb`s problems at home and compulsions at work merge into one terrifying and indistinguishable whole.R"
Director: John Flynn
ACTORS: Stephen Baldwin, Tyne Daly, Robert Knepper
The Holcroft Covenant (DVD)
Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft in John Frankenheimer`s adaptation of Robert Ludlum`s novel. A German native adopted by American parents, Noel learns that his biological father was one of Hitler`s financial advisers, and he has left his son a bequest of four billion dollars with the intention that it be distributed as reparation for the horrors of the Nazi regime. As he and his wife, Helden von Tiebolt (Victoria Tennant), journey from Geneva to New York to London carrying out their mission of distribution, various people attempt to kill them. Eventually they come to realize that there are neo-Nazis out there who would like to get their hands on some of that old Nazi money. Noel must find a way to stay alive and hold on to the inheritance while thwarting his enemies` plan to create a Fourth Reich.R"
Director: John Frankenheimer
ACTORS: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Victoria Tennant
Rhapsody (DVD)
Jelly and Roughneck are two childhood friends who spent their younger years trying to stay out of trouble. When they meet up again as adults, Jelly is a successful hip-hop producer, while Roughneck has just gotten out of jail. Though there`s a lot of water under the bridge, Roughneck decides that he is entitled to a piece of Jelly`s success--but Jelly isn`t going to easily succumb to his old freeloading pal. Ice-T, M.C. Hammer, and En Vogue`s Cindy Herron Braggs all make appearances in this urban thriller.R"
Director: Don Abernathy
ACTORS: Glenn Plummer, Fred Williamson, Ice-T, Freda Payne, Joe Brown
Songcatcher (DVD) Signature Series 1907. Musicologist Dr Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) is displeased to find she has been passed over for a promotion at her East Coast University. She sets off for the southern Appalachians where her sister Elna (Jane Ada...
1907. Musicologist Dr Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) is displeased to find she has been passed over for a promotion at her East Coast University. She sets off for the southern Appalachians where her sister Elna (Jane Adams) runs a school with her friend Harriet (E. Katherine Kerr). Lily is excited to discover that the mountain women sing pure versions of old British folk songs. She starts to collect the songs--at first writing them down; then recording them on very cumbersome equipment.
Scriptwriter/director Maggie Greenwald has loosely based her movie on the songcatchers who uncovered the Appalachian-British folk song connection in the late 1910s. Greenwald and the regal Janet McTeer make Lily Penleric an aloof woman who at first sees the songs as specimens to be collected scientifically. Then gradually, Lily is drawn into the drama of the women`s mountain lives--their joy and sadness, their hard fought existence, their men and their infidelities, their tolerance and intolerance. And, as she is drawn in, Lily begins to fall in love with the performers, particularly the feisty matriarch Viney Butler (Pat Carroll), and the orphan Deladis Slocumb (Emmy Rossum, a 13-year-old with an astonishing voice who makes a notable film debut).
SONGCATCHER won the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast at Sundance 2000.
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Director: Maggie Greenwald
ACTORS: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Taj Mahal
Mrs. Dalloway (VHS)
This is the critically-acclaimed adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It`s a lovely summer day and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for an elaborate party. During the day of her party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful, vivacious and much-courted young woman. Her preparations are interrupted however, by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer - a once-dashing man she thought she would marry but ultimately rejected. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway`s life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.PG-13"
Director: Marleen Gorris
