Postmortem (DVD)
After a stressful career as a profiler of serial killers takes its toll on his battered psyche, a man retires to write crime novels. But fact soon intrudes on fiction, as the memories of the horrors he`s endured return to haunt him.R"
ACTORS: Charlie Sheen
L.I.E. (DVD)
The Long Island Expressway, the highway that traverses suburban Long Island with its lanes moving east, lanes moving west, and lanes that go straight to hell serves as the central metaphor in this disturbing meditation on coming of age and teenage vulnerability. Howie Blitzer (Brian Cox) is a sensitive fifteen-year-old who runs with a rough crowd. The recent death of his mother (in a car accident on exit 52 of the L.I.E.) and his father`s indifference to it, have left him floating in a world bubbling over with sex, violence, and danger. When his best friend Gary convinces Howie to burglarize the house of their neighbor, 60-year-old Big John, the tenuous balance of their teenage existence is entirely thrown off. To make matters even worse, Howie`s father is arrested over a bad business deal. Howie is left dangling, and only Big John seems to care. A harrowing mixture of tenderness and perversion electrifies the father-son relationship that forms between Howie and Big John. Director Michael Cuesta`s touching vision of domestic life in modern-day suburbia is at once humorous and unnerving as it boldly charts one boy`s convoluded path through adolescence.
This film screened as part of the 2001 New Directors/New Films series organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.NC-17"
Director: Michael Cuesta
ACTORS: Brian Cox, Paul Franklin Dano, Billy Kay, Bruce Altman, James Costa
Shark Zone (DVD)
A group of divers attempt to uncover some diamonds that lay at the bottom of the ocean. Unfortunately for the divers a pack of Great White sharks patrol the waters around the missing loot, resulting in some terrifying scenes of carnage. As the sharks begin to prey on the swimmers at a nearby beach, it becomes apparent that only one man knows the true secret behind the buried diamonds. Desperate to save the beach from more shark attacks, his pleas seem to fall on deaf ears. Will anyone listen? Find out in SHARK ZONE.R"
`Round Midnight (DVD) Special Edition `ROUND MIDNIGHT is the moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. Dexter Gordon is sensational in the lead role--he earned an Academy Award nomination for...
`ROUND MIDNIGHT is the moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. Dexter Gordon is sensational in the lead role--he earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dale Turner--and Herbie Hancock, who appears in the film, was nominated for his score. Director Bertrand Tavernier beautifully captures the many joys and sorrows that encompass the jazz world.
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Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Knights of the Round Table (DVD)
MGM`s first production in cinemascope, this is the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Lancelot, banished from the court for his affair with Guinevere, returns in disguise to destroy the greatest threat to Camelot - Arthur`s illegitimate son, Modred. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Sound Recording.NR"
Director: Richard Thorpe
ACTORS: Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Stanley Baker
