Stealing Home (DVD)
An irresponsible ex-ballplayer returns to his hometown following the suicide of his boyhood babysitter. She has willed him the task of disposing of her ashes. As he struggles with this responsibility, he flashes back to important moments in his childhood.PG-13"
Director: Steven Kampmann|Will Aldis
ACTORS: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown, Harold Ramis, Jonathan Silverman
Henry Fool (DVD)
Hartley has crafted here what many consider to be his crowning achievement: a sprawling epic of a story that tackles any and everything he decides to mock, satirize, or challenge. Simon is a factory worker who lives with his nymphomaniac sister and manic depressive mother. Along comes Henry Fool, a convicted sexual offender who moves into Simon`s basement. Henry sparks Simon`s mind and challenges him to write the great American poem. To everyone`s dismay, he does just that. From there, events spiral even further, until Simon must eventually make an important decision: remain loyal to his friend and help him flee the country, or turn his back on what they shared together in the past. Funny, shocking, and impressively grand in its ambitions, Hartley`s script takes turns that most writers would never consider actually writing down. This is an original work that will stand as one of 1998`s most exhilarating motion picture experiences.R"
Director: Hal Hartley
ACTORS: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Kevin Corrigan, James Saito
New Rose Hotel (DVD) Millennium Series Based on a short story by cyberpunk writer William Gibson (NEUROMANCER), this sleek film stars Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken as freelance espionage agents looking for a way to make some money in a future ruled b...
Based on a short story by cyberpunk writer William Gibson (NEUROMANCER), this sleek film stars Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken as freelance espionage agents looking for a way to make some money in a future ruled by warring corporations. They hit on a scheme to hire gorgeous Italian prostitute Sandii (Asia Argento) to seduce a brilliant chemical engineer (Yoshitaka Amano) into leaving his family and employers for a rival company. All goes well at first, but then it seems that X (Dafoe) and Sandii have fallen in love during her training, which may have somehow caused the whole deal to go haywire. Under the uncompromising eye of director Abel Ferrara, this weird new world seems beautiful, dangerous, and very sexy. Those looking for a conventional narrative may be stumped as portable video units and handheld camera-phones advance most of the plot, but for adventurous viewers willing to actively engage it, this unique mix of breathy eroticism and technological paranoia is highly seductive. Rap artist Schoolly D composed the moody electronic score. John Lurie, Victor Argo, and Ryuichi Sakamoto appear in cameos.
R"
Director: Abel Ferrara
ACTORS: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, Gretchen Mol
The Watermelon Woman (DVD)
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a mammy in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy`s identity, much to the confusion of her white, middle-class girlfriend. Features a guest bit by Paglia as herself, pontificating on the rich symbolism of mammies and watermelons.NR"
Director: Cheryl Dunye
ACTORS: Cheryl Dunye, Lisa Marie Bronson, Guinevere Turner, Cheryl Clarke, Brian Freeman
Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sherriff (DVD) Back-To-Back Two Disc Set A collection of two comedies starring James Garner as a sly western cowboy. Features included are SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (1968) and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER (1971;G). See individual titles for further...
A collection of two comedies starring James Garner as a sly western cowboy. Features included are SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (1968) and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER (1971;G). See individual titles for further details.
NR"
Director: Burt Kennedy
