Photographer (DVD)
Jeremy Stein makes a striking directorial debut with THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Max Martin (Reg Rogers) is a down on his luck photographer who is about to blow a potentially lucrative deadline. At a bar, he encounters a stranger who leaves him an envelope with ten photographs. Not wanting to pass them off as his own, Max has a change of heart after he gets beat up. But the problem is, the photographs are gone. He must embark on a wacky journey through the beautiful, but bizarre, streets of New York City if he hopes to reclaim all ten photographs. Featuring a standout performance from the luminescent Maggie Gyllenhaal.R"
Director: Jeremy Stein
ACTORS: Reg Rogers, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anthony Michael Hall, John Heard, Tom Noonan
Dance With a Stranger (DVD) Avant-Garde Cinema The moving true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Great Britain. The last man executed in that country was later found to be innocent, a regrettable (to say the least) incident which led to the ab...
The moving true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Great Britain. The last man executed in that country was later found to be innocent, a regrettable (to say the least) incident which led to the abandonment there of the practice.
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Director: Mike Newell
ACTORS: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Better Off Dead (DVD) Checkpoint Lane Myer`s (John Cusack) dreams are shattered when his girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) decides she prefers the company of a sleazy ski jock over his own. This disheartening news leads Lane to attempt to take his own life in v...
Lane Myer`s (John Cusack) dreams are shattered when his girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) decides she prefers the company of a sleazy ski jock over his own. This disheartening news leads Lane to attempt to take his own life in various ways--all of which never seem to work out. But if he can beat Beth`s new boyfriend in a ski run down the treacherous K-12, he may be able to win her back. Along the way, Lane also encounters a beautiful French exchange student, a nasal spray-snorting neighbor, a rabid newspaper boy, and dancing hamburgers. Savage Steve Holland (ONE CRAZY SUMMER) directs this 1985 cult favorite.
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Director: Steve Holland
ACTORS: John Cusack, Curtis Armstrong, David Ogden Stiers, Amanda Wyss, Kim Darby
Little Red (DVD)
The ghettos of Baltimore are overrun by crime, particularly drug trade. Darrell Collins (Brandon Price), a teen growing up on these mean streets, is trying to avoid the thug life by working hard in school and going on to college. His crew, however, begin running with gangs and dealing. Darrell now must choose between these criminal connections so appealing to his friends and his girlfriend (Char Clay) or a path more straight, lonelier, but ultimately with a longer life span. This urban character study is based on a poem by Darrell Collins, a street kid who wrote about his experiences using allegorical imagery.R"
Director: Clay Valenti
ACTORS: Brandon Price, Char Clay, Ben Farr
0 Orphans of the Storm (DVD)
Legendary director D.W. Griffith (INTOLERANCE) delivers another sweeping historical epic with this film, based on the d`Ennery and Corman play, THE TWO ORPHANS. Sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish are the girls who become separated in the streets of eighteenth century Paris during the dramatic upheavals of the French Revolution. As Henriette (Lillian Gish) searches for her blind adopted sister Louise (Dorothy Gish), she falls in love with a kind and concerned young member of the aristocracy, Chevalier (Joseph Schildkraut). Unfortunately their love is doomed by her commoner status, and his callous uncle (Frank Losee), who railroads her off to prison to keep them apart. The revolution occurs, and Henriette is liberated, but then theres more trouble when mob rule causes chaos in the streets, the guillotine awaits Chevalier, and Louise remains just out of reach.
Griffith captures the class injustice at the heart of this story by contrasting scenes of lavish parties at the houses of the nobles with the abject poverty of the beggars outside. The thrilling use of crowds and meticulous historical accuracy make this an epic comparable in scope and theme to BIRTH OF A NATION, which is how Griffith undoubtedly meant it. The film is silent, with tinted scenes and film score.NR"
Director: D.W. Griffith
ACTORS: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Monte Blue, Creighton Hale
