Finale in Blood (DVD)
This supernatural drama revolves around a radio disc jockey named Cheng, who unexpectedly comes into contact with the beautiful ghost of a woman named Feng. Hoping to exact revenge on the man responsible for her death, Feng persuades Cheng to tell her story on air. Unfortunately, although Cheng`s performance draws in a score of listeners, it also attracts the attention of Feng`s killer.NR"
Director: Fruit Chan
ACTORS: David Wu, Chikako Aoyama
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy (DVD)
A band of renegade Florence Nightingales with heavy eyeliner and heavy armament wreak bloody revenge against the men who visit their ward of doom.NR"
36 Fillette (DVD)
A 14-year-old girl attracts the attention of and then proceeds to seduce an aging playboy.NR"
Director: Catherine Breillat
ACTORS: Delphine Zentout, Oliver Parniere, Jean-Pierre Liaud
Madonna - Truth or Dare (DVD) French and Spanish Subtitles Madonna is perhaps the most postmodern of all pop stars, and this acclaimed documentary is prime evidence of that. Madonna enlisted Harvard graduate Alex Keshishian to follow her around with a camera during...
Madonna is perhaps the most postmodern of all pop stars, and this acclaimed documentary is prime evidence of that. Madonna enlisted Harvard graduate Alex Keshishian to follow her around with a camera during her 1991 Blonde Ambition tour, and the result is one of the most candid glimpses into a pop star`s life and personality ever produced. Concert footage, family visits, dance practice, hotel room makeup sessions, and even a visit to the dentist with then-boyfriend Warren Beatty are just some of the places that Madonna lets us be involved in. This is more than just a fun pop documentary - it is also both a celebration and critique of the invasive, all-encompassing media culture that defines America today.
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Director: Alek Keshishian
ACTORS: Madonna
Les Bonnes Femmes (DVD)
The dull lives and lofty bourgeois aspirations of four Parisian shop girls serves as the point of departure for Claude Chabrol`s haunting French New Wave classic, LES BONNES FEMMES. As the girls count the minutes until their working shift ends, they gossip and contemplate their prospects for happiness. Jane just wants to have fun, Ginette secretly dreams of being a dance-hall singer, Rita longs to get married, and Jacqueline pines after her one true love. The film`s luscious black and white quasi-documentary mise-en-scene follows each girl through the treacherous world of early 1960s Paris. Their lives are filled with lecherous men, seedy smoke-filled nightclubs, boring jobs, and uncertain futures. An underlying atmosphere of sadness and foreboding permeates the film as the girls bounce haplessly between work and pleasure, never forming real trusting relations and always frantically searching for the elusive happiness that each of them so desperately needs. When shy, self-effacing, and loveless Jacqueline becomes obsessed with a mysterious man on a motorcycle who follows her everywhere she goes, it seems she will be the one delivered from her terminal ennui. This strange yet affectionate portrait of young lives in struggle is filled with the hopes and fears of a whole generation and ends in a shocking yet compelling climax, true to Chabrol`s uniquely dark vision.NR"
Director: Claude Chabrol
