Wes Craven`s Don`t Look Down (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
Wes Craven`s Don`t Look Down (DVD)
DON`T LOOK DOWN focuses on a woman trying to come to terms with the death of her sister, tragically killed when a loose rail fails to break her fall over a cliff edge. Haunted by visions of her dead sister, and with a sudden fear of heights instilled in her, she joins a group for other acrophobiacs. As the group suddenly starts to get bumped off one by one the real mystery starts to unravel in this riveting drama from the pen of Wes Craven.NR"
Director: Larry Shaw
ACTORS: Megan Ward, Billy Burke, Terry Kinney
Webster`s Millennium - Getting Started in Signing (DVD)
Dr. Elaine Costello has spent more than twenty years working with sign language and the deaf community. She brings her expertise to bear in GETTING STARTED IN SIGNING, which allows everyone to use this beautiful and versatile language.NR"
The Fairy Faith (DVD)
A Canadian documentary that is ostensibly about the ancient Irish and Scottish fairy myths and those who still believe in them, THE FAIRY FAITH is also a touching look at a culture that is outdated, yet still survives amid more modern beliefs. Filmed mostly in Ireland and Scotland, director John Walker roams the countryside interviewing everyone from university scholars to older folks who claim that to have had encounters with fairies as well as reminiscing about his grandmother, who use to regale him with tales of the roguish little creatures. Ending up in Nova Scotia to examine how the remnants of this culture have survived in North America, Mr. Walker provides an insightful look not only at his one of his ancestor`s most beloved legends, but also an entire culture that is slowly disappearing.NR"
Director: John Walker
City on Fire (VHS)
When an undercover cop is killed, Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) is recruited by Inspector Lau (Sun Yueh) to take his place trying to infiltrate a gang of thieves. But Chow had previously done undercover work and had developed an emotional bond with the men he then later had to betray--and he is afraid it could happen again. The loyalty of the younger cop to the older man will be tested against the bonds he must form with the criminals in order to be trusted by them. This theme of the similarities between cops and criminals is a staple of the heroic bloodshed branch of Hong Kong cinema. Chow befriends Fu (Danny Lee) by posing as a man who can supply the guns needed for a jewelry heist. Director Ringo Lam stages his action and street scenes with a high degree of realism. The characters` movements are erratic and the violence is brutal and unstylized, with everything unfolding in believable chaos. Released at the same time as A BETTER TOMORROW, it made Chow Yun-Fat a Hong Kong star. This Hong Kong classic formed the basis for Quentin Tarantino`s later RESERVOIR DOGS.NR"
Director: Ringo Lam
ACTORS: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung, Lau Kong
Paradise Road (DVD)
Based on a true story culled from hours of interviews by director Bruce Beresford, the film stars Glenn Close as British socialite Adrienne Pargiter. Alerted to the imminence of an invasion of Singapore in 1942, a group of the wives and children of Allied forces quickly crowd aboard a transport. When the ship is bombed, they end up on the island of Sumatra, where they are captured and imprisoned. Conditions in the camp are predictably brutal: food and medicine are difficult to come by, and the living quarters are squalid. One punishment requires a woman to kneel in the hot sun for hours only to fall on a sharp stake if she tires. Given the situation, Pargiter, who is also a musician, decides to organize the women into a vocal orchestra to help raise morale. Although they lack sheet music, Daisy (Pauline Collins), an Australian nurse, is able to re-create scores from memory. Among the reluctant women cajoled into singing are an Australian nurse, Susan McCarthy (Cate Blanchett); a cynical American, Topsy Merritt (Julianna Margulies); and a young British woman, Rosemary Leighton-Jones (Jennifer Ehle). At the first performance of Pargiter`s orchestra, the Japanese guards are so moved by the music that they refuse an order to halt it. Close gives another of her typically strong performances.R"
Director: Bruce Beresford
