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Shackleton`s Antarctic Adventure (DVD)
Originally filmed for the impressively massive IMAX screen, SHACKLETON`S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE is a gorgeously made film tracking the explorer`s legendary 1914 expedition to the icey, uninhabited continent. Using original still photos, trek photographer Rank Hurley`s 35 mm film, and new recreations, the film reconstructs the harrowing exploration, in which the crew`s ship was destroyed by ice and the men were forced to survive in the sub-freezing temperatures for almost 2 years.NR"
Hold You Tight (DVD)
A dazzling exercise in style and an excursion into existential philosophy, HOLD YOU TIGHT stars Chingmy Yau in a dual role, her last before permanently retiring from film. In it, she plays two women bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing everyone on board, and leaving the friends and family of the two women to talk about what was and what could have been.NR"
Director: Stanley Kwan
ACTORS: Chingmy Yau, Sunny Chan
My Lucky Stars (DVD)
Because the success of the first LUCKY STARS film (WINNERS AND SINNERS) had a lot to do with the Japanese market, the second film in the series takes place in the land of the rising sun and features Michiko Nishiwaki, the Japanese female bodybuilder. Jackie Chan plays an undercover cop who solicits the help of his gang of childhood friends--the five Lucky Stars, each of whom specializes in petty crimes and minor mishaps--to help him catch Japanese gangsters. Dough-faced Eric Tsang replaces John Sham as one of the Lucky Stars, while Sibelle Hu plays the femme du jour and the object of the Lucky Stars` lust. The film features several notable fights, including a surreal sequence in which Chan rumbles in an outlandish amusement park costume; in another memorable fight, director Sammo Hung battles in a yellow jumpsuit, ` la Bruce Lee`s GAME OF DEATH. The fantastic showdown at a haunted house attraction pits the Lucky Stars against a stellar cast of opponents: Hu versus Nishiwaki, Hung versus Lau Kar-wing, Yuen Biao versus Lam Ching-ying, and Chan versus Dick Wei.NR"
Director: Sammo Hung
ACTORS: Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Richard Ng, Sammo Hung, Sibelle Hu
The True Meaning of Pictures (DVD)
Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, director of the acclaimed Paul Bowles documentary LET IT COME DOWN, trains her eye on yet another artist of uncompromising vision in her film THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES. For over 30 years, Shelby Lee Adams has photographed the impoverished mountain dwellers of his native eastern Kentucky, earning critical acclaim for his stark black & white portraits of Appalachian life: the ill-fortuned Napier family, who have buried 10 children and live without plumbing or electricity; the outlawed Holiness Pentecostal Church, whose members drink strychnine and handle rattlesnakes during their religious ceremonies. But Adams` provocative work has also garnered a fair share of controversy--critics charge that his photographs exploit their subjects, perpetuate stereotypes about the rural poor, or are sometimes staged by Adams for greater emotional impact. Baichwal`s thought-provoking documentary examines these complex moral questions about the nature of art through interviews with Adams` admirers and detractors, samples of his extraordinary work, and footage of the photographer revisiting Kentucky and meeting with some of his most famous subjects.NR"
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Fates Warning: Live at the Dynamo (DVD)
A live video from Metal Blade artist FATES WARNING. Filmed on May 30th 1998 at the Dynamo Open Air Festival. Songs include A Pleasant Shade of Gray , The Eleventh Hour , and We Only Say Goodbye .NR"
Director: Thomas Wolff
