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World of Drunken Master (DVD) Eastern Heroes Collection Chan Hui Lau stars in this vintage martial arts film as Chang, the owner of a winery and master of Drunken Boxing, a deadly kung fu technique that, as the name implies, requires its practitioner to be drunk. H...
Chan Hui Lau stars in this vintage martial arts film as Chang, the owner of a winery and master of Drunken Boxing, a deadly kung fu technique that, as the name implies, requires its practitioner to be drunk. His relatively peaceful life is interrupted when he catches two boys (Li Yi Min and Jack Long) stealing grapes from his vineyards and puts them to work for him. Over time, he teaches them the art of Drunken Boxing. When the two boys get into a fight with some local toughs, they provoke the wrath of Yeh Hu (Lung Fei), Chang`s enemy. Angered at his rival`s disciples, Yeh Hu and his men storm the winery and begin a drunken brawl that is beyond description. Frequently hilarious, WORLD OF DRUNKEN MASTER is an enormously entertaining martial arts film.
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Director: Joseph Kuo
ACTORS: Yi-min Lee, Jack Long, Mark Long, Lung Fei, Siu Tien Yuen
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (DVD)
Roger Vadim takes his patented obsessions with beauty and the tawdry, destructive behavior that inevitably accompanies it to the French literary classic LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, Choderlos de Laclos`s scathing 18th-century epistolary novel. Jeanne Moreau and Girard Philipe play Valmont and Juliette, two equally beautiful and equally cruel married hipsters scouring the smoky and chic underworld of beatnik-tinged 1960 Paris for their next amorous victims. A highly charged jazz soundtrack (by Thelonious Monk) underscores the decadence as Valmont and Juliette compare and contrast their cruel infidelities, each trying to outdo the other. When Valmonts latest obsession, Marianne (played by Vadims wife, Annette), begins to capture his heart, the game is up and Juliette seeks revenge, bringing destruction and disaster in her wake. Moreau and Philipe inject their characters with sultry new-wave hipness, giving the film a cool and devastating contemporary pathos. Vadims transposition of the casual cruelties and excruciatingly subtle protocols of 18th-century French court life is uncannily accurate, and the director brings themes developed in his earlier masterpiece, AND GOD CREATED WOMAN, to a sophisticated crescendo of visual and psychological eroticism, romance, and ennui.NR"
Director: Roger Vadim
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man (DVD)
Richard Rush`s debut feature was THE STUNTMAN, an absolutely brilliant thriller that received three Academy Award nominations. However, Rush struggled to get the film made, having first conceived it during the early 1970s. This documentary, made by Rush 20 years after the completion of the film, looks back on the studio politics that made this film so difficult to make. An insightful look at the sometimes sinister business of making movies, THE SINISTER SAGA is an entertaining and enlightening look at how hard it is to make a great film in Hollywood.NR"
Director: Richard Rush
ACTORS: Peter O`Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Charles Bail, Sharon Farrell
Megalodon (VHS)
Leading a search for new oil reserves turns out to be more than just a normal expedition for Nexecon Petroleum CEO Peter Brazier. Invited to document the trip to the freezing North Atlantic are news reporter Christen Giddings and her cameraman Jake Thompson. Their job is to prove the safety of a powerful drill called the Colossus. Once in use, the drill is able to tear through a seabead and ultimately hit a rich, undiscovered oil deposit. But when the machine also ruptures a fissure, reveals a second ocean that has existed for millions of years. In this second ocean lives prehistoric life which is now threatened the poisons released from the oil. As the drill begins to fail one huge, eleven-ton creature rears it`s head and begins to stake its claim. The Carcharodon Megalodon, ancestor of the Great White Shark comes back to life to destroy anything and everyone in its way.PG-13"
ACTORS: Robin Sachs, Leighanne Littrell, Al Sapienza
Mysterious Object at Noon (DVD)
Part documentary part experimental narrative, Apichatpong Weerasethakul`s MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON may occupy a genre all its own. Inspired by the Surrealist storytelling technique known as Exquisite Corpse, Mr. Weerasethakul roamed the Thai countryside interviewing people to contribute a line or perhaps a chapter to his narrative. What results is a film unlike any other, simultaneously a documentary about the people of Thailand`s many villages and their surreal narrative, built one line at a time, that begins with a story about Dogfahr, a caring teacher who teaches a disabled boy and ends, quite literally, miles from there.NR"
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
