Eugene Onegin (DVD)
Tchaikovsky`s famous opera, brought to life by the European Union Opera at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. A magnificent production that drips with the passion of its stars, Orla Boylan and Vladimir Gluschchak.NR"
Director: Derek Bailey
ACTORS: Vladimir Glushchak, Orla Boylan, Michael Konig, Thomas Morris, Anna Burford
Shock Waves (DVD)
A demented Nazi scientist creates a race of undrownable mutants. Though thought to be destroyed, years later they reappear in the form of unstoppable SS zombies. An all-star cast of acclaimed actors, including Brooke Adams (DAYS OF HEAVEN) and John Carradine (THE HOWLING), lend clout to this intelligent horror film.R"
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
ACTORS: Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
Please Not Now! (DVD) Anamorphic Widescreen In Roger Vadim`s PLEASE NOT NOW!, Brigitte Bardot stars as Sophie, a ditsy Parisian fashion model who suffers insurmountable heartbreak and humiliation when her boyfriend, Phillipe (Jacques Riberolles), runs off w...
In Roger Vadim`s PLEASE NOT NOW!, Brigitte Bardot stars as Sophie, a ditsy Parisian fashion model who suffers insurmountable heartbreak and humiliation when her boyfriend, Phillipe (Jacques Riberolles), runs off with an American heiress. Determined to win him back, Sophie chases her errant lover to the mountains. Custard pies, speeding sleds, turbaned swamis, and unexpected romance all figure prominently as Sophie is joined in her quest for either love or vengeance, which ever comes first, by Alain (Michel Subor), an earnest young man hoping to win her heart--as well as a glimpse of her naked splendor. Looking to the legend of her hot-blooded family for inspiration, Sophie vows to shoot her lovers new flame if she cannot win him back herself. From the cafes of the Paris demimonde to the tony ski resorts of Italy, Bardot is sassy and gullible as she falls prey to scheming men as well as her own amorous passions. A dream sequence in which Sophies suitor imagines her doing a slow samba wearing nothing but a fogged camera filter and bath towel won PLEASE NOT NOW! the title of most provocative comedy of the year, but it`s Bardot`s innate comic sensibility and her ultimate ease in front of the camera that make for a supremely charming film.
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Director: Roger Vadim
ACTORS: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Subor, Claude Brasseur, Jacques Riberolles
The Day the Sky Exploded (DVD)
An Italian/French production in which a rocket collides with the sun and sends a shower of deadly asteroids over Earth - the solution prefigures the ending of Meteor by 21 years.NR"
Director: Paolo Heusch
ACTORS: Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Ivo Garrani
Mitridate, Re Di Ponto - Mozart (DVD)
Mozart`s operatic telling of the story of Mitridates the Great, captured at London`s Royal Opera House during the Mozart Bicentennial Celebrations. A lush example of 18th century opera seria telling the tale of two sons who fall in love with their father`s bride-to-be.NR"
