Alien From L.A. (DVD)
A California beach bunny in search of her lost archaeologist father stumbles onto the lost continent of Atlantis instead.PG"
Director: Albert Pyun
ACTORS: Kathy Ireland, Thom Mathews, Linda Kerridge, Don Michael Paul
Andrei Rublev (DVD) Criterion Collection Director Andrei Tarkovskys second film, ANDREI RUBLEV, is a massive and sweeping retelling of the life of the 15th-century Russian icon painter and perhaps the first great Russian artist. Unfolding in a free-flowi...
Director Andrei Tarkovskys second film, ANDREI RUBLEV, is a massive and sweeping retelling of the life of the 15th-century Russian icon painter and perhaps the first great Russian artist. Unfolding in a free-flowing series of eight episodes, ANDREI RUBLEV follows the painter (Anatoli Solonitsyn) as he faces unbearable violence, endless attacks by the crude and malicious Tartars, and, eventually, a crippling crisis of faith. A moving mosaic of time, spirituality, dreams, history, culture, and politics, Tarkovsky`s masterpiece was immediately condemned by the Russian authorities, who waited five years before giving it an official release. Despite this, the film endures as a wrenching testament to Tarkovskys unique vision of the power of art and the duty of the artist. The film follows Rublev as he traverses the wretched earth of Russia in the Middle Ages, encountering jesters, fools, other artists, and the masses who eventually restore his faith in life and art. Tarkovskys signature elliptical style, matched with stunning cinematography and breathtaking (and often nonnarrative) editing, creates a film unlike any other. Neither strict biography nor historical epic, ANDREI RUBLEV is the visual depiction of the mystical capacity for art to transform the struggles and joys of the human into the divine.
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
ACTORS: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Irma Raush
Now and Then, Here and There: Complete Series (DVD)
Akitaroh Daichi`s fascinating sci-fi series races to a close as the desert erupts in the madness of war when an ambitious tyrant unleashes a flying battleship against a rebel army. As the fighting escalates, it soon becomes clear that no one will escape the effects of this brutal conflict. Young Shu, still trying to survive this harsh new world while searching its detritus for a captured friend, learns the hardship of battle firsthand when he is sucked into the war. Contains the entire series in a collector`s box.NR"
Director: Akitaroh Daichi
The Sound of Horror (DVD)
A low-budget Spanish horror film about an archeological expedition menaced by a noisy, invisible monster.NR"
Director: Jose Antonio Nieves Conde
ACTORS: Ingrid Pitt
White Pongo (DVD)
A man in a scary white gorilla suit terrorizes the civilized world. Riches of embarrassment from the director of Terror of Tinytown. "
Director: Sam Newfield
ACTORS: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Milton Kibbee
