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Gone with the Wind

This movie is the Crown Jewel of the Hollywood legend.

The story focuses on the life of coquettish, selfish, and conceited Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara which is brilliantly brought to life by the astonishly lovely Vivien Leigh. Clarck Gable's Rhett Butler is a man's man and a lover: shrewd, realistic and earthy, yet he's also capable of tenderness, compassion and tears.

The DVD release has optional French subtitles and theatrical trailer.

Gothic

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Alec Mango, Pascal King.
Director: Ken Russell

     Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
     Color

The movie recreates the night in which Mary Shelley got the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The atmosphere is heavy and the prestation of each of the actors remarkable.

The Getaway

The Getaway isn't the best example of Sam Peckinpah's filmmaking prowess, but when you have a film that stars Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw as scheming, stealing, potentially double-crossing lovers, who cares if the script is sloppy and the direction isn't Peckinpah's best? The ridiculously sexy McQueen and McGraw play "Doc" and Carol McCoy, a couple who are reunited after Doc's paroled from prison. Doc's release is expedited by Carol's dealings with a Texas politician, a bargain that will see a percentage of the bank heist Doc's planning line the politico's pockets. As the gears are quickly set into motion, it's clear as to when and how the heist will go sour, and who might be sent to an early grave. From an action point-of-view, the heist itself is rather poorly sequenced, but the dramas to come are thrilling; special attention must be paid to the stolen loot, moving train, and hotel shootout scenes, which are just as hot as watching Doc and Carol battle their enemies, and one another. (If you didn't know already, McQueen and McGraw met during filming, and McGraw left super-producer Robert Evans to marry McQueen.) And a gold star goes to supporting actor Al Lettieri, who plays Rudy, Doc's would-be accomplice who tries dupe his partner after the job. After being shot and left for dead, Rudy gives chase in a bizarre subplot that finds him kidnapping a veterinarian and throwing ribs at Sally Struthers. Enough said.

The Green Mile

Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clark Duncan
Director: Frank Darabont

                    Region 1 encoding
                    Color, Widescreen, Dolby

Ghost in the Shell

Kazunori Ito's futuristic vision of how the confluence of the body (the shell) and the ghost (the mind) meets cyborg technology. Complex and beautiful, this anime has some arguably overdone nudity, but it just serves to add a sense of realism.

La GRANDE BOUFFE

"In my film eating turns into a sort of last, desperate resort made available for mankind. Rather than conveying a specific metaphor, the idea was that of presenting - as if reflected in a mirror - certain characters that are typical of our society." (Director Marco Ferreri)

• "Funny, gross, clever" (Cosmopolitan)
• "Extremely provocative... inventive. The acting is superb" (Variety)
• "The Grande Bouffe is an outrageous, inventive, funny, excessive film about four middle-aged men who repair to a house outside Paris and systematically eat themselves to death. For most hedonists, pleasure is a refuge from death. But for Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi, the endless ingestion of delicacies represents the ultimate deliverance from the world-weariness of their lives. They are aided in their suicide pact gastronomique by a trio of whores, whose tolerance for kidneys in wine sauce and acres of pasta eventually wears thin and by a teacher (Andrea Ferreol) who looks like a plump diva and turns out to be a ministering angel, supplying the doomed quartet with sex, sympathy and dinner company until the end... Ferreri brings to his exercise in exponential excess a beguiling mixture of moods, often overlapping, that lend his film richness and density... The shot of Tognazzi, his belly stuffed to breaking, dying in a swooning orgasm of food and sex may offend some and delight others in its extravagance. But no one can claims to have seen anything like it before." (Paul D. Zimmerman, Newsweek)

Green Card

Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell are two complete opposites who agree to a marriage of convenience for purely selfish reasons, but find their lives becoming complicated when love enters the picture.

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