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The Hulk 
Widescreen Edition
Starring: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte
Director: Ang Lee
After a freak lab accident unleashes a genetically enhanced, impossibly strong creature, a terrified world marshals its forces to stop a being with abilities beyond the human imagination!
Parker Posey cemented her status as the Queen of the Indies (films, that is) with her fearless performance in The House of Yes. Dressed in a replica of Jackie Kennedy's infamous pink Chanel outfit, she stalks through the film, taking no prisoners as a deluded young woman still living in the past -- which involved something decidedly kinky with her brother Marty (Josh Hamilton) as well as a fixation on John F. Kennedy's assassination. Mark Waters adapted and directed Wendy MacLeod's five-character play, which takes place on a dark and stormy Thanksgiving night, as Marty returns to his northern Virginia home with his nubile fiancée (Tori Spelling) in tow. As soon as they enter the front door, they're besieged by the members of Marty's highly dysfunctional family: his detached mother (Geneviève Bujold), his horny brother (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and, of course, sister Jackie (Posey), who's thrilled that her brother's home but horrified that he's brought such a pretty guest. Even before the food hits the table (or the drinks hit the brain cells), the family household is playing staggering games -- and we're not talking Twister. Posey was probably never better than she was here, armed with a role that she could expand into without bursting a shrill leak, and Hamilton's quiet gravitas balances her increasingly scary flights of fancy; Bujold, meanwhile quietly walks off with all her scenes as a highly inappropriate mother. When Thanksgiving rolls around at your house, just be happy your family isn't anything like this one.
The House of Yes @ IMDb.com
Dark comedy with incest references. Parker Posey is wonderfully edgy in this funny portrait of a deranged family. "She and Josh Hamilton spar with entertaining vigor" (Marshall Fine). Adopted from a screenplay, the movie follows the script almost exactly.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Widescreen Edition
2-disc set jam-packed with Special Features (multilingual examples, deleted scenes, puzzles and games, etc.). Original UK name: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
Region 1 encoding
Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
1986
The finest film of Allen's notable career
Starring: Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma
Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey
Director: Philip Kaufman
Region 1 encoding
Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen
Henry & June is distinguished by brilliant production design of randy Paris, circa 1931. Early in the film author Henry Miller (Fred Ward) criticises D.H. Lawrence: "He makes too much out of sex, he makes a damn gospel out of it, my way sex is natural like birth or death". The sex in Henry & June is not groundbreakingly explicit, but there is a lot of it. Anais Nin (portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros) is a spoilt emotionally immature woman who seeks sexual experimentation for no other reason then lust in the guise of artful reasoning like "I need to know people who are alive." Uma Thurman plays Henry Miller's bisexual wife June. "I've made mistakes, but I've made them superbly," she says with a deep throaty voice.
Starring: Sean
Penn, Kevin Spacey, Anna Paquin, Meg
Ryan, Robin Wright Penn, Chazz Palminteri, Gary Shandling
Director: Anthony Drazan
Region 1 encoding
Color, Widescreen,
Closed-captioned, AC-3
David Rabe's tale of the cocaine-influenced days of Hollywood in the 1980s is a bitter rambling of what humans do with too much drive, power, and money. Casting agent Eddie (Sean Penn) and his roomie Mickey (Kevin Spacey) talk about sex and success, syntax and meaning. A seamy slice of life about a circle of L.A. friends - self-absorbed, smart-assy, driven, drug-infused people desperately looking for happiness in all the wrong places.
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens
Director: Iain Softley
Region 1
encoding
Color,
Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Starring: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: Milos Forman
Region 1 encoding
Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
A laugh every minute! In this great comedy director/actor Robert Townsend blasts the stereotypes of Blacks in Hollywood,
sending a positive message about maintaining his dignity as an actor and a person.
Unforgettable: the classic "Black Acting School" sketch, in which white teachers
demonstrate jive talk and street moves for the befuddled black students. (!)
This film launched the careers of Damon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Rusty Cundieff,
and Anne Marrie Johnson.
In the mid-'90s, French cinema found itself at the mercy of a stampede of big-budget American films, which were threatening to decimate the country's already dwindling domestic film market. Rallying to beat the uncouth Americans at their own game, the French film industry decided to produce its own large-scale epic, for a then-unprecedented cost of $35 million -- the most ever spent on a single French film. The result was Jean-Paul Rappeneau's breathtaking costume drama The Horseman on the Roof, a 19th century adventure centering around... a cholera epidemic? As unlikely as that may sound, it was the foundation for a turbulent, sweeping romance between Italian soldier-in-exile Angelo (Olivier Martinez) and beautiful countess Pauline (Juliette Binoche), who beseeches the chivalrous stranger to help her find her missing husband. Traveling the countryside, the two hazard the dangers of a plague-infested country, until Pauline is struck down with the deadly disease. As it turns out, the only way to ward off cholera is to strip down the patient and rub their naked body entirely with alcohol, something the gallant Angelo is more than happy to do for the women he secretly loves. Gorgeously filmed, with emotions pitched to almost operatic heights, The Horseman on the Roof wasn't quite the huge hit the French had anticipated, but it made definite ripples worldwide as sagacious audiences rushed to see the newly discovered Martinez (dubbed "the French Brad Pitt") rub down the comely Binoche, with whom he fell in love in real life and lived with for three years. Talk about love in the time of cholera!
The Horseman on the Roof @ IMDb.comVHS
NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Classic, true outlaw-country road movie starring Willie Nelson.
Harold and Maude
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort
Director: Hal Ashby
NTSC format
Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Funny, sad, hopeful - the ultimate black comedy. Cat Stevens' music is one of the highlights of this great work.
CD
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
frank & missus (C) 2001-06.
Email: frankObrain@angelfire.com17588