"A word of advice: If George (Richard Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) ever ask you over for late-night cocktails--pass. On the other hand, if you have the opportunity to see Mike Nichols's scorching film version of Edward Albee's sensational play, don't miss it! Elegantly photographed in crisp black and white by the great Haskell Wexler, the play has been "opened up" for the screen by director Nichols (The Graduate, Primary Colors) ..."
"Perhaps the most powerful picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War, Coming Home earned eight Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations* and three OscarsÂ(r): Actress (Jane Fonda), Actor (Jon Voight) and Original Screenplay. Hailed by critics as "dazzling" (Rex Reed), "gripping" (Leonard Maltin) and "unforgettable" (Judith Crist), it is a heart-rending examination of a critical period in our nation's history and "an uncomp ..."
"Innovative documentary filmmaker; friend of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and other leading figures of the New York art world; radical leftist critic of the Establishment; and legendary bon vivant: Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a larger-than-life personality and a key figure in the development of post-war American cinema. The films de Antonio made between 1963 and 1989 -- including Point of Order, Rush to ..."
"In the 'hood, all that matters are your colors...Academy Awardr Winners Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies) and Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River) sink their teeth into "grimy, hard-edged, heart-thumping action" (Movieline) in a film that "captures the vivid mark that gang life has left upon Los Angeles" (The New York Times). Bob Hodges (Duvall) is a seasoned street cop who has learned a lot from long experience while his new, young partner, Dan ..."
"Medium Cool is an almost impossible oddity: director Haskel Wexler wanted to shoot a fictional, narrative film wherein actors mingled with real people in an uncontrolled social environment. With that in mind, he began filming a movie about racial tensions in Chicago during the weeks prior to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, on the assumption that there would be a riot there. Then he brought his cast, crew, and camera to the sce ..."
"This high-voltage concert film shot in New Orleans, features the sensational Richard Pryor in his prime. Doing some of his most innovative material, Pryor takes charge on stage with an electrifying style and an unequaled comedic genius, in an incredibly funny performance guaranteed to rock you withside-splitting laughter! If Richard Pryor were accused of being the funniest man in America, this film of his incredible stage act would b ..."
"Dickie Pilager hat ein Herz für die Umwelt, er hat ein Herz für sein Land – er hat ein Herz für einfach alles. Deshalb ist er auch der ideale Kandidat für die anstehende Wahl zum Gouverneur Colorados. Extrem nutzerfreundlich, wie sein Wahlkampfmanager, der hart gesottene und geborene Propagandamacher Chuck Raven, sich ausdrückt. Dickie Pilager ist nicht wirklich korrupt: Er tut einfach nur das, was die Wirtschaftsbosse und sein Vater, S ..."
"Viel zu oberflächlich! Die Geschichte dieses Film noir des Regisseurs Lee Tomahori ist das genaue Gegenteil seines ausgereiften Stils. Zwischen versteckten Motiven und entsetzlichen Darbietungen auf der Leinwand starrt man auf den Lichtbalken, der sich über alte Polizistenschreibtische legt. Beim Nachsinnen über Super-8-Filmmaterial einer nackten Jennifer Connelly schweifen die Gedanken -- ach ja, eine Anspielung auf die Eröffnungsszene ..."
"Sandra Bernhard's dazzling one-woman show comes to video after a wildly successful Broadway run and national tour that virtually jump-started her career after a low-key decade of writing books and making various television appearances (Roseanne). Less structured and formal than her previous film, the cult classic Without You I'm Nothing, I'm Still Here... Damn It! catches La Diva Sandra in San Francisco, some six months pregnant and lay ..."
"John Goodman (O'Brother, Where Art Thou?) brings the legendary Babe Ruth to life in this triumphant film Entertainment Weekly calls 'a crowd pleaser'. Co-starring Kelly McGillis (Witness, Top Gun), The Babe chronicles Ruth's phenomenal story - from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing life and career included seven Ameri ..."
"Don Murray (Bus Stop) and Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey) deliver "honest, heartfelt" (Time) performances in this riveting true-life story of an inner-city hero. Charged withan intelligent screenplay, masterful direction and a powerful cast, The Hoodlum Priest is a "forceful, moving [and] thoroughly unpredictable" (Newsweek) film. Reverend Charles Dismas Clark (Murray) is a man of the cloth who fights a never-ending battle to give ..."
"Starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, this provocative mystery thriller won** five 1967 OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture. Highlighted by an evocative score from OscarÂ(r)-winning*** composer Quincy Jones, In The Heat Of The Night is a "powerful film" (The New York Times) that delivers the "highest level of exciting entertainment" (New York Daily News)! While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil ..."
"By strumming his guitar with words of inspiration, Woody Guthrie instilled hope in the hearts of downtrodden Americans everywhere during the 1930s Depression. Now, the extraordinary life of this legendary balladeer and poet is captured in this "elegantly crafted, hugely beautiful and interesting film, which reveals loving integrity in every frame" (Los Angeles Times)! Winner* of two OscarsÂ(r) and starring David Carradine, Bound for Glo ..."
"Kevin McKiernan directs this passionate account about the plight of the Kurds, the world's largest minority without a nation. The film opens with McKiernan shopping around his painstakingly researched findings to ABC's Nightline and other news telecasts only to meet complete indifference. From there, he describes the Gunduz family, an exiled Kurdish family. The film cuts between grisly footage from the front lines of Turkey's bloody Kur ..."
"Francis Ford Coppola's intense study of Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a surveillance expert who tapes a conversation shared by a young couple in San Francisco's Union Square. As Caul comes to believe the recording may lead to their deaths, he begins to question his profession and his own sense of privacy. John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, and Robert Duvall also star in this stunning Wa ..."
"This edge-of-your-seat thriller stars sexy Halle Berry (X-MEN, MONSTER'S BALL, DIE ANOTHER DAY) as a beautiful woman hopelessly trapped in a web of suspense and terror where nothing is what it seems! Josie Potenza (Berry) has it all: a fabulous home, a life of privilege, and a wealthy husband. But Josie's seemingly perfect life takes a nightmarish turn when her husband is brutally murdered -- making her the prime suspect in the police i ..."
"Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to "the motherland," Africa. As funny as is the routine in which ..."
"Robert Duvall plays a veteran street cop assigned to a Los Angeles gang unit. He takes a headstrong young cop (Sean Penn) under his wing as a partner and shows him the ropes on Watts's mean streets. Penn soon realizes that his testosterone-fueled ways and hair-trigger temper won't get him very far when dealing with the gang-ridden neighborhoods of L.A. Colors is a landmark movie in several respects: it helped bring director Dennis Hoppe ..."