| Title |
Format |
Release |
Director |
Pick By |
| Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai, The |
VHS |
1984 |
W.D. Richter |
--Anthony |
Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai, The |
DVD |
1984 |
W.D. Richter |
Neurosurgeon, physicist, jet car inventor, rock musician, martial arts expert--Buckaroo Banzai is a New Wave Doc Savage, a Twentieth-Century Renaissance Man. But can he and his Hong Kong Cavaliers thwart the demented Dr. Emilio Lizardo and the nefarious Red Lectroids of Planet 10? The cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, and Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai. The special edition dvd includes the film's original voiceover introduction featuring an appearance by Jamie Lee Curtis as Buckaroo's mother, commentary by W.D. Richter, the history of Buckaroo's jet car, and other secrets from the files of the Banzai Institute.--Anthony |
Affair Of Love |
DVD |
2000 |
Frederic Fonteyne |
--Christine |
Affair Of Love |
VHS |
2000 |
Frederic Fonteyne |
This film is erotic with very little sex and romantic with very little romance.--Christine |
Arizona Dream |
VHS |
1994 |
Emir Kusturica |
Though Arizona Dream is Yugoslav Emir Kusturica's first film on this continent, the dream of the title is a distant relation to the American Dream. It's more the dream of the mystic: transcendent, nocturnal, and ecstatic Launched by an opening sequence set in Alaska-complete with Eskimos, huskies, and an emblematically mercurial flat fish, the work has a lyric absurdity that won't sit still. An only slightly post-adolescent Johnny Depp and a well-aged Faye Dunaway-unpainted and full of feral passion-become fools for love and other impossible dreams in a world grounded by the "saner" likes of Vincent Gallo, Jerry Lewis and a devoutly suicidal Lili Taylor. The five player-narcissistic, amoral, exuberant and, in the hands of Kusturica, surreally in each others' faces-turn in the ensemble performances of their careers. A small and giddy tragi-comedy in form, Arizona Dream is orchestral in spirit: Instead of laying music over imagery, Kusturica weaves it into a restlessly majestic rhythym of light-and-dark, repeated poetic detail, camera movement, facial expression, and ambient sound. The film offers a rare and almost private experience: the mid-sleep revelation one sometimes gets when visited by a dream whose vividness is matched by its strangeness. --David Goodale (Customer) |
Blow Out |
DVD |
1981 |
Brian DePalma, Brian De Palma |
Brian DePalma's operatic and hallucinatory film comments not only on his early career focus of trying to find "the perfect scream" but also adds to the canon of movies which looked underneath the shiny America of the Reagan years. John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and Dennis Franz are just about perfect. --Tom |
Bounce |
DVD |
|
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A couple of falsely distracting turns near the end, but before that, wittier and more affecting than you might expect.--Tom |
Bounce |
VHS |
2000 |
Don Roos |
A couple of falsely distracting turns near the end, but before that, wittier and more affecting than you might expect.--Tom |
Breakfast At Tiffanys |
VHS |
1961 |
Sam O. Brown, William Blake McEdwards, Blake Edwards |
Audrey Hepburn's best and most classic role. Exemplifies style and the early sixties.--Angela |
Breakfast At Tiffanys |
DVD |
1961 |
Blake Edwards |
Audrey Hepburn's best and most classic role. Exemplifies style and the early sixties.--Angela |
Breakfast At Tiffanys |
DVD |
1961 |
Blake Edwards |
Centennial Edition--Angela |
Brother Sun Sister Moon |
VHS |
1973 |
Franco Zeffirelli |
--Aimee |
Brother Sun Sister Moon |
DVD |
1973 |
Franco Zeffirelli |
--Aimee |
California Split |
VHS |
1974 |
Robert Altman |
If you like "The Long Goodbye," this is Altman in the same vein. Could anybody but Elliott Gould be so great in this? Aren't he and George Segal a beautiful pair?--Meg |
California Split |
DVD |
1974 |
Robert Altman |
If you like "The Long Goodbye," this is Altman in the same vein. Could anybody but Elliott Gould be so great in this? Aren't he and George Segal a beautiful pair?--Meg |