Most directors use a hit film to launch an immediate career–but not Paul Brickman, who hit in 1983 with Risky Business then waited until 1990 to make this, his second movie. And it was a good, if overlooked one, starring Jessica Lange as a woman suddenly widowed and unable to cope. She moves her kids (including Chris O’Donnell in his film debut) from the suburbs to downtown Baltimore, where they develop urban survival skills much more quickly than she does. Most of the plot centers on her inability to open up to a man (Arliss…
Description A day in the life of a young Parisian woman, Valerie, shot in real time. Follow Valerie around as she meditates on the paths of human nature she crosses, sometimes comic, sometimes hostile, which lead her to make important decisions about her future.Amazon.com Next to the blandly flawless feminist heroines played by Demi Moore and Meg Ryan in American movies, Valerie (Virginie Ledoyen), the protagonist in Benoît Jacquot’s excellent French film A Single Girl, boasts a whole catalog of shortcomings. Yes, she is young and beautiful (movies are movies, even in the French realist tradition), but she is also selfish,…
Description Dead Blue: A Film About Surviving Depression presents three prominent survivors of clinical depression–60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, psychologist Martha Manning, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Styron–as they openly discuss their struggles with this mental disorder which is suffered by 18 million Americans.
An English instructional film looking at all aspects of breast feeding. Antenatal welfare and preparation is advised – the importance of good diet (sample meals are shown by a midwife) and the clinical examination of the breasts are encouraged. Postnatal management begins in hospital with the establishment of lactation during the ‘Lying In’ period; the importance of hygiene around the nipple is encouraged. Shots then include the mother and baby at home – we see the preparation of the cot, nappy changing, the use of the potty and the…
An English instructional film looking at all aspects of breast feeding. Antenatal welfare and preparation is advised – the importance of good diet (sample meals are shown by a midwife) and the clinical examination of the breasts are encouraged. Postnatal management begins in hospital with the establishment of lactation during the ‘Lying In’ period; the importance of hygiene around the nipple is encouraged. Shots then include the mother and baby at home – we see the preparation of the cot, nappy changing, the use of the potty and the…
Product Description An elderly street performer is offered a chance to practice his art with the Peking Opera. He refuses, wanting only to pass the tradition onto an hier of male descent. One night he is sold a boy only to find out later that the child is a girl. Genre: Foreign Film – Chinese Rating: UN Release Date: 7-MAR-2000 Media Type: DVDAmazon.com The King of Masks tells a tale steeped in ancient tradition, simultaneously challenging the sociosexual inequity still plaguing China today. On the streets of Szechuan Province in the 1930s, the aged King of Masks, sole living master of “change-face” opera,…
Product Description From filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider-Man® Army of Darkness) and acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Shimizu comes a terrifying tale of horror in the tradition of The Ring and 28 Days Later. Sarah Michelle Gellar (TV s Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) stars as an American nurse who has come to work in Tokyo. Following a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths she encounters the vengeful supernatural spirit that possesses its victims claims their souls then passes its curse to another person in a spreading chain of horror. Now she must find a way to break this supernatural spell or…
