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Peppermint Candy

Actor: Kyung-Gu Sol; Moon So-Ri; Yeo-Jin Kim
ASIN : B000B1DSP2
Sales Rank : 59929
Director : Chang-Dong Lee
Studio : YA Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full length, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0880604000190
UPC : 880604000190
Release Date : December 17, 2005
Publisher : YA Entertainment
Manufacturer : YA Entertainment
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Label : YA Entertainment
Running Time : 129

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Spring, 1999. On a railroad bridge overlooking an idyllic riverbank, Yong-Ho (Sul Kyung-Ku) faces an oncoming train. Distraught and beyond reason, Yong-Ho shouts, "I'm going back!" right before the train takes his life...

Peppermint Candy takes viewers back before Yong-Ho's death, and back through 20 years of the doomed man's life. Director Lee Chang-Dong weaves an emotionally wrenching tale about the futility of dreams against the unstoppable march of time. Like Memento, Peppermint Candy unfolds in reverse, with each stop in time giving new insight into Yong-Ho, as he becomes the man who will one day submit to his own death on a railroad bridge - the very same bridge beneath which he would declare his love for Sun-Im (Moon So-Ri) 20 years earlier...

But Peppermint Candy is more than a portrait of one man's self-destructive regret. Lee Chang-Dong takes Yong-Ho and the audience through 20 years of turbulent Korean history, including a stop at the tragic Gwang-ju Massacre, where Yong-Ho performs an act that will forever change his life. Full of harrowing moments and bittersweet emotions, Peppermint Candy earns every bit of its reputation as a masterpiece of the Korean New Wave!

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Joan Collins: The Bitch

Actor: John Ratzenberger Joan Collins; Michael Colby; Kenneth Haigh
ASIN : B000BTITXK
Sales Rank : 36577
Director : Gerry O'Hara
Brand : PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Trinity Home Ent
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0692865232339
UPC : 692865232339
Release Date : December 31, 2006
Publisher : Trinity Home Ent
Manufacturer : Trinity Home Ent
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Label : Trinity Home Ent
Running Time : 102

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Synopsis: From the best selling novel by Jackie Collins, meet Fontaine, a high living, pleasure-seeking divorcee who meets her match in the first class cabin on a flight to London. Unbeknownst to Fontaine, the elegant Italian Nico Cantafora was not just interested in playing around and has secretly brought her into an international robbery. Little does he know, Fontaine is up for any game…

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Me & You, Us, Forever

Actors: Michael Blain-Rozgay, Stacey J. Aswad, Hugh McLean, Jenna Bailey, Karla Droege
ASIN : B001JDN50Y
Sales Rank : 13840
Director : Dave Christiano
Studio : Dave Christiano Films
Region Code : 0
Format : Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0824483011090
UPC : 824483011090
Release Date : December 09, 2008
Publisher : Dave Christiano Films
Manufacturer : Dave Christiano Films
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Label : Dave Christiano Films
Running Time : 101

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A 47 year old Christian man (Michael Blain-Rozgay) is on the other side of an unwanted divorce. Searching for answers to ease the pain and make sense of his life, he meets a woman (Stacey J. Aswad) at a divorce recovery group. The two forge a friendship and find they have a common bond: both have been thinking about their lost first loves. As he reminisces about his old high school girlfriend (Kathryn Worsham), he regrets he ever broke up with her...and now, 30 years later....wants to see her again.

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Degrassi: The Next Generation Ultimate Fan Set

Actors: Daniel Clark, Shane Kippel, Lauren Collins, Sarah Barrable-Tishauer
ASIN : B001FDEJD0
Sales Rank : 72936
Director : Graeme Campbell, Chris Deacon, Paul Fox
Studio : Funimation
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0704400113390
UPC : 704400113390
Release Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : Funimation
Manufacturer : Funimation
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Label : Funimation
Running Time : 3200

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Fans have been following the students of Degrassi Community School since the television debut of the series Kids of Degrassi Street in 1979 and now nearly 20 years later, new fans are growing into Degrassi every day as they tune into the critically acclaimed and top rated program on The N, Degrassi: The Next Generation.

The new generation of Degrassi classmates face the challenges and pressures that are part of growing up and some new issues as well. This environment is much different than that of their parents. It s filled with the Internet, body piercing, hip-hop and more opportunities for pitfalls than ever. Remember when meeting pen pals wasn t risky? These kids may be more media savvy than their parents but they aren t necessarily more sophisticated.

The Ultimate Fan Set contains Seasons 1-6 of the series. On 22 discs with over 3200 minutes of Degrassi drama!

Plus, as a bonus, you'll receive Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi.

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Miss Julie - Criterion Collection

Actors: Anita Bjork, Palme, Von Sydow
ASIN : B000XPSC0W
Sales Rank : 32278
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Criterion Collection
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0715515027427
UPC : 715515027427
Release Date : December 22, 2008
Publisher : Criterion Collection
Manufacturer : Criterion Collection
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Label : Criterion Collection
Running Time : 90

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Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix winning adaptation of August Strindberg s renowned 1888 play (censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content) brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman s daughter (Anita Bjork, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father s bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style, Sjöberg s film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer

New video essay by film historian Peter Cowie

Archival television interview with director Alf Sjöberg

A 2006 television documentary about the play Miss Julie and author August Strindberg

Theatrical trailer

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Peter Matthews and Birgitta Steene

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The caged finch that figures in Miss Julie's credit sequence sums up August Strindberg's tragic heroine all too well--she may be "jewel of the house", but she's also trapped. In Alf Sjöberg's expressionist adaptation, Anita Björk plays the high-born Julie to Ulf Palme's laborer's son Jean (with her feline features, Björk resembles a fair-haired Vivien Leigh). As much as the controlling aristocrat and social climbing valet detest each other, desire cannot be denied. Other impediments include the times (late-19th century Sweden), the ever-present staff (notably Max von Sydow's lusty groom), and Jean's upright fiancée (Märta Dorff). Unlike the thematically similar Lady Chatterly's Lover, their affair blooms and withers over the course of a single Midsummer's Eve, though Sjöberg's dissolves to dreams and memories lends their brief encounter an epic dimension (Jean has been smitten with Julie since childhood).

Like his protégé Ingmar Bergman, Sjöberg divided his time between stage and screen--the same as his theatrically trained leads. Though they remain fully clothed, suggestions of sado-masochism led American censors to ban the film in 1951. Shot by August's descendant, Göran Strindberg, the Cannes Grand Prize winner bears the otherworldly look of Bergman's The Magician combined with the hothouse atmosphere of Elia Kazan's A Streetcar named Desire. As Peter Cowie notes in the illuminating video essay, Strindberg's stormy marriage to a baroness inspired his masterpiece (not for nothing did he title his autobiography The Son of a Servant). In the booklet, Birgitta Steene puts the playwright's career in further perspective, while Peter Mathews does the honors for the director. The supplements conclude with a short Sjöberg interview from 1966, a moving made-for-TV documentary from 2006 (Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight), and the US theatrical trailer. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Amazing Adventure / Penny Serenade

Actor: Cary Grant
ASIN : B0001OGUXG
Sales Rank : 21615
Studio : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0096009154097
UPC : 096009154097
Release Date : December 12, 2003
Publisher : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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Label : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Running Time : 190

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Amazing Adventure: Uselessness and boredom have gotten the best of wealthy heir Ernest Bliss. A doctor suggests that he work for a living to gain a sense of fulfillment, and to encourage this, he makes a little wager with Ernest Penny Serenade: A marriage is put to the test when an earthquake leads to a miscarriage, leaving the woman barrenbut this is only the beginning. When the couple is barely able to scrape by financially due to a new job, and their adopted daughter suddenly becomes fatally ill, their despair drives them to the brink of a breakdown.

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Judex (Deluxe Edition)

Actors: René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé, Gaston Michel
ASIN : B0001Y4MJA
Sales Rank : 39065
Director : Louis Feuillade
Studio : Flicker Alley
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Silent, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0617311672392
UPC : 617311672392
Release Date : December 01, 2004
Publisher : Flicker Alley
Manufacturer : Flicker Alley
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Label : Flicker Alley
Running Time : 300

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Flicker Alley presents JUDEX, an important part of cinema history now available for the first time. This remarkably inventive and dreamlike French serial by the great Louis Feuillade represents a highlight in French filmmaking and has inspired generations filmmakers since its first release in 1917. One of cinema's first "superheroes," the mysterious Judex (René Cresté) is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker Favraux (Louis Leubas), who had earlier wronged his family, and his secret love of Favraux's daughter, Jacqueline (Yvette Andreyor). This framework is the basis of a series of extraordinary and engaging incidents involving Judex's brother (Edouard Mathe), the evil Diana Monti (Musidora) and her accomplices, the detective Cocatin (Marcel Levesque), and the charming Licorice Kid (Bout-de-Zan), all of them regular players in Feuillade's grand tapestries. Enjoy this brand new digital edition of what the Village Voice declared as "one of the most lithe, charming, inventive, and supplely paced serials ever made."

DVD Features:

• The most complete version of the film currently available presented in its entirety in a newly tinted film transfer • A brand new English language translation • A new digitally recorded orchestral score by the renowned silent film composer Robert Israel

Special Bonus Features:

• New booklet essay by noted film historian Jan-Christopher Horak • The Music of Judex – Robert Israel discusses his process

For creating the music score in an 18-minute featurette

Credits: Directed by Louis Feuillade Screenplay by Arthur Bernede and Louis Feuillade Cinematography by André Glatti and Léon Klausse Production Design by Robert-Jules Garnier Original Serial released by Gaumont Co. Ltd., France (1917)

Cast: René Cresté, Edouard Mathé, Musidora, Yvette Andréyor, Marcel Lévesque, Louis Leubas, Jean Devalde, René Poyen, Gaston Michel, Yvonne Dario, Olinda Mano, Georges Flateau, Lily Deligny, Juliette Clarens

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Occupying a delicious place between Victorian melodrama and superhero comic books, Judex is one of the great serials from the career of French movie pioneer Louis Feuillade. From his castle lair high above the countryside, mystery man Judex (granite-faced Rene Creste) seeks to protect the lovely Jacqueline, while nursing a secret hatred for her fatcat father. Multiple kidnappings, assassination attempts, and narrow escapes follow; much of the mischief is orchestrated by wicked temptress Diana Monti (Musidora, the star of Feuillade's Les Vampires). There's also a delightfully overwhelmed detective (Marcel Levesque), who's a sort of prototype of Monsieur Clouseau, and a streetwise Artful Dodger known as the Licorice Kid.

On DVD, the serial's 12 episodes and prologue are smartly tinted and feature a lively orchestral score by Robert Israel. Feuillade's use of real locations (both Paris and the Riviera figure prominently in the action) gives the film a realistic freshness that cuts wonderfully against the flamboyant plotline. When Feuillade's serials were re-discovered in the 1940s, they proved influential to a generation of filmmakers, and Georges Franju actually did a feature-length remake of Judex in 1963. Indeed, the figure of Judex remains a powerful fantasy protector: his secret lair, his disguises, his complete moral authority (although a cynic might point out that he doesn't always do a good job of protecting his ladylove--but then there'd be no cliffhangers). For all intents and purposes, Judex is Batman. He even has the cape. --Robert Horton

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The Dogwalker

Actors: Diane Gaidry, Pamela Gordon
ASIN : B000OQDSGI
Sales Rank : 18514
Director : Jacques Thelemaque
Brand : DIGITAL1STOP
Studio : Reel Indies
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Digital Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0683904700025
UPC : 683904700025
Release Date : December 24, 2007
Publisher : Reel Indies
Manufacturer : Reel Indies
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Label : Reel Indies
Running Time : 82

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Set against the colorful backdrop of the Los Angeles dog walking scene, The Dogwalker follows the moving, transformational journey of Ellie Moore (Diane Gaidry), on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend. Down and out on the mean streets of L.A, rescue comes in the unlikely form of Betsy Wright (Pamela Gordon), a misanthropic Dogwalker in need of help with her business and struggling with her own dark past. The unusual relationship between the cranky dogwalker and her unstable apprentice sets the stage for the emotional transformation Ellie must undertake.

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