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List Price: $19.98Price: $14.99You Save: $4.99 (25%)Angels in America
Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Patrick Wilson, Mary-Louise Parker
ASIN : B0001I2BUI
Sales Rank : 2322
Director : Mike Nichols
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : HBO Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783129501
ISBN : 0783129505
UPC : 026359229923
Release Date : December 14, 2004
Publisher : HBO Home Video
Manufacturer : HBO Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : HBO Home Video
Running Time : 352
DescriptionAcademy Award-winners Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6-hour HBO Films Event. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play: Angels in America. Amazon.comTony Kushner's prize-winning play Angels in America became the defining theatrical event of the 1990s, an astonishing mix of philosophy, politics, and vibrant gay soap opera that summed up the Reagan era for an entire generation of theater-goers. Post-9/11 would seem to be too late for a film version--philosophy and politics don't always age well--but this 2003 HBO adaptation, ably directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate), provides a time capsule of the '80s and reveals the deep emotional subcurrents that will give the play lasting power. The story centers around Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) and Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), a gay couple that falls apart when Prior grows ill as a result of AIDS. But cancer is not the only thing invading Prior's life: He begins to have religious visions of an angel (Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility) announcing that he is a prophet. Louis, who doesn't cope well with disease and suggestions of mortality, leaves and starts a relationship with Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson), a closeted Mormon who works for Roy Cohn (Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon)--the real-life right-wing lawyer, notorious for his ruthless behind-the-scenes machinations. Add in Joe's depressed and hallucinating wife Harper (Mary Louise Parker, Fried Green Tomatoes), his determined but open-minded mother Hannah (Meryl Streep, Adaptation), a fierce drag queen/nurse named Belize (Jeffrey Wright, Basquiat, reprising his celebrated performance from the Broadway production), and you've still only begun to discover the wealth of characters and storylines in Kushner's ambitious work. The powerhouse cast (also featuring James Cromwell, Michael Gambon, and Simon Callow) is uniformly superb. The script has its weaknesses--some of the fantastic elements, including Prior's journey to Heaven towards the end, fall flat--but even what doesn't work is bristling with ideas and a ferocious desire to capture human existence in this time and place. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $19.94Price: $17.99You Save: $1.95 (10%)Touch of Pink
Actors: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Suleka Mathew, Kristen Holden-Ried, Brian George
ASIN : B0006GVJEY
Sales Rank : 20432
Director : Ian Iqbal Rashid
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781404959712
ISBN : 1404959718
UPC : 043396059771
Release Date : December 11, 2005
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 90
DescriptionWhen his conservative mom arrives to visit, a gay man attempts to keep his boyfriend and his London lifestyle in the closet with hilarious results!
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New Price: $12.55The Wolves of Kromer (1999), Lee Williams, James Layton; Narrated By Boy George; Directed By Will Gould
Actors: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Suleka Mathew, Kristen Holden-Ried, Brian George
ASIN : B00005ABV1
Sales Rank : 73992
Studio : First Run Features
Region Code : 1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229909679
UPC : 720229909679
Publisher : First Run Features
Manufacturer : First Run Features
Label : First Run Features
Running Time : 82
DescriptionIn the cozy English village of Kromer, where few things are as feared as the werewolves who wander the surrounding forests and fields, two young and handsome wolves, Seth and Gabriel, meet and fall in love. Although their habits and appearance are essentially human - except for the pointed ears, coats of fur and bushy tails - the wolves are considered outcasts and a dangerous menace to the village folk. Seth and Gabs roam the fringes of Kromer, keeping their fur and friendship out of sight. But certain townspeople, afraid of those different from themselves, devise a fiendish plot to pin a murder on the hated and feared wolves. The local priest - himself a bit lycanthropic - stirs up and angry mob that pursues the young prey to the end. This tale of young love fighting the hypocrisy of an older generation, combined with elements of the classic British murder mystery, gives the film a rich and lively texture, and allows the character's diversity to show interesting contrasts. Our young wolves and their pack are urbane, glamorous and clubby but live in a world that is far from a metropolis. Their world is in fact a timeless world of waterfalls, lakes and valleys. In contrast, the village folk live an outward life of church going and piousness yet have evil on their minds. Amazon.comA mix of revisionist fairy tale and social satire, this gay allegory imagines urban runaways as storybook werewolves lurking around the fringes of a quaint little village. Gabriel (James Layton) is a rascally, seductive veteran of the wilds who fancies young Seth (Lee Williams), an innocent newcomer tossed out of his home by parents appalled at his sudden transformation from normal boy to... wolf. Sporting shaggy fur coats, long fingernails, and pointy Spock-like ears, these handsome young cubs are a cross between Dickensian street urchins, Peter Pan's Lost Boys, and modern homeless kids. Harmless (except when committing petty crimes and doing some minor hell raising), they are feared and despised by the good churchgoing folk of the town, demonized in sermons, and blamed for the crimes of a few citizens whose pious façades hide the true evil in this rural paradise. It's a modest little tale with a simplistic view (it's a fairy tale, after all) and easy scapegoats in the scheming elderly villagers, but it's a clever approach accomplished with suggestion and sly revisionism. A rebellious city girl puts a cute twist on "Little Red Riding Hood" when she seduces the cute, naïve Seth, and a priest proclaims, "There were no wolves in the Garden of Eden," before loading his gun for a hunting expedition. Sweet, romantic, and sad, there's even a "happily ever after" worked into an otherwise tragic turn. --Sean Axmaker
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List Price: $24.99Price: $22.49You Save: $2.5 (10%)Zero Patience
Actors: Bernard Behrens, Dianne Heatherington, Brenda Kamino, Duncan McIntosh, Von Flores
ASIN : B00080ETZE
Sales Rank : 64631
Director : John Greyson
Studio : Strand Releasing
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0712267250820
UPC : 712267250820
Release Date : December 17, 2005
Publisher : Strand Releasing
Manufacturer : Strand Releasing
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Label : Strand Releasing
Running Time : 100
DescriptionJohn Greyson, the director of LILIES and PROTEUS, has woven a tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria, in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America. Fast-paced, hilarious and provocative, ZERO PATIENCE is essential viewing.
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Price: $19.98Girl Explores Girl - The Alien Encounter
Actor: Laurie Wallace; Darian Caine
ASIN : B00004RF4E
Sales Rank : 38420
Director : John Bacchus
Studio : Ei Independent Cinema
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Director's Cut, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0612385100499
UPC : 612385100499
Release Date : December 22, 2005
Publisher : Ei Independent Cinema
Manufacturer : Ei Independent Cinema
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Label : Ei Independent Cinema
Running Time : 110
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List Price: $19.99Price: $17.99You Save: $2 (10%)Claire (2001) (Full B&W)
Actor: Toniet Gallego
ASIN : B000HC2LSU
Sales Rank : 119890
Director : Milford Thomas
Brand : Claire
Studio : Strand Releasing
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0712267500321
UPC : 712267500321
Release Date : December 26, 2006
Publisher : Strand Releasing
Manufacturer : Strand Releasing
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Label : Strand Releasing
Running Time : 53
Description Directed by : Milford Thomas
Set in a storybook 1920s rural American South and inspired by the Japanese fairytale "Kaguyahime," Milford Thomas' CLAIRE tells the story of a childless, elderly male couple who discover a princess made of moonlight inside an ear of corn. The enchanting young Claire bewitches onlookers with her readings of fantastic poetry in unfamiliar languages, entrances a local boy who courts tragedy when he tries to win her affection, and unwittingly becomes a healer in the process. While exemplifying the untraditional family (two men lovingly raising a moon-child), CLAIRE celebrates the diversity of family and sublimely addresses the grief associated with losing a loved one.
An homage to early cinema, the film was glowingly shot on a vintage hand-cranked 35mm camera and is accompanied by the Orchestra De Lune conducted by Anne Richardson. Like its silent-era camera, all set-design and special effects were achieved the old-fashioned way, using canvas backgrounds, semi-hidden wires and multiple exposures, creating a timeless atmosphere of wonderment and magic.
CLAIRE is written, directed, produced and edited by Milford Thomas and stars Toniet Gallego, Mish P. DeLight, James Ferguson.
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