| Jamon Jamon STEFANIA SANDRELLI ANNA GALIENA JUAN DIEGO PENéLOPE CRUZ JAVIER BARDEM Director:BIGAS LUNA List price:USD $19.98 Used Price:USD $12.99 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $19.99 Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna's Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and--d... |
| Men With Guns FEDERICO LUPPI DAMIáN DELGADO DAN RIVERA GONZáLEZ TANIA CRUZ DAMIáN ALCáZAR Director:JOHN SAYLES List price:USD $102.98 Used Price:USD $3.98 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $26.89 It is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-known cast, the film is a beguiling mix of the political and the mythical. A well-he... |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown CARMEN MAURA ANTONIO BANDERAS JULIETA SERRANO MARíA BARRANCO ROSSY DE PALMA Director:PEDRO ALMODóVAR List price:USD $14.95 Used Price:USD $8.71 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $28.09 my introduction to the world of Pedro Almodovar......:Pedro Almodovar, an internationally and critically acclaimed Spanish director, takes eccentricity and neuroses to new heights in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, one of his most well known films. Pepa (Carmen Maura)... |
| Dr. Seuss - Un pez, dos peces, pez rojo, pez azul (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish) PAOLA BEDARIDA SAUNDERS List price:USD $7.98 Used Price:USD $4.99 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $27.98 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is more than a humorous tale about a school of aquatic creatures. Theodor Seuss Geisel enchants youngsters with a fanciful journey into the world of lumped Gumps, bookish Nooks, and boxing Gox. His fresh use of rhyme celebrates the wonde... |
| Miracle in Rome GERARDO ARELLANO ENRIQUE BUENAVENTURA AMALIA DUQUE GARCíA SANTIAGO GARCíA (III) DANIEL PRIOLETT List price:USD $19.98 Used Price:USD $32.95 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $49.00 Miracle In Rome:I first saw this movie on TV and was so taken by it that neither my daughter or myself could leave the room to go to the bathroom while it was on, thinking we would miss something. It is a movie that the intellectually challenged would not appreciate, but it abso... |
| Cabeza De Vaca JUAN DIEGO DANIEL GIMéNEZ CACHO ROBERTO SOSA CARLOS CASTAñóN GERARDO VILLARREAL Director:NICOLáS ECHEVARRíA List price:USD $9.98 Used Price:USD $29.99 Lowest New/Used Price: This Film is a "must see":I have to agree with the positive reviews on this movie. I saw it several years ago, I think on PBS. It was so long ago I can't be sure but what I am sure is this movie continues to haunt me to this day. With the problems about the rendering to DVD, I... |
| Strawberry & Chocolate - - Subtitled in English JORGE PERUGORRíA VLADIMIR CRUZ MIRTA IBARRA FRANCISCO GATTORNO JOEL ANGELINO Director:TOMáS GUTIéRREZ ALEA List price:USD $9.99 Used Price:USD $1.98 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $8.90 This charming Cuban film details the unusual relationship between the flamboyant, educated Diego (Jorge Perugorría) and the young, homophobic, pro-Revolution David (Vladimir Cruz). Miserable at being dumped by his girlfriend, David at first spurns the attentions of Diego; howeve... |
| "Ay, Carmela!" CARMEN MAURA ANDRéS PAJARES GABINO DIEGO MAURIZIO DE RAZZA JOSé SANCHO Director:CARLOS SAURA List price:USD $19.98 Used Price:USD $7.98 Lowest New/Used Price: ¡Ay,Carmela!:Even if you do not know a lot about the Spanish Civil War, you will enjoy this incredible movie about that time period in history. There is comedy, tragedy, pathos, suspense and wisdom in this story of a piece of the war as seen through the eyes of two traveling en... |
| High Heels VICTORIA ABRIL MARISA PAREDES MIGUEL BOSé ANNA LIZARAN MAYRATA O'WISIEDO Director:PEDRO ALMODóVAR List price:USD $7.99 Used Price:USD $9.99 Lowest New/Used Price: Almodrama:Like all great Almodovar movies, traditional gender roles are subverted in 'High Heels'. In fact for WASP suburbanite America, much of this plot would seem like an episode of Jerry Springer. Mother abandons daughter for singing career, daughter marries mother's former l... |
| Deprisa, Deprisa BERTA SOCUéLLAMOS JOSé ANTONIO VALDELOMAR JESúS ARIAS JOSé MARíA HERVáS ROLDáN MARíA DEL MAR SERRANO Director:CARLOS SAURA List price:USD $29.95 Used Price:USD $13.44 Lowest New/Used Price: |
| I Don't Want to Talk About It (VHS) MARCELLO MASTROIANNI LUISINA BRANDO ALEJANDRA PODESTA BETIANA BLUM ROBERTO CARNAGHI Director:MARíA LUISA BEMBERG List price:USD $19.98 Used Price:USD $27.00 Lowest New/Used Price: Wonderful! A celebration of being different!:This is a delightful film by Argentine director Maria Luisa Bemberg (who directed her first film at age 56! - an inspiration to us all). The movie takes place in a small Argentine town by the name of San Jose de los Altares, some tim... |
| The Little Mermaid 2 - Return to the Sea/La Sirenita II: Regreso al Mar JODI BENSON TARA STRONG PAT CARROLL BUDDY HACKETT Director:BRIAN SMITH (XV) List price:USD $26.99 Used Price:USD $7.62 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $19.95 Ariel and her husband, Prince Eric, have a little problem with their daughter, Melody, in the sequel to Disney's landmark The Little Mermaid. Melody is threatened by Morgana, the evil sister of the sea witch Ursula (both voiced by Pat Carroll). Before you can say "Briar Rose," Me... |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley MATT DAMON GWYNETH PALTROW JUDE LAW CATE BLANCHETT PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Director:ANTHONY MINGHELLA List price:USD $14.95 Used Price:USD $0.01 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $3.67 "I feel like I've been handed a new life," says Tom Ripley at a crucial turning point of this well-cast, stylishly crafted psychological thriller. And indeed he has, because the devious, impoverished Ripley (played with subtle depth by Matt Damon) has just traded his own identity... |
| Bilingual Baby, SPANISH HEATHER ANKENY CHARLES ROBINSON MICHELLE PHILLIPS Director:LESLIE KOLINS SMALL List price:USD $16.95 Used Price:USD $1.95 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $10.19 This total immersion approach to language means that no English is spoken on this video, and only the occasional sentence is translated onscreen. Instead, viewers are treated to five sections of objects, concepts, or actions while a woman identifies them in Spanish. The first se... |
| Simon of the Desert CLAUDIO BROOK ENRIQUE ÁLVAREZ FéLIX HORTENSIA SANTOVEñA FRANCISCO REIGUERA LUIS ACEVES CASTAñEDA Director:LUIS BUñUEL List price:USD $29.95 Used Price:USD $29.99 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $169.99 I see the Good in this picture:There is much interesting and I found goodness in the picture. The character Simon is wonderfully played. He is taken away by the temptingly beautiful Satan to a sixties rock nightclub. Even though seated at a table it is as if he is still on the ... |
| Danzon MARíA ROJO CARMEN SALINAS TITO VASCONCELOS MARGARITA ISABEL VíCTOR CARPINTEIRO Director:MARíA NOVARO List price:USD $19.98 Used Price:USD $5.43 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $34.99 Effects of dancing the danzón:I would advise any cinefile with a human heart and an appreciation of true art to disregard all reviews (including this one), watch the movie, and judge for himself; lest he miss a unique and uniquely profound experience.
The film is a timeless thi... |
| All About My Mother ELOY AZORíN CARMEN BALAGUé (II) YAEL BARNATáN TONI CANTó PENéLOPE CRUZ List price:USD $21.96 Used Price:USD $2.00 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $6.00 After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who turns ... |
| Pretty Woman JASON ALEXANDER BILL APPLEBAUM HANK AZARIA JUDITH BALDWIN RALPH BELLAMY List price:USD $9.99 Used Price:USD $1.95 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $4.90 Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting (and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular) morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story--and a mainstream megahit. This is the movie that made Roberts a star; the charm ... |
| Blown Away JEFF BRIDGES TOMMY LEE JONES SUZY AMIS LLOYD BRIDGES FOREST WHITAKER Director:STEPHEN HOPKINS List price:USD $9.94 Used Price:USD $0.01 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $1.99 Before he made the man-eating lion thriller The Ghost and the Darkness and the special- effects-laden Lost in Space, director Stephen Hopkins helmed this ludicrous and critically panned thriller pitting a cop on the Boston Police bomb squad (Jeff Bridges) against a mad Irish bomb... |
| Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) ERIC BANA NICHOLAS BIRD (II) ALBERT BROOKS WILLEM DAFOE ELLEN DEGENERES Director:ANDREW STANTON List price:USD $24.99 Used Price:USD $7.94 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $24.99 A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way h... |