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Posted by GPR79 on 10/14/05 16:41
Payment via bank transfer preferred!
Take these 14 titles (18 films!) for £15 total, will send without amaray
cases to save on postage.
Antitrust R2
Archer's Adventure (Nicole Kidman) & Fearless Tiger (Bolo Yeung) R2
Double Bill
Ballad Of A Gunfighter (Martin Sheen, FF Coppola) R2
Cybertracker (Don The Dragon Wilson) R2
Death Ring & The Gladiator R2 Double Bill
Hired To Kill (Oliver Reed) R2
Hustler Squad & Indian Paint R2 Double Bill
Invisible Temptation & The Man Next Door R2 Double Bill
Muhammad Ali King Of The World R2
Mutant R2
Original Intent (Martin Sheen) R2
Ripper (Kelly Brook) R2
Terror, The (Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson) R2
Warhead R2
**TODAY'S SPECIALS**
Wong Kar-Wai Collection R1 £45
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Excellent newly remastered collection of Wong Kar-Wai classics from
Kino. Includes As Tears Go By, Days Of Being Wild, Fallen Angels,
Chungking Express & Happy Together.
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3-Iron (Region 3. Korean with English subtitles). 16:9. £6.00
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"Korean writer-director Kim reportedly took only two months to write,
direct and edit this, and yet it's one of his strongest films yet,
capturing raw realities about modern life while telling a genuinely
touching romance using virtually no dialog.
Tae-suk (Jae) is a young guy who takes up residence in homes that sit
empty while the occupants are on holiday. He cleans, does the laundry,
indulges in subtle practical jokes, then moves on. This pattern changes
drastically when he takes up residence in the upscale home of Min-kyu
and Sun-hwa (Kwon and Lee Seung-yeon), a hothead, golf-obsessed
businessman and his battered trophy-wife, who's a model. Sun-hwa is
hiding in the house when Tae-suk arrives, and soon she joins with him in
his work. Until her husband sends the cops looking for her.
The story shifts dramatically several times over the course of the film,
and it's structured in such a bracingly original way, constantly
transforming into something unexpected--caper, romance, thriller,
revenge, redemption, fairy tale. And Kim fills every scene with witty
touches that let us see into the minds of the characters without
resorting to obvious dialog or action. The film is jammed with clever
little twists, such as the basic fact that the hero is the criminal
while the victim is the brute. And the protagonist doesn't utter a
single word in the entire film. It's not that he's mute; he just doesn't
need words.
For an actor deprived of dialog, Jae gives a wonderfully well-rounded
performance. We really get under his skin and understand his soul. And
his dialog-free relationship with Lee is remarkably engaging. As they
embark on their own spree, they're like a new-model Butch and
Sundance--mischievous, charming, living on the edge on the wrong side of
the law. Combine this with a sweet romance, extreme emotions and some
moments of real terror, as well as a prison sequence reminiscent of both
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shawshank Redemption. This is
one of the most inventive films of the year--like nothing you've seen,
and completely unforgettable. "
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Blind Side R1 HBO £5
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Classic Rutger-Hauer-psycho flick!
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New Police Story R3 2-Disc DTS-ES £6
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A Better Tomorrow Trilogy OOP DTS Boxset £23.00
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The best releases of these John Woo classics on any region!
"A Better Tomorrow is the John Woo gangster classic that started it all,
a romantic, violent, swirlingly stylish melodrama about dueling
brothers--with a mesmerizing lead performance by Hong Kong's favorite
actor, Chow Yun-Fat. In repose, Chow's sleepy magnetism recalls the
glory days of Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Takakura Ken; when he's
stepping high, Chow has a unique, ebullient star presence, a man who
embraces life so unselfconsciously that he becomes vulnerable to all
kinds of suffering and heartache (he endures masochistic megadoses of
violence here). The sequence in which Chow's Mark avenges his betrayed
best friend---by blasting his way into, and then out of, a Chinese
restaurant, twin .45s blazing---is a swashbuckling standout. Woo's film
technique may have been more polished in later efforts, but Tomorrow has
a direct emotional power that is still unique. Kung fu star of the
1970s, Ti Lung is also terrific here as the 40ish established mobster,
relied upon by all, who allows conflicting loyalties toward Mark and
toward his younger brother, now a cop, to undermine the stability of his
position.
"I won't give you nothing, man; I give you ****," sneers charismatic
superstar Chow Yun Fat, in his role as a New York restaurateur who won't
knuckle under to the (Italian) mob in A Better Tomorrow II. Chow plays
the twin brother of the character he played in the original. The bond
between the natural siblings played by Ti Lung (as a reformed mobster)
and Leslie Cheung (as a hot shot cop) still resonate tellingly. As a
good-guy ex-thug driven batty by the slaying of his only daughter,
real-life Cinema City studio chief Dean Shek gets to play a garishly
extended "mad scene," foaming at the mouth, chewing on soup bones. A
later episode in which a dying man crawls to a phone booth to call his
wife (and newborn daughter) in the hospital must also be some kind of
lurid first in the soap sweepstakes. The final 15 minutes could be the
bloodiest single shoot-out sequence ever committed to celluloid. The
story line hasn't been shaped to any particular purpose here, but the
images have a golden Godfather-like glow, and this faintly
anachronistic, all-stops-out wish-fulfillment approach to moviemaking
still has a lot of power.
A Better Tomorrow III is prequel, set in Saigon during the fall, and the
weakest link in the trilogy, unacceptably restrained in both action and
emotion. Chow Yun-fat plays a younger version of Mark, his original
character, a hesitant young man digging for his roots in Vietnam, which
was also Tsui's birthplace, and we get to watch him assemble his totemic
trappings: the duster overcoat, the French shades, the twin .45s. The
surprise is that he gets most of them from a torchy dame played by Anita
Mui (the seductive singing ghost from Rouge), who's a more-than-worthy
high-noir love object. She can perforate miscreants with the best of
them. (John Woo wrote the original script, only to be supplanted as
director by his boss and supposed pal, Mr. Tsui; much of Woo's original
material ended up in his later magnum opus Bullet in the Head.) "
Special Features:
Available Audio: Cantonese DTS 5.1, Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1,
Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 & Original Cantonese Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual
Mono
Available Subtitles: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified) and
English
Picture format: 1.85:1 Anamorphic
Codes of Bullets: Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Optional Chinese (Traditional),
Chinese (Simplified) and English Subtitles) - Featurette (9:09)
Movie Stills Photo Album
Movie Photo Slideshow
Original Movie Trailer
New Edited Movie Trailer
Bonus trailers: "A Better Tomorrow 2", "A Better Tomorrow 3", "Bullet In
The Head" and "The Killer"
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