Posted by GPR79 on 09/16/05 12:45

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FS: Today's Specials - Cyclo £6, Alfie (2004) £5 &
Confidence £6

**Buy two take £1 OFF, buy all 3 take £2 OFF!**


Cyclo R4

Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/cyclo.jpg

Winner Golden Lion (Best Film) Venice Film Festival

"The city was once named Saigon; it is now called Ho Chi Minh City, and
in this powerful second feature by Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung
(The Scent of Green Papaya) it looks like a lost circle of hell.

Cyclo is a survey of a society in decay, in which conventional plotting
gives way to a series of enigmatic episodes and haunting observations.
There are two main characters: Cyclo (Le Van Loc) is a poor urban
teenager who scratches out a living operating a bicycle taxi in the
murderous city traffic; the Poet (Hong Kong star Tony Leung of Chungking
Express, Bullet In The Head, etc) is the son of an upper-class family
who has depressively drifted into pimping and fencing--wartime rackets
still thriving in the new Vietnam.

Images of appalling violence are played against backgrounds of banal,
everyday bustle--a buzzing flow of meaningless, insectlike activity.
Hung's vision may be dispiritingly bleak, but his filmmaking is vivid
and inventive. Each shot is distinguished by a particular quality of
lighting, framing, or texture that lifts it out of the ordinary and into
the realm of the strange, ravishing, and insinuating. "


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Alfie (2004) R2

Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/alfie.jpg

"Jude Law's Alfie, much like Michael Caine's in the 1966 original, is
what you'd call an unrepentant womanizer. He beds 'em but never weds
'em, and New York provides ample opportunity to continue the
process--until reality slaps him in the face. Because Jude Law is, well,
Jude Law, you can see why he gets away with it as long as he does, and
the actor also pulls off the usually awkward trick of narrating directly
to the camera. The film, meanwhile, is a bit soft around the edges; the
whole thing would have more resonance if it wasn't quite so intent on
watching the unrepentant repent. Regardless, it's a surprisingly
thoughtful diversion, and there's fine work from Marisa Tomei, Nia Long,
and Susan Sarandon as the women who understandably make Alfie reconsider
his ways."


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Confidence R2

Cover: http://www.boomspeed.com/gpr79/confidence.jpg

"Bathed in self-conscious cool, Confidence is a heist caper in which the
heist is unimportant. As you might expect from Glengarry Glen Ross
director James Foley, this pulpy concoction is more interested in giving
good actors a lot of hip, salty dialogue as they scheme their way to the
royal scam. It's a poor man's Ocean's Eleven, just as enjoyable in its
own way, beginning when con artist Jake (Edward Burns) discovers he's
accidentally stolen from an eccentric crime boss (Dustin Hoffman, oozing
threat in a fine character turn). Promising to make amends by pulling
the biggest con of his career, Jake adds a feisty pickpocket (Rachel
Weisz) to his crew, which includes scene-stealer Paul Giammatti and Andy
Garcia as a dishevelled FBI agent (or is he?). With a cast like this you
can't go wrong! "

Special Features:
Anamorphic, 5.1, etc
Directors Commentary
Writer Commentary
Cast Commentary
Interviews With Dustin Hoffman Andy Garcia Ed Burns Rachel Weisz And
Director James Foley
Deleted Scenes
Anatomy Of A Scene By The Sundance Channel



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