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DVD Review WHORE'S GLORY

We all know about the oldest profession in the world, prostitution, but this documentary promises to open our eyes to various international versions of the sex trade, and change the way we look at it in this modern age.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - February 17, 2013, 7:17 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: prostitutes, madam, divergent

PR Whores' Glory on DVD Jan 8

Travels the globe to show how prostitutes really live and work today. The conclusion to internationally renowned director Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy, following Megacities (1998) and Workingman's Death (2005), Whores' Glory depicts the skin trade in three economically divergent countries.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - January 22, 2013, 8:36 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Fritz Lang: The Early Works & Die Nibelungen on Blu-ray and DVD Nov 6

Two releases showcasing the work of acclaimed filmmaker Fritz Lang: the Blu-ray and DVD release of his epic Die Nibelungen (consisting of two parts, Siegfried and Kriemhild's Revenge), and Fritz Lang: The Early Works, a three-DVD collection containing three of the master filmmaker's earliest silent films from Germany: Harakiri, The Wandering Shadow, and Four Around the Woman.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - October 30, 2012, 7:28 am - PR
Keywords: drama

PR The Portrait Of A Lady (Special Edition) on Blu-ray Dec 11

Based on the Henry James novel of freedom and seduction. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. Her headstrong innocence is no match, however, for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich).

Shout! Factory

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Posted by: News Editor - October 22, 2012, 7:26 am - PR
Keywords: drama

PR Bel Ami on DVD Aug 7

Based on the Modern Classic Novel by Guy de Maupassant, the film follows penniless soldier Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), who has returned to Paris from the war around the turn of the century. Duroy quickly learns that by using his wit and powers of seduction, he can improve his financial and social status.

Sony Picture Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - July 8, 2012, 11:11 am - PR
Keywords: drama

DVD Review DAVID LEAN DIRECTS NOEL COWARD (BLU-RAY)

Criterion's Blu-Ray boxset of four David Lean/Noel Coward films from the 1940s is a winner on all fronts. The films are a varied lot in terms of storylines - ranging from war's brutalities to family drama to playful ghosts to extramarital affairs, but each are awash in Coward's raw wordplay and Lean's visual talents.

Recommended.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - August 5, 2012, 12:42 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: noel coward, david lean

DVD Review HOUSE OF PLEASURES:

Heavily represented on 2011 "Best Of" lists, this French film promises to be both an erotic and visual treat, boasting one of the largest casts in recent memory.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - April 14, 2012, 2:16 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: brothel, erotic, glamorous

PR True Story Of A Woman In Jail: Sex Hell/Debauchery on DVD Apr 10

True Story Of A Woman In Jail: Sex Hell is a sleazy, sexually graphic and surprisingly violent entry in the "women in prison" genre. Debauchery is the story of sexy Ryoko Watanabe as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage.

Impulse Pictures

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Posted by: News Editor - February 9, 2012, 8:17 am - PR
Keywords: thriller

DVD Review BELLE DE JOUR (BLU-RAY)

The ageless Catherine Deneuve gives one of her most remarkable performances in Luis Bunuel's surreal classic. I can't wait to see how great it looks on a Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - February 10, 2012, 8:14 am - DVD Review
Keywords: surreal, bordello, housewife

DVD Review THE SINS OF MADAME BOVARY

This 1969 retread of the classic Flaubert tome is really best know for launching the meteoric career of the undeniably sexy Edwige Fenech. Other than that, there's not much here.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - May 28, 2011, 10:32 am - DVD Review
Keywords: edwige fenech, gustave flaubert, madame bovary

DVD Review GIGI (BLU-RAY)

After going my whole life without seeing this Best Picture Oscar winner, it took Warner's Blu-ray release for me to finally give it a chance.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - January 12, 2010, 7:09 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: best picture, musical

DVD Review GAUMONT TREASURES 1897-1913

Although the Gaumont studio is not a household word in America, it was at the very forefront of motion pictures in the early years. This amazing set from Kino brings to home video over 100 seldom-seen movies from the dawn of cinema by three of the leading creators at Gaumont. One DVD each is devoted to the directors Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and the little-remembered LÈonce Perret, giving the viewer a fascinating cross-section of these early silents, with some amazing treasuresówould you believe color and sound movies in 1905?

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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - October 27, 2009, 8:59 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: gaumont, french films, early cinema, cinematheque francaise

DVD Review FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION, VOLUME THREE

Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - April 21, 2009, 1:43 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: pre-code cagney wellman tcm loretta young