A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in love), and directed by Joseph Losey, The romantic Englishwoman is a wildly entertaining ride.

The American Film Theatre's Philadelphia, Here I come! presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar" O'Donnell on the eve of his emigration to America.

Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become..

Bea Asher has been faced with many new challenges since becoming a widow. She has been afraid for herself and her future since her husband's death, and friends concerned for her well-being take her to the Stardust Ballroom in the hopes that, for one night, she might dance her troubles away. While there, she meets Alvin Green. They spend the evening dancing and talking and, thanks to his charm and goodness, Bea begins to come out of her sheltered existence..

After some distributors found Lisa and the devil too mystifying for release, producer Alfredo Leone (with Bava's uncredited assistance) hired veteran actor Robert Alda, shot additional scenes, and transformed Lisa into The house of exorcism, capitalizing on the popularity of demon possession films. While sharing much of the same material, the films have come to be looked upon as two distinct entities, beautifully illuminating the stylistic diversity of the Bava/Leone partnership.

A distraught youth is troubled by his mother's new relationship with her sailor boyfriend who occasionally drops by when his ship is in. The sailor, Jim Cameron, is a caring man who offers a supportive relationship to the woman as well as a kind word for the kid. In his confused and addled adolescent state (which isn't helped any by his association with a local youth gang) the boy plans a vengeful rite for his mother's beau..

Kino's presentation of AFT's Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris is proof of this celebrated modern troubadour's timeless relevance and enduring passion.

This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.

By the time the DEFA Studio for Animation Film closed in 1992, it had produced more than 800 shorts in a wide variety of styles and techniques. The 16 animation films included in this collection were directed by 8 different animators between 1974 and 1990, and give a taste of animation production in East Germany. Established in 1955, the studio initially produced shorts exclusively for children. During the 1970s and '80s, however, films targeting older audiences became more common. The animation films presented on this DVD contain elements of social and political satire that would never have been allowed in live-action films. In 2005, Consequence, The full circle, and The monument were screened at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of our film series, Rebels with a cause : the cinema of East Germany.

A psychedelic trip with a social commentary. Bud Cort, in his debut performance, plays Massimo Monaldi, a student involved in political protests and juvenile delinquency. When Massimo steals a valuable tobacco box, he quickly becomes tangled in a dangerous web between the police and the mafia. Hallucination Strip excels with it's not-so-subtle mix of sex, drugs, religion, politics and corruption.

Gitl (Carol Kane in her Acadamy Awatd nominated role) and her son arrive on the lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake (Steven Keats), as they struggle to assimilate while remaining true to their old country ways. (Cannes Film Festival, 1975.)

After directing the successful adult animated films Fritz The Cat and Heavy Traffic, Ralph Bakshi decided to push the envelope further with the polarizing COONSKIN. In this satirical crime adventure, Randy (soul legend Barry White), an escaped prisoner waiting for his getaway car, tells his cell mate the story of the rise and fall of allegorical figures Brother Bear (Phillip Thomas), Brother Fox (Charles Gordone), and Brother Rabbit (White) in Harlem.. Controversial for its language and imagery, COONSKIN is nonetheless groundbreaking in its approach to tackling important social issues of the time, and counts Quentin Tarantino and Wu-Tang Clan among its admirers.. "COONSKIN could be [Bakshi's] masterpiece ... a shattering successful effort to use an uncommon form-cartoons and live action combined-to convey the hallucinatory violence and frustration of American city life, specifically black city life." - Richard Eder, The New York Times