Aria

• ARIA is that history-making film. Sexy, violent, thought-provoking and funny, here is the movie critics raved about, audiences flocked to see, and no one could stop talking about.Running Time: 90 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 883929009497 UPC: 883929009497 Manufacturer No: LIT-DV-00037

"Bridget Fonda is pure dynamite" (WWOR-TV) as a murderous misfit reprogrammed as a high-tech assassin. Gabriel Byrne and Anne Bancroft co-star in "one of the top thrillers of the year" (ABC Radio Network). Year: 1993 Director: John Badham Starring: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot MulroneyPoint of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying, "Okay, we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do exactly the opposite?! " For-hire director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson's undeniably sexy, original, and kitschy French film about a female assassin, and translated it into a calculating, mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer, but once that provocative irony is in place, the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until, that is, Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can't save this film. You're much better off with the original, subtitles and all. --Tom KeoghStudio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/08/2009Point of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying, "Okay, we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do e! xactly the opposite?" For-hire director John Badham (Saturd! ay Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson's undeniably sexy, original, and kitschy French film about a female assassin, and translated it into a calculating, mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer, but once that provocative irony is in place, the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until, that is, Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can't save this film. You're much better off with the original, subtitles and all. --Tom KeoghARIA is that history-making film. Sexy, violent, thought-provoking and funny, here is the movie critics raved about, audiences flocked to see, and no one could stop talking about.This omnibus directors fest brings together 10 different filmmakers making 10 different films based on operatic arias. Jean-Luc Godard is stylistically the boldest, Robert Altman possibly the most imag! inative, Franc Roddam celebrates American glitz, and Bruce Beresford is the most sentimental. Nearly all the other filmmakers involved--including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Julien Temple, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, and Bill Bryden--are (or were, in the case of the late Jarman) world-class talents, but you wouldn't know that from their murky participation here. --Tom Keogh

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The 10th Victim

• 10TH VICTIM, THE (DVD MOVIE)

Uncut and Uncensored Like You've Never Seen It Before!

When her anthropologist husband disappears in New Guinea, Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress of DR. NO) convinces her colleague Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach of PRISON BREAK) to lead her into the dark heart of the deadly jungle. But while exploring the forbidden mountain of Ra-Rami, the expedition is attacked and captured by a tribe of primitive natives. Even if they can escape the barbaric tortures of these flesh-eating savages, can Susan survive the depraved lust of their Cannibal God?

Prepare yourself for the definitive edition of this notorious shocker! MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD has been completely restored from original vault materials and now includes the legendary and never-before-seen footage of deviant sexuality from the private collection of director Sergio Martino (TORSO)! .She has waited 2000 years for her lover to be reborn - the lover dead by her own hand! Luscious Ursula Andress stars in H. Rider Haggard's classic tale of an ageless love goddess, ruler of a magnificent lost mountain realm, who discovers the reincarnation of her beloved in a handsome English adventurer (John Richardson). Promising riches and her seductive self, she lures him through countless perils into the Desert of Lost Souls, the Mountains of the Moon and a pillar of fire that grants eternal life. Famed horror team Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee co-star in this imaginative story of danger and desire.

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Get ready for a wild ride as we journey through that provocative period in cinema, the Saucy 70's, a time of no-holds-barred moviemaking featuring unparalleled quantities of sex and nudity on-screen.

Travel back in time through our re! trospective series of documentaries that trace the roots of se! x and nu dity in cinema, uncovering long-forgotten groundbreaking films and the stars that disrobed in them.

Narrated by our own in-house film historian, we highlight the series of events that lead to the breaking down of the ratings system, the taboo-busting actresses and directors that challenged censorship and the controversial films that revolutionized the period and broke down long-standing barriers.

Our in-depth expose is packed with revealing bios and facts, unveiling the most famous and sexiest actresses of the 70's and their contributions to skin on the screen. You ll enjoy groovy 70's sounds, chic 70's fashions and best of all, mostly-natural '70's skin.

Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge
Jenny Agutter - Equus
Ursula Andress - The Sensuous Nurse
Barbara Bach - Ecco Noi Per Esempio
Brigitte Bardot - Don Juan
Jacqueline Bisset - Secrets
Cheri Caffaro - Girls Are For Loving
Lynda Carter - Bobbie Jo & The Outlaw
Juli! e Christie - Don t Look Now
Corinne Clery - The Story Of O
Joan Collins - The Bitch
Patti D Arbanville - Bilitis
Phyllis Davis - Sweet Sugar
Bo Derek - Fantasies
Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
Britt Eklund - The Wicker Man
Jane Fonda - Coming Home
Susan George - Straw Dogs
Pam Grier - Coffy
Melanie Griffith - NIght Moves
Goldie Hawn - There s A Girl In My Soup
Diane Keaton - Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Sylvia Kristel - Emmanuelle
Marie Liljedahl - Eugenie
Soledad Miranda - Vampyros Lesbos
Hellen Mirren - Savage Messiah
Anita Pallenberg - Performance
Valerie Perrine - Slaughterhouse Five
Cassandra Petersen - The Working Girls
Susan Sarandon - Joe
Maria Schneider - Last Tango In Paris
Cybil Shepherd - The Last Picture Show
Suzanne Somers - Magnum Force
Stella Stevens - Slaughter
Lesley Ann Warren - Pickup On 101
and many, many more!
THE ORIGI! NAL SEXY '60s CULT CLASSIC IS BACK!

It is the 21st Centu! ry, and society's lust for violence is satisfied by "The Big Hunt," an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become THE 10TH VICTIM?

THE 10TH VICTIM is the international cult classic whose wild action and sexy style has influenced a generation of movies, from THE RUNNING MAN to the AUSTIN POWERS series. Remastered from original archival negative materials, this outrageous satire is presented here in its original Italian language with optional English subtitles.

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Talent BiosLong before reality shows took over the TV airwaves and violent parodies like Series 7 and Battle Royale hit international screens, Elio Petri made this campy social satire of a future in which the bored, the ambitious, and the just plain ! violent can sign up for a deadly game of cat and mouse. "The Big Hunt is necessary as a social safety valve," explains one TV personality. "Why control births when we can control deaths?" Marcello Mastroianni, who plays the womanizing Italian media darling with a gift for ingenious assassinations, becomes the target of sexy champion Ursula Andress, a New York Amazon with a wardrobe as deadly as it is chic. She'll pocket $1 million if she can successfully kill Mastroianni, her 10th and last victim, but on the side she concocts a deal to do the deed in concert with a live song-and-dance extravaganza mounted by a tea company.

Directed with tongue firmly in cheek, Petri lampoons the whole media obsession with high-risk contests and games of chance with cool style, absurdly chic fashions, a bouncy score of organ riffs and funky lounge sounds, and a comically blasé performance by Mastroianni. It's like Fellini gone ballistic with a hint of Divorce, Italian Style: a bat! tle of the sexes in a world where spontaneous shootouts are fo! rever er upting in the fringes of the frame. --Sean Axmaker

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