New Releases — February, 2006

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La Bete Humaine: Criterion Collection - A couple cills their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn’t tell the police, because he’s in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her…

Metropolitan: Criteron Collection - In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier’s socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, partygirl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in love with him.

Kind Hearts and Coronets: Criterion Collection - Louis Mazzini’s mother’s frequent tales of how her titled D’Ascoyn family shunned her after she eloped with an Italian commoner causes a simmering resentment in him. On being spurned because of his lowly status by his lifetime (if devious and fickle) sweetheart Sibella he decides to permanently remove all the D’Ascoyns standing between him and the Dukedom. Becoming romantically involved with one of the widows he has created, he finds Sibella’s jealousy could seriously threaten his grand design.

Emmanuel’s Gift: First Look Pictures - If you are born disabled in Ghana, West Africa you are likely to be poisoned, or left to die by your family; and if you are not poisoned or left for dead, you’re likely to be hidden away in a room; and if you’re not hidden, you are destined to spend your lifetime begging on the streets. Of the twenty million people in Ghana, two million are disabled. This is the story of one disabled man whose mission-and purpose- is to change all that forever.

The Take: First Run Features - In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

Torremolinos 73: First Run Features - Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

State of Mind: Kino Video - A British documentary that follows two young North Korean girls as they prepare for the Mass Games, the world’s largest choreographed gymnastics performance.

The Hobart Shakespeareans: New Video Group - A profile of one phenomenal teacher and his eager students who together touchingly demonstrate the power of education.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye: Palm Pictures - A mature, evocative biography of the man considered to be the greatest photographer of the last century and the grandfather of photojournalism.

William Eggleston in the Real World: Palm Pictures - Director Michael Almereyda reveals the deep connection between Eggleston’s enigmatic personality and his groundbreaking work in photography, and also reveals his parallel commitments as a musician, draftsman and videographer.

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till: Thinkfilm - Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.

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