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The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
Release Date: 2005-02-15
Sales rank: 1610
The beauty of the South American landscape and of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Bad Education) gives The Motorcycle Diaries a charisma that is decidedly apolitical. But this portrait of the young Che Guevara (later to become a militant revolutionary) is half buddy-movie, half social commentary--and while that may seem an unholy hybrid, under the guidance of Brazillian director Walter Salles (Central Station) the movie is quietly passionate. Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna, a lusty and engaging actor) set off from Buenos Aires, hoping to circumnavigate the continent on a leaky motorcycle. They end up travelling more by foot, hitchhiking, and raft, but their experience of the land and the people affects them profoundly. No movie could affect an audience the same way, but The Motorcycle Diaries gives a soulful glimpse of an awakening social conscience, and that's worth experiencing. --Bret Fetzer |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Release Date: 2000-10-24
Sales rank: 12318
Kinski stars as the mad \""Aguirre\"" who sets out with his daughter and a band of Pizarro's conquistadores down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: KINSKI/GUERRA/NEGRO/ROJO/RIVER
Title: AGUIRRE-WRATH OF GOD
Street Release Date: 10/24/2000
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Genre: ACTION / ADVENTUREQuite simply a great movie, one whose implacable portrait of ruthless greed and insane ambition becomes more pertinent every year. The astonishing Klaus Kinski plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his soldiers into the Amazon jungle in an obsessive quest for gold. The story is of the expedition's relentless degeneration into brutality and despair, but the movie is much more than its plot. Director Werner Herzog strove, whenever possible, to replicate the historical circumstances of the conquistadors, and the sheer human effort of traveling through the dense mountains and valleys of Brazil in armor creates a palpable sense of struggle and derangement. This sense of reality, combined with Kinski's intensely furious performance, makes Aguirre, the Wrath of God a riveting film. Its unique emotional power is matched only by other Herzog-Kinski collaborations like Fitzcarraldo and Woyzek. --Bret Fetzer |
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Full Screen Edition)
Release Date: 2005-02-15
Sales rank: 7777
The beauty of the South American landscape and of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Bad Education) gives The Motorcycle Diaries a charisma that is decidedly apolitical. But this portrait of the young Che Guevara (later to become a militant revolutionary) is half buddy-movie, half social commentary--and while that may seem an unholy hybrid, under the guidance of Brazillian director Walter Salles (Central Station) the movie is quietly passionate. Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna, a lusty and engaging actor) set off from Buenos Aires, hoping to circumnavigate the continent on a leaky motorcycle. They end up travelling more by foot, hitchhiking, and raft, but their experience of the land and the people affects them profoundly. No movie could affect an audience the same way, but The Motorcycle Diaries gives a soulful glimpse of an awakening social conscience, and that's worth experiencing. --Bret Fetzer |
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Fitzcarraldo
Release Date: 1999-11-16
Sales rank: 17048
An Irishman, Fitzgerald (Fitzcarraldo to the Indians), struggles to bring his dream, an opera house in the Amazon jungle, to reality.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 2-NOV-1999
Media Type: DVDBrian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an isolated patch of rubber trees and make his fortune. But these trees are not directly accessible by river because of dangerous rapids, so Fitzcarraldo runs his ship as close as possible via an alternate river and then enlists the aid of the native Peruvians to drag his ship over a mountain to the desired area. However, the natives seem to have their own agenda in so mysteriously acceding to Fitzcarraldo's wishes. The results manage to both mock and affirm the dreams of determined figures like Fitzcarraldo, making absurdity out of the stuff of human endeavor without negating the beauty of that effort. There is hardly a more awe-inspiring or arresting image than that of Fitzcarraldo's ship pulling itself up the mountain with cables and pulleys, or of the ship resting in mid-ascent as seen through the thick morning fog of the jungle. The tortured production history of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (ably recorded in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams) tends to take the spotlight away from this deeply mesmerizing film. And that's unfortunate, because the film itself is even more fascinating than the trials and tribulations, amazing though they might be, that led to its being made. Part of the problem is the film's deliberate, some might say ponderous, pace, which invites the viewer to experience the slow immersion into the jungle that Fitzcarraldo and company experience. Herzog did something similar in Aguirre, the Wrath of God, sometimes aiming his camera at the river rapids for extended periods of time, with hypnotic results. This could never happen in a Hollywood film, and it should be treasured. --Jim Gay |
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Eternal Blood
Release Date: 2003-06-24
Sales rank: 56733
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Gringuito
Release Date: 2006-02-07
Sales rank: 59410
Gringuito is the story of a young child that is uprooted from his New York home and forced to move back to Chile with his parents. He has always lived in New York and feels totally out of place the day his parents settle in to their new apartment in Santiago, Chile. Ivan, the Gringuito, considers his parents return very disappointing and feels that his mother's pregnancy will also take attention away from him and cause him to lose his "exclusivity". Shortly after moving in, he decides to runaway and gets involved with "El Flaco", who looks after Ivan and for whom he develops a true friendship. Ivan’s experiences develop into a young boy’s rite of passage and lead him to a poignant encounter with Chile. |
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Taxi Para Tres
Release Date: 2003-02-11
Sales rank: 64714
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Sub Terra
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Sales rank: 71186
The town of Lota Chile 1897 is the setting that reflects a history of human and social changes. In the depths of the biggest coal mine in the world a grand rebellion develops in the heart of a man. While the aristocratic family of Cousi o Goyenechea dreams of progress the coal miners awaken in their search for dignity.System Requirements: Running Time 108 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 824355509526 Manufacturer No: MAV5095 |
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Soccer Stories - Historias De Futbol
Release Date: 2006-02-07
Sales rank: 69970
This is the first release in a series entitled: Spotlight on Chilean Masterworks. Some say in Latin America, football (soccer to the US) is the center of everything. Soccer Stories uses this incredibly favored sport to explore a diverse Chilean geography and culture and link three Chilean lives: a third-division player from Santiago de Chile is handed a life-changing offer; a boy living in the Calama Desert must face making a bold sacrifice; and a football fan stuck in a remote corner of the southern island of Chilé is given an unexpected chance to experience another kind of passion. El Metropolitano has rated this heartfelt film as one of the top ten motion pictures in the history of Chilean cinema. Directed by Andres Wood. Originally released in 1997. Spanish with English subtitles. 87 minutes. |
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Coronation
Release Date: 2005-07-26
Sales rank: 72548
Winner of 39 international awards and the most honored film in Chilean history, CORONATION is a beautifully photographed and haunting tale of obsession and repressed desire set admist a decaying mansion in Santiago. Glum, middle-aged bachelor Don Andres hires Estela, a 17-year old country girl, to care for his wealthy and abusive grandmother. He grows increasingly obsessed with her, blinding himself to the threats around him and his own mental breakdown. CORONATION is the third entry in a series of films by Silvio Caiozzi based on the classic novels by popular Chilean author Jose Donoso. |
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