Home Vision (Firm)
1) La ceremonie
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
Description
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie as her maid. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne, and the stage is set for a tale of murder, violence and betrayal.
2) Bad timing
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell).
4) Stray dog
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
A young detective goes undercover in Tokyo's sweltering streets to find the pickpocket who stole his gun. This film probes the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of criminal mind.
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatned with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband.
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the demands of career and love.
8) Secret honor
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, Robert Altman's Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audaciuos depiction of unchecked paranoia.
9) Sada
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
This film is based on the true story of Sada Abe, a Japanese Geisha, who murdered and castrated her lover in 1936. Explore Sada's past; her rape at 14, her descent into prostitution, and the crime of passion that turned her into a media celebrity.
11) Black and white
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The controversial case of an Aboriginal man convicted of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old white girl pits a small-town legal aid defender and his partner against the Australian legal establishment.
12) Straw dogs
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
Series
Criterion collection volume 194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
"When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling...
14) Le corbeau
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters plagues a French town, exposing the suspicion and rancor seething beneath a calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Le Corbeau was attacked from all sides and banned after the Liberation.
15) Early summer
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
Acclaimed film about an unmarried woman coping with pressures from society and family.
16) Savages
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A tribe of primitive mud people encounter a croquet ball, rolling through the forest. Following it, they find themselves on a large, deserted estate. After entering, the begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles of people at a party.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A world-famous symphony conductor, consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair, entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works. A true classic from a grand master of screen comedy.
19) Summertime
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema/Janus Films
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
