![Review Water Bearer Films / Fogi Is A Bastard (F. est un salaud) [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VG2R3VYSL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jean-Pierre von Dach
- Marcel Gisler
- Gilles Tschudi
- Frédéric Andrau
- Urs Peter Halter
- Vincent Branchet
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £12.22
Review Fogi Is A Bastard (F. est un salaud) [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:
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Actors & Directors
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Hanna María Karlsdóttir
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Olafur Darri Olafsson
- Hilmir Snær Gudnason
- Victoria Abril
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Skule Eriksen
Price: £5.07
Review 101 Reykjavik [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar Kormákur's debut film 101 Reykjavík is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker and one-man Nordic-gloom factory; "I'll be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death," he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner-whose highpoint is watching a video of last year's ditto-you can see his point. Distraction, and a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mother's flamenco teacher Lola (the delicious Victoria Abril). Only after sleeping with her does he discover that she's not just Mum's teacher, but her lover as well. A little like Pål Sletaune's 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavík gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist's sheer social and emotional ineptitude-though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We've been here before, of course-as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood-but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormákur's film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether-in view of remarks like "Reykjavík is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,"-it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter! On the DVD: Filmographies for Kormákur, Abril, and lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles and menu; and the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. [+]The sound is clean and immediate (score co-composed by Damon Albarn) and the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio. -Philip Kemp.
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Actors & Directors
- Natacha Koutchoumov
- Pierre Chatagny
- Lionel Baier
- Lionel Baier
- Rui Pedro Alves
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Christine Hoffet
Price: £11.53
Review Garcon Stupide [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Picture This:
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.51
Review How Big Is Big? / Quantum Leap:
![Review Lions Gate / But I'm a Cheerleader [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jPNnIqJ1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Mink Stole
- Michelle Williams
- Bud Cort
- Brandt Wille
- Jamie Babbit
- Natasha Lyonne
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £5.21
Review But I'm a Cheerleader [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:Director Jamie Babbit's assured first feature But I'm a Cheerleader is subversive, smart and extremely funny, but not entirely original. Megan Williams (Natasha Lyonne) is a good Christian cheerleading girl. She doesn't think it at all strange that she can't get the image of tumbling cheerleaders out of her mind while her football player boy friend is trying to French kiss her. But her parents, played respectively by Bud Cort (Brewster McCloud) and John Water' s regular Mink Stole, have noticed Megan's odd behaviour and arrange an intervention. They send her off to New Directions, a sexual rehabilitation camp run by a straight-laced school madam, Mary (Cathy Moriarty), where she is forced to come to terms with her lesbian tendencies. But while on a strict regime of corrective therapy, Megan falls head over heels f or surly dyke, Graham-played by Clea DuVall (The Astronaut's Wife)-and is forced to reassess whether straight really is great. The zany script and over-the-top characterisations have the feel of a John Waters comedy; The day-glo sets and costumes give the film a surreal Pee Wee's Playhouse feel and Lyonne is charmingly dizzy and bewildered throughout. RuPaul excels as Mike, a former gay exercise trainer, and Moriarty out-camps them all. On the DVD: The main feature is presented in letterboxed widescreen with Dolby Digital sound. Extra features are limited to a theatrical trailer and a 10-minute behind-the-scenes look at the film in which director Jamie Babbit explains the genesis of the film followed by hastily assembled footage of random scenes being shot. [+]-Chris Campion.
![Review Liberation Ent. / Fat Girls [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5175jCfhlHL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Caouette
- Ash Christian
- Ellen Albertini Dow
- Deborah Theaker
- Ash Christian
- Robin De Jesus
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Chris Gubisch
Price: £9.65
Review Fat Girls [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Liberation Ent.:
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.51
Review How Big Is Big? / Quantum Leap:
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Actors & Directors
- David Menkes
- Rosana Pastor
- Juan Diego Botto
- Manuel Manquina
- Mirta Ibarra
- Emma Suarez
- Alfonso Albacete
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Miguel Angel Santamaria
Price: £4.20
Review I Will Survive [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:
Release date: 2006-01-10
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £8.08
Review Curious (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ariztical:
Release date: 2006-01-10
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £8.08
Review Curious (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ariztical:
![Review Pride Video Productions Ltd. / Vulcan-Boys of Summer [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416ZEZ46YZL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1996-08-27
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99
Review Vulcan-Boys of Summer [1996] / Pride Video Productions Ltd.:
![Review Afilm DS91717 / Torch Song Trilogy [1988] (DTS) (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517KAEQFZRL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Matthew Broderick
- Harvey Fierstein
- Paul Bogart
- Karen Young
- Brian Kerwin
- Anne Bancroft
Price: £8.00
Review Torch Song Trilogy [1988] (DTS) (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] / Afilm DS91717:Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment-and endurance-in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for. (Written by Michael Braem).
Release date: 1996-08-27
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99
Review Vulcan-Boys of Summer [1996] / Pride Video Productions Ltd.:
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Actors & Directors
- Barbet Schroeder
- Anderson Ballesteros
- German Jaramillo
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Elsa Vasquez
Price: £8.99
Review Our Lady of the Assassins [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:
![Review Wolfe Video / Follow My Voice [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51s71lMWUwL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rufus Wainwright
- John Cameron Mitchell
- Yoko Ono
- Cyndi Lauper
- Katherine Linton
- They Might Be Giants
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Kim Connell
Price: £8.27
Review Follow My Voice [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Wolfe Video:
Actors & Directors
- Rui Pedro Alves
- Pierre Chatagny
- Natacha Koutchoumov
- Lionel Baier
- Lionel Baier
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Christine Hoffet
Price: £11.53
Review Garcon Stupide [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Picture This:
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Caouette
- Ash Christian
- Robin De Jesus
- Ellen Albertini Dow
- Deborah Theaker
- Ash Christian
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Chris Gubisch
Price: £9.65
Review Fat Girls [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Liberation Ent.:
Actors & Directors
- Emma Suarez
- Mirta Ibarra
- Juan Diego Botto
- Alfonso Albacete
- David Menkes
- Rosana Pastor
- Manuel Manquina
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Miguel Angel Santamaria
Price: £4.20
Review I Will Survive [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:
Actors & Directors
- Karen Young
- Harvey Fierstein
- Brian Kerwin
- Paul Bogart
- Anne Bancroft
- Matthew Broderick
Price: £8.00
Review Torch Song Trilogy [1988] (DTS) (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] / Afilm DS91717:Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment-and endurance-in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for. (Written by Michael Braem).
Actors & Directors
- Hanna María Karlsdóttir
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Victoria Abril
- Hilmir Snær Gudnason
- Olafur Darri Olafsson
- Baltasar Kormákur
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Skule Eriksen
Price: £5.07
Review 101 Reykjavik [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar Kormákur's debut film 101 Reykjavík is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker and one-man Nordic-gloom factory; "I'll be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death," he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner-whose highpoint is watching a video of last year's ditto-you can see his point. Distraction, and a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mother's flamenco teacher Lola (the delicious Victoria Abril). Only after sleeping with her does he discover that she's not just Mum's teacher, but her lover as well. A little like Pål Sletaune's 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavík gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist's sheer social and emotional ineptitude-though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We've been here before, of course-as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood-but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormákur's film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether-in view of remarks like "Reykjavík is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,"-it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter! On the DVD: Filmographies for Kormákur, Abril, and lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles and menu; and the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. [+]The sound is clean and immediate (score co-composed by Damon Albarn) and the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio. -Philip Kemp.
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