DVD: Miguel Gutierrez

DVD: Miguel Gutierrez

DVD:

Miguel Gutierrez

Carmen del Valle, Miguel Gutierrez

Film Movement, 2002

Fathers and sons . . .
This multi-award-winning film tackles the difficult subject of domestic abuse and in particular a father's abusive relationship with his twelve-year-old son. The nature of this abuse is revealed slowly, so that like any outsider, we don't see the full extent of it ...

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Ángel de Andrés López, José Manuel Bello

Fox Lorber, 2003

A brief comment
I am new to Spanish absurdist films, having come to this film through a recommendation from a more knowledgeable friend. This is one of Almodovar's earlier films, but you can already see he truly has a gift for outrageously dark comedy. In this completely demented ...

Por Si No Te Vuelvo a Ver (If I Never See You Again)

Ana Bertha Espín, Javier Zaragoza

Desert Mountain, 2003

Not ready for the nursing home
The editorial from the Back Cover sums up the basic plot for this well done movie. It was brought to my attention recently(6-15-08) that my description borders on giving the movie away(sort of but not really, just part of a basic plot outline); so reader beware,here ...

Maluala

Samuel Claxton, Hilda Oates

FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2008

A Courageous Cuban Fillm
"Maluala" A Courageous Cuban Film Amos Lassen First Run Features has begun a new collection--"The Cuban Masterworks Collection" and one of the two inaugural films is the absolutely amazing "Maluala" which won first prize at the Havana Film Festival. I ...

Bitter Sugar

René Lavan, Mayte Vilán

New Yorker Video, 2001

GREAT MOVIE: THE TRUTH ABOUT CUBA
LOVED THIS BEAUTIFUL MOVIE! THE ACTING IS SUPERB AND THERE IS A POIGNANT BITTER-SWEET SENSE OF HUMOR BEHING THE REALITY OF IT ALL. GREAT MUSIC TOO!

El Color de las Nubes

Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Ana Duato

Venevision, 2004

Cantabria
An incredible film about an area in Spain that I am fortunate enough to have a home.

The Yellow Fountain (La Fuente Amarilla)

Silvia Abascal (II), Eduardo Noriega (II)

New Yorker Video, 2003

foreign gem
I was totally engrossed by this movie from beginning to end. Time flew by with no distractions.This is the reason I buy foreign films sight unseen. You can discover gems like this. Silvia Abascal and Eduardo Noriega played beleviable and lovable characters that ...

Legacy

David Hasselhoff, Donita Rose

RPH, 2003

Wow! Fantastic movie!
This movie should have made Hasselhoff a $20 million dollar movie star. Oh sure, he always delivered the goods in Baywatch and movies like "Nick Fury" and "Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical", but this is a drama. For those of you who have loved the Hoff for years but ...

Death and the Compass

Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Bruno Bichir

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2001

YES, THAT IS RAYMOND'S LOUD DAD AND MEL BROOK'S FRANKENSTEIN AND JOE PLAYING A LOW KEY INTELLECTUAL DETECTIVE
Peter Boyle really is amazingly versatile. According to the director's commentary he did this work shortly after his heart attack, and, yes, there is some heavy lifting involved, but nothing fatal as in the making of Il Postino. The director also mentions that Boyle, ...

El Rey de la Goma
Miguel Angel Rodriguez; Eleazar Garcia Jr.; Flavio Peniche; Alfredo Gutierrez ?El Turco?

Laguna Productions, 2000

Firewalker [Region 2]

Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr.

A REALLY GOOD MOVIE
Chuck Norris and Louis Gosset are great in this film. chuck and Louis play old friends who love to find treasure. Max (Norris) and Leo (Gosset)are at a bar thinking about calling it quits on treasure hunting anymore when this woman (Melody Anderson)walks into the bar ...

The First Night of My Life

Leonor Watling, Juanjo Martínez

Fox Lorber, 2000

Of interest to DVD owners
I have already reviewed this movie, but just wanted to add this blurb about subtitles and this movie: I have been reading the reviews of films like "Tierra" and "The Official Story" which say that subtitles cannot be turned off on the DVD versions. I just wanted to ...