1996 Toronto International Film Festival
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
$10.95 | 114 minutes
Set in 16th century India, this film chronicles the sexual adventures of Maya, a beautiful, voluptuous servant girl. After seducing the king the night before his wedding, Maya is labeled a whore and expelled from the village. After a hot affair with a sculptor, Maya decides to become an "artist" herself by studying the lovemaking techniques&hellip&hellip…
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Driven
$7.95 | 103 minutes
Three taxi drivers making a meager living on the streets of Los Angeles are feeling road-weary and wondering about their lives. When Legrand (Chad Lowe) joins their taxi company, his slightly mysterious, almost mystical presence spurs the drivers to reach for more meaning in their lives. In an alternately humorous and dramatic storyline&hellip&hellip…
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The Delta
$14.95 | 85 minutes
Lincoln Bloom, a gay 17-year-old who hides behind a heterosexual facade, meets Minh, a poor Vietnamese immigrant, and the two travel down the Mississippi in a cabin cruiser. Their romantic and playful trip seems to be running smoothly, but soon harsh realities interrupt their lives. A highly acclaimed film that offers a new look at the&hellip&hellip…
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Kids Return
$23.95 | 107 minutes
Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang. They manage to achieve prosperity, but their reckless nature inevitably returns and they soon learn the real world is a lot less forgiving then the schoolyard. A combination&hellip&hellip…
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
$21.95 | 85 minutes
Christopher Münch's quiet, evocative COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the beautifully elegiac story of a young man's attempt to grab a piece of the past from a stultifyingly impersonal modern world. John Lee (Peter Alexander) has loved trains all his life, often relating the story of his Chinese grandfather's early days helping&hellip&hellip…
The Watermelon Woman
$14.95 | 93 minutes
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's&hellip&hellip…
A Tickle in the Heart
$21.95 | 87 minutes
A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour&hellip&hellip…
Gabbeh
$23.95 | 75 minutes
An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous film festival awards&hellip&hellip…
Deep Crimson
$17.95 | 114 minutes
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of wealthy widows. Disturbing and compelling, this acclaimed film is based on the "Lonely Hearts Killers"&hellip&hellip…
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La Promesse
$15.95 | 93 minutes
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND IS NOT AVAILABLE. Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise to look after his wife and&hellip&hellip…
Shine
$15.95 | 105 minutes
People's Choice Award
Metro Media Award
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No&hellip…
Vaska EasOff
$23.95 | 76 minutes
Based on a parable told in Communist labor camps, the magical VASKA EASOFF follows the exploits of a pair of thieves who tear open the roof of the Bank of St. Petersburg (using a magical can opener "borrowed" from a griffin) and abscond with the czar's priceless treasure. With the Soviet Red Guard hot on their heals, things get rougher&hellip…
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