The Emmanuelle Beart Collection (A Heart In Winter / The Story Of Marie and Julien / Nathalie)

• Three of Csar Award-winning French actress Emmanuelle Barts films are highlighted in this special 3 DVD set featuring Nathalie, The Story of Marie and Julien, & Un Coeur en Hiver. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN Rating: NR Age: 741952312093 UPC: 741952312093 Manufacturer No: KLF-DV3120

La Belle Noiseuse is a thrilling and unconventional drama about the responsibility of an artist to his vision and the conflicts that arise when such responsibility is perceived as a threat to others. Michel Piccoli (Le Doulos) delivers one of his finest, most lived-in performances as Edouard Frenhofer, a famous painter living with his artist wife Liz (Jane Birkin) on a spacious estate in the French countryside. Frenhofer has lacked inspiration for a decade and has given up on painting. The idea behind his unfinished masterpiece, La Belle Noiseuse ("The Beautiful Troublemaker"), has be! en seemingly unattainable for a decade; Liz was the original model for it, and Frenhofer's exhaustion with the project has an emotional parallel to his dispassionate relationship with her.

Along comes a rising artist, Nicolas (David Bursztein), who suggests that his girlfriend, Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), a writer, could help Frenhofer jumpstart the painting's completion. From this point, most of La Belle Noiseuse becomes a remarkable, seemingly unedited and privileged look at the development of a bond between artist and muse. Béart, fiercely brilliant, spends the majority of the film nude and continually molded into sometimes-painful positions as Frenhofer struggles--sketch after sketch, paint upon paint--to find something beyond the obviousness of Marianne's body. As the two struggle to meet each other halfway, Liz and Nicolas feel marginalized and jealous, putting pressure on Frenhofer to disregard such personal concerns or give in to them. Adapted by Fren! ch New Wave master Jacques Rivette from a story by Honore de B! alzac, t he lengthy La Belle Noiseuse is fascinated by the artistic process; it is itself a patient process of watching ideas and aesthetic courage reveal themselves in the face of extraneous aversion. --Tom KeoghDisc 1 Side A: **Widescreen Feature Film - Jean de Florette

Disc 2: **Widescreen Feature Film - Manon of the SpringDVD extras include: 16x9 anamorphic, 5.1 sound, interviews with Andre Techine, Gaspard Ulliel & Gilles Perrault, subtitle control, storyboards, photo gallery. Set in 1940 at the beginning of France's occupation by the Germans, Strayed stars French film icon Emmanuelle Béart (Nathalie, 8 Women) as Odile, a young and beautiful widow fleeing Paris with her two children. When German planes bomb the road filled with refugees, Odile's car is destroyed and the three must escape into the woods. There they encounter Yvan (sexy newcomer Gaspard Ulliel - Brotherhood of the Wolf), a 17 year-old illiterate delinquent whose survival skills and charm soo! n prove indispensable. They soon take shelter in an abandoned house and become a makeshift family. Odile, at once suspicious of and attracted to the mysterious stranger, soon finds herself at the center of a fascinating set of personal and sexual dynamics. One of the most respected filmmakers in France, André Téchiné (Wild Reeds, Rendez-Vous) once again, builds on his reputation as one of the most sensitive and intelligent filmmakers working today.Emmanuelle Béart gives another beautiful performance in this fable-like story of World War II. She plays a widow with two children in tow; escaping from Paris, their car is bombed in the countryside and they stagger into the woods along with a rough, savvy teenage boy (the feral Gaspard Ulliel). Their idyll in an abandoned chateau takes up the remainder of the film, as various tensions simmer within this ad hoc family unit. Director Andre Techine (Wild Reeds, Scene of the Crime) is a master of the small, telli! ng moment and the frailty of people in a natural landscape. He! also pr oves, in the riveting sequence of Germans attacking the line of refugees, that he could probably make a great action film if he cared to. Along with Béart's sensuality, his treatment of hushed interiors and sympathy for the imagination of children creates an intimate arena for these lost souls. --Robert HortonThree of César Awardwinning French actress Emmanuelle Béart’s films are highlighted in this special 3 DVD set featuring Nathalie, The Story of Marie and Julien, & Un Coeur en Hiver.

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Friends Poster TV Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox Lisa Kudrow Matt LeBlanc 11x17 MasterPoster Print, 11x17 MasterPoster Print, 17x11

• Masterprint Title: Friends Poster TV Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox Lisa Kudrow Matt LeBlanc 11x17 MasterPoster Print, 11x17
• Size: 17 x 11 inches

(HBO Comedy Series) Ten years ago she was TV's "It" girl. Now It's a different story. For Valerie Cherish, no price is too high to pay for clinging to the television spotlight. Lisa Kudrow stars as Valerie Cherish, a former B-list sitcom star so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called The Comeback.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Audio Commentary
Interviews:Valerie?s DVD Interview
Other:Valerie Backstage at Dancing with the Stars

How wickedly ironic--and delicious--that Lisa Kudrow's single season of The Comeback provided the talented actress with enough meat for her to be nominated for an Emmy--after the show was canceled by H! BO. Kudrow went for the Anti-Phoebe role after the demise of Friends, demonstrating her spectacular acting chops and range of comic abilities. The show centered on Kudrow's playing an actress, once the ingénue of the moment, trying ever more desperately to get back into the limelight. The vehicle of choice: a reality "series" that follows Kudrow's Valerie Cherish into scenarios with the deck more than stacked against her. Kudrow's acid delivery and willingness to show Valerie's raw pain, ambition, and obsequiousness make for engrossing and poignant, if squirm-inducing, viewing. Valerie's fond memory of being on Leno: when a fellow guest's monkey unexpectedly relieves himself on her head. "It was a real water-cooler moment," she says, desperately spinning. "And you know, this was Leno's first year. So it was a real important show for him too!" The boxed set includes all 13 episodes and some yummy extras, including a new "interview" with Valerie Cherish, an ap! pearance by Valerie backstage at Dancing with the Stars! , and ba ckstage dish with series creators Kudrow and Michael Patrick King. The series, though short-lived demonstrates why Kudrow is one of our most talented actresses; here's hoping for a succession of more Comebacks. --A.T. HurleyThe smash-hit comedy series Friends is now available in three new compilations, including Birthday, Wedding and Baby themed collections. Compiling the best episodes from all ten seasons, these compilations make the ideal gift to mark life's special occasions! At first glance one may not believe there are enough Friends having babies to warrant a compilation DVD. But don't be misled by the title: only three of the five episodes are set in the hospital. A couple of miscellaneous baby-themed episodes--"The One With the Baby on the Bus" (season two) and "The One With the Male Nanny" (season nine)--are good installments, but still feel out of place against the more showy where's-my-epidural hospital-set shows. The One With All the Babies compilat! ion begins with "The One With the Birth," in which Ross (David Schwimmer) and lesbian ex-wife Carol welcome their son Ben. "The One Hundredth," in season five, had the loopiest premise--Phoebe's surrogate delivery of her half-brother's triplets--but Lisa Kudrow's stellar acting as she struggled with giving up the babies won her an Emmy. An Emmy also went to Jennifer Aniston the year Rachel went through pregnancy, culminating in a 48-hour labor in the aptly named "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby" (season eight) that's at once hilarious and tearful. Sadly, the series-finale birth of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler's (Matthew Perry) adopted twins is not included, but should have been.

Watching them back to back, it's funny seeing how much the characters' maturities have evolved (not to mention their hairstyles). However, the disc adds nothing new in addition to the extra footage never aired on TV and producer commentary found on existing Friends DVDs. If you alr! eady own several season boxed sets, these repackaged highlight! reels a re completely redundant. But if you're enough of a fan to want some of the best episodes of the show's 10-year run, this is not a bad place to start. --Ellen A. KimBig laughs and hot stars make this a can't-miss comedy in the hilarious tradition of CLUELESS and DUMB AND DUMBER! Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are carefree party girls who reinvent themselves for their 10-year high school reunion. With new wardrobes and wild stories of success, they make a big impression ... until a former classmate Janeane Garofalo -- CLAY PIGEONS) blabs their real story to everyone! But that's when Romy and Michele let loose with a surprise of their own ... and outrageous results! Featuring a sizzling hit soundtrack of favorite hits from the '80s, it's the comedy treat The New York Times calls "cheerful, giddy fun!"Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino play ditzy best friends who decide to attend their 10-year high school reunion, but they completely make over their styles and i! dentities first in order to impress the people who tormented them. The two stars keep the film going despite various lapses and potholes in David Mirkin's direction and despite a sneaking sense that the idea can't sustain the length of an entire feature. A midsection dream sequence underscores the latter problem through blatant padding, but Sorvino and Kudrow--both of whom became established stars playing airheads on other projects--are worth the weaknesses. --Tom Keogh Big laughs and hot stars make this a can't-miss comedy in the hilarious tradition of CLUELESS and DUMB AND DUMBER! Romy (Academy Award(R)-winner Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Emmy Award-winner Lisa Kudrow) are carefree party girls who reinvent themselves for their 10-year high school reunion. With new wardrobes and wild stories of success, they make a big impression ... until a former classmate Janeane Garofalo -- DOGMA) blabs their real story to everyone! But that's when Romy and Michele let loose with! a surprise of their own ... and outrageous results! Featuring! a sizzl ing hit soundtrack of favorite hits from the '80s, it's the comedy treat The New York Times calls "cheerful, giddy fun!"Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino play ditzy best friends who decide to attend their 10-year high school reunion, but they completely make over their styles and identities first in order to impress the people who tormented them. The two stars keep the film going despite various lapses and potholes in David Mirkin's direction and despite a sneaking sense that the idea can't sustain the length of an entire feature. A midsection dream sequence underscores the latter problem through blatant padding, but Sorvino and Kudrow--both of whom became established stars playing airheads on other projects--are worth the weaknesses. --Tom Keogh

Decorate your home or office with high quality wall décor. Friends Poster TV Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox Lisa Kudrow Matt LeBlanc 11x17 MasterPoster Print, 11x17 is that perfect piece that matches your style, interests, and! budget.

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