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With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist’s infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt’s great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt’s most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA cuts its cloth from the very world of the movies it discusses; by shooting at original locations and from replica sets it creates the uncanny illusion that Zizek is speaking from ‘within’ the films themselves. Together the three parts construct a compelling dialectic of ideas. Described by The Times in London as ‘the woman helming this Freudian inquest,’ director Sophie Fiennes’ collaboration with Slavoj Zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can communicate complex ideas. Says Zizek: ‘My big obsession is to make things clear. I can really explain a line of thought if I can somehow illustrate it in a scene from a film. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA is really about what psychoanalysis can tell us about cinema.’

The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

The future seems bright for Kevin Burke (Ulrich), a security department expert for the large multi-national society Jorgensen Financial. He’s just been promoted and is about to purport marriage ceremony to his girl Rosalind (Catherine Orr). But that all changes when Rosalind is murdered before his eyes by a professional person hitman. While trailing down her killers Kevin finds himself chased by mob hit-woman Tessa (Kristy Swanson), his co-workers Junior (Antonie Kamerling) and Mr Ficks (Serge Henri Valcke) and the police (Thom Hoffman). Burke’s mentor and employer Karl Jorgensen (Derek de Lint), puzzling though supportive, seems to hold the key to the mystery.

In 1933, after departure Dogville, while travel with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret mulligan stew (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a prop called Manderlay. The thralldom had been abolished 70 years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the mental attitude of the owners of Manderlay, guardianship slaves in their cotton fields and next preset ugly rules called “Mam’s Law”. Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of commonwealth to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest home time comes, Grace sees the social and stinting realness of Manderlay.

When a man is murdered in Moscow, data-based bionic inquiry brings him back to life. He then sets out to find his murderers and money that was stolen during the crime.

Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980’s thru the 1990’s, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid impresario ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), a party organizer, whose profligate life was sent spiralling downwards when he boasted on tv that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. in the beginning from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an secret legend, known for his undue drug use and horrid demeanor in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the ’90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his dependence got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig’s saga reached its tragic crescendo when he savagely murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn’t hestitate to boast of the murder. The press thinking it was a packaging stunt—until Angel’s body washed ashore.

black lovage (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant iranian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing farther than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

dauntless brits archeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made maybe the most crucial archaeologic find in history: an orb that leads to the mythological Pandora’s Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by british people news to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry richard brinsley sheridan (Gerard Butler), a brits marine turned free-lance (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an chance that spans continents in an endeavor to regain the orb…

In 1501, in the western sandwich Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of free-lance peasants leaded by Martin (Rutger Hauer) fights side-by-side with the noble Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) to remember his castle, with the assure of a huge reward. However, the band is betrayed by Arnolfini, and decides to pay him back, assaulting and thieving a wagon train under the dominate of Arnolfini and his son and student, Steven (Tom Burlinson). In one of the wagon is travelling the bride-to-be of Steven, Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is circumstantially kidnapped and later raped by the group. Agnes becomes Martin’s mate, and the mercenaries decide to invade a castle, without wise to that the army of Arnolfini is chasing them.