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The warlords [videorecording (DVD)] / by Chen, Kexin,1962-; Kaneshiro, Takeshi.; Lau, Andy,1961-; Li, Jet,1963-; Xu, Jinglei,1974-; Alliance Films (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Morgan & Chan Films.;
Composer, Peter Kam, Chan Kwong Wing, Chatchai Pongprapaphan ; Edited by Christopher Blunden.Lianjie Li, Dehua Liu, Wu Jincheng, Jinglei Xu.In 1870, the power of the corrupt Qing Dynasty has been threatened by the rise of a revolutionary army, led by religious fanatics, and civil war is tearing the nation apart. Pang Qingyun (Jet Li), a good man who finds himself fighting for the Qing leadership, is one of the only survivors of a bloody battle in between revolutionaries and Qing troops, and is looking for someplace to go when he's offered shelter by a beautiful peasant woman, Lian (Xu Jinglei). Pang and Lian spend the night in each others arms, and he finds himself falling in love with her. Pang sets out to make his way home when he's befriended by Zhao Erhu (Andy Lau) and Jiang Wuyang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a pair of bandits. When Jiang is attacked in an ambush, Pang helps save his life, and the three men become blood brothers in a gory ritual. Pang convinces Jiang and Zhao to join him in the fight against the revolutionaries, and with their help Pang is able to achieve some impressive victories.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Brothers; Civil war; Epic films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Historical films.; Insurgency; Man-woman relationships; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War films.;
© c2010., Alliance Films,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Before, Now & Then. by Andini, Kamila,film director.; Bening, Arswendy,actor.; Salma, Happy,actor.; Jamil, Ibnu,actor.; Basuki, Laura,actor.; Film Movement (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Arswendy Bening Swara, Happy Salma, Ibnu Jamil, Laura BasukiOriginally produced by Film Movement in 2022.Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, Kamila Andini's intoxicating film BEFORE, NOW & THEN follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger mistress, Ino. The two women, sharing their secrets and desires, discover a newfound freedom and intimacy withheld from them both by the strictures of patriarchal society. Framed by elegant cinematography and a lush score, BEFORE, NOW & THEN is a lyrical, transporting character study in the lineage of Wong Kar-wai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, "wreathed in poetic melancholy and never less than beautiful" (Deadline).Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Historical drama.;
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