Orlando, Silvio

Light of My Eyes (Luce dei miei Occhi)

Light of My Eyes is May selection in The Film Movement Series. Winner for Best Actor and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Light of My Eyes was also nominated for 8 David di Donatello Awards including Best Film. Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the pulp science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance encounter with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope thats been lacking in his detached existence. Antonio is drawn into the suffering of Marias world, where she draws her inner strength from her fragile solitude. A haunting score, poetic atmosphere and award-winning lyrical performances by the two leads evoke the beauty of a precarious existence. Subscribers to Film Movement receive an award-winning film such as Light of My Eyes to own on DVD each month.

El Alamein

Winner of three Italian Academy Awards, Enzo Monteleone's incredibly powerful film recounts one of the epic battles of WWII, in which the Italian army, fighting alongside the Germans, sought to drive the Allied forces from North Africa. Dealing with enemy ground and air attacks on one hand, extreme daytime heat and nighttime cold on the other, and their commanders' muddled inability to command, the troops were basically abandoned and forced to make do as best as they could. Focusing on the intimate, emotional lives of these soldiers, El Alamein forcefully conveys the message that war—from any time and in any place—is truly hell.

Nirvana

In the riveting style of BLADE RUNNER, NIRVANA is the futuristic thriller starring Christopher Lambert (HIGHLANDER franchise, MORTAL KOMBAT) as a video game designer whose latest creation becomes dangerously real! At a giant multinational corporation, Jimi (Lambert) is a successful programmer excited about the launch of his realistic new game, Nirvana. But just days before it hits the streets, he learns that the game's main character has developed the ability to think and act on his own. As this acclaimed story unfolds, Jimi must locate a hacker who can crack the company's impenetrable data banks and destroy the program before it's released!

Not of This World

A young nun about to take her final vows is suddenly given an abandoned baby and sets out to find the infant's mother. A middle-aged laundromat owner who may be the baby's father joins her on the search and it becomes a journey of spiritual and self-discovery for them both. "Giuseppe Piccioni's Not of This World possesses a seductive warmth and passion and a lyrical style that are in the finest tradition of the Italian cinema" (Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times). Winner of 7 David Di Donatello Awards including Best Film Best Screenplay and Best Actress (Margherita Buy). In Italian with English subtitles.System Requirements:Running Time; 100 mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN UPC: 826039200293 Manufacturer No: DV67872

Children of Hannibal (Figli di Annibale)

Unemployed Domenico decides to rob a bank in Italy and escape to Switzerland. Everything goes horribly wrong and he takes a hostage. The man he chooses, Tommaso, is more unscrupulous than Domenico. He hates his wife, his business is doing poorly and the kidnapping appears to be a good way to disappear and start over again. The victim takes over the plans and becomes the leader as things go from bad to worse. Children of Hannibal is both an unpredictable caper film and an often hilarious road movie.

Nirvana [Region 2]