Young, Paul

Chato's Land

Charles Bronson (The Magnificent Seven) and Academy Award(r) winner* Jack Palance (City Slickers) star in a magnificent western as wild and untamed as the Old West itself. Bristling with dynamic action sequences and riveting performances, Chato's Land is a bold, sweeping tale of passion, vengeance and cold-blooded murder. Chato (Bronson) is a half-breed Apache Indian who treads the line between two cultures, balancing allegiance to his tribe with the allure of the white man's world. But when Chato kills a vicious sheriff in self-defense, he finds himselfhunted by a posse led by the ruthless Quincey Whitmore (Palance), a former Confederate soldier who is determined to see him hang. It's 13 men against one, but the odds shift in Chato's favor when he leads his pursuers into Apache territory, where the harsh, cruel countryside can kill as surely as agunman's bullet. *1991: Supporting Actor, City Slickers

Behind the Lines

This extraordinary World War I film concerns themes of heroism, sacrifice, duty, and self-knowledge as profound as any in Saving Private Ryan. The story, taken from Pat Barker's 1991 novel Regeneration and based on true events, is set in a British Army hospital in Craiglockart, Scotland, in 1917. There, a pioneering psychiatrist named Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) works with shell-shocked soldiers in a gentle, humane manner that contrasts sharply with the brutality of his colleagues. (The film's most horrifying scene features a mute patient being forced to speak by means of electric shock.)

Among Rivers's patients is a mute, amnesiac officer named Billy Prior (Jonny Lee Miller), as well as the emotionally depleted poet Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce) and another poet and war hero, Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Unlike the others, Sassoon is not, in fact, suffering from any disorder but is being quietly punished for writing a pamphlet denouncing the war. The army hopes Rivers can find some basis for mental incompetency in Sassoon, but the thoughtful doctor instead attempts to persuade him to add legitimacy to his criticisms of the war by returning to active duty.

Pryce brilliantly captures the cumulative effects of Rivers's responsibility--of fixing men and sending them back to their possible deaths--on the good doctor's nerves. Wilby is also fine as Sassoon, but the film belongs just as much to actors Miller and Bunce, whose characters are different kinds of men struggling to find their balance, one through a revived sense of duty and the other through his writing. Scottish filmmaker Gillies Mackinnon (The Playboys) is at the top of his form, telling a unique story about the invisible wounds of war while shedding light on the meeting of two visionary poets and one visionary physician. --Tom Keogh

Geordie

As a boy rather small for his age, Geordie responds to an advertisement for a bodybuilding course, determined to improve his stature and thus win the heart of the girl of his dreams, Jean. Becoming the course's star pupil, Geordie (played by Bill Travers

The Crow Road

WINNER - BAFTA Scotland - Best Television Actor / WINNER - BAFTA Scotland - Best Drama Series / WINNER - BAFTA Scotland - Best Writer / NOMINEE - BAFTA Scotland - Best Television Actress / WINNER - Writers' Guild of Great Britain - Best Dramatised Serial / NOMINEE - Royal Television Society - Best Drama Serial

"...exceptional stuff." - Daily Record

"...a cracking murder mystery with plenty of twists and turns..." - TV Times

"...a fantastically eccentric family... and a wonderful script." - Sunday Times

"...one of the most acclaimed drama series to come out of Scotland." - Daily Record

Adapted from the highly acclaimed novel by Iain Banks

Prentice (Joseph McFadden - The Trouble with Men and Women) is searching for his long lost uncle who disappeared without a trace. When he discovers clues on a computer disc containing some of his uncle's notes to a novel entitled The Crow Road, he embarks on a complex journey through his family's secretive past. No matter how shocking or dangerous his quest becomes, he is determined to find the answers and solve what turns out to be a ghastly mystery.

Also Starring Bill Paterson (Miss Potter) Valerie Edmond (Saving Grace) Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives) Stella Gonet (The House of Eliott)

Special Features: Cast Profiles / Trailer

approx. 211 mins. col.

Submarine X-1

Academy Award® nominee* James Caan commands a covert naval operation in this riveting drama inspired by an amazing true story discovered in declassified British War Office files. With "first-class underwater photography" (Variety) and taut suspense this tale of heroism paved the way for films like The Hunt for Red October.Commander Bolton (Caan) has lost his submarine the Gauntlet in a sea battle with the Nazis in 1943. Although the survivors still blame him he's cleared of charges and assigned to lead a top-secret training program with three experimental miniature X-1 subs each manned by a crew of only four. Their mission: to sink the mighty battleship Lindendorf the same ship that destroyed the Gauntlet!System Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: G UPC: 027616921727 Manufacturer No: 1008134

A Change of Seasons

Adam Evans (Oscar®-winner Anthony Hopkins) is a middle- aged college professor having a torrid affair with a beautiful young coed (luscious Bo Derek, whose slow-motion hot tub romp with Hopkins remains one of the most erotic scenes of the decade). In retaliation, his wife Karyn (Oscar®-winner Shirley MacLaine) begins sleeping with a sexy young carpenter (Michael Brandon). But when Adam, Karyn and their respective lovers decide to vacation together in their country home, their four-way romantic getaway will test the limits of love, jealousy, family and freedom. Mary Beth Hurt (THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP) co-stars in this offbeat romantic comedy/drama co- written by Erich Segal, the Oscar®-nominated writer of LOVE STORY.

Retribution

Aussie Horror Collection (Patrick / Strange Behavior / Thirst)

Patrick - After violently murdering his mother and her lover, young Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital. When a pretty young urse, just separated from her husband, begins working at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is trying to communicate with her while others in her life are being killed in most mysterious ways. Thirst She was innocent, pure and unsuspecting. But now, Kate Davis has been kidnapped by a bloodthirsty cult and taken to a remote village. Once there, she discovers her fate. According to the prophecies of the Hyma Brotherhood, she must fulfill her destiny by marrying their leader and helping them quench their diabolical thirst for blood. Strange Behaviour A brutal serial killer begins a terrifying campaign targeting local teens. Officer John Brady is drawn to the high school's psychology department where he suspects he will find the killer. There is something sinister about the department's research into behavioral control and Brady is determined to uncover it.

Patrick

Following in the bloody footsteps of Brian De Palma's Carrie comes Australia's offering of telekinetic terror. Part twisted love story, part supernatural thriller, Patrick tells the story of a comatose patient (Robert Thompson) who falls in love with his nubile new nurse, Kathy (Susan Penhaligon). Sadly enough, his only means of communication are via electricity, spitting, and general death and destruction. Suspense mounts as Patrick begins to infiltrate Kathy's life, and head nurse Matron Cassidy (played wickedly by Julia Blake) develops evil schemes of her own. Director Richard Franklin (Psycho II) manages efficient performances from the cast, and upon release Patrick was nominated for Best Film by the Australian Film Institute (but played the drive-in chain in the U.S.). This may not be the frightfest promised in the tag line ("Patrick is in a coma... yet, he can kill"), but Patrick still proves to be an interesting diversion and provides some absolutely terrifying glimpses of late-'70s fashion. --Matt Wold

Lorna Doone [Region 2]