Trueba, Fernando

Belle Epoque

A young Army deserter is seduced by each of the four daughters of the man who has offered him refuge.
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish/misc SA
Rating: R
Release Date: 20-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD

This Spanish fluff from 1992 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but its significance goes about as far as you can throw a flower petal. The story finds an elderly artist (Fernando Fernán Gómez) giving shelter to a deserter (Jorge Sanz) from the royalist army in provincial Spain, 1931. While on the premises, the young man naturally notes the beauty of all four of his host's daughters. Each takes her turn at seducing him, but this isn't late-night cable TV so much as it is a series of brief character sketches filled out by the way each woman takes charge. It's a clever idea made more clever by the fact that these sundry beauties are acting on the libertine impulses to which their free-thinking father subscribes in principle but has sheepishly abandoned for love. But the film, directed by Fernando Trueba, is rendered so lightly it could almost be mistaken for calendar art. --Tom Keogh

Calle 54

In Calle 54, Madrid-based filmmaker Fernando Trueba explores the wide and wonderful world of Latin jazz: a hybrid genre that fuses the clave, samba, flamenco, merengue, and other rhythms from Africa, the Iberian peninsula, and the Americas. The film's Spanish title takes its name from Sony Music Studios located on 54th Street in Manhattan, where a who's who of musicians were filmed and recorded. They range from Brazilian bombshell keyboardist Eliane Elias and enigmatic Argentine tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, to the fiery rumba group Puntilla y Nueva Generacion. The music and musicians of Cuba and Puerto Rico dominate this documentary, and the most touching scene is the emotional father-and-son reunion of Cuban pianists Bebo and Chucho Valdés, who were separated by Fidel Castro's revolution. Sadly, the film features the last onscreen appearances by the late composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill and the legendary timbales master Tito Puente. Simply put, Calle 54 is a documentary that dances. --Eugene Holley Jr.

"Calle 54" invites everyone to experience the passion of Latin Jazz. It is a musical journey that captures the heart and soul of an entire culture. It features sounds that pulsate in hot backstreet clubs and recording studios from Miami to Havana the Bronx to Andalusia. A series of performances that reveal how these great Latin heroes use their extraordinary musical talent as a vehicle for storytelling protest sexuality and above all the celebration of life. It is an innovative tapestry of sound and imagery styles and rhythms from samba to pambiche to flamenco.System Requirements:Starring: Cachao Michel Camilo Paquito D'Rivera Eliane Elias Tito Puente and Chucho Valdes. Directed By: Fernando Trueba. Running Time: 105 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2001 Buena Vista.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: G UPC: 786936153675 Manufacturer No: 02259700

The Girl of Your Dreams

Two Much

Handsome Antonio Banderas (SPY KIDS I&II) joins seductive stars Melanie Griffith (NOBODY'S FOOL) and Daryl Hannah (GRUMPY OLD MEN) in this sexy screwball comedy! Art Dodge (Banderas) would like to break off his engagement with his fiancee Betty (Griffith) ... only her mob boss ex-husband makes it impossible for him to say no to the wedding! It's then that Art unexpectedly falls in love with Betty's beautiful sister (Hannah) and becomes entangled in an outrageous charade -- he invents his own twin bother so he can date both women at once! The laughs come fast and furious as Art's delirious double life spins hilariously out of control!

The Girl of Your Dreams (La Nina de Tus Ojos)

Shanghai Spell

Se Infiel y No Mires Con Quien

Paco y Fernando, propietario de una editorial de libros infantiles en quiebra, han logrado, por medios nada ortodoxos, Contratar a la escritora mas vendida del país, Adela Mora. Pero la noche de la firma del contrato, Paco le pide a Fernando su casa para llevar a una "amiguita" a pasar la noche allí, mientras su socio cena con la escritora. Carmen, la mujer de Paco, también le pide la casa a Rosa, la mujer de Fernando, para llevar a su "amiguito". Pero Paco tiene antes que desembarazarse de Silvia, su secretaria quien también le ha pedido que la saque esa noche. A la vez Carmen intenta deshacerse de su marido. Mientras Fernando cree que Rosa lo engaña con Oscar, el amigo de Rosa, quien cree que Fernando es homosexual y esta aliado con su socio mientras que el soldado cree que su amante es una "profesional", etc., etc., etc.

El Embrujo de Shanghai

Sweet Obsession 4 Movie Pack

Two Much [Region 2]