The Landlady

Starring:Talia Shire, Jack Coleman (II), Bruce Weitz, Melissa Behr, Bette Ford, Dee Freeman, Nathan Le Grand, Luisa Leschin, Laura A. Pursell, Susie Singer, Clement von Franckenstein, Courtney Gains, Christopher Kriesa, David Parker (IV)
Director: Robert Malenfant
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Close but so far away...
An inconvenient truth
A hot and erotic iron.

Lolita
Starring: Jeremy Irons , Melanie Griffith , Frank Langella , Dominique Swain , and Suzanne Shepherd
Director: Adrian Lyne
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ASIN: B00001IVFG
Release Date: 1999-10-12

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Excellent condition, includes the original DVD, case, and paperwork, fast shipped, ask me for my DVD List! :)

Customer Reviews:

Despite..........2007-03-08

the inconsistencies with the book, I thought it was great. You need to keep in mind that America is founded on Puritanism. They could never get away with a 12 yr old or any of that. The public had a problem with her just being 14. It's better than Kubrick's and closer to the book without trying to match it too closely. I personally hate when the movie tries too hard to copy the book word for word. In the end,they get the same point across. Not all pedophiles fit the stereotype. Both represent the risk of a sick relationship like his, and both are done so beautifully tragic.

Do directors read?.......2006-12-23

Another movie based on the Cliff Notes, this movie gets everything wrong. It is even worse than the Sue Lyon movie, since that older movie created a parallel story which, while nothing like the book, almost stood on its own. In that one we got a 21 year old Lolita to satisfy the censors. In this one we get a 15 year old Swain who looks 18. She is not a Lolita regardless, by Nabokov's definition of nymphet. She is too curvy by far and entirely too seductive. Lolita is supposed to be 12, weigh 84 lbs soaking wet, with "unflared iliacs" and dirty hair. Instead of this "pale little gutter girl" we get Swain, a "big-breasted and practically brainless baba." Irons is no better. A great actor, he has been wonderful in many roles, but he is not Humbert Humbert. Humbert was big and dark and hairy, handsome and educated but the opposite of Irons' catfoot delicacy. Beyond this, Irons and Swain have no heat regardless. The love scenes have this golden Hallmark falsity to them that could not possibly be further from Nabokov's intent. This movie is a misfire in all ways, an absolute disaster. I can envisage a wonderful adaptation of Lolita; what I cannot envision is where it will come from. The US and UK are more uptight now than they were in the 50's and France isn't much interested in American stories, even when they are penned by a Russian internationalist. Hopefully the world will survive into a new age where some true artist can rediscover this masterpiece and tell it faithfully.

Close but so far away..........2006-09-27

This films greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. This movie plays Humberts obsession with Lolita seriously and sympathetically. You can't help but feel bad for Humbert by the end of the movie as it is really Lolita who takes advantage of him and not the other way around. That is the film's strength but also the weakness; Lolita is 12 years old. That's just creepy. This film tries to make you feel bad for a man who, for all intents and purposes, uses his charm and status as stepfather to sleep with his 12 year old daughter. I find it disturbing. Surely this was not Nabokov's intention when he wrote the novel.

Jeremy Irons is very good at the role he plays, but he isn't the character the books gives us. The character in the book was not a nice man. He drugged his wife, he planned to drug Lolita to take advantage of her while she slept, he lied and manipulated, he planned in his mind to kill his wife and probably would have had she not been killed before he could get to it. But Jeremy Irons is not like that at all. His character is just a lonely man in the wrong place at the wrong time; he is haunted and almost, it seems, justified in his love(?) for Lolita by the sad events of his childhood.

Melanie Griffith is not a good Charlotte at all. She is not nagging enough, she is far too good looking, and until she give Humbert her love letter there is no indication that she is in love with him. There definitely needed to be more time spent developing her character.

Doninque Swain seemed far too aware of what she was doing at times, and far too childish at other times. The film made her look like the bad guy for seducing Humbert and using his obsession with her as a weapon against him. That isn't how the books played her at all.

Clare Quilty is all but absent in this film. He has a very short appearance at the hotel, and then we don't see him again until the end of the film. The book gives him a lot of charisma that was completely absent; in this film he is just a dirty old man. Look to Sellers performance in the 1962 version for a much more rounded and exact portrayal of Quilty.

Overall, this was not a bad film if it stood on its own. The camera work is excellent in expressing the emotions of the film and Jeremy Irons is excellent is his portrayal of a Humbert (albeit a different one that was presented to us in the book) but this film misses the message of the book even if it is a more literal cinematic translation of the book.

An inconvenient truth.......2006-08-24

(4.5/5 stars) Very few films (or the books upon which they are based) portray the relationship between an adult and an adolescent seriously, preferring instead to depict them as monsters, perverts or both. Not so with "Lolita." Humbert Humbert is as normal and as realistic as any other fictional character, and so are his human traits. He just so happens to fall in love/lust with Dolores, the fourteen year old daughter of Charlotte Haze, a widow with a room to rent. It is an unspoken fact that most men are attracted to teenage girls, yet are afraid to admit it because it is not acceptable for adults to act on these impulses. Most people see this as taking advantage of someone not yet old enough to make important decisions like this on their own. Even though Humbert acknowledges the socially unacceptability of this relationship and keeps it hidden from everyone, at the same time he indulges his fantasies and exploits his new-found fortunes. Although details would most likely differ, this sad tale is ultimately practical about the fate of a man who disregards reality and ignores potential consequences when he takes a fourteen year old girl as his lover. Many men would like to do this, John Mark Carr being one of the latest, yet few do because of the consequences. Most men can envision the effects of their actions and conclude both that this girl will not stay this age forever and he would not be able to keep this relationship secret indefinitely. In that sense, it is a cautionary tale for those who fantasize about this sort of thing. Conversely, it allows everyone else to experience a glimpse into the mind of someone who acts on this type of fantasy. Either way, "Lolita" is a tragic story that is faithfully brought to the screen by director Adrian Lyne and a magnificent cast.

A hot and erotic iron........2006-05-21

Beautiful!!
When I saw this movie,I was going to faint.It is a wonderful and succesful remake.I saw even the previous production of Lolita,in black n' white,but this is charming.Simply hits me at first sight.
It might be that Lolita is jealous of her mother.Psychologically,Lolita wants to be her mother's copyright(miniature).The father isn't there to hold back the spoiled child.She is matured enough in 'erotic relationship',but still a child in the mind.
Poor Professor Humbert,he can't be neither a father,nor a man.He should be a priest.

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what a nice, slow-paced movie
Flawed Swetness
BAD ACTING BUT CUTE MOVIE
Predictable
"This won't help me get a grandson".

Under One Roof
Starring: Jay Wong , James Marks , Sandra Lee (IV) , James Quedado , and Audrey Finer
Director: Todd Wilson
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ASIN: B00008AOTW
Release Date: 2003-04-08

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A romantic comedy about a closeted Chinese-American boy in San Francisco who falls in love with his mother's new tenent. Stars Jay Wong, Jmes Marks and Sandra Lee.

Customer Reviews:

what a nice, slow-paced movie.......2007-06-05

I watched this movie the other night with some straight friends. Sure, the director seems to be scoring some attention by showing some (really modest!) nudity, but the plot is intelligent and takes some unforeseen turns. The leading motive of two cultural backgrounds clashing might be disaggreaveated by the fact that the main character, a young asian twenty-something guy, is living with his mother after his dad died a few years ago. So there is only the mother-son conflict about the gay son shown.

However, the director develops those characters wisely and takes time and empathy to push the plot forward. So we learn about the inner feelings of the main characters, their fears and doubts. Thus, in the end, we are left with the encouraging fact that most of our fears about being gay are just internal and are not in fact backed up by real arguments. The mother learns to love her son and her new son-in-laws in the end.

It's refreshing that the film does not try to score political arguments about the two cultural backgrounds gettings along, but shows normality.

And by the way, it features some real nice shots of San Francisco, the city where I live. Now watch the movie!

Flawed Swetness.......2007-04-09

"Under One Roof"

Flawed Sweetness

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

"Under One Roof" is a very sweet little film which is filled with sincerity and charm. The acting may not be perfect and the writing is uneven but it does depict honest pleasures in a very sweet way. There is humor as a result of inter-ethnic and gay situations. There is a great deal of quirkiness and insight that make this film a little better than some of the usual fare that we have seen recently. It is an independent film and made on a low budget but it does show things from the point of view at the Chinese-American. In an attempt to find an answer to why this character does not come out to his parents, we find a series of complications which provide us with a fun movie to watch.
The gay characters are all played by gay actors and the sex and nudity in the film are used to contrast typical Hollywood movies that hide sexual organs and quickly show sex and intimacy so that it is both unnatural and distracting. With gay Asians at the center of the film we get a whole new outlook on what it is like to be a stranger in America. I have read reviews that dismiss the film as a cheap imitation of Ang Lee's classic "The Wedding Banquet" and I must disagree. This is a hard film to classify and perhaps that is why I succumbed to its boyish charm. It is a soft-core version of the classic love story of boy meets boy. Sure, technically it leaves much to be desired but the story line is so sincere that it is hard not to like the film. The problems can be overlooked in deference to the charm of the film. Here is a movie that gay Asians can identify with as well as have a laugh at the foibles of their own society. Up until "Under One Roof" we did not have gay Asians depicted as being sexy. It is no "The Wedding Banquet' but neither does it try to be. It is not a great movie but given what there was to work with, I found it satisfying--I surely have seen worse--many times. Some of the movie is very touching and sensitive but if you are looking for a slick production, "Under One Roof" is not the movie for you.

BAD ACTING BUT CUTE MOVIE.......2007-02-16

The acting wasn't the greatest, but the movie itself was good. I especially liked the ending. Must have been made on an extremely low budget. Again, another movie I am glad I added to my movie library.

Predictable.......2006-11-30

Within five minutes of watching this movie you can pretty much predict the entire plot. No surprises or anything all that interesting to watch in this movie. There is a lot of full frontal male nudity, but it certainally does not add to the plot. Anyone with a camcorder could have shot this movie!

"This won't help me get a grandson"........2006-10-29

This film has won many awards, and now I know why! I love it! The two hot young stars, Jay Wong (Daniel) and James Marks (Robert) are great together in "Under One Roof". Their chemistry is awesome and they appeared to have enjoyed doing this film together as evidenced not only in the film, but the outtakes as well. A must see movie for anyone who loves gay themed films. It is dramatic, funny, romantic, erotic and adventurous. A great cast and a wonderful story blend together with great directing and a really well done film. Not a top notch Hollywood budget, but unless you're just looking to criticize, you will never notice. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it, and enjoyed the second run-through just as much. The DVD offers some nice extras as well, such as outtakes, a trailer and more. Video and sound quality is good. I have no beef whatsoever with anything I seen in this film. I highly recommend it! A very nice "feel good" movie with a happy ending.

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Despite...
Do directors read?
Close but so far away...
An inconvenient truth
A hot and erotic iron.

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ASIN: B00008H2L2
Release Date: 2003-04-15

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Despite..........2007-03-08

Do directors read?.......2006-12-23

Close but so far away..........2006-09-27

An inconvenient truth.......2006-08-24

A hot and erotic iron........2006-05-21

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"Cacha Culla Bubeleh, Can I Have A Cup Of Coffee?"
Underground Classic
Plastic slice of life
Plastic slice of life
Never be a gigolo in Hollywood

Heat
Starring: Sylvia Miles , Joe Dallesandro , Andrea Feldman , Pat Ast , and Ray Vestal
Director: Paul Morrissey
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Release Date: 2005-10-11

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The 1971 Heat was an early entry in filmmaker Paul Morrissey's tenure as the official director of movies coming out of Andy Warhol's so-called Factory. (Morrissey took the reins from Warhol himself, after the artist had made a number of celebrated underground films.) Factory star Joe Dallesandro plays the William Holden part in what is essentially an unofficial remake of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. As a former child star named Little Joe, Dallesandro's on-the-skids actor is bedding anyone who he thinks can help his career. Going nowhere, he becomes involved with an aging former star (Sylvia Miles), and while their relationship doesn't do much for his aspirations it contributes to Morrissey's unvarnished portrait of Hollywood hustling that certainly falls below the radar of Wilder's classic. Not a great film but a distinctive and memorable one, Heat extends Morrissey's fascination with the tawdry and humiliating fate of most big dreams, and is more poignant than most of the director's later work. --Tom Keogh

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"Cacha Culla Bubeleh, Can I Have A Cup Of Coffee?".......2006-11-27

"Heat" is by no means a good film, but it is the best outing from Warhol director Paul Morrissey.

Joe Dallesandro plays basically the same character as in "Flesh" and "Trash" so his performance is mundane as usual. It's the other characters in the film that make it watchable.

Pat Ast as Joe's landlady and Sylvia Miles as the fading star Sally Todd are the film's saving grace. Both have perfect comic timing and unlike Joe, can actually act. The "What do you mean, what do I mean, I mean..." scene is genius!

But the shining star of the this picture is Warhol Factory Superstar ANDREA FELDMAN! A. Because she can't act at all. B. Her voice manages to amuse and annoy all at once. And C. Her improvised one-liners and indicipherable yiddish will crack you up for days!

It is "Sunset Boulevard" for Bohemian Junkies. Rent it!

Underground Classic.......2006-06-28

This is the most coherent in the Flesh/Trash/Heat trilogy and certainly more watchable than Andy Warhol's films that he personally "directed" (anyone for 8 hours of the Empire State Building?). John Waters was certainly influenced by Andy Warhol (who returned the favor in Andy Warhol's Bad) but his films were a lot more fun to watch. Though, just as in Andy Warhol, early John Waters had the characters basically play themselves, Pink Flamingoes and Female Trouble are shockingly hilarious, whereas Heat has a creepy sense of exploitation. This update on Sunset Boulevard (a far better movie by far) has the characters repeating what seem like monologues. The storyline revolves around the characters using each other sexually and otherwise and even though the "acting" is certainly lacking, the characters seem like real people who lived in the countercultural version of skid row at the time with the explicit scenes verging on pornographic without being at all arousing. The reason I called Heat a "classic" is that underground films at the time could be tedious, random images, political diatrebes, or experiments with film (the same shot over and over). This was way before underground films morphed into independent films where with the right connections, you could actually make a profit as well as before the vcr, when seeing an underground movie was an experience in itself. That world has now disappeared and "Heat" is a fragment of that time.

Plastic slice of life.......2002-08-24

This is probably the most accessible of the Worhol flicks, and comes across as a seedy voyeuristic experience. Sylvia Miles is fantastic as a whacked-out, washed-up actress of yesteryear, and her sexually-confused daughter is just as off-kilter. It's filled with hilariously weird characters and scenes, most noteably the scene where Joe (Dallesandro) and his landlord (Pat Ast) end up caressing each other in bed, in order for him to get "that discount" on his rent. Another stand-out is the discussion between Sylvia and her daughter over the possibility that her grandson will become a lesbian if he is raised by two gay women! The dialogue seems very natural, and perhaps was largely improvised. The label "art-house film" is appropriate here. More refined than Worhol's/Morrissey's "Trash" and "Flesh", this stream-of-consciousness film should satisfy if you enjoy well-done low-budget independent films.

Plastic slice of life.......2002-08-24

Never be a gigolo in Hollywood.......2002-02-07

Change the planet, leave New York City and move to Los Angeles. Bring a youngish beautiful man in a nest of women in heat and you could end up with a gigolo who plays the role well but cannot stand the constant rivalry between the mother, the daughter, the motel manager, and a few others, and he has to leave but to go where ? To go back to the motel swimming pool and a mother who arrives with an unloaded gun and commit the crime of shooting someone without any bullet. But it also reveals that women are looking possession and not just pleasure, and they are ready to do anything to have that possession, which a man cannot accept, no matter how greedy he may be. The end shows how castrating these possessive women can be, but without any smoke from the gun, any blood from the blade. Castrating but impotent, and they end up being hysterical and nothing else. California is nothing but heat and does not in anyway bring liberation or pleasure, just lust, greed and possessiveness, which is another word for greed. In other words this film is the total anti-picture of Hollywood : no gloss, no shine, no stars, no limelights, just hysterics, tears and sunshine. What a life for a man, even one who would like to live off the crop, on the back of the gullible women who need a man as a toy. There is no pleasure in being the toy of a possessive person who does not want to share the toy and prefers ripping it to pieces to sharing it with someone else.

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Includes:
Cruel, Cruel Love
The Landlady's Pet
Twenty Minutes Of Love
Caught In A Cabaret
A Busy Day
The Fatal Mallet
The Knockout

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Only Enjoyable for Talia Shire fans, but for the rest..........2006-10-10

The reason I bought this film, is because I like Talia Shire. The only reason to buy this film is because of Shire, cause if you don't like Shire then I wouldn't recommend you buying this film.

The Landlady follows the frustrated Melanie, a woman who's husband cheats on her, a situation that lets something snip in her mind. She becomes obsessed with having the perfect family and husband. After she kills her husband, she moves into an appartmentbuilding which she inherrited. There she meets Patrick who becomes her new object of desire to start a new family with. And she lets nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody come in her way...

In technical aspects, the Landlady is ok, not fantastic, but ok. It has good camera movements (some could have been way better to make it more tense) and the lighting is well done which gives some scenes a nice horror feel. The music also is nice in some scenes.

Now the acting could have been way better, not counting Talia Shire. Shire is the one who keeps the film away from the pit of the terribly bad films. But although she acts good, in some scenes you really feel that she doesn't give her 100% which is a pitty: she could have done way better than this. But one thing she does perfectly: even though she is the bad one in the film and kills a lot of people, she actually makes you feel for the pshyco landlady. That is what makes her performance ok.
Now the rest of the cast acts so emotionalless that you absolutely don't care that they are getting killed. The only one I did care for was a character played by Dee Freeman, she does an ok actingjob also. But as for the rest: they don't feel like people but just minor props that have to be taken care of. You will find yourself looking at the screen saying: "Oh, there goes another one."
Conclusion: The murders look more funny than they look scary or emotional.
Also the tempo of the film is sometimes awfully slow. It takes a long time from one murder to another which will dissapoint slasher and horror fans.

So when you sit down and watch the Landlady, watch it with your sense of humor switched on, then it will be more watchable then when you watch it counting on a scary horrorfilm.
So if you are a Talia Shire fan, I would recommend you this film cause it is fun to see Shire do something totally different than playing a lovely sweet innocent woman. If you are not a Shire fan, then this film will look like just another low budget, wanna-be horror film to you.

Stop Push Eject Now, 5 Stars my foot !!!.......2006-06-27

I hated this movie within the first five minutes. The leading lady (Talia Shire) is what drove me mad, I hated her screen munching mug the second they showed her face. Now I realize this actress represents some evil baby setter who used to make me pop the boils on her festered up back, but that is not the movies fault.
So you may enjoy this film much more then I, it does start off with the old hags hubby slamming the girl down the street, (I bet that means he will die). My god could any one who is over the age of 10 really have the nerve to give this trash 5 Stars, no freaking way people.
Even with another actress in the lead this would be a pretty poor film. Don't forget gang I am here for you and I just want to ease your suffering as some of you may learn from my pain.

Rocky Balboa's Wife Goes Bonkers!.......2004-11-18

Standard thriller in which Don Corleone's only daughter goes cuckoo and engages in some serious stalking. Talia Shire's fan can add a star.....

PERMANENT EVICTION.......2004-04-27

There are times in this average thriller that I really felt sorry for Talia Shire's Melanie Dade. While we do not really know why or when she became psychotic, she is so desperately in need of a man and family that her plight can't help but be sympathized with. Granted, the seven people she bumps off is not the way to get a man, but she certainly does try. Shire is very good in the role, even though we all know where it will end up for her. Jack Coleman as the man of her dreams is dashing, sincere, and well cast in the otherwise thankless role. Bruce Weitz seems held back in his role as Pepper, the maintenance manager, and Melissa Behr as Liz doesn't have much to do and when her death scene comes up, she doesn't seem all that terrified.
But, suffice to say, Talia dominates the movie, and although it lacks originality, it is a compelling look at loneliness.

Off The Wall.......2004-01-15

You better pay your rent on time with this woman, or you may end up as a target for her internal rage. Which will most likely be murder. An above-average thriller. This woman is beyond "off-the-wall", she's a true psychopath!

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"Cacha Culla Bubeleh, Can I Have A Cup Of Coffee?"
Underground Classic
Plastic slice of life
Plastic slice of life
Never be a gigolo in Hollywood

Heat
Starring: Sylvia Miles , Joe Dallesandro , Andrea Feldman , Pat Ast , and Ray Vestal
Director: Paul Morrissey
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Release Date: 1998-12-01

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Description

Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV movies and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor who lives in a sunbaked motel, where the obese landlady gives cut rates for service and complains about the star's freaked-out daughter, who lives with baby and lesbian love in a suite. High comedy and low tragedy... [with] a gifted and offbeat cast.--Judith Crist, New York Magazine. Written & directed by Paul Morrissey, "presented" by Andy Warhol.

Customer Reviews:

"Cacha Culla Bubeleh, Can I Have A Cup Of Coffee?".......2006-11-27

Underground Classic.......2006-06-28

Plastic slice of life.......2002-08-24

Never be a gigolo in Hollywood.......2002-02-07

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