VHS
DVD
Classic
Erotique VHS
Director: Godfrey Silas
Vintage
Erotica Anno 1930 DVD
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Black & White
Rated: Nr
Studio: Cav Distributing Corp
The
Story of O (1975) VHS
Director: Just Jaeckin
Format: Color, NTSC
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Henry
& June (1990) DVD
Starring Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros
Director: Philip
Kaufman
Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose
husband is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her
very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred
Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual
exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma
Thurman), who finances her husband's life in Paris so he may praise her
beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband's writing and her lovers'
affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist
mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic
scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to
its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed direction.
The strength of the original material and Medeiros's decidedly unflawed
performance, however, make it worth viewing. --James McGrath - Amazon.com
In
the Realm of the Senses VHS
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Format: Color, NTSC
Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda)
whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses
the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the
most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though
it did run into legal trouble both in the U.S. and Japan), it has an air
of palpable doom, suggesting that sex can be a doorway to suicide. Lest
this sound like grunge-era noodling over dreams of self-destruction, be
assured that the Kyoto-born Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) takes
a somewhat formal, middle-aged perspective on the conjunction of various
mysteries of existence. --Tom Keogh - Amazon.com
The
Pillow Book (1997) - English subtitles VHS
Starring: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, See more
Director: Peter Greenaway
A Chinese
Torture Chamber Story VHS
Emmanuelle
VHS ~ Sylvia Kristel
Emmanuelle
2 VHS ~ Sylvia Kristel
Tokyo
Decadence VHS ~ Miho Nikaido
The
Bondage Master VHS ~ Bondage Master
Erotic
Ghost Story VHS
Amy Yip
In
the Realm of Passion VHS
Like
Water for Chocolate (1993)
Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, et al.
VHS; Rated R; English subtitles; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Tender
Cousins (1980)
VHS; Rated R; English subtitles; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Ridicule
(1996)
Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, et al.
Swept
Away (1975)
Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, et al.
VHS; Rated R; English subtitles
Kama
Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997)
Sarita Choudhury, Naveen Andrews, et al.
VHS; Rated R
The
Lover (1992)
Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, et al.
VHS; Rated R
Naked
Lunch (1991)
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, et al.
VHS; Rated R
The
Frightened Woman (1969)
VHS; Unrated; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Last
Tango in Paris (1973)
Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, et al.
VHS; Unrated; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Bitter
Moon (1994)
Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, et al.
VHS; Rated R
Wide
Sargasso Sea (1993)
Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, et al.
VHS; Rated NC-17
Exotica
(1995)
Don McKellar, Elias Koteas, et al.
VHS; Rated R; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Sirens
(1994)
Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, et al.
VHS; Rated R; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
La
Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento (1991)
VHS; Not Rated; English subtitles; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
The
Blue Angel - Original Director's Cut (1931)
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, et al.
VHS; Not Rated; English subtitles; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
Belle
De Jour (1968)
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, et al.
Female
Perversions (1997)
Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, et al.
VHS; Rated R; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
The
Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1990)
Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, et al.
VHS; Rated NC-17 (Not for sale to persons under age 18)
Widescreen; Clamshell; NTSC format (US and Canada only)
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Quills
(2000) VHS
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine
Director: Philip Kaufman
With bedroom eyes and the mischievous smirk of an insatiable roué,
Geoffrey Rush is a perfect choice to play the Marquis de Sade in Quills,
directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted by Doug Wright from his own stage
play. Imprisoned in France's Charenton asylum at the turn of the 18th century,
de Sade is a stately court jester in disheveled finery, and Rush imbues
the role with the fierce urgency of a writer whose sexual fantasies are
his sole remaining defense against repression and hypocrisy. Deprived of
quill and ink, he writes with wine, then blood, then his own feces--a descent
into madness or an impassioned refusal to be silenced? Quills embraces
freedom of expression ("such beauty, such abomination," as one character
notes) while affirming that all freedoms have a price.
De Sade smuggles manuscripts out of Charenton with help from Madeleine
(Kate Winslet), a virginal laundress who relishes de Sade's scandalous
prose--a divine irony since she was taught to read by asylum abbé Coulmier
(Joaquin Phoenix), whose desire for Madeleine is suppressed by Catholic
propriety. The delicate dynamic of this trio is shattered by the arrival
of Royer-Collard (Michael Caine, appearing somewhat comatose), a righteous
hypocrite appointed to silence de Sade once and for all. It's all very
engrossing as a piece of theater (which it still is, despite Kaufman's
elegant filming), and although Wright's literate dialogue limits de Sade
to zesty ripostes and sneering perversity, Rush's intensity ensures that
the marquis's plight is no laughing matter. Quills has a point, makes it
without condescension, and knows the difference between madness and passion.
--Jeff
Shannon - Amazon.com
The
X-Rated Videotape Guide VIII
by Patrick Riley
Paperback: 800 pages
Prometheus Books; ISBN: 1573927570; (December 1999)
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