Readings staff customerservice@readings.com.au http://www.readings.com.au/feed/collection/leading-ladies-women-on-film 2008-03-26T23:53:00Z 9398710638899 <p>Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, this is a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes.</p> 9322225034600 <p>An evocative and beautiful film, 2046 follows the affairs of an out-of-work journalist and pulp fiction writer, Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung), who searches for love with a series of beautiful women after an unfulfilled affair leaves him heart-broken. Through passionate moments with a beautiful call girl (Zhang ZiYi), his landlord's daughter (Faye Wong) and a professional gambler (Gong Li), he seeks a cure for his solace, but finds his exploratons of love diverted into his science-fiction novel about a hi-tech train that transports people to the year 2046 to reclaim their lost memories. One of Wong Kar Wai's most critically-acclaimed films, 2046 has been hailed for its beautiful imagery, superb cast and unrivalled storytelling.</p> 9315842008093 <p>An isolated mansion in the snow countryside of 1950’s France. A family is gathered for the holiday season… But there will be no celebration – their beloved patriach has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? Or one of his two pretty young daughters? Eight Women. All of them Suspects. One of them is guilty. Which one is it?</p> <p>M , 2001 , 106 minutes</p> 9321337024615 <p>PRICE PROMO 14.95 1/2-14/3/07</p> 9315841998258 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9315841999118 <p>Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world of her own. Introverted, but with a very extroverted imagination, Amelie is obsessed with the small pleasures of life; skimming stones over water, plunging her hand into a sack of grain, and cracking the top of her Crème Brulee’ with a spoon.</p> <p>Amelie believes she can twist the fate of those around her by affecting the slightest changes in their environment. She sets about making people fall in love, punishing her nasty neighbours and giving a new lease of life to the lonely or unloved. But when it comes to finding her own true love, Amelie conducts a campaign of stealth to win the heart of Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) and is almost afraid of where her destiny will take her... Specifications: Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Special Features: Scene Selections, Trailer, Behind the scenes, Audrey Tautou’s Funny Faces, Storyboard Comparison, Photo Gallery, Making of Amelie’, DVD Rom</p> 3000000061527 <p>A new wave masterpiece best remembered for its quirky set pieces, including the iconic dance sequence - famously stolen by Hal Hartley and the ubiquitous Cretin Tarantino.</p> 9322225055681 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9325336017494 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9315841996377 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 5050582545609 <p>Filumena (Sophia Loren) was working in a brothel when she first met Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni), and his been his mistress ever since. Upon hearing that he plans to marry as much younger woman Filumena devises a brilliant scheme to convince him that it is her that he should be marrying. One of the finest films to come from director Vittorio De Sica, this spicy Italian romp showcases the charms of the ever-beautiful Sophia Loren and the equally suave Marcello Mastroianni.</p> 9398710558098 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9325336039649 <p>Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. "At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous," he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch. That's how we see Garbo's lovestruck Ninotchka: serenly dignified yet endearing ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.</p> 9321337035406 <p>Pedro Almodovar triumphs again with an offbeat drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances. Benigino is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio and he becomes infatuated with Alicia, one of the students. When Alicia is severely injured in an auto accident that leaves her in a coma, Benigno discovers she has been admitted to the hospital where he works, and he spends his days caring for a woman he now deeply loves but has barely met. Marco is a journalist who was assigned to interview Lydia, a celebrity female matador whose on-the rocks romance with another bullfighter; it has made her the focus of the tabloid press. During the bullfight that follows, Lydia is gored by the bull, and is now in a coma. Marco is certain his interview broke her steely concentration, and he spends most of his days at the hospital, convinced her injuries are his fault. Alicia and Lydia are both housed in the same ward of the same hospital, and in time Benigno and Marco become close friends, bonding in their shared devotion to women who cannot return their affection.</p> 9322225045651 <p>Nana (Anna Karina) needs two thousand francs. After asking her ex-boyfriend, then her workmates, a friend introduces her to Raoul who offers her a way to work for the money. In pursuit of fame and fortune, she leaves her family to become an actress, but instead descends into the world of prostitution on the chic streets of 1960s Paris. Told in twelve episodes, it shocked audienced at its 1962 premiere and was instantly recognised as one of the definitive films of the French New Wave. A highly-structured combination of documentary techniques and gangster noir, <b><i>Vivre Sa Vie</i></b> (<b>My Life to Live</b>) is one of Godard's most complex and critically-acclaimed films.</p> 9324915065130 <p>No extra details available for this item.</p> 9325336039663 <p>A photographer's blind wife, trapped in her New York apartment by an evil trio who are ready to murder to retrieve a heroin-filled doll hidden in her apartment, cleverly outwits them. Music by Henry Mancini. Based on the long running Broadway play by Frederick Knott.</p> 9325336039274 <p>Sparks fly immediately in Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy's first screen pairing - a battle-of-sexes square-off between an aimable sports writer and a bright international columnist. Year: 1942</p> 9322225045798 <p><em>Ma Mere</em> takes place in the Canary Islands, where the film's family shares a home. The mother H l ne (Isabelle Huppert), cool and in charge, and her teenaged son Pierre (Louis Garrel), a pious Catholic back from boarding school, discuss his father's infidelity; the next they hear, he is dead in a car crash. H l ne launches into a wild series of parties, gradually involving her son in her drugging, drinking and sex-fuelled nights out. When she mysteriously goes away, her son is left in the care of her mistress R a (Joana Preiss) and Hansi (Emma de Caunes), an icy blonde sadist with whom he falls in love. As the film evolves, we realize that this is a period of initiation for the young man until his mother can return and fully bring him to sexual maturity and adulthood.</p>