Broken Embraces (available on DVD and Blu-ray March 16, 2010)
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. The man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts; and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the films he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.
In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit Garcia, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide. Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night, Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him(his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco. After a moment of astonishment, Harry can’t refuse and he tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so he’ll fall asleep.
The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of love, dominated by fatality, jealousy, the abuse of power, treachery, and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Bonus features include deleted scenes, a “Pedro Directs Penelope” Featurette, “On the Red Carpet: The New York Film Festival Closing Night” Featurette, “Variety Q & A with Penélope Cruz”, and “The Cannibalistic Councillor” (La Concejala Antropófaga) – an original short film by Pedro Almodóvar.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (available on DVD March 2, 2010)
Starring Robin Wright (Forrest Gump, State of Play) as the enigmatic Pippa Lee, the film follows Pippa as she dutifully retires with her aging, avuncular husband (Arkin) to a new life in a sleepy Connecticut retirement community. After twenty years of marriage and motherhood, Pippa's seemingly idyllic world is put to the test as she confronts her volatile past. With the help of a divorcee loner (Reeves), she embarks on a bittersweet midlife breakthrough.
Robin Wright delivers a stunning and revelatory performance in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee; a wry, moving, and complex portrait of the many lives behind a single name.
Special features include commentary with Robin Wright and writer/director Rebecca Miller and interviews with Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, and Blake Lively.
The Universe: Complete Fourth Season (available on DVD and Blu-ray February 23, 2010)
The Universereturns in season four to transport home viewers past the wonders of our own solar system and out to the bizarre far-flung reaches of the cosmos. From death stars to ringed planets, star clusters to space wars, ‘The Universe’uses new discoveries and more advanced CGI to help explain the mysteries of outer space.
These special edition sets feature all 12 episodes from SEASON FOUR plus special “Ask the Universe” segments in which the series’ most popular experts answer viewers’ questions. Examine which elements from popular sci-fi movies could really exist – from the ice moon of Endor to wormholes and transporters. Discover how the universe is awash in all sorts of strange liquids, from oceans of methane to blobs of alcohol floating in space, and even iron rain. And watch and marvel as experts cook up ten ways to destroy the Earth, including blowing it up with anti-matter, hurling it into the Sun, and colliding with another galaxy in this top-rated #1-selling HISTORY™ franchise.
The Universe, The Complete Fourth Season on Blu-ray includes 3 discs featuring state-of-the-art computer graphics and stunning NASA images plus two bonus featurettes!
FlashForward: Part One, Season One (available on DVD February 23, 2010)
Chaos reigns in Los Angeles after a mysterious event causes everyone in the world to lose consciousness at exactly the same moment. Was it an act of nature? Something man-made gone wrong, or something even more sinister? Whatever it was, every person on Earth blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds and sees a series of events on April 29, 2010 at 10:00 p.m., Pacific Time – exactly six months in their future. For some the future will be joyous and hopeful; for others, shockingly unexpected; and for a few, it simply doesn’t seem to exist.
Knowing their fate will alter each person’s life in one way or another and poses the questions: Can destiny be changed? And by changing just one destiny, what effect would that have on those of others?
Included are the first ten episodes of this new epic drama along with many bonus features such as “Flash Forward: A Look Ahead”, and “Creating Catastrophe: The Effects of a Global Blackout”.
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- Joy Dominguez
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