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Manufacturer: WATER BEARER FILMS Brand: Water Bearer Films

One of the first Chinese openly gay underground films to make it to the big screen. THE OLD TESTAMENT offers a rare glimpse at gay life behind communist borders. Biblical references weave together three engaging vignettes on the topics sexuality, homophobia and AIDS. In SONG OF SOLOMON a male couple receives an unexpected vistitor.. an ex boyfriend with AIDS. Faced with a commitment to provide hospice care for the former lover, the couple must confront the demise of their own relationship. PROVERBS follows the love triangle between a married man, his wife, and his gay lover. As the bisexual husband attempts to get the best of both worlds, the feuding wife and lover begin to wonder if he is worth the fight. PSALM concludes the trilogy as a straight couple schemes outrageously to prevent the husband's younger brother from sleeping with his "special friend".

Manufacturer: Ariztical Entertainment Brand: ARIZTICAL ENTERTAINMENT INC

Mandarin with English subtitles. Xiao Qun works at Beijing Zoo as an elephant keeper, while her lover Xiao Ling a clothing designer sells her clothes at a stall at the mall. Their relationship comes under fire, however, with the arrival of Qun's mother who, unaware that her daughter is gay, tries to set her up with a prospective husband. Further complicating matters is the appearance of Qun's ex-girlfriend JunJun, now wanted by the police after killing her abusive father. Touted as the first lesbian film from mainland China.

Manufacturer: Wolfe Video Brand: WOLFE VIDEO

Sarah, a thirty-something urban professional, is stuck in traffic in her freshly-washed luxury sedan. At a red light, two teenaged squeegee punks ask for spare change, but when they suddenly jump into Sarah's car it becomes clear they want a lot more. And when 17-year-old Jenna overhears a phone conversation with Sarah's partner Sam, she takes control, pulling a knife and forcing Sarah to take them with her to her isolated cottage up north. The volatile kids hold Sarah captive while they plan their next move. Michelle Nolden, Katharine Isabelle, and Kett Turton star.

Manufacturer: Lions Gate Brand: Lionsgate

The unique relationship between Will Truman and Grace Adler comes to an end in the series finale of the adult comedy about two best friends – Will who is gay and Grace who is straight. Contains the complete series finale.

Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES Model: 2251518

Set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution, Born In Flames is a comic fantasy of female rebellion. When Adelaide Norris, the founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a seemingly impossible coalition of women- crossing all lines of race, class, and sexual preference- emerges to blow the System apart. In a series of thrilling and often humorous encounters between groups of women ranging from militant black lesbians to white punk feminist musicians, Born in Flames covers a wide range of radical feminist ideas.

Manufacturer: Wellspring Media Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS

Timoteo's life takes a dramatic turn when he discovers that his fifteen year old daughter has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As she undergoes emergency surgery Timoteo casts his mind back to his illicit affair with the passionate Italia... Based on the novel by Margaret Mazzantini.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 720917549125 Manufacturer No: 5491

Manufacturer: Liberation Ent Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS

A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people. First in a series, based on the novels by Richard Stevenson and set in Albany, NY, rather than in "the big city."

Manufacturer: Liberation Ent Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS

Two gay men on a date are murdered the night before Halloween in West Hollywood California. Eddie and his friends Joey Chaz and Tobey are going out the following night to the West Hollywood Halloween festival when they encounter the psycho who sets his eye on them. The killer stalks them through the festival as Chaz parties Joey chases his jock crush Tobey tries dressing in drag and Eddie pursues Jake the bad boy he wants to get to know better. Not until the very end do you find out who dies and who survives their night of terror.System Requirements:Running Time: 85 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 796019794497 Manufacturer No: 79449

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: MOVIE

Marlon Brando Collection, The (DVD) As this five-film box set vividly demonstrates, Marlon Brando was, at least in the beginning of his legendary career, not one to rest on his laurels or emerging mythic status. Spanning 1953 to 1980, this collection gathers some of his most challenging and offbeat performances. Some naysayers doubted Brando, he of the Method and mumbles, could do Shakespeare justice, but he acquits himself impressively as Mark Antony in Joseph Mankiewicz's stellar adaptation of Julius Caesar. Though now dicey from a PC standpoint, Brando, unlike Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, rises above grotesque caricature as a wily Japanese interpreter in The Teahouse of the August Moon, one of his rare forays into comedy. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Brando daringly portrays Fletcher Christian so foppish that he makes Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow look like Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk. John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye teams Brando with another screen icon, Elizabeth Taylor, in a nasty piece of Southern gothic about sordid doings on a military base. Brando portrays a latent homosexual fixated on young soldier Robert Forrter, who has a penchant for naked horseback riding and sneaking into Taylor's room while she sleeps to fondle her clothing. Only The Formula, a still timely, yet confusing conspiracy thriller about synthetic fuel, is dispensable, although Brando is compelling to watch in his few scenes opposite fellow Oscar-holdout, George C. Scott. More entertaining than the film is the lively audio commentary with director John Avildson and screenwriter Steve Shagan. Suffice to say, they have little good to say about Scott, disgraced former studio head David Begelman, and, of all people, Christopher Lambert, who would star in another film that Shagan wrote. The Julius Caesar disc contains an excellent bonus, "The Rise of Two Legends," in which Laurence Fishburne refers to Shakespeare as "the Aaron Spelling of his day," and Dennis Hopper praises Brando for taking "the act out of acting." Mutiny is...

Manufacturer: WOLFE VIDEO Brand: WOLFE VIDEO

Rising star Erin Kelly (Waking Madison) is Annabelle, a precocious Senator's daughter who falls for her Catholic school teacher, Simone (Diane Gaidry, The Dogwalker).After Simone is assigned to control the rebellious student, she instead finds herself drawn into Annabelle's world. As their attraction builds, the two women must cope with the reactions of those around them. Writer-Director Katherine Brooks unveils this smoldering tale of forbidden love with intelligence, wit and sensitivity. A lot of taboos are broken in Loving Annabelle, even if the film itself remains remarkably tasteful--even demure. The central characters are two women, a teacher and her student, and the setting is an all-girls school (shades of Lost and Delirious). Annabelle (the smoldering Erin Kelly), a senior, is a rebellious rocker chick--the Beverly Hills version that is, i.e. highlighted hair, black eyeliner, and nose ring. Her senatorial mother ships her off to boarding school to shape up. Annabelle's hard-partying ways are starting to become an embarrassment. Miss Simone Bradley (the sympathetic Diane Gaidry) is a popular poetry teacher. She's a Catholic. Annabelle is not. Simone has a boyfriend, Annabelle is gay. Looks can be deceiving, however, and there's more to both than meets the eye. For one, Simone's relationship is not as secure as it appears. For another, Annabelle's ardor is so relentless it threatens to sway sympathy against her. She seems to have no regard for the damage an affair would inflict on her teacher's career. Nonetheless, Simone is not entirely resistant to her charms. Inspired by 1931's Mädchen in Uniform, writer/director Katherine Brooks preserves the forbidden relationship at the heart of the Weimar-era classic, but drops the political subtext. Consequently, she doesn't take on more than she can handle, but Loving Annabelle still feels a little slight. --Kathleen C. Fennessy