Lombardero Original
Le Nozze di Figaro – WA Mozart Trailer
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Jamon Jamon [VHS] $18.95 Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna’s Jamón Jamón is intelligent, wry, and–despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain–unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certai… |
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [VHS] $7.19 Pedro Almodovar broke into the art-house mainstream with this wild, manic comedy about a gaggle of women and their various problems with men, be they married lovers, cheating husbands, fiancés, or terrorists. Almodovar’s long-time leading lady, Carmen Maura, stars as an actress (famed for her laundry detergent commercial as the mother of a sloppy serial killer) who’s just been dumped by her marr… |