- Battlefield 3 introduces Frostbite 2, the incredible technology that takes animation, destruction, lighting, scale and audio
- Feel the impact of bullets and explosions, drag your fallen comrades into safety, and mount your weapon on almost any part of the terrain
- The best online vehicular warfare experience gets even better with a fitting sonic boom as fighter jets headline impressive lineup vehicles
- Take the fight to iconic and unexpected urban locations in the USA, Middle East, and Europe
- Experience gripping multiplayer action with 2-24 player battles supported online
Marcos (Marcos Hernandez) is the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), daughter of a Mexican general who amuses herself by working as a prostitute in a high-end brothel. Marcos and his wife (Berta Ruiz) have kidnapped a baby for ransom but it went tragically wrong when the infant died! . When he confesses his guilt to Ana, a bond of secrecy consecrated by the flesh unites them. As the police draw closer, she urges him to turn himself in but instead he seeks redemption from a higher power.
Battle In Heaven, Carlos Reygadas’ follow-up to
Japón, opens with a controversial oral sex scene involving beauty, Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), and the beast, Marcos (Marcos Hernández). Marcos is Ana’s chauffeur, who has kidnapped and accidentally killed a baby. Ana, a general’s daughter by day and a prostitute by night, confides in Marcos and performs sexual favors for him in order to persuade him to turn himself in. She is too young, however, to understand Marcos’s confused mental state, and her sensitive position with him puts her in peril. Set in Mexico City, this tragic drama is as much about failed intimacy as it is about Mexican class structure, as Ana and Marcos attempt to bridge the class gap. A few explicit sex scenes show Marcos in bed with ! Ana or his wife (Bertha Ruiz), thus garnering it reviews that ! compare it to
The Brown Bunny. In fact, the slow pacing and artsy, self-consciously composed shots do remind one of
The Brown Bunny, in that both films are initially interesting but grow dull as their plots take forever to unfold. An intriguing plot is buried under seemingly eternal panoramic shots of the city, painfully slow conversation between characters, and constant close-ups of Marcos’ face that are meant to capture his angst but only deter narrative. Nevertheless, this film’s merit is based in its experimental energy, and any director who follows up a graphic sex scene with a cut to the waving of the country’s flag (in this case Mexico’s) has my respect.
--Trinie DaltonMARCOS, EL CHOFER DE UNA FAMILIA DE DINERO, PIERDE EL CONTROL TRAS EL RESULTADO TRÃGICO DEL SECUESTRO DE UN BEBÉ PERPETRADO CON SU MUJER. BUSCANDO LIBERARSE, CONFIESA EL CRIMEN A LA HIJA DE SU PATRÃ"N, UNA NIÃ'A FRÃVOLA QUE SE PROSTITUYE POR DIVERSIÃ"N. PERO LA SITUACIÃ"N NO MEJO! RA Y MARCOS CONTINUA CAYENDO POR UNA ESPIRAL SIN FIN...Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Deleted Scenes, Film Credits, Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general he drives for, who prostitutes herself for pleasure. Marcos confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief. And then finds himself on his knees amidst the multitude of believers moving slowly towards the Basilica in honor of the Lady of Guadalupe. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, European Film Awards, ...Battle in Heaven ( Batalla en el cielo )Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the! South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet! at a mo bbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs. Featuring nine live concert performances not available anywhere else by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman.
Maverick director Michael Winterbottom wondered about the double standard of why novels can have explicit sex scenes and be legit and films could not. So his short film of a relationship based solely on sex and a love for music is the result of that thought. If the definition of a porn film is to shoot actors performing graphic sex scenes for real, then
9 Songs qualifies. It certainly doesn't feel or look like your standard whoopdee-do XXX feature. It's as glossy and low-budget arty as Winterbottom's
24 Hour P! arty People or
I Want You. But yeah, Matt and Lisa do everything to each other, and the actors are not "just acting" in some of the sex scenes. No matter how landmark the movie might be, there is not much story here (at least a book with hot sex often has a good story to it). Lisa is an American drifter in London who hooks up with Matt, a scientist who studies glaciers in Antarctica. They have sex and visit nine rock concerts including Franz Ferdinand and The Dandy Warhols. As advertised, you can't find these musical performances anywhere else, but we just see them from way back in the crowd. The film has an essence of how someone can find bliss in another person's body, and the emotional, magical weight that can hold over you. But that spell doesn't last. Since the sex is real, Winterbottom had to cast unknown actors, and they really don't make an impression, especially with the lack of story.
--Doug ThomasThe Brown Bunny is both a love story and a haunti! ng portrait of a lost soul unable to forget his past. After fi! nishing a motorcycle race in New Hampshire, Bud Clay (Vincent Gallo) loads his racing bike into the back of his van and begins a cross-country odyssey to Los Angeles, where he is to compete in another race. During his trip, he meets three very different women: Violet, a wholesome all-American gas station attendant; Lilly (Cheryl Tiegs), a fellow lost soul he connects with at a highway rest stop; and Rose, a Las Vegas prostitute. Throughout his journey, Bud can never escape his intense feelings for the love of his life, Daisy (Chloë Sevigny), so he plans to reconcile with her when he reaches Los Angeles. Arriving in Los Angeles, Bud checks into a motel before visiting the abandoned home he once shared with Daisy. He leaves a note, hoping she will turn up at his motel room . . .Building to a notorious climax, the film presents one of the frankest portrayals of male sexuality ever seen in American cinema.After its scandalous screening at the 2004 Cannes film festival, Vincent Gallo's !
The Brown Bunny was cut from 118 to 92 minutes, and that made all the difference. The film that critic and long-time Cannes attendee Roger Ebert originally called "the worst film in the history of the festival" was transformed, by Gallo's judicious editing, into a perfectly acceptable if not universally respected art-house curio, widely criticized yet ripe for cult status, able to stand beside Gallo's
Buffalo 66 as the work of a genuine artist with a singular vision. Yes, that vision is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and likely to turn off a majority of viewers with its glacial pace and endless shots of Gallo driving, driving, and driving some more. But in portraying a melancholy motorcycle racer who drives cross-country while mourning a private loss that remains secret until the final scenes, Gallo gives us a character, and a film, that feels spiritually akin to such early '70s classics as
Five Easy Pieces and
Two-Lane Blacktop. It's a flawed yet! ultimately moving example of maverick, unconventional cinema,! and whi le Chloe Sevigny's explicit oral sex scene with Gallo is completely unnecessary, it's just one more element that places
The Brown Bunny firmly, and refreshingly, out of the mainstream.
--Jeff ShannonJames Proctor and his best friend, Justin Sloan, have a vision to make an impact on the city of Redloub. Enlisting the help of their small church's youth group, the two teenagers plan a series of outreach events at Redloub City Park. But when Justin is killed suddenly in a car wreck, James and his family discover a cultic gang's sinister plot to drive out every last Christian influence in the city. James himself becomes the primary target of Kivuli, a Fallen prince of darkness intent on possessing James' brother, Ryan, and using him to fulfill his plans. Peter Saxon, a church friend of the Proctors, considers himself to be a good person. Life was going his way until the ball of the game-winning play of his final high school football game slips through his hands! , just nights after Justin's death. In the days that follow, Peter sees visions of an epic medieval battle where there is no third/neutral party and is drawn into the struggle between James Proctor and his church youth group against the small cultic gang led by a fiery red-head named Kevin. Peter must realize who he really is and decide once and for all which side he will join or get crushed in the cross-fire.James Proctor and his best friend, Justin Sloan, have a vision to make an impact on the city of Redloub. Enlisting the help of their small church's youth group, the two teenagers plan a series of outreach events at Redloub City Park. But when Justin is killed suddenly in a car wreck, James and his family discover a cultic gang's sinister plot to drive out every last Christian influence in the city. James himself becomes the primary target of Kivuli, a Fallen prince of darkness intent on possessing James' brother, Ryan, and using him to fulfill his plans.
P! eter Saxon, a church friend of the Proctors, considers himself! to be a good person. Life was going his way until the ball of the game-winning play of his final high school football game slips through his hands, just nights after Justin's death. In the days that follow, Peter sees visions of an epic medieval battle where there is no third/neutral party and is drawn into the struggle between James Proctor and his church youth group against the small cultic gang led by a fiery red-head named Kevin. Peter must realize who he really is and decide once and for all which side he will join or get crushed in the cross-fire.James Proctor and his best friend, Justin Sloan, have a vision to make an impact on the city of Redloub. Enlisting the help of their small church's youth group, the two teenagers plan a series of outreach events at Redloub City Park. But when Justin is killed suddenly in a car wreck, James and his family discover a cultic gang's sinister plot to drive out every last Christian influence in the city. James himself becomes the primary t! arget of Kivuli, a Fallen prince of darkness intent on possessing James' brother, Ryan, and using him to fulfill his plans.
Peter Saxon, a church friend of the Proctors, considers himself to be a good person. Life was going his way until the ball of the game-winning play of his final high school football game slips through his hands, just nights after Justin's death. In the days that follow, Peter sees visions of an epic medieval battle where there is no third/neutral party and is drawn into the struggle between James Proctor and his church youth group against the small cultic gang led by a fiery red-head named Kevin. Peter must realize who he really is and decide once and for all which side he will join or get crushed in the cross-fire.Official Selection: IO Isabella Internation Film Week. A friend once said that every woman needs three men: One for adventure and fun, one for stimulating conversation and one for good sex. Johan was all three. Eventually I got t! ired of crying over Johan. I'd learned my lesson. I was going ! to maste r my emotions. I was NOT a victim of love. From now on it was going to be all about fun. From now on, I would be living life to the hilt.Battlefield 3 leaps ahead of the competition with the power of Frostbite 2, the next installment of DICE's cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering superior visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and incredibly lifelike character animations. As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multi-player actions ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Europe, Middle-East and North America. Games sold in the US will not work on systems sold in different geographic ! locations due to regional coding requirements.
Battlefield 3 is a First-Person Shooter (FPS) that is designed to attack your senses, delivering a visceral combat experience like no other FPS before it. Sequel to 2005's Battlefield 2, Battlefield 3 utilizes the updated Frostbite 2 game engine, which allows for advanced destruction, sound, and graphics as well as a focus on dense in-game urban settings. Additional game features include: classic Battlefield mission-based gameplay, an impressive array of vehicles including jets and tanks, large-scale maps, an updated soldier class, 2-24 player support online and more.
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In! Battlefield 3 players take command of a team of elite US Marines as they experience heart-pounding misson-based gameplay ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Paris, Tehran and New York. Along with ground combat, vehicular combat plays a major role with vehicles available including tanks as well as air support, featuring infrared and satellite imaging. The game contains both single player missions and competitive and co-op multiplayer actions supporting up to 24 players online, and set in diverse locations from around the globe including Paris, Tehran and New York.
The State-of-the-art Frostbite 2 Engine
Battlefield 3 leaps ahead of the competition with the power of Frostbite 2, the next installment of game developer Dice's cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering superior visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destructi! on, dynamic audio and incredibly lifelike character animations! . As bul lets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground - the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before.
Key Game Features
- The Frostbite 2 Game Engine - Battlefield 3 introduces Frostbite 2, the incredible technology that takes animation, destruction, lighting, scale and audio to new heights. Built upon this powerful game engine, Battlefield 3 immerses players physically and emotionally to the world around them like never before.
- Feel the Battle - Feel the impact of bullets and explosions, drag your fallen comrades into safety, and mount your weapon on almost any part of the terrain. Battlefield 3's cutting edge animation, spectacular visuals and real as hell battle gameplay attack your senses and make you feel the visceral warriors experience like no other FPS.
- Unparalleled Vehicle Warfare - The best online vehicle warfare experience gets even better with a fit! ting sonic boom as fighter jets headline along with an impressive lineup of land, air and sea vehicles, all at your command.
- Urban Combat - Take the fight to iconic and unexpected places in the USA, Middle East, and Europe including claustrophobic streets, metropolitan downtowns, and open, vehicle-friendly landscapes as you fight your way through the war of tomorrow.
- Multiplayer Mayhem - Experience gripping multiplayer action with 2-24 player battles supported online.
- Amazing Animation - The DICE team set out to takes animation to the next level with ANT technology (previously used in FIFA games) that now allows the creation of more believable behavior than ever before in an FPS.
- Fight to Scale - Simply put, in Battlefield 3 you will be able to engage across some of the largest maps ever created, while close quarter combat is available too.
- Massive Destruction - Destruction is enha! nced on both a macro and micro level. Chips fly off blocks of ! concrete used for cover, while whole facades and buildings collapse in screeching clouds of dust and debris.
- Best-in-Class Audio - Building on acclaimed High Dynamic Range (HDR) audio from previous Battlefield games, Battlefield 3 builds on the best-in-class legacy with a brutally realistic soundscape.
Back To Karkand Expansion Pack - Now Available for Download
Back to Karkand is a massive themed expansion pack for Battlefield 3 and is now available for download on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and PC Download. It features four of the most loved Battlefield maps ever, boldly reimagined with the power of the Frostbite 2 engine. It also gives you new weapons, vehicles, dog tags, and persistence in the form of all-new "assignments" to carry out on the battlefield. The maps included are Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Sharqi Peninsula, and Wake Island. All have been redesigned from Battlefield 2 as a re! turn years later, changing the scenery and adding the powerful destruction that Frostbite 2 brings to the game. Please note that this expansion pack does not come with the game. It must be purchased separately.
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