Shingster
06-03-2002, 21:07
Just read this over at the AsianDVDGuide Forum:
Hey all,
I just got the announcement for the Audition R1 DVD. I know most of us have the R3 already, but what the heck...
Title: AUDITION
Label: Chimera
Order Date: April 8, 2002
Street Date: May 7, 2002
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R / Un-Rated Director’s Cut
Running Time: Approx. 115 min.
Synopsis: As close to an arthouse horror film as one could imagine. AUDITION has been called a “well-crafted, visually deft piece of grand guignol” (Nick James, Sight and Sound). AUDITION begins disarmingly when a shy, middle-aged widower, Aoyama, decides to chose his new wife by holding a phony audition for a nonexistent film. He falls for the demure and alluring Asami (Japanese fashion model Eihi Shiina), a former ballerina with a suspect past. Their polite timid courtship takes a 180-degree turn when Asami, trumping the stereotype of the submissive Asian woman, visits her revenge on Aoyama in the most nightmarish of ways. The film morphs from romance to psycho-thriller in the bat of a pierced eyelid. The ending, not for the faint of heart, “realizes a sadistic breach of contract between filmmaker and audience of which Hitchcock could only dream.” (Richard Falcon, Sight and Sound).
SRP: $29.98 (VHS - Rated) / $29.98 (VHS – Unrated Director’s Cut) $24.98 (DVD – Unrated Director’s Cut)
I have no idea who Chimera is but the DVD will be available at most places since its distributed by Ventura Distribution.
Best,
Eddie
Hopefully this'll wipe the floor with the Tartan DVD in the transfer stakes! :)
Hey all,
I just got the announcement for the Audition R1 DVD. I know most of us have the R3 already, but what the heck...
Title: AUDITION
Label: Chimera
Order Date: April 8, 2002
Street Date: May 7, 2002
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R / Un-Rated Director’s Cut
Running Time: Approx. 115 min.
Synopsis: As close to an arthouse horror film as one could imagine. AUDITION has been called a “well-crafted, visually deft piece of grand guignol” (Nick James, Sight and Sound). AUDITION begins disarmingly when a shy, middle-aged widower, Aoyama, decides to chose his new wife by holding a phony audition for a nonexistent film. He falls for the demure and alluring Asami (Japanese fashion model Eihi Shiina), a former ballerina with a suspect past. Their polite timid courtship takes a 180-degree turn when Asami, trumping the stereotype of the submissive Asian woman, visits her revenge on Aoyama in the most nightmarish of ways. The film morphs from romance to psycho-thriller in the bat of a pierced eyelid. The ending, not for the faint of heart, “realizes a sadistic breach of contract between filmmaker and audience of which Hitchcock could only dream.” (Richard Falcon, Sight and Sound).
SRP: $29.98 (VHS - Rated) / $29.98 (VHS – Unrated Director’s Cut) $24.98 (DVD – Unrated Director’s Cut)
I have no idea who Chimera is but the DVD will be available at most places since its distributed by Ventura Distribution.
Best,
Eddie
Hopefully this'll wipe the floor with the Tartan DVD in the transfer stakes! :)