The Countess - DVD

James Ivory stages a farewell in the glow of Shanghai nightlife, where a blind American entrepreneur (Ralph Fiennes) and a compromised countess (Natasha Richardson) build a haven called The White Countess. The club promises refuge, but history does not honor reservations; as war presses in, the romance becomes a study in grace under pressure. With Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, and Hiroyuki Sanada; a rich, elegiac capstone to the Merchant Ivory legacy.

Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to hijack the competition. Contest officials, outraged parents, and ambitious 8th graders are no match for Guy as he ruthlessly crushes their dreams of victory. As a reporter attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward 10-year-old Chaitanya, completely

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau (Sunrise, Faust, the Last Laugh). Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws - perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Nosferatu was an atypical expressionist film in that much of it was shot on location. While directors such as Lang and Lubitsch built vast forests and entire towns within the studio, Nosferatu's landscapes, villages and castle were actual locations in the Carpathian Mountains. Murnau was thus able to infuse the story with the subtle tones of nature both pure and fresh as well as twisted and sinister. Remastered in high definition for the first time and making it's Blu-ray debut exclusively from Kino Classics.