Kathleen Turner

Crimes of Passion
$9.98
After having some big problems with his movie Valentino, which he considered a piece of trash, Ken Russell made two of his most fascinating films for the United States. The first was Altered States and the other Crimes of Passion. In Crimes of Passion, it definitely is, like a precedent reviewer said, a plea for honesty as we witness an art designer spending several night hours as a prostitute called China Blue. Then as she meets a dangerous minister and falls in love with one of her clients, her secret identity starts to shatter.

Though I do not want to reveal more of the story, I can say that the soundtrack, composed by Rick Wakeman the keyboardist of the british group YES, really does an amazing job adapting and remixing Dvorak's "New World" symphony. Not only does it reminds of Ken Russell's trademark of using famous classical music for his movies, it also, adds on to Ken Russell's movie which denounces the hypocrisy of the American Society and breaks its idyllic illusion.

A great job from all the cast and the crew. One dvd Ken Russell's fans must see for it is in its uncut and uncensored director's version.

Body Heat - Kathleen Turner - Original Movie Poster Photo - 8 x 10
$8.00
Original Theatrical Release Press Photo.
Measures 8" x 10" (inches)
Brand new and unused and will be shipped to you packed in plastic and then shipped with cardboard for maximum protection.

Undercover Blues
$14.98
Undercover Blues is an under rated classic. Stanley Tucci is hilarious. I love the interaction between Cathlene Turner and Randy Quaid. Story is so-so, but it is fun from beginning to end. Larry Miller is also hilarious.

Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
$19.98
Body Heat: 9 out of 10: Many successful movies lose their ability to shock over the years. After hundreds of copy cats Alien isn't as effective as when it first came out. Kramer vs. Kramer certainly isn't the shocking eye opener it once was.

Body Heat should suffer the same fate. It doesn't. Despite a hundred direct to video takes on the same story (six of them with the exact same title) the movie still works. In fact it works very well indeed.

Writer Lawrence Kasdan had just penned Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back so it is a surprise he chooses noir for his first directing outing. (His next film was The Big Chill so this is one guy hard to pigeonhole) He both updates and in many ways upgrades the noir of the past.

By setting the movie in a Podunk Florida town he invokes John D Macdonald the way no Macdonald movie treatment has successfully done. His then unknown actors William Hurt and Kathleen Turner are pitch perfect.

This is a movie that really brings some new things to the table as it does some old things very well indeed. Like the best noir you are too involved to even begin to try to guess the next twist and turn.

Like Scorsese in Goodfellas or Huston in the Maltese Falcon Kasdan's directing is obviously very good yet his tricks remain hidden from view. Not a wasted shot and your television will sweat from all the heat generated.

Highly recommended to all fans of noir or simply fans of movies.