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Item number 1658-12, Grading is cover/record: M- using Goldmine standards. Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.

After a six-year hiatus Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised and presumably to sell more tickets KILL BILL: VOL. 1 tells the first half of the sprawling story which is quite simple at first glance. A female assassin referred to as "The Bride" Uma Thurman is attacked on her wedding day. Dead are her soon-to-be husband and unborn child. However she doesn't die. Four years later she wakes up from a coma looking for revenge. Although her ultimate target is her former boss Bill David Carradine it's quite clear that The Bride is saving the best for last. And before she can track him down she must methodically take out the minions who ruined her life. VOLUME 1's targets include Vernita GreenCopperhead Vivica A. Fox Sofie Fatale Julie Dreyfus and the heartless O-Ren IshiiCottonmouth Lucy L

Both of the leads in the French action flick DISTRICT B13 practice parkour a kind of urban gymnastics that looks a little like skateboarding without the skateboard and the pleasure of this short frenetic film is watching the two lithe heroes leap through windows run up walls and jump off buildings. Like Jackie Chan Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle both stuntmen-turned-leading-men perform their own acrobatic martial arts sans special effects or invisible wires and the lo-fi fight sequences pack a gritty punch that is often missing in slick Hollywood fare. The plot involves a futuristic France where the worst ghettos have been walled off from the rest of society their schools shut down and the police force evacuated. The people in power simply want to ignore the plight of the disenfranchised but this becomes difficult to do when the most notorious gang led by the wild-eyed Taha Bibi Naceri gets its hands on a nuclear warhead and proceeds to demand a 20-million-Euro ransom with the city of Paris as its hostage. E