Tartan Video

List creator: GreenCineStaff Created on: December 19, 2005 - 3:34 PM PST Description: Tartan Video has been releasing the very best of cinema from all over the world on DVD and Video. Films that entertain, amaze, shock, excite and continually challenge our perceptions of cinema and the world around us.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Heavily stylised in terms of its use of colour, framing, camera movements, and still photographs... much closer in style and spirit to Wong Kar Wai than Ken Loach." - BBC
	9 Songs (2004)
The notion that our sexual behavior is the purest expression of our deepest selves is delicately explored in "9 Songs," Michael Winterbottom's lyrical, graphically explicit chronicle of an ordinary love affair between two attractive people." - New York Times
	Ab-Normal Beauty (2004)			Not Rated
"characteristically stylish with complex compositions, drenched with neon greens and blood red, and perfectly matched by a jarring and jolting ambient score." - BBC
	Acacia (2003)
"a pretty solid, psychological drama... perhaps [Park's] best work to date.
	Address Unknown (2001)
"Ki-duk fans should find it effective and gritty with a message on top of it" - Asian Cinema Drifter
	Anatomy Of Hell (2003)
"It's an admirably bold film, Siffredi is surprisingly good, and it's filled with images you're not likely to see anywhere else." - Ken Fox, TV Guide
	Arakimentari (2003)			Not Rated
"Offers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work." - Variety
	Bush's Brain (2004)
"An engrossing, disturbing portrait of the perversion of our political process - a victim of our collective disdain and disinterest that we let it get dragged down this far." - Entertainment Today
	The Coast Guard (2002)
"yet another harrowing film from the black sheep of Korean directors." - DVD Verdict
	Doppelganger (2003)
"Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gleeful exploration of duality is by far his funniest film yet, full of the doses of humor it needs amidst all the dark allegory." - Craig Phillips
	Face (2004)
"subtly subversive... [with a] remarkably self-effacing performance by Ms. Fujiyama." - New York Times
	H (2003)
"a moody piece of Eastern noir, and one that is technically accomplished, full of bravura camera shots and fantastic lighting." - DVD Monsters and Critics
	Japon (2002)			Not Rated
"Funny, mournful, weird, Carlos Reygadas's Japón is the new Mexican cinema's wiggiest manifestation to date... a notably confident and achieved debut, amazingly shot in 16mm Cinemascope." - J. Hoberman
	The Heroic Duo (2003)			Not Rated
"mixes drama and action quite well without being ridiculous." - DVD Talk
	The Heroic Duo (Bonus Disc) (2003)			Not Rated
	The Hillside Strangler (2004)			Not Rated
"Plays as a blackly comic slice of mock '70s-style exploitation that flirts with the viewer before applying its chokehold." - Variety
	Koma (2004)
"Director Lo Chi Leung keeps the film moving at a steady pace and gives it some stylish kinetic direction and the film benefits from the good acting of the two leads" - Video Graveyard
	Memento Mori (2000)
co-directors show tremendous potential with their debut effort... The photography is gorgeous with a welcome degree of variety. The editing is razor sharp, and the excellent musical score enhances the mystery." - A Better Tomorrow DVD
	Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
"When you have Bruce Dern and Randy Quaid in a movie, you have expectations. Those two rarely disappoint, and that continues to be the case here." - Film Threat
	Mysterious Skin (2004)			Not Rated
"revealing and deeply affecting and both leading actors are first-rate." - Guardian (U.K.)
	No Rest for the Brave (2003)			Not Rated
	Oldboy (2004)
"Oldboy has the bulldozing nerve and full-blooded passion of a classic." - Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
	Phone (2002)
"gets its chills from a mobile phone... frightening and effective." - Empire Magazine
	Samaritan Girl (2004)
"creates one of the most profoundly moving and strangely transcendent metaphoric images of intruded-upon (and violated) landscape in recent cinema, in the final shot" - Senses of Cinema
	A Snake of June (2002)
"Although it's distinctly kinky, Tsukamoto's film is no cheap exploitation thriller... " - BBC
	Sorum (2001)			Not Rated
"nusually disturbing and haunting film... a challenging movie" - Reel.com
	Spider Forest (2004)
"consistently enthralling, even when it breaks the rules." - Sam Adams, Phil. City Paper
	Suspicious River (2000)
"Molly Parker delivers a chilling lead performance" -- BBC
	Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
"Filmbrain highly recommends Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, even though he felt pretty miserable after watching it."
	Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)			Not Rated
"startling and inventive film. Filled with wild stop motion effects and brilliant conceptual horrors, this is horror film for the modern technological world." - Sean Axmaker, Static Multimedia
	Unborn But Forgotten (2002)
	A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
"haunting... so bloody good that an American remake already is in the works." - San Francisco Chronicle
	A Tale of Two Sisters (Bonus Disc) (2003)
	Whispering Corridors (1998)
"A very low budget film that has spawned two sequels to date, this 1998 Korean horror/mystery has a fascinating perspective on the experiences of high school girls. This perspective has been fashioned into a clever and metaphoric chiller" - DVD Verdict
	Wishing Stairs (2003)
A sort of Korean Suspiria
	Vital (2004)
"a quiet film, which ultimately filled this viewer with an emotional response about how beautiful love and life can be... Tartan's DVD release of Vital is terrific. The best feature is an audio commentary track with Tom Mes, Japanese film guru and editor of midnighteye.com." - Reel.com
	Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)			Not Rated
	Battle Royale II: Requiem (Bonus Disc) (2003)			Not Rated
	Battle Royale (2001)
"a film put together with remarkable confidence and flair. Its steely candour, and weird, passionate urgency make it compelling." - Guardian (UK)