| | Hotel DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Suspense Movies, Documentary Videos, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, British, Hollywood, Film About Film, Italy, Cannibalism | | Starring | Saffron Burrows, Max Beesley, Burt Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Julian Sands, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu, Valentina Cervi | | Director | Mike Figgis | | Director of Photography | Mike Figgis, Anthony Marinelli | | Executive Producer | Andrea Calderwood | | Music | Mike Figgis, Anthony Marinelli | | Producer | Annie Stewart, Etchie Stroh | | Screenwriter | Mike Figgis | | Source Writer | John Webster |
From Mike Figgis comes this delicously disturbing, erotically charged thriller about a Hollywood film crew discovering madness and murder in an old Venetian hotel. Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu, Burt Reynolds, Julian Sands, and David Schwimmer star. A sinister hotel in Venice forms the backdrop for director Mike Figgis's experimental, stylistically surreal HOTEL. The story centers on director Trent Stoken (Rhys Ifans), who is attempting to film John Webster's play "The Duchess of Malfi" in the style of a Dogme film. He is constantly at loggerheads with his producer, Jonathan Danderfine (David Schwimmer), who eventually takes control of filming when Stoken is shot and falls into a coma. A documentary film crew lead by Charlee Boux (Salma Hayek) simultaneously captures the traumatic events, doting on the personal misfortunes of the cast and crew. As the movie progresses, the sinister, omnipresent hotel staff descend into cannibalism, cooking their guests, and further threatening the production of the film.
HOTEL has many intertwining subplots which Figgis ties together neatly with the "The Duchess of Malfi" theme. He also draws on stylistic effects similar to those used in his previous film, TIMECODE, such as multiscreen techniques and free-form story structures with no real conclusions. Drawing on a variety of sources for inspiration, such as the famous darkly comic cannibalism movie DELICATESSEN, and the films of Jean Luc Goddard; Figgis delivers a compelling film, proving he is a director willing to take risks to deliver his true vision. Theatrical Release: JULY 25, 2003 (NY/LA) Hotel Reviews: "...HOTEL often has the free-form, surly swing of Charles Mingus's thumping improvisations, including a persuasive self-regard that dares you to look away..."
-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times "...Figgis is a bold experimenter whose films often leave conventional paths to achiever their effect....There is a heady freedom in his riffs here that might appeal to you..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Hotel | List Price | $14.98 (You save $5.29) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 2003 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  32685  | | CD Universe Part number | 6867801 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 06, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 93 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Spanish Subtitles; French Subtitles | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Spanish Subtitles; French Subtitles |
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