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BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALEDNEW RELEASE WIDESCREEN EDITION DVD

Dazzling…A Stunning Movie….As Deeply Felt as it is Imagined !!

Takes us places movies rarely dare to go. Hugh Jackman gives the performance of his career !!

Special Features Include - Inside the Fountain: Death and Rebirth - Gallery of 6 featurettes exploring the Movie’s various periods and settings - Theatrical Trailer and more !!

It’s been a long, strange trip since Darren Aronofsky last invited viewers into his cinematic world–six years in fact–but THE FOUNTAIN is sure to enchant, beguile, and inspire intense debate among his patient fans. During the frustrating gap since 2000’s REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, Aronofsky has struggled to bring THE FOUNTAIN to the screen, principally because leading man Brad Pitt dropped out of the project. The complex tale is split into three different time periods, beginning in the 16th century, when a conquistador named Tomas (Hugh Jackman) strives to find the Tree of Life. The second part of the story finds Jackman playing a Buddha-like character who zips through outer space and dreams of a woman named Izzi (Rachel Weisz). And the third part, which consumes most of the film’s screen time, is set in the present day and sees Jackman playing a doctor named Tommy, who is married to the terminally-ill Izzi. In this third section Tommy strives to find a cure for Izzi’s brain tumor, and makes some progress after experimenting on a monkey with a substance discovered in a tree in South America. Meanwhile, Izzi has been writing a book that she calls THE FOUNTAIN, but has left the final chapter for Tommy to write. As Aronofsky pushes and pulls his sepia-tinted film between the three time periods, he weaves a deeply thoughtful, special effects-laden story that touches on themes of mortality and self, and requires a great deal of work from the director’s audience. Movies such as Kubrick’s 2001 and Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS come to mind as Aronofsky gets deep into philosophical waters, and the various story strands of THE FOUNTAIN are as inconclusive and open to interpretation as the films that have clearly influenced it. The film makes for uneasy and sometimes confusing viewing, but will find its audience among intrepid souls who are fully prepared to let go and immerse themselves in Aronofsky’s peculiar, daring, and thoughtful cinematic universe.

“CENTIPEDE HORROR, The Ultimate Nature Run Amuck Movie!”

DVD is Region Free. NTSC. Will play everywhere. Apprehensive Films proudly presents the fourth release, Centipede Horror, in it’s line of Apprehensive Films Presents DVDs. Each disc will include an obscure cult classic horror or exploitation film and an original Apprehensive Films short subject. Please keep your eyes peeled for our future releases.

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