Releases of the week (Week 26)

Raw Deal -Three FBI agents are guarding a key witness whose testimony will end the Chicago crime organisation. Led by Luigi Patrovita (Sam Wanamaker). When the witness and the bodyguards are brutally murdered in an early morning raid. FBI agent harry Shannon (Darren McGavin) seeks out the service of former agent Mark Kaminsky (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Kaminsky, forced to leave the Bureau due to his excessive violence and brutality, is asked to assume a second identity with the intention of infiltrating the Patrovita organisation and destroying it from the inside. Informed that the reward for a successful mission is reinstatement with the FBI, Kaminsky agrees to undertake the task.

Red Heat -Captain Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) nicknamed "Iron Jaw" is a ruthless cop who heads Moscow's homicide division. He is sent to Chicago to pick up a Russian drug-dealer, arrested on a minor traffic violation. In Chicago, Danko is assigned to partner with Detective Art Ridzik (James Belushi), a wisecracking, plain clothesman notorious for cutting corners. Different people from different cultures, Danko and Ridzik Work closely together and develop a unique relationship laced with humur and respect. The chase leads them into a world of international drug trafficking controlled from within the walls of Statesville Prison and puts Ridzik in conflict with his superior, Commander Donnelly (Peter Boyle), as the two renegade cops alternate police procedure "Russian Style" with Ridzik's free-enterprising techniques.

Other releases this week:
Vengeance
European Gardens: Italy
The Lovely Bones
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Red Sonja
Solomon Kane
Verdi: Aida (Aida: Bregenz Festival 2009)
Anderszewski: Unquiet Traveller
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage
Rattle Conducts (Nutcracker/ Piano Concerto No.3/ Sacre Du Printemps)
Love Aaj Kal
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Zurich Ballet)
Privilege

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