Two prisoners escape from jail and end up causing a car accident where the only survivor is a little baby. Upon rescuing the child these simple rednecks embark on parenthood in a journey of robbery blackmail and nappies.
ARTH 107029; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is Wagner's most life-affirming opera, a romantic comedy about life and love in 16th century Nürnberg with none of the mythological characters and settings of the composer's other operas. The story concerns a knight, Walther Von Stolzing (here sung by Paul Frey) who must win the hand of the woman he loves, Eva (Helena Doese) by competing in a competition to become the Master Singer of the city. Against him are various romantic rivals, while in the role of his eventual mentor is the shoemaker Hans Sachs (Donald McIntyre). Doese brings just the right innocent femininity to one of only two important female roles--the other is filled by Rosemary Gunn as her governess, Magdalene. Paul Frey is fine as the romantic young knight, but the opera belongs to the great New Zealand Wagnerian bass-baritone, Donald McIntyre. His performance is richly insightful as only one so steeped in the world of the composer could be. The staging is deliberately unspectacular, the colours muted to the natural earth tones of the Middle Ages, focusing all attention on the characters, drama and exhilarating music. Though running three-and-a-half hours, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an excellent introduction to Wagner's art; especially as presented in this 1990 performance in an engagingly direct and unpretentious style, one that draws the audience in and makes for highly effective small-screen viewing. On the DVD: Die Meistersinger is presented on two DVDs to maximise picture quality over the 227-minute playing time. The image is 4:3 and is typical of a 1990 live opera performance recorded on video, being perfectly acceptable while revealing all the faults of the medium. The stereo sound is very good without being exceptional. There are optional subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish but no extras. --Gary S Dalkin
Titles Comprise: Changeling: Los Angeles 1928: On a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son Walter and left for work. When she came home she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues and months later a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police reporters and her conflicted emotions Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As she pushes authorities to keep looking she learns that in Prohibition-era L.A. women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich) who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Girl Interupted: After a botched suicide attempt Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) checks herself into a renowned psychiatric hospital where she meets a group of troubled young women including the charming sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie) and soon realizes she'll have to fight for her sanity and her freedom.
Mark Goddard is an L.A. police officer with a taste for violence and a dark secret - he witnessed the execution of his entire family at a very young age. Fate takes its turn when Mark is recruited by the mysterious Justice Incorporated a fraternity of police officers whose agents known as Sweepers deliver justice without the constraints of the legal system. As he becomes more involved with J.I. he discovers that this organization holds the key to his troubled past - and could greatly endanger his future.
A gripping and loving portrait of seven women who's back are literally against the wall; a surrounding wall whose brick facade has turned the address of Brewster Place into both a real and symbolic dead end.
Robocop: A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit the situation is so bad a private corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has assumed control of the police force. The executives at the company think they have the answer - until the enforcement droid they create kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team at Security Concepts create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street and within Security Concepts itself that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... Terminator: In 2029 giant super-computers dominate the planet hell-bent on exterminating the human race! And to destroy man's future by changing the past they send an indestructible cyborg - a Terminator - back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) the woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace to save the life of her unborn child? Or will the human race be extinguished by one mean hunk of mutant metal? Rollerball (1975): Set in 2018 Rollerball is a sensation glimpse of a future where the world is ruled by six giant corporations; a place where there is no war no poverty and no unrest but also no free will and no God. There is still a place for violence in this antiseptic world of plenty and mankind''s vicious and sadistic impulses are vented in the Rollerball arena a violent and deadly game broadcast world-wide to satisfy the bloodlust of millions. James Caan is outstanding as Jonathan E the game''s greatest player a man whose devastating talent threatens to make him a hero - and a threat to the Corporations'' grip on power. When Jonathan is asked to retire he refuses electing instead to captain his team to the world finals in an escalating spiral of carnage.
Bigoted white officer Captain Beau Carter must lead an all black unit on what is almost certainly a suicide mission behind enemy lines. The unit's combat experience to date has been confined to digging graves and latrines - they've got two days to shape up into a mean fighting machine!
While working late one night an ambitious and high-ranking state official is brutally assassinated. Stabbed through the heart he is left in a pool of blood near his office. The entire community stunned by the murder of his popular politician.The police are quick to attribute the murder to a burglary gone wrong. His family are told to asking questions. Important evidence is censored and ignored.Festering under the surface is evidence that points to a chilling conspiracy at the highest level of both the government and Police department.
It's two years since the trial is over and the James boys have an appointment with the electric chair. Refusing to give the media and the public the woeful explanations they expect the brothers with their unsavoury humour and complete lack of remorse become the kind of media heroes that only America in the late 1990's could embrace. Their bloody escape from prison leads to a massive manhunt with an intrigued public glued to their televisions thrilled but afraid. The killers hole up in a typical suburban town taking the Ryan family hostage. But it's the James brothers who are in for a nasty surprise it appears that the Ryan's have a few of their own axes to grind.
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