A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of your video collection whether or not you have children. The storytelling was never as lean as here, the songs rarely as haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well-defined. The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr (Dumbo is a mean-spirited nickname) is ostracised from the circus pack shortly after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk and demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow" crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly", should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. If you don't mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you should be legally pronounced dead. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com
Every episode from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's hit animated comedy! Season 1: 1. Space Pilot 3000 2. The Series Has Landed 3. I Roomate 4. Love's Labour's Lost In Space 5. Fear Of A Bot Planet 6. A Fishful Of Dollars 7. My Three Suns 8. A Big Piece Of Garbage 9. Hell Is Other Robots 10. A Flight To Remember 11. Mars University 12. When Aliens Attack 13. Fry And The Slurm Factory Season 2: 1. I Second That Emotion 2. Brannigan Begin Again 3. A Hea
Some of the biggest British pop names of the 60s are brought together for this DVD compilation of classic hits. Featuring Eric Burdon & The Animals Cilla Black Billy Fury Lulu The Searchers Gerry & The Pacemakers Four Pennies Manfred Mann Herman's Hermits Spencer Davis Group Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch The Tremeloes Dave Berry Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas Peter & Gordon Herman's Hermits and Alan Price. Tracklist: 1. Introduction 2. Baby Let Me Take You Home 3. You're My World 4. I Will 5. Shout 6. What Have They Done To The Rain 7. Ferry 'Cross The Mersey 8. Juliet 9. 5-4-3-2-1 10. Something Is Happening 11. Midnight Special 12. Bend It! 13. Blue Suede Tie 14. Now 15. Little Children 16. A World Without Love 17. Just A Little Bit Better 18. Hold Tight! 19. Come Tomorrow 20. Don't Stop The Carnival
The territory has been invaded by a gang of renegades threatening the town and its people. Only one person has the strength to stand and fight on behalf of others...
In the ultra-violent Spaghetti Western Django Kill! Tomas Milian stars as The Stranger a half-breed bandit left for dead by his double-crossing gang members who have made off with the gold they have stolen from a US army detachment. Rising from the grave he sets about seeking revenge aided by a pair of mystic Native Americans and armed only with a pistol and a supply of golden bullets. The Stranger's quest leads him to a strange town known only as The Unhappy Place. There he fin
Part of a new collection of DVDs charting the outstanding range of Frank Sinatra's live performances. A man who put a unique stamp on the music of the 20th Century. Featuring many classic songs. Tracklist: Instrumental Medley of It Was A Very Good Year All The Way & My Kind Of Town The Lady Is A Tramp I Get A Kick Out Of You Let Me Try Again Autumn In New York I've Got You Under My Skin (Bad Bad) Leroy Brown Angel Eyes You Are The Sunshine Of My Life The House I L
Ernest Hemingway's tragic wartime romance comes to vivid life in this classic 1932 film starring Oscar winners Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The cataclysm of WW1 sets the stage for an impassioned story of star-crossed love between a daring American ambulance driver (Cooper) and an English nurse (Hayes) in an army hospital. The tumult of war conspires to push the pair together and then wrench them apart in what becomes an ultimate test of love. Boasting beautiful cinematogrpahy and poe
Woody Herman's Swinging Herd (1964):Woody Herman, clarinette, saxophone alto, chant - Paul Fontaine, Billy Hunt, Bill Chase, Danny Nolan, Gerald Lamy, trompette - Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Kenny Wenzel, trombones - Sal Nistico, Gary Kelin, Joe Romano, Tom Anastas, saxophones - Nat Pierce, piano - Chuck Andrus, contrebasse - Jake Hanna, batterie
This ultra-dark shocker opens in tragedy when a beautiful young woman watches in terror as her raging husband kills her love and then himself. Her life is made increasingly traumatic when she becomes the victim of a relentless stalker who casts an evil shadow over her every move.
The classical work Un Ballo in Maschera composed by Giuseppe Verdi recorded live on 23 & 26 November 2005.
This dense adaption of Ernest Hemmingway's novel features Gary Cooper as American soldier Lt. Henry and his illfated love affair with British Nurse Catherine portrayed by Hellen Hayes during World War I. Filmed in beautiful Italy the two lovers will stop at nothing to be together but Lt. Henry's internal struggles ultimately threaten the relationship. Hemmingway's theme of questioning the nature of war and fighting is fully recognised under Frank Borzage's direction.
A young girl Maria is caught in flagrante delicto with her lover by Father Vicente who belongs to the nearby Serreda Iris cloister. The fiendish clergyman persuades her parents who are poor and easily intimidated to put Maria under his protection. She is brought to Serreda Iris where the nuns seem to have an unusual interest in her beautiful body. Maria abondoned by everyone loses hope but first she wants to make things clear with the only friend left to her: She writes a let
This critically acclaimed new documentary feature traces rise and fall of US internet company govWorks.com.
Frederick Ashton's The Dream at the American Ballet Theatre. Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
In 1928 Sunrise won Oscars for Janet Gaynor as Best Actress and cinematography as a "Unique and Artistic Picture". In 1967 it was declared "the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema" by key French new wave magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Released with a synchronised score and effects soundtrack but no dialogue, it is a cinematic landmark from the transition period between silent cinema and the talkies. Beginning as a prototype film noir in which a farmer (George O' Brien) plans the murder of his wife (Gaynor) with his vacationing lover from the city (Margaret Livingstone), the film develops from tense thriller into a story of reawakened love and redemption. Anticipating Orson Welles's artistic freedom on Citizen Kane (1941), German expressionist director FW Murnau was given carte blanche following the huge American success of The Last Laugh (1924). The result was this poetic fable making inventive use of every technical device then available, including in-camera multiple exposures and superimpositions, long elegant tracking shots, forced perspectives, complex miniatures and synchronised sound, as well as the largest single-street-scene set ever built. The result is a film that influenced everything from Hitchcock suspense to Titanic (1997) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Murnau summons powerful performances from his principal players--Gaynor would later headline A Star Is Born (1937) and O'Brien would take important roles in several classic John Ford westerns--while the transcendent finale evokes and reworks the ending of the director's earlier classic, Nosferatu (1922). Though now inevitably dated Sunrise remains essential for anyone seriously interested in the development of cinematic art. On the DVD:Sunrise is presented on an immaculately produced two-disc special edition. Though restored to full length and presented in the original 1.2:1 ratio with the complete music and effects soundtrack, the film has been taken from a print made in 1936, the original camera negative having been destroyed in a fire. As a result this is the best possible modern presentation of Sunrise, though the print, while perfectly acceptable, is very grainy, lined and flickery by contemporary standards. The mono sound has been superbly restored and is remarkably effective for its vintage; an alternative stereo musical track recorded for recent reissue sounds excellent. The film also boasts a commentary by John Bailey: apart from talking a little too much about how beautiful the lighting is, Bailey offers seriously in-depth knowledge about the film and about Murnau that really puts everything into historical context and explains the constant technical ingenuity. The second disc presents the useful A Song of Two Humans, a 12-minute visual essay by film historian R Dixon Smith, and almost 10 minutes of outtakes with optional commentary by John Bailey, as well as a trailer, stills gallery and notes explaining the nature of the restoration. There is also an excellent 40-minute documentary Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film, telling the story of the director's lost follow up to Sunrise. Microsoft Word and PDF files available via DVD-ROM present various incarnations of the screenplays for both Sunrise and 4 Devils. --Gary S. Dalkin
Herman's Hermits: Listen People
ROAD TO BALI is the sixth 'Road' picture featuring the immortal screen combo of Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby and the only one in the series made in Technicolor. Hope and Crosby play music hall artists in Australia after the usual series of hilarious mishaps they find themselves on the run and end up in Port Darwin where they are hired as deep-sea divers searching for treasure. Here they meet the lovely Princess McTavish (Lamour). Hope has an encounter with a sea monst
Follow Steve McGarrett and his squad as they enforce the law and match wits with a gallery of memorable villians. Featuring powerful performances by glittering guest stars The Eighth Season is packed with the thrilling entertainment that made Hawaii Five-O a worldwide sensation.
The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com
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