Featuring many of the most influential and charismatic musicians from the 1960's and 1970's Rock Revolutions is a unique collection of spine-tingling performances from a time when passionate music helped change the world. Showcasing more than 20 live performances from rock gods Jimi Hendrix and Free to pop legends Elton John and Abba the King of reggae Bob Marley and even soulful brothers James Brown and Otis Redding - this is a one-off collection packed with never before seen footage so rare its like may never be seen again. This special journey through the annals of modern music also contains entertaining interviews with top industry characters Malcolm McLaren the manager of the Sex Pistols rock goddess Marianne Faithful and many more including Mick Jagger and Dennis Hopper. Tracklisting: 1. Little Richard Lucille 2. Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls Of Fire 3. Ike & Tina Turner Proud Mary 4. Janis Joplin Piece Of My Heart 5. Otis Redding Respect 6. Jefferson Airplane Don't You Want Somebody To Love 7. Free All Right Now 8. Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe 9. Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild 10. James Brown Mother Popcorn 11. Canned Heat On The Road Again 12. Richie Havens Freedom 13. Don McLean American Pie 14. Blondie Heart Of Glass 15. Marianne Faithful Broken English 16. Grace Jones La Vie En Rose 17. Joe Cocker With A little Help From My Friends 18. New York Dolls Looking For A Kiss 19. Helen Reddy I Am A Woman 20. ABBA Dancing Queen 21. Bob Marley I Shot The Sheriff 22. Elton John Rocket Man
A brilliant pianist innovative composer and radical intellectual the Australian Percy Grainger was an eccentric genius. Passion is the story of this twentieth century maverick and his intense relationship with his mother Rose.
Peter Sellers stars as an incompetent lawyer who must defend a man accused of murdering his wife. Despite the man's insistence that he really is guilty the lawyer sees the case as his big break.
Writer-director Theodoros Bafaloukos responded to Jamaica's siren call all the way over in Greece and came to the island to make this 1977 movie about a band of Rasta men/Robin Hoods getting their own back at the expense of those perennial bloodsuckers, the "uptown top rankings", as men of money and position are called in Jamaica. The reggae star-studded cast is undoubtedly the movie's most rewarding feature, though some fans have objected to the demeaning sight of the incomparable late singer Jacob Miller threatening a friend with a knife over a purloined chicken leg or the equally great singer Gregory Isaacs exacting chump change for unlocking a tourist's rental car. However, these and other great reggae figures are also seen here in full and glorious performance at their peak. In fact, this film provides our only extended visual record of Miller's kinetic performance style and one of the best pieces of footage on Isaacs. Although Rockers doesn't approach the multi-layered complexity of The Harder They Come and it does betray a little superiority now and then to its characters, there are plenty of laughs as well as insights into life at the time for Jamaica's growing Rastafarian movement. Drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace makes an unlikely though quintessentially Jamaican leading man as he moves between wooing the rich man's virginal daughter and making pit stops at the shack he shares with his wife and children. His band of accomplices is priceless, and the scene in which each struts in his own "stylee" to Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" is alone worth the price. --Elena Oumano
With tongue firmly in cheek throughout, The Convent piles on the gross-out gore. A group of college kids take a midnight trip to a deserted convent school which 40 years earlier was the scene of a massacre by a wayward convent schoolgirl called Christine. What they don't know is that the long dead and mightily peeved souls of the murdered nuns are still stalking the premises. The demonic nuns liquidate a succession of dumb and dumber teens in order to steal their souls. Among the potential victims are a virgin Goth, a jive-talkin' jock and a pair of effeminate, flouncing Satanists. Coolio cameos as a likeably corrupt cop whose bark is worse than his bite. The humour fluctuates between goofy and just plain stupid. But director Mike Mendez thankfully bypasses the Scream blueprint for slasher flicks. The Convent provides strictly irony-free screams, harking back instead to classics like Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street. Horror veteran Adrienne Barbeau shows up as the adult Christine, strapped with an arsenal that would make even Charlton Heston blush and ready to wreak revenge on her convent school education all over again. On The DVD: The DVD features static menus and extras are limited to a theatrical trailer and cast and crew filmographies. The main feature is presented as a clear transfer in 4:3 full frame format with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound. --Chris Campion
Will Houston plays the lead role in this adaptation of Shakespeare's play....
A low-life criminal who falls in love with older ladies meets his match in Annette wiser and beautiful. Falling head over heels for her he is sucked into her world of violent crime where there are no bounds no rules and no conscience.
A serial killer is on the loose mutilating and sexually assaulting his victims with an arrow-headed weapon before murdering them. The investigations headed by Detective Superintendent Walker (David Hayman) eventually lead the police to Damon Morton (Iain Glen) and certain evidence including one survivor's description of her assailant makes them convinced they have got their man. But what appears to be a cut-and-dry case is thrown into confusion when three of Morton's employees each confess to committing the attacks... Drawing TV audiences of up to 11 million viewers 'Trial And Retribution' is a gritty urban drama that deals with graphic topics from abduction to serial murders and internal police corruption to psychological illness. Breaking new ground in terms of content and style each episode traces the entire trajectory of a serious crime from the act being committed to a detailed investigation and arrest before arriving at the law courts for a dramatic finale.
The savage story of a city stripped naked! Detective Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) runs roughshod over the police rule book - and over anyone who gets in his way during an intensive 72-hour police manhunt for a hit man. His superior officer Commissioner Anthony Russell (Henry Fonda) lives by and for the book as he copes with the workday problems of police administrative work. These two men's lives come together when the psychotic is cornered in a Manhattan tenement by a police raiding squad led by Madigan and Russell - a confrontation that only one of the two men will survive.
The Avenging Conscience:Nightmarish visions of ghouls and devils highlight this D.W. Griffith silent feature based around Edgar Allen Poe's The Telltale Heart and Annabelle Lee. A young man (Henry B. Walthall) finds himself prevented from wooing the girl he loves (Blanche Sweet) due to the tyrannical edicts of his mean old uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken). The poor lad becomes haunted by a series of visions that convince him to murder this interfering relative. After the murder has been planned and executed the man finds himself haunted by still more visions this time of the fire and brimstone variety. An inquiring detective (Ralph Lewis) adds to the ever-mounting paranoia. Birth Of A Nation: The first part of the film chronicles the Civil War as experienced through the eyes of two families; the Stonemans from the North and the Camerons of the South. Lifelong friends they become divided by the Mason-Dixon line with tragic results. Large-scale battle sequences and meticulous historical details culminate with a staged re-creation of Lincoln's assassination. The second half of the film chronicles the Reconstruction as Congressman Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis) puts evil Silas Lynch (George Siegmann) in charge of the liberated slaves at the Cameron hometown of Piedmont. Armed with the right to vote the freed slaves cause all sorts of trouble until Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) founds the Ku Klux Klan and restores order and decency to the troubled land. While The Birth Of A Nation was a major step forward in the history of filmmaking it must be noted that the film supports a racist worldview. Broken Blossoms: This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An idealistic Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed sons of turmoil and strife. Instead he winds up a disillusioned opium-smoking shopkeeper in London's squalid Limehouse District. Down the street a poor waif (Lillian Gish) suffers horrific abuse at the hands of her boxer father (Donald Crisp). When fortune delivers the battered girl into the Asian's tender care a strange and beautiful love blossoms between them a love far too fragile to survive their brutal environment. Intolerance: D.W. Griffith's biggest most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the modern one about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle links the stories. At one point angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to The Birth Of A Nation as a message of global peace and love Way Down East: Innocent Anna is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel. When she becomes pregnant he abandons her; later the baby dies. Now a social outcast she changes her name and eventually finds shelter at the estate of the sternly religious Squire Bartlett. She falls in love with his handsome son but cannot divulge to him her terrible secret for fear of his father's righteous
Richard Burton Lee Marvin and Linda Evans star in this explosive drama about the Klu Klux Klan and a militant black community set in America's Deep South.
4 classic episodes from the 1955 series The Adventures Of Robin Hood with Richard Greene taking up the green tights and protecting the good people of England from the evil Sheriff Of Nottingham.
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