Few early rockers were more gifted or less honoured in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop's front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every respect, A Black and White Night survives as a triumphant performance and a superb video production, as well as a first-rate retrospective of Orbison's hits.Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late 60s and early 70s touring band. That astonishing line-up is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honour Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue-chip admiration society came as much for the calibre of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman", Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely", or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby". On this night, he handled all of them with fervour and finesse. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com
All your favourite experiments and explosions from the first series of Brainiac. Including: Can Brainiac boffin Jon Tickle walk on custard? Is it possible to blow up a caravan using static electricity? Can you lose weight by having a dump? How many people does it take start a mexican wave? Is it better to be tired or wired?
This 4 disc box set features the following: 2 DVD's of the epic four hour film capturing 30 years of rock and roll history by famed director Peter Bogdanovich (Director's Cut) - This movie contains hours of never before seen footage and interviews with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers plus music from the storied rock band's entire career. The movie features interviews with George Harrison Eddie Vedder Stevie Nicks Dave Grohl Jeff Lynne Rick Rubin Johnny Depp Jackson Browne and more. 1 DVD of the celebrated 30th Anniversary Concert in Heartbreaker hometown Gainesville Florida 1 Soundtrack CD featuring rare and unreleased tracks Tracklisting: DVD Disc 1: Runnin' Down a Dream: 1. Gainesville 2006 2. Elvis 3. What's In A Name 4. Mike 5. Benmont 6. B.Y.O.F (Build Your Own Festival) 7. Fast Forward 8. Deals 9. A Broken Bond 10. Ron and Stan 11. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 12. Third 13. Fuel 14. Howie 15. Poet DVD Disc 2: Runnin' Down a Dream: 1. Bob Dylan 2. Strange Coincidences 3. Scott 4. The Bottom Line 5. Steve 6. John 7. Round Trip 8. Rock and Roll Heaven 9. Runnin' Down a Dream (End credits) 10. One DVD Disc 3: 30th Anniversary Concert: 1. Listen To Her Heart 2. Mary Jane's Last Dance 3. I Won't Back Down 4. Free Fallin' 5. Saving Grace 6. I'm A Man 7. Oh Well 8. Handle With Care 9. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Stevie Nicks) 10. I Need To Know (with Stevie Nicks) 11. It's Good To Be King 12. Down South 13. Southern Accents 14. Insider (with Stevie Nicks) 15. Learning To Fly 16. Don't Come Around Here No More 17. Runnin' Down A Dream 18. You Wreck Me 19. Mystic Eyes 20. American Girl CD Disc 4: Bonus Soundtrack CD: 1. Breakdown 2. Anything That's Rock and Roll 3. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) 4. American Girl 5. Shadow of A Doubt (A Complex Kid) 6. Stories We Could Tell 7. Keeping Me Alive 8. Honey Bee 9. Lost Highway
When Spongebob tries to spend some QT with his pals he ends up being a real pain in the Square Pants and they tell him to get lost. So he does. But will he ever come back or is Spongebob lost forever? Will Bikini Bottom survive without him?
She was an ordinary housewife until her trip to Paris turned into an extraordinary adventure. A bored housewife with writing aspirations enters a mystery writing contest to win a free trip for two to Paris. When she unexpectedly wins her officious and neglectful husband refuses to go with her so she leaves alone. Once there she falls in front of a car driven by the Spanish ambassador and awakens thinking she is Rebecca Ryan the heroine in a series of pulp mysteries. As Reb
Classic John Ford directed Americana based on the stories of Irvin Cobb. A small town judge in the old south stirs up the place with stinging humour and common sense observations as he tackles prejudices and civil injustices in this warm affectionate and funny look at a slice of American life.
When Jimmy sees Dek's failed marriage proposal on national TV he rides into town with only one thing on his mind: to win back the woman and child he left behind...
SpongicusPlankton turns the Chum Bucket into a realistic replica of the Colosseum, complete with a man-eating lionfish! Suction Cup SymphonySquidward’s inspiration for his musical entry in the Bikini Bottom Symphony Orchestra competition… SpongeBob and Patrick! House FancyJealous that Squilliam’s on House Fancy, Squidward lures the show producers to his fancier house. Desperate to make his home presentable, Squidward lets SpongeBob help.Krabby RoadPlankton forms a band that includes SpongeBob, hoping SpongeBob will write a song revealing the Krabby Patty ingredients. Penny FoolishMr. Krabs thinks he sees SpongeBob pick up a penny from the ground. A penny that should be HIS!Nautical NoviceBefore a class trip to the Nautical Museum, SpongeBob memorises the entire history of boating. Isn’t that reason enough for Mrs. Puff to give him his licence?Not NormalSpongeBob becomes “normal.” And boy, is it boring!GoneIt’s the strangest thing. SpongeBob awakens to find everyone in Bikini Bottom is gone!
Buck Privates Come Home: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building. The World Of Abbott And Costello: A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap In the Navy Hit the Ice Who Done It? Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Mexican Hayride Hold That Ghost Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion Little Giant In Society Ride 'Em Cowboy The Naughty Nineties Buck Privates Come Home Buck Privates Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops Lost in Alaska Comin' Round the Mountain Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
Coach Carter (Dir. Thomas Carter 2005): Inspired by a true story Samuel L. Jackson and Ashanti star in this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach (Jackson) who received high praise - and staunch criticism - for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performance... Shaft (Dir. John Singleton 2000): Crooked cops on the take small-time drug lords sleazy informers and sadistic rich kids ready to kill: for police detective John
Dear Frankie: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress
A poignant and funny portrait of a marriage that undergoes a wrenching examination... After 25 years of a loving marriage in a small midwestern town husband Roy announces to his wife Irma that he is a woman trapped in a man's body and wants to have a sex change operation.
Spongebob Squarepants & The Big Wave / Spongebob Movie (2 Disc)
Limited-edition blu-ray steelbook. Directed by Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire, The Company of Wolves) and starring Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Saoirse Ronan (The Host), Byzantium is a horror fantasy that takes vampire mythology to a new level of modern terror. Upon the wind swept shores of a desolate coastal town stands the Byzantium guesthouse. After years of being abandoned, its doors are about to be opened again by the predatory and seductive Clara (Arterton), who plans on turning the hotel into a brothel, and her young and introverted daughter Eleanor (Ronan). But these mysterious women have a dark secret that goes back 200 years and is about to reach its ungodly and deathly climax.
A highly unusual war movie with as many detractors as fans, this first English-language feature directed by Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) stars David Bowie as a silent, ethereal POW in a Japanese camp. In the face of the camp's brutal conditions and treatment of prisoners, Bowie's character earns the respect of the camp commandant (played by Japanese pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also wrote the score) through his own enigmatic rebellion. While the two seem locked in an unspoken, spiritual understanding, another prisoner (Tom Conti) engages in a more conventional resistance against a monstrous sergeant (Takeshi). The film has a way of evoking as many questions as certainties, and it is not always easy to understand the internal logic of the characters' actions. But that's generally true of Oshima's movies, in which the power of certain relationships is almost hallucinatory in self-referential intensity. The cast is outstanding, and Bowie is particularly fascinating in his alien way. --Tom Keogh
Susan Stone (Ally Walker - Universal Soldier) is a career woman now in her early forties whose take on life has become bitter and cynical. In the hustle and bustle of her busy life she's forgotten about the things that really matter and has lost her childhood ability to enjoy life to the fullest.While trying to avoid the rush of Christmas shoppers she trips and bumps her head. Dazed she returns home only to find an unexpected guest from the past who is going to turn back the clock and make sure she awakens the fun and mischief that Susan's life lost long ago.
Rage At Dawn (1955): Detectives Stage A Fake Train Robbery To Attract The Evil Reno Brothers And Their Outlaw Gang In This Gritty And Forceful Western. Randolph Scott Takes Time Out To Romance Their Pretty Sister Played By Mala Powers Before Bringing The Gang To Justice. Judge Priest (1934): Classic John Ford Directed Americana This Movie Is Based On The Stories Of Irvin Cobb. A Small-Town Judge In The Old South Stirs Up The Place With Stinging Humour And Common-Sense Observations As He Tackles Prejudices And Civil Injustices In This Warm Affectionate And Funny Look At A Slice Of American Life. Tulsa (1949): In This Classic Western The Daughter Of A Cattle Owner Builds An Oil Empire Susan Hayward Portrays An Oil Women Who Whilst Fighting For Her Property And Staging Wildcat Drilling Strikes.
Deception never looked so sweet... There is perhaps no more beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale than the legend of a beautiful young girl fleeing her home because of a jealous stepmother. Now more breath-taking than any previous interpretation 'Snow White' is a fantasy of truly epic scope. Wonderfully acted and cleverly scripted this modern retelling introduces such classic elements as Snow White's miraculous birth and the mysterious reason why her father remarries after his wife'
Six weeks after her mother dies Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy off to a school for girls where the innocent girl falls under the spell of evil chemistry teacher Miss Branding. Putting Nancy under hypnosis Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism causing her to commit murders and then forget about them. The villainess recieves her comeuppance when Nancy refuses to snap out of her spell transforming into a slavering vampiric beast.
David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima's 1983 Palme d'Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II.This powerful prisoner-of-war drama features a stunning cast - including David Bowie in one of his greatest roles - and is the first English-language film by acclaimed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses).Set in Java at a Japanese POW camp in 1942, a war of wills - and unspoken erotic attraction - unfolds between a rebellious prisoner, David Bowie, and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto, who is impressed by Bowie's defiance while bilingual prisoner Tom Conti (Mr. Lawrence) engages in a more adversarial relationship with sadistic sergeant Takeshi Kitano (Hana Bi), who finally offers Lawrence a sinister 'Christmas' present.Fine performances by Conti, Kitano (his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (his acting debut, he also contributed the memorable score) and Bowie, combined with stunning cinematography and brilliant direction by one of Japan's finest filmmakers, make this a memorable and compelling war drama.The Oshima Gang Featurette (The Making Of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)An Interview With producer Jeremy ThomasAn Interview With actor/composer Ryuichi SakamotoAn excerpt from Scenes by the Sea: The Life and Cinema of Beat Takeshi Kitano Theatrical Trailer
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