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Studio One - Sentence of Death/The Night America Trembled (DVD)
This collection of episodes from the live telecast STUDIO ONE contains two installments concerned with panic and fear. The Night America Trembled dramatizes the panic caused by the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. The reading is delivered by Edward R. Murrow and the ensemble cast offers glimpses of numerous young faces including Vincent Gardenia, Ed Asner, and Warren Beatty. Another young face is visible in Sentence of Death as James Dean stars in the tale of a convicted felon.NR"
Director: Paul Nickell
ACTORS: James Dean, Warren Beatty, Vincent Gardenia, Warren Oates, Betsy Palmer
Pure Country (VHS) Spanish Subtitled A country singer finds himself straddling two worlds - the down-home place where his musical roots are set and the glittery fast lane where his success has taken him. In his first foray into the world of motion pictur...
A country singer finds himself straddling two worlds - the down-home place where his musical roots are set and the glittery fast lane where his success has taken him. In his first foray into the world of motion pictures, country star George Strait is affecting and heartwarming. PURE COUNTRY also features ten songs by Straight recorded exclusively for the film.
PG"
Director: Christopher Cain
ACTORS: John Doe, George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren, Isabel Glasser
The Whales of August (DVD)
In a major change of genres, Lindsay Anderson (IF. . ., O LUCKY MAN!) directs two legendary American actors in this charming, simple story of two elderly women looking back on their lives, and still planning for the future, as they wait to see the migrating whales pass their summer house on the coast of Maine. Lillian Gish, the star of WAY DOWN EAST in 1920, plays Sarah Webber, a slightly frail but still active woman who now cares for her blind sister, Libby, played by Bette Davis. Famous for her acerbic tongue, Davis does not disappoint as the domineering older sister.
The film opens with a black and white montage of Libby (Margaret Ladd) and Sarah (Mary Steenburgen) running to see the whales when they were young girls. Later Anderson uses photographs of the sisters in their youth using actual photos of Davis and Gish themselves. These have a striking familiarity, Davis`s black hair and those penetrating eyes and Gish`s beautiful smile, give instant recognition to how time has passed for these two women.
THE WHALES OF AUGUST is like a Checkov play, complete with an exiled Russian nobleman, about faded memories and family loyalties. Vincent Price brings a quiet dignity to the role of Mr. Maranov, who asks if the sisters will take him into their home as a boarder. Ann Southern as Tisha Doughty, a neighbor who has know the sisters all their lives, tries to mediate between the always-quarreling sisters. But this film clearly belongs to its leads. Bette Davis and Lillian Gish play off each other perfectly, turning a rough stone of a story into a polished gem.NR"
Director: Lindsay Anderson
ACTORS: Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Ann Sothern, Vincent Price, Harry Carey
Tango (DVD) Original Portuguese In Carlos Saura`s TANGO, a well-known theater director, Mario (Miguel Angel Sola) attempts to produce a tango extravaganza in Argentina. He wants to show the breadth and depth of tango--both the music and the dance-...
In Carlos Saura`s TANGO, a well-known theater director, Mario (Miguel Angel Sola) attempts to produce a tango extravaganza in Argentina. He wants to show the breadth and depth of tango--both the music and the dance--not just in isolated music and dance numbers, but with a story that shows the way the tango is woven into the very fabric of Argentinean life. Mario is beset with problems in his personal life and interference from political officials that prohibit him from making the film. His wife has just left him for another man. He falls in love with a beautiful young dancer, Elena (Mia Maestro), but after very brief fling she dumps him. The Mayor wants him to put his mistress in the show and, along with the producers, wants him to cut a sequence that dramatizes the horrors of the time of the military dictatorship and the plight of the families of the disappeared. In a voice-over Mario reveals the depth of his feelings about art and love while also expressing his severe self-doubt.
After a beautiful opening shot of the city of Buenos Aires, director of photography Vittorio Storaro, who had previously collaborated with Saura on FLAMENCO, infuses the large sound stage, where the film takes place, with brilliant pastel screens and sharp silhouettes. In TANGO Saura effectively blends the personal drama that goes into theater production with the beauty of the final dance sequences.
PG-13"
Director: Carlos Saura
ACTORS: Miguel Angel Sola
The Sheltering Sky (DVD) Widescreen Three Americans find more than they bargained for as they travel through postwar Africa in this adaptation of Paul Bowles`s novel. Kit (Debra Winger) and Port (John Malkovich) are a married couple separated by a strange schi...
Three Americans find more than they bargained for as they travel through postwar Africa in this adaptation of Paul Bowles`s novel. Kit (Debra Winger) and Port (John Malkovich) are a married couple separated by a strange schism; they try to escape their alienation by moving deeper and deeper into the unfamiliar. Port is mesmerized, but it is Kit who must ultimately find the strength to survive in a world so unknown as to be dreamlike.
R"
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
