Citizen Kane (DVD) Gold Edition Box Set; Includes RKO 281 CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles`s greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in...
CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles`s greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castle-like refuge. The film`s protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score (sound by Bailey Fesler and James G. Stewart, music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann); and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles`s Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection. The film is essential viewing, quite possibly the greatest film ever made and, along with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, certainly the most influential.
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Director: Orson Welles
Best of Hitchcock, The - Volume 2 (DVD) 8-Disc Boxed Set This eight video set includes the following: THE BIRDS - Collector`s Edition, MARNIE - Collector`s Edition, VERTIGO - Collector`s Edition, FRENZY, SABOTEUR, TORN CURTAIN, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESEN...
This eight video set includes the following: THE BIRDS - Collector`s Edition, MARNIE - Collector`s Edition, VERTIGO - Collector`s Edition, FRENZY, SABOTEUR, TORN CURTAIN, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS VOL. 3: Poison, The Perfect Crime, A Dip in the Pool, One More Mile to Go .
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
ACTORS: Jessica Tandy, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, James Stewart, Kim Novak
Point of View (DVD)
Living by herself, mysterious artist Jane keeps away from other people, but this does not mean she has no interest in them. She only interacts with the outside world through her artwork, but begins a clandestine one-way relationship with her sexy new neighbor Frank. She begins to take photographs of Frank and turns them into drawings of the two of them together. From here, the viewer can manipulate the storyline in this fully interactive DVD.NR"
Director: David Wheeler
ACTORS: Chris Bradford, Larry Musser, Stefanie von Pfetten
The Sid Caesar Collection - Buried Treasures: Box Set (VHS) 3-Tape Set No cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes--legendary funnyman Sid Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy with his 1950s sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Caesar`s Hour. Combining the volumes THE IMPACT OF SID,...
No cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes--legendary funnyman Sid Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy with his 1950s sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Caesar`s Hour. Combining the volumes THE IMPACT OF SID, THE LEGEND OF SID, and SHINING STARS, this 3-volume set celebrates Caesar`s groundbreaking work through a collection of 19 sketches rarely seen since the 1950s.
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ACTORS: Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris
Rabbit-Proof Fence (DVD)
Set in Australia in 1931, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE tells the story of a government policy that required half-caste children (whose mothers were Aboriginal and whose fathers were white) to be taken from their homes by the authorities to be trained to work as servants. Based on the true story of Molly Craig, Philip Noyce`s film of small gestures and few words follows the odyssey of three young girls who escaped from the government`s training facility and, using the country`s long stretches of rabbit-proof fences as their guide, walked 1500 miles to get back home.
Told squarely from Molly`s point of view, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE also highlights the Australian government`s treatment of Aboriginies by A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the legal guardian of the country`s indigenous people. His plan to breed out the Aboriginal blood of the half-castes is marked by a cool calculation and moral blindness that stands out in sharp contrast to Molly`s spiritual and intuitive relationship to the people and places she encounters on her journey.PG"
Director: Phillip Noyce
ACTORS: Ningali Lawford, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke, Deborah Mailman, Kenneth Branagh
