Barry Lyndon (DVD) Stanley Kubrick Collection; Letterboxed BARRY LYNDON is Stanley Kubrick`s epic costume drama based on William Makepeace Thackeray`s picaresque novel. It tells the story of a young rogue who wanders through life getting lost in various ...
BARRY LYNDON is Stanley Kubrick`s epic costume drama based on William Makepeace Thackeray`s picaresque novel. It tells the story of a young rogue who wanders through life getting lost in various adventures, meeting his share of women and oddball characters. When Redmond Barry (Ryan O`Neal, trying desperately to maintain an Irish brogue) becomes jealous of Captain Quin`s advances on Barry`s beloved cousin, he challenges the man to a duel. Winning the duel, young Barry is forced to leave his home and his mother, and off on his adventures he goes. He meets thieves, lonely soldier brides, Prussian army leaders, and British widows, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.
BARRY LYNDON is lush and magnificent, sparkling with color, every frame reminiscent of the finest European art. The blues of the Prussian army uniforms and the reds of the British contrast sharply with the majestic green land and mountains in nearly every background. Kubrick often begins a shot close in, then zooms out to reveal the beautiful natural landscape and ornate rooms surrounding the now seemingly insignificant characters. With rousing performances from O`Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kruger, and Leonard Rossiter, jaw-dropping camerawork, spectacular natural lighting, and a marvelous classical-music soundtrack painstakingly put together by Kubrick, BARRY LYNDON is a dramatic romantic epic that may be Kubrick`s most beautiful film.
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
ACTORS: Ryan O`Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff
Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Series (DVD) 20 Disc Boxed-Set Featuring all 68 episodes of this groundbreaking television series, spread over 20 DVD`s and digitally remastered, this boxed-set is testament to the fact that UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS has been seen by over 1 billion peopl...
Featuring all 68 episodes of this groundbreaking television series, spread over 20 DVD`s and digitally remastered, this boxed-set is testament to the fact that UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS has been seen by over 1 billion people worldwide. Critics of the show predicted that it would be a flop, believing it to be too old fashioned and not commercial enough. One Golden Globe and 9 Emmys later the critics were proved wrong, and the show continued to go from strength to strength, becoming the most popular show of all time on PBS Masterpiece Theatre. The story of the Bellamy family has captivated audiences for decades, and this is the definitive set of episodes for any fan of the show. Also included on this release is a retrospective featurette UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS REMEMBERED: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, and some shows not previously aired on television.
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Director: Terence Wise
ACTORS: Angela Baddeley, Pauline Collins, Hannah Gordon, Rachel Gurney, Gordon Jackson
The Hole (DVD)
Part of the 2000 SEEN BY... series in which six directors filmed their vision of the night of December 31, 1999, Tsai Ming-Liang`s film follows the activities of the two lone inhabitants, a man and a woman, of a dilapidated apartment building during the last week of 1999. Holing themselves in against the bizarre cockroach virus, an epidemic that is causing the citizens of Taipei to behave like cockroaches. The two find their separate ways to pass the time, she by lip-synching to classic Hong Kong musicals and he by getting drunk. When a hole opens up in the man`s floor, he and the woman are forced into contact with each other.NR"
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
ACTORS: Yang Kuei-Mei, Lee Kang-Sheng, Tien Miao
You`re Under Arrest! TV Vol. 1 (DVD)
Kousuke Fujishima`s hilarious comic book series YOU`RE UNDER ARREST! comes to animated life. Natsumi and Miyuki are two Tokyo Highway Patrolwomen who seem to get into more trouble than criminals. This first volume contains the series` first four episodes: And So They Met, Tokyo Typhoon Rally, Loves Highway Stars, and On the Road, Again. It`s CHiPs meets anime, and YOU`RE UNDER ARREST! reaches new highs in anime excitement."
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (DVD)
Directed by James Ivory, MR. & MRS. BRIDGE stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as Walter and India Bridge, a traditional couple living in Kansas City in the 1940s. The Bridges have three children: the strong-willed Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick); Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard), a carbon copy of his conservative father; and Caroline (Margaret Welsh), a college student and romantic. After years spent in a sheltered marriage, India is forced to reevaluate her long-standing values when her best friend, Grace (Blythe Danner), becomes disillusioned with their straitlaced social group. Simon Callow plays Dr. Alex Sauer, Walters nemesis and a proponent of psychoanalysis. The movie is based on the novels of Evan Connell, skillfully rendering the author`s perspective on deeply held American social mores and values.PG-13"
Director: James Ivory
ACTORS: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Robert Sean Leonard, Kyra Sedgwick, Lyndon Ashby
