First Impressions - Vol. 7: Sounds (VHS) @ discount dvd online store
First Impressions - Vol. 7: Sounds (VHS)
The FIRST IMPRESSIONS series uses narration designed especially for one to five year-olds, as well as interactive activities, to help stimulate learning. Through a mix of live-action and animation, and accompanied by lively music, this series strives to entertain while it educates. In this edition, children learn about all kinds of sounds.NR"
The Game (DVD)
For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday present from his estranged younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn). The gift enrolls Nicholas in CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that designs elaborate real-life games for each specific participant. As the game begins, the reluctant Nicholas becomes the victim of a series of pranks that quickly turn malicious and dangerous. Stripped of his finances and convinced that he can trust no one, Nicholas realizes that this game may be an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. In a desperate bid to regain his life, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to uncover the secrets of the mysterious organization.
Douglas is perfect playing the uptight businessman Nicholas, cleverly riffing on his Oscar-winning performance as the cold-blooded Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET. Fincher`s Kafkaesque carnival show is an exercise in taut filmmaking that mischievously pulls a seemingly endless supply of rugs out from under both Nicholas and, even more impressive, the viewer.R"
Director: David Fincher
ACTORS: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Anna Katerina
The Night of the Hunter (DVD) Vintage Classics In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father`s stolen fortune. ...
In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father`s stolen fortune. In Mitchum`s career-defining role as Preacher Harry Powell, he wears unforgettable tattoos of two four-letter words on his fingers: LOVE and HATE. Hauntingly directed by Laughton, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is his only credited directorial effort.
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Director: Charles Laughton
ACTORS: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves, Evelyn Varden
Contraband (DVD)
Director Michael Powell (PEEPING TOM) made this criminally overlooked comic thriller in 1940, when WWII had ravaged much of England. What makes this remarkable is that the film is set in 1939 during a blackout and yet Powell makes the film a lighthearted thriller even though his country was still in the midst of a horrible war. However, this is not what makes the film so remarkable. A Hitchcockian brew of international intrigue, lengthy chase scenes, and virtuoso cinematography, the film follows the kidnapping of Danish sea captain (Veidt) and his mysterious and beautiful passenger (Hobson) by Nazis operating out of a Soho basement. Escaping from their captors, the unlikely pair are chased around London by the Nazis through increasingly bizarre situations. A beautiful film whose vision of London as a dark labyrinth is as striking and entertaining, CONTRABAND is a hugely enjoyable entertainment as well as a reflection on a very dark period in English history.NR"
Director: Michael Powell
ACTORS: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell
Sesame Street - Dance Along! (DVD) With Free CD Sampler The Muppets and other Sesame Street performers demonstrate such dances as the Count`s Batty Bat, and Bert`s favorite, Doin` the Pigeon. Includes a song lyric poster.
The Muppets and other Sesame Street performers demonstrate such dances as the Count`s Batty Bat, and Bert`s favorite, Doin` the Pigeon. Includes a song lyric poster.
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