First Person Singular: I.M. Pei (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
First Person Singular: I.M. Pei (DVD) Contains THE MUSEUM ON THE MOUNTAIN Renowned architect I.M. Pei provides a guided tour through the world`s architectural wonders, including his own accomplishments. He also explains his personal philosophy about the importance of archi...
Renowned architect I.M. Pei provides a guided tour through the world`s architectural wonders, including his own accomplishments. He also explains his personal philosophy about the importance of architecture`s role in the cultural experience.
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Beauty and the Beast (DVD) Criterion Collection Visionary filmmaker and poet Jean Cocteau responded to the terrors and creative constraints of occupied France with this elaborately realized take on the classic fairy tale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Suggested by his lo...
Visionary filmmaker and poet Jean Cocteau responded to the terrors and creative constraints of occupied France with this elaborately realized take on the classic fairy tale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Suggested by his longtime collaborator and muse, French actor Jean Marais, the cinematic version of the fable first penned by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont became Cocteaus most celebrated film. Cocteau renders the story of a gentlehearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl in the style of the luminous paintings of Dutch master Vermeer. From the quaint and humorous scenes of Beautys happy home to the ominous surreal spectacle of the Beasts enchanted estate, Cocteau transforms the simple tale of tragic love into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty. Marais is chilling as the lonely and tormented beast, projecting a wounded love for the glacial yet endearing Beauty (Josette Day), whose simple request for a rose from her father brings tragedy crashing down on her whole family. Cocteau expands upon the cinematic inventiveness first seen in his masterpiece BLOOD OF A POET with mirrors made of water, living statues, and candelabras fashioned from living arms, transforming a childrens fable into a complex and radiant cinematic classic.
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Director: Jean Cocteau
ACTORS: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Mila Parely, Michel Auclair
Twice-Told Tales (DVD)
Vincent Price stars in a trio of Nathaniel Hawthorne thrillers. Titles include: Dr. Heidegger`s Experiment - Dr. Heidegger becomes involved in an attempt to give his friends back their youth. Rappaccini`s Daughter - Rappaccini traps his daughter in the garden with regular doses of poison. The House of the Seven Gables - One brother frames another for murder when they inherit a large house.NR"
Director: Sidney Salkow
ACTORS: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey, Joyce Taylor, Beverly Garland
Oni-Tensei: The Demon`s Collection (DVD)
Reiko Kure is a detective who already has the deck stacked against her. A beautiful young woman in a profession where women are, at best, tolerated, Reiko has now stumbled onto the case of a bizarre massacre. 13 members of the yakuza have been slaughtered, seemingly by a giant animal, and the only one who may have seen anything is Ema Nozomi, a quiet young woman. However, whenever anyone is left with Ema, they are either murdered or raped, forcing Reiko to look to the supernatural for solutions to this mystery. THE DEMON`S COLLECTION contains the entire series on one DVD.NR"
JFK: The Case for Conspiracy (DVD)
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy dealt a blow to the nation from which it may never recover. The conspiracy theory that evolved after his murder helps many people to try to make sense of the tragedy, and to work toward a full accounting of the event. Here, expert Robert J. Gordon (technical advisor to Oliver Stone`s film JFK) presents his original materials that allow viewers to form their own opinions about the horrible sequence of events.NR"
