Mark Twain - A Musical Biography (VHS) @ discount dvd online store
Mark Twain - A Musical Biography (VHS)
A musical presentation of the outrageously colorful life of American icon Mark Twain.NR"
Director: Clark Santee|Dennis Rosa
ACTORS: William Perley
Popeye Cartoons (DVD)
This program features eight classic animated cartoons from Popeye the spinach-eating sailor. Titles include Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba`s Forty Thieves, Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, Greek Mythology, Parlez Vous Woo, A Haul in One, I Don`t Scare, and Insect to Injury. NR"
A Better Tomorrow III (DVD) Chow Yun Fat Series Love and Death in Saigon. Series staple Mark Gor returns to Vietnam to rescue his uncle, with help from a beautiful guerilla fighter.
Love and Death in Saigon. Series staple Mark Gor returns to Vietnam to rescue his uncle, with help from a beautiful guerilla fighter.
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Director: Tsui Hark
ACTORS: Yun-Fat Chow, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Anita Mui
Diana Krall - Live in Paris (DVD)
Diana Krall, the wildly popular jazz singer, takes her sultry voice to the Paris Olympia for this Dec. 1, 2001 performance. Mixing material from her first five albums with her favorite standards, this performance captures Ms. Krall in fine form.NR"
ACTORS: Diana Krall
Paragraph 175 (DVD)
PARAGRAPH 175 is a documentary about the 10 to 15,000 German men who were arrested because of their homosexuality between the years of 1933 and 1945 during World War II. Some of the men were sent to concentration camps to be killed. Others, an estimated 4,000 survived. PARAGRAPH 175, from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (THE CELLULOID CLOSET), tells the tragic story and includes interviews with 7 of the only 9 living survivors.
It was Klaus M|ller, curator of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, who convinced directors Epstein and Friedman of the urgent need to make the film PARAGRAPH 175. Despite their small number of survivors who remain to tell the tale, their accounts unearth a rich trove of anecdotal history. The stories of their treatment are both lyrical and horrific. These 20th Century gay Germans lived freely through the Weimar years. In the `30s, they were initially ignored by an indifferent Hitler. Then, with the implementation of an obscure legal statute (Paragraph 175) which aimed to exterminate homosexuals entirely, they became the victims of a brutal persecution.
Rupert Everett`s solemn narration puts the stories in context, as do photographs, footage, and music that remind us of the eerie wistfulness of pre-Nazi Germany. The film makers also put the text of anti-homosexual laws and political statements right on the screen, along with a chillingly complete chart of symbols to be worn by camp prisoners (gay men wore a pink triangle). Ultimately, the film is a chance for a forgotten group of victims (they have never received reparations) to tell their story. They very nearly did not get the chance.NR"
Director: Jeffrey Friedman|Rob Epstein
