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The Route 66 Rendezvous (DVD)
A look at the annual four-day event for car manufactures, dealers, fans, and buffs. THE ROUTE 66 RENDEZVOUS takes up a 35-block area every year in San Bernardino, California to display the best hot rods, muscle cars, trucks, and classic rides from all over the country.NR"
Yokai Monsters 2: 100 Monsters (DVD)
This vintage Japanese horror movie comes from studio Daiei, the producers of the DAIMAJIN and GAMERA series of films. 100 MONSTERS begins as a Shrine Magistrate and a real estate developer conspire to take over an apartment and destroy its adjoining shrine, leaving its residents out in the cold. When the owner of the building is murdered, a lone samurai steps in, causing more trouble and forcing the Yokai (Spirit Monsters) to step into the world of the living.NR"
Torn Curtain (DVD)
TORN CURTAIN was Alfred Hitchcock`s 50th film and signals a return to the espionage-romance theme the director showcased in such films as SECRET AGENT and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Hitchcock created a distinct look for the film, subduing lighting and gauzing the lens to give a more natural, less studio-produced feel. Notably, it was the strength of studio influence that contributed another change in the look of the film relative to most Hitchcock pictures, casting leads that departed from traditional Hitchcock types. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, both at the heights of their popularity when the film was released, anchor this cold war spy thriller. An American scientist (Newman) attends a convention in Copenhagen with his fiancie-assistant (Andrews). While there, she picks up a message meant for him and is drawn into a complex web of espionage behind the Iron Curtain that he had intended to face alone. Her presence throws all his plans into disarray, and the two lovers discover too late that it`s easier to get in than to get out again. In one of the film`s most memorable scenes, Hitchcock shows his audience just how difficult murder can be when opposed by the will for survival.NR"
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
ACTORS: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, David Opatoshu, Lila Kedrova, Peter Lorre
Marlene (DVD)
A stunning, award-winning portrait of the sultry German movie star, Marlene Dietrich. Fellow actor Maximilian Schell was hand-picked by Dietrich to direct and narrate this revealing documentary that includes interviews and film clips, as well as Marlene`s own distinctive commentary throughout the film.NR"
Director: Maximilian Schell
Little Dieter Needs To Fly (DVD)
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog`s LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler, a survivor of both WWII and Vietnam. Dengler grew up in Germany, and, dreaming of one day flying a plane, left for the US when he was 18, unable to speak English. Soon, he was in the Navy, flying bombing missions over Laos and Vietnam, where his plane was shot down and he was taken prisoner. He and six others escaped the prison, but only he was known to have survived. Herzog turns Dieter`s story into something much different than one might expect by putting Dieter back into scenes from his past and recording his amazingly understated reactions. For instance, in Laos, where he was taken prisoner, Herzog bounds Dengler`s hands and feet as they were in 1966 and uses Vietnamese actors, complete with rifles, to play Viet Cong. It`s a startling technique, one that lends this film an intensity and sense of danger that Dengler consistently plays down.NR"
Director: Werner Herzog
