Blanche Thebom in Opera and Song (VHS) @ discount dvd online store
Blanche Thebom in Opera and Song (VHS) Voice of Firestone Classic Performances The great mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom is featured in this set of classic performances from the Voice of Firestone classic television program. Includes arias from Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Sa...
The great mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom is featured in this set of classic performances from the Voice of Firestone classic television program. Includes arias from Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Samson et Dalila. as well as popular songs.
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King of Beggars (DVD)
Tsan is a brash young man, adept at martial arts but arrogant and lazy. After being exposed for cheating in a martial arts competition, he is stripped of his money and forced to live for the rest of his life as a beggar. Tsan makes the best of his situation, eventually rising to become leader of the Beggar Gang. Soon Tsan and his gang are saving the emperor from an evil magician. An entertaining action-comedy from Hong Kong.NR"
Director: Gordon Chan
ACTORS: Stephen Chiau, Cheung Man, Ng Man-Tat
Classic Performances From the Voice of Firestone - V. 3 Eleanor Steber (VHS)
The Voice of Firestone brought the world`s greatest opera singers into the homes of music lovers through their innovative telecasts. This series offers many opera lovers their first opportunity to see some of the century`s most renowned artists in actual performance. In this program, soprano Eleanor Steber sings excerpts from various operas, operettas, and oratorio, displaying her wide range and technical virtuosity.NR"
Tampopo (DVD)
Billed as the first Japanese noodle western, this comedy offers a satirical view of the relationship between food and sex, one of the director`s favorite topics. Watch as a widow running a Tokyo restaurant and a cowboy hat-wearing truck driver try to make the perfect bowl of ramen. Highly acclaimed film from director Itami.NR"
Director: Juzo Itami
ACTORS: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho
The Nanny (DVD)
Early 20th Century Italy saw many of its residents moving from the countryside to the cities. Staying in in their country mansion are Mori (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), a wealthy professor who runs a sanitarium, and his young wife Vittoria (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). Vittoria struggles with depression during a pregnancy and when her baby is born, she is unable to produce milk for the child or even show the infant an ounce of love. This causes Mori to employ an illiterate woman from the country, Annetta (Maya Sansa), as a wet nurse and nanny. Leaving her own child and a jailed lover behind, Annetta touches Mori with her beauty and her affection for the child. Mori`s own feelings are intensified when he begins reading letters from Annetta`s lover to her and offers to help her to learn to read.Unrated"
Director: Marco Bellocchio
