Porgy and Bess (DVD)
One of the few productions of PORGY AND BESS to be released on video, this 1993 release is directed by the acclaimed stage director Trevor Nunn. With a stellar cast of performers including Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, and Gregg Baker, Nunn injects new life into the classic Gershwin opera. The London Philharmonic and The Glyndebourne Chorus add wonderful accompaniment to this historic black musical.NR"
Director: Trevor Nunn
VH1 Divas Live (1998) (DVD)
The American Heritage Dictionary defines diva as an operatic prima donna. Well these six pop superstars don`t sing opera, but they are certainly equipped with the beautiful, powerful voices of opera singers. In this VH1 special event, Gloria, Celine, Aretha, Shania, and Mariah (all of whom are so famous that last names are rendered obsolete) join together for a spectacular evening of singing. Songs include Mariah`s Make It Happen, Gloria`s Turn the Beat Around, Shania`s Man I Feel Like a Woman and many, many more. There is even a special guest appearance by the great Carole King, who performs a duet with Celine Dion and a wonderful finale with the entire cast.NR"
Slipknot - Disasterpieces (DVD)
Featuring the band in their element - the live arena - this full-length live show is a stunning mix of visual mayhem and brutal, extreme heavy metal. No band around can top the Slipknot experience, with concussion bombs, flames, lasers, rotating drum risers and a whole lot more going on, you`re simply not going to be able to take your eyes off the on-screen carnage. All of Slipknot`s music videos are also presented, including the never-before-seen animated promo for Wait & Bleed. NR"
See the Sea (DVD)
An Englishwoman living in France with her husband and baby daughter is abruptly confronted by a backpacker, who demands to be allowed to pitch her tent nearby. The two women grow closer and share a series of potentially dangerous encounters, culminating in disaster. Also includes a short film, A SUMMER DRESS, in which a young man on a beach encounters a mysterious woman. A pair of precisely detailed films from French newcomer Ozon.NR"
Director: Francois Ozon
ACTORS: Sasha Hails, Marina De Van, Frederic Mangenot, Paul Raoux, Sebastien Charles
Hell of the Living Dead/Rats, Night of Terror (DVD)
This double feature contains two films from legendary schlock horror director Bruno Mattei:
HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD: This impossibly bad zombie/cannibal movie could only have been filmed by Bruno Mattei, the laughably inept director of films like SS EXTERMINATION LOVE CAMP and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR. The plot centers around a New Guinea chemical accident that attracts the attention of a SWAT team and a buxom reporter (Newton). When the SWAT team finally penetrates the chemical cloud, they find a race of flesh eating zombies hungry for fresh human food. Full of gratuitous nudity, stock footage of natives, animals, rotting corpses, and inane dialogue, HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD is a hilarious attempt at recreating the magic of the films that inspired it (DAWN OF THE DEAD, ZOMBIE, ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST).
RATS, NIGHT OF TERROR: The notorious Bruno Mattei (HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD) directs this post-apocalyptic horror movie. Here, a group of bikers discover an abandoned lab that contains some valuable goods such as food and water, but also is home to a race of super intelligent vermin who feed on human flesh. RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR is. of course, full of its director`s trademarks like over the top gore, laughably bad dialogue, and ludicrous special effects making it quite possibly the funniest movie about giant killer rats ever made.Unrated"
Director: Bruno Mattei
