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Black and White in Color (DVD)
In 1914, some patriotic Frenchmen, living in a small town on the west coast of Africa, find out about the war with Germany, declaring: I would have thought it would be with England. Immediately, the lazy sergeant organizes his little army of ill-trained natives, and marches on the neighboring German fort, accompanied by shopkeepers and their wives. To everyone`s surprise, German fire power cuts down the advancing mob, leaving Hubert, a righteous young geologist in charge. Accompanied by his black mistress, Hubert bulldozes the troops into a semblance of order. What ensues is a subtly funny statement on war and power. This Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film is one of the greatest works in the diverse career of French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (THE BEAR/THE NAME OF THE ROSE).NR"
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
ACTORS: Jean Carmet, Jacques Spiesser
Dwight Yoakam - Just Looking for a Hit (DVD)
Grammy-award winning country crooner Dwight Yoakam has been one of the major forces in the repopularizing of straight ahead country music. Drawing on the influences of old legends like Hank Williams, Yoakam is an extremely talented singer-songwriter. JUST LOOKING FOR A HIT is a compilation of some of the star`s best performances. Highlights include Yoakam`s two 1986 performances of Honky Tonk Man in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and a version of Long White Cadillac performed in 1989 in Randsburg, CA. In addition, interviews with Yoakam are included.NR"
ACTORS: Dwight Yoakam
Roches, The - Family Concert (DVD)
Made up of three lovely sisters, the Roches have been making acclaimed folk music since the late 1970s. This hour-long release features a live performance promoting the trio`s 1994 album, WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND? Several songs off that album are includ...NR"
The River (DVD)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang`s (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the director (Ann Hui) to play a corpse floating in the grimy Tamsui River. Afterwards, the young man is plagued by excruciating chronic neck pain. Xiao-Kang searches for a cure while his parents lead their distinct lives--his mother (Lu Hsiao-ling), a bored restaurant worker, has a dissatisfying affair with a pornographic video salesman (Lu Shiao-Lin), while his gruff father (Tien Miao), leads a secret homosexual life of cruising and assignations in saunas. Each family member inhabits a separate sphere within their cheap, prefab apartment, where they pass wordlessly like strangers. As Xiao-Kang fruitlessly battles his blight from the poisonous river, his father struggles to keep water from flooding through the spare room`s ceiling. Meanwhile, the familial relationships further disintegrate, mirroring the deterioration of Xiao-Kang`s body and the apartment`s infrastructure. Aided by his talented stock company of actors, Tsai uses a masterful procession of mundane yet metaphor-rich images and a stillness rarely broken by dialogue to illustrate the family`s inexorable drift towards one quietly horrifying moment.
THE RIVER was screened in June 2001 at Walter Reade Theater in New York City as part of Urban Ghosts and Legends: The Cinema of Tsai Ming-Liang organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.NR"
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
ACTORS: Lee Kang-Sheng, Ann Hui, Tien Miao, Lu Hsaio-Ling, Lu Shiao-Lin
Fairport Convention - Beyond the Ledge (VHS)
The seminal British folk rock group is captured live at Cropredy `98.NR"
