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Forbidden Planet (DVD)
Shakespeare`s The Tempest is transformed in this landmark science-fiction film with groundbreaking special effects. Space men travel to a planet ruled by expatriate Pidgeon who has built a kingdom with his daughter and obedient robot Robby. There the good doctor is plagued by his mad quest for knowledge through his brain booster machine, and by Freudian monsters from the id as his daughter discovers other men and learns to kiss.G"
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
ACTORS: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman
Beverly Hillbillies, The: Back to California/Jed`s Dilemma (DVD)
This program includes two classic episodes of the beloved television series, The Beverly Hillbillies. Includes, Back to California, and Jed`s Dilemma. NR"
So You Wanna Be a Rock `n` Roll Star (DVD)
A mind-blowing rock-n-roll time capsule, SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK `N` ROLL STAR collects fantastic, original live performances from German television between 1967-71. The Who, Cream, the Hollies, Joe Cocker, the Byrds, the Kinkd, Traffic, and more all turn in searing appearances in this invaluable video document.NR"
ACTORS: Cream, Manfred Mann, Joe Cocker, Small Faces, Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Isle (DVD)
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-colored fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her guests to their floating rooms, and sells them bait, food, coffee, prostitutes, and occasionally her own body. The men mistreat her, and her wounded spirit haunts the lake. At first subtle and secretive, but increasingly more bold and direct, the mute woman enacts unexpected violence upon the men. For example, when one client is leaning out over the dock to defecate into the lake, she swims up behind him, pulls him under the water, and stabs him. The blurred, partially submerged camerawork suggests that the woman is disembodied while committing these acts, as if unrealized hatred is surfacing within her to inspire her actions. Real trouble arrives in the form of a man who is hiding out from the law. He rents the yellow fishing house closest to shore and contemplates suicide. A sadomasochistic chemistry develops between this unhappy man and the mute woman and their relationship facilitates a series of extremely violent sex and mutilation scenes which ultimately bring THE ISLE to its disturbing conclusion.NR"
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
ACTORS: Jae Hyun Cho, Hang-Seon Jang, Suh Jung, Seong-Hee Park, Yoosuk Kim
Allies at War (DVD)
The relationship between the leaders of the Allied Forces in World War II were contentious, to say the least. Presdient Roosevelt brought the United States into the war while being reviled by France`s Charles de Gaulle and Britain`s WInston Churchill got along with neither leader particularly well either. This PBS special examines the difficult relationships that brought the Allied Powers to victory.NR"
