The Last Samurai DVD
Captain Nathan Algren is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the years since the Civil War, the world has changed.
Captain Nathan Algren is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the years since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to be found--especially out West where his role in the Indian Campaigns ended in disillusionment and sorrow. Somewhere on the unforgiving plains near the banks of the Washita River, Algren lost his soul. A universe away, another soldier sees his way of life about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto, the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to serving emperor and country. Just as the modern way encroached upon the American West, cornering and condemning the Native American, it also engulfed traditional Japan. The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress now threaten those values and codes by which the Samurai have lived and died for centuries. But Katsumoto will not go without a fight. The paths of these two warriors converge when the young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests who covet the growing Japanese market, hires Algren to train Japan's first modern, conscript army. But as the Emperor's advisors attempt to eradicate the Samurai in preparation for a more Westernized and trade-friendly government, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai. Their powerful convictions remind him of the man he once was. Thrust now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.
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Director: Edward Zwick
ACTORS: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn
Bob Dylan: Don`t Look Back (DVD) Collector`s Edition A raucous and intimate road movie of Bob Dylan`s 1965 tour of England, BOB DYLAN - DON`T LOOK BACK may be perhaps the most influential rock star documentary of all time. D.A. Pennebaker`s trademark cinema veriti app...
A raucous and intimate road movie of Bob Dylan`s 1965 tour of England, BOB DYLAN - DON`T LOOK BACK may be perhaps the most influential rock star documentary of all time. D.A. Pennebaker`s trademark cinema veriti approach, with its comprehensive perspective, captures the paradoxical Dylan in alternating moments of confrontational belligerence and contemplative repose, all within the framework of the pop culture hurricane of one of the most publicized concert tours of the mid-1960s. Mobbed by frenzied fans and stalked by confounded journalists and music critics unable to penetrate his carefully evasive yet antagonistic persona, Dylan takes refuge with Joan Baez, his folk contemporary, and Albert Grossman, his juggernaut manager. As the tour progresses, a pattern emerges from Dylan`s modes of expression, offering a glimpse of what would come to be a constant in his career: his perpetual redefinition of himself. Displaying the enigmatic performer`s roles as both folk artist heir apparent to the Woody Guthrie throne and electric guitar rock pioneer who turned the Beatles on to pot, DON`T LOOK BACK preserves not only Dylan`s musical genius but his inimitable, vital, and profound defiance of definition.
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Director: D.A. Pennebaker
ACTORS: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Albert Grossman
Videotrivia 1 - General Knowledge (VHS)
America`s most popular game is now available on video. Features photo and film clips from the world-famous Library of Associated Press. A great ice-breaker at your next party.NR"
Yoga For Healthy Living: Daily Yoga Class (DVD)
Let yoga instructor Bruce Eric Van Horn lead you to a more relaxed and stress-reduced life with his daily yoga class. Learn exercises and stretches that will help your body to strengthen and will help you for years to come.NR"
Sherlock Holmes - Dressed to Kill (VHS)
Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) investigates the deaths of two random individuals--including Dr. Watson`s old friend Julian Stinky Emery (Edmond Breon)--found murdered after purchasing identical music boxes from an auction house in London. Tracing the items back to a prison inmate who stole a series of printing plates from the Bank of England, Holmes begins to suspect the music boxes reveal a secret code to the hidden loot`s whereabouts. It`s a nailbiting race against time as Holmes tangles with a murderous gang led by the formidable Hilda Courtney (Patricia Morison) in his attempt to recover the last of the three boxes and decipher its hidden secrets. DRESSED TO KILL marks the 14th and final time Rathbone would star as the master detective.NR"
Director: Roy William Neill
