Gimme Shelter (DVD) Criterion Collection This documentary of the Rolling Stones` 1969 U.S. tour was unexpectedly transformed into a legendary, harrowing document near the end of the Peace and Love era. After a successful tour across the country, the band ...
This documentary of the Rolling Stones` 1969 U.S. tour was unexpectedly transformed into a legendary, harrowing document near the end of the Peace and Love era. After a successful tour across the country, the band gave a free December concert at Altamont Speedway in California with the Grateful Dead (not seen performing), Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers (all seen performing one song each). The poorly planned show was fraught with problems from its inception. The band unwisely selected the Hells Angels motorcycle club to provide security, and after the pre-existing chaos was fueled by very visible alcohol and drug abuse, the bikers resorted to violence to keep the stoned, restless, and often-naked crowd in line. The result: dozens of injuries and the on-screen stabbing of a young African American man (during Sympathy for the Devil ) by one of the security staff.
In a manipulative but effective move, the Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zwerin filmed Mick Jagger in the editing room witnessing the on-camera murder for the first time. The film also captured the band at their most relaxed, intoxicated, and electrifying--performing some of their greatest tracks in a raw, stripped-down style.
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Director: David Maysles|Albert Maysles|Charlotte Zwerin
ACTORS: Jefferson Airplane, Ike Turner, Tina Turner, Marty Balin, Melvin Belli
The Sensual Art of Bellydance - Beyond Basic Dance (DVD)
Sisters Veena and Neena Bidasha have been bellydancing since their childhood, and have travelled around the world learning, refining, performing, and teaching this ancient and erotic dance. Now they have created a series of videos to instruct students in the arm movements, shimmies, and sultry looks of bellydancing. BEYOND BASIC DANCE begins with a brisk warm-up routine, and continues with a step-by-step tutorial isolating upper and lower body while slowly demonstrating each drop-kick, shimmy, rib circle, full turn, and travelling step in the full choreographed routine.NR"
The Art of High Impact Kicking (DVD)
If you want to learn how to do martial arts kicks, this is the video you should own! With over two hundred styles of kicking demonstrated by martial artist and actor Hwang Jang Lee, your kicking form will be greatly improved.NR"
ACTORS: Hwang Jang Lee
The Matrix (DVD) Deluxe Collector Box Set With THE MATRIX, the Wachowskis have established themselves as innovative filmmakers who push the boundaries of live-action films. Like the groundbreaking STAR WARS, THE MATRIX (also the first film of a trilogy...
With THE MATRIX, the Wachowskis have established themselves as innovative filmmakers who push the boundaries of live-action films. Like the groundbreaking STAR WARS, THE MATRIX (also the first film of a trilogy) showcases a unique visual style, one the Wachowskis achieved through an array of techniques and digital effects, some never before seen in mainstream Hollywood films. Although computer morphing technology had been used before in films such as THE ABYSS and TERMINATOR 2, the Wachowskis were the first to use bullet time, a time-bending digital effect that utilizes both computer-generated imagery and still photography.
The film itself is a complex story that aspires to mythology, focusing on a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) who searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). What they encounter in confronting that truth makes for a lightning-paced, eye-popping thrill ride of a movie. Packed with stunning fight scenes (choreographed by accomplished Hong Kong director Yuen Wo-Ping), astonishing visual effects, quotable lines, and a terrific supporting cast (led by Carrie-Anne Moss, in her first major Hollywood film), THE MATRIX is a bold triumph that raises the bar for all science fiction films.
R"
Director: Larry Wachowski|Andy Wachowski
ACTORS: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano
Mysterious Island (DVD)
This fantasy adventure is based on the 1870 novel by Jules Verne. A small, motley group of soldiers and civilians flee the 1865 siege of Richmond via a hot air balloon, and end up on an isolated island crawling with over-sized crabs, birds, and bees. Even more astonishing, they discover three other humans inhabiting the island: two shipwrecked women and the illustrious, long-lost Captain Nemo. Ray Harryhausen`s special effects, which include a battle with a giant crab and abduction by an enormous bird, still have the power to thrill and amaze.NR"
Director: Cy Endfield
ACTORS: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Lom, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
