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Yentl
: essential video:Barbra Streisand made her directorial debut with this 1983 adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer story about a young Eastern European woman (Streisand) who disguises herself as a male at the turn of the century in order to get an education. Except for an excessive musical score with too many songs and Streisand's tiresome tendency to play characters who suppress their beauty, the film is crisp and engaging, and the gender-bending love story complications are fun, if gimmicky. Streisand gives a smart, vulnerable ...
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Heart of Darkness
:Description:Marlow is an ambitious and adventurous sailor who is employed by an English trading company and sent to an African colony. There he travels up the river, visiting the trading stations who barters for ivory with the natives. On his journey he is told about a man named Kurtz whose station is the one furthest up the river, deep in the African jungle. Some talk of him in awe, others in admiration, but they all seem to fear him. As Marlow gets closer and closer ...
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Fat Man & Little Boy
: :Despite the combined star power in front of and behind the camera, Fat Man and Little Boy is a largely tepid retelling of the history of the Manhattan Project, the atomic testing project that led to the U.S. bombing of Japan during World War II (said bombs were dubbed 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy'). The Nevada-based project is headed by General Leslie R. Groves (a testy Paul Newman) and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz of the TV series The A-Team), who later regretted his ...
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Poldark 1 (6 VHS Boxed Set)
: :Despite the combined star power in front of and behind the camera, Fat Man and Little Boy is a largely tepid retelling of the history of the Manhattan Project, the atomic testing project that led to the U.S. bombing of Japan during World War II (said bombs were dubbed 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy'). The Nevada-based project is headed by General Leslie R. Groves (a testy Paul Newman) and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz of the TV series The A-Team), who later regretted his ...
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Voices from a Locked Room
: :Despite the combined star power in front of and behind the camera, Fat Man and Little Boy is a largely tepid retelling of the history of the Manhattan Project, the atomic testing project that led to the U.S. bombing of Japan during World War II (said bombs were dubbed 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy'). The Nevada-based project is headed by General Leslie R. Groves (a testy Paul Newman) and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz of the TV series The A-Team), who later regretted his ...
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De-Lovely
:Description:'The most unusual and enchanting musical in years' (Roger Ebert), this cinematic ode to legendary composer Cole Porter is at once buoyantly fun and 'heartbreakingly beautiful' (Liz Smith). Oscar(r) winner* Kevin Kline (The Ice Storm) is 'perfection' (Rolling Stone) as the elegant and deeply complex Porter in a film that offers 'knockout performances' (Gene Shalit) from Natalie Cole, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, Alanis Morissette and Robbie Williams, and 'melancholy, wit and style to burn' (The Philadelphia Inquirer)! From Paris to Venice to Broadway ...
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Joe Gould's Secret
: :Based on a pair of delicious character portraits by The New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, 'Professor Sea Gull' and 'Joe Gould's Secret,' Stanley Tucci's film is an often lovely study in opposites that never quite realizes the delicate complexity of Mitchell's rich essays. Tucci plays Mitchell, a transplanted southerner in New York with a honey-smooth lilt and a careful detachment from the world. When he sketches a profile of disheveled bohemian Joe Gould (Ian Holm at his scruffy, scrappy best) for The New Yorker, he ...
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Edward II
:Description:In the sixteenth century, the king of England jeopardizes his reign when he ignores his wife and openly carries on an affair with his male lover.
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Bad Medicine
:Description:In the sixteenth century, the king of England jeopardizes his reign when he ignores his wife and openly carries on an affair with his male lover.
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William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
: :Rarely has The Merchant of Venice, one of Shakespeare's most complex plays, looked as ravishingly sumptuous as in this adaptation, directed by Michael Radford (Il Postino). In a decadent version of renaissance Venice, a young nobleman named Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love) seeks to woo the lovely Portia (newcomer Lynn Collins), but lacks the money to travel to her estate. He seeks support from his friend, the merchant Antonio (Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune); Antonio's fortune is tied up in sea ventures, so the ...
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