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The Best of The Original Avengers

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, Ian Hendry
ASIN : B000051TVP
Sales Rank : 29924
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767025621
ISBN : 0767025628
UPC : 733961701036
Release Date : December 02, 2001
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 330

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Only those with a Diana Rigg bias would complain that of the six episodes included in this collection, only two feature the ravishing Mrs. Emma Peel, the second and most popularly known partner of gentleman spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee). But they do rank among her finest hours. In "Death at Bargain Prices," Emma goes undercover at a department store, prompting Steed's classic line, "I asked where to find you and was told, 'Our Mrs. Peel is in ladies' underwear.' I rattled up the stairs three at a time." In "Too Many Christmas Trees," Emma, the girl of our dreams, comforts a distressed Steed, whose nightmares are coming true. The Cathy Gale (Honor "Pussy Galore" Blackman) and Tara King (the unfortunate Linda Thorson) episodes pale by comparison, but, as Macnee offers in a newly filmed introduction, they represent what is best about this cult classic British series: "Tradition; humanity; character; sexuality; bizarre comic strip action; witty tongue-in-cheek humor." "Mr. Teddy Bear," which launched the series' second season, also marks Cathy's debut as Steed's partner. "Don't Look Behind You," a psychological thriller, was later remade with Emma Peel as "The Joker." Winning the award for most outrageous episode title is "Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers." This love-it-or-hate-it Tara King episode, in which music hall clowns really slay their audience, features a memorable appearance by a pre-Monty Python John Cleese. Thorson's own finest hour may be "All Done with Mirrors," in which she, saddled with a bumbling sidekick, must clear Steed of charges of treason. While more Mrs. Peel is needed, this set will thrill old fans and new collectors looking to enhance or start an Avengers library. --Donald Liebenson

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Late Spring - Criterion Collection

Actors: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki
ASIN : B000EOTWIS
Sales Rank : 48801
Director : Wim Wenders, Yasujiro Ozu
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Criterion
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0037429208427
UPC : 037429208427
Release Date : December 09, 2006
Publisher : Criterion
Manufacturer : Criterion
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Label : Criterion
Running Time : 108

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The first of a series of intimate family portraits that would cement Yasujiro Ozu’s reputation as one of the most important directors in cinema history, Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his only, beloved daughter. In the hands of two of the director's finest actors—Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara—this poignant tale of love and loss in postwar Japan remains as potent and meaningful today as ever.

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A masterpiece of postwar Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring serves as an elegant primer for many of the themes that would define Ozu's later career. As with other Ozu classics, this is a calm, meditative drama about the dynamics of family, in this case the inevitable separation of 56-year-old father and widower Shukichi (Chishu Ryu) and his adult daughter Noriko (Setsuko Hara), who is content to care for her father and remain unmarried, despite the urging of friends and relatives to find a suitable husband. There are some viable candidates, and several attempts at matchmaking, but the likeliest match is a man who's already engaged. Noriko simply wishes for things to remain as they are, but when she does eventually marry a handsome chemist who "looks like Gary Cooper," Ozu's drama remains intimately focused on the subtle emotions at play; there's not a scene or sequence that feels out of place, and Late Spring serves a secondary function as a light and lively portrait of post-war Japan, as hints of Western influence (like a Coca-Cola sign in one of the film's most memorable scenes) that signal Japan's transition toward a modern commercial economy. Most of all, however, Late Spring is a carefully observed and quietly heartbreaking story of a parent who yearns to set things right for his daughter who must balance her father's love with her own prospects for a fulfilling future. And while Ozu would go on to examine familial issues in later, equally noteworthy films, Late Spring represents a milestone that would ensure Ozu his rightful place among the greatest of all Japanese directors. --Jeff Shannon

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Criterion's release of Late Spring contains a few minor flaws in terms of image quality (such as occasional emulsion scratches), but viewers can rest assured that this DVD was mastered from the finest available materials, and the film looks very good considering the conditions of post-war Japan that were typically harsh on films of that period. The "windowbox" framing format accurately preserves the film's original 1.33:1 aspect ratio. There's a new and improved English subtitle translation, and the audio commentary by Richard Peña (an Ozu expert and program director of New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center) emphasizes the literary traditions that inform Ozu's films, in addition to the director's signature fixed-camera, low-angle style. Disc 2 includes Tokyo-ga, the 1985 feature by German director (and avid Ozu admirer) Wim Wenders. It's a tribute to Ozu's Japan, in which Wenders wanders the city searching for remnants of Tokyo as seen in Ozu's films, including interviews with Late Spring actor Chishu Ryu and Ozu's long-time cameraman Yuharu Atsuta. In keeping with Criterion tradition, a 21-page booklet is also included, containing informative essays by critic Michael Atkinson and renowned Japanese-film historian Donald Richie. --Jeff Shannon

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In the Realm of the Senses

Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
ASIN : 6305049378
Sales Rank : 21052
Director : Nagisa Oshima
Studio : Fox Lorber
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305049371
ISBN : 6305049378
UPC : 720917503721
Release Date : December 28, 1998
Publisher : Fox Lorber
Manufacturer : Fox Lorber
Label : Fox Lorber
Running Time : 104

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Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda) whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though it did run into legal trouble both in the U.S. and Japan), it has an air of palpable doom, suggesting that sex can be a doorway to suicide. Lest this sound like grunge-era noodling over dreams of self-destruction, be assured that the Kyoto-born Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) takes a somewhat formal, middle-aged perspective on the conjunction of various mysteries of existence. --Tom Keogh

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Fanny Hill

Actor: Lisa Raines; Shelly Winters; Oliver Reed
ASIN : B000BGQUGQ
Sales Rank : 60344
Brand : PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Trinity Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full length, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0692865229339
UPC : 692865229339
Release Date : December 23, 2005
Publisher : Trinity Entertainment
Manufacturer : Trinity Entertainment
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Label : Trinity Entertainment
Running Time : 90

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Synopsis: Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until eventually she is forced to turn to the streets to survive. As she turns to a life of humiliation she wonders if she will ever regain her pride and find happiness in life once again.

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Taboo

Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
ASIN : B0000687F5
Sales Rank : 20073
Director : Nagisa Oshima
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567302660
ISBN : 1567302661
UPC : 717119791247
Release Date : December 20, 2002
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Label : New Yorker Video
Running Time : 100

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This fascinating, gorgeous film examines homosexual passions among the samurai of an 1865 militia. Taboo centers around a young samurai named Kano, whose smooth face and soft beauty makes him an object of desire. Rumors about who might be his lover lead to a love triangle, dazzling swordfights, and a mysterious murder. The story is intriguing enough, but what makes Taboo even more striking is that the heterosexual samurai treat their comrade's queer leanings as possibly dangerous, but only because of the potential for jealousy and inflamed passions--there's no sense that they see it as unnatural or even unmanly, in striking contrast with the American military view. Japanese superstar Beat Takeshi (Fireworks, Sonatine) plays a samurai captain struggling to maintain order in the ranks. Elegantly directed by Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence). --Bret Fetzer

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Goosebumps: It Came from Beneath the Sink

Actors: Masato Chikusa, Gary Pearson (II), Kerry Duff, Sheldon Smith, Shadia Simmons
ASIN : B000RPOCJI
Sales Rank : 49599
Director : Ron Oliver;Timothy Bond;Craig Pryce;Randy Bradshaw;David Winning
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543462729
UPC : 024543462729
Release Date : December 11, 2007
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 44

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This expedition into R.L. Stine's creepy--but not too creepy--world of ghosts and the supernatural contains the episodes "It Came From Beneath the Sink" and "Strained Peas."Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 024543462729 Manufacturer No: 2246272

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The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1, Vol. 1

Actors: Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Markie Post, Jo Ann Pflug
ASIN : B000O77SO0
Sales Rank : 48870
Director : Alan Crosland, Bernard McEveety, Bruce Kessler, Don Medford, Larry Elikann
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543426370
UPC : 024543426370
Release Date : December 05, 2007
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 60

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Lee Majors stars as the Fall Guy, Colt Seavers, a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.

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Ace Ventura-when Nature Calls [dvd] Nla

Actors: Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Markie Post, Jo Ann Pflug
ASIN : 6304696469
Sales Rank : 20268
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786304696460
ISBN : 6304696469
UPC : 085392350025
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video

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Africa's the place and Ace is on the case, setting out to rescue an animal he loathes: a bat! Jim Carrey (Batman Forever) returns as Ace, the alligator-wrasslin', elephant-calling, monkeyshining, loogie-launching, burning coals-crossing, disguise-mastering pet detective. If you're ready to laugh like a pack of hyenas, if you want more fun than an industrial-sized barrel of monkeys, you know what to do. Heed the call.

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This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Lighten up, and don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon

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The Best of The Original Avengers

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Late Spring - Criterion Collection

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In the Realm of the Senses

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Fanny Hill

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Taboo

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Inspector Morse - Dead on Time

Goosebumps: It Came from Beneath the Sink

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The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1, Vol. 1

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Ace Ventura-when Nature Calls [dvd] Nla

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Goosebumps - Deep Trouble