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List Price: $14.99Price: $12.99You Save: $2 (13%)Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Actors: Rick Rosas, Pegi Young, Gary W. Pigg, Clinton Gregory, Emmylou Harris
ASIN : B000F48D00
Sales Rank : 2347
Director : Jonathan Demme
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097363466949
UPC : 097363466949
Release Date : December 13, 2006
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Label : Paramount
Running Time : 103
Product DescriptionAcademy-award winning director Jonathan Demme beautifully captures Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legend, Neil Young as he prepares and presents the performance of a lifetime with the help of his wife Peggi and friends country star Emmylou Harris, steel guitarist Ben Keith and more at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. Amazon.com"I just want to play well, share the stage with my friends, give the best I can," says Neil Young before the concert that is the centerpiece of Heart of Gold. No problem, dude. Working with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, Young has come up with a gem--not all flash and bling-bling, but as understated as a single pearl, musically restrained yet emotionally open. Of course, neither Demme (an Oscar winner for The Silence of the Lambs; he also helmed Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense) nor Young would call it "a concert film"; the director describes it as "a dream concert, something that's literally being dreamt by Neil," while the singer-songwriter himself calls it "a multi-level story." Whatever, the project came together in 2005, as Young was finishing his Prairie Wind album (the latest in a string of lovely, country-flavored acoustic recordings dating back to 1972's Harvest) and preparing to debut the music at Nashville's fabled Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry. The fact that Young had also recently experienced a brain aneurysm might or might not have influenced his decision to film the show, but it certainly seems to have had an effect on the music. He and his band (which, with the addition of horns, strings, and backup singers, including Emmylou Harris, occasionally numbers forty or more musicians) perform Prairie Wind in its entirety, and there is some deeply moving, highly personal material here; in addition to the gospel-tinged "When God Made Me" and the dirge-like "No Wonder," Young sings about his recently-deceased father (the title song), his newly adult daughter ("Here for You"), the guitar he plays that once belonged to Hank Williams ("This Old Guitar"), and even his dog ("He Was the King"). Demme's direction is ideal for conveying the music's restrained acoustic textures, rich backing vocals, and simple, elegant melodies. Shots are held much longer than is usual in such films, and while there are lots of close-ups, there are no gimmicks. This superb DVD package is filled out by a second disc of bonus features, including a variety of featurettes and a solo performance of "The Needle and the Damage Done" from The Johnny Cash Show in 1971. --Sam Graham
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List Price: $19.99Price: $12.99You Save: $7 (35%)Africa: The Serengeti (IMAX) [Blu-ray]
Actor: Narrated by James Earl Jones
ASIN : B000VJHM6U
Sales Rank : 2225
Director : George Cassey
Studio : Razor Digital Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0690445047021
UPC : 690445047021
Release Date : December 13, 2007
Publisher : Razor Digital Entertainment
Manufacturer : Razor Digital Entertainment
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Razor Digital Entertainment
Running Time : 40
Amazon.comThis spectacular IMAX documentary has been meticulously transferred to provide one of the most stunning DVDs available, with image quality so vivid that it seems almost three-dimensional. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the images themselves are amazing, consisting of some of the finest nature cinematography you're ever likely to see, following a year of seasonal change in the "circle of life" of East Africa's Serengeti plain. Photographed entirely on location in Kenya and Tanzania, the 40-minute film chronicles a natural phenomenon that few humans are privileged to witness in their lifetime: the annual great migration, during which over two million wildebeests, zebras, and antelope travel 500 miles across the plain to ensure their survival. It's an awesome display of natural wonders, and of course there's danger as well as beauty, with lions, crocodiles, and cheetahs among the predators of migrating wildlife. The images range from wondrous to horrifying to hilarious, forming a portrait of life and death that remains powerful even after repeated viewings. The DVD is truly intended for a global audience, with eight optional audio tracks in English (narrated by James Earl Jones), Bavarian, French, Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $26.95Price: $15.99You Save: $10.96 (41%)Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Actors: Joseph Campbell (III), Bill Moyers
ASIN : B00005MEVQ
Sales Rank : 933
Studio : Mystic Fire Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0715098764627
UPC : 715098764627
Release Date : December 09, 2001
Publisher : Mystic Fire Video
Manufacturer : Mystic Fire Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Mystic Fire Video
Running Time : 360
DescriptionAn exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of a remarkable man, a legendary teacher, and a masterful storyteller, conducted by TV journalist Bill Moyers in the acclaimed PBS series. Includes The Hero's Adventure, The Message of the Myth, The First Storytellers, Sacrifice and Bliss, Love and the Goddess, Masks of Eternity. 360 minutes. Amazon.comJoseph Campbell and the Power of Myth is essential viewing for anyone old enough to appreciate its vital teachings. One of the greatest interviews ever recorded, this six-part, six-hour encounter between teacher- mythologist Campbell and student-journalist Bill Moyers (recorded in the two years preceding Campbell's death in 1988) covers a galaxy of topics related to Campbell's central themes: Mythology is humanity's universal method of seeking the transcendental, and "follow your bliss" is the timeless formula for spiritual satisfaction. Campbell himself is the embodiment of these themes, an erudite scholar and quintessential storyteller, recalling a wide spectrum of myths from throughout history (Japanese, Native American, Egyptian, Mayan, and many more) to illustrate humankind's eternal quest to grasp the mysteries of creation. Historical artifacts and illustrations bring these timeless stories to life. An astute interviewer, Moyers is an acolyte in perfect harmony with Campbell-as- mentor, wording questions with penetrating perfection as their intellectual dance reaches exhilarating heights of meaning and fascination. Moyers also finds the perfect hook for a global audience, examining Campbell's admiration of George Lucas's Star Wars saga as a popular tapestry of ancient myths, and Lucas himself is interviewed in a DVD bonus segment ("I'm not creating a new myth," he says, "but telling old myths in a new way"). Campbell's seemingly endless well of knowledge reaches a simple conclusion: we need myths to survive like we need oxygen to breathe, as a life force with which to understand our existence--past, present, and future. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $49.98Price: $34.99You Save: $14.99 (30%)Primeval: Volume 1 (Series 1 and 2)
Actor: Primeval
ASIN : B001D2WUGG
Sales Rank : 3172
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051423221
UPC : 794051423221
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 585
Product DescriptionStudio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/04/2008 Amazon.comPrimeval was created by Britain's ITV as a big-budget primetime Saturday rival to the success of the BBC's Doctor Who. But unlike some efforts to buy big ratings, there's actually a lot of entertainment throughout the series. The crux of the show surrounds a series of strange creatures from both the future and the past who appear to be roaming around in the present day. So what's going on? And what can be done about the dinosaur-esque creatures, big insects, and assorted parasitic life forms that are suddenly roaming the Earth? That's where professor Nick Cutter and his team come in, and the fun really begins. A surprisingly human action-drama, Primeval clearly draws influence from Doctor Who, and while it never really threatens to rival it, it is nonetheless a good show in its own right. The special effects are suitably smart, but, more importantly, there's also a half-decent script at the heart of things, and that really does help lift the show. The second season finds Cutter and his team once again dealing with creatures quite literally out of their time. But this time, Primeval has a few more tricks up its sleeve. Because while the convention for much of season 1 was that the creatures that faced Cutter and his crew were arriving from the past, this time round there are monsters from the future to worry about too. Cue the likes of a woolly mammoth on the motorway, and a raptor-esque chase around a shopping center. The show then blends in some twisty narratives surrounding the characters themselves, which--while not particularly intricate or surprising--do keep up the fun, and it does its best to throw as much at the screen as it can. Primeval is very good fun, worth rewatching, and suitable for family viewing too. --Jon Foster
Reviews for the Primeval: Volume 1 (Series 1 and 2)
List Price: $24.98Price: $18.49You Save: $6.49 (26%)Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years
Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Bob Mackie, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O'Hara, Rex Reed
ASIN : B001CDL6R0
Sales Rank : 2846
Director : Various
Studio : City Lights Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0897246001591
UPC : 897246001591
Release Date : December 18, 2008
Publisher : City Lights Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : City Lights Home Entertainment
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Label : City Lights Home Entertainment
Running Time : 120
Product Description'Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years' is an all new documentary that captures the creative excellence, the brilliant fusion of song and dance, the glamorous Bob Mackie costumes and the non-stop excitement that were the hallmark of her glittering annual television events. Experience the ground breaking Emmy winning performances, unseen for three decades, as well as photos and footage from Gaynor's personal archive that illuminate the behind-the-scenes stories and impact of her landmark television events.
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List Price: $27.98Price: $19.49You Save: $8.49 (30%)Encounters at the End of the World
Actor: Werner Herzog
ASIN : B001DWNUD8
Sales Rank : 1111
Director : Werner Herzog
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Image Entertainment
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381506822
UPC : 014381506822
Release Date : December 18, 2008
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 101
Product DescriptionWelcome to antarctica - like youve never experienced it. Youve seen the extraordinary marine life the retreating glaciers and of course the penguins but leave it to award winning iconoclastic filmmaker werner herzog to be the first to explore the south poles most fascinating inhabitants..Humans. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: G Amazon.comJust about anywhere Werner Herzog goes becomes an interesting place, in part because the director shapes it with his distinctively sardonic eye. In Encounters at the End of the World, the 'Zog heads off to Antarctica, finding there a population of unusual people, hallucinatory underwater life, and penguins. He doesn't appear on camera, but the unmistakably Teutonic Herzog voice is very much with us all the time, a baleful tour guide for this blank destination. In the human outposts of Antarctica, Herzog finds the kind of people you might expect would gravitate to the edge of existence--the curious, the oddball, the wanderers who've run out of other places to explore. He finds some deadpan hilarity, especially in filming a communication drill involving people practicing blizzard conditions (they wear buckets over their heads while roped together). The underwater photography (a realm previously explored in Herzog's The Wild Blue Yonder) is by Henry Kaiser, and it meshes perfectly with the director's interest in alien eye-scapes. And when Herzog finally does find penguins, his imagination goes to the idea that some penguins go insane, scurrying off into their own suicidal directions. This isn't as arresting a film as Grizzly Man, but it is an entertaining travelogue spiked with quirky observations. --Robert Horton
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List Price: $79.98Price: $52.99You Save: $26.99 (34%)The Beatles Anthology
Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Neil Aspinall
ASIN : B00008GKEG
Sales Rank : 4153
Director : Bob Smeaton, Geoff Wonfor, Kevin Godley
Studio : Capitol
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0724349297593
UPC : 724349297593
Release Date : December 01, 2003
Publisher : Capitol
Manufacturer : Capitol
Availability : In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Label : Capitol
Running Time : 600
Amazon.comInitially broadcast as a TV miniseries to go with the series of three Anthology double-CD albums, this set of eight documentary tapes has the heft and scope of one of Ken Burns's expansive projects. Still, unless you are either a historian or a truly committed fan, you'll find yourself with way more material--particularly about the Beatles' early lives as lads in Liverpool--than you'll want to watch. The documentary material is copious, including early performance films and tapes, at the point before they found their true voices. The actual Beatlemania years--beginning in 1963 and concluding in 1970--feature extensive performance films, as well as home movies and archival material. The best parts, of course, are the interviews with the Beatles themselves, who produced the entire thing. Along with reworking two previously unreleased John Lennon tracks as "new Beatles songs," the Anthology includes some unseen Lennon interview tapes so that his acerbic voice can be heard as well. This stands as a comprehensive document of that heady period, the second coming of rock & roll, as the Beatles took what Elvis had started and expanded upon it exponentially. The tapes give a solid sense of the historical context and the way these four musicians changed the world around them in the 1960s. --Marshall Fine
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List Price: $14.98Price: $12.99You Save: $1.99 (13%)Step into Liquid
Actors: Laird John Hamilton, Layne Beachley, Dan Malloy, Robert August, Rochelle Ballard
ASIN : B0001FGBUC
Sales Rank : 2107
Director : Dana Brown
Brand : VAS
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0012236148388
UPC : 012236148388
Release Date : December 20, 2004
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
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Label : Lions Gate
Running Time : 88
Product DescriptionThis documentary profiles surfers and surfing locations all over the world, including the monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore, the Gulf shores of Texas (where waves are created by oil supertankers), the ice-cold waters of Ireland, Santa Cruz, Costa Rica, the Cortez Banks, Da Nang in Vietnam, the tiny waves of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin and the tropics of Rapa Nui. More important than the diverse and often spectacular locations and waves, however, are the wide range of surfers that are profiled, challenging the stereotypes about the surfing counterculture. Running Time: 90 minutes. Release Date: 04/20/2004. Amazon.comThanks to Dana Brown's delightful Step Into Liquid, the surfing scene in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should get a healthy boost. That's because Brown, in the tradition of his father, filmmaker Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), has captured dazzling images of surfers riding curls in some of the world's most exotic--and sometimes unlikely--places. Besides the action on Lake Michigan, Brown leads us to Costa Rica, where the sport's senior elite (including Summer star Robert August) prove they still have the moves, and Oahu's North Shore, where the legendary Pipeline inspires this quote: "It's so scary, maybe you die a little." Most entertaining is a segment in County Donegal, where the American Malloy brothers startle the locals and meet their Irish counterparts on the grayest ocean imaginable. Great personal stories here, including the tale of Northern California's Dale Webster, who has never missed a day on the waves in 30 years. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $24.98Price: $17.49You Save: $7.49 (30%)Three Sheets-Season 3
Actor: Zane Lamprey
ASIN : B001F7Q4JI
Sales Rank : 2000
Director : Not Applicable
Studio : In Demand/MOJO
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0617742204391
UPC : 617742204391
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : In Demand/MOJO
Manufacturer : In Demand/MOJO
Availability : In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Label : In Demand/MOJO
Running Time : 180
Product DescriptionThe third season of Three Sheets is the biggest yet, with our fearless host Zane Lamprey traveling to even more destinations in order to down the wildest local beverages for your education. This time around get ready to drink up the cultures of Denmark (with Akvavit), Saigon (with snake wine), Chile (with Pisco Sours) and much, much more!
In this 2-disc set, Zane embarks on his most ambitious global pub crawl, finding everything from moonshine in Moscow to Cachaca in Rio. Zane's new friends may not always speak English but after teaching him their native drinking games, they all speak the same language of drunkenness! Now, pack your bags, we ve got some drinking to do...
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List Price: $29.99Price: $22.49You Save: $7.5 (25%)Three Sheets: Season 1
Actor: Three Sheets
ASIN : B000PMLJL2
Sales Rank : 4262
Brand : INFINITY RESOURCES
Studio : Idhd Mojo
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0617742700497
UPC : 617742700497
Release Date : December 14, 2007
Publisher : Idhd Mojo
Manufacturer : Idhd Mojo
Label : Idhd Mojo
Running Time : 192
Product DescriptionComedian Zane Lamprey embarks on a world-wide bar hopping adventure in this beer-centric release in which he learns about local drinking customs in Belgium Ireland Jamaica Belize and other exotic locales.System Requirements:Running Time: 192 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/TRAVEL Rating: NR UPC: 617742700497 Manufacturer No: IDM7004
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