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Kinski: My Best Fiend

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale, Justo González, Mick Jagger, Klaus Kinski
ASIN : 6305970955
Sales Rank : 38351
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305970958
ISBN : 6305970955
UPC : 013131123692
Release Date : December 15, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
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Running Time : 95

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A chain of coincidences brings the 13-year-old schoolboy werner herzog together with klaus kinski to the same apartment in munich. In an unabated 48-hour fit of rage kinski immediately proceeds to lay waste to all the furniture only one of such fits to come. Herzog therefore knows what awaits him. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 06/03/2008 Starring: Claudia Cardinale Beat Presser Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Werner Herzog

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Most people associate the director Werner Herzog with the actor Klaus Kinski--but few know how twisted and enmeshed their relationship was. Though Kinski has made dozens of movies, he probably remains best known for the five he made with Herzog: Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Woyzeck, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Cobra Verde, and Fitzcarraldo. In this documentary/cinematic memoir, Herzog uses clips from these remarkable films, on-the-set footage, and personal recollections to create a portrait of Kinski as both a deeply passionate actor and a raving lunatic; it's hard to say whether he's defaming Kinski or being generous to this mercurial, erratic actor. There's no question that their relationship is fascinating; after their first movie (Aguirre, probably the best of their collaborations) they both described moments of wanting to kill each other--in fact, both agree that Herzog threatened to shoot Kinski at one point, though they differ on the details. Yet they went on to make four more movies, almost all of them under circumstances that would be difficult for the most serene personalities. My Best Fiend was inspired by Kinski's death, and probably the movie's weakest aspect is that we don't get Kinski's side of their friendship. But even though it's one-sided, it's still a remarkable portrait of two artists who were willing to go to extremes to capture their visions. Any fan of either will find this unique documentary indispensable. --Bret Fetzer

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Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)

Actors: Adolf Hitler, Fritz Reinhardt, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Hans Frank (III)
ASIN : B00004WLXZ
Sales Rank : 44460
Director : Leni Riefenstahl
Studio : Synapse
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0654930301593
UPC : 654930301593
Release Date : December 17, 2001
Publisher : Synapse
Manufacturer : Synapse
Label : Synapse
Running Time : 120

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Triumph of the Will is one of the most important films ever made. Not because it documents evil--more watchable examples are being made today. And not as a historical example of blind propaganda--those (much shorter) movies are merely laughable now. No, Riefenstahl's masterpiece--and it is a masterpiece, politics aside--combines the strengths of documentary and propaganda into a single, overwhelmingly powerful visual force.

Riefenstahl was hired by the Reich to create an eternal record of the 1934 rally at Nuremberg, and that's exactly what she does. You might not become a Nazi after watching her film, but you will understand too clearly how Germany fell under Hitler's spell. The early crowd scenes remind one of nothing so much as Beatles concert footage (if only their fans were so well behaved!).

Like the fascists it monumentalizes, Triumph of the Will overlooks its own weaknesses--at nearly two hours, the speeches tend to drone on, and the repeated visual motifs are a little over-hypnotic, especially for modern viewers. But the occasional iconic vista (banners lining the streets of Nuremberg, Hitler parting a sea of 200,000 party members standing at attention) will electrify anyone into wakefulness. --Grant Balfour

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Kino-Eye/ Three Songs Of Lenin

Actors: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, V.I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin
ASIN : B00004S89X
Sales Rank : 40090
Director : Dziga Vertov
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381583427
UPC : 014381583427
Release Date : December 25, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 137

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Dziga Vertov, whose renegade approach to cinema is best remembered in the legendary "Man With the Movie Camera" and his series of Kino-Pravda newsreels, demonstrates his mastery of montage in this 1924 feature previously unseen in the United States. "Kino-Eye" (1924, 74 min.) is a fascinating film, not just for its aesthetic beauty and political significance, but for honestly documenting a society fresh from revolution, buoyed by idealism, ready to face the challenges of a difficult future. Also included on this DVD is "Three Songs of Lenin" (1934, 62 min.), Vertov's most personal work and the capstone of his career. The film reveals the Soviet leader as seen through the eyes of the people, represented by three songs. The exhilarating beauty of Vertov's images and the majesty of his filmmaking skills produced a film that The New York Times called "a work of unusual beauty and emotional exaltation."

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Attila '74 - The Rape of Cyprus

Actors: Rauf Denktas, Mihalis Kakogiannis, Glafkos Klerides, Archbishop Makarios, Nikos Sampson
ASIN : B00004STH0
Sales Rank : 38325
Director : Mihalis Kakogiannis
Studio : Fox Lorber
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781572528512
ISBN : 1572528516
UPC : 720917521725
Release Date : December 05, 2000
Publisher : Fox Lorber
Manufacturer : Fox Lorber
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Label : Fox Lorber
Running Time : 103

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Mein Krieg - My Private War

Actor: Erich von Manstein
ASIN : B0000541TO
Sales Rank : 71268
Director : Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus
Studio : Kino Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0738329019228
UPC : 738329019228
Release Date : December 28, 2000
Publisher : Kino Video
Manufacturer : Kino Video
Label : Kino Video
Running Time : 90

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Amateur movies shot with small handheld cameras by six German infantrymen on the Eastern Front during World War II form the core of this documentary. The men who took the movies appear on camera as old men to provide narration (in German, with subtitles), and they provide a perspective not often heard. As might be expected, they distance themselves from atrocities, and as they were foot soldiers in the Wehrmacht, their denials of involvement are probably true. One of the men still owns the camera he carried in the war, and he demonstrates how its small size made it perfect for impromptu filming in the field. Clips of smiling troops on the move is accompanied by an old man talking about how happy they were to be going to an unknown destination, likening it to "the joy one feels when on a journey." It turns out the gleeful trip he recalls was actually the beginning of the invasion of Poland and thus the beginning of the war in Europe. Later footage shows combat conditions in Russia, and the grisly aftermath of vicious combat. The rarity of the film footage, some of which was shot in color, makes this documentary worth watching. But the recollections of the amateur cameramen also provide an unusual insight into the German war machine, such as when one of the old veterans mentions how he eventually realized, "This was no defensive war forced upon us, it was an idiotic war of aggression." --Robert J. McNamara

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Not Angels But Angels

Actor: Wiktor Grodecki
ASIN : B00004YKRO
Sales Rank : 77934
Director : Wiktor Grodecki
Studio : Water Bearer
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0759259140127
UPC : 759259140127
Release Date : December 17, 2000
Publisher : Water Bearer
Manufacturer : Water Bearer
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Label : Water Bearer
Running Time : 80

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Like no film you've ever seen, Not Angels But Angels is a chilling account of fragile youth caught in the grasp of Earth's oldest trade. Prague's economic boom and recently won political freedom have transformed that beautiful city into a new mecca for both Eastern and Western tourists searching for sex. Young men trying to live up to the standards of Western consumerism fall prey to the quick, easy money made from hustling. The young hustlers' disarming frankness and need to talk become the compelling engine that drives the film. They withhold nothing, telling their stories in gruesome and stripped bare detail.

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Buddha Wild - Monk in a Hut

Actors: Anna Wilding, Abbot Sathuwanda, Phra Chalrerm Chanapha, Manit Visechat, Vanta Kaur
ASIN : B000KLQWN8
Sales Rank : 69867
Director : Anna Wilding
Studio : Carpe Diem Films LLC
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0898294000352
UPC : 898294000352
Release Date : December 10, 2006
Publisher : Carpe Diem Films LLC
Manufacturer : Carpe Diem Films LLC
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Label : Carpe Diem Films LLC
Running Time : 60

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Selected for:- *Calgary Buddhist Film Festival *Screen Actors Guild Foundation Series *IFFTAC- India- International Film Festival on Tribal Arts and Cultures 2007 *Kids First Film Festival 2008 *Nominated Best Feature Doc KIDS FIRST!2008 Film Festival -USA *Coalition for Quality Children's Media*Launch film of the Santa Fe Buddhist Film Series, Laemmles Cinemas Los Angeles, Rialto Cinemas, Hollywood Sumner Cinema, Cinema Cafe New Mexico ,more theatrical releases to come

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Modern Russian Culture. Disk Two: Petersburg

Actor: Lauren G. Leighton
ASIN : B001GDEPDS
Sales Rank : 97801
Director : Lauren G. Leighton;Slava Paperno
Studio : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0898309002036
UPC : 898309002036
Release Date : December 10, 2004
Publisher : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Manufacturer : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
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Label : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Running Time : 80

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Modern Russian Culture is an audio-visual, multi-disciplinary course of thirty-eight lectures on modern Russian culture (from the eighteenth century to our time) presented in a series of Video DVDs and one Reference Disc (DVD-ROM) with high quality photographic images, CD-quality music and narration, and hypertext-linked notes.

The narrated slide-show lectures are divided into five thematic units. This disc includes the following narrated slide-show lectures:

Lecture VII. Petersburg: Nevsky Prospect
Lecture VIII. Petersburg: Nevsky Ensembles
Lecture IX. Petersburg: Central Squares. Part 1
Lecture X. Petersburg: Central Squares. Part 2
Lecture XI. Petersburg: Admiralty Side
Lecture XII. Petersburg: Island and Fortress
Lecture XIII. Russian Architectural Ensembles

In this audio-visual course you will be taken on a journey from the high culture of Moscow and Petersburg architecture to the everyday culture of Soviet Russia to Russia as it was seen by great Russian artists and back down again to the everyday reality of Russia in the 1990s when it was transformed by the democratic movement.

The course is available through Amazon.com as a boxed set of 6 discs and also as individual discs (5 video DVDs for DVD players and 1 DVD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh computers).

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Modern Russian Culture. Disk Five: Russia In Transition

Actor: Lauren G. Leighton
ASIN : B001GDEPEM
Sales Rank : 97800
Director : Lauren G. Leighton;Slava Paperno
Studio : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0898309002067
UPC : 898309002067
Release Date : December 10, 2004
Publisher : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Manufacturer : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
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Label : Lexicon Bridge Publishers
Running Time : 110

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The narrated slide-show lectures are divided into five thematic units. This disc includes the following narrated slide-show lectures:

Lecture XXX. Agitation and Propaganda. Lenin Lecture XXXI. Agitation and Propaganda. Spirit of the Times Lecture XXXII. Agitation and Propaganda. Demonstrations Lecture XXXIII. Glasnost: "Forward to the Past" Lecture XXXIV. The Soviet Market Lecture XXXV. The New Russian Market Lecture XXXVI. Russia in Turmoil: August 1991 Lecture XXXVII. Russia in Turmoil: Black October Lecture XXXVIII. Russia in Turmoil: "The Party is Over"

The course is available through Amazon.com as a boxed set of 6 discs and also as individual discs (5 video DVDs for DVD players and 1 DVD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh computers).

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Dragons Of The Orient Dvd/dubbed/7 Trailers For Jet Li Films

Actor: Lauren G. Leighton
ASIN : B00000IC1T
Sales Rank : 101431
Studio : Tai Seng
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0601643344942
UPC : 601643344942
Publisher : Tai Seng
Manufacturer : Tai Seng
Label : Tai Seng
Running Time : 88

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Takes you on an historical journey through many regions of china to explore the amazing secrets of martial arts. Featuring the work from early pioneers like hung shi kwuan huang fei hung and ten tigers of canton to more recent masters like bruce lee jackie chan and jet li dragons also visits the kung fu masters. Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Jet Li Terry Fan Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Rocky Law

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For martial arts enthusiasts and fans of Jet Li, Yang Ching, and Wang Chun, this historical filmography about the origins of Chinese martial arts, the legendary Shaolin Monastery, and modern kung fu will prove to be an irresistible treat. The documentary is told through two fictional characters, Instructor Wang and Hong Kong sports reporter Ms. Chin Chin, who chance to meet in a park. Ms. Chin Chin is writing a story about the history of martial arts and so Instructor Wang offers to help. Together they visit the Shaolin Monastery and view a weapons demonstration by the monks. Unfortunately, in the translation the different styles are not explained thoroughly, but the scenery is spectacular and so is the history of the monastery. The next stop on the educational journey is the village Tung Yang, where all 2,000 residents practice kung fu every day. Here Instructor Wang and Ms. Chin Chin learn about the hard work required to be a kung fu master. They visit several other martial arts schools and at each school they watch more demonstrations. The fighting styles are fluid and graceful, much like ballet. Unfortunately, the dubbing is poorly translated. This proves to be frustrating, as the correct names for the various fighting techniques observed are not accurately described. However, this documentary is worth seeing, as the viewer can watch all the different styles of kung fu and learn a general history of martial arts in China. Also, Jet Li fans will be happy to discover how their favorite kung fu star learned his art. --Samantha Allen-Storey

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Kinski: My Best Fiend

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Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)

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Kino-Eye/ Three Songs Of Lenin

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Attila '74 - The Rape of Cyprus

Mein Krieg - My Private War

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Not Angels But Angels

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Buddha Wild - Monk in a Hut

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Modern Russian Culture. Disk Two: Petersburg

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Modern Russian Culture. Disk Five: Russia In Transition

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Dragons Of The Orient Dvd/dubbed/7 Trailers For Jet Li Films

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