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List Price: $39.95Price: $35.99You Save: $3.96 (10%)The King of Kings - Criterion Collection
Actors: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
ASIN : B00005JNGA
Sales Rank : 45926
Director : Cecil B. DeMille
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Criterion
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780027992
ISBN : 078002799X
UPC : 037429187326
Release Date : December 07, 2004
Publisher : Criterion
Manufacturer : Criterion
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Criterion
Running Time : 267
DescriptionWith this silent-era spectacle, Cecil B. DeMille cemented his reputation as the master of the biblical epic. DeMille tells the story of Christ's life and Passion with great attention to historical accuracy, along the way paying homage to the religious illustrations of Da Vinci and Doré, and, in a modern flourish, restaging Christ's resurrection in luminous Technicolor. In time for Christmas, Criterion will present fully restored editions of both versions of this glorious spectacle in a heavenly two-disc set: the original 155-minute silent version from 1927 - never before available on home video - and the 1931 release, re-cut by DeMille to 112 minutes. The DVD edition will also include new Dolby Digital 5.1 scores by composers Donald Sosin (1927 version) and Timothy J. Tikker (1931 version); the original score for the 1931 release by Hugo Riesenfeld; behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film; cast portraits, production and costume sketches, a stills gallery of production photos and promotional material; the original illustrated program and press book featuring photographs from the film's gala premiere; and more.
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New Price: $37.89The Ten Commandments
Actors: Judith Anderson, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, John Carradine, Donald Curtis
ASIN : 0792154649
Sales Rank : 35920
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792154648
ISBN : 0792154649
UPC : 097361550879
Release Date : December 30, 1999
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 220
Amazon.com essential videoLegendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also making the sexy action around the cult of the Golden Calf look like fun. You have to see The Ten Commandments to understand its peculiar resonance as an old-new movie, complete with several still-impressive effects such as the parting of the Red Sea. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $14.98Price: $13.49You Save: $1.49 (10%)Bee Season
Actors: Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Flora Cross, Max Minghella, Kate Bosworth
ASIN : B000E6ES8U
Sales Rank : 16195
Director : Scott McGehee, David Siegel (III)
Brand : Bee
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543228721
UPC : 024543228721
Release Date : December 04, 2006
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 104
DescriptionRichard Gere stars in this gripping tale about a father obsessed with training his talented daughter for the National Spelling Bee. Eliza Naumann (Flora Cross) demonstrates such an amazing gift for spelling any word given to her that her father Saul (Gere) insists on coaching her himself. But as Eliza's success continues, Saul's newfound devotion grows causing huge changes for the entire family! Amazon.comAn intelligent 11-year-old girl holds the key to solving her dysfunctional family's crisis in Bee Season, an intriguing drama that draws heavily on the mysterious power of words. Adapted by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (Running on Empty) from the popular novel by Myla Goldberg, this curiously involving movie focuses on the Naumanns, an academically inclined family led by Saul (Richard Gere), a stern father and emotionally distant husband who teaches Jewish theology in Berkeley. Driven to intellectual pursuits and intense study of the Kabbalah (especially its theological emphasis on the mystical importance of words), he barely notices his young daughter Eliza (Flora Cross) until she wins a regional spelling bee. Shifting his favor away from his rebellious son (Max Minghella) and a troubled wife (Juliette Binoche) still traumatized by a past tragedy, Saul invests his paternal pride in Eliza’s spelling prowess, unaware that she’s got some mystical powers of her own. As proven by their acclaimed mystery thriller The Deep End, co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel have a knack for Hitchcockian attention to visual details, and with a performance by 12-year-old Flora Cross that’s wise beyond her years, Bee Season unfolds as a uniquely perceptive film about complex human behavior. Not for all tastes (as evident by the mixed reviews it received from critics), but very rewarding for anyone who tunes into its peculiar emotional wavelength. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Devil's Playground
Actors: Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Charles McCallum
ASIN : B001EAWMPG
Sales Rank : 43674
Director : Fred Schepisi
Studio : Industrial Ent
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0858334001381
UPC : 858334001381
Release Date : December 18, 2008
Publisher : Industrial Ent
Manufacturer : Industrial Ent
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Label : Industrial Ent
Running Time : 99
Product DescriptionAcclaimed writer/director Fred Schepisi s (Roxanne, The Russia House, Empire Falls) first feature is the accomplished and currently pertinent story of boy s coming of age set in an Australian Catholic boys school.
Based on the director s experiences in a monastery, repressed desires meet Christian doctrine head-on. Winner of five Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Film (1976).
Special Features include:
Retrospective documentary on the making of Devil s Playground
Commentary by Fred Schepisi
Schepisi on film making
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List Price: $24.98Price: $22.49You Save: $2.49 (10%)The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham
ASIN : B000ADS61C
Sales Rank : 38721
Director : Mary McGuckian
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : New Line Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780652699
ISBN : 078065269X
UPC : 794043841521
Release Date : December 11, 2005
Publisher : New Line Home Video
Manufacturer : New Line Home Video
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Label : New Line Home Video
Running Time : 120
DescriptionFive people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for this bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel. Amazon.comMary McGuckian (This is the Sea) has produced a handsome, if curiously inert version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning novella. While the story presents a compelling inquiry into the nature of fate, this fourth adaptation, after a 1944 movie and 1958 tele-film, never quite overcomes some odd casting decisions. Set in Lima, Peru in the early-1700s, the story concerns the inquiry by Brother Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) into the deaths of five travelers who drowned when the bridge they were crossing collapsed. Was it divine intervention or random chance? As Juniper tells the Archbishop (Robert De Niro, making no effort to disguise his New York accent), while on trial for heresy, "Either we live by accident and die by accident or we live by plan and die by plan." Using his trial as a framing device, McGuckian flashes back to the circumstances that led the victims to their date with destiny. The primary players include the Viceroy (F. Murray Abraham), La Marquesa (Kathy Bates), the Abbess (Geraldine Chaplin), Uncle Pio (Harvey Keitel), La Perichole (Pilar López de Ayala), and twins Manuel and Esteban (Mark and Michael Polish of Northfork fame). So who fell? Unlike previous productions, the answer won't be revealed until the end, at which point Juniper will be forced to put his findings into a theological context--or suffer the cost. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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List Price: $14.98Price: $13.49You Save: $1.49 (10%)The Robe
Actors: Dawn Addams, Michael Ansara, Leon Askin, Ben A. Astar, Helen Beverly
ASIN : B0001ZV9KY
Sales Rank : 42237
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543020837
UPC : 024543020837
Release Date : December 16, 2001
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 135
DescriptionThe first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, THE ROBE ws nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Richard Burton. Burton stars as Marcellus Galilo, the Roman centurian charged with overseeing the crucifixion. But when he wins Christ's robe in a gambling game at the foot of the cross, his life is forever changed.
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)3 Needles
Actors: Mabel Adams (II), Asckt, Shawn Ashmore, Caroline Aspirot, Nontombi Bovana
ASIN : B000MRA6XM
Sales Rank : 35573
Director : Thom Fitzgerald
Studio : Wolfe Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0754703762719
UPC : 754703762719
Release Date : December 03, 2007
Publisher : Wolfe Video
Manufacturer : Wolfe Video
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Label : Wolfe Video
Running Time : 127
DescriptionIn China, Ping (Lucy Liu) is a pregnant young woman running a black market blood collection scam that creates a mini-epidemic in a rural village. In Montreal, Denys (Shawn Ashmore) is a porn actor hiding his positive HIV status in order to continue working and supporting his mother (Stockard Channing), who herself goes to extreme lengths to provide for the family's future. And, in Africa, Sister Clara (Chlo Sevigny) is a young novice nun driven to convert the rapidly dying Africans to Catholicism before it's too late who makes a desperate bargain with a corrupt plantation owner to help prevent the spread of HIV in the region. Amazon.comGood performances by an impressive cast, some beautiful cinematography, and a relatively light touch on a heavy subject (AIDS, which is never once mentioned by name) help make 3 Needles an absorbing, provocative viewing experience. Writer-director-producer Thom Fitzgerald's 2005 film assays a global view of the pandemic, similar to Traffic's approach to the drug trade and Babel's slant on the interconnectedness of human events 'round the world (although 3 Needles is considerably less affecting than those two efforts). Using five different languages (Afrikaans, Mandarin, Xhosa, French, and English), he take us to three continents. In China, a pregnant woman (Lucy Liu) pays peasants who donate their blood (which she then sells illegally), in the process starting an mini-scourge that virtually wipes out an entire village. In Montreal, a porn actor (Shawn Ashmore) cheats on a blood test; when his mother (an excellent Stockard Channing) discovers he's HIV positive, she's driven by outrageous fortune to react in some very strange and unpredictable ways. Finally, three nuns (an unlikely combo of Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, and Chloe Sevigny) set out to save souls "condemned to purgatory" by their disease; but when Sister Clara (Sevigny), who's still a novice, tries to save actual lives as well, she makes a startling bargain with the devil to do it. While much of this is quite poignant, it's to the film's credit that little or none of it is handled with excessive sententiousness, self-pity, or tragedy for its own sake. Actually, there's a good deal of gentle humor, not to mention some absolutely gorgeous shots (including Montreal in autumn and the overall geography of the unnamed coastal African country where the final scenario takes place). And the ultimate message, delivered by Dukakis in voice-over, is hauntingly simple: "Why have we not joined together at last to fight this virus?" Bonus material includes interviews, deleted scenes, and a couple of AIDS documentaries. --Sam Graham
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List Price: $14.94Price: $9.49You Save: $5.45 (36%)The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Actors: Keith Michell, Tony Lo Bianco, Colleen Dewhurst, Herschel Bernardi, Harry Andrews
ASIN : B000056HP5
Sales Rank : 18382
Director : Mihalis Kakogiannis
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767859806
ISBN : 0767859804
UPC : 043396058460
Release Date : December 13, 2001
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 120
Product DescriptionStudio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/26/2008 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
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New Price: $7.98Judgment
Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Jessica Steen, Leigh Lewis, Mr. T, Nick Mancuso
ASIN : B0002T2R3C
Sales Rank : 50284
Director : André van Heerden
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0043396085886
UPC : 043396085886
Release Date : December 31, 2004
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 100
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List Price: $19.98Price: $17.99You Save: $1.99 (10%)Joni
Actor: Joni
ASIN : B000NPGHM2
Sales Rank : 22319
Brand : World Wide Pictures
Studio : Ross Records
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0731635002120
UPC : 731635002120
Release Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Ross Records
Manufacturer : Ross Records
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Label : Ross Records
Running Time : 110
Product DescriptionThe gripping story of Joni Eareckson Tada's battle with the emotional and spiritual impact of a paralyzing diving accident. An incredible true story that will stir the soul.
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