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Step into Liquid

Actors: Laird John Hamilton, Layne Beachley, Dan Malloy, Robert August, Rochelle Ballard
ASIN : B0001FGBUC
Sales Rank : 2552
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

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This 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.

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Thanks 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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Earth: The Biography [Blu-ray]

Actors: Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones
ASIN : B0018CWVWO
Sales Rank : 2512
Director : Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Format : Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0883929026050
UPC : 883929026050
Release Date : December 22, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
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Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 90

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This landmark series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet, how it works, and what makes it so special. Examining the great forces that shape the Earth - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice - the programme explores their central roles in our planet's story. How do these forces affect the Earth's landscape, its climate, and its history? CGI gives the audience a ringside seat at these great events, while the final episode brings together all the themes of the series and argues that Earth is an exceptionally rare kind of planet - giving us a special responsibility to look after our unique world. This is a series that shows the Earth in new and surprising ways. Extensive use of satellite imagery reveals new views of our planet, while timelapse filmed over many months brings the planet to life. Offering a balance between dramatic visuals and illuminating facts, this ground-breaking series makes global science truly compelling.

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To demonstrate the stunning beauty and overwhelming power of the Earth, Dr. Iain Stewart climbs into the crater of an active volcano in Ethiopia, jets into the stratosphere, climbs the frozen crests of the Alps, races the tide at the Amazon basin, dives into underwater caverns in Mexico, and generally enjoys himself to no end. His infectious enthusiasm is hardly necessary, though; Earth: The Biography (formerly The Power of the Planet) is five episodes of phenomenal images and fascinating information about how our planet formed and the potent yet delicate balance of life. Stewart, the program's host, seems destined to become the Carl Sagan of geology; his cheerful Scottish accent (he sounds like he walked out of Trainspotting) is just waiting for a catchphrase like "billions and billions" to make him a household name. Earth: The Biography juxtaposes things gigantic (tectonic plates) and teeny-tiny (plankton) while gracefully explaining the crucial role each plays in making the world habitable for life as we know it. There's even surprising humor, like demonstrating the ocean's currents through the movement of 29,000 plastic ducks that were swept overboard in a storm, or how the first thing jet pilot Joe Kittinger does, after successfully parachuting from the highest point in the stratosphere anyone has ever jumped (including 15 minutes of free fall), is light up a cigarette. Add in some CGI models of prehistoric beasts and volcanic activity, and you've got a completely addictive examination of the Earth in all its majesty. --Bret Fetzer

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Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral (With Collectable Ticket & Coin)

Actor: Chazz Palminteri
ASIN : B00189PSVS
Sales Rank : 5949
Director : David Check
Brand : Yankee
Studio : Shout! Factory
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0826663108170
UPC : 826663108170
Release Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Shout! Factory
Manufacturer : Shout! Factory
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Label : Shout! Factory
Running Time : 150

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Baseball's epicenter sits at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx,
New York. For more than 80 years, fans and ballplayers have congregated on sultry summer days and chilly October nights to witness history. They cheer their hearts out, realize their dreams and heal their souls in this ultimate baseball cathedral. Yankee Stadium has meant so much to so many, and Yankees players and fans will enjoy one final season in the House That Ruth Built before making their way to the new Yankee Stadium in 2009.

Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral will celebrate the
entire spectrum that makes this ballpark the most talked about sports
structure in the entire world. Contains an exclusive 85-Year Yankee
Stadium Commemorative Ticket with Yankee Coin.

Bonus Features:

Lou Gehrig Speech
Mickey Mantle's 1964 World Series Game 3 Walk-Off HR
The 9th Inning Of The 1999 World Series
The 9th Inning Of Jim Abbott's No Hitter
Yankees Return After Thurman Munson's Funeral
George Brett And The Pine Tar Game
Don Mattingly's HR In The 1995 ALDS Game 2
The 11th Inning Of The 2003 ALCS Game 7
Chris Chambliss' 1976 ALCS Game 5 Walk-Off HR
Derek Jeter's 2001 ALDS Dive
Hideki Matsui's First Career Grand Slam
Aaron Boone's 2003 ALCS Game 7 HR
Tour Of Yankee Stadium From "Cathedrals Of The Game"

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Three Sheets-Season 3

Actor: Zane Lamprey
ASIN : B001F7Q4JI
Sales Rank : 1778
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
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Label : In Demand/MOJO
Running Time : 180

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The 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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Alone in the Wilderness

Actor: Zane Lamprey
ASIN : B0009PUAFG
Sales Rank : 1748
Studio : Bob Swerer Productions
Region Code : 1.0
Format : Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0689076235624
UPC : 689076235624
Publisher : Bob Swerer Productions
Manufacturer : Bob Swerer Productions
Label : Bob Swerer Productions
Running Time : 60

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"Alone in the Wilderness" is the story of Dick Proenneke. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin... to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available... to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company...Thousands have had such dreams, but Dick Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the country. This video "Alone in the Wilderness" is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company.

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Blue Planet (IMAX) [Blu-ray]

Actor: Vjworld Visuals
ASIN : B000Q6GX1S
Sales Rank : 2405
Director : Ben Burtt
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Brothers
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0794051815422
UPC : 794051815422
Release Date : December 31, 2007
Publisher : Warner Brothers
Manufacturer : Warner Brothers
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Label : Warner Brothers
Running Time : 81

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From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our world, and how a powerful new force - humankind - has begun to alter the face of the planet. From Amazon rain forests to Serengeti grasslands, Blue Planet inspires a new appreciation of life on Earth, our only home.

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The IMAX film Blue Planet offers an eloquent reminder--and a cautionary warning--that the planet Earth is a delicate living organism, constantly reshaped and rejuvenated by the awesome forces of nature. The film targets a grade-school audience but will prove informative to anyone fascinated by our home planet's evolution. Hurricanes, glaciers, volcanoes, thunderstorms, asteroid impacts, undersea furnace vents, and earthquakes are all explored as a system of interconnected forces that ensure the planet's survival. The difference between this and other nature films is that the Earth's delicacy is emphasized by stunning views from space, filmed in the IMAX format by NASA astronauts in orbit 200 miles above the Earth's surface. With astonishing clarity, this orbital perspective supports the film's ultimate purpose: to reveal the awesome beauty of the Earth, and to emphasize that we, the custodians of this miraculous gift, are also the greatest threat to the planet's delicate health. Proof of man's destructive influence offers a sobering reminder that our responsibility toward nature is perpetual, essential, and routinely abused.

Blue Planet combines state-of-the-art sound and image, principally directed by Ben Burtt, the Oscar-winning sound designer whose credits include the original Star Wars trilogy. No home-theater system could do full justice to the film's technical achievement, but the sights and sounds of Blue Planet are awesome nonetheless, and it's impossible to overstate the importance of the film's message and its hopeful emphasis on the potentially wondrous future of our one and only home. --Jeff Shannon

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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

Actors: Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese
ASIN : B000A0GP4K
Sales Rank : 3397
Brand : PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097360310542
UPC : 097360310542
Release Date : December 20, 2005
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Label : Paramount
Running Time : 208

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The two-part film includes never-seen performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan’s during that time. For the first time on camera, Dylan talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career.

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It's virtually impossible to approach No Direction Home without a cluster of fixed ideas. Who doesn't have their own private Dylan? The true excellence of Martin Scorsese's achievement lies in how his documentary shakes us free of our comfortable assumptions. In the process, it plays out on several levels at once, each taking shape as an unfailingly fascinating narrative. There is, of course, the central story of an individual genius staking out his artistic identity. But along with this Bildungsroman come other threads and contexts: most notably, the role of popular culture in postwar America, art's self-reliance versus its social responsibilities, and fans' complicity with the publicity machine in sustaining myths. All of these threads reinforce each other, together weaving the film's intricate texture.

Scorsese's 200-plus-minute focus on Dylan's earliest years allows for a portrayal of unprecedented depth, with multiple angles: a rich composite photo is the result. The main narrative has an epic quality: it moves from Dylan growing up in cold-war Minnesota through Greenwich Village coffeehouses and the Newport Folk Festival, climaxing in the controversial 1966 U.K. tour that crowned a period of unbridled and explosive creativity. In his transition from Robert Allen Zimmerman to Bob Dylan, we observe him concocting his impossible-to-describe, unique combination of the topical with the archaic, like an ancient oracle. Scorsese was able to access previously unseen footage from the Dylan archives, including performances, press conferences, and recording sessions. He also uses interviews with Dylan's friends, ex-friends, and fellow artists, and, intriguingly, with the notoriously reclusive Dylan himself (who looks back to provide glosses on the early years), fusing what could have turned into a tiresome series of digressions and tangents into a powerful whole as enlightening, eccentric, contradictory, and ultimately irreducible as its subject.

Some of the deeply personal bits remain unrevealed, but Dylan's preternatural self-assurance acquires a slightly self-deprecating, even comic edge via some of his reflective comments. Alongside the arrogance, we see touching moments of the young artist's reverence for Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. Joan Baez, in a poignant confessional mood, comes off well, and the late Allen Ginsberg is so seraphically charming he almost steals the show a few times. A crucial throughline is Dylan's hunger for recognition and ability to shape perceptions so that would be singled out as not just another dime-a-dozen folk singer. It's illuminating--particularly for those familiar with the artist's latter-day aloofness on stage--to see his reactions to audience booing in the wake of his "betrayal" in this fuller context. No Direction Home also makes clear--in a way that wasn't possible in D.A. Pennebaker's iconic Don't Look Back--how Dylan's ability to manipulate his persona always, at its core, protects the urge for expression: Dylan's ultimate mandate, as an artist, is never to be pinned down. As Scorsese masterfully shows, the myth around Dylan only grows bigger the more we discover about him. --Thomas May

DVD features: This two-disc set of Scorsese's full two-part documentary includes treats such as Dylan working on a song at his hotel during the UK tour as well as performing several songs as in concert or on TV.

More for the Dylanologist

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
Chronicles: Volume One (paperback edition)
Bob Dylan Scrapbook

Don't Look Back
The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series
The Last Waltz

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