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List Price: $19.98Price: $15.99You Save: $3.99 (20%)Victor/Victoria
Actors: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras
ASIN : B00003CXD9
Sales Rank : 3200
Director : Blake Edwards
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Turner Home Ent
Region Code : 1
Format : Digital Sound, Dolby, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790746777
ISBN : 0790746778
UPC : 012569520325
Release Date : December 04, 2002
Publisher : Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer : Turner Home Ent
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Label : Turner Home Ent
Running Time : 132
Product DescriptionBlake edwards brilliantly bubbly gender-bending comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Special featuers: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/22/2003 Starring: Julie Andrews Robert Preston Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Pg Amazon.com essential videoBlake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews (the former Mary Poppins) in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act in which Victoria assumes the identity of a man in drag. So, in other words, Andrews plays a woman playing a man playing a woman ... and that's only the beginning of the sexual identity confusions that provide the fuel for this splendidly classy slapstick musical farce. (Yes, it's all those things.) James Garner, as a Chicago club owner, finds himself strangely besotted with this stylish, androgynous creature--even though he thinks Victor/Victoria is a man. Legendary Hollywood composer Henry Mancini (a longtime collaborator with Edwards) won his last Oscar for the score; Andrews, Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren, as Garner's cheeky girlfriend, were also nominated. Musical highlights include Victor/Victoria's sizzling "Le Jazz Hot" (in which Andrews shows off her incredible vocal range); another showstopper for Victor/Victoria, "The Shady Dame from Seville"; Preston's witty ode to "Gay Paree"; Warren's hilarious burlesque number, "King's Can-Can"; and a charmingly casual yet elegant side-by-side number, "You and Me," done in a small club by Preston and Andrews in tuxedos. --Jim Emerson
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List Price: $26.98Price: $12.99You Save: $13.99 (52%)The Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniversary Edition)
Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn
ASIN : B00004U8P9
Sales Rank : 4298
Director : Jim Sharman
Studio : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543005742
UPC : 024543005759
Release Date : December 03, 2000
Publisher : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 100
DescriptionFasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition, a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decade
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List Price: $24.98Price: $18.99You Save: $5.99 (24%)Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
Actors: Michael Aronov, Ermes Blarasin, Rob Campbell, Karen Hines, Mary Krohnert
ASIN : B00005QW5X
Sales Rank : 5684
Studio : New Line Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780636873
ISBN : 0780636872
UPC : 794043540127
Release Date : December 11, 2001
Publisher : New Line Home Video
Manufacturer : New Line Home Video
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Label : New Line Home Video
Running Time : 91
Product DescriptionThis is the story of hedwig an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to america determined to find fame fortune and his other half. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 06/03/2003 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Amazon.comSometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust for revenge, Hedwig follows Tommy's tour, playing with her band (the Angry Inch) at tacky theme restaurants. Into this simple storyline, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell packs an astonishing mix of sadness, yearning, humor, and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $19.99Price: $8.99You Save: $11 (55%)Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway Production)
Actors: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York, Gregory Jbara
ASIN : B00004RFEZ
Sales Rank : 14958
Director : Gregory Jbara, Blake Edwards, Goro Kobayashi, Matthew Diamond
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 0
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381942422
UPC : 014381942422
Release Date : December 04, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 146
DescriptionOne of the world's most talented and best-loved performers, Julie Andrews reaches new heights in the most challenging role of her career as a woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman! Filmed on the Broadway stage in 1995 (and based on the 1982 film), the immensely popular Victor/Victoria is a warm, funny, wildly energetic look at the nature of love, gender perceptions and the battle of the sexes. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, with an unforgettable score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, Victor/Victoria tells the story of an out-of-work singer whose life changes when she meets the flamboyant Toddy (Tony Roberts). With his help, she becomes "Victor," an overnight singing sensation in the nightclubs of Paris. But success becomes hilariously complicated when she meets the love of her life, King Marchan, a macho Chicago gangster (Michael Nouri). Adding her two cents to the couple's troubles is Marchan's ex-girlfriend, the ditzy Norma Cassidy (Rachel York). From the electrifying excitement of "Le Jazz Hot" to the contemplative "Crazy World," from the humor of "Chicago, Illinois" to the touching "Almost a Love Song," this truly classic musical has it all. 146 minutes. Filmed in High-Definition video. 16x9 anamorphic widescreen transfer. Amazon.comFans of Julie Andrews will delight in this 1995 videotaping of the stage musical Victor/Victoria, based on the 1982 movie of the same name. The plot has been kept intact: an out-of-work British soprano (Julie Andrews) in Paris falls in with a down-on-his-luck gay man (Tony Roberts), who gets the idea to present Victoria as the world's greatest female impersonator, Victor. The plan is a phenomenal success until a Chicago mobster on vacation (Michael Nouri) sees Victor in a nightclub and falls in love--and refuses to believe that Victor is a man. Due to the needs of the stage, the musical doesn't have the snap, crackle, and propulsive drive of the movie, which is a sprightly romp; to make up for this, the story has been expanded (some might say padded) with extensive dance numbers and new songs by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, with additional musical material by Frank Wildhorn. While Roberts and Nouri don't quite have the charisma of Robert Preston and James Garner, who played their roles in the movie, they're seasoned stage performers and make the most of things--Nouri in particular has a strong singing voice, which may surprise people who only know him from his movie career. And Julie Andrews is Julie Andrews; at this point in her career, you either love her or you don't. Victor/Victoria isn't going to change anyone's mind, but Andrews knows her audience and knows how to give them what they want. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $9.98Price: $8.99You Save: $0.99 (10%)Village People - Can't Stop the Music
Actors: Alex Briley, David Hodo, Glenn Hughes, Randy Jones (II), Felipe Rose
ASIN : B00005RYL7
Sales Rank : 14396
Director : Nancy Walker
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131156195
UPC : 013131156195
Release Date : December 16, 2002
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
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Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 123
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List Price: $29.96Price: $26.99You Save: $2.97 (10%)Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Matthew Bourne)
Actors: Adam Cooper, Scott Ambler, Fiona Chadwick, Barry Atkinson, Emily Piercy
ASIN : B00004CWO8
Sales Rank : 16264
Director : Matthew Bourne, Peter Mumford
Studio : Nvc Arts
Region Code : 1
Format : Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5024165753903
UPC : 706301589922
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 23, 2000
Publisher : Nvc Arts
Manufacturer : Nvc Arts
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Label : Nvc Arts
Running Time : 113
DescriptionMatthew Bourne, director and choreographer of Adventures in Motion Pictures--a maverick new modern dance company based in London--brings a new twist to an old classic with this production of "Swan Lake." Taking advantage of the public's preoccupation with the ups and downs of the royal family, Bourne has set his story in the modern era and has cast all the swans--including the Odette/Odile role--as males. Boutne's creation brings great ballet to an audience it has never before reached, and for cognoscenti offers a new view of the breadth of possibilty in Tchaikovsky's well-loved score. "Swan Lake" enjoyed a sold-out run in London and a subsequent critically acclaimed and public-adored Broadway stint. Amazon.comSwan Lake became an unexpected popular hit when radical choreographer Matthew Bourne took Tchaikovsky's traditional ballet by the scruff of the neck and reworked it with a myriad of modern influences and themes to astonishing effect. Seldom have the dark psychological riptides at the heart of so many classical ballets been so brilliantly exposed. The Prince (Scott Ambler) is a wretched and dissolute young man dominated by his mother, the Joan Collins-like Queen (Fiona Ambler). Shades of Tennessee Williams, indeed. Von Rothbart becomes a press secretary, more sinister eminence grise than hissable villain. Most startling of all, the Swan (Adam Cooper) is a muscular, emphatically masculine male. Bourne has stressed the universality of his interpretation, which proved such a success for his Adventures in Motion Pictures dance company. And indeed this is never an overtly "gay" Swan Lake, although the electricity of the pas de deux at the height of Act 2 delivers a palpably homoerotic charge. Its universal threads--as Bourne suggests, the need to be held and understood is common to us all--are synthesized in the utterly moving conclusion as the Swan cradles the lifeless Prince and raises him to a better place. Swan Lake becomes a human, rather than simply romantic, tragedy. --Piers Ford
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List Price: $24.99Price: $10.99You Save: $14 (56%)The Car Man (Matthew Bourne)
Actors: Alan Vincent, Saranne Curtin, Will Kemp, Etta Murfitt, Scott Ambler
ASIN : B00008RGZF
Sales Rank : 19973
Director : Ross MacGibbon
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381008227
UPC : 014381008227
Release Date : December 13, 2003
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 90
DescriptionThis new musical dance sensation uses the stirring and passionate music of Bizet's Carmen as the basis for a completely new and original tale! The dreams and passions of a small community are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are drawn into a spiral of greed, opportunism, sex and murder! "Spectacular, seething and sizzling with lust and heat!" - Evening Standard Amazon.comThe Car Man, the latest dance version of Carmen, comes courtesy of choreographer Matthew Bourne, who has devised his own scenario of Bizet's opera set in a garage-diner in the American midwest, circa 1960. This film treatment details all the excitement of the live performance at London's Old Vic, which capped a 2000 U.K. tour. The cinematography assists in capturing the atmosphere of Bourne's treatment--film noir with allusions to Hitchcock--through employment of chiaroscuro. The use of the split-screen technique also enhances the cinematic feel. The music sounds seductive and full-bodied, befitting the new story line (Bourne calls it an "auto-erotic thriller") in which an enigmatic stranger, Luca, walks into town seducing both Lana (Carmen) and Angelo (Don Jose). A swarthy individual, Luca looks an unlikely dancer until his first solo galvanizes the company. The single stage set adapts into eight different permutations, taking us from diner through nightclub and prison and then out on the road in a cinematic finale where the Chevrolet cars of the period are destroyed in a pile-up. The period look is further enhanced with the girls in tight-waisted frocks and the men in Brando-esque T-shirts and jeans. The dance ensembles are an extraordinarily versatile group: classical, jazz, modern, and flamenco seem natural expressions of their body movements. Will Kemp deserves a special mention for his sensitive portrayal of Angelo. --Adrian Edwards
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List Price: $29.99Price: $26.99You Save: $3 (10%)Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton, Frédéric Gorny
ASIN : B00004W5WP
Sales Rank : 32591
Director : Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Studio : Strand Releasing
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0712267981120
UPC : 712267981120
Release Date : December 05, 2000
Publisher : Strand Releasing
Manufacturer : Strand Releasing
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Label : Strand Releasing
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List Price: $24.99Price: $22.49You Save: $2.5 (10%)Zero Patience
Actors: Bernard Behrens, Dianne Heatherington, Brenda Kamino, Duncan McIntosh, Von Flores
ASIN : B00080ETZE
Sales Rank : 64198
Director : John Greyson
Studio : Strand Releasing
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0712267250820
UPC : 712267250820
Release Date : December 17, 2005
Publisher : Strand Releasing
Manufacturer : Strand Releasing
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Label : Strand Releasing
Running Time : 100
DescriptionJohn Greyson, the director of LILIES and PROTEUS, has woven a tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria, in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America. Fast-paced, hilarious and provocative, ZERO PATIENCE is essential viewing.
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