The 2001 romantic Bollywood drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ("Happiness and Tears") proved to be even more successful than Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the highest-grossing Indian film of all time and one which was also directed by Karan Johar. Starring veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and wife Jaya, this tells the story of an Indian family who live in palatial comfort but who are riven when the eldest, adopted son Rahul marries Anjali (Kajol) a feisty and attractive woman but whose "lower breeding" causes his father to disapprove of her. Breaking his mother's heart, Rahul moves to Britain with Anjali before younger brother Rohan tries to go after him and end 10 years of estrangement to reunite the family. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is packed with contemporary trappings and production values but is in every way a traditional and generic Hindi movie. Those new to Bollywood might be disconcerted by some of the fashion statements or the mixture of drawn-out, lachrymose melodrama and slightly overplayed comedy-romantic interplay between Rahul and Anjali. There are also some scenes around Leicester Square and Westminster that are almost insulting in their stereotyping of hot, swinging London. However, K3G--as it has become affectionately known--is a riot of joyful colour, music and choreography (an embarrassing version of "It's Raining Men" is an exception). This is not a crossover movie, perhaps but a sumptuous treat for Bollywood fans. On the DVD: an anamorphic widescreen presentation with impeccable definition. However there are no special features, apart from subtitles. --David Stubbs
In the early 1960's the Goodyear Tire Company commissioned five short jazz films. It was part promotional device, part good will gesture. In both regards, it was successful. The programs were originally filmed on 35 mm negative. The sound was recorded in professional stereo. However, the shows were presented in 16mm with a mono track. Over the years, the prints faded because of an unstable colour print stock. What was once an extremely professional, good looking endeavour, now looked like an out of date historic relic. Storyville Films has returned to the original source material for this DVD presentation. The original 35mm source has been transferred to video tape and the original stereo masters have been restored. Now you will see the gorgeous detail and hear the excellent sound that was captured in the early sixties. These films now stand as some of the most technically advanced jazz films, featuring some irreplaceable music.
Johnny Depp ruled as TV's hottest young actor in this third season of the hit show that shot him to stardom. Depp stars as undercover cop Tom Hanson who along with fellow officers Harry Loki (Dustin Nguyen) Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson Peete) and Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) tackles tough cases of teen pregnancy drug dealers child molestation army desertion racism homelessness murder and more! This third season includes the exciting introduction of Dennis Booker (former heart-t
You See Me Laughin' is a full length documentary that takes a look at the often untamed lifestyles of the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and the Oxford MS based label Fat Possum Records that struggles to record them. The film is an exciting collage of exclusive interviews live performances and personal anecdotes. It includes rare black and white footage of R.L. Burnside from 1974 disturbingly funny stories about touring told firsthand by Iggy Pop and Jon Spencer Blues Explo
Some windows should never be opened! Following a bitter separation from his wife (Bello) famed mystery writer Mort Rainey (Depp) is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter (Turturro). Claiming Rainey has plagiarised his short story the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's fearful demands turn to threats - and then murder - Rainey turns to a private detective for help. But when nothing stops the horror from spiralling out of control Rainey soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything...
Live at Indiana's Holiday Star Theatre in the early `80's he celebrated 25 years in the top flight aided by conductor James Ganduglia's 30-piece orchestra and a special appearance by Deniece Williams for the classic #1 duet ""Too Much Too Little Too Late"". Also aired on this special evening: ""Chances Are"" West Side Story's ""Maria"" ""Begin The Beguine"" ""The Last Time I Felt Like This"" and a formidable version of Gloria Gaynor's ""I Will Survive"". Truly unforgettable.
Father Townsend, a devoted husband and priest, is devastated when his wife, Emily, is diagnosed with a terminal disease. Feeling abandoned by his faith, he decides to go against his beliefs and seeks to have Emily possessed through exorcism, in a desperate last bid to save her life. All seems well until terror strikes his heart, as he realises his actions have accidentally released a series of vengeful souls, seeking to unleash evil. Now, he must make the ultimate sacrifice or risk the almighty anti-Christ rising from the depths of hell. Forsaken is a spine-chilling horror, guaranteed to have you jumping out of your seat
While answering a distress call from a young girl whose mother has lost consciousness paramedics David Vaughn (Johnny Messner) and Victor Hernandez (Jon Huertas) are drawn into a trap by a secret cult. The men's resistance is put to the test when they are taken to an isolated building for brainwashing. As Victor begins to question his own beliefs David knows he must find a way out... and fast.
Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. From his early days as a pioneer of rockabilly and rock and roll in the 1950s to his decades as an international representative of country music to his resurgence to fame in the 1990s as a living legend and an alternative country icon Cash influenced countless artists and left a large body of work. Cash was revered by the greatest popular musicians of his time; he sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a commanding position in music history. A must-have for any Johnny Cash fan these late-1970s Christmas specials (originally aired on CBS and unseen for 30 years) capture Johnny Cash at the peak of his career. Whether he is performing in the intimacy of his Nashville home or on a large soundstage the elements of his success are here in abundance !
In this new comedy the lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with dangerous results.
An ancient treasure a legendary curse. One man will end up very rich...or very dead. This is the story of the quest for an ancient fabulous treasure - The Treasure of Ali Baba himself hidden for a Thousand Years. Hidden within the heart of the mystical globe known as the crystal eye is the location of the legendary riches a treasure of which untold numbers of men have died. Take one heroine - Cynthia Rhodes an American Ambassador's sultry daughter one hero - Jameson Parker a ruggedly handsome gunrunner plus a gang of fiery mercenaries an eccentric Italian cryptologist and five thousand arab warriors sheiks and emirs and you've got all the ingredients for a great chase.
An intimate musical look at the artists and producers who personify ""country."" Just under 40 songs are performed by such country luminaries as Willie Nelson Johnny Cash Kris Kristofferson Emmylou Harris and Hank Williams Jr.
The Jim Jarmusch Colection: Volume 2 Box Set - Mystery Train / Night On Earth / Dead Man
Morgan's Ferry - Bonnie (Kelly McGillis) is an isolated middle-aged woman who has been shunned by the locals in her town for years. When a handsome young man named Sam (Billy Zane) and his friend, Monroe (Henry Rollins), end up ransacking Bonnie's dilapidated house for a supply of food and money, they enter into a bizarre relationship with her. Upon realizing that she is not afraid of or angry about their thievery, Sam becomes fascinated, while the volatile Monroe becomes angry. The events that follow are sure to effect the threesome's lives for years to come.
MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. An intense personal adventure with universal themes that just happens to feature one of 20th-century music's greatest icons, 'My Father and The Man In Black' tells the inside story of 'bad boy' Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend.
The Astronaut's Wife On a seemingly routine mission to repair a space satellite, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) loses contact with Mission Control for a period of time. Once Spencer has returned to Earth his wife Jillian (Charlize Theron) falls pregnant with twin boys, but her joy is tempered by the suspicion that something terrible happened to her husband in space - something which could threaten the entire human race. Dark Shadows When playboy Barnabas Collins (Depp) breaks the heart of the beautiful Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green), an old family curse is released as Angelique, a witch, turns Barnabas into a vampire before burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. Returning to his former home at Collinwood Manor, he finds his estate in ruins and the dysfunctional dregs of his family in tatters. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has enlisted the services of live-in psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) to help with her numerous family problems - but between Elizabeth's loser brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), her rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chlo? Moretz), and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath), Dr Hoffman has certainly got her work cut out. Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007), Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, is based on a 'penny dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century. The story centres around Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair... Don Juan DeMarco Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case, that of Don Juan (Depp), is his most difficult. Don Juan is the world's greatest lover, having seduced over 1000 women, and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst, re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever.
From the world-famous action-team that brought you Ong Bak, The Warrior King and Chocolate comes Force of Five, the latest Thai martial arts showcase that delivers bone-crunching thrills and incredible stunt sequences.
Don Juan De Marco: Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case that of Don Juan is his most difficult. Don Juan (Johnny Depp) is the world's greatest lover having seduced over 1000 women and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever. Blow: George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and always berated by his mother. So he sets off for California to live on the beach. George finds he can make a living selling drugs. One day he learns he could make more money by shipping drugs across the country. So he does. Needing a bigger supply of drugs he goes to Columbia finds his way to Medellin and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). George stumbles into becoming the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the U.S. Libertine: Based on the play by Stephen Jeffreys The Libertine recounts the life of the scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp) the second Earl of Rochester. Married but not satisfied he has a passionate romance with a young actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton) and writes a scurrilous play that lampoons its commissioner King Charles II (John Malkovich who starred in the play when it was staged at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre).
Johnny Depp ruled as TV's hottest young actor in this third season of the hit show that shot him to stardom. Depp stars as undercover cop Tom Hanson who along with fellow officers Harry Loki (Dustin Nguyen) Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson Peete) and Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) tackles tough cases of teen pregnancy drug dealers child molestation army desertion racism homelessness murder and more! This third season includes the exciting introduction of Dennis Booker (former heart-t
Experience Sunset Strip from its origins in the 1920’s Prohibition to Madame Francis’ notorious brothel in the 1930’s the world-class 1940’s Nightclub scene the Mafia Wars of the 1950’s the Teen Riots in the 1960’s the Punk scene in the 1970’s Hair Bands and Heavy Metal in the 1980’s Hip Hop and Grunge of the 1990’s and all the way up to today’s resurgence with first class comedy clubs and establishments such as Soho House the Viper Room and The Sunset Strip Music Festival.
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