When her father dies Tamahine a lovely young half-Polynesian girl is sent to England to visit her father's cousin headmaster of a celebrated boys' public school. She has a disturbing influence on boys and masters alike however with all and sundry falling under the spell of her natural beauty and charm! This sparkling comedy stars Nancy Kwan as the free-spirited Tamahine with Dennis Price as the staid guardian who is both bewitched and inspired by her presence. Boasting an equally strong supporting cast the film earned a BAFTA nomination for Geoffrey Unsworth the double-Oscar winning cinematographer whose credits include Cabaret Tess and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tamahine is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio.
A few years after the events in Scream 2, Gale Weathers has continued the horror franchise called Stab.
Kát'a Kabanová, Janácek's 1921 tragedy, is proof if any were needed that tales of personal oppression and turmoil will always make fine raw material for opera composers. Janácek took Ostrovsky's tumultuous drama of infidelity , The Storm, and created a compelling piece in which his music heightens the relationship between the troubled landscape of Kát'a's inner mind and the elements doing battle outside. In 1988, this Glyndebourne Festival production successfully distilled the heroine's wretched journey from put-upon wife and daughter-in-law to suicide via the ecstasy of a forbidden love affair into 100 minutes of intensely emotional operatic drama. At its heart, Janácek's unique tonal score underlines a powerful, almost naturalistic dialogue and exposes the impact of Kát'a's experiences on her escalating self-destruction. Felicity Palmer's Kabanicha--the mother-in-law from hell and the real instrument of Kát'a's downfall--is curiously remote and muted rather than the domineering figure of fear that we might expect. But the singing, particularly by Nancy Gustafson (tremendously affecting and emotionally convincing in the title role) and Ryland Davies as Kát'a's weak husband Tichon, is outstanding. Gustafson's performance alone makes this essential viewing for anybody with a passion for the great modern soprano roles. On the DVD: Sadly the only additional features are trailers for Seven Gates of Jersualem and The Damnation of Faust. The sound quality (PCM stereo) is more than fair, but inevitably the film of the production is constrained by the design: the stylised set is either very light or very dark and we don't get as close as we'd like to the characters in what is, after all, a disturbingly intimate piece. Arthaus Musik's booklet meets the expected high standards of information and background. --Piers Ford
Episodes Comprise: 1. Lard Of The Dance 2. The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace 3 .Bart The Mother 4. Treehouse Of Horror IX 5. When You Dish Upon A Star 6. D'oh-in' In The Wind 7. Lisa Gets An A 8. Homer Simpson In ""Kidney Trouble"" 9. Mayored To The Mob 10. Viva Ned Flanders 11. Wild Barts Can't Be Broken 12. Sunday Cruddy Sunday 13. Homer To The Max 14. I'm With Cupid 15. Marge Simpson In 'Screaming Yellow Honkers' 16. Make Room For Lisa
Homie The Clown (Season 6): What do you do when you're a famous clown on the verge of bankruptcy? Open a Krusty the Clown College! And what do you do if you're Homer Simpson? You enroll! $pringfield (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Legalized Gambling) (Season 5): It begins with Henry kissinger losing his glasses in a toilet and ends with Robert Goulet singing the Batman version of Jingle Bells. And in between Mr Burns opens a casino for adults Bart opens a ca
A performance of the Cole Porter's musical 'Kiss Me Kate' filmed live at the Victoria Palace Theatre in August 2002. Choreography by Kathleen Marshall.
Suffering from headaches and inexplicable blackouts, timid housewife Eve White (Joanne Woodward) begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Luther (Lee J. Cobb). He's stunned when she transforms before his eyes into the lascivious Eve Black, and diagnoses her as having multiple personalities. It's not long before a third, calling herself Jane, also appears. Through hypnosis and continued therapy, Luther struggles to help Eve recall the trauma that caused her identity to fracture. Features: High Definition Transfer Posters & Images from Around the World Original Theatrical Trailer
Mathematician Theresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends who want her to live a little drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows she has been drugged kidnapped made a redhead tattooed and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan if only she could figure out why it involves her.
The complete seventh season of The Simpsons where you can finally unearth who was behind the shooting of the nefarious Mr Burns! Episodes Comprise: 1. Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 2) 2. Radioactive Man 3. Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly-Doodly 4. Bart Sells His Soul 5. Lisa The Vegetarian 6. Treehouse Of Horror VI 7. King-Size Homer 8. Mother Simpson 9. Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming 10. The Simpsons' 138th Show Spectacular 11. Marge Be Not Proud 12. Team Homer 13. Two Bad Neighbours 14. Scenes From A Class Struggle In Springfield 15. Bart The Fink 16. Lisa The Iconoclast 17. Homer The Smithers 18. The Day The Violence Died 19. A Fish Called Selma 20. Bart On The Road 21. 22 Short Films About Springfield 22. Raging Abe Simpson And His Grumbling Grandson In The Curse of the Flying Hellfish 23. Much Apu About Nothing 24. Homerpalooza 25. Summer Of 4'2
Director Paul Greengrass recounts the final moments of the ill-fated flight in this 9/11 drama.
Any four episodes of The Simpsons chosen at random would make perfectly acceptable entertainment, but The Simpsons Film Festival is a particularly happy selection. One of the shows many delights has always been its unending stream of movie parodies, and here we have four episodes devoted to just that. In "Beyond Blunderdome", Mel Gibson (playing himself) sends up his tough-guy persona when he hires Homer to produce his latest movie. Then in "A Star is Burns" Springfield hosts its own film festival (with acerbic guest critic Jay Sherman in attendance). The competition boils down to Barneys haunting cinema verité short about the horrors of alcohol or Mr Burns grandiose vanity project (though Homer prefers Hans Moleman being hit by a football). "22 Short Films About Springfield" is a series of parodies within a parody featuring Springfields secondary characters, including Milhouses dad and Chief Wiggum in a glorious Pulp Fiction sequence. Finally, the shows own internal parody cartoon duo hit the big screen in "The Itchy and Scratchy Movie", while Bart and Homer lock horns about going to see it. They sell Soylent Green in the future cinema foyer; and Homer loves it, of course.On the DVD: just four episodes is hardly stunning value for money, but its perhaps quality not quantity that counts here. Annoyingly there is no "Play All" facility, a serious let down in all the Simpsons DVD releases (Futurama had the same problem, too). The only extra feature of any note is a three-minute montage of Troy McClures finest moments. Sound is unexceptional Dolby Stereo and the picture is standard 4:3 ratio. --Mark Walker
A group of adolescents are enjoying a wild summer at 'Fat Camp' until a neurotic fitness fanatic buys the camp and imposes an absurd diet and exercise regime! Now the kids must gain control before their summer wastes away...
Halloween III: Season of the Witch was producer John Carpenter's attempt to get the series away from the original psycho-on-the-loose storyline and turn it into a vehicle for more far-fetched Halloween-themed horror tales. Incredibly, the fans voted for more of the same and Carpenter walked away for others to rehash the Michael Myers plotline in a succession of lookalike movies that are still turning up every few years. Though original screenwriter Nigel Kneale (of the Quatermass series and The Stone Tape) removed his name from the final film after a coarsening rewrite by director Tommy Lee Wallace, his strange touch is evident in the offbeat story. After the mysterious deaths of a toyshop owner, a doctor (Tom Atkins) and the man's daughter (Stacy Nelkin), an investigation takes place in the Irish-dominated Northern California community of Santa Mira, a company town owned by the Silver Shamrock Novelty corporation, whose bestselling Halloween masks are pushed by an amazingly irritating TV jingle you won't ever be able to get out of your head ("Two more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween"). Atkins and Nelkin are typical low-rent horror movie protagonists, dim-bulbs who discover an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conspiracy involving sharp-suited corporate robots. But guest star Dan O'Herlihy steals the film as a Celtic joke tycoon ("the man who invented sticky toilet paper and the dead dwarf gag") who hates the way American kids are despoiling the religious spirit of Samhain and decides to teach them a nasty lesson. His scheme, which involves a stolen Stonehenge megalith ("sure, you'd never believe how we did it") and a techno-magic spell that turns the heads of TV watchers into writhing masses of snakes and insects, is value for money. O'Herlihy mixes enough serious malice into the charm to come across as a great screen baddie. On the DVD: Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a disappointment on disc. After letterboxed titles, this defaults to full frame throughout, severely cramping Dean Cundey's Panavision cinematography, and it's a grainy, indifferent print that ill-serves the performances or the atmospherics. However, the severe cuts to the gruesome scenes made to previous video releases (in order to preserve the theatrical 15 rating) seem to have been restored. With an extras-packed Halloween disc on the market, it's a shame the most interesting of the follow-ups rates such a flimsy release--with not so much as a trailer as an extra. --Kim Newman
Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 1) (Season 6): Conspiracy and intrigue is rife in Springfield following the shooting of Mr Burns. With Chief Wiggum leading the investigation and a list of potential suspects it's going to take more than one episode to solve this case. Guest voice: Tito Puente. Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 2) (Season 7): The list of suspects has been reduced with Lisa giving Chief Wiggum some valuable pointers. Unfortunately her intervention has identified Homer
Manchester is a novice photographer Noon a shy taxidermist. Together over one sweltering summery they create an idyll of uninhabited lovemaking and free creative expression. Then a wealthy pornographer and connoisseur of erotica discovers Manchester's close up and personal photos and suddenly the art world wants to get every bit as detailed as their love affair has been. Can this intimate carnal relationship survive public exposure?
Beasts roar, danger abounds and Johnny Weismuller swoops into the last 5 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provedes World War 2 heroics in Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Next, he welcomes Jane home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. And the Ape Man calls elephants to deal with poachers in Tarzan and the Huntress and rescues a pearl-diving community in Tarzan and the Mermaids. What came next? Weissmuller would return to the wilds as Jungle Jim, Johnny Sheffield (Boy) became Bomba the Jungle Boy, Joyce played Jane again in Tarzan's Magic Fountain and Cheetah became the world's oldest chimp, celebrating birthday 74 in 2006. Ungawa!
This award winning 1990's animated series introduced us to the land of Dreams and Nightmares...and to the Noops Wuts and Urpneys that lived there. The stories centre around a battle in a faraway world between a kind Dreammaker and the evil Zordrak - the Lord of the Nightmares. The series begins with Rufus the enthusiastic young Noop who goes to work for the Dreammaker. Little does he know that Zordrak is sending his forces to the Land Of Dreams to steal the Dreamstone...can Rufu
Smooth fast and in high gear! He races. She chases. Yet love and laughter find a way when ""World 600"" stock car driver Elvis meets Internal Revenue Service collection agent Nancy Sinatra in Speedway. ""There Ain't Nothing like a Song "" pedal-to-the-metal Elvis and go-go-booted Nancy sing. For the first time since he and Ann-Margret proclaimed Viva Las Vegas Presley pairs with a high-octane singing dancing leading lady. Bill Bixby is the manager who mismanages Presley into a $145 000 jam with the IRS and laughs are further fueled by veteran TV funnymen Gale Gordon (The Lucy Show) and Carl Ballantine (McHale's Navy). The supersonic songlist includes Let Yourself Go Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby and Your Groovy Self. Have a groovy time!
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