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Pow Wow Highway
Starring: A Martinez , Gary Farmer , Joannelle Nadine Romero , Amanda Wyss , and Sam Vlahos Director: Jonathan Wacks Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items: ASIN: B00020HCBS Release Date: 2004-11-23 |
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Gary Farmer (Smoke Signals) is the standout in a fine film by Jonathan Wacks about an oversized Cheyenne man-child (Farmer) who decides to go on a spiritual quest, while simultaneously giving a ride to his lifelong Indian activist friend (A. Martinez). The film takes us through some pretty desolate Indian communities, but while Wacks makes a point of revealing harsher aspects of life on some reservations, the emphasis is on Farmer's delightful performance. A bonus: among the cast are Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves) and Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans), neither of whom were well-known in 1989, the year this film was released. --Tom KeoghDescription
For the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Montana, the American Dream has taken a grim detour. Here, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is a committed activist battling a suspicious land-grab. Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer, in a performance Roger Ebert calls "one of the most wholly convincing I've seen") is a serene spiritual warrior guided by sacred visions. But when Buddy's estranged sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico, the two men take Philbert's rust-wrecked '64 Buick `war pony' on a road trip that makes some very unexpected stops along the way. Jonathan Wacks (Producer of REPO MAN) directs and Graham Greene (DANCES WITH WOLVES), Wes Studi (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, HEAT) and Amanda Wyss star in this acclaimed comedy/drama about Native Americans understanding the past, fighting for their future and discovering a few surprising truths along the POWWOW HIGHWAY.Customer Reviews:
Great movie.......2007-09-10
quick and perfect.......2007-09-02
A Welcome Native American Perspective.......2007-05-16
Pow-WOW!.......2007-04-08
Pow Wow Highway - A Must See for A Martinez fans.......2007-03-24
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Born In East L.A.
Starring: Chastity Ayala , Eddie Barth , Larry Blackmon , Bret Chafe , and Miguel Delgado Manufacturer: Universal Studios ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000714BQ Release Date: 2003-01-07 |
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Whats up with the missing Kidnapping scene at the end.......2007-08-29
Great comedy!.......2007-04-18
Great Movie.......2007-03-29
Born in East L.A........2007-01-06
Good, politically incorrect ethnic humor!.......2006-11-11
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Born to Be Wild - The Leading Men of American Ballet Theatre
Director: Judy Kinberg Manufacturer: Kultur Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001L3LWW Release Date: 2004-04-13 |
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This DANCE IN AMERICA performance/documentary explores the lives of the ABT's four lead male dancers: Cuba's Jose Manual Carreno, Spain's Angel Corella, Ukraine's Vladimir Malakhov, and the U.S.'s Ethan Stiefel. Concludes with the four dancers performing.Customer Reviews:
WOW!!!.......2007-02-20
Wonderful but too short.......2006-12-05
Highly entertaining, and a rare opportunity to hear four great dancers speak about their lives!.......2006-03-14
Fun stuff!.......2004-06-08
This film is a documentary with a short dance performance appendix. Each dancer is filmed on his home turf and speaks about the importance of his family and country of origin. Nothing too revealing here. Short clips from auditions and key roles do give the viewer a sense of the unique performance styles of each of these dancers. The dance "appendix" is a short work choreographed by Mark Morris to a Schumann piano quintet (mercifully, not to the rock standard "Born to Be Wild").
The only annoying thing about this short film is that it seems to feel the need to defend the masculinity of male dancers. Didn't Edward Villella address that issue once and for all in "Prodigal Son"? My advice is to ignore the rhetoric and just enjoy the great dancing!
Short and more biography than actual dancing.......2004-06-06
This DVD features four of the male stars of todays American Ballet Theatre: That being, Jose Manuel Carreno (Cuba), Angel Corella (Spain), Vladimir Malakhov (Russia) and Ethan Stiefel (USA).
I'd expected some extended video of each of the dancers actually dancing, but instead the bulk of the video is more of less a mini biography of each of the dancers with brief snippets of each of them from previous shows they were in.
There is also an extended section showing them rehearsing a dance, a pas de quatre, danced to Scubert's piano quintet; the finished work is about 7 minutes long and shown at the very end of the disc. This was well done and performed before a live audience.
I think the highlight of this disc, to me, was a short segment of each of them on a trampoline, with a single photograph frame capturing some spectacular aerial pose at the apex of their leaps. Unbelievable height and agility.
All in all, not quite what I expected when I purchased this DVD. That is not to say that I didn't enjoy it, I did, (getting some insight on the lives of these fabulously talented individual was very interesting, but it's just not something that I'd probably watch more than once. And watching some of my favorite choreographed dances is something that I do watch on a regular and repeated basis.
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Born Free and Equal Dvd! Liberty's Kids, Reader's Digest Young Families
ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD ASIN: B000UZJW54 |
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Born Free and Equal Dvd! Liberty's Kids, Reader's Digest Young Families. Join Sarah and James on their amazing journey through the American Revolution as apprntice reporters in Ben Franklin's print shop. Always in the midst of hte action, they cover the remarkable battles, debates, and individuals that shaped our nation. While staying with Abigail Adams in Boston, Sarah is thrilled to see Mum Bett freed and resolves to fight for civil rights. Ben Franklin hopes that news of the victory at Yorktown will convince King George to surrender to his former colonies!
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Born in East L.A.
Starring: Chastity Ayala , Eddie Barth , Larry Blackmon , Bret Chafe , and Miguel Delgado Manufacturer: Good Times Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: 6304843259 Release Date: 2001-05-01 |
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Whats up with the missing Kidnapping scene at the end.......2007-08-29
Great comedy!.......2007-04-18
Great Movie.......2007-03-29
Born in East L.A........2007-01-06
Good, politically incorrect ethnic humor!.......2006-11-11
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Born American
Starring: Markku Blomqvist , David Coburn , Steve Durham , Sari Havas , and Laura Heimo Manufacturer: Image Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items: ASIN: B00005AFST Release Date: 2001-04-24 |
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Three young men journey to Finland on one last grand adventure before taking on adulthood in this explosive, nail-biting thriller directed by action film veteran Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2). After the friends sneak across the Russian border, their carefree lives quickly turn into nightmares. They are pursued and captured by Russian soldiers, interrogated by the KGB and imprisoned. Their only option left--a highly dangerous and nearly impossible escape.Customer Reviews:
Renny Harlin's strange take on the Cold War.......2007-05-07
Pathetic.......2006-06-09
Very intense and provocative.......2004-01-15
"JÄÄTÄVÄ POLTE".......2001-04-26
After fifteen years on it's theatrical premiere "Born American" is now available on DVD video format. I think that's first time when audience around the world has possibility to see that Cold War epic adventure on it's real form: Uncut and the kind of, what Harlin and Selin meant it to be shown!
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Classic 70's Movies 3 on 1 (Born To Win / Katherine / The Harrad Experiment)
Starring: James Whitmore , Tippi Hedren , Don Johnson , Bruno Kirby , and Laurie Walters Director: Ted Post Manufacturer: American Home Treas ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items: ASIN: B000067D6M Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
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Harrad Experiment plus.......2007-04-12
Classic(?) 70's Moives---Buy At Your Own Risk.......2005-04-25
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Charlie Rose with Bruce Springsteen (December 20, 1998)
Manufacturer: Charlie Rose ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000IU33CY Release Date: 2006-09-18 |
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Bruce Springsteen discusses his new retrospective CD, Tracks, the political context of his songs, his liberal activism and message, his songwriting process, the E Street Band and how his background and life events have shaped his art and songs. He sings Born in the USA at the close of the show.
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Born to Win
Starring: George Segal , Karen Black , Paula Prentiss , Jay Fletcher , and Hector Elizondo Director: Ivan Passer Manufacturer: United American Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items: ASIN: B00005QW62 Release Date: 2001-09-25 |
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Born To Lose.......2006-02-08
BORN TO WIN is, indeed, born to win!.......2002-08-22
The scenes that have remained striking and unforgettable include the one in which Segal, after having been dropped off in a neighborhood of junkies by his girlfriend, retires into a dark, musty alley of strung-out derelicts as he attempts to find his friend (Jay Fletcher); the scene on the beach with Karen Black conforting George Segal; Karen Black having to resort to lines like "Come back home to me"; the closing scene.
In analyzing this film, some film authorities may declare BORN TO WIN as an archetypal piece about drugs and how they allow characters to make the decline from temporary decadence into personal debauchery, alienating them from anyone who does not see them as an addict. Ivan Passer, who also in CUTTER'S WAY illustrated technique and theory in labeling cinema as the cultural vengeance for the socially impotent, demonstrates this element at an early juncture in his career. BORN TO WIN simply uses the component of drugs to use as an allegory for that crowd of socially impotent people, as well as various techniques at how they make pitiful attempts as silent revenge while they drive themselves to personal apocalypse in an urban jungle. This allows more privileged people to create "caste systems" for these types. This may sound terribly pretentious, but this is the only way to explain my viewpoint on this film to whoever reads this review. Also adding onto the film's sense of milieu is the graininess utilized in editing and camerawork. Without these two factors, BORN TO WIN would not have retained its gritty disctinction and probably would have drifted into "another typical picture about drug abuse".
In response to the minimal amount of negative reviews I have read about BORN TO WIN, you cannot expect a genuine message to come after a half hour of viewing time and you cannot regard it as just another drug picture before you think and ponder the film's ultimate meaning in the film's culminating moments. I admit to its sometimes deficient endeavors at portraying the comical value of the drug culture (the scene in which Segal dresses in pink robe and prances around in Time Square to avoid his pursuers and stopping in at a shop for mens' suits), but the dramatic moments of the film are pinnacle for trying to understand this "class" of people. BORN TO WIN is a remarkable film and nothing allows me to make hesitations about giving it a five star rating.
Gave it 45 minutes and turned it off!.......2001-11-14
A Sadly Neglected Film.......2001-03-30
dont buy this movie!.......2001-01-07
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Star Is Born
Starring: Janet Gaynor Manufacturer: United American Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD ASIN: B00005R25M Release Date: 2001-09-26 |
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