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  • Personal Best Personal Best Cinematographer: Michael Chapman Producer: Robert Towne Writer: Robert Towne Editor: Bud S. Smith Editor: Jacqueline Cambas Producer: David Geffen Producer: Peter Peyton Warner
    2001-11-01
    New: CDN$ 19.95
    Used: CDN$ 14.94
    • >> From Amazon.com - It takes a lot to win. This movie is usually considered a classic of lesbian cinema, and that's too bad: its true sensuality lies in powerful erotic associations with running and the sheer pain of competition. The film opens with a memorable close-up of sweat dripping on tarmac, an early glimpse of a visual style which evolves throughout the picture into almost pornographic slow-motion sequences of high jumps, shot puts, and running legs. The story follows a young runner (Mariel Hemingway) from a clueless start in the 1976 Olympic trials through a vexed affair with her mentor-competitor (Olympic runner Patrice Donnelly) to a final, triumphant qualifying race for the boycotted 1980 Moscow games. The human elements are told in an almost documentary style, giving an honest, complicated look at the blossoming of friendship into love against the near-military backdrop of world-class competitive sports. Hemingway and Donnelly can act, and their drive to win is compelling, both on the field and in their personal lives. But what really makes the film worth watching are the races--stunning images, beautiful editing, and the timeless drama of athletic endeavor. --Grant Balfour

  • Yoga for Scoliosis Yoga for Scoliosis Bayview Films
    2006-02-07
    New: CDN$ 19.93

  • Easy Come, Easy Go Easy Come, Easy Go Cinematographer: William Margulies Editor: Archie Marshek Producer: Hal B. Wallis Producer: Joseph H. Hazen Producer: Paul Nathan Writer: Allan Weiss Writer: Anthony Lawrence Paramount
    2001-07-17
    Used: CDN$ 13.99
    • >> From Amazon.com - Not the worst Elvis picture, but not near the top, either. This is the one with Elvis as a Navy frogman, diving for sunken treasure--which means lots of underwater photography (inspired by Thunderball, perhaps?). What's fun about it is seeing Elvis collide with the summer of love: he falls in with a beatnik buddy (Pat Harrington in a goatee) and meets a commune of artsy hippie types; they stage obscure "happenings," and Elvis calls 'em "kooks." It says something, though, when the musical highlight is a number called "Yoga Is as Yoga Does," staged in Elsa Lanchester's groovy yoga class. E.P. looks indifferent to the proceedings, an understandable reaction given the painful quality of the comedy (especially the old sea salt who's never been on water). The red Dodge convertible is sweet, however. --Robert Horton

  • New Workout New Workout Warner Home Video
    2001-02-13
    Used: CDN$ 59.95

  • Peter Pan Mary Martin Cyril Ritchard Goodtimes Home Video
    1991-12-09
    New: CDN$ 36.95
    Used: CDN$ 25.95
    • >> Additional Features - This is not the classic Disney animated version.
    • >> Amazon.com Essential Video - An entire generation of baby boomers grew up with this stagy but magical production, which originated on Broadway but was broadcast several times on TV. They may not know Mary Martin or Cyril Ritchard--two staples of the commercial theater in their time--for any other reason, but they'll always be able to name them as Peter Pan and Captain Hook. The story of the boy who wouldn't grow up includes a classic score with songs that can bring a tear of nostalgia to the eye of the middle-aged--like "I Won't Grow Up," "I've Gotta Grow," and "Neverland." The flying, the goofy comedy--it's all there in this video version of the classic TV broadcast. It's hard to know what sophisticated modern youngsters would make of it, but their parents will gladly sit and watch with them. --Marshall Fine

  • Shogun Shogun Cinematographer: Andrew Laszlo Producer: Ben Chapman Producer: Eric Bercovici Writer: Eric Bercovici Producer: James Clavell Writer: James Clavell Producer: Kerry Feltham Paramount
    2004-04-01
    Used: CDN$ 14.87
    • >> From Amazon.com - Originally broadcast in September of 1980 as a 5-part, 12-hour miniseries, Shogun stood out from the pack of television events at the time with its boldness of action and calculated risks. Based on James Clavell's epic novel, Shogun stars Richard Chamberlain as John Blackthorne, a 17th-century English pilot commanding a Dutch ship that wrecks off the coast of Japan. Viewed suspiciously by local authorities, Blackthorne is at first in some danger of being executed. But with little hope of returning to Britain anytime soon, he begins to assimilate into the feudal society, befriending a powerful warlord (Toshiro Mifune) and wearing the robes of a samurai. Inevitably, Blackthorne begins to think of himself as Japanese, defending his hosts in battle, learning the language, and falling in love with an interpreter (Yoko Shimada). At the same time, his presence there exacerbates a problem with would-be European colonialists gazing at Japan covetously. Directed by journeyman Jerry London, Shogun immediately caught on with its blend of romance, exoticism, and compelling myth of an outsider's reinvention--a story that becomes sadder as it becomes clear that Blackthorne may never see his home again. The production deliberately pushed hard against various television taboos and audience expectations, including the extensive use of Japanese dialogue, startling violence, near nudity, and profane behavior. That all looks tamer now, of course, but Shogun is still a unique entry in the phenomenon of prestige miniseries from the late 1970s and early '80s. --Tom Keogh

  • Rain Man Rain Man Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg Producer: Pandro S. Berman Writer: Annalee Whitmore Writer: Marguerite Roberts Writer: Sonya Levien Writer: William Anthony McGuire Sony Music Canada Inc.
    2001-11-01
    Used: CDN$ 13.94

  • Ulysses Gaze Ulysses Gaze Writer: Theodoros Angelopoulos Producer: Amedeo Pagani Producer: Dragan Ivanovic Writer: Giorgio Silvagni Writer: Homer Writer: Petros Markaris Writer: Tonino Guerra Fox Lorber/Vid Can.
    2002-10-01
    Used: CDN$ 49.87
    • >> From Amazon.com - The Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, winner of the top prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for Eternity and a Day, will never build an audience of casual filmgoers. But then he doesn't mean to. Demanding, difficult, portentous, Angelopoulos makes films in his own deliberate style: sometimes awe-inspiring, sometimes mystifying. When he's at his best, as in the beautiful and devastating Landscape in the Mist, the results can be spellbinding. Ulysses' Gaze is a typically fascinating, typically long (three hours) work. Harvey Keitel, moving through the film at an intense murmur, plays a Greek filmmaker known only as "A." After many years in America, he returns home for an odyssey in search of some early film footage shot in the Balkans, a quest that leads him through that war-torn area and finally into the bombed-out city of Sarajevo. Angelopoulos establishes such a dreamlike rhythm, and his images (like a giant stone head of Lenin, floating down a river) are so striking, that adventurous filmgoers should find this experience absorbing, if enigmatic. On the other hand, Roger Ebert described Ulysses' Gaze as "a numbing bore." But even he would probably admit that no one else on earth makes movies quite like Theo Angelopoulos. --Robert Horton

  • Nell Nell Producer: Jodie Foster Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti Editor: Jim Clark Producer: Graham Place Producer: Renée Missel Writer: Mark Handley Writer: William Nicholson Fox Video
    2000-06-20
    New: CDN$ 28.60
    Used: CDN$ 4.02
    • >> Amazon.com Essential Video - This film is an intelligent examination of an easygoing doctor (Liam Neeson at his teddy bear best) and his discovery of Nell (Oscar nominee Jodie Foster), a woman who was raised in the woods with no human contact except her speech-impaired mother. The movie covers a familiar "fish out of water" story unlocking Nell's soul (by deciphering her incomprehensible language) and then taking her into the modern world. What makes Nell special is the earnest work by Neeson, Natasha Richardson (as an uptight psychologist), and a rich, small array of supporting members (journeyman Nick Searcy as the town sheriff is marvelous). At its center is another extraordinary job by Foster, who also produced. Director Michael Apted (Thunderheart) brings his regular load of realism into the picture, set aglow by luscious camerawork (by Dante Spinotti) in the hills of North Carolina. Through lyrical speech and gesture, Foster makes you believe she's in another woman's body, akin to Jeff Bridges's work in Starman, a marvelous sight to behold that powers the movie. Written by William Nicholson (Shadowlands) and Mark Handley, based on Handley's play Idioglossia. --Doug Thomas

  • S.Powter-Lean Strong & Healthy S.Powter-Lean Strong & Healthy Warner
    2001-11-01
    New: CDN$ 59.01
    Used: CDN$ 29.95

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