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A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the photography floats and careens through the lavish corridors of the museum, examining its architectural details while following a dreamlike plot. A cast of 867 actors supply the action of the film, whether dancing the mazurka in a lively ballroom, performing a military salute, or watching a theater performance. The Marquis (Sergey Dreiden), an aged but limber European dressed in solid black, is the film's charismatic guide, leading the narrator--who is the unidentified voice behind the camera--through each doorway and into each gallery in a sweeping tour of the Hermitage. While the Marquis interacts with some of the guests, debating about Italian art with a couple of Russian scholars, delighting over rich paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck with an angelic blind woman, taking a lively brunette for a spin on the dance floor, others do not see him. Even the narrator suspects that the Marquis is a ghost, long dead and wandering the Hermitage in a quest to better understand history. Time periods, indicated by style of dress, fluctuate between the 1700s and the present. Famous Russian figures, such as Peter the Great, Nicholas I, and Catherine the Great appear and then disappear, with no explanation of their roles. Between the Marquis and the narrator, confusion reigns. They are spectators and trespassers in this mysterious space, trying to find their way.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseLetterboxedInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Master auteur Martin Scorsese writes, directs, and hosts this compendium of the greatest works of American cinema, charting the medium's course from nickelodeon reels to digital imaging. The multipart series includes an exhaustive range of clips (supervised by longtime Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker) and interviews with great directors who discuss the nature of cinema authorship and the changing role of the filmmaker. The film consists of head-and-shoulder shots of Scorsese talking to the camera and longer film clips with the director's voice-over, with Scorsese approaching the series in a deeply personal manner, speaking in terms of how films affected him as a director first, followed by the effect they had on him as a storyteller and fan. It is this intimate approach that makes the British Film Institute coproduction such an original achievement. Rather than force Scorsese to tell an objective history, it lets his fanaticism and love for the cinema shine through by allowing him to choose film clips that moved him as an individual. Various chapters include The Director's Dilemma, The Director as Storyteller, The Director as Illusionist, The Director as Smuggler, and The Director as Iconoclast.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case2-Disc SetFull Frame - 1.33:1Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Rarely-seen photographs, specialist interviews and amazing recreations combine to tell the story of the western railroads. The 1800`s were a fertile period for railway construction in America, although initial hurdles included threatened tribes, bandits, renegades, political problems and a whole lot more. Find out for yourself with RAILROADS THAT TAMED THE WEST.
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A comprehensive, six-volume video account of the legendary fighter's life, from his humble beginnings as Kentucky's Cassius Clay through his arrival as the 1960 Rome Olympics Gold Medalist, his ascension to boxing's pinnacle by his defeat of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, his conversion to the Muslim faith, and his courageous struggles in
and out of the ring. Includes in-ring footage with Ken Norton, George Foreman and Joe Frazier, interviews with family and friends, and personal footage taken by Ali himself during a trip to Africa. Series titles are The Beginning--Olympic Gold, The Youngest Heavyweight Champion, Exile, The Road Back, The Rumble in the Jungle, and The Thrilla in Manilla.Boxed Set
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THE PARENT'S GUIDE TO GROWING PAINS series aims to help parents struggling with common, but sensitive and emotional, family concerns. This edition, FRIENDSHIP, helps parents speak with their children about making and keeping friends and the responsibilities people in all kinds of relationships have for each other.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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