Castle: The Complete First Season

Castle: The Complete First Season Review

They are partners, whether she likes it or not. Castle: The Complete First Season is the romantic, clever dramedy that is reminiscent of Moonlighting with romantic tension between Castle, a crime novelist and Detective Beckett as they work in a unique way to solve crimes and mysteries.

Naked Island ( Hadaka no shima ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Naked Island ( Hadaka no shima ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Naked Island ( Hadaka no shima ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The titular island in this Japanese domestic drama is an agrarian flyspeck, almost completely cut off from contact with the mainland. Here the island's residents mechanically go through their everyday farming tasks. The film concentrates on a family of five, content with their existence despite its hardships. When the oldest son dies, it is the first of many devastating blows that nearly rip the family asunder. Originally titled Hadaka No Shima, the film was also released as Naked Island. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Moscow International Film Festival,

Pitfall (Masters of Cinema edition, UK import, Region 2 PAL format)

Pitfall (Masters of Cinema edition, UK import, Region 2 PAL format) Review

Pitfall (Masters of Cinema edition, UK import, Region 2 PAL format) Feature

• 4 Hours. Adult.

A wandering miner, looking for work with his young son, is pursued by a mysterious, silent assassin in a white suit and hat. As mistrust and killings spread through the barely populated, rundown mining community, ghosts of the dead appear, unheard by the living, yet imploring them for answers. Who is the man in white and why does he sow confusion? Hiroshi Teshigahara's debut feature, PITFALL [OTOSHIANA], was the first of his collaborations with novelist/playwright Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu. Beautifully filmed in an abandoned, postwar coal-mining town in Western Japan, it is part social-realist critique, part unsettling ghost fable. Examining themes of alienation, workers' rights, and identity, Teshigahara and Abe's exotically strange film evokes the cinema of Antonioni, Resnais, the writing of Kafka, Beckett, Carroll, and the French existentialists. Teshigahara coined the term "documentary fantasy" for this study of the powerless, impoverished worker in postwar Japan. Demonstrating a meticulous aesthetic (his father was an ikebana master and founder of the Sogetsu Foundation),Teshigahara's efforts with Pitfall earned him the NHK Best New Director award and the luxury of being released abroad. ** ** ** Special Features: ? Restored transfer and audio ? Exclusive full-length audio commentary by Tony Rayns ? New English subtitle translation ? 16-page booklet with an essay by David Toop ? Original trailer ? Gallery containing rare production stills and artwork

Eureka Seven, Volume 5 (Episodes 19-22)

Eureka Seven, Volume 5 (Episodes 19-22) Review

EUREKA SEVEN VOL 5 - DVD Movie

Zombies of Eureka

Zombies of Eureka Review

Taking advantage of Humboldt County's dynamic local music scene, filmmaker Jon Olsen spent two and a half years shooting music videos for rock bands in the remote northern town of Eureka, California. The fifteen completed videos have one thing in common: zombies!

With a thin narrative premise loosely based on actual events (the unaccountable disappearance of uranium fuel rods from Humboldt County's deactivated nuclear power plant) the videos in Zombies of Eureka combine, Voltron-style, into an epically low-fi apocalyptic musical motion-picture event. In fact, Zombies of Eureka may just be THE ultimate underground musical motion-picture event.

Featured bands include The Ian Fays, The Invasions, The Buffy Swayze, The Monster Women, Dynamite Sweater, The Ravens, The Professional Superheroes, and Von Richter.

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Great Railroads: Eureka & Palisade Railroad

Great Railroads: Eureka & Palisade Railroad Review

Ride the Rails on a Journey into the Past. Hop aboard the walnut cab of Eureka & Palisade #4, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1875, and take a trip back into the past on it's nine-day visit to the historic Durango & Silverton Railroad.

Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)

Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) Review

Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) Feature

• Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, restored in Germany with state-of-the-art digital technology, under the supervision of the Murnau Foundation, and with the original 1927 orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz added, Metropolis can be appreciated in its full glory. It is, as A. O. Scott o

Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead of murky and flattened. The composite sequences (the Tower of Babel, a sea of lusting eyes) have been restored to their hallucinatory ferocity. And there's one moment when you can see a bead of sweat roll down a man's cheek--in medium long-shot. --Richard T. Jameson METROPOLIS - DVD Movie