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Posted by Bob Martin in Art, Film, Movies, dvd on 02 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Paris, je t’aime

Paris, je t’aime
Paris I love You This kind of compilation has always been for me difficult to watch. This movie worked I think because each (18) story is about the same length as a short info commercial, with each segment acted, produced and directed as if it was the only story being told. There is a lot of leeway with...
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Posted by Sandy in Artist, Blogroll, Directors, Film, Movies, dvd on 01 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

DVD Corner: Roberto Rossellini

DVD Corner: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealist Director Roberto Rossellini, (1906-1977),  made a series of films just after World War II  labeled the “War Trilogy”. They have been issued as a  DVD box set : “Rome Open City, (1945)” “Paisan” (1946) and “Germany Year Zero” (1948) Acclaimed...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums, dvd on 12 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Herb & Dorothy – Art Collectors

Herb & Dorothy – Art Collectors
PBS is such a treasure. You can always find something/somebody interesting to watch at weird hours of the day or night. (Sort of the way Bravo and A&E used to be back in the day.) While late night channel surfing, I chanced upon the entertaining little documentary “Herb & Dorothy” as part...
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Posted by Sandy in Actors, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies, dvd on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: “Road to Perdition”

DVD Corner: “Road to Perdition”
Directed by Sam Mendes, “Road to Perdition”, 2002, is based on the novel “Perdition” by Max Allan Collins. This excellent movie takes place in violent, 1930’s Chicago– “man on the run” story turns into a father & son bonding adventure- full of anger, blood, and revenge, but also...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies, dvd on 11 21st, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: Paul Newman

DVD Corner: Paul Newman
17 DVDs/13 films, along with an illustrated coffee-table book, has been as a celebration of this actors work. Some of the films included in the box set: The Long, Hot Summer (1958 From the Terrace (1960) Exodus (1960) The Hustler (1961) Hombre (1967) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Movies, dvd on 11 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: Youssou N’Dour

DVD Corner: Youssou N’Dour
“I Bring What I Love” – is a documentary film about Youssou N’Dour, the pop music superstar from Senegal, West Africa. N’Dour is revered all across Africa for his “remarkable range and poise and for his prodigious musical intelligence as a writer, bandleader and producer. He absorbs the...
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Posted by Sandy in Actors, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Dance, Dancers, Film, Movies, dvd on 10 28th, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: “Every Little Step”

DVD Corner: “Every Little Step”
If you like the theater and/or you dance sing, act – you know about the audition process and how nerve wracking it can be. “Every Little Step” is a very entertaining documentary about that very same weeding out process – whittling from thousands, down to the very few special people who were...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, dvd on 10 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”

DVD Corner: “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
“Precious Ramotswe“ is Botswana’s only female private investigator – the main character of the HBO series, now on DVD. Directed by the late Anthony Minghella, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency “, was produced for the BBC in 2008 and then shown in the U.S. in 2009.  It is based...
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Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Film, Museums, dvd, music on 10 1st, 2009 | No Comments

DVD Corner: “Jazz Icons”

DVD Corner: “Jazz Icons”
“Jazz Icons” are 8 and 9 DVD box sets. They contain a fabulous group of Jazz artists that have been captured on film. Some pieces are from television shows done in the 50’s and 60’s. Others are film clips from old jazz festivals, etc. I don’t know if Jazz is considered “in” or “out”...
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