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Anne of Green Gables [VHS] Walt Disney Video This gorgeous adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomerys classic childrens story is well worth watching with the whole family Produced for Canadian television its one of those rare productions that actually sticks to the book and even enhances it through first-rate performances and an excellent script Set on bucolic Prince Edward Island in the late 19th century Anne of Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley an imaginative and headstrong orphan When brother and sister Marilla and Mathew Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew work the farm they are astonished when Anne arrives at the train station by mistake What use is she to us grumbles the gruff Marilla We might be of some use to her answers Matthew who has taken an instant liking to the talkative Anne As Anne grows up her adventures are both hilarious and moving Its a delight to watch as she forms a friendship with the beautiful Diana and her admirer--the dashing Gilbert Blythe--then dyes her hair green cracks a slate over Gilberts head when he calls her Carrots and finds a sympathetic teacher who encourages her to attend college Richard Farnsworth is perfect as the shy and gentle bachelor Matthew who confides to Anne that he never went courting because I would have had to say something Colleen Dewhurst delivers a nuanced and powerful performance as Marilla a seemingly cold-hearted spinster whose no-nonsense exterior conceals a warm heart And as Anne Megan Follows strikes the perfect note maturing from freckle-faced orphan to elegant and poised young woman --Elisabeth Keating Shirley Valentine [VHS] Paramount British actress Pauline Collins repeats her stage success as the character Shirley Valentine a married woman who decides in her middle years that she wants more out of life Leaving her spouse behind she heads to Greece where she grows close to a low-key local bloke Tom Conti Collins and director Lewis Gilbert Educating Rita choose to let the character as she did in the play speak directly to the audience at times and the gamble works in terms of creating a gentle intimate atmosphere Conti is a bonus a warm presence and funny to boot --Tom Keogh Jamon Jamon [VHS] Fox Lorber Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle this is what post-Franco cine is all about food and sex Spanish tortillas i e potato omelets are also big in this one Director Jos Juan Bigas Lunas Jam n Jam n is intelligent wry and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable At times his film exudes a certain Almod var flavor but there is an edge perhaps a heavy-handedness to the dark humor that is either Lunas success or his downfall The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival after all Try to follow sexy Penelope Cruz Belle Epoque is growing up with her mother outside town on the highway on the wrong side of the highway Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past Cruz is in love with Jord Molla by whom she is pregnant Mollas bourgeois mother played by Anna Galiena Being Human thinks he can and should do better Of course neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic hmm avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side To save her son from the lower classes Galiena hires Javier Bardem a muscular pretty man whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal to pursue Cruz The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides After each surprise youll chuckle feel guilty and chuckle again --Erik Macki Harold & Maude [VHS] Paramount Black comedies dont come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972 and they dont come much funnier either It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold Bud Cort and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude Ruth Gordon They meet at a funeral and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold urging him to reach out and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality Harold grows fond of the old gal--shes a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately matches him up with--and together they make Harold Maude one of the sweetest and most unconventional love stories ever made Much of the earlier humor arises from Harolds outrageous suicide fantasies played out as a kind of twisted parlor game to mortify his mother whos grown immune to her strange sons antics Gradually however the films clever humor shifts to a brighter outlook and finally arrives at a point where Harold is truly happy to be alive Featuring soundtrack songs by Cat Stevens this comedy certainly wont appeal to all tastes it was a box-office flop when first released but if youre on its quirky wavelength it might just strike you as one of the funniest movies youve ever seen --Jeff Shannon The African Queen [VHS] CBS/Fox VIdeo One of Bogeys best movie If you are a Bogey fan then you want this movie for your collection John Huston made better more powerful films than The African Queen but none so universally beloved on first appearance and over the decades since In this adaptation of the C S Forester novel Humphrey Bogart who would win the best-actor Oscar and Katharine Hepburn costar as an unlikely pair thrown together in German East Africa during the First World War Hes the gin-soaked skipper of what we might call the title character a none-too-reliable steam launch chugging along the backwaters of the Dark Continent Hepburns a straitlaced Methodist missionary who following the demise of her bachelor brother Robert Morley and the burning of their village by Kaiser Wilhelms troops determines that the Queen should be used to attack the K nigin Luise a large German gunboat patrolling a lake downriver Its an absurd proposition Then again John Huston and the absurd were always on familiar terms It wasnt until he got to the Congo that the director realized what a funny picture The African Queen was going to be thanks to the odd coupling of Bogie and Kate One brought out a vein of humor in the other and this comic sense which had been missing from the book and screenplay grew out of our day-to-day shooting Within the gunwales of a not-very-large boat Huston managed to devise myriad ways to keep his two leading characters on separate visual planes even as circumstance and tender emotional urgency conspired to push them together This was Hustons first feature film in Technicolor and the peerless Jack Cardiff The Red Shoes was there to shoot it Unfortunately neither of them could do anything about the process-screen technology needed for and glaringly inadequate to the sequence of Bogart and Hepburn shooting the rapids--just about the only lapse in an enchanting fairy tale for adults The script is credited to Huston and James Agee the uncredited Peter Viertel summoned to the African locations to write some additional material would later fictionalize the experience as White Hunter Black Heart a savage roman clef --Richard T Jameson 200 Motels [VHS] MGM/UA Home Video Treasure Island (1990) [VHS] Turner Home Ent A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story with themes of family loyalty friendship trust and honesty at its core While Robert Louis Stevensons classic adventure tale is popular film fare its never been done this well Charlton Heston stars as Long John Silver and Christian Bale as plucky Jim Hawkins in this TNT production Directed by Hestons son Fraser who also directed the excellent family fare Alaska the film remains faithful to the novel and draws much of the spirit and excitement of the book The action scenes are first-rate and if the ship Hispaniola has never looked better or more authentic no surprise the ship is the original from 1962s Mutiny on the Bounty The opening scenes are dark and rich as they capture the period well with careful attention to makeup the teeth the body grime and costuming Oliver Reed and Christopher Lee are frighteningly effective as Capt Billy Bones and Blind Pew and the films first half-hour is theirs The tone shifts and lightens when Heston appears as the legendary pirate Look for Pete Postlethwaite Julian Glover and Richard Johnson in wonderful supporting roles The film marks Bales segue from poignantly promising child actor Empire of the Sun to compelling teen he would later continue to prove his talent as a versatile young actor in Little Women and Velvet Goldmine --N F Mendoza Les Miserables [VHS] Warner Home Video This brilliant film manages to reinterpret the story of Victor Hugos classic novel critique it and investigate the nature of art and life on top of that--all in three hours that zip past fueled by the dynamic performance of French icon Jean-Paul Belmondo Breathless Le Doulos In 1900 Henri Fortin Belmondo is wrongfully imprisoned for murder his loyal wife is forced into menial labor and prostitution then in the beginning of World War II Fortins son Belmondo again helps a Jewish family elude the Nazis setting in motion his own imprisonment escape and adventures as a criminal Not only is that just the first half of the movie there are also the story lines of the husband wife and daughter of the Jewish family who each have their own struggles The conclusion is joyous and heartbreaking Director Claude Lelouch A Man and a Woman handles the entire movie with supreme skill humor and compassion --Bret Fetzer Jesus of Nazareth (3pc) [VHS] Live / Artisan Originally made for TV in 1977 this in-depth six hours plus version of Jesus life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth The film doesnt skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either Director Franco Zeffirelli gives more than 12 minutes screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion Passages of the Bible are quoted verbatim the locations have a Palestine-like authenticity and aside from some of the principals Robert Powell as Jesus Olivia Hussey as Mary and Stacy Keach as Barabbas many of the non-Roman characters are actually played by Semitic-looking actors Zeffirelli diligently provides the sociopolitical background that gave rise to Jesus following and the crisis in belief it caused for the people of Israel and one or two Romans While not graphic by todays standards some of the scenes--baby boys being ripped from their mothers arms and slaughtered nails being driven into Jesus hands--may disturb young and/ or sensitive children --Kimberly Heinrichs Black Orpheus [VHS] Homevision An Academy Award -winning retelling of the Orphic legend in a modern day setting Black Orpheus explodes with dance music and magnificent color photography The tragic love between a streetcar conductor and a shy country girl unfolds against the madness of a carnival in Rio de Janeiro with its intoxicating samba music frenzied dancing and colorful costumes Marcel Camuss 1959 update of the Greek myth features an all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro Orpheus a trolley car conductor and superb samba dancer is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice For his change of heart Orpheus and his new doomed lover are pursued by a vengeful Mira and a determined Death through the feverish Carnival night Camus at once demystifies and remystifies the old story shifting not only its location but its tone and context forcing a reevaluation of the legend as a more passionate pulsing sensual experience The film is really one-of-a-kind an absolute whirl that barely needs words --Tom Keogh