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Yellow Submarine [VHS] MGM (Video & DVD) Guaranteed to work or your money back - PLEASE NOTE ALL MONIES FROM THIS SALE GO TO A 501 C 3 NO KILL ANIMAL SHELTER This restored animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work thats been substantially improved by its technical facelift not just supersized with extra footage Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late 60s and a minor milestone in animation The music represents the quartets zenith-- Rubber Soul Revolver and Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The story line cobbled together by producer Al Brodax and a committee of writers is a broad feather-light allegory set in idyllic Pepperland where the gentle citizens are threatened by the nasty music-hating Blue Meanies and their surreal arsenal of henchmen with the Beatles enlisted to thwart the bad guys Visually designer Heinz Edelmann mixes the biomorphic squiggles day-glo palette and Beardsley-esque portraits of Peter Max with rotoscoped still photographs and film Edelmanns animated collages also nod to Andy Warhol and Magritte in properly psychedelic fashion which works wonderfully with such terrific songs High orthodox Beatlemaniacs can still grouse that the animated Fab Four are literally flat archetypes but thats missing the sheer bloom of the music or the giddy campy fun of the visuals Making sense of the story is second to submerging blissfully in the sights and sounds of this video treat --Sam Sutherland Neighbors [VHS] Sony Pictures 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 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [VHS] Warner Home Video A cultish horror favorite 1962s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane will make you think twice before hungrily unveiling a covered plate of food Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson a onetime child actress and singer As an elderly woman she wishes to revive her vaudevillian career but she has become a grotesque caricature of her former self Over the years as her star faded the star of her older sister Blanche Joan Crawford rose outshining the career of the has-been Baby Jane Jane was relegated to minor roles which she only won when Blanche demanded that she be awarded them The film opens years after a calamitous car accident leaves Blanche in a wheelchair with no one to care for her except the increasingly insane and sadistic Jane and their servant Norman Trying to punish Blanche for her years of success Jane tortures the housebound woman slowly trying to starve her to death all the while attempting to recapture the fame of her youth This dark drama also stars Victor Buono as the hefty pianist who answers Janes ad for an accompanist hoping to milk some money off the demented old woman Both Buono and Davis were nominated for Oscars for their roles in this suspenseful and somewhat sick thriller that exploited well the real-life antagonism between Davis and Crawford while at the same time rejuvenated both their careers --Jenny Brown A cultish horror favorite 1962s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane will make you think twice before hungrily unveiling a covered plate of food Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson a onetime child actress and singer As an elderly woman she wishes to revive her vaudevillian career but she has become a grotesque caricature of her former self Over the years as her star faded the star of her older sister Blanche Joan Crawford rose outshining the career of the has-been Baby Jane Jane was relegated to minor roles which she only won when Blanche demanded that she be awarded them The film opens years after a calamitous car accident leaves Blanche in a wheelchair with no one to care for her except the increasingly insane and sadistic Jane and their servant Norman Trying to punish Blanche for her years of success Jane tortures the housebound woman slowly trying to starve her to death all the while attempting to recapture the fame of her youth This dark drama also stars Victor Buono as the hefty pianist who answers Janes ad for an accompanist hoping to milk some money off the demented old woman Both Buono and Davis were nominated for Oscars for their roles in this suspenseful and somewhat sick thriller that exploited well the real-life antagonism between Davis and Crawford while at the same time rejuvenated both their careers --Jenny Brown Frankenweenie [VHS] Walt Disney Video Valley of the Dolls (Spec) [VHS] 20th Century Fox Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego alcohol and pills - the beloved dolls A prim New Englander Barbara Parkins unexpectedly skyrockets from her job as secretary in a talent agency to a glamorous TV model A determined singer Patty Duke finds that Hollywood success can also spell self-destruction And a beautiful sex symbol Sharon Tate is torn between the money commands and the shame of feeling exploited Based on Jacqueline Susanns phenomenal best-seller about the underside of Hollywood this fascinating melodrama was once seen as a shocking behind-the-scenes look at how show business creates instant stars destroys romances and changes personalities forever They dont make em like this anymore Well John Waters might if he ever had a big enough budget A steamy inside look at the alternately sleazy and glamorous world of catfighting backbiting show-biz starlets this Hollywood hit from the bestselling novel by Jacqueline Susann is a high-gloss camp artifact--a time capsule or some kind of capsule anyway --from the screwy 60s when a broad was a broad a bitch was a bitch whether her name was Neely OHara or Ted Casablanca and a doll was a prescription drug These dames of whine and poses obsessed over their bust lines booze and barbiturates The once-shocking and scandalous language and behavior of these Broadway babes has been eclipsed by Dallas Dynasty and Melrose Place but time has only enhanced the stature of Valley of the Dolls as a classic--and it still puts Showgirls to shame With Patty Duke Susan Hayward Sharon Tate Lee Grant Barbara Parkins and Martin Milner and juicy scene-chewing dialogue such as the infamous They drummed you out of Hollywood so you come crawling back to Broadway But Broadway doesnt go for booze and dope--now get out of my way Ive got a man waiting for me Valley of the Dolls is the Mount Rushmore of backstage movie melodramas --Jim Emerson Somewhere in Time [VHS] Universal Studios Its silly its superficial its so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood But theres something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you cant begrudge its enduring popularity The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980 and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts--a three-hanky weeper that anyone can enjoy as a guilty pleasure or a beloved favorite with no apologies necessary In his first film after the star-making success of Superman Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress Jane Seymour who had performed there in 1912 He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her Is it you she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright and its clearly a mutual attraction But even the slightest reminder of the playwrights modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away Based on Richard Mathesons novel Bid Time Return this flaky film may strain ones tolerance for plot holes and corny romance but its hard to deny its lasting appeal--and lets face it guys itll make wives and girlfriends swoon if theyre in a tearjerker mood --Jeff Shannon Tron [VHS] Buena Vista Home Ent Tron VHS 1982
Jeff Bridges Actor Bruce Boxleitner Actor Steven Lisberger The surprising truth about Disneys 1982 computer-game fantasy is that its still visually impressive though technologically quaint by later high-definition standards and a lot of fun Its about a computer wizard named Flynn Jeff Bridges who is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate David Warner and reconstituted into the internal 3-D graphical world of computers It is there in the blazingly colorful geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace that Flynn joins forces with Tron Bruce Boxleitner to outmaneuver the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic infinitely challenging computer game Disneys wizards used a variety of cinematic techniques and early-80s state-of-the-art computer-generated graphics to accomplish their dynamic visual goals and the result was a milestone in cyberentertainment catering to technogeeks while providing a dazzling adventure for hackers and nonhackers alike Appearing just in time to celebrate the nascent cyberpunk movement in science fiction Tron received a decidedly mixed reaction when originally released but has since become a high-tech favorite and a landmark in special effects with a loyal following of fans --Jeff Shannon Jackie Brown [VHS] Miramax Films The curiosity of Quentin Tarantinos Jackie Brown is Robert Forsters worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonards Rum Punch The Academy Awards saw it the same way giving Forster the films only nomination The film is more rum than punch and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantinos trademark style This movie is a slow decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country The money belongs to Ordell Samuel L Jackson a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--Louis Robert De Niro is just taking up space and could be interested in the money However his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordells doped-up girl Bridget Fonda Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette Michael Keaton wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money The key is the title character a late-40s-ish flight attendant Pam Grier who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing shes working for them The end result is rarely in doubt and what is left is two hours of Tarantinos expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language something he has a gift and passion for He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off The film is not a salute to Griers blaxploitation films beyond the musical score Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster two neo-stars glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work --Doug Thomas Rosemary's Baby [VHS] Paramount Psychological terrorism and supernatural horror have rarely been dramatized as effectively as in this classic 1968 thriller masterfully adapted and directed by Roman Polanski from the chilling novel by Ira Levin Rosemary Mia Farrow is a young trusting housewife in New York whose actor husband John Cassavetes unbeknownst to her has literally made a deal with the devil In the thrall of a witches coven headquartered in their apartment building the young husband arranges to have his wife impregnated by Satan in exchange for success in a Broadway play To Rosemary the pregnancy seems like a normal and happy one--that is until she grows increasingly suspicious of her neighbors evil influence Polanski establishes this seemingly benevolent situation and then introduces each fiendish little detail with such unsettling subtlety that the film escalates to a palpable level of dread and paranoia By the time Rosemary discovers that her infant son has his fathers eyes well lets just say the urge to scream along with her is unbearably intense One of the few modern horror films that can claim to be genuinely terrifying Rosemarys Baby is an unforgettable movie experience guaranteed to send chills up your spine --Jeff Shannon