DVD: Michael Devlin (II)

DVD: Michael Devlin (II)

DVD:

Michael Devlin (II)

Meyerbeer - L'Africaine / Arena, Domingo, Verrett, San Francisco Opera

Plácido Domingo, Shirley Verrett

Image Entertainment, 2001

grand 19th century opera, very well done
The singing of all the principals is excellent, especially Verrett, Domingo and Swenson. The production of this complex, multi-scene work is fine, the conducting a little leaden. But all in all, it is surely the best available recording (3 other live performances on ...

Flick
David Murray (VI), Isabelle Menke

Vanguard Cinema, 2003

Jack Flinter, the "Flick", is a small-time drug dealer grafting through Dublin?s club-cultured sin bins, getting to know the flip side of the Celtic animal first hand. He knows all the moves and all the shakes. But he?s bored. Getting restless, he loses his girlfriend and his friends are just a precession of hurried faces punctuating his time. ...

Salome [Region 2]

Maria Ewing, Michael Devlin (II)

Bravo to all, especially Ewing
Oh my God! I just finished watching this. Maria Ewing is amazing. Her intense focus is wonderful. I saw a live performance of Salome a few years ago in the midwest and wished the Salome and the whole production had been more intense and a little crazy. The whole thing ...

L' Africaine [Region 2]

Plácido Domingo, Shirley Verrett

grand 19th century opera, very well done
The singing of all the principals is excellent, especially Verrett, Domingo and Swenson. The production of this complex, multi-scene work is fine, the conducting a little leaden. But all in all, it is surely the best available recording (3 other live performances on ...

Ghosts Never Sleep
Tony Goldwyn, Faye Dunaway

Allumination, 2006

Struggling screenwriter Jared Dolan (Tony Goldwyn) thinks his ship may have come in at last when his latest project hits paydirt with an independent producer (Shea Alexander). But fact and fiction begin to collide violently when the script - which may or may not be autobiographical - threatens to expose a tragic family secret that his wife (Sean ...

Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel / Fulton, Metropolitan Opera

Frederica von Stade, Judith Blegen

Geneon [Pioneer], 2000

Gorgeous Music and a Charming Story
This is the Metropolitan Opera's grand production of Hansel and Gretel, starring Julith Blegen and Frederica von Stade. It is absolutely a delight to the eyes and ears, and is so deliciously done, you can almost smell the gingerbread and taste the witch's candy ...

Diary of a Cannibal (Widescreen)

Trevor Parsons, Jillian Swanson

Lions Gate, 2007

Garbage!
This was honestly the worst movie I have ever endured. By the time I made it to the 30 minute marker, I began fast forwarding. There was barely a word of dialogue, so I knew I wouldn't miss an important passage, and the movie largely consisted of the same 3 flashback ...

Drop Dead Roses

Brian O'Halloran, Eddie McGee

York Home Video, 2004

Quirky dark comedy
I saw this movie at a film festival and Brian O'Halloran (who played Dante in Clerks) introduced it. He is really a funny guy, both onscreen and off. This movie has him in another bizarre, dark and yet funny role, and he was lots of fun to watch. The real surpise of ...

Antony and Cleopatra [Region 2]
Randall Brady, Michael Billington

Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden

Maria Ewing, Michael Devlin (II)

Kultur Video, 2001

Bravo to all, especially Ewing
Oh my God! I just finished watching this. Maria Ewing is amazing. Her intense focus is wonderful. I saw a live performance of Salome a few years ago in the midwest and wished the Salome and the whole production had been more intense and a little crazy. The whole thing ...