DVD: masterworks

DVD: masterworks

DVD:

Masterworks

Leonardo Da Vinci Art TV DVD
Leonardo da Vinci Masterworks

Art Image LA, 2006

Enjoy 30 images of Leonardo da Vinci's inspired masterworks as they alternate on your television. Relax to your choice of soothing ambient or classical music while Leonardo's artwork transitions seamlessly creating hours of enjoyment and ambiance. Each masterwork displays for two minutes and fades to the next. Beautiful on all TVs, this ...

Concert Masterworks 4-DVD Set The Great Courses Fine Arts & Music Robert Greenberg

The Teaching Company

Course Lecture Titles - 1. The Classical Piano Concerto - 2. Nationalism and Expressionism in the Late 19th Century - 3. Great 19th Century Violin Concerti - 4. Early Romantic Era Program Music

Italian Masterworks - Two Women/Paisan

Sling Shot, 2002

Italian Masterworks ...not bad !!!
Well... it's not Criterion and I would give the transfer 3 stars and the movies: "Two Women" 4 stars,"Paisa" 3.5 stars.Two Women was vhs quality,not bad considering the other transfer was so poor and unviewable as to be worthless.Paisa was vhs quality the transfer ...

J.S. Bach Masterworks

Bach, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Intersound Records, 2002

Personally A Little Bit Deceiving
Naturally the term "DVD" suggested to me something visual. Not the case here: it's an audio recording on a digital video disc. I'm not quite sure what's the point, as most people already have CD players with fine sound. What's here is a music concert without visuals ...

Masterworks Of The German Horror Cinema (Nosferatu / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / The Golem)

Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher

ELITE ENTERTAINMENT, 2000

Nosferatu rules!
I didn't have time to watch Caligari and the Golem, because I wanted to watch "Nosferatu!" The film is excellent, and the flaw at the end scene is hillarious! I won't tell you because it gives away the vampire's death sequence. Well, the honor of acting in this film ...

German Silent Masterworks Collection

Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller

Sling Shot, 2001

Five Stars for the Movies; Three for the DVD
Even in the early days of cinema, Hollywood provided fluff. The Germans began to really experiment in the 1920s and were considered the real artists as well as the main rival to the studios. The three films on the German Silent Masterworks--The Golem, The Cabinet of ...

Martin Scorsese Collection (The Departed, The Aviator, GoodFellas, Mean Streets)

Warner Home Video, 2007

It could have been a great deal
This is something so rare that I must write about it - a boneheaded decision by Warner Home Video when packaging one of their boxed sets. Why is this set selling so poorly you might ask? Why are used copies going for half of SRP? The answer is that for some reason the ...

Tenacious D - The Complete Master Works

Tenacious D

Sony, 2003

All The Tenacious D You Will Ever Need!
If you like Tenacious D and you were waiting to see the old HBO series again, well, it's here. Along with a full D concert and music videos and studio documentary along with a few dozen other things. This is a pretty complete chronicling of The D in all it's ...

Biograph Shorts: Griffith Masterworks

Blanche Sweet, Edwin August

Kino Video, 2002

Exceeded my expectations
I have numerous issues with D.W. Griffith and so was prepared to have less than an enthusiastic reaction to this set, but I ended up really really liking it. A lot of the issues I have with most of his features were either not present or less overwhelming in these ...

Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition

Anna Aleksakhina, Konstantin Anisimov

Fox Lorber, 2003

A magisterial tour de force historical journey!
Marquis de Countese, a French diplomatic of XVII joins us in a mesmerizing and minimalist recount around the most emblematic passages of the Russian history. Employing the Hermitage Museum as a huge stage, we will see since Catalina The Great to the Romanov Dynasty ...

Breaker Morant (Masterworks Edition)

Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson

Fox Lorber, 2004

Look no further for the finest war movie ever made
Brilliantly adapted from a true story, poignantly filmed and outstandingly produced and acted, "Breaker Morant" stands alone at the big heap of great war movies. It's all here, of course: battle scenes, commando ambushes, honor, valor, betrayal, executions and a real ...

Ingmar Bergman - Four Masterworks (Criterion Collection)

Criterion Collection, 2007

Beautiful restoration of four key works
This is a technically striking and visually pleasing restoration of four of Bergman's key works. The extras on the disks are sparse, as might be expected. My personal choice was to skip the learned commentary for now, as I wanted to re-experience the three dramas ...

The Cuban Masterworks Collection (The Twelve Chairs / The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin / A Successful Man / ...

César Évora, Raquel Revuelta

FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2007

Excellent intro to Cuban classics
My only complaint is that this otherwise excellent collection is not mastered anamorphically. This means that, if you own a wide screen TV, you will have to "zoom" the picture to fill the screen, affecting the quality.

Ran (Masterworks Edition)

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Fox Lorber, 2003

Ran Means Chaos
Ran is Kurosawa's final masterpiece and my favorite Kurosawa movie. For me, Ran is more of an experience than a movie. It just seems so "real" to me. Directed when he was 75, the master director presents a cast of thousands and renders a mortal struggle of good and ...

Kurosawa DVD Collection (Individually Numbered Limited Edition) (Amazon.com Exclusive)

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Wellspring, 2002

The Grandaddy of Cinema
At first glance, it looks like the "Kurosawa DVD Collection" has been bundled together with odds and ends. One documentary, and two of Kurosawa's lesser-known -- but excellent -- films. At first glance, it's hard to see why they were packaged together. But soon it ...