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George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton

20th Century Fox, 1999

The pipples are not happy!
If you like comedies and spoofs then this one shouldn't be left out. While it is outdated. it's still a classic spoof. In the time of Love At First Bite (1979) and the king of all spoofs; Airplane ('80) there lies Zorro the Gay Blade which stars George Hamilton playing ...

Strawberry & Chocolate - - Subtitled in English

Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz

Miramax, 1997

A Different Kind of Buddy Movie
In this unique type of buddy movie we see how easily friendship and tolerance flourish amid the paranoia of the day. David is a college student with a sheltered education. Diego is a comically charming gay intellectual who tries to pick him up over a dish of ice ...

Homeward Bound II - Lost in San Francisco (Walt Disney Pictures Presents)

Michael J. Fox, Sally Field

Walt Disney Home Video, 1996

Homeward Bound II - Lost In San Francisco
My daughters love this movie. They are 4 and 6. It is very age approriate, clean and fun!

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Sonia Braga, José Wilker

Fox Lorber, 1997

Joie de vivre encapsulated
I first rented this movie in the 1980s from Blockbuster. It was so different, such a surprising delight, I watched it again about 10 years later. Different from anything I saw before or since. I would like to see this on DVD, then I would purchase a copy. I ...

Sugar Cane Alley

Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus

New Yorker Video, 1998

a beautiful film.......
SUGAR CANE ALLEY was my introduction to the culture of Martinique during the 1930s. This beautiful 1983 release, directed by Euzhan Palcy, is a powerful and sensitively made character study. It follows the plight of Jose (Garry Cadenat), an eleven year old boy living ...

Medicine Man

Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco

Walt Disney Video, 1994

Medicine Man
"Medicine Man" is, in my personal opinion, an entertaining, funny movie with a real life message about conserving our natural resources. This movie focuses on plants and animals and all of their posibiities for unknown uses, including medical cures that undiscovered ...

San Francisco (1936)

Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald

MGM (Warner), 1998

beauty(MacDonald) and the beast(Gable)
This film is a blend of a romantic musical, a disaster movie and an old fashioned morality play. In some respects it is a replay of "The Dancing Lady",in which a talented Joan Crawford is rescued from her downtown burlesque dancing job to become the featured dancer in ...

The Miracle of Marcelino

Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico

Vci Video, 2003

Childhood Religious Apparitions
This Spanish film was made in 1955. It is a dubbed version, and as with older dubbed foreign films it can be a little distracting. However the content of the film is an innocent and sweet telling of the story of an orphaned boy raised by monks in a monastery in Spain ...

The Great Depression (History Channel - 4 video set)
Mario Cuomo, Erik Barnouw

A&E Home Video, 1998

Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention, and at no point has a cliché been so prescient as in the 1930s. During that era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal took documentation to new heights in U.S. history, turning artists and artisans into government-sponsored vehicles for reportage and representation of both American ideals ...

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!)

Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas

Sony Pictures, 1995

Perceptively witty / sexy comedy. Banderas as psycho!
`Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' directed by the Spaniard, Pedro Almodovar and starring Victoria Abril and a young Antonio Banderas strikes me as great fun with at least a few sparkling moments of insight or perception worthy of Woody Allen. The dominant aspect of this 1989 ...

Romero

Raul Julia, Richard Jordan

Lions Gate, 1998

Well done film of an amazing man
It has been a while since I have seen this film and I am little surprised that it seems to be out of print. I recommend this to anyone who wants to see a story of faith in action in the face of overwhelming odds.

The Scarlet Letter (WGBH Miniseries)

Josef Sommer, Meg Foster

Wgbh Boston, 2000

This is the novel brought to life.
If you want to truly experience Hawthorne's work, this version is for you. In contrast, the Demi Moore version bears little resemblance to the novel. To choose it over the PBS version would be akin to choosing a coloring -book rendering of the Mona Lisa over the ...

Metallica: S & M With The San Francisco Symphony (Concert)

James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich

Elektra / Wea, 1999

Only one thing could make this DVD better
..and that's being re-released as a high definition DVD. The colours and music in this are just too beautiful for standard definition and it's always disappointing to put this into my DVD player now with a HDTV and see a less-than-perfect image. I saw the DVD ...

Slaughter in San Francisco

Chuck Norris, Don Wong

World Northal, 1994

Forgotten classics
I was looking through my old videos and ran across this old classic. Wow, this movie is amazingly thorough and just plain beautiful. I hear Norris might reprise his role on Broadway. Forget this Walker garbage.

The Castro [Neighborhoods; The Hidden Cities of San Francisco]

Kqed Books & tapes

Inspiring 30 Year History of San Francisco's famous 'first gay hometown.'
From Back Cover: "A Neighborhood, a Battleground, a mecca." "Now known internationally as the world's first 'gay hometown,' San Francisco's Castro district was a quiet working-class neighborhood of European immigrants only a few decades ago. In this moving ...