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MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City movie The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Winter's Tale, performed at the Barbican Theatre, London, presented here for the first time in a complete and un-edited edition. This landmark production was hailed by critics and played to packed houses both in Stratford and London.

MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City DVD for sale Amos Gitai paints a vivid, gritty portrait of life in modern-day Israel with this multi-character study of intertwining lives in and around a Tel Aviv apartment complex. Ezra (Uri Klauzner) is a building contractor who sleeps in his van with his illegal Asian immigrant workers outside his ex-wife Mali's (Hanna Laslo) door while building an extension to the building, much to the annoyance of the elderly residents, one of whom is a concentration camp survivor. Meanwhile, the son of Ezra and Mali, Eyali (Amit Mestechkin) runs away from his mandatory stint in the Israeli army and Mali's friend, the beautiful, troubled Gabi (Yael Abecassis) has a rendezvous with her married lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) for some loud, torrid sex scenes in one of the rooms. The camerawork here is first rate, capturing the action in a series of extended single takes separated by fadeouts with the camera moving through, inside and out of the apartment building and elsewhere in Tel Aviv, capturing the city's rundown vibe. Director-writer Gitai adds a voice-over to the credits in one of the film's many unusual touches. A prolific chronicler of Israeli life whose films include KADOSH (2000) and KIPPUR (2000), Gitai gives his actors a lot of room to improvise, and the performances in ALILA are generally strong, with the lovely Abecassis a standout. The story is based on a book by Yehoshua Kenaz. For the apartment dwellers of Alila, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (YYael Abecassis) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Ultimately it is the reality behind the paranoid threats of shrill neighbor Ronit (Ronit Elkabetz) that provides unity to the concentric circles of cause and effect passing through Alila's thin walls and thick skins in this Hebrew film by director Amos Gitai.

MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City review THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE by legendary director Fritz Lang (M, METROPOLIS, THE BIG HEAT) commences with a reporter being murdered in his car by a mysterious assassin. Simultaneously, Cornelious, a blind seer, predicts a murder at the police station just as an anonymous caller is phoning in a tip to the police. So begins the third installment in Lang's Dr. Mabuse trilogy. Invoking crime serials of the early days of cinema, the film takes place in post-war Berlin, where the swanky hotel Luxor is the locus of a disturbing ten-year crime spree. Every room is closely watched from a surveillance headquarters in the basement of the hotel, and a gang of criminals taking their orders from a mysterious leader's recorded voice plan a vast range of crimes, including the theft of military secrets and the explosion of a nuclear weapons plant. Police commissioner Krause and his men relentlessly search for clues, while hotel guests Marion, a suicidal young woman, and Travers, a millionaire planning to buy the nuclear weapons plant, spark up a romance. Undercover spies, two way mirrors, double agents, club-footed assassins and pre-modern surveillance technology create a frenetic and breakneck atmosphere as the plot escalates into a series of stylized twists that only Fritz Lang could dream up.

MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City film This program collects two episodes from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES television series: THE EMPTY HOUSE and THE ABBEY GRANGE. See individual titles for details. Empty House: Watson and Lestrade take a crack at the unsolved murder of Ronald Adair, yet their efforts produce nothing but a shocking inquest. Lost without Holmes' talents to help them, Watson spots a mysterious visitor in court listening to testimony about the murdered man. Could it be the return of Sherlock Holmes? Abbey Grange: Sir Eustace Brackenstall, one of the richest men in Kent and the last of the Brackenstall line, is found murdered. A notorious gang of thieves is suspected of the crime, until Holmes and Watson make some startling discoveries, including a charred dog collar. Holmes and Watson must piece together a strange puzzle to solve the case.

MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City review What would a busload of beautiful young women want from a secluded Spanish village? Its men of course! Filled with eligible bachelors sexually frustrated by the lack of women in their environment, this town becomes a breeding ground for love and passion as several of its male residents and the visiting women attempt to become romantic pairs. Rich middle age construction man Carmelo hopes that sexy Milady will meet his physical needs. Little does he know, she's out for his money. Meanwhile, Patricia finds out that marriage is not always bliss thanks the interference of a pesky mother-in-law. And while Alfonso and Marirosi's relationship may be the most genuine of them all, they encounter just as many challenges because of the long-distance nature of their courtship. A group of vibrant young women travel by bus to a remote Spanish village overwhelmingly populated by men. With sould of practicality, the women dream of better lives while the men ache with more romantic yearnings. A welathy middle-aged builder, Carmelo (Jose Sancho) and Jilady, a young Cuban golddigger, embark on a lusty relationship that has little to do with love. Patricia must grapple with a meddling mother-in-law and her own children, though her marriage to Damian (Luis Tosar) manages to bloom. Alfonso (Chete Lera) and Marirosi (Elena Irureta) fall in love, but with deeply planted roots in different locations. Iciar Bollain directs.

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MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City movie Spooky magic and strange phenomena abound in this collection of weird and wonderful tales. SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE finds a young boy able to make wishes become reality via a magic stone. But some of the consequences of his actions produce surprising results. POSSUM MAGIC involves invisibility, a secret food ingredient, and an epic quest; all beautifully tied together by writer/narrator Mem Fox. Finally, PRINCESS FURBALL features a princess set to be given away to an ogre in exchange for silver, but resisting the terrible ordeal at all costs. 3 stories are included. Sylvester and the Magic: Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true; Possum Magic: Grandma Poss needs a certain food for a magical mix that will make Hush visible again. The two set on a journey to find the magic ingredient; Princess Furball: A cruel King intends to marry his daughter to an ogre in excange for wagons full of silver. When the princess learns of her father's plan, she is horrified. Can the princess escape her terrible fate?

MTV's The Real World You Never Saw - Las Vegas: Confessions From Sin City video Although Beethoven's C Minor Symphony is probably the best-known piece of classical music ever written, it is veiled in myths and misunderstandings that are beginning to clear up thanks to research and performance efforts of musicians such as Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna. This DVD bears visual testimony to the fact that one does not need a symphony orchestra to capture the cosmic dimensions of Beethoven. Anima Eterna makes a convincing plea for small-scale chamber orchestra with specialized musicians playing on period instruments and performing as soloists.