| | Purple Rain DVD Prince CDS
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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Urban Drama Movies, Music Video Videos, Pop Music Videos, Romance, Rock And Roll, Recommended, Musical, Essential Cinema, Character Study, Personal Triumph | | Starring | Prince, Clarence Williams, III, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Apollonia Kotero | | Director | Albert Magnoli | | Featured | Jill Jones |
A young man (Prince) with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive ... Full Descriptionbehavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.Music star Prince stars as "The Kid" in this semi-autobiographical film, which follows the escapades of a tortured young musician trying to survive in a dysfunctional environment. He finds solace in the affections of a lovely young singer, but his first love is making his funky, unique brand of music, which he performs at an ultra-hip Minneapolis nightclub. The Kid must also contend with Morris, his nemesis both in music and romance
The popular soundtrack of this highly successful film contains many of Prince's most popular tunes, such as "Let's Go Crazy", "When Doves Cry", and the title song.
A brilliant, talented young musician struggles for success even as a rival musician threatens to supplant him, both professionally and romantically. "Purple Rain" features Prince, in his own inimitable style, performing many of his latest hits, including "Purple Rain," "When Doves Cry," and "Let's Go Crazy." Academy Awards: Best Original Song Score. Film debut for rock performer Prince. Purple Rain Reviews: "...When performing on-stage...[Prince] can be a riveting spectacle..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "...An impressive feature film....[The concerts] are splendidly realized musicvid-type affairs, awash in purple-hued smoky lighting atmosphere and right-on camera work..."
-- Kirk., Variety "Showcasing the performer at the height of his creative and commercial success....[T]he performances are nothing short of magical."
-- Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly "[T]his 1994 movie brought the liquid-hipped one to middle America, mutating his funk into warped guitar rock."
-- Chris Roberts, Uncut Hide Description Purple Rain | List Price | $26.99 (You save $4.84) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1984 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5652  | | CD Universe Part number | 6745490 | | Catalog number | 33533 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Aug 24, 2004 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 111 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Digitally Processed; Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Dubbed; Special Edition; Subtitled |
Purple Rain Movie Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   Rock's Epiphany
This IS the movie that changed my life. Prince broke all the rules and set about reinventing music and the movies. He told us it was okay to be different. (There is Beauty in Strangeness) Nothing would ever be the same.. truly a revolution. 20 years on and it still holds up pretty well, although we have all changed with the times (and grown a lot older). I wonder how Prince would feel watching it now...?
Submitted by Ramesh Kula (Singapore) 
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Better than first issue
This is a big improvement over the first DVD issue primarily because of the widescreen aspect.
The sound is pretty close to the first, a little bit better.
I'm still disappointed by the same letdowns that are present on both.
They both do not show the closed caption during songs.
Now that this deluxe DVD has the trailers for Purple Rain, we see the obvious deleted scenes that we should have had.
the bonus materials are great, the videos and such.
Submitted by Scapp70 (New York City, NY)
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I saw this movie when in 1984, and am still watching it over 20 years later. I always see something I missed the time before. My son also digs this masterpiece.
Submitted by Darryl (Va. Beach, VA.)
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Keep repeating something often enough, and eventually the gullible will believe it to be truth. Prince Rogers Nelson has never been much more than a prefab image "star" marketed like any other commodity from Chips Ahoy to Bobby Sherman to New Kids OTB. I still have yet to see convincing, concrete evidence of his alleged musical virtuosity on legions of different instruments. He IS a cynically calculated amalgam of poseur's mimicry from predecessors such as James Brown, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix - with precious little of their originality or raw talent. Writing smutty juvenile funk/dance tunes with occasional snippets of clumsily inserted ersatz emotion/grandiose overtures, combined with strutting around like Little Caesar on stage with the smug self-assertion of one backed by mass market advertising and pre-bought critical approbation does NOT make one a "talent," nor a "star." The Has-Been Formerly Known as Prince, like the storied Emperor of literature, has no clothes.
Submitted by Veritas (Harvard Square, USA)
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The Soundtrack was released on my B'Day, June 25, 1984
The fact that this soundtrack was released on my birthdate, June 25, and at a milestone age 17, is wonderful and miraculous in itself. God Bless
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Purple Rain DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: 3 Featurettes
Music Video: 8 Prince Music Videos
Audio Commentary: Arists and Director
Bonus Footage: MTV Premier Party
Purchase Purple Rain Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Ken Burns Jazz: The Story Of America's Music CDs (2000) Box Set
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Compilation producers include: Ken Burns, Steve Berkowitz, Sarah Botstein, Michael Cuscuna, Peter Miller.
Includes liner notes by Geoffrey C. Ward, Michael Cuscuna, and Loren Schoenberg.
Digitally remastered by Seth Foster and Mark Wilder (Sony Studios, New York, New York) and Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East, Edison, New Jersey).
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is renowned for the thoughtful approach he takes to big subjects (baseball, the Civil War, etc.). Jazz fans are fortunate to have someone as intellectually curious as Burns to chronicle the music. As expected, he takes the historian's view that's needed to really cover the story of jazz's development. The fact that a five-disc box can barely scratch the surface speaks more about jazz's rich legacy than it does about any shortcomings of this impressive soundtrack to Burns' work.
The discs are divided up chronologically, moving from the Dixieland sound of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver to the big bands of Duke Ellington, on to the bop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. If this set is lacking in its representation of more "modern" jazz variants (free jazz and beyond), it's only because the 1920s and '30s material that gives the box much of its heft is such an endangered species in need of careful attention. The jazz innovations of the latter 20th century are well catalogued elsewhere, but the nearly lost world of pre-swing is what this box illuminates best.
This is part of the Columbia/Legacy Ken Burns JAZZ series.
5cds-Louis Armstrong,Original Dixieland Jazz Band,King Olive
| | Andersonville DVD (1996) Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled
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The ambitious miniseries adaptation of MacKinley Kantor's eponymous novel about the inmates of the notoriously overcrowded and brutal Andersonville, Georgia Confederate army prison at the height of the Civil War. Winner of an Emmy for director John Frankenheimer. Produced for TNT.
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles
| | National Geographic - Inside The White House DVD (1995)
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This documentary takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the White House, including its private quarters. Interviews with White House staff members as well as every President and First Lady living at the time of production are included, as is a behind-the-scenes look at a state dinner preparation. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Explore one of the most hallowed chambers in American government, the White House, in this National Geographic documentary. From Presidential interviews to glimpses of the building's least viewed rooms, INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE offers an intriguing view of one of the world's most impressive structures.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Graffiti Bridge DVD (1990) Widescreen; Subtitled
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Prince returns as the kid, locked in a power struggle over the Glam Slam, a prime-location nightclub he co-owns with Day. Their ongoing battle for control inspires a potent tale of goodness vs. greed and the redemptive power of love and self-expression, as well as a succession of roof-raising musical numbers.
The electrifying Prince stars with Purple Rain cohorts Morris E. Day and Jerome Benton in a sizzling drama about the rivalry between two co-owners of a night club, backed by a music score that's a blast! Year: 1990 Director: Prince Starring: Prince, Morris Day, Jerome Benton. Director: Prince; Actors: Ingrid Chavez, Jerome Benton, Jesse Johnson, Morris E. Day, Prince
| | Under The Cherry Moon DVD (1986) Widescreen; Subtitled; Black & White
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With his best friend, a young musician travels to the beautiful French Riviera in search of quick riches. Instead, he falls in love with an extremely attractive and equally spoiled heiress. The top-of-the-charts soundtrack features Prince and the Revolution performing such hits as "Kiss," "Mountains," "Under the Cherry Moon," and many more.
Two brothers from Miami are in the Mediterranian are enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky (Jerome Benton) has Christopher Tracy (Prince) talked into romancing her for her money, but as he gets to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells all about the plan. Director: Prince; Actors: Steven Berkoff, Sheila E., Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jerome Benton, Prince.
| | M*A*S*H DVD (1970) Widescreen
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With the release of Robert Altman's M*A*S*H in 1970, a new form of comedy was born, one that would help to forever change the face of cinema. Altman's audacious film reflected the American counterculture's growing distrust of religion and government in the late 1960s and early 1970s, resulting in one of the biggest box office smashes of its time. Introducing the techniques he would employ throughout his storied career--overlapping dialogue, a constantly moving camera with a heavy amount of zooming, and a bold combination of frank subject matter with cynical humor--Altman immediately vaulted himself to Hollywood's upper ranks. Based on the novel by Richard Hooker, M*A*S*H follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers as they perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean conflict. Led by sardonic captains "Hawkeye" Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and "Trapper" John McIntyre (Elliott Gould), the film has the feel of an absurd three-ring circus. Other characters include the uptight nurse "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan (Sally Kellerman), the confused Major Frank Burns (Robert Duvall), the troubled Captain "Painless" Waldowski (John Shuck), and the simpleminded Captain "Duke" Forrest (Tom Skerritt). Altman's decision to present his film as a series of loosely connected vignettes rather than a traditionally unfolding narrative perfectly captures the freewheeling spirit so unique to early-'70s cinema.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments
| | Acustico DVD (2003) Universal Brazil
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Recognized as one of the best acoustic performances of 2002, the disc features the best of Kid's catalog in an intimite acoustic setting. NTSC All Regions. In Portuguese, Digital Dolby 5.1 & 2.0.
| | Samson DVD (1961) Widescreen; Black & White; Subtitled
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Shot in 1961 by acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda (MAN OF IRON), SAMSON is the story of a twice-imprisoned Jewish man, whose quest for freedom leads him only to dead ends and broken dreams. Initially jailed after an innocuous playground skirmish results in the accidental killing of a schoolmate, Samson subsequently endures a lengthy jail term. Released as the fires of World War II rage, his freedom proves to be short lived when he is imprisoned in Warsaw as the German army tears Poland apart. Escaping, he clenches freedom within his grasp once more, only to discover a different kind of jail in the distinctly non-Jewish society into which he emerges. With the threat of capture from the Nazi's forever looming, Samson struggles to comprehend how he can ever truly be free.
Based on the novel by Polic author Kazimierz Brandys, Andrzej Wajda's Samson begins with a murder. Jakub Gold, a Jew (Serge Merlin) accidentally kills a schoolmate and is imprisoned. When World War II begins, he is released, but is now confied to a new prison: the Warsaw Ghetto. When he escapes, he finds himself imprisoned in the ostracizing world of non-Jews, haunted by the fear of being captured. This film is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16x9 TVs.
| | Punch DVD (2002)
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A pretty, yet troubled teenaged girl named Ariel (Sonja Bennett) finds an outlet for her flaring temper and misguided anger in boxing. PUNCH is a story of rage and redemption in the tradition of GIRLFIGHT (2000) and KNOCKOUT (2000).
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Justicia Por Amor DVD (2005)
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After losing both their parents to tragedy, a brother and sister only have each other. Taking on the role of provider, the young boy learns to look after his sister. Years later, as a young woman, the girl goes off to college and romances a man who ultimately causes her death. Dead-set on getting revenge, her brother sets out find this man, only to end up in the arms of his victim's widow.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles
| | Surrender DVD (2006) Widescreen
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This entertaining soft-core romantic mystery stars Kate Hill and Julie Clay as two sexy roommates who discover both their lesbian attraction and their love of S&M when one of them becomes the prime suspect in a kinky murder.
Naive newcomer Georgia is thrust into the intoxicating live of her lesbian housemate. When a murder occurs, the 2 embark on a steamy underground journey... Julie Clay and Kate Hill star."
| | Europe To The Max: Hidden Treasures - Great Cities Of Europe DVD (2006)
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Maxa hosts this tour of Barcelona, Costa Brava, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich, and Rome.
| | Three Stooges DVDs (2006) Gaiam
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This sidesplitting set offers eight hours of the Three Stooges' legendary comic adventures. Included here are FUNNIEST MOMENTS 1 and 2, LOST COMEDY TREASURES, KINGS OF LAUGHTER, THE THREE STOOGES STORY, SIMPLY HILARIOUS, and THE SWING PARADE/JERKS OF ALL TRADES.
Please see individual titles for synopsis information.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Munsters' Scary Little Christmas DVD (1996)
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Though their creepy appearance might seem better suited for Halloween, the friendly-but-freakish family celebrates Christmas in THE MUNSTERS' SCARY CHRISTMAS. Eddie Munster (Bug Hall, THE LITTLE RASCALS) feels homesick for Transylvania, and it's up to his family to make him realize the joy of Christmas. This made-for-TV movie also features Sam McMurray as Herman, Ann Magnuson as Lily, Sandy Brown as Grandpa, and Elaine Hendrix as Marilyn.
This hilarious 2-hour holiday movie stars the beloved cast of the classic TV series.
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