DVD: archives (educational engineering weissenberg)

DVD: archives

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The Taming of the Shrew (Broadway Theatre Archive)

37 reviews
Raye Birk, Earl Boen

Kultur Video, 2002

Best production on video.
This one is simply the best. I have no problem at all choosing between this production and the Burton/Taylor movie. This one wins without a contest. Grab it while you can! William Ball's production remembers one thing that many productions forget: this is a comedy and it is supposed to be funny. It is not literary scripture to be intoned in solemn reverence to the great Bard of Stratford on ...

Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (Broadway Theatre Archive)

3 reviews
Thomas Hill, Richard Russell Ramos

Image Entertainment, 2001

Excellent version, well acted, Memorable1
I saw this version many years ago. It was really engrossing and well acted. I think this was Joan Hackett's best performance.

Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Bach, Brahms: Alexis Weissenberg - Classic Archive

3 reviews
Brahms, Stravinsky

Medici Masters, 2008

One of the Most Extraordinary Piano Films Ever Made
My title applies primarily to the 1965 black & white film of Alexis Weissenberg playing Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka, amazingly creatively filmed in Stockholm by Åke Falck. I remember seeing this film on TV almost forty years ago and the memory of it has stayed with me ever since. I am so pleased finally to have a copy of that marvelous film. Weissenberg was in his early thirties ...

Mozart Violin Concerto / Brahms Violin Concerto etc. / Nathan Milstein (EMI Classic Archive 13)

6 reviews
Nathan Milstein, Mischa Elman

EMI Classics, 2003

The Ideal Violinist
"The Ideal Violinist" -- that's what Fritz Kreisler called Milstein. Need other reasons to buy this DVD? Okay: how about that if you never got to hear Milstein "live" (I did), this is about as close as you're going to get any time soon as nothing else is currently available (I know the recording studios are holding out more of these gems...make 'em give it up!). The sound and film quality are ...

More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894-1931

5 reviews
More Treasures from American Film Archives

Image Entertainment, 2004

Much to admire about this collection
This boxed set of 3 dvds and extensive commentary is a marvelous survey of the development of motion pictures as a technology, as an art form, and as a means of documenting the history and culture of the times. Those who will treasure this collection the most are those who still feel awe and wonder in watching moving images of people long gone and times far removed, as well as students of film ...

Love Metal Archives

23 reviews
H.I.M.

Bmg Int'l, 2005

GREAT!!!!!
This DVD was soooooo good. The quality was really awesome. It's really nice to be able to watch a HIM music videos without having to stare at a computer screen. I recommand this for all HIM fans. Just make sure that get the right region code thingy. I think thats why alot of people complained about the bad quailty. They got the wrong region number. So make sure you buy the right one. If you live ...

Studs Terkel's Working (Broadway Theatre Archive)

11 reviews
Studs Terkel, Barry Bostwick

Image Entertainment, 2002

Hey Somebody, Don't You Want To Hear...
The story of my life? So begins one of the most underratd musicals ever. With a simple message, "Everyone has a story." This is a TV adaptation of a musical based on a book by Sociologist and pundit Studs Terkel available by the grace of God for the first time on DVD. I knew the play from high school and was anxious to see it on film. It's a fairly reliable adaptation of the play, except that it ...

Educational Archives: Social Engineering 101

5 reviews
Dick York

Fantoma, 2003

Those Old School Films of Mine
I'm watching "Social Engineering 101." The DVDs arrived today, and they are a HOOT. So far I?ve seen: "School of the Living Dead" - 1960 Strangely shaped children stagger through the world's most terrifying lunch break, as staring adults serve unidentifiable food stuffs. Watch as the scary minions pick at themselves and obsessively collect and arrange used milk cartons, as a lone fly scurries ...

Treasures From American Film Archives - Encore Edition

19 reviews
Treasures from American Film Archives

Image Entertainment, 2005

Available again May 2005?!?!
YES! According to their website. Go to: http://www.filmpreservation.org/dvd/treasures.html For me, right now this is the holy grail of OOP DVD box-sets. They never turn up used on this site, and the few auctions that go up on Ebay get up to ridiculous amounts of money (last one went for upwards of $200). I hope to God that this is true. I would love it if Amazon could confirm it and ...

World War II - The Lost Color Archives

19 reviews
John Thaw, Eva Braun

A&E Home Video, 2000

simply incredible
World War II--The Lost Color Archives gives people a rare opportunity to essentially witness World War II as it actually looked in color. The quality of the color footage varies at times but it certainly gives you the feeling that you were there much more than if you were to watch the same footage shot only in black and white. The quality of the sound is excellent. Thank goodness for the History ...

Educational Archives: Limited Edition Lunchbox (4 DVD Box Set)
Various Artists

Fantoma, 2004

Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom from 16mm educational films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks, a blueprint for better living in the atomic age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. This collection from the late 1940s to the 1980s is historical, hysterical, and filled with more important misinformation than you can digest in one viewing. Fantoma ...

The Good Doctor (Broadway Theatre Archive)

2 reviews
Gary Dontzig, Marsha Mason

Kultur Video, 2002

CROWN JEWELS
From the Broadway Theatre Archive, comes THE GOOD DOCTOR, an extraordinary collection of plays by Neil Simon, one of the most prolific and beloved playwrights of all time. Richard Chamberlain is masterful as the writer, and ties the seven wonderful plays about life together, while performing in several of the portraits. The stories are humorous, touching, sad, and all impact nerves, where the ...

TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman)

37 reviews
Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent

Warner Home Video, 2006

God bless Turner
Only Turner Entertainment would pull these out of the vaults, clean them up and offer them on DVD. Other than beating young children without just cause (such as spanking) and third degree methods by the police, the most notorious was the sexual situations. Dialogue that would not make us blush today, pushed the limits of decency back then. In Baby Face (1933) Barbara Stanwyck has her [...] ...

The Andersonville Trial (Broadway Theatre Archive)

15 reviews
William Shatner, Cameron Mitchell

Image Entertainment, 2003

"The real crime is that I chose the losing side."
Directed by George C. Scott, and starring Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, and Buddy Ebsen in some of their best roles ever, this stunning 1970 production was a shoo-in to win three Emmys and the Peabody Award, with Cassidy also nominated for an Emmy as Best Actor. Filled with the kind of drama that only a real war crimes trial can generate, the ...

Story Theatre (Broadway Theatre Archive)

2 reviews
Mildred Dunnock, David Clennon

Kultur Video, 2002

Interesting, but... not what it seems.
This is NOT the Story Theater of the Broadway show created by Paul Sills, and the actors from the show who are listed here (e.g., Melinda Dillon) and in the imdb.com entry for this title do not appear in this DVD. This is a group of scenes performed at the Yale School of Drama that are "inspired" by Sills' work and based on folk tales that Sills used. Acting students may find it interesting, but ...

Educational Archives - School Locker (4 DVD Box Set)
Educational Archives

Fantoma, 2006

Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Now, just as you remember them, a special collection of rare educational films, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Some ...

The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs

10 reviews
Educational Archives

Fantoma, 2003

good Series
I remember watching the sony bono one way back when, and at the time, as I still do, saw it more as a "pro" pot film and thought and still think that Sony HAD to do this film and I truly belive he had a couple puffs before doing this. My Mom remembers the it's wonderful being a girl segemant, and we both giggled and laughed at the early attempts at explaing "womanhood" I started laughing about ...

Classic Archive: Piano Virtuosos

1 review
Gyorgy Cziffra, Benno Moiseiwitsch

Ideale Audience Intl, 2008

Archival Video Footage of Three Pianistic Giants of Yesteryear
This DVD contains studio-recorded video clips from performances by three giants: György Cziffra, Benno Moiseiwitsch and Jorge Bolet. The contents: Cziffra: All from 1963, BW, mono Improvisation Bach/Busoni: Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 532 Scarlatti: Sonata in A, K101 & Sonata in D, K96 Schumann: Toccata in C, Op. 7 Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6; Polonaise in E, S.219; Grand Galop ...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)

13 reviews
Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston

Image Entertainment, 2003

sheer brilliance
THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the theatre's great masterpieces. Originally opening on Broadway in 1944, the play established playwright Tennessee Williams as a force to be reckoned with and provided Laurette Taylor with her final great Broadway role as Amanda Wingfield (check out Rick McKay's outstanding BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE to hear Marian Seldes and others discuss their memories of ...