DVD: seamstress (dvd-audio pavarotti)

DVD: seamstress

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng) (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) [NON-USA ...

21 reviews
Hong Wei Wang, Kun Chen

Exquisite and trenchant
This stunning film combines a tender love story with biting political satire in a hauntingly beautiful setting. It conveys with poignancy and understatement two friends' struggle for intellectual freedom in a re-education camp and their love for a beautiful young woman. My favorite moments in the film were their hilarious methods of disguising Western culture as revolutionary propaganda for the ...

Faerie Tale Theatre - The Emperor's New Clothes

1 review
Art Carney, Alan Arkin

Starmaker II, 2004

fine entry in the series
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES is an altogether fine entry in the FAERIE TALE THEATRE series. Alan Arkin and Art Carney stars as the con-artists who fool a vain and ruthless Emperor (Dick Shawn) into believing that they can create the most exquisite of clothes that are invisible to those who are foolish or unworthy. Legendary British songstress Georgia Brown co-stars as a wise innkeeper.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

21 reviews
Xun Zhou, Kun Chen

First Run Features, 2005

Exquisite and trenchant
This stunning film combines a tender love story with biting political satire in a hauntingly beautiful setting. It conveys with poignancy and understatement two friends' struggle for intellectual freedom in a re-education camp and their love for a beautiful young woman. My favorite moments in the film were their hilarious methods of disguising Western culture as revolutionary propaganda for the ...

The City

22 reviews
Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano

New Yorker Video, 2005

gritty and incomparable......
LA CIUDAD (The City) is a beautiful film shot entirely in gritty black and white and focuses on the lives and experiences of four groups of Latino immigrants, newly arrived in New York City. The story (with dialogue entirely in Spanish) has been compared to THE GRAPES OF WRATH and it is evident why. Through the eyes of the many struggling and hardworking people we come to know during the four ...

Little Chinese Seamstress

2 reviews
Little Chinese Seamstress

Msi Music/Super D, 2003

A beautiful, memorable film
This film is about two educated young men who were forced to labor in the countryside during China's Cultural Revolution, and their ensuing relationship with a girl known as the Little Seamstress (granddaughter of an old tailor). The two young men read western literature to the girl in an effort to educate her, which opens up a whole new world to her. The scenery is breathtakingly beautiful; the ...

Casanova's Big Night

14 reviews
Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine

Paramount, 2005

Funny!
This movie was pretty funny! It's a typical Bob Hope movie and my mom and I both enjoyed it a lot!

Sequins

2 reviews
Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride

New Yorker Video, 2006

An admirable and well deserved to Vermeer (The spinning woman)
The terrible tragedy that means to be pregnant when you are just a teenager, the obvious fears, the familiar miscommunication, the expected social conventionalisms literally push to this young woman to abandon temporarily her job, adducing health problems related with a supposed cancer. Meanwhile she will find a place to work far from her social and familiar circle. Soon we will discover a ...

Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Francesca Zambello · Tiziano Severini - M. Freni · L. Pavarotti · San Francisco ...

9 reviews
Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti

Kultur Video, 1999

Heartbreaking!
Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I am the biggest Freni fan imaginable. She does not disappoint me here. Yes, at this stage, her voice is a size too large for Mimi, more suitable for heavy verismo such as Tosca, Fedora and Manon Lescaut. The voice is far heavier than in her two previous studio recordings from the 60's and 70's. The vibrato is also a trifle wider than it was but all ...

Romance & Cigarettes

13 reviews
James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon

Sony Pictures, 2008

a musical without peer
my wife and i saw "romance & cigarettes" at the san francisco film festival a few years ago and it was love at almost first sight. i think the bizarre combination of genres and styles -- think "kitchen sink" realism meets baz luhrmann, or "divorce italian style" collides with "music man" -- put us on our guard, but the manic and enthusiastic performances quickly won us over. the whole cast -- ...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ( Xiao cai feng ) ( Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise ) [ ...

Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Chinese ( Dolby DTS 5.1 ),English ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Featurette, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two ...

Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, D'Amico, Servile, Renee, Mattsey, D'Artegna, Magiera, Beijing Opera

3 reviews
Luciano Pavarotti, Fiamma Izzo D'Amico

Kultur Video, 2005

Fantastic performances!!!
Luciano Pavarotti owns the role of Rodolfo and here in this 1986 production filmed live in China, he proves it again! But, the rest of the cast was a pleasant surprise. Fiamma Izzo D'Amico was a wonderful Mimi in beautiful voice. A very pretty Madelyn Renee was Musetta, also in excellent voice. And that goes for Roberto Servile as Marcello; Jeffrey Mattsey as Schaunard; and, Francesco Ellero ...

Siao Yu
Marj Dusay, Daniel J. Travanti

Mei Ah, 2008

Siao Yu came from Mainland China, purposely for her boyfriend, Gang Wai, to get the citizenship in New York, she married with a sixty years old fake husband called Mario. Mario was a radical right wing journalist. But his failure cost him to be addicted in gambles in the old age. His wife, left for singing years ago, came back at that time. Hatred, envy, caring, and empathy developed among these four people. An unlikely relationship forged ...

Puccini - La Boheme

12 reviews
Mirella Freni, Adriana Martino

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

La Boheme
One of the many great operas by G Puccini, with the great voices of Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi and Rolando Panerai - recorded from La Scala Opera House in Milan,Italy in 1965 I couldn't be happier with it. A great purchase for my collection...Thank you.

Puccini - La Boheme

12 reviews
Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi

Deutsche Grammophon, 2006

La Boheme
One of the many great operas by G Puccini, with the great voices of Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi and Rolando Panerai - recorded from La Scala Opera House in Milan,Italy in 1965 I couldn't be happier with it. A great purchase for my collection...Thank you.

Real Women Have Curves

108 reviews
America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros

Hbo Home Video, 2005

An absolute joy
After looking at some of the other Amazon reviews I'm wondering if I should try and come up with anything critical - and, although the themes and issues are broadly drawn, I just don't have the heart. This is a wonderful movie. I laughed, my heart was warmed, and I love the messages. I'd never heard of Real Women Have Curves until happening upon it at the library. I hope more women, especially ...

Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Freni, Bruscantini (DVD-AUDIO)
Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni

Opera D'oro, 2005

Louise (Charpentier)

1 review
Grace Moore, Georges Thill

Bel Canto Society, 2005

Historically Interesting
While this DVD of the film version of the opera Louise may be interesting from a historical perspective, opera singer Grace Moore in one of her signature roles, it is only a "better than nothing" alternative for those wanting to see the opera. Much of the score has been cut, replaced by spoken dialog. Subtitles would have been helpful, as the film version perodically differs from the storyline ...