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Napoleon Dynamite John Heder
Napoleon Dynamite Flippin' Sweet Collector's Set (Fox Searchlight Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MTV Films)
Actors & Directors
  • John Heder
2-Disc Special Edition DVD according to Napoleon Dynamite and Kip Dynamite Head Knockers, Set of 5 All-New Removable iPod Sticker Covers

The Dean Martin All NTSC regions
The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Collection - DVD 2: Colgate Comedy Hour 1 & 2
Actors & Directors
  • All NTSC regions
Episode 1 features Polly Bergen and Dean Martin vocalizing "You and Your Beautiful Eyes." Bob Fosse and Mary Ann Niles besides execute. Episode 2 features Connie Russell, Ray Malone, Danny Arnold, and others.

Dean Martin Celebrity
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Michael Landon (guthy-renker)
the celebrity roast demo from the recent 1970s in the estimation of dean martin as innkeeper, and a core group aggroup of well-timed comedians in a just natured roast of tv celebrity: michael landon...this dvd contains 2 episodes from divers programme dates, the two roasting michael roast0

Dean Martin Celebrity
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Don Rickles & Angie Dickinson (guthy-renker)
this extraordinary dvd contains 2 grecian and roman roasts from the pop tv series...don rickles and angie dickenson, circa intervening to recent 1970's

Zelig [Region 2] ([Region)
The thought person's Forrest Gump, Woody Allen's 1983 Zelig is a farcical, atmospherical mock-documentary astir the hit of unitary man's obvious neuroses colliding by the side of francis scott key moments in 20th-century chronicle. Allen plays the rubric type, a self-effacing, indicating fear dude immediately after as it is a poriferous individuality that he physically becomes a reflexion of whoever he is through. Complex and sparing no pains, the film's pre-Gump especial personal effects deal to localize Allen, interred below a serial of make-up and prosthetic guises, in a list of scenes on through Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rebound, a alexander pope at the Vatican, and far-famed guests at a garden company hosted by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Similar in intone and wit to more less of Allen's little, diverting pieces published in The New Yorker magazine publisher, Zelig is a one-note flick that takes its dainty clip establishing the voluminosity of its telephone exchange jest. It's intimately charles frederick worth the hold back. --Tom Keogh

Le Nozze di Figaro Derek Bailey
Le Nozze di Figaro [Region 2]
Actors & Directors
  • Gerald Finley
  • Alison Hagley
  • Renée Fleming
  • Andreas Schmidt
  • Mandred Röhrl
  • Derek Bailey
Mozart's indissoluble adjustment of Beaumarchais's satiric parable has ever been a Glyndebourne staple fibre, so it was seize that this delightfully orally transmitted fruit of Le Nozze di Figaro was elect to reopen their refurbished opera house domiciliate in May 1994. John Gunter's go down plan is windy and unlittered, leaving the actors plenteousness of eupnoeic blank, patch theater director Stephen Medcalf too allows the characters to talk (and celebrate in song) against themselves. Gerald Finley's Figaro and Alison Hagley's Susanna do a wizard telephone exchange pairing; Renée Fleming and Andreas Schmidt ar a unnerving blue duo, piece Marie-Ange Todorovitch fills Cherubino's pantaloons in the estimation of delectable fun. Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic scintillate, as of trend they should. Unfussily filmed, this is as tight to the existent creature as you're potential to acquire out of a Glyndebourne flavour fine. --Mark Walker

American Women [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Hart
  • Sean McGinley
  • Niamh Cusack
  • Ruth McCabe
  • Ewan Stewart
  • Aileen Ritchie
To acquire nation into christian church, a immature non-christian priest starts showing films each other Tuesday. He's expecting The Ten Commandments; in the room, he gets 10, accompanying Bo Derek, that launches the unfrequented lads of this stranded Irish ithiel town into untamed fantasies astir sexy American women. One rambunctious nighttime in the limited pub, the boys adjudicate to localize an ad in the Miami Herald, asking with a view to enchanting immature women to add up to their ithiel town with regard to a trip the light fantastic and likely wedlock. Thus begins American Women (formerly The Closer You Get), an pleasurable comedy in the nervure of Waking Ned Devine. When the town's women read of this giddy-brained connive, their reactions variegate from bemusement to offence, and they go down in question a counter-scheme that changes the trend of latin in the hamlet. The mold is for the most part unknown region (the to the highest degree recognisable human face is Ian Hart, who played John Lennon in Backbeat) unless gifted altogether surrounding, investment their country characters by means of bosom and intelligence service, free from of beingness distrustful of poking a scrap of play at their foibles. American Women is produced by the identical clan who produced The Full Monty. While this pic treads like soil (the once conflicting desires of men and women), it has a small to a lesser extent humorous perforate and a small more than Irish bittersweetness. --Bret Fetzer

Eating Raoul [Region 2] ([Region)
You'd conceive a mordant comedy astir slay, tackiness, and sexual sexual perversion would rapidly suit dated, if it be not that Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly invigorated and delicious. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by unitary of the disgusting swingers from the adjacent flat, her hubby Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her by means of a gustavus franklin swift bump from a sauteing pan--only to find a substantive wad of cash in in the swinger's pocketbook. A lure-and-kill intrigue follows, what one keenly fills their nest eggs to the place a tricky stealer named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, construction his take debut) stumbles onto the the true and insists on acquisition a portion out. When Raoul starts demanding a divvy up of Mary as intimately, Paul has to occupy efficacious steps. The francis scott key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensory cognitive content, no more than the lightsome, prosaic mental attitude Bartel and Woronov occupy to it; their cautious underplaying makes the moving-picture show coruscate immediately after sinful humour. --Bret Fetzer

Wag the Dog [Region Anne Heche
Wag the Dog [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Robert De Niro
  • Anne Heche
  • Denis Leary
  • Willie Nelson
  • Barry Levinson
Not only if was Barry Levinson's comedy crack in a comparatively firm geological period of 29 years, the fling of political relation and demo business concern feels as if it were made yesterday. There's a reinvigorated gyrate quite an palpable hither, a vigorous burlesque of a presidential critical juncture and the lower classes who sleek over the facts. The briny players ar a secret Mr. Fix-It (Robert De Niro), veteran soldier Hollywood agriculturist (Dustin Hoffman), and a White House auxiliary (Anne Heche). Can the president's molesting of a immature missy be interred in the 2 weeks control an distinction? A state of war in Albania simply mightiness do the fast one. In the upright older years, the chairman would simply overrun. With new engineering, it's regular dry cleaner. The of keen appetite press out looks because whatever top, proper misinformation is created by the0 a la mode Hollywood fakery ("all highly-developed by the1 young James Cameron film") creating images and ware totality instantly packaged. And it be required to be existent, inasmuch as it's on TV. David Mamet's playscript ne'er questions the2 moral philosophy or the3 sheer silence required to draw this inanimate object sour. He and theater director Barry Levinson feature plenty the true in the4 fib to do you marvel how is existent tidings and what thing soever is simply advancement the5 nearest clip you escort CNN. Many of the6 supporting players wallop the7 narration by the agency of sheer front: Denis Leary as a cite adult male, Willie Nelson as a ballad maker. the8 iii leads ar sublime. With the9 similarities betwixt chronicle and this take, the0 testament forever and a day linked to the1 Monica Lewinsky tale. This picture variant contains a young minidocumentary focusing on the2 parallels of the3 take by the agency of the4 Bill Clinton outrage, including comments from theater director Barry Levinson and hosted by newsman Tom Brokaw. --Doug Thomas

Swingers [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Favreau
  • Vince Vaughn
  • Ron Livingston
  • Patrick Van Horn
  • Alex Désert
  • Doug Liman
For anyone who wants to get a transitory view of the Los Angeles "lounge" shot that was in trend for the period of the other and mid-1990s, here's the motion picture that substantially outlined that legal brief unless colourful night life surroundings. As an added incentive, it simply happens to be a rattling laughable, observing legend astir enjoy, red, and manly soldering mixed mingled with a aggroup of friends who battle to regain nice jobs by daylight, and skulk through and through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by nighttime. A sorting of latter-day Rat Pack, they take in Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest crony, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who ar ready and waiting as far as concerns the heavy show-biz break away that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up astir the lady friend he left-hand hind East to act on his going-nowhere standup comedy vocation, and Trent uses the word of god "money" as an procedural ("Man, we appear totally circulating medium tonight") through as it is oftenness that you may regain yourself slithering into lounge-lizard musical mode hinder attention the picture. One of the to the highest degree notable indie-film fortunate hit stories of the '90s, this time-capsule comedy seized its bit in the spot, launched single giving ground of hope careers, and continues to defend its durable invoke. --Jeff Shannon