In Our Hands (Institutional: Colleges/Universities)

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An outright joy to behold.
-The San Francisco Chronicle
"Exhilarating, funny, poignant and occasionally frightening."
-The Village Voice
"One of the important films of our time."
-Hollywood Reporter

Documents June 12, 1982, a magic day in New York: the largest peace demonstration in history.

An uplifting documentary, it interweaves performers, individual marchers, aerial shots and down-to-earth scenes of the massive gathering when one million people with one voice called for an end to the Cold War nuclear arms race.

Capturing the magical spirit of that day with music, fun, tears, and a dazzling look at a cross-section of concerned humanity, "In Our Hands" is filled with high energy and warm feelings. Even the police were on the side of the demonstrators.

Twenty-five years later, with reports of plans for new nuclear weapons, "In Our Hands" reminds us of how people responded then, and may serve as a role model for those who dare to raise questions today.

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In Our Hands (Institutional: Colleges/Universities) Review

The film is a work of genius. It starts slowly, but builds steadily to a crescendo. It is the most INSPIRING, choke-you-up MOVING film about a real event and a lot of real, ordinary people that I've ever seen!

Richter says he just tried to show the Peace Movement and the Freeze Campaign for what it is. Looking back on it from 2012, what's portrayed in this film stands out like a mountain-sized diamond in an otherwise bleak landscape.

For those of you who remember these times--the zeitgeist--it will bring you right back to the warm sense of energy, excitement and love that permeated our culture (or at least, a large part of it). If you're too young to remember those days, you will see something that's been lost -- a faith -- a connectedness -- that we must all strive now to recreate together, before it's too late.

The work shown here is not yet completed.

Work for Peace.

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Eve and the Handyman [VHS]

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Eve and the Handyman [VHS] Review

Russ Meyer's second film Eve and the Handyman continues in the style and spirit of his earlier Immoral Mr Teas (1959) in presenting an essentially silent film with voice over narration. Eve (Eve Meyer) uses her private eye skills to follow Handyman (Anthony James-Ryan) as he goes from one job to the next. Another parallel to Mr. Teas is how the Handyman travels from one odd situation to the next, much as Mr. Teas did as a salesman in his feature. The Handyman is much more innocent though. He seems to be on a righteous path - abstaining from worldly desires. Not a determined hitchhiker or a crazy game of pinball can get this innocent man to stray from the straight and narrow. Eve seems to be pleasantly amused by the daily actions of the Handyman. Russ Meyer certainly doesn't disappoint with the ending which offers a surprising twist and reason for the entire film.

Like Teas before it this is a quite innocent film by today's standards. The nudity is playful and in somewhat good taste. Meyer does not seem to be pushing the envelope asa much as he had done a year earlier. This film acts more as an historical marker in the development of more adult oriented films that Meyer would make later. As it is it's inoffensive and a kind of quirky fun viewing experience.

The standard definition DVD has the same picture quality issues that are present on many of the ArrowFilms releases but considering the age of this film isn't really a problem. The mono sountrack does quite well with both the narration and the film score. Unfortunately there are no extra features.

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My Family: Complete Series[Region 2]

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United Kingdom 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: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: British comedy series about the Harper family. Father Ben is a dentist who'd like to see his children move out of the house as soon as possible because all he wants is peace and quiet. His eldest son Nick - who later on in the series does move out - is a complete idiot and a no-good who can't hold on to any of the various jobs he has. Daughter Janey is very shallow and not very picky when it comes to boys while son Michael is way too smart for Ben and doesn't feel the need to communicate much with his father. His curious wife Susan clearly makes all the decisions in the household. Later on in the series Ben gets an assistant at work, goofy and naive Roger, and when Janey finally moves out, no-brainer Abby moves in, while Janey keeps visiting, sometimes bringing along her little son, Kenzo. So much for Ben's peace and quiet. The complete boxed set of the BBC 1 comedy series My Family where put-upon dentist Ben Harper (Robert Lindsay) is long suffering husband to Susan (Zoe Wannamaker) and father to three very different and often difficult children - nice but dim Nick (Kris Marshall), shopaholic student Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) and prodigy Michael (Gabriel Thomson). SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, ...My Family - Complete Series - 22-DVD Box Set

My Family: Complete Series[Region 2] Review

I used to watch this show when it was on BBC America and then I bought the first four series on DVD. I couldn't wait to see the further adventures of the Harpers but the following series never appeared, so when I saw the complete series available I ordered it immediately. I discovered that my Mac computer will happily play these region 2 discs and I am currently enjoying them immensely. Black's Books and My Hero are next on my agenda. Why can't American tv produce shows this good?

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Banks-Modern Marvels [VHS]

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Banks-Modern Marvels [VHS] Review

"Banks" begins by reminding viewers of the impressive structure of older bank headquarter - imposing architectures to imply stability. Central to their safekeeping function were vaults made with steel-reinforced concrete covered with a steel shell. Today's vaults are thinner-walled than those of the 1920s, but stronger due to new materials. Modern vaults also contain ventilation systems, and multiple alarms - the most modern are protected with time locks.

Very early banking history is briefly covered by mentioning that ancient Greeks had vaults, and that the deposit system began in the 1300s in Italy.

Early U.S. banking was hobbled by multiple currencies - each bank had its own. Most credit, however, was outside the banking system - store credit. The end of the Civil War brought about standardization of American currency.

The Great Depression saw America's banks decrease from 25,000 to about 14,000. The FDIC arose during the New Deal.

Check processing has not changed much in 30-40 years - facilitated by magnetic recording that is machine readable and replaced hand processing. Credit cards (first in 1959) revolutionized credit, and ATMs (1968), revolutionized "branch" banking.

"Banks" ends with a brief reference to Internet-assisted banking, and the security of banks vs. robberies. However, it does not take up the rise of credit-card and banking fraud (including identify theft) - much bigger issues today.

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Bombay

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In a village in the Thirunelveli District (TN), young lovers overcome the barriers placed on them by tradition & religion to be with each other. Shekhar (Arvind Swamy), a young Hindu and Shah Bano (Manisha Koirala) a Muslim girl, fall in love at first sight. When both of their families object to their getting married, Shekhar & Shah Bano elope and move to Bombay. They live happily for a few years with their young sons Kamal & Kabir (Masters Hriday & Harsha) until the Bombay riots break out on December 6th, 1992. How the family face the crisis and what happens to them forms the basis for the story.

Bombay Review

You can find in this story all the dirty tricks that you can imagine to emotionaly engage an audience and make it reach a tear-splashed climax. First you have the Romeo-and-Juliet style love affair between the two main characters: the shocking love choice of a muslim girl by a hindu man that makes them abandom their families and native village, where life would be impossible, for the more tolerant atmosphere of the great city of Bombay.

When we have already begun to feel more relaxed, seeing they have comfortably (by Indian standards) settled in Bombay, and that their families have finally accepted the marriage after a pair of twins have been born to the happy couple, we must get ready to suffer in earnest. The infamous riots of Bombay begin. And then the film presents the dirtiest trick: the children of the couple will have to suffer the unleashed violence of ethnical and religious hatred.

We,as audience,suffer along with the parents, who are afraid have lost their children forever, but we are nevertheless mercilessly shown the results of this violence of neighbour against neighbour in hard, impossible to forget images (such as the one when the protagonists look for their children in a hospital ward and in a morgue), of course without gore-ish details, as is the canon in Bollywood, but by this time you must be made out of stone indeed if you are not crying your eyes out.

Another thing we are shown, and this is quite a common message in the Indian cinema lately, is how the riots are the result of the politicians'/religious leaders' vicious manipulation of the people's minds.
Although the political message of the film is very plain, to the point of being of pamphlet quality, and the emotional dirty tricks are felt as so many blows below the belt, it takes Bolliwood to make from all this tricky material a gripping story that has the audience watching on, with a lump on their throat, for three hours.

You can also find more levels than just the purely superficial in the movie: there is always the symbolism, so dearly loved by Indian cinema, as in the case of the twins and their fate. And there are some subtler messages: when one of the boys gets lost and is in danger of being trampled to death by a terrrified mob, he is rescued by an eunuch. And it is this most despised and marginal of members of society who, while tending to the boy's wounds and feeding him, finally explains to the boy what religion is, and what is the difference between a muslim and a hindu.

As usual with Bollywood films, there are musical numbers, but in this case we don't have any major star of India, although the main actors are great (she is especially charming in the style of Audrey Hepburn); but you have to watch out for the support actors: whenever the two fathers-in-law (one of them a very pious muslim, the other a very pious hindu...always having commical clashes)are in a scene the screen rocks!

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The Essential Dennis Potter: The Singing Detective, Pennies From Heaven, Brimstone & Treacle, Casanova, Blue Remembered Hills, Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton/Stand Up Nigel Barton, The Mayor Of Casterbridge [UK import, Region 2 PAL format]

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So far I've seen only "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven". I bought this for my wife and didn't expect to like it, but so far it's been excellent.

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