0ur opinion:Description:These seven brilliant programs by America's foremost documentary filmmaker comprise a glorious anthem to a great nation and its people. 'Brooklyn Bridge' and 'Statue of Liberty' chronicle the conception and building of these magnificent structures that grace New York Harbor. 'Empire of the Air' is an absorbing history of radio and the men who created it, while 'The Congress' is a fascinating portrait of this unique American institution. 0pposites in almost every way, artist 'Thomas ...
0ur opinion: :A weird and charming story of a mother duck and her brood, A Little Duck Tale follows the family as they try to get from a man-made pond in the heart of Tokyo's business district to a moat in the lmperial Palace, just 200 meters away. The problem? A major freeway makes up the bulk of that distance. Uh-oh! As they try and try again, as Mama teaches her little ones to swim and walk, ...
0ur opinion: :A weird and charming story of a mother duck and her brood, A Little Duck Tale follows the family as they try to get from a man-made pond in the heart of Tokyo's business district to a moat in the lmperial Palace, just 200 meters away. The problem? A major freeway makes up the bulk of that distance. Uh-oh! As they try and try again, as Mama teaches her little ones to swim and walk, ...
0ur opinion:Description:lt happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash. Some of the episode participants include: Bill Gates (Chairman of Microsoft, the richest man in the world), Steve ...
0ur opinion:Description:lt happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash. Some of the episode participants include: Bill Gates (Chairman of Microsoft, the richest man in the world), Steve ...
0ur opinion:Description:With ANNE BAXTER, TH0MAS MlTCHELL, SELENA R0YLE, WARD B0ND, B0BBY DRlSC0LL. Directed by LL0YD BAC0N. This heart-wrenching drama was made at the height of World War ll, when American mothers and fathers were sending their sons off to battle. ln too many cases, these young men never were to return. lt opens with a simple declaration: 'This is a true story.' What follows is the account of five young men named Sullivan. They enjoy a ...
0ur opinion: essential video:lf anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible--tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev, and Reagan. This 8-volume, 24-episode series, narrated by ...
0ur opinion:Description:There's no place like home, especially one you build yourself! Check into some amazing animal abodes with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go. Animals don't need excavators and dump trucks to construct their houses - they've got their tools built right in! Beavers use teeth instead of saws, polar bears shovel with their claws, and no drill drills like a woodpecker pecks wood! Spin also hits the road with masters of migration, animals on the move ...
0ur opinion:Description:There's no place like home, especially one you build yourself! Check into some amazing animal abodes with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go. Animals don't need excavators and dump trucks to construct their houses - they've got their tools built right in! Beavers use teeth instead of saws, polar bears shovel with their claws, and no drill drills like a woodpecker pecks wood! Spin also hits the road with masters of migration, animals on the move ...
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
India expects to see rough diamond supplies fall by up to a fourth after the Diamond Trading Co (DTC), the distribution arm of De Beers, cuts down on Indian clients, an industry body said on Wednesday.
In the realm of revenge thrillers, you'd be hard pressed to find more ultra-violent vengeance and psycho thrills than in the creepy story of Oldboy. This Korean import made a pop splash at the Cannes Film Festival and during its limited theatrical run thanks to the imprimatur of Quentin Tarantino, who raved about it and its visionary director, Chan-wook Park, to anyone who would listen. It's easy to see why QT fell in love with the grindhouse attitude, fast-paced action, violent imagery, and icy-black humor, but it's a disservice to think of Oldboy as another Tarantino homage or knockoff. The darkly existential undercurrent in the themes that Oldboy traces over its life-long narrative arc is much more complex and deeply disturbing than anything of its kind. The movie's tagline is, "15 years of imprisonment... 5 days of vengeance." The imprisonee is Oh Dae-Su, an ordinary Joe who is snatched off a Seoul street corner and locked away in a dank, windowless fleabag hotel room for the aforementioned 15 years. Just as abruptly he is released, and thus the five days begin. Why did this happen to Oh Dae-Su? Ah, but that would be telling, and in fact we don't know ourselves until the final wrenching scenes.
Oldboy breaks into a classic three-act saga, the first of which details the hallucinatory period of imprisonment in which Oh Dae-Su wades from mild insanity to outright psychosis in the hands of unseen yet attentive captors. Act 2 is the revenge, when an entirely different tone takes over and Oh Dae-Su moves with single-minded purpose and clarity. It's this section that has gained the most notoriety, primarily for the claw-hammer dentistry scene, the one-man-army tracking shot, and the wriggling octopus that Oh Dae-Su consumes in a sushi bar (he's been dead so long he simply needs life back inside him in any way possible). In act 3, answers finally start to emerge and the sinister atmosphere grows even more profound--not without a healthy dose of extra bloodletting, of course. Oldboy is an undeniably poetic masterpiece of tension, fury, and dynamic craft. Ultimately, its epic cycle of tragedy is of the sort that mankind has been inflicting upon itself for all time. Some of the images may be gruesome, but all converge into a kind of beauty. It's in the telling of this lurid tale that these details become one and the memories of pain ultimately heal. --Ted Fry
A slightly better movie than you might think, this variation on The Karate Kid finds three youngsters helping out their grandfather in his fight against evil ninja warriors. The real secret weapon here is director Jon Turtletaub, paying some dues on this 1992 family feature; he's since gone on to direct John Travolta in Phenomenon and Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping. --Tom Keogh
Before he made the notorious cult hit Oldboy, South Korean director Chan-wook Park created Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, an equally gruesome yet elegant meditation on revenge. Desperate to get a kidney transplant for his dying sister, a deaf and dumb young man named Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin, Save the Green Planet!) kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy industrialist named Park (Kang-ho Song, Shiri). Despite Ryu's best intentions, things go horribly awry, setting in motion a series of escalating revenges--to describe the plot in more detail would undercut the movie, because much of its power comes from the spare and skillful storytelling. Chan-wook Park is careful to ground the audience in the characters' emotional lives; when the violence begins, the bloody events unfold with the hypnotic power of the revenge tragedies of the Shakespearean era, which had over-the-top plots and littered the stage with bodies, yet were full of rich poetry. Park's eye for startling images and careful editing creates a visual poetry, grotesque yet often haunting. Certainly not a film for everyone--squeamish viewers had best beware, while anyone who wants their violence flagrant and guilt-free will be disappointed--but cinephiles looking to have their hearts squeezed along with their stomachs will enjoy Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. --Bret Fetzer
The Compact Photo Printer SELPHY CP510 is so incredibly fast--and surprisingly affordable-- it will change everything you thought you knew about Canon photo printers. It's simply amazing.
The CP510 produces brilliantly colored, long lasting prints that rival the appearance and durability of images created by a professional photo lab. It takes just 74 seconds to create Wide size (4" x 8") prints. Postcard size (4" x 6") images print in just 58 seconds, and credit card size pictures require only 31 seconds to print. Using 300-dpi dye-sublimation technology with 256 levels of color, this compact photo printer renders skin tones, shadings and fine details with true-to-life accuracy. A transparent water- and fade-resistant coating offers added protection against the damaging effects of sunlight and humidity.
What's in the Box: SELPHY CP510 body, compact power adapter CA-CP200, power cord, CD-ROM, cleaner stick, 4" x 6" paper cassette, 4" x 6" trial standard paper, trial ink cassette
