Videos in my collection
Videos are graded as though they were in grade school...
- Yes, I have bought/recorded/got given a few:
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.
- Documentary.
- Follows individuals who have had AIDS, lest they be forgotten.
- Fairport Convention: It All Comes Round Again. A+
- Documentary.
- An excellent, informative history, complete with plenty of
excellent music, from the British folk-rock band, Fairport
Convention. I've played it quite frequently, as I seem to like the
combination of music here better than on any of their album releases.
- Fantasia. A+
- Cartoon, created to classical music.
- The other repeat performer in this home. A classic of animation, as
well as a repository of some very good music.
- Fried Green Tomatoes. A-
- Movie, drama.
- Believable characterizations and events in an earlier part of
the century, down South. It is personal interactions which make
this a powerful movie.
- The Gods Must Be Crazy. B
- Movie, comedy.
- Starts off quite well, but loses track towards the end. A Bushman,
bent on throwing a soda bottle off the edge of the world after it
foments contention in his tribe, meets up with civilization.
- How to Create Sushi.
- Documentary.
- As it says.
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark A-
- Movie, adventure.
- The first of the Indiana Jones adventures. Fast-paced, and
served done to a "T".
- The Last Temptation of Christ. A+
- Movie, drama.
- Simply awesome. There were those who protested the showing of
this movie when it first came out. However, this is a film of a
dream sequence -- it does not claim to be truth. After all, can one
be said to have been tempted by something, if one has no concept of
what one is giving up? The soundtrack by Peter Gabriel is his best
work ever.
- The Last Waltz.
- Documentary.
- A film made capturing the last major concert of the rock group
known as The Band. Been a while since I watched it, so it's
unrated.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail B+
- Movie, comedy.
- My copy, alas, is a home-tape job with the "naughty bits"
excised. British humor, poor ending, but some classic stuff
along the way.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show. C+ as a movie; A- as a cult phenomenon.
- Movie, musical comedy.
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- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. D
- Movie.
- As I recall, excruciatingly painful to watch. The only saving
grace is the first few minutes, a collage of actual footage of
early planes trying, and
failing, to get up enough speed to soar.
There's also a few episodes of things from television (Max Headroom, 1988 Winter
Olympics,...), a vacation to the Pacific Northwest, an earlier cat playing fetch, and
that's about it.
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