Saving Mr Banks & Mary Poppins [Blu-Ray][Region Free]

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Home Video

Garbo: The Signature Collection (DVD)Includes the best known films from a timeless and alluring actress of the 1920s and 1930s whose enigmatic beauty in a series of MGM silent films catapulted her to international movie stardom.]]> Who was Greta Garbo? For a while the greatest of all movie stars, then a celebrated recluse, always "the mysterious lady," Garbo purred, "I want to be alone," and people took her at her word. Of course, the real Garbo is actually the "reel" Garbo, the silvery, suffering creature on the movie screen--the way the light caught her eyes, and the way she slithered around in silk. There are other Garbo films to be seen, but Garbo: The Signature Collection is the essential Garbo, the alpha and omega for fans and beginners. This 10-disc package collects seven of her MGM sound pictures, three silents, and the Turner Classic Movies documentary Garbo, which gives a good career overview and warm testimony from friends and relatives (although more critical perspective on her talent would have been welcome). Some extras and commentaries are mixed in. The Garbo Silents disc features Flesh and the Devil, one of her sizzling box-office duets with John Gilbert; The Temptress, a wild number with Garbo as a man-killer who follows Antonio Moreno to the plains of Argentina; and The Mysterious Lady, a tight spy picture with Garbo as a Russian agent seducing the susceptible Conrad Nagel. When Garbo finally talked it was headline news, and if Anna Christie has aged a bit,...

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

Franco Zeffirelli directs Giuseppe Verdi's LA TRAVIATA. Features Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.

Manufacturer: Criterion Collection Color: black & white / color

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences—namely, young people—and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money made from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set—works created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id, and that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place). Head (1968) Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees... being catapulted through one of American cinema’s most surreal '60s odysseys. In it, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that’s movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once. Head escaped commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great cult objects of its era. (85 minutes, color, monaural/surround, 1.78:1 aspect ratio) Easy Rider (1969) This is the definitive counterculture b...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly CollectionTHE FRANK SINATRA & GENE KELLY COLLECTION ON THE TOWN The Bronx is up and the Battery's down, but no one can be down after seeing this ebullient tale of sailors on leave in Manhattan. Sinatra, Kelly and Jules Munchin are the gobs, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett are the gals. TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME Second baseman Sinatra and shortstop Kelly are in there pitching – pitching woo! Esther Williams and Betty Garrett costar in a tale of baseball and that other American pastime. ANCHORS AWEIGH I Fall In Love Too Easily, Frank croons. And we fall in love with the charms of two sailors at liberty in Tinseltown. Includes a milestone of musical fantasy: Kelly's dance with cartoon mouse Jerry!]]>

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Doris Day: The Essential Collection (DVD)Celebrate the ultimate girl next door, Doris Day, with 15 of her most beloved films. From her maiden movie voyage in 1948's Romance on the High Seas to 1966's hilarious The Glass Bottom Boat, one of the silver screen's greatest comediennes will sing, dance and romance her way into your heart! Tap your toes to classic songs by Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins and other legendary tunesmiths. Delight in dazzling dance numbers by Busby Berkeley and Bob Fosse. Marvel at the masterful direction by Michael Curtiz and Stanley Donen. A cavalcade of stars provides stellar support, including Jack Carson, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, James Cagney, David Niven, Jimmy Durante and other greats. See for yourself why this all-American girl is a world-renowned Hollywood icon! ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS Doris Day makes her maiden film voyage, setting sail on romantic seas as Mrs. Elvira Kent. Meanwhile, the real Elvira stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby as the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. MY DREAM IS YOURS Talent agent Doug Blake is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star and must scramble to discover another who will shine even brighter - and he does, in Doris Day's effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. IT'S A GREAT FEELING No director. No leading lady. No problem. If no on...

Manufacturer: Synergy Ent Brand: not rated

The Lawrence Welk Show, the longest-running televised American musical variety show, first aired locally in Los Angeles from 1951 to 1955, broadcast from the since-demolished Aragon Ballroom in Venice Beach. The show made its national television debut on July 2, 1955, and was produced at the Hollywood Palladium for 23 of its 27 years on the air. The only seasons not taped there were 1965-66, and 1976-77 at the Hollywood Palace, and at CBS Television City from 1977 to 1979. The Lawrence Welk Show remains a family favorite and can still be seen today on many PBS stations.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Musicals Collection (BD)Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures – and a hoofer-turnedmatinee idol (Gene Kelly) is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy (Donald O'Connor), prospective ladylove (Debbie Reynolds) and shrewish costar (Jean Hagen). The musical masterwork Singin' in the Rain is celebrated with special features that salute not just this all-time favorite but also the musical legacy of its producer, songwriter Arthur Freed.]]>