Dogtown and Z-Boys WS Blu-ray

$20.61USD (Added: 2009-10-28, Released: 2010-01-05)
SONY PICTURES

In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. But that began to change with the emerge of the Z-Boys, a team of teenaged skateboarders who emerged from a decaying urban community in Santa Monica, CA. Hard-core surfers who sought to translate the hot-dogging stunts of world-class wave riders onto their skateboards began hanging out at the Zephyr Productions Surf Shop, a store that stocked top-grade equipm

Riding Giants Blu-ray

$20.61USD (Added: 2009-10-28, Released: 2010-01-05)
SONY PICTURES

With the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, skater-cum-filmmaker Stacy Peralta introduced viewers to the history of the West Coast skateboarding culture and made a huge splash at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, taking home both the Documentary Directing Award and the Documentary Audience Award. For this follow-up effort, Peralta leaves the land for the sea, focusing his lens on the world of surfing. Narrated by Sean Penn, just as Dogtown and Z-Boys was, Riding Giants attempts to trace

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An American in Paris

$22.61USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-03-31)
WARNER HOME VIDEO

Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is discovered by wealthy Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), who becomes Jerry's patroness in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Jerry plays hookey on this setup by romancing waif-like Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron) -- who, unbeknownst to him, is the object of the affections of his close friend Henri (Georges Guetary), a popular nightclub performer. (

Cavalleria Rusticana/Highlights from Pagliacci

$33.58USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-02-24)
BBC / OPUS ARTE

This stage opus by Giancarlo del Monaco combines two separate and ostensibly unrelated operas - Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci - into a single production, by virtue of their shared verismo style. Jesús López Cobos directs for the stage; Violeta Urmana, Dragana Jugovic and Marco di Felice co-star in the Cavalleria portion, while Vladimir Galouzine, María Bayo and Carlo Guelfi co-star in the Pagliacci segments. {$The

Frozen River

$33.53USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-02-10)
SONY PICTURES

A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; it's two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mo

Gettysburg: The Battle and the Address Blu-ray

$19.54USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-04-07)
DISCOVERY KIDS

Gigi

$22.61USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-03-31)
WARNER HOME VIDEO

Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. {$Che

La La La Human Steps: Amelia

$33.58USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-02-24)
BBC / OPUS ARTE

Extended intertwining solos, complex partnering sequences, and remarkable speed combine to offer an award-winning meditation on the use of point technique in a powerful performance film that combines the restless grace of the dancer with the sensual lighting of André Turpin, a captivating minimalist setting, and an evocative score by composer David Lang - who combines violin, cello, piano, and vocals to striking effect. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Mars: The Quest for Life Blu-ray

$19.54USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-04-07)
DISCOVERY KIDS

Not Easily Broken

$33.53USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-04-07)
SONY PICTURES

Director Bill Duke steps behind the camera for this adaptation of the T.D. Jakes novel concerning a newly married couple that finds their union threatened by pressures involving faith, family, and finances. As the couple exchanges their vows, the minister lays a cord around them while uttering the blessing, "a threefold cord is not easily broken." Later, during their darkest hour, the minister's advice to always keep God at the center of their marriage could be the only thing that keeps this troubled

World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs Blu-ray

$19.54USD (Added: 2009-01-29, Released: 2009-04-07)
DISCOVERY KIDS

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