The Pest

Starring:John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy RodrÃguez, Tammy Townsend, Aries Spears, Joe Morton, Charles Hallahan, Tom McCleister, Ivonne Coll, Pat Skipper, Jorge Luis Abreu, Jennifer Broughton, Yau-Gene Chan, Judyann Elder, Paul Harris (VIII), Joe Jokubeit, David Bar Katz, Will Potter, Les Lannom
Director: Paul Miller
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Story line just too simple, and not funny enough
Love it!!!
RJ Learns The Value of Friendship
WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!
EXCELLENT FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD!

Over the Hedge (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Bruce Willis , Garry Shandling , Steve Carell , Wanda Sykes , and William Shatner
Director: Tim Johnson , and Karey Kirkpatrick
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
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The Wild

ASIN: B000H7JCK0
Release Date: 2006-10-17

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The manicured lawns and overstuffed garbage cans of suburbia become a buffet for woodland creatures in Over the Hedge. A self-centered raccoon named RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis, Die Hard) steals and accidentally destroys the hoard of an angry bear (Nick Nolte, 48 Hours), who gives the raccoon a week to replace it. RJ despairs--until he meets an odd gang of foragers, ranging from a turtle named Verne (Garry Shandling, The Larry Sanders Show), a father/daughter duo of opossums (the bizarre pairing of William Shatner and pop singer Avril Lavigne), a family of porcupines (with A Mighty Wind's Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as the parents), and a hyperactive squirrel named Hammy (Steve Carell, The 40 Year Old Virgin). By convincing these friendly beasts that the suburban homesteads on the other side of a recently erected hedge are a mother-lode of cast-off food, RJ hopes to dupe them into doing his gathering. But when the suburban residents realize they've been invaded by woodland pests, an exterminator is called to take care of the problem. The overarching storyline of Over the Hedge is pure formula--your basic "family matters more than anything" lesson--but moment to moment, the movie is delightfully crisp and clever. The animation is topnotch, the acting is excellent (other voices include those of Allison Janney, The West Wing, and Thomas Haden Church, Sideways), and the satirical jabs at consumerism are actually funny. An above-average animated movie. --Bret Fetzer

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The pack strikes back! In DreamWorks' smash hit comedy, a band of hungry forest critters goes "over the hedge" to take a bite out of Suburbia. Plus, check out the All-New Mini-Movie, Hammy's Boomerang Adventure only on the Over the Hedge DVD… It's the funniest, furriest, four minutes you'll see this year!

Customer Reviews:

Story line just too simple, and not funny enough.......2007-06-27

It's funny in some clips but in the whole, not funny enough. I thought my son will love the animals in the movie but he doesn't like it at all. Neither my wife nor myself find it very enjoyable either.

I bought it because all the great reviews we read about but pretty disappointed.

Love it!!!.......2007-06-25

You can never go wrong with a movie fill with actors/actresses voices. This movie had a very good stroy line. It was hilarious!!! This is a must own for your collection. There's very few movies where I watch it more than one time. This is one that I will watch over and over again.

RJ Learns The Value of Friendship.......2007-06-12

I have always been a fan of animation, Disney, cartoons, etc. There have been many new releases that haven't made much of an impression with me - Over The Hedge is NOT one of those! The entertainment value of this movie is multiplied several times over as a result of the cleverly woven ethical dilemmas and life lessons scattered throughout. The tough guy, RJ accomplishes his original goal - only to find that everything he was taking, would have been voluntarily shared with him - because he was considered a "friend". Not only does Rj find out what real friendship means, the original gang also learns a valuable lesson about trust and loyalty.
This is a wonderfully written, exceptionally well presented movie - that is fun for the whole family!

WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!.......2007-06-07

I am not much into animated movies but this one was top notch.
Such wonderful slapstick comedy by a bunch of animals that have run afoul of human neighbors.
The whole complete entourage was a wonderful group to place together.
Bruce Willis as the troublemaker RJ, the coon who had to run afoul of the bear and his snacks [Nick Nolte].

I have to admit that I enjoyed, even more, the extra - describing each character and the personality taking the part.
And Thomas Hayden Church as the exterminater - so real and different - I had only seen him in the frontier western.
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING - Recommend for all to see.

EXCELLENT FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD!.......2007-05-31

I really liked this movie! The animation and characters are first rate,though the story is simple it's all you'll need to get the ball rolling in the wacky and very funny comedy. The DVD looks fantastic!

Average customer rating:

Story line just too simple, and not funny enough
Love it!!!
RJ Learns The Value of Friendship
WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!
EXCELLENT FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD!

Over the Hedge (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Bruce Willis , Garry Shandling , Steve Carell , Wanda Sykes , and William Shatner
Director: Tim Johnson , and Karey Kirkpatrick
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B000H7JCKA
Release Date: 2006-10-17

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Customer Reviews:

Story line just too simple, and not funny enough.......2007-06-27

Love it!!!.......2007-06-25

RJ Learns The Value of Friendship.......2007-06-12

WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!.......2007-06-07

EXCELLENT FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD!.......2007-05-31

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It knocked me out of my chair
the pest is awsome
Fun and irreverant film
Fell outa my chair I laughed so Hard!!
WOW! I am at lass for words.

The Pest
Starring: John Leguizamo , Jeffrey Jones , Edoardo Ballerini , Freddy Rodríguez , and Tammy Townsend
Director: Paul Miller
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ASIN: B00004STDB
Release Date: 2000-06-13

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It knocked me out of my chair.......2007-03-12

Being that this film was a parody of "The Most Dangerous Game" (1996) [says, TLA Video] and John Woo's (yes, him) "Hard Target" (1993) ["The Pest" (1997) most closely resembles "Hard Target", which did win awards from Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA]. It most likely is inspired and adapts from both films--both serious films while this was a farce and satire. Perhaps not politically correct if analyzing those "Quacky" and karaoke scenes?

Some would say too much emphasis on bodily humor, but this is a film about hunting--the outdoors--where men (& women) squat and use pheremones ["Father, I feel funny"] to attract prey!

John Leguizamo vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme? Does it get any funnier?

It goes on the shelf next to "Beyond Therpay" and "Sibling Rivalry".

the pest is awsome.......2006-11-10

i tell you what if you like John Leguizamo you'll love the pest

Fun and irreverant film.......2006-06-27

This is a movie I remember watching when I was a teenager. It is a mix between the Wayans brothers and Ferris Bueller. The film's humor is often short and cartoonish set in the early 90s. John Leguizamo is incredibly funny in his role-a hustling latino caught in the most deadly game. If it were meant to be serious, Leguizamo's exploits as a Chinese waiter and the snake-crazed son of the hunter most certainly destroyed its chances.

A fun movie if you want mindless humor and a nonexistent plot. Might sound bad from that line, but I enjoy the movie.

Fell outa my chair I laughed so Hard!!.......2006-03-20

I have wanted this movie for so long!! My mom got it for my birthday and it is awesome!! It is super hilarious, John L. who stars in it is just terrific!! He can change personalities so quick you forget you are still watching the same guy!!! I reccommend this movie to everyone!!

WOW! I am at lass for words........2005-09-29

5 stars can not even begin to describe how awsome this movie is. Like in the begining of the movie when hes singing. I got two words for you baby. American Idol. Oh yea. I mean how can you not like him and his crazy antics. Like when he is running from the crazy german gimp guy, he keeps a cool head. I mean i thought i was watching rambo when i saw what he was doing to survive in the jungle. And when he was craping, i mean it takes courage to crap while your being hunted. All i can say is that this one i a must-buy. I myself own 3 copies.

Buster Keaton - 65th Anniversary Collection (General Nuisance / His Ex Marks the Spot / Mooching Through Georgia / Nothing but Pleasure / Pardon My Berth Marks / Pest From the West / So You Won't Squawk / The Spook Speaks / The Taming of the Snood / She's Oil Mine)

Average customer rating:

much better than expected
Wildly uneven, this is a one-watch special.
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Hard to Get Keaton Sound Shorts Well Presented

Buster Keaton - 65th Anniversary Collection (General Nuisance / His Ex Marks the Spot / Mooching Through Georgia / Nothing but Pleasure / Pardon My Berth Marks / Pest From the West / So You Won't Squawk / The Spook Speaks / The Taming of the Snood / She's Oil Mine)
Starring: Buster Keaton , Dorothy Appleby , Monte Collins , Cy Schindell , and Harry Semels
Director: Jules White
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ASIN: B000E1EHQI
Release Date: 2006-03-07

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An entire missing segment of Buster Keaton's career is filled in with the release of this collection, which comprises the 10 shorts Keaton made at Columbia Pictures in 1939-41. If you're a Keaton fan (and why on earth wouldn't you be?) this section of the great man's work has always been in dispute--and above all, hard to see. After his career collapsed at the beginning of the 1930s, Buster Keaton struggled to find a niche in Hollywood, and the Columbia contract was essentially his last sustained opportunity to headline in films on a regular basis. It was a difficult fit from the start: Keaton did not have the artistic control he enjoyed over his 1920s classics, and director Jules White (who helmed most of the Columbia shorts) had a radically different view of comedy from his star. White guided the hijinks of Columbia's busiest comedy stars, the Three Stooges, and his leadpipe-to-the-noggin style did not mesh well with Keaton's measured, logical approach.

If one dials down expectations, some of the Columbia shorts (around 16-17 minutes long) are enjoyable in the baggy-pants style of the Three Stooges. And when it comes to searching for signs of the old Keaton, there are usually one or two blossoms poking out of the overall bluntness. Mooching through Georgia, a Civil War spoof, has moments of silent hilarity and a Keatonesque note of fatalism as Buster is marched to his own execution. Nothing but Pleasure has a terrific sequence involving a drunk woman who wanders into Buster's motel room, and Buster's efforts to get her into a Murphy bed. She's Oil Mine features a breathtaking gag in which Keaton is spun around like a tire iron in order to get a pipe unstuck from his finger. Keaton, in his mid-40s, is still in athletic form, although thanks to alcohol and disappointment he looks older than his years.

Commentaries adorn the shorts, and there's a useful 25-minute documentary giving the general outline of Keaton's life and details on the Columbia arrangement. It's refreshingly honest about the mixed quality of these films, and contains excerpts from his silent shorts that suggest how far the genius had slipped. In that sense, while this DVD package honorably presents a moment from film history (and with fine technical specs all around), the actual watching of these shorts is tinged with sadness. The casual moviegoer curious about Keaton should go elsewhere; the completist will want it; the amateur historian will want to give a look to see what the "missing years" were all about. --Robert Horton

Description

Ten comedic shorts from the Great Stone Face himself, Buster Keaton, arrive on DVD for the first time ever in this must-own special two-disc set. The honorary Academy Award®-winner shines in rare films from Hollywood's golden - and hilarious - years. Teamed with the brilliant comediennes Dorothy Appleby and Elsie Ames, Keaton bumbles from one side-splitting mishap to another, always maintaining his famously blank expression. Whether he's a millionaire, a plumber, or a hat maker, Keaton's physical antics and hapless adventures light up the screen in these unforgettable 1940s comedies. The Buster Keaton Collection will have you doubled over with laughter.

Customer Reviews:

much better than expected.......2007-05-10

The Columbia shorts are much maligned, yet this set proves that this is unfair for the most part. Out of the 10 two-reelers Buster did for Columbia, at least seven are quite good. Sure, they do not reach the heights of his silent classics, and they were made on the (very) cheap. But they are very energetic and fast-moving, and even in his forties (and after a gruelling battle with alcohol and depression) Buster still busts out some very impressive physical skills. Plots don't make sense, slapstick is everywhere, and the influence of director/producer Jules White, who was the man behind the Three Stooges shorts, is very noticeable. Yet he still allows Buster to be Buster, in most cases (not giving him too much dialogue, allowing him to rework some of his older routines in a creative way). Buster is at his worst when handling dialogue: he never sounds comfortable, his voice is scratchy and monotonous and he has a tendency to bob his head with every word he utters. Yet when he is silent, the magic is still there.
Some of the shorts use Harold Lloyd-style gags, others have scenes clearly inspired by Laurel and Hardy, and several times Buster adapts the plot of earlier (talkie) films he was in. Most successfully so in the delightful Pest from the West, a far shorter remake of his British film The Invader. It's probably the only film here which equals Buster's silent material for inventiveness and surreal humor. But there is much fun to be had with almost every film in this collection.
Buster has an appealing leading lady in Dorothy Appleby, and a more... special one in Elsie Ames, who is so raucous she makes Betty Hutton seem demure. On the other hand, she has some very impressive physical skills which makes her the only female performer who could (almost) match Buster on the acrobatic front. Another recurring player is Monty Collins, who is another broad comedian with far less talent than Keaton. But in some of the shorts, they play off each other quite well (especially Mooching In Georgia, a Civil War farce).
The extras are nice: informed commentaries by film historians and a good documentary on Keaton's work in the thirties, and, most impressively, a facsimile of an original script, including the hand-written notes of the director.
Highly recommended for anyone who loves old-school slapstick comedy, not only for Keaton fanatics.

Wildly uneven, this is a one-watch special........2006-08-10

Yes, you will basically buy this collection to watch it once. But then, NO Buster Keaton fan has any excuse to avoid this set, which contains many fine moments interpersed with the crummy overall quality of these films.

First, let's deal with the quality of this set, seperate from the quality of the content.

These films have been pretty well mastered, are clean, and have that typical crummy Columbia sound and sound effects. These were not carefully filmed or recorded, but were done well enough to be acceptable. The transfers are well done, and the commentaries are pretty good.

The package is rather wierd. It's as if we aren't supposed to know what we are really getting. No mention is made of the Columbia Studio on the outside of the box at all, and the era these films were made is only apparent if you look really closely. The front picture is of a Buster who is MUCH younger than he was when he made these films, and the drawing on the back appears to not be Buster as much as James Dean. The shooting script may be the most pointless of bonus materials ever included in a set.

That said, these films have been regularly crucified by various reviewers over the years. It's hard to say whether they really deserve this treatment. Sure, these are pretty weak stuff compared to Buster in his heyday, but there are some absolutely brilliant moments when Buster gets to really have some fun. "General Nuisance" has a particularly funny moment when Buster is doing a dance routine with a visitor, and steps into two brass spittoons. He completes his tap routine incredibly wel using the spittoons as taps! I'm not sure how many other comedians could have done this. "Pest from the West" is a relief from some of his worse work, and "The Taming of the Snood" is a rather bizarre piece that works rather well.

Some other films are merely terrible. "His Ex Marks the Spot" probably should be on a list of films to allow to burn if the archives catch fire. "Pardon My Berth Marks" has a title that by itself should be shot.

The other actors are pretty terrible, and Buster is often just marking time, but those good moments shine through and make it worthwhile, until you think about the actual effort it would take to watch this set and find them again. I suggest that you take good notes about what you like, and store them with the discs, so that if you ever do mistakenly watch this set again, you will be able to watch al the really good parts, and then, 20 minutes later, watch something better.

4 stars for guts in releasing this.

Keaton Still Weaves His Magic.......2006-07-17

Having never seen any of these Columbia Shorts before purchasing this set I relied entirely on other's comments, some were not so favourable and others were. I am glad I listened to the favourable comments as this is a set that I am very glad to own.

I know that Buster was not necessarily proud of his work at Columbia (he called the Columbia shorts "Cheaters") and that was due to a couple of reasons. They would not give him the time to develop storylines and they would not give him the money. The director on 8 of the 10 shorts was Jules White(of 3 Stooges fame), who was not sympathic to Buster's form of comedy, but Buster needed the money. Having said that I have to add that within all these shorts are moments of Keaton's magic and that is why they are worth watching and owning.

A couple of stand outs here in my opinion are "Pest from the West" (which was his first Columbia short) and "Mooching Through Georgia". There is excellent and informative commentary on all these shorts and a very interesting documentary to show how Buster came to be making these shorts. I would not recommend these to new Buster fans, I would say get his classics first, including his Arbuckle Shorts.

Lastly on a Region note I live in Australia and I had no trouble playing this DVD on my multi region DVD player.

Any Buster, Any Time........2006-06-01

Some will argue that the Columbia shorts consist of some of the worst films in Keaton's career. Buster himself may even chime in on that one. But the year is 2006, and the true legends of comedy are being forgotten at an alarming rate. Today when Jackie Chan tells reporters that his hero was Buster Keaton; he sometimes has to explain who Buster was. Thanks to folks like Keno video, we have many of Keaton's silent masters in wonderful condition to view anytime we want. But I don't think it should be stopped there.
Not when the very worst of Keaton still has scenes that out shine any comic of today. I would rather see Buster sit in a chair and talk, than watch some new comic try his best to copy Mr. Keaton and call himself original.
I'm sure Davinci had works he was not proud of. But I would hate to put a cap on his works and only show the "good stuff."
Like Davinci, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy; Buster Keaton was a master of the craft. Even when he didn't want to be.

Hard to Get Keaton Sound Shorts Well Presented .......2006-04-19

A treat for Keaton Fans. Not his best work, but some very entertaining moments can be found in these shorts.

Keaton made some of the funniest, most inventive, and witty silent shorts and features of all time. He didn't just come up with a smart sight gag, he played with audience expectations and often found an extra twist. Along the way he experimented with camera tricks, techniques and much more. He wasn't merely a clown, but an artist. Many already know this.

In the late 1920's and early 1930s, Keaton was under contract to MGM. They took away a lot of his creative control and forced him to star in stage adaptations and team up with Jimmy Durante in a couple of movies. Keaton was having some personal problems as well, and his drinking was out of control. The movies weren't funny, weren't popular and he was more and more difficult to work with. His career was at a low point by the mid 1930s. He was let go from MGM.

By the late 1930s he had stopped drinking and his personal life was much happier. Columbia convinced him to do a series of sound shorts under the direction of people like Del Lord and Jules White. The shorts were made between 1939 to 1941 at Columbia Pictures utilizing the same crews and directors as Columbia's 3 Stooges shorts. Keaton fans will find a still very agile 45 year acrobatic Keaton able to create magic moments. The budgets were small and the shooting schedule was usually confined to 3 days. Some of the shorts were not written with Keaton in mind, but there are moments in every single offering where Keaton's skill and experience shine.

Ten shorts have been collected on the two discs (they are not arranged chronologically here-who knows why) among the gems are Pest from the West (a solid abridged remake of the mostly awful feature film he did in the U.K. called: "The Invader " aka "An Old Spanish Custom). He re-stages part of his old vaudeville act in the short "Taming of the Snood". There's a very funny Keaton classic routine (with a slight twist) in "Nothing but Pleasure". A wonderful little bit of dance choreography makes "General Nuisance" enjoyable, "So You Won't Squawk" has several fun sequences and good use of a stock chase scene, and the best of the shorts is the last one he did for Columbia called "She's Oil Mine" which finishes off with one of the best versions he's ever done of his famous `duel scene'.

These were cheap quickly made comedies cranked out by Columbia's short division. The schedule frustrated Keaton who felt with a few more shooting days on each short he could have improved them. They wanted him to make more, but he decided to not re-new his contract. He successfully stopped drinking, found a life partner, and led a modest life behind the scenes (writing gags for other stars-particularly Red Skeleton) for nearly a decade. Then by the 1950s he had been re-discovered and made many appearances on television, did numerous live shows and eventually made industrial films, appeared in small roles in several movies, and was moved by how many people re-discovered and enjoyed his old silent films.

The DVD's include commentaries by a few film scholars and genuine fan club folks that run on each of the shorts. They give you some interesting perspective and some fun trivia notes if you care to listen to them. For the DVD collection a new mini-documentary was created that gives a retrospective of Keaton's transition from silent movies to MGM talkies to the making of these Columbia shorts. The documentary takes the honest view that these films were not nearly as good as the silent shorts and while entertaining, Keaton was not proud of his work on these with the exception of "Pest from the West' and `She's Oil Mine'.

Don't expect the best of Keaton here, but if you are a fan, there's a lot here to enjoy. Good value for the money provided you know what to expect.

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So much about the housefly

Housefly: An Everyday Monster
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ASIN: B000056MMY
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On the nuisance and disgust scale, the common housefly probably ranks quite a bit lower than the cockroach, the rat, and perhaps even the ant. But, as Housefly: An Everyday Monster proves, it's no less deserving of its own documentary. Clocking in at an eminently digestible 45 minutes, this Austrian-made, British-narrated film is an excellent primer on flies, their origins, their habits, and their predators. Using crisp macrophotography of the sort employed to spectacular effect on the 1996 film Microcosmos, director Kurt Mündl brings us up close and personal with what indeed looks like a monster. Like all good nature documentaries, Housefly entertains while it educates, balancing every dose of delightful creepiness (squirming maggots in cow dung!) with informative tidbits about a creature with which we've coexisted for thousands of years. For instance, did you know that many flies tend to get a fungus in autumn that slowly kills them? Apparently, in one of nature's more comforting examples of poetic justice, even parasites get parasites. --Steve Landau

Customer Reviews:

So much about the housefly.......2003-09-06

All the info you'll ever need about houseflies and more. Amazing close-ups showing the strange mouth parts of flies and footages of maggots eating a dead animal make this DVD fascinating but somewhat hard to stomach.

Average customer rating:

Story line just too simple, and not funny enough
Love it!!!
RJ Learns The Value of Friendship
WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!
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ASIN: B000H5TUDQ
Release Date: 2006-10-17

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Story line just too simple, and not funny enough.......2007-06-27

Love it!!!.......2007-06-25

RJ Learns The Value of Friendship.......2007-06-12

WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO SPEND THE EVENING!.......2007-06-07

EXCELLENT FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD!.......2007-05-31

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Lovely Hungarian Film... Ugly DVD transfer from Facets/Bunyik

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Starring: Mari Törõcsik , Iván Darvas , Eszter Nagy-Kálózy , Dezsõ Garas , and Eileen Atkins
Director: Károly Makk
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ASIN: B000FMGTTO
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Description

Legendary Hungarian actors Mari Torocsik and Ivan Darvas reunite with master director Karoly Makk for his last feature film, a contemporary romantic drama set in picturesque Budapest. Darvas stars as Ivan, an aging retiree who was forced to leave Hungary during the `56 revolution. He lives in comfortable retirement with his wife in Switzerland, but a phone call prompts him to return to his homeland. He is reunited with a former lover (Mari), who has lived with many secrets that will change his life. Over thirty years before the release of A LONG WEEKEND, Torocsik and Darvas, a popular romantic team in Hungarian films, starred in Makk's internationally acclaimed LOVE, which daringly explored the theme of lovers separated by the state. The three legends of Hungarian cinema now reunite for Makk's final theatrical film.

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Lovely Hungarian Film... Ugly DVD transfer from Facets/Bunyik.......2006-09-23

This is a lovely film, the final work of Hungarian film-maker Karoly Makk. It tells of an aging man's return to Hungary after some 40 years in exile following his involvement in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Now happily retired and living in Switzerland with his wife, he suddenly receives a call telling him that the love of his younger days is dying. He hurries home, visits her in hospital and learns of her life; of the secrets she kept from him and of the daughter he never realised he had. It's a very quiet, subdued, nostalgic film; sad but with a glimmer of hope at the end.

The DVD from Facets/Bunyik is an utter disgrace. The producers should be charged with false adverstising. The DVD cover blatantly states that the film is in 16:9 Anamorphic. But it is nothing of the sort. It is in the original 1.85:1 widescreen but letterboxed into a standard 4:3 frame (Non-anamorphic). The lack of anamorphic enhancement is not the worst of it. The picture looks truly execrable. The print is extremely dark. Faces are almost perpetually in shadow. Even scenes in broad daylight look murky. In darker scenes, you can forget about seeing what is happening onscreen. The image is extremely soft, approaching blurriness. Colours occasionally smear. There is a dirty yellowish-brownish tint on the print that makes the film look like something from the 1960s. You'd never believe this film came from 2003. The DVD player defaults to "Bob" mode during deinterlacing, usually indicating a video source as opposed to an original film source (It looks like this was taken off a video-master instead of the original film and judging by the poor quality I'm sure that's the case). Optional English subtitles are included. The only Extra is a 12-minute interview with Karoly Makk which looks beautiful in contrast to the horrid main feature. Utterly disgraceful and totally unrecommendable. Rent it if you must, but don't reward Facets/Bunyik by buying this.

Classic Ants Colony Films DVD: 1950s Ant Colonies Behavior, Ant Lifecycles, & Ant Extermination and Control History Pictures Films

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Classic Ants Colony Films DVD: 1950s Ant Colonies Behavior, Ant Lifecycles, & Ant Extermination and Control History Pictures Films

Manufacturer: Quality Information Publishers Inc.
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Table Of Contents:
(1) Ant City (1949) - 10 Minutes (2) Goodbye, Mrs. Ant (1959) - 13 Minutes

ASIN: B000QJ1X5Q

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This vintage ant films collection explores the amazing and complex world of ant colonies. The film Ant City examines the hierarchy in ant life while Goodbye, Mrs. Ant, focuses on ant control and extermination while acknowledging their societal sophistication. After all, "when the objective is the human home, ants are pests" Table Of Contents: (1) Ant City (1949) - This playful film discusses the complex and interwoven lives of ants living in an ant colony. Narrated by Johh Kieran and produced by Paul F. Moss, this delightful film compares the lives of ants to that of humans and includes a grand wedding as the queen ant get married. This classic film discusses all facets of ant life focusing on activities of worker ants 10 Minutes (2) Goodbye, Mrs. Ant (1959) - This ant propaganda piece begins by explaining that "ants live in a highly developed social order," and should be admired for their intelligence. Quickly the film changes its tone and begins to explore ant control and extermination methods, calling ants "greedy" and in need of rigid population control. This film was created by Johh Kieran and produced by Paul F. Moss & Thelma Shnee along with the University of Georgia & Velsicol Chemical Corp 13 Minutes

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Funny, but not as good as Cane Toads

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Starring: Rat-Meet the Neighbors
Manufacturer: Time Life Records
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Cane Toads - An Unnatural History

ASIN: B0002XL2R0
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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RAT captures the real-life horror as Gotham meets the invading vermin. Marvel at the resilience of these furry little creatures, while hearty New Yorkers share tales of battle, and, in some cases, defeat. The cameras go on patrol with the city's famed exterminators, then behind walls, through pipes and deep into the New York underground to reveal the hidden world of rats. The journey is laced with both horror and humor alike. Join us for a nature film unlike any other. Who will be king of the concrete jungle? Man or RAT?

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Funny, but not as good as Cane Toads.......2007-06-02

This video takes a humorous look at Rats as a "natural" and "native" creature in urban areas, particularly in NYC. It's an excellent companion to Rat, by Robert Sullivan-- a book that looks at Rats in their "natural habitat"-- the CITY!!! The slightly subversive humor of Cane Toads is present here, but its not nearly as tight. This is a good film, but not one I would go out of my way to see again.

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Inside Story: Exterminators

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000E37394
Release Date: 1998-12-01

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They're part detective, part hit man, part scientist and part cowboy. They prowl the underbelly of the urban landscape in pursuit of their prey. EXTERMINATORS follows the people who help control New York City's roaches and rats. Like hired guns, they take care of business and then disappear. They go where others dare not go and see what others fear to see. EXTERMINATORS introduces those on the front line: a husband and wife team who breed huge Madagascar roaches because you must understand your enemy; a man who prowls the subway tracks at night fighting to control the rat population; a Department of Health official who leads teams of exterminators through neglected buildings and abandoned lots. And meet a former exterminator who now writes poetry about the profession as well as those who don't believe in pest control and think the problem is not with the pests but with the slovenly ways of humans.

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