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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You Are Going

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Are you there?
crossing dimensions...of love...
"But, she's the woman of your dreams"
No te mueras sin decirme a donde vas

Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You Are Going
Starring: Mariana Arias , Candela Balbuena , Camila Cabral , Manuel Cruz , and Ricardo Fasan
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ASIN: B0002J5996
Release Date: 2004-09-07

Description

CINEMA PARADISO meets WINGS OF DESIRE in this fantastical and hopelessly romantic film. Dario Grandinetti (TALK TO HER) stars in this startling, mind-bending romantic drama from Argentina's master of magical realism, director Eliseo Subiela (DARK SIDE OF THE HEART, MAN FACING SOUTHEAST). Grandinetti stars as Leopoldo, a lonely film projectionist who has invented a machine to record his dreams. Through a series of odd events, Leopoldo discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through the centuries.

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Are you there?.......2007-05-03

What if you had a great, timeless love, who found you again in every lifetime? What if dreams were like radio transmissions to the soul, awakening what our brains can't remember?

Those are the messages of "Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You Are Going," an exquisite mixture of magical realism and a deep love story. Eliseo Subiela did a brilliant job spinning up a movie full of lingering, haunting imagery, as well as an ode to the cinema, dreams -- and how love can bring meaning to anyone's life.

Leopoldo (Darío Grandinetti) has a dull job at a failing theatre, a fretful wife, and a pet plant called Anita. But at night he works on his "dream collector," and on the night he first gets it to work, he captures a dream of a beautiful woman playing the piano, stirring feelings of passionate love. And the woman magically appears in the theatre the next day -- a spirit named Rachel (Mariana Arias) who says that he was her husband in a past life.

Bewitched by Rachel, and the tales of the life they once lived together, Leopoldo spends most of his time listening to her, and exploring the mysterious abilities of the dream collector -- it's allowing him to see the spirits of the dead, who haven't been reborn. And through Rachel, he explores the limits of life, rebirth, and a love that can't be broken even by death.

Everybody gets bogged down at some point, in a life that seems dreary and mundane. Some people never escape it. But Eliseo Subiela shows us one man's journey beyond that drab existance -- real, timeless, selfless love can drag us up and give us meaning that nothing ever had before.

Most movies can't pack as much into their story as "Don't Die..." manages to -- it touches on God, reincarnation, true love, the origins of cinema, and a robot that prays and sings. Despite being so full, the story seems exquisitely simple. Subiela fills the screen with lots of pale light, sepia-toned flashbacks and quiet conversations.

And he brings us beautifully understated moments like Rachel wandering through a hospital nursery, wistfully asking a newborn Leopoldo, "Are you there?" But the highlight is when we see what reincarnation looks like: hundreds of spirits, of all ages and cultures, walking eagerly towards the light of rebirth. Even if you don't believe in reincarnation, it's a lovely sight.

Grandinetti does an understatedly brilliant job as a humble projectionist who eagerly follows his dreams, and is trying to sort out what Rachel tells him. He grows more expressive and sweet throughout the movie, and you find yourself yearning to see him find some happiness. And Arias is a perfect mixture of wisdom, playfulness, and sorrow, and she can convey more in a twist of her neck than most actresses can with their whole bodies.

"Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going" is a bittersweet gem, a beautiful ode to love, death and the art of moviemaking. A must-see, for anyone who's longed to find that distant "someone."

crossing dimensions...of love..........2005-11-01

Eliseo Subiela, the director of this film, is the great South American cinematic fabulist, having also made Man Facing Southeast (still waiting for that to appear on DVD) and The Dark Side of the Heart. Here, he creates characters who "span time" (to use the great expression from Buffalo '66), similar to the theme of the Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time.

But in Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You Are Going, Subiela transcends the American film considerably and that's because the main character here, Leopoldo, is directly involved in CREATING the woman of his dreams rather than, as is the case with the Christopher Reeve character in Somewhere in Time, being the passive recipient of fate that brings him when chance permits to his eternal love.

In addition, Subiela wisely and directly connects this active bridging of dimensions with cinema itself. Leopoldo is a film projectionist in a second-rate movie theater in, one presumes, Buenos Aires, that shows old and new films both. His dreams pervade the film--another difference between this and the American film--commencing with a vision of a young man working long ago with Thomas Edison who creates a device to project images--the kinetiscope, which was really the first movie projector.

When the love of his life appears in one of his dreams--Leopoldo has analogously created a device to record and view his dreams--she reveals herself as the wife of the young man, who is (or was) Leopoldo himself, now the reincarnated version of the young man.

This beautiful magic realist film penetrates right to the core of romanticism and brings to the viewer the essence of love cinematically. Love, says Subiela, is the dream we cannot live without, the dream we create in our real day to day lives to transcend what we know every day and live beyond that everyday life. Love, he says in this film, is both the real and the fantastic--both are represented here, as Leopoldo's wife of 20 years and his eternal love who speaks to him as a spirit of his long past.

His wife is a dyed in the wool realist who, because she loves her husband, tolerates his eccentric ways (he carries a plant with him wherever he goes--an entity that, we come to realize, he needs to prove to himself that his feelings generate vibrations which the plant responds to; his wacky dream machine he connects to a fedora). The whimsy of the dream machine in the fedora is a great touch and subtly recalls life from decades past when things were simpler and quieter and, we feel from Leopoldo's character, more heartfelt.

Leopoldo's friend, Oscar, is another inventor and this is another excellent story device; the two men can bounce ideas off each other, again giving this film much more substance in the realm of bridging the real and the fantastic than Somewhere in Time. Oscar has invented a robot and is initially skeptical of the results of Leopoldo's invention. But once he sees Raquel, Leopoldo's eternal love, he begins to change his mind...

This is a great film, full of beauty and mysticism, echoing the depths of the heart. Highly recommended.

"But, she's the woman of your dreams".......2005-02-20

It is uplifting to see so many Argentinean movies from the 90s come out on DVD in the US, since this provides a good alternative to those people interested in watching something different from the usual Hollywood productions. "Don't die without telling me where you are going" is one of the most renowned Latin American movies of its decade and one in which Dario Grandinetti shows what he is capable of in terms of his acting skills.

The film starts with images from a long time ago, in which a man named William is trying to invent a machine to allow people to see each other's dreams. William's boss was Thomas Edison and the dream machine became what we currently know as the camera. Shortly after that we are transported to the Argentina of the present where we meet Leopoldo (Dario Grandinetti), who works in a run-down movie theatre where he is in charge of the projection booth. The owners are planning to sell the theater before they have to face bankruptcy, and as a result Leopoldo will likely lose his job. But he is not too worried, since his real interest is in a project in which he works on his free time: a collector of dreams. The idea is to capture the individual's brain waves and transform them into images, which can then be recorded and watched the next morning.

Leopoldo is married, has the habit of walking everywhere with Anita, his plant, and dreams of his success in his special project. And one day he does it! He records his dreams and realizes that he is in love with a woman that he has never seen before. Shortly after that, Rachel (Mariana Arias) appears in the theater as a spirit, calling him William. She explains that they used to be married and live in New Jersey in their previous life, but while he reincarnated as Leopoldo, she decided not to reincarnate after her death.

The original idea used in the film is enough to make it special, but once you add the expert depiction of the human emotions and the message of hope it delivers, the result is a movie that is clearly among the best of its era. Even Mariana Arias grants a good performance in her first appearance on the big screen. She was one of the most famous Argentinean models of the past decade, and as most of you probably know, when a model starts to act, the results are usually not very encouraging. But in this case, the outcome is not bad at all. The movie also provided me with the chance of seeing for a few minutes the actor that in my opinion is the leader of its generation, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and even in that brief amount of time he shows what he is made of.

I encourage all those people that have not been exposed to Latin American movies, to give this film a chance. I am sure that you will come back for more! - 4.5 stars

No te mueras sin decirme a donde vas.......2005-01-18

It is one of the best films of Eliseo Subiela. He knows how to direct a movie, a beautifull, romantic, extraodinary film. A beautifull pieace of art. Eliseo shows you how love has no time and no place, even what we know as death it is not powerfull enoughto stop a love of centuries... if you like surrealism movies these is a must.

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Legacy of Love
Starring: Kelly O'Dell
Manufacturer: New Machine Publishing
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000LY2HCE

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Nikki Dial is the Legacy of Love. Pure desire and fantasy fills the minds of this lusting beauty..... Nikki Dial has finally made the video of her dreams. With her beautiful nymphette friend, Kelly O'Dell & wild blonde Tiffany Million, she does all the things she never did before. See her now in a whole new light. A red light, with a blue glow.

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SPOILER

The Love Machine
Starring: Marlene Forte , Chip Garner , Gary Perez , Tomo Omori , and Al Rodriguez
Director: Gordon Erickson
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SPOILER.......2006-06-02

It's odd that when I think of hard-hitting, skillfully crafted documentaries that I don't think of PBS but HBO. The cable giant has become my favorite source for modern excursions into documentary filmmaking from WACO: RULES OF ENGAGEMENT to its "Real Sex" series. THE LOVE MACHINE is highly reminiscent of the latter's adventure into the manifestations of modern sexuality in its use of an internet swingers site as subject matter.

[...] Filmmaker Becca Campbell wants to find out what makes these exhibitionists tick. Who are the people on the other end of the keyboard? She convinces Marcus to subvert his "clients'" anonymity and manages to track down five Love Machine clients who allow her to enter their lives.

Not only does she come into her subjects' lives but she turns them upside down. Campbell is a highly volatile filmmaker who constantly strives to upset her "victims," pulling the rug out from under their feet whenever she can. When we first meet the five folks--Akira the closeted Asian homosexual in denial (and engaged), Julio the lecherous Latino professor who cheats on his wife and collects compromising photographic trophies of the students he seduces (and posts them on his site), Beverly the lusty older lady who spins tales of her two young lovers, Chip the boisterous gay Black man, and Shino the Asian gal with a dorky boyfriend and voracious sexual appetite--they claim to not know anything about the internet; doing a terrific job of hiding their online personas. Unsatisfied with their façade of normalcy, Becca reveals her knowledge of their secret "double lives" a half-hour into the film.

I was very aware of the pacing of the film, noting the time at which Becca would turn from a seemingly passive observer to bloodthirsty provocateur. Fifty minutes into the film, Becca shows her subjects a "rough cut"--again to prove that she knows more about her subjects than they want her to know, making them (and the audience) question whether her film is exploitative. Becca's place as a documentarian is frequently compromised afterwards as she pressures Akira into coming out to his friends and confronts Julio's wife with evidence of her husband's affairs.

Regardless of her questionable motivation and morals, THE LOVE MACHINE has a terrific balance of the five (should we count Becca as six?) subjects of the film and their significant others. As an example, just when one wonders how Shino is progressing with her boyfriend and their first threesome, they're reintroduced into the film. Likewise there is a nice balance between color and tinted black and white film, giving the entire documentary a good overall look.

THE LOVE MACHINE questions the rights of the documentary filmmaker. How far is too far? When should the cameras be turned off? And, conversely, when do the subjects of documentaries reveal too much? Shouldn't they be more wary of the strangers entering their lives? How much of an act do we put on in daily life and when do we lower our guard?

Becca theorizes at one point that the internet has become an abode for people's collective unconscious and that she has taken on the mission of forcing these five folks into confronting their "dark selves"--the images they've painted of themselves on their web sites. While Chip is unabashed in his self-portrait, Akira runs from his, and Beverly lives in denial of hers--admitting to and then contradicting herself about the fantastic tales she spins on her site.

The most wonderful thing about THE LOVE MACHINE occurs during the end credits after we learn the extent of Becca's effect on her subjects' lives. The credits roll and observant viewers see that Becca was played by Marlene Forte, the part of Akira was performed by Jun Suenaga, Chip was associate producer Chip Garner, et cetera [...]. Yes, THE LOVE MACHINE is an expertly crafted mockumentary. All the startling revelations, all of the shocked expressions, all of the lewd conduct, all of Becca's probing questions, were faked.

Working from an informal shooting script, the actors would improvise extemporaneous dialogue during rehearsals before the cameras would roll. Eriksen culled his cast from an ad he ran in Backstage magazine and lucked out with leads that not only appeared fresh and realistic, but weren't afraid to doff their drawers when it was called for!

Shooting a faux documentary is a cost-effective move but few are so completely successful in their believability and inherent interest of their subject matter. The wonderful trickery of director Gordon Eriksen doesn't undermine his work. Instead, it only serves to intensify the questions that the viewers should be asking themselves during the duration of the film and amaze the audience in regards to the fantastic performances of the performers. Even knowing that the film was faked when going in, I often found myself believing that the characters on screen were real.

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It's actually not to bad, different story line, all around mistaken Identity
Stagnant humor and uninspired, heavy-handed direction
God awful
Great drama with a hint of comedy
Not funny

The Pallbearer
Starring: David Schwimmer , Gwyneth Paltrow , Michael Rapaport , Toni Collette , and Carol Kane
Director: Matt Reeves
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ASIN: 6305428433
Release Date: 1999-07-27

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David Schwimmer plays a drifting twentysomething who receives a telephone call out of the blue to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school. Trouble is, the caller has mistaken Schwimmer's character for someone else, but our hapless hero--who still lives with his mother at home--doesn't know how to say no. An encounter with the dead man's mother (Barbara Hershey) leads to a sexual relationship, while an old flame (Gwyneth Paltrow) from high school is suddenly on the horizon if only Schwimmer's loser character can quickly get his act together. This umpteenth variation on the Oedipal conflicts in Mike Nichols's The Graduate doesn't have the imagination, vitality, or authority to take classic themes about growing up all the way to the finish line. But in its brooding, comic way, it is honest about the difficulties of crossing the line into adulthood when one doesn't know how. --Tom Keogh

Description

Hot star David Schwimmer (TV's FRIENDS) makes a hilarious big-screen debut in this outrageous comedy hit! As Tom Thompson, the popular star plays a befuddled college grad whose social life is practically D.O.A. ... that is, until he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a classmate he can't remember! Comic chaos follows as Tom fends off the seductive advances of the grieving mother (Barbara Hershey -- BEACHES), and tries desperately to find the nerve to ask out the beautiful girl of his dreams (Academy Award(R) winner Gwyneth Paltrow, Best Actress, 1998, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) -- who can't remember him!

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It's actually not to bad, different story line, all around mistaken Identity.......2007-03-19

A little far fetched, and based around some dishonesty, but not bad. I guess I have more of a concience and would have said something up front than drag it out as Tom thompsen (David Schimmer) did, but at first I can understand him being polite in a time of grief. The main storyline of this film is Tom is asked to be a pallbearer at a high school classmates funeral. Unfortunately, Tom nor any of his friends can remember this guy. Along the way, another high school aquaintence (gwenith paltrow) come into the film as Tom's dream girl. As tom persues his dream woman, he soon finds himself entangled in wierd situation with the mother of the poor departed. The movie takes off there. I don't think this movie was ever ment to be a laugh out loud comedy, but it has some funny moments and serious ones as well. I actually enjoyed it, and I don't really care for David schwimmer, and I hate the show friends. So check it out, not to shabby.

Stagnant humor and uninspired, heavy-handed direction.......2005-10-18

This is one of those movies which simply blows away a good promise after the first half-hour...

I just did not get it. The movie is directed almost completely avoid of any intention of creating humor, even in the scenes clearly written to be funny!!

God awful.......2005-02-09

This movie just couldn't decide what it wanted to be, whether a comedy, drama, or romance. At just little over an hour & a half, it felt overly long, and dragged. When plied with alcohol, I can easily fall asleep during a particularly dull movie, but I was tired as it was after having not slept well the previous night, and kept having to eat something to keep me awake during this. I never noticed it as much during Friends, but David Schwimmer has one expression and that's the irritating hangdog expression. The whole film felt like the way you feel when you're in a rush, and people are (deliberately) getting in your way, or just coming to a dead stop, and leave you walking off, muttering to yourself. The Pallbearer tries to put a different spin on a romantic comedy and fails miserably.

This film's one saving grace is the actress playing Schwimmer's mum, who's never given the decency of a name, just credited by "Tom's mother". She was in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as Miss Baggoli, although she looked like the mum from Carrie 2 as well. She wasn't on screen apart from a couple of scenes, and she was hilarious, especially in one of her early scenes, when she opens the door to her son's room and finds one of those security chains blocking her way. The look on her face is fantastic, including her line: "What's this friggin' chain for?"

Apart from her, this film belongs on really late night TV, where no-one will ever see it.

Great drama with a hint of comedy.......2005-02-08

The first time I watched this movie I was expecting an all out comedy. This is mainly due to the film's misleading ad campaign. However, despite my expectations, I found this film to be quite moving. The emotional arc the story takes is completely inverted from that of your average film. This means that the movie reaches it's peak when the viewer is at their lowest, saddest state. The story then arcs back upwards to reach a more or less rewarding resolution. If you've ever been depressed or lonely enough to find yourself relating to David Schwimmer's character here then empathy alone will pull you into the story.

If I had to pick a flaw to this film it would be that the ending is a little too hopefull. Filmmakers tend to want to wrap things up with a bow and a smile without realizing that we as viewers will accept a sad ending if it's done well. Through the course of the movie a somber tone is crafted with such skill that I desired an ending that would do justice to that mood. What comes is more of a reversal of tone that does a little bit of a disservice to all that came before. Really I'm just being critical though, in the end this is still a wonderfull movie that hasn't gotten a fair rap thanks to a blunderfull ad campaign designed to make people think this would be "Friends: The Movie" which it really isn't. Buy this DVD, you won't regret it.

Not funny.......2004-05-24

The box advertises a hilarious movie. It was not bad, just not funny.

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Sweet, smart, subversive, sexy
THE COVER IS THE BEST PART OF THIS VIDEO

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Starring: Ina Blum , Marcelo Uriona , Gad Klein , Peter Kern , and Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
Director: Monika Treut
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Sweet, smart, subversive, sexy.......2002-03-11

This film should be associated with the New German Cinema, as a late entry in that "genre," if you could call it a genre, before it dissipated. It shares a lot of concerns typical of said body of films, like the voyage to America in search of parentage and identity, which echoes films like Wenders' ALICE IN THE CITIES, say. It also is very self-conscious of its relationship to moviemaking itself, and borrows a Wizard-of-Oz motif, as I recall it, with out heroine being named Dorothy and San Fransisco being presented as a sort of gay Oz. Unlike most new German cinema, though, THE VIRGIN MACHINE was directed by a woman, Monika Treut, and is self-consciously (post-)feministic. The protagonist is female and its her mother she's looking for (as I recall) in coming to San Fransisco. She's also looking for a "cure for romantic love." The early half of the film shows both the attractive/repulsive aspects of relationships with men; the middle portion of the movie has her being shown entirely new ways of looking at sex on her trip to America, with the help of now-famous-erotica-editor Susie Bright (sporting a substantial dildo collection, which she describes in considerable detail). (The actress playing Dorothy is great at wide-eyed naive fascination with the episodes she encounters. I think she's Lottie Huber, the lead from ANITA, DANCES OF VICE, but I could be wrong). There is a hilarious lesbian strip bar sequence where the female dancer spoofs male sexuality in a way any man watching will also be able to get a kick out of. Dorothy meets one particular woman who promises to cure her forever of romantic love, whom, of course, she falls quickly for... Treut's feminism has always been pro-porn, pro-erotica, pro-sexual-playfulness, and she's also made films with Annie Sprinkle and interviewed Camille Paglia; the film ISN'T properly speaking erotica, however. It does HAVE its erotic aspects but I think viewers interested in feminism, sexual identity, German cinema, and so forth will find it more rewarding than viewers wanting to be turned on, be they male or female. Remember as you watch it that it was made in the 1980s, pre-Madonna, so to speak, so that its stance towards porn and sex and so forth was kind of refreshing, new, and controversial at the time; mainstream feminism then was still focused largely on the exploitation of women and tinged with anti-porn, even anti-sex, sentiments. Also note: though I think the black and white, independent-film aesthetic is quite pleasing to watch, this is NOT a big-budget, slick film with high production values. Don't expect anything of Hollywood here.

THE COVER IS THE BEST PART OF THIS VIDEO.......1999-07-03

The beginning leads you to believe she has had a relationship with a fat man and her half brother. Once she leaves Germany, in a feable search for her mother and love, the movie begins to gain the viewers interest. In San Francisco she hits the lesbian scene and is introduced to her first lesbian strip show....that in itself was amusing at best.Long story short, I am not sure what the actual point of this movie was.

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two love stories linked between a 20-year time distance
Good observation of love

Sky of Love
Starring: Leung , and Zhu
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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ASIN: B00025ETLO
Release Date: 2004-07-20

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Pop idol Gigi Leung (First Option, Full Throttle) and Taiwanese pop superstar Ken Zhu of the group F4 star in this time-travel romance fantasy based partially on the Korean film Ditto and the Sci-Fi drama Frequency. Xiao-jai (Leung) and Wen Tao (Zhu) have never met, but their friendship is maintained by voice via radiophones. As Xiao-jai finds herself falling in love with a man whom she has yet to see face to face, she is also shocked to discover that Wen Tao may be from the future, with the radiophone acting as a time machine that connects them. Sky Of Love is a tender melodrama about loving someone beyond two vastly different worlds.

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two love stories linked between a 20-year time distance.......2006-04-28

Xiaojia falls in love with Wen Tao in 80's of 19th century. Jiahui falls in love in 20th century. Radio wave linked them. They can talk and share the thought and their stories transcending a 20-year time distance. However, the truth about the love between Xiaojia and Wen Tao revealed by Jiahui is so shocking and ... (find out till you watch to the end).

Good observation of love.......2006-03-04

"Sky of Love" isn't exactly what the description on the back of the DVD says it is, but the premise of two people in different decades contacting each other via a radio is correct. Both parties are in relationships. Xiao-jai (Gigi Leung's character who's in the past) is just starting a sweet relationship with a close friend and Wen Tao's (Ken Zhu's character who's in the present) relationship with his girlfriend is falling apart. Right away the characters find out they are in different time periods. Over the days as they talk via the radio they discuss love and what it is. The movie looks at how love was regarded circa 1980 and what people think of it now in the 21st century. The end of the movie is very bittersweet. The movie is not boring (unless you don't like romantic dramas) and the acting is well done. Plus the subtitles are good and the main idea of the movie is easy to understand. I give it four stars.

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The Time Machine / The Tuxedo
Starring: Jackie Chan , Jennifer Love Hewitt , Jason Isaacs , Debi Mazar , and Ritchie Coster
Director: Kevin Donovan (III) , and Simon Wells
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B00009IB46
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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The Time Machine (2002)
While the 1960 version of The Time Machine remains a science fiction classic, this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel benefits from a dazzling CGI facelift. Digital wizardry shows us the awesome splendor of eons passing in an eye blink, while Wells's heroic time traveler--played with appealing conviction by Memento's Guy Pearce--is given a stronger motivation for piloting his time machine 800,000 years into the future. Long after New York City has crumbled and the moon shattered by a nuclear accident, Pearce finds a new home with the peacefully primitive Eloi, after confronting the subterranean Morlocks (courtesy of Stan Winson's monster shop) and their evil overlord (Jeremy Irons in wicked, pigmentless makeup). Trading Wells's social commentary for pure adventure, director Simon Wells (the author's great-grandson) maintains the story's legacy of wonder, despite a few hokey embellishments. Catering to a younger audience, this Time Machine is fun without being particularly distinguished--a treat for the eyes, if not the brain. --Jeff Shannon

The Tuxedo
Jackie Chan looks spiffy in The Tuxedo, but the movie needs a tailor. No Jackie Chan movie could be a total misfire, however, and he's charmingly self-effacing here as a hapless chauffeur who inadvertently replaces his injured super-agent boss (Jason Issacs) and foils a madman (Ritchie Coster) who plans to infect the world's water supply (!) and reap a fortune selling pure bottled water. Jackie's a bumbling superhero after donning his boss's high-tech, Inspector Gadget-like tuxedo (it even has a "Mambo" setting), and curvaceous co-agent Jennifer Love Hewitt coaches him in crime fighting while closing in on the bad guys. It's all as routinely ridiculous as it sounds--Jackie's faux James Brown act is the only real highlight--and as critic Roger Ebert observed, the climax hinges on an insect queen that doesn't exist in nature! So, while Jackie and Jennifer provide a few moments of stellar stunts and random amusement, you can blame this mess on screenwriters who didn't do their homework. --Jeff Shannon

Music Machine DVD & 3-CD Set
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Music Machine DVD & 3-CD Set

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You make me feel like a natur...er...replicated woman...
Worth a viewing for sci-fi fans...
Early Hammer disaster.
Interesting Concept - Stale Plot

Four Sided Triangle
Starring: Barbara Payton , James Hayter , Stephen Murray , John Van Eyssen , and Percy Marmont
Director: Terence Fisher
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305807906
Release Date: 2000-04-18

Customer Reviews:

You make me feel like a natur...er...replicated woman..........2004-03-21

From Terrance Fisher, director of such Hammer Studios classics as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), and The Mummy (1959) comes the less than stellar, but still enjoyable, film, The Four Sided Triangle (1953). This British production stars American actress Barbara Payton as Lena, James Hayter as Dr. Harvey, Stephen Murray as Bill and John Van Essyen as Robin. Payton, a once promising actress with a bright future, passed at the early age of 40 due to a series of volatile relationships and alcohol abuse.

The movie starts off by showing Lena, Robin, and Bill as youngsters, living in a small English town. The three are the best of friends, with Bill coming from a well to do family and being the practical one, Robin in a much less desirable existence with an abusive father who, along with his mother, pass early in Robin's childhood, leaving him in the care of Dr. Harvey, or 'Doc', as most call him, and Lena sort of in the middle of the two boys. Time passes, and the boys go off to college, and Lena is taken to America. The boys return from college, and begin working on a fabulous invention, with Robin being the true inspiration behind the project. Lena also arrives, not being unable to find her place or purpose in life and returning to her childhood village. The three begin to work together, with Robin and Bill working on their invention, and Lena acting in the fashion of caretaker for the absorbed young men. Finally, Robin and Bill unveil their invention, the reproducer, a machine that has the ability to perfectly copy anything. The machine is a success, and the practical applications are astounding, but Robin, of the purely scientific mind, has become bored and decides to take the notion to the next step by 'reproducing' a living organism, despite Bill's moral objections. This is when Robin's 'mad scientist' persona really comes into its' own. After the success of the machine, Bill and Lena announce their engagement, much to the heartbreak of Robin, who secretly harbored love for Lena, but, while able to conjure up fantastical ideas and devices, always had difficultly relating to people and dealing with interpersonal contact. After finally perfecting the process of duplicating living organisms and keeping them alive, Robin decides if he can't have Lena, then he would try to create a duplicate of her. Does it work? Well, yes and no...

Obviously a take on the Frankenstein story, this film plays out pretty well, despite its'extremely slooooooooow build up. I really enjoyed all the spinning, whirling, popping gadgets and the tense moments at certain points within the film. There seemed to be more melodrama in the film than I would have expected, but it did serve to add to the development of the characters. At certain points, Dr. Harvey, despite meek objections, is enlisted by Robin to assist in his experiments with duplicating living creatures. This seemed a bit out of character, as I thought he would want nothing to do with this kind of thing, but instead he goes along, helping Robin down this uncertain and dangerous path. I suppose he knew Robin would proceed with or without his help, so he gave in, but I didn't see the internal struggle within the doctor I thought I would have. Not a bad movie, and I enjoyed the marrying of the Frankenstein concept with the cloning aspect, providing some really far out ideas for people to ponder back in the time it was released. The picture quality is very good, and special features include a Hammer featurette called 'The Curse of Frankenstein', which talks about the Frankenstein genre within the world of Hammer films. Also included inside the case is a nice reproduction card of some original promotion material for the Four Sided Triangle.

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Worth a viewing for sci-fi fans..........2003-07-20

This is not really a horror picture, as you might naturally expect from the Hammer logo, and the synopsis on the back of the case. Any horror here is not visceral, and not even psychological. If anything, the horror (such as it is), is posed philosophically.

Actually a sci-fi effort, "The Four Sided Triangle" is a very good British black and white film from 1953. The production values are really pretty good, although the film was obviously made inexpensively. I liked the cast, location shooting, cinematography, and the basic overall story, which is in the best tradition of sci-fi short stories.

Two scientists create a new process to "reproduce" matter from energy (think of a cross between a photocopier and the replicators on "Star Trek"). Both scientists are in love with the same girl, and one is bound to lose when she finally chooses between them. However, the loser hits upon the idea of replicating the girl, so everyone can be happy and get what they want... at least on paper.

The gadget at the center of the tale, the "reproducer", is important but incidental. The device serves to facilitate the "what if?" quality of the story, making the normally impossible suddenly somehow possible. Scientific explanations of the device are not necessary, because the story is about how the characters react to the new problems their invention creates. In other words, the real story is between the characters, and unlike today's cineplex-infesting tripe, the focus is not on the special effects.

The film asks big questions that it never answers, and even then, it only asks them indirectly. Regardless, while the film is not completely successful, it does manage satisfy.

Early Hammer disaster........2001-06-18

Unfortunately, the script is irreconcilably one dimensional. Whilst some may claim this to be an interesting pre-curser of Fisher's later Hammer Frankensteins, it simply isn't - interesting that is. The notion of cloning may have been relatively unheard of then, but now it just seems ages old, and the approach in this film is certainly hackneyed. The script takes too long to build up to anything approaching unsettling, the actual reproducing machine (inspired title that one) sequences are incredibly long and boring, and the characterisation dangerously inept. Take, for instance, James Hayter's father figure doctor. Although expressing his strong abhorrence of Stephen Murray's ideas, he decides to help him out with an insouciant passivity that borders on the ludicrous. James Hayter's character is funny it has to be said... but only because he was written as the prehistoric stereotypical British stiff upper lip consummate professional, a person I'm not sure ever did exist. It's not Fisher's fault that the material's so bad - it would have taken a miracle worker to save this one.

As for the DVD, well the picture quality is as good as can be expected for a film of such age. In the area of extras however, one senses Anchor Bay were bored with the film themselves. No trailers or tv spots, no production notes, just the bog standard casually narrated hotch potch of clips that make up the feeble "world of Hammer" compilation show. The clips of Peter Cushing in the Frankenstein films are worth seeing though.

Interesting Concept - Stale Plot.......2000-06-14

Not necessarily Hammer's finest production, Four-Sided Triangle is interesting for its central concept, but a stale plot makes for a mostly dated and anemic film. The writer couldn't seem to make up his mind whether he wanted to emphasize the Frankenstein elements or be cloying and sympathetic to the plight of the scientist. The indecision costs the film dearly, as we end up mostly being bored stiff. Still, it wins a few stars for being novel for the era. Hammer fans will find little here that connects to the classics, as this film was produced in 1953, well before even the earliest hit, The Quatermass Experiment in 1955. There was one other upshot though, it was directed by Terence Fisher.

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