Powder

Starring:Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith, Bradford Tatum, Susan Tyrrell, Missy Crider, Ray Wise, Esteban Powell, Reed Frerichs, Chad Cox, Joe Marchman, Phil Hayes, Danette McMahon, Tom Tarantini, Woody Watson, Alex Allen Morris, Brady Coleman, Barry Berfield
Director: Victor Salva
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

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For all its flaws, Powder is still worthwhile for attempting to be unique and well intentioned. The film's qualities were overshadowed after its 1995 release when it was revealed that writer-director Victor Salva had served 15 months in prison for molesting a child actor during production of the 1988 TV movie Clownhouse. Controversy aside, Powder is a welcome step off the beaten path with sufficient strengths to balance its weaknesses. Fantasy and drama combine in the story of a teenager known as Powder for his snow-white skin. Powder is introduced into a tiny Texas community after spending his entire life in his grandparents' basement. He's a wise genius, but an outcast, alienated by those who misunderstand and fear him. When a schoolmaster (Mary Steenburgen) and science teacher (Jeff Goldblum) discover that Powder has a capacity for empathic insight and possesses the power to control electricity, the unusual boy becomes a tragic Christ-like figure--peaceful, prophetic, and perhaps too good to survive in the real world. In telling this heartfelt story, Powder struggles to be all things to all viewers--equal parts E.T. and The Elephant Man--which compromises its overall impact. But even though it's not a great movie, it sincerely tries to accomplish something original and wonderful, and that's more than most movies can claim. --Jeff Shannon

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You've never experienced anything quite like POWDER -- the uplifting, must-see hit that audiences and critics loved! Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as Powder struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do extraordinary things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him ... in ways they never could have imagined. Hollywood stars Jeff Goldblum (JURASSIC PARK) and Mary Steenburgen (PHILADELPHIA) lead a top-notch cast in this unforgettable story of hope and wonder.

Customer Reviews:

Powder.......2007-06-13

An amazing movie which will touch your heart on where we are all to walk with our Creator.

Often Shunned Movie - Quite Refreshing.......2007-06-11

Ok, here's the deal with Powder.... Apparently the guy who wrote and directed it was convicted as a child molester!!!! Oh my gawd! Yeah. True story. My wife won't even entertain the thought of watching this movie lest she become tainted by some underlining pedophile message transcoded in the subtext of the movie. Hmmmm. I remember way back when this movie came out and I saw the preview at the theater. I kinda wanted to see it. But then the whole child-molester thing came to surface and years went by. Well, I finally bout it of Amazon for like five bucks and I gave it a try. Know whart? It was pretty damn good. Sure the whole freaky-looking outcast with super powers thing has been done, but this was a decent flick. Jeff Goldblum and Steenburgen co-star. Sean Michael Flannery is fantastic as Powder in all his shy, wounded frailty. Overall, I liked it. So... push the whole sex-offender thing asidE and give Powder a try. You won't be disappointed.

Dig it!

I have no hair, but I didn't like this movie.......2007-06-06

I, like Powder, do not grow hair. Actually, unlike powder, I have no eyelashes. I'm not albino though.

In my life I have never encountered such generic hostility as powder was subjected to..

For being such a genius powder certainly did not show it. I don't remember him saying anything even remotely smart. He had a nice memory and apparently scored well on some lame test? However, he didn't show any smarts where it counts....

For a character with such powerful empathy (telepathy would actually be the much more accurate word here) he was annoyingly whiny, angry, and obnoxious. I understand that he had been sheltered his entire life, but his character had absolutely no depth or complexity whatsoever. His lines are complete cliche.

Every person in the film is a lame and shallow caricature.

The message of the movie is a good one, but a couple sentences would get it across just as effectively as this two hour movie.

To me this movie is simple pulp, nothing more and nothing less.

Powder is excellent...........2007-04-16

this movie points out to us that which we are all capable of...a moving reminder of our own preciousness...

Powder.......2007-02-02

I loved this quirky movie. I am glad to have it on dvd.

Susan Powter Lifestyle Exchange - Burn Fat DVD

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Deliver Oxygen to every cell and muscle in your body
Burn all the fat you want to burn
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When I realized there was a lifestyle that wasn't working for millions of people, I knew what had to be done...X It Out!...Take it back...Ex-Change a lifestyle that isn't working for a Style of Life that absolutely does...and that is exactly what my Lifestyle Ex-Change program is designed to do for you.

Breakthrough on Skis II: Bumps & Powder Simplified

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Great Help for skiers
Very good for intermediates
Another great addition
decent for bumps, better for powder, overall disappointing
Good stuff

Breakthrough on Skis II: Bumps & Powder Simplified
Director: Lito Tejada-Flores
Manufacturer: Western Eye
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Breakthrough on Skis I: Expert Skiing Simplified
Breakthrough on Skis III: The New Skis
All-Mountain Skier : The Way to Expert Skiing
Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 2: Powder, Bumps, and Carving (Includes Bonus DVD)
Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing

ASIN: B0006H656K
Release Date: 1995-10-01

Customer Reviews:

Great Help for skiers.......2007-05-12

I have been skiing for over 35 years and am always looking to improve. This DVD is is a great help for anyone who wants to perform better on skis. He explains and demonstrates in a manner that is easy to follow. And then easy to put to the test on the slopes. Thank you for another great addtion to helping us all ski better!

Very good for intermediates.......2007-03-11

I enjoyed this video. The visual demonstrations help me. I hesitated to buy this because it was created way back in 1995 and I thought it might be out of date--but it isn't. I have skied off and on for 30 years and I just took a 3 days class on bumps. What he covers in the tape, was the same as in my class and it served to reinforce what I learned. True, as the title says, it is "simplified" down to the basics. So don't expect a lot of complicated techniques. If you like learning visually, it is very pleasant. If you already are skiing bumps without problems, then don't bother.

Another great addition.......2007-02-07

I will be brief and concentrate only on bumps because after watching this tape once, I believe you will have the basic knowledge to practice powder skiing. In this video, Lito truly simplifies the technique needed not to shy away from bumps. Try and watch the tape the day before and try his technique on a few bumps only and soon you should have the needed rhythm and skills to ski bumps. If you love skiing, then there is nothing more magical then going thru bumps like its nothing...

decent for bumps, better for powder, overall disappointing.......2006-08-21

Lito's has a very "friendly" teaching style, but I have several major complaints about this DVD:

1. I don't think Lito's that good of a bump skier. If you're looking for a video to help with visualization, this is not the one for you. He has a minute or two of footage from other (excellent) bump skiers, but most of the skiing is from him, and he's an average bump skiier. As he says in the DVD, he's had an ACL repaired, and he's over 50 years old, so it's you're looking for the fast, tight, balanced technique of pro mogul skiers (as I was hoping), look elsewhere.
2. There are numerous ways to ski the bumps. Lito primarily only covers two of them: in the trough, and over the shoulder. He covers both of these in relation to speed control and picking a line.
3. Lito touches only briefly about "picking a line" when bump skiing, and he doesn't give any tips for this crucial step. This is one technique that is difficult to master, and I would've liked more tips.

There were some nice parts of this DVD:
1. The content & instruction was well organized.
2. Discussion of anticipation, and some drills for how to do anticipated turns
3. Powder tips: extension of legs into the snow to complete the turn; also use of arm lifting "trick" to equalize weight in heavy powder.
4. Some beautiful powder skiing pictures.
5. Lito has a very friendly, well-paced teaching style.

Oh, well off to look elsewhere for a more ultimate bump/mogul DVD. I would really love to find a Sybervision video for bumps/moguls.

Good stuff.......2005-04-13

I've seen other videos that explain how expert mogul skiers fly through the bumps, but that didn't exactly improve my skills. This video instead focuses on an easier and practical approach. 5 stars.

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Even better than expected!

Follow Me Around
Starring: Mack Dawg Crew
Director: Mack Dawg
Manufacturer: Mack Dawg
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First Descent (Widescreen Edition)
Lost in Transition
DVD Maximum - Snowboarding Extreme
The Shaun White Album

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2006 release
cliffs
powder
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ASIN: B000LCCMTO
Release Date: 2006-09-20

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Mack Dawg Productions proudly presents its newest film for 2006, Follow Me Around. Follow Me Around is a movie about the ongoing mission of MDP to document the absolute best snowboarding on the planet. We follow fourteen of the sports most progressive knuckle draggers around as they take 67 waist deep pow runs in Alaska, hit 50+ foot cliffs as if they were park jumps, and take jibbing to a whole new level. From the riding to the filming and editing, Follow Me Around is not to be missed. Shot on location in Alaska, Chile, Austria, The Sierra Nevadas,, Tahoe, Whistler Backcountry, The Streets of Finland, and more. Starring: Aaron Biittner, Andreas Wiig, Darrell Mathes, DCP, Eero Ettala, Filippo Kratter, Hampus Mosesson, Heikki Sorsa, Jakob Wilhelmson, Jeremy Jones, Josh Dirksen, Jussi Oksanen, Louie Fountain and Scott Arnold.

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Even better than expected!.......2007-03-24

MDP always has great videos, and this one is one of the best I've seen yet.

Susan Powter Lifestyle Exchange - Motivation Volume 1 DVD

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Tap into the most powerful source you'll ever use
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Susan Powter Lifestyle Exchange - Fitness Stretch DVD

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AFTER THE DROUGHT: Adventures of a Colorado Snow Company

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AFTER THE DROUGHT: Adventures of a Colorado Snow Company

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WARNING: THIS PRODUCT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO SKI. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED. This collection of 10 short movies follows the tribulations of a ski video project by the artists-formerly-known-as drinkmaaan productions. The Colorado skiers return home from the drought in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of snowfall only to find that snowfall (or lack thereof) is only the first in a series of amazing, strange and tragic events that characterized winter 2006 for the freeskiing community. This collection is crafted in loving detail with all the right ingredients: 1 story; 1/2 a piece of comedy; a bitchin' soundtrack; and a TON OF SICK SKIING from the deep snow of Aspen/Snowmass, the beautiful terrain parks and rocky venues of Telluride, the rewarding backcountry of Colorado and elsewhere...ENJOY! This film is dedicated to the memory of Matthew Jankovsky (1983-2005).

Susan Powter Lifestyle Exchange - Circuit Training Upper Body DVD

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Ades - Powder Her Face / Mary Plazas, Heather Buck, Daniel Norman, Graeme Broadbent, Thomas Ades, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

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Ades - Powder Her Face / Mary Plazas, Heather Buck, Daniel Norman, Graeme Broadbent, Thomas Ades, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Starring: David Alden , Philip Hensher , Norman , and Broadbent
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
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Britten - Gloriana / Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, Emer
Schreker - Die Gezeichneten / Anne Schwanewilms, Robert Brubaker, Robert Hale, Michael Volle, Wolfgang Schone, Mel Ulrich, Kent Nagano, Salzburg Opera
Sallinen - The Palace / Veijo Varpio, Jorma Silvasti, Tom Krause, Jaana Mantynen, Sauli Tiilikainen, Okku Kamu, Savonlinna Opera
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ASIN: B000G1ALGG
Release Date: 2006-07-25

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The emergence of British composer Thomas Adès was one of the exciting musical phenomena of the 1990s. So heady and extravagant was the praise heaped on the enfant terrible (born in 1971), one feared the attention would overwhelm, squelching an otherwise brilliant career before it had a chance to mature. Praise be, it didn't. Adès has proceeded apace into the new millennium's first decade with further artistic triumphs (his Covent Garden-commissioned, richly imagined opera The Tempest and an excellent violin concerto, Concentric Paths).

All the more fascinating then to revisit one of the breakthrough moments of Adès's career in this film version of his chamber opera, Powder Her Face. When he was searching for a topic for his first opera, Adès originally turned to Lolita before he and librettist/novelist Philip Hensher settled on the downfall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll for their subject (she had just died in 1993, at the age of 80). The two were obviously drawn to this ironic morality tale of sex, class privilege, and the tabloid media on account of its satirical possibilities. True, the opera does trade off a certain sensationalist element. Some negative critical responses to the opera (which premiered in 1995) charged Adès with "adolescent exhibitionism" for composing a pivotal scene around the heroine's predilection for offering oral sex. The core of the story involves the so-called "Dirty Duchess"--once attractive, rich, and the inspiration for Cole Porter's "You're the Top"--after her scandalous divorce trial in 1963. Details of her audacious sexual adventures were widely publicized, leading to her fall from grace.

But there's much more than snarky attitude to the opera. Adès exudes a Nabokovian delight in the rich possibilities of his allusive musical language, which touches on Astor Piazzolla tangos, swanky band music, the degradation of Berg's Lulu, Strauss's Marschallin, even--in an imposing, spectral appearance by the Duke--the Stone Guest from Mozart's Don Giovanni (the Duchess had been characterized by the tabloids as a "female Don Juan") . Adès here conducts the 15-player chamber ensemble (performing is the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group). His scoring alone is a tour de force of constantly skittering, electrically charged currents--spiky and acerbic but also delightfully inventive--commenting on the characters' behavior. Throughout Adès threads a leitmotif of mocking laughter. A cast of three play multiple roles (including her maid, a society journalist, "rubberneckers" at the trial, a room service waiter, and so on) against the Duchess as flashbacks enact her past life.

The 1999 film is adapted from David Alden's stage direction for the original Almeida and Aldeburgh Festival productions and was originally shown on Britain's Channel Four. The settings offer splendid period detail, suggestive of faded elegance for the (now electronically surveilled) Dorchester Hotel suite where the aging Duchess has her flashbacks and of a bygone era's glitz. Camera angles melt into surreal shots (we see the notorious "blowjob" scene from the ceiling's perspective), while everyone seems to be enacting some sort of ritual (including a hilarious encounter of the Duke with his own mistress in "Is Daddy squiffy?") The singers (Heather Buck, Dan Norman, and Graeme Broadbent, with Mary Plazas in the lead as the Duchess) are all theatrically involved, with especially vivid contributions from Buck as a high-flying coloratura in several guises. Plazas may seem to lack the icy edge of the Duchess's arrogance, but she's spot-on in conveying Adès's more sympathetic passages: where the larger perspective of hypocrisy as society condemns her for "nymphomania" emerges. One complaint: no text or subtitles are included, so bits of Hensher's clever libretto get obscured in ensemble passages.

And a bonus: the disc includes Gerald Fox's 50-minute documentary portrait of the composer from 199, "Thomas Adès: Music for the 21st Century." It shows him performing some of his piano works and conducting his symphonic masterpiece Asyla, interspersed with discussions of imagery that has inspired the composer. --Thomas May

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Thomas Adès wrote the chamber opera Powder Her Face in 1995, at the age of 24, to a joint commission from London's Almeida Opera and the Cheltenham Festival. Its success, together with a string of other compositions, brought Adès real international recognition and resulted in him being hailed as the next Benjamin Britten. Since its première, it has been produced in America, Australia and throughout Europe, repeatedly generating press excitement.

To a libretto by Philip Hensher, the piece is based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a woman brazenly avaricious for money and sexual experience but whose story, Adès says, shows that "even horrible people are tragic". In the early 1990s, the aged and isolated duchess is seen living at London's Dorchester Hotel, oblivious to her now straitened financial circumstances and her imminent eviction. A series of flashbacks to her colourful past in the '30s, '50s and '60s, is enacted by three hotel workers who, in the present, treat her with barely-concealed derision.

Adès's brilliant score incorporates skewed imitations of the popular music of her prime: tangos, tea dances, and Cole Porteresque songs. The fifteen?strong orchestra consists of clarinets, saxophones, brass, strings, accordion and percussion, an ensemble similar to the dance bands of yesteryear.

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Two movies on 1 DVD, first up HAWK OF POWDER RIVER where Hawk is the secret leader of an outlaw gang. She wants the Chambers ranch and after Chambers is killed she sends her men to kill his daughter who is arriving on the stage. Eddie breaks it up and later foils a robbery attempt by the gang. Finding a hat at the scene, he marks it and leaves it hoping it will turn up again. The second film is BLACK HILLS when Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby's robbery attempt, Kirby forces the assistant land agent Tuttle to sell the ranch to him. But Eddie Learns of the forgery through Tuttle's boss and goes after Kirby.

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