The Isle

Starring:Jung Suh, Yoosuk Kim, Sung-hee Park, Jae-hyeon Jo, Hang-Seon Jang, Won Seo (II), Yeo-jin Kim
Director: Ki-duk Kim (II)
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Product Type: DVD

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At their best
The great film that could have been....
DESPITE THE FILM BEING CHOPPED UP, THE VINTAGE WHO DELIVER ONE OF THEIR BEST PERFORMANCES EVER.
Okay, it might be incomplete but it is the original Who live
great soundtrack, bad movie

The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Starring: Roger Daltrey , John Entwistle , Keith Moon , and Pete Townshend
Director: Murray Lerner
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ASIN: B0002GTX8C
Release Date: 2004-08-10

Description

In 1970, 600,000 people came to the Isle of Wight to attend a music festival. At 2 A.M., August 30th, The Who appeared and gave one of the most memorable performances of their career.

LISTENING TO YOU: THE WHO AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT captures the only complete live performance of The Who's legendary rock opera "Tommy" ever recorded. It is also one of the last times the band played this classic album in its entirety on stage.

Track Listing:
1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. Young Man Blues
4. I Don't Even Know Myself
5. Water
6. Shakin' All Over
7. Spoonful/Twist And Shout
8. Summertime Blues
9. My Generation
10. Magic Bus
11. Overture
12. It's A Boy
13. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
14. Christmas
15. The Acid Queen
16. Pinball Wizard
17. Do You Think It's Alright
18. Fiddle About
19. Go To The Mirror
20. Miracle Cure
21. I'm Free
22. Tommy's Holiday Camp
23. We're Not Gonna Take It

BONUS FEATURE: An exclusive 30 minute interview with Pete Townshend!

RESTORED! REMIXED!! REMASTERED!!!
Under the expert supervision of Who guitarist Pete Townshend and director Murray Lerner, this historic film has been completely restored, remixed, and remastered to an astonishing level that needs to be seen and heard to be believed!

Customer Reviews:

At their best.......2007-05-14

No need to overhype this production. If you like the Who, you will like this dvd.

After reading others' comments about the poor quality of the earlier edition, I made a point of getting the second release. The current release version is good quality. Since I did not buy the older release, I can't speak to it.

These guys were at the top of their game at this concert. Roger's voice has depth and power. Pete leads and frolics with a full suite of gyrations. John watches with skepticism, but keeps the bass rolling ahead and behind the song line. Keith the joyous energizer bunny eggs the other band members on with his drum line and antics. Boy that kid could play (and Keith does look 15). What the video adds that a music cd lacks is the ability to watch the band interact. They are not just trading off riffs, they work up the riffs together. Starting a song is to climb on board the tiger that was the Who: they ride it for dear life, clinging to each other as they race forward at increasing velocity, leaping along, pouncing on each song segment. Mere lads, but on to something.

If you like the Who, you will like this DVD.

The great film that could have been...........2007-04-25

The performance is great but the editing is horrible and the photography isn't much better. This could have been an outstanding jewel in the WHO film collection if the production was more professional. Of course, WHO fans should buy this one anyway because....well...it's the WHO....live!

DESPITE THE FILM BEING CHOPPED UP, THE VINTAGE WHO DELIVER ONE OF THEIR BEST PERFORMANCES EVER........2007-02-21

I will be writing a review on the legendary concert on DVD entitled "THE WHO LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 1970" by one of Rock's greatest premiere band's. I give you one of England's pride and joy's, THE WHO. This legendary DVD concert was originally released in 2004 following the release of this concert on Compact Disc. As always, if I hear any new additional information concerning this legendary DVD concert or the artist, I will edit this review immediately so that you the consumer will get the best informative and most accurate review possible.

What can I say about THE WHO that hasn't already been said? This concert DVD is definitely THE VINTAGE WHO in their prime delivering one of their best concert performances ever captured on film. This is also the original WHO line-up comprising of lead singer and frontman Roger Daltrey, lead and rhythm guitarist Pete Townshend, the late great bassist John Entwistle and the late great mad drummer Keith "Moon The Loon" Moon performing a full live set in front of 600,000 people at The Isle Of Wight Festival in the UK in 1970. At 2 AM August 30, THE WHO appeared on stage and gave one of the most memorable concerts of their career.

As you are watching the concert, you begin to realize that THE WHO were really on fire during this performance. If you really want to hear THE WHO really rock out, listen to the Rockers such as "Heaven And Hell," the blistering "I Can't Explain," the a*s kicking "Young Man Blues," the breathtaking "Water," the incredible medley "Shakin' All Over/Spoonful/Twist And Shout," the rock classic "Summertime Blues" and the rockin' "My Generation."

THE WHO also perform some of their classic songs from the album "TOMMY." You will get to see and hear great songs such as the incredible "The Acid Queen," the rock classic "Pinball Wizard," the well performed "I'm Free," the extremely rare "We're Not Gonna Take it," the 60's anthem "See Me Feel Me/Listening To You" and the classic rocker "Tommy Can You Hear Me."

Also included in this DVD concert package is a brand new interview with Pete Townshend. He talks about his life with THE WHO, his feelings about their performance at THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL and his late great friend KEITH "Moon The Loon" MOON.

Overall, this DVD concert is definitely a DVD worth seeking out and checking out.

I would like to highly recommend purchasing this DVD concert to own as a valuable and important part of his or her own personal music collection. This DVD concert film has already proven to stand the test of time and will always be around to be enjoyed, appreciated and cherished for many years to come, NOW AND FOREVER.

In closing, THE WHO would move on to bigger and better things and deliver more great concert performances throughout their long and glorious career. However, the days of the original WHO would be coming to end following the untimely death of mad drummer KEITH "Moon The Loon" MOON on 7 September 1978. Moon's death would mark the end of an era for THE WHO and the beginning of a new one. But that my fellow readers and reviewers, you will have to stay tuned and read further on at a later date. So here's to you Roger, Pete, the late great John and the late great Keith. And as the saying goes, "AND THE REST IS ROCK N' ROLL HISTORY," am I wrong? Thanks for reading my review and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it for your reading pleasure. I also hope that you will read all of my other reviews in the near future when time permits. THE WHO RULES. R.I.P Keith "Moon The Loon" Moon, Born 23 August 1946, Died 7 September 1978 and John Entwistle, Born 9 October 1944, Died 27 June 2002. Long Live Rock n' Roll. Rock out always and take it easy. Forever In Rock, John L.

Okay, it might be incomplete but it is the original Who live .......2006-12-23

I really give this DVD 4 and 1/2 stars. We all need to remember that just about any type of footage of the Who live while Moon was still around is almost priceless to any Who fan. Yes, the songs here appear out of order, some songs are even incomplete, and the cameras don't always capture all the shots you would want, but this is the original Who live. Not just live, but live when they were at their peak before recording their best album Who's Next. They played an incredible show at the Isle of Wight, and while this DVD may not have the complete concert, at least it has most of it and at least the sound is great. Well, Entwistle's bass could have been mixed louder but Keith and Pete are on fire and so is Roger. "Heaven and Hell," "My Generation," "Water," "Young Man Blues," "Summertime Blues," "I Can't Explain," "Christmas," "I'm Free," "See Me Feel Me," "I Don't Know Myself," "Pinball Wizard," "The Acid Queen," and "Fiddle About" are all phenomenal performances. Sometimes you need to forget about some of the poor camera angles and just get lost in the music. The camera angles aren't terrible anyway because every member gets a good amount of camera time. Well, maybe not Entwistle but he is still shown. The CD version includes all the complete performances and is a good companion to the DVD. I have a feeling that this DVD will eventually include all the songs that the Who performed that night. It's the same thing with regular movie DVDs since they first only feature no special features and then they decide to feature them two years later and then more the following year. A new version of this DVD just came out with "Substitute" and "Naked Eye" and bonus tracks. There will probably be more added footage soon. For now though, this is an excellent DVD for any Who fan, and so far it is the only film CONCERT featuring John, Pete, Keith, and Roger. Also, the interview with Pete is excellent.

great soundtrack, bad movie.......2006-11-12

Besides the original set list being thrown around (like on the live at leeds cd set) and half of the footage of the Tommy songs (with 1921, Amazing Journey, Sparks, There's A Doctor, and Smash The Mirror missing altogether) missing and Tommy, Can You Hear Me out of sequence though done nicely where it was put (at the end after the credits in a fitting tribute to original drummer Keith Moon), It was a great buy.

Here's what on it in order

Heaven And Hell (missing some footage)
I Can't Explain
Young Man Blues (great version IMO)
I Don't Even Know Myself (also great version from the then upcoming Who's Next album)
Water
Shakin All Over/Spoonful/Twist and Shout Medley (incomplete? and was originally played after the Tommy set along with the next three songs)
Summertime Blues
My Generation (Incomplete)
Magic Bus (Incomplete)

The Edited Tommy Cycle:
Overture (Incomplete)
It's A Boy (Incomplete)
Eyesight To The Blind (Incomplete)
Christmas
The Acid Queen (Incomplete)
Pinball Wizard
Do You Think It's Alright?
Fiddle About
Go To The Mirror
Miracle Cure
I'm Free
We're Not Gonna Take It
See Me, Feel Me/Listening To You
Tommy, Can You Hear Me?

I would suggest finding the soundtrack set (or the aforementioned Live At Leeds CD Set) unless your a big fan like me then this would be for you.

Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel (Live at the Isle of Wight)

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Historically significant...not a good performance
Half Bad
One of the best-filmed Hendrix concerts, even if not one of his best
JIMI HENDRIX'S FINAL MOMENTS ON FILM!
GET IT YOU FOOL!!

Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel (Live at the Isle of Wight)
Starring: Jimi Hendrix , and Jimi Hendrix
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ASIN: B000077VOS
Release Date: 2002-11-12

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Those familiar with the original Isle of Wight DVD/VHS release will be pleasantly surprised by Blue Wild Angel. For one thing, the soundtrack has been remixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround. Hendrix's legendary Isle of Wight show may have been notoriously riddled with technical difficulties, but in all honesty, it is one of his better live recordings, and Eddie Kramer's remix sounds superb. Next, Blue Wild Angel includes many songs missing from the original release such as "Lover Man," "Foxey Lady," "Message to Love," "Ezy Rider," and "Purple Haze." By far the highlights of the performance are the mesmerizing, newly unedited versions of "Red House" and "Machine Gun." Finally, as an added bonus, the concert is introduced by a mini documentary about Hendrix's involvement with the Isle of Wight festival. This introduction is told through new interviews with Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, and Eddie Kramer and footage from Murray Lerner's Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival rockumentary. Blue Wild Angel is a great addition to any Hendrix fan's collection. --Rob Bracco

Customer Reviews:

Historically significant...not a good performance.......2007-06-30

First of all look at the cover...It's in red and black and says 'Blue Wild Angel'? How lame is that? If you research the rest of this tour most of the shows were considered bad. Jimi just did'nt care at this point in time. That being said, there are some good moments(though no great ones imo).The show seems to start well and end well but is hit and miss in the middle. Jimi did'nt want to be there and it shows. However they do play for a long time...Jimi is visibly tired and stoned...and out of tune most of the time...this DVD is for die hard fans and collectors...made me sad to watch actually...Jimi deserves better and this should not have been released...just because you can does'nt mean you should...

Half Bad.......2007-05-30

The first half of this performance is horrible due to equipment problems. The second half of the performance is great. It's worth buying for the second half of the performance. Too bad they did All Along the Watchtower during the first half of the performance.

One of the best-filmed Hendrix concerts, even if not one of his best.......2007-04-09

This concert is a must have for Hendrix fans for all the reasons listed by others below. The film quality is great, almost the whole concert is shown, unlike the horrible edited versions of the past, and the concert is not as bad as some might say, although many greater ones have been preserved on tape. On some songs he's distracted by equipment problems, but on others you really can see Hendrix at his best. It's just an uneven concert really, but worth having nonetheless. My only complaint is that this DVD is 'PCFriendly', and so unlike every other DVD in my collection, wouldn't play on my PC as I only had 4 GB free on my hard disk. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a 'PCUnfriendly' version that simply plays by popping it into your disk drive, so I would suggest anyone without a DVD player and a full hard disk take into consideration that you won't be able to watch this DVD. However, still 5 stars for a great release.

JIMI HENDRIX'S FINAL MOMENTS ON FILM!.......2006-09-25

I will be doing a review on the historic legendary classic DVD concert entitled "Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel - Live at the Isle of Wight." I will also be editing this review from time to time so that you the consumer will get the best and most accurate review possible. Before I begin, I would highly suggest that you read my other reviews on Jimi's historic landmark concerts at the "Monterey Pop Festival" on 18 June 1967 and the "Woodstock Festival" on 18 August 1969. They are both long reviews but they contain a lot of information on Jimi. I do hope that you read and enjoy them both. It would also help me shorten this long review and not have to add all that information in this review.

For me personally, this marks the third review on Jimi Hendrix's legendary concert series which focus's on some of his most memorable and unforgettable performances in Rock n' Roll history. Each concert that Jimi performed on would also show the different phases and differences he displayed which would also show visibly and be audible in his music. I guess you can say that every performance Jimi delivered in his short brief career all sounded different, they never sounded the same. The year 1970 started off as a busy year for Jimi, he performed many concerts across the country and in other countries as well. At least four concerts were partially filmed, "Live at Berkeley" 30 May 1970, "Live at the Atlanta Pop Festival" 4 July 1970, "The Rainbow Bridge concert" 30 July 1970 and the one I am reviewing for you now. Jimi's "Isle of Wight" performance, according to many Rock critics, is Hendrix's final moments on film. Enough said, its time to go back in time to the "Isle of Wight Festival" 30 August 1970.

Jimi was not feeling very good during this period, story has it that before showtime, he had been extremely sick as a result of taking some bad acid. Because of this, Jimi's scheduled performance had to be put off numerous times until he finally took the stage late at 2 A.M. In my opinion, from what I've read in many Hendrix biographies, Jimi was taking drugs as a result of going through a deep depression and being very unhappy at this stage of his career. Jimi was also living the Sex, Drugs & Rock n' Roll lifestyle and was not getting the rest that was needed to deliver the great performances. To make matters worse, the pressures of his manager Mike Jeffery (on financial matters and changes in personnel in Jimi's bands) and Jimi needing more money to complete his own recording studio called "Electric Lady Studios," (thus steeling him away from what he really loved, which is recording in the studio and creating new songs) Jimi had to force himself to go on the road on the 1970 tour and do what he does best, PERFORM LIVE WITH HIS GUITAR. But with all the pressures mounted on Jimi during the 1970 tour, that spark of being the charismatic showman on stage that Jimi was always known for was gone by the time he performed at the "Isle of Wight Festival." PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM IN NO WAY KNOCKING HENDRIX IN ANY WAY. If you see the film, you will notice how depressed and unhappy Jimi really is. Whatever it was that bothered Jimi (I have many opinions) during that period would take a toll and would eventually get the best of him. Shortly after the "Isle of Wight" performance, with Jimi's life falling apart, sadly, on 18 September 1970, a few weeks later, Jimi hendrix died. Despite all of his troubles and not playing his guitar at 100%, Jimi STILL dug deep down in his heart and delivered a great performance by letting his guitar do all the talking. Considering the circumstances, its a wonder that Jimi even performed on that early morning on 30 August 1970.

Jimi performed 18 songs on that early morning of 30 August 1970, but only 15 songs made it on this DVD release. I will review all 18 songs here and are as follows: (1.) "God Save The Queen" (the British National Anthem done the Jimi Hendrix way, EXCELLENT!), (2.) "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (EXCELLENT! Jimi was the first artist that ever attempted and succeeded in performing this Beatles legendary song live.), (3.) "Spanish Castle Magic" (EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING!), (4.) "All Along The Watchtower" (EXCELLENT! Another one of Jimi's great tributes to Bob Dylan.), (5.) "Machine Gun" (EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING! Jimi's actually bringing the Vietnam war to the audience and firing shots through his explosive guitar.), (6.) "Lover Man" (EXCELLENT! Jimi's answer to the B.B. King classic "Rock Me Baby."), (7.) "Freedom" (EXCELLENT! I love this song. Jimi uses his Flying V guitar for this song.), (8.) "Red House" (unhappy moment for Jimi, but still EXCELLENT! Jimi had problems finding his groove for this song but eventually found it somewhere in the middle of his guitar solo.), (9.) "Dolly Dagger" (EXCELLENT! One of my favorites.), (10.) "Midnight Lightning" (not on DVD release, EXCELLENT!), (11.) "Foxey Lady" (EXCELLENT!), (12.) "Message To Love" (EXCELLENT!), (13.) "Hey Baby" (New Rising Sun) (not on the DVD release, EXCELLENT! This is a beautiful slow song.), (14.) "Ezy Ryder" (EXCELLENT! This song KICKS!), (15.) "Hey Joe" (not on the DVD release, EXCELLENT!), (16.) "Purple Haze" (EXCELLENT! Another great version that will leave you in a "Purple Haze" for "Daze."), (17.) "Voodoo Child" (Slight return) (EXCELLENT! Another one of my favorites. Jimi wrote and sings this song like he truly means it.) and (18.) "In From The Storm" (EXCELLENT! Another great ROCKER!)

I'd like to add a little note to this performance, Jimi made a lot of guitar errors on some of his songs during his "Isle of Wight" performance. But as the late great Stevie Ray Vaughn once said, "I even copied Jimi's mistakes because they even sounded great." After Jimi's "Isle of Wight" performance on 30 August 1970, and prior to Jimi's unexpected death on 18 September 1970, he would only give one final performance. Jimi's "Live at the Isle of Fehmarn" in Insel Fehmarn, Germany on 6 September 1970 would mark the end of of his incredible spectacular career. Jimi's last concert performance is available through Dagger Records / Experience Hendrix LLC.

In closing, Jimi Hendrix will always be the GREATEST GUITARIST THAT EVER LIVED. The date of 18 September 1970 will always be a sad day in Rock n' Roll history. We'll never know just how far Jimi's natural gifts and talents would have taken us, but I'm sure that there would have been no boundaries or limits. But most importantly, Jimi possessed something that few guitarists have; Jimi had and played his guitar with a lot of heart. Jimi's magical sounds and unimaginable effects that accompanied his brilliant music which then flowed through his guitar were driven by his big heart as a result of his love, passion and devotion for his guitar. If a naturally gifted guitar genius were without that real important quality, what else is there? What a TRAGIC loss for Rock n' Roll. Thanks for reading my long review and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it for all of you. LONG LIVE ROCK N' ROLL! Rock out always. Take care, J.L.

GET IT YOU FOOL!! .......2006-08-23

Excellent footage and quality for this period! Great performance of a legend guitar player.

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival

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This movie is heaven
When the music's over
The music is great but...
kinda disappointing
only 5 mins of Alvin Lee/Ten Years After!!??

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Starring: Mitch Mitchell (II) , Richard McCracken (IV) , Chick Churchill , Paul Kossoff , and Alvin Lee (III)
Director: Murray Lerner
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Release Date: 1997-12-10

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This documentary by Murray Lerner (From Mao to Mozart) was shot in 1970, but for many reasons was not shown to the public until 1995 in Great Britain. In an important way, it is the final chapter in an unofficial trilogy of concert films (along with Woodstock and Gimme Shelter) that together paint a picture of the highest and lowest points of Woodstock Nation politics: from mass goodwill to anarchy to outright stupidity. On the one hand, Message to Love is a rock & roll movie with several performances that are outright revelations (the Who's triumphant show, the Doors' "The End"), some that are awfully good (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun"), and more than enough that are superfluous (Ten Days After, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Jethro Tull). On the other hand, Lerner's cameras are trained on the increasingly testy relationship between nomadic hippies who travel a long way to see the show but refuse to pay, and concert producers who resort to using guard dogs, cops, and aluminum walls to keep crashers at a distance. Just how bad does the mood become after several days of this? Check out the scene in which Joni Mitchell breaks down in tears after singing her ode to peace and love, "Woodstock," before this lot. In an era when we've become used to extraordinary security and high ticket prices at rock concerts, it's perhaps hard to grasp what the fuss was about at the Isle of Wight. But Lerner's amazing film helps a viewer get a sense of what was really at stake in that period before rock & roll was a corporate matter, and when kids naively thought it was theirs for the taking. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

This movie is heaven.......2007-05-12

I don't get the criticism of this movie. Firstly, it's damn cheap - so whatever you get is value. Secondly, I've never bothered to watch the actual movie all the way through - all I'm interested in is the music. I go straight to the titles section where you can just watch the performances uncut. That's what I wanted, and what I get is the most fantastic performances by The Who, Doors, and some bands which either aren't available anywhere else (such as Family and Ten Years After) or some bands for whom one or two performances are enough for me (such as Jimi Hendrix, Free, Taste and Leonard Cohen).

For me, that's the beauty of buying a Festival movie - fairly short clips of bands. If I want more, I buy a DVD of that band. Since buying this movie, I've been inspired to buy more by The Who and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, whereas it has put me off buying anything by Jimi, much as I like his music (on CD).

When the music's over.......2007-02-14

A poorly made documentary focusing on the problems surrounding the festival's producers. Every music clip in this film has been edited down, sometimes to no more than a few seconds, so the creators of the movie could slip in a few more of the countless interviews with hippie's proclaiming the freedom of the music and the show promoters worrying over how they're going to pay the musicians and beat the bad publicity. There wasn't enough room to include a single entire performance of any song by any of the bands featured, but there's enough room to show interviews with burned out hippies in their entirety, interviews that consists mainly of babbling or long pauses while they try...to...remember...the...right...words...man.
It's obvious that the creators of the film wanted to focus on the deterioration of the hippie generation, but if they were trying to make a statement, they were about 30 years too late. The only statement this film makes is one of frustation. The audience of this film will feel much like the flower children featured in the movie, caught outside the festival, trying to get a glimpse of the music they love through a fence that the people in charge won't let them through.

The music is great but..........2007-01-03

There's great vintage shots and sounds from Free, Tull, The Who, ELP and others but all the other documentary stuff, while interesting, I found distracting and boring.

kinda disappointing.......2006-07-04

Depending on whether your interest lies in viewing this as a historical document or as a concert video you will probably be either less or more disappointed.I was expecting something more similar to Woodstock in which you were able to see the artists entire performance instead of edited versions of the songs.I could have done with a lot less of disgruntled hippies and more music.Some of the performances were great(The Who,Moody Blues,Miles Davis,ELP,Jetro Tull).Others were mediocre,most notably The Doors.Even Hendrix was not as good as in days past.So much for the hippie utopian dream that was portrayed in the Woodstock movie.

only 5 mins of Alvin Lee/Ten Years After!!??.......2006-02-27

..whats all that about? I'm putting this crap on eBay first chance I get, I'm totally disgusted at the editing ,not because of how it was edited at the time of original release, but because they have not extended the songs to there original length . Ten Years After's 'I cant Keep from crying' with extended guitar solo from Alvin Lee, was nearly 20 minuites long and they put barely 5 minuites of it on here. This could have been made into an extended package, like most reissued/remastered concert footage has been . There is little enough footage of Ten Years After&Alvin Lee out there, yet Jethro Tull's full Isle of Wight 'full' 1 hour set has been released on DVD . Nice remastering, shame about the footage.

The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)

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The Val Lewton Horror Collection
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
Quintessential Lewton...
Elegant horror
Note recycled Lewton props.

The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)
Starring: Simone Simon , Kent Smith , Tom Conway , Jane Randolph , and Jack Holt
Director: Jacques Tourneur , Robert Wise , and Gunther von Fritsch
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
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ASIN: B000A0GOEQ
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Val Lewton's name is synonymous with the subtlest, most mysterious brand of horror filmmaking in Hollywood's golden age, and the nine horror classics he produced at RKO between 1942 and 1946 constitute the most remarkable cycle of creativity in B-movie history. (For the record, the Lewton/RKO legacy also includes two non-horror entries, Youth Runs Wild and Mademoiselle Fifi.)

Before becoming a film producer, the Russian-born Lewton was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, nonfiction, and a couple of pornographic novels. He also worked for years as assistant to David O. Selznick, a legendary producer with a distinctive personal signature--and a flair for grandiosity Lewton himself never emulated. It's ever so revealing that, on Selznick's Gone With the Wind, it was Lewton who came up with the idea for the famous rising shot of the Atlanta railyard filled with Southern wounded, with the Confederate flag streaming above--only he idly proposed it as a joke, never imagining that anyone would actually film such a spectacularly ambitious scene.

In 1942 Lewton left Selznick to undertake a series of horror films for RKO Radio Pictures. The studio would give him a budget around $200,000 per picture and a title RKO deemed to be grabby; Lewton would have a free hand as long as he stayed on budget, used the title, and gave the studio a salable movie of second-feature length (around 70 minutes). Over time, Lewton would increasingly have trouble with studio supervisors, but RKO was the right place for him. Although low in the pecking order among Hollywood majors, the studio made up for its lack of MGM-style glamour and Warner Bros. grit-and-gusto by working in a finely filigreed, almost miniaturist style. The art department under Van Nest Polglase and Albert S. D'Agostino was capable of exquisite artisanry, and in Nicholas Musuraca, a master of low-key cinematography and supple camerawork, Lewton found an invaluable collaborator in creating moody shadow-worlds where what you couldn't see was more disquieting than what you could.

He was also fortunate in having Jacques Tourneur to direct his first three efforts (they had teamed years earlier on the Bastille-storming sequence for Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities). They scored first time out of the gate with both a popular hit and a masterpiece: Cat People (1942). The story involves a pretty young Serbian woman in Manhattan (Simone Simon) convinced that her ancestors had practiced animal worship during the Middle Ages--and that she herself might shape-change into a lithe, ravening panther if her passions were aroused. The film is uncannily successful in keeping the viewer guessing whether this is a phobia borne of morbid obsession and sexual repression, or a genuine, horrific possibility. There are two sequences of matchless artistry and almost unbearable suspense--a lonely, echoing walk through pools of lamplight alongside Central Park, and a late-night swim in a deserted indoor pool--that build to throat-grabbing climaxes and remain milestones in the history of screen horror.

Many critics feel that the second Lewton-Tourneur endeavor, I Walked With a Zombie (1943), is both men's finest work. The title is so lurid that the heroine-narrator (Frances Dee) must shrug it off with her very first words, yet the movie is an amazingly delicate and poetic piece of spellbinding--nothing less than a reworking of Jane Eyre on a voodoo island in the Caribbean. Other horror aficionados prefer the more mainline ferocity of The Leopard Man (1943), an adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story about a serial killer strewing corpses along the U.S.-Mexican border. Although on one level this is the Lewton film that veers closest to conventional mystery-suspense, there's no end of unsettling ambiguity (another black panther on the loose!) and hints of occultism and religious mania.

RKO promoted Tourneur to A-movies after this; Lewton would never again have so masterly a directorial partner. Yet in a weird sense (which is only appropriate), this underscores how much Lewton--with his wealth of arcane historical lore and storytelling archetypes, his quiet, patient attention to detail, and his taste for oblique narrative--was the essential auteur of all his films. Promoting first Mark Robson and then Robert Wise from the editing table, Lewton went on to make the deeply mysterious The Seventh Victim (1943) and The Ghost Ship (1943), two films in which such grotesque elements as Satan worship and murderous psychopathology are folded away inside eerily drifty, almost becalmed sleepwalks into eternal night. The Seventh Victim--a movie populated with more walking dead than Lewton's out-and-out zombie picture--is one of the cinema's supreme meditations on the ways lives brush against one another in the spaces of a great, impersonal city. And The Ghost Ship (the rarest of Lewton's films, owing to a ruinous copyright suit) is like a fever dream from which the viewer never awakens.

That's enough for a legacy, surely. Yet there remain The Curse of the Cat People (1944), a sequel that is not quite a sequel, a pretend-horror movie that's really a contemplation of the fragility of childhood; Isle of the Dead (1945), a doomed reverie about travelers who escape the Goya-esque chaos of a 19th-century war only to be beset with plague on a miasma-shrouded island; The Body Snatcher (1945), an atmospheric Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation that invokes the grisly history of graverobbers Burke and Hare, and supplies a together-again-for-the-last-time occasion for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; and Bedlam (1946), the Hogarth painting come to life to portray the real-life horrors of an 18th-century insane asylum. Bedlam's critical and box-office failure ended Lewton's quasi-independent status at RKO; he would live to make only three other, unsuccessful films.

James Agee, the premier American film critic of the 1940s, reckoned that Val Lewton was one of the three foremost creative figures in Hollywood--an assessment yet more impressive when we consider that the other two were Charles Chaplin and Walt Disney. His greatest films--Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Seventh Victim--are towering achievements, and even his half-realized projects are haunting experiences, the products of an utterly distinctive sensibility. This is an extraordinary collection. --Richard T. Jameson

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Val Lewton, a famous RKO Radio Pictures producer, redefined the horror genre with low-budget, high-box office films. Now available are nine of these horror classics on DVD in the all new Val Lewton Horror Collection. Exclusive to the collection are a new documentary on the producer and 3 of the 9 films.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People and Curse of the Cat People, Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked With a Zombie, Steve Haberman with Robert Wise on The Body Snatcher, Tom Weaver on Bedlam, and Steve Haberman on The Seventh Victim.
Documentaries:Shadows In The Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Theatrical Trailer

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The Val Lewton Horror Collection.......2007-06-25

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"Cat People"
What you can't see "will" hurt you

A man marries a strange woman with a European accent. She seems shy, but she actually carries a secret. Seems she knows she came from a line of "Cat People" and passion can bring out her claws. This is reinforced in a scene at a restaurant where another one of her kind recognizes her. She also suspects her new hubby's female friend has designs on him. So we get a spooky scene at a swimming pool at night alone in the gym.

There was not enough money or sufficient technology to show scary cat people. They tried people in cat suits, but they just looked cutesy. So they decided to just show shadows and sounds. The rest was up to your imagination. It is a psychological movie with a touch of film noir. ---------------------------------------------
"The Curse of the Cat People"
In many ways superior to the original

The Curse of the Cat People (1944) is not really sequel to Cat People (1942) as much as a stand alone physiological thriller that just happens to be an extension of the original characters. We have seen the formula before but you may not have seen such a presentation; a lonely child Amy Reed (Ann Carter) seeks a playmate that understands her. Who best but the spirit of Oliver's dead wife, Irena (Simone Simon) one of the cat people. Naturally this upsets the parents. Toss in Amy's new relation to reclusive neighbor Julia Farren (Julia Dean). Julia has problems of her own relating to her daughter. The story just gets complex from there.

The question is, is it dangerous to fantasize that much and what will become of the characters in the end.
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"I Walked with a Zombie"
A classic Val Lewton production

We are treated to exotic titles and expectations with titles such as "I walked With a Zombie." My only encounters with Zombies are those that process in an UNIX operating system that can not be killed. I also watched "Weekend at Bernie's II."

As with other Lewton productions he got a way with a psychological thriller in the guise of a monster movie. In the days of sailing ships a nurse (Frances Dee) is employed to go to San Sebastian to look after a plantation owner's wife (Christine Gordon.) She fined that her charge is more than just a victim of a disease that heft her without will. Turns out if you cut the wife she does not bleed. We all know what that means.

The true story is the relationship to man and wife, man and nurse, nurse and wife, brother and brother, brother and wife, need I say more? Could it mean that there is nothing supernatural or is love moving in mysterious natural.

Can this all be straightened out or is Jessica Holland the wife destined to be zomiated for ever and the nurse must learn to love from afar?

Yeah Lord pity them who are dead and give peace and happiness to the living.
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"The Body Snatcher"
Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is through error that a man tries and rises. It is through tragedy he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light." Hippocrates of Gos

This film has the psychological complexity of a Val Lewton production but is a lot more graphic than most of his productions where he just implies violence. He even takes it out on innocent dogs. I feel that some one was pushing Lewton from behind to be more vicious with this film.

A young student (Russell Wade) wants to become a doctor like the great Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell.) Little does he know what it will entail?

The DVD has a voiceover commentary from the late Director Robert Wise who directed "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." Surprisingly he said that the original basic script was written by Philip MacDonald.
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"Isle of the Dead"
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / Hamlet Act 1. Scene V abt. 1601

`Under conquest and oppression the people of Greece allowed their legends to degenerate into superstition; the Goddess Aphrodite giving way to the `Vorvolaka.' This nightmare figure was very much alive in the mines of the peasants when Greece fought the victorious war of 1912."

Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) is an experienced watcher. That is he must watch over his troops to be sure the do what they are supposed to and survive to win the day.

Finding some time take a war correspondent (Marc Cramer) to visit the grave yard island where his wife is buried. There he meats a strange collection of people and an unseen enemy that is much deadlier than any bullet. Will he be able to fight it logically and scientifically? Or will his cultural fears lead him to see the truth?

Once again we see that Boris Karloff can act and that Val Lewton can take a scary title and turn it from a cheap horror movie into a classic Psychological Thriller.
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"Bedlam"
Story suggested by The William Hogarth painting Bedlam plate 8 "The Rake's Progress

Once again Val Lewton takes what would have been a second rate horror story and turns it into a sit on the edge of your seat psychological thriller. The basic question of the story is the same as the one in his movie "Ghost Ship"; that is, is man fundamentally good and helpful of others or is he so self centered that he will act even to his own ultimate demise? An added element is that of not quite being granted all mental faculties.

The year is 1791 Lord Mortimer (Billy House) is just one of the upper class (Wiggs) that gets his kicks from watching the loonies of Bedlam loon. His protégé (Anna Lee) is discussed at the treatment of the "guests" by the head apothecary, Master George Sims (Boris Karloff who can actually act). She attempts to correct this to the detriment of Lord Mortimer. So Lord Mortimer and Sims invite her as a guest to Bedlam.

Will she ever get out or just go crazy. While there she applies a theory supplied by a Quaker (Richard Fraser), one of the Society of Friends if this works the tables may turn on Sims. What can Sims say in his defense?
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"The Leopard Man"
All or our lives are like the ball bouncing at the top of the fountain

Rival entertainers meet in a club in New Mexico Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) brings in a leopard to upstage Clo-Clo (Margo). But Clo-Clo gets the last laugh when she chases the leopard off with her castanets.

All is fun rivalry until people start dying. Naturally the local authorities think it is the leopard. But Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe) who rented the leopard has a theory that this is the work of a demented person. This theory is sort of supported by Dr. Galbraith (James Bell) the local museum curator. To make matters worse the leopard's owner, Charlie How-Come (Abner Biberman) does not remember where he was at the time.

As with the cat people it is what you don't see that can harm you. And the simile turning of a card can mark you for death.

You may recognize Dynamite the leopard that was also used in the movie "Cat People".

Produced by Val Lewton (7 May 1904, Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) ) whose story telling device is unique in that this is more of a psychological film that does not focus on any one person as they are all pawns in a much larger story. Some time it verges on the surreal.

Now that you have seen the film read the book "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich.
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"The Ghost Ship"
A new third mate on his first long sea voyage in introduced to captain and crew. Before he steps on bard he is warned by a blond man. He runs into a mute. And before they even leave port Jensen is found dead, just a heat attack. "With his death the waters of the sea are open to us. But there will be other deaths and the agony of dieing."

Don't go looking for anything supernatural as this is a Val Lewton movie. I would pay close attention to the characters. One of them may be a bit unhinged. The big question in this story is man's nature to help or ignore their fellow man.
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"Shadows in the Dark"
This is more of a Val Lewton biography with more emphasis on his producer years.

The Val Lewton Horror Collection.......2007-06-25

While the plots alone are enough to distinguish Lewton's brand of horror from other practitioners--a mysterious Serbian beauty might or might not have the ability to transform herself into a panther in "Cat People," a death-haunted New York woman is pursued by a cabal of satanists in "The Seventh Victim"--these films are also masterpieces of noir atmospherics. Karloff, an intellectual bored by ghoulish makeup, emerged from semi-retirement to make three pictures with Lewton: "Bedlam," "The Body Snatcher," and "The Isle of the Dead," with Bela Lugosi. It was a fruitful relationship. And this omnibus collection amply demonstrates Lewton's pulpy, lurid genius.

Quintessential Lewton..........2006-10-31

I've read the other reviews, and agree with most. Still, my favorite is "Curse of the Cat People". I've always been fascinated by (good) films that see life through the eyes of a child.Next to "To Kill a Mockingbird", I can't think of another film that brought me back to those simple, sweet times that adults just didn't get! (Except for Atticus, of course). I was also annoyed that the collection was in a tall box that would never fit on my shelf; I hate to separate them to fit on my shelf, alphabetically. Lewton had that wonderful idea, realized by Tourneur, with the glorious black & white photography, crisp and clear as a bell, and much appreciated by those of us who love outstanding film-making. I enjoy this collection a lot, but wish I could put it on the shelf with my other "collections", in a nice box.

Elegant horror.......2006-10-30

Steven Spielberg and Brian DePalma should be locked in a closet with a projection screen and forced to watch these films repeatedly until they swear an oath to imitate them. Made on what Tom Cruises' cleaning bill for one day's shoot would be adjusted for 1940 dollars, and infinitely superior to anything they have done. "Curse of the Cat People" and "The Seventh Victim" are largely unknown but the best and most subtle of these works. Less is more, I only wish there were more of them.

Note recycled Lewton props........2006-08-31

Val Lewton's productions have long been treasured by cinematic aestheticians. This accrues not only from his singularly intelligent treatment and subtle presentation of macabre themes, but from his recurring Lewton "stock company" of players. How we Lewton devotees savor the return of Jane Randolph, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Russell Wade, Sir Lancelot, Tom Conway, Ottola Nesmith ! etc. etc.

Less noted perhaps, are the recurring props to be spotted in Lewton films. Thus, Ottola Nesmith's tufted Victorian sofa from "The Leopard Man," later becomes the property of Miss Julia Dean in "Curse of the Cat People." Likewise, Miss Nesmith's daughter in the same film, ("Teresa") sleeps in the same curly maple bed destined to later belong to little Ann Carter in "Curse...".

Many other Lewton props follow this same recycling pattern, i.e., Kim Hunter in "Seventh Victim," turns up in that film's cocktail party sequence sporting Jane Randolph's fur trimmed topcoat from "Cat People"; the exterior double doors to Simone Simon's "Cat People" brownstone apartment building do double duty as the entrance to a hotel in "Seventh Victim," as well as serving as portals to the museum in "Leopard Man."

These delightful economies, however, may have more to do with RKO than Mr. Lewton, since Julia Dean's Victorian chairs may also be spotted in the non Lewton productions, "Beware My Lovely" and "Experiment Perilous."

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The duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
It's just entertainment.
Cherries, Berries and Plums!
A MOVIE YOU'LL WANT TO WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
Wow...Who Green Lighted This?

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Starring: George Segal , Goldie Hawn , Conrad Janis , Thayer David , and Jennifer Lee
Director: Melvin Frank
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ASIN: B0007ZEOCS
Release Date: 2005-06-07

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Goldie Hawn and George Segal star in this rough and tumble comedy that bounces from San Francisco's Barbary Coast to the wilderness of Utah. The Dirtwater Fox (George Segal) is a slick gambler who wants to hold on to the $40,000 he's stolen from a gang of outlaws. The Duchess (Goldie Hawn) is a scheming saloon singer who wants to become a "real lady." But once they team up, they begin to realize that what they really want is each other. Mixing clever dialogue with plenty of action, this sassy spoof of the Old West is made all the more fun by it's two very talented stars.

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There's one scene in the middle of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox--with Goldie Hawn and George Segal carrying on a foreign language conversation that stumbles across French, German, and Italian (with a little Yiddish thrown in)--that qualifies as a memorably funny double-talk sequence. The rest of this broad Western quasi-spoof is pretty coarse. Segal is a cardshark who appropriates a bag full of cash; Goldie is a dancehall girl without the heart of gold. This is one of those comedies where you can understand perfectly well why the two romantic leads feel antagonism toward one another--both are pressing way too hard under the direction of veteran comedy guy Melvin Frank. The movie labors in the shadow of Blazing Saddles, which at least got the conventions of the Western right. Meanwhile, the soundtrack is invaded by Bobby Vinton singing "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams," at which point you may wish Mel Brooks's cowpokes would come riding across the backlot and onto the screen. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

The duchess and the Dirtwater Fox.......2007-05-13

A movie I love to share with my grandkids

It's just entertainment........2007-03-08

It's not meant to win an Academy Award. It's just a b-movie spoof with A- class actors. Don't take yourself so seriously and enjoy it. How can you not like "el schmucko"? Sophmoric humor, even lowbrow, but I like it.

Cherries, Berries and Plums!.......2007-01-10

Wonderful performance by Goldie Hawn....Cherries, berries and plums make the movie worth buying it.....

Oh! you can touch me berries,
But you musn't touch me plums,
You can touch me cherries,
but be careful with those thumbs,

Unforgettable...!!!

A MOVIE YOU'LL WANT TO WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN!.......2006-11-03

Excellent movie!! If you want to laugh and just relax, watch this wonderful and romantic-comedy...Enjoy George Segal and Goldie Hawn at their best! They make a perfect pair without even trying. Great acting! Entertaining and funny from beginning to end! It's a movie you did like to own...I like to watch it at least once every 2 months with my friends and family. Good for the whole family. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Wow...Who Green Lighted This?.......2006-08-27

If you love awful movies that are fun in their awfulness, this one's perfect. The acting is bad, the story is too and the Bobby Vinton soundtrack is one for the ages. There's nothing more ironic than songs about "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams" sung by someone who sounds like they're clinically depressed. On the plus side, Goldie Hawn wears next to nothing and bends, lifts or pushes aside her costumes in almost every scene.

Jethro Tull: Nothing Is Easy Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

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Excellent view of early Tull
Muy bueno
I gave this as a gift,.
Muy bueno
This is Great!

Jethro Tull: Nothing Is Easy Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Starring: Jethro Tull
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Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday: The 25th Anniversary Collection, 1969-1994
Jethro Tull - Living with the Past
Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull
Benefit
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ASIN: B000B5Y0MI
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Description

Jethro Tull was formed in the late 60's and released their debut album This Was in 1968. Led by charismatic frontman Ian Anderson, they have been touring and recording almost constantly ever since. Jethro Tull has registered #1 albums on both sides of the Atlantic, achieved a succession of gold and platinum discs and won a Grammy award. They remain a massive live draw wherever they play around the world.

In 1970 Jethro Tull played the Isle Of Wight Festival in front of 600,000 people. Earlier that year they had released their third album, Benefit, which had seen the introduction of a full time keyboard player to the band's lineup. The set was drawn from across the three albums with popular tracks such as My Sunday Feeling, Dharma For One, Bourée and Nothing Is Easy and also featured My God, a track that would appear on the following year's classic album Aqualung, probably their most famous release.

Nothing Is Easy is a true concert film, combining the classic performances from the festival with a new interview with Ian Anderson, specially shot for the film, and with backstage footage and original interviews from 1970 with Isle of Wight residents and fans attending the festival. Also included in the film is footage of the band's appearance in the Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus performing A Song For Jeffrey with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath on guitar.

As a bonus feature on the DVD there is a photo gallery of 26 original pictures of Tull's performance at the Isle of Wight taken by celebrated photographer Claude Gassian.

DVD Tracklisting:
1) Bourée (excerpt)
2) My Sunday Feeling
3) A Song For Jeffrey
4) My God
5) Dharma For One
6) Nothing Is Easy
7) Medley: We Used To Know / For A Thousand Mothers

CD Tracklisting:
1) My Sunday Feeling
2) My God
3) With You There To Help Me
4) To Cry You A Song
5) Bourée
6) Dharma For 1
7) Nothing Is Easy
8) Medley: We Used To Know / For A Thousand Mothers

Customer Reviews:

Excellent view of early Tull.......2007-06-23

This is excellent in several ways. It has an overall commentary of the performance by Ian himself. Then his comments on what the festival signified--Its somewhat similar to "Woodstock" by Michael Wadleigh...showing the atmosphere as if you were there yourself. I particularly like the fact that its not "re-mixed" or "re-" anything, the video and sound are basically as it was recorded. Its not scratchy or choppy at all, its exceptionally well documented, and just a great peek into some early Tull when "My God" was considered a new piece. There are parts of this floating around the net, but if you want the whole insight into the festival, the band, and the music, then this DVD is a must. Any Tull fan will appreciate the set, new or old. The insert included with the DVD, which basically states Ian's thoughts about the film and festival, is several paragraphs long, and the extra features of the disc include a photo gallery. No behind the scenes or anything we are used to nowadays....But back then, they werent filming with the creation of a DVD in mind. Historically great (hippie ideals, free concerts, etc), One of the last great large concerts showcased, and early Tull packaged into a fantastic set of disks.

Muy bueno.......2007-01-21

Es muy interesante ver los comentarios de Ian Anderson sobre el momento y la puesta en escena del concierto. El sonido es muy bueno igual que la imagen, lástima que no tenga la opción de Widescreen, sin embargo vale la pena tener este concierto. Adicionalmente tiene el bono del CD con otros temas adicionales.

Los amantes de Jethro Tull deben tener este DVD.

I gave this as a gift,........2007-01-03

I cannot comment on the quality myself because I gaveit as a Christmas gift to my brother. He did tell me he loved it, but he could just be saying that.

Muy bueno.......2006-08-14

Es imprecionante ver a Jethro Tull, en su epoca ya que no es facil conseguir videos en vivo de una epoca donde la musica era innovadora y existian bandas muy importantes simultaneamente, este DVD lo puedes ver completo y te vas a quedar con ganas de ver mas de Jethro Tull me hizo recordar mucho a Led Zeppelin

This is Great!.......2006-05-28

There is no way this isn't 5 stars. This is live music at it's best. Jethro Tull was never a mainstream classic rock band. But this is whole performance was/is pure classic metal. Clive Bunker (drums) is one of the best ever. Martin Barre (guitar) is better than average. Glen Cornick (bass) who left the band less than a year after this was really the only hippy in Tull. Ian Anderson of course (vocals, flute, acoustic guitar) is incredible. And John Evan (piano) was the main parts of the roots of the band back when he was a drummer in the John Evan Smash and with the album Benefit was back in the band.

These are the rankings of each song in the order of CD listing:

1. My Sunday Feeling-This was there official debut song off of This Was. And this is an extremely good perforance of it. Ian Anderson is late on his flute fills because even he can't sing, dance, and play the flute all in one. 8/10

2. My God-A classic song from the Aqualung album. And this is a pretty good rendition. 9/10

3. With You There to Help Me-The opener for 1970's Benefit. Clive Bunker is very powerful on the drums. But when he's not playing it seems that the band is off beat and Evan plays part of By Kind of Permission off Living in the Past. 7/10

4. To Cry a Song-Also off of Benefit. With a great riff and guitar solo gets a 10/10.

5. Bourée-Released as a single in 1969 is a classical song picked up from Bach. 9/10.

6. Dharma For One-Originally released on This Was. This version is rearranged but why. It was a great song before it was rearranged why change it. But if you look past it Bunker has a great drum solo for his effort it gets 8/10.

7. Nothing Is Easy-The first song off of 1969's Stand Up. This is the title of the album and I can see why. 10/10.

8. Medley: We Used To Know/For a Thousand Mothers-These are my two favorite songs off of the album Stand Up (besides A New Day Yesterday.) Barre doesn't use the wah-wah pedal so the guitar solo in We Used to Know doesn't have the same feel as the studio version. But For a Thousand Mothers is great. The only problem is Anderson sings the verse that starts with "baby" with only John Evan and it doesn't have the same feel. But regardless it still gets a 9/10.

This is a classic live performance during the golden age of rock music.

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Isle of mann dvd

Isle of Man TT 2006

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ASIN: B000FWGVUG
Release Date: 2006-06-29

Customer Reviews:

Isle of mann dvd.......2007-01-30

Nothing to say but great, buy it now.
great footage and quality.

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Worth the price
Jethro Tull-'Nothing Is Easy:Live At The Isle Of Wight,1970' (Eagle Vision)
Annoying Editing Ruins Brilliant Jethro Tull Performances
great for die- hard ian anderson fans
"And The Graven Image You know Who With His Plastic Crucifix"

Jethro Tull - Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Jethro Tull - Living with the Past

ASIN: B0007OY42O
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Description

Just three years after their founding, Jethro Tull played the final day of the legendary Isle of Wight festival in 1970. With the crowd estimated at close to 600,000 people, the band was one of many impressive acts on this day, including The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, Free, and many more. The set mostly contains material from their first three albums, with the exception of "My God", which would appear several months later on their legendary "Aqualung" album.

In this stunning snapshot of the last hurrah of the hippie movement, Award Winning Directo Murray Lerner captures the tension between the crowd and organizers for the final day of the festival. Ian Anderson provides his thoughts throughout the program as well, to give the viewer a unique perspective on what Jethro Tull was about at this moment in time. They were still a relatively new band, yet superstardom was in the near future. The band lineup for this show consists of: Ian Anderson (vocals, flute, acoustic guitar), Martin Barre (electric guitar), Clive Bunker (drums), Glen Cornick (bass), and John Evan (keyboards).

Jethro Tull has earned 11 gold and 5 platinum albums over the course of their 37-year history.

Set List:
1. My Sunday Feeling
2. My God
3. Bouree
4. Dharma For One
5. Nothing Is Easy
6. Medley (We Used To Know/For A Thousand Mothers)

Customer Reviews:

Worth the price.......2007-01-20

The few good cuts make the DVD worthwhile: Nothing is Easy, My Sunday Feeling, We Used to Know, My God.
Alas the movie focuses on annoying crowd complaints in the middle of other songs. To Cry You a Song is left to play behind the end credits. Dharma for one is boring.
I enjoyed Ian Anderson's comments throughout, though they should have been reserved for another part of the DVD.
Worst part? Inserting Song For Jeffrey from the Rolling Stones' Circus concert (or whatever it was called) right into the middle of the Isle of Wight concert. The song is atrocious - at least in this rendition. Jeffrey, you deserved better.
All in all you get your money's worth, and unless you find other live footage of Tull, this is a must.
Just play Nothing is Easy or My Sunday Feeling to anyone who thinks of Tull as a little weenie Bungle in the Jungle studio band.

Jethro Tull-'Nothing Is Easy:Live At The Isle Of Wight,1970' (Eagle Vision).......2006-06-09

Personally,I liked the audio CD of the same title better(see my review).I've waited a little while to see this DVD of vintage Tull and even though the live footage of the songs are great,the overall editing job of this music DVD should have been done differently.Whoever put this retrospect together should have put the seven songs FIRST,then put the interviews with Ian Anderson,which provided some super nice 'words of thought' and perhaps facts about Tull that many of you didn't already know.Also dug the footage of the angered fans that were speaking their mind about the famed Isle Of Wight event.Had a fantastic time checking out the perfectly focused(sometimes that doesn't happen with old concert films as such)and never off centered performances of "My Sunday Feeling","Bouree","Dharma For One" and "Nothing Is Easy".If you're an old school Jethro Tull fan,with some time AND patience,do check this DVD out when you can.

Annoying Editing Ruins Brilliant Jethro Tull Performances.......2006-02-23

Poor Ian Anderson! It's not clear to me if Lerner edited this film or merely shot the original footage, but whoever did the edit apparently does not care much for Jethro Tull music.

It's so frustrating to watch incredible concert footage interrupted every 30 seconds by some angry young man enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.

I find this DVD virtually unwatchable and heartbreaking. It's not about the band or the music, this is a DVD about the end of the 60's except it was not done very well even from that perspective.

If you love the band, brace yourself for disappointment.

great for die- hard ian anderson fans.......2005-11-16

much better footage than you would expect a must -have item

"And The Graven Image You know Who With His Plastic Crucifix".......2005-10-23

From perusing the various reviews it's obvious there are some serious Tull purists let down with the incomplete footage. Be that as it may, what is presented is outstanding! The footage of one of my all time Tull picks, "My God," alone makes this more than worthwhile. Anderson's take on our religious misdirections and misgivings are far more wry and lyrical than say, those of another favored staple of that era, the darkly iconoclastic Black Sabbath. Speaking of which, this documentary includes the bluesy chugger "Song For Jeffrey," from the Stones Rock And Roll Circus, with none other than Toni Iommi on guitar shortly before he joined up with Geezer Butler to form Sabbath.
The narration by Anderson is fine on its own although is repetitiously interspersed with performance footage that makes it drag a bit. Maybe it would've worked better as an aside on the menu with the live footage left to stand on its own. However, it's a minor criticism given the band was fully alive and in top form, replete with frazzled, unkempt-bearded Anderson gyrating about within a devil-may-care catharsis of expression.

Average customer rating:

Great video
made with passion
Very Good!
Isle of man review 2004
Good on-board shots

2004 Tourist Trophy - TT Isle of Man
Starring: 2004 Tt Isle of Man
Manufacturer: White Star
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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2003 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Review
Long Way Round
Dust to Glory
MotoGP 2004 Review

ASIN: B0002VGTU2
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Description

Isle of Man TT official Review:TT 2004 captures the racing, the records, the riders and the atmosphere generated by one of the largest TT crowds in years. The action is captured from all angles, using curb, on-bike, and roadside cameras together.

Customer Reviews:

Great video.......2006-03-13

You gotta love the TT! That is, if you ride or want to. This is a kind of "raw" race. On the streets, all out, trees, houses, farms all fly by at speeds only a few of us will ever attain. Lots of fun. Start the collection now because rumor has it that the "07 TT, the 100th will be the last!

made with passion.......2005-08-26

the video is accurate and covers all the races extensively.
Very interesting are the on board cameras and the interwiews.

Very Good!.......2005-07-21

Bought as a Father's Day gift for my boyfriend, & I enjoyed this also. Very good!! Camera angles are wonderful, as is background information. I highly recommend.

Isle of man review 2004.......2005-02-04

Excellent again! More of the same stuff we have come to expect from the annual review, only this time theres more. more on boards both facing forward with commentery and data(lean angle, amount of braking and accelerating) and a map so you can follow the rider around the 37 mile curcuit, and a rather odd rear facing camera angle from the dash board, so you can watch the riders body the whole way around. Also more coverage of Mad Sunday and the drag runs.
If youre at all interested in Motorcycle racing then you'll really enjoy watching these guys race around a road course doing upto 170MPH only inches away from stone walls, lamp posts and the spectactors.

Good on-board shots.......2005-01-04

Good onboard shots and in-depth coverage of this sport that many in North America may not be familiar with. Tremendous onboard action and coverage. Very long and covers nearly all the classes. Non-motorcyclists may find it a bit tedious due to the length.

Average customer rating:

The Who is the Best - Reissue is pretty great (no more reissues please, though)
Why must this keep happening?

Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Starring: The Who
Manufacturer: Eagle Vision USA
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Who's Better, Who's Best: The Videos
The Who - The Kids Are Alright (Special Edition)
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ASIN: B000ION7CQ
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Description

This new edition of Murray Lerner's film of The Who's legendary performance at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival features newly restored pictures and remixed sound, along with exclusive bonus features to finally give this amazing concert the quality release it deserves. Accept no substitute and play it loud!

TRACKLISTING 1. Heaven and Hell 2. I Can't Explain 3. Young Man Blues 4. I Don't Even Know Myself 5. Water 6. Medley: Shakin' All Over / Spoonful / Twist and Shout 7. Summertime Blues 8. My Generation 9. Magic Bus From "Tommy": 10. Overture 11. It's a Boy 12. Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker) 13. Christmas 14. The Acid Queen 15. Pinball Wizard 16. Do You Think It's Alright 17. Fiddle About 18. Go to the Mirror 19. Miracle Cure 20. I'm Free 21. We're Not Gonna Take It 22. See Me Feel Me / Listening to You 23. Tommy Can You Hear Me?

BONUS FEATURES Bonus tracks omitted from the original film: 1. Substitute 2. Naked Eye New 40 minute interview with Pete Townshend.

Customer Reviews:

The Who is the Best - Reissue is pretty great (no more reissues please, though).......2006-11-15

Here's the skinny on this. The two bonus tracks - "Naked Eye," which is great, although it's missing the Pete vocals that appeared in the song later, and "Substitute," which is pretty solid but a tad sloppy here and there - are just what they are. They're not inserted into the concert. They can be seen only as "extras." Why they weren't incorporated into the original film, I'll never know. The interview with Pete is the same 2004 which was recorded for the 2004 DVD version and limited theatrical release that year. The BIG difference here, though, is the widescreen presentation. It's widescreen, and there doesn't seem to be any cropping or "fake letterboxed" going on here. I compared the 2004 DVD to this new 2006 one, and more of the film image can be seen on the 2006 version. What baffles me, though, is I didn't think they shot this film with widescreen cameras. Still, though, there seems to be more of a visual image on this new version. So, it's worth it if you love The Who, but it's frustrating that they didn't include the two bonus tracks as actually part of the concert (main program) on the DVD.

Why must this keep happening?.......2006-11-15

(My rating is for the content of this show rather than this DVD release. I'm sorry, but I just cannot bring myself to give The Who a lower rating, which this particular DVD probably deserves for reasons described below.)

Why the hell did they re-release this item with only two songs added? The 40-minute interview with Pete is on the 2004 DVD release of this same show. (EDIT: After viewing this release, I can confirm it is definitely the same interview.) Based on the fact that the aforementioned version has a 24 bit mix available in 5.1 Surround and DTS supervised by Pete Townshend himself, I HIGHLY DOUBT they have somehow completely remastered and remixed it yet again for this release. (EDIT: Once again, I have confirmed it is indeed the same mix. Other than the additional two songs, the only difference between this DVD and the prior release is that it is widescreen format. Honestly, it is difficult to tell if it is true widescreen [as in, filmed that way originally] or if they just formatted it to appear that way.)

All of this basically comes across as, "Hey, we can screw the public YET AGAIN by leaving a couple songs off this release and then re-issuing it in a couple years with this material so all the tools who bought it the first time have to purchase it again." Considering that this sort of thing has happened with the The Who's Isle of Wight 1970 set more than once now, I am considering not buying this version at all just to make a f*cking point! The ridiculously loyal Who fan in me REALLY wants to buy the damned thing just so I can have a more complete version of the show on DVD. Ugh. (EDIT: Yeah, the fangirl won this battle - I ended up buying it hah.)

(EDIT: Lastly, considering they went to the trouble to release this concert again, it would have been really nice if they had spliced in the additional footage. Alas, they have not - it's just available in the extras section of the DVD.)

Ok, I am finished ranting. If anyone wishes to discuss this release, feel free to comment on this review or contact me via my Amazon profile information. Thanks.

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