Organ

Starring:Kimihiko Hasegawa, Natsuyo Kanahama, Kenji Nasa, Ryu Okubo, Tojima Shozo, Shun Sugata
Studio: Image
Product Type: DVD

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The tradition of Japan's underground Grand Guignol psycho-drama continues in Organ, a grotesque, gooey thriller of human organ pirates, deviant sex killers, and festering biology experiments. Undercover cops infiltrate the dank, underground operating theater of a street gang selling black market organs, but before backup arrives one of them is literally dissected in front of the other. The surgical victim winds up a human guinea pig in the doctor's private greenhouse ("He looks like that guy in The Fly," offers one visitor). His partner keeps his skin intact but loses his mind and becomes obsessed with tracking down the ringleader of the operation, the ferocious, one-eyed Yoko (played by the director Kei Fujiwara, costar of the cyber-punk horror classic Tetsuo: The Iron Man).

That's the plot in a nutshell, but this hallucinatory film is almost incoherent, a grotesque stew of pus and blood and severed limbs. Like much of the new wave of Japanese horror, the violence is more conceptual than explicit, full of perverse imagery and deviant characters. Organ is messy in every sense of the word. It gets so knotted in excess that it often loses it's way in wandering story lines, horrifying flashbacks (it turns out that Yoko and the doctor are siblings with a terrible childhood secret), and wild dreams and fantasies. Perhaps that's the madness to Fujiwara's method: how can anyone keep their grip on reality in such a nightmarish world?

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When you add up all the best things about The Island, you might just conclude that there's hope yet for Hollywood's most critically reviled hit-maker, Michael Bay. Recruited by Steven Spielberg to direct this lavish and often breathtaking sci-fi action thriller, Bay rises to the occasion with an ambitious production that is, by his standards (and compared to Bay's earlier hits like The Rock and Armageddon), surprisingly intelligent as it explores the repercussions of cloning in a sealed-off society where humans are cultivated for spare parts, surrogate parenthood, and full-body replacements for wealthy clientele. But when two of the clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johanssen) begin to question their fate and the motives of their keepers, they escape into the real world and The Island becomes just another Michael Bay action extravaganza, albeit an impressively exciting one. With elaborate chase scenes and a high-tech feast of CGI to dazzle the eye, The Island recycles much of the plot from 1979's Clonus while borrowing elements from Logan's Run, Gattaca and Minority Report, and while it's not as smartly conceived as those earlier films, there's no denying that, in many ways, it's Bay's best film to date. --Jeff Shannon

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Closer to reality than you might think.......2007-06-30

One of the great untold tragedies of the 20th century was the prevalence of medical testing on unwitting subjects. Some Americans have probably heard of the Tuskegee airmen, black American servicemen who became unwitting test subjects for medical experiments. But how many people are aware of the medical testing performed on ignorant prisoners, on poor people on various Caribbean islands, or the large-scale testing of vaccines on African villagers throughout the latter half of the 20th century. The latter tragedy was the background for the movie "The Constant Gardener" but it was kept in the background. This movie takes medical experimentation and puts it front and center in the middle of America.

The plot is simple; two clones discover that they were created to have their organs harvested. They then fight to escape, and then to help others like them escape. The story takes on the issues of cloning, genetic engineering, mind control, and even the power of corporations operating in the medical sphere. Yes the story has the requisite action scenes and love scene needed for any Hollywood flick, but it also has enough scenes to explore the medical and moral issues involved. We have Lincoln's real counterpart, a rich, spoiled yuppie who needs replacement organs because his are suffering from STD's he has picked up from various women. Then there is the scene when Scarlett Johansson's character sees the son of her real counterpart. And then there is the scene where Djimon Hounsou's character parallels the medical cloning with the atrocities he witnessed in his homeland in Africa. All in all, this was a great action movie with heart and a meaning. A great watch.

An unoriginal adaptation of "Logan's Run" meets "The Fast & the Furious Furious"........2007-06-23

How disappointing & predictable. The entire premise is a poor "clone", pun intended, from a story about clones. "Logan's Run" is one of my ATF's. Michael York played Logan 5. In "The Island" Ewan McGregor character's name is Lincoln 6 Echo. In "Logan's Run", Jenny Agutter played Jessica 6. Scarlett Johannson's character is Jordan 2 Delta. Oh yeah, Richard "Jordan" was the antagonist in Logan's Run. Coincidence?

The premise of both stories is that an past cataclysmic atomic event requires everyone to live underground. Logan & Jessica are destined for "renewal". After "decontamination", Lincoln 6 Echo & Jordan 2 Delta were promised life on "The Island". In the finale, the destruction of the underground complex & subsequent exodus scenes are almost identical to "Logan's Run". Frankly, I do not recall so many car crashes in a Sci-fi thriller. They were obviously miniaturized. "The Island" is an embarrassing blotch on McGregor's & Johansson's otherwise stellar careers.

Nice Effects and Music.......2007-06-14

I don't think there was anything really innovative about this movie. It has the same feel as Minority Report as far as the special effects and mixing technology into our modern urban landscape. Ewan and Scarlett give believable performances as naive individuals with the minds of 15 year olds. They movie is overall enjoyable and I think the score is beautiful.

So so.......2007-06-08

Good special effects and interesting storyline. Unfortunately nothing that I'd recommend for anyone that is not a sci-fi aficionado.

Could have been a great movie.......2007-05-25

This movie has a really interesting concept of human clones being made so people can extent their life by replacing their aging body parts with cloned ones. The clones have memory imprinted in them so they are pretty stupid and just believe what they are told. But some of the clones got smart and began to question everything about their existence. Ultimately, two escaped from the facility that housed the clones. The company that makes the clones must stop them at all cost. This is where the movie falls apart with one car chase after another. At this point the whole movie turns from an intellectual and intriguing one to the a mindless action junk filled explosions and car chases. Unless you are a testosterone-filled teenager, there is not much to see in here.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985
The Kind!
Superb!
A Double-Dose of Historic Documentation
Stevie Ray is sorely needed in today's cookie-cutter music scene

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985
Starring: Stevie Ray Vaughan , and Double Trouble
Manufacturer: Sony
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live From Austin, Texas
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A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan

ASIN: B0002SPPSC
Release Date: 2004-09-14

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If you have even a passing interest in Stevie Ray Vaughan's peerless mastery of urban blues guitar, you must own Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985. Spaced almost exactly three years apart, these concerts (60 and 93 minutes, respectively) represent the Texan blues god at his fiery best, with Double Trouble (drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon) laying the solid foundation upon which SRV built a Fender-driven sound as fierce as it was perfectly refined. The '82 show was truly "success in disguise," because despite booing from a festival audience lulled by a day of acoustic blues, and the stunned dejection that SRV felt after persevering through a uncompromising set, this was the turning point in SRV's career, leading to post-show encounters with Jackson Browne and David Bowie, who proved instrumental in bringing Stevie's music to an appreciative global audience.

When Stevie, Chris, and Tommy returned to Switzerland three years later, with organist Reese Wynans adding rich new dimension to the Double Trouble sound, the Montreux crowd was primed for a rip-snorting set, and SRV's jubilant response is a joyous thing to witness. One of SRV's favorite bluesmen, Johnny Copeland, appears for a three-song triumph in a set that's uniformly superior and ecstatically energized. Basic three-camera coverage is all you need, although guitar students--for whom this DVD is a godsend--will surely wish for more emphasis on SRV's picking and fretwork. Recording quality is superb in the Montreux tradition, with 5.1-channel remixes that surpass the original masters. A splendid 23-minute documentary features retrospective interviews with Layton, Shannon, Browne, and John Mayer, and the accompanying booklet includes a heartfelt reminiscence from Bowie. Stevie Ray may be gone, but Live at Montreux ensures that his gold-standard legacy will endure. --Jeff Shannon

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985.......2007-05-23

A snapshot into history. His first appearance at Montreux booed and unappreciated. A few short years later at his second appearance, cheered as an icon of Texas blues. In between not only did he become famous but he cleaned up his life and it shows in his personality onstage. Throughout, his music is unmatchable.

The Kind!.......2007-04-04

Great dvd. A must buy for any Stevie fan!I was lucky enough to see him live twice.These two performances brought back great memories.

Superb!.......2007-04-02

I have played these over and over for years. I guess I'll never get tired of them. A few glitches in the 1985 production, but other than that as representative of SRV as we are probably ever going to get. Any fan of SRV or this sort of music has to have these, they are historic. One comment on the booing in 1982. It really reveals what jerks we can all be. If you don't like a performance, like it's too loud for you widdle ears; leave. To sit there and boo a performance like that (or any performance) only tells the world what an ignoramus you are. If the jerks had left that performance, SRV probably would have played on for at least another hour. 40 minutes is pretty short for him. So in the end what they did is rob the rest of us of another hour of that 1982 performance for all time. Thanks! There is a DVD of Buddy Guy at the same festival a couple of decades later (in the Buddy Guy 70 boxed set) where some dufus shouts out "play some real blues" at the end of the performance. Amazing! At least in the Buddy Guy case the crowd got on the heckler.

A Double-Dose of Historic Documentation .......2007-03-19

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a six-string force of nature with his Fender Stratocaster. He was playing small clubs in Texas with drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon in 1982 when someone with connections heard them and declared "you need to play Montreux". Sooo... without a record, a recording contract or any name recognition outside of the handful of people who had heard them playing in Texas, they headed over to Europe where they were booked at the famous Montreux Jazz festival on the same day as several acoustic stars. Stevie and Double Trouble hit the stage with their electrified cyclone and played to a rousing chorus of boos. Stevie, talented as he was, dressed like a cross between a Texas Gunslinger and a New Orleans Pimp, and the crowd reaction ranged between indifference and total hostility. Were they good? Take a listen... the accompanying and extremely informative documentary features interviews with Slater and Layton, along with Jackson Browne, John Mayer, and a few others who knew what happened that day. SRV and DT burned that stage to the ground. They had honed their 3-piece Texas Blues to a fine edge and they unleashed their power on that crowd. The "music fans", too stupid to notice the genius in front of their very eyes, hadn't yet been told by radio disc jockeys who they should like.... so they didn't like SRV - yet. Of course there were musicians there too, though, and the word spread like wildfire through Jackson Browne's band.... and David Bowie.... and soon all the Montreux musicians were down in the musician's lounge listening to the kind of band that makes musicians tell other musicians "come here.... you've just GOT to hear THIS!" (I had the same experience the first time my brother played their first recording - which was made as a result of this very concert.) David Bowie had to figure out a way to get this guitar genius on his CD and in his band. (Listen to Stevie's wailing guitar on "Let's Dance".) Jackson Browne offered the contractless trio the opportunity to record in his studio. They made their way out to California and basically just recorded their live set in the studio. THAT recording became "Texas Flood" and all of a sudden SRV was not an unknown...

Two albums and a keyboardist later, Stevie returned to Montreux in 1985 as a "conquering hero" of sorts and although I would hesitate to say that they sounded better in the '85 concert, it is certainly gratifying to see them received with open-armed enthusiasm. In the '82 concert they only played about 52 minutes. In '85 they turn it on for a hot hour and a half.

Both of those concerts are more than worth a listen - and this fantastic double-disc set includes both concerts, plus the documentary. This is 5-star all the way.

Stevie Ray is sorely needed in today's cookie-cutter music scene.......2007-03-14

Is it just a coincidence that when Stevie Ray Vaughan died in 1990, American music as a whole suddenly seemed to die with him?? Few performers in the last 15 years have possessed the overwhelming firepower and talent that this man had. The 1990's sadly became the decade when real talent and originality became a thing of the past as manufactured pop, rock, and country clones took over the national music scene like a bad disease.

In the first concert presented in this set, we witness a crowd of closed-minded morons mercilessly booing a guy with far more talent than anybody on the charts today could ever hope to have. It was nice to see that at least some in the audience were cheering and applauding in appreciation of SRV's performance, and you gotta love how Stevie Ray and the band totally ignored the boos throughout the entire show and just kept on rockin! It is sad to think that if Vaughan were the opening act for one of today's hot new stars, he would likely receive the same reaction that he got from the Montreux crowd that night in 1982. Would today's pop/metal/rap fans appreciate a guy who only needs "talent" to captivate an audience instead of smoke, lights, mirrors, or half naked girls???

The two concerts on this DVD are significant in SRV's career and are presented with good sound and picture quality, although the far away camera shot during the encore of the 1985 show is disappointing. Both shows consist of solid performances, but neither show truly captures Stevie Ray at his absolute best. The 1982 appearance is probably the best of the two, although Stevie's dynamic stage presence that is evident in other live footage seems a little withheld here. The 1985 show features the expanded Double Trouble line-up with Reese Wynans on keyboards, but Stevie was visibly near the peak of his drug abuse when this concert was filmed, and his performance seems to lack some of the fire and passion that is clearly seen in the 1983 El Mocambo show and the two Austin City Limits appearances.

The segment with blues legend Johnny Copeland is the definite highlight of the 85 concert! Copeland makes the most of his three-song set, holding his own with Stevie Ray in both the guitar and vocal departments. Stevie and Johnny's duet on the down and dirty blues masterpiece "Tin Pan Alley" is probably the best performance on the entire DVD. Copeland's soulful, tortured vocals in the second verse of this song is a lesson in the art of blues singing at its finest! With so many flashy blues-rock guitarists throughout the years, it seems that great blues singing has become a lost art these days. Only the very best blues singers are able to deliver the kind of vocal performance that Johnny Copeland does here. He also cuts loose on some hot solos with Stevie Ray during a rockin' version of "Look at little sister".

Live footage of the great Stevie Ray Vaughan is still pretty rare which makes these two concerts a must-have for any blues fan, even if the El Mocambo show and the Austin City Limits appearances are a little better. We can only hope there are at least one or two more live shows from SRV's short career that will make it to DVD someday.

DVD-Blues and Rock Techniques for Hammond Organ

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DVD is ok
Jumpy

DVD-Blues and Rock Techniques for Hammond Organ
Starring: David B. Cohn , and David Bennett Cohen
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ASIN: B0007QQW54
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Description

The Hammond organ, especially the B-3 combined with the Leslie speaker, has long been an integral part of modern popular music.You can hear the "classic" sound of the Hammond organ in blues, gospel, jazz, rock, and even on some contemporary singer/songwriter songs (try to picture Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" or Procol Harem's "Whiter Shade of Pale" without that distinctive sound). Sometimes the organ is used as "padding," providing background textures using only its sustain capabilities, and at other times it takes a more prominent role as a lead instrument. We're proud to present the first lesson to teach the organ as a blues and rock instrument for learning players. David Cohen starts with the basics, detailing all the parts of the Hammond B-3 and showing how to get the unique sounds associated with this instrument using presets, drawbars, percussion tablets, vibrato switch, volume pedal and other devices. Then it's into the playing! David covers some of the! most important licks and grooves you'll need to get out and play in a band. His love of the instrument comes across as he teaches riffs, blues scales, chord changes, and many of the specific musical tricks that work only on organ. Each tune is illustrated by a top New York rock band to give you a feeling for how it should be performed. You'll learn to play a fast shuffle in C; a funk tune in E; a medium-tempo shuffle in A (with a Jimmy Smith riff); the all-important slow blues in G; and a funk rhythm with a G minor to C (I - IV) groove. In each of these pieces, you'll learn how to improvise solos, use licks and fills, play a variety of bass lines, and become an integral part of a rockin' blues band.

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DVD is ok.......2007-06-01

First thing people should know is that Cohn does not "kick" the bass on pedals, so you will not learn about this. Also he is not the best player, in fact quite a few local players I know are better than him. Cohn's Right hand is slow and stiff, no real great or fast left hand runs.
I did learn a few good things about the presets and the drawbars, but he only spends the first 10 minutes talking about the organ, the rest is on his playing and there wasn't much he could show me, I copied one bass line, but it would be good for beginner to ameteur, but you have to know what 7ths and 9ths are and how chord inversions work. I wanted more on chord voicings for organ as most of my piano voicings are too fat. Basically, I thought it was worth watching as it costs as much as a lesson.

Jumpy.......2007-05-20

Cohn jumps over the place. He starts you out on one topic, jumps to another topic, says that he will talk more about the subject later, then trys to jump back into what he was talking about in the first place. I watched it several times through. I was so confused by his method that I trashed the DVD.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House

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but the concert footage
So Glad I Bought This
Someday he'll come out ... God Is In the House
God Is In The House...and Nick is as well...
Stop! Quit! I can't take it!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is in the House
Starring: Nick Cave
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Videos
The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso
B-Sides & Rarities
Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD)
Tender Prey

ASIN: B0000AM6NP
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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but the concert footage.......2006-12-23

people here aren't giving enough attention to the actual concert on the dvd. it is first and foremost a concert dvd and there's no escaping that the sound is quality is just plain poor. the vocals are buried deep and it's almost like they just set up a speaker in the back and recorded it that way. yes the performance is great as expected but it still fails on original intent.

no need to watch the documentary and the videos aren't anything you can see on youtube anyhow.

So Glad I Bought This.......2005-04-09

This is a great DVD. The primary feature is the concert, which alone, would be worth the price, but in addition it also includes three promo videos (Love Letter, AS I Sat Sadly By Her Side, and Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow), and a documentary on the recording sessions for And No More Shall We Part, which most cave fans that I've met agree is their best record.
I had never seen Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live. Wasn't sure what I was in for.
Nick Cave is a rock star. He is so alive and animated on stage. He stomps and swaggers with the charisma of a mad man.

If you're into Nick Cave, there's no question: you need this DVD.

Someday he'll come out ... God Is In the House .......2004-09-01

Perhaps the greatest example of a true showman. Nick Cave stomps around stage pointing and screaming at the audience one minute, then gently caressing the mic the next. He's a charismatic cross between an early 1950's crooner and a mid-1970's minister - somehow he makes it all accessible and brilliant. For those into masochistic entertainment, please apply here. It's lyrically brutal music, but transforms into an artform once Cave delivers in his Jim Morrison/Elvis/Johnny Cash baritone while proclaiming to the audience, "All of God's children will have to die."

This is, of course, a DVD of a show Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds performed in Lyons, France around 2001 (just after the recording of the album, `No More Shall We Part' - my favorite Cave release by the way). It showcases the mad, frantic, masterful way Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds can direct emotions and coax the audience into applauding even though he's bringing to light all their flaws (well not just them, but humans in general).

But I've gotten caught up in describing only one half of his musical persona. The other half consists of the brooding crooner (think David Bowie, Tom Waits, or Lou Reed) singing lines such as, "We've bred all our kittens white so that we can see them in the night ... God is in the house." - any songwriter who can compare forced Christian individualism and seclusion with cats, has my vote as one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century.

It is rather terrifying, because if it wasn't for the documentary (more on that later), you'd think that Cave actually meant every lyric he pronounced - he's that good of a performer. Pure emotion and visceral honesty. After you hear him shouting, "Do you love me?" after describing his lover's bleeding thighs with complete conviction, you wonder, Is he talking from experience?

Now the crowning achievement (both of Cave and whoever produced this DVD), is the documentary which shows Cave and his cohorts recording the `No More Shall We Part' album. It shows Cave in a different light than what most people are used to. You think you'd see a brooding madman, berating and ranting (like his live shows), but here in his natural persona (I've used that word again), he is surprisingly normal. Quiet, encouraging, and sarcastically funny, he seems like someone worth knowing in real life. I was worried `cause, as entertaining as it is, his live personality is something I'd rather watch from a distance.

While Cave and his band (the Bad Seeds) aren't at their absolute best on this particular show (performing wise), they still have the energy they had back in the `80s (impressive, considering that there's not a person in the band younger than 40). Hopefully there will be another live performance released on DVD, but for those who need more, check out the album `Live Seeds' - a flawless performance - perhaps one of the greatest live albums of all time.

God Is In The House...and Nick is as well..........2004-06-24

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds would have to rate as one of the all-time great line-ups of musicians ever to grace the stages and stereos of the world, and thus its fitting that their first DVD be suitably impressive.

The main extravagance of "God Is In The House" is a concert recorded in Lyon, France on the 2001 "No More Shall We Part" tour. Featuring a Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey (guitars), Blixia Bargeld (guitars), Conway Savage (piano), Jim Sclavonous (percussion), Warren Ellis (violin/organ), Tomas Wylder (drums) and Martyn Casey (bass). This is a truly spectacular line up and they deliver a very good concert. The curtain raiser, "Do You Love Me?", is very good, but the pace doesn't let up - nearly every song is a highlight, except (oddly) the title track, which personally doesn't do anything for me. Maybe other people get something out of it that I don't.

The extras are very impressive as well. All three "No More..." videos are included - the very abstract "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side", the incredibly hilarious "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" and the beautifully emotional "Love Letter", which brought tears to my eyes. A forty-minute film of the band recording "No More Shall We Part" provides a great insight into the recording of an album (and the bit in the middle featuring the recording of "The Sorrowful Wife" is brilliant).

Ultimately, if you're a Nick Cave fan, there's simply no excuse not to own this (unless you don't have the money). It's not perfect, but damn it comes close. "The Videos" should be great, too.

Stop! Quit! I can't take it!.......2004-01-24

Wow! What can I say? This is one of the most amazing DVDs I've ever had the pleasure of viewing! Whoa! What amazing music! What amazing showmanaship!! Please...let the words "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds" ring thoughout the land.

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Clonus - Just Rent "The Island" Instead.
"Cult" film worth looking into
CLONUS is THE ISLAND
Put aside your prejudices and watch the movie!
dumb clones

Clonus
Starring: Tim Donnelly , Paulette Breen , Dick Sargent , Keenan Wynn , and David Hooks
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ASIN: B0007NMHOM
Release Date: 2005-03-29

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Somewhere in California is a secret industrial complex. Apparently well know to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones!

These clones are identical replicas of members of the top 500 of politics and big business. Raised to adulthood, they are then frozen and cryogenically stored so that their body parts can be used to give more or less eternal life to the chosen elite.

The plan is to keep these clones in a state of almost childlike innocence and deny them any knowledge of the real world outside. They are brainwashed with dreams of a mythical place called "America" where (so they are told) they will go if they are lucky enougb to be selected.

A series of unplanned accidents leads to one of the clones finding out too much and becoming curious. One day he escapes from the clone farm and comes looking for answers in the "real" America... EXTRAS:
A 40 minute in depth interview with film's director, discussing his career to date and the making of CLONUS

The film's theatrical trailer

A feature length audio commentary with the film's director

Newly remastered from original negative in hi def anamorphic

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Clonus - Just Rent "The Island" Instead........2006-04-06

I bought this movie, as I realized after watching The Island that it was a remake, and I wanted to see the orginial one more time. It took me some time to find the movie as I had almost forgotten the title which I had seen on TV way back when. So I bought it so that I could see the whole movie now that i am older. The movie was just fair, and is kind of corney of course. This has all the makings of a low-budget flick. The story is interesting, but not enough to warrant buying this DVD. Buy The Island instead, the effects and storyline are better. The makers of the Island did Clonus a favor by remaking it. It is a great storyline, but skip buying this one.

"Cult" film worth looking into.......2005-10-07

As I watched Michael Bay's "The Island," a movie whose American reviews in the mainstream media were far too dour, a feeling came over me I had seen this movie before. Lo and behold "The Island" is indeed a remake of Clonus. I eagerly await the DVD release of Michael Bay's latest for I plan to have a winter rainy-day event at my home - back to back viewings of the movies to entertain friends. News reports say the makers of "The Island" failed to buy the rights to Clonus and this piece of Hollywood intrigue adds topical interest.

On its own the best part of Clonus is its great premise, clones raised for spare body parts for the rich and politicians. Made in 1979 the movie is prescient and intriguing. Having said that, it's not a great movie. It's cheesy. But overlong scenes such as the searching of the office are balanced with some of the scariest scenes I've seen in a long while. For example the scene where we first see doctors terminate a clone. The doctors act with such practice and ease you think the actors did this for their day jobs.

I give it four stars because of its great premise, appearances by familiar medium level television personages, social relevance and the fact that I have to give a break to a first time director working on a $250,000 budget. Fiveson, the director, gives an interesting interview on another track of the DVD, and I think people interested in film-making might be find the DVD package worthwhile even if not particularly interested in Sci-Fi. For those not interested in what I've stated, I give the movie a fun two stars, not something to put at the top of your list, but if you have some extra cash and want to buy something different for your library, especially if you are interested in 1970s low budget movies.

CLONUS is THE ISLAND.......2005-07-06

Absolutely, the movie that Michael Bay has remade and not discussed the matter with the media!
See it first!

Put aside your prejudices and watch the movie!.......2005-06-26

First up - this is a great sci-fi conspiracy movie. Way ahead of its time in its critique of science gone mad, the class system and the american dream - proved undisputedly by the new hollywood blockbuster from Micheal "Armageddon" Bay, being a virtual remake! (Uncredited of course!)

Of course its a very low budget movie so there are inevitable shortcomings but clear out all the MST3K prejudices and you're left with an unsung entry in the genre - even the New York Times placed the movie in the same hallowed company as Dawn of the Dead" (1978), Larry Cohen's "It's Alive!" (1974) and Tobe Hooper's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), among many others, all drawing on the trauma of Vietnam and the rising fear of consumerist conformism to spin their dark fables of American life.

Now I can't think of a better recommendation than that!

dumb clones.......2005-04-20

Let's face it, clones are rock stupid and this movie proves it. A half-witted clone escapes from a facility that breeds and raises clones so their parts can be harvested if their counter part ever needs them. In a stroke of unbelievable coincidence he runs into the the man who he was cloned from who did not know he had been cloned. So this man tries to help his clone escape his equally micro-minded clone girlfriend who ends up getting a labotomy which doesn't do much to aid the situation. Well, it's all a rather stupid mess and the memories of it I've brought up thus far have made me ill enough. In short, about all this movie is good for is a few laughs but it is a terrible piece of work.

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We laughed and laughed and laughed!

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Starring: Ted McGinley , Linda Purl , Stacy Keach , Nicole Paggi , and Myles Jeffrey
Director: Neil Kinsella
Manufacturer: Questar
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ASIN: B00074DY6Q
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Description

Ted McGinley (Revenge of the Nerds) stars as Dan Blanchard, an emergency dispatcher, who races against the clock and braves the harsh elements to deliver a new liver his son desperately needs for a transplant. But a violent hailstorm storm is building, and while his doctor wife (Linda Purl, Port Charles) anxiously waits to operate, their children are trapped by the unrelenting storm. Golden Globe-winner Stacy Keach (Hemingway) costars in this gripping thriller.

Customer Reviews:

We laughed and laughed and laughed!.......2005-07-04

It has been a LONG TIME since I've laughed so hard at a movie.
I know, I know. It's not a comedy. Still, it was SOOO funny.
They tried to make a 'serious (yet wholesome) suspense movie' and their effort was pretty good. It looked good enough, but there was so much that simply fell flat. I'll list a few (but only a few :)

-The devastating hailstorm ravages an area for a few minutes, but afterwards, there is no hail on the ground (there also should have been a number of corpses, but...)
-The Dad said "Get inside the house!" And then we said "What house?!?! In the last shot we watched it turn into a burning pile of rubble. What house is she supposed to get into?!?!" (Crazy how that hail would set all these building on fire...)
-A girl is being suspended by a rope, and is feriecy pelted by hailstones. The onlookers keep yelling "Stay still!! Stay still!!" and we yell "What is she hanging there! What is she suppsed to do!?!?"

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Glorious. Splendid. Awe-inspiring. How else to describe the experience of hearing J.S. Bach's greatest organ music, played by a virtuoso on an instrument that's nearly 300 years old and then delivered via state-of-the-art digital audio? Playing the Trost Organ in Waltershausen, Germany, Hans-André Stamm makes his way through nine different pieces, from thunderous fugues (including the familiar Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) to stately hymns and delicate pastorales. The 80-minute program is impressive, as are the bonus DVD features that accompany it. Among the latter are a bio of the organist; a timeline tracing political, cultural, and biographical events in Bach's world during the early 18th century; "Thuringia Impression," an extra musical selection set to filmed scenes of the green, rolling, German countryside; and an extensive "liner notes" section with notes on the compositions, a description of the organ (it has 2,806 pipes and was reputedly played by Bach himself), and display options for viewing titles, harmonic analysis of the music, or details of the organ's many stops and registrations (i.e., levers and knobs used to achieve its wondrous sounds).

If there's one flaw, it's the surfeit of close-ups on Stamm's hands and feet as he works the keys and pedals (not to mention the odd angles on his face as he studies the music), and the relative lack of longer, wider shots of the magnificent organ and the church in which it's located. On the other hand, one can simply turn off the picture and use the disc like an audio CD, and the power and majesty of Bach's genius will still come through loud and clear. --Sam Graham

Description

Co-produced by Pioneer Entertainment, this program was recorded last month in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach's 250th anniversary. It has been recorded in video with 96K / 24bit multi-track audio on the Trost-Organ in Waltershausen, Germany. This organ was selected for its incredible sound and suitability for Bach music. Additionally, Bach himself actually played this particular organ during his lifetime.

The performance is by renowned organist and Bach specialist Hans-Andre Stamm.

Includes Johann Sebastian Bach Favorites:

•Toccata and Fugue d minor BWV 565 •Präludium and Fugue E flat major BWV 552 •Passacaglia and Fugue c minor BWV 582 •Various Choral Preludes

DVD Features:

•96K / 24 bit Non compressed stereo audio •Dolby Digital 5.1 audio •Music Analysis / Subtitles •Performer Profiles •Historical Timeline •Liner Notes •Glossary

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Video but Low Frequency Artifacts.......2007-04-09

The video from this DVD is outstanding. I wouldn't change anything. The only issue is with fairly continuous low frequency noise. If you have large speakers or a subwoofer, you will hear the noise - very disappointing.

Great Composition, Organ, Performance, Video, Audio.......2006-10-01

I highly recommend this DVD (also volume 2) for anyone who loves classical music. To be precise, it is baroque organ music.

Pros:
1. A variety of Bach composition: dance music, church music, fugue...
2. Hans-André Stamm's fingerworks is really clean, even,... And his footworks are fantastic. He seems so natural when performing all the difficult pieces.
3. The organ is picture perfect, ornaments, decorations everywhere... on the pipes, the 3 key registers, the sides, angels above,...
4. The organ sound is clear, diverse,... I listen to stereo (not multi 5.1 channel), with no sub-woofer. This is a good test DVD for the hifi. Really enjoy the entire audio spectrum from deep bass to high frequencies from the tweeters.
5. The extra video shows a glimpse of Waltershausen, Germany. It is so peaceful.

Cons:
1. The performance is a bit short.

I highly recommend this. Even though it is a bit short, but I fully enjoy every minute of it. This is definitely a must-see.

Awesome !!.......2006-08-20

This DVD on Bachs organ works is awesome ! There is no other words to describe it. The sound was suberb! If there had to be a little critical it would be - would have loved to seen more foot work. Would of loved to have seen an inside picture of all his foot work. I was thrilled with both DVDs - Vol 1 & 2 and hope they have more planed. This is an wonderful example of the art involved in making an organ.My hats are off to the camerman and sound people - but of course the performer was "AWESOME" Thank you for having this available to us. Hope to see more. LeRoy Weber

Lifeless and fake.......2005-09-07

Pipe organ music is, of course, best heard performed live, but I hoped that 5.1 surround sound would come in second (ahead of stereo). It does, but this pair of DVDs (BGOW volumes 1 and 2) is not worth listening to in any fidelity. There's something about the way Hans-Andre Stamm plays Bach, it seems lifeless. Perfunctory. Like he's playing the notes without feeling them. I'd rather listen to my cassette tape of E. Power Biggs playing Bach. The video accompaniment to the music is lame too, clearly staged shots of him scowling and pounding the keys. Stay away from these DVDs.

Well played and nicely produced.......2004-05-30

Mr. Stamm's playing is very good, and is consistent with current thinking on historical performance practices. Also, the audio and video quality of this DVD is top-notch. By the way, the video is anamorphic widescreen, not full-screen. I think the opening titles might be in full-screen format, but once the music starts you have a widescreen presentation. Excellent!

The use of multiple cameras keeps things visually interesting. My only suggestion for future volumes is to include more frequent video of intricate pedal passages and less video of the organ's facade. (Hands and feet are where the visual interest in organ performance is found, and both should be featured prominently.) The camera looking down on the keydesk from above provides an excellent view and could be used much more frequently.

The extra features are also outstanding. Musical analysis and registrations are invaluable. This is a classical music DVD done right.

Customer Reviews:

Maybe too deep..........2006-03-20

...for the average movie fan. I loved this masterpiece. It was forceful and subtle at the same time. From the priest's role in helping everyone to Bananas slowly becoming more...AND less of a clown through the different stages of his "makeup". Not an easy film to watch...but harder to stop watching ...again and again.

I wanted to love this!.......2005-03-31

I love Steve Buscemi. I want to absolutely marry Peter Dinklage tomorrow (but he is a bit of an ass in this movie). The two main women are awesome. Jennifer Beals is good too.

Every character is great. Apart from the nutso. He made me more uncomfortable than what was intended. Quite nasty.

But the story is wholly depressing! I wanted my time back from that movie. It wasn't the sort of queasiness that gets in your head and makes you think. It was just dismal nausea. I was just left ill at ease. But it was gone by morning.

But I am still utterly in love with Peter Dinklage.

Holy depressing!.......2004-11-06

I couldn't even finish watching this film. I wanted to slit my wrists. This film gave me a sick feeling inside.

I don't understand why most Indie flicks have to be terribly composed. Just cause the film was made for cheap doesn't mean it has to look cheap. Here's a tip to all indie flick directors: Hand held camerawork does not create a sense of reality. For me it just takes away from the realism. A shakey camera only reminds people that there's a camera there and that they're watching a movie. The hand held thing only works successfully if performed by people who have mastered hand held camerawork. Stop trying to pass off inexperience as art. People don't fall for it anymore.

I was looking so forward to seeing this film. This is just sloppy film making. I'm sorry but I guess I can't just look past all that. It has to be a really incredible story for me to sit through something like this. Unfortunetly the story here is incredibly depressing and not portrayed well by it's players. I don't think any of the actors in this film really know how to properly portray these types of characters. Characters in a story like this should never be portrayed by actors. They're too real to be portrayed by actors. I'm sorry but all I saw was famous supporting actors acting. It was sad affair and an insult to people who have real problems simular to the characters in this film.

This film would have been better off not being made at all.

Can't be this bad.......2004-08-02

Rented this movie just by cover value and was very disappointed. This movie is one of those artistic low budget movies that you find once in a while if you avoid disappointments. While some thinking-movies give you a new perspective in seeing the world, "13 Moon" does nothing new.

"13 Moon" has bunches of minor characters' plots coming together to form a simple plot of saving a child. These many different characters cross each other paths throughout the movie without knowing any significations of the other characters' goals.
A stripper helps a priest. The priest helps a singer. The singer is pregnant by a music producer. The music producer calls up a jail-bailer. The jail bailer knows a clown. The clown loves a stripper. These characters are more or less all linked together in what seem to be a small world. Each character has their own problem and agendas, but seems to gravitate together toward helping a dying boy. This movie is slow and boring, I like artist movies, but this one is really cheap. A movie similar and better then this one is "Snatch." Which has four or so plots throughout the movie that combine together in a grand finale? 21 grams in a sense is very similar and has more believable character that "13 Moons", with a bunch of no name pain actors, can't deliver.

13 moons is awesome........2004-07-12

just by looking at the cover of the movie & it being Steve Buscemi u know its going to a good movie. i had no idea what this movie was about when i first saw it. its about a father & how he never knew his son needed a kidney transplant and that night he gets a page from the hosp saying the have found a donor & before he gets to the hosp, the donor who is an insane drug addic escapes & with he help of some strangers he just meets. they look for the man to save his son's life. its just really good. it has few funny parts. this movie is very unique. i love how they play the piano music during the movie. i love this movie

Deep Blue Organ Trio - Goin' to Town, Live at the Green Mill

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Good seesion by a fine organ band
Great Find !
A must see!

Deep Blue Organ Trio - Goin' to Town, Live at the Green Mill
Starring: Deep Blue Organ Trio
Manufacturer: Delmark
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000FCUZ2G
Release Date: 2006-07-11

Description

When artists are able to simultaneously marry the concepts of simple and complex, intellectual and spiritual, ancient and future; those are some of the best moments of all. This new recording by the Deep Blue Organ Trio captures that spirit, in the moment, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Chicago's Green Mill, where the band has played weekly since April of 2003. Providing that connection to the soul and the spirit, of course, is the blues. This is sophisticated music with soul and thus a part of that great legacy that has given us everyone from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane to Ornette Coleman. We shouldn't forget that those three innovators (and so many more) were masters of the blues language, and that feeling permeated even their most advanced musical adventures. A true musical collective Deep Blue has managed to take the best from all of those worlds (and more) and fuse them together in one cohesive and satisfying group sound.

Chris Foreman, Hammond B3 organ
Bobby Broom, guitar
Greg Rockingham, drums

Recorded at 24 bit/96kHz High Resolution Audio, live on May 2 & 3, 2005.
Complete notes enclosed by Joe Moore, KFSR, Fresno, CA.

1. Goin' To Town 7:39
2. The Way You Look Tonight 13:36
3. Once I Loved 12:04
4. No Hype Blues 8:44
5. Lou 5:37 *
6. Can't Hide Love 9:40
DVD bonus track

Customer Reviews:

Good seesion by a fine organ band.......2007-01-09

This is the recording of a good middle of the road organ band of the kind one could find in any major Northern or Mid Western city once upon a time. Now they are a rare bird indeed.
Chris Foreman plays like Jimmy Smith circa 1958 which is not a bad thing by any means. Long time listeners to Blue Note Records will find much they recognize. Bobby Broom plays well, and Greg Rockingnham is a good drummer (he does the announcements).
The tune selection is typical of what you could have heard at a performance way back when. The CD the trio put out is more interesting for tunes.
Sonics are excellent and the visual production leaves nothing to be desired. It is one of the better jazz DVD's around of contemporary musicians.
For comparison check out the Jazz Scene USA of Jimmy Smith circa 1962-the way it was.

Great Find !.......2006-11-04

On some jazz you can hear the geezers passing gas when it's quiet. Not this one. Even rockers would love this DVD. He's like a Grant Green on steroids. Please don't let that scare you jazzer's. Real musicians in a real club (in Chicago) playing some killer music. Not just chops. Deep Blue Organ Trio-Live at the Green Mill. Organ, Drums and guitar. Bobby Broom plays a Hofner. One of them crazy German guitars. This cooks.

Kudos to the Kameramen. Just about the best camera work I've seen on a music DVD. Timing as good as the musicians. Just enough funny business to make it creative then right down to business. You guys did great.

A must see!.......2006-11-02

Bobby Broom on guitar, Foreman on Hammond B3, and Rockingham on the sticks. These guys Groove! The next time I'm in chi-town I will defintely check them out at the Green Mill or Friday's at Andy's downtown.

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