Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Collection

Starring:Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Studio: Hart Sharp Video
Product Type: DVD

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This limited edition, special collectors' DVD set celebrates 25 years of the Sundance Institute. It contains ten ground-breaking films that embody the sprit of independence, creative risk-taking, and diversity that define the Sundance Film Festival. Bonus materials include a booklet and an 11th disc with behind-the-scenes footage from the Sundance Institute Labs and never-before-seen interviews with filmmakers and founder Robert Redford.

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Sundance Channel Film Series Collection
Starring: Kathleen Antonia , Ian Berzon , Timothy Breitbach , Bruno Campos , and Rueben Grundy
Director: Mark Decena
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
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ASIN: B00080ZHDM
Release Date: 2005-04-01

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In This World: This award-winning film tells a moving and dramatic story that reveals the desperate measures people take a escape persecution and the life threaten conditions they find themselves in along the way.

Dopamine: Follows the courtship between a computer animator and a kindergarten teacher. It creates a soulful portrait of two people facing up to the risks and rewards of falling in love.

Die Mommie Die!: When pop diva Angela Arden's husband discovers that she's having an affair, she calculatedly offs him with a poisoned suppository . . . or does she?

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The Sundance Channel Set includes: AKA, Amy's O, Die Mommie Die, Dopamine, The Heart of Me, The Hired Hand, In This World, MacArthur Park, Melvin Goes To Dinner, Mule Skinner Blues, The Other Side of the Bed, Rick, Scotland PA, Searching for Paradise, Seeing Other People, The Slaughter Rule, Sleepy Time Gal, Swimming, Tanner on Tanner, and Tesseract, plus a Sundance Channel Home Entertainment 2004 DVD catalog on pack.

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People who haven't seen films shouldn't review them.......2005-08-13

Though I haven't seen every movie in this collection, I felt I had to give it five stars to offset the review of the one guy who seems to have seen NONE of the movies in his collection. Okay, perhaps he's seen "In This World", since it's the only movie here he recommends. The rest of his opinion seems to be based entirely on the number of "stars" the individual movies were given in other Amazon reviews. Which is a fine way to evaluate films if your sole criterion is, "Is it popular?" But if you're a viewer who, like me, isn't particularly interested in viewing lowest-common-demoninator mulch for the masses, you might ask questions like, "Is it clever? Is it moving? Is it funny? Is it novel? Does it make me think?" If you fall into this latter category, there are definitely some films here you should check out, most notably: "Rick" (a dark, sardonic gem featuring Bill Pullman giving the performance of his career as one of the most loathesome business executives in movie history), "Die Mommie Die" (drag performer Charles Busch's hilarious tribute to the overwrought Douglas Sirk melodramas of old), "Scotland PA" (a very funny Macbeth update, set in the world of chain restaurants, "McBeth" being the obvious joke), and "Mule Skinner Blues" (a compelling, dark but humor-filled and human, documentary about trailer park misfits coming together to make a movie). "Melvin Goes To Dinner" is funny but uneven... which is too bad, because Bob Odenkirk (of "Mr. Show" and "Ben Stiller Show" fame) was the creative force behind it. Of the films here I've seen, only "Amy's O" (a.k.a., "Amy's Orgasm") isn't worth recommending. It's thunderously unfunny and not a fraction as clever as it seems to think it is. The other reviewer cautioned you not to "waste" your money on this collection. My only caution is that you not waste your time listening to the opinions of the uninformed. If the remaining films in this collection are comparable to the ones I've seen, then you could spend your money in worse ways...

Cutting Edge Comedy Collection (Amy's O/Seeing Other People/Melvin Goes to Dinner/Scotland, PA.)

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Cutting Edge Comedy Collection (Amy's O/Seeing Other People/Melvin Goes to Dinner/Scotland, PA.)
Starring: Various
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Melvin Goes to Dinner: With three almost complete strangers. Their conversation is always heartfelt and frequently funny as the four some talk about dating, sex religion, fetishes, ghost and everything in between.

Amy's O: Startlingly candid and hilarious, this romantic comedy about love, neuroses, and the "big O" offers a wry look at sex and the single girl- with a twist of sweetness and warmth.

Scotland, PA: A black comedy that transports Shakespeare's Macbeth to a fast-food restaurant in early 70's rural Pennsylvania.

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Amy's O: Startlingly candid and hilarious, this romantic comedy about love, neuroses, and the "big O" offers a wry look at sex and the single girl- with a twist of sweetness and warmth.

Scotland, PA: A black comedy that transports Shakespeare's Macbeth to a fast-food restaurant in early 70's rural Pennsylvania.

Seeing Other People: Just two months shy of their wedding, a couple allows each other last flings until they say "I do." The results, of course, are comically disastrous.

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The Titles.......2005-06-02

I haven't seen any of these. For the record, the titles are:

Cutting Edge Comedy Collection
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Four hilarious and award winning indie comedies from Sundance Channel Home Entertainment

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SEEING OTHER PEOPLE
Just two months shy of their wedding, a couple allows each other last flings until they say "I Do". The results, of course, are comically disastrous.

MELVIN GOES TO DINNER
Melvin goes to dinner with three almost complete strangers. The frequently funny, but also heartfelt conversation goes from dating to sex, to religion, to fetishes, to ghosts and everything in between.

SCOTLAND, PA
A black comedy that transports Shakespeare's Macbeth to a 70's fast food joint in rural Pennsylvania.

AMY'S O
Startlingly candid and hilarious, this romantic comedy about love, neuroses, and the "big O" offeres a wry look at sex and the single girl - with a twist of sweetnes and warmth.

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Sundance Channel Ultimate Collection - Amazon.com Exclusive

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Sundance Channel Ultimate Collection - Amazon.com Exclusive
Starring: Charles Busch , Frances Conroy , Stanley DeSantis , Nora Dunn , and Philip Baker Hall
Director: Mark Rucker
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
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ASIN: B000771TPG
Release Date: 2005-01-11

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The Sundance Channel Ultimate Collection includes: AKA, Amy's O, Die Mommie Die, Dopamine, The Heart of Me, The Hired Hand, In This World, MacArthur Park, Melvin Goes To Dinner, Mule Skinner Blues, The Other Side of the Bed, Rick, Scotland PA, Searching for Paradise, Seeing Other People, The Slaughter Rule, Sleepy Time Gal, Swimming, Tanner on Tanner, and Tesseract, plus a Sundance Channel Home Entertainment 2004 DVD catalog on pack.

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People who haven't seen films shouldn't review them.......2005-08-13

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