Billboard - Movie (NTSC/RC-1)

Starring:Joey Stefano, Lon Flexx, Andrew Michaels, Chris Ramsey (II), Vic Summers, Adam Grant (III), Mike Moore (IV), Dusty (II), Carl Stone (II)
Studio: MGE
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Mary-Kate & Ashley Pack (Billboard Dad/Switching Goals/Passport to Paris)

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Mary-Kate & Ashley 3pk DVD

Mary-Kate & Ashley Pack (Billboard Dad/Switching Goals/Passport to Paris)
Starring: Mary-Kate Olsen , Ashley Olsen , Tom Amandes , Jessica Tuck , and Carl Banks
Director: Alan Metter , and David Steinberg
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B0001O3YQ2
Release Date: 2004-04-13

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Mary-Kate & Ashley 3pk DVD.......2004-04-21

This box-set contains the following titles: Billboard Dad/Switching Goals/Passport to Paris.

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It's the Olsen twins to the rescue once again in their straight-to-video release, Billboard Dad. With Venice, California, serving as a Bohemian backdrop, the preteen queens of the dead-mom genre scheme to find their widowed father a girlfriend by turning a Hollywood billboard into a personal ad. Breezy predictability ensues: Dad gets thousands of letters and dates a series of progressively weirder women before bumping into Ms. Right. Since Dad's a successful sculptor, true love destroys the angst behind his profitable art. As his agent tries to drive a wedge between the lovebirds, the twins become unwitting accomplices. All of this just sets the stage, really, for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to do their thing--they are way cool, fashionable, and mature beyond their preteen years--with their equally hip friends, who have a drama of their own unfolding on the diving team. Nothing truly unexpected happens, but it doesn't matter. In other words, parents, don't watch this alone. --Valerie J. Nelson

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One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad, it's a fun-loving, eye-catching California adventure gone wild. Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this fabulously funny love-struck comedy filled with crazy schemes and cool surprises. Determined to find their Dad, Max, a new love, the girls paint a personals ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates, Max finally meets Brooke and it's love at first sight. There's just one hitch, her unruly skateboarding son is the girls' arch rival. Now, with the girls plotting every action-packed step of the way, they've got to find out if love really does conquer all. Full of outrageous events, mixed-up matches and lots of laughs, Billboard Dad tops the charts as Mary-Kate and Ashley's coolest mischieve-making adventure ever.

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Is This What They Call "G" These Days?.......2006-07-08

I did not watch this movie, but overheard it in the next room as my girls watched it. The movie may be 99% wholesome and appropriate, but there is one line in it that is so offensive and over the top that I cannot recommend it to anybody. It is where these pre-teens who have arranged a date for their dad, broach the topic of "safe sex" with him. He says something like "I'm 40 years old and know what I'm doing." Excuse me?

I don't know the plot. Are the dad and his date divorced? Are they widowed? I don't know - but in the real world children do not get so geeked about their parent having premarital sex with someone that is not their parent. The fact is that most children of divorce wish their parents would get back together and are horrified about their parents (especially the parent of the opposite sex) sleeping with someone else. And if the children are "modern" and "resilient" as this movie's stars are portrayed, still they tend to cope with the topic of parental sex with a non-parent by not thinking about it.

My kids seemed to really enjoy this movie. But I am offended that a "G" movie would imply the normality of discussion about sex-with-a-non-parent between children of divorce and their parents. Our society looks the other way at the emotional toll divorce exacts on its children, and the looseness with which we portray sexuality. Family courts, divorce attorneys, and some counselors give us "happy talk" about how divorce can actually be a good thing for kids. Apparently now "G" rated movies can be added to the list.

It was great.......2005-08-14

A kid wrote that this movies is recomended for kids under ten SCREW him I know that im uppsesed with the olsen twins. My mom also started watching full house when it just came out on abcfamily it was a huger hit.. But this dvd i enjoyed watching when i was 13 .. this is a really fun and entertaining film and i truelly recomended to fans..

ONE OF THEIR BEST MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-07-27

I am an Olsen fan and I loved this movie. Its about 2 girls who put an ad in the billboard and their dad doesent know till they get millions of letters and the twins explain. Then he falls in love with this one woman and find out the rest when you buy or rent it. Just dont be an idiotic jerk who hates the Olsen, got it?

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!.......2005-03-19

This movie is the Olsen's second best movie! (New York Min. is best) but still I can't get enough of this movie. I've only got it on VHS Video but I want the DVD really bad!

Cool!.......2005-03-11

This movie is a great Olsen movie.
The Olsen twins are still sweet in this movie!
But in this movie they play matchmakers!
They try to find a new woman for their hard working dad.
So they put a message on a billboard.
A lot of women answer them.
The first dates where a disaster.
But big things can happen.
I love it!

POPaganda - The Art & Crimes of Ron English

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Art with Punch and Problems

POPaganda - The Art & Crimes of Ron English
Starring: Ron English
Director: Pedro Carvajal
Manufacturer: Cinema Libre Studio
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Popaganda: The Art And Subversion Of Ron English
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ASIN: B000EBCECC
Release Date: 2006-03-28

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This award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary showcases the art & crimes of well-known anti-corporate pop artist Ron English. English, best known for his illegal billboard art and for his Supersize Me artwork, could live a comfortable life as a gallery artist, but instead, he chooses to buck the system and create art that is controversial and thought-provoking. With a hip and eclectic soundtrack, featuring such artists as The Dandy Warhols, this film has been hailed by numerous critics and has won multiple awards at film festivals nationwide.

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Running Time 78 Mins.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Art with Punch and Problems.......2007-06-05

Ron English looks somewhat like musician David A. Stewart, especially on the cover of the Eurythmics' 1986 album "Revenge." He performs and creates a kamikaze art in which he pastes political art over paid billboards. This almost seems like a happening from the 1960s as putting up the art is just as important as the message or style in the art. Mr. English shows that he admires others who produce similar, borderline-illegal work. He's even served jail time for expressing himself in this fashion.

I loved learning about this artist and I wish him well. Still, I'm skeptical in many regards. At one point, he positions himself as being against gallery art. He seems completely self-interested and desirous of displaying his works, regardless of the price. This work is gushy and could have benefited from non-supportive interviewees. One of Mr. English's main targets is McDonald's and their fatty foods. However, unlike the lead in "Super Size Me," who was thin, Mr. English looks like a gourmand. This reminds me of how Jay Leno takes Dr. Phil to task on demanding that others lose weight. The work implies that Mr. English only quit his outlaw art when his wife complained on a talk show. Basquiat damaged others' property too while making a name for himself, but there's still something unethical about what English is trying to accomplish.

Hollywood cranks out a ton of remakes. Some say Shakespeare refashioned many old ideas. Ron English too constantly reworks things that are already invented. To some, that's edgy and creative, but some may find it boring and parasitic. He even created a three-eyed creature that, to me, looks like a rip-off of the alien doll from Tom Hanks' "Toy Story" series. Most people may associate pop art with artists who had minority desires, such as Warhol or Haring. Like Koons and Lichtenstein, Mr. English has the desires of the majority population. I am surprised that spray painting on buildings and trains isn't brought up, as they present the same ethical, legal, aesthetic, and political issues.

In watching this, I kept comparing English to Haring. English covers political work that is relatively safe. Who would disagree that smoking and fast food are problems? Haring was fighting apartheid, homophobia, and all kinds of issues that had or have the world greatly divided. When I saw English's working with objects in "Guernica," I immediately thought back to a Haring biography in which Haring was upset that renegades damaged the original "Guernica."

This work includes profanity and nudity. I could imagine it being shown in college art classes, but not in art classes at lower educational levels.

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It's the Fellini segment, stupid!
A must for fans of the directors
Drink your meelk!

Boccaccio '70 (Remastered Edition)
Starring: Marisa Solinas , Germano Gilioli , Anita Ekberg , Peppino De Filippo , and Romy Schneider
Director: Mario Monicelli , Luchino Visconti , and Vittorio De Sica
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A summit meeting of great Italian directors of the era, Boccaccio '70 is an antipasto platter of vintage sex symbols and naughty material. Cooked up and bankrolled by Carlo Ponti and American producer Joseph E. Levine, the four-part film was meant to tap the international smash of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which gave audiences some refreshingly, you know, "mature" subject matter. Four directors were hired to create segments ostensibly based on the tales of Boccaccio: Fellini himself (in the lull between La Dolce Vita and 8-1/2), Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Mario Monicelli.

Monicelli's story, Renzo and Luciana, is an agreeable tale, full of everyday Roman life: an office worker (Marisa Solinas) must marry her boyfriend when she gets pregnant--although marriage is against company rules. Fellini's segment, The Temptation of Dr. Antonio, is fantastical and big-scaled. It tells of a censorious bluenose (Peppino de Filippo) who becomes incensed at the presence of a billboard featuring a sexy portrait of Anita Ekberg (selling milk)--a portrait that comes to life. For this bizarre escapade, Nino Rota composed an advertising jingle that will stick in your mind whether you want it to or not.

Visconti's The Job is the best segment, tracking the emotional chess game between a playboy (Thomas Milian) and his wife (Romy Schneider at her most gorgeous) after he is publicly exposed in a sex scandal. Finally, the De Sica piece (The Raffle) is a fairly broad romp that uses Sophia Loren as the reward in a raffle. Sophia's delicious, needless to say.

The finished product weighed in at a whopping 208 minutes, and Monicelli's segment was lopped off before the film showed at the Cannes Film Festival. It has never been restored, until this DVD release. All the segments are frankly too long, and none qualifies as an essential gem, but they do give the flavor of Italy's best at an especially exciting cinematic moment. --Robert Horton

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Four complete segments, each directed by a master filmmaker and starring an extraordinary cast of international stars: "Renzo & Luciana", directed by Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET) was cut to shorten the film for its international release and it's shown here for the first time ever in America. "The Temptation of Doctor Antonio" directed by Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA, 8 1/2) and starring Anita Ekberg (LA DOLCE VITA), enlighten by a dreamy humoristic touch, it's considered by many to be the best Fellini's work ever! "The Job", directed by Luchino Visconti (THE LOEPARD, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS) stars Romy Schneider (WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT) and future genre icon Tomas Milian (TRAFFIC, ALMOST HUMAN). A witty contemplation of marriage with an attention to details was the trademark of the Visconti's incomparable style. Finally, "The Raffle", an earthy comic romp directed by Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF, TWO WOMEN) and starring Sophia Loren (YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, TWO WOMEN) as a woman who causes all sorts of problems for herself when she offers her favors as the prize in a lottery.

BOCCACCIO '70 is presented in a widescreen anamorphic digital transfer, loaded with never seen before extras, including a rare behind-the-scene archival footage

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It's the Fellini segment, stupid! .......2005-07-21

5 stars because of the fantastic Fellini at his best-incomparable-Anita Ekberg-extravaganza! 3 stars to de Sica for lovely yet minor Sofia romp. 2 stars to theatrical budoir boredom of Visconti who can't find proper filter for his camera. 2 stars for Monicelli: was this a futuristic tale? 1 star to rather drab DVD package with hardly any meat on it (stills + thirty seconds of some black and white Sofia newsreel footage from 196?...nothing else!)
Overall: 5 stars because Il Maestro overwhelms every single complaint...in fact I suggest that you first watch disc 2 (Visconti/de Sica combo) and then go to disc 1 (Monicelli/Fellini)...

A must for fans of the directors.......2005-05-28

BOCCACCIO 70 is made up of four short films, each around 45 minutes long. The DVD set is broken up into two DVDS, with two of the shorts on each, and the second DVD containing a few extras.

The transfer for all the shorts is absolutely stunning. I don't think it could have looked this good when it played in theatres.

Disc 1

The first segment, directed by Mario Monicelli, had long been unseen, at least in the US. It was removed from the US release of the film. It is the least of the four, but still quite watchable, about a newly married couple, dealing with their family and work. Not much to it, but an interesting view of everyday life.

The second is probably the strongest, by Fellini. I would argue that this is one of Fellini's most focused works (although I would admit that I find him to be overrated to some extent). It is a very funny film about a moral crusader who objects to a large billboard for milk, with Anita Ekberg on it.

Disc 2

The third segment is directed by Visconti starring Romy Schneider. A wealthy man is caught in a scandal, having to do damage control with his business associates and his wife. It is one of Visconti's lightest works, and also quite fun.

The final segment is De Sica's THE RAFFLE. A group of men enter a raffle, the prize being Sophia Loren.

The extras on the disc include the original US credits, trailers, and some brief interviews made at the time of the films release, as well as a photo gallery.

The film is a must watch for all fans of the directors.

Drink your meelk!.......2005-05-04

This film I picked up more out of curiousity and because Fellini directs one of the viginettes. I had never seen any of the 4 mini films before, nor did I know of the controversy surrounding its universal release. Each film deals with sexuality in different ways. All of the films have impressive looking anamorphic transfers for being almost 45yrs old. There is English dubbed audio tracks though my copy kept switching back to Italian on its own.. English subtitles looked fine.
All of the films looked great and are restored anamorphic transfers. The Fellini film was my favorite by far. This is his first feature using color as well as featuring dreams/fantasy in his films. I couldn't help think of Attack of the 50ft Woman seeing the charming Anita come to life off a billboard. This is as close to comedy as Fellini got , too bad he didn't explore this more often. Fellini's segment is almost an hour.

The Visconti piece was lavishly produced and feautured a troubled wife trying to rekindle that spark. This takes place in a high class French styled mansion. Romy is nice to look at even if she is rather pathetic. This mini drama was the most serious of the 4 and rather depressing as it unfolded.

The last two were rather light and forgetful even if Sophia Loren looked fabulous, and was omni present in her role as a carnival spinster with a change of heart.

The extras are fun. Lots of on set pics and lobby cards , plus a large fold out booklet with press clippings and news reviews.The U.S. and Italian trailers are intresting to compare.

If your a Fellini fan, you would do well to see this for his giantess fantasy alone!

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You Might Need Therapy After Watching This Film

Billboard - Movie (NTSC/RC-1)
Starring: Joey Stefano , Lon Flexx , Andrew Michaels , Chris Ramsey (II) , and Vic Summers
Manufacturer: MGE
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ASIN: B0001ZJQAY
Release Date: 2003-12-09

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You Might Need Therapy After Watching This Film.......2004-10-30

"Billboard" is a film that will leave a lasting impression on you. After I first watched it, I was a little sick to my stomach for a few days. Perhaps I was a bit innocent or naive, but I didn't expect the film to be so terrifying. The film is about a man named Kuba (as played by Rafal Mackowiak, who also stars in "Louder than Bombs" and "Gniew") who inadvertently gets tangled into the world of "snuff films" when he accidentally gets hold of the wrong video tape.

For those that don't know, "snuff films" are home made films of people being tortured and murdered - leaving its screaming star dead. Obviously, these films are illegal as they are just videotaped murders. I was chilled at the thought that these things do happen. It was not a horror film with some strange fictitious monster or killer, but the fact that this could happen made the film more frightening.

As Kuba gets deeper and deeper into the missing woman who was murdered (the one on the tape), it only gets more frightening. We see Kuba watching the film of the torture/murder and I found everything so realistic that it quickened my pulse and left me feeling disgusted. I had to lower the volume when it showed the woman screaming as it just got to be too much for me. Eventually, I had to lower the volume all the way off as I couldn't stand listening to it anymore.

If a thriller is supposed to make you scared or feel the effects of adrenaline, "Billboard" definitely achieves this result. I would also call this film a "horror" as it was a little gruesome (but the worst part was the screaming). I normally do not watch "horror" films and have not watched many in my lifetime, so perhaps I am being sensitive. At any rate, this film is not for the weak of heart.

I don't think it is possible for a film to be more of a "thriller" than "Billboard." The film made me appreciate life itself and shudder at the possibility of inhumane cruelty some find pleasurable. "Billboard" is a Polish film, 97 minutes in length with English subtitles directed by Lukasz Zadrzynski.

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