Love and Death on Long Island: This isn’t EM Forster?!
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Love & Death on Long Island
$9.43 Can a stodgy intellectual who regards the 20th century as a waste of time find happiness with an American teen idol who doesn't really know him? That's the question posed in this gentle satiric comedy. Giles De'ath (John Hurt), who takes great pains to remind people that his surname is pronounced "Day-ath," is a well-regarded British author whose wife passed away a decade ago. Since then, Giles has retreated into a world of his own; he is thoroughly disinterested in contemporary culture and lives in the 20th century only to the degree that it is absolutely necessary. However, one night Giles accidentally locks himself out of his apartment just as a rainstorm has begun to open up the sky. Soaked to the skin, he takes refuge in a nearby movie theater, since he's heard that the works of E.M. Forster have lately become popular screen fodder. However, once inside the multiplex, Giles discovers to his disgust that he's accidentally bought a ticket for a low-brow teen flick called Hot Pants College II. Just as he's about to register his repugnance with the management, actor Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley) appears on screen, and immediately Giles is entranced. In Ronnie, Giles discovers an unexpected sort of beauty that he's never considered before, and he's eager to learn more about the young actor. However, Giles soon discerns that reading up on his new obsession means buying teen-oriented fanzines (whose covers proclaim him "Snoggable!"), where he learns that Ronnie's own cultural signposts include Axl Rose and Stephen King, whose names could just as well be Sanskrit to Giles. He also discovers that to view the rest of Ronnie's screen work, he must visit a video rental store, which means he must first purchase a VCR, and that he'll also require a (gulp!) television in order for the VCR to work. Eventually, Giles finds out that Ronnie lives in a small town on Long Island, and decides to fly there, hatching a scheme to meet Ronnie by first making the acquaintance of Audrey (Fionna Loewi), Ronnie's fashion model girlfriend. Based on the acclaimed short novel by Gilbert Adair, Love and Death on Long Island was adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Kwietniowski. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Love Island
$5.54 Long before trading her Park Avenue apartment for a ramshackle farm on Green Acres, Eva Gabor shed her Saks' Fifth Avenue duds for a South Seas sarong in Love Island. Gabor plays Sarna, a Balinese beauty, courted by stranded Navy pilot Lt. Richard Tabor (Paul Valentine). Bad guy Jaraka (Malcolm Beggs) doesn't like this arrangement, so he has Sarna's father arrested on a trumped-up charge. Jaraka then drops a few subtle suggestions that the old man will never survive his incarceration unless Sarna marries him. If nothing else, Love Island offers acres and acres of exposed male and female epidermis, lovingly photographed in Cinecolor. The film was directed by exploitation king Budd Pollard, who a few years earlier had specialized in films aimed at the African American market. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Must Love Death
$19.47 Must Love Death |
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Gustav Mahler: of Love Death & Beyond
$22.47 Gustav Mahler: of Love Death & Beyond |
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Guadalcanal: The Island of Death
$6.47 Guadalcanal: The Island of Death documents the historic American invasion of the Japanese-controlled island. Featuring footage taken from the National Archives, this film shows how the success of this brutal battle led directly to the American armed forces gaining a foothold in the Solomon Islands. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Dating Death
$12.29 A friendly reunion at a remote cottage quickly descends into a bloody battle for survival when seven friends are stalked by an unidentified maniac in director Herman Yau's tense run-and-slash thriller. Though their arrival at the scenic island retreat finds the long separated friends quick to reconnect as they prepare for a relaxing weekend in good company, a series of deadly and inexplicable accidents soon leads the rapidly dwindling survivors to suspect that their may in fact be a murderous madman lurking within their ranks. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Island Of Love
$20 Take three of the funniest, cleverest actors in the movies, plop them on a gorgeous, real-life Greek isle and add a feverish plot that involves an ingenious scam, big money, lighthearted romance and a lisping gangster and you have Island of Love. On the lam from the mob boss he fleeced, a conman (Robert Preston in a flimflam mode recalling his triumph in The Music Man) and his sardonic pal (Tony Randall) end up on Paradeisos. The two Americans promptly hoodwink the world into believing the place is an ancient lost island of love. Tourists flock in and fortunes are made - until the boss (Walter Matthau) shows up, his trigger finger twitching. The sun is bright but the stars shine brighter on this comedic Island of Love. 1963/color/101 min/NR/mono/widescreen. |
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Guadalcanal: The Island of Death [2 Discs]
$8.09 Guadalcanal: The Island of Death documents the historic American invasion of the Japanese-controlled island. Featuring footage taken from the National Archives, this film shows how the success of this brutal battle led directly to the American armed forces gaining a foothold in the Solomon Islands. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Guadalcanal: The Island of Death [Blu-ray]
$11.84 Guadalcanal: The Island of Death documents the historic American invasion of the Japanese-controlled island. Featuring footage taken from the National Archives, this film shows how the success of this brutal battle led directly to the American armed forces gaining a foothold in the Solomon Islands. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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MTV Unplugged: BabyFace, NYC 1997
$8.24 Eric Clapton, Beverly Crowder, and Stevie Wonder are just three of the performers who join Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds on stage in this 1997 production. The Grammy-winning producer and singer/songwriter drops the digital effects and synthesizers for an acoustic performance of some of his best-known songs in MTV Unplugged: Babyface. Released to video in 2000, the songs performed on the video are "Change the World," "Talk to Me," "Whip Appeal," "Breathe Again," "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," "I'll Make Love to You," "End of the Road," "I Care About You," "The Day (That You Gave Me a Son)," "Gone Too Soon," and "How Come, How Long." ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi |