About this product: Timed to coincide with the CD collection In Time, presents 15 years of innovative videos from alternative pop pioneers R.E.M. Throughout the ups--the multi-platinum success of 1991's Out of Time--and downs--the abrupt 1997 departure of original drummer Bill Berry--of their Warner Brothers years, R.E.M. has consistently illustrated their music with something more substantial than simple performance promos. In View boasts 22 videos, 16 interview and performance snippets from throughout their career, and three songs recorded live in London in 2001. Highlights include the Western movie motif of "Man on the Moon," introspective traffic jam of "Everybody Hurts," and fanciful animation of "I'll Keep the Rain (starring a sleepy-eyed, button-nosed pup with crown of gold). Bonus points for the cameo by punk priestess Patti Smith in "E-Bow the Letter" and hipster actor Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise) in the faux Italian melodrama of "Bittersweet Me." --Kathleen C. Fennessy
About this product: There are some weird images between each video but they don't mean anything. The videos are awesome: Drive, Man On The Moon, Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, What's The Frequency Kenneth, Crush With Eyeliner, Nightswimming, and Strange Currencies. It's fun to watch just to try to understand what the videos are about. There are no other features besides the videos.
About this product: And my hand is great!! I use it all the time for all kinds of things!
First, this was a great concert. Camped for tickets at the mall in Raleigh. Drove to Greensboro (North Carolina) from Smithfield to see them live. I was there, in the row right before the camera. After the music started we all stood up in our chairs. The camera was high, but not high enough to miss my hand in a few frames. RA!
Anyway, this is a great film, because the concert was great! Needless to say, I got a copy of this as soon as it came out. It continues to be a great concert film and of course, a valuble momento of the Green tour! Highly recommended for anyone who's a fan!
About this product: This is the first complete overview of R.E.M.'s videos for I.R.S. Records, developed and compiled by all four original members of R.E.M. DVD features over two hours of content including all 11 music videos, TV performances, and interviews, plus the unseen music video for "Wolves, Lower." R.E.M. is being inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 16.
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About this product: * The concert is in 16x9 anamorphic picture format (ideal for people with widescreen, but plays nicely on 4:3 TVs as well either letterboxed or full-screen-but-cropped edges by adjusting your tv or dvd player), with 26 chapters, 23 of which are songs. Concert duration: 105 minutes long. The Concert has a Subtitles option in five languages but the subtitles are only when Stipe speaks to the crowd (eg introducing songs). There are no subtitles when they are singing (no lyrics as subtitles).
* REM has been around for a while, and in this concert dvd they blend hit songs along with some rare and fan favorite songs, so please don't be disappointed if some of your favorite songs are not included. They could have easily made a 4-hour concert DVD and still not included everyone's favorites. They have so many good songs!
* Bonus documentary: "A Stirling performance" , 38 minutes long, in 4x3 picture format. The documentary does not have any chapters, it's just one title/chapter. The documentary also has a Subtitles option when people are speaking, but no subtitles for lyrics/songs. It chronicles the band's 1999 concert in Scotland at the Stirling Castle. It is a blend of behind the scenes footage and concert footage, but I would classify it as a music documentary of a concert (as opposed to a concert).
About this product: Three conversations with world renowned architects.||First, in this rebroadcast of an interview from April 12, 2002, Renzo Piano, the designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, talks about his career and current projects in New York City, including his plan for the new home of The New York Times.||Then, in a rebroadcast of a conversation from May 22, 2002, architectSantiago Calatrava, most well known for his signature bridges in Europe, discusses his craft and unveiling his first building in the US, the Milwaukee Art Museum.||Finally, in a rebroadcast of an interview that aired on March 25, 2002, Rem Koolhaas talks about his writing and his latest projects: two branches of the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas and a Prada flagship store in New York City.
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About this product: Yuk! The cover of this DVD is misleading -- the cover does not disclose that this product is merely a collection of amateurish (artistic?) video clips running in tandem with R.E.M. music. Be warned -- this is not a collection of the band's professional videos; and the band should have ethically disclosed this fact on the cover. This taught me not to buy music DVDs in some store; instead I'll check reviews on this website beforehand and purchase through Amazon.
About this product: Very good introduction, but full of architectural jargon. What Koolhaas learns about the complex internal organization of this city is not unique to Lagos: one finds similar systems in large African and Indian and Chinese cities, for instance. Also, there is no discussion of the complex organization within the city and its relationship to social organization within the larger Nigerian or West African culture, and within its tribal culture, which are highly structured, organized, and ascribe very complex attributes of identity (family, village, kinship groups, etc.) to each person. In short, even here, there are complex systems of ordering. This film also tends to be soft on the huge crime problem in Lagos, on police brutality and corruption, on the absence of social services for the very poor and ill, educational opportunities for the ordinary or poorest, and the film definitely avoids interviewing the poorest people --- those who are just standing around, waiting on the street, or what not. The camera records these people, but the interviews are primarily with people of higher status. In one long scene, a group of women paw through huge stacks of irons (for ironing clothes), making numerous selections and putting them in smaller jumbled piles. It is unclear what they are doing, how they will use the irons they are selecting. There is no interview, no conversation with these women. This is so typical of this film. I found it intelligent and a good introduction to this mega-City, but somewhat naive in its familiarity with other such cities around the world, and very distanced from the realities of the very poorest people who are the majority of a city like Lagos. The film made me realize how unfamiliar Koolhaas is, really, with the new mega-cities around the world and with the human plight in these complex and hugely difficult human environments. I found his fundamental stance significantly removed from the larger human condition and very much lost in intellectual generalization. By the way, I think he is a brilliant guy and a great architect.
About this product: Alan Dershowitz, attorney and Harvard Law School professor, talks about the grounds for an appeal in the Martha Stewart trial. Stewart was convicted last week and Dershowitz comments on what he believes to be her inevitable jail term. Also, the architect Rem Koolhaas talks about his projects around the world and his latest book, Content.
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