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 DVD Warren Miller: Children Of Winter $12.92
About this product: When the days get short and cold, and the land is cloaked in white, that is when we come out to play. We are beckoned by the thrill of speed, the joy of air and unclimbed mountains asking for someone to stand atop them and declare, Winter is open for business. Deep powder. Huge airs. World-class cinematography. Awe-inspiring soundtrack. It is all part of Warren Miller Entertainments 59th feature film, Children Of Winter. The worlds greatest action sports filmmaker showcases spectacular footage shot in Japan, Austria, British Columbia, Alaska and Iceland with jaw-dropping performances by an impressive assembly of world-class athletes, including Jonny Moseley, Daron Rahlves, Marco Sullivan, Seth Wescott, Gerry Lopez and Wendy Fisher.
 DVD Warren Miller: Children of Winter [Blu-ray] $16.99
About this product: When the days get short and cold, and the land is cloaked in white, that is when we come out to play. We are beckoned by the thrill of speed, the joy of air and unclimbed mountains asking for someone to stand atop them and declare, Winter is open for business. Deep powder. Huge airs. World-class cinematography. Awe-inspiring soundtrack. It is all part of Warren Miller Entertainments 59th feature film, Children Of Winter. The worlds greatest action sports filmmaker showcases spectacular footage shot in Japan, Austria, British Columbia, Alaska and Iceland with jaw-dropping performances by an impressive assembly of world-class athletes, including Jonny Moseley, Daron Rahlves, Marco Sullivan, Seth Wescott, Gerry Lopez and Wendy Fisher.
 DVD Warren Miller's Playground [Blu-ray] $16.25
About this product: THE MOST EXTROADINARY WINTER SPORTS ACTION IS NOW ON BLU-RAY! In their 58th feature film, Playground, narrated by Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley, Warren Miller Entertainment chronicles the latest in extraordinary winter sports action with their mind-blowing cinematography and a killer soundtrack to match. From an indoor ski park in Dubai and mystique of the Japanese mountains, to the frigid northern reaches of Sweden, Playground follows the planets leading skiers of the freeride movement Jon Olsson, Sean Petit, Dan Treadway, Peter Olenick and others to destinations of freedom and fun where anything is possible. For more than half a century, Warren Miller has featured the world’s most intense skiers and snowboarders from around the globe ... and they found them all in the same place ... THE PLAYGROUND.
 DVD Warren Miller's Power of Snow Collection (Storm/Cold Fusion/Ride/Fifty) $19.38
About this product: One needn't be an extreme snow-sports enthusiast to enjoy the beauty, wit, and endlessly inventive action-cinematography of Warren Miller's films. A pioneer in sports filmmaking, Miller began his career--as we find out in this excellent, four-title boxed set--shooting 8mm footage in 1947 Sun Valley, Idaho, keeping body and soul together with ketchup soup and wild rabbits. A half-century-plus later, Miller produces, narrates, and occasionally provides a cameo in his films; three of them, included here, are travelogues set in some of the wildest, most dazzling, and even exotic places on Earth. The best of the lot, Cold Fusion, involves serious globe-hopping through four continents: Join a long, long hike through Kenya to ski what remains of a disappearing glacier, and later watch the surreal ballet of multiple "aerialists" launched high on the slopes at Colorado's Winter Park Big Air Expedition. Scale up--and snowboard down--an impossibly steep peak in Waddington, U.K., and then, believe it or not, ski Iran, a place "between dreams and awakening, of hot tea and cherry tobacco." Ride provides its own thrills, traipsing after Whistler's avalanche hunters as they launch explosives clearing landslides before landslides clear skiers. Stick around for stops in New Zealand and France, plus helicopter skiing in the North Cascades, snowboarding the bouncy trail of the Breckenridge Bumps, and cross a war zone in Russia to reach (via creaky cable cars and choppers) the top of Europe. Storm continues the fun in British Columbia's Blue River, Aspen's Roaring Fork Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Antarctica's South Georgia Island, the haunting first site of Ernest Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated voyage. Rounding out this DVD collection is the retrospective Fifty, an album of highlights (e.g., snowboarding in the Chugach Range, near the site of the Valdez crash) that takes a fun, then-and-now approach. --Tom Keogh
 DVD Mrs. Warren's Profession $8.51
About this product: Suffice to say, Mrs. Warren's profession is not Amway, but its illicit gains have allowed her estranged and unwitting daughter, Vivie, to live a life of affluence and higher education. Bernard Shaw's witty attack on "the hypocrisy of the world" and "fashionable morality" is given a compelling staging in this impeccably acted 1972 BBC production starring the venerable Coral Browne (Auntie Mame ) as the "wicked" Mrs. Warren and Penelope Wilton (The Norman Conquests, Match Point) as the thoroughly modern Vivie, who herself confounds family friends and suitors (by turns incorrigible or lecherous) with her own unconventional mercenary attitudes. Shaw's play, written in 1893, but banned until 1925, is undoubtedly tame by today's standards, but its ideas, passionately debated by mother and daughter, are still provocative. The ironic use of period parlor songs ("That old fashioned mother of mine" is a sample lyric) add to the scandalous fun. --Donald Liebenson
 DVD Warren Miller: Off the Grid $8.80
About this product: Warren Miller Entertainment’s latest film, Off The Grid, narrated by World Champion mogul skier and Philadelphia Eagle Jeremy Bloom, presents the world’s best winter sports athletes embarking on a global mission to discover the deepest snow, the steepest mountains and the world’s gnarliest snowball fight. Shot in hi def around the world, this film demonstrates the true Off The Grid experience, exposing the undiscovered side of winter from Kashmir, India, to Kicking Horse, Canada. Olympic 2006 medalist Toby Dawson and X Games Gold Medalists Zach and Reggie Crist pack the notable cast of this adrenaline filled film that takes viewers out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.
 DVD Journey Through the Decades (Journey/Endless Winter/Steep & Deep/Ski A La Carte) $17.89
About this product: In his quest to capture the thrills and spills of alpine skiing and kindred adventure sports, Warren Miller has spanned not only the globe, but the decades. This amazing collection of Warren Miller films is a trip down memory slope, preserving for future generations of winter sports fans the breathtaking scenery and astonishing feats of legendary athletes on the snow and in the air. Offers over 7 hours of nonstop action adventure! Includes 4 Features! -Journey (2003) – The newest Warren Miller film to arrive on DVD. -Endless Winter (1995) – Travel around the calendar and around the world as skiers and snowboarders enjoy epic snow conditions from Alaska to Argentina and Jackson Hole to Japan. -Steep & Deep (1985) – A whirlwind search for freedom in the high country of Canada, Asia, Europe, New Zealand and the good ol’ U.S.A.with cliff jumpers, helicopter skiers, ice climbers, slalom experts and more. -Ski A La Carte (1978) - Warren Miller began shooting ski films in 1949. By the time he made this film in 1978 he had honed the style that now makes him famous. Ski A La Carte is a terrific nostalgia ride.
 DVD Warren Haynes: Electric Blues & Slide Guitar $14.42
About this product: Warren Haynes, of the Allman Brothers Band, has also enjoyed an outstanding solo career as a bluesman. On this great DVD he covers a wide range of blues and slide skills and techniques, including phrasing, vibrato, string bending, and soloing as well as mixing major and minor scales, using space, and looking for blue notes within intervals. An intense and rewarding blues lesson guaranteed to improve your playing! Includes a new introduction by Jeff Golub. Jeff began his career as guitarist for rocker Billy Squier. He has recorded numerous solo CDs and is a highly valued session player and sideman, having worked with such artists as Peter Wolf, John Waite, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Rod Stewart. You'll never miss a note! You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played! All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy. Also includes: Artist biography, selected discography, suggested listening, booklet with music examples, and more. 1 hour, 28 minutes. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
 DVD Love Affair $5.24
About this product: You can hear the big gears clank in this glossy, oh-so-watchable remake of the classic 1939 film (and the popular An Affair to Remember). Instead of updating the story with contemporary attitudes (as Warren Beatty did so successfully with Heaven Can Wait), this is a virtual carbon copy of the other films. The early scenes succeed as the two love birds (Beatty and real-life wife Annette Bening) banter with smart, fun talk. But the dramatics never really work in the modern era and romance doesn't blossom. Do we have to visit the Empire State Building again? Why couldn't the man be the victim? Everything looks wrapped for Christmas: a lovely score, nice use of old songs, rich designer clothes, familiar faces popping up everywhere, all surrounded by ace Conrad L. Hall's glowing, luscious light. It comes off like a big still-life, no zeal with two big exceptions: Garry Shandling's comic portrayal of lawyerhood as Beatty's agent and the reappearance of Katharine Hepburn. Seen for maybe 10 minutes, she packs more magic in her work than the entire rest of the movie. --Doug Thomas
 DVD Warren Miller's Fifty $8.87
About this product: Fifty Amazing Years Of Warren Miller Winter Sports Adventure! Warren Miller’s Fifty celebrates an incredible half-century of bringing you the hottest cold-weather action ever captured on film! Fifty showcases the world’s top skiers and snowboarders at some of the world’s most exotic locations – from Cotopaxi, Ecuador, to Breckenridge, Colorado. Fifty induces sensory overload with some of the greatest moments ever captured on film by Miller’s award-winning camera crews and is now available as a stand-alone DVD for the first time ever! Fifty Special Features: • 5.1 Surround Sound • The Making of Fifty • Fifty Trailer
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