Art & Artists

Visions of the Sea: Explorations [Blu-ray]

Visions of the Sea: Explorations was captured in High Definition by Emmy Award-winner Anthony S. Lenzo one of the world s most renowned underwater videographers and systems integrators utilizing the latest in High Definition camera gear and his trusted Amphibicam HD underwater housing.Explore some of the world s most pristine and unspoiled coral reefs with an underwater tour of Fiji Bonaire Honduras and The Bahamas. Experience ocean life as never before in spectacular High Definition video that brings your home entertainment system to life. Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST UPC: 647715602022 Manufacturer No: 647715602022

HDScape Sampler [Blu-ray]

HDScape Blu-ray discs transform your television and home theater system into breathtaking High Definition environments capturing the world's most beautiful scenery by award-winning cinematographers with musical accompaniments and natural sounds.

The HDScape sampler features clips from beautiful, entertaining Blu-ray Disc programs such as Antarctica Dreaming, Exotic Saltwater Aquarium, Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility, HD Window: Hawaii, HD Window: The Great Southwest, Serenity: Southern Seas, and Visions of the Sea: Explorations.

HDScape: Advancing the Art of HD

HDScape is the leading producer of High Definition discs that turn your Plasma, LCD, CRT or DLP HDTV home theater system into a work of art.

HDscape Sampler (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

HDScape discs transform your television and home theater system into breathtaking High Definition environments - capturing the world's most beautiful scenery by award-winning cinematographers with musical accompaniments and natural sounds. Each two-sided HDScape disc includes one HD DVD side and one standard definition DVD side that plays on all existing DVD players. Planning to upgrade to an HD DVD player in the future? Dual-sided HDScape discs are ready when you are!Titles include Exotic Saltwater Aquarium HD Fireplace HD Visions Of The Sea: Explorations Antarctica Dreaming Serenity: Southern Seas HD Window: Hawaii HD Window: The Great Southwest Stargaze II HD.Also includes Digital Video Essentials HD Test Materials and a sample of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet Op. 57 presented in True HD.System Requirements:Run Time: 59 minsFormat: DVD HD Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: NR UPC: 647715399922 Manufacturer No: 3999

The Private Life of Masterpieces Collection

This award-winning series reveals the full and fascinating stories behind some of the most famous works of art of all time. Behind the beautiful canvases and sculptures are tales of revolution wartime escapes ego clashes scandal financial wrangling and shocking violence. In The Private Life of a Masterpiece viewers will witness how these works of genius came to be created and also how they have influenced others and developed a life of their own in the modern world.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC Rating: NR UPC: 794051408228 Manufacturer No: E4082

Bollywood Burn

Creator of the bestselling Bollywood Dance Workout turns up the heat!

Spice up your workout and boogie to the bhangra beat. Inspired by the sassy, sexy moves seen in hit Indian films, this isn't the same old boring exercise routine. It's playful, seductive, and leaves you feeling high on life. Think of it as yoga with a triple-espresso twist or a double-chai high.

Fitness star and yogini Hemalayaa leads you through three 15-minute programs, from low to high impact. The first gets you in the groove, the second ups the cardio to optimum fat-burning range, and the third has you shimmying and bopping like a Bollywood film beauty. As you dance, you'll lose weight; tone your core, hips, and thighs; and kiss stress good-bye. So liven up, let loose, and laugh like Hemalayaa does. It's that much fun!

FEATURES INCLUDE
Audio options (music and instruction or music only)
Freestyle dance performance

Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides

Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Scottish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows, rises, and/or retreats. The soft-spoken, secluded Goldsworthy is seen hard at work making ephemeral sculptures out of bits of ice in the trees, or building tall, mysterious cones from loose rock, which stand like spiritual sentinels in forests and on shorelines, overgrown by plants or swallowed daily by high tides. Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy's ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery. Some of Goldsworthy's most miraculous natural installations--stone walls that snake through hundreds of feet of forest and stream, for instance--show up in the last half-hour. --Tom Keogh

Wildly praised by the nation's top critics, the smash theatrical hit RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing, poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, RIVERS AND TIDES is an intoxicating study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature.

Living Landscapes HD The World's Most Beautiful Places [Blu-ray]

The LIVING LANDSCAPES series offers high-definition photography of the world's most beautiful places set to atmospheric surround-sound music for a relaxing armchair experience.System Requirements:Running Time: 75 Mins.Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST UPC: 741319475669 Manufacturer No: LLWMP-BR

Buena Vista Social Club

"The Buena Vista Social Club" guitarist Ry Cooder s celebrated album featuring the recently re-discovered talents of Cuba s foremost folk musicians sold millions of copies and earned a Grammy Award. Now Cooder teams up with acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Paris Texas) to reveal the astonishing life stories vibrant personalities and unforgettable music of the brilliantly talented but long-overlooked performers who collaborated on this now-legendary recording. Form the crumbling barrios of their native Havana to their triumphant sold-out concerts in Amsterdam and New York s Carnegie Hall it s an unforgettable deeply emotional journey into the passion pride and humanity of the artists whose music sparked a worldwide musical phenomenon!System Requirements:Starring: Ry Cooder Ibrahim Ferrer Rueben Gonzalez Eliades Ochoa Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo. Directed By: Wim Wenders. Running Time: 105 mins color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright: 1999 Artisan Live Entertainment.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating:  UPC: 012236101765 Manufacturer No: 10176

In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long since retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When Cooder returned to Havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72-year-old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, filmmaker Wim Wenders was on hand to document the occasion. Wenders splits the film between portraits of the performers, who tell their stories directly to the camera as they wander the streets and neighborhoods of Havana, and a celebration of the music heard in performance scenes in the studio, in their first concert in Amsterdam, and in their second and final concert at Carnegie Hall. The songs are too often cut short in this fashion, but Buena Vista Social Club is not a concert film. Wenders weaves the artist biographies with a glimpse of modern Cuba remembering its past, capturing a lost culture in music that is suddenly, unexpectedly revived for audiences in Havana and around the world. Wenders makes his presence practically invisible, as if his directorial flourishes or off-screen narration might deflect attention from the artists, who do a fine job of telling their own stories through interviews and music. It's a loving portrait of a master class in Cuban music, with a vital cast of aging performers whose energy and passion belie their years. --Sean Axmaker

Roger Waters - The Wall (Live in Berlin)

The Wall (Live in Berlin) seemed uninspired and gimmicky in 1990 but looks and sounds terrifically compelling on DVD, thanks to its vivid image quality and greatly improved audio mixes. The freshly mineswept Potsdamer platz--a once-thriving plaza destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943--proved the perfect place to mark the opening of the Berlin Wall with an all-star production of Pink Floyd's magnum opus: a Wall for a wall. An unlikely assemblage of musicians augments Roger Waters's impressive house band (led by guitarist Rick DiFonzo and organ wizard Nick Glennie-Smith), with everyone from the Scorpions to Joni Mitchell to the Military Orchestra of the Soviet Army getting in on the rock-opera action. Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, James Galway, Thomas Dolby, and Albert Finney all turn in tasty cameos, while Sinead O'Connor looks unaccountably aloof in "Mother." The documentary is thorough and juicy, and producer Tony Hollingsworth offers an above-par essay in the booklet. --Michael Mikesell

Digital Video Essentials High Definition (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

JPK Digital Video Essentials HD (HD-DVD/DVD Combo Disc)
Originally created in High Definition, Digital Video Essentials is now coming to you in High DEfinition on HD DVD in both 1080p and 720p. As audiences turn to High Definition home theaters it becomes increassingly important to have the tools and the demonstration materials needed to optimize the quality and capability of the display. Developed by A/V legend Joe Kane, Digital Video Essentialsoffers and entire range of audio and video test signals for the all-inmportant home system tune-up.These test tracks can make the difference betweenan artificial-looking picture and poor sound and the amazing presentation quality and realisim you can only get from an HD DVD.
Features:
* HD DVD/Standard DVD Combo Disc
* Both SD and HD versions of DVE in one package
* The calibration tool for HD home theaters
* Includes one yearfree membership to online support community
* Future-ready for downloadable advanced content
* Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby True HD Calibrationcontent
* Color filters for checking decoding
* Wide Screen 16x9 in SD and HD
* Audio-Dolby Digial 2.0 Surround Sound