Monday, September 27, 2010

It's a Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Gift Set And Limited Edition Ornament) (DVD)

It's a Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Gift Set And Limited Edition Ornament)
It's a Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Gift Set And Limited Edition Ornament) (DVD)
By James Stewart

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Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 11/03/09
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
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Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
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Full Frame: yes
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Packaging: SleeveNow perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton Read more


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (DVD)

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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 69 minutes Read more


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Christmas Favorites ~ Make a Joyful Noise (Audio Cassette)

Christmas Favorites ~ Make a Joyful Noise
Christmas Favorites ~ Make a Joyful Noise (Audio Cassette)
By Mormon Tabernacle Choir

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Lots of your favorite Christmas Songs: Joy To the World, and many more Read more


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Friday, September 17, 2010

Winter Wonderland [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Winter Wonderland [Blu-ray]
Winter Wonderland [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
By Artist Not Provided

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From scenes of snow-capped peaks to snow falling in a beautiful evergreen forest, you'll enjoy this DVD of spectacular winter scenery filmed in high-definition in the Oregon cascades. Choose from 6 different music tracks to create that special holiday mood: holiday piano, smooth jazz, Celtic, bluegrass, instrumental, or orchestra, playing your Christmas favorites in 5.1 surround sound. Read more


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Machine Breakers (Kindle Edition)

Machine Breakers
Machine Breakers (Kindle Edition)
By David Alexander

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Machine Breakers is a difficult book, written in a unique postmodern language which is utterly unforgettable once its readers have made the initial effort of letting themselves be carried away by the tone and the narrative. For this book is only difficult if one thinks the language gets in the way of the story: Machine Breakers is a piece of historical reportage, but with words.
The plot is mythic: retelling the Luddite riots in the words of a curious literary hybrid who could be -- but isn't -- Edgar A. Poe or his protégé Nathaniel Wood, under the influence of Gautier, Baudelaire, De Quincey and Defoe, as well as some of these writers' favorite muse-enhancing substances. The novel is about politics, life, death, commitment and failure. Its humorous pages are many, but laced always with a demotic, polyglot prose that is at the same time warm, scratchy and mesmerizing.
Machine Breakers is an alternative history novel too; in this world the writer is not the writer, the protagonist, called Rages Crusoe, is not a mere actor of the plot he may even have authored, for all we know. David Alexander's fantasy-land is not making any particular point about how things could have been: the present story is really about the right to make things up, to imagine one's way through a world created by strange, teeming untruths. The reader even has to make up the time of the story.

This is a book to open at any page and to wallow in. Alexander (or Poe, or Crusoe) bursts into eloquence at so many points, apparently from an authorial standpoint rather than from a character-narrator's. Crusoe, for an uneducated Luddite is oddly in love with words, which means that Machine Breakers is not a book for whoever is irritated by linguistic exuberance and demands their stories fast and their sentences short. It is rather a serious, delirious attempt to find means of surviving an industrial revolution. The science contained in the book might one day prove useful.

-- Jean-Luc Breton, World Literature Today Read more


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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (DVD)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (DVD)
By Richard Dreyfuss

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Thirty-seven years after his famous TV debut, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer returns in a sharp-looking computer-animated feature. Using excellent voice casting with actors that sound like the originals, this new Rudolph looks and sounds grand. There's a mysterious Toy Taker gobbling up toys around the world. Rudolph and his team (including deer-friend Clarice, elf-turned-dentist Hermey, and the Abominable Snowman) try to track the toys down and save Christmas again. While the setup and songs hold no candle to the original, and the lessons learned are borrowed from Toy Story 2, the final third succeeds--it's always good to have a flying reindeer when you are chasing a blimp. Kids ages 3 to 9 who have seen the original will certainly want to see the sequel; however, their parents might be less enthusiastic. --Doug Thomas Read more


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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (VHS Tape)

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (VHS Tape)
By Fred Astaire

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Monday, September 13, 2010

One Frosty Christmas (Kindle Edition)

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Hannah Storey's father moves his family from the city of the small farming community of River Bend. Teased by the local kids for being a city girl and an amputee, Hannah fells alone and isolated just like the old mustange she sees on the way to and from school every day. Hannah vows to save the pony the local kids have curelly nicknamed 'Frostbite' from freezing to death or being sent to slaughter. Will Hannah save the pony? Will the people of River Bend ever accept her?

This is a heartwarming Disney type of Christmas classic, suitable for all ages, but geared towards ages 8 - 11....and over 40. Read more


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Friday, September 10, 2010

The Christmas Toy (DVD)

The Christmas Toy
The Christmas Toy (DVD)
By Zachary Bennett

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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/26/2009 Run time: 48 minutes Rating: Nr Read more


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Best Christmas Pageant Ever (DVD)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Best Christmas Pageant Ever (DVD)
By Loretta Swit

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever [VHS]
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever [VHS] (VHS Tape)
By Loretta Swit

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Grace Bradley (Loretta Swit) is called in to direct the community church's child production of the Christmas play. Unfortunately, this is the year the six Herdman children--the dirtiest, most feared neighborhood kids--decide to bully themselves into the lead roles. Barbra Johnson wrote the teleplay based on her novel for this 1978 TV broadcast that has become a favorite over the years. A 9-year-old Fairuza Balk makes her debut as Grace's daughter and narrates the story centering on the seemingly parentless troupe of ragtag ruffians. Of course, the town believes the play is hopelessly lost, but this is Christmas Eve and miracles do happen. Kids can find meaning in the Bible's tale and the Herdmans certainly can bring a fresh take on the age-old story. Not as rambunctious or preachy as later modern-day Christmas tales, the less-than-an-hour production stays away from giving anyone his or her comeuppance and is easily digestible for the whole family. --Doug Thomas Read more


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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Loretta Swit DVD (DVD)

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Loretta Swit DVD
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Loretta Swit DVD (DVD)

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 Customer Rating: 4.3
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Grace Bradley (Loretta Swit) is called in to direct the community church's child production of the Christmas play. Unfortunately, this is the year the six Herdman children--the dirtiest, most feared neighborhood kids--decide to bully themselves into the lead roles. Barbra Johnson wrote the teleplay based on her novel for this 1978 TV broadcast that has become a favorite over the years. A 9-year-old Fairuza Balk makes her debut as Grace's daughter and narrates the story centering on the seemingly parentless troupe of ragtag ruffians. Of course, the town believes the play is hopelessly lost, but this is Christmas Eve and miracles do happen. Kids can find meaning in the Bible's tale and the Herdmans certainly can bring a fresh take on the age-old story. Not as rambunctious or preachy as later modern-day Christmas tales, the less-than-an-hour production stays away from giving anyone his or her comeuppance and is easily digestible for the whole family. --Doug Thomas * * * * Beware the Herdmans! They're the nattiest, dirtiest kids you could ever meet and they've just deiced they belong in this year's pageant. But the town thinks they belong in the care of the local police. When the curtain finally goes up, a miracle beings and it all turns into...The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit stars in this 1983 TV special written by Barbara Robinson, author of the bestselling book. Read more


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Sunday, September 5, 2010

A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

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One of the most beloved Christmas stories in English, this engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge s ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future, and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has become as much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths. Recommended in Kolbe Academy Junior High Literature, Seton English Grade 9, Seton Grade 9 Author: Charles Dickens Format: 80 pages, paperback Publisher: Dover ISBN: 0-486-26865-9 Read more


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Friday, September 3, 2010

The Legend Of The Three Trees - Picture Book (Hardcover)

The Legend Of The Three Trees - Picture Book
The Legend Of The Three Trees - Picture Book (Hardcover)
By Catherine McCafferty

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Vivid visual imagery brings this classic legend to life. Told simply, in language even the youngest family members will understand, the story beings with three young trees who dream - as children do - of doing big deeds

When the woodcutters come, the trees each find that the reality of their existence doesn't match their dreams… and yet… This touching story contains a simple lesson about God's Plan for every life, told in a way that will touch hearts.

A beautifully animated video anchors this trio of products for the whole family.

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