Manufacturer: Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Jane Fonda, Christine Ebersole, Levon Helm, Geraldine Page, Dan HedayaDirected By: Daniel Petrie
Sissy Spacek won a much-deserved Oscar for her lead in this entertaining biography of country-music legend Loretta Lynn. British director Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) brings fine texture to the Kentucky backwoods section of the film, where the teenage Loretta meets her future husband (Tommy Lee Jones), who ultimately pushes her into show business. Lynn's adult life is well covered, ...
Manufacturer: Universal PicturesStarring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Bill Anderson Jr.Directed By: Michael Apted
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 ...
Manufacturer: Polygram VideoStarring: Bryan Adams, Leonard Cheshire, Tim Curry, Rick Danko, Thomas DolbyDirected By: Roger Waters
Writer-director Tod Williams's pleasantly flawed film, like his title character, drifts amiably along, full of untapped possibilities. Adrian Grenier has a slouchy charisma as Sebastian, a teenager in upstate New York who is tired of school and realizes that the world only expects him to "get a haircut, pay taxes, [and] die." When his compassionate stepfather Hank (a serenely collected Clark ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home VideoStarring: Rory Cochrane, Margaret Colin, Joan Copeland, Clark Gregg, Adrian Grenier
Martin Scorsese's 1978 capsule history of the Band is mixed with footage of the group's allegedly last performance (certainly their last performance as a quintet) in this particularly stylish concert film. Scorsese shoots the players and their sundry guests with the same flair and enthusiasm one can see in the later The Color of Money or Goodfellas. He also proves a good interviewer ...
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)Starring: Eric Clapton, Rick Danko, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Lawrence FerlinghettiDirected By: Martin Scorsese
Manufacturer: Pbs Home VideoStarring: Levon Helm, Robert Townsend, Teri Garr, Graham Greene, Maria Conchita Alonso
Here's a movie that only a Steven Seagal fan could love. It's not nearly as good as Under Siege (the movie destined to remain Seagal's high-water mark), but not any worse than Above the Law. This time ol' Steve is an agent of the Environmental Protection Agency who's busting heads in Kentucky. He's on good terms with the local yokels (including Marg Helgenberger and Harry Dean ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Steven Seagal, Kris Kristofferson, Marg Helgenberger, Stephen Lang, Brad HuntDirected By: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Manufacturer: Starmaker EntertainmentStarring: Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Kevin Bacon, Bob Balaban, Barbara BarrieDirected By: Jay Russell
Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it ...
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred WardDirected By: Philip Kaufman
