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Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition)

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date October 09, 2007
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.

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Poltergeist [Blu-ray]

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date October 14, 2008
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.20:1
VC-1 BD-25 / Advanced Profile 3
Running time: 1:54:28
Disc size: 19,94 GB
Movie size: 22,11 GB
Average video bit rate: 16.67 Mbps

Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1138 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1138kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio German 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
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CD-Charts Position 3
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Poltergeist

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date April 08, 1997
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Verdi - La Traviata

starring: Renee Fleming, Rolando Villazon, Renato Bruson, James Conlon, Ania Alkimova
directed by: Marta Domingo

Release Date October 30, 2007
I will admit to having some doubts about this performance before viewing it. First, several years ago, I gave a glowing review to the DVD and CD of the performance under Solti, finding Angela Gheorghiu to be the definitive Violetta. Second, I have been less than satisfied with some of Renee Fleming's recent performances on CD, finding them to be mannered and self-indulgent. Well, all my misgivings were rendered unwarranted. This performance is a knockout.

Admittedly, Renee Fleming has become "larger than life," to the point that it is not always possible for her to disappear inside her roles; you always know that you are watching the great Renee. BUt that fact did not diminish her performance, at least after getting past the first act (which ... Read More:

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Dvorak - Rusalka / Robert Carsen, James Conlon - Fleming, Urbanova, Diadkova, Larin, Opéra de Paris

starring: Franz Hawalata, Renée Fleming, Sergei Larin, James Conlon, Eva Urbanova

Release Date February 17, 2004
Thanks to movies and TV there are thousands of people who know the soprano's aris from the first act. I wonder how many people who have bought a CD of the complete opera were able to keep at the entire score. Certainly it pays off with repeated listenings but Dvorak's own assessment of this gifts for the stage were probably correct: he was not a natural born opera composer.

I had a CD of the opera but truth to tell I was rarely inspired to take it down and listen to it. With the death of Larin I thought perhaps I have unfairly ignored the work, afteall even the Met has seen fit to mount it--probably because of Fleming. The Carsen production doesn't do the work any favors, but is not offputting to me, and I find it more acceptable than his Paris Opera ... Read More:

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Igor Stravinsky - Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)/ Dessay, McLaughlin, Urmana, Grivnov, Schagidullin, Naouri, Mikhailov, Conlon

starring: Natalie Dessay, Hugo Simcic, Marie McLaughlin, Violeta Urmana, Vsevolod Grivnov
directed by: Christian Chaudet

Release Date November 08, 2005
Get this DVD and also the Julie Taymore "Oedipus Rex" and you have two opposite poles of the mind and music of Stravinsky as well as the power of filmed stage opera and opera just for film. The brutal, gritty live production on stage of "Oedipus" is how that should be done. The dreamy, FX, studio production of "Le Rossignol" is just how that should be done. The music in both cases is perfection. They are perfect foils.

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

The music of "Le Rossignol" is excruciatingly beautiful. The stylistic clash resulting from Stravinsky having put the opera down to go through the epiphany of "Firebird" to "Petruchka" and finally opening...no, blowing the door off and ushering in 20th century music with "Le Sacre du Printemps" is no hindrance, ... Read More:

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Estranged Passengers:in Search of Vik

starring: James Conlon

Release Date August 07, 2007
Get this DVD and also the Julie Taymore "Oedipus Rex" and you have two opposite poles of the mind and music of Stravinsky as well as the power of filmed stage opera and opera just for film. The brutal, gritty live production on stage of "Oedipus" is how that should be done. The dreamy, FX, studio production of "Le Rossignol" is just how that should be done. The music in both cases is perfection. They are perfect foils.

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

The music of "Le Rossignol" is excruciatingly beautiful. The stylistic clash resulting from Stravinsky having put the opera down to go through the epiphany of "Firebird" to "Petruchka" and finally opening...no, blowing the door off and ushering in 20th century music with "Le Sacre du Printemps" is no hindrance, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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Poltergeist [Region 2]

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Poltergeist [Region 2]

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Poltergeist [Region 2]

starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
directed by: Tobe Hooper

Release Date
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.