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Me'shell NdegeOcello Michelle Lynn Johnson (born August 29, 1968), better known as Me'shell Ndegéocello, is a German-born American singer, songwriter, rapper, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist. She has been hailed in the music press as a redeemer of soul music. Her music incorporates funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards. Early life Ndegeocello was born in Berlin to army lieutenant and saxophonist father Jacques Johnson and her mother, Helen. She was raised in Washington, D.C.. In early press releases from Maverick Records her birth year was mistakenly listed as 1969. The 1968 birth date has been confirmed through a previous manager/lifelong friend. Meshell Ndegeocello is pronounced MEE-shell n-deh-GAY-o-chel-o. Early pressings of Plantation Lullabies were stickered with the instructions. The correct spelling of her stage name at this time is Meshell Ndegeocello, without apostrophes or any unusual capitalizations.[1] Although named Michelle Lynn Johnson at birth, Ndegeocello has had numerous name changes. She adopted the surname Ndegeocello, which means "free like a bird", while still in her teens. Some outlets also state her birth name as "Mary Johnson".[2] [edit] Career rise Ndegeocello honed her skills on the D.C. go-go circuit in the late 1980s, and unsuccessfully tried out for Living Colour's bassist position, vacated in 1992 by Muzz Skillings. Going solo, she was the first artist signed 1993 to Maverick Records/Sire Records with her debut, Plantation Lullabies. This recording presented a distinctly androgynous persona. Ndegeocello is bisexual, and was a former long time lover of writer Rebecca Walker, but the relationship ended in 2003. She sang background vocals on the song "I'd Rather be Your Lover" by Madonna, on her album Bedtime Stories. Her biggest hit is a duet with John Cougar Mellencamp, a cover version of Van Morrison's "Wild Night", which reached #3 on the Billboard charts. Her only other Billboard Hot 100 hit besides "Wild Night" has been "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)", which peaked at #73 in 1994. She had a Dance #1 in 1996 called "Who Is He (and What Is He To You?)" as well as Dance Top 20 hits with "Earth", "Leviticus: Faggot", "Stay" and the aforementioned "...Boyfriend". Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Batman and Robin, and Down In the Delta. She has appeared on recordings by Basement Jaxx, Indigo Girls, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Rolling Stones' 1997 album Bridges to Babylon, playing bass on the song "Saint Of Me". She can also be seen in the documentary movie Standing in the Shadows of Motown, singing The Miracles' "You've Really Got A Hold On Me". In the late 1990s she toured with Lilith Fair. [edit] Discography Plantation Lullabies (Maverick) -- 1993 Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick) -- 1996 Bitter (Maverick) -- 1999 Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Maverick) -- 2002 Comfort Woman (Maverick) -- 2003 The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel (Shanachie) -- 2005 The Article 3 EP (EmArcy) -- 2006 The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Kuzcek Records) -- 2007

Release Date: 01/20/09 Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitator--at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Thus begins one of Douglas Sirk's most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked to one another amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations. For this release, Criterion also presents John M. Stahl's 1935 film version of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: # New, restored high-definition digital transfer # Audio commentary featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty # Magnificent Obsession (1935, 102 minutes): a new digital transfer of John M. Stahl's complete earlier version of the film # Douglas Sirk: From UFA to Hollywood (1991): a rare 80-minute documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt in which Sirk reflects upon his career # Video interviews with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, paying tribute to Sirk # Theatrical trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien

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Release Date: 12/09/08 Buy the DVD from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GCATWK?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001GCATWK "You will now listen to my voice...On the count of ten you will be in Europa..." So begins Max von Sydow's opening narration to Lars von Trier's hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker's weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway train ride to an oddly futuristic past. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: # New, restored high-definition digital transfer # Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen (in Danish) # The Making of "Europa" (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production # Trier's Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier, and footage from the set and Europa's Cannes premiere and press conference # Anecdotes from Europa (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, assistant director Tomas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant # 2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film-school teacher Mogens Rukov, editor/director Tomas Gislason, producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, art director Peter Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, actor Ole Ernst # A conversation with Lars von Trier from 2005, in which the director speaks about the Europa trilogy # Europa--The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason # New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton

Release Date: 01/20/09 Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It?s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava?s groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called "a Grapes of Wrath for our time." New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava New audio commentary featuring Nava In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of "El Norte," a new video program featuring interviews with Nava, producer and co-writer Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutierrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco Wall of Silence, a new short documentary by Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner, concerning the building of the wall along the U.S.- Mexico border The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, the 1972 award-winning student film by Nava Gallery of Chiapas location-scouting photographs Theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by novelist Hector Tobar and Roger Ebert's 1983 review of the film

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Release Date: 05/27/08 Buy the DVD from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00152VXUS?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00152VXUS The Thief of Bagdad, legendary producer Alexander Korda's Arabian Nights marvel, is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made, an eye-popping effects pioneer brimming with imagination and technical wizardry. When Prince Ahmad (John Justin) is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu (the incomparable Sabu, in his definitive role) to win back his royal position, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess (June Duprez). With its luscious Technicolor, vivid sets, and unprecedented visual wonders, The Thief of Bagdad has charmed viewers of all ages for decades. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: # Restored digital transfer # Two audio commentaries: one featuring renowned directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and one with film and music historian Bruce Eder # New interviews with special-effects experts Ray Harryhausen, Dennis Muren, and Craig Barron about the technical achievements of The Thief of Bagdad # The Lion Has Wings (1940), Alexander Korda's propaganda film for the English war effort, made during The Thief of Bagdad's production hiatus # Excerpts from codirector Michael Powell's audio dictations for his autobiography # Selections of music by composer Miklos Rozsa not used in the final film # Stills gallery featuring rare Dufaycolor images of the film's production # Theatrical trailer # PLUS: a booklet featuring new essays by critics Andrew Moor and Ian Christie

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Release Date: 12/02/08 Buy the DVD from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GCATWA?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001GCATWA Samuel Fuller's throat-grabbing expose on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German Shepard, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of animals: the human being. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: # New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the uncut version, approved by producer Jon Davison # New video interviews with producer Davison, co-writer Curtis Hanson, and Sam Fuller's widow, Christa Lang-Fuller # An interview with dog trainer Karl Lewis-Miller # Rare photos from the film?s production PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critics J. Hoberman and Armond White, plus a rare 1982 interview in which Fuller interviews the canine star of the film

Release Date: 03/07/06 Buy the DVD from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E1OI7G?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000E1OI7G Steven Soderbergh examines the effect of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle, interweaving the stories of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin's wife, a key informant, and cops on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border. Instantly recognized as a classic, Traffic appeared on more than 200 critics' ten-best lists, and earned five Academy Award nominations.

Release Date: 02/26/08 Buy the DVD from Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZM1MIW?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000ZM1MIW Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards®, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated - quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring an international cast. Yet the power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable - the life of emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and outside of the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Qing-dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy. * All-new, restored hi-def digital transfer, supervised & approved by V. Storaro * All-new, restored hi-def digital transfer of the extended TV version * Audio commentary by Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Jeremy Thomas * Audio commentary by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and screenwriter Mark Peploe * The Italian Traveler, a film by Fernand Mozskowicz * Making "The Last Emperor", a new doc featuring Storaro, editor Cristiana, & more * Postcards from China, video images taken by Bertolucci during postproduction * The Late Show: Face to Face, a 30 min BBC interview w/ Bertolucci from 1989 * New video interviews w/ composers David Byrne and Sakamoto * Theatrical trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by David Thomson * More!

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Release Date: 05/22/07 Blu-ray Release Date: 11/18/08 Buy the DVD at Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NOK0GM?ie=UTF8&tag=egamimediacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NOK0GM Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lim--and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, just continues to grow in stature as the years pass. Standard Def Special Features: * New, restored high-definition digital transfer * Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich * Audio commentary by film scholar Dana Polan * Shadowing "The Third Man" a 90 minute, 2005 feature doc * Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke * Radio: the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series * Illustrated production history, w/ rare behine-the-scenes photos, press book * Actor Joseph Cotton's alternate opening voice-over narration for the US version * Archival footage and photos of postwar Vienna * A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film * PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Phillip Kerr * More! BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Restored high-definition digital transfer # Uncompressed mono soundtrack # Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich # Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderberghand screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by by film scholar Dana Polan # Shadowing "The Third Man"(2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film # Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke # "Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist # Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew # The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles, and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man # Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer # Actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version # Archival footage of postwar Vienna # A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Luc Sante