dvd by frank murphy
Stop the preSSeS
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
“No single family has dominated any major region of the country as the Chandlers have dominated Southern California. They
did not so much foster the growth of Los Angeles as invent it.” – David Halberstam. PBS is releasing a brilliant documentary of
the Chandlers dynasty of four generations and their dominance behind The L.A. Times as an influential media powerhouse. The
documentary explores the history of the family and presents a clear look at how factors such as jealousy, greed and control
unraveled their rule. Truly a dysfunctional family, The Chandlers and Their Times is a fascinating exploration of history and a rivet-
ing look back upon an empire. Available 10/06/09.
Simply the BeSt
Tina Live
Tina Turner celebrated 50 years as
old
an entertainer supreme in 2008. She
FaShioned
spent that year and 2009 entertain-
ChillS and
ing the masses with her “Tina Turner
thrillS
Anniversary Concert Tour.” Those
TCM Greatest
who didn’t get the opportunity to
Classic Films
see her live can now enjoy one of
Collection: Horror
her concerts in HD and 5.1 surround
Today’s current crop of hor-
sound. The performance clocking in
ror films has a tendency to go
at over two hours long was filmed at Gelredome, Arnhem in
for the jugular in more ways
Holland in March of 2009. An amazing woman, Tina Turner will
than one. Before Freddy or
turn 70-years old on November 26 of this year and with a vital-
Jason or Saw, Hollywood stu-
ity and talent that has burned brightly for many years. This is a
dios presented a suspenseful
rare opportunity to revel in her high-octane performance for
and psychological aspect of fear, loathing and torment. In this
a crowd of 70,000 people. Available 10/20/09.
latest installment from TCM, they present four films that have left
their mark in the history of horror and suspense filmmaking in
a span of time from 1931 to 1963. Let’s begin with Vincent Price
and the 1953 film House of Wax. The combination of his sinister
performance that blends madness and hot wax into murder is
positively wicked. I’m melting is right. Next up is an MGM spin
on the classic metamorphism of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As MGM
touChdown!
went for the psychological presentation of the transformation,
Gods of Football: The Making of the
Spencer Tracy plays the tortured soul with a stunning assist by
2009 Calendars
Lana Turner and Ingrid Bergman in this 1941 film adaptation.
Here is one sensual and stunningly hand-
What’s that?…It’s just all the things that go bump in the night at
some collection of more than 40 Australian
Hill House as four people spend the night investigating the para-
football players all posing au natural and
normal in The Haunting from 1963. Directed by Robert Wise (The
photographed by Pedro Virgil. Yes, I know
Sound of Music) the film creates a chillingly overload of fear with
it’s only three months away from 2010, yet
not a drop of bloodshed and will definitely play tricks on your
wouldn’t this be one keepsake to look back
mind. The final treat or shall I say gruesomely realistic creation is
on with passion as one vivid memory of 2009?
the once-banned and still-sometimes-too-frightening-to-watch
The DVD is over two hours long and while you
Freaks. Tod Browning, the director of Dracula, casts a light on
are drooling over the hot men, you can also
circus sideshow performers and the beautiful ones who torment
feel pride in raising much needed funding for
them. The ending is not for the squeamish… for that matter, the
the McGrath Foundation which places McGrath Breast Care
whole film is disturbing and emotionally tense. Watch at your
nurses throughout rural Australia to raise breast cancer
own risk. Available now.
awareness. Put this on your Christmas list right now for
yourself or someone who will take an avid interest in Gods
of Football. Available now.
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