Directors' Showcase: Take Three - All for the First Time on DVD on January 8.BURBANK, Calif. -- On January 8, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy) WHV Warner Home Video WHV Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus WHV Working Holiday Visa WHV Westdeutscher Hockey-Verband (West German hockey association) ) will introduce a third group of films honoring directorial greats with first-time DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. releases of Personal Best, Tell Me a Riddle, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Payday and The Ritz. Featured directors include Robert Towne, Lee Grant, Robert Ellis Miller, Daryl Duke and Richard Lester. The films have all-new transfers and select titles include bonus features such as commentaries and additional scenes. Each title will sell individually for $19.97 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . Personal Best (1982) Based on the original novel from Robert Daly, Personal Best is the directorial debut of Chinatown Oscar[R] winner Robert Towne. Film stars world-class athletes including Olympians Donnelly, Jodi Anderson and Kenny Moore. Tell Me a Riddle (1980) Tell Me a Riddle is a tender story of rediscovering love - and the extraordinary teaming of three Academy Award[R]-winners: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova and Lee Grant in a memorable debut as director. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize tr.v. in·sti·tu·tion·al·ized, in·sti·tu·tion·al·iz·ing, in·sti·tu·tion·al·iz·es 1. a. To make into, treat as, or give the character of an institution to. b. deaf and mentally impaired friend Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann). Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly (Biff McGuire), is unable to earn a living due to a serious injury. Payday (1972) Rip Torn stars as Maury Dann, a mid-level country singer on a tour through the south. The road is Maury's playground, and he liberally indulges in drugs, alcohol, and sexual relations with the willing women he finds along the way. The Ritz Rates are low, decor is rococo art deco and the clientele is...convivial con·viv·i·al adj. 1. Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable. See Synonyms at social. 2. Merry; festive: a convivial atmosphere at the reunion. . As a Cleveland sanitation company owner reasons, this New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of all-male bathhouse is ideal for hiding from his murderous brother-in-law. But what this new arrival and his fellow patrons gets is an exercise in manic mayhem from director Richard Lester, bringing Terrence McNally's hit Broadway farce to spicy screen life. |
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