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 Docurama Awards Collection, The DVD Set $199.95 12 Academy Award-Winning or Nominated titles in one complete DVD Box Set! SET INCLUDES: Academy Award Winners: Best Documentary Feature--Best Boy, From Mao to Mozart, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, Murder on a Sunday Morning, Scared Straight! Academy Award Nominees: Best Documentary Feature--Children Underground, Genghis Blues, Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg, Speaking in Strings, Paul Taylor: Dancemaker, Regret to Inform, Sound and Fury, The Weather Underground. (13 discs in total, since "Best Boy + Best Man" has 2 discs in a swing amaray)  Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards $24.99 The "Broadway's Lost Treasures" series is such a wonderful idea and the Tony Award telecast has offered a treasure chest of legendary performances over the decades. Why then do the producers tap into the unrelated Broadway t.v. special that was pretty much lip-synched and way too forced in delivery? More than half of this DVD is very, very good though. The scenes from "Ragtime' and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" are worth the price of the video. At the other end of the spectrum Angela Lansbury is just embarrassing. And I LOVE Angela Lansbury!Of the four DVD's in this series; it's the second one that I think is best ("Coco", "Grand Hotel", and "Nine" are stunning clips). As someone else pointed out ANY record of live theatre preserved is a step in the right direction and I applaude this series for those "live" moments. Please lose the lip-synch and release volumes four, five, six, seven, eight.... |
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