European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 sleeping with the enemy foxvideo2 awakenings Ria Columbia Home video -3 new Jack City Warner Home video4 misery Nelson Home entertainment5 Good fellas Warner Home video6 . Story live Home video 7 Edward scissor hands foxvideo8 King Ralph Mca Universal Home video9 kindergarten cop Mca Universal Home video 10 Hamlet Warner Home video the top 10 to shows in America for aug. 26-sept. 1, according to the . Nielsen co 1 Roseanne 2 designing women lbs 3 Murphy Brown lbs 4 cheers 5 who s the Boss 6 coach i 7 full House 8 Northern exposure lbs 9 60 minutes lbs 9 in the heat of the night Kevin Costner makes a journal entry at fort Sedgewick in dances with wolves. Orion picture Ben gloss by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International dances with wolves. 1990. Orion Home video. Rated pg-13. A grand Lush 3-hour, Oscar winning Western epic that tells a captivating adventure tale from a different historical viewpoint. Kevin Costner who directed and co produced stars As it. John j. Dunbar a decorated Union Soldier who requests duty at a Remote outpost so he can see the Frontier Quot before its what he finds is True isolation a the fort is deserted he is both commander and Soldier. He is contentedly alone but not for Long. Soon he is visited by his Sioux neighbors and gradually they reach a sort of Mutual respect. With the help of stands with fist maty Mcdonnell White settler adopted by the tribe As a child Dunbar learns their language As his life becomes More and More entangled with theirs. Eventually fellow soldiers come and Dunbar must make a decision. The indians generally Are treated with dignity. It is their Story. Graham Greene As kicking Bird a holy Man and Rodney Grant As wind in his hair the Warrior who reluctantly accepts Dunbar Are impressive and believable. In Costner a Dandy directorial debut the film is a visual Delight covered with acute detail from the fragile placidity of the great Plains to the thunderous Buffalo Stampede. The panoramic and awesome Black Hills scenery comes across even within the cramped confines of the Small screen. It has its flaws but it is a him Worth Savouring a one that will stay with you a Long time. Citizen Kane. 1941. Turner Home entertainment. Orson Welles indisputable movie masterpiece returns to Home video in newly restored mint condition to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Its an anniversary Well Worth cheering. Seeing it again cements the belief that this is More an experience than a Mere movie and a spellbinding one at that. Its an energetic impatient arrogant tale of corruptive Power and egocentric ambition that just might be the Best american film Ever made. It created an enormous controversy when it was released in 1941, brazenly based As it was on publishing giant William Randolph Hearst who sparked a withering but unsuccessful Campaign to discredit it. It was even booed at the Academy awards ceremony where it won one Oscar a for writing its a powerful groundbreaking film in More than one Way. In telling the Story of Charles Foster Kane a Rich enigmatic compulsive newspaper publisher custodian of the worlds sixth greatest Fortune obsessively ambitious a political King in the making until a sexual indiscretion dethroned him the 25-year-old Welles virtually created a new Art form in his first film. Welles employed new concepts throughout a High contrast lighting a stunning deep focus technique Radical camera angles overlapping dialogue and a to and fro Flashback storytelling procedure that begins at the end with Kane a famous last word half a Century later citizen Kane a senior citizen by movie standards is still fresh and innovative. Al bits no confirmation yet but word is circulating that Robin Hood the Prince of thieves still doing big business at the Box office is expected to be released on Home video in november. Should be an interesting fall what with fantasia also set for november and terminator 2 and City slickers expected in december. September is traditionally not a month to remember for new movies on video what with Back to school football and new to shows to contend with. In August came Home alone and dances with wolves. In october will be the silence of the lambs and the godfather part Iii among the Best bets this month Oliver stones the doors Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardieu Disney a 77ie rescuers Down under and the hard Way with Michael j. Fox and James Woods. Sunday september 8, 1991
