European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Video reviews by Peter Nichols the new York times Steven Spielberg s harrowing film about the holocaust Schindler s list can be daunting for youngsters but parents looking for films to inform their children about the period might consider a collection of 20 holocaust tapes from Ergo Media a distributor of videos on jewish subjects in Teaneck . Several of the Ergo tapes Are geared to Young peo ple. In the sorrow the nazi legacy for example a filmmaker named Gregor Nowinski gathers six swedish High school students and takes them on a trip to Auschwitz. He sensed a forgetfulness in Sweden and thought he d show these Young people what comes out of irrational hate said Jane Zylberman of Ergo. In the Berlin suburb wan see the teen agers visit a Villa where in 1942 nazi officials decided to carry out the final solution during an infamous 85-min Ute meeting itself the subject of a new Ergo tape the wan see conference. There and elsewhere on the students journey to Auschwitz in Poland guides and museum curators explain gravely and calmly How the killing was carried out. At the prison Camp the intensity grows As a guide tells How 8,000 people a Day went to their deaths. The students Are shown bins stuffed with shoes and human hair. Finally a survivor tells How or. Josef Mengele experimented on her and her baby. By this time several students Are in tears but they Are comforted and begin to share their reactions. Back in Sweden they Are visited by Niklas Frank the son of Hans Frank the nazi governor general of Poland. The son 53, talks to the group about his youth and what motivated his father greed he says. On a Wall at Auschwitz the students had read a statement by Hans Frank jews Are a race that must be totally in Sweden Niklas self consciously describes himself As the son of a a student replies you re a other Ergo titles include ther Eisenstadt Gateway to Auschwitz about a Camp where 15,000 children died and preserving the past to insure the future which includes the reflections of Young people of All racial backgrounds. Information 800 695-3746. " when Milestone film and video a Small new York distributor of silent titles announces fun films for the whole family it does t mean Dennis the menace. That is not to say the company turns entirely away from pop crazes. Among five new tapes in mile Stone s family series is the lost world Willis o Brien s Fine 1925 adaptation both live and animated of Arthur Conan Doyle s Story about Dino Saurs in the wilderness and on the town. The other four tapes Are a Well reproduced last of the Mohi cans. 1920starring Wallace Beery Winsor Mccay a highly entertaining study of the comic strip cartoonist and Early animator Felix eight shorts featuring the cartoon cat and the Cam Era s revenge a study of the puppet animation of Ladislaw Staecwicz. Information 212 865-7449. New releases hot shots part Deus 1993. Fox. Pg-13. Saddam Hussein favors Chintz and when he s reduced to a puddle of Mercury a la terminator 2, no one can put him Back together at that level of erudition Jim Abrahams film Bounds along on a Stream of satirical gags Courtesy of movies like the wizard of of the crying game Basic instinct and rambo. From the Sylvester Stallone Mold Springs Topper Harley Charlie Sheena muscled winningly dense commando refashioned from the Ace Pilot of hot shots that s part 1. True Romance 1993. Warner. R. With a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino Tony Scott s Road film about two Young outlaws is a blood Bath but not one without dark humor. Romantic and True Aren t words to describe the Macho bad boy. 20th Century Fox. Valeria Golino Charlie Sheen in hot shots part Deus. Warence Warley Christian Slater and the Hooker Alabama Whitman Patricia Arquett especially their dealings with Alabama s former Pimp Gary Oldman and Clarence s father Dennis Hopper. Wide Sargasso sea 1993. New line. R. John Duigan s film adapted from the Jean. Rhys novel turns an exotic Romance into a lean tale for the present. In what is now called a prequel Rhys set her Book in the years before Jane Eyre to Tell the Story of mrs. Rochester the Creole heiress who nearly destroys the heroine of the Bronte novel. In a wild and steamy Jamaica Antoinette Cosway Karina Lombard is reared by her formidable nurse Christophene Claudia Robi Sonand couples with the sensual but weak or. Rochester Nathaniel Par Kercho gradually realizes he has More woman with More of a dark past than he can handle. Hocus pocus 1993. Disney pm. Bette Midler goes into overdrive As a Witch trans ported from 17th-Century Salem to bedevil modern trick or Treater. Where some cackling and hobbling might have sufficed Midler comes on feisty and great Ladylike White the rest of the film scrambles to keep up with its overdressed under directed cast of zombies parents and teen agers. From years past with the Ritz Brothers in the title roles Fox has released the seventh version of the three Muske Teers to reach video stores. In this interpretation d Artagnan is Don Ameche who died last month at the age of 85. Here Are other Ameche films on tape. Down Argentine Way Betty Grable Falls for a handsome horse Trainer Ameche and Carmen Miranda makes a spectacular debut. 1940. Fox. Moon Over Miami. The waitress Grable was looking for a millionaire Robert Cumming but in Walter Lang s musical she settles for a whole lot less Ameche. 1941. Fox. Heaven can wait. A suave Rake Ameche tries to talk himself into hell. Gene Tierney Charles co bum and Marjorie main also Star in Ernst Lubitsch s film. 1943. Fox. Wing and a prayer. Ameche is on an aircraft car Rier in Henry Hathaway s Saga of War in the Pacific. 1944. Fox. Guest wife. Needing a spouse to save his Job a Newspaperman Ameche recruits the wife Clau Dette Colbert of a banker Dick Foran to play the part. 1945. Republic. Things change. In David Mamet s film a shoe Shine Man Ameche agrees to take a murder rap for Money but before he goes away a mobster Joe Mantegna treats him to a last spree. 1988. Columbia Tri Star. Cocoon. Ameche won an Oscar for Best support ing actor As one of a group of elderly people who find an alien presence at the Bottom of a swimming Pool. 1985. Fox. The top videos of 1993 rentals 1 sister a Touchstone. 2 Patriot games paramount"3 under siege Warner. 4 a league of their own Columbia tristan 5 a few Good men Columbia tristan 6 scent of a woman Mca Universal 7 unforgiven Warner 8 sneakers Mca Universal. 9 passenger 57 Warner " 10 the bodyguard Warner 11 House Sitter Mca Universal 12 my Cousin Vunny Fox 13 the. Last of the Mohi cans Fox 14 Basic instinct director s Cut live 15 falling Down Warner 16 lethal weapon 3 Warner 17 the distinguished gentleman Hollywood 18 single White female Columbia Trisler 19 far and away Mca Universal 20 consenting adults Hollywood sales 1 Beauty and the beast Disney 2 pinocchio Disney 3 101 dalmatians Disney 4 Playboy celebrity Centrefold Jessica Hahn Playboy .5 sister act Touchstone 6 Playboy playmate of the year 1393 Anna Nicole Smith Playboy 7 Cindy Crawford shape your body workout goo times. 8 Home alone 2 Fox 9 Disney s sing along songs Friend like me Disney 10 Beethoven Mca Universal 11 homeward bound the incredible journey Disney 12 Batman returns Warner 13 dances with wolves Orion 14 Casablanca 50th anniversary Mem a 15 Little Nemo adventures in Slumberland hem dale16 teenage mutant ninja turtles Iii Columbia tristan 17 Star trek i the undiscovered country Paramount 18 19 Playboy wet 4 wild v Playboy 20 Barney s magical music adventure Lyons compiled by billboard. The top 10 stateside to shows for dec. 27-Jan. 2, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking an n for first time showing an x for one time Only presentation or a u for unavailable is in parentheses 1 1 Home improvement 2 2 60 minutes lbs 3 x movie Jane s House lbs 4 9 murder she wrote lbs 5 x College football Orange bowl 6 3 Roseann 7 6 Grace under fire 8 4 Seinfeld 9 8 monday night football Miami at san Diego 10 5 coach Page 18 sunday 9, 1994
