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in the past. The color is just about per- add MTV-style abstract animations to SONY SL-HF2100 BETA VCR fect, the sound is full and smooth, and music videos, and put a live video shot How could any Betaphile resist this mas- the jack panel includes every connector of your head on Arnold Schwarzeneg- terpiece of design? With its illuminated you could ever want. ger’s body. MicroSearch even gives you a control panel and LCD touch-screen re- blue background sheet and a hilarious mote, the SL-HF2100 is probably the | SHARP VL-L50 SLIMCAM demo tape full of ideas to get you start- coolest-looking VCR ever. Anyone who VHS CAMCORDER ed. wonders why so many people swear al- Inspired by the rising popularity of mini legiance to a “dead” format should be camcorders, Sharp slimmed a full-size Dimes immediately enlightened upon witness- VHS chassis into a 2-1/2-inch thick ing the outstanding picture and sound package, creating a camcorder ideal for PANASONIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR this machine produces from garden-vari- family fun. At only 3.8 pounds, it goes This remote, included with several new ety videotape. anywhere you do. When you return, just Panasonic VCRs or available separately, pop the tape in your VCR and enjoy. is our favorite way to program. Skip the a ae RCA VR690HF VHS VCR WITH VCR PLUS VCR programming doesn’t get any sim- pler+ this deck's the first to include VCR Plus circuitry, which lets a user timeshift by punching in simple numeri- cal codes from TV listings. An onscreen instruction manual makes it even easier to use. For respectable performance in a user-friendly package, it’s tough to beat. ei al SONY CCD-V801 Hi8 CAMCORDER With Sony’s new RC time code, the V801 offers professional editing at con- sumer prices. RC time code tags each CHECK CLEAR ‘ HITACHI VM-E25A 8mm CAMCORDER This year’s most radical subcompact instructions, and forget about saving the frame of video with the hour, minute, combines a folding chassis with sophisti- TV listings for codes. Just spin the | cated electronics, including a 64x digital wheels to the date, time and channel second and frame number, which can be zoom, special modes that squeeze and you want. We hope other manufacturers read by Sony’s RM-E700 editing control- expand images, and fuzzy logic control of pick up the idea. ler for near-perfect cuts. Third-party focus, iris, backlight compensation and manufacturers like Future Video will shutter speed. soon offer RC-compatible gear, too. An advanced exposure system and great i picture and sound quality make the V801 a winner even without time code. MICROSEARCH CHROMAKEY This $400 device inserts computer graphics behind subjects just like much costlier professional units do. With the ChromaKey, a genlock and a Commo- dore Amiga, you can place yourself any- where from Marrakesh to Minneapolis, JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 51

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BY KENNETH KORMAN ‘91’s Best Tapes and Discs very year sees its share of notewor- path of Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas FANTASIA (WALT DISNEY) thy films making their mark on Fogg in this BBC documentary, using It was Christmas in November for ani- only surface transportation in an ex- mation fans of all ages when Disney’s home video for the very first time, treme case of life imitating art. Will our finest work finally became available on and 1991 is no exception. But this travel guide make it home in the allot- cassette. Had the company rushed this year may well be remembered as the one ted time despite such modern inconve- one out with little attention to quality, it in which tape and laserdisc distributors niences as a less-than-placid Persian would still have reigned as the video raised their work to a whole new level Gulf? Palin creates the first true-to-life event of the year. But Disney restored its of sophistication. Economic realities and travel video, complete with unexpected 51-year-old treasure frame by beautiful an ever-more-knowledgeable public delays and stomach disorders. Even so, frame. Discounted to well below $20 in conspired to create a unique environ- he keeps the nearly six-hour program most cities, Fantasia now truly belongs ment for the production of video soft- light, entertaining and insightful. to the public that once scorned it. Be- ware. Companies large and small put fore it’s pulled from rele—saupsposeedly tremendous effort into acquiring the CHILDREN OF PARADISE fore—vFaentarsia will likely sell more very best original film materials for mas- (HOME VISION CINEMA) than 10 million copies in America alone. tering onto video, and digital transfers, The most beloved film in the history of If only Walt had lived to see it. for use on both tape and disc, became French cinema was newly translated and the norm for the first time in 1991. subtitled for this long-awaited video re- THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (ORION) Three all-time classics we feared lease. But Children of Paradise (1945) is Taut and seamless with nary a single might never find their way to home the- far from the high-brow fare most viewers wasted moment, The Silence of the Lambs ate—Frantsasia, The Last Picture Show associate with Europ—eitsromance and and Children of Parad—biensefieted sub- epic grandeur rival that of Gone With the is entertainment so well-made it almost | stantially from these trends in their first- Wind, the film with which it is most of- inadvertently enters the realm of art. ever video releases. They earned ViVA ten compared. And don’t miss Crite- The single greatest act of director Jon- Gold! awards not only for their time- tion’s laserdisc edition, which features a athan Demme’s career was casting An- honored content, but for meticulous and lengthy interview with 85-year-old di- thony Hopkins as the brilliant and imaginative presentations on video. rector Marcel Carne, presented in both deranged Hannibal Lecter —his spell- These titles set the tone for the year, but French and English. binding performance makes that forth- there were many others to get excited coming Oscar seem downright anti- about. What follows is the best of the climactic. We would have preferred a | best: the 1992 ViVA Gold! and ViVA awards for video software, presented in alphabetical order. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (PUBLIC MEDIA) Ex-Monty Python member Michael Pa- lin and a film crew of five follow the 54 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

mildly letterboxed edition—there is gut-wrenching vision of the war. The 4 some annoying artificial panning here — widescreen disc’s audio tracks — but not but first-time viewers will be far too ri- those of the new pan-and-scan edi- THE LAST PICTURE SHO W veted to notice. tio—wnere remixed by the film’s Oscar- (VOYAGER/CRITERION) Be winning sound man, Walter Murch, and We've been waiting for this 1971 movie encoded in Dolby Surround using THX to find its way to home video since the TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (SVS) equipment. The sound is breathtaking — first Betamax VCR was introduced, but Generations and cultures clash in this everyone with a disc player and sur- we could scarcely have predicted what unclassifiable gem from director Charles round system simply must have this disc. the Voyager Company would do with it Burnett. Star and co-producer Danny once the perennial copyright problems Glover was singularly devoted to this Pa Gia were cleared up. Director Peter Bog- project, one of very few recent films to danovich added seven crucial and previ- depict an honest-to-goodness black mid- THE BAND WAGON ously unseen minutes for this edition, dle-class family without even a hint of (CAV EDITION—MGM/UA) resulting in an even better film than his urban terror. But the film’s humor and The gorgeous Technicolor restoration of original masterpiece. The deluxe Crite- poignancy transcend all racial and class the ultimate “backstage” musical dis- rion treatment— including analog-chan- boundaries, and Glover responds with plays a number of great talents—direc- nel commentary and multimedia supple- the performance of his career. Home tor Vincente Minnelli, songwriters How- ment —has seldom been used to better video was made for movies like thi—sit ard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, screen- effect. Most important, this beautiful should gradually find the audience it de- writers Betty Comden and Adolph black-and-white portrait of a dying serves, if only through word-of-mouth at Texas town still contains the best en- local mom-and-pop rental stores. aeereneer werrere SUE TirTh et Si ap SR RIAL OM, semble acting we've ever seen. 1991 ViVA Gold! if « al Ty mae ‘a ih f db Sings Winners—Laserdiscs Green, and hoofers Fred Astaire and THE WAR OF THE ROSES APOCALYPSE NOW (FOXVIDEO/ (WIDESCREEN EDITION— Cyd Chariss—eas they’ve seldom been IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT) PARAMOUNT/PIONEER) The most misunderstood movie of the seen since the genre’s heyday. Witty and Every major film director we inter- past 20 years has been completely revi- viewed in 1991 expressed deep apprecia- talized by this stunning new laserdisc. inspired, The Band Wagon gave Fred As- tion for the laserdisc format, but The Without Apocalypse Now, there would War of the Roses director Danny DeVito be no Platoon, no Full Metal Jacke—tev- taire his most endearing role: a washed- took matters into his own hands with his ery Vietnam film of the ’80s owes a huge Special Collector’s Edition boxed set. debt to director Francis Ford Coppola’s up film actor ripe for a comeback on the DeVito assembled this extraordinary package himself, complete with a 15- a Broadway stage. This five-sided CAV set minute collage of unused footage, his own hilarious analog-track commentary, aSY includes a deleted musical number, Cyd a newly shot intro for the supplemental section and more. But the best testa- plinies Charisse’s ‘“‘Two-Faced Woman,” plus ment to the power of this disc-only pro- ject is the movie itself, which seems far the original trailer and 68 chapter stops better here than it did in its original the- atrical run. for the unbelievable price of $39.98. Cea THE DREAM IS ALIVE (LUMIVISION) The giant-screen IMAX film format has thrilled museum-goers for many years, and the first video translation of its rich and finely detailed picture provides simi- lar excitement at home. Shot largely by astronauts while aboard the space shut- tle, The Dream Is Alive presents one awe-inspiring image of our planet after another. Because some scenes are vir- tually free of unwanted picture arti- facts—a rarity indeed—and because we simply never get tired of it, this has be- come one of our standard test discs for evaluating monitors and disc players. We can offer no higher recommendation than this. JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 55

1991 ViVA Winners— THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY laserdisc’s pantheon of all-time greats. Videocassettes AND BULLWINKLE (BUENA VISTA) And the Voyager Company should be Kids love Jay Ward’s raucous cartoon se- commended for not being afraid to give BLACK RAIN (FOX LORBER) ries, but spouses and other full-grown so-called “entertainment” films like this Not to be confused with the Ridley types are the ones to keep an eye on one its seal of approval. Movies are Scott/Michael Douglas movie of the when nearing the RGB display at your made to be enjoyed, and Goldfinger de- same name, Shohei Imamura’s Black local video store: In their first week of livers like few films we’ve seen. Rain is a terrifying fictional look at the release, the series’ six initial volumes took up no less than six spots on the iia ot top-10 video sales chart. Rocky & Bull- EDWARD SCISSORHANDS winkle’s sly humor didn’t hurt sales to (FOXVIDEO/IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT) aftermath of Hiroshima. The untold sto- adults, but neither did each volume’s re- Those wondrous suburban pastels sur- ty here is the lingering social stigma for markable $12.99 list price. vive intact on the beautifully produced those who may or may not develop radi- laserdisc edition of Tim Burton’s most ation sickness years after the blast. GOODFELLAS (WARNER) appealing film to date. With their atten- Beautifully photographed and haunting This incredibly fast-paced and funny beyond all expectation, Black Rain is look at American Mafia culture shows tion to set design and detailed surround food for thought as we slide into a new director Martin Scorsese at the absolute tracks, all Burton’s movies (Batman, Pee- round of WWII anniversaries. Wee's Big Adventure, et al.) work well on Was oes sy laser, but Edward Scissorhands has a ee wann, soulful quality that raises it above peak of his craft. The camera work, the the competition. CINEMA PARADISO (HBO) This heartfelt valentine to the power of use of popular songs and the editing (by wena the movies is quite likely the most JACQUELINE DU PRE AND THE charming feature released on video this Scorsese’s longtime collaborator Thelma ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO (TELDEC/ year. Warm, funny and unabashedly ELEKTRA INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS) nostalgic, the 1989 Oscar-winner for Schoonmaker) are all above reproach. One of the greatest musicians who ever Best Foreign-Language Film probably lived lost her musical voice to multiple reached more people than any Italian And the mind-boggling three-minute sclerosis before she reached 30, but not movie since Fellini’; Amarcord, another before director Christopher Nupen cap- vivid tale of small-town life. Even so, Steadicam shot through the inner tured her brilliance in this wonderful Cinema Paradiso remained inaccessible film. Side one documents her life, her to many before it was finally released on reaches of the Copacabana is alone work and her special relationship to the home video. great Elgar Cello Concerto, while side worth the price of a rental. two presents her complete performance Cae of this moving piece. Even those who LONESOME DOVE (CABIN FEVER) 1991 ViVA Winners— prefer Madonna to Mozart will find Based on a novel by Larry McMurtry Laserdiscs much to love on this landmark disc. (author of The Last Picture Show), this network miniseries captures the grand GOLDFINGER (VOYAGER/CRITERION) Rimi spirit of the classic western while some- The best of all James Bond films richly THE GODFATHER COLLECTOR’S how retaining a personal tone. Robert EDITION (PARAMOUNT/PIONEER) Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica deserves the respect suggested by its ad- Coppola’s brilliant Godfather trilogy Huston stand out among the all-star mission to “The Criterion Collection,” needs no introduction here, but this re- cast, sinking their teeth into juicy roles. markable compilation of all three films Don't let its reputation as a tear-jerker and a fascinating documentary called scare you away—Lonesome Dove is blockbuster filmmaking and first-rate continued on page 103 entertainment. 56 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

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BY FRANK BEACHAM FATOARLEMOAFTTWSO S-VHS and Hi8 are straddling the line between consumers and professionals. _ SPECIALTY A television station, KTTC-TV in Minnesota, shoots all its news segments on S-VHS tape. A reporter with no previous camcorder experience shoots a prime-time Sony's Hi8 EVO-9650 PBS documentary, Hello Moscow, on Hi8. A cable TV company, TCI Cable in Buf- VCR is designed spe- falo, rolls in local spots from automated S-VHS playback decks. The Museum of cifically for use in Television and Radio, the world’s leading archive of broadcast programs, manages its computer animation. When driven by a de- collection on computer-controlled Hi8 decks. vice such as the Video S-VHS and Hi8, introduced several years ago as high-end versions of the original Toaster, the $6,000 unit records individual consumer formats, have come a long way. And continue to evolve, but not entirely frames of an animation in ways that were expected. Today, both formats have established themselves not as they are rendered only with videophiles, but with professionals as well, a development that’s had nota- every few seconds. The ble effects on the continuing progress of these two technologies. result is smooth anima- e It’s widened the gray area between the consumer and professional sides of the tion. video market, giving legitimacy and diversity to “prosumer” components. e It’s led to a burst of innovation in pro-oriented S-VHS and Hi8 components, a remarkable flip-flopping of the way technology usually works. e And it’s set the stage for some of the advanced features developed for pro ma- pe chines to find their way into models aimed largely at con- sumers. The appeal of S-VHS and Hi8 among professional and semipro videographers has helped to offset the reluctance of large numbers of consumers to invest in the for- mats. Users of high-end gear make up only a small fraction of America’s video custom- ers. For example, S-VHS accounts for only 2 percent of all VHS sales, while Hi8 accounts for from 10 to 20 per- cent of 8mm cam- corder sales. While | 58 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

DE RECORDER BR PRO S-VHS and Hi8 were designed, in part, to increase the popular appetite for sophisticated JVC's top-of-the-line equipment, their success in the pro market is somewhat ironic. BR-S822U professional S-VHS VCR includes By shifting the luminance signal to a higher frequency range than that of VHS and 8mm, both upgrades succeeded in boosting horizontal resolution from about 250 advanced features such lines for the standard versions to 400 or more lines. The signal-to-noise ratios for | as a digital Y/C separa- both formats were also improved. Consumers reacted cautiously, not always con- vinced the extra resolution justified the higher prices. Professionals saw the extra tor, playback and quality as a bargain compared to the usual prices of pro gear. recording on S-VHS-C and VHS-C cassettes “There is unquestionably a blurring in the marketplace,” says Sony spokesman without an adapter, and Alec Shapiro. Indeed, as a reaction to the confusing crossover of consumer and pro- optional plug-in cards for timebase correction fessional products, Sony reorganized its professional sales and time code. force in 1991. “We have corporate users who want D-2, while television stations are going the other way and saying they want some Hi8 units. The old divi- sions don’t make sense anymore.” Now the company’s sales force for professional products can sell any de- vice in the Sony line, from the most expensive broadcast TV camera to the lowliest 8mm camcorder. The old pro-versus-consumer sales divisions are gone. PROSUMER TRICKLE-UP THEORY CONSUMER More significantly, the crossover has also helped to shift Perhaps the first pro- Although Canon's Hi8 sumer camcorder, research on the formats in pro-oriented directions. Call it the UCS1 fits in a coat Sony's Betacam-styled Trickle-Up Theory: S-VHS and Hi8 technology developed for use pocket, it shoots high- Hi8 CCD-V5000 in- in the home is being adopted by and improved for professionals. What resolution pictures, and makes this remarkable is that it reverses the normal trickle-down course of techno- Offers a variety of auto- cludes a timebase logical evolution. Sophisticated products are typically developed for professionals, matic exposure modes. corrector, stereo PCM | then gradually shrunk, streamlined, simplified, altered, packaged and priced in ways audio and several digi- suitable for consumers. } | tal video effects. S-VHS and Hi8 are turning the process on its head, even to the point of challenging the granddaddy of all pro cassette formats, 3/4-inch U-Matic. But while consumers tend to think the formats signify fixed levels of performance, manufacturers warn users not to confuse the performance standards of their S-VHS and Hi8 consumer products with those of professional versions. “There is a fairly substantial difference in image quality be- tween professional and consumer decks,” says David Walton, JVC’s marketing manager for professional products. “The S-VHS format defines a minimum level of performance ma- chines have to achieve to carry that logo. The term S-VHS, im- plying only one level of picture quality, is really not true.” Top-rated professional S-VHS VCRs, which are priced from $6,000 to $8,000, include recent advances not found at the consumer level. For example, multigenera- tion capability has been improved by including comb filter decoders in the Y/C sep- aration circuitry and by improving crosstalk cancellation, chroma enhancement and continued on page 103 JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 59

\"BY LANCELOT BRAITHWAITE TOKYO TIME WARP Two shows deliver a fast-forward preview of video's future. In Japan, where following new develop- Digital Dimension: | ments in video is somewhat more of a JVC's HR-Z1 S-VHS spectator sport than here, the two pre- VCR with digital sound, mier showcases for products and tech- nology are both open to the public for at for about $2,700, also least part of their runs. And the crowds includes a MUSE de- rarely disappoint. They jam the aisles of the annual Audio Fair and the Japan coder for satellite Electronics Show, both held within a broadcasts. week of each other, and wait in long lines for demonstrations of new audio The high-end VCRs were partic- cludes a MUSE/NTSC decoder and a and video equipment with the enthusi- ularly notable — especially new S-VHS broadcast satellite tuner. Panasonic’s | asm of American football fans lining up models with digital PCM audio by JVC, model, a prototype, featured pro-quality | for playoff tickets. Mitsubishi and Panasonic. The audio is amorphous recording heads. The high- | recorded deep in the tape, like hi-fi au- end S-VHS decks make more sense in | This year’s shows in Tokyo were no dio, but at a higher carrier frequency. the context of the Japanese video cul- | exception. There was a lot of fascinating Two 16-bit channels are available with a ture, where S-VHS has succeeded as a new video technology to see, some of it sampling frequency of 48 kilohertz. Mit- programming format. A visit to any good | coming soon to the U.S. and some re- subishi’s entry is actually a two-piece video store reveals a wide variety of re- | served for Japan’s legions of videophiles. system consisting of a VCR augmented leases for sale and rental in S-VHS (as The forthcoming audio formats of DCC by a digital adapter. well as in 8mm and laserdisc). and MiniDisc generated the greatest in- terest, but VCRs, video projectors, TV The other S-VHS VCRs with PCM More surprising was a fourth VCR screens, satellite receivers, camcorders sound were all one-piece models. JVC’s with PCM sound —a Hi8 deck by Toshi- | and CD-Interactive players all offered HR-Z1, costing about $2,700, also in- ba, representing the company’s first con- | surprises. 2 Ways to Watch: sumer foray into ONickor Wide Vision TV set by this format. The JVC displays pictures in E-800BS boasts zir- 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ra- conium video tios, with the help of motorized side panels heads to reduce (above). noise, a 3-D digital | video noise sup- | pression filter, cen- | ter loading and the ability to record 24 | hours of music on a | single cassette. The BS in the model number stands for a built-in broadcast satellite receiver, a common | feature (with an unfortunate abbrevia- tion) included in components for the Ja- | panese domestic market. Almost all | VCR brands in Japan include a satellite 60 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

tuner to take Doubling Up: | advantage of the country’s Prototype Panasonic CD-| player (top left) in- current boom in satellite broadcasting. cludes a mouse, while Hitachi and Toshiba also showed so- Hitachi's S-VHS VCR (above) accepts two | called dual-cassette VCRs. The decks cassettes. accommodate two cassettes, but since he | they only have one tape transport, nei- Home Theatrics: ther cassette can be used to dub from Panasonic's S-VHS the other. However, Panasonic displayed VCR features digital a dual-well VCR with one transport audio and pro-style mechanism for a standard VHS tape and amorphous recording a second one for a VHS-C cassette, heads, while a model eliminating the need for an adapter and room at the Audio Fair | making it easier to transfer material shows a large, wide from compact to full-size cassettes. Each projection screen in a | transport has separate controls. residential setting. The interest in home theater prod- Video Twofer: | ucts was especially intense among Japa- Panasonic VCR has separate tape wells for nese visitors to the shows. Although the VHS and VHS-C cas- Japanese tend to live in smaller dwell- settes to simplify transfers from compact ings than American citizens, this doesn’t to standard-size tapes. dampen their appetite for large TV screens. Front- and rear-projection sets, | as well as large tube TV sets, drew en- thusiastic crowds. The interest was spurred in part by the recent expansion in MUSE broadcasting, from one to eight hours a day. MUSE is Japan’s high- | definition satellite, which transmits Ja- pan’s Hi-Vision HDTV system. Indeed, Japanese viewers can watch programs broadcast in Hi-Vision, EDTV, and, of course, NTSC, either over the air or via satellite. However, the smaller apartments | certainly increase the potential market for LCD projectors, like those shown by Sharp, JVC, Mitsubishi and Citizen. The images they throw continue to get brighter and more detailed. The projec- | tors require little space and Japanese projection screens are sometimes built into pieces of furniture so they automat- ically roll down and disappear from sight. Several manufacturers also showed widescreen TV sets using the new 16:9 aspect ratio, most with tuners for stand- ard broadcasts and Hi-Vision satellite broadcasts. The sets showed varying schemes for displaying 4:3 pictures on the wider screens, including running smaller pictures along one side of the primary image (known as POP, for pic- continued on page 98

TNT BY STAN PINKWAS \\MALLATION OF THE MONTH TRIPLE Play Ball: Three TVs, set up for multichannel sports viewing, all use the room’s surround-sound system. |PLAY anapolis, Indiana, found a more personal | set is under the remote’s control at any solution. He commissioned a home the- | given moment. Meanwhile, the relay Sports come alive ater with three full-size TV sets, side by package channels the audio from the se- side, to satisfy his passion for watching lected TV set through the room’s sur- lin a 3-screen room round-sound system. This gives the several channels at once. What happens when three great sports When sports aren’t available to fill viewer full control of the pictures and the events compete for TV watchers on the all the screens, the owner likes to run all- audio, plus surround sound from all the same afternoon? Most sports fans choose news or weather channels on the side TV sets. one, then flip the channels to track the sets. The unusual arrangement also | When not switched to ball games, other two. But one home owner in Indi- serves as the control center for a multi- | the sets accept video signals from an room audio system, which operates in- MDP-333 laserdisc player and a Peripheral Vision: Installer Jim Swearingen rigged dependently of the video system from SLV-575 VHS VCR, both by Sony, |the TVs for easy channel hopping with one remote. continued on page 122 remote keypads in several of the rooms. The key to the installation was keep- ing operation of the sets simple, yet flex- ible, while taking full advantage of the system’s surround-sound capabilities. In- staller Jim Swearingen accepted the | challenge. Swearingen is a member of CEDIA the Custom Electronic Design and In- stallation Association (see box) and a designer with Tom Doherty’s Architec- tural Audio & Video in Carmel, Indi- The Custom Electronic Design & In- stallation Association is a nationwide ana. non-profit trade organization made For the room’s centerpiece, Swearingen picked a 45-inch Mitsubishi | up of companies that specialize in in- rear-projection set, flanked by a pair of | stalling electronic entertainment, au- 20-inch Sonys. With the help of Cool tomation, security and communi- Electronic Stuff, a Florida-based elec- cation systems in the home. CEDIA tronics manufacturer, Swearingen de- may be contacted by telephoning signed a special relay that lets his client 1-800-CEDIA30 or by writing: operate all three TV sets from a single CEDIA, 10400 Roberts Road, Palos remote control. Hills, IL 60465. A single button on the remote, a | Yamaha MRX-100, toggles between the | For additional information, sets, each of which is fitted with a small | circle no. 160 on Reader Service Card. green LED designed to indicate which VATLOANIYNIS[ 62 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

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' BY STEVE DITLEA A flood of complaints may bring sweeping changes to cable. One day in Hoboken, New Jersey, cable viewers discovered so confusing that subscribers are unable to substantiate any || they were about to lose some of the best features, like picture- in-picture, of their costly TV sets. The local cable company problems they’ve experienced for purposes of a refund. The was planning to scramble all its signals, forcing subscribers to | use its descrambler box, which only permitted one channel at cable compapannyy says say:it can’t be expPepcted to p precisely y track each | a time into home systems. TV watchers bombarded the and every subscriber’s actual cable use. Hoboken city council with complaints, demanding something | be done. Immediately, the council promised to prevent this change in service —only to back down when it discovered it- This is the winter of our cable discontent. Soaring fees, self powerless under the terms of its franchise contract with poor service, unreliable signal quality and snooze-inducing the cable company. In Austin, Texas, cable view- programs are just a few of the complaints driving cable sub- ers run into a blank wall when scribers to distraction. And since more than 60 percent of U.S. they try to question their cable bills over claims of lost service or homes have cable TV, that adds up to a lot of viewers. Like possible overcharges. many of today’s inadequately maintained cable systems, my The bills are own local 41-channel system suffers from poor picture quality and frequent outages. And even though the local cable fran- chise in this picturesque hamlet just north of New York City was recently up for renewal, competing bids to improve the system were effectively eliminated by federal deregulation of the cable television industry. What’s a TV viewer to do? Re-regulation is in the air, but no one can be sure that the legislation now pending can straighten out all the trouble, even if the legislation passes. Re- cent moves by the Federal Communications Commission hold out the hope that local telephone companies may be allowed to compete with cable systems, but it will be years before this or any other alternative to cable is available to most Ameri- cans. In the meantime, it’s still possible to “just say no” as I di—kidcking the wired habit cold turkey —but I'm getting ahead of myself. From living rooms to Capitol Hill, everyone seems to be complaining about cable TV these days. Early last year, when Video Magazine polled its readers about their video discon- NESDH.AW 64 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

: wes“e(eras\\ Va| AAA We yite, ANIM wy, tents, the top complaints included the cost of cable and poor price for basic cable rose 9 percent (nearly twice the inflation cable service. More recently, Consumer Reports, in a survey of 200,000 readers, “turned up a new low in customer satisfac- rate) to $17.34, with an accompanying average decrease of one tion” with cable. One in four readers said they were dissat- isfied due to rate increases, service outages, poor picture channel. The fact remains that since there is usually only one quality, billing problems, botched installation or repair, and difficulty in getting through to the cable company by tele- cable TV system in any community, these local monopolies phone to register complaints. can charge as much as they think the market will bear. Despite the torrent of dissatisfaction, representatives of the cable industry insist little needs to be remedied. Most of The cable industry says it has to raise rates to pay for new cable’s problems can be blamed on its growing pains during the tremendous expansion in the 1980s, according to Stephen programming. But Jeff Chester, director of the Teledemocracy Effros, president of the Community Antenna Television Asso- ciation, a cable trade group based in Fairfax, Virginia. “We Project, a consumer group sponsored by Ralph Nader, notes went into 40 million new homes in the last 10 years. No one has ever done that before,” he noted. that Time Warner, the second largest cable company in Amer- In fact, both cable’s immense success and its attendant ica, “revealed that programming expenditures by the cable in- problems can be attributed to federal deregulation after the 1984 Cable Communications Policy Act removed local control dustry between 1984 and 1990 went up by 15.2 percent, while over rates and service standards. James Mooney, president of during the same period, cable subscriber rates escalated by the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), the major cable trade group, credits the act with unleashing the cable in- 52.5 percent.” Chester contends that with programming costs dustry and dramatically increasing program choices. “Dereg- ulation has fostered the creation of 22 new programming ranging from $1 to $3 per subscriber, the rate for basic cable services, with another 30 in development,” says Mooney. should be no more than $5 per month. Nonetheless, the results of deregulation have been felt Investment in equipment is also cited by the cable industry most strongly in one other area: subscribers’ pockets. Accord- ing to a survey by the General Accounting Office, Congress’ PETS as a reason for raising rates. financial watchdog, cable rates for the most popular level of programming increased by 61 percent since deregulation, far “Systems are constantly being outpacing inflation since the index of consumer goods rose less than 18 percent during the same period. The report also found rebuilt,” says Effros. But con- that from December 1989 to March 1991 the average monthly sumer advocates pin the blame for extra4 costs on speculators. JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 65

Since deregulation, nearly half the sors, Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee, iting basic cable to over-the-air broad- country’s 9,500 cable systems have states that fostering competition “could cast stations. In addition, notes Chester, changed owners, driving the cost of reduce cable television rates by half.” the bills “don’t directly return control some cable systems up to $3,000 per over rates and services to local authori- subscriber and amassing huge debts for However, the chances for re-regula- ties.” Instead, they give the FCC respon- which consumers must foot the bill. sibility for rate regulation guidelines as Capitol Hill has become the focus of ef- tion in Congress now seem uncertain. well as for setting norms for service and forts to rein in cable through bills to re- With the bill introduced early in the ses- technical standards. Local authorities regulate the industry. Senate bill $.12 sion, hopes had been running high. would have to apply to the FCC for ju- and House bill H.R. 1303 are similar to risdiction after accepting the guidelines. measures introduced in the previous Andy Schwartzmann, executive director Congress, where the Cable Television of the Washington-based Media Access However, the FCC recently under- Consumer Protection and Competition Project, a public-interest law firm, had mined consumer interests when it of- Act was unanimously approved by the predicted the Senate would pass a bill fered to redefine the threshold below House, but never came to a vote in the and the House would shortly follow. But which local authorities can regulate ba- just as we went to press, the Senate ver- sic cable service rates. The commission- Senate. This year, hearings before sub- sion of the bill failed to come up for a ers proposed that “effective competi- committees headed by Sen. Daniel In- vote, ending any chance of passage in tion” exists and rates cannot be regu- the current session. President Bush has lated when six unduplicated over-the- ouye and Rep. Edward Markey aired the said he will veto any attempt at re-regu- air TV signals are available in the com- trouble with cable as consumer advo- munity served by a cable system (instead cates and broadcasters countered lobby- lation. of the previous three-signal rule) or ing by cable systems and trade groups. Even if cable re-regulation is en- when an independently owned, compet- ing multichannel delivery system is sub- The more stringent bill, $.12, in- acted, it won’t be a cure-all for viewer scribed to by 10 percent of the cable cludes provisions to re-regulate basic system's potential customers. rates, establish adequate customer serv- discontent. According to Schwartz- ice and minimum technical standards, mann, “the legislation will provide only Re-regulation legislation would also limit the number of subscribers any one a small amount of relief against price not protect the program diversity that cable operator can reach nationwide gouging, and marginal relief of service was once the great promise of cable TV. (two operators, TCI Inc. and Time problems.” With as many as 120 channels to browse Warner, now service more than 40 per- among, viewers still find themselves cent of all cable subscribers) and limit The legislation has weaknesses, not clicking through endless reruns, World the number of channels any one cable the least of which is that its rate provi- programmer (like Ted Turner) can occu- sions only apply to basic cable, an in- War II documentaries, Z-grade movies, | py on a system. One of the bill’s spon- trash sports and “infomercials.” Ever creasingly narrow service since most wonder why there are several shopping cable systems practice “re-tiering,” tak- networks, but no 24-hour news outlets ing popular services like CNN, MTV other than Ted Turner’s? Or why your and the Discovery Channel out of the cable system doesn’t offer some of the lowest-priced program package, and lim- continued on page 118 CABLE SOUND-OFF Are you a silently suffering cable consumer? Are you plagued by ris- ing rates, costlier program packages, poor signals, frequent outages, mis- handled repairs, unresponsive front offices? All of the above? If you have a story we'd like to hear it. Even better, we'll pass it on to the people who should hear it—the congressional committees consider- ing the re-regulation of cable. This is your chance to sound off and have your voice heard. Address let- ters to Cable, Video Magazine, 460 West 34 Street, New York, NY 10001. 66 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

TAPES &:DISCS PEAT URE FILMS Thelma & Louise 1991. Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis; dir. Ridley Scott. Hi-fi surround, letterboxed or pan-and-scan. (R) 127 min. $94.99. LD | $24.98. MGM/UA. A big-screen sensation, Thelma & Louise arrives on home video with its | timeliness intact, thanks to the nasty spectacle of the Clarence Thomas hear- ings. No doubt the prospect of angry women with guns upsets defensive men, besides delighting their female counter- | parts. Still, that this well-crafted action film can galvanize an audience says more about the weak competition than the power of this particular movie. T@L plays like a standard road saga, only for women. Waitress Louise (Susan | Sarandon) and her housewife friend Thelma (Geena Davis) aren’t looking Two for the Road: Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis learn to point and shoot in Thelma & Louise. for trouble when they begin a weekend Louise’s fate. Playing a cop with his usu- makes for classic humor in a field lit- fishing trip — they just want a break from al gritty flair, Harvey Keitel tries val- tered with high-concept jokefests. City their unsatisfying lives. All hell breaks iantly to transcend a poorly defined role. Slickers became last summer's comedy | loose, though, when Louise kills Thel- smash because, for the most part, its | ma’s would-be rapist outside an Arkan- Scott tells a bracing tale, but is it a scriptwriters and director followed suit, | sas honky-tonk. Transformed into feminist statement? Hardly. More an ex- America’s most wanted, they embark on ploitation flick than a serious treatise a aiming for funny bone and heartstrings. a breakneck voyage of self-discovery, la Spike Lee, its evocation of real-life ills does lend even the most exaggerated The first two-thirds of this film play highlighted by armed robbery, before characters, like Thelma’s patronizing like a master’s thesis in professional com- | going out in a blaze of glory. husband (Christopher McDonald), an aura of authenticity. As superior escap- edy. Radio ad salesman Mitch Robbins Downplaying logic in favor of an ex- ism, Thelma & Louise might spark dis- (Crystal) and two pals (Daniel Stern, | citing story, director Ridley Scott (Alien, cussions of sexual politics in other films. Bruno Kirby) embark on yet another However, given Hollywood’s track re- buddy bonding ritual to keep midlife cri- Black Rain) and crew make two hours cord, don’t hold your breath. sis at bay, a two-week cattle drive zip by like a quarter-mile drag race. The through the Southwest. The plot un- plot offers fresh twists, although it’s easy —Jon Young folds predictably—a token woman joins to spot the “shocking” ending a mile the cowboy wanna-bes, Mitch’s smart away. Sarandon truly gets better with City Slickers sensitivity ticks off the ranch hands, his buddies reveal personal foibl—ebsut age; alternating determined calm and 1991. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jack Pal- brilliant one-liners and precisely drawn raw fury, she suggests the accumulated ance; dir. Ron Underwood. Hi-fi surround. pain of a lifetime of small defeats. While (PG-13) 114 min. $99.95. LD $34.98. characterizations replace the stale smell New Line. Davis sometimes strains for effect, her of formula with the bracing sting of wit. charm never degenerates into the cute- Billy Crystal is that rare comic who ness of The Accidental Tourist. Michael Alas, after losing their leathery trail | | Madsen makes a sad, striking presence | can play both schlemiel and romantic boss (a delightfully self-mocking Jack as the boyfriend who can’t change leading man, a delicate balance that Palance), the trio are forced to fend for JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 67

eS Cattle Call: Straight Out of Brooklyn Stern, Crystal and Kirby 1991. Lawrence Clifford Jr., George T. | trade swivel chairs for saddle sores in City Odom, Ann D. Sanders; wr./dir. Matty Slickers. Rich. Hi-fi surround. (R) 83 min. $92.99. HBO. Student films are made almost daily that look better than Straight Out of Brooklyn. With its uneven lighting, poor sound and often clumsy staging, the pic- ture looks like the work of a self-taught filmmaker. That’s just what it is—the teen-aged Matty Rich dropped out of film school and made this movie instead. What makes it work is the passion of a young artist telling a story he simply had to get out of him. The Brown family lives in a cramped apartment in Brooklyn’s Red Hook proj- ects. Daddy (George T. Odom) pumps gas. Mommy (Ann D. Sanders) does do- mestic work — that is, if Dad hasn’t beat- en her up too badly during his usual weekend drunken tantrum. The son, ia. Dennis (Lawrence Clifford Jr.), is smart and handsome, but he can’t bear it any themselves. Formula triumphs, albeit Drebin himself, who swims through raw longe—arnd he knows when the local drug dealer makes his regular pickup. with hysterical asides. Crystal trades his sewage to battle the forces of evil. Along with the in-your-face slap- Rich goes straight to the gut reality Mets cap for a Stetson as the film races stick, including a wicked parody of of what a family bred in poverty can do toward a climactic action sequence. The to itself. The visual cliches associated Ghost, Naked Gun 2-1/2 features plenty with the ghetto, like graffiti and rusted witty, charming seduction turns into a of the sneaky Mad magazine-style details cars, are not to be found here; all we re- that kept the first film cooking. Straight- big, sloppy kiss as the guys prove their faced troupers Priscilla Presley and ally have to look at is the people, though George Kennedy return to witness Rich does heighten the mood by shoot- manhood and change for the better. Drebin’s idiocies, while crooner Robert ing in the winter. Few scenes can be Goulet makes a suitably sinister villain, more chilling than the father’s drunken City Slickers is a touch too slick, but playing a ruthless mogul who'll stop at | railing against an invisible White Man, nothing to derail the government's ener- symbol of the rage and frustration he is it’s lovingly and skillfully executed, its unwittingly passing on to his children. gy conservation efforts. Surprisingly, this laughs many and genuine. So, who’s ar- relentless farce comes with a sincere en- Straight Out of Brooklyn is a grimly vironmental message, although director powerful film that thrusts us directly guing? —Marianne Meyer Jerry Zucker never lets social respon- into a world we only thought we knew. sibility get in the way of fun. After all, The Naked Gun 2-1/2: Drebin is no bleeding heart —just a guy The rookie-director faults barely get in | who dreams of a world where he can eat the way of Rich’s scary accomplishment. The Smell of Fear a sea otter without getting sick. —JY —Sol Louis Siegel 1991. Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley; dir. David Zucker. Hi-fi stereo, cc. (PG-13) 85 Bill & Ted’s min. priced for rental. LD $34.95, letter- Bogus Journey boxed or pan-and-scan. Paramount. 1991. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Who says sequels have to be second- Carlin; dir. Peter Hewitt. Hi-fi surround, best? Rude, crude and shameless in its pursuit of cheap laughs, The Naked Gun cc. (PG) 98 min. $92.98. Orion. 2-1/2: The Smell of Fear doesn’t break new ground, but it’s even dumber than True stupidity can be fun, and these the original, if that’s possible. The latest hilarious installment in the saga of two dudes are truly stupid. Expanding crime-busting Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie on the premise that such moronic met- Nielsen) finds the inept cop in Washing- ton, D.C., where he inadvertently sub- alheads will save the world, Bogus Jour- jects Barbara Bush to endless indignities, from being whacked in the head with a ney actually succeeds as a more excel- lobster to getting hurled off a balcony in lent adventure than its predecessor. her underwear. Bad taste? Sure, though Gone are simple anachronisms like it’s no worse than what befalls his col- ‘ iy i Sa OE H league Nordberg (O.J. Simpson), who’s Seafood Surprise: Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 2-1/2. | Napoleon in a shopping mall. The se- carried to Detroit underneath a bus, or 68 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

- EDITON'S CHOILE <> kenneth korman (Pascale Vignal), a schoolteacher in It’s hard not to feel a little disap- search of her france, and Irene (Sabine pointed when you first open the de- Azema), a senator’s daughter-in-law luxe CAV laserdisc edition of looking for her husband. Fantasia. The much-vaunted “ex- What this trio is really looking for is tras” — used as justification by Walt a life after the war, just like France itself. Disney Home Video for charging Tavernier shows how the recent past $100 for the package—don’t amount keeps getting unearthed, literally and to much. The souvenir booklet is | otherwise, and how “normal” life will re- nice but far from unique, while the assert itself in new forms in the face of limited-edition lithograph is marred major upheavals. The picture is full of by a stamp over one corner intended small, memorable details; the gruff, to verify its authenticity. Worse, commanding Noiret and the strong- though, is the huge outer box: It’s an willed Azema make a romantic couple inch wider and 2-1/2 inches taller as endearing as it is unlikely. It’s than other disc packages, and simply x_ too bad Orion chose to pan-and-scan will not fit on any standard book- Death Be Not Proud: Alex Winter and Keanu | \\ the movie, doing serious damage shelf. The first coffee table video has Reeves buy the farm in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Si to Tavernier’s widescreen compo- sitions. arrived, and if we’re lucky, it will be Open Doors, set in 1937 Sicily, opens the last. with a horrendous multiple murder. But my displeasure evaporated as What follows, however, is no standard quel fries bigger fish as our righteous her- courtroom drama. The killer is supposed soon as | put a disc in the player. I oes are killed by evil replicants from the to be quickly executed, but one of the can’t imagine how Fantasia could future and sent bumbling through heav- look any better than it does here. en and hell. While Bill and Ted grapple trial judges (Gian Maria Volonte) insists, The colors are ac- with most heinous metaphysical con- despite considerable pressure, on search- cepts, a terrifically mortified, Bergman- ing for buried facts. Director Gianni tually more vivid Amelio manages an atmosphere of dis- than those of last esque Grim Reaper (William Sadler) turbing, subtle menace which finally nearly steals the show. The film slumps gives way to hope as we see what he is year's theatrical when the twosome return to mortality really after, a search not for factual truth reissue, and the but for a state of grace in which we will to face off against Evil Bill and Evil Ted, be human beings and not beasts. The fi- sound is amaz- but it’s mostly a madcap journey that nal scenes are deeply moving; the film as even a slightly punchy intellectual could ing—these 50- love. —MM year-old record- ings, which have always sounded unbearably shrill to me, are suddenly a joy to hear. And a whole makes the strongest possible orchestral music has never received Life and Nothing But case that the quality of mercy is never such adetailed and directional Dolby 1990. Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azema, Pas- cale Vignal; dir. Bertrand Tavernier. Hi-fi strained. —SLS Surround mix. Image Entertainment stereo, subtitled. (PG) 135 min. $79.98. Delirious did an excellent job on its end. Orion. 1991. John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, If ever there was a movie built for Open Doors Raymond Burr; dir. Tom Mankiewicz. Hi- CAY, it’s Fantasia. The ultimate ani- mated film transforms into a picture gallery of more than 200,000 individ- 1990. Gian Maria Volonte, Ennio Fantas- fi surround, cc. (PG) 96 min. $94.99. LD ual drawings in this format, many re- tichini; dir. Gianni Amelio. Hi-fi stereo, $24.98. MGM/UA. Just when you’d given up, here’s a vealing details that otherwise go by subtitled. (R) 108 min. $79.98. Orion. too quickly to be detected. Disney These distinguished European dra- tantalizing hint of how good John Candy might have made full use of this ca- mas are their respective nations’ equiva- can be. Delirious casts the SCTV vet as a pability, producing a multimedia sup- lent of our Academy Award-type lovelorn soap-opera writer who receives plement about the making of the movies, but achieve their considerable | a knock on the head and wakes up to film. And an analog-track interview power through character development find his creations have come to life, with the surviving filmmakers would and honest emotion rather than “big” more treacherous and outlandish than have made this a true historical doc- themes and production values. Bertrand ever. David Rasche, Emma Samms and ument. Instead we get a superficial Tavernier’s Life and Nothing But offers a Raymond Burr all have great fun playing TV spec—oiriaginlally made for the rich portrait of life in 1920 France, a one-dimensional characters, while Disney Channel—and a series of country still dealing with the scars of spunky Mariel Hemingway is an engag- missed opportunities. So if the pic- World War I. An army major (Philippe ing love interest. But it’s Candy's keen Noiret) is attempting to account for timing and winning sweetnes—she still ture gallery doesn’t interest you, stick with the $40 CLV versio—nits pic- 350,000 men still listed as missing in ac- has the best laugh in the movie—tshat ture and sound are virtually indis- tion, in the process fending off both make this amiably slight comedy work. tinguishable from the more expensive frantic relations and politically minded Now somebody give the guy a challenge! edition. a generals. Among |the former are Alice JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 69

U and-scan the widescreen movie, but ne even that’s managed more skillfully than usual. Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman’s won- Spartacus derful memoir of his two years as an En- 1960. Laurence Olivier, Kirk Douglas, Jean glish teacher and martial-arts student in Simmons; dir. Stanley Kubrick. Hi-fi sur- round, letterboxed or pan-and-scan, cc. China, has been made into a disappoint- (PG-13) 196 min. $19.95. LD also. MCA/ ing movie. The book, a quick, easy read, Universal. has more to say about modern China in It’s not hard to think of Hollywood nearly every compact chapter than the classics more deserving (and in greater whole of the film, which is earnest but need) of restoration than the 1960 glad- iator epic Spartacus. This film’s infamous rather stiff in its recreations of past bath scene, in which General Crassus (Laurence Olivier) flirts obliquely with events. There is also more simplification slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis) by talk- and fictionalization than should have ing about snails and oysters, is rather sil- ly and adds nothing to the film. (It’s not been necessary. Given the engaging even Olivier’s voice we hear: Anthony Hopkins redubbed the missing sound- screen presences of Salzman and mar- track for the late Lord Larry.) Almost all the rest of the ll restored minutes con- tial-arts master Pan Qingfu, who play themselves, and the opportunity to shoot in China (just before Tiananmen Orient Express: Ju Dou is the first feature film Square), it’s a pity the filmmakers didn’t from China aimed squarely at Western audiences. have more faith in the intelligence of their audience. —SLS Ju Dou The Big Dis sists of overture, intermission and clos- ing music. 1990. Gong Li, Li Baotian; dir. Zhang Yimou. Hi-fi stereo, subtitled. (PG-13) 94 1990. B&W. James Haig; dirs. Gordon Still, the restoration campaign min. $89.95. LIVE. Erikson, John O’Brien. Hi-fi mono. (NR) should serve to reinstate the faded repu- | Iron & Silk 88 min. $59.95. First Run Features. tation of this surprisingly intelligent and | 1991. Mark Salzman, Pan Qingfu; dir. The Big Dis is a small wonder: an in- entertaining film. The first hour is often | Shirley Sun. Hi-fi stereo, cc. (PG) 98 min. dependent black-and-white feature that campy, but Spartacus is far removed from $89.95. LIVE. carves a goofy narrative out of what those brainless Italian muscleman mov- looks to be a real-life weekend of would- ies of the 60s. Dalton Trumbo’s screen- Ju Dou, the first Chinese production be debauchery. Boasting two directors, play skillfully counterpoints the doomed to gain any real audience in the U.S., is Gordon Erikson and John O’Brien (and | slave revolt led by Spartacus with the an exceptional piece of filmmaking. It’s no credited writer), The Big Dis details beginning of Rome’s fall into a fascist- tightly written and directed, finely act- the unfulfilled lust of the hapless J.D. like tyranny, a blunt metaphor for Mc- ed, beautifully photographed and ele- | (James Haig) as he spends an aimless mental in its emotional impact. Jinshan, weekend skulking through endless social a prosperous dyer in a rural village set-ups in quest of “women’s virtue.” around 1920 (it could have been 1820), The Big Dis starts at 5 p.m. Friday as buys young brides and brutalizes them J.D. touches down at the airport on a when they fail to produce heirs. Ju Dou three-day pass from the military. From (the extraordinary Gong Li), the latest the start, J.D.’s karma is stamped on his victim, sees a way out— Tianqing (Li forehead: He gets the phone number of Baotian), Jinshan’s repressed nephew, a gorgeous stewardess and then stares in is clearly enamored of her. Eventually agony as the wind snatches it from his they make the heir, and then they get hand and blows it well out of reach be- even. What they forget is that little boys hind a cyclone fence. As J.D. meanders do grow up. from one attempted conquest to the The similarities to The Postman Al- next, he fails to glean as quickly as the ways Rings Twice are obvious enough, audience may that there is a female side and invite the sneaking suspicion that to these games of conquest, and that director Zhang Yimou may have agreed while J.D. may be playing a fair game of to film a story that wasn’t entirely “Chi- checkers, he’s no match for the chess- nese” in order to attract foreign backing player mentality of the women he en- and audiences. Yimou, however, places counters. The Big Dis has a static charm not that story in a historic and social con- text of feudal values and traditions that unlike Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than make tragedy inevitable, and he charges Paradise —this quasi-documentary it with erotic imagery that, for a change, should not be dissed too quickly. Leader of the Pack: Kirk Douglas starts a slave re- —John Walker volt in Stanley Kubrick’s widescreen epic, Spartacus. isreally erotic. LIVE has elected to pan-| 70 VIDEO JANUARY 1992

Carthyism. The lavish battle scenes — which used 8,000 extras—and the more intimate dramatics from a memorable cast are equally compelling. The restoration has also resulted in a crisp new print of a film which won Academy Awards for art direction, cos- tume design and cinematography. It is available on cassette in both letterboxed and panned-and-scanned versions: The latter is adequate, but the former really shows why Spartacus earned those Os- cars. —M. Faust March of the Wooden Soldiers 1934. Colorized. Stan Laurel, Oliver Har- dy, Charles R. Rogers, Charlotte Henry; dir. Gus Meins. Mono. (NR) 78 min. VHS tyn Grayson) cast together. A romance al error: the casting of the wooden Kev- only, $19.95. GoodTimes. in Costner. Surrounded by classically between a pair of young dancers (Ann Ninety-nine times out of 100, color- trained actors like Morgan Freeman and ization stinks. March of the Wooden Sol- Miller, Tommy Rall) adds some terpsi- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio who blend diers, the original Babes in Toyland, is the marvelously into this period piece— exception. This children’s tale actually chorean allure. They’re joined by Bob even Christian Slater abandons his Nicholson—-Ceosstneer is a 90s kinda benefi—tnsot from the Crayola brights Fosse, Bobby Van, Carol Haney and guy out of his element. He shows no one might expect, but from muted more feeling than a fretful child denied pastels and odd shades from peach and Jeanne Coyne in “From This Moment his dessert. lavender to avocado and mustard. And the story —with restored scenes —still On,” a brilliant ensemble number that But when Robin’s mouth is shut and holds up: The comic antics of Laurel his bow and arrow poised, the film takes and Hardy temper the melodramatic ex- marked Fosse’s debut as a choreogra- off. Locations in England and France tremes of a saccharine Bo-Peep and the serve as rich backdrops for stunning se- leering villain, Silas Barnaby. As Mother pher. quences that blatantly beg for your emo- Goose sings of Toyland, “You are ever tional reaction—and get it. And the The digital sound does full justice to disc’s slight letterboxing only magnifies this: Celts moving to attack Sherwood Andre Previn and Saul Chaplin’s Oscar- Forest appear even more menacing in a nominated arrangements. And the the- long, widescreen line as they approach atrical trailer, which includes outtakes through the trees, and blazing arrows travel better across a horizon than a and alternate shots from the film, is a boxy image. double bonus. —Bruce Eder In 1938, those arrows came from Er- rol Flynn, whose spirit and charm en- happy there.” —April P. Bernard | Robin Hood: livened the character and gave the film PATERhs Prince of Thieves 1991. Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Kiss Me Kate Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman; dir. Kevin Reynolds. 1953. Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Digital surround, letterboxed, cc. (PG-13) Ann Miller, Tommy Rall; dir. George 144 min. CLV 3 sides. $39.98. Warner. Sidney. Digital stereo. (NR) Ill min. CLV The Adventures 2 sides. $34.98. MGM/UA. of Robin Hood This single-disc reissue is as good a version of Kiss Me Kate as we're likely to 1938. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, a lighter touch. The Adventures of Robin see, and a major improvement on Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains; dirs. Mi- Hood won three Oscars, but it most de- MGM's old three-sided edition. Where chael Curtiz, William Keighley. Digital | served the art direction prize: The vivid the old disc suffered from muddy colors, mono. (NR) 103 min. CLV 2 sides. Technicolor reds and greens belong to this world of pageantry. the new one is a dazzling array of blazing $24.98. MGM/UA. These disc versions of the Robin The villain here is King Richard’s hues — some parts are too red, and a few of those reds bleed, but these flaws Hood legend, filmed more than half a scheming brother, Prince John, por- aren’t too distracting. century apart, both offer something to trayed with a crafty, condescending air The movie itself is the screen’s most be merry about. The first, while vastly by Claude Rains (who would join direc- successful adaptation of a Cole Porter entertaining, opts for a heavier, dramat- tor Michael Curtiz again for Casablan- musical, a romantic comedy delight ic tone, while the second playfully romps ca). He’s abetted by Sir Guy of Gis- built play-within-a-film style around a enough the 12th century with glorious bourne (Basil Rathbone) — also vying for musical version of Shakespeare’s The color. the affection of Olivia de Havilland— Taming of the Shrew, with an embattled Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, for all whose exciting duel with Robin remains pair of ex-spouses (Howard Keel, Kath- its drama, does suffer from one near-fat- one of screen history's best. —APB JANUARY 1992 VIDEO 71

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