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La Bohème (1980)
Domingo and Te Kanawa at their best
In 1980, some kind soul stuck a VHS camera on a tripod and taped this live performance off the screen. Some other kind soul transferred it to an AVI file, and it's readily available on file sharing networks. Low resolution, poor quality recording, French subtitles, but a performance of a lifetime.
Why in the world isn't this magnificent version available on a commercial DVD?
The two most popular singers of our time, at their peak, in a magnificent performance - and no one bothered to put out a DVD...
Has anyone heard of this being available in Europe or Asia?
Heat of the Sun (1998)
Engaging, enjoyable, easy suspension of disbelief
Acting, directing, and writing are all fine. It's mysteries set in 30's Africa, and uses many of the conventions of films of the time, but from a modern perspective - not unlike the approach taken in Indiana Jones - and it generally works well.
I'm usually the first one to quibble about technical errors, but this series was sooo well done that I never noticed any of the ones noted in other reviews here. Mind you, I had a hard time with Valentine shooting guns out of people's hands, and with a flaming homosexual in that time and place, but I just let the excellent story telling carry things along. Somehow, it seemed ** right ** that Valentine was able to shoot guns out of people's hands, and that there were Nazis lurking, etc.
One of the most enjoyable things on TV in a long time, and I hope there will be more. Let's have a DVD soon, please.