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300 Gerard Butler (Attila) stars as Leonidas, King of Sparta. 2-disk edition is loaded with extras. Based on the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller. Also available: 300: The Art of the Film and the 300 Soundtrack cd. |
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THE 300 SPARTANS Classic movie about the battle of Thermopylae (subject of the bestseller Gates of Fire and the blockbuster 300), starring Richard Egan as Leonidas. |
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305 “The Office” (they wish!) goes to Sparta. (If you thought 300 was already a joke, go to the head of the class.) |
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MEET THE SPARTANS Lowest of low-brow humor takes on 300 (and other Hollywood fodder). Actually stupider than the original! (And is Sean McGuire hotter than Gerard Butler?) |
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COLOSSUS OF RHODES Intrigue, tyranny, and a devastating earthquake rattle Rhodes in 280 B.C. Rory Calhoun stars in Sergio Leone’s directorial debut. Dazzling widescreen print! |
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CAMP CLASSICS 4 Warner collection includes Colossus of Rhodes, plus a very young Joan Collins in Land of the Pharaohs and the lavish Biblical epic The Prodigal. Cool extras! |
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OEDIPUS MAYOR (Edipo Alcalde) The ancient tragedy is transposed to modern Columbia, with a screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. |
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OEDIPUS REX Pasolini flashes from the present to the ancient past, filming on Moroccan locations. Includes a vintage featurette on the filmmaker. “Startling and magnificent!” (LA Times) |
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OEDIPUS REX Sophocles’ murder mystery psychodrama performed in masks, as the Greeks did it. Watch for young William Shatner in the prologue. |
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OEDIPUS REX The oratorio by Stravinsky and Cocteau, brilliantly staged by Julie Taymor (director of Titus), with Bryn Terfel and Jessye Norman. Seiji Ozawa conducts. |
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ANTIGONE Perhaps the greatest of all Greek tragedies receives a lavishly cinematic production. Was there ever a greater Antigone than Irene Papas? |
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ANTIGONE Jean Anouilh, in Nazi-occupied France, wrote this timely, timeless version of the tragedy. Geneviève Bujold, Fritz Weaver, and Stacy Keach give brilliant performances in this 1974 production. |
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IPHIGENIA Before they can sail for Troy, the Greeks must make a terrible sacrifice. Michael Cacoyannis directs from the the play by Euripides; Irene Papas stars. |
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THE TROJAN WOMEN Michael Cacoyannis directs an amazing cast: Vanessa Redgrave as Andromache, Katherine Hepburn as Hecuba, Genevieve Bujold as Cassandra, Irene Papas as Helen. |
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ELECTRA Murder begets murder in “the best film ever made from a Greek tragedy” (Roger Ebert). Directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek), starring Irene Papas. It’s on Steven’s Top Ten List. |
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ELECTRA, MY LOVE Greek tragedy, political fable, and spectacular rituals combine in a truly bizarre extravaganza from Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. |
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YOUNG APHRODITES Sexual awakening in pastoral Greece, ca. 200 B.C. The screenplay by Vassilis Vassilikos (Z) was inspired by the Idylls of Theocritus and the ancient novel Daphnis and Chloe. |
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JIM HENSEN’S THE STORYTELLER Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) created these darkly magical episodes based on European folk tales and Greek myths, narrated by Michael Gambon. |
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ALEXANDER REVISITED: The Final Cut 2-disk unrated Collector’s Edition of Oliver Stone’s most controversial movie. Also available: Soundtrack CD by Vangelis • Souvenir Program |
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956) Did the brash young Richard Burton make a more compelling Alexander than Colin Farrell? You decide! |
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT TV pilot from 1964 (two years before Star Trek) stars William Shatner as the world conqueror, a pre-Batman Adam West, John Cassavetes, and Joseph Cotten. |
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WAR GODDESS Racy tale of Theseus and the Amazons from James Bond director Terence Young; story by Robert Graves (I, Claudius). Plus War Gods of Babylon (widescreen) with Howard Duff. |
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HERCULES Brawny Paul Telfer (of Spartacus) heads a strong cast in an engaging, thematically complex new version of the ancient myths, from the director of Augustus. |
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HERCULES The original sword & sandal epic starring the great Steve Reeves, at last available in widescreen. Plus the very bizarre Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules with Mark Forest. |
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HERCULES Classic Disney animation at its peak; glorious images of ancient Greece highlight a new take on the tale of the world’s most enduring hero. |
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SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS Greek myths and story elements abound in this spectacular Disney animated feature, starring Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones. In Widescreen or Full Screen versions. |
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THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES Greek myth gets a poke in the eye when the time-traveling trio match wits with King Odious of Ithaca and his brawny henchman, Hercules. Nyuk! Nyuk! |
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MINOTAUR The myth of Theseus in the Labyrinth, recast as epic Iron Age monster movie. Starring Tom Hardy and Rutger Hauer. |
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CLASH OF THE TITANS Laurence Olivier plays Zeus and a buff young Harry Hamlin plays Perseus, but Ray Harryhausen’s monsters steal the show. Release the Kraken! |
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GIANTS OF THESSALY Italian sword & sandal epic follows the Argonauts’ quest for the Golden Fleece, with Roland Carey as Jason and Massimo Girotti as Orpehus.
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STEVE REEVES COLLECTION Widescreen prints of two classics: Giant of Marathon, directed by Jacques Tourneur, and War of the Trojans (which is on Steven’s Top Ten List). |
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THE ODYSSEY Offbeat casting and stunning Mediterranean locations highlight director Andrei Konchalovsky’s version of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey.
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TROY Brad Pitt makes an indelible impression as the brooding Achilles. In Full Screen or Widescreen versions. Also available: Director’s Cut Ultimate Collector’s Edition. |
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BEST OF BOYS IN LOVE includes the claymation short “Achilles” about the love of the Greek warrior and Patroclus (something you didn’t see in Troy!), narrated by Derek Jacobi.
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HELEN OF TROY (1956) Inspired by The Iliad, Robert Wise directed a strong international cast in one of the best and biggest Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s.
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HELEN OF TROY (2003) Revisionist miniseries stars Sienna Guillory as the willful, wayward Spartan queen whose face launched a thousand ships.
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JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (1963) The quest for the Golden Fleece, with Ray Harryhausen’s special effects and a thrilling score by Bernard Herrmann.
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JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (2000) Young Jason battles monsters, kings, and the gods themselves to win the Golden Fleece. Jolene Blalock plays Medea.
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ALCESTE Gluck’s opera based on the tragedy by Euripides, featuring Greek-inspired designs by Robert Wilson.
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IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA Monteverdi’s opera staged by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, with burly Kresimir Spicer as a heroic Ulysses.
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MEDEA Marina Goderdzishvili as Medea and Vladimir Julukhadze as Jason in the ballet of the Greek tragedy performed by the Tbilisi State Theatre.
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ORFEO ED EURIDICE Dame Janet Baker follows Elisabeth Speiser to Hades and back in Gluck’s opera, produced at Glyndebourne in 1982.
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