Archie Shepp Band - The Geneva Concert DVD

Advantages: Everything you've ever wanted about them!
Disadvantages: None for me

...football match but the mike woudn't work. Videos of "Angel" and "Long Night". DVD 2 : Live in Geneva 2004 The concert was filmed on November, 26th 2004. It was a very important date for the band since Caroline was back six weeks after her second child (a daughter) was born. I was personnally very interested in watching the concert because I went to see them live in October, 2004 during the "Borrowed heaven" tour. It was a great time indeed. Humdrum Only When I Sleep Dreams What Can I Do? Forgiven Not Forgotten Angel Runaway Return From Fingal/Trout In A Bath Borrowed Heaven No Frontiers Queen Of Hollywood Long Night Old Town Radio Summer Sunshine So Young I Never Loved You Anyway Goodbye Breathless Toss The Feathers... Read review

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Advantages: Good war film
Disadvantages: Full of propaganda

...The British at war, again. Actually in The Bridge Over The River Kwai the British are no longer at war as such although the prisoners try to carry out their war to the best of their abilities. This is a true if dramatised tale of the deadly and infamous Burma railway and in particular one portion of it at the River Kwai. Having captured thousands of Allied forces in Burma and neighbouring countries, the Japanese force the prisoners to build a railway through the hot, steamy and disease ridden jungle without the aid of the Geneva Convention. That is the reality. The film strays a little from the truth. The British stiff upper lip is provided by the master in portraying this trait, Alec Guinness, as he and selected officers supervise the building of the bridge. To begin with the troops do their best to sabotage the project... Read review

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Advantages: An adventurous but not violent film, accurate but not too deep
Disadvantages: Set in a period away from classical legend

...brings salvacondotti imposes one last mission before leaving Hadrian's Wall must go back to the north to help Marius, a Roman nobleman and his family, the imminent invasion Saxon. Arthur is faced with a horrifying spectacle: Marius enslaves his people and old and Woad torture in the name of God and Rome; disgusted, Arthur draw rescued the people despite the Saxons are nearby and that slow the retreat, and Marius family and the two survivors Woad found in a kind of inquisitorial walled, Geneva and a beautiful child, when the road home Marius die from what vile, but Arthur lose a knight and will have to forge an alliance with Merlino The magician head of the tribe of Geneva, to save Britain against. She awakens in him the British blood, and disillusioned on the idea of a democratic Rome decides not to return but to remain in his homeland... Read review

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