Play Piano Today DVD

Advantages: She has talent, originality and is not Britney Spears.
Disadvantages: She sings off-key live. Should she be forgiven?

...Now, Delta Goodrem is one fantastic piano composer, singer songwriter but she needs some polishing on her live vocals. In this DVD, which i own, she performs 8 of her songs found on the album Innocent Eyes. The starter is a song called "Will You Fall For Me", a gentle short gentle piece to leave the crowd begging for more was a good choice of song for the first song of the day. Playing with a live band for the song "Predictable", Delta went off key so badly, either because she didnt warm her voice enough or she couldn't hear herself as the drummer seemed a bit too enthusiastic to go hard rock on the soft rock/jazzy number. With people screaming "Lost Without You" all the time, Delta finally obliges by performing good enough to redeem herself after "predictable". "Lost Without You" was quite beautifully sung with a bit of modifications... Read review

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Advantages: A great film to watch, a very emotional film which is gripping to watch..
Disadvantages: none

...Pleasure First" is played repeated through out the film in different contexts. It is accompanied by strings in "The Promise” and "Deep Into The Forest". The film originally released in the cinema in 1993. It is now available in both VHS and DVD. I would urge anyone to watch the film. It is stirring, charming, sensual and haunting. It was the first film I saw with my partner and it definately was a tear jerker!!... Read review

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Advantages: Superb soundtrack, cinematography and acting
Disadvantages: Storyline stetches the bounds of imagination

...The Piano, is a film that tells a story about a young woman’s personal and intimate journey from dependence and oppression to independence and freedom. Set in the nineteenth century, it contrasts the strict female repressed reserve of the married Ada with the eroticism of the Ada bargaining and winning free expression. The film begins as the main character, Scottish Ada McGrath played by Holly Hunter, is transported away from her home to the unknown and distant New Zealand at the start of her journey. A marriage has been arranged for Ada to marry Alisdair Stewart, played by Sam Neill, a lonely Englishman working in the New Zealand bush. She is accompanied by the two things in her life that are important to her, a piano and her 9 year old illegitimate daughter, Flora played by Anna Paquin. Not just important, but much much more. Ada... Read review

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