DVDpedia : Groove Quantize DVD Library : Title : V

Theatrical: 2003

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Summary: This is one of my favourite DVDs I own. Simply put, this is a collection of music video's produced for/by warp artists over the years. Untouched by the scrutiny and censorship of the mainstream, the videos are free to be as weird and shocking as they like. (Watch out for Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy and Windowlicker, some of the best and most imaginitive offerings.) I would recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to know more about the kind of music Warp release, or to a more experienced person who wants to indulge in their favourite artists and give themselves a chance to discover some new ones. The high points, I would say, are Aphex Twin's videos, because everyone knows you can never get enough Aphex, but also Plaid's 'Itsu' and the offerings by the Anti-Pop Consortium.
The Compilation cd that comes with the DVD is absolutely fantastic again, some of the best tracks on the label expertly mixed together to produce some very exciting new sounds. listening to this cd is, I would say, almost as much fun as watching the dvd.
In Summary, If you feel like sitting back and sinking into some weird and wonderful worlds accompanied by some of the best electronic music out there, get this DVD. If not, get it anyway, it might surprise you.

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Theatrical: 1983

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Horror

Summary: Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the least entertaining films ever made") to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext of social commentary. Giving yet another powerful and disturbing performance, James Woods stars as the operator of a low-budget cable-TV station who accidentally intercepts a mysterious cable transmission that features the apparent torture and death of women in its programming. He traces the show to its source and discovers a mysterious plot to broadcast a subliminally influential signal into the homes of millions, masterminded by a quasi-religious character named Brian O'Blivion and his overly reverent daughter. Meanwhile Woods is falling under the spell, becoming a victim of video, and losing his grip--both physically and psychologically--on the distinction between reality and television. A potent treatise on the effects of total immersion into our mass-media culture, Videodrome is also (to the delight of Cronenberg's loyal fans) a showcase for obsessions manifested in the tangible world of the flesh. It's a hallucinogenic world in which a television set seems to breathe with a life of its own, and where the body itself can become a VCR repository for disturbing imagery. Featuring bizarre makeup effects by Rick Baker and a daring performance by Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame) as Wood's sadomasochistic girlfriend, Videodrome is pure Cronenberg--unsettling, intelligent, and decidedly not for every taste. --Jeff Shannon

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Studio: ソニー・ミュージックハウス

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Duration: 100

Summary: 01 Castalia
02 Behind The Mask
03 Cosmic Surfin'
04 Rydeen
05 Tong Poo
06 Radio Junk
07 Firecracker
08 Solid State Survivor
09 Day Tripper
10 Fuji Cassette CF
11 Technopolis
12 Fuji Cassette CF
13 Tighten Up
14 Rydeen
15 La Femme Chinoise
16 Citizens Of Science
17 Fuji Cassette CF
18 BGM CF
19 Taiso
20 Stairs
21 Neue Tanz
22 Cue
23 Kimi Ni Mune Kyun
24 Ongaku
25 Shadows On The Ground
26 Expecting Rivers
27 You've Got To Help Yourself
28 Wild Ambitions

Theatrical: 1966

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 207

Summary: "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" gets a dose of "On the Beach" in Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". While the "Seaview", the world's most advanced experimental submarine, maneuvers under the North Pole, the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the "Seaview" and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks, and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most formfitting naval uniform you've ever seen, fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank, gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon, and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. "--Sean Axmaker"
"Fantastic Voyage"
"2001: A Space Odyssey" took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but "Fantastic Voyage" is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney's 1954 "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. "--Sean Axmaker"

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Studio: Gryphon

Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy

Duration: 154 mins

Summary: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet The first space ship to land on Venus in the year 2000 contains two astronauts and a robot, while a second ship remains in orbit. Radio contact is lost and the first ship treks into unexpected dangers - dinosaurs, quicksand - before the Pioneers are rescued. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women In 1997 a spaceship lands on Venus and the crew is attacked by a giant flying reptile, god of the Gill Women, who inhabit the Planet. After they kill the creature the women call upon the God of Fire Mountain to destroy the invaders.