The Bear Jack Wallace Tcheky Karyo Andre Lacombe VHS

Danny DeVito

Matthew Broderick

Director: Eric Rohmer; Release Date: May 25, 1999

From the muskets of the Revolutionary War to high-powered assault weapons of today, the "Right Of the People to Keep and Bear Arms" is as American as apple pie. But with the rise of gangsters in the 1930s, gun control became an issue for the first time. GUN CONTROL is an authoritative look at this hotly-contested issue. Archival footage brings to life the seminal events that led to landmark legislation, from the bullet-riddled prohibition era to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, JFK, and John Lennon. Meet experts who contend that effective gun control only began in the '60s, and trace the efforts of the NRA to undo the legislation that limits Americans' access to guns, and the competing work of the Hand Gun Control lobby. From the floors of Congress to inner-city streets, the 1934 "machine gun act" to the Brady Bill, this is the ultimate examination of THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS IN THE 20th CENTURY.

Director: John Frankenheimer; Stars: Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham; Release Date: October 21, 2008

Release Date: May 23, 2000

Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud; Stars: Jack Wallace; Release Date: August 31, 1999

Director: Peter Hastings; Stars: Christopher Walken; Release Date: January 01, 1996

The sheer audacity of My Dinner with Andre drew throngs of curious filmgoers who made the film the most talked-about art-house hit of 1981. After all, who'd ever heard of a movie consisting of nearly two hours of nonstop dinner conversation? Ah ... but this isn't just any conversation--it's the kind of mesmerizing, soul-searching, life-affirming exploration that we feel privileged to listen to, and with unobtrusive style, director Louis Malle invites us to eavesdrop to our hearts' and minds' content. The film was written by two New Yorkers at the dinner table, noted playwright-actor Wallace Shawn and well-known stage director Andre Gregory, who essentially play themselves. They taped their conversations for several weeks and Shawn gradually shaped them into a scripted conversation, but you'd never know it by watching the movie. The talk flows and flows until you're captivated by Gregory's stories of world travel and spiritual quests in Poland, India, Tibet, the Sahara desert... the tales of a soul-searcher who'd dropped out of the theater world to rediscover his zest for living. Shawn plays the skeptic, the voice of reason, his feet on the ground but his own mind willing to soar. The cumulative effect of this conversation is almost hypnotic, and certainly plays into our eternal appetite for storytelling. Both primal and sophisticated, witty and profound, My Dinner With Andre is a film that can be savored over time, offering new revelations with each viewing as the listener-viewer develops his or her own appreciation of life's great mysteries. --Jeff Shannon