Age of Innocence, The - DVD

When director Gregory LaCava (My Man Godfrey) was casting The Age of Consent, he found his lovely leading lady just a steno pad away. He chose RKO secretary (and soon-to-be WAMPAS Baby Star) Dorothy Wilson to headline this sensitive pre-Code tale of love and lust. The film follows college student Michael Harvey (Richard Cromwell) and his sweetheart (Wilson). They plan to marry in two years, after Michael graduates. But two years is a lo

Young Valentine Winters (Joan Crawford) leaves America to join her ooh-la-la mama in Paris and Life begins. Soon Valentine is caught up in a whirl of hot music and cold champagne, of the right clothes and the wrong men, of all pleasure and no happiness. Then she meets an upstanding Harvard man. The future looks bright, until his strait-laced parents visit Paris. They discover not only Valentine's wild ways, but a shocking secret about h

Narrated by world-renowned spiritual guru Don Miguel Ruiz and newcomer Vanya Vermani, Birth of Innocence is a full length feature film that is more a dreamlike meditation than a narrative, which reminds us of how our human experience often overshadows our awareness of the sheer miracle of our existence, and offers an invitation to re-acquaint ourselves with the source from which we spring. This absolutely singular film does not attempt to sell a belief system to its audience members as if they were missing something that needs to be better fulfilled. It instead respects and honors audience member's core beliefs, and gently offers a meditative invitation to become quiet enough to reconvene with your source, in your own unique way. It is a reminder of the power and beauty that resides within us all, that speaks to the sweet and infinite soul that waits patiently for us in stillness.