Man of the World - DVD

Crafted by it's performance artist director/writer/star Eleanor Antin to pass as an uncovered 1920s Yiddish silent, this unusual indie effort set in a Russian shtetl follows an ambitious poet (Pier Marton) whose designs on a merchant's pretty daughter (Christine Berry) are set askew when a vivacious ballerina (Antin) and her Bohemian troupe settle into town. Anna Henriques, Marcia Goodman also star. 98 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack music score; bonus films InchFrom the Archives of Modern ArtInch (1987), InchThe Last Night of RasputinInch (1989); featurettes; theatrical trailers. Silent with music score.

In the remote village of Los Nevados, Isidro Zambrano, a brilliant technologist, hides a dark past marked by the tragic loss of his parents and wife. Dedicated to building a machine capable of traveling through time, Isidro desperately seeks to alter the events that condemned him to pain.

Nazi bombs rain fire into an English port town. The smoke clears and a disparate group of human beings caught in the blast finds itself aboard a luxury liner headed who knows where. They soon learn their one-way tickets are stamped Heaven. And Hell. A dose of World War II realism puts a gritty edge on this retelling of the early Talkie Outward Bound (starring Leslie Howard) that loses none of the prior version's ethereal power. A stella