From Erica: THE OWEN OPUS
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BMW Movies Commercials Call 1-800-334-4BMW for free copy
[Fun. Watchable. Free]

Bad Boys (95/II) TV Movie Occasionally plays on Oz TV
Very violent. Not enough Clive.

Bent (97) Movie Available on VHS (libraries, half.com)
[Not historically accurate. Pretty depressing. Widely available.]

Beyond Borders (03) Movie Theaters (2003)

Bourne Identity (02) Movie Theaters (6/02) [now on video and DVD]

Century (93) Movie Available on VHS (half.com)
[Not the best, but certainly watchable]

Chancer (90-91) Series Libraries often have 1st eight
(Chancer 1-4). Also released in Britain as Chancer 1 (eps 1-6), Chancer 2 (eps 7-13) and Chancer Second Season. Search blackstar.co.uk or look for expensive conversions on e-bay.
[Watchable and fun]

Class of '61 (93) TV Movie Played recently on Starz. Ask around.
[Pretty good & lots of eye candy]

Close My Eyes (91) Movie On VHS, DVD. (half.com)
[Very good. Lots to *ahem* see.]

Croupier (98) Movie Canadian DVD available. ebay copies. [DVD now available]
Replays occasionally on Starz [Very good.]

Doomsday Gun (94) TV Movie On VHS.
[Very good but almost no Clive and when he is there, he has the worst Israeli accent ever. Several scenes of the back of his head which gets more screen time than his face.]

Echo, The (98/I) TV Movie PAL Tape (blackstar.co.uk, etc)
[Surprisingly good.]

Eve. with Gary L(94) TV Movie Can search on Blackstar, or buy
expensive ebay copy. [Other than a brilliant 3-minute intro, it's not that great]

Greenfingers (01) Movie DVD
[More watchable than the reviews would lead you to believe. And there's that cute convict guy...]

Gosford Park (01) DVD, Video

Lorna Doone (90) TV Movie On VHS. (half.com)
[Period piece. Yawn.]

Magician, The (93) TV Movie Very hard to find.

Nobody's Children(94) TV Movie Ask around. Hard to find.
[Romanian Accent. Haven't seen it yet.]

Precious Bane (89) TV Movie Write nick.cooper@virgin.net. Ask
nicely. [Pretty good, but it's still a period piece.]

Privateer 2 (96) Video Game Game is available often at half.com
Ask around for tape of movies. [Your mileage will vary by your
geekitude.]

Return/Native (94) TV Movie On VHS. (half.com)
[More period stuff. *shrug* Do you like Hardy to begin with?]

Rich Man's Wife (96) Movie Widely available, but hey, it stinks.
["Clap if you like Halle Berry" (listening to vast silence).]

Second Sight (99) Pilot On VHS. Backordered in many places.
[Melted more ovaries than anything other than Crowe or Jackman]

Second Sight (99) Series Ask around.
[Not as good as the pilot but darn fine all the same].

"Sharman" (96) Series Write PNBDav@aol.com. 2 PAL tapes
[Watchable, enjoyable, very violent, not a very involving character].

Split Second ('99) TV Movie Check out
http://www.robertsvideos.com/ [No great buzz, but I haven't seen it]

Turnaround, The (94) TV Movie PAL. Order from Blackstar, etc.
[Just like the other Sharmans.]

Vroom (88) Movie Can search at blackstar or buy
hugely expensive version (with or without Portuguese subtitles) on ebay. [Sweet & pleasant & forgetable]

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CONVERSIONS
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You can convert PAL tapes in several ways:

* Pay about $15-$20 to a local conversion house
* Buy a PAL/NTSC multi-system VCR that outputs an NTSC signal
For example, the Samsung Worldwide SV-5000W ($400 at Vanns.com)
* Find a list friend to help you. There are a number who can.

DVDs use region coding *and* PAL/NTSC. Unless you own a region
free, multi-system DVD (like the Apex 660-AD, $99 at Sams Clubs)
you can only watch movies from your own system and your own
region.

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