October 21, 2004
Favorite DVD's
The other day I ordered two of my favorite movies on DVDs from Amazon.com, actually I got them from a third-party seller who sells used and new through Amazon. I paid about $8 each.
Sweet and Lowdown: the great story of a fascinating character, Emmet Ray. Ray was a little known jazz guitarist who flourished briefly in the 1930s, was considered second only to the great Django Reinhardt and is best known by jazz afficionados.
The Triplets of Belleville: Beautiful animation hand-drawn in the style of Disney's classics. This story begins in France sometime during the 30's or 40's and coincidentally also contains snippets of Django's music.
Synopsis: A lonely boy who loves his bicycle is raised by his grandmother. She eventually puts him through a rigorous training process and years later he enters the Tour de France. The cyclist is kidnapped by the evil French mafia so the grandmother and her faithful dog set out to rescue him. Their quest takes them across the ocean to Belleville where they encounter the renowned "Triplets of Belleville," three eccentric female music-hall stars who decide to take them under their wing and assist in the rescue.
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