10 Best Selling DVDs on AALBC.com for 2011
This is the first DVD bestseller's list that I've compiled and published. Some of the best selling DVD's were featured in reviews I've published and others I've never seen before. The list does reflect the variety of interests of AALBC.com visitors. I hope you find something you'll enjoy too. —Troy Johnson, AALBC.com founder (Jan 21, 2011)
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#1 • Zane's Sex Chronicles
Season 1
Click to Buy Via Amazon
Actors: Patrice Fisher, Johanna Quintero, Laila Odom, Maya Gilbert, Amin
Joseph
Writers:
Zane
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 2
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Release Date: February 2, 2010
Run Time: 390 minutes
While balancing demanding careers with their busy personal lives, five
alluring femmes enthusiastically embrace their sexuality, engaging in
arousing trysts with their husbands, boyfriends, ex-lovers and total
strangers. Based on a set of erotic short stories from best-selling author
Zane, this urban adult series co-stars Patrice Fisher, Maya Gilbert,
Christina DeRosa, Johanna Quintero and Laila Odom. (Trailer for Preview of Season 2 Below)
#2 • The Pursuit of Happyness (Widescreen Edition)
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Actors: Will Smith,
Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe,
James Karen
Directors: Gabriele Muccino
Writers: Steve Conrad
Producers: Chris Gardner, David Alper, James Lassiter, Jason Blumenthal,
Louis D'Esposito
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled,
Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007
Run Time: 117 minutes
Special Features
Father and Son: Onscreen and Off
The Man Behind the Movie: A Conversation with Chris Gardner
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
Inside the Rubik’s Cube
“I Can” Song (audio only)
Audio commentary with director Gabriele Muccino
A real-life tale of survival over life's toughest challenges. After a chain
of circumstances left Gardner jobless and homeless at age 30 he found
himself and his baby son living in a bathroom at a San Francisco train
station. Despite the negative situation Gardner continued to fight toward
his goal of becoming a broker eventually landing a job as a trainee and
rising through the ranks at such companies as Dean Witter and Bear Stearns
to his current standing -- partner and owner of the Chicago-based minority
brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co. and self-made millionaire.
#3 • Sock It To Me
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Format: NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Strebor Books
DVD Release Date: September 1, 2003
A film based on Sock It to Me, one of
Zane's most popular short stories!
Camile works in her uncle's gym, and heats things up with an amateur boxer
who gets stranded in the gym with her during a blizzard.
#4 • 500 Years Later: Directors Cut
Click to Buy Via Amazon
Actors: Dr. Kimani Nehusi,
Molefi Kete Asante,
Amiri Baraka,
Nelson
George,
Dr. Frances Cress
Welsing
Directors: Owen Alik Shahadah
Format: NTSC
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: Halaqah Media Films
DVD Release Date: October 1, 2006
Run Time: 108 minutes
Review
SLAVERY- 500 Years Later The film is a compelling compilation of
testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents The
centerpiece of the event is the screening of a newly released DVD on the
African slavery trade, the shameful human trade officially abolished in 1772
in the UK and its empire. Winner already of the best documentary prize at
the Pan-African film festival and Bridgetown film festival and with
testimonies ranging among others, from Dr M. Karenga, Amiri Baraka, Desmond
Tutu, Dr Helena Woodward, Shaykh Muhammad Shareef and Trevor Marshall. The
film, is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions
gathered around five continents and more than 20 countries on the subject.
'We went to universities as well as into the neighborhoods to talk to the
common folk, says Asante Jr, the talented scriptwriter and poet, who was a
first year media graduate at the time when he started working on the
project. (More information http://www.500yearslater.com/)
Product Description
Crime, poor education, poverty, self-hatred, prison system, broken homes
plague people of African decent globally Why? Filmed in over twenty
countries and on five continents, 500 Years Later is a compelling journey,
infused with the spirit and music of liberation, that chronicles the
struggle of a people from enslavement who continue to fight for the most
essential human right - freedom.
#5 • For Colored Girls
Click to Buy Via Amazon
Actors: Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg
Directors: Tyler Perry
Format: Multiple Formats
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lionsgate
DVD Release Date: February 8, 2011
Run Time: 133 minutes
Special Features
"Span of the Rainbow" Original Interactive Documentary
"Prism of Poems" Enhanced Index
"Transformation: Movie Magic" Making For Colored Girls
Music "For Colored Girls"
Living Portraits & Marketing Archive
Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and Whoopi Goldberg head up an all-star cast in a vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.
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