Product Details

• Actors: Carpenters, Karen Carpenter
• Format: Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&M
• DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003
• Run Time: 37 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A9D2F
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #44,028 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

A&M and I proudly present this video compilation of eleven Carpenters' tracks never before available on DVD. All have been digitally enhanced and feature remastered stereo audio. The tracks were videotaped during the ten years spanning September 1970 to March 1980. "From This Moment On," an outtake from our fifth television special, is presented for the first time in this collection. Richard Carpenter, June 2003

Songs: Without a Song, Superstar, Rainy Days and Mondays, Reason to Believe, (They Long to Be) Close to You, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Little Girl Blue, Bless the Beasts and the Children, We've Only Just Begun, When I Fall in Love, From This Moment On (TV outtake).

Product Description

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/16/2003

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 1994 VHS release with better audio and video., August 12, 2003

By	Bennett Turk (Albany, NY USA) - See all my reviews

1994 marked 25 years, since 1969, when the Carpenters, (Karen and Richard), signed with A & M Records and released their first album for that studio-"Offerings" a.k.a. "Ticket to Ride". (There is no difference between the two albums execpt for the name change due to the minor success of the single-"Ticket to Ride"). In 1994, A & M released the Carpenters album and VHS tape, "Interpretations". The name came from the fact that the Carpenters played songs written by other song writers, not by Richard Carpenter. A collection of songs played by the Carpenters and written by Richard Carpenter is the 2003 cd-"Carpenters Perform Carpenter". (Richard Carpenter wrote the music for the songs while, usually, John Bettis wrote the song's lyrics). "Interpretations" the VHS tape has some songs not included in the 1985 VHS tape "Yesterday Once More", (which was released as a DVD, in 2002, under the title-"Gold"). In cases where the songs in "YOM" and "Interpre." are the same, the video might be different. For example; both "YOM" and "Interpre." have the song-"Calling Occupantants of Interplantary Craft". "YOM" has a music video, while "Interpre." shows the song as performed in an ABC special. The DVD for "Interpretations, like the "Gold" DVD, ("YOM"), has better audio and video than the VHS tape. Like the U.S. release "Gold", "Interpre." has no other differences from the VHS tape, other than "song selection". There are No extras. According to the Grant Gurrererro website, which lists everything released by the Carpenters, the Japanese DVD verision of "Interpre." had no extras either. I do recommend the DVD of "Interpretations". I hope someday there will be other DVD releases of Carpenters music, including a "Live In Concert" for those people who do not have an all region DVD player to see the Japanese only, VHS/DVD, release--"Live at Budokan 1974".

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, a bit twee, painful to watch, too short!, January 23, 2005

By	Geoff Hall "Geoff Hall" (Borehamwood, UK) - See all my reviews

[...]

This DVD is a version of the video of the same title, which was longer by a couple of songs and about 7 minutes.

Karen's singing is brilliant as usual and she again demonstrates that she could sing anything put in front of her by her brother, a master in arrangements and production - who could play piano with the absolute best. They were supported by an excellent band of musicians and the sum amounted to a truly fantastic sound.

The Carpenters are my all-time favourites and should have been there for the whole musical journey. However, Karen's untimely death from complications caused by anorexia nervosa which, it seems, resulted in her suffering heart failure, meant that the journey ended all too prematurely.

Karen is the main focus of attention on any Carpenters recording. Here is no different; but the videos stem from the 1970s when the Carpenters, for me, suffered from awkwardness and self-consciousness in front of the camera so, on occasions, the lip-synching doesn't always seem to work and Karen's facial and head movements seem affected and contrived. Strangely, some of the earlier videos look better, probably because she is behind a drum kit or has a microphone in her hand, Also, and the point about some of it being painful to watch, the later videos show Karen looking terribly thin and, particularly, on the penultimate video ("When I Fall In Love"), she reminds me of Nancy Reagan, with gaunt looks and a hair style which is very uncomplimentary - she looks more like 80 than 30!

Having said that, the only other things wrong with this are that there are no extras on this DVD and it is all over in only 37 minutes, which seems to be a desperate waste of disk space.

Onto the good things - it's got all the ingredients that Carpenters fans would expect, but "Reason To Believe" and "Bless The Beasts And The Children" are lovely surprise inclusions and the video of "Calling Occupants...." is better than the version seen on other collections of their videos (except Tony Peluso's DJ piece at the start, which is the same clip).

So should you buy it? Your choice, but you might find other collections of songs which are better. For die-hard Carpenters fans, yes, go and buy it.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Video and a Collector's Item, April 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Carpenters - Interpretations [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A Retrospective of Richard and Karen Carpenter's career. 11 of them never released on video This particular video offers some rare footage from their TV Specials including a never seen before clip to "From This Moment On" A Great Anniversary Celebration