Product Details

• Actors: Stewart Arnold, Christopher Banaman, Peter Bradley (II), Colin Brown, Paddy Bush
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• VHS Release Date: October 25, 1994
• Run Time: 44 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303269354
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,938 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU'RE A KATE BUSH FAN, April 13, 2002

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John Roger (Moriac, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kate Bush: The Line, the Cross & The Curve [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you're a KaTe fan you'll love this film. The music is as beautiful as ever as is Kate herself. Being a perfectionist she is reported to not be totally happy with the finished product. This film was made using songs from her latest album "The Red Shoes" and draws on the fairy tale that also inspired Michael Powell's film of the same name. Since the album was written first The Line, The Cross and The Curve is more a series of loosely linked music clips connected by the story line than a film with incidental music. I view it as a showcase for the music and feel it serves this purpose well. The film also features Miranda Richardson and Lindsay Kemp.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eat the music? Eat this video--it's delicious!, December 21, 2001

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kate Bush: The Line, the Cross & The Curve [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A 43 minute concept video based around a few songs of Kate's to-date last album, The Red Shoes, The Line, The Cross & The Curve shows the creativity behind music's rara avis, Kate Bush. Basically, she is tricked into helping a woman who suddenly appears from behind the mirrored walls of her studio. She draws a line, cross, and curve, which not only frees the woman from her bondage, but transfers the red shoes she's been wearing on Kate. Kate soon realizes she's been suckered, as the shoes are possessed, threatening to dance her legs off. Transported into a strange land from whence her opponent came, she gets assistance from a man in white-face who appears to be the guardian of the land, and Lily, an old woman.

The melancholy "And So Is Love," which follows the performance of "Rubberband Girl," shows Kate's abject loneliness. The bird that flies aimlessly around the darkened chamber until it dies is a reflection of her heart and soul.

"The Red Shoes" sequence is basically of Kate dancing like a dervish in the hellish other land, fitting for the second most upbeat track from The Red Shoes.

"Lily" is the song where Kate, with the aid of Lily and her four guardian angels, Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, and Uriel, gets back her line, i.e. her past.

The best song from The Red Shoes, the sweet ballad "Moments Of Pleasure," features Kate's attempt to free herself from the spell by calling on those she loves, which gets her the cross. The scene of Kate dancing amid the snow while those whom she summons to help her dance alongside her is magical.

The reggae-ish bounce of "Eat The Music" is the celebratory part of the song, where Kate sings for her smile and gets it. Kate's fruit-print dress, and her dancing amid the mountain of fruit accompanied by black women and men is another indelible Kate image.

In the end, does Kate emerge from her ordeal with a renewed sense of herself and the people around her? Conventional wisdom seems to say yes.

Miranda Richardson is the only other well-known face here, playing Kate's adversary. Someone please tell her or the costume designer that singly grown eyebrows that look like a caterpillar is crawling over her forehead are not in vogue.

This is somewhat more conventional than Kate's music video, but the striking visuals and set designs are vintage Kate. This will be a nice cuppa for Kate fans--others are well advised to drink something else.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One for the fans, July 27, 2000

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C. J. Hormann (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kate Bush: The Line, the Cross & The Curve [VHS] (VHS Tape)

You've heard the album - now watch the movie. No it's not the awful "Spiceworld" movie but Kate Bush's one and only venture into the realms of film directing - and a very short film at that.

We're not too sure why Kate decided on this departure - perhaps to keep starved fans happy given her sporadic musical output. Nevertheless, it is the music which livens proceedings in this otherwise derivative (some would say pretentious but I wouldn't dare) film. From the pop beat of "Rubberband Girl" to the lovely spare ballad "Moments of Pleasure" we are treated to that wonderful voice with all the action - Kate inherits a pair of red shoes from the wicked Miranda Richardson and can't stop dancing - merely a backdrop to her.

That said, the scene for the title track is a highlight, with Ms Richardson looking decidedly evil (check out those eyebrows! ) trapping our gullible Kate into taking the red shoes and then disappearing to the other side of the mirror. Fans of Kate will lap this up of course but what we really want to see is a new album from this most unique musician.