"Actor: Anja"

• Jump | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £8.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait artists of his generation creating memorable images of famous personalities often jumping in midair for LIFE magazine. Before coming to the U.S. however Halsman suffered a terrible fate. Set in 1928 Austria Jump brings us the true story of the first trial of a Jew by the Nazi government. Philippe Halsman and his bullying father Morduch share a troubled relationship which turns increasingly sour as the two embark upon a hiking tour in Austria. When Morduch is found murdered Philippe is charged and convicted of the crime. Is the assumption of guilt based on strong evidence or on the Halsman family's Jewish faith?

• Laura | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Sculptor Paul meets a former great love again after a long time - but is much more impressed by her 15 years old daughter Laura who looks now like her mother when Paul was in love with her. Laura likes him very much too but her jealous mother prevents any further contact. She allows him to make a sculpture of Laura but only from photos...

• Inferno | Blu Ray | (29/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Palace ( Der Palast ) | DVD | (13/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. It s just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You d think they d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he angry!

• Salome | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of Strauss's biblical 'Salome' at the Royal Opera House.

• Janacek: Jenufa -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Janacek's masterpiece Jenufa, captured in this 1989 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production, is among the most revived modernist works. Compared with much grand opera, the story of one woman's struggle to rise free from social constraints at a terrible cost is remarkably poignant, credible and accessible. Scenes are short and intense. The music shimmers with Janacek's characteristic blend of sweetness and sharp dissonance. His men are damaged and angry; his women kick against the expectations of convention. Tragedy is inevitable, but here, unusually, hope triumphs. In the title role, Roberta Alexander is utterly convincing as the stepdaughter of the Kostelnicka Buryja, placing her love and trust in the wrong man with dire consequences. As the Kostelnicka, Anja Silja turns in an equally towering performance, unravelling with the awful consequences of her pragmatism. Alexander's fluid soprano reveals the extraordinary beauty of some of Janacek's finest arias: the moment when she becomes supernaturally aware of her baby's fate--it's "as if death was peering into the house!"--and is actually singing prayers for its soul is quite overwhelming. This Jenufa is sung splendidly; a revelation of the essential humanity which lurks at the heart of the greatest operas. On the DVD: This production was filmed for Channel 4 and has all the hallmarks of a 1980s television broadcast: standard 4:3 picture format which limits the impact of Tobias Hoheisel's magnificent expressionistic set; PCM stereo which somewhat dulls Andrew Davis' sterling, powerful work at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (although the principal singers shine through); poor subtitles; and static freeze-frame links between scenes. As a record of an important production, though, it suffices. --Piers Ford

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young family move into a forboding New England mansion unaware that it was once the gruesome residence of Dr. Freudstein a dabbler in bizarre surgical practises. Soon Freudstein - now classic Fulci zombie - is up to his murderous old tricks again seeking freshly severed limbs and organs to keep his corrupt rotting flesh alive! As past and present collide in a vortex of fear the terrified family are forced to fight for their lives in the subterranean gore-soaked charnel-hous

• The House By The Cemetery | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. It s just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You d think they d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he angry!

• Verdi: Requiem (Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano) | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £15.75   |  Saving you £-0.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Wagner: Lohengrin | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £18.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (27.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  TracklistDisc 11. Lohengrin - Opening Credits2. Prelude To Act I3. Hrt, Grafen, Edle, Freie Von Brabant!4. Dank, Knig, Dir, Da Du Zu Richten Kamst!5. Seht Hin! Sie Naht, Die Hart Beklagte!6. Einsam In Trben Tagen7. Mich Irret Nicht Ihr Trumerischer Mut8. Wer Hier Im Gotteskampf Zu Streiten Kam...Gegrt, Du Gottgesandter Held!9. Nun Sei Bedankt, Mein Lieber Schwan!10. Zum Kampf Fr Eine Magd Zu Stehen11. Welch Holde Wunder Muss Ich Sehen?12. Nun Hret Mich Und Achtet Wohl13. Mein Herr Und Gott, Nun Ruf' Ich Dich - Gebet Des Knigs14. Durch Gottes Sieg Ist Jetzt Dein Leben Mein15. Erhebe Dich, Genossin Meiner Schmach!16. Du Wilde Seherin17. Euch Lften, Die Mein Klagen18. Elsa! - Wer Ruft?19. Entweihte Gtter! Helft Jetzt Meiner Rache!20. Wie Kann Ich Solche Huld Dir Lohnen21. Scenemusic22. In Frh'n Versammelt Uns Der Ruf23. Des Knigs Wort Und Will' Tu Ich Euch Kund24. Gesegnet Soll Sie Schreiten25. Zurck, Elsa! Nicht Lnger Will Ich Dulden26. Heil! Heil Dem Knig!27. O Knig! Trugbetrte Frsten! Haltet Ein!28. Welch Ein Geheimnis Mu Der Held Bewahren?29. Mein Held, Entgegne Khn Dem UngetreuenDisc 21. Prelude To Act III2. Treulich Gefhrt Ziehet Dahin3. Das Se Lied Verhallt4. Atmest Du Nicht Mit Mir Die Sen Dfte?5. Hchstes Vertraun Hast Du Mir Schon Zu Danken6. Weh, Nun Ist All Unser Glck Dahin!7. Introduction - Heil Knig Heinrich!8. Habt Dank, Ihr Lieben Von Brabant!9. Macht Platz Dem Helden Von Brabant!10. In Fernem Land, Unnahbar Euren Schritten11. Mir Schwankt Der Boden! Welche Nacht!12. Mein Lieber Schwan!13. Fahr Heim, Du Stolzer Helde14. Lohengrin - Closing Credits

• Together | DVD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in a 1970s commune, the story blends the hypocrisy of the hippie movement with a sense of idealsism and solidarity.

• Tendres Cousines | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A love triangle set in Provence during the summer of 1939. A 14 year-old boy Julien has a crush on Julia his older cousin whom he lives in a hotel with. Charles a twenty-something hotel guest enters the competition for Julia's affection despite being engaged.

• Goodbye Berlin | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a business trip with his assistant, 14-year-old outsider Marik is spending the summer holidays bored and alone at his parents' villa, until rebellious teenager Tschick appears. Tschick, a Russian immigrant and an outcast, steals a car and decides to set off on a journey away from Berlin with Marik tagging along for the ride. So begins a wild adventure where the two experience the trip of a lifetime and share a summer that they will never forget.

• The House By The Cemetery | Blu Ray | (25/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Verdi: Requiem (Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano) | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £16.39   |  Saving you £6.59 (49.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Premiers Desirs | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £39.02   |  Saving you £-24.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Though better known for his still photography than for his work in film David Hamilton explores similar themes in each medium. With the stunningly shot Premiers Desirs Hamilton turns once again to familiar ideas and images. The film - which revolves around three young girls adjusting to adolescence and their own sexuality after being stranded by a boat wreck in the Mediterranean - explores issues of innocence purity and sexuality. While many object to Hamilton's subject ma

• The Makropulos Case - Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nicolas Lehnhoff's stunning 1995 production of Janacek's extraordinary black comedy The Makropulos Case was one of the first to be recorded in the superb new opera house at Glyndebourne. It was received with unanimous acclaim especially for its star the astounding singing-actress Anja Silja. Silja won an Evening Standard Award for her performance.

• The Art Of Violin | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A documentary film by Bruno Monsaingeon devoted to the 20th century's greatest violinists, The Art of Violin really cannot be faulted. The same, incidentally, can also be said of the similar volumes which cover the piano and singing, so there's never been a better time to collect a personal audio-visual archive of some wonderful historical performers. The added dimension provided by the painstakingly collected film material (here featuring no fewer than 20 outstanding soloists) is of course of exceptional value when observing violin technique, and the diversity of approaches presented here in loving detail is in itself a subject for endless comparison. The material mixes archive performance footage, much of which one might never have dreamed existed, with interviews and documentary commentary. However, rather than turn the project into a museum piece, Monsaingeon includes contributions from contemporary figures such as Perlman and, shrewdly, Hilary Hahn--not that there'd be any doubt of the huge relevance of the material to any contemporary player or lover of the repertoire. An absolute must. --Roger Thomas

• Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel | Blu Ray | (01/06/2009) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Hansel And Gretel