The classical work Un Ballo in Maschera composed by Giuseppe Verdi recorded live on 23 & 26 November 2005.
A house in Spain hosts a terrible secret in this chilling thriller / horror from director Jaume Balaguero.
A performance of Gounod's opera 'Romeo Et Juliette' in five acts recorded live at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
In these priceless documents from the late 1970's, filmed in the Bruckner shrines of Vienna and St Florian, Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner's Eighth - the symphony he revered above all others - and Ninth, as well as the towering Te Deum.
A motion picture tribute to the intrepid Flying Tigers , those youthful and courageous American pilots for hire, who harassed the Japanese Air Force over the Burma Road prior to their sneak attack on Pearl Harbour. John Wayne stars as the squadron leader and John Carroll as the cocky pilot who vie for the affection of the pretty nurse. The American Volunteer Group, or Flying Tigers, fight bravely for China's freedom despite the fact that they are greatly outnumbered. Squadron leader Jim Gordon (John Wayne) gets a new recruit when Woody Jason (John Carroll) joins the group. Woody signs up only because he needs money to pay for a breach-of-promise suit. His egotism and mercenary motives gain him the ill-will of fellow fliers. He further antagonises them by stealing Jim s girl, Brooke (Anna Lee), a Red Cross worker.
Giselle
Erotic French comedy. Graham (Eduardo Noriega) is a young office worker who loses his ability to retain long-term memories after an accident. Taking advantage of his situation secretary Irene (Anna Mouglalis) begins an intense affair with him reassuring Graham that although he can't remember the details of their passionate relationship she'll keep the memories for him until he recovers.
The present recording was made at a performance in Busseto Verdi's birthplace in the Emilia Romagna region. There in 2001 a whole series of events marked the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. This Falstaff performance along with Aida staged by Franco Zeffirelli constituted the high point of the impressive anniversary celebrations. The small 328-seat Teatro Verdi built in Verdi's lifetime provided the ensemble of La Scala Milan under its principal conductor Riccardo Muti with a particularly captivating backdrop and the mainly young singers including 31-year-old shooting star Ambrogio Maestri in the title role exciting young tenor Juan Diego Florez as Fenton and internationally acclaimed Barbara Frittoli as Alice - gave superb performances.
Jess is a happily married woman with a heart of gold whose husband Jacob the town's local handyman is Mr Dependable. They live in an idyllic house on the riverbank with Jacob's elderly mother May her sister Brenda as well as Nathan Jacob's elderly widowed cousin. Jess is kind and caring and enjoys taking care of them all. Into this content although unexciting life something is about to happen that will blow Jess's world apart. She is forced to question the entire meaning of her
Slavik Kryklyvyy, a once legendary World Latin American Dance Champion, has been out of the spotlight for ten years but is determined, with the help of a new partner, to recapture his former glory. Slavik is a temperamental and wildly talented perfectionist, taken out of the spotlight by a hip injury, and he is willing to sacrifice everything to get back to the top. He expects nothing but the best from his amateur world champion girlfriend, Anna Melnikova, and his temper flares when she fails to live up to his high standards. The couple dance around the world, clinging on to their relationship as the pressure mounts and waging a battle against memory, anxiety, injury and envy along the way. Looking at the glamorous world of ballroom dancing contrasted with the brutal and tough discipline which hides beneath the glittery surface, ‘Ballroom dancer’ watches the tragic love story unfold between Slavik and Anna. It’s a universal story of a man, who allows himself to be defined by his art and tragically realises the consequences of his uncompromising choices in life.
When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. When the search nearly kills her partner Special Agent John Scott a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help. Under Special Agent Phillip Broyles our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger more shocking truth.
Ercole Amante (2 Blu-Ray)
A young Adolf Hitler (Tom Schilling - The Baader Meinhoff Complex) begins his long dark journey steering him to leadership of the Nazi regime. Hitler's humble and sheltered early years are quickly transformed into an egomaniacal and ruthless obsession with power. He takes delight in tormenting and destroying the lives of those he sees as inferior but this is only the beginning... With incredibly moving performances and an intense look at the life of one of the most infamous and sinister men in history Dawn of Evil will shock and stun throwing you deep into the terror of the Third Reich.
Peter Bowles stars as Neville Lytton editor of a Fleet street gossip column in the Daily News. This series navigates the wide variety of fields in which a diarist treads warily - Fleet street takeovers inter newspaper rivalries the aristocracy and crime revealing a world that is by turns funny intriguing and exciting.
Based on one of SONY's most popular video games Heavenly Sword is a spectacular animated/CGI movie for pre-teen through 35+ audience. This female led action adventure tells the story of our heroine Nariko whose clan has long protected the Heavenly Sword a god's blade of immense power that drains its wielder of their life force. A power-hungry ruler seeks to obtain the sword to gain its devastating power. Given the duty of protecting the Heavenly sword Nariko must find the chosen one worthy enough to wield it.
One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe
Robert Askew (Bruce Jones) travels to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his ordinary life. But this is no typical weekend and a succession of magical events conspire to turn a journey of despair into a voyage of discovery. One Friday evening Bob's new partner Ste (Billy Boden) goads him into a football match. The Boss (Brian Glover) catches them and Bob is dismissed on the spot. Returning home early he discovers his wife Brenda (Anna Jaskolka) is having an affair. Devastat
Based on the much loved, timeless fairytale The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling andMe tells the story of Ratso, a wheeler dealer city rat, and Ugly, a baby duckling with a striking appearance.But Ugly isn't your average duckling and Dollar signs flash before Ratso's eyes as he recognises Ugly as a potential source of income. However, as the pair embark on an unlikely adventure, Ratso comes to realise that there is more to life than making a quick buck and so begins a lifelong friendship. A must for fans of classic fairytales and more recent films such as Ratatouille and Happy Feet this offers pure delight for the whole family.
Anna is a charismatic but struggling filmmaker facing a midlife crisis having turned 40; she lives in her friend's garage in L.A. dances in a vagina costume for money and has neither job nor girlfriend. Just when she's about to give up on both she meets sexy post-feminist Katia. To impress her new muse Anna decides to write and direct an all-female remake of 'whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf?' casting Katia and her best friends Chloe and Penelope in the film. Along the way with the help of those around her she discovers some home truths with hilarious results. From director Anna Margarita Albelo (A Lez in Wonderland Hooters) comes this eccentric semi-autobiographical romantic comedy with Albelo in her first feature fiction film alongside Guinevere Turner (Go Fish The L Word) in a show-stopping and award-winning performance Carrie Preston (True Blood) and Janina Gavankar (True Blood).
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