"Actor: Dennis Bailey"

• The Trip | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £19.30   |  Saving you £-4.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The things we do for love and things we should have done all come together on The Trip. An ambitious epic romance that traces the course of two men through their initial meeting as teenagers in 1973 until the mid 80's. Alan is a member of the Young Republicans and an aspiring journalist. He's working on a book about the evils of homosexuality and invites Tommy a gay rights activist over for dinner and to interview him for the book. Thus begins a friendship that leads to a

• Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Peter Hall's lavishly staged L'Incoronazione di Poppea celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Glyndebourne in 1984 with a performance of Monteverdi's most celebrated and also most controversial opera. The score is conductor Raymond Leppard's "enhanced" edition, which he had premiered at Glyndebourne back in 1962, fully scored for a large orchestra. Much debate circles around the forces appropriate for performing Monteverdi's decidedly minimalist work, but one thing at least is certain: it didn't sound anything like this in the 17th century! Never mind, however inauthentic it may be, Leppard's big and beefy orchestral updating--including a fulsome continuo group with pairs of harpsichords, organs and cellos, as well as lute, guitar and harp--supports the weighty melodrama nicely. The singers, too, are full-bodied, led by a fruity Maria Ewing as Poppea (in various revealing outfits) sounding suitably seductive, and Dennis Bailey, oddly lovely of voice as Nero (one of the opera's controversial aspects is the heroic central role accorded to these two thoroughly wicked characters). Perhaps best of all is Robert Lloyd as Seneca, who not only boasts a profound, reverberant bass, but also looks the part under beard and toga. With an onstage chorus to lament him, Seneca's death scene is the most moving in the opera. Peter Hall's clever staging keeps the Olympians--Love, Fortune and Virtue--permanently watching from above as the venal humans below act out this tragedy of poisoned love. The no-frills DVD has subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish. --Mark Walker

• The Blackout | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Have you ever consumed so much alcohol and drugs that you forgot what you did last night? Hollywood superstar Matty (Matthew Modine) does it all the time. He's got everything - fame money gorgeous women fast cars and even faster friends. But when Matty's strung out there's nothing he wouldn't do for kicks... even commit murder! Assisting Matty on his modern descent into hell are nightclub owner Micky (Dennis Hopper) girlfriend Annie (Beatrice Dalle) and starring in her first feature film role Supermodel Claudia Schiffer as his lover Susan. Let maverick director Abel Ferrara plunge your senses into the compulsive world of excess.

• All Grown Up - Interview with a Camp Fire | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (-170.10%)   |  RRP £9.99