The companion film to 'Smoke' 'Blue In The Face' is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in
Smoke (Dir. Wayne Wang 1995): Departing from the conventions of Hollywood story-telling Smoke is constructed like an emotional jigsaw puzzle: pieces interweave and interconnect to form an intricate whole. Unrelated characters - a cigar store manager (Harvey Keitel) who has taken photographs in front of his store at the same hour every day for 14 years; a novelist (William Hurt) unable to go on writing after his wife is killed in a random act of street violence; a man (Forest Whitaker) who ran away from his past and tries to start over after accidentally killing his wife. These characters amongst others making their way through the lonely urban landscape might seem to have little in common. But in the couse of this motion picture they cross paths by chance and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways. Blue in the Face (Dir. Wayne Wang & Paul Auster 1995): The companion film to Smoke Blue In The Face is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.
Debussy's great literary opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck's dramatic reading of the classic tale of sibling rivalry, was first performed in 1902. This 1988 production was recorded at the Opéra National de Lyon, swapping a traditional medieval forest setting for a fin de siècle Castle Allemonde in which the characters wander through vast, shadowy and empty halls. The cast features Colette Alliott-Lugaz as a mercurial Mélisande and Francois le Roux as a Byronic Pelléas, with José van Dam as his brother Golaud, the austere fly in the ointment. Little actually happens on stage. The characters circle each other, describing events and emotions which they only half understand. Often, their recitative is introspective rather than a means of external communication. The drama is played out in the landscape of the mind, punctuated and emphasised by Debussy's remarkable, brooding and atmospheric score. At times, it becomes the swirling stuff of nightmare, an aspect to which John Eliot Gardiner's assured conducting pays close attention. The opera might come to its inevitable end, but there is a strong sense that these ghost-like figures are doomed to repeat their tragic tale endlessly. Uncomfortably haunting stuff, with moments of breathtaking beauty. --Piers Ford
A doctor tries to save his dying son by performing a heart transplant only he uses the heart of an ape... with disastrous results. This Mexican schlock horror film manages to combine female wrestling extreme and ludicrous violence with blue pyjamas torn blue dresses and naked shower romps invloving some highly original simian seduction techniques! 'Night Of The Bloody Apes' was banned as an official Video Nasty in the 1980s for its extreme gore sex and violence.
Moliere:Disc 1:Premiere epoqueDisc 2:Deuxieme epoque
Walter Pool travels to Mexico in the footsteps of his hero Ernest Hemingway. He is robbed soon after his arrival and finds himself fighting for survival...
A lively biopic of French artist Toulouse Lautrec directed by John Huston. Deformed in early age when his legs stop growing dwarfish Parisian Lautrec (Jose Ferrer who also plays Lautrec's father) goes on to become one of the masters of Impressionism. 'Moulin Rouge' is famous for its incredibly exhilarating twenty minute can-can sequence which sets the tone for a series of high energy dance routines.
Excellent French/Japanese production based on the popular novel by Jules Verne. When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the reform club to travel around the world in eighty days he cannot have forseen what lies in front for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the
Complete live telecast of December 10 1956.Program.Victoria De Los Angeles & Barry Morell-La Traviata: Act I (abridged) (with Elizabeth Doubleday Virginio Assandri Arthur Newman)Marian Anderson (with Franz Rupp piano)arr. H.T. Burleigh: Heav'n Heav'narr. H.T. Burleigh: My Lord What a Mornin'arr. Hall Johnson: Roll Jord'n RollArthur RubeinsteinRachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (abridged)Andres Segovia/ Bach: Gavotte Torroba: AllegrettoBoris Christoff/ Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) Death of Boris (with Nicola Moscona Michael Pollack Kirk Jordon)Showcase Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Alfred WallensteinHosted by Jose Ferrer.
Based on a play by Miguel Pinero Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a short eyes the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past they believe Bruce to be the scum of the earth and proceed to treat him accordingly.
In 1963 a group of determined criminals carried out the most daring and lucrative crime of the century...The Great Train Robbery. All of the gang were caught tried and sentenced but one gang member served only two years of a thirty year term before escaping from Wandsworth Prison. Overnight Ronnie Biggs (Freeman) became the world's most wanted man. With every police force in the world hunting for him Biggs changed his identity and his face; somehow managing to keep one step ahead
The complete opera 'Otello' by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed by the German Opera Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The cast includes: Jon Vickers Mirella Freni and Peter Glossop. Conducted and directed by Herbert Von Karajan.
America's leading ballet soloists display highlights from their repertoire.
The dead scream in order to free themselves of their secrets... Set in Spain in the 1960's 'Secrets Of The Heart' follows the story of nine year old Javi and his friend Carlos. Javi takes Carlos to an old country house on the outskirts of the city where legend has it a violent crime ofd passion once took place and the voices of the dead can still be heard in the basement. The mystery of the uninhabited house marks the beginning of a search into the unknown for the two young frie
Jose Carreras: Christmas With Jose
Samson is the Israelites only defence against their Philistine oppressors. Delilah beautiful and treacherous plans his destruction forcing him to fight for his life and the future of his people.
Sing. Dream. Believe. His whole life Antonio (John Leguizamo) has dreamed of one thing - to become a famous musician. Leaving his Mexican border town behind he hops on a bus to Los Angeles where his life is transformed when he falls for Nina (Ana Claudia Talancn) a beautiful aspiring doctor. As his attraction to Nina grows so does his admiration for his neighbour Mirabella (Elizabeth Pea) a divorced mother of two and gifted former singer. At Antonio's passionate urgin
When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the reform club to travel around the world in eighty days he cannot have forseen what lies in front for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members
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