The first collaboration between Eastwood and Leone. The story of the man with no name, who tries to turn a gang feud to his own advantage.
Two men who become friends inspire on another soar to heights of self-delusion and lose themselves in a madness that shatters the norms of culture and civilisation. This award-winning three-part docudrama tears open the veil of myths and half-truths obscuring a central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions Albert Speer was a cultivated intellectual who allied himself with the 20th-century's most horrifying embodiment of evil. A brilliant architect he built ostentatious monuments and controlled Germany's wartime industry. During Hitler's final moments Speer the protg would turn against his master. Rare archive and home film footage interviews with Albert Speer's children and a cast led by Sebastian Koch (Black Book The Lives Of Others) provide a revealing look behind the staged self-portrayals of Hitler and his architect.
July 1944. As WWII raged on a group of conspirators led by Claus von Stauffenberg plotted to assassinate Hitler and end his reign of terror. Using rare color footage painstakingly recreated dramatizations detailed CG reconstructions and exclusive interviews with leading historians this thrilling documentary presents the definitive record of what happened before during and after these pivotal events.
The world has changed a lot in the 25 years between Die Hard and this fifth franchise rehash, but Bruce Willis is still the indestructible force of nature who is followed by gunfire and explosions everywhere he goes. In fact, he seems to have gotten more powerful and his body grown more resilient in spite of the crags in his face and the gray stubble over his ears. This time around, New York Police Department veteran John McClane has trekked to Russia for what he claims is a vacation, a running gag that lets Willis keep on quipping with the impeccable insouciance of a pedigreed action hero. What he's really up to is tracking his wayward son Jack (Jai Courtney), who John believes is on trial for murdering a mob kingpin. In the first of the movie's many dazzling set pieces, father and son meet cute just as Jack has broken out of a heavily fortified courtroom with a mysterious Russian businessman named Komarov (Sebastian Koch), who is in possession of some sort of information that's valuable on the world stage. Don't worry, the details aren't important as there's no room for plausibility in any direction. It's no spoiler to reveal that Jack is a covert CIA agent in pursuit of Komarov's file, and that instead of helping his estranged child, the senior McClane has actually bungled Junior's operation. This sets off a lengthy chase on the streets of Moscow (actually Budapest) that has father zooming after son with a tank full of caricatured Russian bad guys in the middle. Hundreds of vehicles sacrifice themselves for the hyperkinetic demolition derby between the three factions as they race through traffic-jammed streets, flattening everything made of metal and glass along the way. Though far less elegantly staged, the sequence recalls the opening chase in Skyfall, and the story rolls on in a similarly dumbed-down series of spy-movie showdowns that are all cranked up to 11. A Good Day to Die Hard is the most cartoonish sequel, given its superfluous plotting and nonstop spree of gratuitous destruction. There are a few plot twists--ultimately it's all about money, of course--but mostly it's an exercise in extravagant violence and automatic-weapons fire, with emotionless moments of rapprochement between John and Jack dropped in around the gunfights. Both of them survive beatings, car crashes, and ludicrous falls from tall buildings without injury as Komarov is lost, then found, then lost again. Dad helps his son mop up the mess by doing what they both like to do best: kill scumbags. The dizzying editing and breakneck pace builds to a crescendo at Chernobyl, where a magical anti-radiation gas explodes many things, a truck is driven out of a flying helicopter, buildings and people are shot to pieces, and a paroxysm of fetishistic, slow-motion digital mayhem turns the decrepit nuclear facility to rubble. Bruce Willis is firmly in charge throughout, delivering the mother of F-bomb catch phrases with a succession of increasingly eye-popping fireballs hot on his heels. Yippee-ki-yay, indeed. --Ted Fry
NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) one of the 20th century's greatest musicians is captured here on film with the two most famous conductors of his generation - Karajan and Bernstein - in Schumann's Cello Concerto Strauss's Don Quixote and Bloch's Schelomo. The Portrait produced by Arte features the manifold talents of this truly charismatic artist: Rostropovich as a conductor teacher and cellist with interview footage and comments about the great musician by Vengerov and others combined with fantastic historic black & white footage Tracklisting: 1. Nicht zu schnell 2. Langsam 3. Sehr lebhaft Rostropovich / Bloch 4. Lento moderato - Andante moderato - Allegro moderato - Allegro - Andante moderato Rostropovich / Strauss 1. Introduktion (Miges Zeitma) 2. Don Quixote der Ritter von der traurigen Gestalt 3. Sancho Panza 4. Variation 1 (Gemchlich) 5. Variation 2 (Kriegerisch) 6. Variation 3 (Miges Zeitma) 7. Variation 4 (Etwas breiter) 8. Variation 5 (Sehr langsam) 9. Variation 6 (Schnell) 10. Variation 7 (Ein wenig ruhiger als vorher) 11. Variation 8 12. Variation 9 (Schnell und strmisch) 13. Variation 10 (Viel breiter) 14. Finale (Sehr ruhig)
Two Men. Two Worlds. One Cause. When newly-commissioned SS Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews he has no choice but to act. The only sympathetic ear Gerstein is able to find is that of a young Father Riccardo (Mathieu Kassovitz) a priest with deep ties to the Vatican. While Riccardo takes on the obstructive Vatican hierarchy Gerstein must walk a tightrope between do
Film noir mystery directed by Mike Figgis and starring Sebastian Koch. Martin (Koch) is an accomplished writer of cinema and theatre who now teaches his trade to film school students. After the disappearance of his wife 15 years prior, he has been left alone to raise his daughter Sarah (Rebecca Night) who aspires to be an actress like her mother. At her 25th birthday party, Martin encounters the mysterious Angelique (Lotte Verbeek) who is found dead the next morning. An investigation by the p...
Wolf Larsen (Sebastian Koch) is the tyrannical Captain of the notorious seal hunting vessel the Sea Wolf. While on the high seas he takes on castaway Humphrey Van Wyden (Stephen Campbell Moore). But instead of abandoning him at the next harbour Wolf puts the mild mannered literary critic to work and rules over him with an unyielding iron fist. Much to Wolf's surprise the graft transforms Van Wyden into a hardened adversary - every bit as formidable as Wolf himself. But it's not until the appearance of Wolf brother Death (Tim Roth) and Maud (Neve Campbell) the daughter of a rival ship owner that the dynamic truly explodes into life leaving three men to war over love duty life and death. Inspired by the Jack London classic Sea Wolf is a high-seas adventure and psychological thriller that will stir inspire and excite its fans like never before.
September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn and her family attempt to reach Allied territory by boat. However tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol kills everybody onboard leaving Rachel as sole survivor. Desperate for revenge she joins the Resistance charged with infiltrating the German Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze and soon becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal... Twenty years in the making this stunning sexy war film from the acclaimed blockbuster director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct Total Recall Starship Troopers) is an epic and moving tale of courage and emotion - played out against the dying explosive months of WWII.
NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.
A photographer finds himself framed when his photographs develop into evidence against him.
Impact Partners in association with Vulcan Productions and CNN Films present Pandora's Promise the groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award -nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we've got nuclear power wrong? An audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival Pandora's Promise asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty. In his controversial new film Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy risking their careers and reputations in the process.
Learn the trademark riffs and solos of the man who reinvented Blues and Rock on the Guitar. An in-depth analysis of eight classic songs presented by Greg Koch. Songs comprise: Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love / Couldn't Stand The Weather / Crossfire / Empty Arms / The House Is Rockin' / Riveria Paradise / Scuttle Buttin' / Stang's Swang
Tutor Greg Kock guides you through some of Stevie Ray Vaughan's best work. Tracks include Honey Bee Lenny Love Struck Baby and Tightrope.
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