Mozart:Clarinet Concerto Symphony No.25
Leonard Grey (Caan) is superintendent of Jericho Mansions. His world may be small but he cares for every inch of it. For the last thirty years the building has been his universe as beyond the front door of the apartment block lies a terrifying agoraphobic nightmare into which for as long as he can remember he has never dared to venture. Yet Leonard's sanctuary is beginning to crumble as forces conspire to kick him out including a murder in which all the clues point to him alone...
Two valuable early Peter Sellers performances rescued from obscurity and restored by the BFI National Archive. Penny Points to Paradise sees all the Goons beside the seaside in a cheap and cheerful comic escapade climaxing in a Brighton waxworks. Shot around the same time Lets Go Crazy is a madcap selection of variety turns with memorable performances from Spike Milligan and Sellers in multiple roles. Both films provide an important insight into British comedy history and specifically chart the beginnings of Sellers' rise to stardom. A must-have for all Goons fans.
A man who accidentally kills a prostitute is sent to jail for seven years. On his release he looks to the future and a chance to put the past behind him.... But he reckons without an alcoholic cop who is looking for an opportunity to put him back inside.
This man wants to be... your doctor? This hospital comedy is a tale of greed ignorance and corruption amongst the medical profession. Peter Sellers stars the Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel a crooked doctor who is talented in the arts of bill-padding and unnecessary surgery. Mistrusted by patients and resented by other staffers his assistant (and lover!) Alice seeks revenge for one plot too many and when a perfectly fit construction worker has a kidney unnecessarily removed she spies her opportunity to make him pay for all his personal and professional infidelities. In cahoots with the city hospital administrator she frames Hopfnagel for professional misconduct and has him thrown out of the hospital only for him to sneak back as a patient!
Bartholemew Sholto is working in his laboratory when a pygmy-like native fires a poison dart with a blowpipe into the back of his neck killing him instantly. A one-legged accomplice joins the native by climbing up through the window and places a note on the dead body that reads; 'The Sign Of Four'. So begins one of Sherlock Holmes' most exciting adventures as a Miss Morston who is looking for her missing father draws him deeper into the mystery. Holmes attempts to discover the meaning of those four cryptic words with the help of his superior brain his amazing talent for disguise the gang of street urchins he employs called the Baker Street Irregulars and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson.
From the Kulturzentrum Gasteig MunichHector Berlioz - Romeo Et Juliette - Symphonie Dramatique op.17
He was dashing debonair and daring. He had pledged to fight evil to undertake any dangerous or delicate mission on behalf of his sovereign. He was fin de siecle gentleman Adam Adamant. Was and is - for Adam Adamant Lives! A Vintage Year for Scoundrels: Lured from an opulent ballroom to the rat-ridden streets of Edwardian Stepney Adam Adamant confronts his most deadly enemy - the Face an evil genius who condemns him to a state of suspended animation entombed in a block of ice. When he awakens sixty-four years later in the sordid swinging sixties streets of Soho the bemused and befuddled adventurer is befriended by Georgina Jones and is quickly plunged into the twilight world of gangsters and protection rackets. Death Has a Thousand Faces: Why does death lie in wait for the man with the stick of rock? What does the coded cipher hidden inside it mean? To find out Adam and Georgina drive to Blackpool where they're enmeshed in a world of drama and danger where fear lurks in every fairground and the executioner's block in the Horror Museum awaits another noble neck. As the seconds tick away it looks as if Blackpool's Golden Mile will be reduced to a pile of dust-swirling debris - can Adam prevent it from becoming a mere golden memory?
Boris Godunov
The Russell's think that they have found their dream home the perfect place to raise their kids teenaged son Tyler and young imaginative Gina. Before long the dream house becomes a nightmarish hell as haunting events rattle the family. Strange noises broken toys murdered pets - is it the work of the beasts Gina describes or a disturbed child acting out? Dr. Werner a child psychologist is brought in to help Gina come to grips with reality. But can Dr. Werner come to grips with the chilling truth - a vicious pack of creatures no doctor can cure. The house becomes a battleground between the new occupants and the ancient monsters beneath. Not since Poltergeist has a family fought so hard for their home and their lives taking one final stand to keep their home from becoming... INHABITED!
Windtalkers: In 1942 several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) - a Navajo code talker the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan when capture is imminent Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? Harts War: Fourth generation war hero Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still as the camp's highest-ranking American officer he commands his fellow inmates keeping a sense of honour alive in a place where honour is easy to destroy all under the dangerous ever-watchful eye of SS Major Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war McNamara is silently planning waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country. Platoon: Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young naive American who upon his arrival in Vietnam quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong but also with the gnawing fear physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other the conflict chaos and hatred permeate Taylor suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone Platoon is powerful intense and starkly brutal.
It can open any door. From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret...
Following a failed robbery a young hot-headed gunslinger by the name of Whitey finds himself the guest of Marshal Jim Crown in the Cimarron jail. Keen to locate the rest of the gang Crown tricks Whitey into revealing the outlaws' next target. When the Tinker Gang pull a no-show and Crown confronts him Whitey realises he has been duped by both the Marshal and his former employer. Set on revenge Whitey escapes with the beautiful young Dulcey as his prisoner and begins to hunt down those who have double-crossed him. When he helps capture gang leader Arn Tinker Whitey sets Crown an ultimatum - he'll return Dulcey unharmed... but only after Tinker is hanged!
Stares Death Straight In The Face Without Flinching... Can You? We have a right to a few minutes of fame even if they are our last so believe the two filmmakers we follow in Suicide. They don't wish to question why people want to immortalise their suicidal deaths they just offer an opportunity to become the focus of attention at least once in their lives... As the filmmakers become torn between sympathy for their customers and greed for the money they're being paid how far will they go?. By filming the events are they becoming accomplices to the deaths? and by watching how drawn do we become? Suicide exploits the camera in an ultra-real way and challenge our emotions more and more with each episode an experience shared by the cast and crew during production. Every scene was shot in one take this had to be enough because the actors and crew were so moved that they couldn't bear trying it a second time...
2 000 years ago he conquered the world... Now he's back to clean it up. Two thousand years ago: as Alexander the Great was conquering the world he had his highest ranking general Parmenion assassinated. Before Parmenion died he vowed one day he would return and exact his revenge. Present Day: Andrew Garret is a cop with psychic abilities assigned to investigate The Play a barbarous gladiatorial cometition organised by the city's underworld. Garret goes undercover and infiltrates the Play disguised as a fighter calling himself the Gladiator. Parmenion a gambler of the Play baits Andrew to enter the battle dome called the Arena of Death and fight the giant Mongol.
The entire first series of investigations featuring Peter Falk's now classic depiction of crumpled trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo. Also contains the pilot movies Prescription: Murder and Ransom For A Dead Man. Episodes comprise: 1. Murder By The Book 2. Death Lends A Hand 3. Dead Weight 4. Suitable For Framing 5. Lady In Waiting 6. Short Fuse 7. Blueprint For Murder
Assemble a collection of cons, arm them heavily and drop them on the enemy infused island of Corto Maltese. If anyone's laying down bets, the smart money is against them-all of them.
They're Off: Bernard's class is taking his teaching methods a little too seriously when they place a bet based on what he told them in class. Appalled Bernard has to cancel the bet or the school will cancel him! Common Law: Bernard plays detective after Sharon is molested in the park on the way home from school. Prepared to be surprised because you'll be shocked at the identity of the culprit! Panalal Passes: By The first Parent Teacher Association meeting is a failure when only the parents of the new boy Panalal turn up. But when Bernard organises a second PTA meeting it's not the parents who are too lazy to turn up it's the teachers!
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? sees a change of direction for Robert Aldrich's unofficial trilogy which all involve "ageing actresses" in macabre thrillers (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte). The busy Aldrich only produced What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, calling in TV director Lee H Katzin (a Mission: Impossible regular) to handle the megaphone. Aldrich also opted to shoot the film in pastel colours appropriate to the unusual Arizona desert setting rather than the gothic black and white of the earlier films. The film cast the less iconic Geraldine Page as the genteelly unpleasant Mrs Clare Marrable. Left apparently penniless by her departed husband, Mrs M opts to keep up appearances by hiring a succession of timid elderly housekeepers, bossing them around with well-spoken nastiness, duping them out of their life savings and, on the pretence of getting help with a midnight tree-planting program, lures them into their own graves, batters them to death and plants lovely pines over them. Page gets her own way with the meek likes of Mildred Dunnock, until the feistier, red-wigged R!uth Gordon applies for the job and gets down to amateur sleuthing. While Bette Davis and her partners went wildly over the top in previous films, Page and Gordon play more subtly, finding odd pathetic moments in between the monstrous, irony-laced horror stuff. The supporting cast of pretty or handsome young things, mostly putty in the hands of the manipulative Page, contribute striking little cameos (Rosemary Forsyth sports a pleasing 1969 hairdo as the kindly but intimidated neighbour), but the film belongs to its leading ladies, delivering a fine line in twist-packed cat-and-mouse theatrics. The video is handsomely letterboxed, as befits a film made before widescreen films were shot with all the action in the middle of the frame to facilitate television sales. --Kim Newman
Lassie has to try and make her way home in time for Christmas in this charming family movie.
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