The Life and World of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Primary Teacher of the Dalai Lama. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - poet scholar and meditator - is considered to be the ""Master of Masters"" among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. This tribute to him took ten years to make beginning in 1989 when Matthieu Ricard a French monk began taping extensive footage of his teacher. When Rinpoche died in 1991 his followers determined to share the life of this great teacher with the world. Man
Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust is by consensus the great Hollywood novel, a poison-pen letter aimed squarely at the tinsel heart of the movie biz. Only in the 1970s could Hollywood actually hazard a film of this story, and the result is suitably corrosive. William Atherton is the observer Tod, Karen Black the blond starlet Faye, and Donald Sutherland the hulking Homer--but they are easily out-acted by the colorful supporting cast. In particular, Burgess Meredith's exhausted showbizzy salesman and Billy Barty's strutting dwarf are superbly crafted gargoyles in this Hollywood wax museum. Director John Schlesinger piles on the rancid atmosphere and rampant hypocrisy until the movie fairly drowns in its own grotesque vision. Long before the climactic apocalyptic riot, the film has torn itself up. There's no substitute for West's wicked prose, so the adaptation comes across as a literal-minded screech rather than a true bonfire of the vanities. --Robert Horton
A performance of Gounod's opera 'Romeo Et Juliette' in five acts recorded live at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
François Truffaut again tackles the elusive nature of creativity and creation in his thoughtful, sumptuous 1980 film The Last Metro. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, and a winner of various Césars, The Last Metro is set in occupied France during World War II. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) manages the Theatre Montmarte in the stead of her Jewish husband, director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent). He has purportedly fled France but is really hiding in the basement of the theatre. The one hope to save the Montmarte is a new play starring the dashing Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu). The attraction between Marion and Bernard is palpable, and as usual Truffaut creates tension and drama from even the most casual of occurrences. The theme of the director locked away while his lover and his creation are appropriated by others makes for interesting Truffaut study, but first and foremost this is a well-spun romance.--Keith Simanton, Amazon.com
Six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors one such group stumbles into an abandoned government research facility where the now dead scientists were working on making genetic mutations capable of creating their own amino acids. The group are attacked by one of the leftover experiments who tries to ensure that a horrible fate awaits them...
To everyone else she's a monster but to one special teacher shes a very special child. Six year old Caitlin vandalises property and attacks other children causing devastating injuries. She has been branded psychotic and seems doomed to a life behind bars in a mental hospital. But behind this devlish exterior lies a very different character; a charming child with a near genius iq. When Caitlin joins Maggie Bernard's special education class Maggie refuses to give up on a child whom everyone else has abandoned even if it means challenging the law.
An innocent school teacher Jim Harper (Stephen Tompkinson) finds himself drawn into an international conspiracy when he accidentally discovers a drug that acts upon the shared unconscious. The drug company hunts him ruthlessly for his body contains their secret enzyme which could make illegal millions for the company - and can turn him into a weapon of enormous potential. Harper has to go on the run but can't be sure of what's real and what is halluciantion. Fleeing to England and
The complete fourth series of one of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Episodes comprise: 1. Home And Away 2. One For The Road 3. All In The Game 4. Never Give Your Real Name 5. The Tender Trap 6. My Son My Son
Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) leads an all-star cast in this electrifying journey that puts you in the middle of the most spectacular film adventure. Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich) has made a terrifying discovery: the Earth's inner core has stopped rotating. Now the planet's electromagnetic field is deteriorating and within months, Earth will be destroyed. One hope exists: to send Keyes and an elite team of scientists in a subterranean vessel to the centre of the Earth. As mankind's fate hangs in the balance, the scientists and the ship's crew must do the unthinkable - detonate a nuclear device to reactivate the Earth's core.
After being ousted from his hockey team the Seattle Simians having been falsely accused of misconduct Jack hits the road and ends up in the city. After making friends with a homeless skateboarder Jack proves equally adept at mastering the half-pipe as he is at delivering a slap shot!
The Quatermass Experiment: A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth... Quatermass 2: Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed...
When Ellie Perkins came across a shed that she has been forbidden to approach she makes a discovery that shall forever change her and lives of those around her. Locked inside is 17 year old Alice Guthrie epileptic and partly deaf imprisoned like a wild animal by her abusive stepfather and ignored by her mother..
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.
Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone...
Alma Cogan was one of the brightest stars of music and television during the 1950's. Her glamour and dresses were legendary and she was the most successful female recording star of the decade. Her life story and great television performances are captured on this special double disc set! In addition to the previously released Alma Cogan - On TV there is also the documentary that charts the story of her life career famous parties and romances - Alma Cogan's Fabulous Story!
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer: (WS Anamorphic / English Subtitles / English Stereo) The exciting adventures of Rudolph the most famous reindeer of all come magically to life in this feature-length animated musical full of loveable characters and voiced by an all-star cast. Ridiculed because of his nose Rudolph runs away to the North Pole where he befriends Slyly the fox (Eric Idle) and Leonard the polar bear (Bob Newhart). When his friend Zoey a young doe is captured b
How to Get Ahead in Advertising stars Richard E. Grant as Dennis Dimbleby Bagley a brilliant young advertising executive whose constant fretting over an inability to devise a slogan for a revolutionary new pimple cream causes a growth to appear on his neck... which soon develops into a miniature talking head. Are two heads really better than one?
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