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• Thunderheart | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed stand-off between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheart director Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheart feels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• The Death Of Klinghoffer | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  An adaptation of John Adam's opera 'The Death Of Klinghoffer' which tells the story of the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship the Achile Lauro.

• Sylvan - Back To Live (Bluray) | Blu Ray | (02/08/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sylvan - Posthumous Silence | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Sylvan: Posthumous Silence - Live At Kampnagel

• Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Though performed in the original Italian Peter Sellars' production of Cosi fan tutte relocates Mozart's comedy of love to the neon-and-chrome glare of a seaside diner mirroring the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America. Peter Sellars' productions of Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro set in the dark streets of Harlem and the heights of New York's Trump Tower are also available on DVD.

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Though performed in the original Italian Peter Sellars' production of Le nozze di Figaro relocates Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America.

• Le Nozze Di Figaro / Don Giovanni / Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £65.99

  This 6 DVD set contains the three Mozart operas composed to texts by Da Ponte presented in contemporary stagings by the director Peter Sellars. Sung in the original Italian but relocated to contrasting worlds of late-twentieth-century America Le nozze di Figaro takes place in the ersatz elegance of Fifth Avenue Don Giovanni in the darker streets of brownstone New York and Cosi fan tutte in the chrome-&-neon surroundings of a seaside diner.