Documentary

• Michael Nyman's Man With A Movie Camera | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  As you might guess from the rather impertinent possessive in the title, Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera is a re-release of Dziga Vertov's 1929 experimentalist classic provided with a score by Michael Nyman. Those who know and love Nyman's music--and come to that, those who know and dislike it--will know pretty well what to expect: fluent orchestral minimalism turned out by the yard. The mood and the tempo scarcely vary, no matter what Vertov's showing us or how fast or slow the rhythm of his cutting. The effect is to tone down the excitement and audacity of Vertov's ideas and render them safe and even a touch bland. If you're a Nyman fan, this is definitely for you. Otherwise, the earlier BFI release of the same film has not one but two alternative scores: a pounding, heroic, forward-with-the-Soviets affair from the Alloy Orchestra, closely based on Vertov's own notes of the kind of orchestral accompaniment he wanted for his film; and a second from the progressive group In the Nursery, gentler and more expressionist, drawing on state-of-the-art music technology. (As a third option, the BFI release includes a well-informed voice-over commentary from film historian Yuri Tsivian.) On the DVD: Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera comes to DVD packed in a hinged square metal tin reminiscent of the ones that hold small Dutch cigars. There are printed biogs of Vertov and Nyman, the latter rather cloyingly fulsome ("a man of impeccable musical credentials"). The transfer is excellent and pretty well complete; a few minor blemishes where the original nitrate stock had deteriorated scarcely detract. --Philip Kemp

• The Edge Of The Land - Episodes 7 To 12 | DVD | (01/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• The Very Best Of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Little Mermaid Double | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-83.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes comprise: Return To the Sea The Golden Tablet Water Water Everywhere A Leopard and Her Spots Whither Thou Goest? What's Cookin? Be Careful What You Wish A Day in the Country Safe Deposit Sugar and Spice.

• The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time: 24 Short Films With Music By Radiohead | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""This was originally meant to be four episodes shown on our very own television channel. It was just before 'Hail To The Thief' was released. Everyone was working themselves into a froth. They told us they could get us our own station. Somewhere here somewhere there you know. It was very exciting. We were going to take over the airwaves. So we set about putting together some television. We got lots of tapes from a request we put on our website. Lots. Lots and lots. We also generated

• Jarhead | UMD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Pictoplasma - Pictoplasma - Characters In Motion | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

• Roman Frontier In Germany | DVD | (15/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Marsden Rail - 27 - Over The Settle And Carlisle - 1959-1968 | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

• Your Special Year - 1966 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Your Special Year - 1936 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Your Special Year - 1946 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Jancis Robinson's Wine Course | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Visual Guide To Passing Your Driving Test | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• French Premier | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Buy-To-Let Success Seminar | DVD | (04/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Buying Property In Spain | DVD | (04/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Royal International Air Tattoo 2003 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Greatest Heroes In History | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dynamic portraits of some of the greatest military and political leaders the world has ever seen. Meticulous research high end dramatic reconstruction and location shooting are married to make seven fast moving historical profiles featuring all the great moments of the lives of Alexander the Great Julius Ceasar Hannibal Abraham Lincoln George Washington Admiral Lord Nelson and Napoleon.

• Edwin's Kingdom - Vol. 2 - North Northumberland | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99