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English soprano Amanda Roocroft takes the lead role in this production of Janacek's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real in October, 2009. Ivor Bolton conducts, and other leading performances come from Miroslav Dvorsky, Deborah Polaski, Mette Ejsing and Nikolai Schukoff.
After the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home the Multiverse is unlocked, and Doctor Strange must enlist help from old and new allies as he traverses mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities in order to confront a surprising adversary. Enter a new dimension of Strange in this supernatural adventure filled with plot twists and exhilarating action sequences.
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, along with an ensemble of actors, singers and musicians, bring to life the tragic love between the composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck. Reflecting the separation that came to be such a central theme of their lives, the performers are divided into male and female groups. Sting reads the letters of Robert Schumann, with his songs sung by Iain Burnside, while Trudie Styler reads Clara's letters, with her songs being sung by Rebecca Evans.
Recorded live at the Teatro Royal in Madrid in July 2006, this production by Emilio Sagi of Moreno Torroba's enduring 'zarzuela' stars Placido Domingo and Nancy Herrera and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Royal conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos.
Tom Hooper directs this Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel. Set in 19th-century France, the film tells the story of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), a prisoner who breaks his parole and spends the next two decades fleeing from obsessive police inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). In his quest for personal redemption, Valjean adopts Cosette (Isabelle Allen/Amanda Seyfried), daughter of impoverished prostitute Fantine (Anne Hathaway), and is eventually elected as town mayor. But despite the events of the intervening years, can he ever really shake off his past? The ensemble supporting cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks. Hathaway won the Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA for her supporting performance. The film also won two additional Oscars and three BAFTAs, and received Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy and Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical Or Comedy (Jackman).
Collection of five action features starring Steven Seagal. In 'Under Siege' (1992) a battleship is captured by a disgruntled CIA man and his small private army, who pose as a rock band. The only one who can save the vessel, which has nuclear capability, is Casey Ryback (Seagal), the ship's cook and former Navy SEAL. In 'Under Siege 2 - Dark Territory' (1995) a passenger train has been hijacked by electronics expert Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) and turned into an untracable command centre for a weapons satellite. He plans to blow up Washington DC - for one billion dollars - and it falls to Ryback to stop him. In 'Hard to Kill' (1990) Los Angeles police officer Mason Storm (Seagal) wakes from a lengthy coma and swears revenge on the crooked cops, vicious hoodlums and the corrupt senator who murdered his wife and child and put him to sleep for seven years. In 'Nico - Above the Law' (1988) martial arts detective Nico Toscani (Seagal) discovers that a group of drug barons are about to bring chaos to the streets of Chicago. With the help of his partner (Pam Grier) he soon discovers that the drugs cartel is run by Zagon (Henry Silva), a CIA official whom Nico had worked with during the Vietnam War. In 'Executive Decision' (1996) Pentagon defence analyst Dr. David Grant (Kurt Russell) has to rescue 400 hostages from a hijacked 747 aircraft which is stacked full of dangerous chemical weapons and heading straight for Washington DC. Since the terrorists real objective is the destruction of the US capital, Grant realises that attempts at negotiation will be fruitless and consequently resolves to board the 747 himself. But the mission, led by Special Operations expert Austin Travis (Seagal), looks doomed from the start when the experimental aircraft they are using to board the plane goes wildly out of control during the docking procedure.
Classic documentary drama based on Walter Lord's book about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Told from the perspective of Second Officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More), the story follows the supposedly 'unsinkable' ship as she embarks on her maiden voyage and ultimately founders in the North Atlantic Ocean. The ship leaves port and soon Captain Smith (Laurence Naismith) is given several ice warnings but decides not to decrease the Titanic's speed. When the ship hits an iceberg late at night on April 14th the situation looks bleak, especially with the realisation that there are not enough lifeboats to carry all on board. The Titanic's distress call is received by the Carpathia but she is four hours away and unlikely to reach the ship before it sinks. Chaos breaks out both above and below deck as the passengers and crew race against time for their survival.
The Fellowship Of The Ring
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The Return Of The King
Renato Palumbo conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in this production of Bellini's opera. Sondra Radvanovsky stars in the title role with the rest of the cast including Gregory Kunde, Raymond Aceto, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ana Puche and Francisco Vas.
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino in this performance of Verdi's tragic opera.
Classic drama starring Celia Johnson as a married woman whose life is thrown into turmoil when she unexpectedly falls in love with a stranger. Laura Jesson (Johnson) appears to be the very embodiment of a respectable, happily-married British housewife and mother. Equally, the man who comes to her assistance when a passing train blows grit into her eye, Dr Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), enjoys a settled and comfortable life. Neither of the pair are prepared for the emotions the encounter will evoke in them. Unable to forget each other, they begin meeting covertly in the railway cafe. Given that both are married with children, pursuing a romantic relationship seems impossible, but will the power of their love overwhelm all other concerns?
All five episodes from the BBC documentary science series presented by Professor Brian Cox. Whether it's Saturn's rings, the solar flares of the Sun or the deserts of Mars, Professor Cox demonstrates how the forces that shaped our world are also responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking sights in our solar system. Episodes comprise: 'Empire of the Sun', 'Order Out of Chaos', 'The Thin Blue Line', 'Dead Or Alive' and 'Aliens'.
Zubin Mehta conducts the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Verdi's opera, recorded in Italy in 2015. The cast includes Carlo Colombara, Anita Rachvelishvili, Kristin Lewis and Fabio Sartori.
Collection of the best arias from Verdi's operas 'Aida', 'La Traviata', 'Il Trovatore' and 'Otello'. The performances feature singers such as Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez and Francesco Meli.
Yuri Termirkanov leads the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this 2011 performance of Verdi's requiem. The featured soloists include Dimitra Theodossiou, Sonia Ganassi, Francesco Meli and Riccardo Zanellato.
Classic drama from legendary Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni. Walking through the dilapidated streets of Milan, stopping and staring aimlessly out at the world, is strikingly beautiful Lydia (Jeanne Moreau). Her husband, Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), is a popular author whose newest publication is being celebrated with a signing. When Lydia returns home later that night, she is unresponsive to Giovanni, and acts bored and aloof. Giovanni decides to take Lydia to a nightclub in town where they watch African dancers perform acrobatic cabaret acts with full wine glasses. But Lydia is still bored, so Giovanni takes her to a friend's elegant cocktail party, where they both stay all night, drifting from one flirtation to the next, uninterested in each other. An emotional and inconclusive conversation between the couple ends out the night as the sun rises.
Ambrogio Maestri leads the cast in Stephen Medcalf's 2011 production of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Other cast members include Luca Salsi, Antonio Gandia, Barbara Bargnesi and Romina Tomasoni. The conductor is Andrea Battistoni.
Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera, recorded live in 2011. The cast members include Dimitra Theodossiou, Vladimir Stoyanov, Aquiles Machado, Mariana Pentcheva and Roberto Scandiuzzi.
Donato Renzetti is the conductor for this live performance of Verdi's tragic opera, recorded at Teatro Regio di Parma in 2007. An all-star cast includes Giorgio Surian, Mario Luperi, Marcelo Álvarez, Leo Nucci and Fiorenza Cedolins.
Daniele Callegari leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this live performance of Verdi's opera, recorded at the Parma Festival in 2009. Staged by Lamberto Puggelli, the cast includes Roberto de Biasio, Michelle Pertusi, Cristina Giannelli and Dimitra Theodossiou.
Donato Renzetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this live performance of Verdi's opera, recorded at the Parma Festival in 2009. Staged by Joseph Franconi Lee, the cast includes Leo Nucci, Roberto de Biasio, Tatiana Serjan and Roberto Tagliavini.
Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House in this performance of Verdi's final opera, based on the character created by William Shakespeare. When the lecherous Henry Falstaff (Ambrogio Maestri) sends identical letters of love to two wives of Windsor, Alice Ford (Barbara Frittoli) and Meg Page (Judith Schmid), the women decide to teach him a lesson, and send Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef) to arrange a rendezvous.
Documentary following the everyday challenges faced by 200 local musicians of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as they struggle to maintain their country's only orchestra, despite war, political unrest and power cuts.
James Cameron's epic action, sci-fi masterpiece starring Schwarzenegger in his most iconic role, has been stunningly restored by Cameron himself and is loaded with special features. First hitting our screens in 1991 with ground-breaking special effects, this version will take the seminal blockbuster to the next level of effects and into the 21st century for a new generation of fans. It has been 10 years since the events of Terminator. Sarah Connor's ordeal is only just beginning as she struggles to protect her son John, the future leader of the human resistance against the machines, from a new Terminator, sent back in time to eliminate John Connor while he's still a child. Sarah and John don't have to face this terrifying threat alone however. The human resistance have managed to send them an ally, a warrior from the future ordered to protect John Connor at any cost. The battle for tomorrow has begun.
Japanese animated feature written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. When a comet falls for the first time in a millennium, two children begin to feel bonded through their dreams, even though they have never met. Mitsuha (voice of Mone Kamishiraishi) is a country girl who longs for the energy of the city; Taki (Ryûnosuke Kamiki) is an academic living in the city with his friends. But when each dreams about being more like the other, these lines begin to blur... |
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