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Beneath the sewers of the Paris Opera House, a masked figure dwells. He is Enrique (Lon Chaney), the Phantom, a hideously disfigured composer whose dream is to turn chorus singer Christine (Mary Philbin) into a diva. This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel gave 'Man of a Thousand Faces' Lon Chaney his most famous role, and is celebrated today as one of the great classics of American silent film.
Documentary about Rome's Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The film takes a look back at the orchestra's many conductors from the last 30 years, including current music director Antonio Pappano, and offers an insight into the process of rehearsing and performing.
Collection of archive footage featuring works by Giuseppe Verdi. Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance from 1943 of the 'La Forza del Destino' overture. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the New Philharmonia Orchestra in the 'I Vespri Siciliani' overture and 'Quattro Pezzi Sacri: Stabat Mater', recorded in 1968. Finally, Charles Mackerras conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a 1958 performance featuring 'Ehi! Taverniere!' from 'Falstaff' and 'Vanne... Credo in un Dio Crudel' from 'Otello', sung by baritone Tito Gobbi.
Michael Güttler conducts the Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra in this production of Verdi's work based on the play 'Kabale and Liebe' by Friedrich von Schiller. Recorded in Sweden in 2012, the performance stars Olesya Golovneva and Luc Robert as the young lovers Luisa and Rodolfo, with Vladislav Sulimsky as Miller and Taras Shtonda as Count Walter.
The mutant superheroes return in this motion comic series from John Cassaday and Joss Whedon. In this second instalment, after a member of the Xavier Institute dies, it becomes apparent that an enemy, who is intent on destroying the mutants once and for all, is operating from the inside. A shocking secret is revealed and the X-Men find themselves fighting for their survival.
Tsuda is a young insurance salesman whose life, and the life of his fiancée Hizuru, is turned upside down when he meets an old schoolfriend, Takuji. Soon after Takuji's visit to Tsuda's apartment, Hizuru has her nipples pierced and starts making moves on Takuji while Tsuda begins a fitness and boxing campaign. The bizarre love triangle is linked to a half-forgotten incident from Tsuda and Takujis' youth.
Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform selections by Beethoven and Brahms in this concert from the Staatstheater Meiningen in 1994.
Twelfth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Detective Bung (Harry H. Corbett) investigates a mad professor (Kenneth Williams) and his sister, who are turning their victims into shop window dummies. Those hamming it up in this Hammer horror spoof include Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan Sims and Fenella Fielding.
An epic aviation film, based on Tom Wolfe's book, which charts the history of flight from Chuck Yeager's (Sam Shepard) legendary sound barrier-breaking flight in the 1940s, to the first men in space in the 1960s. The story centres on the relentless efforts of several US pilots to break all records set before them, finalising in the US space exploration programme of the 1960s, in which seven pilots were chosen to represent America in the heated space race with the Russians.
Big screen adaptation of the popular Marvel superhero comic. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is the billionaire owner of Stark Industries, a corporation that specialises in weapons development. When Tony is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan, he is made to construct a devastating weapon. Instead, however, he builds a high-tech suit of armour and uses it to escape from captivity. When Stark discovers a conspiracy that could have serious repercussions for the whole world, he uses his new invention to try and stop the villains and save the world. Gwyneth Paltrow co-stars as Stark's secretary, Pepper Potts.
The fourth instalment of the car chase laden action franchise starring Vin Diesel. When a crime brings them both back to LA , fugitive ex-con Dominic Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker). But as the two men find themselves facing a common enemy in the form of a major heroin importer, they are forced to give in to an uncertain new trust in order to infiltrate his operation and out-manoeuvre him.
Sequel to the 2009 Academy Award-winning spin-off of the classic 1960s sci-fi adventure series. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are called back to Earth after a devastating force from within their organisation leaves the planet in chaos and Starfleet in pieces. Determined to settle the score, Kirk embarks on a manhunt with the rest of his crew including Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) to find the party responsible before their whole world is laid to waste.
First time director Fede Alvarez helms this reworking of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult horror. In an effort to straighten out their drug-ravaged friend Mia (Jane Levy), a group of five 20-somethings decide to decamp to an isolated backwoods cabin in the mountains of Tennessee. Once there, however, the group find themselves beset by demons from the nearby woods when they begin reading from an unearthed Book of the Dead.
Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson star in this action thriller sequel based on the range of Hasbro action figures. This time around, the G.I. Joe Team must fight to wrestle back control of the world from the Commander (Faran Tahir) and Cobra spy Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), last seen disguised as the President of the United States. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Joes must pull together a plan to expose the truth and stop Cobra from taking over the world before it is too late.
Extended cut of the action comedy inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairytale starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. The film is set 15 years after the young Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest and taken prisoner in a gingerbread house by a child-eating witch. The siblings managed to escape, and in the intervening years have taken advantage of their subsequent immunity to bad spells and curses to set themselves up as expert bounty hunters, becoming world-famous for their skill in tracking down and killing evil-doers around the globe. The film follows the brother and sister on their latest assignment - a campaign against evil sorceress Muriel (Famke Janssen) - which they begin to realise may be their golden opportunity for revenge of a more personal nature.
Concluding part of the animated adaptation of Frank Miller's comic book following the adventures of the caped crusader. Batman (voice of Peter Weller) and his teenage sidekick Carrie Kelley (Ariel Winter) continue to fight crime but they face a fierce enemy in the Joker (Michael Emerson) who is once again wreaking havoc in Gotham City. To make matters worse, new commissioner Ellen Yindel (Maria Canals-Barrera) disapproves of Batman's methods, along with many others, and the government has ordered Superman (Mark Valley) to bring him down.
A documentary portrait of the young collective of classical musicians known as 'Spira Mirabilis', who study, practise and perform concerts without the involvement of a conductor. In addition to the documentary, the set also includes a film of the group performing Schumann's Symphony No. 1 'Spring' at the Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy, in December 2010.
Academy Award-winning romantic comedy based on the novel by Matthew Quick. Bradley Cooper stars as Pat Solitano, a former high school teacher fresh from a stint in a mental institution who moves back in with his parents in an ill-fated attempt to reconcile with his ex-wife. His life begins to come together at last when he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a recently-widowed amateur dancer with problems of her own, and also begins to reconnect with his obsessive-compulsive father, Pat Sr (Robert De Niro). Lawrence won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance and David O. Russell received the BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Ben Wheatley directs this jet-black British comedy in which a romantic break turns into a bloody killing spree. Sheltered teenager Tina (Alice Lowe) accompanies her new boyfriend, 30-something misanthrope Chris (Steve Oram) on an 'erotic odyssey' - aka a caravan tour of the North of England. But unbeknownst to Tina, Chris harbours a dark secret: he is a serial killer whose explosive outbursts result in the violent deaths of any random strangers who happen to mildly inconvenience him. As the body count mounts, even the clueless Tina starts to suspect that her new boyfriend may not be quite what he seems.
In this Disney-animated, coming-of-age story, Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Pheonix) is an impulsive young Native-American boy who is magically transformed into a bear by his brother when their father is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. Forced to see the world through a bear's eyes, Kenai sets out on a quest to find the mountain where the light touches the earth and regain his human form; and learns alot about compassion on his journey.
Musical comedy of romantic errors set in 1920s New York. Dolly Gallagher Levi (Barbra Streisand), recently widowed and living in Yonkers, New York, is something of a society matchmaker. Hired to find the perfect beau for the also just widowed millionaire Horace Vandergelder (Walther Matthau), Dolly can't help but conclude that it is she whom he should be marrying. Horace has his eye on Irene Molloy, a pretty young thing that Dolly simply must get out of the way if her plan is to succeed. Meanwhile two of Horace's young employees Cornelius (Michael Crawford) and Barnaby decide to take advantage of the boss's romantic mission to the city and follow him for a glimpse of the urban high-life. Through a series of coincidences the pair have to escape being discovered by Horace, only to take refuge in Irene Molloy's hat emporium, with Cornelius immediately falling in love with the owner, and Barnaby with her assistant Minnie. The young lovers end up at a very expensive restaurant with Dolly desperately trying to make sure that everyone ends up with the right partner, and to claim Horace for her own.
The renowned Indian conductor leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of works by Dvorák, Mozart and Bartók recorded at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles in 1977. The featured works comprise Dvorák: Concert Overture 'Carnival' Op.92, Symphony No.8 in G major Op.88, Slavonic Dance in G minor Op.46 No.8; Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat major K.191; Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Sz116.
Sequel to the 2007 mega-budget live action sci-fi film based on the 1980s cartoon series. Shia LaBeouf reprises his role as Sam Witwicky, the young earthling caught in the raging war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. After he glimpses the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers through a powerful vision sent to him by the Allspark, Sam once again finds himself the target of the evil Decepticons, who have returned to Earth under the command of the formidable Starscream (voiced by Charles Adler). Joining the Autobots' mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), who forms an alliance with international armies for this second epic battle.
The internationally acclaimed Japanese pianist performs a selection of pieces with the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the White Nights Festival, Saint Petersburg in 2012. The compositions performed are: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1; Shostakovich: Symphony No.14; Tsujii: 'Elegy for the Victims of the Earthquake and the Tsunami of March 11, 2011'.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra in this production of Mozart's classic opera, recorded live at the Zurich Opera House in 2006. |
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