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The Mariinsky Ballet give a live performance of Prokofiev's work based on Shakespeare's play. Vladimir Shklyarov and Diana Vishneva dance the lead roles with Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Shakespeare's play is transferred to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach, California. The Montague and Capulet families are embroiled in a long-running feud. When Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), a Montague, attends a Capulet ball in disguise, he falls in love with the beautiful Juliet (Claire Danes). Although already engaged to Dave Paris, whom she does not love, Juliet vows to marry Romeo. They ask the kindly Father Laurence to perform the ceremony in secret, but bloodshed and tragedy threaten the couple's future together.
South Korean thriller set in a prestigious high school. Teased by his classmates about his poor exam results, Joon (Da-wit Lee) is treated as a social outcast by his fiercely competitive peers. When he hears of a secret study group who share tips on achieving success within the school's academic system, he approaches the leader of the group, Yoo-Jin (Jun Sung), and asks if he can join. He is then given a series of tasks to complete before he can be allowed to enter their secret circle. However, when Yoo-Jin is found dead one morning and Joon's mobile phone is discovered at the scene, he becomes a suspect in the murder case and must fight to clear his name.
Documentary exploring the WWE career of the wrestler Batista. Batista, who has won four World Heavyweight Championships, left WWE in 2010 to pursue other interests before returning in 2014. The programme explores the reasons behind his departure, how he filled the intervening years and the ambitions which fuelled his return to the ring.
The complete seasons 1 and 2 of the American sci-fi drama created by Joss Whedon. Eliza Dushku stars as Echo, a young woman who is part of a group of people known as 'Actives' or 'Dolls'. The Dolls are people who have had their personalities wiped clean in order to be imprinted with any number of new personas. They are then hired out for particular jobs, which can be anything from committing a crime to enacting a fantasy. Although the Dolls are all volunteers who have agreed to work for a period of five years, the organisation is highly illegal and under constant threat from Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), a federal agent who is determined to expose the Dollhouse and bring it down. Season 1 episodes are: 'Ghost', 'The Target', 'Stage Fright', 'Gray Hour', 'True Believer', 'Man On the Street', 'Echoes', 'Needs', 'Spy in the House of Love', 'Haunted', 'Briar House', 'Omega' and 'Epitaph One'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Vows', 'Instinct', 'Belle Chose', 'Belonging', 'The Public Eye', 'The Left Hand', 'Meet Jane Doe', 'A Love Supreme', 'Stop-Loss', 'The Attic', 'Getting Closer', 'The Hollow Men' and 'Epitaph Two: Return'.
All eight episodes of the critically-acclaimed US television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The series follows two Louisiana homicide detectives, Rustin 'Rust' Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin 'Marty' Hart (Harrelson), as they hunt for a serial killer over a 17-year period. The episodes are: 'The Long Bright Dark', 'Seeing Things', 'The Locked Room', 'Who Goes There', 'The Secret Fate of All Life', 'Haunted Houses', 'After You've Gone' and 'Form and Void'.
Martin Scorsese directs this award-winning account of 1980s New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort's pursuit of wealth. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort, who brags about earning just shy of one million dollars a week in one year and has long been involved in manipulating stock prices for his own financial gain. Heading a committed team at his Stratton Oakmont brokerage house in Long Island, it isn't long before he attracts the attention of the FBI who are suspicious of his increasingly lavish and hedonistic lifestyle... The supporting cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill and Jon Bernthal. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (DiCaprio) and Best Director (Scorsese), and saw DiCaprio pick up the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Music Or Comedy.
Live performance by American rock group Toto during their 35th anniversary tour. Filmed in Lodz, Poland, in 2013, the band play a selection of hits from throughout their long career including 'Africa', 'Hold the Line' and 'Home of the Brave'.
Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. After lining up the leader in the crosshairs of his empty rifle, Thorndike is arrested by members of Hitler's Gestapo bodyguard, who try to beat a confession out of him. After eventually escaping and navigating a tortuous route back to Britain, Thorndike is forced to seek help from local seamstress Jerry Stokes (Joan Bennett) when he discovers German agents are hunting him down.
Documentary featuring a live performance by alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they play tracks from their forthcoming album 'Skeleton Tree'. With the aid of interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and narration from Nick Cave himself, the film also explores the writing and recording process and touches on some of the tragic events which inspired much of the band's new material.
A collection of highlights from the weekly WWE programmes 'Raw' and 'Smackdown'. Among 2013's stand out moments on the programmes were: the Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match for the WWE Championship between CM Punk and Ryback; the Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship between Big Show and Alberto Del Rio; the confrontation between Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon; and Mark Henry's retirement speech.
Anna Netrebko, Mariusz Kwiecien and Piotr Beczala take the lead roles in this Metropolitan Opera production of Tchaikovsky's opera. The opera tells the story of the tempestuous relationship between the naive Tatiana (Netrebko), the hot-blooded Onegin (Kwiecien) and his bitter rival Lenski (Beczala). Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia, conducts.
Christopher Lloyd stars in this supernatural thriller based on Dan Wells' novel. The film follows sociopathic, bullied teenager John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) as he investigates the seemingly paranormal serial killer terrorising his rural Midwestern town. After being told by his therapist that he has the psychological profile of a serial killer, John grapples with his own homicidal tendencies, that he's developed systems to curb, as he tries to use his own insights to track down the elusive killer. As he does so, he begins to suspect that his elderly neighbour Crowley (Lloyd) isn't as innocent as he seems.
Sidney Lumet's 1973 crime drama Serpico remains one of the most influential cop movies - alongside Al Pacino's nuanced performance in a disturbing portrait of corruption and morality in the city that never sleeps. A plainclothes street patrolman, Frank Serpico (Pacino) might be the best cop in New York, but he is unwilling to play dirty and give into police corruption of drugs, violence, and kickbacks his colleagues indulge in every day. When he decides to expose those around him, Frank finds himself a target, not just to the city's criminals, but his own peers. Shot on location and based on real events, Serpico captures the grit of New York in a way no film has rivalled, not just for its toned down realism, but also the bleakness Lumet portrays within his hometown city with brutal cynicism with frank immediacy.
The first series of the historical drama following the adventures of a Viking clan. Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) is the central character of the show, a Viking chieftain who, along with his brother Rollo (Clive Standen) and wife Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), plots to become king. A formidable warrior, Ragnar often leads his men on raids overseas. However, even as he makes a name for himself on the battlefield, Ragnar must be aware of rivals plotting behind his back in his homeland. The episodes are: 'Rites of Passage', 'Wrath of Northmen', 'Dispossessed', 'Trial', 'Raid', 'Burial of the Dead', 'A King's Ransom', 'Sacrifice' and 'All Change'.
Silent documentary following the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition during which mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory met their untimely deaths. The expedition marked the third attempt to make the first ascent of the mountain. It remains under debate whether Irvine and Mallory made it to the summit but they were last seen 800 feet from the top before they disappeared. Mallory's body was discovered in 1999 but Irvine's has never been found. The film was recorded by Captain J.B.L. Noel and captures the progress of the expedition.
Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy star in this British/French crime drama series based on the Scandinavian show 'The Bridge'. When the body of a French politician is found between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck (Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Poésy) must put cultural differences aside to achieve their shared goal - to catch the murderer. They soon realise that this is not just a single murder and that they have a serial killer on their hands. Can they work together to solve the crime?
When Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) goes to visit his dying mother in Sicily, he asks his long-term girlfriend Loretta (Cher) to contact his estranged brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage) and invite him to their upcoming wedding. Ronny, a hot-headed baker, turns out to be everything his brother is not, and soon he and his prospective sister-in-law are embarking on a passionate affair. Oscars were won by Cher, supporting actress Olympia Dukakis, and writer John Patrick Shanley.
Cult Japanese thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto. When Kiriko (Kyôka Suzuki), his girlfriend of ten years, commits suicide by a gunshot wound to the head, Goda (Tsukamoto) goes in search of the reasons behind her death. Owing to Japan's strict laws, Goda knows that for Kiriko to acquire a pistol she would have needed contacts in the criminal underworld. Before long Goda is in the midst of ongoing gang warfare and while questioning Kiriko's death he comes face to face with his own mortality...
Robert Altman directs this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) smells a rat when his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton), whom he has just driven to Tijuana, is accused of murder. Convinced of Lennox's innocence, Marlowe follows a convoluted trail which leads him to his friend's mistress, Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), her alcoholic husband (Sterling Hayden) and hood Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), to whom Lennox owed a substantial sum of money. Watch out for an early, unbilled appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of Augustine's heavies.
Complete series of the original television drama written by Paolo Sorrentino. The Archbishop of New York, Lenny Belardo (Jude Law), has been elected to the papacy as Pope Pius XIII, the first American pope in history. He brings an unorthodox approach to the heart of Catholocism. A revolution may be at hand.
Walter Hill directs this cult 1980s action drama in which a former soldier sets out to track down his rock star ex-girlfriend. When a biker gang known as the Bombers, led by Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), kidnap the lead singer of the Attackers, Ellen Aim (Diane Lane), they haven't counted on the capabilities of her ex. A soldier turned mercenary, Tom Cody (Michael Paré) receives a call informing him of Ellen's plight and sets out to rescue her with the aid of tough female sidekick McCoy (Amy Madigan).
Crime drama, directed by Ben Affleck and based on the award-winning novel, 'Prince of Thieves', by Chuck Hogan. Affleck also stars as Doug MacRay, one of four masked criminals who rob a bank. Doug falls for one of the bank workers, Claire (Rebecca Hall), who is distressed after the robbery. Claire, unaware Doug was one of the robbers, reciprocates his feelings. Can Doug keep up the facade or will the law catch up with him?
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control. |
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