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Valery Gergiev leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in this Russian-themed opening night of the 2012 Salzburg Festival. Alongside performances of Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms' and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, Russian tenor Sergei Semishkur gives a passionate interpretation of Mussorgsky's 'Songs and Dances of Death'.
Crime drama based on the life of Scottish gangster Paul Ferris. Martin Compston stars as Ferris, who was brought up on Glasgow's notorious Black Hill estate in the 1960s. As a young man Ferris starts out working for two rival gang bosses, The Godfather and The Snake, but after a brutal betrayal he decides to go it alone. Carving out a dangerous and bloody career defined by violence, corruption and murder, Paul 'The Wee Man' Ferris ends up becoming the most feared man in Glasgow.
Roberto Paternostro leads the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in an edited version of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Staged in one day, the production was directed by Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'. The cast members include Linda Watson, Jukka Rasilainen, Leonid Zakhozhaev and Andrew Shore. The set also includes the documentary 'The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires'.
Hans Christophe von Bock's documentary follows the attempts to stage an edited, one day version of Wagner's epic opera cycle at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Arriving in Buenos Aires to prepare the groundwork for the production, Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner, who now runs the Bayreuth Festival, discovers that the rehearsal conditions are not what she expected. At short notice, she decides to entrust the staging of the production to Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'.
The complete eight seasons of the US comedy drama following the ups and downs of Hollywood newcomer Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) as he hits the big time. Along for the ride are his best friends, Eric (Kevin Connolly) and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), his half-brother, Johnny (Kevin Dillon), and his agent, Ari (Jeremy Piven). The episodes comprise: 'Entourage', 'The Review', 'Talk Show', 'Date Night', 'The Script and the Sherpa', 'Busey and the Beach', 'The Scene', 'New York', 'The Boys Are Back in Town', 'My Maserati Does 185', 'Aquamansion', 'An Offer Refused', 'Neighbours', 'Chinatown', 'The Sundance Kids', 'Oh, Mandy', 'I Love You Too', 'The Bat Mitzvah', 'Blue Balls Lagoon', 'Good Morning, Saigon', 'Exodus', 'The Abyss', 'Aquamoon', 'One Day in the Valley', 'Dominated', 'Guys and Doll', 'Crash and Burn', 'Three's Company', 'Strange Days', 'The Release', 'Vegas Baby, Vegas!', 'I Wanna Be Sedated', 'What About Bob?', 'Sorry, Ari', 'Less Than 30', 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Manic Monday', 'Gotcha', 'Return of the King', 'The Resurrection', 'The Prince's Bride', 'Adios Amigos', 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'The First Cut Is the Deepest', 'Malibooty', 'Sorry, Harvey', 'The Dream Team', 'The Weho Ho', 'The Day F*ckers', 'Gary's Desk', 'The Young and the Stoned', 'Snow Job', 'No Cannes Do', 'The Cannes Kids', 'Fantasy Island', 'Unlike a Virgin', 'The All Out Fall Out', 'Fire Sale', 'Tree Trippers', 'ReDOMption', 'Gotta Look Up to Get Down', 'First Class Jerk', 'Pie', 'Seth Green Day', 'Play'n With Fire', 'Return to Queens Blvd.', 'Drive', 'Amongst Friends', 'One Car, Two Car, Red Care, Blue Car', 'Runnin' On E', 'Fore!', 'Murphy's Lie', 'No More Drama', 'The Sorkin Notes', 'Security Briefs', 'Berried Alive', 'Scared Straight', 'Give a Little Bit', 'Stunted', 'Buzzed', 'Dramedy', 'Tequila Sunrise', 'Bottoms Up', 'Hair', 'Tequila and Coke', 'Sniff Sniff Gang Bang', 'Porn Scenes from an Italian Restaurant', 'Lose Yourself', 'Home Sweet Home', 'Out With a Bang', 'One Last Shot', 'Whiz Kid', 'Motherf*cker', 'The Big Bang', 'Second to Last' and 'The End'.
Belived to be dead for a very long time, Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price) rises in search of the means to bring his wife back from the dead. With the help of Vulnavia (Valli Kemp), Phibes catches up with an Egyptian expedition who are searching for the ancient elexir of life. Anyone who stands in his way will be killed.
Daniel Barenboim leads the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young musicians from the Middle-East, in a selection of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2007.
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.
The second volume in the Beethoven symphonies cycle featuring Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The set features Beethoven's fourth, fifth, and sixth symphonies and contains three documentaries with analysis and discussion of each symphony by Christian Thielemann himself.
John Thaw stars in this adaptation of Michelle Magorian's novel. The outbreak of the Second World War sees nine-year-old Willie Beech (Nick Robinson) evacuated from London and billeted with crotchety widower Tom Oakley (Thaw) in the village of Little Weirwold. Willie is a sad little boy who has not had a happy or easy life, but he and Tom gradually warm to each other, and a strong friendship develops between the pair. Tom is therefore saddened and upset when Willie's mother (Annabelle Apsion) unexpectedly summons him back to the capital at the height of the Blitz.
Debut film for everyone's favourite psychotic slasher, Freddy Krueger. When American teenager Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suffer from nightmares, she discovers that many of her friends are having similarly disturbed nights' sleep. Their dreams are haunted by the hideously scarred former child murderer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) who, it soon transpires, has the power to kill them in their sleep. Freddy is out to exact his revenge on the children of those who burned him alive in retribution for his crimes. The only way to avoid Freddy's reprisals is to avoid sleep, but Nancy knows that she can't stay awake for ever.
Made-for-TV drama directed by Jack Gold and starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. The film traces the life of the flamboyant and eccentric Crisp, a homosexual British man, as he grows up and grows old in a conservative society which treats his sexuality as a criminal offence. The cast also includes John Rhys-Davies, Roger Lloyd Pack and Stanley Lebor.
'Found footage' horror film starring Ethan Hawke. Ellison (Hawke) is a true crime author, in search of a new story, who moves with his unsuspecting wife, Tracy (Juliet Rylance), and two young children into a house in which a horrifying quadruple murder recently took place. However, when Ellison opens a box of Super-8 film reels he finds in the attic, even the inquisitive author gets more than he had bargained for...
Clint Eastwood directs this gritty Academy Award-winning drama based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. Set in the Irish community of Boston, it tells the story of three childhood friends who have drifted apart over the years owing to a violent and disturbing experience they shared as children, and are forcibly reunited many years later following another tragic event. When ex-con Jimmy Markum's (Sean Penn) 19-year-old daughter Katie is murdered, the homicide detectives assigned to the case are Whitney Powers (Laurence Fishburne) and Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon). Behind the scenes, Jimmy asks two of his relatives, the Savage brothers, to mount their own investigation, and the finger of suspicion begins to point to the final person in the childhood trio, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who is now a broken man.
The complete third and final series of the ITV crime drama starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman. Three years after the end of the second series, DI Alec Hardy (Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Colman) begin investigating a sexual assault in the coastal Dorset town of Broadchurch, but it soon becomes clear it's going to be a difficult case to solve, with a suspected serial attacker on the loose.
Two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually the priests separate and Rodrigues travels the countryside, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer.
Drama directed by Chris Bernard and starring Alfred Molina and Peter Firth. When two Russian sailors come ashore in Liverpool for a night on the town they make quite an impression on local girls Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Teresa (Margi Clarke), despite speaking only a little English. Elaine and Peter (Firth) swiftly fall for each other but he and Sergei (Molina) must soon depart with their ship. Utterly besotted with Peter, Elaine decides she must send a letter to the Russian General Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev, pleading with him to allow a reunion between the lovers.
Five-part BBC nature documentary narrated by David Tennant. In this series, film-makers send animatronic animals, equipped with cameras, into the wild to take a close look at animal behaviour. To get the best possible insight into the creature's lives, the robots are able to interact with as well as observe the other creatures with each episode focusing on a different aspect of life in the wild.
Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. The screenplay is by William Goldman ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', 'All the President's Men').
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.
Simon Rattle leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in this New Year's Eve Concert in Berlin. The orchestra, accompanied by soprano Pauline Malefane and bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff perform a number of works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and John Philip Sousa.
Joe D'Amato co-writes and directs this controversial Italian horror. A group of young tourists venturing to a remote Greek island become the victims of a murderous, cannibalistic creature. As they explore the island's abandoned town they become increasingly disturbed at what they discover, only to race back to their boat to find it cut adrift. When they head to a mansion on the island they unearth some clues about their stalker's identity. But this is only the start of their horror...
Horror sequel written and directed by James Wan. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are called in to investigate a series of unsettling events at a home in Enfield, London. The pair come to the aid of single mother Peggy Hodgson (Frances O'Connor), after she claims her two daughters are being tormented by an evil spirit. Not long after moving in to the house, the Warrens begin to experience some terrifying phenomena of their own, with the demonic entity seemingly intent on forcing them out. Plagued by hideous visions, physical attacks and even possession, the couple become embroiled in a deadly fight to survive as they attempt to conclude their investigation.
Christopher Lee stars in this mid-1980s horror sequel as werewolf hunter Stefan Crosscoe. Following the mysterious murder of a young woman in Los Angeles, Crosscoe travels to Transylvania with journalist Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe) and the dead girl's brother, Ben (Reb Brown), to investigate the lycanthropic cause of her death. There the trio becomes locked in a bloody battle with the lascivious Stirba, queen of the undead (Sybil Danning).
Oscar-nominated comedy about an oddball New York family of former child geniuses from writer-director Wes Anderson. Before their marriage floundered, Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) succeeded in raising three prodigies: business supremo Chas (Ben Stiller), prize-winning playwright Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and tennis champion Richie (Luke Wilson). Now, after years of separation, the children grown-up and the memory of their prodigy faded, Royal returns to his family and tries to make amends. However, with Royal's history of lies and betrayal, his offspring - who all now have problems of their own - are going to have trouble welcoming him back. |
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