This sorely-neglected opera comes from Mozart's early catalogue. Written in 1774 it tells the story of a Countess who disguises herself as a gardener in order to find and forgive her lover who thinks he has killed her in a quarrel. The opera contains elements of both opera seria and opera buffa and contains a rich and full orchestration with prominent parts for wind in particular being an unusual feature. Stage direction comes from Swedish director Goran Jarvefelt who sadly die
Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script).Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he has just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin
The James Bond Collection is a 20-disc box set that contains all 19 of the official Bond films, from 1962's Dr No to 1999's The World is Not Enough, plus a 20th bonus disc that contains excerpts from: original documentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes and interactive menus. There is also Die Another Day footage "Meet the Cast", the Die Another Day theatrical trailer, Die Another Day teaser trailer, Nightfire game trailer, full original theatrical trailers for the collection and much more. Read Amazon.co.uk's reviews of all the individual James Bond DVDs here and our guide to the Bond DVD special features here.
A young woman visits her gravely ill grandmother on her death bed who reveals the family curse: they're all vampires. Shot at the same time with much of the same cast as Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein and Erotic Rites of Frankenstein here Franco creates one of his most legitimately erotic works with sapphic love scenes between stunning beauties and cult cinema stars Anne Libert and Britt Nichols. Franco himself has a key role as a Van Helsing style vampire hunter.
Dracula Prisoner Of Frankenstein (1972): Yesterday they were cold and dead. Today they're hot and bothered! When Dracula despatches another innocent victim Dr. Seward decides it's time to eradicate the evil count once and for all. However when Dr Frankenstein reanimates the lifeless Count in an attempt to create the perfect master race it's a three way battle between the man the vampire and the monster. Plus a werewolf thrown in for good measure! Curse Of Frankenstein
In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Blood into the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers! In Horror of the Blood Monsters vampires are overrunning Earth (cheaply), so John Carradine leads a space mission (rocket footage from another film) to the planet the bloodsuckers come from, and the astronauts vaguely interact with tinted black and white footage from a Filippino prehistoric epic. It makes no sense whatsoever. --Kim Newman
A series of murders take place in a remote European village which the locals believe to be the work of vampires and which the police dismiss as nonsense. The murders coincide with the arrival of the beautiful Luisa Karlstein (Britt Nichols) who has been summoned by the imminent death of her mother Baroness Karlstein who tells her daughter the family secret that they are all vampires! Loosely based on the classic Sheridan le Fenu short story Carmilla Franco's tale of lesbianism and vampirism is it must be said a disjointed and hotch-potch affair filmed almost back-toback with the Erotic Rites of Frankenstein. Yet despite its flaws it maintains enough of Franco's classic languid and dreamlike otherworldliness to include it among Franco's classic titles.
Baby Bugs Bunny Baby Bugs is smarter than the average baby. He is curious, playful, and a prankster. The leader of the group, sweet, smart, he's a shining example to the others of how to get out of trouble. In this set of adventures you see Bugs lead his friends on adventures out of the nursery and into the great big world outside... come and join the gang. Baby Tweety Baby Tweety loves nothing more than swinging on his little perch and singing songs. But don't rattle his cage! He is adorable until he's threatened, and when that happens, he knows how to take care of himself. In these great fun episodes Baby Tweety and his Looney Tunes babes discover bath times, making music and even meet a mad Martian! Baby Sylvester Baby Sylvester needs all of his nine lives, as he's always letting his curiosity get him into trouble. It's fast and furious fun as he playfully attempts to catch Baby Tweety for a tasty toon snack. These light-hearted adventures see Baby Sylvester turn green at a new arrival; the babies mess with magic, toys, hairstyles and eventually make their own fairytale endings. Baby Taz Baby Taz is always on the move, running, spinning, and eager to try and eat whatever's put in front of him. He's easily the dirtiest of the Baby Looney Tunes, but just try catching him for a bath. Here we see Taz in high-speed action at the babies' birthday party, having fun with cardboard boxes, learning lessons at a pretend school and from Granny as he breaks his favourite toys.
A search for a lost tribe in the Everglades brings greeat danger to the search team.
The prolific and manic Jess Franco has directed well over 200 films. Some are dire the majority functional and a few are absolute classics of exploitation cinema. The Demons Franco's shameless cash in on Ken Russell's the Devils is a true Franco masterpiece featuring everything from torture lesbian sex and demonic possession. The film centres on a witch who is burned at the stake by the inquisition but who before the flames consume her manages to curse the principal witchfinder and his minions with dire results. What follows is a catalogue of depravity and sexual violence on a truly orgiastic scale while Franco's camera gleefully captures every perverse moment and gratuitous exposure of female flesh!
This Limited Edition attache case style box set, houses all 20 of the much-desired 2 Disc James Bond Ultimate Edition DVDs. Completely remastered with an extensive new set of DVD extras for each film.
It must be stressed that despite the fact that it was produced in 1973 and stars both Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland, The Wicker Man is not a Hammer Horror film. There is no blood, very little gore and the titular Wicker Man is not a monster made out of sticks that runs around killing people by weaving them into raffia work. Edward Woodward plays Sergeant Howie, a virginal, Christian policeman sent from the Scottish mainland to investigate the disappearance of young girl on the remote island of Summer Isle. The intelligent script by Anthony Schaffer, who also wrote the detective mystery Sleuth (a film with which The Wicker Man shares many traits), derives its horror from the increasing isolation, confusion and humiliation experienced by the naïve Howie as he encounters the island community's hostility and sexual pagan rituals, manifested most immediately in the enthusiastic advances of local landlord's daughter Willow (Britt Ekland). Howie's intriguing search, made all the more authentic by the film's atmospheric locations and folkish soundtrack, gradually takes us deeper and deeper into the bizarre pagan community living under the guidance of the charming Laird of Summer Isle (Lee, minus fangs) as the film builds to a terrifying climax with a twist to rival that of The Sixth Sense or Fight Club. --Paul Philpott
In this wonderfully unique Halloween special little Hannah Marie is excited to be going trick-or-treating with the older kids. But when her mean cousin Jimmy tries to ditch her in the dark basement of a spooky house Hannah is rescued by her Scary Godmother and whisked away to the best Halloween party ever! It's a 'who's-boo' of monsters with Skully Pettibone Harry The Werewolf Orson Bug-A-Boo and more all in one unforgettable night of big screams strange pizza and the ultimate
This fantastic box set comprises every Roger Moore performance as the irrepressible 007 all packaged in a sublime collector's edition tin! Live And Let Die: Known on the streets as ""Mr Big"" Kananga is co-ordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan he meets Solitaire (Jane Seymour) the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond of course works his own magic on her and the stage is set for a series of pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats. The Man With The Golden Gun: James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) a world-renowned assassin whose weapon of choice is a distinctive gold pistol. When Scaramanga seizes the priceless Solex Agitator energy converter Agent 007 must recover the device and confront the trained killer in a heart-stopping duel to the death! The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond (Roger Moore) and the beautiful Soviet Agent Anya Amasova codenamed Triple X (Barbara Bach) team up to investigate missing Allied and Russian atomic submarines following a deadly trail that leads to billionaire shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens). Soon Bond and Anya are the world's only hope as they discover a nightmarish scheme of global nuclear Armageddon! Moonraker: Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice Rio de Janeiro and outer space. When Bond investigates the hijacking of an American space shuttle he and beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) are soon locked in a life-or-death struggle against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) a power-mad industrialist whose horrific scheme may destroy all human life on earth! For Your Eyes Only: When a British ship sinks in foreign waters the world's superpowers begin a feverish race to find its cargo: a nuclear submarine control system. And 007 (Roger Moore) is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures as he rushes to join the search...and prevent global devastation! Octopussy: James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Octopussy (Maud Adams) an entrancing beauty involved in a devastating military plot to destroy detente. From the palaces of India to a speeding circus train in Germany and a mid-air battle on the wing of a high-flying jet only Agent 007 can stop the nightmarish scheme! A View To A Kill: Agent 007 (Roger Moore in his final outing as James Bond) races against time to stop a power-mad industrialist (Christopher Walken) who plots to kill millions in order to corner the world's microchip supply. From the Eiffel Tower to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge James Bond can't be stopped.
Hector Riviera is a man with a violent past. Once a member of a lethal specail forces unit in the Falklands war he now lives a relatively quiet life with his family. His peace is suddenly shattered when his best friend Tomas is brutally murdered. This tragic event awakens the sleeping monster within him.
Hector Riviera is a man with a violent past. Once a member of a lethal specail forces unit in the Falklands war he now lives a relatively quiet life with his family. His peace is suddenly shattered when his best friend Tomas is brutally murdered. This tragic event awakens the sleeping monster within him.
Seth George is an undercover cop who is not afraid to cross the line. Working on the inside of a ruthless gang headed by a beautiful criminal it doesn't take long before he's involved in an elaborate bank robbery. The stakes escalate and Seth is soon under the gun forced to choose between being a cop and being taken for a ride.
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