"Actor: David Blaine"

• Marina Abramovi The Artist is Present | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits - and at times risking her life in the process - she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major new retrospective of her work, taking place at The Museum of Modern Art. To be given a retrospective at one of the world's premier museums is the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more: it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: But why is this art?

• Son (SHUDDER) | DVD | (11/10/2021) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to steal her eight-year-old son David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive but soon, she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Special Features Interviews with Cast and Crew Deleted Scenes

• David Blaine - Street Magic | DVD | (01/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Magician David Blaine ushers in a new era of up-close and personal magic. An unassuming guy in a t-shirt and jeans armed with fast hands a deck of cards and a quarter finds his audience amongst everyday people on the streets.

• Son (SHUDDER) | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to steal her eight-year-old son David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions.

• Brian Wilson - Smile | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Smile? In 1966, the legendary abandoned Beach Boys' album and "teenage symphony to God" left its visionary, Brian Wilson, with the devil to pay. Disc One of this double DVD set offers David Leaf's glorious documentary "Beautiful Dreamer", interviewing all those involved with the project's development (save, bizarrely, any of the surviving Beach Boys, least of all Smile's most trenchant naysayer Mike Love) and charting Brian Wilson's ascendancy to the cusp of creative immortality and subsequent crash-and-burn to a bedridden, burnt-out recluse. In the South Pole-style "production race" with The Beatles for popular music's brave new frontier (a contest more self-justificatingly important to Wilson than to Lennon/McCartney) it was to be The Beatles who planted the flag and Wilson who perished in the snow; Smile was to be Brian Wilson's nemesis. The albums' eventual completion and re-recording (hats off to Brian Wilson's musical sidekicks The Wondermints) in 2003 was the happiest and unlikeliest conclusion to pop music's most fascinating and infuriating chapter. The entire live performance of Smile in Los Angeles - beautifully filmed on Disc 2 - is a fitting happy ending. The work - especially the waxing and waning chorales of the "Child Is Father Of The Man" section - is a marvel; beautiful, bold, coherent and deft enough to leave the myth - the great "what if?" of 20th Century music history - intact. --Kevin Maidment

• David Blaine - Showman | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The real magic of David Blaine is in his command of an all-walks-of-life audience, but featured here is the "Frozen in Time" show that follows the preparation and aftermath of his three days and nights entombed in a six-ton block of ice. The footage is often quite alarming, as is a narration explaining his state of mind at the end. Visited by his girlfriend, Kevin Spacey and Michael J Fox (in subtler fashion than Leo DiCaprio on the Mystifier show), it's all about re-affirming the reality of the situation. Intercut with the Times Square footage is plenty of the street magic Blaine excels at. Confounding the NY Knicks and increasingly eccentric passers-by, you'll see him resurrect dead animals, cry the diamond from a woman's ring and bafflingly show off a tattoo of a complete stranger's girlfriend. Fans are treated to his very first video footage test of the show format as well as the dearly departed (!) Tarko the Great. On the DVD: Get ready for abject frustration as you spend ages working out how to access the disc's "beautiful secrets". Once you do, there are lots of little surprises to enjoy--such as Blaine being told off by the Memphis police, a mini photo gallery, levitating money in Haiti and five minutes of making the DVD, where you see a very bored crew at his commentary recording. The main feature commentary is quite sporadic in how much he has to say, but is actually very revealing. Don't expect any giveaway explanations, but it is a genuinely fascinating insight into the mind responsible for some truly spectacular feats of magic. --Paul Tonks

• David Blaine - Mystifier | DVD | (01/07/2009) from £10.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (15.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In America and across the world David Blaine is already recognised as the greatest performance artist of his time. This program includes the most astounding ""close-up"" magic ever caught on film. Blaine leaves passers by in awe as his entire body hovers six inches above the ground literally levitating before them; as he brings a housefly back to life and makes a chosen card appear inside the boot of a passing New York policeman. No smoke no mirrors the street is his stage.

• David Blaine - Street Magic/Magic Man | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Magician David Blaine ushers in a new era of up-close-and-personal magic with 2 DVDs : Street Magic And Magic Man.

• David Blaine - Above The Below | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  On September 5th 2003 in London England 'Magic Man' and stunt-man extroardinaire David Blaine will endure starvation in solitary confinement suspended from a crane by the River Thames in a glass box for 44 days. Will he be able to withstand his confinement for the full 44 days or has he gone too far this time? This is the DVD that will show it all. The preparation the stunt and then the outcome.

• David Blaine - Magic Man | DVD | (01/07/2009) from £8.04   |  Saving you £1.95 (19.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With his own distinctive style of magic magician David Blaine conjures up new jaw-dropping hypnotic illusions and fantastic tricks that elicit outright screams of disbelief from unsuspecting passers-by.

• David Blaine - Street Magic | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  No smoke no mirrors. The street is his stage. David Blaine takes his astonishing almost mystical performances to the streets of America. Hailed as the next Houdini David Blaine's illusions have to be seen to be believed.

• David Blaine: Mystifier | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  David Blaine: Mystifier

• David Blaine - Magic Man | DVD | (06/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  No smoke, no mirrors. The street is his stage. David Blaine takes his astonishing, almost mystical performance to the streets of America. Hailed as the next Houdini, David Blaine's illusions have to be seen to be believed.

• Mister Lonely | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson look-alike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.