The opera Siegfried.
It starts with a broken marriage and turns rapidly into fear - that instinctive emotion with a vice-like grip. The throat dries and tightens and the heart pounds; the small hairs know and contort while the flesh crawls; there is nausea panic and a complete lack of logic from the brain. Jaclyn Smith and Robert Mitchum star in this nightmare of fear intrigue double-cross and terror.
Beautiful young women with gorgeous figures handsome muscle-bound young men aerobics classes weight rooms tanning booths saunas locker rooms and juice bar. All the things one might expect to find in a modern Southern Californian health spa. This one in particular however is slightly different in nature. Its members are not only exercising for a better life: they’re dying for it....
Gotterammerung is the 'third day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring Des Nibelhngen.
Various Composers - Works (Reiner Chicago SO)
In the Autumn of 1940, the decision was made by Hitler to construct a base of operations from which Operation Barbarossa could be planned and instigated. This almost impenetrable series of structures, located in the Masurian woods near the town of Rastenburg, welcomed the Feuhrer for the first time on 23rd June 1941.Although Hitler had a number of similar bases built throughout Europe, the Wolf's Lair was by far his preferred location, spending a total of over 800 days ther during a 3-and-a-half year period. In that time, a number of key decisions were made there that drove the Eastern campaign against Russia, as well as a failed assassination attempt on the Feuhrer himself.This Special Edition 2 Disc DVD helps to reconstruct the story of this extremely secretive and fascinating centre of Nazioperations, from its original design and construction in the early 40s to its continued use by Hitler and eventual demise asthe war came to a close. For the first time on DVD, actual witnesses are interviewed and reveal their personal stories aboutHitler, giving an insight into some of the planning behind the infamous Eastern Campaign. Also featured is an in-depthanalysis of the attempted assassination on Hitler by German Army Officer Claus von Stauffenberg, whose exploits wererecently portrayed on the big screen in the film Valkyrie.
The emotional story of a teenage girl's fight to keep her family together as her world begins to fall a part. Like any 17 year old Elizabeth's future looked rosy and full of promise until her mother's mental health deteriorated and her father started to struggle with the consequences turning to the bottle. Now she must come of age in an effort to keep what she holds most dear from destroying them all.
The most fun you'll ever have being scared! Two macabre masters - writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero - conjure up five shocking yarns each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army. Add the spirited performances of a fine cast (Hal Holbrook Adrienne Barbeau Leslie Nielsen Ted Danson E.G. Marshall and King himself) and the ghoulish makeup wizardry of Tom Savini. Let the Creepshow begin!
Metropolis: Set around the year 2000 a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and on the surface appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different story - armies of slaves work gruelling shifts to maintain the luxurious lifestyles of their masters. The workers a subhuman species of sluggish creatures are led by the saintly Maria (Brigitte Helm) who urges them not to rebel but to wait patiently for the arrival of the mediator. Fredersen kidnaps Maria and orders mad scientist Rotwang (Rudolf Klien-Rogge) to create a robot replica to take her place. His plan is doomed when the evil mechanical Maria incites the massed workers to revolt and destroy everything in sight... Taking 16 months to film with a cast of 37 383 and costing over million at 1920s prices everything about this epic German science-fiction film which was inspired by the towering Manhattan skyline is gigantic. Although director Fritz Lang hated the ending of his film it was an instant hit with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels who first saw it in a small German town. When they came to power in 1933 they asked Lang to make prestige pictures for the Nazi party. He packed his bags and left for Hollywood the same day. On its first release it was a box-office flop and nearly bankrupted its financiers UFA Germany's largest film production company. Metropolis is now a monument to Fritz Lang's artistic vision and film craftsmanship. M: Like a brand the letter M has made its mark on film history with its disturbing theme having lost none of its impact or relevance. Sinister dark and foreboding M tells the story of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) - child molester and murderer. Tension builds - a child late home another child missing. Posters reveal the fate of earlier victims and the police seem to have few clues as to the perpetrator of the crimes. Gangsters beggars and petty criminals incensed by both the crimes and the police crackdown track the killer themselves. Cornered caught and dragged off to face an equally barbaric form of justice Beckert endures his own personal torment. As with his earlier classics Die Nibelungen and Metropolis Lang collaborated on the script with his wife Thea von Harbou in what was to become his most stark and uncompromising film. Allegedly based on the story of Peter K''rten the Monster of Dusseldorf M remains one of the most chilling serial-killer films ever produced.
A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks.
Set around the year 2000 a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and on the surface appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different story - armies of slaves work gruelling shifts to maintain the luxurious lifestyles of their masters. The workers a subhuman species of sluggish creatures are led by the ""saintly"" Maria (Brig
The Tin Drum is the newest entry into Umbrella's sub-label 'World Cinema' directed by Volker Schlöndorff. This drama is an adaptation of the 1959 novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and was mostly shot in West Germany. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards.When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass.As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II.With the help of Luis Buñuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndoff turns Günter Grass' magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.BANNED IN OKLAHOMA (2004) A film by Gary D. Rhodes: A documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film The Tin Drum due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensuedAn Interview by Volker SchlondorffVolker Schlöndorff on the Director's CutVolker Schlöndorff on the Making of The Tin Drum, Cannes 2001 (French with English subtitles)Theatrical Trailer (English subtitles)
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