HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio Commentary by Film Historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson Audio Commentary by Film Journalist David Flint SDH Subtitles Trailer Stills Gallery ยข Presented in a double-walled slipcase featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore
From its stunning opening sequence, featuring Georgina Hale (who plays the wife of Gustav Mahler in this Ken Russell film) isolated in full mummy wrap and writhing with erotic yearning to the lush strains of her husband's music, Mahler distinguishes itself as the most poetic and archetypal of Russell's great-composer works. A kind of cinematic response to Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, in which Dirk Bogarde plays a Mahler-esque composer in search of beauty in the plague-filled city, Mahler stars Robert Powell as the great Jewish romantic from 19th-century Vienna, drafting enormous symphonic works in the midst of rising anti-Semitism. Converting to Christianity as a means of survival, Mahler carries on with his work but experiences an erosion of his health and sense of identity. Meanwhile, his self-effacing spouse represses her own creative drives to keep the resident genius afloat, plugging every leak and receding all but invisible into the woodwork. While the film is the least ostentatious of Russell's movies about music, it is hardly conventional--a mix of lyrical tableaux and comic fantasy that adds up to a stirring, dream-like experience. --Tom Keogh
An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things like mirrors that don't reflect and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago a teenage girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan disappeared nearby. Soon the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.
Sentenced to 23 years: he won't accept a day of it! This is the incredible true story of John McVicar - a man who took on the entire prison system and refused to surrender. Roger Daltrey gives a powerful performance as McVicar in a film that is shocking brutal and full of gritty violent realism. The film strongly depicts the brutal aspects of British prison life and follows McVicar into his eventual rehabilitation.
His wife just left him for another man; and so did his boyfriend.... Ben (Bates) is a man full of energy that he doesn't know what to do with. He's lost a grip on what gives his life purpose he's not sure that teaching is of any use or that he's even meant to be a teacher and he's feasting off the dregs of his relationships. In this first American Film Theatre Collection release Harold Pinter makes a very impressive directorial debut creating intricate characterisations in a movi
Available for the first time on DVD. Ken Russell's unusual film biography of the Austrian composer whose unique compositional style altered the evolutionary course of western music. Jealousy over his attractive wife the insanity of a fellow music student his conversion from the Jewish to the Catholic faith the tragic death of his young daughter his own ill health - these are just some of the elements chosen for this symbolic visualisation of Mahler and his music. The flow of t
This three disc set contains three feature length episodes of the cutting edge television drama penned by Lynda La Plante. Starring Amanda Burton as Commander Clare Blake who has been assigned to the Serious Crime Group of the Metropolitan Police where she commands the Murder Review Group. Her team includes D.C.I. Mike Hedges who seems determined to make life difficult for his new boss. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Devil You Know 2. Fraudster 3. Windows of the Soul
A convicted serial killer is the new guinea-pig for a revolutionary new drug designed to suppress anti-social tendencies....
The World Is Full Of Married Men
Sentenced to 23 years: he won't accept a day of it! This is the incredible true story of John McVicar - a man who took on the entire prison system and refused to surrender. Roger Daltrey gives a powerful performance as McVicar in a film that is shocking brutal and full of gritty violent realism. The film strongly depicts the brutal aspects of British prison life and follows McVicar into his eventual rehabilitation.
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