In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna (Academy-Award winner Juliette Binoche, The English Patient) receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne (Lou de Laage, The Innocents) has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna's son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Giuseppe is not yet there. Despite the disruption to her routine, Anna invites her young guest to stay, and as the two women await Giuseppe's arrival, they slowly begin to form a connection. Jeanne, dislocated and a little mystified at first, gradually gives in to the charms of the volcanic island. She swims in the nearby lake and makes new friends, while Anna watched over by a long-time family friend comes out of her shell. Yet still, her son's absence remains unexplained Spectacularly shot, measured and contemplative, THE WAIT navigates a complex range of emotions in the telling of this stirring encounter between two women from different generations.
Attila Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Ricardo Muti conducts a fine cast in the powerful and atmospheric 1991 production of Verdi's ninth opera whose story of the heroic tussle between Ezio a Roman general and Attila the Nordic invader was written for the 1846 Teatro la Fenice season and premiered there to huge acclaim. Unlocked from the archives of RAI televvision this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.Sung In Italian
La donna del lagoGiachino Rossini (1792-1868)Director Werner Herzog and conductor Riccardo Muti combine with the finest of casts to lavish Rossini's rarely performed Neapolitan masterpiece set in feudal sixteenth-century Scotland with the genius it deserves. June Anderson is an outstanding Elena (the Lady of the Lake) in the 1992 production of the melodrama based on Sir Walter Scott's poem. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.
In 1979 four documentary film makers disappeared in the jungles of South America while shooting a film about cannibalism... Six months later the New York University along with the Pan American Broadcasting Corporation sent a search team in looking for the film makers. They could never have been prepared for what they found. Owing to the harrowing and graphic nature of the film Cannibal Holocaust has been banned in over 50 countries and has achieved a notoriety surpassed by no ot
In After Midnight the magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin Italy) is the setting and inspiration for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening Martino an avid cinephile and the museum's timid night watchman comes to the aid of Amanda an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police after dousing her overbearing boss with hot oil. Martino's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for Amanda as she aw
Previously banned! Legally available for the first time. At the SS Experiment Love Camp they are conducting very unusual experiments. Female political prisoners are brought to Von Kleiben's secret camp to have sex with Wehrmacht troops as part of a breeding study - at least the compliant beautiful ones that is. The plain Janes and the uncooperative experience a course of cruel experiments by Von Kleiben's lesbian assistant. No experiment was to perverse at the love camp! Your Only Hope Is To Pray For Death... SS Experiment Love Camp is an infamous grindhouse Nazi sex flick previously banned in the UK as a video nasty!
When a man doesn't return home one night his daughter Carol and her boyfriend Mike go out to search for him. On finding Carol's father's wrecked car by a cave they decide to investigate further. Before they know it the kids have been enmeshed in a giant spider's web woven of course by a giant spider! After finally escaping the eight legged beast's clutches and raising the alarm the spider is seemingly killed and brought back to town. However.... is the spider really dead?
This is the extraordinary true story of a close and loving family on a sightseeing holiday in Italy in September 1994 whose lives were shattered one desolate night with the indiscriminate shooting of their little seven year old son Nicholas. As Nicholas lies dying in hospital his devastated parents take the most painful decision imaginable to donate Nicholas' organs so that other little children may receive the gift of life. What begins as an intensely private and unbelievably courageous act of love and human compassion was soon to send emotional ripples right around the world that would come to be known as the Nicholas Effect.
A performance of the Donizetti opera by the Teatro Lirico Cagliari; conducted by Gerard Korsten.
The Rossini opera performed at the La Scala in Milan which tells the story of Moses and Egypt. Riccardi Muti conducts.
Julia a famous physician infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister's killing but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden's sexual brutality.
In this vintage Spaghetti Western young boy Jeremiah Bridger witnesses the massacre of his parents and little sister by Indians. He grows into a vengeful hate-filled young man (Leonard Mann) killing Indians and selling their scalps. After capturing a beautiful Indian girl Jeremiah falls foul of two of local businessman Perkins' (Ivan Rassimov) henchmen. Shot and bleeding Jeremiah is healed by travelling quack Doc (Steffen Zacharias) who also informs him that Indians doesn't m
Banana Joe (Bud Spencer) is delightfully free of the ravages of intelligence and lives blissfully in a tropical village in Africa which is untainted by hard-nosed corporations corruption drugs gangs or other ills of modern society. One day Banana Joe takes his banana boat to the local trading post where he is informed he now needs a permit in order to operate his boat. Quite willing to comply with this seemingly simple formailty he treks off to the big city to gain this importa
Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen star in this darkly comic thriller about the seedier side of Hollywood. Hopper plays Frankie a kind-hearted gopher working for the Hollywood mafia whose main line of business is making porno movies. Constantly tyrannised by his violent unpredictable boss Sal (Madsen) Frankie sees the way out of the gutter lies in making his own movie. In return for placing his bets Frankie enlists the halp of Joey (Kiefer Sutherland) a wannabe Hollywood director paying off his gambling debts to Sal by making his skin flicks. However Sal has many eyes on the street and sees what Frankie's up to. His reaction is swift and unrelenting forcing Frankie to watch as he mockingly films the torture of Joey and Margaret (Darryl Hannah) a porn actress whom Frankie secretly loves. Vengeance not escape now plagues Frankie's mind as he vows to make Sal pay... in more ways than one.
In a small town in the north of England an experimental pest-control device is being used with horrific consequences. Edna (Cristina Galbo) and George (Ray Lovelock) are unlikey travelling companions - they met en-route when she backed her car into his motorbike and subsequently offered him a lift to his destination. Stopping over near Manchester Galbo is attacked by a man that the locals say has been dead for days. Edna's sister Katie (Jeannine Mestre) is a prostitute addicted to heroin and when her husband is brutally murdered Katie is the chief suspect according to bitter local inspector (Arthur Kennedy). But Edna and George soon realise that inhabitants are being murdered as meals for the re-animated corpses of the morgue: the new pesticides used in the area are bringing the dead back to life and for sustenance they need human flesh. The Living Dead is widely recognised by horror fans as one of the best zombie movies ever made and the unlikely setting of pretty English countryside makes the flesh-tearing bone crunching zombies all the more shocking.
The first of Verdi's two late Shakespearian operas stands as one of the great masterpieces of grand opera. Jose Curu, ranked among the world's leading interpreters of Verdi's music, takes the title role in Willy Decker's profound and intense production, recorded live at the Liceu in 2006 in true surround sound and filmed with high definition cameras.
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