Red Dwarf - Series 1 | DVD | (04/11/2002)
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| RRP Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy SF series Red Dwarf was sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on our television screens in 1988 the show had clearly stayed true to its roots, mixing jokes about excessive curry consumption with affectionate parodies of classic SF. Indeed, one of the show's most endearing and enduring features is its obvious respect for the conventions of SF, even as it gleefully subverts them. The scenario owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitch-Hiker's Guide, something to The Odd Couple and a lot more to the slacker SF of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the crew's constant bickering there lurks an impending sense that life, the universe and everything are all someone's idea of a terrible joke. Later series broadened the show's horizons until at last its premise was so diluted as to be unrecognisable, but in the six episodes of the first series the comedy is witty and intimate, focusing on characters and not special effects. Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (episode 1, "The End"). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset) and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick ship's computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett). On the DVD: Red Dwarf I arrives in a two-disc set, with all six episodes on the first disc accompanied by an excellent group commentary from Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Norman Lovett. (There's also a bonus commentary on "The End" with the two writers and director Ed Bye.) The 4:3 picture is unimpressive, but sound is decent stereo. The second disc has an entertaining 25-minute documentary on the genesis of the series with contributions from the cast, writer Doug Naylor and producer Paul Jackson. Navigate the animated menus to find a gallery of extra features, including isolated music cues, deleted scenes, outtakes ("Smeg Ups"), a fun "Drunk" music montage, model effects shots, Web links, audiobook clips, the original BBC trailer and even the entire first episode in Japanese. --Mark Walker
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Jennifer 8 | DVD | (18/03/2002)
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| RRP Written and directed by Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I), this fast-moving potboiler finds its creator getting about as far from Withnail's fine wines and London and Lake District settings as it's possible to get, and into the world of bloody homicides, narrative red herrings and emotionally damaged policemen. John Berlin (Andy Garcia) is a big-city cop and, yes, that means he drinks a lot of coffee and has a terrible personal life (in this case, signified by a wife who just can't stop cheating on him). Leaving town to visit his understanding brother-in law and fellow detective Freddy Ross (Lance Henriksen), he promptly finds himself embroiled in the hunt for a serial killer with a grisly modus operandi for murdering blind women. As you might expect, it's not long before he's bumbling his way into a number of confrontations with the hick cops around him and an affair with Helena (Uma Thurman), the blind room-mate of one of the killer's victims. Slick and pacey, Jennifer 8 throws out so many plot that it eventually winds up falling over them in its haste to get to the overblown climax. Nothing here makes a great deal of sense and yet, despite its inherent cosmic silliness, Robinson handles the suspense-and-relief routine with a flashy aplomb, and the cast do well in the face of the material's shortcomings. (John Malkovich's brief appearance is a redemptive highlight, even if you do have to wait almost 90 minutes for it). --Danny Leigh
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Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi | DVD | (13/01/2003)
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| RRP Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi ("life out of balance") and Powaqqatsi ("life in transformation") are the first two parts of a trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns (2002's Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war", is the third). Both feature indispensable musical contributions from minimalist composer Philip Glass. Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. But it then attracted the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and reached a much wider audience. Its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass' reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos and, of course, similar movies. Dating from 1988, Powaqqatsi finds the director somewhat more directly polemical than before, with Glass's score stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatise the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labour and religious values--as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these "silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men, their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit, his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless, Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for renewal. --Robert Burns Neveldine
Pope John Paul II - 1920 To 2005 - A Special BBC Commemoration | DVD | (11/04/2005)
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| RRP The BBC brings you this commemorative DVD of the life of Pope John Paul II. The youngest serving Pope of the 20th century held the papacy for 27 years and this documentary film takes a look in to the world and work that Pope John Paul II was involved in. Not only a figurehead and voice of morality for Catholics the Pope was revered across the world and his death led to an outpouring for religious and atheists alike. Celebrate the life of a remarkable man with this fantastic and ins
Witness To Hope | DVD | (20/10/2003)
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| RRP This is the most complete and intimate documentary ever made on Pope John Paul II - poet playwright actor mystic and head of the Roman Catholic Church. Shaped by the terrors of World War II and the subsequent brutalities of the Communist era in Poland John Paul II became one of the world's greatest defenders of religious freedom and human rights. Filmed on location in Krakow and Rome this richly textured film traces the personal life and struggles of John Paul II.
Credo - John Paul II | DVD | (03/04/2006)
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| RRP One year after the passing of John Paul II this is a DVD dedicated to the Holy Father with sacred arias performed by Andrea Bocelli and played by the Orchestra and Choir of Santa Cecilia National Academy directed by Maestro Myung- Whun Chung. The DVD is a project by Caterina Caselli Sugar directed by Alberto Michelini binding the most impressive images of John Paul II's Pontificate to Andrea Bocelli's touching interpretations who performs religious hymns taken from the classica
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Martian Successor Nadesico - Vol. 3 | DVD | (19/05/2003)
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| RRP As the crew of most powerful ship in the fleet the Nadesico team has to be ready to fight anywhere anytime and at a moments notice. Missions to rescue a missing VIP and recover a fallen Chulip are only warm-ups for a deadly battle against an army of tanks and a new weapon that can envelop the Earth in a miniature black hole! But the worst is yet to come because the ship's main computer is starting to develop a mind of it's own and it's not quite sure which side of the battle it sh
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John Paul II - His Life, His Pontificate | DVD | (14/04/2003)
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| RRP Officially produced by the Vatican Television Centre this DVD is the most comprehensive multimedia presentation ever made on Pope John Paul II. Including 2 feature length documentaries 'His Life' and 'His Pontificate' this touching production reaches out to audiences all over the world offering an unprecedented and extraordinary report on the life an mission of Pope John Paul II.
Stravinsky - Works (Cbc So) | DVD | (12/07/2004)
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Pope John Paul II - His Life And Teachings | DVD | (11/04/2005)
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| RRP Two mesmerising documentaries exploring the life of Pope John Paul II filmed at breathtakingly beautiful historic locations in Rome featuring rare and exclusive footage from inside the Vatican: The Life And Teachings Of Pope John Paul II: A poignant look at the life of one of last century's great leaders who has stood against the evils of Nazism and communism in his native homeland of Poland and whose destiny was to become the great spiritual leader of a billion Catholics worldwide. The Christmas And Easter Liturgies Celebrated By Pope John Paul II: A fascinating review of the history and traditions surrounding the commemoration of the birth death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This moving chronicle captures the emotional spirit of the liturgies accompanied by an uplifting musical score performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra.
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Sharpe's Rifles | DVD | (01/01/1900)
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| RRP Acclaimed actor Sean Bean stars in this action-packed feature-length movie set in the midst of the desperate missions and battles of the Napoleonic wars in 19th century Spain. Sharpe's Rifles begins with Richard Sharpe being promoted to Lieutenant after saving the life of Sir Arthur Wellesley. He is soon given a dangerous mission – to command a band of war hardened riflemen behind enemy lines. Their task is to escort Sharpe's lover the beautiful Spanish guerrilla leader Teresa and a nobleman soldier who are carrying a mysterious box across the country and are being hunted by the French cavalry. What does the box contain and why must Sharpe and his men risk their lives in battle to protect it?
Giovanni Paolo II - Santa Subito! | DVD | (19/11/2007)
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| RRP The first music DVD to embody the voice and the images of John Paul II. As it stands this is a 60 minute film - or series of clips in which John Paul II's speeches have been set to music. It is produced by the Vatican's biggest media company San Paolo Multimedia. This is the only film with the man John Paul II in his own words with a musical interpretation. The film is a celebration of his life words and messages set to music and images with spoken and sung passages (in Italian Polish Latin English French Brazilian and Spanish) which are chants and prayers culled from recordings of the Pope by Radio Vaticana over the years of his papacy.
Pope John Paul II - Builder of Bridges | DVD | (11/04/2005)
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| RRP John Paul II was one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. Indeed there are those who believe he is nothing less than 'the man of the century'. Until John Paul II most popes were distant unapproachable and if doctrine held infallible. But John Paul has revolutionized the papacy. While a conservative and champion of long-standing church traditions he is also the most-travelled pope in history and very much a man of the world. As a spiritual leader and socia
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Pope John Paul II - Statesman Of Faith | DVD | (25/04/2005)
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| RRP The definitive biography of the youngest Pope of the 20th century and one of the longest serving Pope's in history. John Paul's reign was marked by his devotion to justice and peace during our changing times where controversial issues faced the Roman Catholic Church. Through it all he continued to draw crowds bigger than any other political leader could have imagined. This special biography programme allows us a privileged journey through the 85 years of Pope John Paul's life; from his school days at an underground seminary in Nazi occupied Poland to his years as an ethics professor at the University of Lublin through to his elevation to Pope and his outstanding achievements as Head of the Catholic Church.
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