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• Morgiana | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Morgiana

• Beethoven: Fidelio | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Beethoven's lone opera Fidelio had a troubled gestation, as its no fewer than four overtures suggest. The finished product, while obviously a work of genius, exposes its patchwork qualities even in the best of productions. Luckily, the 1991 staging by the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, is so lucid and intelligent that the opera--a forceful plea for freedom, even in the most severely dictatorial regimes--comes across as both a forceful drama and a thought-provoking "message".Stage director Adolf Dresen, together with set designer Margit Bardy and lighting designer Erich Falk, presents the characters (which on paper have a tendency to remain "types") as fully human, their interactions made understandable and plausible not only by Beethoven's humanising music but also the realistic period settings. Video director Derek Bailey has succeeded admirably at getting this across for the home viewer as well. Musically, this Fidelio is a whirlwind, with conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leading the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus in an energetic but never too-fast performance (by the way, they perform the fourth overture); and the singers are top-notch vocally and dramatically. Soprano Gabriela Benacková makes an arresting, emotionally complex Leonore, and Josef Protschka as her imprisoned husband, Florestan, brings down the house with his impassioned aria at the beginning of Act II. --Kevin Filipski, Amazon.com

• The Frantisek Vlacil Collection | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £43.75   |  Saving you £-18.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise Marketa Lazarova: A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism. The Valley of the Bees: Ondrej a young boy who loves bees and bats is introduced to his new mother a woman much younger than his father... Adelheid: In the aftermath of WWII a Czech airman returns home from his tour of duty with the British RAF intending to claim a German factory located in the Sudetenland along the Czech-German border. There he meets the beautiful Adelheid.

• Ruby Blue | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An old man's reputation is called into question following the disappearance of a little girl that he had befriended.

• Strauss-Elektra | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Paranormal Incident 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £4.82   |  Saving you £8.17 (169.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Special Agent Watts and his Investigation Unit are called to the derelict Woodburrow Prison he thinks its business as usual. But there's nothing usual about Woodburrow. A mysterious woman is found attempting to flee the scene and things begin to spiral out of control as an evil force picks the team off one by one. Soon Agent Watts is left alone to face what might be the world's most powerful evil...The Devil.

• The Fireman's Ball | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In their small-town meeting hall a maladroit committee of volunteer firefighters holds a ball to celebrate the retirement of one of their own but thanks to poor planning and lack of leadership the evening quickly devolves into a catastrophe. Nobody can prevent the lottery prizes from being stolen out from under the very noses of those guarding them. A beauty contest turns into an embarrassing farce and the brigade can't even respond properly to a real fire next door.

• Avalanche | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A father and his two children struggle to escape certain death after an avalanche entombs their remote mountain cabin. A suspicious plane crash higher up in the mountains has caused the avalanche and swept the lone survivor a dangerous smuggler up against one of the buried cabin's windows. The unsuspecting family pull the stranger into the cabin and revive him. While the cabin slowly and dangerously buckles under the tremendous weight of the avalanche the smuggler forces his rescuers to abandon their escape plans and assist him in finding his stolen cache of diamonds. Time is running out all will surely die in this icy tomb if not from the collapsing cabin then from a bullet fired from the pistol of the cold-hearted stranger.

• Les Misérables | Blu Ray | (18/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Enemy Within | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £5.88   |  Saving you £-2.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The tense story of a U.S. Army Colonel who is convinced that his C.O. is masterminding a military coup against a pacifist President.

• Heart Of Glass | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps most notable for the fact that all but one of the cast perform quite literally under the hypnotic spell of the director himself 'HEart Of Glass' is one of Werner Herzog's most stylised challenging and visionary films. A stunning piece of work in 1977 the film was awarded the German Gold Film Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography. When the owner of the local glass factory passes away without divulging the secret formula for making a magical ruby g

• Rosary Murders | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A serial-killer begins a one man vendetta against the Catholic Church brutally slaying several priests and nuns. The police are baffled and the community frustrated. But someone may know who the murderer is... A man came to Father Koesler's confessional booth and said some things that made him suspect the stranger could be guilty of committing the heinous crimes. As a Catholic clergyman Koesler is forbidden to reveal anything said during the holy sacrament of Confession. But his co

• Woyzeck | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Werner Herzog's brilliant adaptation of Georg Buchner's 'Woyzeck' Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless solider alone and powerless in society assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured both physically and psychologically by commanding officers doctors and his unfaithful wife Marie (Eva Mattes Best Supporting Actress at Cannes) Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his

• Wiener Festwochen 1963 - Wiener Philarmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Wagner's Die Walkure at the Wiener Festwochen in 1963. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch.

• Dracula's Widow | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The proprietor of a Hollywood waxworks only receives five chests of Romanian antiquities instead of the six ordered. However he is unwaware that Vanessa widow of Dracula himself resides in the sixth. The cravings for blood begin as she stalks the streets for victims. True to form an ancestor of Dr. Van Helsing is called into action...

• Beethoven - Fidelio | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ludwig Van Beethoven - Fidelio:From Berlin's Deutsche Oper in 1970.

• Cavalli: Il Giasone 2010 Antwerp (Dynamic: 55663) | Blu Ray | (11/11/2006) from £23.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eden | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An audience award winner at Rottedam film festival Michael Hoffman's Eden is a sensual and romantic film about the art of cooking and love. Gregor (Josef Ostendorf) an eccentric chef runs a small restaurant on the outskirts of town. In his spare time he often sits by a street cafe where he is served by Eden (Charlotte Roche). Eden is married to Xaver (Devid Striesow) and has a young daughter Leonie (Leonie Streep) who has Down Syndrome. Gregor is charmed by both Leonie and her mother and decides to bake a cake with his own homemade chocolate for Eden's birthday. When Eden tastes the chocolate she is hooked and visits Gregor's kitchen to taste some more of his cuisine which leads to a close but platonic relationship. Eden and her marraige flourish and she finally becomes pregnant again. But Xaver is jealous of Gregor leading to confrontation Gregor decides to leave town but first he wants to see Eden one last time. Seamlessly fitting in with a great tradition of food related films including eat Drink Man Woman Big Night and Like Water For Chocolate Eden is a beautifully judged delight.

• Berserker | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based upon an old Nordic legend a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior kept in chains and used as the first line of assault in Viking raids. Because they ate human flesh they were cursed by the God Odin forbidden a restful death and fated to be reincarnated in their blood kin. Now in present day America the Berserker has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves can anything human destroy the Berserker or will the carnage continue over the centuries?

• I Married Wyatt Earp | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp a young opera singer from San Fransisco this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp....