"Actor: Ove"

• The Virgin Spring | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1960 and set in mediaeval Sweden, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is based on a folk ballad. It also examines a society in transition from worshipping the old Norse gods to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri--a dark, feral Odin-worshipping brunette, foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow--and their own daughter, Karin, pretty and blonde but also vain and naive, and resented by Ingeri. They travel out together to a distant church where Karin is to offer votive candles to the Virgin Mary. However, en route, Karin is raped and murdered by two desperate goatherders, accompanied by a 13-year-old boy. By coincidence, the goatherders then seek refuge with Karin's parents and even try to sell them her clothes, which proves to be a mortal error. Bergman was greatly influenced by Kurosawa, the Japanese director of The Seven Samurai, when he made The Virgin Spring, as evinced in its ominous use of dark and shade and lengthy sequences without dialogue. However, this is more than pastiche. Although the Christian ending with which Bergman feels obliged to conclude the film doesn't quite sit well in a movie in which God is as palpably absent as in any Bergman movie, the slow, remorseless pace of the murder and subsequent retribution bring to mind Kieslowki's A Short Film About Killing in their sense of the futility of vengeance. On the DVD: The Virgin Spring arrives on disc in a restoration that vividly enhances the sense of light and shade which is integral to the movie. Notes from critic Phillip Strick provide background to the movie, including the legend on which the film was based, as well as observing that Bergman was later so embarrassed by the film's debt to Kurosawa that he disowned it, only to be told by Kurosawa himself not to be so silly. --David Stubbs

• YOU ARE NOT ALONE (BLU RA - MO | Blu Ray | (26/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Cleveland Orchestra At Carnegie Hall | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £10.45   |  Saving you £12.54 (120.00%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Cleveland Orch At Carnegie Hall

• Ordet | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A classic contrast of institutional religion vs. a personal interpretation of faith based on the play by Kaj Munk this is the story of a man who is ridiculed for believing he is Christ until his miracles heal two families of different faiths angry at each other over a love affair between their children.

• YOU ARE NOT ALONE - MOVIE | DVD | (26/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Leif Ove Andsnes - Balld For Edvard Grieg | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Leif Ove Andsnes is our guide on a journey through Europe with the Ballad in G minor as the musical focus of the programme. This documentary provides an incredibly interesting insight into Grieg and Leif Ove himself.

• Leif Ove Andsnes - Plays Mozart : The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Featuring excerpts from the following: 'Piano Concerto No.18 in B Flat K456' 'Keyboard Concerto No .5 in F Minor BWV 1056 - II Largo' 'Piano Concerto No 9 in E Flat K271 - III Rondeau - Presto' and 'Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor K466 - II Romance'.

• Verbier Festival-10 Years of. | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Freedom beauty and the magical aura of its location high up in the Swiss Alps - that is what characterizes the Verbier Festival & Academy. Every year this idyllic alpine village plays host to the international music elite and transforms into a venue for the exchange of artistic ideas a place where unbridled creativity and true inspiration can unfold. To celebrate the Verbier Festival & Academy's tenth birthday 23 fabulous soloists came together to honor this special spirit of Verbier - and to bequeath to us one of their most exciting concerts ever.