In part One Becci Malthouse, six times British Champion and BASI / BSA snowboard supremo takes two absolute beginners from their first slide to basic turns in just four days. Then average snowboarder Peter Hart's technique is transformed as he learns to carve turns and cope with tricky terrain. In video Two Becci and Pete are joined by Neil McNabb and Jonas Hagstrom and between them they unravel the mysteries of piste tricks, more advanced jumps and coping with the fun park and half pipe.
In 1960s London a beautiful continental au pair finds herself wrestling with the affections of an earnest peace-protestor a dashing young toff and a roguish older man. But fun and freedom turn to shame and despair when she finds that her naivety has put her lovers and their partners - including the well-meaning Janet (played by Big Zapper's Linda Marlowe in her first role) - at risk. Stylishly shot in crisp black and white and set against a backdrop of smoky jazz clubs 'Ban the Bomb' marches and evocative London locations this finely-tuned cautionary tale was the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara (All the Right Noises The Brute) and is presented in a new high-definition transfer.
Becci Malthouse, six times British Champion and BASI / BSA snowboard supremo takes two absolute beginners from their first slide to basic turns in just four days. Then average snowboarder Peter Hart's technique is transformed as he learns to carve turns and cope with tricky terrain.
A fascinating film by Jan Schmidt-Garre documenting the legendary Celibidache's rehearsal and performance of Bruckner's mighty Mass in F minor. This sixty-minute film records the process of preparing this magnificent work and includes rare footage of Celibidache discussing his special relationship to Bruckner and his F minor Mass.
Artillery: One Foot In The Grave (DVD & CD)
When babies babble or draw, adults jokingly say they know what the baby is trying to communicate. What if a clinic found that these babblings and doodles were actually very intelligent responses or scribbling of an ancient form of communication? Well, it seems that all it would create is this tepid comedy. Kathleen Turner runs the clinic that believes babies have "universal knowledge" before they learn to speak (and dumb down). What she plans to do with this knowledge is never really understood, but know this: the plans are evil. The secret lives of babies have been pretty adorably filmed previously with Look Who's Talking, but here the babies talk and move via visual effects like the animals in Babe. They also karate chop adults and talk about such adorable things as "diaper gravy". By the time the story (a variation of The Parent Trap) heats up (relatively speaking), there is not much left to engage us except some cute babies that just look odd as effects take over their mouths and movements. --Doug Thomas
Forget what you think you know... A street hustler who makes all the wrong moves finds himself doing hard time in the pen in this gritty thriller.
John Adams is America''s most frequently performed living composer. He has managed the considerable feat of writing accessible music that still surprises and challenges its listeners. In the words of the New Yorker he is ''the man who takes the agony out of modern music''. Though he is not the only composer who has combined a classical education with a pop sensibility he is the one who has made the synthesis stick. Richly harmonic his music embraces just about every style from Minimalism to Mahler rock to jazz hymns to Liberace but always winds up sounding like Adams. Adams is also one of music''s most controversial figures - thanks to opera. Nixon in China started a whole new genre in modern opera. The Death of Klinghoffer dealt with the 1985 hijacking of a cruise liner by four Palestinian terrorists. Now made into a feature film it is one of the most contentious operatic works written in over a century. Ironically Adams started out hating opera but his own musical development made him the perfect composer for it. This profile of the man who led contemporary music out of the cul-de-sac of the avant-garde and revitalised modem opera centres on a major interview filmed at his home outside San Francisco. There are contributions from stage director Peter Sellars librettist Alice Goodman and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and extensive performance extracts from Nixon in China and El Nino. His orchestral compositions Shaker Loops The Chamber Symphony and Gnarly Buttons are also featured.
Stigmata: A lost soul has just received the wounds of Christ...and a shocking message that will alter history. Stunning performances from Patricia Arquette (True Romance) Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Jonathan Pryce (Ronin) and a cutting edge score by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Elia Cmiral make Stigmata a visual and visceral feast. Hellraiser 1: When Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites. A world where these cruel sadists thrive on pain. Written and directed by the brilliant Clive Barker Hellraiser is a film that cannot be ignored. Children Of The Corn: Traveling through Nebraska Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) stop in a small town to report the death of a child on the highway. There they discover something strange about the community: all the grownups are gone and the children seem to belong to a strange cult. What's worse it's a cult that sacrifices adults to the dreadful he who walks behind the rows. Based upon a Stephen King short story.
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.
FORGIVE ME: By openly exceeding the borders of the acceptable the idealistic filmmaker Cyrus Frisch hopes the stream of violence and misery on television will finally come to an end. The praise he gained after the first screening of brutal scenes with social outcasts he filmed made him outrageous. The director sells himself to the devil and goes even further in the abuse of his protagonists. How long can the viewer stay a passive accomplice?
T-Rex: Dinosaurs are very much alive - at least in the mind of Ally Hayden. When a museum accident transports Ally on an adventure back in time to explore the terrain and territory of life-size dinosaurs she is thrust literally nose-to-nose with the largest and most realistic dinosaur ever to appear on a movie screen - the 20 foot tall 15-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex! Dream Is Alive: Walter Cronkite narrates this journey about the space shuttle. Share the astronauts' experience of working eating and sleeping in zero gravity. Look back at our magnificent earth witness an exciting satellite repair and the historic walk in space by an American woman. Blue Planet: Filmed in IMAX experience the forces of nature which affect our lives and see how we are changing our fragile world. Filmed by astronauts from five space shuttle missions this video gives the viewer an understanding of the forces affecting earth's fragile ecological balance through volcanoes hurricanes earthquakes and ultimately humankind.
Carry On Admiral (aka: The Ship Was Loaded) (Dir. Val Guest 1957): A case of mistaken identity means that Tom Baker (David Tomlinson) Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Sea Lord is piped aboard HMS Sherwood as the new Captain. Calamity rules as the 'Captain' causes a right old carry-on. Up The Creek (Dir. Val Guest 1958): The forgotten H.M.S. Berkley has been without a commanding officer for two years in which time the skeleton crew has gone into the racketeering business with the landlord of a coastal village. When the Navy appoint Humphrey Fairweather as a long overdue replacement his unhealthy obsession with missile construction and the landlord's beautiful niece threatens to upset the balance of business. Further Up The Creek (Dir. Val Guest 1958): Crikey! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs!
The Amazing Adventure
Praise tells the bizarre and erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair has the potential to either save or destroy their lives.Based on a semi-autobiographical cult novel by Andrew McGahan, this acclaimed drama is an example of Australian cinema at its most quirky and passionate.
The bosses control everything in this underground world where modern day gladiators fight for the entertainment and unrelenting addiction of the gambling and audience. When a female journalist and her team are given an assignment in Las Vegas to investigate a brutal new martial arts competition they are less than enthusiastic. But when one of the fighters is killed in competition her instincts are to research and report on the seedy and violent world of real-life fight clubs and the
This film features the following films: Lawrence Of Arabia (Dir. David Lean) (1962): This remarkable film follows the struggles of T.E. Lawrence (played by Peter O'Toole - My Favourite Year The Last Emperor) in uniting the hostile Arab factions during the First World War and leading them to victory over the ruling Turkish Empire. The film was released originally in 1962 to huge critical acclaim winning 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for David Lean. Available for the first time on DVD Lawrence of Arabia is a two-disc release featuring an outstanding array of extra features and fully restored print of the film making it the Ultimate Collector's Edition. Gladiator (Dir. Ridley Scott) (2000): The great Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe) has once again led the legions to victory on the battlefield. The war won Maximus dreams of home wanting only to return to his wife and son; however the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) has one more duty for the general - to assume the mantle of his power. Jealous of Maximus' favour with the Emperor the heir to the throne Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) orders his execution - and that of his family. Barely escaping death Maximus is forced into slavery and trained as a gladiator in the arena where his fame grows. Now he has come to Rome intent on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor; Commodus....
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