Movies & TV

Beginning in the 60s, and lasting through the end of Franco's iron-fisted rule, genre filmmakers working in Spain began using the horror genre to astutely comment on issues of class, religion, governance and the horrors of day-to-day life. Collected here...

In the mid-1950s, a radically new vision of French cinema emerged. The short films in this special edition box set represent the dawn of this New Wave - the earliest works of it's most emblematic auteurs, which would include Jean-Luc Godard, Fran?ois...

Two-disc set includes: Golem (1980)Amiable Pernat (Marek Walczewski) was at a loss to understand why the fellow residents of his apartment complex were so miserable, or why the various authority figures he encountered seemingly delighted in torturing him...

Two-disc set includes: Rapi?a (1975)A lifetime's poverty and struggle had finally worn on mountain-village woodcutter Porfirio (Ignacio L?pez Tarso), and he saw an out after witnessing a plane crash. Heading to the site and plundering what valuables he...

Two-disc set includes: The Demon's Baby (1998)After the fall of the Qing dynasty, a grasping warlord (Elvis Tsui) vandalized a tomb containing the bottled spirits of five demonic spirits. He returns home to find that the freed fiends have impregnated his...

This legendary concert of Luciano Pavarotti in Hyde Park, 1991, was held to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of Pavarotti's operatic career. The Guardian wrote that there had not been "such a brouhaha for a free concert" since the concert given by...

?When more than 500,000 people gathered in New York's Central Park on 26 June 1993, they wanted to hear only one thing: The voice of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century: the voice of Luciano Pavarotti. A year earlier, Pavarotti had thrilled the...

Ab Heute Heit Du Sara From Today On Your Name Is DVD

The Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra can rightly claim to be one of the most authentic ensembles for interpreting the music of the Strauss dynasty. Founded in 1966 in Vienna, the aim of the new orchestra was to cultivate both the music of the Strauss...

Best Of Verdi Opera Choruses DVD

On a distant island, a man waits. Robbed of his posiiton, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this is no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to...

Ariane et Barbe-bleue makes it's premiere on DVD. Dukas's opera sees free spirit Ariane become the 6th wife of the infamous Barbe-bleue, who gives his new bride seven keys to seven doors, but prohibits the use of the last. Ariane discovers an array of...