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The Lavender Hill Mob
: :Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 81 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Britain's Ealing Studios was at the top of its game when this classic comedy was released in 1951--one of the all-time best crime-caper comedies and a quintessential example of the witty and subtly subversive Ealing style. Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but ...
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Georges Bizet - Carmen / Peter Hall, Bernard Haitink, Maria Ewing, Barry McCauley, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
:Description:Carmen is one of the few indisputable masterpieces of its time to be composed for a small theater and Glyndebourne provides a heaven-sent backdrop for this sizzling Peter Hall production. 'Bizet's score sounds miraculous in this theatre. ' FINANCIAL TIMES. The accent is on stark realism and dramatic intensity. An electrically vivid Carmen is portrayed by Maria Ewing '.a rare combination of gifted singer and outstanding actress' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. Bizet's famous Spanish gypsy is matched with the sentimental Don José of Barry McCauley '.an American tenor of real promise.a thrilling Don José' OBSERVER. ...
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Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
:Description:Carmen is one of the few indisputable masterpieces of its time to be composed for a small theater and Glyndebourne provides a heaven-sent backdrop for this sizzling Peter Hall production. 'Bizet's score sounds miraculous in this theatre. ' FINANCIAL TIMES. The accent is on stark realism and dramatic intensity. An electrically vivid Carmen is portrayed by Maria Ewing '.a rare combination of gifted singer and outstanding actress' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. Bizet's famous Spanish gypsy is matched with the sentimental Don José of Barry McCauley '.an American tenor of real promise.a thrilling Don José' OBSERVER. ...
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Puccini - Gianni Schicchi / Corbelli, Palmer, Giordano, Matthews, McLaughlin, Jurowski, Glyndebourne Opera
:Description:Carmen is one of the few indisputable masterpieces of its time to be composed for a small theater and Glyndebourne provides a heaven-sent backdrop for this sizzling Peter Hall production. 'Bizet's score sounds miraculous in this theatre. ' FINANCIAL TIMES. The accent is on stark realism and dramatic intensity. An electrically vivid Carmen is portrayed by Maria Ewing '.a rare combination of gifted singer and outstanding actress' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. Bizet's famous Spanish gypsy is matched with the sentimental Don José of Barry McCauley '.an American tenor of real promise.a thrilling Don José' OBSERVER. ...
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The Irish R.M. - Series 1
:Description:Peter Bowles (Rumpole of the Bailey, To the Manor Born) stars in this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community’s eccentric inhabitants, Major Sinclair Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where, in the words of a former Lord Chief Justice, 'the inevitable never happens but the improbable frequently does.' This classic PBS Masterpiece Theatre series, shot entirely on location in County Kildare, captures the texture of the lush Irish ...
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Mozart - Requiem
:Description:Peter Bowles (Rumpole of the Bailey, To the Manor Born) stars in this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community’s eccentric inhabitants, Major Sinclair Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where, in the words of a former Lord Chief Justice, 'the inevitable never happens but the improbable frequently does.' This classic PBS Masterpiece Theatre series, shot entirely on location in County Kildare, captures the texture of the lush Irish ...
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Gianni Schicchi [Blu-ray]
:Description:Peter Bowles (Rumpole of the Bailey, To the Manor Born) stars in this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community’s eccentric inhabitants, Major Sinclair Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where, in the words of a former Lord Chief Justice, 'the inevitable never happens but the improbable frequently does.' This classic PBS Masterpiece Theatre series, shot entirely on location in County Kildare, captures the texture of the lush Irish ...
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Igor Stravinsky - Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)/ Dessay, McLaughlin, Urmana, Grivnov, Schagidullin, Naouri, Mikhailov, Conlon
:Description:Peter Bowles (Rumpole of the Bailey, To the Manor Born) stars in this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community’s eccentric inhabitants, Major Sinclair Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where, in the words of a former Lord Chief Justice, 'the inevitable never happens but the improbable frequently does.' This classic PBS Masterpiece Theatre series, shot entirely on location in County Kildare, captures the texture of the lush Irish ...
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Seeing Other People
: :A sweet and sly comedy, Seeing Other People centers around Ed (Jay Mohr, Jerry Maguire) and Alice (Julianne Nicholson, Ally McBeal), who have an idyllic relationship--so stable that, only a few months before their wedding, Alice worries that she's missed out; she's only slept with two other men before Ed. Anxious about her lack of experience, she proposes that they start seeing other people so she can have cheap, meaningless sex. But after a promising start that revitalizes their relationship, this arrangement starts spinning off in dangerous directions. Attention to psychological detail--as well ...
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Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera
:Description:Cast list Kiri Te Kanawa: Arabella Wolfgang Brendel: Mandryka Marie McLaughlin: Zdenka David Kuebler: Matteo Helga Dernesch: Adelaide Donald McIntyre: Count Waldner Charles Workman: Count Elemer Kim Josephson: Count Dominik Julien Robbins: Cound Lamoral Natalie Dessay: The Fiakermilli Jane Shaulis: A fortuneteller Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Christian Thielemann, conductor :Criticizing Richard Strauss for composing melodically enduring operas is as pointless as lambasting Vermeer for painting only exquisite interior scenes. Those who say Strauss never improved on Rosenkavalier may be right, but when such beguiling sounds kept coming from his music for the next ...
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