| 681 |
We Want the Light: The Jews and German Music (2005) #1381
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86mins. BBC. Christopher Nupen's award-winning film investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music, from Mendelssohn to Wagner. The heroine of the film is pianist Alice Sommer Herz, who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp and is convinced that it was music that kept her, and many others, alive in those unimaginable circumstances. |
| 682 |
Vera Drake (2004) #25
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family. |
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The Incredibles (2004) #198
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Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee. A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. |
| 684 |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) #522
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Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. |
| 685 |
Holst - The Planets (2004) #608
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This visualisation of Gustav Holst's orchestral masterpiece 'The Planets' and Colin Matthews' additional movement 'Pluto, the Renewer' features images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by the composer. Directed by Rhodri Huw, this audiovisual experience enthralled a massive TV audience with a blend of images filmed in many locations around the world (including New Mexico, Arizona and Scandinavia), computer graphics, animatronics and an atmospheric performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. |
| 686 |
Gipsy Kings - Live At Kenwood House (2004) #661
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The Gipsy Kings are unfashionable superstars. Formed in southern France by the brothers and cousins of the Reyes and Baliardo families, they mixed Gypsy flamenco and Latin American styles with a rhythm section and light show worthy of a pop band, and became a crossover sensation. cf Gypsy Kings. |
| 687 |
Arena: Pavarotti - the Last Tenor (2004) #712
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For 40 years, Luciano Pavarotti has been hailed as one of the greatest tenors of all time, an artist fit to rank alongside the great Caruso. As his career reaches its climax, this documentary, showing as part of the BBC's Summer of Opera, chronicles his background and upbringing, and follows him as he performs to sell-out audiences on three continents, culminating with his valedictory performances of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Backstage in LA, the tenor greets celebrity admirers, including Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman , in Berlin he's reunited with Three Tenors group members Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo , while in his Italian hometown of Modena the maestro gathers top names in rock and pop, such as Bono, Queen, Ricky Martin and Andrea Bocelli , to raise money for the children of Iraq. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen. |
| 688 |
Garden State (2004) #1032
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Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. |
| 689 |
The Return (2003) #138
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. |
| 690 |
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) #284
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Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. |
| 691 |
Chicago (2002) #9
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. |
| 692 |
Russian Ark (2002) #18
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Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. |
| 693 |
Russian Ark (2002) #55
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Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Single disk. |
| 694 |
Frida (2002) #134
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Directed by Julie Taymor. With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro. A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. |
| 695 |
Whale Rider (2002) #327
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Directed by Niki Caro. With Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis. A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. |
| 696 |
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (2002) #608
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Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Filmed at the National Botanic Garden of Wales featuring the futuristic glass dome by Norman Foster. The sensational young violinist Julia Fischer brings a fresh and sparkling interpretation of this popular work. |
| 697 |
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) #1235
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Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. |
| 698 |
The Falklands Play (2002) #1427
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The Falklands Play: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane. On April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. This movie is a gripping account of how Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal. It tells the story of how Argentina, an ally of the British, fought the Conservative government and invaded the Falklands. This play charts the backroom maneuverings between Thatcher's government and the military, between the British and the Americans, and the Americans and the Argentinians that led to a breakdown in diplomacy, to war, and to Britain's eventual victory |
| 699 |
Iris (2001) #486
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. |
| 700 |
Amélie (2001) #1430
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Amélie: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta. Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love |
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