| 701 |
Surveillance (2008) #467
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Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell. |
| 702 |
Waltz with Bashir (2008) #520
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Directed by Ari Folman. With Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. |
| 703 |
Puccini: La Bohème (2008) #599
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas, Ainhoa Arteta, Ludovic Tézier. Imagine a world where taste and sensitivity have been overrun by gaudy excess and marketing hyperbole, where Puccini's quiet, intimate love-story can at last be told with A Cast of Thousands and a Real, Live Military Marching Band. Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
| 704 |
The Making of Me: Vanessa Mae (2008) #606
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1 hour BBC. Having first hit the international music scene aged 10, Vanessa-Mae's 8 million record sales have propelled her onto the Rich List and into celebrity status. But can science explain the secret of her success? Was she born a musical prodigy or did the powerful influence of her mother shape her musical talent? Determined to find some answers, Vanessa is tested by psychologists, confronted by a roomful of twins, and even put in the hot seat of a racing car to answer a question that affects us all. Nature or nurture - which makes us what we are? |
| 705 |
Don Giovanni (2008) #624
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Directed by Robin Lough. With Simon Keenlyside, Kyle Ketelsen, Eric Halfvarson, Ramón Vargas. |
| 706 |
Sacred Music: The Story of Allegri's Miserere (2008) #643
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30mins. BBC. Simon Russell Beale tells the story behind Allegri's Miserere, one of the most popular pieces of sacred music ever written. The programme features a full performance of the piece by the award-winning choir the Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers. |
| 707 |
Jazz Icons - Oscar Peterson - Live In '63, '64 And '65 (2008) #665
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Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) had but one peer on jazz piano, and that was Art Tatum. While greatly influenced by Tatum, Peterson nevertheless developed into the superior blues player of the two. A veteran of Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts before the end of the '50s, Peterson would evolve through the 1950s to lead perhaps the finest piano trio in jazz history, the one that included bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. This format mimicked that same successful one devised by Nat King Cole in the 1940s. Eventually, Ellis would leave, the guitar replaced by drums, initially those of Ed Thigpen. |
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Jake on the Box (2008) #666
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60mins. BBC. Exploring the life and work of Jake Thackray, the undervalued genius famous for his biting satire and understated irony. A rare example of a British singer-songwriter in the troubadour tradition, Thackray could be darkly vicious, but was also able to write haunting and romantic songs. His words and music have influenced a generation of musicians and writers. Interviewing Danny Baker, Ralph McTell and Sheila Thackray, we investigate the man and his work, and in particular his relationship with the great troubadour George Brassens, whom Jake persuaded to visit Cardiff in the 1970s. |
| 709 |
The Department Store: Milners (2008) #684
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Filmmaker Richard Macer visits the independent high street department stores that are fighting back against the big brands. He spends six months at a family-run store in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, where the owner is preparing to retire after forty years. David Milner is handing the business over to his daughter Leoni and her husband Keith, but will he go quietly? |
| 710 |
Britain from Above (2008) #704
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BBC. Episode 1 of 6 - Satellite Earth. Documentary with Andrew Marr telling the story of one satellite's journey into space and how global agencies and individuals are using satellites in all kinds of ways - farming their land from space, locating ancient water supplies hidden deep beneath the most arid desert regions and tracking ocean currents and the global mechanisms of climate change. As every conceivable aspect of our world is being 'sensed' and recorded, from the skies above our heads to the rocks beneath our feet, here is an in-depth look at the biggest technological revolution since the invention of the steam engine. |
| 711 |
Barack Obama (2008) #708
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Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president in Denver, Colorado. 28/8/2008. See also #711 |
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Brack Obama (2008) #711
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Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president in Denver, Colorado. 28/8/2008 See also #708 |
| 713 |
The Medici: Makers of Modern Art (2008) #1005
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1 hour. BBC. Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today. Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli, and Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen, driven by greed and ambition, became the financial engine behind the Italian Renaissance. |
| 714 |
Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111
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Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
| 715 |
Nana Mouskouri at the BBC (2008) #1318
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1 hour. BBC. A vintage collection of Nana Mouskouri's performances from the BBC archive, including her entry in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest and musical collaborations with Michel Legrand, Charles Aznavour and Cliff Richard. |
| 716 |
The Truth about Christmas Carols (2008) #1337
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1 hour. BBC. There could be nothing more sweet and sentimental than the sound of traditional carols performed by a velvet-voiced choir at Christmas. Or so you would think. Composer Howard Goodall uncovers the surprising and often secret history of the Christmas carol. Far from being accepted as part of the celebrations of Jesus's birth, over the centuries carols have been banned by both church and state. The carols we sing seem set in stone and yet they can have up to 400 regional variations. Individual carols have caused controversy - While Shepherds Watched had to be cleaned up by the Victorians for being too crude and there's a suspicion that O Come All Ye Faithful was a call to 18th-century Jacobites to rebel. The documentary celebrates the enduring power of the carol with a variety of performances from folk singer Bella Hardy to the choir of Truro Cathedral. |
| 717 |
Disturbia (2007) #3
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Directed by D.J. Caruso. With Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer. A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer. |
| 718 |
Dedication (2007) #33
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Directed by Justin Theroux. With Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Christine Taylor. The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend. |
| 719 |
A Real Summer (2007) #38
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Ruth Wilson, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More. It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling. |
| 720 |
Liverpool Nativity (2007) #39
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Liverpool Nativity (TV Movie 2007) on IMDb: Liverpool's great musical heritage is the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 |
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