Live recording at Parma Verdi Festival 6 October, 2008. Massimo Zanetti conducting Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma. Stage director Stefano Vizioli.
The sensational hit of Salzburg's 2008 festival season arrives on DVD! Starring tenor Rolando Villazón in a stunning performance, this was the must have ticket of the season. Soprano Nino Machaidze, only 25 years old, burst upon the Salzburg stage with an emotionally vulnerable and vocally spectacular performance. With movie star good looks and a large, warm voice, Machaidze wowed the press and audiences alike. Tony Award winner (South Pacific) Bartlett Sher directs this production of Gounod's classic opera. With sets by Michael Yeargan and costumes by Catherine Zuber, the visually vibrant production is sure to become the benchmark. Bonus materials includes "Salzburg Impressions--Behind the Scenes of Roméo et Juliette," "Love and Death in Verona" and Villazón giving an introduction to the opera.
Hello explores changes in two people’s working lives: a Mexican trash picker who separates and collects recyclable materials from landfills to sell by the kilo, and a German freelance computer-animation designer working for the advertising industry in Berlin. The double interview is controlled and manipulated by a computer-generated severed hand which Maria describes as an object once discovered in the trash while working in the violent northern town of Mexicali. This CGI hand was in turn produced by Max, who was born with no arms, and sought refuge in computer-imaging as a means to operate and manipulate a digital reality.
After blowing his professional ballet career, John's only way to redeem himself is to concoct the demise of his former partner, Leah, who he blames for his downfall; he rehearses his salvation in his mind in the way that he rehearses a dance, but being able to break from the routine will be the key to his success.
When Max (Eric Stoltz), urged on by "Risk Management," a self-help book for the hapless, decides to approach his fellow ferry-commuter Rory (Susanna Thompson), he hopes simply saying hello might change his life for the better. But Rory only accepts contact by contract. Max finds he can play along. As the two negotiate a whirlwind relationship on paper, Rory slowly lets down her guard; but when her unresolved personal life intervenes in the form of Donald (Kevin Tighe), Max must manage a little more risk than he bargained on.
In the days of Tianhe, Murong Feng, the chief attendant of the Department of Heaven Forbidden, captured the tiger larvae who had defected from heaven. Hu Jiao was accidentally killed in Tian prison, while Murong Feng, who was in the casino, became a murderer. In order to pay for his innocence, Murong Feng and Luo Xi, the only mortal woman who could testify for themselves, went to the Heavenly Forbidden Division, but they did not know that they were uncovering the conspiracy of the Heavenly Forbidden Division's forbidden ground.
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
During one of their night stays, three college teens play a silly prank where they randomly call people and tell them that they know who that person is and what they have done. What will happen when things take a dangerous turn?
Part one of a trilogy about the Christie family, whose absurd and hilarious tribulations were first seen in the 12-part series "The Christies". Here, their very busy daily life is perturbed by the arrival of Ramon, a French sailor with an irresistible charm. He enchants every member of the family and seduces them into sleeping with him; and then the story gets even more twistedWhen Ramon and Mr. Christie meet, we discover that we are actually watching a documentary about the family, and that Mr. Christie has just dropped his pants live on television. But this gesture only increases their spectatorship and makes the family even more famous. The story gets more and more twisted.
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
The story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, a painter who was committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Edith's great-niece, Emmy Award winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Edith's paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Edith's work. The film follows Jane in her decades-long journey to find the answers to the mystery of Edith's buried life, return the work to Provincetown and have Edith's contributions recognized by the larger art world.
A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
Nathanael is not your everyday pizza boy. In fact, he works for none other than Death itself, bringing deadly deliveries to those whose time is up. But things become difficult when he is faced with his greatest challenge: his best friend.
At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.
Follows the stories of four ultra-Orthodox women. Yentel from Mea Shearim, Jerusalem is the key figure in the film, and the personal stories of three other women are interwoven into her story.
Near a remote town, the repeated dumping of toxic waste causes an underground cave dweller to mutate into a hideous monster. A construction team that is digging a tunnel accidentally disturb the creature's habitat causing it to attack.
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
The story of some teens who hold a séance in an attempt to summon spirits of dead trick or treaters from an urban legend.
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