3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3

Andromeda - A.05 - Season 1

Four episodes. The Honey Offering - Dylan agrees to transport Elssbett Mossadim to her wedding that will forge an alliance between the two largest Nietzschean Prides. Star-Crossed - Andromeda rescues an AI Gabriel from a Restor attack. It Makes A Lovely Light - By taking a mind-altering drug while attempting an exhaustive piloting mission, Berka jeopardises the crew. Its Hour Come 'Round At Last - When an old-core memory is accidentally installed in Andromeda's memory, her current crew is wiped out.

Early Doors - Series 2

The Grapes is an old fashioned spit and sawdust pub somewhere in the North of England. Publican Ken knows all the tricks of the trade and thinks nothing of borrowing change from the charity box and pouring cheap spirits into expensive bottles. The regulars include Joe and Duffy, married couple Joan and Eddie, single mother Janice and Liam, boyfriend of Ken's daughter Melanie. Also indulging in the occasional drink are Phil and Nige, a pair of uniformed cops for whom work would be a novelty. Contains every episode from the second series.

Abbado, Claudio - Hearing The Silence

The programme conveys a moving view on one of the leading musicians of our time. In several interviews, Abbado talks about artistic, musical and biographical aspects of his life. The film shows excerpts from rehearsals and concerts with some of his favourite orchestras. Statements from colleagues and friends are combined with views from his favourite surroundings and help to characterize the 'silent thinker'. Film Director, Paul Smaczny had a very rare opportunity to get a glimpse of the immensely private personality of Claudio Abbado, described by many in the film as noble and elegant but also as a warm-hearted friend. The musicians all mention his reserved, but exact gestures, his respectful way of working in rehearsals and concerts and the atmosphere of co-operation this creates. Co-operation in music making is an aspect that, as Abbado indicates in one of his interviews, is very important to him and one that is at the core of his artistic intentions. Together with rarely seen historical filmed material and documents of him rehearsing and performing works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Debussy, Dvorak, Strauss, Stravinsky and Nono, these interviews make up an extensive portrait of one of the most important personalities in the classical musical world. Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor and close friend, opens the comments and observations of the featured artists. They all speak of their work with the conductor and share a sense of awe for his achievements with orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic or the orchestras he founded. These include the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, founded in 1986 and most recently the enormously successful Lucerne Festival Orchestra made up of handpicked soloists and pre-eminent musicians like Kolja Blacher, Albrecht Mayer, Sabine Meyer, Emanuel Pahud and Natalia Gutman. The film follows Abbado's work with the orchestras with whom he most frequently collaborated, making use of both recent and archival film documents. Thus it recounts his career, which began in 1960 at La Scala in Milan, where he was musical director from 1968 to 1986. From 1986 to 1991 he was musical director of the Vienna Staatsoper and he has been Generalmusikdirektor of the city of Vienna since 1987. In 1988 he founded the Wien Modern Festival, a contemporary music event that has expanded to include different aspects of art. He conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for the first time in 1966 in 1989 the orchestra elected him principal conductor and artistic director. In 2001 he became the first conductor ever not to avail himself of his life contract with the famous orchestra and the film explains how other projects became important to him after learning of his illness with cancer. This filmed portrait, has won two prestigious festival prizes at major art film festivals in 2004: 'Best Portrait' award (Prix du meilleur portrait) at the 22nd International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal, regarded as the most important art film fes

Scar

Repeatedly plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods where his friend Zack mysteriously disappeared a year earlier, leaving behind only a horrific trail of blood. The local sheriff is quick to let Tom know that another eight people have also been murdered, each time the victim was left with a gruesome, bleeding scar on their stomach. Now Tom is the prime suspect. Desperate to clear his name, Tom searches for the truth, but as a series of cryptic secrets reveal themselves, he is soon caught up in a struggle for both his sanity and survival.

Vital

Hiroshi Takagi (Asano) is a young man who has just regained consciousness having slipped into a coma following the horrible car accident which claimed the life of his girlfriend Ryoko. Takagi awakes with no memory of any sort: not of the accident, not of his family, not of his girlfriend. His parents, both doctors, take him home where he discovers a box full of old medical textbooks and, fascinated, he subsequently enrolls in medical school. Still, Takagi is a shell of a man he shows no interest in any of his classmates, even the attractive young woman who slowly becomes obsessed with him, and lives alone in a squalid apartment. The first glimmer of life appears when Takagi begins his dissection class and he starts to explore the corpse of a young woman with a tattoo on her arm, a tattoo which slowly begins to dislodge fragments of Takagi's memories. He eventually comes to realise that the corpse he is dissecting is none other than Ryoko, his former girlfriend. As he continues to work more of his past returns and he grows increasingly protective of Ryoko's corpse. Eventually he begins having waking dreams of his lover. Are they memories? Fantasies? Or has he tapped into some sort of supernatural reality in which he can interact with Ryoko's spirit? Takagi becomes increasingly distant from reality as he pursues Ryoko beyond death...