
PLACE: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona COMPANY: Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu LANGUAGE: German ORCHESTRA: Symphony Orchestra Gran Teatre del Liceu CONDUCTOR: Bertrand de Billy
Petchtai Wongkamlau stars as the eponymous bodyguard, Wongkom, who is fired from his post when his boss is assassinated. But the son of his former boss also becomes a target for the killers, he finds himself back in a job and on the trail of the mysterious assassins. The son, meanwhile, is forced to hide out in the city's slum area with a kind but constantly bickering family who agree to take him in. There, he sparks up a romantic relationship with the family's tomboy daughter, Pok (Pumwaree Yodkamol).
The ultimate sci-fi action thriller full of amazing special effects and stunning futuristic settings. An intelligent race of alien bugs is attacking Earth and are intent on destroying every living thing. Johnny Rico is a brave young freedom fighter who trains in the elite infantry unit and along with Carmen, a stunning fighter pilot, they join a mission to the aliens home planet to fight an all-out intergalactic war.
During the first London performance King George II is said to have been so moved by the Hallelujah chorus, that he rose from his seat, and the rest of the audience with him. The Messiah, Handel's best-known oratorio, is deemed to be the masterpiece of the genre and one of the main reasons that he became a popular artistic figure in London's contemporary music scene. Helmuth Rilling conducts Mozart's 1789 arrangement of that Grand Musical Entertainment. According to Rilling, it is due to the details that this arrangement is so fascinating: dynamic changes, a different segmentation of solo and chorus parts, the instrumentation modulated to the tone characteristic of Mozart's time.
Sidney Lumet's gripping courtroom drama marks one of the most remarkable directing debuts of all time, leading to an Oscar nomination. As a jury deliberates the fate of a youngster accused of murder, one man alone is unconvinced of his guilt and tries to persuade his colleagues to change their minds.
In writer-director Aparna Sen's award winning film, a Muslim man and a Brahmin woman get to know each other on a fateful cross-country bus trip to Calcutta. Introduced my mutual friends, photographer Raja Chowdhary (Rahul Bose) promises to look after Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sensharma) and her infant son.
Like many holiday films, THIS CHRISTMAS mines the ample humor and drama of a family Christmas. Ma'Dere (Loretta Devine) is the matriarch to the large and loving Whitfield family, which consists of her three daughters--Kelli (Sharon Leal), Lisa (Regina Kin
Nancy is a divorced mother of three who is so busy raising her children that she's forgotten to take care of herself as well. With Christmas fast approaching, she decides to take her kids to the mall to meet Santa Claus, not knowing that her youngest daug
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