U2 Vertigo Tour 2005 : Live from Chicago
(2005) [PG]

"U2 Vertigo//2005" is without doubt the hottest tour of the year!! Ticket demand has been phenomenal and by the end of 2005 U2 will have played to 3.25 million people! "Vertigo//2005, U2 Live From Chicago" the DVD captures this unique experience. The DVD features 23 electric performances, with...  More

Michael Buble: Caught in the Act (2 disc set)
(2005) [G]

Sensational young crooner Michael Buble stars in his first "Great Performances" PBS special this holiday season: that and his August live performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles will be seen and heard in this CD/DVD package. Now Buble takes yet another giant step in his meteoric career.  More

Michael Buble: Come Fly with Me (2 disc set)
(2004) [PG]

A year after his slickly produced recording debut launched him on a meteoric course to stardom, this combo DVD/CD set chronicles Michael Buble's crowd-pleasing live performances before amphitheater-sized crowds on a triumphant national tour. The audio portion kicks off with a pair of new studio...  More

The Eagles : Farewell I Tour Live From Melbourne (2 disc set)
(2004) [G]

The Eagles’ Farewell I Tour: Live From Melbourne 2dvd set captures the Eagles’ sold out November 2004 Melbourne, Australian concerts from their historic Farewell I tour and features the Eagles performing almost three hours of classic hits and the debut of two new tracks. Glenn Frey, Don...  More

Billy Connolly Live in New York: Too Old to Die Young Tour 2005
(2005) [M]

Stand up comedy with Billy Connolly recorded during his tour of America.  More

Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974
(2004) [E]

Barry Feinstein was the exclusive tour photographer on Bob Dylan and the Band’s legendary 1966 and 1974 World Tours. In this documentary feature film, Feinstein and Director Joel Gilbert chronicle these epic Bob Dylan tours, featuring over 150 selections of Feinstein’s finest portraits –...  More

The Turning Point
(1977) [PG]

Deedee (Shirley MacLaine), gave up her ballet career 20 years ago for motherhood at the turning point of her life. Now, as the promising career of her teenage daughter Emilia (Leslie Brown), is launched, Deedee must come to terms with herself. Emilia is enmeshed in a love affair with Yuri...  More

Modigliani
(2004) [M]

A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian...  More

The Five Obstructions
(2003) [M]

Danish auteur Lars von Trier directs the documentary-of-sorts The Five Obstructions (De Fem Bensp?nd). In 2001, von Trier convinces veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to create five remakes of his 1967 short The Perfect Human. Calling himself the Obstructor, von Trier orders Leth to make his films in...  More

Mad Hot Ballroom
(2005) [PG]

Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in MAD HOT BALLROOM. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance programme for fifth graders, in...  More

Hamlet
(1969) [G]

Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Hamlet was greeted with storms of applause on both the London and Broadway stage. This performance is here captured on film by director Tony Richardson, bringing life to William Shakespeare's immortal play.  More

A Good Woman
(2004) [PG]

Set in the 1930s on the Amalfi coastline, the marriage of Robert Windermere and his wife Meg is put in danger, when gossip surfaces that Robert is providing a secret allowance to an older woman... Based on Oscar Wilde's play 'Lady Windermere's Fan'.  More

Scared Weird Little Guys : The First 15 Years
(2005) [PG]

A performance from one of Australia's favouriote comedy duos, the Scared Wierd Little Guys, performed late 2004 in the world famous Schpiegel Tent and showcasing all the favourites from a career spoanning 15 years. Over 100 minutes of extra material make up this fantastic comedy release.  More

Romeo and Juliet (1954) / Romeo and Juliet Ballet (1966) (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

Disc 1: 1954 film version with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall. In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry....  More

Being Julia
(2004) [M]

In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim, an Academy Award® nomination, the Golden Globe® Award and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in Being...  More

Luther
(1973) [PG]

This adaptation of John Osborne's Luther was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Stacy Keach stars as Martin Luther, the German priest who, during the 16th...  More

Lost in the Stars
(1974) [PG]

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical Lost in the Stars is based on Alan Paton's classic novel Cry, The Beloved Country. This film, like the stage musical and the book it was based on, is a moving indictment of racial hatred, made at the height of apartheid. Lost in the Stars tells the story...  More

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
(1975) [PG]

A music revue featuring the troubadour-like ballads of French songwriter Jacques Brel, with new English lyrics. Brel himself sings, showcasing his beautiful delivery and profound and touching lyrics.  More

King Lear
(1976) [PG]

An excellent made-for-television production. This Shakespeare tragedy brings out the themes of family relationships, youth versus age and the struggle of good over evil.  More

Twelfth Night
(1988) [G]

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, and the Renaissance Theatre Company's production of the play, starring Richard Briers and directed by Kenneth Branagh, has been one of the most highly acclaimed of recent years.  More

Romeo and Juliet
(1976) [PG]

For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet when their children, Romeo and Juliet, inadvertantly meet, they fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are...  More

Macbeth (1978)
(1978) [PG]

Trevor Nunn's film of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition and witchcraft attempts to recreate his acclaimed 1976 staging of the play. Ian McKellen and Judi Dench play the ambitious pair who murder their way to the Scottish throne. Nunn's film retains the spare, simple look of his stage...  More

Trapeze
(1956) [PG]

A decided change of pace for Carol Reed, Trapeze focuses on a trio of circus performers played by Burt Lancaster (Mike Ribble), Tony Curtis (Tino Orsini), and Lola (Gina Lollabrigida). Orsini, a young aerialist, has joined the circus Ribble works for, hoping to learn the secret of the triple...  More

Come Back Little Sheba
(1952) [M]

Based on William Inge's classic play, Come Back, Little Sheba is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past. Shirley Booth stars in an Academy Award winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), a recovering alcoholic....  More

Galileo
(1975) [PG]

Fiddler On the Roof's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy. including Sir John Gielgud (Arthur Becket), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal) and Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben), ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in precise,...  More

In Celebration
(1975) [PG]

Utilizing the same brilliant cast as In Celebration's original highly acclaimed Royal Court Theater run, director Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man, If) re-imagines his stage triumph into a riveting cinematic experience. Anderson grounds David Storye's ferocious and poignant drama in a setting that...  More

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
(1975) [PG]

Philadelphia, Here I Come! follows Gareth "Gar" O'Donnell as he prepares to emigrate to America. Gar's feelings about the impending change in his life come to life through dual actors - Donal McCann portrays Gar's public persona and Des Cave portrays his turbulent inner emotions.  More

The Iceman Cometh
(1973) [PG]

Lee Marvin, in a tour de force performance, stars as the charismatic Hickey, a reformed drunk whose smiling facade masks shocking self deception. With performances the LA Times described as "quite simply, perfect", The Iceman Cometh is the American Film Theatre's greatest achievement.  More

The Maids
(1975) [PG]

Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play two Parisian maids plotting to murder their mistress. Director Christopher Miles (A Time For Loving) and legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatrically into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience.  More

Rhinoceros
(1973) [PG]

Director Tom O'Horgan, originator of the Broadway smash hit Hair, transforms Eugene lonesco's "Theatre of the Absurd" curio into a hilarious, outrageous screen comedy, with Wilder and Mostel displaying pitch-perfect comic timing, With Karen Black.  More