Masterclass - An Audience With Filmmakers: Vol. 1 - Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [M]

Featuring the career stories of 4 prominent Australian screen actors Eric Bana, Claudia Karvan, Jack Thompson and Bud Tingwell. In this up close and personal series host Peter Thompson [one of Australia’s greatest authorities on cinema] draws compelling and unexpected stories from these...  More

Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2 disc set)
(2002) [G]

Their music is famous around the world, though their names are not. Known as the Funk Brothers, they put the backbeat and soul into the countless hits of Motown Records. Creating music that helped to define the era of the 1960s, while also remaining a vital influence to this day, these musicians...  More

Choir Of Hard Knocks: The Voice Of Reclink
(2007) [PG]

From the hit TV Show, best selling CD and inspirational story now comes entire series of The Choir of Hard Knocks on DVD! Take one musical director, and a group of homeless and disadvantaged people... get them together once a week, and let them sing. The result is Choir of Hard Knocks - an...  More

Marlene
(1984) [PG]

On very few occasions did Marlene Dietrich drop the well-constructed mask of her eternal beauty. She was the daughter of a soldier, and very rarely showed (real) emotions. Max Shell was able to give us a glimpse of the woman behind the facade in this breathtaking documentary (even though Marlene...  More

The Last Waltz
(1978) [M]

Thanksgiving, 1976, San Francisco's Winterland: the Band performs its last concert after 16 years on the road. Some numbers they do alone, some songs include guest artists from Ronnie Hawkins (their first boss, when they were the Hawks) to Bob Dylan (their last, when as his backup and as a solo...  More

The Kid Stays in the Picture
(2002) [M]

This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio, Robert Evans' film career started in 1956, poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks, charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye...  More

Standing in the Shadows of Motown
(2002) [G]

n 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group...  More

Sweet and Lowdown
(1999) [PG]

A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare...  More

Fellini's 8 1/2
(1962) [M]

Searching for the creativity required to deliver his next movie and hassled by industry figures, his wife and his mistress, a film director (Mastroianni) retreats into a world of memories, dreams and fantasies to escape his tormentors. The result is a dazzling array of themes and images which...  More

Hamlet (Zefferelli)
(1990) [PG]

Treachery. Madness. Murder. The story of Hamlet has been told for 400 years...but it's never been told like this! Mel Gibson (the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films) takes on his richest part to date, the title role in a dynamic new version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli...  More

The Tempest (BBC)
(1980) [G]

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a storm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage, to the island, Prospero contrives his revenge....  More

The Desperate Hours (1990)
(1990) [M]

Calculating .. ruthless .. deadly .. Michael Bosworth is a psychopath. He has escaped from custody and needs a place to hide. An ordinary house with an ordinary family - the Cornells - but Tim Cornell is no ordinary man, Vietnam vet and hard nosed businessman, he will not go down without a fight....  More

The Cherry Orchard
(1999) [PG]

Set in Russia during the Nineteenth Century, The Cherry Orchard is based on the play by Anton Chekhov and is concerned with the effects of industrialisation and social change in Russia. In the film, aristocratic Madame Ranevskaya returns to her cherry orchard after a sojourn in Paris. She is...  More

The History Boys
(2006) [M]

The History Boys is a brilliant, beguiling and extraordinarily entertaining British comedy. In the mid 1980s in a grey and grim northern Grammar school, a select number of very bright boys are desperately trying to pass the Oxbridge entrance exams. What evolves is a story that effortlessly...  More

Stomp the Yard
(2006) [M]

After the death of his younger brother, DJ, a troubled but gifted street dancer from L.A., is given a second chance at life when he's introduced to the world of "stepping" at Truth University. Courted by two rival fraternities who need his street-styled, innovative dance moves to help win the...  More

Paris, Je t'aime
(2006) [MA]

Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers will bring their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighborhoods of...  More

The Pirates of Penzance
(1994) [G]

This Pirates of Penzance is a videotaped performance from 1994, produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Though staged many years after the New York hit, its roots are in this same production, as much of the choreography, humor, and bits of business are retained.  More

Beyond the Fringe
(1964) [PG]

Before The Daily Show, before Saturday Night Live, even before Monty Python, there was Beyond the Fringe - the 1960s West End and Broadway hit revue that reinvented comedy. While another Fab Four was revolutionising music, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, and Alan Bennett were giving...  More

U-Carmen
(2006) [M]

One of the most celebrated and acclaimed operas of all time, Georges Bizet's Carmen, is revisited in this contemporary version set in a modern-day township in South Africa. In a thrilling synthesis of African culture and classic European opera, U-Carmen contrasts love and obsession, duty and...  More

Factory Girl
(2006) [MA]

A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to...  More

Jerry Lee Lewis Live: Last Man Standing
(2006) [E]

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock 'n' roll and country music icon - a singer, songwriter, and pianist who's been amazing his audiences with his piano pyrotechnics for half a century. Lewis has never stopped touring, and he still delivers explosive concerts that are unpredictable, exciting, and...  More

Daft Punk's Electroma
(2006) [G]

Two robots drive through the desert to arrive at a town in Inyo County, California visiting an avant-garde facility in their quest to become human. The French musical outfit Daft Punk whose hits include 'Around the World', 'Technologic' and Grammy nominated 'One More Time'; have turned their...  More

Razzle Dazzle
(2006) [PG]

A spectacular comedy starring Kerry Armstrong, Ben Miller, Nadine Garner, Denise Roberts, Tara Morice, Jane Hall, Toni Lamond, Barry Crocker And Noeline Brown, Razzle Dazzle lifts the curtain on the world of children's competitive dance. The film follows the eager members of "Mr. Jonathon's Dance...  More

Ray Harryhausen - The Early Years Collection (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [G]

The enchanting Mother Goose Stories and Fairy Tales, fully restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and introduced by Ray Harryhausen The amazing story behind the making of The Tortoise and The Hare Mr Harryhausen's Early Films, Tests and Experiments, many presented to the...  More

The Work of Director - Stephane Sednaoui
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Anton Corbijn
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Mark Romanek
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Jonathan Glazer
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Michel Gondry
(2004) [M]

Michel Gondry is one of the most acclaimed and respected video directors in the industry. While studying at a French art school when he began directing videos for the band Oui Oui (in which he drummed). The clip's success attracted other bands, and it wasn't long before he was working...  More

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

Chris Cunningham's career as a music video director began in 1995 when, aged 25 and passionate about music, Chris persuaded Autechre to let him direct a promo for a track entitled Second Bad Vilbel. Following on from this video, Chris was soon working with a range of artists during the early days...  More