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Met Opera: Tosca (2009)
Director: Gary Halvorson
Starring: Karita Mattila, George Gagnidze, Marcelo Alvarez
"Tosca" is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The work, based on Victorien Sardou'... Read more
Met Opera: Manon Lescaut (2008)
Director: Brian Large
Starring: Marcello Giordani, Karita Mattila, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis
On the heels of her triumph in Jenofa, Finnish phenomenon Karita Mattila adds another landmark role to her Met repertory, the free-spirited beauty Man... Read more
Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (2001)
8.2/10
Director: James Levine
Starring: James Morris, Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen
Wagner's opera in three acts is one of the most popular and commonly performed today. First staged in 1868, this version at New York's Metropolitan O... Read more
Fidelio (2002)
8/10
Starring: Ben Heppner, Robert Lloyd, Falk Struckmann, Karita Mattila
Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio", an opera in two parts, is the story of Leonore, who goes in search of her missing husband Florestan, a Spanish state... Read more
Back to Stay (2011)
6.1/10
Director: Milagros Mumenthaler
Starring: Maria Canale, Martina Juncadella, Ailin Salas, Julian Tello
A.k.a. "Abrir puertas y ventanas". Three women react in different ways to a family crisis in this drama from Argentina. Marina (Maria Canale), Sofia (... Read more
Great Expectations ( Blu-ray ) (1946)
7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita...
One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more
Anna Karenina (1948)
6.7/10
Director: Julien Duvivier
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt
After falling in love with Alexei Vronsky, an adventurous Russian army officer, Anna (Vivien Leigh) scandalizes Moscow by leaving her cuckolded bureau... Read more
Great Expectations (1946)
7.9/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Jean Sim...
One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noel Coward, Martita Hunt, Carol Lynley, The Zomb...
Director Otto Preminger's unusual psychological thriller stars Carol Lynley as an American woman living in London who drops her young daughter off at... Read more
Leningrad Cowboys Collection ( Leningrad Cowboys Go America / Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses / Total Balalaika Show ) (1989)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Andre Wilms, Jim Jarmusch, Kari Vaananen, Matti Pellonpaa, Nicky Tesco
The legendary Leningrad Cowboys, one of Finland's oddest but most successful exports, are a comic rock band of outlandish appearance with their dark s... Read more
Anastasia (1956)
7.1/10
Director: Anatole Litvak
Starring: Akim Tamiroff, Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Martita Hunt, Natalie S...
Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her performance in this strange but engrossing story about Czar Nicholas' missing daughter Anastasia. Yul Brynner is a... Read more
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Nadja Uhl, Alexandra...
Meticulous fact-based drama of the Red Army Faction. Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy i... Read more
The Baader Meinhof Complex ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Nadja Uhl, Alexandra...
Meticulous fact-based drama of the Red Army Faction. Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy i... Read more