Review, buy Ballet & Dance: Bolshoi At The Bolshoi, The - Presents Spartacus, Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet, The Kirov Ballet - Kirov Ballet, Fame [1980], Don Quixote - American Ballet Theatre, Silence Is The End Of Our Song - Royal Danish Ballet / Swansong - English National Ballet, The Kirov Ballet - Shakespeare Dance Trilogy, Dein Perry's Tap Dogs [1996], The Glory Of The Kirov Ballet, The Kirov Ballet - St. Petersburg [1991], The Kirov, The Magic of the Kirov Ballet (1988), Joaquin Cortes - In Celebration Of Gypsy Passion [1996], Swan Lake [1992], Sylvie Guillem - Evidentia [1995], The Magic Of Torvill And Dean, Spartacus [1984], Paris Orchestra - The Art Of 20th Century Ballet [1985], Rudolf Nureyev - Nureyev - Dancing Through The Darkness, The Merry Widow [1987]

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Review ITV DVD / Bolshoi At The Bolshoi, The - Presents Spartacus

Bolshoi At The Bolshoi, The - Presents Spartacus (ITV DVD)

Actors & Directors

Aram Khachaturian - The Bolshoi Ballet

Run time: 135 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Synergie Logistics / Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet (Synergie Logistics)

Actors & Directors

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Vladimir Vasiliev
The Bolshoi Ballet
Ekaterina Maximova

Release date: 1995-10-27
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £29.98

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Review Synergie Logistics / The Kirov Ballet - Kirov Ballet

The Kirov Ballet - Kirov Ballet (Synergie Logistics)

Actors & Directors

The Kirov Ballet

Release date: 1998-05-29
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £12.99

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Fame [1980] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Eddie Barth
Irene Cara
Lee Curreri
Alan Parker
Antonia Franceschi
Laura Dean

Release date: 1998-04-20
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: ~~£6.99~~
Price: £2.22

Review Fame [1980] / Warner Home Video:

This early effort by director Alan Parker is lively but jagged as it follows four students through their years in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Rather predictably, the kids fall into four clearly defined stereotypes: brazen, gay and hypersensitive, prickly, shy. Fame makes up for a disjointed presentation with a lot of heart and a great soundtrack (for which it won two Academy Awards). The hopes and disappointments, failures and successes of these teens are fodder for emotional scenes and exuberant dancing in the streets. It also turned out to be the first of many imitators and spawned a popular television series. (It was the breakout film for the short-lived feature-film career of Irene Cara, who sang the title song. ) -Rochelle O'Gorman Fame helped to launch the 1980s on a tide of aspiration, creating a successful television series, kick-starting the leg-warmer industry and inspiring us all with the idea that with talent, a lot of hard work, plenty of suffering and luck, anybody might, one day, become a star. Nostalgia inevitably endows Fame with its own golden glow for anyone in the region of 40. And as we drown in the karaoke-by-numbers of today's cynical television talent shows, its touchingly innocent quality makes for a poignant and telling contrast. In truth, director Alan Parker's film is a collage of the disciplines on offer at New York's High School of Performing Arts. [+]

The characters are sketchy totems for the emotional and domestic conflicts that drive their dreams-Leroy, Doris and friends needed the television spin-off to give them substance-but Parker is brilliant at conveying the intensity and heartache of their collective journey, from the paralysing nerves of the auditions to the strain of maintaining a rounded education alongside the development of performance skills and the ultimate thrill of graduation. By the end, thanks to the familiarity of the thudding disco soundtrack, you really do want them all to "live forever". On the DVD: Fame scores all over again on DVD with its widescreen format and a thumping soundtrack: the moment when the kids burst out onto the street and stop the traffic is a bit of 1980s cinema magic. Alan Parker leads the class reunion commentary, helped by many of the cast. The film is clearly still important to them all. Other extras include a visit to today's school (hardly changed in philosophy or the passion of its real-life students), a vintage featurette and face-to-face interviews which basically recycle the commentary. -Piers Ford.

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