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Rental > Performing Arts: 189 Films to Rent on DVD
Cirque du Soleil - Varekai (2002)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Nick Morris
- A splendid fantasy stageshow from Canadian troupe Cirque du Soliel. Combining jugglers, clowns, contortionists, trapeze and aerial artists, this…
Dracula - Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)
- Dir. Guy Maddin
- Deeply evocative version of Bram Stoker's oft–filmed 'Dracula' novel based around a recent stage–show by the Winnipeg National Ballet…
Fonteyn and Nureyev (2002)
- Feat. Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn
- Considered the great dancing–partnership of our time, Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn are here seen at their prime, in such ballets as Swan…
Beckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons…
- An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors.
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Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, John Clarke, Martyn Sanderson…
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
By Jeeves (2001)
- Dir. Alan Ayckbourne
Feat. John Scherer, Martin Jarvis
- Apart from the American accents, this is an well–nigh flawless performance of Alan Ayckbourne and Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical based on…
Fosse (2001)
- A 1999 stage tribute to the master choreographer and director of such films (and the stage show versions) as CHICAGO, CABARET, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN…
Great Composers - Volume 1 (Bach, Mozart) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. James Runcie, Francesca Kemp
- Excellent BBC series gives a substantial insight into its selected classical composers, combining biographical narrative with musical–analysis…
Great Composers - Volume 2 (Beethoven, Wagner) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jill Marshall, Kriss Rusmanis
- Excellent BBC series gives a substantial insight into its selected classical composers, combining biographical narrative with musical–analysis…
Great Composers - Volume 3 (Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mahler) (2001)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Simon Broughton, Chris Hunt, Kriss Rusmanis
- Excellent BBC series gives a substantial insight into its selected classical composers, combining biographical narrative with musical–analysis…