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556814bk CC2005 14/5/05 8:56 PM Page 8 Also available from Naxos … RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumble Bee ROSSINI: William Tell Overture SATIE: Gnossienne No.4 DELIBES: Flower Duet from Lakmé HAYDN: Piano Concerto No.11 (2nd movement) MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Romance) MOMPOU: Cançons i danses No.6 HANDEL: Zadok the Priest BACH/GOUNOD: Ave Maria BEETHOVEN: Moonlight Sonata (1st movement) CHOPIN: ‘Raindrop’ Prelude BIZET: Habanera from Carmen JOHANN STRAUSS II: Wiener Blut HANDEL: Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.12 J. S. BACH: Piano Concerto No.5 (2nd movement) (Third movement) BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No.5 BERNSTEIN: I Feel Pretty from West Side Story BEETHOVEN: Moonlight Sonata (1st movement) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a PUCCINI: Nessun dorma from Turandot Theme of Thomas Tallis (excerpt) CHOPIN: Ballade No.1 in G minor WAGNER: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin MOZART: Der Hölle Rache from Die Zauberflöte TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture MOZART: Piano Sonata No.11 (1st movement) 8.556813 8.556696 556814bk CC2005 14/5/05 8:55 PM Page 2 ”He doesn’t care if you’re naughty or nice” “In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.” 1 BAD SANTA @ SIDEWAYS Director: Terry Zwigoff Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Billy Bob Thornton (Willy), Tony Cox (Marcus), Brett Kelly (The Kid), Lauren Graham Cast: Paul Giamatti (Miles Raymond), Thomas Haden Church (Jack), Virginia Madsen (Maya), (Sue), Lauten Thom (Lois), Bernie Mac (Gin). Sandra Oh (Stephanie), Marylouise Burke (Miles’ Mother), Jessica Hecht (Victoria), Missi Doty Story: A down-on-his luck conman and his pint-size buddy go on the road as Santa and his (Cammi), M. C. Gainey (Cammi’s Husband), Alysia Reiner (Christine Erganian). little helper, their objective not being to make kids happy but to rob department stores. Their Story: Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcé who teaches junior high school English takes plot gets complicated when they meet a woman bartender who has always had a thing for his best friend, formerly hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. Santas and an eight-year-old boy who makes them understand the true spirit of Christmas. They are both approaching middle age, with not much to show for it and there they explore Music: Overture to the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’ by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions “It started like any other night” whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s 2 COLLATERAL best friend who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of Director: Michael Mann the country Cast: Tom Cruise (Vincent), Jamie Foxx (Max), Jada Pinkett Smith (Annie), Mark Ruffalo Music: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (‘Memories of Alhambra’) by Spanish composer Francisco (Fanning), Peter Berg (Richard Weidner), Bruce Mc Gill (Pedrosa). Tárrega (1852-1909) Story: Max has been a taxi-driver for twelve years and is sure he has seen it all. Then one night he picks up a pleasant, well-dressed man who asks him to drive him round to five different “Twelve is the new eleven” addresses around Los Angeles, and offers to pay him a large sum of money. Gradually it dawns # OCEAN’S TWELVE on him that his fare is really a hitman and soon LAPD and FBI are in hot pursuit. Director: Steven Soderbergh Music: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Cast: Brad Pitt (Rusty Ryan), Catherine Zeta Jones (Isabel Lahiri), George Clooney (Danny Ocean), Julia Roberts (Tess Ocean), Andy Garcia (Terry Benedict), Casey Affleck (Virgil Malloy), “If you believe in love at first sight, you will never stop looking” Matt Damon (Linus Caldwell), Elliott Gould (Reuben Tishkoff), Don Cheadle (Tarr). 3 CLOSER Story: Three years after Danny Ocean and his gang of ten managed to steal $160,000,000 from Director: Mike Nicholls casino tycoon Terry Benedict, they have been caught. What is more they are left with two Cast: Jude Law (Dan), Natalie Portman (Alice), Julia Roberts (Anna), Clive Owen (Larry), weeks to return all the money they stole, plus interest over three years. Danny and his friends Nick Hobbs (Taxi Driver), Colin Stinton (Customs Officer). need to get $190,000,000 or else they will be disposed of. So they plan to pull off three large- Story: Closer is like life, but with prettier people who talk smarter about the pain they feel and scale robberies in Paris, Rome and Amsterdam before time is up inflict. The two men, Dan and Larry, and the two women, Alice and Anna, who dance in and Music: Finale from Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ (‘Heroic’) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) out of one another’s lives and beds are too complex, too loving, too human to be always right – or wrong. Notes by Lars Johansson 2 8.556814 8.556814 7 556814bk CC2005 14/5/05 8:55 PM Page 6 “The Punishment Begins April 16, 2004” Music: Excerpts from the opera ‘Così fan tutte’ (‘So do they all’) by Wolfgang Amadeus 0 THE PUNISHER Mozart (1756-1791), including the Trio ‘Soave sia il vento’ (‘May a sweet breeze blow’) Director: Jonathan Hensleigh Cast: Thomas Jane (Frank Castle / The Punisher), John Travolta (Howard Saint), Laura Harring “Some men dream the future. He built it” (Livia Saint), Ben Foster (Specker Dave), Samantha Mathis (Maria Castle), James Carpinello 4 THE AVIATOR (Bobby Saint / John Saint), Will Patton (Quentin Glass). Director: Martin Scorsese Story: FBI agent Frank Castle is finally moving into a desk job and a normal life with his family. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Howard Hughes), Cate Blanchett (Katharine Hepburn), Kate Then Castle’s world is shaken by a nightmare he has longed feared: his family is executed as Beckinsale (Ava Gardner), John C. Reilly (Noah Dietrich), Alec Baldwin (Juan Trippe), Alan payback for his final undercover assignment. With unparallelled intensity, ferocious intelligence Alda (Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster), Ian Holm (Professor Fitz), Danny Huston (Jack Fry). and fearless actions, Castle seeks to punish the murderers – and finds the one thing he least Story: This a biopic dealing with the early years (early ’20s to mid ’40s) in the career of airplane expected: redemption. enthusiast and movie producer Howard Hughes. Many well-known episodes pass by, like the Music: La donna è mobile (‘Women are fickle’) from the opera ‘Rigoletto’ by Italian composer row over Jane Russell’s cleavage in ‘The Outlaw’, the hearings with Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster Giuseppe Verdi and the finally successful take-off of monster airplane Spruce Goose. Hughes liked to surround himself with a number of beautiful women, including Ava Gardner, Katherine Hepburn, Jean “This summer a man will face his destiny. A hero will be revealed” Harlow and Faith Domergue, many of whose careers he started or helped along. ! SPIDER-MAN 2 Music: Toccata and Fugue in D minor by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Director: Sam Raimi Cast: Toby Maguire (Spider-Man / Peter Parker), Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson), James “The story of two sisters who saved a stranger, and the stranger who stole their hearts” Franco (Harry Osborn), Alfred Molina (Doc Ock / Dr. Otto Octavius), Rosemary Harris (May 5 LADIES IN LAVENDER Parker), J. K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson), Donna Murphy (Rosalie Octavius). Director: Charles Dance Story: Peter Parker’s having a rough time. His double life as the superhero Spider-Man brings Cast: Judi Dench (Ursula Widdington), Maggie Smith (Janet Widdington), Natascha McElhone him nothing but trouble. Things are so bad he declares that he’s quitting, and never putting on (Olga Daniloff), Daniel Brühl (Andrea Marowski), Miriam Margolyes (Dorcas), David Warner (Dr. the suit again. However, his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when the brilliant Frances Mead). scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is deformed in an accident and becomes Dr. Octopus. With four Story: In 1936, a gifted young Jewish violinist from Krakow, Andrea Marowski, is bound for metal tentacles sticking out of his back, he’ll prove to be a more than worthy opponent for America, when he is swept overboard by a fierce storm and lands on the Cornish coast. When Spider-Man. the Widdington sisters discover the mysterious and handsome stranger on the beach below Music: Theme with Variations: Andantino from ‘Trout’ Quintet by Austrian composer Franz their house, they nurse him back to health. But the presence of the talented young man Schubert (1797-1828) disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live. Music: Méditation from the opera ‘Thaïs’ by French composer Jules Massenet (1842-1912) 6 8.556814 8.556814 3 556814bk CC2005 14/5/05 8:55 PM Page 4 “The greatest criminal minds of all times have finally met their match” “The greatest adventure history has ever revealed” 6 THE LADYKILLERS 8 NATIONAL TREASURE Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen Director: Jon Turteltaub Cast: Tom Hanks (Professor G. H. Dorr), Irma P. Hall (Marva Munson), Marlon Wayans (Gawain Cast: Nicolas Cage (Ben Gates), Diane Kruger (Abigail Chase), Justin Bartha (Riley Poole), Sean Mac Sam), J. K. Simmons (Garth Pancake), Tzi Ma (The General), Ryan Hurst (Lump Hudson). Bean (Ian Howe), Jon Voight (Patrick Gates), Harvey Keitel (Sadusky), Christopher Plummer Story: An eccentric, if not charming professor and his crew pose as a string quintet in order to (John Adams Gates), David Dayan Fisher (Shaw). rob a Mississippi riverboat casino by digging a tunnel to the casino’s vault from the basement of Story: All his life, American Benjamin Franklin Gates has been searching for a treasure no one their landlady.