A Portrait Of Morpeth Through The Ages DVD

Advantages: Interesting
Disadvantages: Not enough of the "old" history of the East end

...and 1983 and is, indeed, a very stirring portrait of what happened when 100,000 Jews and non-Jews fought Moseley. And defeated him. Incidentally, Berkoff's uncle Sam is honoured in the mural, as he was one of the leaders of what Berkoff describes as "the resistance movement." The next piece of the programme covers the war years and the mass evacuation of thousands of London children and the terrible blitz. The one flaw with the programme East End Through the Ages is that it does not cover the East End Through the Ages, As Berkoff says: "Let me begin, where memory begins…" Of course, beginning the story where memory begins does rather preclude telling the story of the east end through the ages. If you only deal with "living memory" this does preclude looking at the "broad picture" as it where. The programme covers the "Moseleyite" Brown... Read review

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Advantages: Intimate insight into charismatic classical violinist
Disadvantages: Appalling accompanying production package from EMI

...and the electric violin in a mix of classical with rock and roll and jazz idioms, but he also has to dance a tango! In preparation for this he studies with the legendary French jazz violinist Didier Lockwood. The blurb ends saying that this is a portrait of a "restless master talent, at the height of his powers but still in development, searching for new dreams to come." The DVD was produced, directed and filmed by Ken Howard and lasts for approximately 71 minutes. DVD content: This is where EMI start to fall down. In the simple, disappointing and basically totally inadequate 2 side insert "brochure" to the DVD, only a 1/3rd of which is in English, there is merely a brief elaboration of the blurb above and no track listing or other detailed run-through of the actual contents of the disc. Big mistake because one surely needs to know what music... Read review

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Advantages: Fairly amusing
Disadvantages: A little cliche'd at times

...Ok, I'm not a fan of Mr Bean. I find his antics less than rivetting and the laughter track that seems to get overlayed onto his TV appearances annoys the hell out of me. So why did I watch this? What could I hope to see? Could I watch it subjectively and approach it from an unbiased starting point? With the portrait of Whistler's Mother about to be rehoused in a Los Angeles museum, it seems that the British Museum can finally get rid of troublesome 'guard' Mr Bean. Ok so they want an expert on art but will they notice the difference? Charged with presenting the portrait to the world DR Bean must present the very face of British dignity amidst the glitz and glamour that only America could create. Is he eccentric or just downright insane? The Langley family (who he's staying with) start to have their doubts... Ok, the story is about... Read review

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