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Try out Time Team you'll love it!

Advantages: Great classic time team with all the Team
Disadvantages: Your favourite dig may not be in there

...Never seen it? Well heres the premise: Tony Robinson presents it, the Team do some research into a site which needs to be archaelogically dug then he acts like the layman and asks lots of questions about what they are digging and what they are finding and tries to get them to uncover the myseries of the site. But the archaelogists really make this programme. Mick is the chief arch and he looks like a mad professor with long wispy hair and never ...
...on his bike looking at the geometry of the area. John is the geophysics guy who picks up all the electro magnetic activity and stuff to guide them to where they dig and lastly theres Phil, this guy has so much energy, hes a west country chap with just so much enthusaism for what he finds it just sucks you in. Anyway, to the DVD! This DVD is a great one for getting into Time Team because it has all the interesting episodes on it! I mean, Time Team ...

Crowdpleaser 22.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Very Best Time Team Digs (DVD)

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Excellent insight into his life on tour

Advantages: Shows his talent and amazing attitude towards his music
Disadvantages: Could of had more classic tracks in there

If you're a fan of Tiesto then this DVD will be of interest to you. The story follows him for 6 months during his world tour of 2002, to his last gig in New York. The story takes you behind the scenes and on the road with the DJ. Showing you how he prepares for each gig, how he amuses himself on the road and how his style has progressed over the years. You also get to see his home town and his record shop that he owns there. He shows you his set-up ...
...Basically, you get to see everything that he does when he is on tour. This dvd is a very good insight into his life on tour, and it just further emphasises the fact that he is a very down to earth guy that is doing this for the love of music, not for fame. During the dvd he happily chats to fans in the street, poses for photo's and signs autographs, all with a huge smile on his face. He is extremely talented and this dvd will be of great interest ...

skinnyman9000 16.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of DJ Tiesto - Another Day At The Office (DVD)

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Films from 110 years ago

Advantages: Great films
Disadvantages: I wanted more!

...only vaguely interested in the early days of cinema, you really do need to get this special 2 DVD set. Because when the British Film Institute says early, they mean really early! The earliest film in this collection dates back to 1895. Yes! That's right! 1895! You can see gems like Sortie d'usine, which is a film taken of workers leaving the Lumiere factory in Lyon, France. One amusing point in this film I that a dog rushes out with all of the workers ...
...is Demolition d'un mur, of early 1896, which shows him overseeing the demolition of a wall at the factory. Apparently, when this film was shown, they would also play it backwards, just for the fun of it. You might have seen stills taken from Arrivee de Congressistes a Nueville-sur-Saone, when Lumiere filmed members of the Congress of Photographic Societies arriving for a meeting, stepping from a steam launch. Mostly men, but some women, too. Also, ...

Martinscholes 24.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Early Cinema - Primitives And Pioneers (DVD)

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More magnificent Maestri in motion... and sound!

Advantages: Superb historical performances and fascinating insights
Disadvantages: Only that there are no bonus interviews this time

...the second volume of "The Art of Conducting". It is entitled "Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era" and concentrates on the work of 6 illustrious maestri from the past: Sergiu Celibidache; Wilhelm Furtwaengler; Erich Kleiber; Evgeny Mravinsky; Charles Munch and Willem Mengelberg. There are also rare archive film clips included of conductors Herbert von Karajan; Hermann Scherchen; Andre Cluytens and Vaclav Talich. Commentary on the work and personalities ...
...Andry; violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Walter Barylli (from Vienna Philharmonic) and Alexander Barantschik (Leningrad Philharmonic); conductors Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink and Evgeny Mravinsky himself; renowned Boston Symphony timpanist Vic Firth and bass-baritone Otto Edelmann. So, quite a star-studded line-up, as there was in the first volume of this series. Music on the DVD: Again, as on the first DVD of the series, there is a wide range of ...

Maestrolover 28.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Art Of Conducting - Legendary Conductors Of A Golden Era (DVD)

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Elite Documentary about an Elite unit.

Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating
Disadvantages: none

...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ...
...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...

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Review of Commando - On The Front Line - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

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