6 Results: New & Used in CDs & DVDs in Strathdale 3550, VIC

‘The West Wing’ (TV series, 1999 - 2006, USA), all seasons 1 to 7 in DVD cases, is preloved with all components complete and in great condition, discs free of any scratches, internal buttons intact and just mild scuffing on some of the external plastic casing. We watched all these episodes many years ago. Back then we’d planned to rewatch the whole thing again as the script, plot, characters, acting and direction are all top notch. However, Trump’s term toppled so many guardrails of democracy t

‘Written On Skin’ by Opus Arte is an opera (presented here on DVD blu-ray) composed by George Benjamin, who is also the conductor. Acclaimed as a ‘masterpiece’, it features a libretto by Martin Crimp, based on the legend of a troubadour Guillaume de Cabestanh that’s also told in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, set in 13th century Provence, in which an enraged husband forces his wife to unknowingly eat her lover’s heart, after which she commits suicide. Katie Mitchell is Director. The perfo

‘Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy’ is a DVD with enough psychedelic flair (or flares) to keep a lava lamp morphing for millennia. We first fell for this idiosyncratic comedian while watching a series called ‘The IT Crowd’, in which characters would consult him at crucial moments in his basement, where he would appear as a maven of goth-tech wizardry. We then bought a couple of DVDs of his own series, ‘The Mighty Boosh’, also fabulous. I’d like to have opened this treat too, but due to constraints

‘Wall-E’, a film in the Disney Pixar Classics series, is rated G for general audiences. After lonely centuries of work, curious Wall-E finds a fresh purpose upon meeting a search robot by the name of Eve. Their adventures across the universe promise delight and hilarity with an adorable cast of characters, in the thrall of director Andrew Stanton, released in 2010. Language: English. Duration: 98 minutes. This darling is sealed, and reportedly contains two discs. There is a round green sticker

‘The Blue Room’ is a CD of music by The Legendary Pink Dots, an Anglo-Dutch band whose style spans such genres as avant-garde, synth pop, neo-psychedelic, experimental, post-punk, ambient and goth rock. Critics have praised this album for its ‘dangerously disoriented electronics’, harpsichord drones, pulsing loops, grand storytelling, disarming ‘music-box reveries’, apocalyptic relationships, ‘demons of the mind’, ‘mosquito munch fandango’ (a song title but also a fun phrase to say!), vampire s

Sigur Ros is an Icelandic post-rock, slow-core ambient dream pop band, comprising singer-guitarist Jonsi Birgisson, bassist Georg Holm and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson. We have several CDs by them. This one is untitled, or self-titled. Its final track is my favourite, being incantatory and hypnotic. Their music is subtle, wistful, more melancholy than mellow, conjuring the sense of a frozen lake. Adjectives others have aptly applied include atmospheric, bittersweet, sentimental, sombre, noctur