Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice - DVD

Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna-the Land-a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to The New York Times, Inchdemands full attention, whether she's whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.Inch Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunning sequences filmed in Nunavut, and hand-drawn animation by Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona to seamlessly bridge history, landscapes, stories, and songs with pain, anger, and triumph-all through the expressions of one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.

During a peak that spanned the '70s, her vocal prowess let her top rock, country, and R&B charts, making a portfolio of covers uniquely her own. The life, career and lasting influence of Linda Ronstadt are engagingly celebrated in this documentary portrait, as Linda herself looks back from her Stone Poneys days through her embrace of standards and Spanish songs before illness forced her retirement; insights from contemporaries like Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt are also featured. 93 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; additional interviews; theatrical trailer.

Based on Hillary Waugh's novel InchSleep Long, My LoveInch (and the real murder that was it's influence), this noir-flavored British crime drama follows two police detectives (Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis) as they take on a particularly perplexing case involving the brutal killing of an unidentified woman in the coastal town of Brighton. Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John Le Mesurier also star; Val Guest directs. 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; theatrical trailers.