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his month sees an exciting release of FW Murnau’s penultimate film, City Girl (see page 22) which is certain to welcomed by all those who enjoyed Sunrise. What is particularly interesting about this release from Masters of Cinema is that it is coming out on Bluray only. Where they have original film elements that are high enough quality to justify a Blu-ray release, then MoC are planning to release them only on Blu-ray. However, don’t be alarmed – Masters of Cinema is an exceptional case and DVDs will be with us for a long time yet – we don’t anticipate Blu-ray becoming the dominant medium any time soon. I also want to mark the deaths

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1 The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke won the 2009 Cannes Palme d’Or for this mesmerising study of German rural village life in 1913. In true Haneke style, the film is less concerned with providing a definitive answer to ‘whodunnit’ than with examining the unhealthy processes that contribute to a sick society. Austria / Germany | 2009 | ART-E | 144 min | subt | B&W | Cert 15 | # 60951 | RRP £15.99

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Dir: Lone Scherfig. Excellent British coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Nominated for 8 BAFTAs. UK | 2009 | E1 | 100 min | Cert 12 | # 60592 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Thorold Dickinson. This thriller is one of the finest British films of the forties. Anton Walbrook stars as a Russian captain who covets the wealth of his fellow officers and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of a card game. UK | 1948 | OPTIM | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 60859 | RRP £15.99

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4 Mesrine: Parts 1 and 2 Jean-Francois Richet

A terrific double-header containing both parts of Mesrine, chronicling the violent, exciting life of the notorious French bank-robber, portrayed by Vincent Cassel. France / Canada | 2008 | MOMET | 243 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 60157 | RRP £19.99

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The White Ribbon Recommended Director: Michael Haneke Starring: Christian Friedel, Josef Bierbichler Released: 8th March DVD Extras: TBC Austria / Germany | 2009 | ART-E | 144 min | subt | B&W | Cert 15 | Item # 60951 | P&P £1

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School for Scoundrels, Brothers in Law, Private’s Progress, Make Mine Mink, Too Many Crooks and The Naked Truth. UK | 1957-61 | OPTIM | Cert PG | # 32285 | RRP £34.99

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Is Paris Burning? Rene Clement

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or over three decades, Gérard Oury’s Second World War romp, in which a British bomber crew bale out over occupied Paris and struggle to find their way home, was the most commercially successful film in French cinema history. Indeed, until Dany Boon’s Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis topped James Cameron’s Titanic last year by selling over 20 million tickets, it was the country’s biggest homegrown hit. Released in the UK as Don’t Look Now We’re Being Shot At, it failed to find much of an audience. Yet anyone familiar with the occupation sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo! will recognise the plotline and relish the expert blend of verbal wit, physical schtick and immaculate comic timing that is only found in the best French farces. Considering he was a Jewish refugee who spent the war years in Switzerland, Oury has a sure feel for the look and mood of the period and here he’s immeasurably assisted by cinematographer Claude Renoir and production designer Jean André. Indeed, this is very much an ensemble piece, if not a family affair, as Oury was aided on the script by daughter Danièle Thompson, while one of the RAF heroes was played by Mike Marshall, who was his stepson with actress-wife Michèle

Terry-Thomas stars in this classic comedy of British WWII airmen stranded in France Morgan. But while Oury was a comic craftsman, who made his films as meticulously as any big name from the ‘Tradition of Quality’ or the nouvelle vague, he was also a generous director, who allowed his players to take the plaudits. Having teamed the previous year in Oury’s Le Corniaud, Bourvil and Louis de Funès make the perfect foils as the genial Parisian painter and the pompous Opéra conductor who discover unsuspected reserves of courage to keep pilot Terry-Thomas and his crew out of the clutches of Nazi major Benno Sterzenbach. Shifting effortlessly between throwaway quips, pantomimic pratfalls and spectacular set-pieces, this is as much a rousing adventure as a slapstick burlesque. Bourvil even finds time to romance plucky Marie Dubois. But his everyman geniality is upstaged by De Funès’s exceptional sense of the ridiculous, which led to him being voted France’s favourite actor in 1968. David Parkinson

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World Cinema Company Limited Satyajit Ray

The second film in Ray’s ‘Calcutta Trilogy’ (between The Adversary and The Middle Man), Company Limited looks at the effect the city has on educated youth and the price it extracts from them. Here, crisis hits a successful executive when agitation at his factory disrupts the Restored. shipment of a prestigious order. India | 1971 | Bongo | 110 min | subt | Cert PG Item # 60971 | RRP £12.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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The Downfall of Berlin Aka: Anonyma, A Woman of Berlin. German drama based on the real diary of a woman who lived through the liberation of Berlin in 1945. In the basement of her bombedout apartment building, the woman – known only as ‘Anonyma’ – tries to wrest some control over her destiny by using Making-of. sex as a tool for survival. Germany / Poland | 2008 | MET-D | 131 min | | Cert 18 Item # 60905 | RRP £15.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Political docu-drama set against the backdrop of 2006 Israel/Lebanon war. Catherine Deneuve plays a fictionalised version of herself as she arrives in Beirut for a reception. She insists on seeing the devastation wrought by the conflict, and Lebanese actor Rabih Mroue becomes her guide on an unpredictable trip. France / Lebanon | 2008 | SODA | 75 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 60690 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Kippur

Amos Gitai Set in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, Gitai’s award-winning film follows a medical rescue team as they cope with the devastation wrought by the attacking forces of Egypt and Syria. The film shows no men in battle – only a rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces. France / Israel | 2000 | OPTIM | 115 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60753 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

Tricks Recommended Director: Andrzej Jakimowski Starring: Ewelina Walendziak, Tomasz Sapryk, Damian Ul

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Agnes Varda Collection: Volume 2 Contains: Jacquot de Nantes, Vagabond, The Beaches of Agnès, L’une chante, L’autre pas

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Andrzej Jakimowski starts his second film with a dedication: ‘To my sister who made me sit on top of the wardrobe,’ and there’s clearly an autobiographical element to this charming tale of a young boy, Stefek, growing up in a sleepy provincial Polish town. His sister, Elka, is both substitute mum and teacher of life’s mysteries, the ‘tricks’ of the title being her way of stimulating good fortune. In a typically marvellous vignette, her careful placement of some leftover lunch leads to a meal for a hungry dog and an even hungrier tramp. When the siblings’ estranged father turns up one day at the train station, Stefek decides to use these tricks to draw him back to the family. Ewelina Walendziak (a Polish Scarlett Johansson) is particularly memorable as Elka, while ten-yearold Damian Ul gives one of the best child performances in recent memory. Adam Bajerski’s cinematography captures the summer light beautifully, and this is a rare modern film where every character is likeable and treated with sympathy. This is an understated, and gently humorous gem of a film. M Bartlett

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Agnès Varda’s remarkable career is well served by this second collection. Her ruggedly poetic condemnation of societal indifference towards wasted lives, Vagabond (1985), was acclaimed for its combination of eyewitness accounts and flashbacks to the days immediately before teenager Sandrine Bonnaire’s demise. Feminists took against L’une chante, l’autre pas (1976), which chronicles the friendship between a mother and a student chanteuse, but it’s impossible not to be stirred by the emotional and political potency of this fanfare for the common woman. In Jacquot de Nantes (1991), Philippe Maron excels as the wouldbe auteur producing his first movies. This exquisite account of the youth of her recently deceased husband, Jacques Demy, finally received an overdue companion piece with The Beaches of Agnès (2008, available separately, see p24), which combines autobiography with mischievous digression and the dauntless octogenarian’s infectious love of life and cinema. DP

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Thai martial arts action prequel in which Tony Jaa, who also directs, stars as a nobleman’s son in ancient Thailand, out to revenge his father’s death. To this end he trains with a group of expert martial artists who teach him how to unify their disciplines, thereby making him the most dangerous fighter alive... Thailand | 2008 | COL-T | 110 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60966 | RRP £15.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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Private Vices and Public Virtues Miklós Jancsó

Derided as ‘pure pornography with pretensions’, and screened to outrage at Cannes in 1976, this is Jancsó’s reinterpretation of the real-life ‘Mayerling affair’. Featuring much nakedness and numerous erotic encounters, it is also a visually striking treatment of the theme of failed rebellion. Italy | 1976 | Jeff | 104 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60431 | RRP £12.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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The Sea Wall Rithy Panh

An adaptation of Margeurite Duras’ novel. Set in early 1930s Cambodia amidst the first intimations of the coming revolution, the film sees Isabelle Huppert’s impoverished widow shaken to the core when her children make a break for independence and bureaucrats threaten to take her paddy fields. France / Belgium | 2008 | Axiom | 115 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 60950 | RRP £15.99 | Released 8th March

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Director: Fritz Lang Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke Released: 22nd February

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The Complete Mabuse Box Set A trilogy of paranoiac thrillers: Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Testament of Dr Mabuse, 1000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse Germany | 1922-60 | EUREK | subt | B&W | 12 | # 60077 | £49.99

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Frau im Mond (MoC) Combining espionage with melodrama, science and comic-book sci-fi, Lang’s final silent epic sees a crew set off to find moon gold! Germany | 1929 | EUREK | 163 min | Cert U | # 52630 | RRP £19.99

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An explosive thriller featuring international actionsuperstar Jackie Chan as a law-abiding man whose life descends into bloody crime after discovering his childhood sweetheart has married a Yakuza boss. Soon his defiance leads to all-out factional war. 2 discs; Featurettes and Interviews. Hong Kong | 2009 | SHOWB | 120 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60953 | RRP £17.99 | Released 22nd Feb | P&P £1.50

Dir: Fritz Lang. Ray Milland stars as a paranoid, persecuted man who, on release from an asylum into wartime England, stumbles into a spy ring. UK | 1944 | OPTIM | 83 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 50615 | RRP £12.99

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If ever a film defied the ageing process, it’s this one. It remains as tough, insightful and unnerving as it must have been when it swaggered into Berlin cinemas some 79 years ago. Ostensibly, it’s a thriller: the city is stalked by a demonic child killer and the police are on the case. Because they are short on clues however, they seek the killer amongst the criminal underworld. Such unwanted attention disrupts the black economy; the leading gangsters decide that the only way to return to business as usual is to find the killer themselves. Eventually, the murderer is located. Brilliantly played by Peter Lorre, he is perhaps the most pathetic character in cinema. His great achievement is to make this unforgivable creature understandable. This beautifully restored print shows off the brilliance of the camerawork and Fritz Arno Wagner’s luminous photography. Calling M a ‘classic’ is accurate but not enough. Simply put, it’s one of the greatest of all films, a masterpiece that renews its place in the canon with every viewing. JO

Marlene Dietrich stars in Lang’s final film noir-infused western, which innovatively reworked his themes of love, betrayal and retribution.

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DVD Extras: 2 discs; Restored high-definition transfer; Two audio commentaries; The original 1932 British release version of M, recently rediscovered after 70 years; Zum Beispiel Fritz Lang (1968 documentary); 48-page illustrated booklet. Germany | 1931 | EUREK | 110 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 61015

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Ong-Bak: The Beginning

World Cinema Satyajit Ray

Ray’s final film – a warm and wise examination of ingrained prejudices – charts the upheavals wrought by the arrival of a long lost relative at his niece’s home in Calcutta, where her husband suspects that he is not who he claims to be. Ray’s last film, this is a wholly appropriate goodbye from the least bombastic and most humanistic of film makers. India | 1991 | Bongo | 118 min | subt | Cert U Item # 60972 | RRP £12.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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Takeshi Kitano A freeform musing on the meaning of self, in which Takeshi himself plays both celebrity director ‘Beat’ and his humble lookalike Kitano. When their paths cross, image and sound transcend plot as they unite to express the intertwined thoughts and dreams of the characters.

Eric Rohmer 1920-2010

Eric Rohmer has died at the age of 89. Best known for his fondly acerbic insights into the lives and loves of garrulously conflicted young people, Rohmer was perhaps the quietest voice of the nouvelle vague. While his final feature The Romance of Astrea and Celadon may have been set in 5thcentury Gaul, it tackled romantic longings and confusions with the same wit and acuity that Rohmer brought to his celebrated series, Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs and Tales of the Four Seasons. If you’re new to Rohmer, watch Pauline at the Beach and find out why he’ll be missed.

The Eric Rohmer Collection An essential set of eight films: The Aviator’s Wife, Full Moon in Paris, The Green Ray, Pauline at the Beach, The Marquis of O, Love in the Afternoon, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend and A Good Marriage.

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Russian version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure tale in which dashing young daydreamer Jim chances upon an old sea chart showing the location of lost treasure buried by the notorious Captain Flint. He journeys to sea, only to discover that member’s of Flint’s gang are among the crew... Russia | 1971 | HBF | 86 min | subt | Cert PG Item # 60480 | RRP £12.99 | Released 11th January | P&P £1

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Eric Rohmer: The Early Works With the bright and breezy Le Signe du Lion, La Boulangère de Monceau 2 discs. & La Carrière de Suzanne. France | 1959-63 | ART-E | subt | B&W | 15 | # 30841 | RRP £24.99

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Paris vu Par... Six nouvelle vague shorts about Paris, with films from Godard, Rouch, Chabrol and Rohmer, whose Place de l’Étoile tells of a guilty salesman. France | 1964 | ART-E | 95 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 60159 | RRP £15.99

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Kaizo Hayashi This cult feature tells of an alternative Japan, where modern technology and ancient myth have evolved side by side. With supernatural ninja warriors, astonishingly choreographed swordplay and wildly unpredictable plot twists, Zipang is a sumptuous visual feast in a class of its own. Japan | 1992 | HBF | 98 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60478 | RRP £12.99 | Released 25th January

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon Rohmer’s final film may be set in ancient Gaul, but the concerns of his lovelorn suitors remains familiar. France | 2007 | ART-E | 106 min | subt | 12 | # 56410 | RRP £19.99

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Pauline at the Beach An excellent introduction to Rohmer’s world, in which 15 year-old Pauline’s eyes are opened to the hypocrisy of adult sexual politics during a holiday. France | 1982 | ARROW | 90 min | subt | 15 | # 18744 | RRP £15.99

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Dir: Sally Potter. Potter wrote this brilliant story of love between an American woman and a Lebanese man as a response to 9/11.

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New Releases Caught in the Draft David Butler

Bob Hope was a comedy legend and remains one of America’s best-loved entertainers. Directed by David Butler (Calamity Jane) and co-starring his regular love interest, the sultry Dorothy Lamour, this comedy captures the wisecracking screwball at his zaniest. USA | 1941 | OPTIM | 78 min | Cert U Item # 60824 | RRP £15.99 | Released 15th February

Mary, Queen of Scots

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Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Ian Holm, Trevor Howard

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Sidney Gilliatt

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A witty detective mystery in which Rex Harrison plays a nameless man who wakes up with no recollection of who he is. Seeking psychiatric help, he begins to discover an appalling past of unbelievably bad behaviour – not to mention seven wives!

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The Court Martial of Major Keller Ernest Morris

Laurence Payne stars as a decorated soldier who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. UK | 1961 | PEGS | 65 min | Cert PG Item # 61139 | RRP £9.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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The Durant Affair Godfrey Grayson

Nigel Green. When society hostess Ethel Durant dies leaving a vast estate, the search begins for the rightful heir. However, it soon becomes clear that her life before her rise to fortune was shrouded in mystery and controversy. UK | 1962 | PEGS | 70 min | Cert U Item # 61140 | RRP £9.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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After making the hugely successful Anne of the Thousand Days (about Anne Boleyn), director Charles Jarrott chose two more queens for this enjoyable follow-up. Spicing up what could have been a standard history lesson with melodrama and action – this was about two women wishing each other dead to claim the throne, after all – his highly entertaining film amounts to a battle of wits between the beautiful, feisty Mary (an Oscarnominated Vanessa Redgrave) and her shrewish but wiser cousin, Elizabeth I (Glenda Jackson). What sets this picture apart is the vivid characterisation – Timothy Dalton deserves mention as Mary’s hissably wicked husband, and Ian Holm is also memorable as Mary’s illfated friend (and alleged lover) David Rizzio. But this is an actresses’ showcase, and Redgrave and Jackson do not disappoint. In reality the two women never met, but in Jarrott’s film we witness two electrifying confrontations which are worth the asking price alone. AD

Released: 22nd February DVD Extras: Days with Sirk documentary (2008); Original script (in PDF form); Booklet. USA | 1956 | EUREK | 81 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 61013

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An Inspector Calls Recommended Director: Guy Hamilton Starring: Alastair Sim, Bryan Forbes, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore, Jane Wenham Released: 1st March UK | 1954 | OPTIM | 76 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 60779 | P&P £1

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The Green Man, Folly to be Wise, Geordie, Left, Right and Centre and Laughter in Paradise. UK | 1953-61 | OPTIM | 447 min | Cert PG | # 50624 | RRP £34.99

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lastair Sim thought of himself as an essentially serious actor long after his reputation as one of Britain’s all-time comedy colossi had been indelibly lodged in the minds of everyone else. This definitive adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s much-performed theatrical warhorse gives some idea of how his career might have panned out had he been offered more challenging parts – but his other major 1954 screen role was his legendary drag act as the headmistress of St. Trinian’s. Here, he’s the inspector of the title, unexpectedly descending on a prosperous Northern family gathered to celebrate an engagement, to quiz each member individually about their links to a young woman who has apparently committed suicide. Despite initial appearances, this is no conventional detective thriller: Inspector Poole’s deceptively avuncular bonhomie, a quiet, inscrutable smile constantly playing on his lips, conceals a probing crossexamination technique that teases out the family’s secrets and exposes their complicity in hounding Eva Smith to her death. Poole doesn’t seek to expose any kind of collective conspiracy, but merely their individual acts of selfishness that arise from their basic inability to look at things from

Alastair Sim excels in this classic play about corruption and hypocrisy the point of view of anyone outside their own immediate social circle. Repeatedly sacked and seduced, mercilessly exploited and humiliated, it’s no wonder that Eva saw little to live for: in 1912, before World War I acted as a great class leveller, people were still expected to know their place and respect their station. The film expands on the play by bringing her back to life, courtesy of flashbacks featuring a heartbreakingly vulnerable performance by Jane Wenham. Future director Bryan Forbes also appears in a rare acting role as the hard-drinking Eric, the handsome but dissolute younger brother of the bride-to-be. Unlike Stephen Daldry’s famous postmodern re-imagining of the play in the 1990s, future Bond director Guy Hamilton plays the film version absolutely straight, trusting the text and his actors to bring Priestley’s timeless themes of moral corruption and bourgeois hypocrisy to the fore – and despite the play’s familiarity as a staple O-Level/GCSE set text, the ending still packs a wallop. Michael Brooke

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Classic Movies The Exiles

Star Spangled Rhythm

Kent Mackenzie

George Marshall

A unique documentary drama chronicling one night in the lives of young Native American men and women in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. With its vivid photography and creative soundtrack, this depiction of a marginalized community draws comparisons to John Seven bonus films, including Cassavetes. four shorts by Kent Mackenzie and White Fawn’s Devotion (1910) – thought to be the first film directed by a Native American. USA | 1961 | BFI | 70 min | Cert 12 Item # 59462 | RRP £19.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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This, That and the Other! Derek Ford

For Love or Money Romantic comedy with Kirk Douglas as an attorney with the unusual assignment of finding suitable husbands for a wealthy widow’s three daughters. He matches up two of them, but Mitzi Gaynor’s Kate proves much harder to please!

Saucy three-part British sex comedy. This sees Vanda Hudson’s aspiring actress seduce the son of a producer (she thinks); That sees Victor Spinetti’s suicidal middle-aged man taught to be happy again by a blonde hippie, and finally The Other finds John Bird’s cabbie dreaming of a world filled with scantily-clad women.

USA | 1963 | PNE | 103 min | Cert PG Item # 61031 | RRP £7.99 | Released 8th February

UK | 1969 | ODEON | 78 min | Cert 18 Item # 57429 | RRP £9.99 | Released 22nd February

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Basil Rathbone plays the wicked Duke of Gloucester, who – with a little help from his clubfooted executioner, Mord (Boris Karloff, of course) – sets out to eliminate all those ahead of him in succession to the English throne. In a very early role, Vincent Price plays the

Dennis Price, Alfred Burke. Prison comedydrama, in which Paul Massie’s Rainbow is assigned to kitchen duty, where he joins the rest of his co-workers in dealing the food they can snitch for various sundries stolen from other parts of the prison’s supply chain. UK | 1962 | OPTIM | 84 min | Cert PG Item # 60846 | RRP £15.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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The Rainbow Jacket Basil Dearden

Duke of Clarence. UK | 1939 | OPTIM | 92 min | Cert 15 Item # 60778 | RRP £15.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Written by famed Ealing Studios writer T.E.B. Clarke, this reflected his passionate interest in horse racing, and tells the story of a shamed jockey who is banned after taking a bribe. He trains up a protégé as the next champion, but when ruin looms, will he give in to temptation?

Sergei Nolbandov

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John Clements, Tom Walls, Niall MacGinnis, Stanley Baker, Mary Morris. A gripping wartime morale booster from Ealing which glorified the struggles of the Yugoslavian partisans to resist the Nazi occupation of their country. | P&P £1

The Victors Recommended EXCLUSIVE! Director: Carl Foreman Starring: George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Eli Wallach, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Peter Fonda, Melina Mercouri, Maurice Ronet, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger. Released: 18th January USA | 1963 | SPHE | 146 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 59557

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Two years after he produced The Guns of Navarone, Carl Foreman returned to the battlefield with The Victors, an altogether different sort of war film. Gone is the all star derringdo; in its place, a realistic – at times brutally so – portrait of the liberation of Europe. It follows the exploits of an American platoon (headed by Eli Wallach) as they fight their way first up through Italy and then down through France. Availing themselves of local women along the way, generally disobeying orders and ignoring the rules of gentlemanly warfare, these GIs are a sour and cynical crew driven, not by patriotism or camaraderie, but by ruthless selfinterest. Even by the standards of most war films, this is an episodic picture and keeping up with the various characters requires concentration. Cumulatively however, the results are extremely powerful: the horror of war is shown not in the combat scenes but in the things that war obliges people to do. This is the war as it was really fought, shorn of Hollywood heroics and sentimentality. JO

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Georgette Lizette Withers was born in India, 1917. In her long career in the British film industry she worked with many of the most-admired directors such as Alfred Hitchock, Robert Hamer and Michael Powell and always gave a memorable performance, whether in minor roles or as the leading lady.

Northanger Abbey

Pink String and Sealing Wax

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Robert Hamer

Peter Firth, Robert Hardy and Withers, who gives one of the best performances as Mrs Allen, join Katharine Schlesinger in the lead for this Austen adaptation.

Victorian melodrama in which Withers’ scheming pub landlady befriends a naive chemist so she can get hold of some poison to do away with her drunken husband. UK | 1946 | OPTIM | 85 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 53920 | RRP £12.99

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Dir: Wellesley & Sewell. Ralph Richardson. Produced by Powell & Pressburger, this is a stirring account of Europe under Nazi oppression.

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Pioneering 1970s women’s prison drama, in which Withers plays a new prison governer, whose approach ruffles a few feathers. Series 1 and 2.

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The Last Metro

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Dir: François Truffaut. Truffaut mixes romance, hilarity and suspense as Antoine Doinel moves from turbulent adolescence to youthful rebellion.

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Dir: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. A compassionate, comic Cuban film, and the first to feature a gay man as a hero.

Harriet Andersson plays a schizophrenic woman in Bergman’s powerful study of a descent into madness.

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Joel & Ethan Coen

This moving depiction of gay love between two cowboys is one of the great films of the new millennium. A poetic, frequently enigmatic script helped it win many awards.

False accusations doom a friendship in colonial India in Lean’s double Oscar-winning film of EM Forster’s novel, starring James Fox, Judy Davis and Alec Guinness.

A gritty chase thriller in which a Vietnam vet desperately tries to give the slip to a psycopathic killer (an Oscar-winning Javier Bardem) after finding a hoard of cash.

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Dir: James Ivory. Helena BonhamCarter. EM Forster’s masterful Edwardian Age romance as adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory.

Dir: Milos Forman. A wonderful portrayal of the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as scripted by Peter Schaffer.

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Il Postino

The Departed

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Dir: Michael Radford. A lovely, moving film in which a simple postman on an Italian island forms a friendship with exiled ‘poet of love’ Pablo Neruda.

Dir: Martin Scorsese. Big-budget, four Oscar-winning remake of the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Jack Nicholson stars.

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Barry Lyndon

The Queen

Network

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. A visually stunning, four Oscar-winning adaptation of Thackeray’s novel. Ryan O’Neal takes the lead as the adventurer.

Dir: Stephen Frears. Fictionalised account of the events that followed in the wake of Princess Diana’s death. Helen Mirren plays the monarch.

Dir: Sidney Lumet. An outstanding look at a TV station that will do anything to increase its ratings. Oscars went to Finch, Dunaway and Straight.

UK | 1975 | WHV | 177 min | Cert PG | # 8315 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Marc Foster. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet give great performances in this touching tale of JM Barrie’s life and the genesis of Peter Pan.

Dir: Martin Scorsese. An intense and brilliant portrait of troubled middleweight champ Jake la Motta. Robert De Niro is awesome in the lead.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Dir: Woody Allen. A brilliant comedy about the romantic entanglements of three sisters living in New York. USA | 1986 | MGMHE | 102 min | Cert 15 | # 11190 | RRP £15.99

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Unforgiven

Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson. Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this Oscar-winning tale of greed and oil. The Guardian’s best film of the noughties.

Dir: Clint Eastwood. A commercial and critical smash, Unforgiven reinvigorated both the Western and Eastwood’s career.

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Doc Martin: Series 4

Martin Clunes plays the irascible Doctor Martin, whose truculent and tactless manner and social awkwardness causes continual disruption in a small Cornish community in this ITV comedy. Contains the complete fourth series.

New Releases The Advocates

Peter Barber-Fleming Ewan Stewart, Isla Blair. When a prostitute is murdered by a drug overdose, a doctor suspects foul play, and turns to a young lawyer eager to make a name for himself. Edinburgh-set ITV series which contrasted the city’s high life with its the sleazy side. 2 discs. UK | 1991 | ALBA | 240 min | Cert TBC Item # 60728 | RRP £19.99 | Released 22nd Feb | P&P £1.50

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The Avengers: Series 3

Secret agent John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and resourceful adventurer Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) continue their crime-solving escapades in this third series of the cult TV show, restored and with a wealth of 7 special features. discs; Introductions from Macnee and Blackman; Avenging The Avengers; Honor Blackman Interview and more! UK | 1963-64 | OPTIM | Cert 12 Item # 59881 | RRP £59.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £4

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Boy Dominic: Complete

Richard Todd. Yorkshire TV children’s drama telling the rags-to-riches tale of the Bulman family who throw in their lot with Brian Blessed’s drunken old salt when the father is lost at sea. Then he returns, having survived shipwreck, and seeking 2 discs. revenge...

UK | 1974 | NWORK | 325 min | Cert PG Item # 60761 | RRP £19.99 | Released 8th March

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Doctor Who: Space Museum / The Chase Richard Martin

The First Doctor, William Hartnell, stars in these two adventures with the Daleks from the second ever series of Doctor Who, broadcast in 1965. In The Space Museum, the Doctor discovers his future self displayed in a museum as a monument to the Galactic conquests of the warlike Moroks, while The Chase sees a group of Daleks equipped with their own time machine 2 discs; Commentaries. on his trail. UK | 1965 | 2ENT | 240 min | Cert PG Item # 61132 | RRP £29.99 | Released 1st March

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Life on Mars (US): Season 1 The complete first season of the US remake of the hit British series, starring Jason O’Mara as NYPD detective Sam Tyler, who finds himself suddenly hurtled back in time to 1973 after being struck by a car in 2008. Also stars Harvey Keitel, Gretchen Mol and Michael Imperioli. 5 discs.

USA | 2009 | FOX | Cert 15 Item # 61154 | RRP £29.99 | Released 15th February | P&P £1

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Look Back on 70s Telly: 1

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Peter Vaughan and Ewen Solon star in this six-part adventure series from HTV, written by Dr Who contributor Don Houghton and aimed at a teenage audience. It combined science fiction and naval intrigue with location filming, authentic action scenes and a constantly surprising plot. Originally screened in 1978.

This collection features the best of pre-school childrens’ programming from the 1970s. Specially selected episodes of Rainbow and Pipkins rub shoulders with, amongst others, Hickory House, Mr. Trimble, Cloppa Castle, Animal Kwackers, Michael Bentine’s Potty Time, Paperplay, Gammon and Spinach, Daisy 2 discs; Free comic! Daisy and more. UK | 1970s | NWORK | 330 min | Cert U Item # 60834 | RRP £14.99 | Released 22nd Feb | P&P £1.50

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Dick Emery: The Thames Television Specials

How the Earth Made Us

Dick Emery took his myriad comic creations – the buck-toothed vicar, bovver boy Gaylord, brassy blonde Mandy (“Ooh, you are awful – but I like you!”) – to Thames TV for these special shows, produced in 1979.

Following on from Earth: The Power of the Planet, geologist and presenter Professor Iain Stewart returns to continue the epic story of the relationship between human civilisation and Earth, exploring how geology, geography and climate have influenced and continue to shape human history.

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UK | 1979 | PNE | 147 min | Cert PG Item # 60760 | RRP £14.99 | Released 1st March

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With his trademark tickling stick, tattifilarious jokes, sketches and musical numbers, this release features all six episodes from Ken’s 1979 series, with special appearances by Miss World (the year is a mystery), Captain Ken and his unruly troops, and the world’s first and only underwater ventriloquist.

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Look Back on 70s Telly: 2

This collection features the best of childrens’ ITV teatime programming from the 1970s, with specially selected episodes of Follyfoot and Black Beauty rubbing shoulders with the raucous fun of Pauline’s Quirkes and Robert’s Robots, the fantastical Timeslip and Nobody’s House. Plus Magpie, Get it Together, You Must be Joking, Four Idle Hands, The 2 discs; Free comic. Paper Lads and more. UK | 1970s | NWORK | 400 min | Cert PG Item # 60835 | RRP £14.99 | Released 22nd Feb | P&P £1.50

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Disappearing World: Volume 1 Recommended Released: 8th February

Callan: The Monochrome Years

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Series 2

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Starring: Edward Woodward, Anthony Valentine | P&P £2.50

The admirably matter-of-fact, even slightly combative approach of this pioneering anthropological series from Granada is signalled at the outset of the first programme, A Clearing in the Forest: ‘Caracas, Venezeula. We are on our way to film a people whose way of life our civilization will slowly destroy,’ says the narrator. In this case the film was about the Panare Indians. Other names follow in subsequent programmes – the Cuiva, the Embera, the Mehinacu, the Barasana, the Maku – a litany of peoples from around the world, some down to their last hundreds, whose ways of life were being threatened by economic and religious expansion of dominant industrial and farming cultures. In these programmes, it is their lives and languages that are brought to the fore. It is striking just how good these documentaries are, with incisive but sympathetic filming and bold editing getting us to the heart of a peoples’ situation. This first volume collects 15 documentaries, initially broadcast between 1970 and 1975. They are a powerful and poignant reminder of the many ways lives and cultures continue to be destroyed. GH

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Released: 15th February

DVD Extras: 4 discs. UK | 1967-68 | NWORK | 525 min | B&W | Cert TBC | Item # 60843

Starring: Derek Jacobi, Joss Ackland, John Thaw, Jean Marsh, Richard Beckinsale DVD Extras: 4 discs.

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The public’s appetite for espionage adventure in the midst of sixties Bondmania was such that its more uncompromising subgenre, the ‘gritty spy drama’, was as popular as the antics of 007. The TV series Callan followed on the heels of big screen adventures such as The Ipcress File and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, but it has outlived its ‘fashionable’ trappings, as this four-disc set, comprising all the surviving episodes from the first two ABC series (196769), shows. The scripts are tight and clever and the acting is generally first rate, but it is the late Edward Woodward’s performance as the aggressive, oddly vulnerable government assassin David Callan, a man whose steeleyed professionalism is tempered with frustration and, sometimes, sheer desperation, that really made the series stand out. The videotaping may be a mark of Callan’s antiquity, but Woodward’s rage and sorrow still feels raw and immediate. The box set contains the original and rarelyseen pilot for the series, A Magnum for Schneider. JU

UK | 1973 | NWORK | 650 min | Cert 12 | Item # 60806

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The fondly remembered second series of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (based on pieces by writers inspired by the Conan Doyle canon) is as fascinating as the first collection; there are no pale pastiches on offer here, but inspired efforts, paying homage to the Great Detective while adding fresh spins and unusual notions. Hugh Carleton Greene’s muchloved anthology of Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction was the inspiration for the programme. This second series showcases vividly rendered incarnations of sleuthing gentlemen in England situated elsewhere than 221b Baker Street, with each taking on arcane and bizarre mysteries, very much in the fashion of Doyle’s detective. The series won a BAFTA, and tempted a cherishable collection of actors to come aboard to play a variety of brilliant eccentrics, including John Thaw, Charles Gray, Derek Jacobi, Joss Ackland and Richard Beckinsale. This is an unmissable collection for all Holmesians. BF

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Look-Back On ‘70s Telly: Issue One Revisit Rainbow and Pipkins, Hickory House, Mr. Trimble, Cloppa Castle, Oscar, Tingha and Tucker, Gammon and Spinach, The Magic Ball and Animal Kwackers and be a tot again with this special two-disc set featuring the best of pre-school children’s programming from the ’70s.

Look-Back On ‘70s Telly: Issue Two Follyfoot and Black Beauty rub shoulders with Pauline’s Quirkes, Roberts Robots, Timeslip, Nobody’s House and Magpie. Go back to the days when children’s programmes were, by turns, fun, challenging, dramatic, spooky, hilarious and fantastic. Be ten again.

Disappearing World: Volume One A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate portraits of remote communities on the edge of extinction. Groundbreaking television that set the standard for investigative journalism of this type, this first volume contains 15 documentaries originally broadcast between 1970 and 1975.

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Television Midsomer Murders: The Creeper

John Nettles. A housethief hits on Midsomer and is dubbed ‘The Creeper’, but it is only when the Chief Constable is on the receiving end of his talents that Barnaby is called into action. What he finds is not just a petty thief but an individual trying to bring the truth to the fore. Then a body is found... UK | 2009 | ACORN | 93 min | Cert 12 Item # 59377 | RRP £16.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Muck and Brass: Complete

Mel Smith stars in a rare straight role as Tom Craig, an opportunistic property developer who becomes a provincial tycoon in this memorable drama from Central Television. Featuring authentic location scenes, from strip clubs to council chambers, the series is also notable for its unconventional casting, with Bullseye host Jim Bowen making his drama debut, and former wrestling champion Johnny 2 discs. Allan playing Craig’s industry rival. Canada / UK | 1982 | NWORK | 300 min | Cert TBC Item # 60817 | RRP £19.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1.50

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Murdoch Mysteries: Series 2

Detective drama set in 1895 Toronto, based on the popular mystery novels by Maureen Jennings. The series follows Yannick Bisson’s Detective Murdoch, an eccentric policeman who solves his cases using progressive methods of detection, such as fingerprinting and blood testing. Though scorned by his superior, he forms an alliance with a female 4 discs. coroner, also fighting prejudice. Canada / UK | 2009 | G-VEN | 624 min | Cert 15 Item # 61003 | RRP £39.99 | Released 15th Feb | P&P £2.50

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Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey

Revered chef and cookery writer Rick Stein embarks on an epic culinary journey to explore the diverse food cultures of South-East Asia from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the islands of Indonesia. Back home in his own kitchen, Rick demonstrates his own versions of some of the dishes.

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The Two Ronnies: Series 6 All of series 6 of the classic BBC comedy sketch show starring Messrs. Barker and Corbett. Originally broadcast in November 1977, this series featured Kate O’Mara as a regular as well as guest appearances from The Nolan 2 discs. Sisters.

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Excellent Granada series, screened in 1984, and set around the canals of northern England. Leigh Lawson plays an exdetective inspector who has just completed a two-year prison sentence after a wrongful conviction for theft. His wife has left him, his son is missing, and now he is out to prove his innocence. But as he is still under surveillance, and being pursued by a dogged journalist, this will be 4 discs. anything but easy.

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Road Warriors in Afghanistan UK | 2009 | G-VEN | # 61149 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days USA | 2009 | ABBEY | 300 min | Cert U | # 61074 | RRP £24.99

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Survivors: Series 1 and 2 UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 730 min | Cert 15 | # 60724 | RRP £39.99

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Tamzin Outhwaite. Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future. | P&P £1.50

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Dynasty: Season 4

A collection celebrating one of the pioneers of TV cookery programmes. Features three of Floyd’s most popular series: Floyd Around The Med, Floyd Uncorked – in which explores the wine regions of France, and Far Flung Floyd – a gastronomic voyage exploring Asian cuisines.

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Animation

Silent

Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson

For his first foray into animation, Wes Anderson takes Roald Dahl’s children’s novel as his source, producing a funny film, full of in-jokes, with crossgenerational appeal. It sees a roguish Mr. Fox (George Clooney) trapped in a foxhole, forced into a fantastic plan to survive. USA | 2009 | FOX | 86 min | Cert PG Item # 60967 | RRP £19.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Emmy award-winning film based on a Russian folk tale about a Tsar who will only let his daughter be married to the first person to present him with a flying ship. Then a peasant’s son shows up to claim her, and the Tsar has second thoughts. | P&P £1

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Gay & Lesbian Hollywood Je t’aime Jason Bushman

Recently broken up and enduring a dreary winter, a gay Parisian impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to LA, where he pursues his desire to become a movie star – but finds there’s no place like home in this meditation on love and narcissism across continents. USA | 2009 | TLAUK | 95 min | Cert 18 Item # 60681 | RRP £14.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Bernard Shumanski A taboo-troubling cautionary tale about an earnest gay teenager’s tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex. Handheld cameras, a young cast, and a boldly upfront approach to sex characterise the film. USA | 2009 | TLAUK | 74 min | 18 Item # 60682 | RRP £14.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Recommended

Recommended Director: Pete Docter

Director: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Edward Asner

Starring: Mary Duncan, Charles Farrell

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DVD Extras: Bonus Short Films: Partly Cloudy & Dug’s Special Mission; Adventure is Out There.

DVD Extras: Restored high-definition transfer; A new score from Christopher Caliendo; Audio commentary by David Kalat; 40-page booklet.

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In 2009, Up became the first ever animated film to be chosen to open the Cannes Film Festival, confirming Pixar Animation Studios’ status as a serious creative force in contemporary cinema. Up is also Pixar’s most involving film to date, with an emotional reach that will coax smiles, and tears, from viewers of any age. From its wordless opening montage, which carries the audience through a 60 year marriage, to exhilarating scenes of airborne spectacle that recall the best of Hayao Miyazaki, this warm, uplifting adventure is easily one of the best films of 2009. Following the death of his wife, Carl Fredricksen is left childless and alone, his routine interrupted only by overeager boy scout Russell, who is trying to win his ‘assisting the elderly’ badge, and builders who see his home as unused real estate. Determined to fulfil his wife’s lifelongdream of visiting South America, Carl hitches thousands of balloons to his house and floats away to freedom – with Russell hitching along for the ride. The rest of the story is part Jules Verne, part Conan Doyle – and it’s far too good to spoil here! MW

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Having already made a masterpiece about the contrast between rural and urban lifestyles, F.W. Murnau was surely under no obligation to visit the subject again. Yet three years after Sunrise, he paid a return trip with City Girl – a vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. As in Sunrise, a trip to the city brings consequences for a country boy. This is Lem, a farmer selling his crop. He falls for a city girl, the hardbitten but lonely waitress Kate, and they marry. But back at the farm, under the pressure of his scornful father and the leering farmhands, their romance sours. Murnau abandoned City Girl after disputes with the studio. Although what we have doesn’t fully reflect his vision, his signature is prominent. In particular, the use of light is remarkable: City Girl is the most beautiful film this great pictorialist ever shot. Still comparatively obscure, it’s a treasure ripe for rediscovery, newly arriving – 80 years after its original release – in a glorious high-definition transfer, exclusively on Blu-ray.

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Altman / Godard / Roeg An imaginative operatic portmanteau film, with ten classic arias reinterpreted by ten very different directors, including Godard, Jarman, Roeg, Altman and Ken Russell – in sometimes unexpected ways! UK / USA | 1988 | 2ND | 85 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 58621 | RRP £19.99

Beyond the Clouds

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Deneuve, Béart and Malkovich star in this supremely elegant, and beautifully designed adaptation of the last volume of Marcel Proust’s masterwork, Remembrance of Things Past.

Raul Ruiz

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Dir: Frank Tashlin. Saucy comedy which exploits Jayne Mansfield’s charms as a tone-deaf moll being shaped for singing stardom. USA | 1957 | SECND | 93 min | Cert U | # 19254 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Andrzej Wajda. Gérard Depardieu takes the title role in this dramatic, compelling account of the power struggles in the French revolution.

Dir: Orson Welles. A dark and almost expressionist version of Shakespeare’s play, which works with its low budget rather than against it.

Dir: Patrice Leconte. Fanny Ardant. A brilliant essay on moral decay in which a man seeks royal assent in 18th century Versailles.

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Dir: Gabriel Pascal. Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller and Robert Morley star in this film adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Dir: David Lean. Katharine Hepburn plays a lonely American woman on the trip of a lifetime to Venice, where she hopes for a little magic in her life.

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Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst. The all time silent classic with a legendary performance by the vivacious Louise Brooks as Lulu.

Dir: Derek Jarman. A poignant film in which Jarman creates a visual evocation of the original recording of Britten’s choral masterpiec.

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

Made in Jamaica

New Releases The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda

An intimate and inventive autobiographical portrait of acclaimed experimental French director Agnès Varda. Taking a detour from the standard forms of storytelling, she relates her own story through a range of filmic techniques, including the restaging of dramatic events in her life. France | 2008 | ART-E | 112 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60604 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Jérôme Laperrousaz

A compelling documentary about how an island nation of three million people channel poverty, desperation and hedonism into a politically conscious, joyful and spiritual music with universal reach. Features live performances and interviews with some of the most successful Jamaican artists of all time. France / USA | 2006 | NWORK | 109 min | Cert 15 Item # 61081 | RRP £15.99 | Released 8th March | P&P £1

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The Yes Men Fix the World

Andy Bichlbaum / Mike Bonanno The follow-up to 2003’s satirical documentary The Yes Men sees anti-globalisation activists Bichlbaum and Bonanno again using their prankster skills to expose the greed of big corporations. Among other revelations, they uncover those behind the Bhopal disaster.

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Better Safe Than Sorry Eight original public safety shorts from the 1950s and 1960s. Features: Passing... and Being Passed, The Car Ahead, Inky and Blinky, Otto Asks a Riddle, Get a Grip on Yourself, 2 Steps to Safety, Motorcycle Safety and Courtesy in Traffic and For Safety’s Sake.

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Brahms and the Little Singing Girls

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Yesterday We Were in America Mike Christie

Tony Palmer

Palmer’s highly controversial portrait exploded the image of ‘stodgy old Brahms’, portraying a man whose first musical experience was playing a piano in the brothels of Hamburg, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor among his ‘little singing girls’ of Vienna. UK | 1996 | TONYP | Cert TBC Item # 61189 | RRP £13.99 | Released 1st March

In 1919, two flying aces climbed into the open cockpit of a Vicker’s Vimy and set off on the world’s first non-stop transatlantic flight. Sixteen hours later they touched down in Ireland and entered the history books. This drama chronicles the remarkable achievement of unlikely heroes Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown. UK | 2009 | BECK | Cert E Item # 61059 | RRP £14.99 | Released 10th January | P&P £1

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In from the Cold?: The World of Richard Burton

We Live in Public Ondi Timoner

Documentary about internet pioneer Josh Harris and the effect the internet is having on society. Harris explored how we trade our privacy for connection and recognition but with every technological advancement this seems to become ever more elusive.

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Acclaimed as one of the best documentary portraits of an actor, this South Bank show from 1988 is a must for fans of the Welsh actor from Pontrhydyfen. UK | 1988 | TONYP | Cert TBC Item # 61188 | RRP £14.99 | Released 8th March | P&P £1

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The Rank Organisation’s Look at Life series was a concise, bright and fondly-remembered ‘cine-magazine’ that ran in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas from 1959-68 and which, before the main feature, presented cinemagoers with myriad aspects of British life in the sixties. Over 500 Look at Life films were made, and this first collection, including many films that have remained unseen since the 1960s, features 54 films on the theme of transport. A cursory glance at the subjects on offer gives an idea of the breadth of the films, to wit: In the air – travelling on a Britannia airliner from London to Tokyo, Swiss glacier pilots, gliding, ‘trolley dollys’, pedalling in the air and hot air balloons; On the roads – a coach tour of Italy, training police drivers, traffic control in Germany, scooters and the Motor Museum at Beaulieu; On the rails – the centenary of the London to Portsmouth line, modernisation and branch lines; On the water – the hovercraft, The Queen Elizabeth, oil tankers, an underwater sightseeing bus, icebreakers, tugs and catamarans. Many more subjects make for an endlessly entertaining collection.

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COI Collection: Volume 1 Police and Thieves Recommended Contains: Disc 1: Children on Trial (1946), Children of the City (1944), Probation Officer (1950), Youth Club (1954), A Chance for Brian (1977); Disc 2: Four Men in Prison (1950), Help Yourself (1950), Transatlantic Teleview 26: Man on the Beat (1956), British Policeman (1959), Unit Beat Policing (1968), Anything Can Happen (1973), Bicycle Thefts (1974), Snatch of the Day (1975), Challenge for a Lifetime (1975). Released: 15th February DVD Extras: 2 discs; Accompanying Booklet UK | 1956 | BFI | 296 min | Cert E | Item # 60710 | P&P £1.50

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rriving on the back of their superlative collections showcasing British Transport Films, the GPO Film Unit, and latterly the National Coal Board Film Unit, the BFI here turns its attention to films produced by the Central Office of Information, established in 1946 as a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information. This first volume of COI documentaries looks at aspects of crime, from policing and punishment to prevention and rehabilitation. The first film, Jack Lee’s beautifully photographed Children on Trial, looks at two Liverpool slum children’s experiences at ‘approved schools’. For them, things eventually turn out well, but in other films here, such as Probation Officer – made for the Home Office to encourage people to take up the profession – there is a level-headedness about the amount of dogged hard work, insight and sympathy needed to make even small inroads into behaviour brought about through desperate poverty and lack of opportunity. Not that there is any set ‘criminal type’, as films such as the unsentimental docudrama Four Men in Prison shows, while

A fascinating BFI set of films on crime and punishment Youth Club, as its title suggests, takes a look at that very institution, and its attempts to nip temptation in the bud by attracting young men away from the lure of smoke-filled pintable halls to more wholesome pursuits of table-tennis, reading and carpentry in the parish hall. And if temptation does prove too much, then innovations in policing (such as hand-held radios) are detailed in the films British Policeman, Unit Beat Policing and Anything Can Happen, which look at the many roles policemen must adopt in their daily work. Of obvious interest because of the films’ incidental details – panda cars and flashing police pillars, gas lamps and posters about the hydrogen bomb in the police stations – the set is also distinguished by some beautiful monochrome cinematography, from notable practitioners such as Chick Fowle, Martin Curtis, Wolfgang Suschitzky and Fred Gamage. Graeme Hobbs

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

Jennifer’s Body

New Releases

Karyn Kusama

Comedy horror penned by Diablo Cody, writer of the 2007 hit film Juno. Megan Fox stars as cheerleader captain and high school hottie Jennifer Check – who morphs into a vampire killer with an insatiable appetite for male flesh. Adam Brody and Amanda Seyfried co-star.

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Antonio Campos An acclaimed tale of teenage alienation in which a high school loner is given the task of producing a memorial video for two of his classmates. This provocative film sets age-old adolescent anxieties within a disorienting contemporary culture of omnipresent voyeurism. Mobile Phone Videos; Teacher Testimonials. USA | 2008 | NWORK | 106 min | Cert 18 Item # 61071 | RRP £19.99 | Released 8th March

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Peter Newbrook Early 1970s British horror, starring Robert Stephens as wealthy amateur Sir Hugo, who through his interest in photography and metaphysics, seeks to capture the spirit of death – ‘the Asphyx’ – on film in his quest for immortality.

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Nora Ephron

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A showcase for emerging UK talent. This volume features films from Toby Meakins, Susan Everett, Brian Phillip Davis, Dean Walton, Christopher Abbott and David Forrest along with extras to assist young filmmakers. Script 2 Screen; Myth and Film; Casting Masterclass.

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Morgan J. Freeman

A petty criminal’s attempt to turn his life around takes him on an unexpected journey in this indie drama which sees an ex-convict hope to gain custody of a young boy. When he is refused, he snatches the boy and hits the road, planning to reunite him with his family. USA | 2006 | EUREK | 80 min | Cert 12 Item # 61064 | RRP £12.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Feature-length documentary about the late ‘King of Pop’, which features extraordinary footage of Jackson working with his dancers, singers and choreographers, giving a rare insight into the legend at Staging the work. Return; Featurettes.

Agnieszka Holland

A fictionalised account of Beethoven (Ed Harris) as he creates his Ninth Symphony, as seen through the eyes of Diane Kruger’s music student. As with his portrayal of Jackson Pollock, Harris’s simmering on-screen intensity carries the film. USA | 2006 | VER | 104 min | Cert 12 Item # 60495 | RRP £12.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Released: 8th March Australia | 2009 | FOX | 114 min | Cert PG | Item # 61078

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Inspired by Andrew Motion’s epic biography of Keats, Jane Campion’s biopic is an unadulterated triumph, quite easily the best thing she has done since The Piano. Ben Whishaw acquits himself well as the poet, managing to convey the playful party spirit, the gentle, easily wounded poet, and, of course, the lover who has been handed down to us through the centuries thanks to the collected letters of Fanny Brawne. But if Bright Star can be said to have a centre, it is Fanny Brawne herself, played by Abbie Cornish in a role that should propel her to Keira Knightley sized stardom. The film (to paraphrase Keats’ poem The Eve of St Agnes), ‘unclasps her warmed jewels one by one’. The performances of the two central characters, the contemporary and refreshing way in which the children speak, the subtly nuanced delivery of Kerry Fox as Fanny’s mother, in addition to the feel Campion obviously has for the source material all combine in a film that is at once historical and immediate. Both visually and dramatically arresting, Bright Star is as highly recommended as a film can be. PW

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Recommended Director: Jane Campion

Feelgood drama based on the memoirs of cook Julie Powell, who became famous through her 1960s cookery shows on American TV, and Julia Child, a young woman who attempted to cook all 524 recipes from Julie’s ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams star in the story of their lives. Gift Set with 80 page recipe book available.

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An Education Recommended Director: Lone Scherfig Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike Released: 8th March DVD Extras: TBC UK | 2009 | E1 | 100 min | 12 | # 60592 | P&P £1

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Richard Eyre UK | 2001 | BUENA | 87 min | Cert 15 | # 12000 | RRP £17.99

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Notes on a Scandal Richard Eyre

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ake Latin homework, soulless suburbia and awkward spotty schoolboys, or cocktails at jazz clubs, weekends in Paris and a suave older man who drives a cool car? In An Education, gifted schoolgirl Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan), who fears that life is something happening beyond her suburban setting, is presented with exactly this choice. Enter the debonair David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard) in a mouthwatering red Bristol. A man over twice her age who oozes the sophistication and lust for life 16 year-old Jenny dreams of. Nick Hornby’s adaptation of columnist Lynn Barber’s memoir is a tale of seduction fuelled by the dreary realities for most women at the start of the ‘swinging sixties’. Hornby’s flair for painting engaging and believable characters, a talented cast and sensitive direction succeed in describing a convincing, if perverse, development of the romance. Jenny’s delightfully depicted parents are desperate to secure their daughter a shining future at Oxford, and the bright lights of central London seem exotic from the living room of their humble Twickenham abode. It is only too easy for David to break their polite resistance with his glamorous stories

One of the British films of the year, nominated for 8 BAFTAs and extravagant gestures. As the startlingly open courtship begins, the script skilfully dances around the central and shady truth, in perfect tune with David’s own beguiling flippancy. With colourless careers advice – “It doesn’t have to be teaching, you know. There’s the civil service” – and insurmountable class limitations, it’s no wonder Jenny drinks up the education David is keen to provide. What’s more, the perfectly cast Mulligan brings a depth to her portrayal of Jenny showing her as not merely a naïve school girl, ripe for exploitation, but a strong-minded individual who is mature beyond her years. She holds her own as she is wined and dined and there’s not a whiff of mindless adoration for Goldman. An Education will captivate you with its vivid sense of period detail. Sharp humour is woven appropriately thoughout and keeps the tone of the film bright, yet considered and substantial performances lend both gravity and insight. Claudia Gonella

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Harmony Korine

One of the most recent of original films in which a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) invites a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna), back to a Highlands commune populated with other full time impersonators – Charlie Chaplin, The Pope, Queen Elizabeth, James Dean and Madonna among Deleted scenes. them. UK / USA | 2007 | ICA | 112 min | Cert 15 Item # 60965 | RRP £12.99 | Released 8th March

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Taking Woodstock Ang Lee

Comedy drama about the Woodstock Festival. With the bank threatening to shut down his parents’ motel at the same time as a neighbouring town pulls the permit on a hippy music festival, Eliot comes up with a plan to save his family’s business, and makes a call to the festival producers. Three weeks later, over half a million people make their way to his neighbour’s farm... Peace, Love and Cinema. USA | 2009 | UPV | 120 min | Cert 15 Item # 61191 | RRP £15.99 | Released 1st March | P&P £1

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Water

Dick Clement Michael Caine, Billy Connolly and Leonard Rossiter star in this British comedy set on a quiet Caribbean island which becomes a hotbed of political chaos when US oil and rebel leaders take an interest in the island’s valuable mineral profits. UK | 1985 | OPTIM | 97 min | Cert 15 Item # 60849 | RRP £15.99 | Released 8th March

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Edward II

William Sterling

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Starring: Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Dudley Sutton, Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins Released: 1st March

Mira Nair USA | 2009 | FOX | 112 min | PG | # 61077 | £19.99

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DVD Extras: Derek’s Edward documentary.

Star-studded adaptation of Mark Twain’s adventure featuring Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, George C. Scott, Rex Harrison and, as the poor boy from the London slums who swaps places with heir to the throne Prince Edward, Mark Lester.

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Max Mayer

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Jarman’s provocative, contemporary dress adaptation of Marlowe’s play is a majestic blend of visual audacity, political relevance and raw sexual energy, which wrests from the original work a lean, pulsating narrative of power, repression and jealousy. At the centre of the dramatic conflict is the lowly-born Gaveston, a wanton effete whose hold upon the King’s affections agitates the nobles and humiliates the Queen (Tilda Swinton). The resulting persecution of Edward and Gaveston by their opponents is creatively re-imagined by Jarman as a modern-day disavowal of homosexual love, a bold revision which culminates in a violent clash between the police and gay rights organisation, OutRage. Confrontational images such as these suffuse the canvas of Edward II with a political and sexual bravery that sit in happy rapport with its formal daring. More a succession of shadowy, minimalist tableaux than a continuous narrative, Jarman exploits this freedom to integrate contemporary dance and song with the dominant action, to indisputably stunning effect. EP

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Conspiracy of Silence John Deery

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Don’t Worry About Me David Morrissey

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Gunfight

Lamont Johnson USA | 1970 | VINT | 94 min | Cert 15 | # 59055 | £5.99

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Intimate Relations Philip Goodhew

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This Month in Blu-ray

Rounding up all the Blu-rays from this month’s film catalogue in one place.

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Copying Beethoven

An Education

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Interceptor

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Lone Scherfig

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Joseph Losey

Adrian Lyne

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City Girl

Jennifer’s Body Karyn Kusama

George A. Romero

F.W. Murnau

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Alex De Rakoff

The Ladykillers

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M (Masters of Cinema) Fritz Lang

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Wilson Yip

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Up (Blu-ray + DVD) Pete Docter

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Tony Jaa

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The White Ribbon Michael Haneke

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Pandorum

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Terry Gilliam

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The provocateurs have had to become more provocative to gain a reaction original while Antichrist, Lars Von Trier’s wave of mutilation, sent the normally unflappable Cannes audience into a proper tizzy. Extreme cinema has been with us for a long time of course – at least since 1929, when Bunuel and Dali slashed an eye in Un chien andalou. They, of course, were out to rattle the cages of the middle classes – épater le bourgeois, as the poets had it. It’s hard not to think that many ‘extreme’ filmmakers are still trying to do the same thing, with ever decreasing results, to a modern bourgeois far more tolerant and less easily outraged than their predecessors. Are they really worthy of any artist’s contemptuous provocation? No, censorship is not the answer. It never is. There are many fine and worthwhile films that push the boundaries. Man Bites Dog is a powerful study of the relationship between

media and violence (and much funnier than Michael Haneke’s meditations on the same theme); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a wit and intelligence that belies the sensational title. Best of all is Salo, Pasolini’s nihilistic shriek of disgust: an alarming but necessary exploration of our darkest impulses. But hanging over this new wave of extreme cinema is an uncomfortable feeling that modern filmmakers are engaged in a sort of arms race. As it’s become harder to shock audiences, so the provocateurs have had to become more provocative to gain a reaction. Now that Antichrist has raised the bar, no doubt someone will try and top it. But how? What fresh atrocities can we look forward to? I think I’m getting older.

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