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ountering James Oliver’s contention last month (in his From the Cheap Seats blog) that modern TV isn’t really up to much, this month we have a clutch of extremely classy TV that has drawn in many admiring viewers – the mysterious French TV drama The Returned, Jane Campion’s New Zealand crime series Top of the Lake, BBC4’s biopic Burton and Taylor and the epic historical drama The White Queen. Whether they will stand the test of time remains to be seen of course, but they’re all highly enjoyable. After its rediscovery in 1994, the great film historian and restorer Kevin Brownlow described The Life Story of

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Film of the Month 5 Love is All You Need Ealing Rarities Volume 4 Bad Day at Black Rock

Barry Forshaw (Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris) Barry’s latest books are British Crime Film and, forthcoming, British Gothic Cinema

Silent Film David Lloyd George David Lloyd George as ‘the find of the century’. High praise indeed. The film itself was mysteriously suppressed in 1918 and lost for 80 years but is now available on DVD (page 10). Judge for yourself if it would have changed the course of British film history! Enjoy your films

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(Konstantin Lopushansky’s Visitor to a Museum) Alex is a web producer for the BFI, and a former curator for the BFI National Archive. He has written for a variety of film publications, both at the BFI and beyond, and regularly holds talks at BFI Southbank. His specialism is queer cinema and he can be found at bfi.org.uk/people/alex-davidson

Angie Errigo (Neill Blomkamp’s District 9) is a contributing editor for Empire magazine, whose books include The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings

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1 A Late Quartet

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir star as the players in a world-renowned string quartet whose future hangs in the balance when their cellist (Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Item# 71805 USA | 2012 | 106 | 15 | £15.99

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A Spanish black and white silent fantasy drama set in southern Spain in 1920s, Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Snow White, and pays tribute to the art of silent cinema. Item# 72186 Spain / France | 2012 | 105 | B&W | 12 | £19.99

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An uplifting tale of love, loss and the birth pangs of starting out on a new life, Love is All You Need was filmed in beautiful locations in Italy and Denmark and stars Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm as a couple who meet on the way to their offsprings’ wedding. Directed by Oscar winner Susanne Bier.

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4 The White Queen: Series 1

Based on Philippa Gregory’s bestselling account of the Wars of the Roses, The White Queen is a rich tale of love and loss, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, vibrantly woven through the stories of three different yet equally driven women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. Item# 72147 UK | 2013 | 600 | 15 | £39.99

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he Ealing vaults continue to be a rich source of classics and curios. This latest selection returns to the dawn of sound for Basil Dean’s Birds of Prey (1930). Adapted from the AA Milne play The Fourth Wall, it typifies the kind of literate drama that allowed directors and actors to become accustomed to the new talkie technology. It’s an intriguing murder story that sees C. Aubrey Smith’s ex-policemen bumped off by a couple of vengeful crooks. A sheet of blotting paper holds the key to the mystery that is briskly solved by Frank Lawton and Dorothy Boyd on studio sets that keep the performers close to the microphones hidden about the décor. The admirable underwater photography of Eric Cross and some lovely Highland views suggest how much equipment had improved by the time Milton Rosmer made The Secret of the Loch (1934), an early example of a British creature feature that sees Seymour Hicks’ professor attempt to prove the presence of a Diplodocus in the depths of Loch Ness. It’s fun, but primarily of interest because its editor was a young David Lean.

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Another enticing collection of classics and curios from Ealing A score by Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the pleasures of Charles Frend’s The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), which was adapted by HE Bates from a novel by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Boasting sublime location photography by Douglas Slocombe, it gave studio chief Michael Balcon a chance to show provincial life as it was lived and the docu-dramatic detail certainly adds authenticity to Googie Withers’s bid to defy her doubting male neighbours by introducing new methods on her Romney Marsh farm. This was one of the few Ealing pictures with a feminist subtext, but the perennial theme of the family recurs in Michael Relph’s Davy (1957), in which Harry Secombe debates whether to leave the vaudeville act, The Mad Morgans, to take his chance in opera. Musically rousing, this is fascinating for the wealth of familiar faces in the supporting cast. David Parkinson Page 7

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1970 western, filmed in Israel, starring Leslie Caron as Sister Mary, the sole survivor of an Apache attack. While seeking to elude Indians and outlaws, she meets Madron (Richard Boone), a world-weary gunslinger who agrees to escort her to Santa Fe. Along the way, despite Mary’s status as a nun, romance threatens to blossom between the pair. Israel | 1970 | SIMP | 90 | Cert 12 Item# 71718 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Val Guest

A 1952 British Technicolor comedy, filmed on location in Catalonia and starring Dirk Bogarde as a cheese salesman who helps a young American woman (Yolande Donlan) to sell her way out of trouble when the tiny European principality she has bought gets into debt. Their special product?; the Schnapps-based ‘schneese’. UK | 1952 | SpiritStrawberry | 91 | | Cert U Item# 72057 | RRP £12.99 | 9th September

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The Restless Breed Allan Dwan

Western starring Scott Brady as a man out to avenge the murder of his father who was killed while attempting to stop a gun smuggling operation in a Mexican border town. He lodges with a local reverend and his family and falls for the eldest daughter Angelita (Anne Bancroft) – but even love and wise counsel can’t dissuade him from his chosen path.

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Rose of Cimarron Harry Keller

Mala Powers stars as the young woman, born to white settlers but raised by Cherokee Indians, who sets out for revenge when her adoptive father Lone Eagle (Monte Blue) and his wife are killed by a trio of robbers. USA | 1952 | SIMP | 74 | Cert PG Item# 71707 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Penny Princess

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Released: 12th August Extras: Dutch Region 2 edition; Original English with optional subtitles. Item# 72586 USA | 1954 | Parovisie | Cert TBC

Black Rock is a small desert town where nothing much happens; the sort of burgh where the express train stopping to let someone off, as it does at the start of this film, is big news. The lone passenger – John J Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) – has business hereabouts; the locals can only wonder what it might be. This could be the set up for a classic western but the frontier days are long gone. It’s 1945, a couple of months after the war ended; Black Rock wants to put what happened in those years behind them and doesn’t take kindly to strangers digging up the past. Trouble is, that’s just why Macreedy has come to town. Bad Day at Black Rock has aged beautifully and stands up as a masterpiece of subtle control and mounting tension. John Sturges keeps everything gently simmering, then slowly brings things to a boil as Macreedy learns the town’s secrets – and the lengths to which the townsfolk will go to keep them. The whole film is the work of people at the peak of their powers. JO

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Director: Raoul Walsh Starring: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns Released: Out Now Extras: Dutch Region 2 edition, playable in all UK DVD players; Original English soundtrack. Item# 72218 USA | 1940 | Parovisie | 91 | B&W | Cert PG

Howard Hawks was the master of the working man melodrama, but Raoul Walsh pushes him pretty close with this no-nonsense adaptation of AI Bezzerides’ novel, The Long Haul. For the first half of the picture, the focus is on the risks taken by truck drivers to get produce to markets on schedule, with the action peppered with wisecracks and gritty insights into the grim realities of life on the road. Then, through a chance encounter with a beautiful waitress (Ann Sheridan), the film shifts gear to concentrate on a noirish subplot involving obsession and murder. George Raft revels in the opportunity to play against type as the average Joe working around the clock to beat his competitors. He is aided by brother (Humphrey Bogart), whose anxious wife wishes he would settle for steadier employment. The film’s trucking sequences starkly convey the danger of hauling rigs on treacherous roads, while Walsh works wonders in maintaining momentum when melodrama replaces social realism. DP

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Humphrey Bogart “Here’s looking at you, kid” There are cinema icons and then there’s Humphrey Bogart – with his lived-in face and distinctive, dry voice, he defined an era of filmmaking. Better still, seeing him on screen is rather like meeting an old friend. With They Drive by Night newly available, we present a sale of some of his finest films.

The Big Sleep

In a Lonely Place

Howard Hawks

Nicholas Ray

An essential noir, with Bogie / Bacall magic, fizzing sexual chemistry, labyrinthine plot and electric dialogue from Raymond Chandler and William Faulkner. Hawks’ greatest film.

A hauntingly romantic film noir starring Gloria Grahame, and Humphrey Bogart as a selfdestructive scriptwriter who becomes a murder suspect after the death of a young woman.

Howard Hawks

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Item# 69866 USA | 1944 | 96 | B&W | PG | £14.99

The African Queen

Dead Reckoning

Sahara

Dir: John Huston. Bogart is the harddrinking steamer captain, Hepburn his prim missionary passenger in this wonderful comedy adventure.

Dir: John Cromwell. Investigating a friend’s disappearance, Bogart’s ex-paratrooper is led into a tangled web of alliances.

Dir: Zoltan Korda. Bogart plays the sergeant whose troops face a desperate struggle for survival in the desert after the fall of Tobruk.

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The Barefoot Contessa

The Enforcer

San Quentin

Dir: Bretaigne Windust. A pacy crime thriller reminiscent of some of Bogart’s films of the 1930s. Bogart plays a DA after a gang of killers.

Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Bogart plays the convict in San Quentin who is looking for revenge on a guard who has fallen for his sister.

Echoing his role in Casablanca, Bogart – on screen with Bacall for the first time – is the ex-pat hiding a fugitive from the Nazis. Dutch release; Original English soundtrack. DVD: £9.99 Save £5

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Beat the Devil

The Harder They Fall

Sirocco

Dir: John Huston. Bogart, Lollobrigida and Lorre star in this wry tale of a disparate group hoping to claim uranium-rich land in East Africa.

Dir: Mark Robson. Bogart’s final film is a tense and powerful drama set in and around the boxing business. Rod Steiger co-stars.

Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. An actionpacked thriller set in war-torn Syria where Bogart’s gun-runner has to turn to his rival in love for help.

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The Caine Mutiny

The Maltese Falcon

Tokyo Joe

Dir: Edward Dmytryk. In one of his last great performances, Bogart plays the naval commander who charges his officers with mutiny.

Dir: John Huston. Ruthless characters in a corrupt and cynical world search for a bejewelled bird. Bogart plays private detective Sam Spade.

Dir: Stuart Heisler. Thriller in which Bogart plays a pilot who returns to Tokyo and discovers a plot against American occupation in Japan.

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Casablanca

Sabrina

We’re No Angels

Item# 10360 USA | 1954 | 125 | PG | £15.99

Dir: Michael Curtiz. Bogart’s cynical American sticks his neck out for the ex-lover who broke his heart. As seductive and entertaining as ever.

Dir: Billy Wilder. A chauffeur’s daughter arouses the amorous interest of her employer’s sons (Bogart and William Holden).

Dir: Michael Curtiz. Comedy in which Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov play the convicts plotting an escape from Devil’s Island.

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Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Bogart and Ava Gardner star in this witty exposé of Hollywood morals.

To Have and Have Not

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Silent

The Tarnished Angels (MoC) Douglas Sirk

A spellbinding chronicle of personal obsession, romantic longing and irreconcilable desires pictured in glorious B&W CinemaScope, this spectacular adaptation of Faulkner’s Pylon has risen in stature to become one of Sirk’s most acclaimed films. Rock Hudson stars as a journalist fascinated by the sordid lives of a trio eking out a living in carnival circuit daredevil airshows – a former WWI fighter pilot (Robert Stack), his wife (Dorothy Malone) and a faithful mechanic. Also available on DVD for £6.99. Blu-ray: Commentary; Interviews.

Murder Without Crime Recommended Director: J. Lee Thompson

USA | 1957 | EUREK | 91 | Cert U Item# 72480 | RRP £19.99 | 19th August

Starring: Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Patricia Plunkett, Joan Dowling

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Item# 72105 UK | 1950 | NWORK | 73 | B&W | Cert 12

1952 British thriller starring Richard Todd as a private detective who finds himself in deadly danger when he goes to Venice at the request of an insurance company to locate a man they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman in the war. His first contact, however, is dead.

After a bruising row that’s seen his missus storming out of their happy home, Stephen (Derek Farr) takes shelter in a swish London nite-spot, where he meets a good-time-girl called Grena. Perhaps inevitably, they wind up at his place but there is an accident and Grena hits her head... Stephen’s epicurean landlord (Dennis Price at his silkiest; practically worth the price of the DVD alone) heard the scuffle and has a pretty shrewd idea of what went down – and how he can benefit from it. He gives Stephen two choices: the blackmailer’s grip – or the hangman’s noose... Murder Without Crime comes from a West End play and we can certainly see the contours of the upmarket stage production it once was. But it’s not all smoking jackets and lavish furniture: what’s interesting is how it takes cues from thencontemporary US crime drama. Indeed, with its looming shadows, twisted angles and laconic voiceover, it’s not so very far away from film noir. Barely seen since its original release, it’s a fascinating rediscovery from the British Golden age. JO

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The Life Story of David Lloyd George Recommended Exclusive Director: Maurice Elvey Starring: Norman Page, Alma Reville Released: Out Now Extras: Music by Neil Brand; Introduction by Philip Madoc; Kevin Brownlow Interview; Booklet. Item# 72220 UK | 1918 | INNLC | 152 | | B&W | Cert E

Most viewers would be sceptical of the phrase ‘lost masterpiece’. But it’s genuinely applicable to Maurice Elvey’s 1918 biography of the Welshman who led the Empire through the Great War as Minister of War and Munitions before becoming Prime Minister in December 1916. There’s no question that it is a work of hagiography, but it’s remarkable for the fact it was produced while the conflict was still raging and that its scale and ambition surpassed both the Italian superspectacles of the early 1910s and even DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). With vividly staged scenes set on the Western Front and tinted flashbacks to biblical times, it’s the grandeur of the film’s set-pieces that makes it so effective and imposing. It’s tempting to speculate how it might have changed British cinema history and the fortunes of its director (who became a Quota Quickie merchant) had it not been mysteriously suppressed. By any standard, it is one of the great British films. DP

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

New Releases Art Lives: Raoul Dufy Andrew Snell

A documentary portrait of Raoul Dufy, best known for his joyous, colourful paintings, but who also produced ceramics, wallhangings, fabrics and furniture designs. Through interviews with patrons, dealers and models, this film puts the case that Dufy was a painter of genius to rank alongside Matisse and Leger. UK | 2013 | I-MIN | 59 | Cert E Item# 71773 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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The Battle of the Sexes James Erskine

A documentary exploring the 1973 ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. After claiming that no female player could beat him, King took him on and – in a significant turning point in attitudes towards women in sport – beat him in straight sets. USA | 2013 | KALHE | 83 | Cert E Item# 72320 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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British Air Disasters 1920-73

An extensive collection of British Pathé and British Movietone newsreel reports about air crashes, 1920-1973. The 61 disasters featured span the great Air Mail Crash, Hendon, 1920 to 1970s Trident, Vanguard and Red Arrows crashes.

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The British Circus 18981972: The Golden Years A non-stop celebration of British circus acts of yesteryear, starting with the 1898 footage of Barnum and Bailey in Sunderland. Circuses featured include Tom Arnold’s Harringay Circus, Billy Smart’s Circus and Bertram Mills, famous for their enormous Christmas Circus extravaganzas at Olympia. UK | 1898-1972 | C-RED | 181 | Cert E Item# 72296 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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David Starkey’s Monarchy

Series 1-3 of David Starkey’s in-depth examination of the English monarchy. Contains the episodes: A Nation State, Ængla Land, Conquest, Dynasty, United Kingdom, Death of a Dynasty, The Crown Imperial, King and Emperor, That Shadow of the King, The Stuart Succession, Cromwell the King Killer, The Return of the King, The Glorious Revolution, 4 discs. Rule Britannia, Empire and Survival. UK | 2004 | 4DVD | 600 | Cert E Item# 71698 | RRP £29.99 | 2nd September

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Manet: Portraying Life Phil Grabsky

A documentary exploring the life and work of the French artist Edouard Manet, centred around the Royal Academy exhibition, ‘Manet: Portraying Life’. Art historian Tim Marlow is the guide, offering insight into the meaning of the paintings and their biographical context. UK | 2013 | SEV-A | 90 | Cert E Item# 71930 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Royal Air Force in the 1980s: Definitive Short Films

An extensive collection of 25 official RAF films from the 1980s, all of them previously unreleased. Presented in chronological order, these instructional, training and recruitment films give an in-depth insight into the breadth of RAF operations and squadrons during a 2 discs. decade of immense change. UK | 1980-89 | C-RED | 390 | Cert E Item# 72466 | RRP £24.99 | 26th August

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Wimbledon 2013: Men’s Final – Murray vs Djokovic Coverage of the 2013 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, which saw Murray battling to a straight sets win to become the first British male singles champion at Wimbledon since Fred 2 discs. Perry in 1936.

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British Transport Films Volume 11: Experiment Under London Recommended Contains: Experiment Under London (1961); The Victoria Line Reports 1-5 (1965-69) Released: 19th August Extras: 2 discs; A Hundred Years Underground (1963); The Queen Opening the Victoria Line (1969) – mute rushes; Illustrated booklet. Item# 70679 UK | 1961-69 | BFI | 167 | Cert E

Detailing the construction of the underground Victoria Line from Victoria to Walthamstow between September 1962 and March 1969, the six films in this latest BTF volume offer a fascinating glimpse into a major construction project in a largely pre-computerised age. Taking us from the pneumatic drilling of the first cobble in Oxford Circus through to a cobalt head-scarfed Queen buying a 5d ticket for her ride from Walthamstow to Victoria (which also bought her a ride in the driver’s cab), the films pay testament to both engineering ingenuity and the sheer back-breaking manpower needed to complete the job. The volume also includes a substantial bonus film in the shape of A Hundred Years Underground, made to to mark the centenary of Underground Transport in London and offering a potted 40-minute history of the Underground. GH

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New Releases Artificial Paradises Marcos Prado

This ‘story of love and ecstasy’ and intense sensory experiences is set in the Brazilian underground party scene, where ex-drug runner Nando (Luca Bianchi) and professional DJ Erika (Nathalia Dill) weave in and out of each other’s lives – though drugs mean they are unaware of their previous encounters. Brazil | 2012 | MATCH | 96 | Cert 15 Item# 72260 | RRP £15.99 | 26th August

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

A pair of revenge dramas from the director of Tokyo Sonata and Pulse, made when Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast. The result was the cinematic equivalent of twins – enigmatically interlocking films that are completely different in tone and plot. Japan | 1998 | 3RDW | 168 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 71990 | RRP £14.99 | 9th September

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A Hijacking

Tobias Lindholm

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A tense Danish thriller from the makers of Borgen and The Hunt, in which the crew of a cargo ship is held hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean. The head of the company enters into negotiations – but when the ransom isn’t met things those on board the vessel find themselves pawns in a game of life and death.

The Body

Oriol Paulo A detective searches for the body of a woman which has gone missing from a morgue in this Spanish thriller from the producers of The Orphanage. The only witness to the scene is a guard left in a coma from indescribable fear.

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Hôtel Normandy

The End

Charles Nemes

Jorge Torregrossa A metaphysical Spanish thriller in which old friends get together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems to have changed between them. But lurking behind the laughter and stories is a murky episode from their past. Spain | 2012 | STUDC | 88 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72419 | RRP £15.99 | 19th August

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Eyes of the Spider / Serpent’s Path

A French romantic comedy starring Héléna Noguerra as a 40 year-old bank worker who has steadfastly refused to move on after the death of her husband, but who finds herself the centre of attention for love rivals Jacques and Yvan when she agrees to a weekend of pampering at the exclusive Hôtel Normandy. France | 2013 | STUDC | 97 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 72372 | RRP £19.99 | 26th August

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The Land of Hope Sion Sono

A moving drama of a rural family’s struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake. Haunted by memories of the Fukushima disaster, they are faced with a terrible decision: stay and risk radiation poisoning, or leave their family home. Japan | 2012 | 3RDW | 133 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72001 / 72003 | RRP £14.99 | 26th August

I’m So Excited Recommended Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Carlos Areces, Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Silva, Cecilia Roth Released: 26th August Item# 72342 Spain | 2013 | FOX | 90 | subt | Cert 15

After a string of intense and edgy melodramas, including Talk To Her, Volver and The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar returns to the outrageous comedies of his early career with I’m So Excited, an over-the-top caper set almost entirely on an aeroplane experiencing in-flight difficulties. The plot, such as it is, takes in dodgy financial dealings, a dominatrix, a psychic virgin, gratuitous sex and a bizarre dance routine to the title song (one of the film’s highlights). If this all sounds silly, it is – very. But then again no one does a comic set piece like Almodóvar, and the expert comic timing of the cast – notably the waspish air stewards who act as a catty chorus to the shenanigans – make for an outrageous treat. It is not without depth – the Spanish director’s depiction of a faulty aircraft where the standard class passengers are drugged into a coma while the first class travellers run amok may remind some of a certain country currently experiencing an economic crisis of its own. Flamboyant, vulgar and shameless, fans of camp should look no further. AD

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Blancanieves Recommended Director: Pablo Berger Starring: Ángela Molina, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verdú, Macarena García, Sofía Oria Released: 5th August Extras: Collector’s Edition; Set of photocards. Item# 72186 | Spain / France | 2012 | STUDC | 105 | B&W | Cert 12

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Michel Hazanavicius Item# 67979 France | 2011 | 100 | PG | £24.99

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Snow White: A Tale of Terror Michael Cohn

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Miguel Gomes

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n a very different vein from The Artist, Pablo Berger’s visually stunning black and white silent film homage – a Spanish version of the Snow White fairy tale set in the 1920s – has its own wonderful attractions. It’s never tongue in cheek, and rarely playful with its Brothers Grimm-based gothic melodrama, but it’s not a completely straightforward rendering of the universally popular tale either. Nor is it kiddie-targeted family viewing. Vintage artistry inspired by the masterpieces of directors such as Gance and Murnau meets David Lynch weirdness, with sado-masochistic games, obsession, innocence betrayed and a fascinating perversity making this an alluring fantasy for film buffs and a revelation for those who think silent film is irrelevant, or a curio. Celebrated matador Antonio Villalta is gored in the Seville bullring when a news photographer’s ill-timed flash-bang distracts the bullfighter and enrages the bull. Antonio’s adored, heavily pregnant wife Carmen goes into labour and dies giving birth to a daughter. Antonio survives but is disabled, and succumbs to the ambitious machinations of his grasping nurse, Encarna. Baby Carmencita is raised by her grandmother until she is thrown into

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A visually stunning silent Spanish twist on the tale of Snow White her evil stepmother’s pitiless clutches and experiences cruelty, grief and hardship – apart from some belated stolen moments of joy with her invalid father, who teaches her his art, bullfighting, before his hastened death. Surviving an attempted murder by the jealous stepmother’s henchman, the angelic, amnesiac Carmen becomes a star of the bullring after being rescued by a travelling troupe of dwarf comedy bullfighters, with startlingly dramatic and disturbing consequences. Writer-director Berger explores the strengths and possibilities of the silent medium with exquisite lighting, make-up, costume, composition, editing, full-on acting (Verdú is sensationally wicked and the two Carmens are captivating, heartbreaking waifs) and a romantic score. But for all its detailed period re-creation, this is no dispassionate academic exercise. It’s an immersive, sensory, highly emotional experience transporting viewers into the dark, collective consciousness of once upon a time. Angela Errigo Page 13

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World Cinema The Luis Buñuel Collection

Seven great, late films from master filmmaker Luis Buñuel. Contains The Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), Tristana (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure 7 discs. Object of Desire (1977).

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Joachim Lafosse

Director: Olivier Assayas

Based on true events, this intense dissection of an unorthodox family unit created a buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Émilie Dequenne the Un Certain Regard Award for her portrayal of an effervescent young woman who becomes increasingly trapped by the oppressive environment of her husband’s adoptive family.

Starring: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton

Director: Jindrich Polák

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Item# 71970 Czech | 1963 | 2RUN | 87 | subt | Cert 12

On a rare big-screen outing a few years ago, filmmaker Alex Cox acclaimed the Czech sci-fi film Ikarie XB-1 as ‘a game-changing film that profoundly influenced the genre and showed that science-fiction movies weren’t only about special effects; they were also high art – of the hardest and most admirable kind’. Set in 2163, it revolves around an attempt to find life in the Alpha Centauri solar system, with much highly imaginative detail about how the forty-strong crew of the Ikarie (aka ‘Icarus’) live their day-to-day lives. There are so many visual and thematic similarities to Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey that it’s highly likely that Gene Roddenberry and Stanley Kubrick saw it. That said, the transatlantic borrowing goes both ways, since Ikarie has a robot named Patrick which was inspired by Forbidden Planet’s Robby. Things take a sinister turn when the Ikarie stumbles upon a manned satellite full of corpses and later in a near-fatal encounter with a black hole. Allowing for the film’s age, the special effects are remarkably good, but it’s the fact that Ikarie XB-1 assumes that its audience has a minimum level of intelligence that makes it so refreshingly different. MB

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A provocative Swedish drama in which three schoolchildren – two white and one of Asian descent – are robbed and subjected to a psychological game by a group of streetwise black youths who prey on their victims’ fears and stereotypes without ever resorting to direct violence. Sweden | 2011 | SodaElev | 118 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72262 | RRP £17.99 | 9th September

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Plein Soleil (Restored) René Clément

A brilliant, sun-drenched adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, featuring a career-defining turn from a young, ultra-cool Alain Delon who plays the unreadably cunning Tom – a man hired by a rich American to bring his errant son (Maurice Ronet) back home from Italy, but who instead steals his identity.

Olivier Assayas is a filmmaker more engaged than most with history, and with Something in the Air, he attempts his most personal undertaking yet, structuring an account of the aftermath of the May 1968 social unrest in France out of his own reminiscences of the era. He looks back with a forgiving equanimity. His youthful revolutionaries are self-serious, overly fond of the grand gesture, so caught up in their own idealism that they’re blind to the practicalities of everyday life. One way or another, they’re doomed, but they were trying to make a difference, and the film respects them for that; it knows where they were coming from, even as it acknowledges how the years cast their ambitions and failures in a new light. Assayas’s retelling of the time is low-key and romantic – but it makes a seductive case for collectivism and people getting together, politically, socially, sexually; it grasps that, however airy or elusive this generation’s ultimate achievements, their experiences were absolutely worth fighting for. MM

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Cinema Sci-fi Sale It’s not just Hollywood that has its eyes on the stars – countries from around the world have been creating thoughtful, mind-expanding and spectacular science fiction cinema since its earliest days. With the hugely influential Ikarie XB-1 released this month, we present a sale of some of the finest world cinema sci-fi films. Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Metropolis

Pop sci-fi film noir in which special agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) battles Alphaville’s gravel-voiced supercomputer, Alpha 60. Compelling viewing for students of sci-fi and film noir alike.

Hayao Miyazaki

An astounding realisation of a dystopian society, now restored to its full-length, set in a radically divided society in which workers’ dehumanization is taken to the ultimate degree. Reconstructed.

Item# 52519 France | 1965 | 94 | B&W | PG | £17.99

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Jean-Luc Godard

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2046 Dir: Wong Kar-Wai. A gorgeous loose follow-up to In the Mood for Love in which a writer moves into a hotel to complete his science-fiction story. Item# 70624 Hong Kong | 2004 | 123 | subt | 12 | £12.99

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Akira Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo. This stunning vision of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo deserves honourable comparison with Blade Runner and Metropolis. Item# 64987 / 64988 1987 | 124 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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The City of Lost Children Dir: Jeunet & Caro. Inventive fantasy in which the evil Krank kidnaps children to steal their dreams. Item# 33763 France | 1995 | 112 | subt | 15 | £17.99

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Danger: Diabolik Dir: Mario Bava. A stylish adaptation starring the popular Italian comic strip character that brilliantly captures its era of lavish 1960s decadence. Item# 50536 Italy | 1968 | 100 | 12 | £9.99

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Fantastic Planet Dir: René Laloux. With its surreal creatures, this is a mesmerising psychedelic animated allegory of occupation and resistance. 2 discs. Item# 67671 France | 1973 | 72 | PG | £20.99

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This is Studio Ghibli at their breathtaking, inventive best, with the tale of a boy and girl who must race against pirates and foreign agents in their search for a floating castle.

Fritz Lang

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Frau im Mond

Nausicaä: Valley of the Wind

Dir: Fritz Lang. Combining espionage with melodrama, science and comicbook sci-fi, Lang’s silent epic sees a crew set out to find moon gold. Item# 52630 Germany | 1929 | 163 | U | £19.99

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The Host Dir: Joon-Ho Bong. A family of oddballs try to defeat a giant rampaging toxic tadpole in this highly enjoyable Korean monster movie. Item# 34201 / 51237 2006 | 119 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. An eco sci-fi epic in which humans are threatened by an ever-expanding toxic forest. Item# 24442 Japan | 1984 | 116 | subt | PG | £19.99

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Renaissance Dir: Christian Volckman. Bold French animation in which a police captain is charged with finding a kidnapped scientist in Paris, 2054. Item# 30537 France | 2006 | 105 | B&W | 15 | £17.99

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La Jetée / Sans Soleil

The Sacrifice

Dir: Chris Marker. The profoundly influential science-fiction short La Jetée and Sans Soleil – a meditation on ‘the dreams of the human race’. Item# 65716 France | 1962-83 | 129 | 15 | £15.99

Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky. To prevent nuclear holocaust a man promises God he will sacrifice all he holds dear to save the world. Item# 71789 Sweden | 1986 | 142 | subt | 12 | £15.99

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Les Maîtres du Temps

Timecrimes

Dir: René Laloux. A huge hit on release, this is a finely animated metaphysical rescue mission in space from the director of Fantastic Planet. Item# 51377 France | 1982 | 75 | subt | PG | £17.99

Dir: Nacho Vigalondo. A Spanish time-travel thriller in which a man becomes an accomplice in a crime of his own making. Item# 57986 Spain | 2007 | 88 | subt | 15 | £15.99

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The Mysterians

World on a Wire

Dir: Ishiro Honda. Classic Japanese sci-fi from the team behind Godzilla, in which alien race the Mysterians cause a city to disappear. Item# 26443 Japan | 1957 | 90 | subt | PG | £19.99

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Dir: RW Fassbinder. A remarkable science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world. 2 discs; Restored. Item# 61696 Germany | 1973 | 204 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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Joseph Losey

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One of the oddest and most intriguing films Hammer ever made, in which a hoodlum movie morphs into a sci-fi tale of radioactive children. Oliver Reed and Shirley Anne Field star.

René Clair

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Dir: Laurence Olivier. A five Oscarwinning film, with Olivier’s central performance both haunting and intriguing. A definitive Hamlet.

Dir: Catherine Corsini. Kristin Scott Thomas stars as the woman whose life is transformed by a passionate affair with Sergi López’s handyman.

Dir: Lewis Gilbert. Shipwreck comedy starring Kenneth More as a butler leading the attempts to survive.

Les Grandes Manoeuvres Gérard Philipe’s rakish lieutenant bets that he can make love to any woman in town – but then falls in love with the one chosen. Michèle Morgan and Brigitte Bardot star. DVD: £6.99 Save £13

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Le Maître de Musique

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Dir: Otto Preminger. James Stewart plays the lawyer who defends a soldier accused of murdering the man who raped his wife. Item# 8021 USA | 1959 | 161 | B&W | 15 | £19.99

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Bonjour Tristesse Dir: Otto Preminger. Jean Seberg and David Niven star in this drama set in the south of France and based on Françoise Sagan’s novel. Item# 23257 USA | 1958 | 91 | PG | £12.99

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Dir: Don Siegel. Quintessential 50s paranoiac sci-fi in which alien invaders begin replicating humans. Item# 32093 USA | 1956 | 80 | B&W | PG | £9.99

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The Phantom of the Opera Dir: Rupert Julian. Lon Chaney gives one of the defining performances of silent cinema. 2 discs. Item# 11149 USA | 1925 | 93 | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Loach’s whisky-heist comedy finds the director on Canneswinning form. A funny, moving film, it evokes Ealing comedies – notably Whisky Galore! – in its tale of a man with a nose for fine malt.

An elegant, heartrending adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood short story. Colin Firth stars as an English professor in 1960s LA who is grieving the recent death of his long-time partner.

A dark and humanistic drama of father/daughter relationships and terrifying conspiracies in the nuclear power industry. Bob Peck and Joanna Whalley star. Scripted by Troy Kennedy-Martin.

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I Capture the Castle Dir: Tim Fywell. A beautiful and uplifting story of first love and selfdiscovery starring Tara Fitzgerald, Bill Nighy and Romola Garai. Item# 15834 UK | 2003 | 108 | PG | £17.99

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Dir: Tom Hooper. Three 1930s girls try to find true love before they marry in this adaptation from Nancy Mitford.

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Dir: Philip Saville. Louis Jourdan dons the vampire’s cloak in BBC’s 1977 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s tale. Susan Penhaligon plays Lucy.

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A French hostage drama written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz who also stars. The film traces the events surrounding the abduction of 30 police officers by Kanak separatists in New Caledonia in 1988. Sent to secure the release of the hostages, the negotiator (Kassovitz) finds himself caught between the rebels’ demands and the machinations of his political masters in France. France | 2011 | LGATE | 135 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72037 / 72029 | RRP £17.99 | 26th August

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Tobias Lindholm

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In the Fog Recommended Director: Sergei Loznitsa Starring: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergei Kolesov, Vlad Ivanov, Nadezhda Markina Released: 26th August

The Stroller Strategy Clément Michel

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French romantic comedy in which, when a young Parisian man becomes the guardian of a baby, he seizes the chance to try and reconnect with his ex-girlfriend by showing off his parenting skills. However, as he continues to dig himself into the deception, he learns that the responsibilities of fatherhood are not to be taken so lightly.

Item# 71992 Russia | 2012 | NW | 128 | subt | Cert 12

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Thérèse Desqueyroux Claude Miller

The final film from Claude Miller (Betty Fisher, Un Secret), is an exquisite adaptation of François Mauriac’s classic novel. An impressive Audrey Tautou stars as the eponymous Thérèse, a free-spirited woman stifled in a loveless marriage in 1920s France and longing to break free from her banal life. France | 2012 | ART-E | 110 | Cert 12 Item# 71980 / 71986 | RRP £15.99 | 9th Sept

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Fifty Shades of Tinto Brass Three of Il Maestro’s best features: his controversial Nazi-themed Salon Kitty (1976), the explicit sex comedy Miranda (1985), starring Serena Grandi, and The Voyeur (1993). 3 discs; All three films restored in their longest versions; Widescreen.

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In the Fog takes place in 1942 in German-occupied Belorussia, where two partisans capture a third who is accused of collaboration, and therefore sentenced to die. A masterful opening panorama identifies in one simple village scene everything that will fall into the film’s field of vision: weary soldiers and haunted-looking partisans, cowed villagers, mud. The story of grimy betrayals and reversals is opened out with flashbacks explaining how everybody got here, but mostly, we watch as three mutually suspicious men, weighed down by feelings of guilt and responsibility, scuttle through the woods. Loznitsa’s background lies in documentary, and In the Fog is almost Attenborough-like in its precision: as we watch the men clambering through leaves, making makeshift nests, circling back on themselves, we could just as easily be watching ants in a formicarium, oblivious to the bigger picture that there is no easy escape, and every chance they will be stamped upon. Brutal, yes; but but as this very impressive film concludes, such were the times. MM

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The Brides of Dracula Terence Fisher

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I’m So Excited Pedro Almodóvar

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In the Fog

Sergei Loznitsa

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The Look of Love

Michael Winterbottom

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Love is All You Need Susanne Bier

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Plein Soleil (Restored) René Clément

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Something in the Air Olivier Assayas

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Heimat 1: A Chronicle of Germany (1984) and Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (1992) available separately. An unsurpased chronicle of Germany in the 20th century.

Katharine Hepburn plays a lonely American woman who has saved enough to take the trip of a lifetime to Venice and and is swept off her feet by a charming antiques dealer. David Lean’s first colour film.

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Dir: Stanley Donen. A wickedly funny film which sees hapless Wimpy restaurant employee (Dudley Moore) sell his soul to the devil (Peter Cook).

Dir: Joseph Losey. A matchless adaptation of Mozart’s greatest opera with wonderful performances. 3 discs; Remastered

Dir: Max Ophuls. A classic film noir in which James Mason blackmails a woman who has disposed of the body of her daughter’s lover.

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Dir: RW Fassbinder. A universally acclaimed epic set in 1920s Berlin that follows the efforts of an ex-con trying to go straight. 6 discs. Item# 50820 Germany | 1980 | 910 | subt | 15 | £54.99

Dir: Patrice Leconte. Jean Rochefort stars as a man with an obsession for a voluptuous hairdresser. Item# 21279 France | 1991 | 79 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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Dir: Vilgot Sjöman. The story of radical Lena. A cinematic sensation for its (then) explicit sexual content.

Dir: Walter Hill. A gripping 80s survival thriller in which an army training exercise in the Louisiana bayou becomes all too real.

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Dir: Richard Fleischer. A stylish thriller that sees two law students murder a boy in cold blood to ‘prove’ their intellectual superiority. Item# 62987 USA | 1959 | 99 | B&W | 12 | £15.99

Dir: Max Ophuls. Joan Fontaine is superb as the heroine in this masterpiece set in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

Dir: Carol Reed. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida play the trapeze artists caught up in a destructive love triangle.

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Max Ophuls’ penultimate film and arguably his masterpiece, this is a supremely elegant meditation on doomed, obsessive romantic love.

Dir: Bertrand Blier. Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere star as the young French reprobates on a gleefully thieving, womanising spree.

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One of the most celebrated films in history, this richly romantic masterpiece is set in the theatrical world of 19th century Paris. Voted ‘The Best French Film Ever Made’.

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With an essential spark of chemistry, Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter star in this superbly acted BBC4 biopic about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s reunion on Broadway in 1983 for Noël Coward’s play Private Lives.

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A TV movie based on the life of British mathematician, codebreaker and computer scientist, Alan Turing, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution and his tragic death in 1954. Ed Stoppard takes the lead. UK | 2011 | DAZZL | 62 | Cert TBC Item# 72092 | RRP £15.99 | 2nd September

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A seventh volume of the courtroom drama which used ‘real’ jurors and prepared multiple endings for each story, dependent on whether the accused was found guilty or not. The twelve cases – including murder, child abduction, libel and fraud – feature appearances by Dinah Sheridan, Richard Wilson, Robert Powell 4 discs. and Don Henderson, among others.

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Count Arthur Strong is a man born to entertain an audience, whether they like it or not, and mostly they don’t. The pompous, pontificating Count’s creator, Steve Delaney, essays the deluded outof-work actor’s transition from the wireless to the small screen.

Written by and starring Jimmy Nail, this drama series follows the life of Geordie factory worker and country music singer Jed Shepperd. With the prospect of redundancy looming, Jed quits his job to pursue his dream of life as a country singer. The story follows his tale of fame, fortune and heartache from Newcastle to 4 discs. Nashville and back.

A deluxe box set, limited to 5,000 units, that celebrates the ever-popular fourth Doctor Tom Baker. Along with an advance release of the classic adventure, Terror of the Zygons, (due to be released in full later this year), the set also includes a Fourth Doctor action figure, a sonic screwdriver, an audio version of Genesis of the Daleks, the novel Tomb of Valdemar by Simon 3 discs. Messingham and art cards. UK | 1975 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item# 72483 | RRP £89.99 | Out Now

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Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors Collection

Patrick Troughton. All six episodes, including two animated replacements, of the second Doctor’s 1967 adventure, which finds him on Earth in 3000 AD, in the middle of the second Ice Age. Also there is an Ice Warrior – an aggressive Martian reptile intent on colonising 2 discs; Commentary; Making-of. the Earth. UK | 1967 | 2ENT | 150 | Cert PG Item# 71748 | RRP £19.99 | 26th August

The White Queen: Series 1 Recommended Starring: James Frain, Janet McTeer, Max Irons, Amanda Hale, Rebecca Ferguson, James Frain Released: 19th August Extras: 4 discs; A Conversation with Philippa Gregory; The Making of The White Queen. Item# 72147 UK | 2013 | ANBAY | 600 | Cert 15

The BBC’s answer to Game of Thrones has no need for dragons: set in 1464, this ten-part adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s account of the Wars of the Roses features enough historical intrigue and fire-breathing drama without resorting to fantasy. Rebecca Ferguson plays Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful Lancastrian widow whose chance meeting with Edward IV leads to an unlikely marriage. This unexpected ascent of the White Queen causes a schism in The House of York between Edward and his scheming cousin, Lord Warwick. Fittingly, it’s the actresses who dominate: Janet McTeer is superb as Elizabeth’s mother and Ferguson is a serene presence as the central character. The ‘Kings and Queens’ school of history may have fallen out of fashion in the classroom, but retelling the Wars of the Roses from the perspective of the women involved brings fresh interest, and this big budget series strikes an engrossing balance between soap opera and epic saga. MW

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The Returned: Series 1 Recommended Starring: Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme, Céline Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Ana Girardot Released: 9th September Extras: 3 discs. Item# 72441 | France | 2012 | UPV | 480 | Cert TBC

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he boundaries between cinema and television grow ever more permeable. Back in 2004 – before scripting the superb The Class – Robin Campillo directed The Returned (Les Revenants), a restrained, chilling film that merged zombie movie with social realist tract. Its revenants were effectively shuffling metaphors, giving pause for thought whether you saw them as homesick migrants or avatars of our ageing population. The idea persisted, and last year, Fabrice Gobert developed the film into an eight-part TV series, recently showcased on the revitalised C4. The Returned retains Campillo’s philosophical tack. The setting is a small mountain community that occasions bleakly beautiful widescreen vistas, but also a sense of unbridgeable distance between characters, alive and undead. Each episode follows one revenant – again almost indistinguishable from the living – as they attempt the process of reintegration: the groom who finds his beloved has taken up with another, the once-identical twins separated by a fatal bus crash, the revived serial killer testing that maxim about the leopard and his spots. With Mogwai’s nocturnally sparse score heightening the atmosphere, The Returned

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A gripping and satsifyingly strange French TV series soon establishes itself, both visually and thematically, as a veritable vichyssoise of art-film influences. Some have spotted echoes of Lynch, and that gold standard Twin Peaks in particular (the teenage revenants are – (un)naturally – older than they appear), but there are equally traces of Roy Andersson (the droll humour; the tendency towards ominous, apocalyptic tableaux) and David Cronenberg (what’s with that nasty rash on young Lena’s back?) present in its DNA. The vein of weirdness that pulses most vividly, though, is all The Returned’s own: consider the illicit tryst-cum-séance in which a woman channels her male lover’s deceased daughter, or the spectacular suicide of an older resident, who seems to know instinctively where events are heading. The show’s horror, while comparatively muted, is recognisably human: even as more of the undead arrive, all the show’s characters seem to be isolated and lonely, in search not of brains, but lost time. Mike McCahill Page 21

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Television Educating Marmalade

Charlotte Coleman stars as irrepressible teenage terror Marmalade Atkins, with John Bird and Lynda Marchal (aka Lynda la Plante) as her parents. This set comprises all ten episodes of Andrew Davies’ popular series. Also included is the pilot episode, Marmalade Atkins in Space, first screened as part of the 2 discs. Theatre Box anthology in 1981.

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Girls: Season 2

All the episodes from the second season of the HBO comedy drama following the assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs in the lives of four very different twenty-something girls. The show’s creator Lena Dunham stars as Hannah, an aspiring writer living in Brooklyn who finds herself broke when her parents decide to cut off their financial support. Also available: 4 2 discs. disc seasons 1-2 box set. USA | 2013 | WHV | 300 | Cert 18 Item# Various | RRP £24.99 | 12th August

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Hannibal: Series 1

Created by Bryan Fuller (Heroes), this smart, deliciously dark first season of Hannibal explores the early relationship between the renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and a young FBI criminal profiler (Hugh Dancy) haunted by his ability to empathize with 4 discs. serial killers. USA | 2013 | STUDC | 540 | Cert TBC Item# 72098 / 72106 | RRP £29.99 | 2nd Sept

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Inspector George Gently: Series 5

Martin Shaw returns as Inspector George Gently for four more episodes set in a society on the cusp of change in the 1960s. Lee Ingleby is his ambitious, undisciplined sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus. Contains Gently Northern Soul, Gently with Class, The Lost Child and Gently in the Cathedral. Also available: 15 4 discs. disc series 1-5 box set.

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London: A Tale of Two Cities

Dan Cruickshank follows in the footsteps of John Stow and John Strype, two of London’s greatest chroniclers, to explore one of the most dramatic centuries in the history of London – the 17th, which saw the city plunged into civil war, plague and great fire, somehow not only surviving but emerging as one of the wealthiest and most influential cities in Europe. UK | 2013 | DIGCL | 50 | Cert E Item# 71947 | RRP £14.99 | 19th August

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Maison Close: Season 2

Series 2 of the French drama set in a Parisian brothel, ‘Le Paradis’, in the 1870s. The establishment is now collectively managed by its workers – Hortense (Valérie Karsenti), Véra (Anne Charrier) and Rose (Jemima West) – but the vice squad wants to put an end to their activities, leading the women to 2 discs. join forces with a gangster. France | 2013 | Arrow E1 | 425 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 71451 / 71452 | RRP £24.99 | 19th August

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The Mill

Ewan McGregor narrates this BBC SCotland documentary series about the wild animals living in the Hebrides. The programme follows otters, dolphins, eagles, seals and various other animals throughout a year, taking a look at the challenges they face in the harsh 2 discs. environment.

Drawing on the historical archive of the Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire and based on the actual lives of real people at the time, Channel 4’s powerful, factually-inspired period drama is set during the industrial revolution in 1833, and tells the story of the harsh lives of the 2 discs. young apprentices.

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Top of the Lake Recommended Director: Jane Campion / Garth Davis Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Lucy Lawless Released: 19th August Extras: 3 discs; Cast & crew interviews; Documentary: From the Bottom of the Lake. Item# 70765 Australia / UK | 2013 | 2ENT | 342 | Cert 15

The influence of moody, atmospheric Scandinavian crime drama is not just being felt in the UK, as this beautifully shot production from New Zealand demonstrates. Beginning (as in The Killing) with a troubled, endangered young girl, Jane Campion’s superbly acted drama soon moves into unexpected territory, as Elisabeth Moss’s singleminded detective (who has Sarah Lund-style issues with her mother) tries haplessly to fit into the community. But a pregnant young Chinese girl leads her into contact with a brutal clan (headed by Peter Mullan) and an eccentric feminist cult led by an autocratic Holly Hunter. Campion is as interested in gender politics as in the mystery, setting her male characters (almost all misogynists) against her psychologically vulnerable women – but clearly not all is as it seems. Performances here are nonpareil (notably Elizabeth Moss), but it is Campion’s sensitive use of the locale that strikes the viewer: the beautiful lakes and mountains against which dark deeds are happening. BF

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Edgar Wallace Presents Crossroads to Crime

Gerry Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feature film debut which includes the talents of his long-term collaborators George Murcell, David Graham and Barry Gray.

Ealing Rarities Vol. 5 four more rare ealing titles including Peter Finch in his favourite role in the shiralee and Maurice Chevalier and Margaret Lockwood in the beloved vagabond.

Victim Five former tarzan Lex Barker, Walter Rilla and Ronald Fraser star in this midsixties british thriller shot by Walkabout director Nic Roeg.

Death at Broadcasting House Ian Hunter and Jack Hawkins star in this tense 1935 whodunnit with scenes filmed at the bbCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then newly constructed london headquarters.

Three Hats for Lisa an exuberant and utterly irresistible musical romp set in swinging sixties london, starring Sophie Hardy, Sid James, Una Stubbs and Peter Bowles.

Murder without Crime the directorial debut of J. Lee Thompson who would later helm british movie classics ice Cold in alex and the Guns of navarone.

Link Chilling horror b-movie from cult director Richard Franklin starring Elizabeth Shue and oscar-nominee Terence Stamp.

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Television Peter Ackroyd’s Venice

Historian, journalist, and novelist Peter Ackroyd explores the architecture, art, music and theatre of Venice in this four-part series, based on his book Venice: Pure City. Contains The City as Architecture, The City as Art, The City as Music and The City as Theatre.

Their Finest Hour: Collection

Robert Powell narrates this series about the people, planes, context and consequences of the Battle of Britain. Contains the five episodes: Spitfire Pilot, Pilots of the Battle of Britain, Aircraft of the Battle of Britain, Opposing Genius and 7 discs. Civilian War.

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Quirke: Series 1

Based on the novels by Benjamin Black (the pen name of Irish writer John Banville), Quirke is a noir crime series set in 1950s Dublin, starring Gabriel Byrne in the title role of the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a loner whose job takes him into unexpected places as he uncovers the secrets of sudden death in 1950s Dublin. The three feature-length episodes take their stories from Christine Falls, 2 discs. The Silver Swan and Elegy for April. UK / Ireland | 2013 | 2ENT | 270 | Cert 12 Item# 72319 | RRP £19.99 | 9th September

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Channel 4’s four-part London-set urban drama series follows the intertwined lives of four characters: a single mother struggling to protect her family (Olivia Colman), an Asian immigrant forced into illegal trade to pay back the gang who smuggled her into the country, a drug addict on the mend and a Polish woman becoming ever more frus2 discs. trated with her lack of prospects. UK | 2013 | DELTA | 174 | Cert 15 Item# 72415 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Tales of the City / More Tales of the City Double-bill of miniseries based on the books by Armistead Maupin and following the adventures of naive country girl Mary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney), who arrives in San Francisco in 1976. Olympia Dukakis plays her exotic, free-thinking landlady Anna Madrigal.

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Season 3 of the influential Danish thriller, based on true criminal cases, that tells the story of a group of staunch crime experts from an elite unit within the Danish police force. Charlotte Fich plays a proto-Sarah Lund figure who battles against institutionalised sexism as well as underworld criminals.

Recommended Starring: John Slater, James Ellis, Geoffrey Whitehead, Geoffrey Hayes, Douglas Fielding Released: 2nd September Extras: 2 discs. Item# 72089 UK | 1972 | ACORN | 360 | Cert 12

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Z Cars: Collection One

Moving at a somewhat slower pace than the later The Sweeney or The Bill, Z Cars instead focused on creating convincing characters and situations and presenting an authentic, social-realist drama that was as much superior soap as it was police procedural. But the series’ influence on the ‘cop show’ cannot be overstated. Running neck-and-neck for well over a decade with its cosier contemporary, Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars’ penchant for casual realism paved the way for all the ‘gritty’ crime dramas that followed it. Looking back, it now seems gentler and simpler than its successors – the cases in this box set range from knock-off ciggies to a geriatric safebreaker – but the series’ intelligent handling of its working-class milieu remains pertinent, and the quality of the acting and writing, right down to the most minor characters, is above par. In its naivety, the BBC wiped or misplaced well over half of its episodes, but that still leaves more than 200 in the archives. This set contains six 50-minute episodes from the 1972 run. JU

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Beyond the Walls David Lambert

A film that charts an intense and overwhelming sexual relationship between two men, initially hesitant, who grow closer and experiment in an sensual world neither knows much about. Then their love is severely tested by dramatic and unforeseen events.

Idomeneo: Glyndebourne David Heather

Mozart’s opera Ideomeno, recorded during the 1974 Glyndebourne Festival Opera season. Principal performers include Leo Goeke, Richard Lewis and Josephine Barstow. John Pritchard conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus. UK | 1974 | ART-H | 125 | Cert E Item# 72330 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

Verdi Opera Selection: Vol 3 Contains the Verdi operas Un Ballo in Maschera recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 1990 with Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, La Forza del Destino from Florence’s Teatro Comunale in 2007 and La Traviata from La Scala in 4 discs. 2007.

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Animation Make Mine Music Clyde Geronimi

An episodic musical extravaganza that is a variant on Disney’s earlier Fantasia but instead uses the popular music of the mid-1940s. It’s bright, colourful and amusing light entertainment featuring Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman and more.

The Jungle Book W Reitherman

The last film Walt Disney worked on before his death, this adaptation of Kipling’s tale of the boy raised in the jungles of India is the perfect distillation of all that is great about Disney films. Alternative ending. USA | 1967 | WDHV | 75 | Cert U Item# 72360 / 72361 | RRP £17.99 | 5th August

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Starring: Mark Rylance, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Stephen Fry, Michael Brown, Paul Chahidi Released: 29th July Item# 72340 UK / Ireland | 2012 | OPUS | 176 | Cert E

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Twelfth Night: Globe Theatre

One of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was ‘blissfully reborn’ (The Daily Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London’s Globe Theatre where it was filmed live for this release. Its tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an all-male cast, including an outstanding Mark Rylance (Olivia) and Stephen Fry (Malvolio). Believing her twin brother Sebastian to have drowned after a shipwreck which she survives, the young Viola is stranded on a mysterious island. Disguising herself as a page, she enters the service of the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the beautiful Countess Olivia. But when, while delivering a letter, the Countess falls helplessly in love with the disguised messenger herself, Viola realises her problems have only just begun. Meanwhile, an annual night of feasting is being enjoyed by Olivia’s roguish cousin Sir Toby Belch, who, with Olivia’s suitor, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, is scheming to embarrass the pompous steward Malvolio. Excellent period music and superb costumes round out the production of this sold-out show.

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Cal

Christian Martin The sequel to the hit 2009 film, Shank, Cal finds him returning home to Bristol from France after receiving news that his mother is ill. Now openly gay, Cal clashes with his homophobic mother and alcoholic, predatory aunt, but things start to turn around when he meets a cute young student who needs his help. UK | 2013 | TLAUK | 89 | Cert 18 Item# 71334 | RRP £15.99 | 9th September

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Speechless

Simon Chung A gay Chinese drama, made ‘underground’ in the country, in which a mysterious Westerner who appears on a riverbank in a remote part of China is taken to the local hospital, where he develops an intimate bond with a nurse who tries to piece together his identity. Hong Kong / China | 2012 | TLAUK | 92 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 71788 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

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Tumbledown Todd Verow

An emotional rollercoaster ride, inspired by true events, through the dark side of sexuality. A complicated love triangle develops after hunky Jay meets bartender Nick and invites him to spend the weekend with him and his partner in their country cabin. Soon, copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol lead to a dark obsession and even darker complications. USA | 2013 | TLAUK | 79 | Cert 18 Item# 71983 | RRP £15.99 | 26th August

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Medieval Film &TV Inspired by The White Queen (p20), we invite you to step back in time and enjoy thrilling adventures from the Medieval age. Lasting 10 centuries, the Middle Ages saw empires rise and fall in spectacular fashion, providing a vivid historical backdrop for the films featured here. Whether dealing with royalty or the lives of ordinary people, the setting is a marked contrast to our softer times and makes for great cinema. So, muddy your boots and saddle up for 18 of the best.

The Pillars of the Earth

The War Lord

Pier Paolo Pasolini Uninhibited, extravagant, brazen and bawdy, this first film in Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’ (followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights) adapts ten stories by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.

Ken Follett’s best-selling historical novel is brought to life in this starfilled, critically-acclaimed mini series which, amid the political turmoil of 12th century England, chronicles the building of a cathedral. 3 discs.

One of the finest historical adventure films ever made, dramatising with uncommon intelligence and integrity the brutality, difficulties and injustices of the Middle Ages. Charlton Heston stars.

Item# 66877 Italy | 1970 | 107 | subt | 18 | £19.99

Item# 69626 Canada / Germany | 2010 | 428 | 15 | £17.99

Item# 62165 USA | 1965 | 116 | PG | £15.99

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Arthur of the Britons

Knights of the Teutonic Order

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Dir: Aleksander Ford. An epic Polish saga in which a man’s family is tormented by Teutonic Knights.

Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer. An intensely powerful depiction of spiritual grace, this is one of the great works of art.

Item# 29128 Poland | 1960 | 165 | PG | £12.99

Item# Various 1927 | 97 | B&W | £17.99

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Les Visiteurs

Richard III

Dir: Jean-Marie Poiré. Monty Python meets Blackadder in this timetravelling comedy. One of the most successful French films ever made.

Dir: Laurence Olivier. Olivier stars. Noël Coward described his role as the greatest male performance he had ever seen. 2 discs.

Oliver Tobias stars in this quality ITV series that re-imagined the Arthurian legend as historical fact. Contains both series. 4 discs. Item# 52911 UK | 1972-1973 | 600 | PG | £39.99

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The Black Shield of Falworth Dir: Rudolph Maté. A Technicolor saga of jousts, jests and heroism with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

Franklin J. Schaffner

Item# 5029 France | 1993 | 105 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 26715 UK | 1955 | 152 | U | £14.99

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Francesco Giullare di Dio

Macbeth

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

Item# 56233 / 59737 USA | 1954 | 95 | PG | £15.99

Dir: Roberto Rossellini. A tableau of episodes from the life of the people’s saint. A wonderfully fresh, simple film. Item# 21698 Italy | 1950 | 90 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

Dir: Roman Polanski. A fast, bloody and accessible Macbeth. Jon Finch takes the lead, Francesca Annis plays his wicked wife. Item# 11453 UK | 1971 | 134 | 15 | £19.99

Éric Rohmer’s final film, set among the lovelorn nymphs and shepherds of ancient Gaul. Item# 56410 France | 2007 | 106 | subt | 12 | £19.99

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Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2: Globe Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

The Seventh Seal

Dir: Fred Zinnemann. A six Oscarwinner in which Sir Thomas More stands up to King Henry VIII, who seeks approval for divorce.

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Bergman’s iconic allegory of Man’s search for meaning in which a knight plays a game of chess with Death.

Both parts, available separately, of Shakespeare’s drama filmed at the Globe Theatre. Jamie Parker stars.

Item# 32625 UK | 1966 | 115 | U | £12.99

Item# 50782 Sweden | 1957 | 92 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Ivanhoe

Marketa Lazarová

Dir: Douglas Camfield. A great cast, impressive costumes, pageantry and scenery make this the best adaptation of Walter Scott’s tale.

Dir: Frantisek Vlácil. Set in the 13th century, this multi-layered medieval epic is a stunning work of cinema. Voted best Czech film ever made.

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Item# 58552 UK | 1982 | 137 | PG | £14.99

Item# 32128 Czechoslovakia | 1967 | 173 | subt | 15 | £12.99

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Dir: Terence Fisher. Richard Greene reprises his role as Robin Hood. Peter Cushing is the wicked Sheriff. Item# 58130 UK | 1960 | 76 | PG | £5.99

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The Decameron

Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present Iron Man 3

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Shane Black Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the billionaire industrialist / armoured superhero. When his personal life comes under attack he sets out to discover who is responsible and comes face to face with his villainous arch enemy, The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley).

The Adjuster Atom Egoyan

A multi-award winning and multiple-stranded story of sex, life and personal worth that confirmed Egoyan as a major director. Elias Koteas stars as its main character, an amoral and exploitative insurance adjuster. Canada | 1991 | ART-E | 102 | 18 Item# 71797 / 71798 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

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Alexander Singer

1970s Western starring Lee van Cleef as an Apache in the Union Army charged with investigating a murder. His main clue is the riddle in the man’s final words, ‘April morning’, but his trail leads him into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Al Viola

Atom Egoyan

Canadian writer/director Atom Egoyan continues his examination of morality in his steamy thriller set in the ‘Exotica’ nightclub, where a pet shop owner is drawn into the sordid life of the club’s star stripper. The perilous nature of sexual love, the seduction of voyeurism and the ideology of the family all come under Egoyan’s penetrative gaze. Canada | 1994 | ART-E | 100 | Cert 18 Item# 71971 / 71972 | RRP £15.99 | 26th August

Adam Leon

A pair of aspiring teenage graffiti artists attempt to get even with a rival gang in this likeable, exuberant account of life on the streets of New York. First though they have to raise some cash, and embark on a two-day fundraising odyssey across town. USA | 2012 | SODAelev | 79 | Cert 15 Item# 72279 | RRP £17.99 | 2nd September

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Mr Forbush and the Penguins

Exotica

Gimme the Loot

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Inspired by research on violence among apes, this chilling fantasy stars Elisabeth Shue as a student who finds herself imprisoned in a simian house of horror when when her mentor (Terence Stamp) – a professor studying the link between man and ape, disappears suddenly.

Captain Apache

Epic Equine Adventures

John Hurt takes the title role in this study of a man’s journey to selfdiscovery in the frozen isolation of Antarctica. Hayley Mills and Dudley Sutton co-star, the script is from Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth, The Wicker Man) and wildlife sequences wre shot by multi-awardwinning filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff. UK | 1971 | NWORK | 98 | Cert PG Item# 72104 | RRP £9.99 | 9th September

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Mud

Jeff Nichols An involving, glowinglylensed rite of passage drama set on the Mississippi, where two boys come across the boat-dwelling Mud (Matthew McConaughey) who promises to let the boys have the vessel if they help him reunite with his lost love (Reese Witherspoon). Then the boys realise that Mud is a wanted man. USA | 2012 | E1 | 130 | Cert 12 Item# 72346 / 72347 | RRP £15.99 | 2nd Sept

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The Horsemen John Frankenheimer John Frankenheimer (The Train, The Manchurian Candidate), travelled to Afghanistan for this spare, spectacular 1971 film, adapted by Dalton Trumbo from the book of the same name by Joseph Kessells, about the ancient and incredibly dangerous horseback sport of Buzkashi, a sort of anarchic and vastly extended form of polo, but with a headless goat carcass instead of a ball. Omar Sharif plays Uraz, a man trying to forge his own identity in his father’s shadow (Jack Palance), the greatest horseman in Afghanistan. After injuring his leg during an important tournament, which he loses, Uraz sets out on a dangerous path to self-discovery, and to reclaim honour in his father’s eyes. There’s no better chance to see a traditional Afghanistan, unscarred by war. Item# 71479 USA | 1971 | 109 | £12.99

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The Wind and the Lion John Milius Sean Connery stars in this sweeping adventure film in the style of Lawrence of Arabia. The setting is Morocco in 1904, where an American woman (Candice Bergen), and her two children are kidnapped by ‘the last of the Barbary Pirates’ (Connery) and his followers, who are seeking restitution for a long political imprisonment. In Washington, dynamic young President Teddy Roosevelt uses the incident to send in American marines, both to rescue the family, and influence the country’s politics. However, privately, Roosevelt develops a sneaking regard for her captor. Albeit from a time of cruder geopolitics, this is four square storytelling of the type at which John Milius excelled. Item# 71521 USA | 1975 | 118 | PG | £12.99

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Nowhere

Gregg Araki

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The third in Gregg Araki’s ‘Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy’ (after Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation), Nowhere (‘a Beverly Hills, 90210 episode on acid’ said its director) is a tale of feckless, disaffected high schoolers, lust, angst – and extraterrestrial Director and cast commentary.

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Oblivion

Joseph Kosinski Tom Cruise stars in this sci-fi blockbuster as an ex-soldier stripping resources from a battleruined future Earth, where he discovers a group of humans surviving beneath the rubble. His curiosity sets in motion a chain of events that leads him to question everything he has been told. USA | 2012 | UPV | 126 | Cert 12 Item# 72158 / 72159 | RRP £19.99 | 19th August

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The Sex Thief

Martin Campbell

A riotous 1973 British sex comedy that was the directing debut of Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale). David Warbeck plays the dashing cat burglar who is the talk of London – but Diane Keen’s insurance investigator and Michael Armstrong’s breastobsessed policeman are hot on his trail. UK | 1973 | ODEON | 89 | Cert 18 Item# 72049 | RRP £12.99 | 19th August

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Simon Killer

Antonio Campos

A disturbing character study of a handsome sociopathic American in Paris, where he takes solace in the company of a beautiful, young and mysterious prostitute. A compelling examination of casual brutality, profane sexuality and alienation. The Last 15: Campos’s Palme d’Or nominated short film; Interviews. USA / France | 2012 | EUREK | 101 | Cert 18 Item# 70755 / 70758 | RRP £17.99 | 26th August

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Spring Breakers Harmony Korine

A black comedy from Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) about four US college girls who get drawn into a blingdriven world of drugs and violence after they hold up a restaurant with toy guns and head south for some fun in the sun. USA | 2012 | UPV | 93 | Cert 18 Item# 71934 / 71935 | RRP £19.99 | 12th August

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Star Trek Into Darkness J.J. Abrams

The sequel to the 2009 spin-off of the classic 1960s sci-fi series. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the USS Enterprise are called back to Earth after a force from within their organisation leaves the planet in chaos and Starfleet in pieces. Determined to settle the score, Kirk embarks on a manhunt with Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) to bring the responsible party to justice. USA | 2012 | PARAH | 132 | Cert 12 Item# 72522 / 72523 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd Sept

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Richard Linklater

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Compliance Craig Zobel

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Olympus Has Fallen Antoine Fuqua

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Phantom

Todd Robinson

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Scum

Alan Clarke

Item# 72336 UK | 1979 | 97 | 18 | £22.99

The Look of Love Recommended Director: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton, Chris Addison, Anna Friel Released: 19th August Extras: Deleted Scenes; Interviews. Item# 72014 UK / USA | 2013 | STUDC | 101 | Cert 18

Long-time collaborators Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom re-unite to chart the life and times of Paul Raymond, from his humble beginnings as unremarkable end-ofthe-pier entertainer Geoffrey Quinn to his enduring reign as Soho’s premier porn baron. Coogan plays it pretty straight – although, even played straight, there’s a lot about the garish Raymond that’s irresistibly amusing – and succeeds in fleshing out this larger-than-life character with surprising sensitivity. He’s helped immeasurably by Imogen Poots in a standout performance as his daughter, Tamsin Egerton as his sassy trophy girlfriend, Fiona Richmond, and Chris Addison in full throttle as the unapologetic editor of Raymond’s top-shelf mag, Men Only. The film’s recreation of 1970s-80s Soho is eye-catching, and with Coogan and Winterbottom at the helm, you can also expect a few mischievous, unconventional touches that lift proceedings above the standard showbiz biopic. JU

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Blockbuster Bombs

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’m writing this in the middle of Blockbuster season, the time of year when the film studios unleash their biggest, loudest and usually dumbest films with the intention of scaring up as much profit as possible from the sensationseeking audience. But as I cast a rueful eye down the upcoming cinema releases, I spy a couple of surprises amongst the robots and super-heroes. Both are re-issues: no surprise there; digital screenings mean that many newly restored films strut their stuff at cinemas before arriving on Blu-ray / DVD. But these are titles renowned less for their cinematic merits than the backstage turbulence in which they were forged. The first is Cleopatra. No, not the Cecil B DeMille one (although that’s well worth grabbing) but the elephantine Liz Taylor / Richard Burton production. It was (and probably still is) the most expensive film ever made, suffering manifold problems that sent the budget soaring skywards. And yet, at the end of all these calamities, a movie was produced. Perhaps the re-release allows us to focus on that rather than the catastrophes of creation. That goes double for the second re-release, Heaven’s Gate. For some, it’s a less a film than a cautionary tale for Hollywood – a hot director (Michael Cimino, fresh from The Deer Hunter) decides to become a perfectionist; a weak studio can’t shut him down and are ultimately bankrupted. The moral that Hollywood took was to play it ever safer, resulting in the production line cinema we have to-day. However, Heaven’s Gate has always had its defenders and, over the years, has become ever more acclaimed, to the point where it’s almost regarded as a minor classic. For myself, I think this

Are these high profile Hollywood flops really as bad as ‘everyone’ says? is over-generous: the film’s editing was rushed and I think this shows. But it’s plainly a serious and committed film and, if nothing else, a profoundly beautiful one: the money’s right up there on the screen. Both Cleopatra and Heaven’s Gate are lucky. Few box office bombs get a second look, let alone a reappraisal. But I find myself wondering if this is fair: after all, a great many other famous money losers are actually pretty good. Duel in the Sun was the Cleopatra of its era; all that’s been forgotten and we’re left with a glorious, hysterical melodrama. King of Comedy might have been a commercial dud but it’s an artistic triumph. And this makes me wonder what other films, tainted by the financial mark of Cain might be worth seeking out: can Ishtar really be as bad as ‘everyone’ says? I have a friend who raves about the much-disdained John Carter and his enthusiasm is

persuasive; after all, I’m mystified why Hudson Hawk – a witty caper film – is regarded as a disaster, unless people are judging it by what it earned rather than what it’s like. As it happens, our two re-releases have re-surfaced at an interesting time: Hollywood is enjoying, at the time of writing, a dismal summer, with a number of high-profile flops. This leads me to one final point: both Cleopatra and Heaven’s Gate changed the way Hollywood did business. Could it be we’re only one big flop away from a similar sea-change and the era of the big, loud, dumb popcorn flick might finally come to an end? Dear God, I hope so.

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Love is All You Need Susanne Bier’s charming, subversive romantic comedy See page 5 for our full review

Love is All You Need Susanne Bier An uplifting tale of love, loss and the birth pangs of starting out on a new life, Love is All You Need was filmed in beautiful locations in Italy and Denmark and stars Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm (‘the Danish Helen Mirren’) as a couple who meet on the way to their offsprings’ wedding. Directed by Susanne Bier – who won an Oscar for In a Better World – this is an expertly crafted film to satisfy both multiplex and arthouse audiences. Item# 71837 Denmark / Italy | 2012 | 116 | subt | 15 | £17.99

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