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brilliant poster designer and fine artist, an innovative and influential animator and a unique filmmaker who gave full rein to his unbridled imagination, Walerian Borowczyk was a one-off. This month, one of the films we’ve been asked for many times, Borowczyk’s Blanche, is finally seeing the light of day, along with some of his other works, including a toothsome round-up of many of his rare short films. His achievements – bringing an artist and animator’s eye to bear on his live-action films, for which he also created many of the props – have been obscured by people getting hung-up on the sexual content of some of his films

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World Cinema like The Beast and Immoral Tales, though here too, his artist’s eye and wit is fully in evidence. There’s much more to Borowczyk than hearsay would have you believe, and thanks to Arrow’s superb releases, we can now all see the full picture. Enjoy your films,

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A comedy set in 1920s Europe, Wes Anderson’s latest is pure, magical cinema. Leading an all-star cast, Ralph Fiennes plays the hotel concierge who finds himself on the run with his loyal lobby boy after he is framed for a crime. Item# 74485 USA | 2014 | 100 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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uch is the quality of two of the films on this latest Ealing offering there is a danger that Maurice Elvey’s The Water Gipsies (1932) and James Flood’s The Lonely Road (1936) might get overlooked. Adapted from an AP Herbert novel, the former tale of a boatman’s daughter (Ann Todd) hedging her bets between a haughty artist, a Communist firebrand and a tongue-tied bargee was much admired in its day, while Clive Brook’s naval commander makes a suitably dashing hero as he stumbles across some gun runners in a lively reworking of a Nevil Shute bestseller. Clive Brook played Sherlock Holmes three times on screen, but he was never as popular as Arthur Wontner, who returns to 221B Baker Street for the third of his five cases in Graham Cutts’s The Sign of Four (1932). This tense telling sticks quite closely to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story about skullduggery in India and some mysterious pearls. But, once Holmes is summoned by Mary Morstan, Wontner ably captures the egotistical eccentricity of the master sleuth, while also demonstrating his pugnacity. Cutts, who was quite a name in

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A fine quartet boasting Sherlock Holmes and George Formby the late silent era, stages the action sequences with a solid sense of place and pace, while refusing to shy away from the seedier aspects of Victorian London. Completing the quartet is Feather Your Nest (1937), a forgotten George Formby vehicle that should never have been allowed to lapse into obscurity. Formby works alongside Polly Ward at the Monarch Gramophone Company. But, when he accidentally breaks the master disc of a crooner’s latest recording, Formby substitutes his own version of ‘Leaning on a Lampost’ and hopes that no one notices the difference – until it becomes a hit. In his fourth screen outing and his last in his dimwitted ‘John Willie’ persona, Formby road tests his cheeky chappie guise and sparks charmingly with Ward, whose landlady mother is certain she could do better. Formby would hit greater heights, but this is a real find. David Parkinson Page 15

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An influence on the works of Terry Gilliam and The Brothers Quay, and considered by many to be Borowczyk’s masterpiece, this is a startlingly original fantasy set on an island with arcane rules, where a petty thief works his way up the hierarchy to the melancholic dictator (Pierre Brasseur) and his beautiful wife (Ligia Branice). A live-action film that draws heavily on Borowczyk’s work as an 2 discs; Restored; Introduction by animator. Craigie Horsfield; The Concentration Universe / The Profligate Door documentaries; Booklet. France | 1969 | ARROW | 90 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 75132 | RRP £19.99 | 18th August

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A warm, witty and likeable French comedy that comes across like a Gallic version of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s The Trip. Lambert Wilson plays the TV heart-throb who attempts to lure a reclusive actor (Fabrice Luchini) into a comeback with a production of Molière’s The Misanthrope. France | 2013 | ART-E | 105 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74696 | RRP £15.99 | 25th August

Amat Escalante In his third film exploring modern Mexican society, Amat Escalante looks unflinchingly at the country’s escalating drug wars and their impact on one family, who get caught up in a murderous world of drug cartels and corrupt police. Stark, shocking and strikingly photographed. Mexico | 2013 | NWORK | 105 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 75046 / 75047 | RRP £12.99 | 25th August

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Mr. Nomura is a sharply dressed, sociopathic serial killer who preys on Tokyo women; Bayu is a world-weary Indonesian journalist who falls into vigilantism. When each posts videos of their acts online, they are locked into a toxic internet duel.

Blanche Recommended Director: Walerian Borowczyk Starring: Ligia Branice, Michel Simon Released: 8th September Extras: 2 discs; Restored from original 35mm elements; Introduction by Leslie Megahey; Ballad of Imprisonment documentary; Archival Borowczyk interview; Gunpoint: documentary short produced by Borowczyk; Booklet. Item# 75129 France | 1971 | ARROW | 93 | subt | Cert 18

One of the great European art films, Blanche has been bafflingly unavailable since the VHS era. Now looking resplendent in a brand new restoration, Walerian Borowczyk’s third feature is one of the most memorable evocations of the medieval era ever captured on film. It’s a profoundly human tragedy that packs a sledgehammer punch. As her name suggests, Blanche (an ineffably haunting performance by Borowczyk’s wife Ligia Branice) is the personification of innocence: when her vastly older husband (cinema legend Michel Simon in one of his final roles) forces her to swear on Christ’s wounds that she’s not harbouring a man in her chamber, that’s what she sincerely believes – although we know differently. With its practically two-dimensional staging, Blanche’s world is as alien as anything in one of Borowczyk’s more fantastical films. He was his own art director and props designer on the film, and controls every single element with the skill of the fine artist and animator he also was. MB

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Walerian Borowczyk: Short Films and Animation Recommended Contains: The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal (1967), Astronauts (1959), Grandmother’s Encyclopaedia (1963), The Concert (1962), Renaissance (1963), Angels’ Games (1964), Joachim’s Dictionary (1965), Rosalie (1966), Gavotte (1967), Diptych (1967), The Phonograph (1969), The Greatest Love of All Time 1978), Scherzo Infernal (1984) Released: 8th September Extras: 2 discs; Restored; Introduction by Terry Gilliam; Documentary about Borowczyk’s animated work; Visual essay about Borowczyk’s paper works; Three commercials; Booklet. Item# 75134 | France | 1967 | ARROW | subt | Cert 18

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ears before Terry Gilliam, the Quay Brothers and Jan Švankmajer first picked up a camera, the brilliant Polish fine artist, lithographer and poster designer Walerian Borowczyk upended the world of animation with a series of wildly imaginative short films and one full-length animated feature, most made within a decade. This selection includes almost all the shorts that he made after emigrating to France in 1959, from the playful Chris Marker collaboration Astronauts (1959) to the bacchanalian Scherzo Infernal (1984). We also meet the Kabals, robotic wife and pudgy voyeur husband, who get a short (The Concert) and a feature (Theatre of Mr & Mrs Kabal) to themselves. Some films are grotesquely funny – Astronauts, the Kabal films, Grandma’s Encyclopaedia, Joachim’s Dictionary – but two broke new ground in their uncanny potency. In Renaissance, a virtuoso display of stopreverse-motion, objects eerily reassemble themselves, while Angels’ Games, arguably Borowczyk’s supreme masterpiece, ranks alongside the canvases of Goya or Francis Bacon in its vivid tracking of a journey into

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A wildly imaginative set of films from the brilliant Polish artist a living hell. In 1966, Borowczyk turned to live action. Rosalie gave his wife Ligia Branice her first substantial role, as a seduced, abandoned peasant girl. Gavotte is a riotously funny, wildly non-PC vision of life from the viewpoint of dwarf servants at Louis XV’s court. Diptych contrasts grainy documentary realism with unnervingly stylised perfection, while The Greatest Love of All Time is a wordless profile of fellow artist Ljuba. As a bonus, there are also three commercials that Borowczyk made as bread-and-butter jobs, including Holy Smoke! – a ten-minute cut-out animated cigar ad that anticipates Monty Python by half a decade. To anyone who only knows Borowczyk’s sexually explicit live-action features, these films will be a revelation – and even those who have seen them in scratched and faded prints will feel much the same about these brand new restorations. M Brooke Page 17

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Jimmy Edwards takes his characteristic role of the devious, cane-brandishing headmaster in this comedy based on the enormously popular television and radio sitcom, Whack-O!.

A revisionist western adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel. Paul Newman stars as the white man raised by Apaches who becomes his fellow stagecoach passengers’ hope for survival after an ambush.

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in Frear’s affecting and heartfelt tale, based on a true story, about a mother’s search for the child who was taken from her by the Catholic Church years before.

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55 Days at Peking

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Captain Phillips

Dir: Nicholas Ray. A visually impressive and intelligent epic starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven.

Dir: JBL Noel. The remarkable official film record of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine’s legendary Everest expedition of 1924.

Dir: Paul Greengrass. Tom Hanks stars in this thriller based on the real life hijacking of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates.

Item# 73906 / 73901 USA | 1963 | 147 | U | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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Museum Hours

Dir: Lionel Jeffries. A supernatural mystery in which children move to a derelict mansion in the country.

Dir: Muriel Box. Harry H. Corbett stars in this tale of romance between a football fan and a prostitute.

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Dir: Nicholas Ray. An exemplary youth picture starring James Dean as the troubled new kid in town. Item# 212 USA | 1955 | 111 | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Dir: Jem Cohen. A beautifully reflective drama about the developing friendship between an attendant and a visitor to a Vienna art gallery. Item# 73453 Austria | 2012 | 107 | subt | 12 | £17.99 | P&P £1.50

Dir: Ron Howard. An F1 drama about the rivalry between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) in the 1976 season. Item# 73269 / 73270 USA | 2013 | 122 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Cat Girl

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Dir: Jack Lee. An ‘Australian Western’ that reunited Peter Finch and Jack Lee following their success with A Town Like Alice.

Dir: John Lee Hancock. Emma Thompson excels in this film about Walt Disney’s attempt to gain the rights to PL Travers’ Mary Poppins.

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Dead of Night

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Dir: Montgomery Tully. A cult 1960s sci-fi gem in which scientists are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a flying saucer.

Dir: Dexter Fletcher. A jubilant musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and love, based on the music of The Proclaimers.

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A bespectacled 58 year-old divorcee is determined to go on feeling, dancing and living in this remarkable film which sees her brave the Santiago dating scene, getting more involving with every minute.

A rebellious and enterprising young girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves in this transgressive coming-of-age story from a female Saudi Arabian director.

A literate, touching and occasionally horrifying psychosexual version of Mary Shelley’s novel, adapted for the screen by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.

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The Bridge

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The gripping Scandinavian crime drama that begins with a body found across the Swedish/Danish border.

Dir: Yuzo Kawashima. A perennial favourite in Japan, this raucous ensemble comedy paints a richly funny portrait of Japanese society.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s swansong, a dreamlike and typically controversial adaptation of Jean Genet’s novel.

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Death Comes to Pemberley

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Three Films by Sergei Loznitsa

Dir: Daniel Percival. An enjoyable BBC period murder mystery based on Jane Austen’s characters.

Dir: Sergei Paradjanov. A dreamlike masterpiece about the 18th century Armenian poet, Sayat Nova.

Three documentaries from the director of In the Fog: Landscape, 2 discs. Blockade and Revue.

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The Norman Conquests

The Complete Films of Sadao Yamanaka

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Dir: Herbert Wise. Thames TV’s adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant comic trilogy. 2 discs.

Contains Tange Sazen: The Million Ryo Pot, Humanity & Paper Balloons and Kochiyama Soshun. 2 discs.

Dir: Jacques Demy. Catherine Deneuve stars in this glorious feast of colour and song. 2 discs.

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A Year in Provence

Jeune & Jolie

El Bola

Dir: David Tucker. The complete, original broadcast version of the BBC series based on Peter Mayle’s book about life in Provence. 2 discs.

Dir: François Ozon. A provocative drama which follows a year in the life of a beautiful 17 year-old girl who becomes an escort.

Dir: Achero Mañas. A powerful Spanish childhood drama about a boy from a violent home introduced to a life without fear by a friend.

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The Witnesses

Dir: Jan Švankmajer. The lunatics really have taken over the asylum in this dark tribute to Edgar Allen Poe and the Marquis de Sade.

Dir: André Téchiné. An unplanned love affair upsets a couple’s ordered lives in this moving drama about the early days of AIDS.

Item# 68206 Czech Republic | 2005 | 114 | subt | 18 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 52415 France | 2007 | 115 | subt | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Item# 73745 USA | 1973 | 149 | 12 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Six full-length cases from the prequel series to Inspector Montalbano. Michele Riondino takes the lead. Item# 72036 Italy | 2012 | 600 | subt | 15 | £24.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Beast Walerian Borowczyk Borowczyk’s notorious film, an outrageously witty exploration of the coupling of a beauty and a beast. 2 discs; Restored; Introduction; Borowczyk shorts: The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan (1972) and Venus on the Half-Shell (1975); Making-of; Visual essay, Booklet. France | 1975 | ARROW | 94 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74797 | RRP £19.99 | 18th August

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Rabid Dogs / Kidnapped

A Touch of Sin Recommended Director: Jia Zhangke

Mario Bava

Released: 8th September

Unfolding in real time, a device unheard of in Italian cinema at the time, Rabid Dogs is one of the greatest Italian crime films of the period. Contains two versions of the film: Rabid Dogs – Bava’s original, completed posthumously from his notes, and Kidnapped – the re-edited, re-dubbed and re-scored version, supervised by Bava’s son. 2 discs; Commentary; Making-of; Booklet.

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Smart Ass

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Stray Cat Rock Collection

Yasuhara Hasebe & Toshiya Fujita

Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) began her reign as the badass action queen of the era in these five wild tales of rebellious youth: Delinquent Girl Boss (1971), Wild Jumbo (1970), Sex Hunter (1970), Machine Animal (1970) and Beat 71 (1971). A delirious mash-up of girl gangs, sex and rock 5 discs; Limited Edition; Booklet. and roll. Japan | 1970-71 | ARROW | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74798 | RRP £34.99 | 8th September

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As a state-of-the-nation address detailing a China in the grip of a rapacious capitalism, A Touch of Sin, Best Screenplay winner at Cannes, could scarcely be more forceful. Starting in the mountains, then working inwards towards the city, the film’s four tales – about a mineworker, a labourer, a woman who takes a job in a ‘love hotel’ and a security worker at an upmarket brothel – dissect the rottenness that seemingly permeates Chinese life. These characters occasionally cross paths, but what really links the segments is a commonplace, dogeat-dog violence, shot in an utterly idiosyncratic fashion: more Gus van Sant in Elephant than Tarantino in Kill Bill, this vengeance is flatly, dispassionately framed as the very last, thin drops of a dish served entirely cold. It sounds the definition of a tough watch, yet there’s something hugely impressive in the way the film flows and progresses, gathering, with each new set of predations and degradations, a strengthened dramatic and moral force. So far, A Touch of Sin has gone unreleased in China; I mean it as the highest possible compliment when I say you can see exactly why. MM

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WWI Film Collection Four films about WWI made by the stateowned East German film company, DEFA, founded in 1946. Contains The Kaiser’s Lackey (Wolfgang Staudte, 1951) – a biting historical satire based on Heinrich Mann’s novel, Der Untertan, and ranked by film critics among the 100 most significant German films of all time; The Girls in Gingham (Kurt Maetzig, 1946) – a moving saga focusing on three generations of women and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII; Farewell (Egon Günther, 1968) – a controversial film about a man who refuses to go to war when called up in 1914, and When Martin Was Fourteen (Walter Beck, 1964), a film based around events surrounding the reactionary 1920 Kapp Putsch. Item# 75065 UK | 1946-64 | 399 | B&W | E | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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WWI Commemorative Collection A limited edition 10-film set containing the four films detailed above, plus As Long As There’s Life In Me (Günter Reisch, 1965) and In Spite of Everything (Reisch, 1971) – a two-part WWI-spanning biopic of left-wing revolutionary and virulent antimilitarist Karl Liebknecht; The Sailor’s Song (Maetzig & Reisch, 1958) – an epic work about the German Revolution of 1918-19; the beautifully crafted The Woman and the Stranger (Rainer Simon, 1984), Wolz: Life and Illusion of a German Anarchist (Günter Reisch, 1973) – a comedy based on the autobiography of the radical communist Max Hoelz, and Käthe Kollwitz: Pictures from Her Life (Kirsten, 1986). Item# 75066 UK | 1946-86 | 1047 | E | £99.99 | P&P £1.50

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Tartan Film Sale Spanning cinema from Asia, Scandinavia, Russia, France and Australia, this sale from the revived DVD publisher Tartan includes mesmerising romances, spine-tingling horror, stylish underworld thrillers, WWII romps, family epics and much more. Sergei Eisenstein: Historical Epics

Wild Strawberries

Benjamin Christensen An audacious, darkly humorous, genre-defying silent-era ‘documentary’ about witches and hysteria, plus Witchcraft Through the Ages, the 1968 version of Häxan, narrated by William Burroughs.

Contains Alexander Nevsky (1938), Ivan the Terrible (1944) & Ivan the Terrible Part 2: The Boyars’ Plot, plus the remnants of Bezhin Meadow (1937) – one of the great lost films. 3 discs.

In one of Bergman’s warmest films, Victor Sjöström plays an elderly professor who journeys to collect an award, en route reliving his past through nightmares, dreams and memories.

Item# 70291 Denmark | 1922 | 104 | B&W | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 62332 Russia | 1937-58 | 336 | subt | TBC | £59.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 9331 Sweden | 1957 | 87 | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Ages of Lulu

Fanny and Alexander

The Pornographer

Dir: Bigas Luna. Francesca Neri stars as the woman looking for kinky thrills in Madrid’s dangerous sexual underground.

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. ‘The sum total of my life as a filmmaker,’ said Bergman of this masterfully realised, opulent family saga.

Dir: Bertrand Bonello. A complex and provocative film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the 70s pornographer who returns to the industry.

Item# 12077 Spain | 1990 | 96 | subt | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 69901 Sweden | 1982 | 180 | subt | 15 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 11393 France | 2001 | 110 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Bangkok Dangerous

Ivans xtc

The Proposition

Dir: Oxide & Danny Pang. A detached Bangkok hitman falls in love with a deaf-mute woman in this stylish Pang brothers original.

Dir: Bernard Rose. This modern-day interpretation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a delicious exposé of Hollywood’s seemy side.

Dir: John Hillcoat. A beautifully shot western set in the Australian outback, with a screenplay from Nick Cave. Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone star.

Item# 70630 Thailand | 1999 | 102 | subt | 18 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 14092 USA | 2000 | 91 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 70574 Australia / UK | 2005 | 100 | 18 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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Black Book

Labyrinth of Passion

A Snake of June

Dir: Paul Verhoeven. WWII drama filled with rip-roaring action, intrigue, dastardly villains, gorgeous dames, betrayal, lust and greed.

Dir: Pedro Almodóvar. A thoroughly unpredictable, kaleidoscopic, screwball cinematic trip. Cecilia Roth stars as nymphomaniac Sexilia.

Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto. A deliriously perverse film in which a metal fetishist sets about exposing a couple’s suppressed sexuality.

Item# 33298 Netherlands | 2006 | 145 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 33592 Spain | 1982 | 100 | subt | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 16180 Japan | 2002 | 77 | subt | 18 | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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Brother

The Magician

Le Souffle

Dir: Aleksei Balabanov. A Chechen veteran becomes a mafia hitman in this examination of the consequences of war on a generation of Russians.

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand and Ingrid Thulin star in this richly layered tale of travelling theatrical hoaxers.

Dir: Damien Odoul. A beautifully photographed but unsettling tale of a boy’s experiences on his uncle’s remote Limousin farm.

Item# 14201 Russia | 1997 | 96 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 8483 Sweden | 1958 | 100 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 16670 FRANCE | 2002 | 75 | B&W | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Les Clefs de Bagnole

Persona

Vendredi Soir

Dir: Laurent Baffie. A slapstick romp about looking for your car keys, featuring a whole host of cameos from French cinematic royalty.

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann play the patient and the nurse whose personalities blend and blur in bizarre osmosis.

Dir: Claire Denis. A visually seductive portrayal of a one-night stand that begins one rainy night in a monstrous Parisian traffic jam.

Item# 23243 France | 2003 | 91 | subt | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 70280 Sweden | 1966 | 80 | subt | B&W | 15 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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World Cinema

Silent

François Truffaut

Extraordinary silent classics When I Saw You Recommended

The Soft Skin Described by François Truffaut as a tale of ‘a truly modern love; it takes place in planes, elevators and has all the harassments of modern life’, The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce) is a forensic account of infidelity among the jet set, detailing an affair between ‘public intellectual’ Pierre (Jean Desailly) and airline stewardess Nicole (Françoise Dorléac), who arouses his interest when she changes out of her work shoes into sexy, slingback pumps. When his wife learns of the furtive relationship, things begin to unravel. Truffaut uses the thriller genre to gild everyday objects with significance, and George Delerue’s soundtrack brings a noirish tension to otherwise innocuous scenes. Pierre’s drift into calamity is hypnotic, and Truffaut’s touch was never so assured as it is here. NR Restored. Item# 74684 / 74685 Fra | 1964 | 113 | sub | 12 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Stolen Kisses Aka Baisers Volés. This second feature-length instalment in Truffaut’s chronicle of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) shows him still prone to going AWOL, as he did at the end of The 400 Blows. When he is dismissed from the army as unfit, he drifts through a series of jobs at which he proves comically inept. He struggles to commit to his on-off girlfriend (Claude Jade) and develops a powerful crush on an older woman. But his overriding problem is one of identity: he can’t seem to figure out who he is or where he fits. There is a supporting cast of randy misfits and comfy squares, including the brilliant Michael Lonsdale as a humourless stiff bemused by his lack of popularity, but it’s the boyishly charming Léaud who is the story’s heart. NR Restored. Item# 74701 / 74702 Fra | 1968 | 87 | sub | 15 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Director: Annemarie Jacir Starring: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal Released: 25th August Item# 74686 Palestine | 2012 | NW | 98 | subt | Cert 12

This is a good moment for Middle Eastern cinema. Under the cover of a tense thriller, the upcoming Omar conveys something of the everyday lives of those obliged to navigate today’s Occupied Territories; for the time being, we have some wider historical context, courtesy of the accessible, engaging When I Saw You, set in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan circa 1967. Jacir views her young protagonist Tarek as a product of circumstance, a young boy whose identity is, like much else in this part of the world, under construction and subject to violent revision. Kicked out of the camp’s makeshift school for sassing his teacher, he finds his interest piqued by the groups of refugees heading into the surrounding hills – a dusty, alien landscape that, in offering both promise and threat, serves as an analogue for adulthood itself. This quietly promising feature chooses telling means of making its points about the Palestinian experience. In doing so, it reveals freedom fighting as a subculture as seductive and potentially as fatal, as – to come closer to home – the Modlife of Quadrophenia or This is England. MM

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Faust FW Murnau Murnau’s 1926 version of the Faust legend – the evergreen tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil – features astonishing photography, magnificent art direction and special effects which still retain the power to amaze. With Murnau freed from the constraints of psychological narrative, his mastery of cinematic technique places the film at the pinnacle of the silent era, with its barrage of visceral and apocryphal imagery contrasting with the simplicity and directness of its spiritual theme. Emil Jannings stars as Mephisto, Gösta Ekman the elderly professor whose soul he wagers he can corrupt. Reconstructed and restored; Audio Commentary by critics David Ehrenstein and Bill Krohn; 20-minute video piece on the film by Tony Rayns; 40-page booklet. Item# 74757 Ger | 1926 | 107 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Frau im Mond Fritz Lang The first feature-length film to portray space exploration in a serious manner, Lang’s Frau im Mond – based on the novel of the same name by his then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou – is the culmination of his silent cinema. Combining espionage tale, serial melodrama and comicbook sci-fi into a delirious storyline that sees a wicked cartel of spies hijacking an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite’s hoped-for stores of gold, this is wildly enjoyable cinema. 2 discs; Restored by the FW Murnau-Stiftung; The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film (Gabriele Jacobi, 15 mins): a German documentary about Frau im Mond; 36-page booklet. Item# 74998 Germany | 1929 | 170 | U | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Crime Novels on Film

Crime novels form the cold heart of many of cinema’s most compelling films. With The Two Faces of January, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, reviewed this issue (page 5), we present a sale of gripping films drawn from the works of celebrated authors including Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Umberto Eco, Cormac McCarthy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Name of the Rose

Sherlock Holmes Box Set

Strangers on a Train

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The definitive collection of the 14 restored Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce-era Sherlock Holmes films, from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) to Terror by Night (1946). 7 discs.

Alfred Hitchcock

Item# 19272 USA | 1986 | 123 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 21024 UK | 1939-46 | 974 | B&W | PG | £49.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 6863 USA | 1951 | 96 | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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23 Paces to Baker Street

The Glass Key

The Maltese Falcon

Dir: Stuart Heisler. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in this entertaining whodunit, adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel.

Dir: John Huston. Ruthless characters in a corrupt and cynical world search for a bejewelled bird in this adaptation from Dashiell Hammett.

Dir: Henry Hathaway. An adaptation of Philip MacDonald’s novel about a blind man investigating a crime.

Patricia Highsmith finds her perfect match in this dark film about exchanging murder plots. Hitchcock revels in the film’s premise and cranks up the tension.

Item# 32360 USA | 1942 | 85 | B&W | PG | £9.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 366 USA | 1941 | 99 | B&W | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Angel Heart

High and Low

An adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s Faustian detective novel ‘Falling Angel’, starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.

Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Adapted from an Ed McBain novel and with Hitchcock lurking in the shadows, Kurosawa takes on film noir.

Murder on the Orient Express

Item# 55105 USA | 1987 | 109 | 18 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 21619 Japan | 1963 | 143 | subt | B&W | 12 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Big Sleep

The Killer Inside Me

Dir: Howard Hawks. An essential noir, with Bogie/Bacall magic and electric dialogue from Raymond Chandler and William Faulkner.

Dir: Michael Winterbottom. A graphically violent thriller, adapted from Jim Thompson’s pulp novel about a brutal sheriff.

Item# 6230 USA | 1946 | 110 | B&W | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 62789 USA | 2010 | 109 | 18 | £17.99 | P&P £1.50

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La Cérémonie

LA Confidential

White Mischief

Dir: Claude Chabrol. Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire play the duo up to no good in this celebrated Ruth Rendell adaptation.

Dir: Curtis Hanson. This adaptation of James Ellroy’s corrosively violent novel is one of the best modern film noirs since Chinatown.

Dir: Michael Radford. An elegant adaptation of James Fox’s journal of trysts and murder in a British colony in Kenya during WWII.

Item# 68204 / 68636 Fra | 1995 | 108 | sub | 15 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 3165 / 71198 USA | 1996 | 132 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 60036 UK | 1988 | 103 | 18 | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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Gaslight

The Long Goodbye

Dir: Thorold Dickinson. One of the great British thrillers, based on Patrick Hamilton’s celebrated stage play of psychological manipulation.

Dir: Robert Altman. A radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel, filtered through Altman’s rambling sensibilities. Elliott Gould stars.

Witness for the Prosecution

Item# 72584 UK | 1940 | 85 | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 71430 / 73217 USA | 1973 | 107 | 18 | £9.99 | P&P £1.50

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Dir: Sidney Lumet. An all-star cast is employed to perfection in Agatha Christie’s classic whodunnit. Item# 52509 UK | 1974 | 122 | PG | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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No Country for Old Men The Coen brothers’ stripped-down and suspenseful chase thriller, based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Item# 54152 / 55310 USA | 2007 | 118 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Dir: Billy Wilder. A splendid courtroom drama based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Charles Laughton stars. Item# 70504 | 1957 | 112 | B&W | U | £9.99 | P&P £1.50

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Sean Connery dons a cassock to play a Franciscan sleuth Sir William of Baskerville in this highly entertaining adaptation of Umberto Eco’s highbrow whodunnit.

Television Programmes Originally Broadcast

Coast: Series 9

New Releases Great War Diaries Jan Peter

Caught up in the middle of the chaos of the 1914-18 war were millions of ordinary people whose lives were changed in ways they could never have imagined; these are their stories, with scenes from their lives re-enacted and intertwined, resulting in poignant untold 4 discs. histories of the First World War. Germany / France / Canada | 2014 | 2ENT | 420 | Cert 15 Item# 74992 | RRP £24.99 | 25th August

Our DVD Price: £17.99 An enthralling new crime drama starring James Spader as former government agent and criminal mastermind Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington, who surrenders to the FBI with an incredible offer: he’ll talk – but only to a rookie profiler (Megan Boone). 6 discs.

Season four of the HBO drama set during the Prohibition era, starring Steve Buscemi as a bootlegger who, in this series, comes up against a West Indian immigrant (Jeffrey Wright) looking to take his 4 discs. Also share. available: 16 disc seasons 1-4 box set.

Originally broadcast in black and white in 1971 as part of the BBC’s ‘Look and Read’ strand, this long-unseen programme follows siblings who try to track down their alien friend Peep-Peep after he is kidnapped by the terrifying Thin Space Man. 2 discs.

UK | 1971-80 | BFI | 200 | Cert PG Item# 75025 | RRP £22.99 | 25th August

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Elementary: Season 2

Boardwalk Empire: Season 4

The Boy from Space

Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan, Janet McTeer, Andrew Buchan Released: 1st September Extras: 3 discs. Item# 74756 UK / USA | 2014 | 2ENT | 480 | Cert 15

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The complete season two of the contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes, here played by Jonny Lee Miller, who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD where he is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes’ wealthy father to help keep the 6 discs. eccentric detective sober.

USA | 2013 | PARAH | 990 | Cert 15 Item# 74915 | RRP £34.99 | 25th August

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Foyle’s War: 1939-1941 / 1942-45 Two volumes of ITV’s wartime drama series starring Michael Kitchen as the dogged DCS Foyle, fighting against murder, mystery and betrayal on the south coast. 1939-41 contains the 12 episodes from series 1-3, 1942-45 contains the 10 episodes 5/6 discs. from series 4-6.

The Honourable Woman Recommended

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More than three decades after Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking series, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, A Spacetime Odyssey was developed to bring back a foundation of science to network television. The 13 part series is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The Blacklist

USA | 2013 | WHV | Cert 18 Item# Various | RRP £39.99 | 18th August

The ninth series of the popular BBC programme exploring the nature and history of all 9,000 miles of the British coastline. Experts including Neil Oliver, Nicholas Crane, Ruth Goodman and Miranda Krestovnikoff comment on issues as diverse as the clandestine sex trade that scandalised Victorian Britain, how Greenwich became the global centre of sea navigation and what becomes of our coastline 2 discs. in the winter months.

After the writer Hugo Blick made such an impact with BBC2 drama The Shadow Line, expectations were high for his next project, The Honourable Woman – expectations both fulfilled and surpassed. However, it isn’t just Blick’s writing and directing which has been gleaning kudos, but the remarkable performance of Maggie Gyllenhall as Nessa, a woman who inherits her father’s arms business and finds herself out of her depth when she attempts to effect good relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. An arresting opening – the murder of her father – is followed 29 years later with the now-ennobled Nessa telling an audience how she has reinvigorated her father’s trade. The fact that this opening speech is delivered with such authority is a reminder of just how good an actress Gyllenhall is; with an impeccable English accent, she brilliantly conveys the mixture of vulnerability and tensile strength in her conflicted character, and as revelations ensue, the effect is mesmerising. The impressive supporting cast includes Steven Rea as a dishevelled MI6 chief. BF

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1990s

TV Sale

This was the decade when the boundaries between large and small screens began to blur, where production values and casting were kicked into the big league. Across the Atlantic, the long-form narrative began to thrive with The Sopranos, while in the UK, brilliant writers crafted unique stories, costume dramas continued to enthrall and the BBC boldly took on an epic of the North.

Our Friends in the North

Peter Hall

Simon Cellan Jones

Classic Cornish-set adaptation of Mary Wesley’s novel in which the coming of war brings a sense of freedom to five cousins. Stars Jennifer Ehle and Tara Fitzgerald.

The most ambitious drama on 1990s British TV. Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston are two of the four friends we follow across four decades. 3 discs.

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The West Wing Mirroring real-world events, this brilliant political series follows the life and times of President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his White House staffers. A liberal fantasy to soothe the Bush years, its political machinations were rarely less than compelling. Item# Various USA | 1999-2006 | 6720 | 15 | £99.99 | P&P £1.50

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All Creatures Great and Small: Complete

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

All 91 episodes of the BBC series based on James Herriot’s autobio33 discs. graphical bestsellers.

Leonard Rossiter plays the senior sales executive longing for escape. 3 discs. The complete series.

Item# 72838 UK | 1990 | 4550 | PG | £129.99 | P&P £1.50

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As Time Goes By

GBH

Middlemarch

All nine series of the romantic sitcom that shows it’s never too late to kindle love’s flames. Judi Dench stars with Geoffrey Palmer.

Dir: Robert Young. Brilliantly scripted by Alan Bleasdale, GBH crosses the fates of an ambitious politician and a much loved headmaster. 4 discs.

George Eliot’s towering masterpiece brought to life with great performances and a terrific sense of place. 2 discs.

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Item# 28844 UK | 1991 | 595 | 15 | £29.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 67452 UK | 1993 | 375 | PG | £10.20 | P&P £1.50

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The Blackheath Poisonings

House of Cards: The Trilogy (Remastered)

Sharpe: Complete

A suspenseful Victorian murder mystery with a cast including Ian McNeice and Zoë Wanamaker.

All three series of the popular political BBC drama: House of Cards, To Play the King, The Final Cut. 3 discs.

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The Castle

The Kingdom: I & II

Shooting the Past

Dir: Michael Haneke. Haneke meets Kafka in an unmissable adaptation. Documentary on Haneke: 24 Realities a Second (2005)

Lars von Trier’s weird, otherworldly TV series of uncanny goings-on in an ultra-modern Danish hospital. Like nothing else. 4 discs.

Dir: Stephen Poliakoff. A vast photographic library is under threat from a US property developer who doesn’t recognise its value. 2 discs.

Item# 69571 Germany / Austria | 1997 | 123 | 12 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 65541 Denmark | 1996 | 573 | subt | 18 | £39.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Last of the Summer Wine: Series 13-20

The Sopranos

Dir: Josée Dayan. Gérard Depardieu takes the lead in this French miniseries, adaptated from Dumas.

Classic Yorkshire comedy with Compo, Clegg and Foggy. Series 13-20 available in two-series sets.

Item# 55243 France | 1998 | 360 | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# Various UK | 1990s | £24.99 | P&P £1.50

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Maigret: Complete Michael Gambon takes the lead as George Simenon’s intuitive, pipesmoking French detective. All 12 episodes. 4 discs. Item# 50280 UK | 1992-1993 | 620 | 15 | £29.99 | P&P £1.50

The complete series based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels and starring Sean Bean. An all-time 15 discs. great series. Item# 55689 / 62978 UK | 1993-97 | 15 | £99.99 | P&P £1.50

With marvellous performances and cracking scripts, this modern day morality tale about a New Jersey mob boss is supreme television. Item# Various USA | 1999 | 696 | 18 | £59.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Camomile Lawn

Television Homeland: Series 3

The third season of the US political thriller – based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War – opens in the aftermath of the horrific terror attack that decimated the US intelligence apparatus and prompted a global hunt for Nick Brody (Damian Lewis). Carrie (Claire Danes) is swept up in the media firestorm. 4 discs; Also available: 12 disc complete seasons 1-3 box set.

Masters of Sex: Season 1

Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan star in this smart and stylish first series of the US series based on the lives of Dr William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who conducted pioneering research into the nature of human sexual attraction from the 1950s onwards. As their project progresses, the line begins to blur between their personal and professional 4 discs. interests.

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Inspector George Gently: Series 1-6

Out of Town: The Lost Episodes – Volumes 1-3

All 19 episodes from the first six series of the 1960s-set crime drama starring Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently and Lee Ingleby as his ambitious and undisciplined sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus, whose investigations reveal the underbelly of a society on the cusp of 19 discs; Behind the Scenes. change. UK | 2014 | ACORN | 1729 | Cert 15 Item# 75062 | RRP £119.99 | 4th August

UK | 1980-81 | DELTA | 98 | Cert E Item# 74952 | RRP £5.99 | 25th August

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The complete second and third seasons of the US drama, based on the Danish TV series of the same name, following the aftermath of the murder of teenager Rosie Larsen in Seattle. At the end of season one Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos), thought the crime was solved, but a 4 discs; telephone call changes everything. Also available: 11 disc seasons 1-3 box set. USA / Canada | 2012 | MEDRA | Cert 15 Item# Various | RRP £29.99 | 1st September

Little Miss: Complete All 13 episodes of the original series, broadcast in 1983, based on the characters created by Roger Hargreaves and narrated by John Alderton and Pauline Collins. The Little Misses include Tiny, Splendid, Late, Plump, Naughty, Scatterbrain, Sunshine and Shy.

UK | 1983 | DELTA | 100 | Cert U Item# 74804 | RRP £5.99 | 28th July

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The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track

With unprecedented access to Network Rail, train companies and the British Transport Police, this candid six-part series goes behind the scenes and gets to know the people who battle to keep Britain’s railways 2 discs. moving.

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The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads London life consists of 23 million journeys a day, and this character-driven series introduces us to those whose job it is to keep the city moving. Seeing the city through their eyes is a revelation, showing that getting London’s overcrowded roads to work as well as they do is an everyday miracle.

Recommended Director: Claude Whatham

Three volumes of Jack Hargreaves’ gentle insights into country life, which now form a valuable record of rural life in a bygone Britain. Vol 1: Coarse Fishing and seven other films; Vol 2: Gean Tree Furniture and seven other films; Vol 3: Heavy Horses and seven other films. Broadcast on Southern TV in 1980-81.

The Killing (US): Season 2 / 3

Cider with Rosie Starring: Rosemary Leach, Helen Thornhill Released: 1st September Item# 74820 UK | 1971 | DAZZL | 95 | Cert PG

First broadcast in 1971 as a BBC2 treat for Christmas Day, this TV version of Laurie Lee’s timeless memoir of a rustic Cotswolds childhood splendidly captures both the blissful isolation and the harsh realities of English village life between the wars. Claude Whatham’s film was one of the BBC’s first feature-length 16mm productions in colour, and it still stands up as a visual experience. Peter Bartlett’s handsome photography and Eileen Diss’s thoughtful production design are vital to translating the creamy prose to a series of scenes evoking ramshackle but homely poverty, endless summer days and the treacherous excitement of sexual awakening. Screenwriter Hugh Whitemore is faithful to the book’s episodic, loosely chronological structure and retains its little gems of dialogue – from the family’s chatter around the kitchen table on long, radio-less evenings to the stream of insults that passes between their feuding neighbours, Granny Trill and Granny Wallon – while Rosemary Leach stands out as the Lees’ gently wistful matriarch. A very fine adaptation of a very fine book. JU

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August 2014 MovieMail Film Catalogue

Gay & Lesbian Stage Scarlett

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John Erman The complete 1994 miniseries loosely based on the sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Joanne Whalley plays Scarlett, Timothy Dalton, Rhett and the supporting cast includes Ann-Margret, Sean Bean and John Gielgud. 2 discs. UK / USA | 1994 | FAB-F | 360 | Cert 15 Item# 75147 | RRP £29.99 | 11th August

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Sergeant Bilko: Complete

It was originally called You’ll Never Get Rich and later The Phil Silvers Show, but to its fans it’s known simply as Bilko, the name of one of the small screen’s great comedy characters. Contains every episode from the classic 1950s series starring Phil Silvers as the crafty, work20 discs; shy Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko. Over 2 hours of bonus extras; Booklet. USA | 1955-59 | MEDRA | 4290 | Cert PG Item# 74404 | RRP £124.99 | 1st September

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The Underground

Made with unique access to London Underground, this series takes us to places we’ve always wanted to see – behind hoardings, inside the command centre and into the hidden world of the Tube at night, as a ten billion pound upgrade drags the Victorian 2 discs. infrastructure into the 21st century. UK | 2014 | DELTA | 300 | Cert E Item# 74966 | RRP £15.99 | 25th August

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Z Cars: Collection Two

Z Cars captures a time of old-school policing when coppers were leaving the beat for fast-paced response vehicles – the Z-Cars of the title. The series was also innovative in reflecting a changing time for the police men and women themselves, engaging with their own personal crises and their impact on the force. Contains six colour episodes from 1972: Witness, Takes All Sorts, Sins of the Father, 2 discs. Damage, Day Trip, Public Relations. UK | 1972 | ACORN | 334 | Cert PG Item# 74794 | RRP £19.99 | 28th July

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Ariadne auf Naxos: Glyndebourne Katharina Thoma

Tom at the Farm Recommended Director: Xavier Dolan

Richard Strauss’s comedy transposed to a country house in the South Downs immediately before and during WWII, where it becomes a touching wartime drama of nurses, invalids and airmen. Recorded live at Glyndebourne in 2013.

Starring: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal

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Reining in the flamboyance that had characterised his ‘impossible love’ trilogy, Xavier Dolan exhibits surprising maturity for a twentysomething wunderkind with this adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Brouchard. Echoes of Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock and Claude Chabrol reverberate around this study of bourgeois mores in provincial Quebec, as Dolan attends the funeral of his closeted boyfriend and finds himself trapped between a highly strung mother and an intimidating brother, whose seething homophobia may be a dangerous front. Dolan keeps the focus firmly on prejudice and hypocrisy as he seeks to overcome the barriers preventing his escape. Moreover, he sustains the suspense by allowing André Turpin’s camera to rove around confined spaces and wide-open expanses to the accompaniment of a Gabriel Yared score that invokes the spirit of Bernard Herrmann. The tinkering with the aspect ratio is a little gimmicky, but Dolan demonstrates his control of his medium by deftly dialling down the stylistic exuberance to reflect his character’s growing circumspection. DP

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Gluck: 300 Years

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Mowgli: Moscow Classic Ballet

Recorded live at the Kremlin Ballet Theatre in Moscow, 2009, Alexander Prior’s spectacular dance show – composed when he was 13 – features the Moscow Classical Ballet and the New Opera Orchestra. Choreography comes from Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Wunderkind: a documentary about Vasilyov. Alexander Prior by Marianna Kaat. Russia | 2009 | ART-H | 90 | Cert E Item# 75091 / 75093 | RRP £24.99 | 28th July

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NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage Jeremy Whelehan

A fascinating film that follows Kevin Spacey and his theatre troupe as they perform Shakespeare’s Richard III across three continents, their experiences weaving around excerpts from the play as staged in locations from Epidaurus to Doha. USA | 2014 | KALHE | 97 | Cert 15 Item# 75089 | RRP £17.99 | 21st July

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

Now It Can Be Told

New Releases British Transport Films Collections 1-4

Four collections of classic British Transport Films from the BFI. Volume 1: A Future on Rail contains all the titles from the first three volumes of previously released double-disc BTF sets: On and Off the Rails, See Britain by Train and Running a Railway; Volume 2: Railways for Ever contains the titles included on volumes 4-6: Reshaping British Railways, Off the Beaten Track and The Art of Travel; Volume 3: Discovering Railways contains volumes 7-9: The Age of the Train, Points and Aspects and Just the Ticket, and Volume 4: Going Places Fast contains volumes 10-12: London on the Move, Experiment Under London and The Driving 6 discs each; Digitally remastered; Force. Booklets with extensive film notes. UK | 1951-75 | BFI | 747 | Cert E Item# Various | RRP £29.99 | 25th August

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For No Good Reason ‘When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.’ A documentary about British cartoonist Ralph Steadman, best known for his work with journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Depp, a longtime friend of Thompson, meets Ralph to discuss his artwork, and the film includes archive footage of Ralph and Thompson. UK / USA | 2012 | SodaElev | 85 | Cert 15 Item# 74989 | RRP £17.99 | 8th September

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The Great War in Colour in Art and Photography

Even though the technology existed to produce colour at the time, most of the surviving films and photographs of the Great War were shot in black and white. Advances in technology have allowed historians to revisit these amazing images and present them in colour. Also featured In the film are the rare images produced by pioneers of colour photography at work on both sides of the lines.

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Originally produced as a public information film but not screened until 1946 (as School for Danger) this film studies the invaluable work carried out during World War II by SOE agents, trained to assist resistance groups. The film depicts the actual procedures and locations used in agent training. UK | 1944 | SIMP | 68 | Cert PG Item# 74940 | RRP £12.99 | 28th July

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Royal Cavalcade

Monthly Highlights The Beast

Walerian Borowczyk

Item# 74797 France | 1975 | 94 | subt | 18 | £19.99

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Blanche

Walerian Borowczyk

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Blue Ruin

Jeremy Saulnier

Item# 74845 USA | 2013 | 90 | 15 | £19.99

Norman Lee

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Combining newsreel footage and dramatised re-enactments and boasting some of the era’s most popular stage and screen stars, this rare documentary feature, made in celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, tells the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign through the travels of a penny minted in the year of his accession.

Faust

UK | 1935 | NWORK | 101 | Cert U Item# 74763 | RRP £9.99 | 8th September

Charlie Paul

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Edward Baird

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The Square

Jehane Noujaim

An Oscar-nominated documentary about the events of the Egyptian Revolution. Although the effects of the uprising are still rippling throughout Egypt and the wider Arab world, The Square focuses on events during 2011-12 and follows a number of the protesters while they fight for their vision of democracy. Egypt / USA | 2013 | KALHE | 108 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74991 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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Visitors

Godfrey Reggio Thirty years after Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio has created another entrancing wordless portrait of modern life, again set to music by Philip Glass and open to interpretations. We watch as people and animals – in slow motion and black and white – stare directly back at us. USA | 2013 | MET-D | 88 | Cert U Item# 74830 / 74815 | RRP £17.99 | 21st July

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F.W. Murnau

Item# 74757 Germany | 1926 | 107 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Frau Im Mond Fritz Lang

Item# 74998 Ger | 1929 | 170 | U | £19.99

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Richard III

Laurence Olivier

Item# 74571 UK | 1955 | 150 | U | £14.99

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Tom at the Farm Xavier Dolan

Item# 74617 Canada | 2013 | 103 | subt | 15 | £14.99

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A Touch of Sin Jia Zhangke

Item# 75114 China | 2013 | 130 | subt | 15 | £15.99

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Tracks

John Curran

Item# 74860 Australia | 2013 | 113 | 12 | £17.99

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The Two Faces of January Hossein Amini

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Walerian Borowczyk: Short Films and Animation Item# 75134 France | 1967 | subt | 18 | £19.99

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Shakespeare Film Sale

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players... Unquestionably the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, Shakespeare has provided rich material for many superb films. We present a sale of very well known productions of the playwright’s work alongside hidden gems you may not have seen. All are at bargain prices, so head out onto the stage and prepare to be dazzled. Trevor Nunn Nunn’s acclaimed theatrical production of Shakespeare’s tragedy stars Ian McKellen as the titular monarch and Frances Barber, Monica Dolan and Romola Garai as his three daughters. Item# 56431 UK | 2008 | 175 | 12 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Laurence Olivier Shakespeare Collection Five decades of Olivier on film: As You Like It (1936), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1955), The Merchant of Venice (1974) and King Lear (1983). 7 discs. Item# 50230 UK | 1936-1983 | 716 | 15 | £79.99 | P&P £1.50

Othello (1964) Stuart Burge This film of John Dexter’s production at the National Theatre with Laurence Olivier masterfully captures the intimacy and excitement of theatre. Maggie Smith plays Desdemona. Item# 14490 UK | 1964 | 166 | U | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Banquet

Macbeth (1978)

Richard III

Dir: Feng Xiaogang. An historical epic about court intrigue in China’s Five Dynasties period, loosely based on Hamlet.

Dir: Philip Casson. Trevor Nunn’s 1978 stage production with the RSC, starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench on a circular set.

Dir: Laurence Olivier. Noel Coward described Olivier’s Richard as the greatest male performance he had ever witnessed. See what he meant.

Item# 57053 China | 2006 | 126 | 15 | £5.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 18090 UK | 1978 | 146 | PG | £5.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream

Macbeth (2010)

The Tempest (1979)

Dir: Rupert Goold. Patrick Stewart stars in this visceral film set in an undefined and threatening central European world.

Dir: Derek Jarman. Flamboyant, erotic and full of punk attitude, this is one of the most unconventional adaptations of Shakespeare.

Item# 64942 / 64945 UK | 2010 | 180 | 12 | £17.99 | P&P £1.50

Item# 16224 UK | 1979 | 91 + 27 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Merchant of Venice

The Tempest (2010)

Dir: Christine Edzard. Children with no prior acting experience perform. Item# 30751 UK | 2001 | 113 | U | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Coriolanus Dir: Ralph Fiennes. A powerful adaptation. Both Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave, as the hero’s mother, are excellent. Item# 67972 / 67973 UK | 2011 | 123 | 15 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Hamlet (1948) Dir: Laurence Olivier. A five Oscarwinning film, with Olivier’s central performance both haunting and intriguing. Definitive. Item# 4364 UK | 1948 | 155 | B&W | U | £9.99 | P&P £1.50

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Dir: Michael Radford. One of the best recent adaptations, with compelling performances from Irons and Pacino. Item# 21723 UK / USA | 2004 | 131 | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Dir: Julie Taymor. Helen Mirren stars as the gender-changed sorceress Prospera in this ambitious big-screen version from Julie Taymor. Item# 66947 USA | 2010 | 106 | 12 | £11.99 | P&P £1.50

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Much Ado About Nothing

Throne of Blood

Dir: Kenneth Branagh. A star-filled rendition of the romantic comedy. A genuine feelgood experience. Item# 3872 / 73401 UK | 1993 | 106 | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

Dir: Akira Kurosawa. The Bard’s evocation of 10th century Scotland is brilliantly re-imagined as late 15th century Japan. Toshiro Mifune stars. Item# 8684 Japan | 1957 | 104 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Hamlet (1990)

My Own Private Idaho

Twelfth Night (1988)

Dir: Franco Zeffirelli. Mel Gibson takes the lead and is ably backed by an excellent supporting cast, including Alan Bates and Paul Scofield.

Dir: Gus Van Sant. River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves play the friends in this indie film loosely based on Henry IV, Parts 1 &t 2 and Henry V.

Dir: Kenneth Branagh. The acclaimed Renaissance Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Richard Briers is Malvolio.

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King Lear

The Two Faces of January

Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

The Love Punch

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Jeremy Saulnier A mysterious outsider who lives out of his bulletridden Pontiac embarks on a deadly game of retribution after learning that the man responsible for his parents’ deaths is to be released from prison. His quest turns him from victim into killer. USA | 2013 | 4DVD | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 74848 / 74845 | RRP £19.99 | 8th Sept

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Joel Hopkins

A breezy heist caper starring Pierce Brosnan as a middle-aged company man who, on his last day at work, learns that his pension fund has been stolen. With his ex-wife (Emma Thompson) and friends (Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie) he sets out for France to try and get it back from his embezzling boss. France | 2013 | E1 | 94 | Cert 12 Item# 74890 / 74893 | RRP £17.99 | 18th August

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Mr Morgan’s Last Love Sandra Nettlebeck

Deconstructing Harry Woody Allen

Suffering from writer’s block while eagerly awaiting a writing award, neurotic writer Harry Block (Allen) recalls events from his past and scenes from his bestselling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him. Harry’s existential roadtrip pays homage to Bergman’s Wild Strawberries. USA | 1998 | KALHE | 96 | Cert 18 Item# 74728 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

A comedy-drama from the director of Mostly Martha. From the day Pauline (Clemence Poésy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the weary Matthew Morgan (Michael Caine) stumbles back to happiness. Swept off his old feet by her vitality and unwavering optimism, the quiet teacher becomes an unlikely student of living. Belgium / France / Germany | 2013 | Arrow E1 | 116 | Cert 12 Item# 74983 | RRP £12.99 | 1st September

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Ransom

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Everyone Says I Love You

Caspar Wrede Sean Connery gives a powerful performance as a Scandinavian security chief battling to thwart the plans of a terrorist leader (Ian McShane). Beautifully photographed by Sven Nykvist, this atmospheric thriller takes us on a tightly-plotted, relentless race against time.

Woody Allen

Allen’s highly successful venture into the musical comedy. Taking in Manhattan, Venice and Paris, the film is romantic, nostalgic and energetically and enthusiastically performed by the customarily superb Allen cast. A delight from start to finish. USA | 1996 | KALHE | 101 | Cert 12 Item# 74715 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Forever Love

Aka Tar. An evocative road trip through poet CK Williams’ life, in which 11 directors present short films based upon 11 of his autobiographical poems, with the film taking us on a journey from CK’s childhood in Detroit in the 1940s to the early 1980s. USA | 2012 | SIGNA | 90 | 15 Item# 74850 | RRP £14.99 | 8th September

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UK | 1975 | NWORK | 89 | Cert PG Item# 74556 / 74559 | RRP £9.99 | 1st Sept

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Resurrection Daniel Petrie

A story of love and devotion in which Ellen Burstyn delivers a tourde-force performance as a woman who returns to life after clinical death with the ability to heal others. She attributes her powers solely to love, but a zealous young farmer (Sam Shepard) tries to persuade her that her powers come from God. USA | 1980 | ODEON | 108 | Cert 15 Item# 74880 | RRP £12.99 | 1st September

Mia Wasikowska is extraordinarily compelling in this story of a singular, epic journey, based on the book by Robyn Davidson, who in the 1970s embarked alone on an arduous trek across Australia’s forbidding Western Desert to the Indian Ocean – 1700 miles – with four camels and a dog. A headstrong loner with complex reasons for undertaking such a challenge, she resents all intrusions, but ungraciously submits to being photographed on her quest by an enthusiastic National Geographic photographer since she needs the magazine’s sponsorship. En route she encounters variously kind or obnoxious strangers and some amused and bemused Aborigines, one of whom, Mr Eddy, volunteers guidance through sacred lands. It goes without saying that the beautiful and extreme landscapes make a handsome travelogue, but John Curran (The Painted Veil) cannily slips in dreamlike sequences, nicely-judged sprinklings of romance, comedy, adversity, heartache, exultation and camel wrangling tips, all held together by Wasikowska’s intent, involving character study. AE

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Shock

Transcendence

Michael Ninn

Wally Pfister

The sequel to Michael Ninn’s Latex is just as incredible in its mixture of visuals and sex. It focuses once more on Malcolm Stevens (Jon Dough), whose subconscious is being probed by scientists. The deeper they go the more perverse the fantasies they unleash. USA | 1996 | SALV | 72 | Cert 18 Item# 75164 | RRP £12.99 | 26th August

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Some Velvet Morning Neil LaBute

An astute portrait of a modern romance from Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men). Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives at the doorstep of his mistress (Alice Eve) after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence turns into obsession. USA | 2013 | COL-T | 84 | Cert TBC Item# 75009 | RRP £12.99 | 8th September

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Sunstruck

James Gilbert

A light-hearted family drama starring Harry Secombe as a Welsh schoolteacher and choirmaster who emigrates to Australia to ‘teach in the sun’ – but finds reality falls somewhat short of the blissful image on the recruiting poster. Shot in New South Wales, the film co-stars John Meillon and Derek Nimmo. Australia / UK | 1972 | NWORK | 88 | Cert U Item# 74635 | RRP £9.99 | 4th August

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A Thousand Times Good Night Erik Poppe

The award-winning story of a photojournalist (Juliette Binoche) who is torn between a passion for her dangerous job and her loving but worried family. The film was directed by Erik Poppe, who drew on his own experiences from his years as a wartime photographer for Reuters. Norway / Ireland / Sweden | 2013 | Arrow E1 | 117 | Cert 15 Item# 74655 / 74656 | RRP £14.99 | 1st Sept

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A sci-fi thriller that marks the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister, best known for his work with Christopher Nolan. Johnny Depp stars as a pioneering scientist in the area of artificial intelligence whose mind is embedded in a computer after his earthly body dies.

Locke Recommended Director: Steven Knight Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman Released: 25th August Item# 74673 USA / UK | 2013 | LGATE | 85 | Cert 15

One man. In a car. On his handsfree. Talking intermittently about concrete. For 85 minutes. It shouldn’t be the stuff from which cinematic dreams are crafted, yet Locke works. It makes a significant difference that the man in question is charismatic chameleon Tom Hardy (adopting an endearingly avuncular Welsh accent). Hardy plays construction manager Ivan Locke who’s bombing it down the motorway in his fat BMW fielding calls and trying to talk himself out of a whole lot of trouble, as he juggles a work crisis and a relationship meltdown. Although Hardy is the only actor who appears onscreen, director Steven Knight has assembled quite the voice cast and we hear from Ruth Wilson, Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott. Knight is best known as the screenwriter behind Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things and Locke marks his second film as writer-director. By acknowledging that his pen is his mightiest tool, keeping the visuals simple and giving Hardy space to do his not inconsiderable thing, Knight engages our imagination and secures our attention. ES

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Welcome to New York Abel Ferrara

Inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair, in which Strauss-Kahn quit as head of the IMF in 2011 after being arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a maid in a Manhattan hotel, Ferrara’s film stars Gérard Depardieu as an international financier and sex addict who believes that nothing is out of his reach. USA / France | 2014 | ALT | 125 | Cert 18 Item# 75027 / 75028 | RRP £15.99 | 29th Sept

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The Leisen Touch

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ugust sees the arrival of two of the most welcome vintage Hollywood releases on DVD in ages, Easy Living and Midnight. Both are directed by the same man: Mitchell Leisen. The name might not ring a bell, but he’s a Hollywood master, albeit an often overlooked one. Leisen was one of the most successful directors of the late thirties/ early forties. But over time his star waned; his reputation faded into relative obscurity. And that’s where it remains. Unlike so many directors whose career took a tumble (von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray), Leisen’s films have not enjoyed rehabilitation. This is not to say he is unknown: he has vocal supporters (that’s how I discovered him) but he remains, at best, a well-regarded footnote. The reason, I think, for his neglect is this: as the leading director at Paramount Studios, he was entrusted with the scripts of the studio’s leading writers. At the end of the 1930s, those leading writers were Preston Sturges and the team of Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder; since two-thirds of those men were future directors, some have concluded that whatever merits Leisen’s films posses derive entirely from their scripts. Billy Wilder certainly thought so, and was happy to tell everyone who’d listen that Leisen was a hack. Even worse, for Wilder, was that Leisen actually dared tamper with their work – tore out pages, re-arranged scenes, deleted sure-fire gags. Both Wilder and Preston Sturges said they took to the director’s chair to prevent Leisen’s vandalism. The thing is, though, that Leisen was doing exactly what we praise other, more celebrated auteurs for doing: taking screenplays and moulding them

The name might not ring a bell, but Mitchell Leisen is an overlooked master to his own sensibilities. In fact, Leisen stands as an excellent example of how a director could make personal art within the Hollywood production line: because Leisen’s writers later went on to make distinctive films, we can locate their voice within the films they wrote for him – and see the very different emphasis that Leisen places on things. As it happens, neither Easy Living or Midnight is an especially good example of this: Leisen made Easy Living deliberately broad, to demonstrate his range (the slapstick came from him rather than, as might be expected, screenwriter Sturges) while both the writers and the director of Midnight were evidently inspired by the great comedies of Ernst Lubitsch. But look at Remember the Night (a Sturges script) or Hold Back The Dawn (Brackett/ Wilder) and you get something of the true measure of Leisen: a romantic, who hoped for the best from people even if he knew how imperfect they could be. I’m not sure

there was another Golden Age director so aware of the vulnerabilities and the frailty of his characters. And Leisen didn’t need either Sturges or Wilder to make great movies. Without them he made Hands Across the Table (masterpiece), Swing High, Swing Low (masterpiece), To Each His Own (a masterpiece, and one you can already get on DVD), Frenchman’s Creek (which I like, even if no one else does) and No Man of Her Own (jeez, how many masterpieces does one guy need?) I very much hope that all these and more join Midnight and Easy Living on our DVD shelves soon; perhaps then Leisen can be recognised as the talent he was.

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