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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness Mami Sunada
Documentary about the Japanese film company Studio Ghibli and three of the men behind its success – directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki. The film provides a fascinating insight into the studio’s success by following the men at work for a year during the production of Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013) and Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) and capturing them in conversation with their teams. ‘For animation lovers, peering inside the walls of Studio Ghibli is like being granted a guided tour of Santa’s workshop.’ – Variety Japan | 2013 | Cert PG | 1hr 55 | Subtitiles Item# 150377 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Hayao Miyazaki writes and directs this Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli. As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi decides to be an aircraft designer. On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko. He doesn’t meet her again till many years later after he has graduated university. The two fall for each other and become engaged but Naoko is suffering from tuberculosis. While they try to enjoy the time they have together Jiro continues to work on designing his first successful plane… ‘A beautiful and memorable experience’ – Radio Times Japan | 2013 | Cert PG | 2hr 6 | Subtitiles Item# 140473 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Boyhood Recommended Director: Richard Linklater Starring: Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke Released: 19th January Extras: TBC Item# 145407 | USA | 2014 | Cert 15 | 2hr 46
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ichard Linklater is a master of observational fictional filmmaking that offers insights into lives as they are lived. His breakthrough film Slacker (1991) defined a generation, following a colourful array of misfits over the course of 24 hours. Dazed and Confused (1993) also wrings featurelength action from a single day, in a semiautobiographical rites-of-passage tale. In the Before… trilogy (Before Sunrise, 1995, Before Sunset, 2004 and Before Midnight, 2013) time closes in on a couple at three brief moments of romantic adventure or crisis at nine-year intervals. Even the broad comedy School of Rock (2003) gives generous screen time to its young cast, exploring what they bring to their roles from their own experiences. Boyhood applies the same tight focus, but on a much vaster scale, bringing together a core of actors for a few days each year for twelve years. Moment by moment, Linklater pieces together a wholly believable snapshot of a single family as a brother and sister grow and develop from vulnerable under-10s to college kids striking out for independence.
A satisfying glimpse at growing up in the first part of the twenty-first century. The cumulative vignettes powerfully portray the family’s everyday odyssey through break-ups, teenage trial and error, selfdetermination and discovery. As the years spin by, the focus shifts subtly towards the boy Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and Mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette), culminating in her despair at the unrelenting march of time when Mason leaves home. In support, Ethan Hawke as Mason Sr. and the director’s daughter Lorelei Linklater as resilient sibling Samantha, strike a convincing, natural note. Coltrane’s physical transformation is visually dramatic, but we’re also aware of smaller changes in the appearance and outlook of the adults that remind us how quickly life threatens to pass us by. This intimate and affectionate film recently won Best International Film at the British Independent Film Awards.
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Classic Movies Golden Ivory
George Breakston
Baby Love
Alastair Reid When her mother (Diana Dors) dies, fifteen-year-old Luci is desperate for love and moves into the house of her mother’s friend in a quest to seduce its tenants. Robert (Keith Baron) is the doctor who may well be her father, and convinced that he was the cause of her mother’s demise, Luci sets about destroying her new family. She kisses the son and seduces the mother before setting her sights on Robert himself… UK | 1968 | Cert 18 | 1hr 32 | Item# 163645 | RRP £9.99 | 26th January
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Classic British drama following a wife who discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her. Instead of scolding her husband over his infidelity, she suggests sharing him with his mistress. UK | 1931 | Cert TBC | 1hr 7 | Item# 141056 | RRP £9.99 | Out Now
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World War II action drama starring Randolph Scott and Robert Mitchum, utilising real war footage. A group of highly-trained marine misfits are brought together under the command of Colonel Thorwald (Scott) to retake a Pacific Island from the Japanese seven weeks after Pearl Harbor.
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Hour of the Gun
Compton Bennett
An American crime syndicate crosses the Atlantic to attempt the daring robbery of half a million pounds, en route to the Bank of England courtesy of the infamous Flying Scotsman. Their plan to smash through a carriage compartment to get to the loot is thwarted however, when their fellow passengers decide to intervene… UK | 1957 | Cert U | 1hr 7 | Item# 163649 | RRP £9.99 | 19th January
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The Flying Scot
John Sturges
This swashbuckling Western is an epic retelling of the O.K.Corral gunfight and the events that followed. After taking revenge on his brothers, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, are determined to bring Ike Clanton to justice. James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan star in this gritty, overlooked Western. USA | 1967 | 1hr 40 | Cert TBC Item# 163652 | RRP £12.99 | 26th January
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Intimate Relations
Geronimo!
Clayton Hutton
Arnold Laven
This black comedy chronicles the twisted relationship between an orphaned boy and the family that takes him in. Young Harold is taken in by the kindly Beasleys but it’s not long before the cozy situation turns violent…
Chuck Connors stars in the title role as the Native American Chief who finds the white man’s promises broken and leads the Apache tribe in all-out war against the Americans… USA | 1962 | Cert TBC | 1hr 41 | Item# 163650 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
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Also known as The White Huntress, this African adventure follows a group of British settlers travelling to Masai country in Kenya. Starring Robert Urquhart (The Curse of Frankenstein), John Bentley and Susan Stephenson (Pacific Destiny). Shot on location in Kenya with an epic sequence in which the sleeping heroine must battle a giant python, which slithers across her neck.
Howard Hawks’ fast-talking screwball comedy is a breathless battle of the sexes. Cary Grant’s newspaper editor Walter Burns will do anything in his power to prevent his star reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) from remarrying. The paper has been campaigning to reprieve a convicted killer on death row, and the possibility of a scoop that could unseat the city’s corrupt mayor proves impossible to resist. The story hots up when the killer escapes and holes up in the court newsroom, amplifying the chaos. The quickfire gags and whip-smart insults are a miracle of comic dialogue and timing, while Ralph Bellamy as fiancé Bruce Baldwin is a bemused counterpoint to Grant and Russell’s force-of-nature bickering. The second of four screen adaptations of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s hit Broadway play The Front Page, the genius of Hawks’ production was to add the gender wars. Billy Wilder’s commendable 1974 version starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon restored Hildy’s manhood but doesn’t quite match the virility.
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British Musicals of the 1930s: Volume 3 Recommended Directors: Monty Banks, Harny Hughes, Richard Oswald, Paul L. Stein Starring: Bobby Howes, Stanley Lupino, John Loder Released: Out Now Extras: TBC Item# 163653 | 2 DVDs | UK | 1935 | Cert PG | 4hrs 51
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From playful romantic comedies to variety extravaganzas… Joseph Schmidt was known as ‘the Jewish Caruso’ and he excels in My Song Goes Round the World (1934), a remake of a German confection that reunited Schmidt with director Richard Oswald and co-star Charlotte Ander. He achieves genuine pathos as the diminutive singer who is forced to wear a clown costume to appear on stage with his friend. John Loder. He proves no luckier in love than Richard Tauber in Paul L. Stein’s Heart’s Desire (1935), who is plucked from a Viennese beer garden by English socialite Leonora Corbett, who is convinced he is the ideal lead for composer Carl Harbord’s new opera. Stein slyly satirises aristocratic cultural pretension, while making Tauber realise he was better off with sweetheart Kathleen Kelly and his four-piece band. But, most significantly, he gives the songs a psychological relevance, which was very unusual for British musicals of the time.
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Classic Movies New Releases My Irish Molly
Alex Bryce
A custody battle arises over a talented little girl between one sister who deeply loves her and another who seeks only the money offered to care for her. This British musical stars Honorary Academy Award winner Maureen O’Hara (Jamaica Inn, Buffalo Bill, Miracle on 34th Street). UK | 1938 | Cert PG | 1hr 30 Item# 163659 | RRP £9.99 | 2nd February
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Maclean Rogers
Collection of four digitally restored British crime dramas based on the long-running 1940s radio series, now in new slimline packaging, about the crime writer who occasionally lends his services to Scotland Yard. – Send for Paul Temple; Calling Paul Temple; Paul Temple’s Triumph and Paul Temple Returns. UK | 1946 | 4 DVDs | Cert PG | TBChr Item# 138481 | RRP £24.99 | Out Now
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Desmond Davis
An orphaned young woman lives with her oddball, shrewish aunts. She decides to go on a trip to continue her studies and becomes pregnant – and finds herself trying to convince her aunts that the baby she brings back belongs to someone else.
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Terence Fisher
Of Human Bondage
Classic British crime drama directed by Terence Fisher. The film follows reporters Mike Billings and Jenny Drew (John Bentley and Hy Hazell) as they investigate the disappearance of a young woman…
John Cromwell
When Philip Carey falls in love with Mildred, it leads him to nothing but heartbreak. She strings him along, taking him for what she can get before eventually leaving him for another man. Philip marries but remains obsessed, and when Mildred returns he is compelled to take her in again. USA | 1934 | Cert PG | 1hr 23 Item# 163656 | RRP £19.99 | 9th February
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Tony Randall stars as American tourist Andrew Jessel who becomes embroiled in a web of suspicion and intrigue after checking into a hotel in Marrakesh and finding a dead body… UK | 1966 | Cert PG | 1hr 30 Item# 163660 | RRP £9.99 | 19th January
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Happiness is a tightrope. Some walk it successfully. Some fail. And some kill to preserve it… For three months Ellen finds perfect happiness with her husband Jacob. One night she runs into him in his local pub and faints. Frightened and unhappy, she explains to him that she was being followed. Tense suspense drama starring Patricia Owens and Hollywood bad boy Dan Duryea. USA/UK | 1965 | Cert PG | 1hr 30 Item# 150775 | RRP £9.99 | 2nd February
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I’m All Right Jack Recommended Director: John Boulting Starring: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Miles Malleson Released: 19th January Extras: Digitally Restored Item# 124601 / 156303 | UK | 1959 | Cert U | 1hr 40
The Boulting Brothers’ glorious satire of post-war industrial relations marked a key moment in Peter Sellers’ career. His portrayal of bolshy, one-tracked shop steward Fred Kite won him a BAFTA and focused his attentions away from mimicry and one-liners in favour of more nuanced character-driven roles. His earnest, deadpan delivery stands out in a sea of slapstick – and produces deep belly laughs. A sequel to Private’s Progress, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough and Dennis Price reprise their roles as upper-class twit Stanley Windrush and officer-class schemers Major Hitchcock, Sidney De Vere Cox and Bertram Tracepurcel as they each attempt to carve out new careers on civvy street. The self-serving hypocrisy of both unions and moneymen are lampooned with admirable even-handedness. The film still has much to say about anything-for-profit commercialisation, social frustration, personal politics and the creaking vestiges of the British class system.
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Studio Canal Film Sale
Founded in 1988, Studio Canal has built a reputation for innovation and quality. Here we present some of the label’s most critically acclaimed titles, from Alain Resnais’ mind-bending masterpiece Last Year in Marienbad to Jonathan’s Glazer’s sci-fi horror Under the Skin. The Happiest Days of Your Life
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Under the Skin
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Alain Resnais
Comic chaos ensues when an Academy for Young Ladies run by Margaret Rutherford is evacuated and forced to share a building with the boys of Alastair Sim’s school!
A masterpiece of French New Wave, this fantasy tale is the result of collaboration between director Alain Resnais and French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Sci-Fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson. Disguised as a human, alien Laura comes to Scotland in search of earthly beings to send back to her employer.
Item# 132214 | UK | 1950 | Cert U | 1hr 21 | RRP £15.99
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Belle de Jour
The Devil Rides Out
A Prophet
Director Luis Buñuel’s surreal erotic drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a bored housewife who turns to prostitution in the afternoons.
Satanists try to raise an infernal force. Christopher Lee, Charles Gray and Paul Eddington star in this adaptation of Dennis Wheatley’s bestseller.
Graphically violent BAFTA-winning prison drama from acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard.
Item# 136814 | France | 1967 | Cert 18 | 1hr 42 | RRP £19.99 | Subtitles
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Soft-core French classic. Beautiful newlywed Emmanuelle tires of life with her husband and embarks on a series of sexual adventures. Item# 137668 | France | 1974 | Cert 18 | 1hr 31 | RRP £15.99
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Far from the Madding Crowd Julie Christie is Bathsheba and Alan Bates is Gabriel Oak in this acclaimed Hardy adaptation. Item# 131349 | UK | 1967 | Cert U | 2hr 35 | RRP £12.99
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The Green Man Seemingly mild-mannered watchmaker Hawkins (Alastair Sim) is in fact a skilled assassin. Black comedy with Terry Thomas, George Cole et al. Item# 131967 | UK | 1956 | Cert PG | 1hr 16 | RRP £12.99
Moving, award winning drama about the effect of war on two children, and their ways of coping with loss. Item# 147781 / 147899 | France | 1952 | Cert 12 1hr 25 | RRP £15.99 / 19.99 | Subtitles
Adaptation of Pushkin’s celebrated novella about a Russian soldier desperate to discover the secret of success at a card game. Item# 133028 | UK | 1949 | Cert PG | 1hr 36 | RRP £15.99
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Odette Anna Neagle, Peter Ustinov, Trevor Howard and Marius Goring star in this British WWII classic about a female agent behind enemy lines.
The Railway Children Jenny Agutter stars as the oldest daughter of an Edwardian family thrown on hard times when their father is wrongly sent to prison. Item# 138789 / 156167 | UK | 1970 | Cert U | 1hr 44 |
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Pan’s Labyrinth To escape the social and political upheaval of her real life, a young girl creates a fantasy world in her mind. Item# 149965 / 156658 | Spain | 2006 | Cert 15 |
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The Definitive Collection Basil Rathbone stars in this collection of 14 1940s Sherlock Holmes films.
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The Blue Lamp
Persepolis
The Third Man
Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde star in this famous crime drama from Ealing Studios, with a screen debut for the P.C. Dixon of Dock Green character.
Animated adaptation of the bestselling graphic novel set during the Islamic revolution in Iran.
Classic Graham Greene thriller starring Orson Welles. A writer sets about investigating the death of a friend.
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World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language Belle & Sebastian
Nicolas Vanier Nicolas Vanier directs this French adventure film about a young boy who befriends a dog. The villagers however believe the animal to be the mysterious ‘beast’ that has been killing flocks of sheep…
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Collection of films directed by the acclaimed French film-maker. Includes: The Night is Young, Holy Motors, Boy Meets Girl and Mr X. Stars includes Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes and Mireille Perrier.
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In Order of Disappearance Hans Petter Moland
Norwegian crime drama about a snow-plough driver who seeks revenge for his son’s death. When he learns of his son’s demise as the result of an apparent heroin overdose, the father, refusing to believe that his boy committed suicide, starts a private investigation. When he discovers the dangerous Serbian mafia may be involved, he seems prepared to kill anyone who stands in the way of his revenge. Norway | 2014 | Cert TBC | 1hr 56 | Subtitles Item# 150927 | RRP £14.99 | 2nd February 8.99
The Keeper of Lost Causes Mikkel Nørgaard
Nordic noir thriller directed by Mikkel Nørgaard and starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares. Reassigned to Department Q after an accident leaves his partner dead, Carl begins to obsess over the disappearance of a female politician…
Swiss writer-director Stefan Haupt adopts a half-and-half docudrama strategy all but abandoned in the cinema since Warren Beatty’s Reds. The project was evidently born out of a series of interviews Haupt conducted with a pair of Zurich-based partners: former teacher Ernst Ostertag and the German-born Röbi Rapp, a hairdresser and drag act, who met in the 1950s under the auspices of the titular underground organisation for gay men. Haupt’s bright and aerated documentary frames two men who’ve been together for over 50 years, seen the worst of the persecution come and go, and now feel entirely confident about putting it all on the record. Rapp, Ostertag and their fellow travellers have many juicy tales to tell about the methods used to circumvent social restrictions. We learn of the Friday-night Lufthansa charter that carried gay Germans into the marginally less forbidding city for their weekend revels; we learn that the Circle’s newsletter used to print its filthiest stories in English, on the grounds that none of the censors could read it.
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4 DVDs I France | 2013 | Cert 18 | TBChrs | Subtitles Item# 150361 | RRP £39.99 | 26th January
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Werner Herzog
Herzog is one of the greatest figures of New German Cinema and was once named ‘the most important film director alive’ by François Truffaut.
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Werner Herzog directs this study of megalomania, set in 16th Century Peru. In the year 1560, a Spanish expedition crosses the Peruvian Sierras in search of the legendary Inca city of El Dorado. A power struggle within the group leads to its deputy seizing control in bloody fashion, his desire to set up his own kingdom threatening to destroy them all… Germany | 1972 | Cert PG | 1hr 33 | Subtitles Item# 163670 | RRP £17.99 | 19th January
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald dreams of building an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle. To finance his project he attempts to persuade the rubber business to extend into the jungle, and concocts a plan that involves moving his steamship over a mountain. In making his film of the visionary’s adventures, director Werner Herzog famously refused to use special effects and insisted instead on actually transporting a steamship over the mountains. Germany | 1982 | Cert 15 | 2hr 37 | Subtitles Item# 163671 | RRP £17.99 | 19th January
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Nosferatu the Vampyre Jonathan Harker arrives at Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania to complete the sale of a property. The estate agent’s haunting stay at the castle rids him of any doubt that Dracula is a vampire…
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Stations of the Cross Recommended Director: Dietrich Brüggemann Starring: Lucie Aron Released: 19th January Extras: TBC Item# 150928 | Germany | 2014 | Cert 15 | 1hr 50 | Subtitles
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Carl Theodor Dreyer Item# 140620 | Denmark | 1954 | Cert 12 | 2hr 6 | Subtitles | £19.99
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This German drama was a prize-winner at the Berlin Film Festival, 2014. we see crying earlier has medical problems. Still, in taking Maria’s own beliefs entirely seriously, Stations of the Cross aligns its heroine with the lapsed nun in Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijch and Sandra Hüller’s agonised zealot in Requiem – and, at the last, even the miracle-working heroine of Dreyer’s Ordet, which is some sign of how much the filmmaker has succeeded in setting one to thinking about the nature of faith. Clearly Maria is being positioned by her elders as the postergirl for a new, ‘pure’ form of Catholicism, but in van Acken’s quietly affecting performance, she’s more sincere than sucker. She’s chosen to follow this path, no matter that it means having to give up Facebook and cake – and yet the final act insists that she’s also still a child, with all the earthly vulnerability that implies. Around her, Brüggemann floats a compelling idea, and then literally follows it through: what would happen to a 21st century girl, if she elected to live her life like a saint?
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World Cinema New Releases Kinetta
Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos directs this experimental Greek drama. The film follows the exploits of a local police detective as he enlists the help of a photographer and a hotel maid to try and get to the bottom of a series of murders. Greece | 2005 | 1hr 34 | Cert 15 | Subtitles Item# 141113 | RRP £12.99 | 26th January
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Vittorio De Sica A heart-felt drama directed by Vittorio De Sica. Filmmaking royalty De Sica, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni became the most successful film team in Italy. Here, they are at the very top of their game with Loren and Mastroianni as the newly wed lovers torn apart by War, who never gave up on one another despite almost impossible odds.
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Christophe Offenstein Yann Kermadec is thrilled when he gets the opportunity to take part in the round-the-world single-handed yacht race. However when he discovers a stowaway on board he realises his chances are in jeopardy... France | 2013 | 1hr 41 | Cert 12 | Subtitles Item# 156184 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Set in 1960s Argentina, the film follows ex-Nazi experimental physician Josef Mengele. Forced to hide his true identity, Mengele adopts a new name and lives incognito but new friends see him grow eager to resume his experiments…
Nicolas Cuche French rom-com. After making millions starting his own internet dating business, Max buys a struggling fruit juice factory to get closer to an employee he failed to romance in college. France | 2014 | 1hr 39 | Cert 12 | Subtitles Item# 156057 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Thriller written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Alice (Anicée Alvina) and Nora (Olga Georges-Picot) experiment with bondage and creating human art together using various substances. But Alice becomes the chief suspect in a murder investigation when their flat is broken into and Nora is seemingly killed with a pair of scissors whilst tied to a bed. Once questioned by the police, a judge and a priest, Alice is sent to a convent prison and interrogated on suspicion of being a witch. The judges may just be proved right as those inside the walls of the convent also begin to fall under the spell of Alice’s charms. France | 1974 | 1hr 42 | Cert 18 | Subtitles Item# 163668 | RRP £17.99 | 19th January
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Martin Provost
Juan Carlos Valdivia
In the Southern District of La Paz, mother-of-three Carola (Ninon del Castillo) lives an affluent existence with her three spoiled children: teenagers Patricio (Juan Pablo Koria), Bernarda (Mariana Vargas) and wayward six-year-old Andres (Nicolas Fernandez). However, despite Carola’s adherence to her lavish lifestyle, the truth is that the debts are mounting. Bolivia | 2009 | 1hr 48 | Cert 15 | Subtitles Item# 163757 | RRP £15.99 | 26th January
Biographical drama about the French author Violette Leduc, portrayed by Emmanuelle Devos. In the latter years of WWII Violette is encouraged to write by Maurice Sachs with whom she is living, despite their loveless relationship. She meets fellow author Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain) and the two women form a close bond. France/Belgium | 2013 | 2hrs 18 | Cert 15 | Subtitles Item# 150467 | RRP £17.99 | 26th January
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Alain Robbe-Grillet is writer, director and star. The story follows film director, producers and assistant as they ride the Trans-Europ Express train. Inspired by their fellow passengers, the team decides to use the train as inspiration for a film. In their visualized story, Elias is a drug runner, and begins acting out unusual fantasies in his compartment with a recently met streetwalker. What will happen when Elias meets the film team editing his existence? France | 1967 | 1hr 45 | Cert 18 | Subtitles Item# 163669 | RRP £17.99 | 19th January
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Documentaries Stage
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Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty
La Bête et la Belle
All the episodes from the fascinating Channel 5 series presented by historian Dan Jones. Jones uses reconstructions to show how Henry II, the first King of the dynasty, transformed England into one of the greatest empires in Europe. UK | 2014 | Cert 15 | 4 hrs Item# 150869 | RRP £17.99 | 26th January
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In series 5 of this incredibly popular BBC series, Michael Portillo discovers the ways in which railways have impacted upon the places they link with. Featuring 20 full-length episodes in which Portillo celebrates Victorian trade in Yorkshire, relives the Great Train Robbery in Cheddington, learns about Richard III in Leicester and uncovers the Victorian fascination with grisly crime in Norwich castle. Discover the importance of the railway in shaping the nation. 4 DVDs | UK | 2014 | Cert E | 19hrs 20 Item# 163701 | RRP £34.99 | 19th January
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Verdi’s opera, performed in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the theatre’s reopening in 1973. The cast includes Ramón Vargas in the title role, with Svetlana Kasyan as Elisabeth of Valois, Ildar Abdrazakov as Philip II and Ludovic Tézier as Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa. 2 DVDs | Italy | 2013 | Cert E | 3hrs 37 | Subtitles Item# 150807 /150810 | RRP £24.99 / £29.99 | Out Now
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Coverage of the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2015 New Year’s Concert, featuring Zubin Mehta as conductor. His return to the podium features compositions by the Strauss family as well as Franz von Suppé and Hans Christian Lumbye.
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Documentary going behind the scenes at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Film-maker Johannes Holzhausen quietly observes the day-to-day workings of the institution over a period of two years. Austria | 2014 | Subtitles | Cert 12 | 1hr 34 Item# 150865 | RRP £15.99 | 9th February 8.99
Night Will Fall Andre Singer
Documentary about a 1945 film by Alfred Hitchcock about the liberation of Europe. Deemed unsuitable, it was stored in the vaults of the Imperial War Museum. Now fully restored the footage is finally ready to be seen! UK | 2014 | Cert 15| 1hr 15 Item# 163683 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd Febuary
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Live performance of choreographer Kader Belarbi’s magical interpretation of the unforgettable classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. The dancers of the French Ballet du Capitole include Takafumi Watanabe and Julie Loria.
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The Royal Ballet performs Christopher Wheeldon’s Shakespeare adaptation. Edward Watson portrays King Leontes of Bohemia who is driven mad by his belief that his wife Hermione (Lauren Cuthbertson) and friend Polixenes (Federico Bonelli) have been having an affair. David Briskin conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands Recommended Director: Walter Summers Released: 19th January Extras: New score by Simon Dobson; Behind the scenes with BFI restoration team; Illustrated booklet Item# 163700 / 150863 | UK | 1927 | Cert PG | 1hr 47 | RRP £19.99
A decorated veteran of the Great War, Walter Summers directed several powerful battlefield reconstructions, including Ypres (1925) and Mons (1926). However, this account of two crucial naval encounters was far more ambitious, as it combined archive footage, model work and recreations staged with the aid of the Royal Navy. With John Buchan (of 39 Steps fame) among the screenwriters, the storyline follows the efforts of Admiral Sturdee to avenge the defeat at Coronel off the Chilean coast at the hands of Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee. Compelling though the maritime action is, this also has moments of poignant intimacy. The efforts of the volunteer force to defend Port Stanley are rather more pantomimic. While a cunning manoeuvre wins the day, the close-up of von Spee realising his fate tempers the quiet pride at British courage with a noble eschewal of jingoistic triumphalism.
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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present
New Releases Aces High – Digitally Restored Jack Gold
New air force recruit Peter Firth takes an instant dislike to his embittered squadron leader, Malcolm McDowell. But as the young pilot experiences the tensions and stresses of warfare, his dislike turns to admiration…
Gone Girl Recommended
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Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong star in this adaptation of the bestselling novel by S. J. Watson. An amnesia patient works with a doctor to recover her memoires, but soon realises she may be better off forgetting… UK | 2014 | Cert 15 | 1hr 32 Item# 150685 / 150686 | RRP £17.99 / £22.99 | Out Now
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Christine Edzard Biddy takes a nostalgic journey into the delicate and loving life of an English Victorian nursery maid. This warm, poignant film celebrates the powerful relationships between Biddy (Celia Bannerman – The Tamarind Seed) and the young children placed into her gentle care. ‘A meticulously realized, perfectly nostalgic picture.’ – Time Out UK | 1983 | Cert U | 1hr 21 Item# 163646 | 26th January
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Debut feature for writerdirector Donna Deitch, set in Reno, Nevada in 1959. Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) is a New York Professor staying in Reno whilst she obtains a divorce. When Cay Rivvers arrives, a tender romance develops. USA | 1985 | Cert 18 | 1hr 30 Item# 150883 | RRP £15.99 | 19th January
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David Fincher’s breakout hit Se7en climaxed with a husband being presented, to his and our eternal horror, with the head of his beloved. Gone Girl, Fincher’s adaptation of the Gillian Flynn bestseller, imagines something far worse: what if you were presented with the contents of your lover’s head, and thereby found out what they really thought of you? Nick and Amy Dunne (Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike) are rich white smoothies, people who buy bedsheets with threadcounts worthy of their lovemaking, and are on the verge of celebrating their fifth gloriously smug year together when Amy inexplicably goes AWOL. From the kiss that sealed the couple’s marriage proposal, Fincher cuts to chief suspect Nick having his cheek swabbed for DNA, then follows up by introducing a rattling shout of ‘louder!’ from the galleries as hubby makes his televised plea for wifey’s swift return. Here’s your poster quote: Gone Girl is the year’s most uncomfortable date movie. When did we all start getting this neurotic about relationships?
Maps to the Stars Recommended Director: David Cronenberg Starring: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska Released: 2nd February Extras: TBC Item# 150751 / 150752 | Canada/USA/Germany | 2014 | Cert 18 | 1hr 51
David Cronenberg’s latest won Julianne Moore Best Actress at Cannes. Rightly so – it’s his most fascinating work in years. Making movies about movies has a funny way of turning the camera back on a director. Though they seem like extended in-jokes, these films are often their makers’ most personal projects. Here, Cronenberg returns to Hollywood two decades after The Fly, only to find a horrifying vacuum he approaches with typical scientific rigour. Throughout, Cronenberg deploys his camera like an electron microscope, constantly refocusing on lost souls too shrivelled to register in conventional shot. Bruce Wagner’s gossipy script presents us with a number of archetypes: an egomaniacal leading lady, her therapist (John Cusack), a scarred ingénue, and a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) working on his script. Few filmmakers have more comprehensively dissected the dark hearts behind the bright lights.
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Dreamchild
Life of Crime
Gavin Millar
Daniel Schechter
Drama centred on the grown-up version of Alice from Lewis Carroll’s classic book Alice in Wonderland. The eponymous character makes the long journey from New York to receive an honorary degree. Alice struggles to come to terms with persistent memories of the origins of the story in which she starred and the unwanted fame it is now bringing her.
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Jennifer Aniston and Tim Robbins star in this comedy drama directed by Daniel Schechter. When Frank Dawson gets a phone call demanding a million dollar ransom for his kidnapped wife he is more than a little reluctant to pay up…
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Anton Corbijn
Enemy
Denis Villeneuve Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a man struggling with his identity in this thriller based on the novel by José Saramago and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adam is a university professor whose mundane life is rocked to the core when a colleague recommends that he watch a movie starring a man who looks exactly like him. Spain/Canada | 2013 | Cert 15 | 1hr 31 Item# 150825 / 150828 | RRP £15.99 / £19.99 | 9th February
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Eskimo Nell – 40th Anniversary Special Edition Martin Campbell
A bevvy of comic actors appear in this hilarious English sex comedy. Three inexperienced filmmakers set out to make a version of the dirty poem, Eskimo Nell. They obtain four different backers, and end up making four different versions of the film to suit each of them. This is the Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the much-loved film. UK | 1975 | Cert 18 | 1hr 22 Item# 163677 / 163758 | RRP £12.99 / £19.99 | 26th January
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Director: Blake Edwards
Espionage thriller starring Daniel Brühl, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Willem Dafoe. A tortured half-Chechen Muslim arrives in Hamburg and attracts the attention of both German and American security agents as he tracks down his father’s illegally gained fortune.
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Daniel O’Herlihy, Sylvia Sims Released: 9th February Extras: Theatrical trailer; Archive interviews; Image Gallery Item# 148246 / 150958 | UK / USA | 1974 | DVD | Cert 15 | 2hrs
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Jameson Jerry
During the Cold War, the American government needs a valuable mineral found solely in the Soviet Union to make a new defence system work. The only solution for the government is to send a survey team to raise the Titanic from the depths. Adventure starring Jason Robards and Alec Guinness. USA | 1980 | Cert PG | 1hr 49 Item# 139957 / 140858 | RRP £9.99 / £14.99 | 9th February
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David Michod Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson star in this bleak drama directed by David Michôd. Ten years after an economic collapse Eric travels from place to place in his car, which is his only remaining possession, and struggles to make ends meet. When a group of wandering thieves steal his car, Eric sets off to track them down.
God’s Pocket John Slattery
When troubled 20-something Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) is killed, apparently by accident on a building site, his mother (Christina Hendricks) suspects foul play, and convinces her husband (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) to investigate the death. USA | 2014 | Cert 15 | 1hr 29 Item# 163544 / 163759 | RRP £15.99 / £17.99 | Out Now
The Tamarind Seed
The sight of composer John Barry and title designer Maurice Binder among the credits of this spy thriller might set pulses racing among James Bond aficionados. But this is closer to John Le Carré than Ian Fleming. Whitehall aide Julie Andrews is holidaying in Barbados to get over her affair with a government minister. Intelligence officer Anthony Quayle is convinced that Russian attaché Omar Sharif is more interested in recruiting Andrews than romancing her. A game of cat and mouse ensues that also involves minister Dan O’Herlihy, his adulterous wife Sylvia Syms and her lover, Bryan Marshall. Blake Edwards is less interested in the shadowy activities of the spooks than in how ordinary people behave when they become trapped in a web of intrique. He focuses on how Andrews and Sharif care for each other more than matters of national security. Andrews had played a similar role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966), but seems much more confident in this disarming companion piece.
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The Fall: Series 2 Atlantis: Series 2 – Part 1
A year has passed and much has changed. With her father Minos dead, Ariadne is now Queen and finds herself waging war with her old adversary Pasiphae. Dramatically darker than season 1, this is a new Atlantis of intrigue and betrayal. Though humorous elements remain, the dramatic fight scenes are bigger than ever and politics and mysticism are to be found mixed in with incident and adventure.
All six episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case. Though her superiors aren’t convinced, Stella Gibson continues her investigations into an alleged serial killer who has so far been successful at covering his tracks and evading capture. UK/Ireland | 2014 | 2 DVDs | Cert 15 | 6hrs Item# 150533 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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The third series of the hugely successful crime drama Father Brown, based on the stories by GK Chesterton. The BBC One Daytime series, produced in collaboration with BBC Worldwide, returns with 15 episodes starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholic priest.
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Niall MacCormick In fighting the War on Terror, is torture ever justified? This compelling drama explores the murky moral compromises that underpin the hidden intelligence war, as an MI5 agent takes desperate measures to protect his country.
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Doctor Who: Last Christmas
The tenth Doctor Who Christmas Special is finally here! Four members of an Ice Cap Polar Base are under attack from the alien Kantofarri – fortunatley for them help is on the way! As desperate as they are however, how willing will they be to accept help from one rescuer in a blue box and another in a reindeer drawn sleigh?
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All three episodes from the eighth series of the ever-popular ITV historical crime drama starring Michael Kitchen. With the war in Europe over, Foyle now finds himself working for MI5, keeping the countryside safe and free from criminals. The episodes are: High Castle, Trespass and Elise. UK | 2015 | 3 DVDs | Cert 12 | 4hrs 30 Item# 163686 | RRP £24.99 | 19th January
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Peter Andrikidis Australian mini-series starring Romola Garai and Jack Davenport. The drama tells the epic story of 19-yearold Mary Bryant who was transported on the First Fleet to the new penal colony at Botany Bay, Australia.
The eagerly anticipated Downton Abbey Christmas Special sees the cast coated in a festive layer of snow as the Crawley family spends Christmas day with the newly-wed Rose and Atticus.
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Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Father Brown: Series 3
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Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor are two upper-class snobs trying to out-do each other by whatever means necessary in this new BBC adaptation of the classic novels by E. F. Benson. This three-part comedy-of-manners, set in the quaint village of Tilling during the 1930’s, is resplendent with its richly crafted colour palette designed to heighten the senses. The witty script, penned by Steven Pemberton (who also stars) presents eccentric inhabitants with exquisite manners in a world seething with catty gossip, intrigue, petty one-up-manship and very bad behaviour! All is tranquil in Tilling – but not for long. Queen bee Miss Elizabeth Mapp welcomes a new tenant into her beloved home, Mallards. The imperious Miss Emmeline Lucas, Lucia to her friends, is in Tilling for the summer. Initially Mapp parades her new trophy around town. But Lucia is equally adept at social domination and quickly dethrones Mapp from the top of the Tilling tree. A seething Mapp seeks revenge, much to the delight of the rest of Tillingites. A series must surely be in the pipeline.
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The Missing
Exploring the emotional fallout of a child’s abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, this gripping relationship thriller is told over two time frames and two countries. Starring James Nesbitt. ‘James Nesbitt is so very very good at pain; he doesn’t just share it, he forces it on you’ – Guardian
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Every episode from the second series of the amazingly largely improvised police procedural drama starring Fay Ripley, Clare-Hope Ashitey and Damien Molony. The story follows DS Weston, DC Steele and DI Bellamy.
UK | 2014 | 3 DVDs | Cert 15 | 6hrs 40 Item# 150910 | RRP £19.99 | 12th January
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Intruders: Season 1
A paranormal psychological thriller, Intruders is the story of a secret society devoted to the search for immortality and stars John Simm and Mira Sorvino. Seemingly disparate events collide to reveal a larger conspiracy.
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Last Tango in Halifax: Series 3 Caroline and her pregnant partner Kate are planning a date for their big day – and it’s not seen as good news by all members of Celia and Alan’s extended family. Rupert Graves also makes an appearance and his character has a big secret to tell Alan – a secret it looks like he’ll have to keep from his new wife…
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Director: Maya Isloøe Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Jesper Christensen, Marie Bach Hansen, Carsten Bjørnlund, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
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Following Borgen in edging Nordic drama away from murder mysteries and into saga noir, this compelling study of familial dysfunction brings the traditions of the 19th-century novel to the tele-serial. Like Thomas Vinterburg’s Festen, the focus falls on the price children pay for their parents’ indiscretions, as siblings Trine Dyrholm, Carsten Bjørnlund and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard not only discover that their famously free-spirited artist mother Kirsten Olesen gave up a child for adoption during her 1960s heyday, but also that she has made the unsuspecting Marie Bach Hansen her chief beneficiary. Seething with secrets, lies and bitter resentment, the individual storylines become more knotted and claustrophobic as they develop and Olesen learns to cope with her new-found wealth and status. This could easily have lapsed into Dynasty-style soap. But creator Maya Ilsøe expertly sustains the level of involving revelation, while her dialogue is as sharp as the direction by a quintet that includes awardwinning actress Pernilla August.
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An exercise in faith – see page 9 for our full review Stations of the Cross Dietrich Brüggemann. German drama written and directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. Lea van Acken stars as Maria, a 14-year-old Catholic girl who has dedicated her life to serving God. When she learns of the 14 stations that Jesus went through on his path of Golgatha, Maria believes that this is what she must also do in order to reach her ultimate destination: Heaven. Leaving behind her distraught family she embarks on a voyage of discovery that takes her through the stations that Jesus travelled on his journey to his crucifixion. Item# 150928 / 150929 Germany | 2014 | Cert 15 | 1hr 50 | Subtitles | RRP £14.99 / £15.99 | 19th January
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