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A impeccable cast led by Cyril Cusack, Wendy Hiller and Roy Dotrice deliver Galton & Simpson’s delicious dialogue in the 1972 BBC comedy about the scandalous goings-on in a small Beaujolais town. Item# 72052 UK / Germany | 1972 | 254 | 12 | £19.99
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Long sought-after, these surviving episodes from the legendary BBC horror anthology are all representative of the series’ uniquely subversive and intelligent take on the horror genre, which fused frights with social commentary. Item# 72579 UK | 1972 | 150 | 15 | £19.99
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The restored director’s cut of one of the last great westerns. It sank United Artists and was butchered for initial release, but now it’s rightly hailed as a 2 discs. masterpiece.
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4 Robin Redbreast
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Heaven’s Gate Recommended Director: Michael Cimino Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston, Joseph Cotten Released: 25th November Extras: 2 discs; Director’s cut; Restored; Interviews; Extracts from Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate. Item# 72626 | USA | 1980 | SECND | 207 | Cert 15
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eaven’s Gate became notorious as a studio-sinking failure. Now, however, a restored 216-minute director’s cut arrives, following overwhelming critical acclaim from its reissue in cinemas this summer. Cimino’s project, as relevant post-Obama as it was post-Vietnam, was to point up America’s failure to live up to its own youthful ideals. It opens in 1870 Harvard, where a speech is given about the importance of passing onto others the best of oneself. Crucially, no-one in the joshing multitudes gathered beneath him is listening; over the next three hours, the lesson goes conspicuously unlearnt. Then comes Wyoming, ‘the asshole of creation’, where sheriff James Averill (Kris Kristofferson, never beardier, never better) can be found shacking up with prostitute Ella (Isabelle Huppert). Averill’s collegiate buddy Billy (John Hurt), meanwhile, has fallen in with a right-wing movement keen to purge migrants from this land. The longer cut positions Cimino as a director almost as lapsarian as Terrence Malick, allowing a fuller sense of the paradise coming under attack: skies bigger
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Restored and recut, this can finally be accepted as a masterpiece than those in all Ford’s and Hawks’s Westerns, crowd scenes composed along operatic, Visconti-ish lines, employing what looks like half of America. The waltzes are unforgettable, but Cimino was principally fascinated by what happens when the music abruptly stops, and death lists start to replace dance cards. Nowadays, he’d have been invited to film this story as a six-part HBO series, where – like the creators of those latter-day immigrant stories The Sopranos, The Wire and Deadwood – he’d have been not just allowed but encouraged to stick two fingers up at his audience, and everyone would agree this was the boldest, most provocative show they’d ever seen. But back then, American movies had the ambition, conviction and optimism to do it all in one go, regardless of the outcome. Call the result a folly, if you like; I’m now saying masterpiece. Mike McCahill Page 5
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An Age of Kings
Forbidden Games
Michael Hayes
René Clément
A monumental fifteen part cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays, originally transmitted live, An Age of Kings is amongst the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the BBC, and is one that still looks damn impressive today. With a cast list including Judi Dench, Robert Hardy and Sean Connery, it remains compelling viewing. JO
With two extraordinary performances from its juvenile leads at its heart, this is a piercing, unforgettably poignant drama about the loss of childhood innocence in wartime France. It’s a heartbreaking watch at times, but Clément’s exceptional craftsmanship means that it is the children’s tenderness and resilience that stays with us. GH
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Michael Mills
Thorold Dickinson
When a Beaujolais town’s socialist mayor erects a public urinal to boost his electoral chances he little foresees the brouhaha that follows in this delightful comedy from the BBC. Narrated by Peter Ustinov, the series is filled with Galton & Simpson’s delicious dialogue, delivered by an impeccable cast led by Cyril Cusack. DP
This scintillating, stomach-tightening suspenser stars Anton Walbrook as a meticulously-minded psychopath driving his wife to the brink of madness. This first collaboration between the director and star of The Queen of Spades is a deliriously dark little shocker, equipped with a slew of unforgettable set pieces. RB
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Heaven’s Gate
Terence Fisher
Michael Cimino
Elegantly fusing sensuality and sensationalism, this is arguably the finest entry in Hammer’s Gothic horror cycle – and still the most effective distillation of Bram Stoker’s novel. This 3-disc release, featuring two restorations and a handful of genuinely informative extras, can comfortably be called ‘definitive’. JU
Studio-sinking grand folly? Stonecold masterpiece? Cimino’s rangy Western is big enough to encompass these things and more: a critical vision of the American project, an immensely moving depiction of the disillusionment that comes with age, and Kris Kristofferson’s finest hour. One of 2013’s cinematic discoveries. MM
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We open our celebration of the best releases of 2013 with ou celebrated its 15th anniversary in the UK this year. What’s re are only now receiving their DVD\Blu-ray debuts – and eight bunch and this year’s wealth is a clear sign of all the cinema
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Time of the Gypsies
Jindrich Polák
Emir Kusturica
Had Jindrich Polák’s visually stunning, thematically groundbreaking widescreen sci-fi epic been made in an English-speaking country, its status as the formerly missing link between Forbidden Planet and both Star Trek and 2001 would be much more widely recognised. This is subtle, intelligent and satisfying sci-fi. MB
Nothing defines Emir Kusturica’s particular gifts quite like this sprawlingly rumbustious, sometimes magical-realist tale of south-east European Roma. Its geeky protagonist has telekinetic powers that can be used both to impress would-be girlfriends and commit crime, with the latter career proving dangerously tempting. MB
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Tess
Underground
Roman Polanski
Anthony Asquith
Free from period drama clichés, Tess – Thomas Hardy’s 19th century tale of a rural girl’s life – is a richly rewarding epic. This new restoration showcases Geoffrey Unsworth’s Oscar-winning cinematography beautifully, but there’s so much to value beneath the pretty surface. Above all, it conveys Hardy’s plea for our understanding – of a life, a time, a place. DH
A silent romantic thriller telling a stirring tale of romance and madness, booze, bad doings, betrayal and electricity, admirably restored and set to a new score from Neil Brand. The film’s sheer unpredictability is one of its pleasures, and positions its director as one of Britain’s silent masters. GH
Item# 70141 France / UK | 1979 | 172 | PG | £19.99
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The Murderer Lives at 21
Witness for the Prosecution
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Billy Wilder
A brilliant hybrid of crime thriller and dark comedy, Clouzot’s droll debut sees an inspector and his chanteuse girlfriend track a serial killer down to an eccentric boarding house. A gem of French cinema that’s like a murkier ‘Thin Man’ film. AB
Charged with being the best screen adaption of Agatha Christie’s work, this is an open and shut case of magnificent entertainment. Exhibit A is the script, while evidence includes glorious turns from Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. JO
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ur favourite vintage films and TV series. The DVD format emarkable (and heartening) is that all but two of the above t are entirely new to home video. They’re a tremendous atic treasures to come, and so much more to look forward to.
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New Releases Battle at Bloody Beach Herbert Coleman
Real-life WWII hero Audie Murphy stars in this war drama that follows the exploits of a civilian who works with Filipino resistance fighters during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, all the while searching for his wife from whom he has been separated.
Leslie Howard
In his final film before his plane was shot down in 1943, Leslie Howard plays Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell, who attempts to persuade Whitehall to sponsor his project while struggling to overcome the plane’s technical problems. David Niven, as his philandering test pilot, Restored. relates the tale in flashback. UK | 1942 | ODEON | 119 | Cert U Item# 73213 | RRP £12.99 | 2nd December
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Gaolbreak / Danger By My Side
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A double-bill of 1960s British crime dramas, containing Gaolbreak (Searle, 1962), in which Avice Landone stars as the head of a family of burglars, and Danger By My Side (Saunders, 1962), in which a woman’s efforts to track down her brother’s killer lead her to a steamy Digitally restored. Soho club.
Spencer Bennet
Featuring the final film appearance by Gilbert ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson, this is a classic Western saga that stars Dan Duryea as a tenderfoot from the east who turns into a shotgun-wielding bounty hunter after he arrives in New Mexico.
UK | 1962 | RENOWN | 120 | Cert 12 Item# 72533 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now
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Edgar Wallace Anthology
Contains all 47 Edgar Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960s. A noir-esque series, it updates some of the author’s stories to more contemporary settings, blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. 20 discs; Many special features.
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King of the Khyber Rifles Henry King
A 1953 colonial adventure drama starring Tyrone Power as a British Army Captain who, while stationed in India, meets opposition from his comrades when they realise he has a Muslim mother. He is put in charge of native cavalry, but then gets romantically involved with an officer’s daughter (Terry Moore). USA | 1953 | PEGS | 96 | Cert PG Item# 72058 | RRP £9.99 | 4th November
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Fanny
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Joshua Logan Adapted from the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol’s ‘Marseilles Trilogy’, Fanny is a heartwarming romantic drama that deals in the many shades of love. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Horst Buchholz and Charles Boyer star, and it was beautifully photographed in Marseille by cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
Paul L. Stein
USA | 1961 | UPFRT | 128 | Cert 15 Item# 73219 | RRP £14.99 | 25th November
UK | 1945 | RENOWN | 86 | Cert PG Item# 72516 | RRP £12.99 | 18th November
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A 1945 British romantic comedy drama that was one of the British Film Institute’s ‘75 Most Wanted’ missing British films. It stars Patricia Medina and Jimmy Hanley and also features an early role for a very young Jean Simmons.
Ealing Studios Rarities: Vol 8 Recommended Contains: The Silent Passenger (Denham, 1935), There Ain’t No Justice (Tennyson, 1939), Young Man’s Fancy (Stevenson, 1939) and The Feminine Touch (Jackson, 1956) Released: 4th November Extras: 2 discs. Item# 72622 UK | 1956 | NWORK | 360 | Cert PG
The Ealing rarity project continues with four more titles, including the big-screen debut of Lord Peter Wimsey in The Silent Passenger, which was written specially for the screen by the amateur sleuth’s creator, Dorothy L Sayers. Robert Stevenson’s Young Man’s Fancy is a genuine curio that includes a lengthy interlude set in Paris during the 1870 FrancoPrussian War, where Griffith Jones’ toff debates whether to obey his impecunious parents and wed a wealthy brewer’s daughter or follow his heart and marry a woman who works as a human cannonball. Pen Tennyson’s feature bow, There Ain’t No Justice charts how a mechanic (Jimmy Hanley) risks losing his girlfriend by getting involved with a shady promoter. The film anticipates the problem picture style that became Basil Dearden’s speciality in the postwar era and finds its echo in the final film in the set, The Feminine Touch, a docudrama that makes evocative use of its Guy’s Hospital locations. DP
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Gaslight Recommended Director: Thorold Dickinson Starring: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Robert Newton, Frank Pettingell, Jimmy Hanley Released: 18th November Extras: Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive; Fully illustrated booklet with original essays. Item# 72584 | UK | 1940 | BFI | 84 | B&W | Cert PG
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See Also Footsteps in the Fog Arthur Lubin
Item# 56131 UK | 1955 | 86 | PG | £12.99
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The Queen of Spades
Thorold Dickinson
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Alfred Hitchcock
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here can surely be no higher compliment than the world’s most famous movie studio trying to destroy your film’s negative because it’s a bit too good. That’s the fate that befell Thorold Dickinson’s Gaslight, as it dawned on MGM that their remake didn’t really measure up to the earlier film. Dickinson’s original is a scintillating, richly atmospheric and sickeningly tense suspenser set in Edwardian London, in which a sadistic maniac (Anton Walbrook) returns to the house where his aunt was once strangled, and methodically and insidiously drives his blameless wife Bella (Diana Wynyard) to the brink of madness. The director fairly revels in Walbrook’s dapper deviance, and proves himself every bit as meticulous as his villain, stuffing his gas-lit movie with vivid montages, ingenious juxtapositions and nerveshredding set pieces. The sequence in which Walbrook stage-manages his wife’s breakdown at a charity concert is one of the most harrowing in movie history, Dickinson masterfully dragging his heels as we move towards the inevitable and Bella sits blissfully unaware, listening to the tinkling of ivories. Later, he cuts restlessly between a crucial conversation and a rambunctious music hall show, briefly
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A richly atmospheric suspense film set in Edwardian London stemming the undercurrent of mounting dread via a sea of can-can dancers, only to unleash it in a veritable torrent. Although the vicious, grey-templed Walbrook steals the picture in familiar fashion, as he would in Dickinson’s The Queen of Spades nine years later, Gaslight wouldn’t work without the basic human goodness at its centre. This is a film that finds time to properly humanise its heroine – whose intense fragility is instantly recognisable and whose true character only emerges in the presence of some boisterous street urchins – and equips her with a pair of selfless allies: a rotund retired detective (Frank Pettingell) who smells a Walbrook-shaped rat, and her affable cousin Vincent (a young Robert Newton). Stark, suspenseful and sexually frank, essentially good-hearted and yet dripping with the menace and malevolence of its errant villain, Gaslight remains a must for all fans of classic British cinema. Rick Burin Page 11
Classic Movies Men in War
Anthony Mann Based on Van Van Praag’s 1949 WWII novel of the Normandy campaign, Day Without End, this Korean war drama stars Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as officers whose mutual loathing has to be put to one side if they went to rescue their stranded platoon. USA | 1957 | RENOWN | 102 | Cert PG Item# 72517 | RRP £12.99 | 18th November
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Mr Arkadin
Contains: Harmony Heaven (Bentley, 1930), The Song You Gave Me (Stein, 1933), Over She Goes (Cutts, 1938), Music Hath Charms (Bentley, 1935)
Orson Welles Based on episodes of the radio series ‘The Lives of Harry Lime’, in turn based on the character Welles portrayed in The Third Man, Mr Arkadin stars Welles as an amnesiac financier who hires a fugitive American (Michael Redgrave) to research his past – a task that is fraught with peril.
Released: 11th November Extras: 2 discs. Item# 72647 UK | 1930-38 | NWORK | 301 | B&W | Cert PG
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Salute the Toff Maclean Rogers
A 1952 crime drama that was included on the British Film Institute’s ‘75 Most Wanted’ list of missing British films. Based on John Creasey’s novel, it stars Carol Marsh as a secretary who enlists the help of society sleuth, ‘The Toff’. UK | 1952 | RENOWN | 75 | Cert PG Item# 73064 | RRP £12.99 | 18th November
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James Dean: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Six film collection
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British Musicals of the 1930s
The British screen musical may sometimes lack spectacle and polish, but, as this quartet suggests, they more than atone for this with spirit and an appreciation of popular tastes. The standout title here is the multi-directed Music Hath Charms, which switches between bandleader Henry Hall’s problems in the studio and the effects his music has on hearers, including children, mountaineers, policemen and married couples. It’s like The Goons meets The Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Of the other films, Paul Stein’s The Song You Gave Me features a charming turn by Bebe Daniels as the singer keeping a trio of suitors at bay while she tries to coax a bashful secretary into popping the question. Marriage proposals are also to the fore in Over She Goes, which Stanley Lupino adapted from his own stage play. Finally, Harmony Heaven is fascinating because it is rumoured Alfred Hitchcock helped with a few scenes. But its colour interludes give this backstager about a songwriter’s romantic entanglements its own cachet. DP
Sweet Bird of Youth Recommended
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Director: Richard Brooks Starring: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Corey Allen Released: Out Now Extras: Dutch release: English language menus, original English soundtrack, optional subtitles. Item# 73210 USA | 1962 | Parovisie | 114 | B&W | Cert 15
In the golden run of Tennessee Williams adaptations from the 1950s to the 1960s, Sweet Bird of Youth is seldom discussed as much as the masterly A Streetcar Named Desire or the deranged Suddenly Last Summer. It’s our loss, as this is one of the most engrossing of the lot, eschewing claustrophobic staginess for a crackling ensemble piece. Paul Newman plays Chance, a handsome stud who returns to his home town with a drunken actress (Geraldine Page) in tow. He’s there to reclaim the affections of his true love (Shirley Knight), whose corrupt politician father (Ed Begley) runs the town. But others are determined that Chance leave the town as soon as possible, by fair means or foul. The cast is a wonder. Begley won as Oscar for his spluttering mass of prejudice and bile, but Page is best of all, giving a tour-de-force as a vulnerable yet savvy actress, a more boisterous and feisty Blanche DuBois. Fifty years on, it remains a seething and potent critique of hypocrisy and human failure. AD
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Classic Thrillers Sale Get set for gripping entertainment – we present a clutch of vintage thrill rides, guaranteed to place you on the edge of your seat. For many, the thriller is the most engaging genre in cinema and this selection contains some of the very best examples – enjoy!
Six of Hitchcock’s 1950s films: Strangers on a Train (Special Edition), Dial M For Murder, The Wrong Man, I Confess, North By Northwest and Stage Fright. 7 discs.
Black Widow
Double Confession
Nunnally Johnson
Ken Annakin
Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney and George Raft star in this colourful whodunit set in the world of Broadway theatre. Think All About Eve re-purposed as a murder-mystery.
A confident, tense and authentically seedy little seaside thriller starring William Hartnell and, in his only English role, Peter Lorre. One of the BFI’s ‘75 Most Wanted’ films, now found and restored.
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The Asphalt Jungle
Father Brown
Scarface
Dir: John Huston. Hugely influential in its use of criminal vernacular, this classic heist movie spawned a host of inferior imitations.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Appropriately, Alec Guinness plays a priest detective in this deft and witty adaptation of GK Chesterton’s famous character.
Dir: Howard Hawks. The best, and most brutal, of the classic gangster films. Paul Muni plays the hood with a Napoloeonic urge to become #1.
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The Body Snatcher
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The Shakedown
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Dir: Robert Wise. Boris Karloff stars in one of his most chilling roles as the sinister, grave-robbing ‘resurrection man’ of old Edinburgh. Item# 65653 USA | 1945 | 79 | B&W | PG | £12.99
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21 Days, So Long at the Fair (1950), Hunted (1952), Turn the Key Softly (1953), Sapphire (1959). 5 discs. Item# 68441 UK | 1937-1959 | PG | £24.99
Dir: John Lemont. A gritty British crime film. Terence Morgan plays the newly-released crook getting his business back through blackmail. Item# 67380 UK | 1960 | 89 | B&W | 12 | £12.99
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Great British Actors: Stanley Baker
The Sherlock Holmes Box Set (Restored)
Violent Playground (Dearden, 1958), Sea Fury (Endfield, 1958), Checkpoint (Thomas, 1956). 3 discs.
The definitive collection of 14 restored Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce-era Sherlock Holmes films.
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Experiment in Terror
The Ladykillers
The Third Secret
Dir: Blake Edwards. A classic 1962 thriller. Glenn Ford plays an FBI agent who fights to protect a woman set up as a decoy for a ruthless killer.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Black comedy of the highest order in which robbers hatch the perfect plan, but reckon without their landlady.
Dir: Charles Crichton. When a psychiatrist apparently commits suicide, his daughter (Pamela Franklin) enlists a reporter to help uncover the truth.
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The Fallen Idol
The Lodger
While the City Sleeps
Dir: Carol Reed. A suspenseful British thriller about a child’s first glimpse into adult hypocrisy. Carol Reed and Graham Greene’s first collaboration.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. A masterclass in tension, widely regarded as the first true ‘Hitchcock film’. 3 discs; Restored; Soundtrack CD.
Dir: Fritz Lang. A superb noir that sees a group of newspapermen hunt for a sex murderer, with control of their newspaper the ultimate prize.
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The Broken Melody Dir: Bernard Vorhaus. John Garrick plays the struggling songwriter whose life takes a dark turn when he marries. Merle Oberon co-stars. Item# 64745 UK | 1934 | 78 | B&W | U | £12.99
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Kon Ichikawa When a feudal lord is forced to commit ritual suicide for assaulting a rude court official, 47 of his loyal retainers vow to avenge his death. A 1994 adaptation of the famous story of samurai honour from the director of The Burmese Harp. Jap | 1994 | ANB | 129 | subt | 15 Item# 72766 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
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Il Bidone
Federico Fellini The moving centrepiece of Fellini’s ‘Trilogy of Loneliness’, between La Strada and Nights of Cabiria. Broderick Crawford, Franco Fabrizi and Richard Basehart play the small-time conmen who prey upon the poor and gullible for 36-page booklet. modest gains.
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Felix Van Groeningen Weaving musical performances and different time periods together, this is a heartfelt drama charting the love story between a bluegrass banjo player and a tattoo shop owner who find their love tested to the limits when their daughter becomes gravely ill.
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Josiane Balasko A touching portrait of familial bonds, featuring stunning central performances from Josiane Balasko as Nénette – a 60 year-old with a mental age of 8 – and Michel Blanc as the uptight halfbrother she seeks out after her mother’s death. France | 2013 | STUDC | 87 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 73070 | RRP £19.99 | 9th December
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Betty Blue (Restored) Recommended
Director: Fernando Trueba
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Claudia Cardinale, Aida Folch, Chus Lampreave, Götz Otto
Starring: Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Released: 25th November
Extras: 2 discs; Director’s Cut and Original Theatrical Version; The Making of Betty Blue; Beatrice Dalle Screen Tests.
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Bel | 2012 | STUDC | 107 | subt | 15 Item# 72659 | RRP £19.99 | 25th November
The Artist and the Model
Cinema loves an artist-and-model story, and this is a good one. Like the recent Renoir, it concerns the role of a young model in the final flowering of an artist’s career. The year is 1943, and the sculptor Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) is nudged out of his unproductive dotage by his wife Léa (Claudia Cardinale) when she brings home a Spanish refugee, Mercè, and suggests that the girl model for him. Adopting a leisurely pace appropriate to the subject, director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Chico & Rita) invites contemplation rather than catharsis. War rages on the periphery but seldom intrudes, except in subplots. Everything is subordinated to art, because we see things through the eyes of Cros, who has been reawoken to its power. Gorgeously shot in black-andwhite, The Artist and the Model gives two veteran actors a fine late-career showing. Cardinale is lively and as beautiful as ever; and Rochefort gives a masterclass in less-is-more acting. Even with Cardinale and Folch around, you simply can’t take your eyes off him. NR
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Item# 73022 France | 1986 | 2ND | 177 | subt | Cert 18
Betty Blue is one of the great cult films of the 1980s – its iconic poster, explicit sex scenes and trendy director (Jean-Jacques Beineix, then fresh from the pioneering Diva) helped make it an unprecedented art-house success. The plot involves passionate young couple Zorg and Betty (Jean-Hugues Anglade and Béatrice Dalle) whose affair descends into amour fou as the girl suffers increasingly violent outbursts. With her slightly gawky features and ferocious temperament, Dalle brought a new kind of sexual beauty to the screen that was a far cry from the standard notion of a chic, cool French lady. Her unpredictable rages are electrifying, particularly when she trashes Zorg’s chalet before torching it and racing off in their car. Anglade is equally impressive in a less-showy part, desperate to keep his partner from despair, but ultimately realising his efforts are futile. This new restoration is wonderfully vivid and full of colour, showing off the film’s passion admirably. AD
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World Cinema Foundation: Volume One Recommended Contains: Dry Summer (Erksan, 1964), Trances (El Maanouni, 1981), Revenge (Shinarbaev, 1989) Released: 25th November Extras: Video introductions to each film by Martin Scorsese; 80-page book. Item# 72867 | Turkey | 1964-89 | EUREK | 258 | subt | Cert 15
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See Also My Voyage to Italy Martin Scorsese
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New British Cinema Quarterly Annual: Issue 3 Item# 71066 UK | 2011-12 | 15 | £24.99
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Polish Cinema Classics
Eroica (1958), Innocent Sorcerers (1960). Night Train (1959), & Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960) Item# 67428 ‘58-60 | subt | B&W | £39.99
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ven if he’d never made a film himself, Martin Scorsese’s place in the culture is rock-solid thanks to his parallel career as a cinema Medici. His Film Foundation backs breathtaking restorations of classics from The Red Shoes to Satyajit Ray’s output, while his World Cinema Foundation tracks down undeservedly obscure films, often from less fashionable countries on the world cinema circuit, restores them to the finest modern standards, and brings them a new audience. This first volume in an exciting ongoing series in partnership with Masters of Cinema treats us to three films. The first is Metin Erksan’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Dry Summer (1964). If Luis Buñuel had settled in Turkey instead of Mexico, he might have made something like this melodrama about a tobacco farmer’s desire both to keep his land’s natural resources for himself (despite his spring irrigating the entire village) and to marry his alluring sister-in-law. It’s hard to fault the title of the Kazakh film Revenge (1989), since it shows how a desire for vengeance ends up corrupting entire generations – especially a young
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An exciting first step from Martin Scorsese and Masters of Cinema man conceived to avenge the murder of a step-sister he has never met. Set in Kazakhstan’s Korean community, Ermek Shinarbaev’s film is a visually stunning poetic allegory that becomes more grimly realistic as the 20th century progresses. In contrast, the Moroccan film Trances (1981) is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the band Nass El Ghiwane, who use traditional instruments to create a hypnotically rhythmic accompaniment to poetic and often political lyrics. Ahmed El Maanouni’s film shows the band performing (the concert footage is riveting) and behind the scenes, seeking inspiration from everything from newsreels to amateur street musicians, in the process conducting a two-way dialogue with their audience. In an age defined by the bottom line, the World Cinema Foundation is a praiseworthy venture indeed; let’s hope this is the first release of many. Michael Brooke Page 15
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Mystery
Bigas Luna
Ye Lou
The second chapter in director Bigas Luna’s trilogy concerning women and success, after My Name is Juani (2006). Elsa Pataky stars as an aspiring actress who discovers that the price of fame is higher than she thought after transforming herself into ‘DiDi’ in one final shot at stardom. Spain | 2010 | MATCH | 96 | Cert 15 Item# 73093 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
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Temptation gets the better of a morally flexible man in this drama – part character study, part oddball romance, part thriller – starring Toni Servillo (Il Divo, The Great Beauty) as a prison cashier with a taste for gambling. Italy | 2010 | ART-E | 98 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72826 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
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One of Rossellini’s greatest achievements, Journey to Italy is a quietly absorbing masterpiece and a key work of modern cinema that went on to inspire the nouvelle vague. Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play the English married couple who find themselves in crisis when they travel to Italy to oversee the 2 discs; Alternative Italian sale of a villa. language version; Booklet.
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Starring: Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri Item# 71446 Italy | 2012 | NW | 77 | subt | B&W | Cert 12
A gory sci-fi adult action comedy from Hong Kong, in which the memory of a female policeman is transferred to a robot. Along with another android, they set out to defeat an evil scientist intent on destroying the world. ‘Robocop meets Charlie’s Angels with an adult touch.’
A group of convicts in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. They are real convicts (with one exception) in a real prison, and the final performance is real, but as in the Taviani Brothers’ earlier classic Padre Padrone, the boundaries between documentary and drama are deftly blurred. Whoever first observed that all Italians are born performers will find nothing to disprove that thesis here. The cast are a fascinating bunch of natural thesps, their lived-in features highlighted by the moody black-andwhite photography. Giovanni Arcuri makes an impressive Caesar, but best of all is Salvatore Striano (who was actually released in 2006 but returned for the film) as a charismatic but haunted Brutus. The prison is also a character in itself, and the best sequences use its brutalist architecture as a setting for the play’s key scenes. Other prisoners play the Roman mob, heckling and imploring from cell windows. The interplay between text and context provides some visceral moments, and some drily funny ones, but above all, the Tavianis’ humane worldview presides. NR
Skylab
Julie Delpy
A French comedy from Julie Delpy (Two Days in Paris), Skylab is an affectionately humorous evocation of an extended French family’s boozy gettogether in Brittany in the summer of 1979, as seen through the eyes of a precociously smart 11 year-old girl. The star cast includes Eric Elmosnino, Emmanuelle Riva, Bernadette Lafont and Jean-Louis Coulloc’h. France | 2011 | STUDC | 114 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 73081 | RRP £19.99 | 9th December
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Tokyo Fist
A bittersweet French comedy starring a seasoned cast of perfomers, including Kristin Scott Thomas on top form. She plays a theatre director who asks her husband to have a word with his influential father to prevent the deportation of an illegal immigrant.
Shin’ya Tsukamoto
France | 2012 | Arrow E1 | 100 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 72958 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd December
Jap | 1996 | 3RDW | 84 | subt | 18 Item# 72860 / 72863 | RRP £14.99 | 25th Nov
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Roberto Rossellini
Recommended Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Hong Kong | 1992 | MEDRA | 95 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 72335 | RRP £14.99 | 25th November
Journey to Italy
Caesar Must Die
China / France | 2012 | ART-E | 98 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 72959 | RRP £15.99 | 11th November
Robotrix
Stefano Incerti
Italy | 1953 | BFI | 80 | Cert PG Item# 71913 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd December
A modern noir melodrama set in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles, but a few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car, and the officer in charge of the case doesn’t believe her death was accidental.
Shin’ya Tsukamoto (Tetsu: The Iron Man) steps out from behind the camera and stars as an archetypal Japanese salaryman who trains himself up for revenge when his manipulative brother arrives and seduces his wife.
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Winter World Cinema Sale Journey round our endlessly intriguing planet with this fine selection of international films, featuring justly-revered classics (Au Hasard Balthazar) alongside recent masterpieces (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). A wealth of worthy destinations awaits you.
Au Hasard Balthazar
Beyond the Hills
A dysfunctional French family gathers for Christmas in this quick-witted, wild film, brimming with life and laughter. A fine cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Hippolyte Girardot and Mathieu Amalric.
Robert Bresson
A powerful, riveting drama from the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days about faith, the friendship between two women and exorcism in an Orthodox convent in present-day Romania.
Item# 57856 France | 2008 | 153 | subt | 15 | £19.99
Item# 69440 France | 1966 | 91 | subt | B&W | PG | £15.99
Arnaud Desplechin
Cristian Mungiu
Unadorned, unsentimental, this simple, profoundly moving and deeply affecting tale puts a donkey centre stage and through him we see all humanity. A masterpiece.
Item# 71444 Romania | 2012 | 152 | subt | 12 | £15.99
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Mizoguchi Collection
Red Sorghum
Dir: Chris Kraus. A sensitive portrait of two damaged souls in which the piano teacher in a women’s prison builds a connection with a new girl.
Osaka Elegy (1936), The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), Sisters of the Gion (1936) and Utamaro and his Five Women (1946). 4 discs.
Dir: Zhang Yimou. A spellbinding film in which a man tells the extraordinary tale of his grandmother (Gong Li in her first screen role) in 1920s China.
Item# 54134 Germany | 2006 | 108 | subt | 15 | £17.99
Item# 65197 Jap | 1936-46 | 406 | subt | B&W | PG | £29.99
Item# 55279 China | 1987 | 87 | subt | 15 | £19.99
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Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. Oedipal and incestuous overtones fill Bertolucci’s first Italian-language film in 30 years. A beautifully measured miniature.
Dir: Carlos Reygadas. An evocative, allusive masterpiece examining class, marriage, poverty, gender, our place in nature and how evil lives with us.
Dir: Semih Kaplanogu. A great modern cinematic trilogy of growing up in rural Anatolia: Yumurta (2007), Süt (2008) & Bal (2010). 3 discs.
Item# 71783 Italy | 2012 | 96 | subt | 15 | £15.99
Item# 71967 Mexico | 2012 | 115 | subt | 18 | £15.99
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World Cinema
Silent
Vanishing Waves
Iconic Silent Horror Films
Kristina Buozyte
A Lithuanian sci-fi head trip that recalls the genre in its cerebral 1960s and ‘70s golden age, fusing emotional melodrama with hallucinatory widescreen spectacle. It sees a man attempting to make contact with a comatose woman. Doctors hope for a vague affirmation of consciousness, but the experiment takes an unexpected twist when the couple form a strong, sexually-charged psychic link which sees them meet in a series of dreamscapes. Lithuania / Fr / Belgium | 2012 | ARROW | 124 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 72963 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
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Father Frost Recommended Exclusive Director: Aleksandr Rou Starring: Aleksandr Khvylya, Eduard Izotov Released: Out Now Extras: Russian import; Optional English subtitles; English language menus; Digipack.
The Wall
Julian Pölsler
Item# 72630 Russia | 1964 | Ruscico | subt | Cert 84
A contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story starring Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Others) as a woman who finds herself trapped behind an invisible wall after she travels to a secluded alpine lodge. A highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival.
Let’s talk about colour. The colour inspired in your imagination by childhood fairy tales – that of magical flowers, forbidden fruit, the bubbling cauldron. And let’s talk about fantastical places – woods populated by mushroom people, a walking, squawking witch’s cottage, a cosy ice palace. All these things are very real and alive in this gorgeous children’s classic from Russia. The story is familiar enough – poor girl suffers at the hands of her wicked stepmother who favours the girl’s spoiled brat of a sister. But hope is on its way in the form of a rather vain young lad, who first has to learn some life lessons from various spirits before he is worthy enough to win her hand. The stuff of a thousand tales, but the details are constantly surprising to a western audience; pig sleighs come to life, men turn into bears, and the sun delays dawn for a bit so a lass can finish her knitting. A Soviet-era answer to Disney, its songs, special effects and glorious production design make for a potent mix of natural and supernatural, sweet and sublime, all tempered by a sense of innocent hope. MBa
Austria / Germany | 2012 | NW | 108 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 72656 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
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Item# 73132 Italy | 1989 | 284 | subt | 15 | £19.99
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Nosferatu FW Murnau An iconic film of German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, FW Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror – the screen’s very first adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – continues to haunt modern audiences with the lingering power of its nightmarish images, here allied to Hans Erdmann’s original score. Max Schreck’s rodent-like Count Orlok is a genuinely strange and unsettling presence as the vampire trailing pestilence in his wake – once seen, he is never forgotten. New 2013 highdefinition restoration; The Language of Shadows (Berriatúa, 2007): 53-minute documentary on Murnau; New video interview with BFI Film Classics: Nosferatu author Kevin Jackson; Two audio commentaries; 56-page booklet. Item# 72868 / 72869 Ger | 1922 | 97 | BW | PG | £19.99
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The Phantom of the Opera Rupert Julian A celebrated silent classic which sees Lon Chaney – the ‘man of a thousand faces’ – give his most famous performance in this first version of the tale based on Gaston Leroux’s novel. Chaney stars as the Phantom, a disfigured man living in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, to which he drags a young opera singer with whose voice he has fallen in love. This Photoplay restoration re-instates the tinting and colouring effects, and is accompanied by Carl Davis’s score. 3 discs; Newly restored presentation of the tinted and toned 1929 version; Hi-def presentation of 1925 version; Sequences from the sound version; Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (Brownlow, 2000, 86 mins); Booklet. Item# 72583 USA | 1925 | 89 | B&W | PG | £22.99
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Christmas Gift Guide Spend over £30 with us by Friday 29th November and you can have one of these DVDs for free – but be quick, stocks are limited. With these five fine films you’re spoiled for choice: Michael Haneke’s mysterious Hidden is one of 21st century cinema’s masterpieces; The Cook, the Thief... continues to thrill nearly 25 years on; Ill Met by Moonlight was The Archers’ final collaboration; In Bruges defines black comedy while Spellbound features Peck, Bergman and Dalí! To qualify, just spend over £30 in one order. The £30 can be spent on any DVDs or Blu-rays. Quote ‘EB2013’ when you place your order – online customers should put the code in the Offer Code field at the Checkout.
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Classic Movies These evergreen films have proved their worth time and again and will make perfect presents for lovers of vintage cinema Bad Day at Black Rock John Sturges
David Lean Centenary Collection
Spencer Tracy plays the stranger who arrives in a US desert town on a mission of honour. A brilliant mood piece combining noir with western. Dutch R2 edition, optional subtitles.
In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Sound Barrier, Hobson’s Choice, Passionate Friends, Madeleine.
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Buster Keaton: Complete Short Films 1917-23
Death at Broadcasting House
13 surviving Fatty Arbuckle & Keaton shorts and all 19 of Keaton’s own two-reelers – a succession of the most timeless comedy shorts ever realised. 180 page book; 4 discs.
Reginald Denham
Laurel and Hardy Feature Films Collection
Item# 31086 USA | 1917-23 | 720 | B&W | U | £49.99
Item# 72096 UK | 1934 | 69 | B&W | PG | £9.99
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The Joseph Losey Collection
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A whodunit offering a fascinating behind-thescenes glimpse into the early days of broadcasting, with scenes filmed at the BBC’s new headquarters. DVD: £7.99 Save £2
Seven classic films from the exiled American director, made between 1954-76: The Sleeping Tiger, The Criminal, Eva, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between and Mr Klein. 7 discs. Item# 53918 UK | 1954-70 | 15 | £49.99
A collection of 34 vintage Stan and Ollie films, including early silent shorts, made between 1928-40. Includes classics such as Our Relations, Way out West and Saps at Sea. 10 discs. Item# 66544 USA | 1940 | 1900 | U | £99.99
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CFF Collection: Volumes 1 & 2
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Mary Poppins
Volume 1: London Tales: The Salvage Gang, Operation Third Form and Night Ferry; Volume 2: The Race is On: Sammy’s Super T-Shirt, Soapbox Derby and The Sky Bike.
Seven of Sirk’s finest: Imitation of Life, Written on the Wind, Magnificent Obsession, All I Desire, Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, The Tarnished Angels, All That 7 discs. Heaven Allows.
Classic multiple Oscarwinning fantasy starring Julie Andrews as the Edwardian nanny who brings a breath of fresh air into the lives of a banker’s children. Super califragilisticexpialidocious!
Item# 68627 / 70146 1957-78 | 164 | B&W | U | £19.99
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Cleopatra
Double Confession
To Have and Have Not
Claudette Colbert takes the lead as the eponymous Pharaoh queen in DeMIlle’s outrageous pre-Hays code paean to decadence, depravity, Egyptian excess and unbridled passion.
Ken Annakin
Howard Hawks
Item# 69319 USA | 1934 | 100 | B&W | PG | £16.99
A confident, tense and authentically seedy seaside thriller starring William Hartnell and, in his only English role, Peter Lorre. One of the BFI’s ‘75 Most Wanted’ films, now found.
Echoing his role in Casablanca, Bogart – on screen with Bacall for the first time – is the ex-pat hiding a fugitive from the Nazis. Dutch R2 edition, optional subtitles.
Item# 70356 UK | 1950 | 82 | B&W | PG | £12.99
Item# 69866 USA | 1944 | 96 | B&W | PG | £14.99
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Cecil B. DeMille
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World Cinema We’ve chosen the finest foreign films spanning the history of cinema – perfect presents for sophisticated friends and relatives Jean-Jacques Beineix One of the key films of the 1980s, this is a sexy, sassy odyssey of obsession, passion and neurotic lust, starring Beatrice Dalle. 2 discs; Restored; Director’s & theatrical cut. Item# 73022 / 73023 Fr | 1986 | 177 | subt | 18 | £19.99
The Jean Renoir Collection
The Passion of Joan of Arc
La Grande Illusion (1937), La Marseillaise (1938), La Bête Humaine (1938), Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959), Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe (1959) and Le Caporal Épinglé (1962).
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Item# 66161 France | 1937-62 | 15 | £39.99
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Kurosawa Samurai Collection
Pablo Berger A Spanish black and white silent drama that will appeal to anyone who enjoyed The Artist. The film transplants the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty to the world of bullfighting in 1920s Spain. Item# 72186 Spain / France | 2012 | 105 | B&W | 12 | £19.99
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Five of Kurosawa’s acclaimed samurai epics: Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). 5 discs. Item# 60162 Japan | 1962 | 638 | B&W | 12 | £19.99
An intensely powerful depiction of spiritual grace and suffering, this astounding silent film, charting Joan of Arc’s trial and final days, is one of the great works of cinematic art. Restored. Item# 69184 / 69185 Fr | 1927 | 97 & 84 | B&W | £17.99
Renoir Gilles Bourdos A flame-haired teenager captivates famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his young son Jean in Gilles Bourdos’ evocative drama. An unashamedly shimmering, summery and sensual film. Item# 72657 France | 2012 | 112 | subt | 12 | £17.99
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Love is All You Need
Screen Icons: Alain Delon
A gripping political thriller in which a nondescript functionary Jean-Louis Trintignant) is forced to become a Fascist assassin. The style manual for 1970s cinema. 2 discs.
Susanne Bier
Five films starring the icy blue-eyed Alain Delon: Plein Soleil (Clément, 1960), L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962), Traitement de Choc (1973), Un Flic (Melville, 1972) and 5 discs. Flic Story (1975).
Item# 66743 Italy | 1970 | 113 | subt | 18 | £27.99
Item# 71837 / 71838 De | 2012 | 116 | subt | 15 | £17.99
The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci
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La Gloire de Mon Père / Château de Ma Mère Yves Robert A pairing of glorious Provençal films, based on the memoirs of Marcel Pagnol. 2 discs; Restored. Item# 69241 France | 1990-91 | 202 | subt | U | £29.99
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Set at a picture-perfect summer wedding in Sorrento, this is a subversive, uplifting romantic comedy about starting out on a new life. Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm star.
Item# 33389 France | 1960-75 | 522 | subt | 15 | £34.99
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World Cinema Foundation: Volume One
Pablo Larraín An inspirational, Oscarnominated drama that centres on the real-life advertising whizz – played here by Gael García Bernal – whose vision of positivity helped unseat Augusto Pinochet.
Three neglected masterworks of world cinema, presented by Martin Scorsese: Dry Summer (1964), Trances (1981) and Revenge (1989). 3 discs. Review on p15.
Item# 71756 Chile | 2012 | 118 | subt | 15 | £19.99
Item# 72867 Turkey | 1964-89 | 258 | subt | TBC | £44.99
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Television Nothing quite captures the attention like the extended arc of a TV series – any recipient of these will enjoy hours of entertainment Armchair Theatre
Doctor Who: Regeneration
Love in a Cold Climate
40 plays spread across four volumes from ITV’s flagship drama series, initially screened between 19561973. Features many top actors and scripts from some of TV’s best dramatists.
A fan’s dream collection, containing over 16 hours of Doctor Who footage, including every Doctor’s regeneration adventure in a large book-styled 6 discs; Limited Edition. collector’s album.
Donald McWhinnie
Item# Various UK | 1970-73 | 400 | 12 | £19.99
Item# 71544 UK | 2010 | 12 | £59.99
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Item# 64941 UK | 1980 | 400 | PG | £19.99
BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas
The Fall
Mad Men
Jakob Verbruggen
An expertly-scripted, multiple award-winning, sophisticated period drama centred around a prestigious advertising agency in early 1960s New York. Jon Hamm stars. Seasons 1-6 available separately. 3 discs each.
This expanded collection contains all 12 episodes of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas plus the Classic Ghost Stories series, narrated by Robert Powell.
6 discs.
Item# 72580 UK | 1968-2010 | 830 | 15 | £59.99
Gillian Anderson stars in this acclaimed psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters: one a serial killer who stalks his victims in Belfast; the other a detective trying to trap him. 2 discs. Item# 70427 / 70428 UK | 2013 | 292 | 15 | £19.99
An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, chronicling the English upper classes of the 1920s-30s. Judi Dench and Michael Aldridge star. 2 discs. DVD: £8.99 Save £11
Item# Various USA | 2007 | 15 | £29.99
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The Brontës of Haworth
Game of Thrones
The Returned
The first two series of HBO’s superb medieval fantasy drama in which royal houses battle for the Iron Throne. The involving plot and excellent cast have led to a major hit. Based on George RR Martin’s Ice and Fire novels.
An enthralling, much-praised supernatural French TV series which follows the residents of a small French alpine town as they come to terms with their dead loved ones returning to live among them. 3 discs.
Each member of the Brontë family is brought vividly to life in this series, scripted by playwright Christopher Fry. Vickery Turner, Rosemary McHale and Ann Penfold star 2 discs. as the sisters.
Item# Various USA | 2011 | 18 | £39.99
Item# 72441 France | 2012 | 480 | subt | 18 | £29.99
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Clochemerle
The Hollow Crown
Top of the Lake
Michael Mills An outstanding comic series, scripted by Galton and Simpson, about the goingson in a small Beaujolais town. Cyril Cusack and Wendy Hiller lead the impeccable cast. 2 discs.
Four superb BBC filmed adaptations of Shakespeare’s History Plays – Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 & 2 and Henry V – a cast including Tom Hiddleston and Ben Wishaw. 4 discs.
Item# 72052 UK / Germany | 1972 | 254 | 12 | £19.99
Item# 69374 UK | 2012 | 520 | 12 | £29.99
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Item# 71058 UK | 1973 | 345 | 12 | £19.99
Written and partly directed by Jane Campion, this is an excellent New Zealand crime series, in which Elisabeth Moss’s detective investigates the disappearance of a young girl. A refreshing feminist take on the Nordic Noir genre. 3 discs. Item# 70765 / 71564 Australia | 2013 | 342 | 15 | £19.99
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Animation The Adventures of Tintin: Movie Collection Three adventures starring the hero of the Hergé comic book series, Tintin. Contains The Calculus Affair (1991), Prisoners of the Sun (1992) and Mystery at Shark Lake (1972).
The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet
3 discs.
Item# 72886 Belgium | 1972-92 | 205 | subt | | £12.99
A wonderful hand-painted animated feature from the director of Belleville Rendezvous, based on an unproduced script from Jacques Tati, which brings his magic to life once more.
Clyde Geronimi
Item# 63911 UK / France | 2010 | 77 | PG | £19.99
Item# 72359 USA | 1946 | 75 | U | £9.99
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Disney Pixar Collection
The Jungle Book
Monsters Inc., Monsters University, Toy Stories 1, 2 & 3, Cars, Cars 2, Mater’s Tall Tales, Brave, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Up, Wall-E, A Bug’s Life, Ratatouille, Pixar Shorts Vols 1 & 2. Item# 73202 / 73203 USA | 1995-2013 | PG | £89.99
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Make Mine Music
Wolfgang Reitherman Kipling’s classic tale of the lost boy raised in the jungles of India was the last film Walt Disney worked on before his death and is the perfect distillation of all that is great about Disney. Item# 72360 / 72361 USA | 1967 | 75 | U | £17.99
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A bright, colourful and amusing episodic musical extravaganza that provides a variant on their earlier Fantasia (1940) using the popular music of the mid-1940s. DVD: £8.99 Save £1
Shakespeare: Animated Tales Twelve of the Bard’s plays are faithfully brought to life through animation in these excellent British/Russian productions. At 30 minutes each, they are a perfect introduction. 3 discs. Item# 72855 Russia | 1992 | 360 | £29.99
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Ballet & Opera Peter and the Wolf
Two wonderful collections showcasing the artists, dancers and production highlights staged over the years at The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera.
Prokofiev’s musical fairy tale, has been delighting children since 1936. Choreographer Matthew Hart’s delightful version was recorded by the Royal Ballet School in 2010.
Matthew Hart
The Verdi Edition: 12 Great Operas Macbeth, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Don Carlo, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Aida, Otello.
17 discs.
Item# 69741 / 69743 UK | 2012 | 95 | E | £12.99
Item# 66300 / 66301 UK | 2010 | 38 | E | £14.99
Item# 71684 UK / Spain / Russia | 2050 | E | £99.99
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Mozart: The Glyndebourne Collection
Tchaikovsky: Classic Ballets
The Wagner Edition
All three of Tchaikovsky’s ballets, as performed by the Royal Ballet, in one collection: Sleeping Beauty (2006), Swan Lake (2009) and The Nutcracker (2012). 3 discs.
Seven operas from seven leading European opera houses: Fliegende Hollander, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser.
Item# 72573 / 72576 UK | 2006-12 | 457 | E | £29.99
Item# 69890 UK / Germany | 2011 | 2400 | E | £99.99
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Six operas: Le Nozze di Figaro (1973), Idomeneo (1974), Così Fan Tutte (1975), Die Zauberflöte (1978), Don Giovanni (1977), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1980). Item# 31774 UK | 1973-1980 | 900 | subt | E | £59.99
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Modern Film We present some of 2013’s finest films, plus superb English language highlights from the past few decades The Artist
Man of Steel
Skyfall
Michel Hazanavicius
Zack Snyder
Sam Mendes
Jean Dujardin takes the lead in this highly enjoyable, Oscar-sweeping modern-day silent film comedy set in Hollywood at the dawning of the sound era. A delightful film that deserves its acclaim.
An exhilarating action adventure in which, when an evil force threatens the Earth and its inhabitants, Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) acknowledges his true identity and fights to save the planet.
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond. Here, his loyalty to M (Judi Dench) is tested as the past comes back to haunt her and Bond’s own doubts about his livelihood start to creep in.
Item# 67979 / 67980 France | 2011 | 100 | PG | £24.99
Item# 72883 / 72884 USA | 2013 | 143 | 12 | £19.99
Item# 70393 / 71770 UK / USA | 2012 | 143 | 12 | £22.99
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Before Midnight
Melancholia
Tess
Richard Linklater
Lars von Trier
Roman Polanski
Building on the first two instalments of this beautifully crafted trilogy, Before Midnight offers an insightful, perspective on love and long-term commitment. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke star.
A perceptive psychological disaster movie, Melancholia sees Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael celebrating their marriage while a giant planet is heading towards Earth, threatening destruction.
Nastassja Kinski is irresistible as the wronged woman in Polanski’s beautifully-shot adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s famous tale of a 19th century peasant girl’s life. One of our Vintage Releases of the Year.
Item# 72501 USA | 2013 | 109 | 15 | £19.99
Item# 66815 Denmark | 2011 | 135 | 15 | £15.99
Item# 70141 France / UK | 1979 | 172 | PG | £19.99
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Behind the Candelabra
Much Ado About Nothing
To Rome with Love
Steven Soderbergh
Joss Whedon
Woody Allen
Michael Douglas stars as the flamboyant superstar pianist Liberace in this glitzy film about his relationship with all-American boytoy Scott Thorson (Matt Damon).
Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon’s accessible film, shot in black and white. Richly entertaining.
Allen continues his European tour with this highly enjoyable comedy that follows the lives and loves of characters in Rome. Stars Penélope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg and Allen himself.
Item# 72541 / 72542 USA | 2013 | 118 | 15 | £17.99
Item# 72183 / 72191 US | 2012 | 108 | BW | 12 | £17.99
Item# 70215 USA / Italy / Spain | 2012 | 112 | 12 | £15.99
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Chinatown
Quartet
Roman Polanski
Dustin Hoffman
The Wicker Man: The Final Cut
One of the darkest of the retro private dick movies and one of the seminal American films of the 1970s, in which Jack Nicholson’s detective gets caught up in a web of deceit in 1930s California.
Hoffman’s directorial debut is a charming comedy drama about a group of opera singers whose life is thrown into disarray by a new arrival at their bucolic retirement home. Maggie Smith stars.
Robin Hardy
Item# 70173 / 68258 USA | 1974 | 125 | 15 | £19.99
Item# 70834 / 70835 UK | 2012 | 98 | 12 | £19.99
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Item# 72644 / 72645 UK | 1973 | 84 | 15 | £24.99
Contains three cuts of the legendary film, including the director-approved, newly restored final cut, a CD of the soundtrack and Mark Kermode’s 2001 documentary.
3 discs.
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Documentaries Chasing Ice
The Elstree Story
Side By Side
Jeff Orlowski
Gilbert Gunn
Chris Kenneally
An eloquent film showing the impact of climate change on the world’s ice caps in gorgeous, terrifying pictures that show everything we will lose if the climate changes and we don’t.
Richard Todd introduces this fascinating 1952 documentary which profiles the legendary film studio, its movies, and the stars and technicians who helped to make it one of Europe’s great film centres.
A stimulating documentary presented by Keanu Reeves about the ongoing debate between traditional celluloid and digital film. Renowned directors and experts give their views. 2 discs.
Item# 71635 / 71636 USA | 2012 | 76 | 12 | £14.99
Item# 71078 UK | 1952 | 60 | B&W | 12 | £9.99
Item# 71100 USA | 2012 | 99 | 15 | £15.99
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La Danse Frederick Wiseman
Humphrey Jennings: Vol 3
The Story of Film
A rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous ballet schools in the world, the Paris Opera Ballet, from revered documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who was given unrivalled access.
The third and final volume. Contains: The True Story of Lili Marlene, Eighty Days, Myra Hess, A Diary for Timothy, A Defeated People, The Cumberland Story, The Dim Little Island, Family Portrait.
Mark Cousins
Item# 62492 France / USA | 2009 | 159 | PG | £19.99
Item# 71909 UK | 1944-1951 | 213 | B&W | E | £19.99
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The story of international cinema, lovingly researched and five years in the making, told through the history of cinematic innovation. Mark Cousins presents the 15 hour journey.
5 discs.
Item# 68526 UK | 2011 | 900 | 15 | £49.99
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Dr Mabuse: Der Spieler
Heaven’s Gate Michael Cimino
Late Mizoguchi Box Set
Fritz Lang
The restored, director’s cut of one of the last great westerns. It sank United Artists and was was butchered for initial release, but now it’s rightly hailed as a masterpiece of American cinema.
Eight films from Kenzo Mizoguchi: Sansho Dayu, Gion Bayashi, Oyu-sama, Ugetsu Monogatari, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Uwasa No Onna, Akasen Chitai and Yokihi. 4 discs.
One of the legendary epics of the silent cinema, this chronicle of an evil mastermind plotting to destabilize Germany is one of the early peaks of Lang’s career. 2 discs.
2 discs.
Item# 72627 USA | 1980 | 216 | 15 | £19.99
Item# 72874 Japan | 1951-56 | 764 | subt | 12 | £59.99
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Dracula
Hitchcock: The Ultimate Filmmaker
The Wicker Man (The Final Cut)
Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, Trouble With Harry, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot. 16 discs; Film canister packaging.
The complete package, containing three cuts of the legendary film, including the newly restored ‘final cut’, a soundtrack CD, plus Mark Kermode’s 2001 documentary.
Item# 72948 USA | 1976 | 18 | £159.99
Item# 72645 UK | 1973 | 84 | 15 | £29.99
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Item# 72873 / 73076 1922 | 281 | sub | BW | PG | £19.99
Terence Fisher The definitive release of Hammer’s classic Dracula, starring Christopher Lee as the bloodthirsty vampire Count. 3 discs; 2007 BFI restoration; 2012 Hammer restoration; Many extras. Item# 70451 UK | 1958 | 79 | 15 | £24.99
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For those with everything! Emil and the Detectives
Heaven’s Gate
Lamprecht / Rosmer
The restored, director’s cut of one of the last great westerns. It sank United Artists and was was butchered for initial release, but now it’s rightly hailed as 2 discs. a masterpiece.
Public Information Films of the British Home Front
Michael Cimino
A double-bill of adaptations of the much-loved children’s adventure, pairing the Billy Wilder-scripted Berlin-set film from 1931 with Milton Rosmer’s 1935 version, set in London.
Item# 72626 / 72627 USA | 1980 | 207 | 15 | £15.99
The definitive compilation of WWII films, with Careless Talk Costs Lives, Make-Do and Mend, Dig for Victory and more.
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Item# 59821 UK | 1945 | 281 | B&W | E | £24.99
Les Enfants du Paradis
Schalcken the Painter
Marcel Carné
Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow
One of the most celebrated films in cinema, this richly romantic masterpiece is set in the theatrical world of 19th century Paris. French Film Academy’s ‘Best French Film’.
A rich, wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining collection of 44 films celebrating the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain, with films from 1912-2002.
A sought-after BBC ghost story adapted from Sheridan Le Fanu, set in a meticulous recreation of the milieu of 17th century Dutch painting. A satisfying mix of intelligence and artistry.
Item# 71911 Germany / UK | 1931-35 | 69 | U | £19.99
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Leslie Megahey
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Item# 67854 / 67855 1945 | 182 | sub | BW | PG | £19.99
Item# 65812 UK | 1912-2011 | 360 | E | £22.99
Item# 72582 UK | 1979 | 70 | 15 | £19.99
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Gay & Lesbian Documentaries New Releases
New Releases
Boys On Film X
Leviathan
This tenth edition of the gay-themed shorts series takes things further than ever before, showcasing some of the finest gay filmmaking from around the world. Contains Blinders, A Stable for Disabled Horses, Little Gay Boy, Christ Is Dead, Boy’s Village, Headlong, Yeah Kowalski!, Inflatable Swamp and Teens Like Phil. USA / UK / France | 2010-12 | PECCA | Cert 18 Item# 73096 | RRP £15.99 | 25th November
An immersive, wordless film that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing in the treacherous waters off the New England coast. It’s a visceral, sensory experience that is also a sort of maritime cousin to Our Daily Bread. France / UK / USA | 2012 | DOGW | 87 | Cert 12 Item# 73084 / 73089 | RRP £14.99 | 9th Dec
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I Do
Milius
Glenn Gaylord
Joey Figueroa
A British man with a life and career in New York sees his life crumble when his work visa is denied. He convinces a lesbian friend to marry him so he can continue living there, but the authorities suspect something is amiss.
A profile of the controversial Hollywood director, a man whose forthright political views put him out-of-sync with the liberal movers and shakers in Hollywood. Features interviews with friends, family, Hollywood stars and Milius himself.
USA | 2012 | PECCA | 91 | Cert 15 Item# 72662 | RRP £15.99 | 28th October
USA | 2013 | STUDC | 103 | Cert 15 Item# 72670 | RRP £19.99 | 18th November
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Margarita
Dominique Cardona The closing film of the 2013 BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, this is a warm, funny and loving Canadian family drama, looking at issues around race, class and immigration. It begins when a couple decides to get rid of their resourceful and devoted nanny. Canada | 2012 | PECCA | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 72900 | RRP £12.99 | 25th November
Monster Pies When Mike’s English teacher pairs him up for a class assignment on Romeo and Juliet with the new kid William, Mike can’t believe his luck. As the two spend ever more time working together on a monster movie version of the Bard’s tale, they realize their feelings for one another may be more powerful than either is truly ready for.
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Lutz Becker / Philippe Mora Contains Swastika (Becker & Mora, 1973), which, through archive footage and Eva Braun’s home movies, portrays the human side of Adolf Hitler, and Double Headed Eagle (Becker, 1974), which shows how the Nazis exploited the chaos 2 discs. of 1918-33.
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Lee Galea
Australia | 2013 | TLAUK | 90 | Cert 18 Item# 71981 | RRP £15.99 | 11th November
Swastika / Double Headed Eagle
UK | 1973-74 | ODEON | 181 | Cert E Item# 72894 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now
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Weekend of a Champion Roman Polanski
Motor racing fan Roman Polanski spends a weekend with F1 champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempts to win the Monaco Grand Prix in 1971. In a coda made in 2012, Polanski and Stewart discuss changes in motor racing. UK | 1972 | UPV | 80 | Cert E Item# 73134 | RRP £12.99 | 4th November
The Act of Killing Recommended Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Released: 25th November Extras: 2 discs; Director’s Cut; Deleted Scenes; Director’s Commentary featuring Werner Herzog; The Murders of Gonzago: Errol Morris Essay. Item# 72851 UK / Den | 2012 | DOGW | 122 | subt | Cert 15
A rotund talentspotter is roaming the backstreets of an Indonesian city, looking for women and children to play the roles of victims in a grand historical epic. He could be any Hollywood bigshot, bullying and cajoling until he gets his own way, except for one key fact. The man is a real-life murderer – one of many who killed hundreds of thousands of alleged Communists in the wake of the military dictatorship that seized control of the country in 1965. Director Joshua Oppenheimer has asked him to recreate some of his more memorable killings with the help of his film crew and equipment. This startling documentary is a ballsy, gristly endeavour, a radical rethink of traditional documentary methods and motives. The participants believed they were going to be the stars of a rousing, adoring tribute film; what they got instead was royally stitched up. The stunning final scenes, in which Oppenheimer plays the killers’ handiwork back to them, have an immediacy you won’t easily forget. MM
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Animation New Releases The Croods
Chris Sanders
A stone-age family embarks on a journey of discovery in this animated comedy featuring the vocal talents of Nicolas Cage and Catherine Keener. As they venture out into a wondrous, unknown world in search of a new home, the family teams up with a nomadic caveboy (Ryan Reynolds). USA | 2013 | FOX | 98 | Cert U Item# 73029 / 73031 | RRP £19.99 | 9th Dec
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Despicable Me 2 Pierre Coffin
Foreign TV Sale
Bring the world’s greatest series to your settee. We present some of the finest international TV available on DVD, at bargain prices. Detectives, politics, war and much more – hours of viewing pleasure await.
Borgen This engaging Scandinavian drama series from the producers of The Killing follows the political and personal machinations of politicians, media spinners and the reporters who feed off their triumphs and failures. Item# Various Denmark | 2010 | 580 | subt | 15 | £39.99
Arch-criminal Gru (Steve Carell) and his minions return in this animated comedy sequel in which Gru is abducted by the Anti-Villain League to combat the dastardly super-villain Eduardo (Benjamin Bratt). Also available in a double-pack with Despicable Me.
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Wallander: Collected Films Four volumes covering 26 of the original feature-length crime thrillers from Swedish TV starring Krister Henriksson as Henning Mankell’s perpetually hangdog detective Kurt Wallander. Item# Various Sweden | 2005 | 630 | subt | 15 | £49.99
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The Bridge: Series 1
The Killing
A gripping Scandinavian crime drama that begins with the discovery of a spliced body on the Swedish / Danish border. 3 discs.
The riveting Danish TV thriller, acclaimed as one of the finest murder investigation series ever produced.
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Das Boot: Mini Series
Maison Close
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen. The series of life on a wartime German submarine. A brilliant odyssey of survival, desperation and human tragedy.
The first two seasons of this sumptuously produced French drama of sex and servitude, set in a Parisian brothel in 1871. 3 discs each.
The complete collection of Pixar movies: Monsters Inc., Monsters University, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Cars, Cars 2, Mater’s Tall Tales, Brave, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Up, Wall-E, A Bug’s Life, Pixar Shorts Volumes 1 & 2, 25 discs. Ratatouille.
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Dir: Roland Suso Richter. A gripping German made-for-TV drama about the bombing raid that saw the near total destruction of Dresden.
Dir: Jo Baier. German drama based on real events in 1944. Sebastian Koch stars as the Lieutenant who devises a bold plot assassinate Hitler.
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Pixar’s sequel to Monsters, Inc., chronicling the university years of Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal), who have to put their differences aside and work together in order to fulfil their ambition to Short become scarers. film: The Blue Umbrella. USA | 2013 | WDHV | 111 | Cert U Item# 73177 / 73181 | RRP £19.99 | 11th Nov
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, The Girl who Played with Fire. 4 discs. Item# 65695 / 65696 Sw | 2009 | 595 | sub | 18 | £39.99
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Dir: Gideon Raff. The first series of the original, highly-rated Israeli drama that inspired its US counterpart, Homeland. 3 discs. Item# 68607 Israel | 2009 | 495 | subt | 15 | £34.99
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The first two seasons of this fastpaced, exhilarating Danish crime drama about an elite police squad. Mads Mikkelson stars. Item# 70189 / 71496 De | 2000 | 522 | subt | 15 | £24.99
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Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Special Nick Hurran
The Day of the Doctor is the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat and described by series producer Marcus Wilson as ‘a love letter to its fans’. Matt Smith, John Hurt, David Tennant and Billie Piper star.
Breaking Bad: Season 5.2
The final eight episodes of the fifth and final season of the American drama starring Bryan Cranston as the high school chemistry teacher turned crystal meth producer. Alternative ending; Commentaries; Behind-the-Scenes; Extended scenes; Also available: 21 disc complete series box set. USA | 2013 | COL-T | 390 | Cert TBC Item# Various | RRP £24.99 | 25th November
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Breathless
The first series of ITV’s drama based around a busy Gynaecology unit in an NHS hospital in 1961, when abortion was illegal and the contraceptive pill only available to married women. Jack Davenport stars as surgeon Otto 2 discs. Powell.
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David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals Using modern scientific advances and research into fossils, David Attenborough investigates how animals alive today have evolved from a small number of ancient life forms – and how modern human beings resemble primeval creatures.
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Unseen in the UK for 45 years, this recently discovered Doctor Who adventure has now been restored and remastered. It was the fourth tale of Series 5 and stars Patrick Troughton as both the Doctor and his antagonist Ramon Salamander.
The Escape Artist Brian Welsh
Choirmaster Gareth Malone assembles a choir from four workplaces – Lewisham Hospital, the Bristol branch of Royal Mail, Manchester Airport and Severn Trent Water – and sends them to the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen to find out which is the most tuneful.
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Barry Letts
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
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The Choir: Sing While You Work
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A thrilling BBC drama starring David Tennant as a junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. However, when his uses his talents to acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with 2 discs. unexpected and chilling results. UK | 2013 | ACORN | 258 | Cert 15 Item# 72763 | RRP £19.99 | 18th November
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Galapagos with David Attenborough
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago to explore how life on the islands has continued to evolve in 3 discs; NB: 3D Blu-ray biological isolation. can be viewed as a standard Blu-Ray. UK | 2013 | GO-D | 180 | Cert E Item# 73100 / 73101 | RRP £19.99 | 18th Nov
Schalcken the Painter Recommended Director: Leslie Megahey Starring: Maurice Denham, Jeremy Clyde, Cheryl Kennedy, John Justin, Charles Gray Released: 18th November Extras: 2 discs; The Pit (1962, Abraham); The Pledge (Rumsey, 1981); Interview with Leslie Megahey (2013, 40 mins); Booklet. Item# 72582 UK | 1979 | BFI | 70 | Cert 15
As its title announces, Schalcken the Painter, made for BBC’s Omnibus in 1979, is a fictional story based on the real paintings of the 17th century Dutch painter, Godfried Schalcken. It’s also a lot more besides. On one level it’s a ghost story – an effective one too, adapted from Sheridan Le Fanu’s tale of the same name; on another it’s a biographical portrait of the painters Godfried Schalcken and his mentor, Gerrit Dou; it’s also a parable about greed and covetousness, wealth and value, and, not least, it’s a meticulous recreation of the practices of Dutch 17th century painting, as exquisitely lit and composed as the canvases of Vermeer from which it takes its cue. The tale, in which a mysterious man of ghoulish aspect presents a coffer of gold to buy Gerrit Dou’s niece, only for her to disappear entirely thereafter, is told through a series of exquisitely composed scenes. It’s a rare and satisfying combination of intelligence and artistry, in all its forms. GH
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An Age of Kings Recommended Director: Michael Hayes Contains: Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III Starring: Robert Hardy, Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Julian Glover, Eileen Atkins Released: 8th December Extras: 5 discs; Making-of, featuring an interview with Tony Garnett. Item# 73166 | UK | 1960 | I-MIN | 960 | B&W | Cert E
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s befits our national poet, Shakespeare has long been a staple of the BBC schedules, from the earliest days of the wireless through to last year’s excellent The Hollow Crown quartet. Dating from 1960, An Age of Kings wasn’t the first time the Beeb put the Bard on the box (that seems to have been The Merchant of Venice, in 1947) but it must stand amongst the most notable – and most ambitious – Shakespearean seasons that Auntie has ever attempted. Made when television production was still rudimentary, it’s an epic fifteen part staging of the principal history plays, from Richard II to Richard III, with all those Henrys in between. By any standards, then, it is a landmark. But that’s the worst reason to watch it: An Age of Kings is important because of the sheer quality of the production. Like all stagings of Shakespeare, it is a product of its time. This is a very classical take on the plays, with an emphasis on clarity many modern directors could learn from. Yet it also acknowledges styles are changing. It’s fascinating to see an old guard of actors – Frank Pettingell (Falstaff), Tom ‘the voice of Royal occasion’ Fleming (Bolingbroke) – mixing it with a younger
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The BBC’s epic 1960 staging of the history plays of Shakespeare generation whose instincts were maybe more attuned to the Royal Court than the West End, like Robert Hardy (Prince Hal and thereafter), Judi Dench (Princess Katherine) and, most intriguingly, Sean Connery, whose excellent Hotspur suggests the path he might have trodden had Bond not come his way. Lacking the resources later directors would enjoy (like the option of another take: these plays were transmitted live), Michael Hayes very sensibly lets Shakespeare take most of the strain and puts an emphasis on the words. For all the technical limitations, though, Hayes still finds interesting, imaginative set-ups and makes excellent use of the limited television space. It’s an approach that could stand as a model for putting Shakespeare on screen. Obviously, Shakespeare’s work is immortal, but adaptations of it don’t always survive the years so well. An Age of Kings does so in fine style. James Oliver Page 33
Television The complete first and second series of I’m Alan Partridge, starring Steve Coogan as the failed chat show host and now graveyard shift presenter on Radio Norwich, plotting his way back to the promised land of television. 2 discs each.
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Mad Men: Season 6
All 13 episodes from the sixth season of the Golden Globe-winning drama set in a prestigious advertising agency in 1960s New York. Jon Hamm stars as the indefatigable ad executive Don Draper. In this season, amidst the turmoil of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Don proposes that SCDP merge with rivals Cutler Gleason and Chaough in order to win the 3 discs; Also available: Chevrolet account. 18 disc complete seasons 1-6 box set. USA | 2013 | LGATE | Cert 15 Item# Various | RRP £29.99 | 4th November
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Martina Cole’s Lady Killers
Documentary series in which crime writer Martina Cole casts her eye over the lives of infamous female murderers, pondering the motives that may have led them to kill and the effect of their actions. The programmes consider Myra Hindley, Rose West, Beverley Allit, Amelia Dyer, Elizabeth Báthory and serial poisoner 6 discs. Mary Ann Cotton. UK | 2008 | DMND | 400 | Cert E Item# 69353 | RRP £24.99 | 18th November
Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
The terrestrial arthropods – bugs – are the most dominant animals on our planet. They outnumber us in their hundreds of billions and have survived for 500 million years. They are so intrinsic to the natural world that without them we would struggle to exist. In this series, David Attenborough delves deep into their 3 discs; NB: 3D Blu-ray can be world. viewed as a standard Blu-Ray. UK | 2013 | GO-D | 180 | Cert E Item# 73102 / 73103 | RRP £19.99 | 18th Nov
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Softly Softly Task Force: Series 1 Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor star as the two hard-nosed officers who head south to lead a task force in the fictional town of Thamesford in this colour spin-off from Z Cars. Contains all sixteen episodes from the first 4 discs. series.
UK | 1970 | SIMP | 800 | Cert 12 Item# 73189 | RRP £34.99 | 11th November
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Spyship
Michael Custance
A fine, tense six-part BBC Cold War drama inspired by real events. When a British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappear off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor (Tom Wilkinson) is determined to find out why, with his investigations leading him to Royal Navy stonewalling and an impenetrable 2 discs. Soviet Politburo. UK | 1983 | SIMP | 330 | Cert 12 Item# 73220 | RRP £24.99 | 18th November
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The Paradise: Series 2
BBC drama set amidst the Victorian splendour of Britain’s first department store, where a young girl (Joanna Vanderham) finds her feet as a lowly shop girl. This second series sees The Paradise reopen its doors, with faces old and new battling for its 3 discs; Also control. available: 6 disc complete series 1 & 2 box set.
Those Crackerjack Silents: Don and Pete Crackerjack was a much loved British children’s comedy show which aired on the BBC from 19551984. The show’s silent comedy style sections starring Don Maclean and Peter Glaze were a highlight, and twelve of them are collected here.
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Supernatural Recommended Contains: Ghosts of Venice, Countess Ilona, The Werewolf Reunion, Mr Nightingale, Lady Sybil, Viktoria and Night of the Marionettes Starring: Robert Hardy, Gordon Jackson, Denholm Elliott, Billie Whitelaw, Vladek Sheybal, Sinéad Cusack, Lesley-Anne Down, Jeremy Brett Released: 18th November Extras: 2 discs; Fully illustrated booklet. Item# 72581 UK | 1977 | BFI | 400 | Cert 15
Those wishing to join the gentlemen’s storytelling society, The Club of the Damned, must tell the gathered members a ‘true life tale of terror’ in order to gain entrance. But if the story fails to frighten the listeners, the storyteller must pay with his life... So begins each instalment of Robert Muller’s 1977 BBC anthology series offering seven tales of ghosts, vampires, werewolves and doppelgangers, all of which elegantly recall the classics of Gothic literature. With its castles and carriages and eerie forests, the series is steeped in the visual signifiers of the genre. But it draws much of its power from evoking an atmosphere of the supernatural rather than explicitly showing it. And its remarkable parade of actors adds further shine to the literate scripts while skilfully raising dark veins of psychodrama. Unearthed from the archives after 36 years of obscurity, Supernatural takes its place alongside those other, undead BBC classics (Dead of Night, Robin Redbreast) that are frightening us all over again on DVD. JU
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Television Threads
Mick Jackson
Originally broadcast at the height of the nuclear paranoia of the 1980s, Threads sent shock waves throughout the country. In its documentary-style account of a nuclear strike on Sheffield, as seen through the eyes of two families, it delivers one of the most powerful anti-nuclear messages ever presented on film. Written by Barry Hines (Kes), the series made a powerful and lasting impact on those who saw it. UK | 1984 | SIMP | 112 | Cert 15 Item# 73222 | RRP £13.99 | 18th November
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Van Veeteren: Volume 2 Three feature-length Swedish crime dramas based on the best-selling series of novels by Håkan Nesser about the experienced detective Van Veeteren (Sven Wollter) and his team. Contains Carambole, The Swallow, The Cat, The Rose and Death and 2 discs. Case G.
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Vicious
Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi star in this new sitcom as partners Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together in a small central London flat for nearly 50 years. Despite holding on to petty slights for decades, they have a deep love for each other. Then a new young neighbour (Iwan Rheon) steps into their lives. Frances de la Tour plays their feisty friend.
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The Snowman / The Snowman and the Snowdog
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Murder Most Horrid: The Complete Collection Item# 73239 UK | 1999 | 660 | 15 | £29.99
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A charming pairing of Dianne Jackson’s original animated film, based on Raymond Briggs’ story, and a new sequel, The Snowman and the Snowdog, created to mark the original’s 30th anniversary. 2 discs.
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Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre A limited edition box set containing the Globe Theatre productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dromgoole, 2009), As You Like It (Russman, 2009) and Romeo & Juliet (Dromgoole, 2009).
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As You Like It Dir: Kris Russman. The Globe’s 2009 production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies, starring Naomi Frederick and Jack Laskey. Item# 61845 / 61846 UK | 2009 | 147 | E | £19.99
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Henry VIII Dir: Mark Rosenblatt. This 2010 production was the Globe’s first staging of Henry VIII since 1613. Dominic Rowan takes the lead. Item# 68888 UK | 2010 | 161 | E | £19.99
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Romeo and Juliet Dir: Dromgoole & Russman. Shakespeare’s heartbreaking love story, recorded live in 2009, stars Adetomiwa Edun and Ellie Kendrick. Item# 61926 / 61927 UK | 2009 | 150 | E | £19.99
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Twelfth Night An outstanding all-male production of one of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, starring Mark Rylance as Olivia and Stephen Fry as Malvolio. Item# 72340 UK / Ireland | 2012 | 176 | E | £19.99
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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present
The Lone Ranger
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Gore Verbinski
Native American Tonto (Johnny Depp) tells the story of how lawman John Reid (Armie Hammer) became the legendary masked figure known as The Lone Ranger in this film which replaces the triumphalist legend of westward expansion with a more guilt-ridden tale.
Christmas Angel Stephen Cookson
Scooping up six awards at the Monaco Film Festival, this London-set seasonal fantasy sees a 15 year-old boy whose mother is involved in a serious car accident have a dream that she needs an angel’s halo to be saved. Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn star. UK | 2011 | NHZF | 86 | Cert U Item# 73086 | RRP £14.99 | 4th November
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Sloane U’Ren A multi-award winning period indie sci-fi film in which a young Cambridge scientist is obsessed with revisiting his past, but jealousy and desire send him spiralling towards madness. ‘Merchant-Ivory meets time travel’ (BFI). UK | 2011 | FILM | 97 | Cert 12 Item# 73112 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now
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Lust in the Dust When enigmatic lone cowboy Abel Wood rides into town, the locals suspect he has come in search of buried gold and he soon faces stiff competition to get to the booty. A treat both for fans of Westerns and lovers of John Waterstype subversive humour. Divine turns in a typically larger-than-life performance, whilst Tab Hunter, in the role of Abel, delivers a gun-toting turn worthy of Clint Eastwood himself.
Starring: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Simon Delaney, Nigel Lindsay
Man of Steel
Paul Feig
A comedy of two mismatched cops. Unaware that her colleagues hate her, a prim special agent (Sandra Bullock) is sent to Boston where she is teamed up with a foulmouthed detective (Melissa McCarthy) to take down a local drug baron. USA | 2013 | FOX | 117 | Cert 15 Item# 73030 / 73033 | RRP £19.99 | 25th Nov
The Internecine Project Ken Hughes
Classic 70s political thriller starring James Coburn as a retired secret agent due to be appointed as a consultant to the President. Before he can take up his position he needs to deal with four people who are witnesses to his murky past, and organises to have each witness kill the other. UK / Germany | 1974 | ODEON | 85 | Cert 15 Item# 72942 | RRP £12.99 | 18th November
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Zack Snyder
An action adventure based on the DC Comics hero. Henry Cavill plays the man who assumes his true identity as a superhero and fights to save the planet when an evil force threatens the Earth and its inhabitants. Amy Adams plays Lois Lane. USA | 2013 | WHV | 143 | Cert 12 Item# 72883 / 72884 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd Dec
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Paul Bartel
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Mister Johnson Bruce Beresford
Mister Johnson is an ambitious anglophile African clerk in 1920s West Africa. With a thirst for English traditions and a longing for the white man’s riches, his colour and intellect mark him as a threat in the minds of the white colonists. Adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel. Pierce Brosnan and Maynard Eziashi star. USA | 1990 | ODEON | 97 | Cert PG Item# 72974 | RRP £12.99 | 2nd December
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Steve Coogan’s bumbling comic TV creation finds himself on the big screen, with Alpha Papa doing its best to reposition a character previously encountered as a prizewinning prat as the closest thing North Norfolk has to an indomitable hero: the first man the police think to turn to as negotiator after an aggrieved Irish DJ (Colm Meaney) starts taking hostages at a party intended to celebrate North Norfolk Digital’s absorption by a multimedia conglomerate. Of course, Alan loves the idea: the role offers him the chance to don a bulletproof vest and live out all those macho Andy McNab fantasies fostered during those long dark nights in the Linton Travel Tavern. And, of course, the gag is that he’s a rubbish negotiator, ducking out, falling asleep or failing to respond when the opportunity presents itself. Ever since the days of Tony Ferrino and Phileas Fogg, Coogan has been champing at the bit to play the lover and the hero. He’s reached the point in his career where he can try it – and make a success of it too. MM
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December 2013 MovieMail Film Catalogue
Blu-ray Only God Forgives
Nikolas Winding Refn A neon-drenched, Thai-set revenge thriller from Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive). Ryan Gosling plays an ex-pat gangster who wants to break the cycle of violence, but his monstrous mother (gamely played by Kristin Scott Thomas) drives him towards a showdown. USA / Thailand / France | 2013 | LGATE | 90 | Cert 18 Item# 72636 / 72637 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd Dec
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Piercing Brightness Shezad Dawood
A feature film from artist Shezad Dawood, using science fiction as a backdrop from which to contest notions of race, migration and identity. Its atmospheric soundscape is scored by Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple and its non-linear storyline pays homage to sci-fi clas2 discs. sics in which aliens live among us. UK | 2013 | SodaElev | 76 | Cert 15 Item# 72564 | RRP £22.99 | 11th November
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Suspension of Disbelief Mike Figgis
A mystery thriller from Mike Figgis, starring Sebastian Koch as a writer for cinema who teaches his trade to film school students. Then he becomes the prime suspect for the murder of a mysterious girl he meets at his daughter’s 25th birthday party. UK | 2012 | VER | 112 | Cert 15 Item# 72432 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now
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Viva
Anna Biller
The World’s End Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Nick Frost star in this wildly entertaining sci-fi comedy about a group of friends who reunite to complete the pub crawl they abandoned in their youth. After setting out on their quest, the friends’ objective soon pales into insignificance when they realise that the fate of the human race may Making-of; Deleted rest in their hands. Scene; Outtakes; Commentary. UK | 2013 | UPV | 109 | Cert 15 Item# 72988 / 72989 | RRP £19.99 | 25th Nov
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Baltasar Kormákur
Item# 72925 USA | 2013 | 109 | 15 | £19.99
Highlights The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer
Item# 72852 2012 | 115 | subt | 15 | £19.99
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Declan Lowney
Item# 72939 UK | 2013 | 90 | 15 | £24.99
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Betty Blue (Restored) Jean-Jacques Beineix Item# 73023 Fr | 1986 | subt | 18 | £19.99
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Disney Pixar Collection Item# 73203 USA | PG | £122.99
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Gaslight
Thorold Dickinson
Item# 72584 UK | 1940 | 84 | PG | £19.99
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Red 2
Heaven’s Gate
Dean Parisot
Item# 72804 USA | 2013 | 116 | 12 | £19.99
Michael Cimino
Item# 72627 USA | 1980 | 216 | 15 | £19.99
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The Wolverine
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
James Mangold
Item# 73028 USA | 2013 | 126 | 12 | £19.99
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Philip Kaufman
Item# 72966 USA | 1978 | 111 | 15 | £19.99
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Big Trouble in Little China
Robert Altman
Item# 72929 USA | 1986 | 95 | 15 | £19.99
Only God Forgives
John Carpenter
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The Long Goodbye Item# 73217 USA | 1973 | 107 | 18 | £19.99
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Nikolas Winding Refn
Clint Eastwood 20 Film Collection
Item# 72637 USA | 2013 | 90 | 18 | £24.99
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Leslie Megahey
Item# 73137 USA | 1971-2012 |18 | £99.99
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Schalcken the Painter
Retro sexploitation drama written, directed by and starring Anna Biller, who plays a bored suburban housewife in 1972 LA where, abandoned by her husband, she finds herself in the middle of the sexual revolution. Looking for adventure, she is dragged into the worlds of modelling, nudist colonies, orgies, prostitution, drugs and bohemia, finding liberation along the way.
Conan the Barbarian
Item# 72582 UK | 1979 | 70 | 15 | £19.99
Item# 73054 USA | 1981 | 121 | 15 | £17.99
Stromboli
USA | 2007 | SHAME | 120 | Cert 18 Item# 73021 | RRP £15.99 | 18th November
Robert Altman
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John Milius
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman
Item# 72966 USA | 1978 | 111 | 15 | £19.99
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The Long Goodbye Item# 73217 USA | 1973 | 107 | 18 | £19.99
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Roberto Rossellini
Item# 70677 Italy | 1949 | 102 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99
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World Cinema Foundation: Volume One
Erksan / El Maanouni / Shinarbaev Item# 72867 Turkey | 1964-89 | 258 | subt | TBC | £44.99
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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats
An Adventure in Time
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his month sees the fiftieth anniversary of what might be the most influential British television programme ever. Doctor Who was a children’s show that became a national institution and, along the way, inspired generations of writers, musicians, scientists and more. No wonder the BBC are making a meal of the half-century. It wasn’t an anniversary this column intended to celebrate: after all, we’ve tackled Doctor Who before and while I still enjoy Old Who (the post 2005 stuff leaves me utterly cold), my affection has waned over the years. Or so I thought. At the time of writing, the BBC has just announced the recovery of nine previously lost episodes, from The Enemy of the World (buy! buy! buy!) and The Web of Fear (coming February 2014), two slices of prime Patrick Troughton. Oh, my giddy aunt! New Old Who! I don’t know what startled me more: the discovery or the fact that it made me so excited. So it is this column returns to (oldschool) Who. Looked at objectively, its appeal is mysterious. God knows, there are some profoundly duff stories and the production values are all too frequently woeful. So it’s worth asking why it endures so. Why does it command such an intense loyalty? The answer is complicated and manifold, but one point I want to stress is that ‘Doctor Who’ means different things to different people. While most TV programmes evolve gradually, Doctor Who is blessed with a format – a man, a companion, a magical police-box – that allows it to constantly re-invent itself. Every adventure re-sets the clock: a new world, a new approach, a new set of rules. And when the lead actor’s had enough, the format allows him to hand over to someone else with a minimum
Doctor Who is a very broad church – this is at the heart of its enduring appeal of fuss. ‘Doctor Who’ is, then, a banner that covered a multitude of programmes: despite its billing, it’s never simply been a sci-fi show. It’s a junior horror show, a fantasy, an adventure and much more besides. I’m fascinated by what I think of as Art-House Who: things like Warrior’s Gate (available on the E-Space Trilogy box set) which is anything but a behind-the-sofa shocker, explicitly quoting from Jean Cocteau. Or the utterly sui-generis Kinda (available on the Mara Tales set), which might be the most bizarre-in-agood-way piece of mainstream telly ever made. Not every Who fan would share my affection for those but that’s entirely my point: Doctor Who is a very broad church that serves many tastes. It stretches from the high comedy of City of Death (co-written by Douglas Adams, no less) to the all-out horror of Pyramids of Mars (terrifying Egyptian Gothic, with the Doctor stalked by
robot mummies). I haven’t, thus far, mentioned one glaringly obvious point, that an attachment to a children’s show might be, in part, a way of preserving a link to one’s own infancy. I’d counter that by pointing to a large body of very good stories, the best of which stand amongst the finest television of their respective eras (well, up to about 1984 at any rate). Everyone has their own version of what Doctor Who means to them and it’s invariably highly selective. So while I disdain much of the programme, there’s more than enough I can enjoy as an adult, free from any guilt. And this seems a good time to watch some of them again.
Related Films The Enemy of the World Barry Letts
Item# 73214 UK | 1967 | 150 | PG | £19.99
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E-Space Trilogy Peter Moffatt
Item# 57290 UK | 1980-81 | PG | £34.25
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Mara Tales
Item# 64380 UK | 1982-83 | PG | £29.99
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Christmas Film & TV Sale
Our selection of festive film and television will inspire nostalgia, affection and a yuletide glow for Christmases past. DVDs and Blu-rays from £5.99
Arthur Christmas
Holiday Affair
Barry Cook
Don Hartman
Animated family comedy co-produced by Aardman, in which Santa’s young son sets out to deliver a missed present. Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Laurie and Bill Nighy deliver the voices.
Romantic comedy starring Robert Mitchum as a store employee who loses his job over a customer (Janet Leigh). She is due to marry on New Year’s Day – is there time to stake a claim in her heart?
Frank Capra
Item# 69325 UK / USA | 2011 | 97 | U | £19.99
Item# 63171 USA | 1949 | 87 | B&W | U | £12.99
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Item# 60314 / 66771 US | 1946 | 130 | B&W | U | £17.99
The Box of Delights
Holiday Inn
Nativity! / Nativity 2
A nostalgic yuletide gem from John Masefield’s book in which a boy on his prewar Christmas hols becomes embroiled in a war of pagan gods.
Dir: Mark Sandrich. Music by Irving Berlin, songs by Bing Crosby, dancing by Fred Astaire! A delightful musical featuring ‘White Christmas’.
Dir: Debbie Isitt. Two feelgood festive treats starring Martin Freeman and then David Tennant as teachers in trouble with Christmas nativity plays.
Item# 58116 UK | 1984 | 166 | U | £14.99
Item# 63688 USA | 1942 | 101 | B&W | U | £12.99
Item# 63545 / 70467 UK | 2009 | 106 | PG | £19.99
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Nativity: £6.99 Nativity 2: £12.99
A Christmas Carol: The Northern Ballet
The Holly and the Ivy
Scrooge in Colour
Dir: George More O’Ferrall. Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson star in this heartwarming vintage British film about the true spirit of Christmas.
Dir: Brian Desmond Hurst. Alastair Sim (who else?) stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this much-loved adaptation.
An evergreen Christmas tale in which an angel shows James Stewart’s despairing businessman how people’s lives would be different if he had never existed. DVD: £13.99 Save £4 Blu-ray: £16.99
Item# 60096 UK | 1952 | 77 | B&W | U | £15.99
Item# 69725 UK | 1951 | 89 | B&W | U | £12.99
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Father Frost
The Little Match Girl
A magical, gorgeously colourful Russian fairytale filled with a series of strange and supernatural encounters. A Soviet-era answer to Disney.
Dir: Michael Custance. A moving musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s yuletide tale. Stars Natalie Morse, Roger Daltrey and Twiggy.
The Snowman / The Snowman and the Snowdog
Item# 72630 Russia | 1964 | | subt | 84 | £15.99
Item# 66335 UK | 1987 | 90 | £7.99
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Item# 53456 UK | 2005 | 86 | E | £19.99
A charming pairing of the original film and a new sequel. 2 discs. Item# 72571 / 72575 UK | 1982-2012 | 50 | U | £14.99
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A beautiful three-act production of Dickens’ timeless tale, with music composed by Carl Davis.
It’s a Wonderful Life