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ast month’s Blu-ray only release of FW Murnau’s City Girl raised many questions about Blu-ray so we thought it would be useful to clarify some of the basics.

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Blu-ray is the successor to DVD and provides a higher quality picture, but you’ll need a Blu-ray player to play the discs and a high-definition TV to enjoy the extra detail. Blurays won’t play on a DVD player but Blu-ray players will play DVDs. Blu-ray players are getting ever cheaper, as are the discs.

Classic Movies

From next month, the BFI will be releasing packs containing both a Blu-ray and a DVD for the same price as a single DVD, commencing with their first 3 Ozu releases. With this

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Mike McCahill (Twin Peaks) writes on film for The Sunday Telegraph. James Oliver (Doctor Who) is a freelance film writer.

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Contemporary

Gay and Lesbian 28 A. Mad Men

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(Doctor Who) Michael is a freelance film writer living in London. He contributes to the BFI Screenonline database and reviews cinema releases for www.close-upfilm.com. His favourite film is Late Spring by Yasujiro Ozu and he wonders why no DVD distributor is releasing the films of Hong Sang-Soo in the UK.

Alex Davidson (The Sarah Silverman Program) is a content developer for the BFI mediatheque.

Twin Peaks approach, you can buy safe in the knowledge that if you do upgrade to Blu-ray you won’t need to buy the film again.

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Rick Burin (The Phil Silvers Show) has written on film for The Guardian.

The Night My Number Came Up The Divorce of Lady X

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Michael Brooke (Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom) is Screenonline Curator, BFI National Archive.

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David Parkinson (Beavis and ButtHead) is a film critic and historian.

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Nick Riddle (Noggin the Nog) is an editor at Bristol University.

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Julian Upton (Murun Buchstansangur) wrote Fallen Stars.

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Milo Wakelin (Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom) writes on film for Gay Times. Peter Wild (Breaking Bad) edited The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth

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1 The White Ribbon

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

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Dir: Lone Scherfig. Excellent British coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Carey Mulligan won Best Leading Actress BAFTA for her role. UK | 2009 | E1 | 100 min | Cert 12 | # 60592 | RRP £19.99

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4 An Inspector Calls

A stranger (a brilliantly mysterious Alastair Sim) arrives at an upper class family household at dinnertime and announces himself as Inspector Poole. He shows how the secrets that family harbour make them complicit in a death. UK | 1954 | OPTIM | 76 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 60779 | RRP £15.99

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A Serious Man Recommended Director: Joel & Ethan Coen Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Jessica McManus Released: 15th March DVD Extras: Featurettes: Becoming Serious; Creating 1967 and Hebrew and Yiddish for Goys. USA | 2009 | UPV | 105 min | Cert 15 | Item # 61121 | P&P £1

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nother cerebral shaggy dog story from Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man may be set amidst the well-tended lawns of late 1960s middle-class Jewish suburbia, but the dilemmas of this Oscarnominated black comedy stretch back to the Book of Job. Larry Gopknik, a college physics professor, is a righteous man, but, like Job, this doesn’t help him in the slightest. His wife Judith is having an affair with his good friend Sy Ableman, his son has been buying pot from the school bully, his daughter is stealing money for a nose-job, and his out-of-work brother Arthur has been sleeping on the couch for months. When one of Gopknik’s students slips him money to raise his grade, the boy’s father accuses him alternatively of defamation, and then, when he finally acquiesces, of accepting the bribe. ‘Either he left the money or he didn’t!’ Gopknik protests. ‘Please. Accept the mystery,’ the father responds. It’s advice that is echoed by the series of rabbis the increasingly desperate Gopknik turns to for help. Fans of the Coen brothers may know exactly how Gopknik feels; their best films

A terrific Oscarnominated comedy from the Coen Brothers have always intrigued and provoked with narrative dead-ends, non sequiturs, open endings and blatant misdirection (including the fantastic Fargo, which opened with the barefaced lie, ‘This is a true story.’) The Coens open their story with a darkly hilarious prologue in a turn-of-the-century shtetl, before moving on to a meticulous, semi-autobiographical recreation of late 1960s Minnesotan suburbia. Newcomer Michael Stuhlbarg is fantastic as the mildmannered everyman, Sara Lennick is formidable as his wife, and Fred Melamed steals every scene as Gopknik’s impossibly compassionate cuckolder. The comic timing, as ever with the Coens, is razor sharp. Already nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay in the 2010 Oscars, A Serious Man takes the uncertainties and inequities of life as its central theme, and rather than curse the Coen brothers, the audience – like Job – will be rewarded for their faith. Milo Wakelin

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World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language

New Releases Breathless

Ik-joon Yang Korean crime drama in which violent enforcer Song-Hoon seeks out from gangland wars when he meets the teenage sister of one of his boss’s latest recruits. An astonishing film debut and a recent Sight & Sound film 2 discs. of the month. South Korea | 2009 | TC-M | 130

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Wolfgang Panzer Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) stars in this remake of the classic 1959 anti-war film in which, with Hitler’s army in its last days, 16 year-old Walter and his friends are recruited to defend a strategically important bridge, an operation which escalates into a brutal, pointless, life or death battle. Germany | 2008 | MET-D | 100 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 59153 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1

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The Card Player Dario Argento

Stylish giallo detective thriller about a policewoman forced into a deadly internet poker game game with a serial killer who threatens to slit his victims’ throats live on webcam if she loses. Stakes are raised higher when the police chief’s daughter is abducted. Italy | 2004 | ARROW | 102 min | Cert 18 Item # 60678 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd March | P&P £1

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Delicatessen

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Smash hit futuristic comedy about a butcher in a starving, post holocaust France who keeps his customers supplied by his cannabilistic tendencies – much to the chagrin of an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters. France | 1991 | OPTIM | 90 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 61385 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1

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In this Belgian almost-silent comedy with a touch of Jacques Tati about it, sight gags dance a pas de deux with Candide-style misadventures. Dom and Fiona are a schoolteacher couple, gawky but ideally matched. They have a colourful and triumphant sideline in Latin American dancing (along with the trophies to prove it), until a car accident sparks off a catalogue of misfortunes. They sustain injuries both physical and mental (amnesia, the loss of a limb, the violent theft of a pain au chocolat and other indignities) and the calamities keep on coming, but the couple bear all with a mixture of resignation and childlike optimism. Like their silent movie forebears, they live firmly in the moment, and so does the film, with its wonderfully bright colour palette and sideways leaps into fantasy. Abel and Gordon’s flair for physical comedy turns every scene into a kind of dance, making Rumba – among other things – a metaphorical account of the ups and downs of married life and the endurance of love in the face of adversity. NR

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“Has any actress made a debut of such force as Sandrine Bonnaire in À nos amours … here was a phenomenon of acting”. So wrote critic David Thomson, and 25 years later, the praise is still warranted. This is a portrait of adolescence like no other, raw and uncomfortable, and the 15 year-old Bonnaire’s performance as a sexually promiscuous teenager living with a frequently monstrous mother and brother following the departure of her father (Pialat himself) is startling in its honesty. A synopsis of the film could make it sound bleak, but the flashes of benevolent humanity, most notably a late night chat between Bonnaire and Pialat, show the characters at their warmest, and even the least sympathetic characters never become mere grotesques. Pialat’s approach has been compared to both Ken Loach and John Cassavetes, and while the parallels are understandable (especially the improvised passages and the rawness of emotion), his expert handling of actors and moving moments of optimism are all his own. AD

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The Valley of the Bees Recommended Director: Frantisek Vlácil Starring: Petr Cepek, Jan Kacer, Vera Galatíková Released: 22nd March Czech Republic | 1968 | 2RUN | 97 min | subt | B&W | Cert 15 | Item # 60973 | P&P £1

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Marketa Lazarová Frantisek Vlacil

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ne of the most thrilling world cinema discoveries in recent years (at least outside its native Czechoslovakia, where they’ve known about it since 1967) was Frantisek Vlácil’s epic Marketa Lazarová. It’s initially tempting to assume that The Valley of the Bees, completed the same year, is some kind of sequel. After all, it’s also set in the medieval era, brought to equally vivid life with the same extraordinarily convincing, almost tactile sense of the past, resplendent widescreen black-and-white cinematography charged with the compositional eye of a Brueghel, and a score by the great Zdenek Liska. But the differences are as marked as the similarities: whereas the earlier film was an appropriately wild and untamed evocation of pagan Bohemia, The Valley of the Bees is bound by the same rigorous code of conduct that determines the behaviour of the members of the Order of St Mary of Jerusalem, dedicated to extreme spiritual purification through the renouncing of all family connections, worldly goods and even physical contact with other people. Armin von Heiden is a true believer who embraces his religious calling with terrifying single-mindedness, whereas Ondrej of Vlkov has been sent there by his father and

A vivid medieval epic from the director of Marketa Lazarová is more inclined to rebel – though in an understated way, given that the penalty for overtly challenging the Order’s rules is a swift, violent and highly visible death. It also doesn’t help that Armin has taken a shine to Ondrej, proposing that they test their physical endurance by immersing themselves in freezing water, their arms locked in almost homoerotic embrace. When Ondrej finally escapes the Order, he finds himself the object of an equally forbidden desire, that of his stepmother Lenora – and this time it’s reciprocated. An early shot of a beehive being gingerly probed with bare hands sets the film’s overall tone (bees representing another society forced to live by strict edicts), and the Czech Communist authorities were sufficiently suspicious of Vlácil’s portrait of a man forced to join a fanatically ideologised community against his will to raise questions about the film’s subversive intentions. Admirers of Marketa Lazarová should not hesitate to re-immerse themselves in Vlacil’s world. Michael Brooke

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World Cinema The Double Life of Veronique Krzysztof Kieslowski

Kieslowski’s finest work? Irène Jacob plays the dual role of identical strangers Polish Weronika and French Véronique. The script is a masterpiece of structure, of resonances and dissonances carefully played out in sequence and parallel. Also available on DVD, rrp £22.99 France / Poland | 1991 | ART-E | 110 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60949 | RRP £19.99 | Released 22nd March | P&P £1

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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life Rémi Bezançon

Cross-generational drama portraying five separate days within a 15-year period in the lives of members of the close-knit but chaotic Duval family. Bereavement, parenthood, sexual awakening and sibling rivalry are among the issues faced by the family members as the years roll by. France | 2008 | MET-D | 113 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60914 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd March | P&P £1

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Johnny Mad Dog

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

In an unnamed African country, a commando of child soldiers are trained to plunder and murder. 15-year-old Johnny, armed with an AK47, is taken over by his fantasies of becoming the ultimate ‘mad dog’. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Laokole sets her studies aside as she tries to flee the militia-occupied city where she lives with her brother and disabled father.

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Andrzej Wajda

Kazakhstan | 2008 | NW | 103 min | subt | Cert 12 | Item # 61161

This is the film that Wajda thought he would never make, about ‘the Katyn lie’ – the cover-up of the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet army at the outset of WWII. His father was one of the executed officers.

This tough but affectionate portrait of life on the Kazakh steppes is not only entertaining but a valuable record of a culture on the verge of extinction. It will also appeal to anyone touched by the world of films such as The Story of the Weeping Camel. After completing his national service, Asa returns to the home of his sister and her shepherd husband. He desperately wants his own flock of sheep, but tradition demands that he must get married first. So he sets his sights on the only local beauty around – but unfortunately she is less than enthusiastic... Former documentarist Dvortsevoy went to extraordinary lengths to capture the everyday reality of this environment, filming on location for over a year and forcing his cast to live together as a family. The cinematography and sound design capture the volatile climate and the film is full of visual epiphanies, like a dog casually munching on a bone while lightning streaks down towards the horizon. The most memorable scene however is the birth of a lamb, delivered by the actor for real, in the wake of deaths among the flock. Reinforcing Asa’s relationship to his home, it’s an uplifting coup de cinema. MBa

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Uberto Pasolini

Sophie Laloy

A film combining the heady passions of unrequited adolescent love with the sinister overtones of jealousy and lust, as shy pianist Marie moves in with her mysterious childhood friend Emma (Isild Le Besco) and their intimate bond soon develops into something far more intense. France | 2009 | PECCA | 96 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60689 | RRP £14.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1

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‘The real story of the not-so real Sri Lanka National Handball Team.’ A comedy drama, based on real events, in which Sri Lankan slum dwellers Manoj and Stanley, who dream of escaping their poverty-stricken lives, are handed a chance in the form of an invitation to a Bavarian handball tournament. Italy / Germany | 2008 | YUME | 109 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 61156 | RRP £15.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

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Produced by actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, this sharp Mexican thriller forcuses on two troubled teens who attempt an impossible rebellion against the adult world. But with police and parents in pursuit, what will be the consequences of their actions? Mexico | 2008 | ART-E | 106 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 61166 | RRP £15.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

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Jean-Luc Godard A seductive tale of ideals and compromise. Fritz Lang wants to make a film of ‘The Odyssey’; his American producer wants naked sirens and the scriptwriter invites his wife’s contempt by falling for the chequebook. Magnificent camerawork and a memorable score complement the screen presences of Bardot, Piccoli and Palance. France | 1963 | OPTIM | 100 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 61383 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1

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My Father My Lord David Volach

An understated, moving Israeli drama about the family life of an ultraorthodox rabbi. Devoted to his faith, he spends his days praying, studying the Torah and preparing his sermons, but he is forced to reconcile the demands of his faith with the welfare of his family. Israel | 2007 | ART-E | 76 min | subt | Cert PG Item # 61157 | RRP £15.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

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Georges Lautner

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A hard-edged action thriller in which Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a secret agent sent to Malawi to assassinate the president. At the last moment the French authorities change policy and betray him. After two years in captivity, Beaumont escapes and returns to Paris to extract his revenge.

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Starring: Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot

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Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini

Anna Magnani. Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic film tells the story of resistance under German occupation. Based in part on the real-life account of a priest’s heroic involvement in the struggle, the film was shot on the war-torn streets of Rome. Italy | 1945 | ARROW | 103 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 60675 | RRP £15.99 | Released 15th March | P&P £1

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Terror at the Opera Dario Argento

Steeped in a bloodsoaked atmosphere of dread, Argento’s masterful giallo thriller sees young understudy Betty stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. He is a man that Betty has been dreaming of since her traumatised childhood... Italy | 1987 | ARROW | 107 min | Cert 18 Item # 60674 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd March | P&P £1

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When Sous le soleil de Satan won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1987, it earned hoots of derision from the gallery. This was a baffling reaction to a complex, beautiful film, which has several astonishing sequences in its account of a priest (Depardieu), who comes to believe that it is Satan, rather than God, who rules the world. The film has disorientating, otherworldly sequences (including a magnificent twilight walk with Satan) and a subplot with a young murderess (Sandrine Bonnaire at her most enticing) which briefly overlaps with Depardieu’s storyline. Its unconventional narrative, and the intense profundity of the subject matter (the nature of good and evil) may have alienated contemporary critics, but now this stands as a probing work which warrants comparison with the spiritually-themed works of Dreyer and Bergman. Moving, alarming and provocative, this is a sorely-neglected work of a true master of cinema. AD

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De La Bath... is back! Having rid Egypt of the Nazi menace in Cairo: Nest of Spies, France’s premier secret agent is dispatched to Rio to recover a microfilm of French WWII collaborators. “No surprise it’s a ‘micro’ film – the list must be tiny!” explaims the ardent Gaullist. Writer Jean-Francois Halin and director Michel Hazanavicius return for another tongue-in-cheek re-interpretation of Jean Bruce’s classic spy novels. This time Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117 (a superb Jean Dujardin) must team up with a Mossad lieutenant to foil a blackmail plot by an escaped Nazi. As before it’s a pitch-perfect recreation of postwar Gallic arrogance and 60s splitscreen cinematography. Dujardin’s impeccable comic charisma recalls the very best of Peter Sellers, and the film’s defiance of any semblance of political correctness is bracing. But whether he is dispatching hoards of ‘Chinamen’ or bedding roomfuls of beauties, de La Bath always means well, asking his horrified Israeli counterpart whether “there could ever be a reconciliation between Jews and Nazis...?”.

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Boris Rytsarev

The story of the woman erotically asphyxiating her lover is familiar from Oshima’s Empire of the Senses; here, the intensity of sexual intoxication shown is remarkable.

A Soviet-era adaptation of the Arabian fantasy in which Aladdin lays forbidden eyes on a Sultan’s beautiful daughter. Only a magic lantern and its genie can protect their love.

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Derek Jarman This is a ravishing depiction of the painter’s life. The look of Caravaggio’s work is beautifully captured, and the acting, from Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and Sean Bean among others, is superb. UK | 1986 | BFI | 89 min | Cert 18 | # 32115 | RRP £19.99

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Caravaggio

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Dir: Milcho Manchevski. An awardwinning film that crosscuts stories of a monk, a photo agent, and a war photographer during Balkan civil war. UK | 1994 | HBF | 113 min | Cert 15 | # 57888 | RRP £15.99 9.99

Edvard Munch (MoC) Dir: Peter Watkins. A multi-faceted biopic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Ingmar Bergman called it ‘a work of genius’.

Dir: Eloy de la Iglesia. Low-budget Spanish sci-fi, set in a dystopian future of depraved, sadistic gangs. France / Spain | 1973 | HBF | 98 min | Cert 18 | # 60158 | RRP £15.99

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Gate of Flesh

Street of Joy

Dir: Seijun Suzuki. From the great Japanese studio director comes a lurid tale of prostitution and the Tokyo underworld at the end of WWII.

Dir: Tatsumi Kumashiro. One of the most successful of Nikkotsu’s ‘romantic porno’ movies, chronicling the life of a brothel in 1950s Tokyo.

Japan | 1964 | HBF | 90 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 59157 | RRP £15.99

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Frida

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Dir: Julie Taymor. Colourful, vibrant and beautiful, this dramatised account of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was made for its lead, Salma Hayek. | P&P £1

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Dir: Chusei Sone. A sexually charged, erotic, and sometimes slyly funny tale of a ghost returning to claim her living lover’s soul.

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Dir: Peter Webber. A slowly budding beauty of a film in which Scarlett Johansson plays Vermeer’s servant.

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Viy

Dir: Aleksandr Rou. Award-winning Russian adaptation of the popular fairy tale about Nastenka, her evil stepmother, and a good wizard.

Dirs: Kropachyov & Yershov. Classic Russian horror adapted from Gogol in which a priest spends three nights in a chapel with a vengeful corpse.

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Dir: Alexander Korda. The painter’s lonely final years are here touchingly evoked through Charles Laughton’s subtle performance. | P&P £1

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Watcher in the Attic

Dir: Raanan Alexandrowicz. A black South African man travels to the Holy Land – where he meets suspicion and jail from the Israeli authorities.

Dir: Noboru Tanaka. A bizarrely beautiful study of voyeurism, in which a peeping landlord find a soulmate in a prostitute in his boarding house.

Israel | 2003 | HBF | 78 min | subt | Cert PG | # 58476 | RRP £15.99

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Vincent and Theo Dir: Robert Altman. Skilfully avoiding tired cliches, Altman explores the relationship between Van Gogh (Tim Roth) and his brother Theo. | P&P £1

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James’ Journey

Rembrandt

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See Also Dead of Night Basil Dearden

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The Queen of Spades

Thorold Dickinson UK | 1948 | OPTIM | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 60859 | RRP £15.99

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his is one hell of a ride: a suspense yarn with a supernatural flavour that builds to a terrifying climax. The opening scenes are shrouded in mystery. Commander Lindsay (Michael Hordern) barges into an RAF base in Hong Kong and demands to see the officer in charge. He thinks he knows where a missing plane has downed, but he won’t say how. In flashback, we find out. It is the week before, and Lindsay is recounting a chilling dream in which a flight carrying eight passengers, including air marshal Michael Redgrave and civil servant Alexander Knox, crashes by a snowy fishing village, with all lives lost. At first, they laugh it off, but as the film unfolds, each detail of the premonition seems to slot into place, until they’re hurtling through a storm in the pitch black, their fuel supplies perilously low and with nowhere to land. It’s an ominous, insidiously eerie film with an ingenious script, supposedly based on real events. The characters, from coolheaded Redgrave to nervy war hero Denholm Elliot, neurotic first-time flyer Knox and showy salesman George Rose, are neatly etched, each with a clever back

A gem from Ealing – a suspense yarn with a supernatural flavour story and a different take on the question of fate. Knox wants to tinker with the passenger list, Rose wants to throttle the pilot and Redgrave – though sceptical about the supernatural – isn’t sure he’s going to sleep tonight. The film boasts a tremendous use of sound, employing a portentous score and Hordern’s words of warning to often startling ends. The actor had a unique gift for voiceover – witness the gold dust he sprinkled over Young Sherlock Holmes through nostalgic narration – and he’s just the man you want to soundtrack your worst fears. This is another gem from Ealing Studios and further proof of the film factory’s ability to craft unforgettable dramas as well as first-rate comedic fare. Not that The Night My Number Came Up is without humour. Its pay-off line, with more than a nod to past hits Dead of Night and Green for Danger, is both absolutely petrifying and utterly hilarious. Rick Burin

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Classic Movies The High Command

The Man With the Gun

Thorold Dickinson

Richard Wilson

Lionel Atwill stars as a British army general with a dirty secret – before being stationed in Africa, he murdered a man in Ireland in a fit of jealous rage, and blamed his death on Sinn Fein rebels. The past returns to haunt him when the sole witness to his crime turns up at his garrison. James Mason co-stars.

Classic western in which Robert Mitchum plays ‘town-tamer’ Clint Tollinger, who rides into Sheridan City looking for a girl. He finds the town in trouble, with murderous gunmen driving farmers off their land. The frightened citizens hire Tollinger, who, in his own rough and ready way, seems to make things worse...

UK | 1936 | OPTIM | 84 min | Cert PG Item # 60801 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd March

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Anthony Kimmins

Funny Face meets Rififi in this thriller in which Cyd Charisse stars as an editor of a chic fashion magazine who uses her jet-setting lifestyle as a front for a jewel-smuggling operation. Then Gene Barry’s secret agent infiltrates the organization, and gets in on the gang’s next operation: a plan to smuggle a priceless gem out of Morocco.

UK | 1937 | OPTIM | 79 min | Cert U Item # 60858 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April

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Laxdale Hall

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Camp on Blood Island Dir: Val Guest. A llively wartime adventure in which PoWs need to stop sadistic Commander Yamamitsu hearing of the Japanese surrender. UK | 1958 | SPHE | 78 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 59713 | RRP £12.99

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Nurse Edith Cavell

John Eldridge

Fulton MacKay, Raymond Huntley. A rarely-seen Scottish comedy classic which sees disquiet in a remote Highland community, whose car-owning residents refuse to pay their road fund licence because of the poor state of their road. A parliamentary delegation is sent to Bonus Film: The Glen is Ours

UK | 1952 | PANA | 103 min | Cert U Item # 61325 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April

The Gorgon

The true story of a nurse caught in the horrors of WWI. Working in a Brussels hospital, Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) treats all nationalities alike. However, the rapacious behaviour of the Germans leads her to get involved in the resistance – but soon the German authorities become suspicious of her activities.

Dir: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing. A compelling mix of Gothicism and Greek mythology, in which a village is cursed with an ancient evil.

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The Man in the Sky

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Taste of Fear Dir: Seth Holt. A taut psychological thriller in which a mentally fragile woman begins to question her sanity after seeing her dead father. UK | 1961 | SPHE | 82 min | B&W | Cert TBC | # 60042 | RRP £12.99

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Unpublished Story

Charles Crichton

Jack Hawkins’ test pilot takes his company’s new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, carrying two important passengers in the shape of a Ministry official and a buyer’s representative. Failure means closure for his company. While aloft however, an engine catches fire, and so begins his epic struggle to land safely.

Harold French

UK | 1957 | OPTIM | 84 min | Cert PG Item # 60746 | RRP £15.99 | Released 29th March

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Truly a Hammer like no other, in which Oliver Reed’s bike gang gets mixed up in a science fiction of radioactive children bred for a post-Bomb world. Filled with Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures too. Extraordinary.

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The Damned Joseph Losey

Gerry O’Hara

George Formby plays a barber secretly in love with Kay Walsh’s pretty manicurist who only has eyes for caddish Hector from the sports department. Then, when George turns up on a poster as the ultimate physical wreck, he decides to act, and joins the local Keep Fit campaign!

After many delays, all six of the Hammer Studio DVDs exclusive to MovieMail are available to enjoy. We’ve had great feedback from our customers on these – the print quality and presentation are excellent – as of course are the films themselves!

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Basil Radford. British spy thriller set during the Blitz. War correspondent Bob Randall is disgusted to discover that the ‘People for Peace Society’ in England are campaigning to appease the Germans, but when he tries to expose them his newspaper stories are censored by ‘Home Security’.

The Two Faces Dr Jekyll

Dir: Terence Fisher. Christopher Lee. Little-seen gem from Hammer’s golden days. Paul Massie plays the leads. UK | 1960 | SPHE | min | Cert 15 | # 60043 | RRP £12.99

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Yesterday’s Enemy Dir: Val Guest. Low-key, WWII drama that sees Stanley Baker and his men separated from their unit in the jungle. One of Baker’s best screen roles. UK | 1959 | SPHE | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 59715 | RRP £12.99

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Sullivan’s Travels

Top Hat

Touch of Evil

Preston Sturges

Mark Sandrich

Orson Welles

One of Sturges’ finest in which Hollywood director John Sullivan grows tired of making escapist comedies and takes to the road as a hobo to research his pet ‘social problems’ film.

Anyone not already a Fred & Ginger fan will be won over by this wonderful film, in which they are at their peak. Astaire is at his most debonair in the Top Hat, White Tie & Tails routine. Music by Irving Berlin.

A squalid Mexican border town hosts sordid deeds. Welles plays the crooked police chief, Heston the upright narcotics investigator, Dietrich the enigmatic gypsy. A big influence on Hitchcock’s Psycho.

USA | 1935 | UPV | 96 min | B&W | Cert U | # 21321 | RRP £15.99

USA | 1958 | UPV | 105 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 33641 | RRP £15.99

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The Blue Dahlia

The Lost Weekend

Scarface (1932)

Dir: George Marshall. Classic noir with a strong performance from Alan Ladd as the naval flier suspected of murdering his tramp of a wife.

Billy Wilder’s devastating look at alcoholism, in which Ray Milland goes on a 48 hour bender, flashing back to the events in his ruined life.

Dir: Howard Hawks. The best – and most brutal – of the classic gangster films. Tony Camonte is the hood with a Napoloeonic urge to become #1.

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After a cold and snowy winter in the UK, you’ll forgive us for being excited that Sp prices, sprinkled with films set in springtime, about the outdoors or nature in gene Coco Before Chanel

Joseph Losey Collection

Katyn

Anne Fontaine

Seven classic films from the American director, made between 1954-76. Contains The Sleeping Tiger, The Criminal, Eva, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between and Mr Klein. 7 discs.

The film that Wajda never thought he would be able to make, about ‘the Katyn lie’ – the cover-up of the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets at the outset of WWII.

UK | 1954-70 | OPTIM | Cert 15 | # 53918 | RRP £49.99

Poland | 2007 | ART-E | 121 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 59641 | £15.99

A lavish biopic recounting the life and work of legendary French fashion designer Coco Chanel, from her humble beginnings in an Auvergne orphanage. Audrey Tautou stars. France | 2009 | OPTIM | 110 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 59856 | £19.99

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Code Unknown

Innocence

Dir: Michael Haneke. A masterful film in which Haneke traces the subtle ways in which many lives intertwine in modern-day Europe.

Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic. A surreal dream of a film, set in a girl’s boarding school, which teases viewers with its sense of mystery.

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Six films: Band Waggon, I Thank You, Back-Room Boy, Miss London Ltd, Bees in Paradise, and King Arthur... UK | 1940-44 | G-VEN | 499 min | B&W | U | # 32522 | RRP £24.99

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In the City of Sylvia

Seven directors (including Sam Taylor-Wood, Larry Clark and Gaspar Noé) make explicit films at the point where art meets sexuality.

Dir: José Luis Guerín. A spellbinding film of a young artist searching for a beautiful girl he glimpsed years before in Strasbourg.

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Badlands Dir: Terrence Malick. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play the couple on the run through the American midwest in this entrancing road movie. USA | 1973 | WHV | 90 min | Cert 18 | # 12780 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Geller & Goldfine. An enormously entertaining and gossipy portrait of the pioneering ballet artists who transformed the face of ballet. USA | 2005 | REV | 118 min | Cert PG | # 29261 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Baltasar Kormákur. Icelandic thriller in which a tangled trail of forensic evidence leads a detective into deeply troubled waters.

Dir: Erick Zonca. Award-winning Élodie Bouchez and Natacha Régnier play the penniless girls in Lille. France | 1998 | ARROW | 109 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 33699 | £15.99

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The Caesars

Elvira Madigan

Jeanne la Pucelle: The Battles

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In Bruges

Features both Thompson’s 1961 and Scorsese’s 1991 versions of the classic thriller. Robert Mitchum and Robert DeNiro star. 3 discs.

Dir: Martin McDonagh. Crime comedy in which a botched job sees Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell’s wayward hitmen lying low in Bruges.

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Dir: Jacques Rivette. Sandrine Bonnaire stars as the Maid of Orléans in this drama about Joan of Arc. France | 1994 | ART-E | 160 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 59356 | £15.99

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Dir: Bo Widerberg. A haunting tale of doomed love in which an aristocratic lieutenant abandons the army to run away with a beautiful circus girl.

Dir: Derek Bennett. The complete 1968 Granada historical series, starring Freddie Jones and Ralph Bates, and broadcast to great acclaim.

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Jeanne la Pucelle: The Prisons Dir: Jacques Rivette. The second part of Rivette’s magnificent and richly detailed six-hour historical drama. | P&P £1

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The Singing Ringing Tree

A Tale of Springtime

Herbert Wilcox

Francesco Stefani

Eric Rohmer

Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn and David Farrar star in this melodrama about a young actress who lets her daydreams help her decide which of two lovers will be her husband.

The much-loved serial from the strand of East German children’s films shown by the BBC in the 1960s. Watch out for the scary dwarf! German and English versions.

The first in Rohmer’s ‘Four Seasons’ cycle, where he shows how simple good cinema can be. Perhaps the most delicately observed, though also ominous, of his films.

UK | 1954 | DD | 87 min | Cert U | # 32773 | RRP £9.99

Germany | 1957 | NWORK | 71 min | subt | U | # 30694 | RRP £14.99

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The League of Gentlemen

Splendor in the Grass

A Touch of Class

Dir: Elia Kazan. Warren Beatty made his debut opposite Natalie Wood in this Oscar-winning tale of adolescent love set in Depression-era Kansas.

Dir: Melvin Frank. Oscar-winning romantic comedy about the complications of unexpected love, with Glenda Jackson and George Segal.

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Dir: Basil Dearden. One of the best British comedy crime capers in which a gang of ex-soldiers rob a bank. UK | 1960 | NWORK | 109 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 31203 | RRP £14.99

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London in Festival Year, 1951

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

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Three films celebrating the 1951 Festival of Britain: Brief City, Festival in London, and Family Portrait.

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The Magic Flute Dir: Kenneth Branagh. With Mozart’s glorious music, and featuring a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fry, this adaptation is irresistible.

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Springtime in a Small Town

Two Days in Paris

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Dir: Julie Delpy. A bright and breezy tale of a couple’s Parisian sojourn, during which a lot of ex-boyfriends seem to come out of the woodwork!

China | 2002 | ART-E | 114 min | subt | Cert PG | # 15053 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Tian Zhuangzhuang. A graceful portrait of five people, reconciling themselves to their post-WWII lives.

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Maigret: Complete

Strangers on a Train

The Virgin Spring

Michael Gambon takes the lead as George Simenon’s intutive, pipesmoking French detective. All 12 episodes. 4 discs.

Hitchcock revels in the film’s delicious central premise: the notion of exchanging murder plots: an unfaithful wife for an overbearing father.

A brooding tale set in 14th century Sweden, in which parents exact their revenge on their swineherds who murder their daughter.

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The Pattern of Britain

Synecdoche, New York

Water Lilies

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Four beautiful 1940s films about the farmlands of rural England, from Leicestershire and Cornwall to the Downlands and the Fens. UK | 1944-47 | PANA | 65 min | B&W | Cert Ex | # 21729 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Charlie Kaufman. A twisting comic narrative-in-a-narrative drama about a theatre director on the skids. | P&P £1

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An epic film of exile, separation and wandering, as the Greek population of Odessa become refugees.

Dir: Kim Ki-duk. A meditative film charting a Buddhist monk’s life.

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Back Catalogue Spotlight

Classic War Films Highlights

In the latest of our back catalogue spotlight series, we lift the curtain on our range of classic war films. As it’s such a fertile ground for cinema we couldn’t fit them all in, so we’ve focussed primarily on WWII, which casts a very long cinematic shadow. If you have any requests for future spotlights, let us know!

The Complete War Collection

Oh! What a Lovely War (SE)

Yesterday’s Enemy

12 of the greatest British war films ever made: Colditz, Cruel Sea, Dam Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, I Was Monty’s Double, Went the Day Well?, Wooden Horse, In Which we Serve and more.

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BAFTA-nominated Hammer film, in which, cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted troops take over an enemy village.

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With rousing songs, prizes and a scoreboard totting up the dead, WWI is played out as music hall in this film on the folly of war. The cast list is a who’s who of great British acting. UK | 1969 | PARA | min | Cert PG | # 50942 | RRP £15.99

Dir: Powell & Pressburger. Audacious fantasy in which David Niven’s airman debates his right to live. UK | 1946 | CRLTN | 103 min | Cert U | # 3080 | RRP £19.99

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In Which We Serve

It Happened Here

Dir: David Lean. Noel Coward codirected, wrote and starred in this stirring tribute to Britgrit at its most cornered.

Dir: Brownlow & Mollo. A remarkable alternative history about life and unwitting collaboration with the Nazis in Occupied England.

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A Matter of Life and Death

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The Count of Monte-Cristo

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David MacDonald / Sidney Salkow George Dolenz stars as the title character in this 1956 series, loosely adapted from the novel by Dumas. He plays Edmond Dantes, falsely accused by those jealous of his fortune, and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a notorious island prison... 5 discs.

A Mind to Kill: Series 2

A dark detective series set in South Wales, Philip Madoc plays DCI Noel Bain, a widower balancing his disturbing work with caring for his teenage daughter. This complete second series has guest appearances from Ioan Gruffudd and David 4 discs. Warner.

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UK | 1956 | NWORK | 975 min | Cert PG Item # 60799 | RRP £39.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £3

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George and Weedon Grossmith’s classic of comic literature features one of the most conceited, pedantic, smallminded, maddening – but ultimately endearing characters in British fiction. Hugh Bonneville stars as the archetypal ‘little man’ obsessed with his own self-importance.

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. Michael Apted

David Swift plays the dedicated but ineffectual local referee who is brought to the depths of disillusionment with the beautiful game when he officiates at a bruising encounter between two local sides. Scripted by Jack Rosenthal.

UK | 2007 | 2ENT | 114 min | Cert U Item # 60524 | RRP £19.99 | Released 15th March | P&P £1

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Doctor Who: Myths and Legends

UK | 1988 | NWORK | 52 min | Cert PG Item # 59599 | RRP £9.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1

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Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin

Paul Bernard / Kenny McBain The Time Monster (1972), Underworld (1978) and The Horns of Nimon (1979). Doctors Pertwee and Baker star in these three adventures from the 1970s, with Katy Manning, Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson as their respective companions. 3 discs.

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Dominic West, Denis Lawson. History tells us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that’s not the whole story. This drama uncovers the forgotten team involved in the development of the drug that transformed medicine. UK | 2009 | DIGCL | 80 min | Cert E Item # 61322 | RRP £14.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1

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The Chief: Series 2 Tim Pigott-Smith stars as Chief Constable John Stafford in this complete second series of the police procedural, in which the outspoken Stafford attempts to reform crime-prevention policies and challenge the unacceptable behaviour 2 discs. of his officers.

UK | 1991 | NWORK | 300 min | Cert TBC Item # 61297 | RRP £19.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1.50

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3 discs. UK | 1992 | NWORK | 600 min | Cert TBC Item # 59521 | RRP £19.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £2

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The Genius of Design

This five-part series, made by the team behind the award-winning series The Genius of Photography, tells the story of design from the Industrial Revolution through 1920s modernism, the swinging 60s, the designer 80s and up to the present day. Features interviews with star designers like Philippe Starck and creatives from Apple and Ford; as well as design fans like Stephen Fry. 2 discs. UK | 2009 | ACORN | 300 min | Cert E Item # 61254 | RRP £19.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1.50

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The Good Life: Series 1

Tom and Barbara Good (Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal) are intent on being self-sufficient and getting back to nature – in Surbiton, much to the horror of their well-to-do neighbours Jerry and Margot (Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith). One of the very best sitcoms of 2 discs. the 1970s, its appeal is timeless.

UK | 1975 | ACORN | 210 min | Cert PG Item # 61242 | RRP £19.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1.50

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Emergency Ward 10: Vol 3

Earning praise from the British Medical Council for helping to allay the public’s fear of hospitals, and regularly pulling in huge audiences, Britain’s first medical soap set the template for modern treatments of the theme in its concentration on the private lives of hospital staff as well as on their jobs. Includes a selection of 24 episodes from the early 1960s, 4 discs. unseen for over forty years.

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Hawaii Five-O: Season 7

All the episodes from the seventh season, originally broadcast in 1975, of the long-running crime drama featuring the investigations of Hawaii Five-O, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett. Stars Jack Lord, James MacArthur and Kam Fong. ‘Book 6 discs. ‘em Danno!’

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The complete second and final series of this popular drama in which John Alderton and Pauline Collins play a fed-up city couple who make their escape to rural Gloucestershire, but frequently find themselves caught off-guard by the realities of rural life.

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Twin Peaks: Season 2 Recommended Director: David Lynch Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Beymer, Dana Ashbrook, Kenneth Welsh, Heather Graham Released: 22nd March DVD Extras: 6 discs; Log Lady Intros (all episodes); Interactive Interview Grid; Interviews with directors. USA | 1990-1991 | UPV | Cert 15 | Item # 61212

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Twin Peaks: Season 1 USA | 1990 | UN | 411 min | Cert 15 | # 12232 | RRP £49.99

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ause for cherry pie and another cup of coffee: the emergence of the complete Twin Peaks, one of the most singular and daring projects in American network television. The second season of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surreal murder-mystery has long been unavailable on UK DVD due to rights issues almost as tangled as the show’s plotting – but hats off to Universal Playback for persevering: here, at last, is a golden opportunity to explore – or revisit – every nook and cranny of the small screen’s strangest-ever town. For the uninitiated, these are the investigations of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), summoned to the leafy Northwestern logging hotspot after the body of prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) washes up, ‘wrapped in plastic’, on a nearby shore. Almost everyone – from bigshot hotelier Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) to leather-clad wild one Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) – is acting funnily enough to count among the suspects, and Lynch’s hand keeps manifesting itself unexpectedly: in Cooper’s never-more-vivid dreams, the fixation with owls and sweetmeats, and a dragged-up David Duchovny. The production-troubled Season Two introducing rogue agent Windom Earle

One of the most singular and daring projects in television (Kenneth Welsh, terrifying) – has long been underrated; seen again, it offers several of the show’s most lyrical stretches, involving Cooper’s courtship of waitress Annie Blackburne (Heather Graham). Yet it’s the creative risks taken by Lynch and Frost throughout that continue to amaze, their gorgeous leads, astounding tonal shifts and unprecedented atmospherics reclaiming and rejuvenating so many primetime drama clichés. No Twin Peaks, in other words, no Sopranos, no Lost, no Glee. The extras are, as Coop might say, damn fine, preserving Log Lady Catherine Coulson’s cryptic episode introductions. The Definitive Gold Box Set is also being released alongside Series 2 and contains both series and a host of extras, including deleted scenes, production documentaries, retrospectives, and the video for one-hit wonder Julee Cruise’s theme song ‘Falling’. Most cherishable is the inclusion of Lynch’s self-enclosed feature-length pilot. It’s a whole other way into (and out of) the woods. Mike McCahill

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The Nation’s Health

Scripted by the award-winning G.F. Newman (Law and Order, Judge John Deed, New Street Law), this acclaimed, hardhitting series examined the failings of the NHS. Originally screened in 1983, when the consequences of health service cuts were becoming increasingly apparent. OUT MARCH 15

Rumba

Following in the tradition of the great burlesque comedies of the past, Rumba paints a stylized and colourful world – one of naïve poetry – for this story of thwarted love punctuated by flashes of musical comedy.

★★★★ ★★★★ Empire The Guardian OUT MARCH 22

The Divorce of Lady X

Produced by the renowned Alexander Korda, this lighthearted society comedy features three legendary actors at an early point in their careers: Korda’s wife-to-be, Oscar-nominated Merle Oberon, and revered knights Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. OUT APRIL 5

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Television Homicide - Life on the Street: Complete

All the episodes from all the series of the gritty detective drama set in a tough homicide department in Baltimore. Winning multiple Emmy and Writer’s Guild of America Awards, its ensemble cast includes Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto and Andre Braugher. 33 discs.

USA | 1999 | PNE | 5694 min | Cert 15 Item # 61063 | RRP £79.99 | Released 29th March

Peak Practice: Series 5 & 6

Available separately, the complete fifth and sixth series of the ITV drama filmed amid the scenery of Derbyshire’s Peak District. Series 6 sees Clive Swift joins the cast as a scheming pharmacist, while a meningitis scare gives the bustling village of Cardale a 4 discs each.

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The Larkins: Series 2

All the episodes from the second series of the classic 1950s ATV sitcom starring David Kossoff and Peggy Mount as rumbustious cockney couple Alf and Ada Larkin, who live with their aimless son Eddie, daughter Joyce and her American ex-GI husband Jeff, an unemployable writer of stories for cowboy comic ‘The Bullet’. UK | 1959 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert TBC Item # 61306 | RRP £14.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

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Married, Single, Other

Sexy, funny and painfully honest, this is the story of three couples trying to work out exactly what a ‘couple’ is these days as they contemplate the meaning of ‘happily ever after’ and ponder the conundrum of always wanting what you just 2 discs. can’t have.

UK | 2009 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 61275 | RRP £19.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1.50

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The Nation’s Health

Screened in 1983, when the profit culture loomed large, The Nation’s Health detailed the dismaying experiences of a newly qualified female doctor. Underlining its intent to encourage debate, a televised studio discussion followed each episode. The result is an investigative drama filmed with documentary-style precision, which is both impassioned and acute in its portrayal of what many saw as a monolithic 2 discs. institution in terminal decline. UK | 1983 | NWORK | 350 min | Cert 15 Item # 60804 | RRP £19.99 | Released 15th March | P&P £1.50

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Banded Brothers: The Mongoose Mob UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 200 min | E | # 60400 | £19.99

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Catweazle: Complete UK | 1970-71 | NWORK | 650 min | # 60762 | £49.99 44.99

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Countryfile’s Favourite Places

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Drama, scripted by Jack Rosenthal, in which a film extra gets a chance for the big break in his career – two crucial lines in a television film – and blows it. Wittily sketched, it also features some wonderful insights into the contrivances that lie behind the apparently simplest of film set-ups.

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Fresh Fields UK | 1984 | NWORK | 150 min | # 61283 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

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It’s Garry Shandling’s Show: Series 1 USA | 1986 | 435 min | 12 | # 61315 | £39.99

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Life of Riley: Series 1

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The Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Series 3

Billie Piper returns in the third series based on the blogs of London call girl ‘Belle de Jour’. By day Hannah is a legal secretary, but by night she is the consumate professional girl. A moment of weakness with an attractive stranger – who only wants her daytime side – 2 brings her two worlds perilously close. discs; 6 disc Series 1-3 Box Set also available.

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London’s Burning: Series 13 UK | 2001 | NWORK | # 60814 | RRP £39.99

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Mission Impossible: Season 7 USA | PARAH | Cert 12 | # 59748 | RRP £34.99

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Moody and Pegg: Series 1 UK | 1974 | NW | 300 min | PG | # 60853 | £19.99

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Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby explores over two millennia of extraordinary artistic achievements. Full of insights into our national past, the series unfolds through an incredible collection of treasures, in each case investigating how art and history reflect one another to shape the cultural legacy of the age.

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Documentaries

Television

The Crimson Wing Matthew Aeberhard

Vivid wildlife documentary focusing on the flamingos of Lake Natron in Africa’s Great Rift Valley. The salt water lake is the home to 2.5 million endangered lesser flamingos, and this film explores the delicate balance between the flamingos and the inhospitable local environment. Lake Natron Diaries; Making-of.

Secret Army: Series 1 to 3

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Before ‘Allo ‘Allo! turned the Nazis into harmless buffoons, the resistance was treated seriously but no less entertainingly by the BBC’s Secret Army (1977-79). A huge popular hit, the series evolved as a sequel of sorts to producer Gerald Glaister’s equally successful Colditz (1972-74). This time, however, the setting is occupied Belgium, where café owner Albert (Bernard Hepton) and his staff conspire to smuggle shot-down British airmen to safety under the very noses of the Luftwaffe. Needless to say, the activity is fraught with mortal danger, lending the series tension and excitement. But the rich characterisation and intelligent scripts also position Secret Army as a genuine high point of 1970s TV drama. Hepton is fondly remembered as Albert, but Clifford Rose’s Sturmbannführer Kessler effectively steals the show – for the era, it’s a particularly subtle performance of a Gestapo officer. The series is an enduring testament to clandestine world war II bravery. NB: Series 1, 2 & 3 are also available individually, rrp 49.99 each.

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Joe Berlinger Documentary telling the story of the legal battle between thousands of Ecuadorian residents who have filed a lawsuit against oil giant Texaco for contamination through Amazonian drilling, and Texaco, who say they have done nothing wrong. USA | 2009 | DOGW | 105 min | Cert TBC Item # 61374 | RRP £14.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

Tony Palmer Palmer continued his studies of the world’s most renowned composers with this film about French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Though fame eluded him in his own lifetime, I, Berlioz discusses the composer’s far-reaching impact in the years since. UK | 1992 | TONYP | 88 min | Cert TBC Item # 61183 | RRP £13.99 | Out Now | P&P £1

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The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford Tony Palmer

South Bank Show documentary that follows the career of Michael Crawford, from bit part actor in The Knack to Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, and through stage productions such as Barnum and Phantom of the Opera. UK | 1996 | TONYP | 90 min | Cert E Item # 57436 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now | P&P £1

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Examined Life Astra Taylor

Taking philosophy out of books and into the streets, Examined Life accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers – including Slavoj Žižek and Judith Butler – in ordinary places and spaces that reflect and resonate their ideas. This film offers privileged moments with great thinkers. Canada | 2008 | ICA | 87 min | Cert TBC Item # 61168 | RRP £12.99 | Released 12th April | P&P £1

The Mystery of Chopin Tony Palmer

A film about the mystery of Paulina Czernika, who in 1945 approached the Polish Government with letters from Chopin which were said to be profoundly damaging to his image as a Polish hero. Czernika ‘committed suicide’ on 17th October 1949, 100 years to the day after Chopin’s death – or did she? UK | 1999 | TONYP | 167 min | Cert TBC Item # 61116 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now | P&P £1

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Horses

Liz Mermin A beautiful, observational film that draws us into the inner lives of three champion Irish racehorses – Cuan Na Grai, Ardalan and Joncol – over the course of a difficult racing year, by focusing not on jockeys or trainers, but on the horses themselves. As we watch them train, rest, play and race, the horses’ distinct characters undeniably emerge. Ireland / UK | 2009 | DIGCL | 87 min | Cert E Item # 61375 | RRP £14.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1

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One Continuous Take: Kay Mander’s Life in Film

A retrospective of the work of innovative 1940s documentarian Kay Mander, which includes Adele Carroll’s 2001 film portrait One Continuous Take, featuring Mander recalling her life and work. The set includes ten complete films from 1940-48, taking in her wartime training films and postwar social issues 2 discs. films. UK | 1940-48 | PANA | 253 min | Cert E Item # 61332 | RRP £24.99 | Released 5th April | P&P £1.50

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COI Collection: Volume 2 - Design for Today Recommended Contains: Designing Women (1947), Designed in Britain (1959), Brief City (1952), Design for Today (1965), This Week in Britain: The National Theatre (1970), Pacemakers: Basil Spence (1973), Insight: Terence Conran (1981); Sixty Years of Fashion (1960), The Pacemakers: Biba (1970), Mini Skirts Make Money (1968), The Country Look (1971), TWiB: Men’s Fashions (plus Spanish Version) (1973), TWiB: Mary Quant (1974), TWiB: Saville Row (1976), Insight: Zandra Rhodes (1981), A Woman’s Place: Image Makers (1985). Released: 22nd March DVD Extras: 2 discs; Accompanying Booklet UK | 1947-85 | BFI | 196 min | Cert E | Item # 60711 | P&P £1.50

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he earliest film in this sprightly collection from the archives of the Central Office of Information, Designing Women (1947), sees fairy godmother Miss Design outlining a few principles of what to buy to a newlywed couple, eager to furnish their home. The questions ‘does it work?’, ‘is it well made?’ and ‘is it attractive?’ should be uppermost in their minds, she says, much to the consternation of Joyce Grenfell’s Miss Arty, whose flair for hopelessly unsuitable unfurnishings (‘what we need here is a motif ... something brave new worldy’) clutters the rooms into unusability. Miss Design would certainly approve of many of the objects on display in Designed in Britain, showcasing the best of British design from 1959, and Design for Today, a day-long ‘city symphony’ of a sort, based around around British design. She would also cast a friendly eye on Brief City, an evocative film about the Festival of Britain. A handful of programmes from the cinemagazine This Week in Britain take a look at The National Theatre’s move to the South Bank, Men’s Fashion (‘just how liberated is the fashion conscious male of

A BFI collection on the evergreen themes of design and fashion 1973?’), Savile Row tailors adapting to new trends and Mary Quant. A brace of Insight programmes directed by Peter Greenaway look at the designer Terence Conran, and ‘inventress’ Zandra Rhodes. Two programmes from The Pacemakers – ‘people who are changing Britain today’– feature enthusiastic interviewee Sir Basil Spence talking about marrying modernity with romance in architecture, while founders of iconic sixties fashion store Biba explain the ethos of their business. 60 Years of Fashion takes an overview of women’s fashion from 1897 onwards, culminating in a selection of the terribly now designs of 1960. Finally, those wishing to immerse themselves in 1980s fashion should head straight to A Woman’s Place, a profile of PR consultant Lynne Franks and her fashion industry clients of the day – though what Miss Design would have to say by now is anyone’s guess. G Hobbs

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present Dillinger

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John Milius Warren Oates stars as Depression-era gangster John Dillinger in this notoriously graphic account of the latter half of the notorious gangster’s career up to his death in a police ambush outside the Biograph Theatre. Also stars Harry Dean Stanton and Richard Dreyfuss.

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Great western that sees the Doolin-Dalton gang up to their tricks. Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) is out to rob a train, but his gang is in for a surprise when, instead of gold, they find two tearaway teenagers (Diane Lane and Amanda Plummer).

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An extraordinary fantasy adventure in which Christopher Plummer plays the leader of a travelling theatre who, having made a deal with the devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations. Now the devil has come to collect. Also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and, in his last ever performance, Heath Ledger. France / UK / Canada | 2009 | LGATE | 123 min | Cert 12 Item # 60980 | RRP £19.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1

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Michael Caine’s titular hero is a character Caine has described as the kind of man Jack Carter might have grown to be, if he’d met the right woman and settled down on an estate that had gradually turned to the bad. Newly widowed, Harry Brown spends his days avoiding the nearby subway and playing chess in the local boozer with his mate Len. When Len comes a cropper at the hands of a bunch of feral kids, Harry takes the law into his own hands and enacts OAP vengeance. A companion piece, of sorts, to Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, it’s a film likely to inflame media debate from conflicting viewpoints. If you’re of the ‘look, we all need to try and understand the underclass, not vilify them’ school, there is much in Harry Brown to dislike. If you’re of the ‘that’s all well and good, you don’t have to live near them’ school, you may find yourself rooting for Harry to sort out the villains good and proper. The danger of such debate though, is to overshadow the many merits of the film as a purely cinematic experience. It looks absolutely great and early scenes are mesmerising in their quiet exactitude. PW

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Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1971, this anti-war film focuses on a young American soldier (Timothy Bottoms), hit by a shell on the last day of WWI. Without limbs, eyes, ears, mouth or nose, he is an embarrassment to the army, but a nurse realises he is awake while changing his dressings, and he tries to communicate his wish to be put on show as a true example of the horrors of war.

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Summer 1939, and as much of Britain prepares for war, a shady cabal of aristocrats and Government officials plots to mollify Hitler and secure a quick, painless peace. When Anne Keyes (Romola Garai), the adopted daughter of a wealthy family, stumbles across the conspiracy, she finds her life under threat as one by one her allies turn out to be traitors, or turn up dead. In his first feature for 10 years, writer-director Stephen Poliakoff deals with some weighty themes, while alighting on fascinating aspects of the readying for war, such as pets being killed and heaped onto pyres. ‘It’s like a vision of hell, isn’t it?’ asks Anne’s father (Bill Nighy). ‘Animals going onto a fire in a quiet English summer.’ Despite its depth though, Glorious 39 is really an old-fashioned thriller: engrossing and atmospheric, with a gnawing, ever-present sense of menace and some mightily effective set pieces. It’s also notable for Garai’s expressive turn, which catches the eye in a cast that includes Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter, David Tennant and Christopher Lee. RB

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Dexter Fletcher. Hoskin’s fine debut as director sees him tell the tale of an army deserter in war-torn Europe who disguises himself as a girl. Then he meets a band of gypsies and their leader’s daughter discovers his secret. UK | 1988 | OPTIM | 103 min | Cert 15 Item # 60805 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th April

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Contemporary Animation Scandal

The Gruffalo

Michael Caton-Jones

Max Lang

With a great evocation of the era, Scandal offers a fictionalised account of the cold war sex scandal, the Profumo Affair. John Hurt plays the bon vivant who grooms Christine Keeler (Joanne Whalley) and Mandy Rice-Davies (Bridget Fonda) to party with his swinging friends. Then Christine becomes entangled with both a Soviet spy and the British Minister of Defence...

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The beguiling story of 12 year-old Billy, who – with the arrivals of a young outcast boy at school and a sexy young farm labourer at home – is about to have his worldturned upside-down. NZ | 2005 | FMS | 90 min | Cert 12 Item # 61175 | RRP £15.99 | Released 22nd March | P&P £1

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Architect Rusty has the life of his dreams. Then his boyfriend leaves town and he meets a sexy drifter – and crystal methaddicted hustler – named Denny who opens Rusty up to a whole new world. USA | 2009 | EUREK | 95 min | 18 Item # 61065 | RRP £14.99 | Released 22nd February | P&P £1

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Lucky Bastard

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The second instalment of the teen vampire saga. Following her ill-fated 18th birthday party, Bella Swan is devastated by the loss of vampire lover Edward Cullen – but finds solace in a relationship with irresistible childhood friend, Jacob Black. Making-of; Music Videos; Fan Event Q&A.

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Mulan

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Planet 51

Jorge Blanco

Comedy adventure in which astronaut Chuck Baker lands on Planet 51, which to his surprise is inhabited by small green people who live contentedly in a white picket fence world reminiscent of 1950s America – and who fear it might be overrun by alien invaders, such as Chuck, who is now in danger of becoming an exhibit in the Alien Invaders Space Museum! Spain / UK | 2009 | EV | 86 min | Cert U Item # 60989 | RRP £19.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1

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Eight brand new woollyheaded adventures from Shaun and his flock of friends. Timmy gets a bad case of the bounce, Shaun tries out his golfing skills, a King Kong-sized lamb appears and the flock have a noisy guest sharing their barn. UK | 2007 | 2ENT | Cert U Item # 61124 | RRP £12.99 | Released 29th March | P&P £1

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Disney pictures are at their best when at their darkest, and in spite of its cute reputation, Dumbo is packed with sinister scenes. The story follows a circus elephant with freakishly big ears, attempting to cope after his mother is locked away. Bullied by the other circus animals, Dumbo (the only Disney protagonist who never speaks) retreats into miserable isolation until he bonds with circus mouse Timothy. This friendship leads to the justly celebrated Pink Elephants sequences, in which Dumbo and Timothy get drunk (in a children’s film!) and hallucinate the ghostly ‘Technicolor pachyderms’. The next day they realise that Dumbo’s ears may be a blessing in disguise. Disney’s fourth animated feature was one of their biggest successes. Unusually the writers did not base their story around a fairytale, creating an original portrait of a persecuted outsider, while the animators used watercolours rather than oil paints, giving the film a different texture from other Disney features. Dumbo encapsulates the best of Disney: great songs, memorable characters, a sinister undercurrent and brilliant animation. AD

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April 2010 MovieMail Film Catalogue

This Month in Blu-ray

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

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Bodysong

Married, Single, Other

A Serious Man

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Simon Pummell

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Take Two – ‘Mirror Films’

t’s always a pleasure to review a film as good as F.W. Murnau’s City Girl. Indeed, the only difficulty is fitting in all that you want to say: in addition to the remarkable use of light, Murnau’s rare ability to imbue simple stories with universal significance deserves at least a nod. But there’s one thing that can’t be overlooked: the similarity between City Girl (1930) and an earlier Murnau film, Sunrise (1927). That’s not to say City Girl is a ‘remake’, but in outline the two films are so similar – very broadly, a meeting of rural and urban values – that comparisons are inevitable. Murnau was a restless, inventive director who previously seemed keen to tackle new subjects with each new picture; what was it that lured him back to the scenes of his greatest triumph? One of the great fascinations of City Girl is the way it complements, and contrasts with, Sunrise; a director critiquing his own work. And Murnau was far from alone in this. Obviously, the greatest directors – the auteurs – have themes and obsessions that recur throughout their work. But some take it further, crafting films that reflect on their other movies. Sometimes they made light of it; Howard Hawks would routinely recycle bits of business, characters – hell, even entire films. His stated motivation was that if it worked once, it would stand repetition. A double bill of Rio Bravo and El Dorado proves him right, as well as being a fantastically entertaining way to spend an evening. Hawks’ compadre John Ford pretended any similarities between his films were purely unintentional but this is unconvincing; consider the late period film Two Rode Together, in which a pair of cowboys pursue an Indian band to rescue white children captured in a raid. The echoes of The Searchers (in which a pair of cowboys

One of the great fascinations of Murnau’s City Girl is the way in which it complements Sunrise etc etc) are overwhelming but while that film is a mournful elegy, Two Rode Together is brutal and cynical. It’s vital documentation of Ford’s growing pessimism. One of the most interesting of these ‘mirror’ films is The Passionate Friends. Having already made arguably the definitive ‘woman-contemplatesleaving-her-husband-for-TrevorHoward’ film – Brief Encounter – David Lean was surely not obliged to make another. Lean claimed circumstances obliged him to take over the production from another director, but he had already been actively involved as producer. Was he, in fact, keen to intervene? The Passionate Friends is a wonderful melodrama in its own right but also a highly rewarding, complementary riff on Brief Encounter. When Roman Polanski’s film The Tenant was first released, it was dis-

missed as a repetition of his earlier Repulsion – both of which are about people slowly going mad in their apartments. Now it looks like one of his finest works and the links to the previous film seem quite deliberate. The titular tenant even ends up in a long blond wig, a la Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion – which is actually quite disturbing, since he’s played by Roman Polanski himself. Their individual motives differ, of course. And maybe we shouldn’t read too much into it – perhaps inspiration really is thin on the ground in Hollywood. But then again, Van Gogh painted dozens of sunflowers and noone accuses him of lacking inspiration. And for some of us, Murnau is an artist of the same calibre.

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An exceptional biopic of the French painter

Séraphine

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Séraphine Martin Provost A multiple award-wining French drama based on the true story of French primitive painter Séraphine de Senlis (18641942). This compelling character study, in which Séraphine is thrust into the international art world, includes extraordinarily beautiful images of the French countryside. France / Belgium | 2008 | MET-D | 126 min | subt | Cert PG | # 60911 | RRP £15.99

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