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o you sell that Jacques Tati film that has the scene with the windscreen wipers?’ has to be one of our most commonly asked questions. The answer, until today, has invariably been ‘unfortunately not’. Well at last the film in question, Trafic, sees a UK release. We know it will be popular with our customers – especially as we have it as an exclusive! While on the subject of exclusives, be sure not to miss Sundays and Cybele, a beautiful French drama from 1962. It is astounding it has never been released before. We are also delighted to see that four films from the master of romantic melodrama, Frank
Contents Film of the Month 5 Trafic
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World Cinema Sundays and Cybele 35 Shots of Rum
Classic Movies
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The Holly and the Ivy Knock On Any Door Exclusive Hammer DVDs! Borzage, are coming out from the BFI. His films have been missing for far too long from our screens. His name is pronounced Bor-zay-ghee by the way! Enjoy your films,
Animation
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Silent Film
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Borzage: Volumes 1 & 2
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Documentaries
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Television
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Alan Bennett at the BBC A. Quatermass and the Pit
Contemporary
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Blu-ray Releases 37
Contributors Emma Paterson (Dracula) Emma has worked as a freelance film reviewer for three years, and currently writes for Little White Lies and Dazed & Confused. In 2010, she is to begin an Editorial Internship at Film Comment in New York. Her long-term plan is to undertake doctoral research in female filmmaking and the aesthetics of tactility.
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Rick Burin (Quatermass 2) has written on film for The Guardian.
Sister Hyde) has been writing for Empire for over a decade.
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Doug Cummings (The Damned) is a co-founder of Masters of Cinema.
R Dixon Smith is the author of Ronald Colman, Gentleman of the Cinema.
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Alex Davidson (The Reptile) is a content developer for the BFI mediatheque.
Julian Upton (Cash On Demand) wrote Fallen Stars.
James Oliver (The Abominable Snowman) is a freelance film writer.
Milo Wakelin (Quatermass & the Pit) is film editor of The Pink Paper.
David Parkinson (The Devil Rides Out) is a film critic and historian.
Peter Wild (Dracula A.D.1972) is the editor of Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall.
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Jacques Tati’s final outing as Monsieur Hulot sees him attempt to accompany his car company’s new product - an absurd camper-van - to the ‘Internationale Autoshow’ in Amsterdam. A prescient satire on human obsession with the internal combustion engine. Netherlands / Sweden | 1971 | NL | 93 min | Cert TBC | # 60319 | RRP £15.99
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2 Katyn
Andrzej Wajda grew up with what he calls ‘the Katyn lie’ - the cover-up of the massacre of 20,000 polish officers, intellectuals and professionals by the Soviet army at the outset of WWII. His father was one of the executed officers, and this is the film that he never thought he would be able to make. Poland | 2007 | ART-E | 121 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 59641 | RRP £15.99
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3 Looking for Eric
‘He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.’Ken Loach directs this upbeat comedy set in Manchester, about a football-mad postman who receives life coaching from his idol, the enigmatic French footballer, Eric Cantona. UK | 2009 | ICON | 116 min | Cert 15 | # 59654 | RRP £19.99
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4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Disney’s classic animated adaptation of the famous fairytale was their first fulllength production and remains as enchanting as ever. Snow White is born pure and beautiful, so beautiful that her evil stepmother becomes jealous... USA | 1937 | WDHV | 81 min | Cert U | # 60061 | RRP £19.99
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Trafic Recommended Director: Jacques Tati Starring: Jacques Tati, Maria Kimberly Released: 19th October Netherlands / Sweden | 1971 | NL | 93 mins | Cert TBC | Item # 60319
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Benoit Delepine Belgium | 2003 | BLUEBELL | 92 min | subt | B&W | Cert 15 | # 33532 | RRP £5.99
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Features Jour de fête (1949), Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Parade (1974). France / Sweden | 1949-74 | BFI | 480 min | subt | Cert U | # 60161 | RRP £39.99
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acques Tati’s final outing as Monsieur Hulot – the amiable, accident-prone and unfailingly courteous exile from a more graceful era of unhurried old-world charm – sees him employed as a draughtsman in a car firm whose newest model, an absurdly multi-gadgeted camper-van, is destined for the Internationale Autoshow in Amsterdam. Hulot, along with pressed Public Relations lady Maria and bobble-hatted truck driver Marcel, set out for the show, but breakdowns, accidents and extended garage stays ensure that they will never arrive in time, leaving salesman François to guard their empty stand of fake birch trees, while all around him, men peer into the bonnets and boots of competitors’ cars. Beginning with the dull clang, spark, burnish, buzz and hum of an industrial car plant, this satire on man’s obsession with motorised transport, and the change people undergo as soon as they get behind the wheel of a car, has wonderful observational comedy at its heart. As ever with Tati, this is sometimes of such subtlety that repeated viewings are richly repayed. The set-pieces are famous – the extravagant, injury-free pile-up, the windscreen wipers
At last, a UK release for Jacques Tati’s final outing as M. Hulot acting in character with their drivers – but it’s the smaller, easily missable details that give Tati’s universe its character: details such as barely visible car aerials wobbling in time while waiting at a light, or Maria’s dog simply watching traffic from her car. If the surge and blare of road noise that occupies the soundtrack screws the humour up to a level that is coarser than in previous Tati films, then its central theme of Hulot looking for a little human warmth and respite from technology is familiar. He finds it in an extended stay at a riverside garage where the characters apparently forget about reaching the Autoshow altogether, settling down instead to a good picnic, and thus putting the camper-van to its use. At the end, Hulot disappears – how else? – into a crowd of unfurled umbrellas, leaving pedestrians to squeeze their way through an immense parking lot of boxedin cars, and viewers to continue Tati’s work of seeing the world anew. Graeme Hobbs
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World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language
New Releases Boogie
Radu Muntean Romanian comedy drama starring Dragos Bucur as ‘Boogie’ Ciocazanu, a man who finds himself caught between family obligations and the temptation of a night out with the boys while on his spring break at the seaside with his wife and 2 discs. young son. Romania | 2008 | DOGW | 102 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60046 | RRP £14.99 | Released 2nd Nov
Released: 19th October Mexico | 2008 | OPTIM | 102 mins | subt | Cert 15 | Item # 59860
Christmas Story Juha Wuolijoki
A magical Finnish family movie (in English), set in the far north, which tells the story of how young orphan Nicholas secretly makes presents for the families who take him in over Christmas – until an evil carpenter stops his good deeds. Finland | 2007 | REV | 77 min | Cert PG Item # 59855 | RRP £10.99 | Released 9th November
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District 13: Ultimatum Patrick Alessandrin
French action sequel written by Luc Besson. The death of an overlord at the end of the first film has left a power vacuum, and battle for total control of the area now rages between rival gang lords, all of whom want to step into the vacant position. The Parisian secret services prepare to take drastic measures... France | 2009 | MOMET | 101 min | Cert 15 Item # 59859 | RRP £15.99 | Released 26th October
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The Great Silence Sergio Corbucci
A stylish, bleak spaghetti western set in the snowbound mountains of Utah, where Klaus Kinski leads a group of brutal bounty killers. Jean-Louis Trintignant is the gunslinger on their trail. The alternative happy ending never got used. Italy / France | 1968 | DIGCL | 105 min | Cert 15 Item # 59996 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th October
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Recommended Director: Carlos Cuarón Starring: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
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Rudo and Cursi
This vivid, funny and very likeable Mexican movie from Carlos Cuarón (Alfonso’s brother) sees half-brothers and banana farmers Tato and Beto living with their large peasant family (mother, abusive stepfather, sister Nadia, and Beto’s wife Toña and their children). Then one day a football scout spots them, takes them to Mexico City, and thrusts them into the overwhelming surroundings of a house, cars and money. While Rudo starts dating a gold-digging TV star, Cursi starts gambling and taking drugs and soon finds hiimself in serious trouble with a loan shark. The relationship between the brothers (Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, reprising their coupling in Y tu mamá también) is brilliant – they are a hilarious mixture of tough and intense (Rudo) and fun and innocent (Cursi). Bernal’s wannabe pop singer in particular, hair dyed blond, acting as if he is the cheesiest man in Mexico, provides the film with its funniest moment with his hilariously bad rendition (complete with accordian) of ‘I want you to want me’. This will certainly appeal to lovers of the films of Pedro Almodóvar. RS
The Golden Coach Recommended Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Anna Magnani Released: 19th October France / Italy | 1952 | DIGCL | 103 mins | Cert TBC | Item # 60021
Renoir once described the first part of his theatrical trilogy as ‘a translation into English of a French film in the Italian style’. Based on a play by Prosper Merimée, inspired by the music of Vivaldi, this is also a highly cinematic comedy (here in Renoir’s preferred English version), whose disregard for narrative convention anticipates the nouvelle vague. Set in 18th-century colonial Peru, the storyline is pure whimsy, as commedia dell’arte star Anna Magnani steals the hearts of a Spanish viceroy, a toreador and a fellow troubadour. Some of the support playing is a little stilted, but Magnani is as ravishing as Claude Renoir’s photography and Mario Chiari’s décor, while the direction audaciously toys with the notion that the whole world is a stage. Indeed, with the sets becoming increasingly stylised and Magnani directly addressing the audience, it’s impossible to distinguish between artifice and reality. Powell and Pressburger similarly excelled at this filmic theatricality, but Renoir surpassed them for wit, artistry and sheer joie de vivre. DP
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Sundays and Cybele Recommended Director: Serge Bourguignon Starring: Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Nicole Courcel, Released: 5th October DVD Extras: Optional English dubbed soundtrack. France | 1962 | SPHE | 110 mins | subt | B&W | Cert 12 | Item # 59712
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Germany | 1974 | Axiom | 107 min | | B&W | Cert U | # 53870 | RRP £19.99
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Louis Malle Collection Vol 1 France | 1958-63 | OPTIM | 375 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 27867 | RRP £39.99
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Coming Home Hal Ashby
USA | 1978 | MGMHE | 123 min | Cert 18 | # 18616 | RRP £15.99
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iven that it was the first feature from the nouvelle vague to be nominated, and then to win, an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1963 Oscars, it is staggering that Serge Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybèle is not better known. With incredible central performances from Hardy Krüger and 12 year-old Patricia Gozzi, it is a truly touching tale of two stricken souls finding solace and innocent love in each other’s companionship. Based on Bernard Eschassériaux’s novel, Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray, the story follows Krüger’s war-scarred bomber pilot Pierre, who has returned from a tour of duty in Indo-China and retreated into semiseclusion in Paris in the hope of coming to terms with accidentally killing a Vietnamese girl on crash-landing his plane. One evening when he is spending time at the railway station, he sees a young girl pleading with her father not to take her to the orphanage that will be her new home. A few days later, the chance presents itself for Pierre to pose as her parent, which he does. She gets to spend her Sundays outside of the confines of the orphanage, he finds satisfaction in making her happy. Both of them discover a trusting, innocent love in their time together and begin to put
A beautiful and heartbreaking tale of innocent love their scarred pasts behind them. Inevitably though, their make-believe world is threatened when a neighbour spots them together and word spreads among Pierre’s acquaintances about his illicit relationship along with doubt regarding his motives. In many ways, this is the sentimental, though never mawkish, equivalent to Louis Malle’s madcap romp, Zazie dans le Métro (1960). Indeed, there is considerable charm in Krüger and Gozzi’s interaction, with Gozzi having a more intuitive understanding of the man’s pain than his own nurse girlfriend. The sequence in which Krüger risks his neck to get Gozzi a church weathervane as a Christmas present is particularly heart-rending, with Henri Decaë’s discreet monochrome naturalism counterpointed by Maurice Jarre’s mellifluent score. A sensitive tale of the redemptive possibilities of love, this is genuinely a lost gem that will be welcomed by aficionados of French cinema and all lovers of good film. David Parkinson
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World Cinema Ichi the Killer
Johnny Stecchino
Takashi Miike
Roberto Benigni
Ichi, a mysterious psychopath with a dark secret, works for a retired Yakuza as an unstoppable killing machine. Deranged, perverse and teethgnashingly violent, this unsettling psychological thriller, replete with brutal sadism and copious blood spilling, was one of the first films for a long time to receive BBFC cuts.
Mistaken identity comedy from the multi-talented Roberto Benigni. Innocent bus driver Dante falls in love with the beautiful Maria – and to his surprise, she takes an interest in him too. It is only when he visits her villa that he discovers she is married to his doppleganger, feared mafioso Johnny Stecchino...
JAPAN | 2001 | SHOWB | 120 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 59355 | RRP £15.99 | Released 2nd November
Italy | 1992 | ARROW | 116 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60002 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
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Award-winning Russian adaptation of the fairy tale. Nastenka is treated like a slave by her evil stepmother, who sends her out into the forest to freeze. Before he can find her, her lover Ivan is turned into a bear by an evil warlock. Their only hope lies with the good wizard, Jack Frost. Russia | 1964 | HBF | 84 min | Cert TBC Item # 59765 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
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The Jacques Tati Collection
Five films featuring the comic genius of Jacques Tati and his amiable, hapless on-screen alterego, Monsieur Hulot. Features Jour de fête (1949), Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Parade (1974). 5 discs; Interviews; Commentary on Playtime; Trailers; Booklets. France / Sweden | 1949-74 | BFI | 480 min | subt | Cert U Item # 60161 | RRP £39.99 | Released 2nd November
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Extreme Spanish backwoods thriller in which city man Quim finds himself driving for his life through labyrinthine forest roads after losing his way in the countryside. Can he elude the unseen gunmen on his trail? Spain | 2007 | OPTIM | 90 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 57987 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th October
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The Last Thakur Sadik Ahmed
British-Bangladeshi western in which a wildeyed, mysterious young man arrives in a small Bangladeshi town armed with a rifle and looking for revenge on the man who murdered his mother. He immediately attracts the attention of two rival gang leaders: ruthless ‘man of the people’ Chairman, and Hindu landlord Thakur, and gets caught up in their bitter feud. UK / Bangladesh | 2008 | ART-E | 83 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60163 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th October
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Un Jeu Brutal / De Bruit et de Fureur
Mesrine (1984) J-F Richet
J-C Brisseau
Brisseau’s first two features explore ‘family’ life in the Parisian suburbs. Un Jeu Brutal is about a scientist whose sadistic treatment of his handicapped daughter arouses pity and revulsion, and De Bruit et du Fureur, looks at the lives of neglected children in Parisian projects. 2 discs; Director Interview. Making-of.
French crime drama (recently remade with Vincent Cassel in the lead role) based on a year in the life of notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine, played here by Nicolas Silberg. Beginning with his escape from prison in 1978 after 20 years in top security, the film follows Mesrine as he goes on the run – violently.
France | 1988 | Axiom | 177 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60164 | RRP £22.50 | Released 9th Nov
France | 1984 | OPTIM | 104 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 60154 | RRP £12.99 | Released 12th October
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The Bridge Recommended Director: Bernhard Wicki Starring: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper Released: 19th October Ger | 1959 | DIGCL | 102 mins | subt | B&W | TBC | Item # 60005
Bernhard Wicki’s 1959 anti-war film has been long overdue a UK release; this Oscar-nominated tale of tragically misguided boyhood heroism remains powerful and poignant, and as relevant as ever. In the last days of WWII, a group of schoolboys are called up to defend their small town against the impending American advance. Due to their inexperience they are given the low-risk task of defending a bridge until it can be demolished, but a mishap leaves them stranded. As the enemy draws near, the boys defiantly stand their ground. Early scenes have a relaxed, carefree feel, which makes the transition to the bloody violence of the film’s last half hour all the more devastating. Like Bridge on the River Kwai, the unnamed crossing in The Bridge stands as a metaphor for the futility of war, and as they boys’ numbers dwindle, the original purpose of their mission becomes entirely lost. The Bridge was remade for German TV in 2008, and Saving Private Ryan borrowed from it heavily, but this original is unmatched for its depiction of the way war corrupts the idealism of the young. MW
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35 Shots of Rum Recommended Director: Claire Denis Starring: Grégoire Colin, Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Djédjé Apali Released: 19th October DVD Extras: Interview with Claire Denis; Trailer. France / Germany | 2008 | NW | 100 mins | subt | Cert 12 | Item # 59501
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Claire Denis France | 1988 | ART-E | 100 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 57251 | RRP £15.99
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The Japanese Masters Collection Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan | 1951-61 | ART-E | 438 min | subt | B&W | Cert PG | # 30614 | RRP £39.99
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Abdel Kechiche France | 2007 | ART-E | 151 min | subt | | Cert 15 | # 56136 | RRP £19.99
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enis’ films, though often brilliant (especially Beau Travail and her pleasingly off the rails The Intruder) are not always particularly accessible, and require patience and commitment from their audience. However, 35 Shots of Rum is much more approachable to novice audiences, featuring sympathetic characters with recognisable dilemmas. After a gorgeous series of shots of trains trailing around the outskirts of Paris (the father is a train driver) we centre on a group of French north African characters. A widowed father lives with his daughter, and though it is never made explicit they clearly depend on one another, not letting strangers get too close to their family dynamic. A female taxi driver who lives next door (Nicole Dogué in arguably the best performance) is in love with the father, but the affection no longer seems to be reciprocated after a relationship dissolved. It may seem incongruous that a white female director should make such an acute study of a black male character, although as viewers of her debut Chocolat will know, she spent her childhood in colonial Africa in a male-dominated community. Denis’ love of the films of Yasujiro Ozu is also apparent in her leisurely pace, her focus on
A beautifully observed and emotionally vibrant drama from Claire Denis gesture rather than dialogue, and her sensitivity to familial relationships. Ozu’s Late Spring is a clear influence, as, apparently, was the relationship between Denis’ mother and grandfather. There is a scene half way through 35 Shots of Rum which should become a classic of world cinema. Four people (the father, the daughter, the taxi driver and a young man in love with the daughter) are stranded in a Parisian bar when their car breaks down in the pouring rain. Drying off, someone selects the Commodore’s 1980s hit ‘Night Shift’ on the jukebox, and the characters slowly dance with one another. Not a word is spoken during the whole interlude, yet when the young man gently cuts in on the father dancing with his daughter, this mild gesture changes the fates of all four people. It is a beautiful, sad sequence that I have already watched several times, and a mark of the director’s great talent. Alex Davidson
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World Cinema The Essential Michael Haneke Michael Haneke
An outstanding collection of 10 films. Contains Code Unknown, Hidden, Time of the Wolf, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games (Original and US remake), The Seventh Continent, Benny’s Video, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, and – for the first time in the UK – his much sought-after adaptation of 10 discs. Franz Kafka’s The Castle (1997). Germany / Austria / USA | 1989-2007 | ART-E | subt | Cert 18 Item # 59643 | RRP £74.99 | Released 19th Oct
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Oriental Elegy / A Humble Life / Dolce
Recommended Contains: Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922); The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933); The 1000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse (1960).
Aleksandr Sokurov Three haunting, beautiful and meditative films from Sokurov’s ‘Japanese video cycle’, Oriental Elegy (1996), A Humble Life (1997) and Dolce (2000), in which he tries to go beyond documentary, ‘to find the sources of the very image itself’.
Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel Released: 19th October DVD Extras: 4 discs; Commentaries; Featurettes; Interview with Wolfgang Preiss; Alternate ending to 1000 Eyes; Optional Englishlanguage dub for 1000 Eyes; Three booklets; A new translation of Fritz Lang’s 1924 lecture on ‘Sensation Culture’.
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Jean Rollin / Jess Franco A collection of three eroticised bloodsuckers. Contains two of Rollin’s best films – the atmospheric and eerily perverse Shiver of the Vampires (1970) and Requiem for a Vampire (1971), as well as Franco’s Dracula’s Daughter 3 discs. (1972). France | 1970-79 | SALV | 255 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 60280 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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The Vampires’ Night Orgy Leon Klimovsky
A Transylvanian breakdown leaves travellers stranded. At first everything appears normal but just who is the beautiful countess, and what was the meat served up for the evening meal? Why does no-one want the travellers to leave? Spain | 1972 | HBF | 80 min | Cert 15 Item # 59639 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
Ger | 1922-60 | EUREK | subt | B&W | Cert TBC | Item # 60077
This essential set gathers together the three films that Fritz Lang made about criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse, and marks the first time that the final film, The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, has been available on in the UK in any format. Lang hadn’t tackled Mabuse for nearly thirty years when he started work on 1000 Eyes... but he effortlessly recaptured the pulp rhythms of the earlier films. As devilish as ever, the wicked doctor has cooked up a scheme that involves experimental guns, blackmail, clairvoyance, two way mirrors, nuclear devastation and a luxury hotel. This is a devious and punchy thriller, and its paranoia and interest in surveillance makes it seem downright prescient today. Mabuse is one of cinema’s greatest monsters. It’s great to have him back. JO
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Russia / Japan | 1996-2000 | MEDIC | 180 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 60277 | RRP £22.99 | Released 27th April
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Lift to the Scaffold
Tell No One
Louis Malle
Guillaume Canet
Cristian Mungiu
A richly atmospheric thriller of murder and mistaken identity unfolding over one restless Parisian night, and featuring a famous score from Miles Davis. Jeanne Moreau stars.
Francois Cluzet. A tense, oldschool murder mystery, served up with panache and which keeps the audience guessing until the very end. 2 discs; I Can’t Sleep (Canet, 2000).
Two young women try to organise an illegal abortion in communist Romania. As suspenseful as a Hitchcock, this film is part of a recent wave of exhilarating Romanian cinema.
France | 1958 | OPTIM | 87 min | subt | Cert U | # 33546 | RRP £15.99
France | 2006 | REV | 130 min | subt | 15 | # 51362 | RRP £19.99
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Anything for Her
Le Jour se Lève
The Page Turner
Dir: Fred Cavayé. French romantic thriller in which a man, convinced of his incarcerated wife’s innocence, attempts to spring her from jail.
Dir: Marcel Carné. Gabin plays Francois, who, locked in his room, a gun in his hand, reflects on how events have brought him to this.
Dir: Denis Dercourt. A precise, subtle thriller in which a thwarted musician becomes a page turner for the woman who ruined her career.
France | 2008 | MET-D | 96 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 59535 | RRP £19.99
France | 1939 | OPT | 86 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 33767 | RRP £17.99
France | 2006 | ART-E | 97 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 32248 | RRP £19.99
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Bob le Flambeur
Lemming
Pépé le Moko
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. An elegant Parisian gangster drama that is a lovingly recreated homage to the 1940s American city thrillers Melville adored.
Dir: Dominik Moll. A sinister drama with echoes of Hitchcock, in which a couple’s serene life is shaken following an uneasy dinner party...
Dir: Julien Duvivier. A landmark thriller that sees Jean Gabin’s gangster hiding out in Algiers. A classic mix of noir and poetic realism.
France | 1955 | OPT | 96 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 30800 | RRP £19.99
France | 2005 | ART-E | 124 min | subt | 15 | # 29608 | RRP £19.99
France | 1937 | OPT | 90 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 19657 | RRP £19.99
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Les Diaboliques
Memories of Murder
Run Lola Run
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. A man’s mistress and downtrodden wife join forces to get rid of him in this brilliant suspense thriller with a twist.
Dir: Joon-Ho Bong. An exceptional film based around the real-life hunt for Korea’s first serial killer – who remains unfound to this day.
Dir: Tom Tykwer. Lola has twenty minutes to find money for her lover in this inventive, frenetic thriller about small actions and big consequences.
France | 1954 | ARROW | 112 min | B&W | 12 | # 51692 | RRP £15.99
S Korea | 2003 | OPTIM | 131 min | subt | 15 | # 21069 | RRP £19.99
Germany | 1998 | COL-T | 76 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 5202 | RRP £19.99
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Funny Games
The Night of the Sunflowers
Shoot the Pianist
Romania | 2007 | ART-E | 109 min | subt | 15 | # 53868 | RRP £19.99
Dir: Michael Haneke. The original version of Haneke’s exploration of screen violence, in which two psychopaths make accomplices of us all. Austria | 1997 | ART-E | 104 min | subt | 18 | # 58146 | RRP £15.99
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Dir: Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. An intricate tale of murder, which a wily police veteran tries to make sense of. Spain | 2006 | YUME | 118 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 50236 | RRP £19.99
Dir: François Truffaut. A homage to the gangster thriller, combining the style of American film noir with all the visual techniques of nouvelle vague. France | 1960 | CC | 85 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 30172 | RRP £19.99
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Hidden
Oldboy
The Vanishing
Dir: Michael Haneke. Lauded as ‘the first great film of the 21st century’, Hidden takes a provocative look at guilt and personal responsibility.
Dir: Chan-Wook Park. A powerful, inventive thriller in which a man seeks explanations after 15 years of unexplained imprisonment. 2 discs
Dir: George Sluizer. On a French holiday a woman vanishes without trace or explanation and her husband obsessively seeks her. Truly chilling.
France | 2005 | ART-E | 109 min | subt | 15 | # 28146 | RRP £19.99
S Korea | 2003 | PALIS | 119 min | subt | 18 | # 21153 | RRP £19.99
Neth | 1988 | NOUVE | 102 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 10895 | RRP £19.99
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Thriller: Noun. A book, film, or play depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense. Hollywood believes in a slightly different definition (one that requires explosions) whereas this selection of superlative international cinema holds to the true definition and is all the better for it!
Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969
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The John Wayne Ultimate Collection
A big box set for a big star. Features Hondo, McLintock!, True Grit, Rio Lobo, El Dorado, Big Jake, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The High and the Mighty, Island in the Sky, Donovan’s Reef, Hatari! and In Harm’s 15 discs. Way.
Fate Takes a Hand Max Varnel
When a mail bag full of post taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a PO employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their intended addressees – an act which has profound implications for the recipients. A drama written by Brian Clemens. UK | 1962 | PEGS | 70 min | Cert PG Item # 60235 | RRP £5.99 | Released 19th October
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Night Train for Inverness Ernest Morris
Ex-convict Roy (Norman Wooland) heads south to see his estranged wife Ann and 7-year-old son Ted (Dennis Waterman) but Ann’s mother tells him they want nothing to do with a jailbird. Roy kidnaps Ted and takes the night train to a new life in Scotland. But unbeknown to Roy, Ted is a diabetic needing regular insulin injections and soon urgent medical attention is needed...
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Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland. Simply one of the most celebrated films in cinema history and an absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about life in America’s Deep South during the Civil War. USA | 1939 | WHV | 233 min | Cert PG Item # 59621 | RRP £23.99 | Released 9th November
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Holiday Inn
UK | 1960 | PEGS | 70 min | Cert U Item # 60243 | RRP £5.99 | Released 19th October
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Scrooge
Brian Desmond Hurst Alastair Sim, George Cole, Michael Hordern. The classic Christmas tale from Dickens about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who treats all men with contempt and all kindness as humbug. Sim excels as 2 discs; the old miser. Documentaries; Interviews Radio Plays; Silent Films.
Mark Sandrich Music by Irving Berlin, songs by Bing Crosby and dancing by Fred Astaire all add up to a really delightful musical with plenty of lavish song and dance routines and spectacular production numbers, and which also just happened to launch the hit ‘White Christmas’. USA | 1942 | UN | 100 min | Cert U Item # 20865 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd November
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Victor Fleming
Frank Capra
Facing bankruptcy, George Bailey (James Stewart) wants to end it all. But his personal angel Clarence will never get his wings if he ends up in the drink, so he shows him the impact he has made on people around him to prove that his life, is, in fact, wonderful. A superb Christmas tale. USA | 1946 | UN | 130 min | Cert U Item # 60314 | RRP £17.99 | Released 28th October
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The Wizard of Oz
It’s a Wonderful Life
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UK | 1951 | SMPLY | 86 min | Cert U Item # 25600 | RRP £19.99 | Released 10th Nov
One of the most beloved films of all time, featuring a beguiling performance by a young Judy Garland. The switch from black and white to glorious Technicolor heightens the magic, which is further enhanced by the delightful score, the highlight of which is the enchanting Over the Rainbow. A film that appeals to generation after generation. USA | 1939 | WHV | 98 min | Cert U Item # 59500 | RRP £23.50 | Released 2nd November
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Life at the Top Recommended Director: Ted Kotcheff Starring: Laurence Harvey, Honor Blackman, Robert Morley, Jean Simmons, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit, Nigel Davenport Released: 19th October UK | 1965 | SPHE | 117 mins | B&W | Cert TBC | Item # 60038
Lawrence Harvey is Joe Lampton, unhappily married and forced to work at a job handed to him on a plate by his father-in-law. TV presenter Norah (played by Honor Blackman) offers him escape which, following his wife’s own infidelity, he leaps at, only for things to come crashing down around his ears. Bureacracy, class, office gossip and English politics all have a part to play (look out for a great cameo from Catweazle, Geoffrey Bayldon). This sequel to Room at the Top was damned with faint praise on its first release in 1965 and has long been viewed as part of Lawrence Harvey’s decline (eventually relegated to bit parts in Columbo and second-rate horror movies). Such a critical stand however is unfair, when the film is judged alongside the likes of Look Back in Anger or Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Life at the Top could best be described as ‘what the Angry Young Man did next’. All told, it shows where kitchen sink drama could have gone if we hadn’t been distracted by the titillating likes of Georgie Girl. PW
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The Holly and the Ivy Recommended Director: George More O’Ferrall Starring: Margaret Leighton, Celia Johnson, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Richardson Released: 26th October DVD Extras: TBC UK | 1952 | OPTIM | 77 mins | B&W | Cert U | Item # 60096
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See Alsos It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra
USA | 1946 | UN | 130 min | B&W | Cert U | # 60314 | RRP £17.99
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Scrooge
Brian Desmond Hurst UK | 1951 | SMPLY | 86 min | B&W | Cert U | # 25600 | RRP £19.99
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This Happy Breed David Lean
UK | 1944 | NWORK | 105 min | Cert U | # 51266 | RRP £15.99
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ith sister Margaret Leighton writing for a London fashion magazine and brother Denholm Elliott doing National Service, Celia Johnson feels obliged to reject John Gregson’s proposal to accompany him to South America as someone has to care for her widowed father, Ralph Richardson’s Reverend Gregory. However, as the ancient aunts (wonderfully amusing caricatures of the holly – prickly and the ivy – loving and clinging) settle in for the festivities with soldier nephew Hugh Williams, the younger generation’s guilty secrets begin to emerge and Richardson is forced to realise that the vocation he embraced in order to help his fellow man has rendered him a pious tyrant to his children. Russian screen writer Anatole de Grunwold imbues this poignant adaptation of Wynyard Browne’s West End stage hit with Checkov’s spirit and relocates the Russian’s genius for deftly drawn characters to a rambling Norfolk parsonage on Christmas Eve. Apart from a few introductory scenes in the capital, director George More O’Ferrall does little to hide the story’s stage origins. But the family’s confinement in a remote, snowy village reinforces the sense of
A welcome addition to the usual Christmas line-up of favourites detachment that Richardson’s offspring have mistakenly imposed upon him and allows the screenplay to focus on such Chekhovian themes as the vagaries of emotion, the agony of disillusion, the breakdown of communication and the desecration of authority. The performances and clipped enunciation may seem antiquated to those reared on the kitchen sink realism that was about to transform British filmmaking. But to austerity audiences, a clergyman accepting his daughter drowning her sorrows after personal tragedy would have seemed daring in both its honesty and its humanism. So while The Holly and the Ivy now radiates a nostalgic glow, it is actually a revealing record of a country on the cusp of the dramatic social, economic and cultural change that has, sadly, made faith, fidelity and family feel like relics of a distant past. Altogether, this is a very British, feelgood film, complete with laughter and tears, that provides a welcome addition to the usual Christmas line-up of favourites. P Peters
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Knock On Any Door Recommended Director: Nicholas Ray Starring: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Barry Kelley Released: 19th October USA | 1949 | ORBIT | 100 mins | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 59547
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USA | 1950 | COL-T | 89 min | | B&W | Cert PG | # 12390 | RRP £12.99
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Bogie and Bacall Collection Features The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo and Dark Passage.
USA | 1948 | WHV | 409 min | B&W | Cert 15 | # 60180 | RRP £13.99
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Brute Force Jules Dassin
USA | 1947 | ARROW | 98 min | B&W | Cert 15 | # 57974 | RRP £15.99
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nock on any door and you may find Pretty Boy Romano. Raised in poverty and beset by tragedy, he’s a victim of society – and the first guy the cops look for when a bar is stuck up and a policeman shot. But bequiffed, combustible Romano (John Derek) claims he’s innocent and calls in a figure from his past, crusading lawyer Humphrey Bogart, to beat the rap. The film opens with a bang, and the kind of bold, scene-setting brilliance more often associated with Sam Fuller. A piercing police whistle announces the start of a raid. Then, to the accompaniment of a mournful sax and an excitable string score, a lowlife in a trenchcoat ducks into an alley and guns down a cop. In common with countless crime pictures of the period, this one tells its story in flashback from the courtroom. Bogart is his usual self: characteristically excellent, and somehow both sardonic and goodhumoured. He’s a chess-playing lawyer who came up from nothing, then got sidetracked by the big bucks. Now he’s trying to right his conscience, having inadvertently set Derek on the road to crime. The collision between the assured Bogart and some of cinema’s earliest teenagers, with their slicked-up hair, smart mouths
‘Live fast, die young, and have a goodlooking corpse.’ and massive insecurities, is a striking one. ‘I know how you feel,’ Bogart tells Derek. ‘Nobody knows how anybody feels,’ the kid bites back. The script offers forceful social comment, taking in the legal system, anti-semitism and slum life, and some lyrical dialogue. Aged newspaper vendor Houseley Stevenson says he’s feeling ‘a little older, a little more tired, a little more confused’, while Derek sums up his life by murmuring ‘I guess I just played it wrong’. Director Nicholas Ray’s atypically restrained handling is impressive, whether creating sentiment or suspense. And like Ray’s stunning debut, They Live by Night, the movie ties its ‘estrangement from society’ theme (familiar from movies like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Angels With Dirty Faces) to a portrait of youthful alienation. Romano may have ‘played it wrong’, but a new generation identified with his mission statement: ‘Live fast, die young and have a goodlooking corpse.’ Rick Burin
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Warner Brothers SIGNATURE COLLECTIONS Box sets featuring dazzling stars and wonderful films – unbelievable value for money! Doris Day Vols 1 & 2 Vol 1: Billy Rose's Jumbo, The Glass Bottom Boat, Love Me or Leave Me, Please Don't Eat The Daisies, Young Man With a Horn, Calamity Jane. Vol 2: Pyjama Game, April In Paris, By The Light of the Silvery Moon, Lucky Me, On Moonlight Bay, Tea For 2, Lullaby of Broadway USA | 1950-66 | WHV | Cert PG | # 60223 | RRP £19.99 each
Gene Kelly Collection
Humphrey Bogart Collection
Collection of five films starring the great dancer, singer and actor, Gene Kelly. Features The Three Musketeers, On the Town, Anchors Aweigh, An American In Paris and Singin' in the Rain.
Curtiz / Huston / Walsh
USA | 1952 | WHV | Cert U | # 60192 | RRP £14.99
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Four classic movies starring everyone’s favourite hard-guy with a heart: Casablanca, Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon and High Sierra. USA | 1941-48 | WHV | 415 min | Cert PG | # 60195 | RRP £14.99
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Alfred Hitchcock Collection
Cary Grant: Collection
Six of Hitchcock's favourites from the fifties: Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder, The Wrong Man, North By Northwest, I Confess and Stage Fright – a black comedy starring Jane Wyman.
Box set featuring four classic Cary Grant films - North By Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Night and Day and Destination Tokyo - as well as the documentary Cary Grant: A Class Apart.
Four classic movies starring the smouldering real-life couple, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo and Dark Passage.
USA | 1950-59 | WHV | 620 min | Cert PG | # 60213 | RRP £19.99
USA | 1943-59 | WHV | 575 min | Cert 12 | # 60185 | RRP £14.99
USA | 1948 | WHV | 409 min | B&W | 15 | # 60180 | RRP £13.99
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Errol Flynn: Collection
Fred Astaire Collection
Greta Garbo Collection
Six classic films starring Erroll Flynn. Features Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex, They Died With Their Boots On, Dodge City, Dive Bomber and the swashbucklers Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. USA | 1935-41 | WHV | B&W | Cert PG | # 60190 | RRP £14.99
A great collection of films starring legendary song and dance man Fred Astaire. Features Easter Parade, Broadway Melody of 1940, The Barkleys of Broadway, The Band Wagon and Finian's Rainbow.
Collection of films starring one of the greats of early cinema, Greta Garbo. Features Anna Christie, Mati Hari – in which Garbo stars in the title role as a German spy working in Paris – Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, Camille and Ninotchka.
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USA | 1940-68 | WHV | 560 min | Cert U | # 60191 | RRP £14.99
USA | 1930-39 | WHV | 580 min | B&W | PG | # 60193 | RRP £14.99
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James Cagney Collection
Joan Crawford Collection
John Wayne Collection
Seven films starring the Hollywood legend, James Cagney. Features The Public Enemy – the role which launched Cagney to stardom – White Heat, The Roaring Twenties, The Fighting 69th, The Bride Came C.O.D, Torrid Zone and West Point Story.
Sultry movie star Joan Crawford is immortalised in this collection of five films. Features the potent mixture of melodrama and film noir Mildred Pierce, Grand Hotel, Humoresque, Possessed and The Damned Don't Cry.
For a flavour of the Old West, look no further than this superlative collection of films, with Wayne delivering the goods in the movies that made his name. Features The Searchers, Chisum, Rio Bravo, The Cowboys and Cahill: U.S. Marshal.
USA | 1931-50 | WHV | Cert 15 | # 60196 | RRP £19.99
USA | 1932-50 | WHV | 548 min | Cert PG | # 60197 | RRP £14.99
USA | 1936-73 | WHV | 574 min | Cert 15 | # 60207 | RRP £19.99
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Judy Garland: The Signature Collection
Magical Musicals Collection
A collection of six films starring Judy Garland. Features A Star Is Born, For Me and My Girl – where she co-stars with Gene Kelly – The Harvey Girls, In The Good Old Summertime, Love Finds Andy Hardy and Ziegfeld Girl.
A collection of nine classic musicals. Features The Wizard Of Oz, Meet Me In St Louis, Annie Get Your Gun, An American in Paris, Singin' In The Rain, Calamity Jane, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, High Society and Gigi.
Tracy and Hepburn Collection
USA | 1938-54 | WHV | 694 min |n Cert U | # 60174 | RRP £14.99
USA | 1939-58 | WHV | 924 min | Cert PG | # 60225 | RRP £29.99
USA | 1942-52 | WHV | B&W | Cert U | # 60198 | RRP £13.99
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Bogie and Bacall: Collection
Four films from the legendary on/off screen duo, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Comprises: Woman of the Year – the film which first united the couple both off screen and on – Pat and Mike, Adam's Rib and Keeper Of The Flame.
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Sony Pictures Sale 2009 has been a great year for our exclusives with the majority of them in our hands thanks to Sony Pictures. Now you can pick up any 3 from the selection below for just £25. We also couldn’t resist cherry picking a small selection of classics from their extensive back catalogue – enjoy.
Exclusive DVDs, Buy any 3 for £25! Age of Consent
Footsteps in the Fog
The Wrong Box
Dir: Michael Powell. James Mason plays the painter on a gorgeous Australian island; the nubile Helen Mirren his willing model.
Dir: Arthur Lubin. Victorian-set melodramatic thriller in which Jean Simmons plays a maid who blackmails her master (Stewart Granger).
Dir: Bryan Forbes. An all-star Victorian-era romp in which two brothers will stop at nothing to outlive each other and collect an inheritance.
Australia | 1968 | SPHE | 95 min | Cert 12 | # 56129 | RRP £12.99
UK | 1955 | SPHE | 86 min | Cert PG | # 56131 | RRP £12.99
UK | 1966 | SPHE | 101 min | Cert U | # 57377 | RRP £12.99
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Bunny Lake is Missing
Gumshoe
Father Brown
Dir: Stephen Frears. Albert Finney plays the Liverpudlian bingo caller who dreams of becoming a Bogarttype private eye.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Appropriately, Alec Guinness plays a priest detective in this deft and witty adaptation of GK Chesterton’s famous character.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Classic psychological thriller in which a young girl vanishes without trace in London.
UK | 1971 | SPHE | 81 min | Cert 15 | # 57380 | RRP £12.99
UK | 1954 | SPHE | 93 min | Cert PG | # 57381 | RRP £12.99
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The Eddy Duchin Story
The Hireling
Take a Girl Like You
Dir: Alan Bridges. Sarah Miles plays the recently widowed aristocrat who strikes up a hesitant relationship with her driver (Robert Shaw).
Dir: Jonathan Miller. Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed. Adaptation of Kingsley Amis’s novel about a woman determined to remain a pre-marital virgin.
UK | 1973 | SPHE | 103 min | Cert PG | # 57378 | RRP £12.99
UK | 1970 | SPHE | 94 min | Cert 15 | # 56128 | RRP £12.99
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UK | 1965 | SPHE | 115 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 56127 | RRP £12.99
Dir: George Sidney. Oscar-nominated biopic of the famous pianist and bandleader. Tyrone Power stars. USA | 1956 | SPHE | 117 min | Cert U | # 57379 | RRP £12.99
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The Bedford Incident Dir: James B. Harris. Suspense thriller in which a US vessel on a routine patrol ends up in a tense showdown with a Russian submarine. USA | 1965 | COL-T | 98 min | Cert PG | # 23424 | RRP £12.99
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Fail Safe Dir: Sidney Lumet. Apocalyptic drama, similar to Dr Strangelove – except here, New York is offered to the Reds as a sacrifical lamb! USA | 1964 | SONY | 107 min | Cert PG | # 34096 | RRP £12.99
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The Jolson Story / Jolson Sings Again
The Remains of the Day
Dir: Levin & Green. A double-bill making up a biopic of ‘the world’s greatest entertainer’, Al Jolson.
Dir: James Ivory. Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins star in this engrossing story of repressed desire.
USA | 1949/1946 | COL-T | 216 min | Cert U | # 15117 | RRP £12.99
UK | 1993 | COL-T | 128 min | Cert U | # 8699 | RRP £12.99
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The Last Picture Show
Silverado
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. A richly detailed evocation of small-town American life in the 1950s. USA | 1971 | COL-T | 114 min | Cert 15 | # 9030 | RRP £12.99
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan. Spirited western in which four unwitting heroes head to a town run by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. USA | 1985 | COL-T | 128 min | Cert PG | # 4294 | RRP £19.99
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Husbands and Wives
The Passenger
The Way We Were
Dir: Woody Allen. One of Allen’s most beautiful works, which brutally dissects a world of relationships turned upside-down.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Jack Nicholson plays the reporter who takes on the identity of a deceased stranger to escape his own life.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Streisand and Redford star in this nostalgic, sincere portrait of American youth from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.
USA | 1992 | COL-T | 103 min | Cert 15 | # 10347 | RRP £19.99
USA | 1975 | SPHE | 113 min | Cert PG | # 29122 | RRP £12.99
USA | 1973 | COL-T | 113 min | Cert PG | # 6197 | RRP £19.99
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Modern & Vintage Classics
Animation
Silent Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Director: David Hand Released: 9th November DVD Extras: 2 discs; Audio commentary; Interviews; Outtakes; Deleted scenes. USA | 1937 | WDHV | 81 mins | Cert U | Item # 60061
Eisenstein called it the greatest movie ever made; The American Film Institute declared it the greatest animated film of all time. Yet, when Walt Disney announced the world’s first feature-length, colour, cel animation, pundits declared it ‘Disney’s Folly’. It took three years to make and Walt literally bet his house to finance it, but upon its 1937 release, the gamble paid off: Snow White set box office records that weren’t broken until Gone With the Wind. Disney’s formula of adapting European fairy tales with catchy songs and colourful characters is so familiar it’s easy to overlook its simple brilliance. Snow White’s story may be based on Grimm, but the seven dwarfs were Disney innovations that are equally timeless, and songs like ‘Heigh-Ho’ and ‘Whistle While You Work’ remain as fresh as when they were written. In today’s CGI age, it is remarkable that every frame was drawn individually by hand, and this new highdefinition release reveals every painstaking detail. MW
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USA | 1971 | WDHV | 112 min | Cert U Item # 60283 | RRP £17.99 | Released 5th October
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Monsters Vs Aliens Conrad Vernon
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Angela Lansbury delights as a white witch in this charming fantasy comedy set in the 1940s, where three young evacuees from London are about to go on magical adventures with the help of a magic bed. Features the famous football match played by teams of cartoon animals.
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When a meteorite crash turns a young girl into a 50-foot monster, she is rounded up with a ragtag group of similar monsters who have been hidden away – but who are called upon as a last resort to protect the Earth from invading aliens! Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray feature B.O.B.’S Big Break in 3D & 2D; Featurettes; Deleted Scenes; Video Juke Box. USA | 2009 | DRMWA | 95 min | Cert PG Item # 59789 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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Pete’s Dragon Don Chaffey
This heartwarming DIsney musical blends live action, animation, and music to highlight the story of a young boy who is befriended by Elliott the dragon. However, their games are put in jeopardy when a visiting medicine seller (Jim Dale) tries to kidnap Elliott. USA | 1977 | WDHV | 123 min | Cert U Item # 60285 | RRP £17.99 | Released 5th October
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Pocahontas Mike Gabriel
Animated tale of romance between spirited Indian beauty Pocahontas and handsome British captain John Smith. Their emotional journey tests her loyalty and shapes the future of two nations. This ‘Musical Masterpiece Edition’ features a singalong option. USA | 1995 | WDHV | 81 min | Cert U Item # 60269 | RRP £17.99 | Released 5th October
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Phantom / Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs Recommended Director: F.W. Murnau Starring: Alfred Abel, Max Schreck Released: 19th October DVD Extras: 2 discs; Restored; Audio commentary on Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs; Lengthy booklet with new essays. Ger | 1922-24 | EUR | 199 min | subt | B&W | PG | Item # 60076
Masters of Cinema moves closer to releasing every extant film by F.W. Murnau with these two films – both restored and in stunning multi-tinted restorations – made between Nosferatu and Der Letzte Mann. Phantom, a study of sexual obsession, stars Alfred Abel as a besotted semi-somnambulistic suitor and Lya de Putti as the elusive object of his affections. It is famed for an Expressionistic dream sequence in which buildings topple down upon Abel as he creeps furtively down the street, a device Murnau used again two years later in Der Letzte Mann. The Grand Duke’s Finances, which boasts Karl Freund’s incomparable cinematography, is a delightful comedy about a penniless grand duke, an oily confidence trickster (Abel) and the Crown Princess of Russia. Abel is generally remembered only for his role as the ruler of the city in Lang’s Metropolis, but his versatile performances here are appreciably more memorable. RDS
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Borzage: Volumes 1 & 2 Recommended Director: Frank Borzage Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell Volume 1: Seventh Heaven (1929) & Street Angel (1928) USA | 1928; 1929 | BFI | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 57909
Volume 2: Lucky Star (1927) & Liliom (1930) USA | 1927; 1930 | BFI | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 57910
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omantic melodrama might constitute a fleeting encounter in today’s cinema of cynicism and irony, but the genre was never better – nor more luminous and seductive – than in the films of Frank Borzage. A staunch romantic (working at Fox in the time of F.W. Murnau), Borzage took advantage of the studio’s enthusiasm for expressionist whimsy, and created enveloping, hermetic visions of transcendent love between the world wars. In Seventh Heaven (1927), a Parisian sewer worker (played by Charles Farrell) falls in love with a slum-dwelling prostitute (the diminutive but expressive Janet Gaynor, who also stars in Murnau’s Sunrise). Persevering social judgements and a looming war, the lovers eke out their dream life in a loft overlooking the city; Borzage brilliantly fuses their emotional and physical uplift in a justly celebrated tracking shot that slowly rises from floor to floor as the lovers ascend a staircase. Street Angel (1928) reinstates the magic: a willing prostitute (Gaynor again) escapes the law in Naples by joining the circus and she falls in love with a traveling artist (Farrell); their romantic bliss promises them joy until the law inevitably catches up. The two words of the title suggest Borzage’s
Romantic melodrama was never better than in Frank Borzage’s films peerless sense of the divine passions beating within the hearts of ordinary people, and the intensity of their feelings are crystallized by the film’s chiaroscuro lighting, thick fog, and wet, urban avenues. Gaynor’s strength and vulnerability earned her the very first Oscar for Best Actress. Riding on the crest of their popularity, the team reunited for Lucky Star (1929), a storybook romance in which a petty thief (Gaynor) befriends a wheelchair-bound war hero (Farrell) in a visually sculpted, forested setting that rivals Sunrise in its emotional enchantment. Lastly, Borzage’s talkie Liliom (1930), based on the play that also inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel about a conceited carnival barker who returns from the afterlife to redeem himself, is notable for its emphasis on the man’s lover, a woman resolutely committed to loving a flawed human being. For Borzage, it’s the conviction that matters, the magnetic force that conquers all adversity. Doug Cummings
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Exclusive DVDs from Hammer Studios!
The Gorgon
Taste of Fear
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The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll
Director: Terence Fisher
Director: Seth Holt
Starring: Michael Goodliffe, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley
Starring: Christopher Lee, Ann Todd, Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis
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UK | 1964 | SPHE | 80 mins | Cert 15 | Item # 60041
UK | 1961 | SPHE | 82 mins | B&W | Cert TBC | Item # 60042
There’s something fishy going on in the village of Vandorf. The police are unable to solve the series of mysterious deaths and the local doctor, Namaroff (Peter Cushing) can’t explain why some of the victims have been turned to stone. What is the terrible creature that has moved in to the derelict castle? And what is its connection to Namaroff’s beautiful assistant Carla (Barbara Shelley)? The Gorgon is one of the strangest films that Hammer ever made. It isn’t simply the sight of a creature from Greek mythology transplanted directly into familiar Gothic territory (a crossover never properly accounted for), but also the eerie atmosphere that gives the film an almost fairytale quality. True, the plot doesn’t make a great deal of sense but Terence Fisher strives for a lyricism seldom found in his work, imbuing the film with an almost melancholic tone. Perhaps it’s this distinctive quality that has caused it to be overlooked. Although it is hardly typical of Hammer’s output, it ranks as one of their most interesting pictures. JO
Another minor gem from Hammer, and further proof that that studio’s non-horror output is ageing somewhat better than a lot of its Gothic movies. Not that Taste is short on shocks, of course. A taut and intriguing psychological thriller, it sees a young, disabled woman, Penny (Susan Strasberg), going to live with her rich, estranged father on the French Riviera, ten years after she last saw him. The old man is absent when she arrives; his new, slightly unctuous wife (Ann Todd) explains he is away on business. But before long the already mentally fragile Penny bumps into his corpse in the summer house. Or did she just imagine it? Tightly scripted by Hammer stalwart Jimmy Sangster and smartly directed by Seth Holt, it’s not going too far to rank Taste of Fear alongside some of the Hitchcock and Clouzot movies that so clearly influenced it. If you suspend your disbelief in the right places, it’s very convincingly handled, and the heroinein-a-wheelchair idea is a nifty stroke. Good performances all round. JU
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Recommended Director: Terence Fisher Starring: Christopher Lee, Paul Massie Released: 2nd November DVD Extras: Booklet with film notes. UK | 1960 | SPHE | TBC mins | Cert 15 | Item # 60043
Having ploughed their way through Dracula and Frankenstein, it was only a matter of time before Hammer tackled Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. As ever, Henry Jekyll is a dedicated man of science who develops a potion that frees his darker impulses. As Edward Hyde, he discovers the pleasurable world of vice and sin; but such temptations are addictive and carry a heavy price. Wolf Mankowitz’s superb script twists this familiar tale into some interesting new directions. It isn’t just the dual nature of mankind that’s put under the microscope but the hypocrisy of society, how ‘respectable’ Victorian gentlemen spend their evenings in sordid flesh pots. Unusually, but very effectively, Hyde is portrayed not as a simian brute but as youthful and virile. Paul Massie acquits himself well in the role, as he does with the reclusive Jekyll, but Christopher Lee steals the show as a dissolute libertine. Beautifully designed and shot, this is amongst the very best riffs on Stevenson’s tale. JO
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World Cinema A selection of stimulating films from around the world that will make perfect presents for discerning friends and relatives El Baño del Papa
Jean Renoir Collection
Trafic
César Charlone A deadpan, but biting, morality tale in which the Pontiff’s impending visit to an impoverished Uruguayan town stirs up a flurry of money-making activity – or so the townspeople hope.
Nine films from the great French director, including La Bête Humaine, La Marseillaise, La Grande Illusion, Elena et les Hommes and Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe. 7 discs.
Tati’s last outing as the bumbling, amiable Monsieur Hulot is a prescient satire on man’s obsession with cars, and sees him attempt to accompany his company’s camper-van to a motorshow in Amsterdam.
Uruguay | 2007 | SODA | 90 min | subt | 15 | # 56853 | RRP £19.99
France | 1930-60 | OPTIM | 708 min | subt | PG | # 33081 | RRP £44.99
Netherlands | 1971 | NL | 93 min | Cert TBC | # 60319 | RRP £15.99
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Che: Parts 1 & 2
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Waltz with Bashir
Soderbergh’s epic double bill about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, comprising the films The Argentine – about the Cuban Revolution – and Guerilla, about Che in Bolivia.
Michel Hazanavicius
A powerfully animated documentary in which Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman faces up to his past as a teenage soldier and uncovers his and colleague’s lost memories of the first Lebanon War.
USA | 2008 | OPTIM | 265 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 57964 | RRP £29.99
France | 2006 | ICA | 99 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 57102 | RRP £12.99
Steven Soderbergh
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Jacques Tati
Ari Folman
Hilarious French spy film parody, following the exploits of a secret agent in 1950s Egypt, which sends up the OSS 117 series of spy films made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Israel | 2008 | ART-E | 90 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 57258 | RRP £15.99
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Red Sorghum
Wild Strawberries
Zhang Yimou
Ingmar Bergman
Josée Dayan
Gong Li stars in this sumptuous melodrama in which a narrator weaves the tale of his grandmother, a poor girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. Golden Bear Winner, Berlin.
Victor Sjöström plays an elderly professor who journeys to collect an award, en route reliving his past through nightmares, dreams and memories. One of Bergman’s finest, and warmest films.
Gérard Depardieu takes the lead in this lavish French mini-series, adaptated from Dumas’ celebrated novel which tells the exploits of a rich and ruthless purveyor of justice.
China | 1987 | DRAKE | 87 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 55279 | RRP £19.99
Sweden | 1957 | PAL | 87 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 9331 | RRP £19.99
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The Grocer’s Son
Sansho Dayu / Gion Bayashi
Wings of Desire
The charming story of a man who rediscovers life and love in the countryside after he reluctantly returns home from Paris to the South of France to look after the family’s mobile grocery van.
Kenji Mizoguchi
A wonderful, spellbinding film about two angels (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) moving invisibly in the world of mortals, listening to their thoughts and fears and offering heavenly solace.
France | 2007 | ICA | 96 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 58707 | RRP £12.99
Japan | 1953-54 | EUREK | subt | B&W | U | # 51381 | RRP £23.99
France | 1998 | ARROW | 360 min | Cert PG | # 55243 | RRP £15.99
Eric Guirado
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The exquisitely beautiful Sansho Dayu is a classic of world cinema, often appearing in lists of the greatest-ever films. This superlative edition includes Gion Bayashi. DVD: £12.99 Save £11
Wim Wenders
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Ger | 1987 | Axiom | 122 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 53872 | RRP £15.99
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Classic Movies Annie
Perfect gifts for fans of great films from yesteryear
The Benny Goodman Story
Footsteps in the Fog
A great family musical. Delightful red-headed orphan Annie dreams of finding her real parents. Things look bleak, but then she captures the heart of ‘Daddy Warbucks’ and her life changes completely.
Valentine Davies
Arthur Lubin
USA | 1982 | COL-T | 122 min | Cert U | # 20772 | RRP £19.99
The King of Swing’s music comes to life in this wonderful biopic that features all the songs and instrumentals made famous by the bandleader and clarinetist.
Victorian-set thriller in which Jean Simmons plays a maid who blackmails her master (Stewart Granger) over his wife’s suspicious death. But just how safe is she?
USA | 1955 | EUREK | 117 min | Cert U | # 55455 | RRP £15.99
UK | 1955 | SPHE | 86 min | Cert PG | # 56131 | RRP £12.99
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The London Collection
Frank Launder
Laurence Olivier Shakespeare Collection
A truly wonderful comedy starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford as rival head teachers of single-sex boarding schools mistakenly billeted together in wartime.
Six famed performances from Olivier: King Lear (1983), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Merchant of Venice (1974), Richard III (1955), and As You Like It (1936).
UK | 1950 | OPTIM | 81 min | B&W | Cert U | # 57893 | RRP £15.99
UK | 1936-1983 | G-VEN | 716 min | Cert 15 | # 50230 | RRP £79.99
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The Red Shoes
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
One of the great films about creative passion; a work of such beauty that Scorsese named it one of the five greatest films ever made. Moira Shearer is the ballerina torn between loves. 2 discs; Restored.
Stanley Kramer
David Hand
UK | 1948 | G-VEN | 153 min | Cert U | # 58828 | RRP £15.99
WWII comedy drama starring Anthony Quinn as a drunk ne’erdo-well who hatches an ambitious plan to hide one milion bottles of the town’s famed wine from the Nazis.
Disney’s classic animated adaptation of the famous fairytale was their first full-length production and remains as enchanting as ever. 2 discs.
USA | 1969 | OPTIM | 134 min | Cert 12 | # 58890 | RRP £15.99
USA | 1937 | WDHV | 81 min | Cert U | # 60061 | RRP £19.99
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John Huston
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Michael Powell
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Six rare 1950-60s London-based films: Pool of London, The Small World of Sammy Lee, The Yellow Balloon, London Nobody Knows, Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, and Sparrows Can’t Sing. 5 discs. UK | 1967 | OPTIM | 444 min | Cert 12 | # 57935 | RRP £49.99
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Television These box sets of excellent series are great value for money and allow the lucky recipient to enjoy their favourite programmes at their own pace The Ascent of Money
Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 & 2
Historian Niall Ferguson examines the role of money and financial institutions in world history in this topical Channel 4 series that investigates how planet Finance came to dwarf planet Earth. 2 discs.
Nature’s Great Events
BBC drama series about the romances, rivalries and comedies of close-knit rural life, based on the books by Flora Thompson. Series 1 and 2 available separately.
UK | 2008 | 4DVD | 300 min | Cert E | # 56844 | RRP £19.99
UK | BBC | Cert PG | # 53336 / # 57497 | RRP £34.99 each
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All six episodes of the BBC’s high-definition nature documentary series, narrated by David Attenborough, which chronicles some of the planet’s most spectacular natural events. 2 discs. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E | # 57482 | RRP £24.99
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Civilisation
Little Dorrit (2008)
Kenneth Clark’s landmark BBC series in which he traces the history of Western civilisation through its visual, written and musical arts. A monumental example of quality public service broadcasting. 4 discs.
Adam Smith
Rumpole of the Bailey: Complete
Starring Tom Courtenay, Matthew MacFadyen, Claire Foy and Judy Parfitt, Andrew Davies’s adaptation brings to life Dickens’ classic tale of hardship and struggle in 1820s London.
Leo McKern stars as the eccentric, bibulous Old Bailey defence lawyer Horace Rumpole in this hugely popular series written by John Mortimer. Features every episode and all of the specials.
UK | 2008 | BBC | Cert PG | # 56751 | RRP £34.99
UK | 1992 | PNE | 2250 min | Cert 15 | # 56536 | RRP £99.99
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Clangers / Ivor the Engine / Bagpuss
Mad Men: Seasons 1 & 2
Sword of Honour
Oliver Postgate
An expertly-scripted, multiple award-winning, sophisticated period drama centred around one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies. Seasons 1 & 2 available separately, 3 discs each.
Novelist William Boyd brings Evelyn Waugh’s trilogy to life in this epic two-part drama, capturing the absurd reality of British army life. Stars Daniel Craig, Megan Dodds and Leslie Phillips.
UK | 1969 | 2ENT | 645 min | Cert E | # 20181 | RRP £49.99
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Three much-cherished TV shows from the ‘Small Films’ team of Postgate and Peter Firmin, accompanied by wonderful music from Vernon Elliott. 3 discs.
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Bill Anderson
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Edge of Darkness
Mike Leigh at the BBC
The World at War
Martin Campbell A dark and humanistic drama of father/daughter relationships and terrifying conspiracies in the nuclear power industry. Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley star and the score features Eric Clapton.
A tremendous box set rounding up Leigh’s work for the BBC, from Hard Labour (1973) to Four Days in July (1984), with seven more titles in between, including the ever popular Abigail’s Party.
UK | 1969-75 | UN | Cert U | # 33424 | RRP £14.99
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UK | 1973-84 | 2ENT | Cert 12 | # 58115 | RRP £59.99
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With astounding archive footage and personal accounts delivered by Laurence Olivier’s sonorous narration, Thames TV’s 1974 account of WWII was a powerful and engaging moment in television history. 11 discs. UK | 1973 | FHE | 35 hours min | Cert E | # 22512 | RRP £99.99
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Contemporary Film We present some of the best English language releases of 2009 plus a sprinkling of perennial classics – all are a safe bet as presents! Changeling
Local Hero
Star Trek (2009)
Clint Eastwood
Bill Forsyth
J.J. Abrams
Angelina Jolie stars in this expertly-crafted thriller as a mother who has to take on a corrupt police force to find her missing son in 1920s California. Based on a true story.
Delightful, poignant comedy about an American oil company rep sent to buy land near a Scottish village for a refinery. Burt Lancaster stars and the music is from Mark Knopfler.
Successful reboot of the film series that spun-off from the 1960s sci-fi series. Very watchable and pretty intelligent for a big summer movie, this is a sizeable improvement on prior Star Trek films.
USA | 2008 | UPV | 140 min | Cert 15 | # 57531 | RRP £19.99
UK | 1983 | 4DVD | 107 min | Cert PG | # 53191 | RRP £15.99
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Dead Ringers
Mamma Mia!
Tea with Mussolini
David Cronenberg
Phyllida Lloyd
Franco Zeffirelli
This extraordinarily powerful tale of twin gynaecologists with very different personalities is surely Cronenberg’s masterpiece. Jeremy Irons is magnificent in the lead roles.
Feelgood blockbuster adaptation of the smash-hit stage musical based on the songs of Abba. Meryl Streep, as the Greek hotel owning single mother, leads the all-star cast. Features a singalong option!
Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Lily Tomlin and Judi Dench star in this BAFTA-winning semi-autobiographical tale based on the childhood memories of director Franco Zeffirelli.
USA | 1988 | CRLTN | 111 min | Cert 18 | # 5055 | RRP £6.99
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The Duchess
Milk
Saul Dibb
Gus van Sant
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sumptuous historical drama starring Keira Knightley as glamorous 18th century aristocrat Georgiana Spencer – a woman trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his mistress.
An engrossing Oscar-winning biopic telling the story of California’s first openly gay elected public official, Harvey Milk. Sean Penn won a Best Actor Oscar for his superb central performance.
Woody Allen
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USA | 2008 | MOMET | 128 min | Cert 15 | # 57966 | RRP £17.99
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Hunger
The Reader
The Wrestler
Steve McQueen
Stephen Daldry
Darren Aronofsky
A brilliant, powerfully unflinching artistic dramatisation of the last weeks in the life of IRA man Bobby Sands. A worthy winner of multiple awards. Michael Fassbender stars.
A haunting drama, starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet, about truth and reconciliation, in which a law student re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
In a brilliant central performance, Mickey Rourke plays retired professional wrestler Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, now reduced to eking out a living on the glamourfree wrestling conventions circuit.
UK | 2008 | FOX | 96 min | Cert 15 | # 57403 | RRP £19.99
USA / Germany | 2008 | EV | 123 min | Cert 15 | # 58118 | RRP £19.99
USA | 2008 | OPTIM | 109 min | Cert 15 | # 57891 | RRP £19.99
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Romantic comedy about two American girls infatuated with Javier Bardem’s artist; then his unstable ex-wife (Oscar-winning Penelope Cruz) re-appears to cause chaos... DVD: £7.99 Save £10
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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”
New Releases The Beatles
Rare and unseen archive footage of the Fab Four from the ITN archives. Features their arrival in America, Paul’s candid admission to taking LSD, the events surrounding John’s marriage, the death of manager Brian Epstein, The Beatles’ trip to India and more.
UK | 2009 | ODEON | 80 min | Cert E Item # 60216 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup Dylan Avery
Absurd, breathtakingly exploitative documentary which claims that the attacks on 9/11 were perpetrated by the US government. Despite its serious pretensions, Loose Change has more in common with the Mohammed Al Fayed school of conspiracy theories than it does John Pilger. USA | 2009 | JOIN | Cert E Item # 60053 | RRP £12.99 | Released 9th November
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Luck, Trust and Ketchup
Blood and Oil
Robert Altman
Marty Callaghan Controversial documentary that uses declassified documents to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of US foreign policy for more that 60 years, rendering their energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. The film warns of an America drawn into ever more global oil wars for ever-diminishing petroleum supplies. USA | 2006 | SCANB | 112 min | Cert E Item # 56643 | RRP £12.99 | Released 3rd November
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Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins. A documentary about the making of Robert Altman’s film Short Cuts, based on stories by Raymond Carver. Includes behind-the-scenes footage and appearances by the entire 22-member cast. USA | 1993 | DRAKE | 93 min | Cert 15 Item # 60016 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th October
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Objectified
A wonderful colllection about the great British holiday that brings together cinema newsreels and TV reports from a bygone age. Many have lain unseen for decades and evoke a more innocent Britain. Hopping in Kent, Cycling holidays, Fun at Butlins, River and Broad holidays and many more are included. UK | SIMP | 90 min | Cert E Item # 60123 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th October
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Echoes of Home Stefan Schwietert
A delightful documentary about yodelling, taking in this sometimes misunderstood music tradition, and looking at its bright future, for traditionalists and young experimenters alike. Switzerland / Germany | 2007 | ICA | 82 min | subt | Cert E Item # 60234 | RRP £12.99 | Released 9th November
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Alfred Leslie: Cool Man in a Golden Age - Selected Films
and USA Poetry.
An important collection of Beat and other films from the pivotal American artist. Pull My Daisy stars poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and has improvised narration from Jack Kerouac. Also contains The Last Clean Shirt, Birth of a Nation, A Stranger Calls at Midnight, 40 page booklet.
USA | 1959-2008 | LUX | 156 min | Cert E Item # 59484 | RRP £20.00 | Released 13th July
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Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick A key figure in New York’s ‘No Wave’ movement, Vivienne Dick is an internationally celebrated filmmaker. This collection features five of her films and includes a 100 page publication about her work. Contains: Beauty Becomes the Beast, Visibility Moderate, Like Dawn to Dust, A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy and Saccade.
Ireland / USA | 1979-2004 | LUX | 122 min | Cert E Item # 60309 | RRP £20.00 | Released 28th Sep
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Gary Hustwit An in-depth look at industrial art and the design processes of some of society’s most iconic consumer durables. The film includes interviews with designers worldwide, including Jonathan Ive from Apple computers and Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa.
The British Holiday: The Golden Years
Art
USA | 2009 | PLEXI | 75 min | Cert E Item # 60297 | RRP £17.99 | Released 12th October
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The Yellow Bittern Alan Gilsenan
A revealing portrait of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers. This film charts their remarkable rise to fame from smalltown Ireland to Greenwich Village in the sixties. Drawing on unseen footage, the film also delves into Clancy’s troubled personal life, where the excesses of rock‘n’roll found their way in to the world of folk. USA | 2009 | ELEM | 110 min | Cert E Item # 60238 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th November
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REWIND + PLAY: An Anthology of Early British Video Art A selection of key works from the first decade of artist’s video practice in the UK. From early conceptual experiments exploring the parameters of the medium to works dealing with media culture and television this collection explores the range and diversity of the first 3 discs. years of video as new media. UK | 1975-82 | LUX | Cert E Item # 60310 | RRP £30.00 | Released 28th Sep
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Art Lives: John Baldessari Baldessari revolutionised contemporary art in the 1960s and his artwork is still a profound influence on young artists today. This film reveals Baldessari in all aspects of his work and offers valuable insights into the work of a radically modern-thinking artist.
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Back Catalogue Spotlight
Classic Horror The Birds
Dead of Night
Frankenstein
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. ‘The Birds Is Coming!’ screeched the posters for this complex, richly rewarding work, complemented by Bernard Herrmann’s unique sound design.
A superb portmanteau film of haunting stories directed by Cavalcanti, Crichton, Hamer and Dearden. The most memorable is ventriloquist Michael Redgrave’s descent into madness.
Dir: James Whale. One of the great Universal horror films. Boris Karloff, billed simply as ‘?’ takes the role of the monster in this tale of the consequences of overweening ambition.
USA | 1963 | UPV | 115 min | Cert 15 | # 24485 | RRP £9.99
UK | 1945 | OPTIM | 104 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 31533 | RRP £12.99
USA | 1931 | UCA | 69 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 12044 | RRP £9.99
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The Mummy
Nosferatu (MoC)
Dir: Karl Freund. More prime Universal horror. Boris Karloff plays mummified priest Im-HoTep who goes on the rampage after he is unwittingly returned to life during an archaeological dig.
Dir: F.W. Murnau. One of the most famous of all silent movies. Max Schreck still sends shivers down the spine as the rodentlike Count Orlok. Definitive edition with original score.
Ultimate Hammer Films Box Set
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21 lurid, fang-baring, monstercreating, devil-baiting, satanistouting, furry bikini-wearing classics. Enter at your peril – but have fun while you are there.
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Film Listing
Highlights
Following the sucess of last month’s British Film of the 1930s spotlight, we present a bloodcurdling selection of pre-1970 horror films. From Universal’s monsters to home-grown thrills from Hammer Studios to international frights, there’s much to enjoy this Halloween!
Television Programmes Originally Broadcast
New Releases 24: Season 7
Kiefer Sutherland. The eagerly anticipated Season 7 starts with Jack being forced to stand trial for human rights violations. Soon however, he is back in action when terrorists threaten America’s national security by taking control of communication systems. As Bauer sets out to uncover who is behind the menacing plot, he discovers an old friend he believed to 6 discs. be dead could be involved.
USA | 2009 | FOX | 1008 min | Cert 15 Item # 59726 | RRP £49.99 | Released 19th Oct
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After Henry: Complete Prunella Scales stars in this BAFTA-nominated multi-generational sitcom about a widow, her mother and her daughter who all live together (daughter upstairs, mother in the basement flat) and try to cope with each other as best they can after husband Henry’s 6 discs. death.
UK | 1992 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 59932 | RRP £99.99 | Released 2nd November
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Columbo: Complete Series ‘Oh, just one more thing...’ Peter Falk stars as the ruffled, cigarchomping, trenchcoatwearing police lieutenant who asks all the right questions. This 35 disc box set features every episode of the series as well as two bonus episodes with Mrs. Columbo and 2 series pilots.
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UK | 2008 | 2ENT | 89 min | Cert 15 Item # 59914 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th October
Michael Sheen won the 2006 Royal Television Society best actor award for this heartbreaking portrayal of Kenneth Williams, a consummate entertainer who was loved by everyone but himself. From the intimacy of his diaries and other sources, Fantabulosa! creates a portrait of a fastidious performer who hankered after recognition, adulation and companionship throughout his career. UK | 2006 | IMC | 80 min | Cert 15 Item # 59420 | RRP £14.99 | Released 26th October
Our DVD Price: £11.99 Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs. All twelve episodes of this timeless example of comic writing (from John Cleese and Connie Booth), acting, and characterisation at its Exclusive very best. commentaries by John Cleese; New Interviews; Out-takes; Torquay Tourist Guide; Tatty Review. UK | 1975-9 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert PG Item # 59933 | RRP £24.99 | Released 19th October
The Frost Report is Back!
An affectionate look back at The Frost Report and its impact on British comedy and television. Features new interviews with Sir David Frost, John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and many other contributors to the groundbreaking series.
UK | 2009 | NWORK | 120 min | Cert PG Item # 57572 | RRP £14.99 | Released 26th October
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Get Some In!: Complete
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Doctor Who: The Dalek Collection
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UK | 2005-08 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item # 59897 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th October
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A portmanteau series of three ghost stories, written by and starring Mark Gatiss. When school teacher Ben unearths an old door-knocker in the garden of his new home, the curator suggests it may come from the nowdemolished manor house. Intrigued, Ben prompts the curator to tell him stories about the house... Commentary; Making-of; Out-takes.
Seven Dalek-themed adventures from the new Doctor Who series, with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the ninth and tenth Doctors. Features Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of Ways, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, Stolen Earth and Journey’s End.
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Fawlty Towers: Remastered
Damon Thomas
The complete series adaptated from the stories of James Herriot, about veterinary life in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Christopher Timothy plays James Herriot, Robert Hardy is Siegfried Farnon, Peter Davidson his brother 33 discs. Tristan.
Oh, ‘eck! It’s the complete WWII adventures of René Artois (Gorden Kaye) and the staff of his cafe in this inspired sitcom created by David Croft and 16 Jeremy Lloyd. discs.
UK | 1989 | 2ENT | 340 min | Cert PG Item # 59896 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd Nov
Crooked House
All Creatures Great and Small: Complete
’Allo ’Allo!: Complete
Michael Palin takes on the task of duplicating Phileas Fogg’s feat by attempting to circumnavigate the globe, beginning and ending at the Reform Club in London, in eighty days, using no air travel. The first in his witty and informative travelogue adven4 discs. tures.
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Roger Mills
USA | 1971-90 | UPV | Cert 12 Item # 59911 | RRP £129.99 | Released 19th October
UK | 1992 | NWORK | 950 min | Cert PG Item # 60098 | RRP £49.99 | Released 2nd Nov
UK | 1978-90 | UPV | Cert PG Item # 59909 | RRP £129.99 | Released 2nd Nov
Around the World in 80 Days: 20 Years On (Special Edition)
Created by the winning team of John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (The Good Life, Please Sir!) Get Some In! set the rigours of 1950s National Service against a nostalgic backdrop of coffee bars and rock ‘n’ roll and was an instant recipe for ratings success. Stars Tony Selby, Robert Lindsay and Brian Pettifer, with guest star Paul 5 discs. Eddington. UK | 1975-78 | NWORK | 850 min | Cert TBC Item # 60108 | RRP £49.99 | Released 2nd Nov
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Alan Bennett at the BBC Recommended Starring: James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales, Jim Broadbent, Janet McTeer, Trevor Peacock Contains: A Day Out, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance, Our Winnie, An Englishman Abroad, The Insurance Man, Dinner at Noon, 102 Bvd Haussman, A Question of Attribution and Portrait or Bust. Released: 26th October DVD Extras: 4 discs. UK | 1978-92 | 2ENT | Cert 12 | Item # 59908
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Talking Heads: Complete UK | 1988 | BBC | 428 min | Cert 12 | # 20951 | RRP £24.99
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lthough he’s best known for erudite everyday dramas, Alan Bennett has always been a history boy at heart. Indeed, four of the works in this exceptional collection focus on complex factual figures, including John Schlesinger’s wittily melancholic profiles of spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, An Englishman Abroad (1983) and A Question of Attribution (1991). The first utilises a wintry Dundee to recreate Coral Browne’s visit to Burgess in Moscow in 1958. With its discussion of the transience of newsworthiness and the even crueller brevity of celebrity, this is both charmingly old-fashioned and curiously contemporary. As played by Alan Bates, Burgess is a patriot who bitterly detests his exile while remaining utterly unrepentant of his treachery. He is much more concerned about being a topic of dinner conversation and procuring a new suit than he is about Cold War ideology. And James Fox’s Blunt is equally indifferent to his past misdemeanours, as chats of razor-sharp civility with Prunella Scales’ Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace testify. This urbane drama offered a shrewd insight into Blunt’s motives and vanity, and Bennett proved just as incisive in fathoming the mind of novelist Marcel Proust in
An exceptional set of previously uncollected works for the BBC Udayan Prasad’s 102 Blvd Haussman (1991). Alan Bates again impresses as the famously fastidious recluse, as he seeks to circumvent possessive maid Janet McTeer to flirt with musician Paul Rhys. Bennett supposedly sought to show here that artists were barely human, as though he was reneging on his sympathetic portrait of Franz Kafka in Richard Eyre’s The Insurance Man (1986), which shares the mood of impending doom that characterised Bennett’s first tele-play, A Day Out (1972), which followed a Halifax cycling club’s trip to Fountains Abbey in 1911. The deceptively chatty style coined here would recur in Sunset Across the Bay (1975), A Visit From Miss Prothero (1978), Our Winnie and A Woman of No Importance (both 1982), which was the first of Bennett’s trademark talking-head dramas, in which Patricia Routledge excels as the garrously genial office busybody who sustains her delusional sense of worth after she is unexpectedly hospitalised. David Parkinson
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Television Hadleigh: Complete
Gerald Harper, Stephanie Beacham. The complete Yorkshire TV drama about the travails of eligible bachelor, James Hadleigh as he contends with his career, his turbulent relationships, his vast fortune and his efforts to save his ancestral home – the magnificent Melford Hall. 16 discs; New documentary (60 mins).
UK | 1986 | NWORK | 2600 min | Cert 12 Item # 60129 | RRP £99.99 | Released 2nd November
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Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 2 An award-winning TV programme about TV programmes, made by TV addicts for an audience of TV addicts. Sharp-suited funnyman Harry Hill lends his surreal brand of humour to the hugely popular series that lovingly pokes fun at contemporary television.
Alan Davies returns as crime-solving magician’s assistant Jonathan Creek in this feature-length episode in which he investigates a series of baffling disappearances in a ‘haunted’ room at the top of a large gothic house belonging to musician Lance Gessler. The forbidding mansion is the site of an intriguing mystery. Over the last seventy years a number of visitors staying overnight in the gloomy old attic room have disappeared without trace... UK | 2009 | 2ENT | Cert 15 Item # 59950 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th October
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Hi-De-Hi!: Complete Series
Every episode of the longrunning sitcom that followed the goings-on at Maplin’s Holiday Camp. Simon Cadell, Ruth Madoc and Paul Shane head up the antics in this classic camp comedy based on the real-life experiences of writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft as Butlin’s Holiday Camp entertainers in 13 discs. the 1960s. UK | 1988 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 59938 | RRP £79.99 | Released 2nd November
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Howard’s Way: Complete
Howards’ Way was the BBC’s answer to the wave of glamorous dramas, such as Dallas and Dynasty, coming out of America in the 1980s. With a backdrop of a booming boatyard on the Solent, bought by former aircraft designer Tom Howard (Maurice Colborne), and characters drawn from the business and yachting set of a fictional southcoast town, this is prime Thatcher-era TV – aspirational, entrepeneurial and full of highly conspicuous consumption. UK | 1990 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 59918 | RRP £78.29 | Released 26th October
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David Renwick
Last of the Summer Wine: Series 15 and 16
UK | 2009 | G-VEN | Cert TBC Item # 59807 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th November
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Jonathan Creek: Grinning Man
More misadventures in the Yorkshire Dales with Compo, Clegg and Foggy in two more series of the long-running BBC comedy. The three elderly delinquents, the envy of their henpecked married friends, continue to embark on mischievous stunts as if in their 4 discs. second childhood.
UK | 1995 | UPV | Cert 12 Item # 59928 | RRP £24.99 | Released 26th Oct
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Les Dawson at ITV: Specials
Les Dawson’s self-deprecating and enduringly bleak brand of humour, coupled with a worldweary delivery honed in the working men’s clubs of northern England, made him one of Britain’s best-loved comedians. The set collects all nine of his ‘specials’ from the 1970s, including two Christmas shows and all 3 discs. four editions of Dawson and Friends. UK | 1970s | NWORK | 450 min | Cert TBC Item # 60111 | RRP £24.99 | Released 9th November
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Lost: Complete Fifth Season All 16 episodes from the fifth season of the hugely popular US drama series. In this season, the ‘Oceanic 6’ are forced to return to the island, where they finally discover the fate of those who were left behind.
USA | 2009 | BUENA | 704 min | Cert 15 Item # 60330 | RRP £44.99 | Released 26th October
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Marion and Geoff: Series 1 & 2 Hugo Blick
The award-winning sitcom that touched the hearts and funny bones of the nation. Rob Brydon’s lovable loser and eternal optimist, Keith Barret, delivers bittersweet monologues from the seat of his mini-cab. Lately, life hasn’t been easy for him. When his wife left him for her work colleague Geoff – the pharmaceutical salesman of the year – she also took the kids. But there’s no way the Welsh mini-cab driver is going to let such small setbacks get him down. Keith keeps us updated in a series of cheery video diaries, remaining upbeat, even as his attempts to rebuild his own life falter. UK | 2000-03 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item # 59954 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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The Meerkats
James Honeyborne Paul Newman narrates this dramatised wildlife documentary which follows the coming of age of a young meerkat pup, Kolo, growing up in the Kalahari. The narrative is written by No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency author, Alexander McCall Smith. UK | 2008 | MOMET | 83 min | Cert E Item # 58533 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd November
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Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins Mike Slee
Whoopi Goldberg narrates this dramatised wildlife documentary about a family of meerkats living in the Kalahari desert. The film follows a group known as the Whiskers family, led by matriarch Flower, an unusually successful dominant female. UK | 2008 | MOMET | 75 min | E Item # 58534 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd November
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The Michael Palin Collection Features Great Railway Journeys, Around the World in 80 Days, Around the World in 20 Years, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara, Himalaya and 20 discs. New Europe. UK | 2008 | BBC | Cert TBC Item # 55999 | RRP £69.99 | Released 2nd November
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Montezuma
Dan Snow travels the Aztec Empire in search of the 16th century Aztec leader Montezuma. Montezuma II inherited an empire at the height of its power. Declaring himself a god, he subjugated native peoples and sacrificed tens of thousands. And yet, after 17 years of rule, Montezuma surrendered the wealth, land and sovereignty of his people to Spanish conquistadors. Snow pieces together the remarkable story of a clash of civilisations. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | Cert E Item # 59849 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th October
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Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer’s Cut October 2009 sees the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus by BBC TV in 1969. These six hour-long programmes combine the interviews with clips from Python material from small screen 3 discs. and large.
UK | 2009 | EROCK | 465 min | Cert TBC Item # 59653 | RRP £24.99 | Released 26th October
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Normandy: The Great Crusade Christopher Koch
A unique account of the Normandy battles, brought to life through the letters and journals of those who fought, and sometimes died, on D-Day and in the weeks beyond. Here are first hand accounts of British officers and men, US paratroopers and tank crews, German soldiers and French civilians. USA | 1994 | SIMP | 95 min | Cert E Item # 60227 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th October
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Porridge: Series 1-3 ‘Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence ... you will go to prison for five years.’ Every episode of the prison sitcom starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, and, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
UK | 1977 | 2ENT | Cert 15 Item # 60335 | RRP £39.14 | Released 19th October
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Gracie! Recommended
The Snapper Recommended
Director: Brian Percival
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Tom Hollander
Starring: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Fionnuala Murphy
Released: 9th November UK | 2009 | 2ENT | TBC mins | Cert TBC | Item # 60080
Dame Gracie Fields is the subject of this major BBC drama as part of a series celebrating the artistic careers of British female icons (the others being Enid Blyton and Margot Fonteyn.) Gracie! sees Jane Horrocks take the lead as the optimistic, proudly working-class singer and comedienne. During the 1930s, ‘Our Gracie’ was the nation’s darling and, with films such as Sally in our Alley, Love Life & Laughter and Sing as we Go, the highest paid film actress in the world. Renowned for her common touch, she symbolised the unquenchable spirit of Britain. Beginning at the peak of her career, when her iconic status seemed indestructible, Gracie! recounts her wartime struggle between love and duty, and the repercussions of her relationship with Italian-born director Monty Banks (Tom Hollander). Jane Horrocks, whose fine singing voice was shown to great advantage in Little Voice, sings a wide repertoire of Gracie’s songs, including favourites Sally, I Never Cried So Much In All My Life and Sing As We Go.
Released: 2nd November UK | 1993 | 2ENT | 91 mins | Cert 15 | Item # 59907
Roddy Doyle’s follow-up to The Commitments is energetically adapted to the screen by Stephen Frears in this witty, warm snapshot into the lives of the Curley family. The ‘snapper’ of the title refers to unborn child of 20-year-old Sharon, whose family react in unexpected ways when her unplanned pregnancy is announced. Gossip about who the father is tears through their Dublin suburb, as the family try to cope with the news. If this makes The Snapper sound like a grim kitchen sink drama, think again: Doyle’s script dispels any misery from the start, creating a bawdy drama packed with dry Irish humour – after just one minute in this wonderful family’s company the viewer will rooting for them all the way. Colm Meaney is terrific as the well-meaning paterfamilias, while Fionnuala Murphy as Sharon’s hilariously straightforward best friend deserves her own show. Resolutely unsentimental, even in the brilliantly played scene where the father tries to convince the daughter not to leave home, this is one of the sharpest and funniest comedies of the 1990s. AD
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Television Rab C Nesbitt: Series 1-8
Gregor Fisher takes the role of Govan’s favourite philosopher, as he holds forth on life, death, drink, the state of the nation and much else besides in this show that grew from Fisher’s one man rants on Naked Video. Also includes the Christmas 10 discs. Special 2008.
UK | 2008 | 2ENT | Cert 15 Item # 59947 | RRP £47.95 | Released 19th Oct
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Sherlock Holmes: The Leading Lady / Incident at Victoria Falls Peter Sasdy
Two episodes following the adventures of the Baker Street detective, (Christopher Lee). In The Leading Lady, Holmes and Dr. Watson meet an old flame in Vienna along with a dastardly villain intent on driving the world into war, while Incident at Victoria Falls sees Holmes called upon to 2 discs. oversee delivery of a diamond. USA | 1991-92 | REVEL | 360 min | Cert PG Item # 58913 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd Nov
Stephen Fry: Last Chance to See
UK | 2009 | DIGCL | Cert E Item # 59469 | RRP £24.99 | Released 19th Oct
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Strangers: Complete Series
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UK | 1980 | SIMP | 150 min | Cert TBC Item # 60141 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
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True Blood: Season 1 Alan Ball
Vampires are living among us and no longer need human blood to survive. Or so it seems... Adapted from the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels, True Blood is a refreshingly adult take on the vampire genre. The series was created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) so you can expect 5 discs. intelligent social commentary too.
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In the 1980s, writer Douglas Adams travelled the globe with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of endangered animals. Now, the late Adams’ great friend, Stephen Fry, returns with Mark to see if the species are still in existence. A unique insight into the dis2 discs. appearing animals of the world.
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The year is 1864. England is at peace – but across the Atlantic a bloody civil war is being fought between the North and the South. In Portsmouth, a humble warehouse clerk finds himself caught up in a sinister plot that could well drag Britain into the American Civil War and change the course of history. All six thrilling episodes of the popular ITV children’s adventure series.
USA | 2008 | WHV | Cert 18 Item # 59125 | RRP £49.99 | Released 26th October
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An extraordinary success for ITV, Strangers was a tough, quirky police series that was a breed apart from other cop shows of the time, providing a classic role for Don Henderson as the idiosyncratic D.S. Bulman, who was never to be seen without his string gloves, inhaler and plastic bag. This set features every episode.
The Ravelled Thread
Wallace and Gromit: Four Cracking Adventures Aardman Animations
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit, their four halfhour adventures have been specially remastered. Features A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave, The Wrong Trousers and A Matter of Loaf and Death. UK | 2008 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item # 59919 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd November
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Tanamera
Christopher Bowen, Ed Devereaux, Khym Lam. Tanamera - Lion of Singapore was a miniseries adapted from bestselling author Noel Barber’s epic story of passion, war and forbidden love set in the twilight years of the British Empire in 2 discs. Singapore and Malaya. Australia / UK | 1989 | DD | 348 min | Cert 15 Item # 32774 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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I Dream of Jeannie: Complete Seasons 1-5
her from a bottle.
The complete collection of all five seasons of the popular 1960s US comedy starring Larry Hagman as Captain Tony Nelson, an astronaut who finds himself ‘master’ to a beautiful genie named Jeannie (Barbara Eden) after unwittingly releasing 20 discs.
USA | 1970 | COL-T | Cert PG Item # 59305 | RRP £79.99 | Released 26th October
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Peep Show: Series 6 David Mitchell, Robert Webb. The latest series of the sitcom described by Ricky Gervais as the funniest programme currently on TV. Starring Mark and Jeremy, two “very ordinary weirdos” who share a flat in London, this is one of the best comedy series in recent years.
UK | 2009 | 4DVD | Cert 18 Item # 57663 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd November
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The BBC Natural History Collection
A Blu-ray set containing Wild China, Galápagos, South Pacific and Nature’s Great Events. These great natural history series celebrate the diversity of life on the planet in stunning high definition. With more clarity than ever before, they bring breathtaking landscapes, incredible close-ups and fasci8 discs. nating action to our screens.
UK | 2ENT | Cert E Item # 60315 | RRP £69.99 | 19th October
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Spitting Image: Series 8
The complete eighth series of the satirical 1980s puppet show that poked fun at everyone from then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Tory cabinet to the Pope and the Royal Family. The series was worked around the current week’s news stories and featured a number of famous impressionists including Chris Barrie, Rory Bremner, Phil Cornwell, Steve Coogan, Harry Enfield and Kate Robbins. UK | 1988 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert TBC Item # 59814 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
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Wings: Complete
This prestigious 1970s BBC drama series follows the lives of the daring young pilots of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. With breathtaking aerial film sequences using authentic vintage aircraft replicas and gripping airto-air filming, Wings is one of the very finest war drama series ever produced by British television. Series 1: In an England still largely untouched by the horrors of the Great War, young men dream of flying and joining the new elite – the ‘cavalry of the clouds’. Two such young men join the RFC to earn their wings, still believing in the camaraderie of the air. Their instructor, Captain Triggers knows the truth. German and British pilots and observers are beginning to shoot at each other – and the air war is changing. Series 2: ‘C’ Flight are given ‘Forward Action’ status and told to develop new weapons and tactics to destroy a new threat – the German Fokker monoplane with a forward firing machine gun that is devas7 discs; tating the obsolete British BE2s. Series 1 & 2 also available individually. UK | 1977-78 | SIMP | Cert 12 Item # 60176 | RRP £34.99 | Released 19th October
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The Lotus Eaters: Series 1 & 2 Ian Hendry, Wanda Ventham. Series 1 and 2 of the engrossing BBC drama focussing on a couple who run a bar on a Greek island. But all is not what it seems - he is war veteran with a murky past, and she is an agent who has married him as a cover, a scheme complicated when she falls in love with him. The murder of a girl on the island triggers a set of dramatic events. UK | 1972-3 | SMPLY | 450 / 299 mins | Cert PG/12 Item # 30628 | RRP £29.99 /£19.99/£1.50 | Out Now
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The Pathfinders: Complete
Robert Urquhart, Kate O’Mara, Jack Watling. All the episodes from the 1970s ITV series that followed the experiences of a typical Pathfinder squadron - the elite of RAF Bomber Command during WWII. The characterisation in this underrated series is particularly
sharp.
3 discs.
UK | 1972-73 | SMPLY | 600 min | Cert 12 Item # 28862 | RRP £24.99 | Out Now
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Also Released on DVD Bewitched: Seasons 1-8 USA | 1972 | COL-T | # 60029 | RRP £129.99
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The Comedians: Series 1-7 UK | 1979 | NWORK | 836 min | # 60116 | RRP £49.99
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Big John, Little John: The Complete Series
The Comedians: Series 7
USA | 1976 | FAB-F | 312 min | # 60102 |
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UK | 1979 | NWORK | 200 min | # 60117 | RRP £12.99
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The Family
Bones: Season 4
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Captain America: The Serial - Volume 3 USA / Canada | 1966 | VINT | Cert U | # 60035 | RRP £5.99
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Crossroads Archive - 1965-1979
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Complete Series 2 UK | 2008 | 2ENT | # 59893 | RRP £19.99
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Torchwood: Series 1-3 UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 1450 min | Cert 15 | # 59942 | RRP £58.71
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Watching: Series 7
Dead Set: Director’s Cut
UK | 1993 | NWORK | 175 min | # 60119 | RRP £12.99
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Doctor Who - The New Series: Series 1-4 UK | 2008 | 2ENT | 775 min | Cert 12 | # 59898 | RRP £89.99
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ER: Complete Seasons 1-15 USA | 2009 | WHV | Cert 15 | # 59826 | RRP £129.99
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Father Ted: Christmas Special UK | 1996 | 2ENT | 60 min | Cert 12 | # 59952 | RRP £5.99
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London’s Burning: Series 1-7 UK | 1994 | NWORK | 3460 min | Cert 15 | # 59835 | RRP £99.99
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Lost: The Complete Seasons 1-5
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Saxondale: Series 1 and 2 UK | 2007 | 2ENT | # 59929 | RRP £19.99
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Spitting Image: Series 1-7 UK | 1987 | NWORK | 1575 min | Cert 15 | # 60115 | RRP £59.99
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The Great Polar Bear Adventure Canada | 2006 | ABBEY | 90 min | # 59981 | RRP £9.99
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The Untouchables: Season 2 USA | 1959 | PARAH | 1547 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 58855 | RRP £34.99
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Who Do You Think You Are?: Series 1-4 UK | ACORN | # 59383 | RRP £79.99
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Friends: Series 1-10
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Shameless: Christmas and New Year Specials
Peep Show: Series 1-6 UK | 4DVD | Cert 18 | # 57664 | RRP £59.99
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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present Brüno
New Releases Crespo / Schaefer
USA | 2007 | SODA | 90 min | Cert TBC Item # 60101 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th November
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Blood On Satan’s Claw Piers Haggard
Linda Hayden. Atmospheric period chiller set in a superstitious 17th century England where discovered remains are believed to be those of the Devil. Soon they disappear and it seems the Devil may indeed be among the villagers. UK | 1970 | ODEON | 93 min | Cert 18 Item # 57422 | RRP £9.99 | Released 19th October
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Boys On Film crosses the Atlantic to bring you seven intriguing and genre-busting shorts from the land of the free. These award-winning shorts from East coast to West side reveal that there is more to these American boys than meets the eye.
USA | 2009 | PECCA | Cert 18 Item # 60165 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th November
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British Heroes Collection Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Michael Caine, Roger Moore. Five action and adventure movies – The Wild Geese, Zulu Dawn, Ashanti, Games for Vultures and Jaguar Lives! starring Joe Lewis as a kung-fu expert and secret agent battling an evil international drugs ring. 5 discs.
UK | 1978-9 | ARROW | 555 min | Cert 15 Item # 60091 | RRP £29.99 | Released 26th October
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Romantic drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. Harvey Shine is one of life’s losers but while in London he meets Kate, whose life has hitherto been limited to work. Despite setbacks and misunderstandings, a gradual connection forms between them.
USA | 2009 | UPV | 82 min | Cert 18 Item # 60106 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th November
UK / USA | 2008 | MOMET | 92 min | Cert 12 Item # 59990 | RRP £17.99 | Released 2nd November
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Colin
Marc Price
Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee Shane Meadows
A British zombie horror made on a micro-budget of £45 and told from the zombie’s perspective. The film shows who Colin the zombie used to be and what he has become. It’s thoughtful, but there are still plenty of gruesome shocks on offer, and it was a big hit at 2009’s Frightfest film festival.
Paddy Considine. An improvised mockumentary following the life of a roadie and his rapper sidekick. Donk dreams of becoming a music promoter and takes Scorzay-zee along to his job for Arctic Monkeys. They’re so impressed that he’s offered a support slot on the band’s tour.
UK | 2008 | 97 min | Cert 18 Item # 59972 | RRP £8.99 | Released 26th October
UK | 2009 | WARP | 71 min | Cert 15 Item # 60110 | RRP £15.99 | Released 26th October
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Drag Me to Hell Sam Raimi
Boys On Film: Volume 3 - American Boy
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Joel Hopkins
Sacha Baron Cohen brings his clueless gay fashionista Brüno to the big screen in this featurelength docu-comedy. After the gay fashion presenter is banned from Europe following a disastrous incident at a show, he sets his sights on America...
Arranged
A beautiful film about a friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. They learn they have much in common – including the fact that they are both having arranged marriages.
Last Chance Harvey
Larry Charles
Alison Lohman. A hugely entertaining (and frightening) horror from the director of the Spider-man and Evil Dead films. A young bank loan officer denies an old lady an extention on her mortgage and recieves a powerful curse for her trouble. A rollercoaster ride of a film, Raimi here shows where his true talents lie. USA | 2009 | LGATE | 99 min | Cert 15 Item # 59865 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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Ghost Story
Stephen Weeks
Night at the Museum 2 Shawn Levy
Family adventure comedy with a starry cast. Ben Stiller reprises his role the hapless security guard who encounters living and breathing museum exhibits. This time round he finds himself in the Smithsonian with many of the great figures of American history. USA | 2009 | FOX | 104 min | Cert PG Item # 59523 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th November
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Orlando
Sally Potter
Marianne Faithfull. This rarely seen dreamlike chiller is the definition of a cult British horror film. Set in 1920s England it tells of three former public schoolmates (one of which is played by Vivian Mackerell, the inspiration for Withnail), who reunite in haunted mansion. Cue demonic dolls, incest and murder. Features a soundtrack from Pink 2 discs. Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin.
A fascinating, rich and intelligent version of Virginia Woolf’s novel, concerning the adventures of the eponymous gender-changing central character (strikingly played by Tilda Swinton), through the course of centuries. Revered by many feminist critics in particular, this was one of the most distinctive and satisfying British 2 discs; Featurettes; films of the 1990s. Interview and selected scene commentary.
UK | 1974 | NUCLE | 83 min | Cert 12 Item # 60267 | RRP £17.99 | 26th October
UK | 1992 | ART-E | 90 min | Cert PG Item # 60134 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th November
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Out at the Wedding Lee Friedlander
New-Yorker Alex gets embroiled in a farcical web of mistaken identities and sexualities when she keeps her mixed-raced boyfriend a secret from her family at her sister’s wedding. All goes well until her gay best friend suggests Alex is actually seeing a woman. USA | 2007 | TLAUK | 96 min | Cert 15 Item # 60199 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th October
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Playing Away
Frozen River Recommended
Steaming Recommended EXCLUSIVE!
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Director: Joseph Losey
Horace Ové
Starring: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham
A comedy of manners in which a West Indian cricket team from Brixton travels to a Suffolk village to play against the local team. The director subtly explores and undermines white and black stereotypes, succeeding in linking two familiar yet estranged cultures through sport.
Released: 19th October
Starring: Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave, Diana Dors, Patti Love
UK | 1987 | BFI | 100 min | Cert 15 Item # 59799 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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Public Enemies Michael Mann
Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard. Action thriller set in 1930s America. Depp stars as the charismatic bank robber John Dillinger, whose audacious raids and jailbreaks thrilled the public while their sympathy for the banks was at an all-time low. USA | 2009 | UPV | 139 min | Cert 15 Item # 60008 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd November
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Secrets of Sex Anthony Balch
A mummy guides us through a number of bizarre vignettes on the subject of of sexual pleasure in this head-trip of a movie. Features go-go dancers having vegetables thrown at them, women photographing a tortured male model, a man looking for a threesome with his pet lizard and a topless safecracker. Among other things. UK | 1970 | ODEON | 91 min | Cert 18 Item # 59921 | RRP £9.99 | Released 26th October
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DVD Extras: Interview with Courtney Hunt.
Released: 19th October.
USA | 2008 | Axiom | 97 mins | Cert 15 | Item # 59646
UK | 1985 | SPHE | 91 mins | Cert 18 | Item # 60037
A consummate integration of cruel topography, social portraiture and cinéma vérité, Frozen River was one of the most lauded feature debuts of 2008. At Sundance, where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize, Tarantino described the film as ‘a wonderful depiction of America’, rightly alluding to the tight political nexus of class, race, gender and blue-collar poverty that underpins Hunt’s timely, contextualised narrative. Carefully avoiding heavy didacticism, the film articulates these issues with skilful control through the conventions of the thriller genre. At the centre of the drama is Ray, a destitute mother unable to feed her two sons. A chance encounter leads her to Lila Littlewolf, a young native American woman who introduces her to a criminal underworld of smuggling immigrants from Canada across a frozen expanse of the St Lawrence river within the Mohawk reservation. That their illegal excursions go awry will come as no surprise, yet Hunt’s taut narrative succeeds in sustaining an arresting level of suspense until its redemptive and hopeful finale. EP
Nell Dunn’s 1981 play about six women who meet regularly at a crumbling Turkish bathhouse in London was something of a cause célèbre when it premiered in the West End in 1981: theatregoers had never seen this much nudity in one production, let alone heard female characters talking this frankly. However, beneath the novelty factor is a poignant, funny and genuinely warm portrait of female camaraderie. The bathhouse is a place for the women to trade intimate stories, to express their hopes and fears; and when the building is threatened with closure, they are mobilised to try and save it. Highly faithfully to the original staging, this adaptation has become more notable for being the last film of director Joseph Losey and star Diana Dors. As the bathhouse’s maternal attendant, Dors exudes class and calmness in what was a rare chance for her to shine this late in her career. As the patrons, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave and Patti Love cast their clothes aside and tackle the material with admirable gusto. JU
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Contemporary Shank
Simon Pearce Gay teenager Cal has kept his sexuality a secret from the rest of his gang, knowing that they are as homophobic as they are rascist. After he saves Olivier from being beaten by his gang, Cal finds himself the target of their wrath. A relationship with Olivier develops – but can
he escape his past? UK | 2009 | TLAUK | 89 min | Cert 18 Item # 60244 | RRP £14.99 | Released 2nd November
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Songwriter
EXCLUSIVE!
Alan Rudolph Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson star as a pair of hard-living Texans in this funny and realistic look at the country music business. Former duo Doc Jenkins and Blackie Buck find themselves in trouble so it’s the road for them again – and a life of sharing music and raising hell. USA | 1984 | SPHE | 90 min | Cert 15 Item # 60040 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th October
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Rebecca Miller
Miller writes and directs this drama based on her own novel. Robin Wright Penn stars as the eponymous Pippa, who at the age of 50 seems to have everything in life – but when her husband (Alan Arkin) first decides that they should move to a retirement home, and then embarks on an affair, Pippa finds herself reassessing her place in the world. USA | 2009 | ICON | 98 min | Cert 15 Item # 59842 | RRP £17.99 | Released 2nd November
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Tom Kalin
Leopold and Loeb, two homosexual lovers who murdered a 14 year old boy in 1924, are the subject of Kalin’s atmospheric black-and-white study of the relationship between the two killers, their crime and subsequent trial – a case that inspired Hitchcock’s Rope. A significant film in the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s. USA | 1992 | PALIS | 93 min | Cert 18 Item # 59906 | RRP £15.99 | 28th September
Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder. Ensemble drama cowritten by Bret Easton Ellis, based on his 1994 short stort collection following the adventures of a loosely-connected group of people in 1983 Los Angeles. Generously laced with sex, drugs and violence. USA / Germany | 2008 | EV | 97 min | Cert 15 Item # 60140 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th November
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Hong Kong / Japan / France | 2009 | FOX | 88 min | Cert 18 | # 59777 | R RP £15.99
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Clive Barker’s Book of Blood John Harrison
UK | 2008 | LGATE | 96 min | Cert 18 | # 60254 | RRP £13.99
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Avie Luthra
Three Australian naval officers have one night in Sydney before they ship out to the Gulf in this semi-improvised drama. The differing personalities, conflicting agendas and tensions between them ensure an eventful night on the town.
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Australia | 2008 | SODA | 94 min | Cert 15 Item # 60022 | RRP £12.99 | Released 26th October
USA | 2003 | IN2FI | 99 min | Cert 15 | # 60331 | RRP £5.99
WC
Liam O Mochain Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar, WC concerns the trials and tribulations of Jack and Katya, two lowly paid toilet attendants - one debt-ridden, the other an illegal immigrant - stuck in their jobs but slowly building a relationship. Eire | 2007 | MEDIA | 80 min | Cert 18 Item # 59979 | RRP £11.99 | Released 19th October
Isaac Julien
Gregor Jordan
Chris Nahon
Mad, Sad and Bad
Young Soul Rebels
The Informers
Blood The Last Vampire
Matthew Newton
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Three Blind Mice
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Swoon
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Set in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Year of 1977, Rebels looks at the realities of life outside the official presentation of the year by following two young black DJs. When a friend is murdered they set out to find the killer – whose voice was recorded at the scene of the crime. Winner of the Critics’ Prize at Cannes. Great soundtrack.
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New Town Killers Richard Jobson
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Northfork
The Polish Brothers Our DVD Price: £5.99
The Rebel Rousers Martin B. Cohen
USA | 1970 | VINT | 77 min | 15 | # 60032 | £5.99
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Gavin Hood
USA | 2009 | FOX | 107 min | Cert 12 | # 59303 | RRP £19.99
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X-Men Quadrilogy USA | 2009 | FOX | 446 min | 12 | # 59628 | £29.99
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Year One
Harold Ramis USA | 2009 | COL-T | 96 min | Cert 12 | # 60120 | RRP £17.99
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Zombie Creeping Flesh Bruno Mattei
Italy | 1981 | STARL | 96 min | Cert 18 | # 60251 | RRP £9.99
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UK | 1991 | BFI | 100 min | Cert 18 Item # 59844 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th October
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This Month in Blu-ray
Rounding up all the Blu-rays from this month’s film catalogue in one place.
Highlights
The Descent
Gone with the Wind
UK | 2005 | FOX | 96 min | Cert 18 | # 60241 | RRP £22.99
USA | 1939 | WHV | 233 min | Cert PG | # 59621 |
Forrest Gump
Victor Fleming RRP £23.99
Neil Marshall
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Robert Zemeckis
The Red Balloon
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France | 1955 | NWORK | 34 min | subt | Cert U | # 59493 | RRP £14.99
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand
USA | 1937 | WDHV | 81 min | Cert U | # 60063 | RRP £23.99
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The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming
USA | 1939 | WHV | 98 min | B&W | Cert U | # 59500 | RRP £23.50
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Borat
Larry Charles USA | 2006 | FOX | 84 min | 15 | # 60031 | £22.99
USA | 1994 | PARAH | 136 min | Cert 12 | # 59757 | RRP £19.99
Friday the 13th
Sean S. Cunningham USA | 1980 | WHV | 91 min | 18 | # 59584 | RRP £18.99
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Fireball XL5: A Day in the Life of a Space General UK | 1962 | NWORK | 50 min | Cert U | # 59882 | RRP £14.99
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Oshii Mamoru
Japan | 2004 | MANGA | Cert TBC | # 58014 | RRP £24.99
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Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog USA | 2005 | REV | 103 min | 15 | # 59754 | RRP £19.99
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Braveheart
Heat
USA | 1997 | FOX | 171 min | 15 | # 60019 | £22.99
Michael Mann USA | 1995 | WHV | 163 min | Cert 15 | # 59583 | £18.99
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Brüno
I Sell the Dead
Larry Charles USA | 2009 | UPV | 82 min | 18 | # 60103 | £24.99
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Cars
John Lasseter USA | 2006 | 124 min | Cert PG | # 60268 | £17.99
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Andrew Adamson
USA | 2008 | BUENA | 147 min | Cert PG | # 60287 | RRP £17.99
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District 13 Double Pack Pierre Morel
France | 2004-09 | MOMET | Cert TBC | # 59858 | RRP £29.99
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Glenn McQuaid
USA | 2008 | ANBAY | 82 min | 15 | # 59306 | RRP £24.99
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gore Verbinski
USA | 2003 | BUENA | 143 min | Cert 12 | # 60302 | RRP £17.99
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Public Enemies Michael Mann
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Ratatouille Brad Bird
USA | 2007 | 107 min | U | # 60270 | RRP £17.99
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Rocky: Complete Saga Sylvester Stallone
USA | 2006 | FOX | 607 min | 12 | # 60009 | £89.99
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Stephen Fry: Last Chance to See UK | 2009 | DIGCL | Cert E | # 59472 | RRP £29.99
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True Blood: Season 1 Alan Ball
USA | 2008 | WHV | Cert 18 | # 59126 | RRP £49.99
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I’m Not There
24: Season 7
Todd Haynes
USA | 2007 | PARAH | 135 min | 15 | # 59831 | £19.99
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Last Chance Harvey Joel Hopkins
UK | 2008 | MOMET | 92 min | 12 | # 59834 | £24.99
USA | 2009 | FOX | Cert 15 | # 59730 | RRP £79.99
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Mel Stuart
USA | 1971 | WHV | 96 min | Cert U | # 59591 | RRP £18.99
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Monsters Vs Aliens
The White Diamond
Conrad Vernon
USA | 2009 | DRMWA | 95 min | Cert PG | # 59794 | RRP £26.99
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Drag Me to Hell USA | 2009 | LGATE | 99 min | Cert 15 | # 59973 |
USA | 1969 | NWORK | 96 min | B&W | 18 | # 59903 | RRP £14.99
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Night of the Living Dead
Sam Raimi
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USA | 2009 | UPV | 139 min | 15 | # 60015 | RRP £24.99
Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence (Redux)
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Mel Gibson
Tim Burton
USA | 1993 | BUENA | 73 min | Cert PG | # 60304 | RRP £17.99
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Albert Lamorisse
The Nightmare Before Christmas
George A. Romero
Werner Herzog
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Winged Migration Jaques Perrin
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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats
Mabuse: Agent of Chaos
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oodness: what a month for DVD releases. Two F.W. Murnau films, a brace of Frank Borzage sets and much else besides. Phew! But if you’re asking me, one release stands towering above them all. Masters of Cinema’s Dr. Mabuse box set is a wonderful thing indeed, worthwhile even for those who own some of its contents already: the two previously available titles have been spruced up and embellished with fresh extras, while the inclusion of The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse – Fritz Lang’s final film, never previously available for domestic viewing in the UK – seals the deal. If any films deserve such treatment, it’s these. It’s hard to exaggerate their importance – their influence touches everything from Hitchcock to James Bond and even The Dark Knight. And they remain vital: the most important reason to seek them out is not because they’re historically significant but because their entertainment value is undiminished by age. The first film, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, is 87 years old but few allowances are necessary: it’s as exciting, involving and incisive as it ever was. Although the films carry his name, Mabuse is in no way a hero. Rather, he is a super-villain, in the grand tradition of Fu Manchu or Fantômas. More than this, he is an agent of chaos: not simply killing and stealing but wilfully creating pandemonium. His reign of terror coincided with Germany’s most turbulent years. The first part of Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler is subtitled ‘A Portrait of Our Time’ and indeed it was. In 1922, Germany was in a bad way, broken by defeat in war and crippled by hyperinflation. Lang’s film creates a fictionalised history of these times: Mabuse causes a run on the stock exchange
These exciting, vital Dr. Mabuse films resonate strongly in our paranoid times that virtually destroys the economy. Ten years on and Germany faced a new menace, this time from its newly elected chancellor. By chance – or was it? – Lang had decided to revisit Mabuse. The resultant film was, famously, banned by the Nazi administration who perhaps sensed that Lang was drawing an equivalence between them and the criminal kingpin. It’s a film set in a lunatic asylum: the implication is surely that the inmates have taken over and that authority is insane. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse was the last film Lang made in Germany for nearly thirty years. He fled the Nazis, settled in America and turned out some of the most brilliant films of the Hollywood system. But in the twilight of his career, he was tempted back and returned, one last time, for Mabuse. The Thousand Eyes... doesn’t quite match the heights of the earlier instalments, but it has aged
well, not least because of its percipient depiction of a surveillance society. The success of this film ensured that Mabuse would be revived for further misadventures, but it was to be without Lang: he retired after The Thousand Eyes... The subsequent episodes need not detain us: solid commercial thrillers from other directors, lacking in Lang’s mad insight. But the three films collected here burn as brightly as ever. Although made in a very different era, they are films which resonate in our paranoid times. There isn’t sufficient space here to thank Masters of Cinema for the superlative job they’ve done on the set but they have presented the films as they deserve, no, demand, to be seen.
Related Films The Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse Collection (Masters of Cinema)
Contains: Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922); The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933); The 1000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse (1960). See page 10 for full details. Germany | 1922-60 | EUREK | subt | B&W | # 60077 | £49.99
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