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’m very pleased that this issue sees the start of the BFI’s mammoth project to release 32 films by celebrated Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. They begin this month with the sublime Noriko trilogy, with each edition containing an extra film by Ozu, making these releases must-buys. See page 6. Keen-eyed readers will notice that we are now integrating Blu-ray releases into each genre section instead of putting them on a separate page as we used to do. You’ll still find a list of the Blu-ray highlights though towards the end of the catalogue.

Contents Film of the Month 5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

World Cinema

Tokyo Story

Silent Film Earth releases from Fritz Lang and Anthony Asquith, to James Oliver’s blog on poetic realism. Oh, and a full page sale of some of favourites, too. Unseasonable, some would say, but there’s something about these sweltering July nights that’s rather noirish. Enjoy your films,

Film noir permeates this issue – from our Swedish film of the month, to welcome new

Art

Classic Movies

While the City Sleeps

Stage

Television

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The Woman in White

Documentaries

COI Volume 3

Contemporary

Shutter Island A. Peter O’Toole in Ruling Class

Contributors Alex Davidson (Joan Crawford in Possession) Alex is the curator of the BFI Mediatheque, a space where you can access over 2000 films from the BFI National Archive. In September the Mediatheque is launching Toyland Tales and Happy Endings, a collection devoted to the work and legacy of Enid Blyton.

Gay & Lesbian

From the Cheap Seats

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Mike Bartlett (Tom Baker in Doctor Who) writes for close-upfilm.com and BFI screeonline.

David Parkinson (Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) is a film critic and historian.

Middle Eastern Cinema

Doug Cummings read more at http://filmjourney.weblogger.com/

Nick Riddle is an editor at Bristol University.

British TV Sale

Mike McCahill (Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood) writes on film for The Sunday Telegraph.

Julian Upton (John Cleese in Fawlty Towers) wrote Fallen Stars.

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Peter Wild (Jack Nicholson in The Shining) is the editor of Bookmunch: http://bookmunch.wordpress.com/

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James Oliver (Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans) is a freelance film writer.

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1 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

A Swedish thriller based on the bestseller by Stieg Larsson. A disgraced journalist is contacted by a missing girl’s uncle, and asked to investigate his family’s history and discover the girl’s fate. Joining forces with a young computer hacker, he unearths a sinister and violent truth.

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Sweden / Denmark / Germany | 2009 | MOMET | 152 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 61988 | RRP £17.99

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2 Sammy Going South

After an air raid in kills his parents, Sammy is left alone in colonial Africa. He defiantly sets out from Egypt to find his Aunt at the other end of the continent. Vividly evocative of a world long gone. UK | 1963 | OPTIM | 118 min | Cert PG | # 60742 | RRP £15.99

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3 Lourdes

The award winning story of a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Sylvie Testud takes the central role of Christine, a multiple sclerosis sufferer and sceptic, whose lack of faith is tested by the promise of a new life. Austria / France / Germany | 2009 | ART-E | 99 min | Cert U | # 62031 | RRP £15.99

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4 Wessex Tales

All six stand-alone episodes of the fondly-remembered 1970s BBC drama series based on short stories written by Thomas Hardy. John Hurt, Ben Kingsley and Billie Whitelaw are among the actors who feature in the series, which was directed by such talents as Mike Newell, Gavin Millar and Desmond Davis. UK | 1973 | ACORN | 360 min | Cert 15 | # 59358 | RRP £19.99

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7 Music of Time

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9 Story

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Reader Feedback Director Desmond Davis got in touch to say he was feeling shortchanged by his poor billing (it was non-existent in fact) against his colleagues in our review of Wessex Tales in the July catalogue! In fact his The Withered Arm was the only one of the six tales to be nominated for a BAFTA (for Billie Whitelaw, as Best Actress). We are glad to have this opportunity to set the record straight. We have also had some recent success with film queries, one of which asked about a 1950s thriller with a young girl, an evil stepmother and a murky swimming pool. It’s Hammer’s Taste of Fear and it’s available. For all enquiries, comments and interesting snippets, do email us at feedback@moviemail-online.co.uk or send us a postcard.

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See Also Still Walking

Hirokazu Koreeda Japan | 2008 | NW | 114 min | subt | Cert PG | # 61441 | RRP £15.99

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Mikio Naruse Collection (BFI)

Contains: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Floating Clouds and Late Chrysanthemums. Japan | 1954 - 1960 | BFI | 321 min | subt | B&W | Cert E | # 52189 | RRP £44.99

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very ten years, Sight and Sound magazine polls critics around the world to find out their ten best films of all time. In the last such poll in 2002, Tokyo Story came fifth. Ozu is commonly described as the most ‘Japanese’ of directors. It’s absolute nonsense, of course – he’s the most universal. For what is Tokyo Story but an echo chamber of everyone’s thoughts on family, of every parent’s concern for their children, of every child’s need to break away and the mixture of guilt and relief that follows? Ozu represents these themes through the simplest narrative possible: an elderly couple visiting their grown-up offspring. But each child has become a careworn adult – whether a busy neighbourhood doctor or penny-pinching beautician – who finds their doddering relatives an unwelcome intrusion. So they are moved on, Lear-like, until they end up in the tatty tenement flat owned by their daughter-in-law, Noriko, who lost her husband, their second son, in the war. Ironically, she is the only one who shows them any compassion. It’s a slight tale, but it’s sustained by a remarkable complexity of characterisation and a sure eye for the telling detail – the way the eldest son playfully calls to his pet after hearing of his mother’s illness, a hair-

An essential film from the most universal of directors style suggested by the beautician as ‘stylish’ later worn by the hostess of a backstreet bar. There are allusions to characters’ pasts – the father’s alcoholism, the waspish eldest daughter’s childhood innocence – that colour what could have been sentimental archetypes. In all, there is a powerful sense of life lived, stretching out beyond the screen. Tokyo Story must have been a very personal project for Ozu, who never married and lived his whole life with his mother. But its beauty and clear-eyed understanding make it accessible to all. It is an essential purchase, especially as this set includes Ozu’s 1941 film, Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, whose themes complement Tokyo Story beautifully. It is also about the death of a parent and the coldness of his children. The film is notable for its class consciousness and for the fact that it was one of only two that Ozu completed in wartime. A neglected gem, it’s unrestored but it’s great to have it finally available. Mike Bartlett

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World Cinema Goemon

Kazuaki Kiriya

No One Knows About Persian Cats

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Hierro

Gabe Ibanez

Rock bands? Underground music? If your idea of Iranian cinema is the contemplative work of Kiarostami, this film will come as a surprise. It does for Tehran what Blow-up did for London in the 60s, capturing a city at a time when it’s really swinging. That might sound odd, given the country’s recent political crisis, but this is a fascinating insight behind the veil drawn by Ahmadinejad, revealing a youth culture brimming with energy and passion. Ghobadi follows singer-songwriters Ashkan and Negar as they try to obtain passports for a crucial concert in London and form a band by cherry-picking musicians from different rock groups. This slight story is really just an excuse to showcase each group in turn, but the music is sensational and each performance throws a different light on the pop culture scene, from indie rock and heavy metal to romantic ballads and Persian rap. The result is political cinema with genuine charge and intelligence but that feels like a house party. MB

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The Satyajit Ray Collection: Vol 3

Spanish psychological thriller in which a mother loses her young son on a ferry while heading off on holiday. Has he fallen overboard? Has he been abducted? Nobody knows. As she seeks an answer she is tormented by paranoid dreams and hallucinations – and learns that some mysteries should be never be revealed. Spain | 2009 | OPTIM | 89 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 62473 / 62475 | RRP £17.99 | Out 26th July

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Kites

Anurag Basu

Bollywood romantic thriller set in the USA, starring Hrithik Rosha as a streetwise scamster who meets a beautiful Mexican dancer (Barbara Mori) in Las Vegas. The two fall passionately in love despite the linguistic and cultural barriers that lie between them – but can Jay put his shady past behind him? India | 2010 | OPTIM | 122 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 62674 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th August

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Left Bank

Pieter Van Hees A psychological thriller in which the life of an emotionally fragile woman looks to be on the up with the appearance of a new boyfriend in her life. Then she moves into his flat on a run-down and oppressive estate, where her rising paranoia, coupled with increasing doubts about her new partner, soon lead her into dangerous territory. Belgium | 2008 | EXCAL | 98 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 61932 | RRP £14.99 | Released 10th May

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Ray is acknowledged as one of the masters of world cinema but was often accused of ignoring political issues. This collection proves conclusively otherwise. Although made for TV, The Deliverance (1981) is one of his most devastating films. Following a Brahmin’s shameful treatment of untouchable Om Puri, it is a bold denunciation of India’s caste system. Adapted from a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World (1984) is equally contentious, as it challenges both the motives of a leader of the 1905 boycott against foreign-made goods, and the status of women, as landlord Victor Banerjee’s sheltered wife comes to understand the cynical realities of a divided society. The reckless intransigence of the bourgeoisie is further indicted in An Enemy of the People (1989), a Bengali reworking of Ibsen’s play. A study in vested interest and the arrogance of power, it is dominated by a dignified display of dutiful determination by Soumitra Chatterjee, as the doctor risking his reputation to secure the closure of a temple with a contaminated water supply. DP

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As No One Knows About Persian Cats illustrates, cinema from the Middle-East is as diverse as the countries from which it derives. We present the best available cinema from Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey and Israel; encompassing social realism, arthouse drama, antiwar films and even Tatiesque comedy.

Caramel

Taste of Cherry

Three Monkeys

Nadine Labaki

Abbas Kiarostami

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

A poignant, funny romantic comedy about the day-to-day lives of five Lebanese women from different generations and religious backgrounds who all meet in a Beirut beauty salon.

Two films from the brilliantly innovative Iranian director. Taste of Cherry is a poetic film about a man trying to find someone to assist his suicide; 10 on Ten is his cinema masterclass. 2 discs.

An unsettling, ominous atmosphere pervades this film noir, shot through with impressive widescreen compositions, about a family blown apart by lies and non-communication.

Lebanon | 2007 | MOMET | 91 min | subt | PG | # 55137 | RRP £17.99

Iran | 1997; 2004 | ART-E | 188 min | subt | PG | # 22320 | RRP £24.99

Turkey | 2008 | NW | 109 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 58909 | RRP £19.99

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The Apple

Divine Intervention

Ten

Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. An insightful, wise and touching account of two imprisoned girls, made by the then 17 year-old Makhmalbaf.

Dir: Elia Suleiman. A deadpan series of vignettes about Palestinian lovers meeting by an army checkpoint. Has drawn comparisons with Tati.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. A film set entirely inside a woman taxi driver’s car in Tehran and offering a little female perspective on Iranian life

Iran | 1997 | ART-E | 84 min | subt | Cert PG | # 61816 | RRP £15.99

Palestine | 2002 | ART-E | 90 min | Cert 15 | # 13636 | RRP £19.99

Iran | 2002 | OPTIM | 92 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 14097 | RRP £19.99

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At Five in the Afternoon

Divorce Iranian Style / Runaway

A Touch of Spice

Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. A young woman attempts to school herself in spite of her father’s proscriptions.

Dir: Longinotto & Mir-Hosseini. Two films about Iran by one of Britain’s foremost documentary filmmakers.

Iran | 2003 | ART-E | 102 min | subt | Cert PG | # 19109 | RRP £19.99

Iran / UK | 1998; 2001 | 2RUN | 167 min | E | # 56891 | RRP £12.99

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The Band’s Visit

The Edge of Heaven

Uzak

Dir: Eran Kolirin. Poignant comedy in which the Egyptian police force band is thrust upon the mercy of kindly strangers in a dead-end Israeli town.

Dir: Fatih Akin. Family and politics collide as a young German professor seeks out the daughter of his father’s mistress in this rich ensemble piece.

Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A beautifullyphotographed film of melancholia in Istanbul. Regarded as a true contemporary masterpiece.

Israel | 2007 | COL-T | 87 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 54735 | RRP £15.99

Germany | 2007 | ART-E | 121 min | subt | 15 | # 53871 | RRP £19.99

Turkey | 2003 | ART-E | 105 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 19533 | RRP £19.99

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Blackboards

It’s Winter

Waltz with Bashir

Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. In Iranian Kurdistan, a band of roaming teachers, blackboards strapped to their backs, go in search of pupils.

Dir: Rafi Pitts. A poignant tale of unemployment in present day Tehran. Its neo-realist approach has De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves in its ancestry.

Dir: Ari Folman. A powerfully animated documentary in which Israeli filmmaker Folman faces up to his past as a teenage soldier.

Iran | 2000 | ART-E | 82 min | subt | Cert PG | # 8227 | RRP £19.99

Iran | 2006 | ART-E | 80 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 33184 | RRP £19.99

Israel | 2008 | ART-E | 90 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 57258 | RRP £15.99

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The Circle

Offside

Dir: Jafar Panahi. An original, vital and exciting Iranian film that shows the events that transform the lives of Iranian women throughout one day.

Dir: Jafar Panahi. A group of soccermad girls try to get into a football match; Iranian gender politics played out as an absurdist farce.

The Wind Will Carry Us

Iran / Italy | 2000 | ART-E | 87 min | Cert PG | # 9788 | RRP £19.99

Iran | 2006 | ART-E | 85 min | subt | Cert PG | # 30022 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Tassos Boulmetis. Flavoursome Mediterranean epic in which a boy learns from his grandfather that both life and food need a little spice.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. A poetic meditation on tradition and modernity. 2 discs; A Lesson in Cinema. Iran | 1999 | ART-E | 118 min | subt | Cert U | # 57252 | RRP £15.99

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Greece / Turkey | 2003 | LGATE | 104 min | subt | PG | # 33857 | £19.99

World Cinema

Silent

Art

Love Goddess of the Cannibals

Bill Viola: Selected Works

Viola has been instrumental in establishing video as a vital form of contemporary art. This collection of early works contains four exquisite ‘visual songs’: Migration, The Reflecting Pool, Ancient of Days and Chott-El-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat).

Joe D’Amato

1970s Italian erotic horror starring Sirpa Lane (The Beast). When business threatens her ancestral lands, a voodoo priestess disposes of the intruders by seducing and killing them one by one. Then journalist Sara arrives and is sucked into her world of perverse carnality... Italy | 1978 | SHAME | 80 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 62572 | RRP £15.99 | Released 28th June

Earth

USA | 1976-81 | QUANT | 55 min | Cert E Item # 62018 | RRP £29.99 | Released 19th July

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

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Starring: Semyon Svashenko, Stepan Shkurat, Yuliya Solntseva

Silent Light

Carlos Reygadas

Released: 17th May

When the head of a Mennonite community falls in love with another woman, his actions create conflict in an otherwise serene existence. An engaging exploration of moral and spiritual crises, the film’s poetry evokes the cinema of Carl Dreyer.

USSR | 1930 | Bongo | 76 min | B&W | Cert U | Item # 61909

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Women Without Men Shirin Neshat

Acclaimed photographer Neshat makes her film debut with this incisive reflection on the pivotal moment that led directly to today’s Iran – the 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état. Against this tumultuous backdrop, the destinies of four women converge in an orchard, where they find independence, solace and companionship. Germany / France | 2009 | ART-E | 95 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62213 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th August

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Blu-rays The Lives of Others

Florian von Donnersmarck Ger | 2006 | 137 min | subt | 15 | # 62434 | £19.99

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Vengeance Is Mine Shohei Imamura

Japan | 1979 | 140 min | subt | 18 | # 62592 | £22.99

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Y tu Mamá También Alfonso Cuaron

Mexico | 2001 | 101 min | Cert 18 | subt | # 62716 | £10.99

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Alexander Dovzhenko is a major filmmaker of early Soviet cinema, but his work remains poorly distributed, often in sub-par video transfers. Mr. Bongo Film’s stunning new DVD of his Earth (1930) – one of the most indelible and moving of silent films – takes a firm step forward in rectifying the situation. With its fully restored image, correct framing and running time, and newly recorded score, this rhapsodic masterwork comes to life like never before. Filmed in the Ukranian wheat fields during the turbulent days of Soviet collectivisation (when wealthy farmers were marked as capitalist exploiters), it’s a soaring hymn to nature, community, and hard work. The son of Ukranian peasants himself, Dovzhenko infuses his images (criticized at the time for their pictorial beauty and timelessness) and robust montage sequences with a personal intensity. Earth offers the cinema’s most alluring landscapes this side of Terrence Malick or Andrei Tarkovsky, who once said of the film: ‘I have not stopped watching [it] over and over again to this day ... Dovzhenko had obviously understood wherein the sense of life resides.’ DC

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Bodysong: Collector’s Edition Simon Pummell

Taking us on a journey from birth to death and rebirth, this film tells the story of a human life and is an amazing celebration of our corporeal selves. Score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Accompanying 200 page book; Short films by Simon Pummell: Blinded by Light (2000) and How Long is a Minute? (2001). UK | 2003 | BFI | 83 min | Cert 18 Item # 61609 | RRP £24.99 | Released 22nd March

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Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings Featuring outstanding examples from the Uffizi and the British Museum, this film explores how masters such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian used preparatory drawings to perfect naturalistic forms and perspective. Accompanies the 2010 British Museum exhibition of the same name. UK | 2010 | QUANT | 40 min | Cert E Item # 62254 | RRP £12.99 | Released 19th July

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The Gates

Ferrara & Maysles Chronicling the evolution and controversy of one of the largest public installations in history, The Gates looks at artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s project to install a ‘golden river’ of 7,503 fabric-paneled gates in New York’s Central Park, transforming it from a place of winter darkness into a garden of light and colour. 26 years after their proposal was made, their dream came to fruition. USA | 2010 | I-MIN | 98 min | Cert E Item # 62200 | RRP £19.99 | Released 15th May

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The summer is traditionally a lean time for good programmes on the TV and with Doctor Who finished, we couldn’t think of a better time to present a selection of entertaining and enthralling dramas and documentaries from the BBC and Network. Prices are low, so now is a great time to pick up something to ease a summer evening or two.

A superb set with 11 dramas, including The Changeling, The Apple Cart, The Philanthropist, The Little Minister, The Country Wife, Blue Remembered Hills, Mrs Reinhardt, Cymbeline, The Hawk.

The Victorians

6 discs.

UK | 1974-1995 | 2ENT | 1088 min | 15 | # 52757 | RRP £39.99

Jeremy Paxman journeys into Victorian Britain, taking his love of paintings of the era as his starting point. The canvases are a goldmine of information about the time – one of the most dynamic ages in British history.

Wallander: Series 1 & 2

2 discs.

UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 59 min | Cert E | # 58222 | RRP £19.99

Kenneth Branagh stars as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in these 2 series of compelling murder mysteries based on the phenomenally popular novels by Henning Mankell. 2 discs each series. UK | 2008 | BBC | 265 min | Cert 15 | # 56651 | RRP £29.99

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Armchair Thriller

The Genius of Photography

Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill

Dir: David Byrne. All six episodes of the BBC4 series tracking the history 2 discs. of the art form.

Dir: James Cellan Jones. Lee Remick stars as the vivacious Jennie Jerome. 2 discs. The complete series.

UK | 2007 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert 18 | # 58888 | RRP £24.99

UK | 1974 | NWORK | 420 min | Cert 12 | # 59206 | RRP £19.99

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Gormenghast

The Monocled Mutineer

Memorably unsettling opening credits, razor-sharp cliff hangers, iconic theme tune ... the haunting anthology series, complete. 11 discs. UK | 1978-80 | NWORK | 1400 min | Cert 12 | # 56103 | RRP £99.99

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Dalziel and Pascoe: Series 1 & 2 The first two series, available separately, of the successful detective double-act series. 2 discs each.

Dir: Andy Wilson. Mervyn Peake’s epic books come to life in this largescale BBC production. Stars a whole host of familiar names.

UK | 1996 | BBC | 270 min | Cert 12 | # 29860 | RRP £15.99

| 2000 | BBC-DD | 240 min | Cert 12 | # 5401 | RRP £29.99

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Dennis Potter at LWT: Volume 1

Hamlet

Contains Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in my Coffee, three plays from 1980. 2 discs. UK | 1980 | NWORK | 250 min | Cert 15 | # 24003 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Gregory Doran. A specially-filmed version of the RSC’s acclaimed 2008 production of Hamlet, featuring David Tennant in the title role. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert 12 | # 60333 | RRP £19.99

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High romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution define this tale 2 discs. of rogue Percy Toplis. UK | 1986 | BBC | 320 min | Cert 15 | # 50318 | RRP £19.99

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The Naked Civil Servant Dir: Jack Gold. A BAFTA-winning John Hurt stars in this docu-drama about the flamboyant Quentin Crisp. UK | 1981 | NWORK | 102 min | Cert 15 | # 24041 | RRP £19.99

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Edge of Darkness

House of Cards Trilogy

Dir: Martin Campbell. Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley star in this dark drama of terrifying conspiracies in the nuclear power industry. 2 discs.

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

UK | 1985 | BBC-DD | 314 min | Cert 15 | # 13764 | RRP £15.99

UK | 1990- | BBC-DD | 200 min | Cert 15 | # 18087 | RRP £34.99

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The landmark 1959-62 BBC series, in which John Freeman asked searching questions to important personalities of the day. 6 discs.

A comprehensive collection showcasing the work of one of Britain’s greatest dramatists, with many shows long unseen. 5 discs.

Barry Foster stars as the no-nonsense Dutch detective who delighted audiences for two decades on ITV. The complete series. 11 discs.

UK | 1959-62 | 2ENT | 1050 min | B&W | E | # 58281 | RRP £59.99

UK | 1961-88 | NWORK | 915 min | Cert 15 | # 28368 | RRP £39.99

UK | 1972 | NWORK | 1950 min | Cert 15 | # 51247 | RRP £99.99

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Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

New Releases 100 Rifles Tom Gries

Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Soledad Miranda, Jim Brown. An Arizona deputy and a bank robber get involved with Mexican rebels fighting a genocidal general. A briskly directed, uncompromisingly bloody and rousingly scored spaghetti-style western. USA | 1969 | OPTIM | 110 min | 15 Item # 62435 | RRP £15.99 | Released 2nd August

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William Hartnell, James Mason. Tommy Trinder stars as a volunteer for the East End Auxiliary Fire Service in the blitz. This film was made in 1943 with the help of the National Fire Service as a tribute to all those who risked their lives.

UK | 1943 | OPTIM | 85 min | Cert U Item # 62501 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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Bitter Springs Ralph Smart

Tommy Trinder teams up with Australia’s biggest star of the time, Chips Rafferty, for this adventure set in the Australian bush in which, after a man accidentally stumbles onto sacred Aboriginal ground and causes an uproar, Tommy is brought in as a peacemaker. UK / Australia | 1950 | OPTIM | 89 min | Cert PG Item # 62551 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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Roman Polanski Corruption and perversity seethe beneath the surface of this film, in which a couple (Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac) living on an isolated island are visited by a pair of gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran) on the run. A great evocation of the Polanski universe. Making-of; South Bank Show Excerpt.

Paranoiac Recommended Director: Freddie Francis Starring: Oliver Reed, Maurice Denham Released: 26th July UK | 1963 | EUREK | 79 min | B&W | Cert 12 | Item # 62361

Starring: Ava Gardner, James Mason

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The Bells Go Down

UK | 1966 | ODEON | 113 min | Cert 12 Item # 61349 | RRP £14.99 | Released 26th July

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Albert Lewin’s ravishing film must be one of the most powerful depictions of passion ever committed to celluloid. James Mason stars as the legendary sailor doomed to travel the seas forever unless he can find a woman who loves him so much she is willing to die for him. He drops anchor in a Spanish port and encounters Pandora (Ava Gardner), a cool, cruel beauty who attracts any man she meets, often to his doom. Heightened drama can easily seem ridiculous, yet Lewin’s command of the most outré scenes – Gardner writhing in ecstasy as her fiancé destroys his sports car, a resurrection at a frenzied bull fight – makes the extreme action mesmerising. He is helped by excellent performances and Jack Clayton’s gorgeous Technicolor photography, colouring the passion in heady shades of scarlet and turquoise. This is a must for melodrama fans, and a treat for anyone who loves cinema and its most mystical – and sensual. AD

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Hammer Films, never one to buck a trend, dive-bombed into the wave of ‘mental illness’ thrillers that flooded the horror market after Psycho and gave its own spin to a run of punchy variations on the theme, from Taste of Fear to the suitably titled Crescendo. One of the best of these is Paranoiac, which, true to form, shamelessly steals from Hitchcock, Clouzot and many others its labyrinthine plot twists and heady visuals. Neurotic heiress Eleanor (Janette Scott) is haunted by sightings of her presumed-dead brother, Tony. Driven to suicide, Eleanor is saved when Tony steps in for real. But is it really him? Her other brother, Simon (Oliver Reed), a wildly volatile character who spends his time madly playing the church organ and getting volcanically drunk, doesn’t think so. With fervent performances all round (the freshfaced Reed is particularly unhinged), a rousing Bernard Herrmann-style score by Elisabeth Luytens, and a wave-crashing, clifftop setting, Paranoiac is a fine example of what we might call ‘magpie cinema,’ offering some genuine shocks along the way. JU

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While the City Sleeps Recommended Director: Fritz Lang Starring: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Rhonda Fleming, Howard Duff, George Sanders Released: 23rd August DVD Extras: Stills, Poster and Pressbook Gallery; Trailer; Collector’s art card with poster reproduction. USA | 1955 | EXP-C | 100 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 62578 | P&P £1

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Sweet Smell of Success A. Mackendrick

USA | 1957 | MGMHE | 92 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 10378 | RRP £15.99

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ritz Lang was an unfashionable figure when he made While the City Sleeps. At a time when his one time acolyte Alfred Hitchcock worked on prestige projects with big stars and an ample pay packet, here was the great Lang toiling for peanuts at a declining studio. But it would take more than that to deter our Fritz; While the City Sleeps bristles with the incisive precision that characterises his very best work. It’s a story about news, about those who report it and those who make it. The former are the employees of media conglomerate Kyne Enterprises – TV pundit Ed Mobley (Dana Andrews), wire service man Mark Loving (George Sanders) and dogged newspaperman John Day Griffith (Thomas Mitchell). Their new boss has let it be known that there’s a promotion due to one of them. The winner will be the first to announce the successful capture of the vicious killer who is preying on young women... As ever with Lang, While the City Sleeps is a restlessly modern affair, obsessed with technology and change. No matter how quaint the television sequences might appear to cynical modern eyes, this was surely the first film to understand the power and the impact of the gogglebox. It’s a film

Bristles with the incisive precision of Lang’s best work about ‘new media’ in other words (which gives it a certain resonance in our era of podcasts and e-books). The killer, it seems, is a product of this environment; of television, of comic books, of easy glamour and pop psychology (yes, he blames it all on mother). Lang enthusiasts might find this suggestive of earlier films and, sure enough, While the City Sleeps can be seen as a return to the themes of his most celebrated film, M. And, as before, it’s a film about systems and structures rather than the individuals who inhabit them. The murderer is formed, defined and ultimately nailed by the media. While the City Sleeps was Lang’s penultimate American film, a fascinating late period masterpiece that shows his vision was undimmed even after forty years of making movies. Lang might have lacked the resources that he enjoyed back in his glory days, but this film suggests that in spite of this, he was still seeing further than everyone else. James Oliver

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Classic Movies Guns at Batasi John Guillermin

Jack Hawkins. Richard Attenborough won a BAFTA for his portrayal of a martinet of a SergeantMajor, stuck in a remote colonial outpost in peacetime and ridiculed behind his back by his men. Then things hot up when an ambitious African officer initiates a coup d’état. UK | 1964 | OPTIM | 98 min | Cert PG Item # 62486 | RRP £15.99 | Released 2nd August

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The Woman in Question

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Director: Anthony Asquith

Exciting, action-filled western starring Richard Widmark as Comanche Todd – a ‘renegade killer’ who was captured as a boy and brought up as the son of a Comanche chief. When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into his hands...

Starring: Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jean Kent

USA | 1956 | OPTIM | 98 min | Cert 12 Item # 62437 | RRP £15.99 | Released 2nd August

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Psycho (Blu-ray) Alfred Hitchcock

One of Hitchcock’s undisputed masterpieces, Psycho saw the Master reach new heights of psychological terror and suspense. Janet Leigh plays the secretary who makes off with her boss’s money – only to happen upon the Bates Motel, where she is welcomed by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), whose Featurettes; mother isn’t quite herself today. Feature-length documentary; Hitchcock/Truffaut interview; Newsreels; Commentary. USA | 1960 | UPV | 109 min | Cert 15 Item # 62451 / 62452 | RRP £19.99 | Out 9th August

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Henry Hathaway Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlowe, Jack Elam. A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day’s gold shipment. USA | 1951 | OPTIM | 83 min | Cert PG Item # 62660 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th August

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features the finest cinematic performance of Maggie Smith’s career and, more poignantly, is the highlight of the recently deceased Ronald Neame’s canon. Smith, who won the Best Actress Oscar, plays the eponymous protagonist, a Scottish teacher at a school for girls in the 1930s. Unlike her stuffy colleagues, she inspires the pupils with her charisma and romantic outlook on life, yet when one of the girls decides to fight for Franco, the teacher is forced to confront the effects of her beliefs. Films that focus upon teachers can be sentimental, yet Brodie paints an acute picture of how an ignorant education can damage those upon whom it is inflicted. The teacher is so seduced by the beauty of Mediterranean art that she is blinded to the dangers of Fascism, and the film suddenly shifts from witty comedy to moving character study. Filled with quotable lines and boosted by a formidable supporting cast, including Celia Johnson as the sour headmistress, the arrival of this film on DVD is welcome, and long overdue. AD

Made the same year as Rashomon yet almost forgotten in the annals of British cinema, Anthony Asquith’s The Woman in Question follows a similar conceit to Kurosawa’s film. Jean Kent plays Astra, a character who dominates the movie despite her murder before the action begins. As the police gather evidence, they interview the people who knew her, and several different sides to her character emerge. Her sister describes a wanton tramp, a kindly older man recalls a charming waif and others paint different views of her character. But who is the murderer, and what was their motive? Seen in the numerous flashbacks, Kent has a grand time, seizing the opportunity to play so many varied roles, sweetly saccharine when playing the good girl, vamping it up when playing the reverse. Like Brighton Rock, Asquith’s film has a real feel for noir mood, and uses its seedy seaside atmosphere brilliantly. With a cast boasting standout turns from a young Dirk Bogarde and a scenestealing Hermione Baddeley, this is a superior murder mystery for fans of film noir. AD

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An essential noir, with Bogie/ Bacall magic, fizzing sexual chemistry, labyrinthine plot and electric dialogue from Raymond Chandler and William Faulkner. Hawks’ greatest film.

A woman locked in a nightmare marriage to a paranoid millionaire (Robert Ryan) finds comfort with another man (James Mason) – but her husband is out to destroy her. Ophuls’ penultimate Hollywood film.

Nine great 1940s noirs: Farewell My Lovely, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, The Killers, Crossfire, The Big Steal, The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key and This Gun For Hire. 9 discs.

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The Big Heat

In a Lonely Place

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Dir: Fritz Lang. Lang’s landmark thriller is a violent tale of corruption, vengeance, and loss. Glenn Ford plays the unscrupulous cop.

Dir: Nicholas Ray. A sad and hauntingly romantic film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a self-destructive scriptwriter and Gloria Grahame.

Dir: Jules Dassin. A British film noir full of angst-ridden visuals and centred around Richard Widmark’s dynamic, febrile central performance.

USA | 1953 | SPHE | 89 min | B&W | Cert 15 | # 26697 | RRP £12.99

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Crossfire

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Dir: Edward Dmytryk. A tense, talky thriller notable for its style and for being the first Hollywood film to hit out at racial bigotry.

Dir: Robert Siodmak. Burt Lancaster waits resignedly in a hotel room for two hit men to find him and kill him. Why? From Hemingway’s story.

Dir: Julien Duvivier. A landmark thriller that sees gangster Jean Gabin hiding out in Algiers. A classic mix of film noir and poetic realism.

USA | 1947 | UPV | 86 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 32357 | RRP £9.99

USA | 1946 | UPV | 105 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 32362 | RRP £9.99

France | 1937 | OPT | 90 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 19657 | RRP £19.99

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Double Indemnity

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Pickup on South Street

Dir: Gordon Douglas. Great gangster film with James Cagney as the coldblooded, amoral crook, Ralph Cotter.

Dir: Samuel Fuller. New York-set thriller suffused with cold war desperation and mistrust. Richard Widmark stars.

USA | 1950 | PALL | 102 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 59545 | RRP £12.99

USA | 1953 | OPTIM | 77 min | Cert PG | # 18966 | RRP £12.99

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Force of Evil

Laura

The Third Man

Dir: Abraham Polonsky. One of the most powerful crime dramas of the 1940s, acknowledged as a great influence by Martin Scorsese.

Dir: Otto Preminger. One of the indisputable classics of film noir, Laura is a delicious murder mystery starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews.

Dir: Carol Reed. One of the most justly famed of all British films. Orson Welles talks of cuckoo clocks, Anton Karas plays the zither. 2 discs.

USA | 1948 | SECND | 75 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 25930 | RRP £15.99

USA | 1944 | FOX | 87 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 33046 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1949 | OPTIM | 109 min | B&W | PG | # 30378 | RRP £17.99

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Gilda

The Naked City

Dir: Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth. Steamily atmospheric, sultry and vengeful noir, brilliantly shot and with sexual undercurrents to drown in!

Dir: Jules Dassin. A vivid police procedural, shot entirely on location in New York, that remains a benchmark for naturalism in film noir.

Who Killed Teddy Bear

USA | 1946 | COL-T | 105 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 4738 | RRP £19.99

USA | 1948 | ARROW | 93 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 57934 | RRP £15.99

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Dir: Billy Wilder. The archetypal film noir. Barbara Stanwyck is the femme fatale out to kill her husband using Fred MacMurray’s insurance agent. USA | 1944 | UPV | 103 min | B&W | Cert U | # 32714 | RRP £9.99

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Dir: Joseph Cates. Sal Mineo. A wonderfully sleazy noir masterpiece of American independent cinema. USA | 1965 | NWORK | 87 min | B&W | Cert 15 | # 56434 | RRP £14.99

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As tough as a right hook to the jaw, as seductive as a femme fatale, Film Noir is the most compelling brand in cinema. To celebrate the release of While the City Sleeps (page 13) and The Woman in Question (opposite), we present 18 darkly delicious cinematic excursions into the night.

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Werner Herzog

A tense conspiracy thriller set in the days leading up to the outbreak of WWII. Romola Garai stars as the actress who stumbles upon dark secrets of Britain’s relationship with Nazi Germany.

Herzog in Antarctica: a stunning exploration of the raw beauty of a land of fire, ice and corrosive solitude, accompanied by his inimitable narrative style. USA | 2007 | REV | 100 min | Cert U | # 58816 | RRP £17.99

Stephen Poliakoff

UK | 2009 | MOMET | 129 min | Cert 12 | # 60917 | RRP £17.99

Let the Right One In Tomas Alfredson Acclaimed as one of the most brilliant horror films for years, this Swedish vampire film brings a queasy and poignant naturalism into a tale of a blood-craving 12 year-old girl. Sweden | 2008 | MOMET | 114 min | subt | 15 | # 59000 | RRP £17.99

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3:10 to Yuma

Black Book

Elvira Madigan

Dir: Delmer Daves. The original, unjustly neglected 1957 western based on a story by Elmore Leonard. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin star.

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

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

USA | 1957 | COL-T | 88 min | Cert PG | # 10374 | RRP £19.99

Netherlands | 2006 | TARTN | 145 min | Cert 15 | # 33298 | RRP £19.99

Sweden | 1967 | ARROW | 85 min | subt | 15 | # 22573 | RRP £15.99

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21 Grams

Le Boucher

Frost/Nixon

Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu. A dazzling exploration of revenge and redemption with superb performances from Penn, Watts and del Toro.

Possibly Claude Chabrol's most acclaimed film, this enthralling thriller set against the background of provincial French life is consistently taut.

A dramatised account of the famous 1977 TV interviews between Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) and David Frost (Michael Sheen).

USA | 2003 | ICON | 119 min | Cert 15 | # 62079 | RRP £10.99

France | 1969 | ARROW | 89 min | subt | 15 | # 18730 | RRP £15.99

USA / UK | 2008 | UPV | 122 min | Cert 15 | # 58197 | RRP £19.99

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Animal Farm

The Company

Dir: Halas & Batchelor. This celebrated animated feature film of Orwell’s book was the first English animated feature to be released worldwide.

Dir: Robert Altman. Altman turns his eye and ear towards the National Ballet of Canada for this idiosyncratic fusion of dance and drama.

The Gospel According To St. Matthew

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Canada | 2004 | MOMET | 107 min | Cert 12 | # 19819 | RRP £19.99

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Atonement

Creation

The Heiress

James McAvoy, Kiera Knightley. An epic love story set against the background of WWII. Lavish and heartwrenching, it recalls 1940s dramas.

Dir: Jon Amiel. Biopic exploring the crisis of faith suffered by evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin. Paul Bettany takes the lead role.

Dir: William Wyler. An Oscar winning Olivia de Havilland stars in this adaptation of Henry James’s novel Washington Square.

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The Big Lebowski

Dogville

His Girl Friday

Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. With the Coens’ deadpan wit, snappy dialogue and twists galore, this bizarre comedy is one of their best.

Dir: Lars Von Trier. Nicole Kidman stars in this powerful, bleak and multiple award winning vision of smalltown America in the Depression.

Dir: Howard Hawks. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell. The owner of a newspaper attempts to keep his star reporter – his ex-wife – on the payroll!

USA | 1998 | UPV | 112 min | Cert 18 | # 28099 | RRP £15.99

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‘He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.’ An upbeat comedy about a footballmad postman who receives life coaching from his idol, the enigmatic French footballing legend, Eric Cantona.

Shot on the war-torn streets of Rome, this tale of Resistance under German occupation is often cited as the true beginning of Italian neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery.

Hitchcock’s most complex, profound, and critically admired masterpiece. James Stewart and Kim Novak star in this wonderfully mysterious, dream-like study of obsession and identity.

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The Lost Weekend

Milk

Shanghai Express

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

Dir: Gus Van Sant. Sean Penn won an Oscar in this engrossing biopic for his portrayal of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk.

Dir: Josef von Sternberg. A characteristically stylish von Sternberg classic in which Dietrich’s Shanghai Lily is reunited with a former lover.

USA | 1945 | UPV | 100 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 21499 | RRP £15.99

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Love in the Afternoon

Miracle in Milan

Sylvia

Dir: Eric Rohmer. The last of his six ‘Moral Tales’, this is classic Rohmer, both subtle and unassuming. Veronica and her Dunce (Rohmer).

De Sica mingles his trademark realistic style with whimsical fantasy to address the shameful treatment of displaced persons after the war.

Dir: Christine Jeffs. Daniel Craig takes the role of Ted Hughes to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia Plath in this drama about the poets’ relationship.

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Madame Bovary

Les Noces Rouges

Dir: Claude Chabrol. Isabelle Huppert gives an alluring rendition of unfaithful wife Emma, who shockingly rebels against stfiling conventions.

Dir: Claude Chabrol. Michel Piccoli and Stephane Audran star in one of Chabrol’s best films – a tale of adultery and political skulduggery.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Dir: George Roy Hill. Julie Andrews stars in this Oscar-winning musical about an innocent girl’s life in the city.

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France | 1973 | ARROW | 93 min | subt | 15 | # 23297 | RRP £15.99

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Ma Mère

North Face

Tunes of Glory

Dir: Christophe Honoré. Louis Garrel plays the youth who falls in love with his mother, Isabelle Huppert. From Georges Bataille’s unfinished novel.

Dir: Philipp Stölzl. A spectacular mountaineering drama set in an atmosphere of political instability and growing menace in 1930s Germany.

Dir: Ronald Neame. John Mills and Alec Guinness clash as the mismatched officers in command of a Scottish Highland Regiment.

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Man on Wire

The Painted Veil

The Young Victoria

Dir: James Marsh. The true story of Philippe Petit, the man who gained fame for his audacious 1974 tightrope walk across the Twin Towers.

Dir: John Curran. A striking adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel, ripe with stunning Chinese locales and a smart turn from Naomi Watts.

Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée. A visually stunning biopic focusing on the early life of Queen Victoria and her romance with Prince Albert. Emily Blunt stars.

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The Return of Frank James Fritz Lang

This sequel to Jesse James sees Henry Fonda reprise his role as Frank James, out to avenge the death of his brother Jesse at the hands of the Ford brothers. Frank is helped by young teenager Clem (Jackie Cooper) and the daughter (Gene Tierney) of a newspaper owner. USA | 1940 | OPTIM | 88 min | Cert U Item # 62440 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th August

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Sudden Fear David Miller

Director: William A. Wellman

A fine film noir in which, after Jack Palance’s ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of Joan Crawford’s wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress (Gloria Grahame) to murder her. NB: on LCD or Plasma TVs the DVD has picture quality issues.

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Harry Morgan

USA | 1952 | PALL | 110 min | Cert PG Item # 62617 | RRP £12.99 | Released 26th July

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The Tommy Steele Story Gerard Bryant

Quasi-autobiographical pop musical starring 1950s heart-throb Tommy Steele as a merchant seaman who is posted to the West Indies, where he discovers calypso and starts to write his own tunes in the same style. On his return to London he hits the big time – and the songs prove a hit with the kids. UK | 1957 | OPTIM | 77 min | Cert U Item # 62457 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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White Feather Robert D. Webb

A western telling the story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The negotiations have the goal of relocating Indian tribes in order to open up the territory to gold prospectors, but the treaty is threatened when a surveyor (Robert Wagner) falls in love with the chief’s daughter (Debra Paget). USA | 1955 | OPTIM | 102 min | Cert PG Item # 62441 | RRP £15.99 | Released 9th August

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Released: 2nd August USA | 1943 | OPTIM | 75 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 62438

Out on the frontier, folks don’t always have respect for the letter of the law – so when a popular rancher gets killed, his buddies whip up a posse with a mind to lynch the killers. Drifter Henry Fonda rides out alongside them but he has severe misgivings. When the hunting party encounter three men driving the dead man’s cattle, the hot-heads want to string ‘em up – and they ain’t minded to listen to reason... An unusually dark and downbeat Western, The Ox-Bow Incident is closer to the blackness of film noir than the traditional hi-jinx of most cowboy movies. It’s a film that challenges many of the genre’s assumptions: justice isn’t straightforward here and intelligence is valued more highly than strength. Even Fonda gets in on the act, avoiding his usual Dudley Do-Right character to play someone a little rougher around the edges. The Ox-Bow incident is a great favourite of Clint Eastwood and it’s easy to see why, as it shares the simplicity, economy and maturity of his best movies. Highly recommended. JO

Frederick Wiseman’s entrancing film will make balletomanes out of every viewer. Using his signature vérité style he films behind the scenes of the Opéra de Paris as they rehearse for extraordinary interpretations of The Nutcracker and Paquita. Wiseman shrewdly allows the audience to become immersed in the action, using neither voiceover nor captions to set each scene, yet a knowledge of ballet is not essential to appreciate the remarkable performances from the dancers – the bloodbath of Le Songe de Médée, one of the highlights of the film, needs little backstory for its visceral effect. Wiseman also follows the costumiers behind the scenes, whose work leads to spectacular visual results. The Opéra is not immune from the recession, and in a sadly ironic moment the company welcome potential benefactors from America – including representatives from Lehman Brothers, who were declared bankrupt shortly after the film was made. The ephemeral nature of the art is also depicted – few dancers continue after the age of 40. Yet when the ballets are performed and the magic is revealed, you can see why so many choose to follow this precarious and unique profession.

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Fine British Films from

Odeon Entertainment This sale presents a selection of DVDs from the publisher Odeon Entertainment who specialise in rescuing classic British films from obscurity. You’ll find crime thrillers, comedies and 1970s sex farces. Most titles include booklets and the prints are always of a reliably good quality. Ladies Who Do

The Seventh Veil

Time Without Pity

Pennington-Richards

Compton Bennett

Joseph Losey

A delightful comedy in which a group of charladies make a fortune at the stock market by making use of tips salvaged from their employers’ bins. Soon they are calling the shots in the board room.

A classic melodrama – the tenth most successful film ever in British cinemas – starring Ann Todd as a fragile concert pianist, Herbert Lom as her psychiatrist, and James Mason as her brooding guardian.

An atmospheric thriller blending drama and social commentary in which Michael Redgrave plays an alcoholic trying to save his innocent son from the gallows. Also stars Peter Cushing, Leo McKern and Ann Todd.

UK | 1963 | ODEON | 85 min | B&W | Cert U | # 53048 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1945 | ODEON | 90 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 56757 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1957 | ODEON | 82 min | B&W | Cert U | # 54083 | RRP £12.99

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29 Acacia Avenue / Operation Cupid

The Master of Bankdam

Sex and the Other Woman

British comedy double-bill. Acacia (1945) sees a family on a cruise to the Med get no further than Bognor!

Dir: Walter Forde. Brothers Joshua and Zebediah struggle for control of a Yorkshire mill. Dennis Price stars.

Dir: Stanley A. Long. The randy exploits of four sultry seductresses and four willing husbands.

UK | 1945; 1960 | ODEON | 143 min | B&W | PG | # 57443 | RRP £9.99

UK | 1947 | ODEON | 101 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 50802 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1972 | ODEON | 83 min | Cert 18 | # 57432 | RRP £9.99

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Adventures of Jane / Murder at 3 a.m.

On the Game

They Made Me a Fugitive

UK | 1949; 1953 | ODEON | B&W | Cert PG | # 54355 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1974 | ODEON | 83 min | Cert 18 | # 57418 | RRP £12.99

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The Case of the Frightened Lady

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Dir: George King. Wartime Edgar Wallace thriller, previously thought lost, about murderous desperation. UK | 1940 | ODEON | 81 min | Cert U | # 53084 | RRP £12.99

Dir: Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson stars as an ordinary man who unwittingly strays from his normal path into a world of seduction and deceit. USA | 1945 | ODEON | 103 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 55777 | RRP £12.99

Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti. Gritty film noir in which Trevor Howard’s bored exRAF man joins a criminal gang. UK | 1947 | ODEON | 96 min | Cert PG | # 54319 | RRP £12.99

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Those People Next Door Dir: John Harlow. Jack Warner stars in this drama about a working-class family trying to survive the of war. UK | 1953 | ODEON | 78 min | B&W | Cert U | # 53087 | RRP £12.99

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It’s a Grand Life

Spare the Rod

Dir: John E Blakeley. Zippy British forces comedy starring music hall veteran Frank Randle as hapless Private and a glamorous Diana Dors.

Dir: Leslie Norman. 1960s corporal punishment drama starring Max Bygraves as a sympathetic new teacher at a tough London school.

UK | 1953 | ODEON | 100 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 30243 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1961 | ODEON | 89 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 57442 | RRP £12.99

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Jungle Street / A Matter of Choice

Strongroom

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Dir: Vernon Sewell. British crime classic in which a gang returns to the crime scene to free the manager from a vault before the police arrive.

Dir: Gordon Parry. Diana Dors stars as a good-time girl who entices brothers into robbing the payroll in this gritty northern crime drama.

UK | 1962 | ODEON | 75 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 55996 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1958 | ODEON | 90 min | Cert PG | # 54351 | RRP £12.99

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Double-bill. The voluptuous Jill Ireland stars as a stripper in the tough British crime drama Jungle Street. UK | 1961-63 | ODEON | 168 min | B&W | 12 | # 55772 | RRP £12.99

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A Time to Kill / The Impersonator A double bill of British B-movie thrillers. The Impersonator sees a G.I. accused of a woman’s murder. UK | 1955; 1960 | ODEON | 122 min | B&W | PG | # 57430 | £12.99

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Double-bill: Christabel LeightonPorter is the innocent woman with a knack of losing her dress in Jane.

Dir: Stanley A. Long. A vintage slice of slap ‘n’ tickle about ‘the oldest profession’, narrated by Charles Gray, and featuring a bevy of beauties.

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Breaking Bad: Season 2

New Releases The A-Team: Series 1-5

George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz and Mr. T star as the soldiers of fortune, constantly on the run from capture by the military. All the episodes from all 5 seasons of the 1980s action series, across 5 5 discs. box sets.

USA | 1983 | UPV | 660 min | 15 Items # 62192-6 | RRP £34.99 | Out 21st June

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The Ancient World According to Terry Jones Phil Grabsky

Monty Python star Terry Jones presents an awardwinning series which unearths the secrets of the ancient world. Jones gives us the surprising history of sex and love, a myth-busting view of ancient inventions, and the bizarre and shocking life of ancient Rome and Egypt.

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A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Clive Anderson introduces a sensational concert celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals, with songs from the greats, including The Wizard of Oz, High Society, Meet Me in St. Louis and many more.

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Italian food’s greatest champion, Antonio Carluccio, takes us on a gastronomic tour of northern Italy to bring us an insider’s view of his native land and its mouthwatering cuisine. Carluccio and the Renaissance Cookbook: documentary about the life of 16th century chef Bartolomeo Scappi.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert E Item # 62611 | RRP £19.99 | Out 23rd August

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Belonging

Christopher Menaul Anna Massey, Rosemary Harris, Peter Sallis. Award-winning TV drama starring Brenda Blethyn as a woman who has to carve out a new life for herself after her husband (Kevin Whately) – ‘Mr Dependable’ – leaves her for a younger woman. UK | 2004 | DELTA | 96 min | Cert 15 Item # 62347 | RRP £14.99 | Released 26th July

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Starring: Alan Badel, Jenny Seagrove, Ian Richardson, Diana Quick, John Shrapnel, Kevin Elyot, Daniel Gerroll, Georgine Anderson

UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 275 min | Cert PG | Item # 62596

Class Act: Complete

Joanna Lumley stars in this racy comedy drama that featured a host of guest stars and ran for two seasons from 1994-95. Lumley plays the aristocratic Kate Swift, a woman left in trouble, in debt, and in jail for 6 months after desertion by her wide-boy husband. On her release, she is broke, angry, and determined to find him, and forms an unlikely alliance with an alcoholic coward and an Australian 4 discs. woman with a talent for burglary.

UK | 1995 | NWORK | 700 min | Cert PG Item # 62727 | RRP £29.99 | Released 2nd August

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Doctor Who: New Series 5 – Volumes 2 & 3 Matt Smith, Karen Gillan. Six episodes from the fifth series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure series. Volume 2 contains The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone and Vampires in Venice; Volume 3 contains Amy’s Choice, The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood.

An outstanding BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ Victorian mystery thriller, this 1982 serialisation of The Woman in White features an excellent cast and, happily, sticks closely to the original story. On his last night in London, the life of Walter Hartright (Daniel Gerroll) is changed forever after a chance encounter with a mysterious woman, dressed in white and in deep distress. Travelling north, Hartright takes up a post as a drawing master to Laura Fairlie (Jenny Seagrove), a beautiful woman bearing an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white. Soon Hartfield, Laura and her half-sister Marian (Diana Quick) find themselves drawn into to the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde (John Shrapnel) and his charming, sinister, vanilla bonbon-loving friend Count Fosco (a brilliant Alan Badel). Only by unravelling the mystery woman’s dark secret can they escape from the web of deceit closing around them. Chilling, thrilling and filled with twists, this slowly unravelling nightmare is period drama at its best. AB

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USA | 2009 | COL-T | Cert 15 Item # 62269 | RRP £24.99 | Released 26th July

USA | 2009 | 2ENT | Cert E Item # 62584 | RRP £19.99 | Released 12th July

UK | 1998 | SEV-A | 300 min | Cert E Item # 62605 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

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Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) are in way over their heads in this second season of the blackly comic Emmywinning drama that sees a teacher turn to crystal meth dealing to ease his financial affairs. Walt is getting rich now, but it’s getting more difficult than 4 ever for him to conceal how from his wife. discs; Deleted scenes; Inside Breaking Bad.

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Dear John: Series 2

All the episodes from the classic television comedy series starring Ralph Bates as language teacher John Lacey who joins the ‘1-2-1 Club’, an encounter group for the divorced and separated after his wife runs off with 2 discs. his best friend.

UK | 1987 | ACORN | 225 min | 12 Item # 61780 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd August

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Doctor Who: Cybermen Collection

A collection of 4 thrilling episodes of Doctor Who from series 2 of the new series, in which the Doctor (David Tennant) and his companions battle against the evil silver giants. Contains Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. 2 discs; Top 25 Cybermen moments. UK | 2006 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item # 62587 | RRP £29.99 | Released 9th August

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Doctor Who: The Dominators Morris Barry

Patrick Troughton, Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines. First broadcast on BBC1 in 1968, The Dominators sees the TARDIS materialising on the planet Dulkis, which Dominators and their robotic servants the Quarks intend to turn into a radioactive mass to serve as fuel for their Audio Commentary; Recharge space fleet. and Equalise; Tomorrow’s Times – The Second Doctor. UK | 1969 | BBC | 125 min | Cert PG Item # 62447 | RRP £19.99 | Released 12th July

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East of Eden Harvey Hart

An adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel that follows the Trask family through sixty years, from the civil war to WWII. Timothy Bottoms and Bruce Boxleitner play the estranged half-brothers Adam and Charles, while a Golden Globe winning Jane Seymour takes the role of the manipula3 discs. tive and beautiful Cathy Ames. USA | 1981 | ACORN | 480 min | Cert 15 Item # 62631 | RRP £24.99 | Released 2nd August

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Father and Son

Dougray Scott stars as an ex-con looking for a fresh start. Then his teenage son gets caught up in a shooting and is accused of murder. His father wants to help – but waiting for him in his old life are a cop who wants to put him back in jail and a devastating trail that leads to his wife’s killer.

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A Dance to the Music of Time

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Foyles War: Series 1-6 The complete first six series of the ITV drama starring Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle, a detective in a small town in World War II England, where he finds himself dealing with murder, spies, and treason on the 22 discs. home front.

UK | 2008 | ACORN | 2085 min | 15 Item # 61705 | RRP £149.99 | Released 2nd August

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The Good Life: Series 3 John Howard Davies

Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith. Series 3 of the self-sufficiency sitcom sees Tom and Barbara Good dealing with pregnant pigs and a bad case of fleas, while Tom tries talking to his plants and Barbara reaches the end of her tether when she gets a tear in her last posh 2 discs. frock. UK | 1976 | ACORN | 180 min | Cert PG Item # 61706 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

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Thirty Minutes Worth

The master of comic confusion, Harry Worth, appears in his first ever series for Thames TV, in which he moved away from situation comedy to a new format. Each entertaining sketch sees the bumbling, wellmeaning Harry reduce everyone he comes into contact with, whether it be his neighbours, his doctor or the police, to a state of bewilderment and frustration! 2 discs; A Brief History of Harry Worth.

The most Proustian series in English literature, Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time comprised 12 novels, written between 1951-75. It’s a masterly evocation of period and a shrewd insight into the impact that even the most transient acquaintance can have on life. Adapted by Hugh Whitemore, Channel 4’s seven-hour precis is a dazzling chronicle of the seismic shifts that transformed British manners and mores in the sixty years following the Great War. The storytelling may occasionally lack Powell’s finesse, but the fates of Nicholas Jenkins and long-time friends Charles Stringham, Peter Templer and Kenneth Widmerpool will still engross Brideshead aficonados. The sense of time and place is well sustained and the cast is uniformly excellent, although Simon Russell Beale’s odious Widmerpool and Miranda Richardson’s insatiable Pamela Flitton stand out, as they alone are allowed to develop their characters across the decades. Watch, enjoy and then compare with the inestimable books. DP

UK | 1972 | REV | 240 min | Cert PG Item # 61354 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

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In The Pit

In the Pit tells the story of workers constructing a second deck to Mexico City’s inner Periferico freeway. All the little, memorable moments contrast with their dangerous, mammoth project and result in a finish rendered more poignant and distinctive when placed against the backdrop of their gentle sense of humour in the face of adversity and poverty. Awards for In the Pit: Q World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary) - Sundance Film Festival. Q Best Film, Best Director, Press Jury Award - Guadalajara Film Festival. Q Best Documentary - Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Q Grand Jury Prize - Miami Film Festival.

Class Act

The Complete Series

Joanna Lumley stars as the aristocratic Kate Swift who has fallen from grace in this racy, pacy comedy drama. Penned by BAFTA winner Michael Aitkins and produced by Verity Lambert (Doctor Who, Jonathan Creek), Class Act attracted over 10 million viewers and is available for the very first time on DVD.

The Protectors

The Complete Series

Robert Vaughn (The Man from UNCLE) stars alongside Nyree Dawn Porter (The Forsyte Saga) and Tony Anholt (Space: 1999, Howard’s Way) in this stylish detective series from producers Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill (Thunderbirds). Boasting intriguing, action-packed storylines set on a global canvas, this thrilling series remains one of ITC’s biggest successes and sports one of the best theme tunes of all time – Tony Christie’s Avenues and Alleyways!

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Television A Horseman Riding By

Glyn Houston, Prunella Ransome. All 13 episodes from this 1978 TV adaptation of RF Delderfield’s novel set in the early years of the 20th century. Nigel Havers stars as Paul Craddock, who becomes the squire of a neglected Devonshire estate after being invalided out of the

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UK | 1978 | ACORN | 650 min | Cert 12 Item # 19577 | RRP £59.99 | Released 19th July

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In Sickness and in Health: Series 5

Warren Mitchell, Carmel McSharry, Arthur English. This fifth series of the Till Death Us Do Part sequel finds Alf Garnett in full flow: pensions, poll tax, power costs and the price of a pint are all on his list as life in the 1990s begins to bite. Meanwhile, the promise of regular meals and a clean house are enough to get Alf up the aisle, but will Mrs Hollingberry be quite so keen when she realises 2 discs. just how tight-fisted he can be? UK | 1990 | 2ENT | 300 min | Cert 12 Item # 62615 | RRP £15.99 | Released 12th July

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My Old Man: Series 1

In flat cap and woollen scarf, Clive Dunn plays bumbling old codger Sam Cobbett, who has to go and live with his daughter Doris (Priscilla Morgan) and her husband Arthur (Edward Hardwicke) in their flat on the 13th floor of a tower block after his house is earmarked for demolition. His role was originally performed by Ronnie Barker in BBC’s Seven of One. UK | 1974 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert TBC Item # 62729 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd August

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Pardon My Genie: Series 1

When a young shop assistant polishes an old watering can – well, you can guess! Unfortunately, the 4,000 year-old genie who appears is as rusty as the can he lives in and his magic doesn’t always work as well as it should. Aimed at a young audience but popular with children and adults alike, Pardon My Genie starred Hugh Paddick as the genie and Roy Barraclough as the long-suffering hardware 2 discs. shop owner Mr Cobbledick. UK | 1972 | NWORK | 325 min | Cert U Item # 62730 | RRP £14.99 | Released 2nd August

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Jam and Jerusalem: Series 3 Sue Johnston, Dawn French. Penned by Jennifer Saunders and starring some of the bestloved women in comedy, Jam and Jerusalem returns for more fun with the Women’s Guild of Clatterford St. Mary. 5 disc set of series 1-3 also available.

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Little House on the Prairie: Season 7 The complete seventh series of the long-running drama based on the books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, following the lives of farming family the Ingalls, who settle into a quaint little house on the banks of Plum Creek near the small town of Walnut Grove during the late 1800s. 6 discs.

USA | 1981 | UPV | Cert 12 Item # 62191 | RRP £29.99 | Released 19th July

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The Protectors: Complete

All of the episodes from the 1970s TV action thriller – producer Gerry Anderson’s second TV series using live actors instead of animated puppets – following the exploits of the three inexplicably affluent international crimefighters Harry Rule (Robert Vaughn), Contessa di Contini (Nyree Dawn Porter) and gallic charmer Paul Buchett (Tony Anholt). UK | 1973 | NWORK | 1300 min | Cert PG Item # 62728 | RRP £59.99 | Released 9th August

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Rivers With Griff Rhys Jones BBC series in which Griff Rhys Jones explores how rivers influence, nurture and power our lives. From the powerful torrents of Scotland to the flatlands of East Anglia, Griff barges, canoes, swims, walks and sails his way along this often hidden network which has been the life-blood 2 discs. of the country.

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Silent Witness: Series 7 & 8

Forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan has always delved into the past lives of the corpses she examines, but the discovery of her long-lost son confirms that it’s time to confront her own past, as well as her future, so in series 8 she moves on. Harry and Leo are her obvious successors, but what will they make of new recruit Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox)? UK | 2004 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 62594 | RRP £24.99 | Released 9th August

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The Upper Hand: Series 3

This engaging comedy series stars Joe McGann as Charlie and Diana Weston as Caroline, with Avengers siren Honor Blackman as the vampish Laura and future Bad Girls star Kellie Bright as Charlie’s streetwise and tomboyish daughter, Joanna. The Upper Hand was based on scripts for the popular US sitcom 2 discs. Who’s the Boss?.

UK | 1991-92 | NWORK | 325 min | Cert PG Item # 62081 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

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Dr Quinn Medicine Woman: A Heart Within Jerry London

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Fred Dibnah’s World of Steel, Steam and Stone: Complete UK | 2006 | DEMAND | Cert E | # 62353 | RRP £39.99

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Persuasion

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Sorry! Series 3 UK | 1982 | 2ENT | Cert TBC | # 62610 | £15.99

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

Seawards The Great Ships

New Releases The House of Windsor

A three-part documentary series tracing nearly a century of royal triumphs and misfortunes, from the reign of the first Windsors, George V and Queen Mary, to the long and predominantly contented rule of Queen Elizabeth II, with much previously unseen 2 discs. footage.

UK | 2009 | E1 | 240 min | Cert E Item # 62261 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

Three archive films from the Films of Scotland Committee: the Oscarwinning Seawards The Great Ships (Harris, 1960), River Clyde (1939) and Glasgow’s Docklands (1956) – evocative testimonies to the achievements of the shipbuilders on the Clyde.

UK | 1960 | PANA | Cert E Item # 62573 | RRP £19.99 | Released 8th June

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The Shock Doctrine Michael Winterbottom

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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail Tony Palmer

An exploration of Wagner and his most intense opera which includes a performance of Parsifal, with Placido Domingo in the lead role, and a documentary offering a description of the plot and exploring theories about Parisfal’s origins.

An investigation of ‘disaster capitalism’, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance, arguing that since the 1970s, the US and its allies have used global crises, from the Pinochet coup in Chile to Hurricane Katrina, to impose their extreme version of free market economics. UK | 2009 | DOGW | 80 min | Cert E Item # 62306 | RRP £14.99 | Released 19th July

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Queen Elizabeth in the 1950s

Five classic British Pathe documentaries celebrating the early years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Contains Long Live The Queen (1952), The Queen’s Birthday (1952), Elizabeth is Queen (1953), Royal Review (1953), Welcome The Queen (1954).

UK | 1952-54 | SFE | 112 min | E Item # 62483 | RRP £14.99 | Released 26th July

A collection of three original wartime instructional films about the hazards faced, and the methods employed in the identification, reporting and defusing of a whole range of German unexploded bombs. Contains: UXB (1941), Techniques of Bomb Disposal (1942), and Butterfly Bomb (1944).

UK | 1941-44 | SFE | 168 min | Cert E Item # 62484 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th July

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The Salzburg Festival: A Brief History

In the Pit

Juan Carlos Rulfo A film about the workers constructing Mexico City’s inner Periférico freeway. This is the story of those men whose hands and sweat go into the making of this mammoth work of concrete, steel and asphalt: their hopes and dreams, their stoicism and their dignity, and ultimately,

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The spectacular history of the Salzburg Festival, featuring much rare archive material, highlights performances by conductors Furtwaengler, Karajan, Solti, Boehm and Bruno Walter, and by singers including Christa Ludwig, and Fischer-Dieskau. UK | 2006 | TONYP | 194 min | E Item # 57445 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Secrets of Nature Recommended Contains: Fathoms Deep Beneath the Sea (1922), The Plants of the Pantry (1927), Magic Myxies (1931), The World in a Wine-glass (1931), Romance in a Pond (1932), Brewster’s Magic (1933), The Cuckoo’s Secret (1922), The White Owl (1922), The Bittern (1931), The Nightingale (1932), Skilled Insect Artisans (1922), The Battle of the Ants (1922), Busy Bees (1926), The Aphis (1930), Floral Co-operative Societies (1927), Peas and Cues (1930), Scarlet Runner & Co. (1930), The Strangler (1930) and Gathering Moss (1933) Released: 19th July DVD Extras: Percy Smith with Herons (1921); Fully illustrated 38-page booklet. USSR | 1922-33 | BFI | 200 min | B&W | Cert E | Item # 62272

The pioneering Secrets of Nature series from 1922-33, of which over 3 hours are included here, demonstrate an accessible, enjoyable scientific treatment of the natural world long before Attenborough’s Life on Earth. The impeccably enunciated syllables of the commentary are a guide to the films’ vintage of course, and there is a little more egg-handling and hands-on bittern bothering than would be seen as acceptable today, but in terms of their technical achievements, these films – with time-lapse, underwater and microphotography among their other innovations – can hold their own in any period of nature-based filmmaking. Whether showing firework displays of spreading mould, ants milking aphids for honeydew, or the life-cycle of a red admiral, these films are filled with everyday wonders, overlooked beauty and patient artistry. GH

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COI Collection: Volume 3 – They Stand Ready Recommended Contains: Victory Parade (1946), Men of the World, Eagles of the Fleet, Out of the Groove (1950), They Stand Ready (1955), Egypt Today: Anglo-French Aggression Against Egypt (1956), Suez in Perspective (1957), Musicians in the Making (1958), Military Policeman (1961), Ten Foot Tall (1964), Winged Horizons, Voyage North, Routine Adventure (1965), Army Summer of 1968, Exercise Enterprise (1968), Best of Both Worlds (1971), Community Relations Officer, When You Wake Up (1974), Ark Royal (c.1970), HMS Sheffield (1975), Royal Navy Amazon (c.1980), and Tornado (1985). Released: 19th July DVD Extras: 2 discs; Fully illustrated booklet. UK | 1946-85 | BFI | 264 min | Cert E | Item # 62276 P&P £1.50

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ith their third excursion into the vaults of the Central Office of Information, the BFI turn their attentions to the armed forces. It’s a disparate collection of films, made over four decades by unconnected creative teams. And yet when placed together, a cumulative story emerges: the tale of a country losing its Empire and adjusting to a new world. We start in full imperial pomp with Victory Parade, saluting those troops from the colonies who fought for His Majesty during the war. But things are changing. From the boastful Men of the World (showing British outposts across the globe), we go on to encounter anti-British insurgencies in Malaya (They Stand Ready) and Aden (Routine Adventure). But it was the Suez crisis that really put the cap on the Empire. It’s documented here by Suez In Perspective, a jaw-dropping slice of propaganda that exonerates Britain of any wrongdoing. It’s complemented by an equally egregious Egyptian film; the truth, perhaps, lies somewhere between them. As the country’s power declined, so the military’s role changed. The COI no longer

The story of British forces adjusting to a new world order had to make films extolling the benefits of conscription; instead, it started producing adverts encouraging volunteers to join up. War becomes more technical and specialised: whereas earlier films celebrate the virtues of the stout British Tommy, later ones like Voyage North and Tornado hymn the equipment instead. One of this set’s great virtues is how it confounds expectations. Far from being a gung-ho celebration of martial qualities, it points to often unsung aspects of the forces. As the films Out of the Groove and The Best of Both Worlds (the latter boasting an incongruous reggae soundtrack) make plain, young ladies can enjoy a career in uniform too – or at least until they get married. Taking care to give each service equal representation, They Stand Ready shows how much the world has changed since the war. This is social history at its rawest and most fascinating. James Oliver

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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Richard Lester

With life and the law yet to catch up with them, Butch and Sundance embark on a journey scattered with shootouts, heists and train robberies as they evade the law, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Tom Berenger and William Katt take the leads.

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A screwball Irish wedding comedy in which the happiest day of all is also the most heartbreaking. Freddie (Tom Riley) and Maura (Sally Hawkins) are getting married – only not to each other. When their wedding parties end up at the same reception venue, their houses of cards looks set to collapse on one and all.

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Lady Chatterley Ken Russell

An excellent adaptation of DH Lawrence’s story, with Joely Richardson playing the unfulfilled Lady Constance Chatterley, James Wilby her paralysed husband, and Sean Bean the virile gamekeeper, Mellors. 2 discs.

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I Love You Phillip Morris

Morris: A Life with Bells On Lucy Akhurst

A romantic comedy starring Jim Carrey as a happily married police officer, churchgoer and upstanding citizen – who suddenly realises he is gay, embarking on a flamboyant new lifestyle which sends him to prison where he meets the sensitive Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor), a man with whom he wants to build a perfect life. First though, he must escape...

A funny, genial and irreverent faux-documentary comedy, with some major-league thespians in supporting roles, following the fortunes of a fictional Morris dancing troupe, whose leader, Derecq Twist (Charles Thomas Oldham), is at the forefront of ‘Extreme Morris’, an innovative freeform version of the dance that raises the hackles of Morris’s governing body.

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Comedy written by David Baddiel. Omid Djalili stars as a dyed-in-the-wool (if somewhat relaxed) Muslim East Ender whose world is turned upside down when he discovers that he is actually Jewish. As he tumbles into a full scale identity crisis, he turns to Lenny, a cabbie who agrees to Jewish lessons – starting with how to dance like Topol.

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Macabre, bloody horror, conceived as a follow-up to Argento’s Suspiria. After his sister stumbles across a coven of satanists in New York, Mark (Leigh McCloskey) arrives to investigate her death. As he delves ever deeper it becomes clear that the devil really is at work. Music from Keith Emerson.

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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

The Seven-ups Philip d’Antoni

Great, gritty cop drama – with one of the best of seventies car chases – in which Roy Scheider heads a group of renegade cops known as ‘The Seven-Ups’ who seek revenge against a gang of hoods who are impersonating police officers.

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Emma Thompson reprises her role as the mysterious nanny who here offers her services to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s harried young mother. Using a repertoire of magical props and curious methods, she teaches the children and their spoiled city cousins five unforgettable life Deleted Scenes and Featurettes.

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The director’s cut of one of the most atmospheric and beautifully enigmatic films ever made, Weir’s film is based on one of Australia’s greatest unsolved mysteries, in which schoolgirls go inexplicably missing while on a picnic in 1900. Australia | 1975 | 2ND | 110 min | Cert PG Item # 62215 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th July

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Willy Roe

The legendary Mary Millington plays a sexy policewoman secretly infiltrating the seedy world of pornography in order to unmask a killer who is targeting centrefolds. Also with Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards and Windsor Remastered; Davies. Mary Millington’s World Striptease Extravaganza (1981). UK | 1978 | ODEON | 89 min | Cert 18 Item # 62635 | RRP £14.99 | Released 9th August

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H-C Schmid Political thriller starring Kerry Fox as a prosecutor at the criminal tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, whose case against a Serb commander looks set to collapse when a key witness is found to be lying. She refuses to drop the case however, and uncovers a web of duplicity and conflicting political interests. Germany / Denmark / Holland | 2009 | SODA | 103 min | Cert 15 Item # 62563 | RRP £15.99 | Released 16th August

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Tales from the Crypt Early seventies British horror anthology with five ghoulish and macabre tales: And All Through the House, Reflection of Death, Poetic Justice, Wish You Were Here and Blind Alleys. Features many familiar names, Patrick Magee, Peter Cushing, Ian Hendry and Ralph Richardson among them. | 1972 | MEDIA | 92 min | Cert 15 Item # 62041 | RRP £14.99 | Released 2nd June

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Remember Me Allen Coulter

Romantic drama starring Robert Pattinson as a student who begins to find happiness in his life with a fellow student, only for it be threatened by past bereavements and the protective instincts of the girl’s police officer father. USA | 2010 | E1 | 112 min | Cert 12 Item # 62155 / 62156 | RRP £19.99 | Out 26th July

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It’s 1954. Two US marshalls, Teddy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) are travelling to Shutter Island, home of a high security mental institution, to find out what happened to a young woman locked up for murdering her three children – only to have apparently disappeared from her cell. From the moment Teddy glimpses an elderly red-eyed demon pruning flowers, we sense there is more to proceedings than meets the eye… Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis LeHane’s bestselling crime drama is something of a curiosity. Combining a hard-boiled police procedural with elements of both horror and melodrama (think David Fincher’s Zodiac by way of Jacob’s Ladder if the resulting concoction was directed by Cloak & Dagger-period Fritz Lang), the resulting rollercoaster makes for the kind of film that keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat right up to the last few moments. With a strong supporting cast – Max Von Sydow, Ben Kingsley – and the odd nod to Hitchcock (particularly Psycho and Vertigo), Shutter Island is essential viewing for Scorsese fans. PW

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Contemporary Gay & Lesbian Blu-ray Also Released...

Between Something and Nothing Todd Verow

Friends Joe and Jennifer turn to work-study jobs to fund their way through a prestigious New England art school, but soon discover more profitable ways to supplement their scholarships through shoplifting and prostitution, but when Joe falls for an enigmatic hustler and Jennifer gets caught up in a bad drug deal, their little world starts to spin out of control.

From Paris With Love Pierre Morel

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Joseph F. Lovett

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Shelter

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A stunning visual document of New York during the decade of gay liberation and sexual abandon following Stonewall, Gay Sex in the 70s celebrates a city and an era with the joy that characterized the decade, while also offering a sobering reminder of the impending AIDS crisis.

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The Spy Next Door Brian Levant

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Animation

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Laloux's mesmerising psychedelic animated sci-fi feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Festival and is a landmark of European animation. Based on Stefan Wul's novel, the film immediately drew comparisons to Gulliver's Travels and Planet of the Apes. Today, the film can be seen to prefigure much of the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli. France | 1973 | EUREK | 72 min | subt | Cert PG Item # 62581 / 29163 | £22.99 | Released 26th July

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Fantastic Planet René Laloux

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Niels Arden Oplev

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Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu

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The Lives of Others

Florian von Donnersmarck Ger | 2006 | 137 min | subt | 15 | # 62434 | £19.99

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A tantalising trilogy of cult lesbian movies, containing Such a Crime (1998), Goodbye Emma Jo (1998) and Desire: An Erotic Fantasy Play (1996) - a slick and sensual tale of three young women, their dreams, their fantasies, and the different paths they choose to explore.

René Laloux

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The Machinist

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Vacationland Todd Verow

Albert Lewin

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Paranoiac

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Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir

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Shutter Island Martin Scorsese

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Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu

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National Geographic on DVD With their aim of enthusing people about the wonders of our world, National Geographic documentaries are a continual source of inspiration.

Guns, Germs & Steel From the Pulitzer prize-winning book, this tackles a key question of history: why are some civilisations conquered and others conquerors? Could it be down to successful farming? USA | 2010 | NATGE | 156 min | Cert E | # 61966 | RRP £15.99

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King Tut's Curse Explores the mystery behind the famed boy-king. Why did he die so young? Was he murdered? And is there an explanation for the legendary curse? Scientists unveil the truth of what really happened 3,000 years ago. USA | 2009 | NATGE | 90 min | Cert E | # 62398 | RRP £7.99

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Secret Cities of the Amazon Combines CGI and dramatic reconstructions to show what life was like for the people who populated the Amazon basin over 500 years ago. USA | NATGE | 52 min | Cert E | # 62419 | RRP £7.99

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Secret Yellowstone Takes viewers off the beaten track at Yellowstone National Park to explore a two-million-acre wilderness and its wildlife and geology. USA | 2008 | NATGE | 52 min | Cert | # 62412 | RRP £7.99

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Sharks Triple bill of documentaries looking at the world's most feared predator – the shark: Hammerhead Highway, Tiger Sharks and Ultimate Shark. USA | 2009 | NATGE | 156 min | Cert E | # 62384 | RRP £19.99

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Ultimate Bears Trio of National Geographic documentaries: Search for the Ultimate Bear, Giant Pandas: The Last Refuge and Great Bear Rainforest. USA | 2009 | NATGE | 156 min | Cert E | # 62406 | RRP £19.99

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Poetic Realism

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here are many reasons to be grateful to that estimable DVD company Masters of Cinema and each month seems to bring more. This latest laudation is occasioned by their release of Jacques Feyder’s Le Grand Jeu; heaven knows they didn’t have to tackle it – it’s an obscure film, from an obscure director and it’s not as if they’re short of titles to put out. But now they’ve released it – in a very handsome edition, I might add – we are once again in their debt. Not simply because it’s a good film but because it shines light on one of the most beguiling chapters in film history: the era of poetic realism. Poetic realism is a mysterious term, applied to a group of films chiefly produced in 1930s France. Like film noir (with which it has much in common), it’s not a genre, defined by external trappings but by tone. As the name suggests, poetic realism is rooted in the everyday but doesn’t aspire to the ‘realism’ of documentaries. Rather, it shows the world as the filmmakers saw it, which was seldom a comfortable place – the pessimism of film noir echoes the fatalism of poetic realism. That fatalism would darken across the decade; the earliest poetic realist films, like Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante display a joie de vivre that evaporated as war inched nearer. The work of Jean Renoir is a useful barometer – in La Chienne (1931), he treated a potentially dark story lightly; by 1939 an ostensible farce – La Règle du Jeu – develops into tragedy. Le Grand Jeu was ahead of that game; made in 1934, it exhibits a world weariness other filmmakers wouldn’t catch up with for a couple of years: Duvivier’s wonderful Pépé le Moko – another story of doomed love in the desert colonies – wasn’t released until 1937.

The fatalism of poetic realism has much in common with film noir Intriguingly, Feyder’s assistant on Le Grand Jeu was a young chap called Marcel Carné. He obviously took notes; a couple of years later he was sitting in the director’s chair himself. Carné is a neglected figure these days, although his heroic film Les Enfants du Paradis is still reckoned as one of the finest of all French films. But many of Carné’s other films deserve equal attention. Often working with writer Jacques Prévert, Carné made a string of masterful films about unfortunate men and women. Le Jour se Lève uses an innovative flashback structure to tell the story of a murderer (driven to kill – but of course – because of une femme) while Hotel du Nord varies things by introducing a suicide pact alongside the inevitable illstarred romance. Best of all is Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows – currently unavailable unfortunately). It’s the quintessential poetic realist film, starring Jean

Gabin (the icon of 30s French film) and brimming with over with the good stuff: despair, disappointment and defeatism. It was also the recipient of the single greatest review of all time: as the Nazis breached the Maginot line, a government official, obviously unimpressed by its pessimism, declared, ‘if we have lost the war, it is because of Le Quai des Brumes’. These days, poetic realist films are no longer capable of sapping the will of an entire nation (if, indeed they ever were). But they remain essential viewing – haunting, lyrical and true.

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