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y answer to this month’s question about a film that represents Britain at its most peculiar is John Krish’s bizarre cautionary tale about playing on the railways, The Finishing Line, which makes me think about film treasures buried in various collections. Krish’s film is found on The Age of the Train – Volume 7 of the BFI’s estimable British Transport Films series by the way. We would love to hear about the buried films you have found that are liable to be otherwise overlooked. Contact us by postcard at the usual address or email feedback@moviemail-online. co.uk and we’ll print the highlights.

Contents Film of the Month 5 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

World Cinema I Am Love Lebanon Vincere

Documentaries Blitz on Britain Lastly, this is a good time for Dennis Potter fans. This month we have his final TV dramas, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (p.21), while next month sees Lipstick on Your Collar... Enjoy your films,

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Mike McCahill (The Wicker Man) Mike has written on film for The Scotsman since 2002, and for The Sunday Telegraph since 2003. Between occasional, reluctant TV and radio appearances, he has also contributed to The DVD Guide (Canongate, 2007) and Halliwell’s The Movies That Matter (HarperCollins, 2008). His film blog can be found at http://cinesthesiac.blogspot.com

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Rick Burin (The Ruling Class) was highly commended at this year’s O2 Media Awards

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Alex Davidson (Jubilee) is a content developer for the BFI mediatheque

Julian Upton (Notting Hill) wrote Fallen Stars.

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Clive Donner’s modish and glossy swinging sixties comedy follows the sexual exploits of irrepressible teenager Jamie who is full of adolescent energy, obsessed by sex and determined to lose his virginity. Caused a considerable stir when first released and is now regarded as a definitive coming-of-age film. UK | 1968 | BFI | 96 min | Cert 15 | # 62359 | RRP £19.99

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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Recommended Director: Clive Donner Starring: Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Vanessa Howard, Maxine Audley, Diane Keen Released: 13th September DVD Extras: 2 discs; Dual format edition with Blu-ray and DVD; Remastered; Alternative cut of main feature; Archival short films and documentaries; Booklet. UK | 1968 | BFI | 96 min | Cert 15 | Item # 62359

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Gregory’s Girl Bill Forsyth

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hen Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl helped see off the lurking nuisance that was the 1970s British Sex Comedy, few lamented its demise. It was easy to forget that 14 years earlier Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush had launched the trend with an infectious energy that was refreshing and daring. It remains a high point of British comedy cinema. Mulberry Bush still stands up to comparison with Forsyth’s film. Both centre on likeable but sexually frustrated teenage boys, and both stage their good-natured tales of faltering sexual and romantic awakening against drab backdrops of urban sterility (Cumbernauld for Gregory’s Girl; Stevenage for Mulberry Bush). But where Gregory’s Girl is wearily, amusingly downbeat, Mulberry Bush froths with vitality and optimism, encapsulating that brief, hedonistic spirit that defined ‘swinging London’ without actually stepping foot in the capital. It is also steeped in impressive sixties credentials: a score by Traffic, a semi-autobiographical screenplay by Beatles biogra-

Remains one of the high points of British comedy cinema pher Hunter Davies and modish direction from What’s New Pussycat’s Clive Donner. And in Barry Evans’ Jamie, a teenager desperate to lose his virginity, it offers the template for all those hapless heroes-onheat that followed. Evans delivers one of the most endearing screen debuts of the era: enslaved by his hormones in a constant state of agitated carnal expectation, flitting from one failed sexual escapade to the next, he is the walking embodiment of what the promise of the ‘permissive society’ meant to a generation of horny but inexperienced provincial young men. Risqué for its time – with splashes of nudity and a frank, light-hearted approach to talking about sex – Mulberry Bush belongs loosely to the wave of films that includes Blow-up and If… in its breaking down of censorship barriers. Julian Upton

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New Releases Breathless (50th Anniversary) Jean-Luc Godard

Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo; a girl, a thief, a gun. The iconic film of the nouvelle vague. DVD extras: Digitally restored; Godard / Mike Hodges interview (1965); Je t’aime John Wayne (2000); Jean Seberg featurette. Blu-ray extras: Digitally restored; Jean-Luc selon Luc; Godard et l’Amérique; Chambre 12. France | 1959 | OPTIM | 90 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62470 / 60791 | RRP £19.99 | Out 13th Sept

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Three wonderful films from the Czech director František Vlácil: Marketa Lazarová, The Valley of the Bees and Adelheid, plus a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker, Sentiment (Hejtmanek, 2003), exclu4 discs. sive to this set.

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Edgar Reitz

A beautiful addendum to Reitz’s epic Heimat trilogy, this drama employs a series of dreamlike sequences to portray the subconscious of a young woman who tunes in to the varied experiences of female relations from different periods of her family history – from emotional wartime upheavals to everyday family life on the farm. Germany | 2006 | 2ND | 146 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 62967 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Ivul (Special Edition) Andrew Kötting

A film from one of Britain’s most committed and idiosyncratic artists, Ivul tells the tale of a boy who takes to the trees after his father (veteran Swiss actor Jean-Luc Bideau) banishes him from the house, refusing to set foot on land again with the family falling apart in his 2 discs; In the Wake of a Deadad absence. (2006); Hububinthebaobabs (1987); Interview; Ivul Unmade; Of an Ode to a Deadad. Switzerland / France | 2009 | ART-E | 96 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62629 | RRP £17.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Jerusalema Ralph Ziman

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Patrick, Age 1.5 Ella Lemhagen

An affectionate comedy which sees long-term gay couple Goran and Sven approved for adoption and awaiting their new infant Patrick, aged 1,5. Unfortunately, a misplaced decimal point finds them assigned a 15-year-old homophobe instead, which sets the stage for

Radu Jude

Romanian new wave satire in which, in a freak heat wave, a competition winner finds herself surrounded by slimy reps, a rough film crew and selfabsorbed parents while endlessly reciting the inane words of an ad for an unappetising drink. Romania / Netherlands | 2009 | SodaElev | 90 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62464 | RRP £15.99 | Released 30th August

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Adelheid Recommended Director: František Vlácil Starring: Petr Cepek, Jan Kacer Released: 23rd August DVD Extras: Booklet Czech | 1970 | 2RUN | 98 min | subt | Cert 15 | Item # 62216

Up to now, František Vlácil’s British reputation has derived exclusively from his widescreen medieval epics Marketa Lazarová and Valley of the Bees, but this intense, low-key chamber piece is actually more typical of the bulk of his work. Set in northern Moravia (i.e. the former Sudetenland) just after the end of World War II, it concerns a brief, often wordless romance between Viktor (Petr Cepek, Valley’s saturnine star), a former RAF officer determined to ignore politics as much as possible, and Adelheid, a woman who initially seems to be an innocent victim of widespread antiGerman prejudice. With no common language, Viktor has to piece together Adelheid’s life from visual clues and mementos (photographs, letters), in the process discovering that she’s a much more morally ambiguous character than he first imagined. The film earned Vlácil a lengthy break from the cinema after the Communist authorities took exception to his troubling portrait of CzechGerman relations – especially the suggestion that the Czechs weren’t as magnanimous in victory as the official version liked to pretend. MB

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I Am Love Recommended Director: Luca Guadagnino Starring: Tilda Swinton, Marisa Berenson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Edoardo Gabbriellini Released: 6th September DVD Extras: Commentary with Tilda Swinton & Director Luca Guadagnino; Interviews; Moments on the Sets; Theatrical Trailer Italy | 2009 | MET-D | 119 min | subt | Cert 15 | Item # 62794

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Luchino Visconti Italy / France | 1963 | BFI | 178 min | subt | Cert PG | # 14870 | RRP £19.99

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he critically eulogised I Am Love begins as the tale of the aristocratic Recchis, a super-rich Milanese textile clan teetering on the brink of chaos as the seeds of modernity, eros and dissolving class boundaries threaten old, long-standing values. The film is also a rich and knowing fabric of cinematic allusions, from a tragic employment of a Hitchcockian MacGuffin to an Antonionian fascination with the anatomy of upper-class ennui. Emma (Tilda Swinton) is the regal, inscrutable head of the household, a woman whose taut physical composure and immaculate self-possession hint at imminent combustion. She is married to the elderly industrialist Edoardo Recchi Sr (Gabriele Ferzetti), and their relationship is caring though stale, joyless, and largely contractual. Emma will eventually fracture this cold veneer of stability in spectacular – and tragic – fashion. In a foreshadowing of her own fate, Emma’s daughter, Elisabetta (Alba Rohrwacher), has recently left her boyfriend, and confessed in secret to loving a woman. Meanwhile, her son, Edo, is planning the launch of a new restaurant with a talented working-class chef named Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini). A chance

Critically acclaimed and engrossing Italian cinema starring Tilda Swinton encounter between Emma and Antonio sets in motion a compulsive, dreamlike affair, with their romance rapturously charted through close-ups of Antonio’s food. Their passion is fervent, and frees Emma from aristocratic sterility at a pace that can only anticipate tragedy. The initial glossy, ad-man’s aesthetic of the camera work – a fetishistic, yet detached attention to sartorial detail, or sweeping, distanced navigations of the Recchi mansion – gradually yields to a vivid canvas of Baroque sensory opulence. In turn, the film breaks out of a snow-laden Milan into a gleaming screen of radiant sunlight and verdant countryside. The transition is a triumphant mirroring of a love affair that explodes social and familial constraints in a stirring assertion of personal joy, and sits in symbolic harmony with the film’s wonderfully strident John Adams score. Emma Paterson

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World Cinema Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge Jérôme Salle

French action thriller based on the graphic novel by Phillipe Francq in which a billionaire’s secret adopted son, languishing in an Amazonian prison on drugs charges, must stop his father’s financial empire from falling into the wrong hands after his death. Tomer Sisley and Kristin Scott Thomas star.

Inspired by the true story of a Brazilian bounty hunter and earning Glauber Rocha the Best Director prize at Cannes, this Cinema Novo masterwork is packed with allusions to the politics, folklore, religion, literature, music and dance of Brazil’s backland Bahia region. With Affonso Beato’s camera scouring the bleak landscape to emphasise the insignificance of its residents, the action is suffused with a social and cultural symbolism that urges a rebellion against faith-based fealty. Making dazzling use of colour and boldly staging in long takes and intricate sequences that succeed in being both cinematic and operatic, Rocha mythologises the struggle between the peasantry and cangaceiro Maurício do Valle and tyrannical landowner Joffre Soares by equating revolutionary heroes like Che Guevara with warrior saints like George and Anthony. Some may bridle at the depiction of female characters like Odete Lara as self-serving and treacherous, but Rocha achieves a stylised realism whose agit-prop potency is intensified by the unflinching attitude to extreme violence. DP

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Director: Marco Bellocchio

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The Milk of Sorrow Claudia Llosa

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Vincere

An Oscar-nominated Peruvian drama, set in the wake of the brutal atrocities that ravaged the country in the 1980s, which tells the story of a young woman traumatised by her mother’s experiences during that period. Magaly Solier stars as the woman who is forced to confront 2 discs. her fears when her mother dies. Peru | 2009 | DOGW | 94 min | subt | Cert E Item # 62334 | RRP £14.99 | Released 6th Sept

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Paolo Sorrentino Collection

A collection of four films from the Italian director and screenwriter: Il Divo, the psychological drama The Consequences of Love, The Family Friend and his brilliant feature debut One Man Up (2001), new to DVD. 4 discs.

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Lucas Belvaux A French political thriller starring Yvan Attal star as Graff, a rich industrialist who is brutally kidnapped by a group who demand a huge ransom and cut off one of his fingers to prove that they mean business. A tense standoff between the kidnappers, the police and the board of Graff’s company ensues, during which harmful secrets from Graff’s past are dredged up by the press. France / Belgium | 2009 | CHEL | 126 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62625 | RRP £12.99 | Released 13th Sept

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This forceful historical drama observes Benito Mussolini’s rise to power through the eyes (and limbs) of the real-life figure Ida Dalser, a political groupie who became first the fascist leader’s stalker, later his mistress and, eventually, the most personal casualty of the Il Duce mindset. First crossing paths in Trento in 1907, where Ida shelters Mussolini from a police baton charge and ends up with blood on her hands, the pair are soon locked in a mutual embrace of sex and power. Everything about Vincere is declamatory, from the title (WIN!) to the expressionistic lighting to the fractured editing that juxtaposes dramatised scenes with remarkable archive footage. Bellocchio’s imagemaking is superlative. His stylistic boldness isn’t so far removed from Sorrentino’s recent Il Divo, though here – as befits a film about control – it’s been applied with greater shrewdness: the newsreel grounds Vincere in some very harsh realities. Italian cinema may at last be ready to follow its German counterpart and face its troubled past head-on. Either way, this is a gripping account of political and emotional oppression. MM

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Lebanon Recommended Director: Samuel Maoz Starring: Oshri Cohen, Zohar Shtrauss, Itay Tiran, Michael Moshonov Released: 23rd August DVD Extras: Director Commentary; Cast & Crew Interviews; Background to The First Lebanon War Germany / Israel / France | 2009 | MET-D | 89 min | subt | Cert 15 | Item # 62590

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Waltz with Bashir Ari Folman

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amuel Maoz’s Lebanon, 2009’s Venice Golden Lion winner, is a combat movie that engages a familiar low-budget conceit – limiting its action to one confined space – before transcending it. As in the submarine drama Das Boot, we’re invited to peer inside the war machine, and observe those shell-shocked humans within. It’s 1982, and a tank codenamed Rhino rolls into Lebanon on the first morning of the Israeli incursion. Within: an inexperienced crew of young soldiers – and their growing doubts and fears. Bookending shots of the tank at repose aside, the outside world is observed solely through the vehicle’s viewfinder. The choice might suggest a certain distancing – and Maoz, a former tank gunner, is certainly reflecting on his own past here – yet what we witness is wholly magnified; the viewfinder, in this instance, becomes an analogue for the camera. Panning over and zooming in on the carnage, the viewfinder shows us discarded trinkets, uncomprehending faces, bodies blown apart; a bereaved Madonna is stripped bare after her dress combusts under fire. These images are as scattered, random and disturbing as repressed memories – live-action equivalents to the animated

A potent winner of the Golden Lion that transcends its setting nightmares of Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir, which similarly found a soldierturned-director using his first film to declare: this is what I saw. Displaying considerable technical expertise, Maoz proves just as attentive to the telling sounds of battle as to its horrendous sights, from the recurring tinkle of the crew relieving themselves in the nearest available jerry-can to those anonymous screams emerging from somewhere beyond the viewfinder’s remit. Again, the overwhelming sense is that real and lasting traumas are being dramatised: during a momentary impasse, one senior officer recounts how a lover once held him to her breast and encouraged him to cry his fears away. ‘Man is steel, the tank is only iron,’ runs the legend inscribed into the tank’s interior – the kind of maxim beloved of warmongers everywhere, yet which Maoz goes out of his way to prove deluded nonsense: this potent, unflinching first feature pierces whatever defences you might possess, and gets right under the skin. Mike McCahill

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World Cinema Read My Lips

Jacques Audiard A twisting crime thriller from Audiard (A Prophet) in which a hearingimpaired woman (Emmanuelle Devos) employs Vincent Cassel’s ex-con as an assistant. However, his debts lead him to robbery, and he sees that lip-reading skills could come in handy... France | 2001 | OPTIM | 113 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62459 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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Time

Kim Ki-duk This exploration into the oblivion of contemporary identity and the obsession with physical beauty sees a woman, whose relationship has died down into a mildly pleasing familiarity, radically change her facial appearance through plastic surgery and start a new life as a waitress in a cafe, where one day, her estranged lover walks in the door... South Korea | 2006 | PALIS | 97 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 62335 | RRP £16.99 | Released 16th August

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Jia Zhang-ke

From the director of 24 City and Still Life, The World was Zhang-ke’s breakout success, and sees a troupe of Chinese stage performers dream of freedom from their life at Beijing’s World Park, with its ‘famous sites from Video five continents’. introduction by Tony Rayns: Made in China (65 mins); The World According to Jia Zhang-Ke; Booklet. China / Japan / France | 2004 | EUREK | 134 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 62969 | RRP £22.99 | Released 23rd August

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet France | 1991 | OPTIM | 90 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62472 | RRP £24.99

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Le Cercle Rouge Jean-Pierre Melville

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Sergei Eisenstein Collection Volume 1: Silent Classics

This first volume of films from the profoundly influential Russian filmmaking legend features Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927). Strike is Eisenstein’s brilliant recreation of the development of a 1912 factory strike in Tsarist Russia, and its savage destruction by agents provocateurs, police and mounted troops. Battleship Potemkin, which celebrates the mutinous rebellion of the crew of the Potemkin against their officers in 1905, is a landmark work in cinema history, notable for its use of montage, not least in its famous ‘Odessa steps’ sequence, while October: Ten Days that Shook the World is an outstanding work in praise of the 1917 Russian Revolution, reconstructing the events leading up to the revolution and the 3 discs. Bolshevik overthrow of the Czarists. Russia | 1925-27 | PALIS | 255 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62462 | RRP £59.99 | Released 12th July

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Sergei Eisenstein Collection Volume 2: Historical Epics

Three of Eisenstein’s greatest films: Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2 (1944/1958) plus a reconstruction of his lost film, Bezhin Meadow (1937). The two parts of Ivan the Terrible form one of the great masterpieces of world cinema. In grand style, Eisenstein tells the story of Ivan IV, who in 1547 crowns himself Tsar of all Russia and sets about reclaiming lost territory. The film’s stupendous compositions and decor, combined with Prokofiev’s score, are magnificent, and part 2’s celebrated colour sequence is a fiery jewel. Made in 1938 with war looming, Alexander Nevsky, which tells of a Russian prince bringing disparate Russian factions together to repel the Teutonic invaders, is justly famed for its amazing climactic half-hour battle scene on a frozen lake, where the images combine with Prokofiev’s rousing score to create a scene of indelible power. Lastly, Bezhin Meadow, which was destroyed in a WWII bombing raid, is reconstructed with narration and stills from each scene that Eisenstein kept in a work book. It is undoubtedly one of cinema’s great lost films. 3 discs. Russia | 1937-58 | PALIS | 336 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62332 | RRP £59.99 | Released 6th September

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Majestically photographed by Walter Carvallho, this superbly choreographed compendium of six stories unfolding over a single night at a São Paulo dance hall irresistibly recalls Ettore Scola’s Le Bal (1983) and La Cena (1998). The spotlight shines brightest on onetime champion Leonardo Villar, whose monochrome reveries about his deceased wife remind him to be more courteous to forgetful partner Tônia Carrero. But the entire ensemble excels, as would-be womanisers, neglected wives, jealous boyfriends and manicured vamps reflect on their lost youths and former glories. Set-pieces like a power cut and the ladies’ excuse me add a certain frisson, as the director slips effortlessly between gentle comedy and melancholic melodrama. Moreover, with Elza Soares and Marku Ribas providing the Latin numbers that keep the dance floor packed, he also switches slickly between sinuous tracking shots and rhythmic montages that capture the regrets, frustrations and disappointments the ageing clientele eagerly seeks to escape – if only for a fleeting moment of nostalgic, sensual pleasure. DP

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Masters of Cinema Sale These superb collector’s edition DVDs from Masters of Cinema are, as their name implies, nothing but the very best films presented using the best possible prints and brimming with extras. They are absolute treasures for film lovers and now at great prices too!

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Il Grido

An opulent classic of late silent cinema, set in a world of stock exchange scams, greed and corruption, in which a business tycoon concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt to inflate the price of his stock.

William Dieterle

Jilted refinery worker Aldo wanders the misty Po River delta, seeking elusive respite with a series of lovers. A haunting early work from Antonioni, featuring exquisite cinematography.

France | 1928 | EUR | 164 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 56341 | £22.99

USA | 1941 | EUREK | 106 min | B&W | Cert U | # 57216 | RRP £19.99

Marcel L’Herbier

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Akasen Chitai & Yokihi Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi. Pairs his final film about five prostitutes with a lesser-known colour rarity. 2 discs.

A wonderful American reworking of the Faust legend in which a certain Mr Scratch (Walter Huston) appears to a struggling New Hampshire farmer, offering him seven years of prosperity...

Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy | 1957 | EUR | 116 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 58266 | RRP £19.99

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Une Femme Mariée

Sansho Dayu

Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. An enigmatic masterpiece from Godard’s golden period. Macha Méril stars in this provocative dissection of modern life.

Dir: Mizoguchi. A landmark film of exquisite tone that tells the story of the decline of a noble family. Plus Gion Bayashi (1953) 2 discs.

France | 1964 | EUR | 95 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 57834 | RRP £19.99

Japan | 1953-54 | EUR | subt | B&W | U | # 51381 | RRP £23.99

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Bellissima

La Gueule Ouverte

Spione

Dir: Luchino Visconti. An Italian satire on the motivations and machinations at work in the film industry, starring the great Anna Magnani.

Dir: Maurice Pialat. An intensely personal, moving and clear-sighted work about the unavoidable indignity of dying. 2 discs; Many extras.

Dir: Fritz Lang. Lang’s penultimate silent film is a thoroughly enjoyable thriller set in a world of intrigue, espionage and blackmail.

Italy | 1951 | EUR | 109 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 51131 | RRP £19.99

France | 1974 | EUREK | 82 min | subt | 12 | # 57854 | RRP £22.99

Germany | 1928 | EUREK | 143 min | subt | PG | # 21144 | RRP £19.99

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Chikamatsu Monogatari

Mikio Naruse Box Set

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Japan | 1955-56 | EUREK | 178 min | 12 | # 54118 | RRP £24.99

Dir: Mizoguchi. A striking morality tale with graceful cinematography. Plus Uwasa No Oma (1954) 2 discs.

Contains three of Naruse’s greatest films: Repast (1951), Sound of the Mountain (1954) and Flowing (1956). 3 discs; 184 page book.

Dir: Douglas Sirk. A powerful drama set in the ruins of burnt-out Germany during the final days of WWII.

Japan | 1951-56 | EUREK | subt | B&W | PG | # 31092 | RRP £49.99

USA | 1958 | EUREK | 127 min | Cert PG | # 56234 | RRP £19.99

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Diary of a Lost Girl

Nous ne Vieillirons pas Ensemble

Tokyo Sonata

Japan | 1954 | EUR | 186 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 52967 | £24.99

Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Louise Brooks stars in this vivid exploration of a corrupt society in which sex and money dominate social relationships. Germany | 1929 | EUREK | 106 min | B&W | PG | # 33833 | RRP £15.99

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Faust Dir: FW Murnau. A magnificent silent version of the legend. Emil Jannings is outstanding as the devilish tempter Mephistopheles. 2 discs. Ger | 1926 | EUR | 110 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 29116 | £22.99

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Dir: Maurice Pialat. Aka We Won’t Grow Old Together. A powerful depiction of a couple in turmoil. France | 1972 | EUREK | 102 min | subt | 12 | # 59542 | RRP £19.99

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Passe ton Bac d’abord Dir: Maurice Pialat. An unsparing portrait of French teenage life in the 70s. The spiritual sequel to L’Enfance-nue. France | 1979 | EUREK | 81 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 59541 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. A poignant reflection on unemployment and uncertain times that won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2008. Japan | 2008 | EUREK | 119 min | subt | 12 | # 57859 | RRP £19.99

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Ugetsu Monogatari Dir: Mizoguchi. An intensely poetic masterwork of cinema based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories. Plus Oyu-Sama (1951) 2 discs. Japan | 1951-53 | EUREK | subt | B&W | PG | # 53684 | RRP £24.99

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L’Argent

Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

Darwin’s Nightmare

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Hubert Sauper

An Oscar-nominated documentary about the deleterious effect of fishing for the Nile perch in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in supermarkets in Europe – while starving Tanzanians make do with the leftovers.

Bomber Boys: The Fighting Lancaster

A four-part documentary about World War II veteran Joe English and five of his surviving fellow airmen. The film follows the six former ‘Bomber Boys’ as they look back over their experiences and take flight in one of the two surviving Lancaster Bombers.

UK | 2005 | SIMP | 185 min | Cert E Item # 62841 | RRP £16.99 | Released 2nd August

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Britain By Jove

All 4 episodes of the 1960s comedy travelogue produced by British Pathe to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were filmed in full colour and presented by ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles, who sets the tone with a rousing patirotic speech before embarking on a whistlestop tour of the whole country with his chauffeur Cavendish. UK | 1969 | SFE | Cert E Item # 62950 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

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British Tanks of the Second World War

The definitive archive film documentary tracing the development of British Tanks from the Tog 1 at the outset of war to the Comet at the end of hostilities, through a continual cycle of improvements. Beach Obstacles (1943, 31mins).

UK | 2010 | SFE | 125 min | Cert E Item # 62919 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

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Austria / France | 2004 | ARTF | 111 min | Cert E Item # 62367 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

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Entertaining the RAF: The Astra Gazette Newsreels

These newsreels were made by Pathé in the 1950s to be shown to serving personnel in the RAF’s very own Astra Cinemas that were housed on air bases all over the world. Giving an insider round up of RAF news stories, as well as regularly featuring young ladies in swimsuits to keep the lads happy, they present a fascinating insight into the time. UK | 1951-59 | SFE | Cert E Item # 62075 | RRP £19.99 | Released 21st June

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Speeches That Changed the World

A collection of some of the most influential speeches ever made, from hymns to democratic freedom to despicable tirades of prejudice. Contains speeches by Goebbels, Hitler, Chamberlain, Churchill, Molotov, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, Hirohito, Gandhi, JFK, Martin Luther King, Nixon and Obama. UK / USA | 1933-2008 | SFE | Cert E Item # 62918 | RRP £12.99 | Released 30th August

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Valentino: The Last Emperor

Curse of the Swastika

A classic British Pathé documentary from 1940, illustrating the rise of the Nazi Party. This historic documentary is accompanied by eight bonus features, from a cartoon poking fun at Adolf Hitler (Run Adolf Run) to in-depth looks at Nazi annexations and invasions and finally the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.

Matt Tyrnauer

UK | 1940 | SFE | 45 min | Cert E Item # 62920 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

USA | 2008 | OPTIM | 92 min | Cert 12 Item # 62488 | RRP £19.99 | Released 6th September

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A profile of the life and career of leading fashion designer Valentino Garavani, who entered the world of haute couture in the early 1950s before opening his own fashion house in Rome in 1959, and becoming one of the leading lights in European design.

Blitz on Britain Recommended Director: Harry Booth Starring: Alistair Cooke (Narrator) Released: 6th September UK | 1960 | OPTIM | 71 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 62491

When David Cameron made his notorious gaffe about Britain being the ‘junior partner’ to the Americans in 1940, he inadvertently proved that documentaries such as this classic account of the history of the German Blitz and the British response will become increasingly essential as living memory fades. Constructed entirely from contemporary newsreel footage, and knitted together with an authoritative commentary from veteran broadcaster Alastair Cooke, it spans a year from May 1940, covering the threatened German invasion of Britain, its successful repulsion by massed hordes of Spitfires, and the subsequent bombings of Coventry, London and other cities in revenge. While it mainly showcases the big stories, it also celebrates numerous acts of overt and understated heroism performed by the armed forces, civil authorities (the firefighters were faced with an unprecented task) and civilians on the ground – or indeed under it, as Tube stations were pressed into service as mass shelters. This is history coming alive to riveting effect: just imagine if we had equivalent you-arethere accounts of Hastings, Trafalgar or the Spanish Armada. MB

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Italian Cinema 1940s to now, a sale

Italy has twice led world cinema, first with the ‘Super Spectacles’ of the 1910s, and then, post-WWII, with neo-realist dramas such as The Bicycle Thieves that brought a new authenticity to global film-making. Later, directors such as Visconti, Antonioni and Fellini abandoned their neo-realist roots to extend the boundaries of film art – cinema now is unthinkable without their influence. This sale is a great chance to explore Italian cinema both new and old, so dive in!

1900

Cinema Paradiso

Bernardo Bertolucci

Giuseppe Tornatore

Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu star in this sweeping tale of political turmoil and class warfare in early 20th century Italy. Ambitious, majestic and out of control, this epic needs to be seen.

Philippe Noiret stars as a projectionist in this beautiful, poignant tale of a young Sicilian boy’s love affair with the cinema. Features a lavish Ennio Morricone score. Director’s cut.

Luchino Visconti

Italy | 1976 | FOX | 301 min | Cert 18 | # 33560 | RRP £15.99

Italy | 1989 | ARROW | 167 min | subt | Cert PG | # 7207 | RRP £15.99

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Italy | 1960 | EUR | 170 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 52966 | £22.99

L’Avventura

Germany Year Zero

Respiro

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Monica Vitti stars in this landmark first film in a loose trilogy which also includes La Notte and L’Eclisse.

Dir: Roberto Rossellini. The final part of Rossellini’s great neo-realist war trilogy, described by Scorsese as a prayer to the postwar world.

Dir: Emanuele Crialese. Set on the Italian island of Lampedusa, this is a sensual film about the power of love to bring renewal and reconciliation.

Italy | 1960 | Bongo | 136 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 54463 | RRP £15.99

Italy | 1947 | NL | 71 min | subt | B&W | Cert PG | # 61827 | RRP £14.99

ITALY | 2002 | TARTN | 91 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 16177 | RRP £19.99

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The Bicycle Thieves

Gomorrah

Rider on the Rain

Dir: Vittorio De Sica. Filmed in Rome, this neo-realist film is a profoundly moving story of a man’s struggle for employment and self-respect.

Dir: Matteo Garrone. A controversial inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families, based on the book by Roberto Saviano. 2 discs.

Dir: René Clément. Charles Bronson stars as an arrogant investigator searching for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian suspense thriller.

Italy | 1948 | ARROW | 94 min | subt | B&W | U | # 26949 | RRP £17.99

Italy | 2008 | OPT | 137 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 56952 | RRP £19.99

France/Italy | 1969 | OPTIM | 113 min | Cert 18 | # 57886 | RRP £15.99

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The Consequences of Love

The Leopard

Rome, Open City

Dir: Luchino Visconti. A sumptuous masterpiece and a true epic based around an aristocratic Sicilian family threatened by political turmoil.

Dir: Roberto Rossellini. Shot on the war-torn streets of Rome, this tale of resistance is often cited as the true beginning of Italian neo-realism.

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino. A gripping Italian thriller about a loner with a secret in an anonymous Swiss hotel.

Visconti’s epic study of family, sex and betrayal which, alongside L’Avventura and La Dolce Vita, ushered Italian cinema into a new era. Alain Delon plays the beatific Rocco. DVD: £0.00 Save £22.99

Italy | 1963 | BFI | 178 min | subt | Cert PG | # 14870 | RRP £19.99

Italy | 1945 | ARROW | 103 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 21556 | £17.99

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Il Divo

The Night of the Shooting Stars

Salò

Italy | 2005 | ART-E | 100 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 24395 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino. A riveting tale of political intrigue and crime, based on the extraordinary life of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Italy | 2008 | ART-E | 114 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 58669 | RRP £15.99

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Four Films from Fellini I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, Guilietta degli Spiriti & 8 1/2: four accounts of a changing Italy. 4 discs. Italy | 1953-65 | NOUVE | subt | Cert 15 | # 33950 | RRP £44.99

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Dir: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani. An unforgettable film about a 6 year-old’s view of the end of the war. 2 discs. Italy | 1981 | INFART | 102 min | subt | 12 | # 28053 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. A notorious, highly provocative chamber piece exposing the depths of human corruption. 2 discs; Many extras. Italy | 1975 | BFI | 112 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 55425 | RRP £22.99

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La Notte

La Strada

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni play the couple in crisis in this profound study of modern alienation.

An abiding masterpiece in which Fellini’s wife Giulietta Massina plays the simple woman roped along to help Anthony Quinn’s strong man act.

Italy | 1961 | EUR | 118 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 53306 | RRP £19.99

Italy | 1954 | OPT | 104 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 21842 | RRP £19.99

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2 discs.

Rocco and His Brothers

Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

The Duke Wore Jeans

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Gerald Thomas

Classic British musical comedy in which Tommy Steele stars as a cockney lad who pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess. Features the songs It’s All Happening, My Family Tree, What Do You Do, Happy Guitar, Princess, Photograph and more.

7th Cavalry

Joseph H. Lewis Set after the Battle of Little Big Horn, 7th Cavalry sees Randolph Scott playing a captain who, guilt-ridden and tarnished by whispers of cowardice, volunteers to lead a dangerous mission back to Big Horn to reclaim the bodies of the fallen soldiers.

USA | 1956 | PGL | 75 min | Cert U Item # 63007 | RRP £5.99 | Released 16th August

UK | 1958 | OPTIM | 86 min | Cert U Item # 62489 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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Heights of Danger Peter Bradford

Continental motor racing adventure produced by British Pathé in which a profiteer seeks to sabotage a British father and his children’s chances of winning an Alpine motor car rally. The film’s real star is the MG 4 TD Sports Car! bonus films of MG racing cars in the 1950s.

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Arthur Lubin

After being orphaned and adopted by thieves, Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the throne, and rescue his childhood love (Maria Montez) from the enemy’s clutches. A lavish adventure in glorious Restored. Technicolor.

UK | 1953 | SFE | 60 min | Cert E Item # 62940 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

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USA | 1944 | EUREK | 87 min | Cert PG Item # 63038 | RRP £15.99 | Released 23rd August

It’s All Happening Don Sharp

In probably his best movie, Tommy Steele plays a talent scout who puts on a concert to raise money for an orphanage. Stars a host of musical acts, including Shane Fenton and the Fentones, John Barry, the Clyde Valley Stompers, Geoff Love and Marion Ryan.

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The Break

Lance Comfort When a writer goes on holiday to get some perspective on his upcoming divorce, little does he expect to be lodging in the same B&B as an escaped murderer. Things get more dangerous when an undercover detective is brutally killed after picking up the scent. UK | 1963 | ODEON | 72 min | Cert PG Item # 62744 | RRP £12.99 | Released 26th July

The Boy Who Stole a Million British action comedy filmed in Spain in which a 12 year-old boy ‘borrows’ some money from a bank where he works to pay for his father’s taxi repairs – and soon finds the bank and the mob on his tail! USA | 1960 | ODEON | 84 min | PG Item # 63084 | RRP £12.99 | Released 6th September

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Loving Memory Tony Scott

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Charles Crichton

UK | 1963 | OPTIM | 97 min | Cert U Item # 62456 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

The extraordinary film debut of Tony Scott (True Romance), this is the dark tale of mysterious siblings who live in isolation with their memories and a grisly secret. Beautifully photographed by Chris Menges (If…., Kes) the film features a stunning performance from Rosamund Greenwood as a 2 discs; One of the haunted innocent. Missing (Tony Scott, 1968); Boy and Bicycle (Ridley Scott, 1965); Booklet. UK | 1969 | BFI | 52 min | Cert 12 Item # 62351 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd Aug

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Human Desire Recommended Director: Fritz Lang Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan Released: 23rd August USA | 1954 | PALL | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 62743

Newly returned from the war in Korea, Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) resumes his job on the railways. When he meets the beautiful Vicki Buckley (Gloria Grahame), he is immediately smitten. The trouble is, Vicki’s a married woman and her husband Carl (a magnificent Broderick Crawford) is the jealous type, with a history murdering anyone who gets too close to his missus... A heaving tale of obsession, with working class characters and set against an industrial landscape? Such things scream ‘film noir’ and Human Desire is a fine example of the form. Its literary origins, however, are altogether more upmarket, beingderived from La Bête Humaine, a Zola novel previously filmed – to considerable acclaim – by Jean Renoir. Fritz Lang was clearly aware of Renoir’s version: both films begin with the camera racing down the tracks. But Lang’s film branches off onto another line, introducing a new set of passengers and transporting them to a different destination. It’s an engrossing journey for noir aficionados, who will enjoy some breathtaking views. And for Lang trainspotters, it’s essential. JO

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Sept 2010 MovieMail Film Catalogue

The Best

Fans of lusty adventure, rejoice; here’s Hollywood adventure at (very nearly) its finest, a cavalcade of whirling blades, acrobatic stunts and thigh-slapping bravado. There’s even a plot – something about the lost treasure of Alexander the Great – to join the dots together, for those that like that sort of thing. This is how the dream factory used to do it, in the days before action films became soulless exercises in technology. Indeed, the old-skool movie magic is one of Sinbad the Sailor’s greatest charms, building a gloriously fake world out of matte paintings and lurid Technicolor that is much more vivid than today’s photo realism and CGI. Above all, it is a film told with delight. Richard Wallace is an uncelebrated director but invests the film with terrific brio while Fairbanks Jr (a chip of the old block if ever there was one) pinballs around the sets, never dropping his infectious grin whether he be wooing maidens or outsmarting villains. Doubtless there are ‘better’ films released this month – but none will be as much fun as this one. JO

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Inspired by the release of Sinbad the Sailor, we’ve scoured the world for the most dashing films ever to leap on to our screens. Starring pirates, kings, highwaymen and musketeers, these films will turn any Sunday afternoon into an event to be savoured!

The Adventures Robin Hood

Michael Curtiz Flynn is dashing, Rathbone suavely villainous, and along with its Oscar winning score, you will find some of the most rousing swordfights ever filmed. Irresisitible.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Double Bill Harold Young

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USA | 1938 | WHV | 98 min | Cert 12 | # 15842 | RRP £19.99

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Dir: Nathan Juran. Sinbad and his magical genie encounter a host of Ray Harryhausen’s creatures. USA | 1958 | UCA-C | 84 min | Cert U | # 24237 | RRP £9.99

Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, the effete 18th century English aristocrat with a dashing double life in this pair of 1930s Scarlet Pimpernel films. UK | 1934-37 | NWORK | 170 min | B&W | U | # 33959 | RRP £12.99

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Henry V Dir: Laurence Olivier. Cry God for Harry, England, and Olivier! Made in 1944, this is as stirring a Shakespeare film as ever was made. UK | 1944 | CRLTN | 137 min | Cert U | # 4355 | RRP £9.99

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The Black Shield of Falworth

The Man in Grey

Dir: Rudolph Maté. A Technicolor saga of jousts, jests and heroism with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. USA | 1954 | EUREK | 95 min | Cert PG | # 56233 | RRP £15.99

Dir: Leslie Arliss. The first film that set Margaret Lockwood off on the popular ‘wicked lady’ series. James Mason co-stars. UK | 1943 | NWORK | 112 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 32268 | RRP £9.99

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Le Bossu

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Dir: André Hunebelle. Jean Marais. One of the all-time great swashbucklers, telling an epic tale of cut and thrust in the court of Louis XIV. FRANCE | 1960 | CEST | 101 min | subt | PG | # 15287 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Terence Fisher. Richard Greene stars as Robin Hood; Peter Cushing is the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. UK | 1960 | SPHE | 76 min | Cert PG | # 58130 | RRP £5.99

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The Crimson Pirate

The Thief of Bagdad

Dir: Robert Siodmak. Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat. Swashbuckling exuberance abounds in this affectionate celebration of pirate pictures.

Dirs: Berger/Korda/Powell/Whelan. A wonderful escapist Arabian fantasy, telling of a small boy’s magical adventures.

USA | 1952 | BHORSE | 105 min | Cert U | # 53671 | RRP £9.99

UK | 1940 | NWORK | 101 min | Cert U | # 28858 | RRP £9.99

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Errol Flynn Collection

The Three Musketeers The Four Musketeers

Six classic films, including Flynn’s starring debut Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and Dodge City. USA | 1935-41 | WHV | B&W | Cert PG | # 60190 | RRP £14.99

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Dir: Richard Lester. Michael York plays d’Artagnan in this Dumas double bill. UK | 1973-74 | OPTIM | 206 min | Cert PG | # 54777 | RRP £15.99

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Classic Movies The Master of Ballantrae William Keighley

A swashbucking romp based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which Errol Flynn plays a laird who takes to the high seas. Features vivid cinematography by Jack Cardiff and a fine array of British actors, especially Roger Livesey, cast against type as the star’s fun-loving Irish sidekick. USA | 1953 | ORBIT | 90 min | Cert PG Item # 62724 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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A Place to Go Basil Dearden

Classic 60s kitchen sink crime drama set in Bethnal Green, where the Flint family are struggling to keep their heads above water, especially when dad Matt (Bernard Lee) loses his job at the docks and decides to make a living as an escapologist. Meanwhile son Ricky is tempted by gangland life. Rita Tushingham co-stars as Ricky’s girl.

Enjoy the taste of fear with these Hammer Mugs! Since receiving a few samples recently, MovieMail staff have been happily drinking their tea and coffee from suitably bold and colourful mugs featuring original artwork from Hammer Films productions. As you know, normally we only sell DVDs and Blu-rays so mugs are a bit of a departure, but hopefully one you’ll enjoy.

UK | 1963 | ODEON | 86 min | Cert 12 Item # 56307 | RRP £12.99 | Released 16th February

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Sailors Three / Save a Little Sunshine

The Mummy

Walter Forde / Norman Lee

Pairing of Tommy Trinder films. Sailors Three (Forde, 1940) sees him end up on a German battleship with fellow sailors Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding, while in Save a Little Sunshine (Lee, 1938), Trinder and Max Wall play a perpetually quarrelling pair of down-on-their-luck music hall artistes. UK | 1938; 1940 | OPTIM | 156 min | Cert U Item # 62497 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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The Son of Kong Ernest Schoedsack The sequel to King Kong. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) returns to Skull Island in search of rumoured treasure but finds something even more remarkable – Kong’s son. Then a mighty earthquake strikes... USA | 1933 | ODEON | 66 min | Cert 15 Item # 62771 | RRP £9.99 | Released 23rd August

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The Curse of Frankenstein

Chaplin Classics on DVD & Blu-ray The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin

Panning for gold is a tricky business; long hours of thankless grind, untold hazards and the constant doubt that you’ll never find the treasure you’re after. It is, therefore, a fair metaphor for Chaplin’s working methods. But unlike most prospectors, he tapped into a rich seam: The Gold Rush is one of his masterpieces. We join the little Tramp up in the frozen Yukon, ready for an awkward encounter with a ravening bear. And things don’t improve when he finds shelter; the snowstorm outside is matched by cabin fever within. Chaplin is on frisky form throughout, serving up some of his funniest sequences (eating his own boots; the improbably hilarious episode where another starving prospector tries to eat him) and his most dextrous (the celebrated dance of the bread rolls). Not simply one of the greatest silent films, this is a 2 discs; veritable mother lode of comedy. Both versions of The Gold Rush – the 1925 silent original, and the restored re-edited 1942 version, to which Chaplin added a musical score and narration; Introduction by David Robinson; Chaplin Today. USA | 1925 | PARKC | 72 min | Cert U Item # 62357 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd Aug

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Modern Times Charlie Chaplin Dracula

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At the height of the great depression, Hollywood chose to ignore grim economic realities. Charlie Chaplin demurred; he placed his little tramp right in the thick of things, beset by poverty, political radicals and dehumanising working practices. And he made them funny. The story is typically loose: after an unsuccessful spell working in a factory, the tramp falls in with a young lady (Paulette Goddard), then tries to make enough money to sustain them both. Within this, Chaplin fashioned a succession of brilliant gags – the tramp getting (literally) lost in a machine, an accidental drug binge and some dazzling roller-skate acrobatics amongst 2 discs; Restored in High Definition; them. Chaplin Today; Introduction by David Robinson; Deleted Scenes; Chaplin Karaoke; Trailer Reel. USA | 1936 | PARKC | 85 min | Cert U Item # 62356 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd Aug

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Three for great DVDs just £18 Part II

Last month’s sale was such a success that we thought you’d appreciate this new selection of great films. As before, you can buy any 3 for just £18, or individually at the given price.

Edge of Darkness

Fish Tank

The White Ribbon

Martin Campbell

Andrea Arnold

Michael Haneke

Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley star in this dark and humanistic drama of father/daughter relationships, buried secrets and terrifying conspiracies in the nuclear power industry. 2 discs.

A tender, incisive tale for our age, about adolescence in modern Britain, which brings a delicate lyricism to the social realist tradition of British film. The Jury Prize winner at Cannes in 2009.

A brilliantly mysterious black and white study of a rural village in 1913 that shows the undercurrents that went to shape the life of 20th century Germany. The worthy Palme d’Or winner in 2009.

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

UK | 2009 | ART-E | 124 min | Cert 15 | # 60491 | RRP £15.99

Austria | 2009 | ART-E | 144 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 60951 | £15.99

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Les Biches

Hamlet

Dir: Claude Chabrol. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stéphane Audran and Jaqueline Sassard are the ménage à trois in this compelling, sensual film.

Dir: Laurence Olivier. The definitive film portrayal of Hamlet, with Olivier’s performance both haunting and intriguing. A double Oscar winner.

McCabe and Mrs Miller

France | 1968 | ARROW | 95 min | subt | 15 | # 18478 | RRP £15.99

UK | 1948 | CRLTN | 155 min | B&W | Cert U | # 4364 | RRP £9.99

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Dir: Robert Altman. Julie Christie and Warren Beatty play the brothel keeper and gambler in this chilly western. USA | 1971 | WHV | 108 min | Cert 15 | # 14358 | RRP £15.99

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Classic Movies Submarine Alert Frank McDonald

Wartime B-movie starring Nils Asther and Richard Arlen. To close in on a Nazi spy ring, the US Government fires its top radio engineers to see if they are recruited. Sure enough, a resident alien without a job to pay for his ward’s operation falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept into a world of deceit and danger. USA | 1943 | 67 min | Cert 15 Item # 63006 | RRP £5.99 | Released 16th August

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The Toast of New York Rowland V. Lee

1930s comedy starring Cary Grant and set during the Civil War. Grant plays one of a pair of cotton smugglers whose investments prove worthless when the North wins. Undaunted, they set out to make their fortunes, but then fall in love – unfortunately for them, with the same woman. USA | 1937 | PALL | 109 min | Cert U Item # 62723 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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Tommy the Toreador John Paddy Carstairs

Sid James, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Williams, Janet Munro. Musical comedy from 1960 which acted as a showcase for Steele’s songs, which include Little White Bull. Steele plays a sailor who, along with his girlfriend, finds himself in Spain where he becomes a stand-in matador! UK | 1959 | OPTIM | 83 min | Cert U Item # 62448 | RRP £15.99 | Released 19th July

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Blu-rays The African Queen John Huston

UK / USA | 1951 | 100 min | PG | # 61314 | £19.99

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The Graduate Mike Nichols

USA | 1967 | OPTIM | 101 min | 15 | # 62455 | £24.99

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The Third Man Carol Reed

UK | 1949 | OPTIM | B&W | PG | # 62502 | £24.99

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They Flew Alone

The Big Clock Recommended

Director: Herbert Wilcox

Director: John Farrow

Starring: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Martita Hunt, Nora Swinburne, Joan Kemp-Welch

Starring: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Maureen O’Sullivan

Released: 16th August

Released: 23rd August

UK | 1942 | ODEON | 103 min | B&W | Cert 15 | Item # 62633

USA | 1948 | ODEON | 95 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 62788

Anna Neagle, Britain’s most popular actress of the period, seizes on one of her best roles as Amy Johnson, the legendary pilot who flew solo over 10,000 miles to Australia, entered a turbulent marriage with Jim Mollison, another renowned pilot, and went missing on an Air Transport Auxiliary mission. Neagle, who could be a mannered performer, is fresh and likable as Amy, and sports a surprisingly convincing Hull accent. She captures Johnson’s indomitable spirit and refusal to conform to social boundaries. Robert Newton is also excellent as Johnson’s jealous husband, whose own career was overshadowed by his wife’s achievements. They Flew Alone was made the year after Johnson’s death – it is difficult to imagine a film being produced so quickly after its subject’s demise today. The film both honours the aviator and acted as valuable propaganda during the height of the war years, celebrating the British spirit and emphasising the need for war effort contributions. Like many Neagle films, it’s very much of its time, yet this adds greatly to its enjoyment. AD

This is a knockout, noir-tinged thriller in the classic tradition, throwing a good man into a hellish situation, then watching him desperately trying to escape. Ray Milland – who had made his name in romantic comedy, but by the mid-40s was showing a flair for darker fare – plays the editor of a crime magazine specialising in tracking down missing persons. So when his tyrannical publisher Charles Laughton disposes of mistress Rita Johnson with one conk from a tabletop sundial, it’s Milland he turns to, asking him to sniff out the only witness, hoping to pin the crime on him. Unfortunately the witness is Milland himself, and he’s left fighting for his liberty and his life, the titular timepiece counting down his last seconds of freedom. Farrow’s film – remade in 1987 as No Way Out – is a super suspense yarn, lit by ingenious plotting, cracking direction and a stellar cast. Laughton is the standout as the megalomaniac villain, but his offscreen wife Elsa Lanchester isn’t far behind, while Harry Morgan is impressively ominous as a mute masseur-cum-hitman. RB

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Peculiarly British Inspired by Sight & Sound’s recent article looking at the films of ‘old, weird Britain’, we thought this a good opportunity to gather together some of the richly strange filmic delights from these isles. Most are from the 1960s-70s – a purple patch of filmmaking in which Britain’s past was much to the fore, whether the subjects were rural, pagan and communitarian or royal and feudal, while the past also seeps into the recent studies of haunted urban landscapes that we’ve included here. The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Winstanley

A suggestive, profound study of Englishness in which four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards the spiritual home of Canterbury, with the film’s pastoral nature tempered by its unusual dark currents.

Naomi Capon

A unique British film that stages a beautiful recreation of the life and struggle of 17th century social reformer, activist and Leveller Gerrard Winstanley. It Happened Here Again (1976).

UK | 1944 | CRLTN | 120 min | B&W | Cert U | # 4358 | RRP £6.99

UK | 1970 | CCLUB | 535 min | Cert 15 | # 32100 | RRP £34.99

Michael Powell

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Anne of the Thousand Days Dir: Charles Jarrott. Lavish costume drama starring Richard Burton as the king infatuated with Anne Boleyn.

The BBC’s BAFTA-winning sixepisode dramatization of Henry VIII’s relationships with each of his six wives. From 1970, this is one of the finest examples of BBC costume drama. 4 discs.

Brownlow & Mollo

UK | 1975 | BFI | 96 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 57953 | RRP £19.99

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Elizabeth R

Mary, Queen of Scots

Glenda Jackson turns in a remarkable performance as Queen Elizabeth I of England in this meticulously researched BBC series. 3 discs.

Dir: Charles Jarrott. Oscar-nominated period drama with a wonderful cast. Vanessa Redgrave stars; Glenda Jackson plays the Virgin Queen.

UK | 1971 | CCLUB | 540 min | Cert 12 | # 27287 | RRP £29.99

UK | 1971 | SECND | 126 min | Cert 12 | # 60933 | RRP £15.99

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Barry Lyndon

The Go-Between

The Owl Service

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. A visually stunning, four Oscar-winning adaptation of Thackeray’s novel. Ryan O’Neal stars as the 18th century adventurer.

Dir: Joseph Losey. The tale of a rural love affair cruelly thwarted by the class prejudice and convention. Scripted by Harold Pinter.

Granada’s fantasy TV series, adapted from Alan Garner’s award-winning novel, itself based on an ancient tale from the Mabinogion.

UK | 1975 | WHV | 177 min | Cert PG | # 8315 | RRP £19.99

UK | 1970 | OPTIM | 111 min | Cert PG | # 32019 | RRP £15.99

UK | 1969 | NWORK | 240 min | Cert 12 | # 53806 | RRP £14.99

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The Bed Sitting Room

Kes

The Wicker Man

Dir: Richard Lester. An odd, bleak and darkly satirical vision of a postapocalyptic England, filled with great British comic actors.

Dir: Ken Loach. A lonely boy trains a kestrel in this classic of British cinema, which is still Loach’s bestknown and best-loved film.

Dir: Robin Hardy. The enduring cult classic in which Edward Woodward’s poor Christian copper is summoned to Christopher Lee’s pagan isle.

UK | 1969 | BFI | 90 min | Cert 12 | # 57997 | RRP £17.99

UK | 1969 | MGMHE | 106 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 12272 | RRP £15.99

UK | 1973 | OPTIM | 84 min | Cert 18 | # 30648 | RRP £12.99

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The Damned

London / Robinson in Space

Witchfinder General

UK | 1969 | UPV | 140 min | Cert PG | # 27490 | RRP £9.99

Dir: Joseph Losey. One of Hammer’s oddest (and best) films, in which a hoodlum movie morphs into a scifi about radioactive children. UK | 1963 | SPHE | 91 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 59714 | RRP £12.99

Dir: Patrick Keiller. Two wryly provocative film essays about London, England and Englishness. 2 discs. UK | 1994, 1997 | BFI | 160 min | Cert PG | # 22397 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Michael Reeves. A brilliant tale of 17th century fear and persecution, with Vincent Price frighteningly demonic in the lead. UK | 1968 | SDM | 82 min | Cert 18 | # 33731 | RRP £5.99

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The Devil Rides Out

London Orbital

Women in Love

Dir: Terence Fisher. Satanic Hammer, from Dennis Wheatley’s devilish novel, in which Christopher Lee gets a rare chance to play the hero.

Dir: Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair. Quite literally, a road movie, in which the filmmakers set out to uncover the hidden histories of the M25.

Dir: Ken Russell. A memorable adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novel with, notoriously, Oliver Reed and Ralph Bates wrestling naked by the fireside.

UK | 1968 | OPTIM | 91 min | Cert 15 | # 30649 | RRP £12.99

UK | 2002 | I-MIN | 100 min | Cert E | # 18476 | RRP £19.99

UK | 1969 | MGMHE | 125 min | Cert 18 | # 18847 | RRP £12.99

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A Canterbury Tale

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Benny Hill Annuals 1986 / 88

New Releases A Mind to Kill: Series 3

A dark detective thriller set in South Wales. Philip Madoc plays Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain, a man trying to come to terms with his new role in a modern, accountantdriven police force, as well as the presence of a new constable at the station: his own daughter,

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With high-speed farce, risqué jokes and ‘Hill’s Angels’, it was these Thames Television shows that turned Benny Hill into a global household name. On offer are three shows from 1986 and two from 1988. In each, he is assisted by his assorted hopeless helpers, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, and Jon Jon Keefe.

UK | 1986 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert 12 Item # 62773 / 62774 | RRP £12.99 | Out 13th Sept

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Bramwell: Complete Series

UK | 2002 | NWORK | 665 min | Cert 15 Item # 62781 | RRP £34.99 | Released 16th Aug

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A Touch of Frost: Series 6-15 Every episode from series 6-15 of the BAFTA awardwinning ITV police drama starring David Jason as DI Jack Frost, a traditional inspector whose team often finds itself restricted by the bureaucraticallyminded station commander, Supt. Mullett. 19 discs.

Jemma Redgrave stars as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, a female doctor striving to succeed in a male dominated profession in Victoria London. She gets a chance to have a more influential position in the world of medicine when Lady Peters (Michele Dotrice) offers her a renovated building to turn into a free hospital for the 7 discs. poor citizens of the East End. UK | 1998 | G-VEN | 1364 min | Cert 15 Item # 62986 | RRP £49.99 | Out 30th August

UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 1977 min | Cert 15 Item # 62981 | RRP £109.99 | Released 16th August

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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Series 1-4

Mystery, murder and foul play abound in rural England in the 1930s in these adaptations from the Queen of Crime. Geraldine McEwan took the lead as the deceptively frail detective in the first three series; thereafter it was Julia McKenzie. 16 discs.

UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 1490 min | Cert 15 Item # 62982 | RRP £79.99 | Released 16th August

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Backs to the Land: S2 & S3

Everything is changing at Crabtree Farm. There’s a new air base packed full of women-hungry officers, an army captain is billeted at the farm, the evacuee children are a handful, and there is a new land girl, a beautiful blonde called Bunny Burroughs – and the other girls hate Series 2 & 3 available separately. her already!

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Doctor Who - The New Series: 5 - Volume 4

Matt Smith stars as the mercurial and energetic new Doctor, Karen Gillan his smart and sassy assistant in episodes 10-13 of the new series, written by Stephen Moffat. Contains: Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 195 min | Cert PG Item # 62741 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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Doctor Who: Time and the Rani Andrew Morgan

Sylvester McCoy makes his first appearance as the Doctor, coming up against his old enemy, renegade Time Lord Rani (Kate O’Mara), who masquerades as his assistant, tricking the newly regenerated Doctor into constructing a giant time manipulator designed to drain the minds of hisMany extras. tory’s great scientists.

UK | 1977-78 | SMPLY | 149 min | Cert TBC Item # 62958 / 62959 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Father Dear Father: Series 6

Patrick Cargill plays a divorced thriller writer who finds himself responsible for the welfare and upbringing of his irrepressible teenage dolly-bird daughters, whose shockingly modern outlook on love, sex and marriage drive him to distraction. The complete sixth series.

UK | 1972 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert PG Item # 62765 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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Going Postal Jon Jones

The third of Sky’s adaptations from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, after The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, Going Postal sees con artist Moist von Lipwig (Richard Coyle) take the position of Postmaster in Ankh Morpork, hoping for Special Edition a chance to escape. Extras: Terry Pratchett Introduction; Deleted Scenes; Blooper Reel; Cast, Crew and Terry Pratchett interviews; Director’s commentary. UK | 2010 | FOX | 182 min | Cert 12 Item # 63015-7 | RRP £24.99 | Released 23rd Aug

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Hello Cheeky

Improvisation, raillery and general silliness abound in this TV version of Radio 2’s long-running 1970s comedy show. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and John Junkin, these half-hour shows were pre-recorded in front of a live audience and this first DVD release contains 2 discs. all 12 existing episodes from 1976. UK | 1976 | NWORK | 325 min | Cert 15 Item # 62998 | RRP £19.99 | Released 19th July

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Identity

The complete six-part series of the crime drama, starring Keeley Hawes as part of a police unit fighting identity theft. As DSI Martha Lawrence struggles to keep the unit she set up running successfully, she and her team work with the psychology relating to identity theft and go to extreme measures in 2 discs. order to catch the culprits. UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 276 min | Cert 15 Item # 62882 | RRP £19.99 | Released 16th Aug

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Karaoke / Cold Lazarus Recommended

Cold Lazarus Director: Renny Rye Starring: Albert Finney, Diane Ladd, Ciaran Hinds, Frances de la Tour Released: 6th September DVD Extras: 2 discs UK | 1996 | ACORN | 240 min Cert 15 | Item # 61767

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See Also The Essential Dennis Potter UK | 1965-86 | BBC | 1665 min | Cert 15 | # 23448 | RRP £99.99

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fter almost 14 years of back and forth, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus, Dennis Potter’s final two TV dramas, which were originally shown posthumously on BBC and Channel 4, have received a DVD release – and a long overdue pleasure it is to see them again. Both written under the cosh as Potter battled with pancreatic cancer, they deliver an extraordinary punch – managing to summarise Potter’s career to date whilst at the same time interacting with one another and signposting where Potter might possibly have gone next, had he been given the opportunity. Karaoke concerns a writer called Daniel Feelds (Albert Finney) who is struggling with his health somewhat (we first meet him in the midst of a daydream that itself harks back to the likes of Pennies from Heaven, as he undergoes an uncomfortable hospital procedure). He is also possibly becoming unhinged as he sees people in the world about him apparently uttering lines from the film he is working on (itself called ‘Karaoke’). The film-within-a-film scenes featuring Ian McDiarmid are darkly humorous – McDiarmid closely resembling Potter himself – and serve to direct Potter fans back to the likes of both Blackeyes (in which a young model attempts to rewrite

A long overdue release for Dennis Potter’s final two TV dramas the story foisted upon her by an omniscient narrator) and Doubledare (with its characters locked in time). Cold Lazarus, set 350 years in the future, is a fully-fledged science fiction drama that could actually find a potent new audience with Dr Who fans. Daniel Feelds is now a head in a jar, experimented upon by scientists who don’t know that he has achieved a kind of consciousness while they attempt to excavate his memories for commercial benefit among the bland citizens of a crass Americanised future (all of which gives Potter enormous scope for satire). The theme of confined bodies with wandering minds is a familiar theme to Potter’s drama, having previously been explored through the psoriatic, bed-bound Philip Marlow in The Singing Detective and the incarcerated Casanova in Potter’s 1971 drama of the same name. This is an essential purchase both for fans and for those who need to catch up with one of the greatest English dramatists of the twentieth century. Peter Wild

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September Song

The Complete First Series This light-hearted but often poignant series gave Russ Abbot his first serious TV role following his resounding success as a comedian. He plays a man who, after suffering a bereavement, decides to move with his friend (Michael Williams) into a camper van in Blackpool – with decidedly mixed results. First shown in 1993, September Song is available here for the first time on DVD.

Plan B

Argentine Marco Berger’s feature-length debut and film festival favourite Plan B sees Bruno’s attempts to win back his ex-girlfriend take an unexpected turn when he befriends her handsome new boyfriend.

“A smart, soulful comedy” HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Lymelife ★★★★ TOTAL FILM ★★★★ RADIO TIMES ★★★★ HEAT MAGAZINE Alec Baldwin and Cynthia Nixon star alongside Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts in this critically acclaimed coming-of-age film, set against the backdrop of a Lyme disease outbreak on Long Island.

“A leaner and meaner ‘American Beauty’” VARIETY

“A deliciously dark, offbeat comedy” BIZARRE

“Excellent” THE GUARDIAN

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Sept 2010 MovieMail Film Catalogue

Television Lewis: Series 1-4

The complete Series 1 to 4 of the Inspector Morse spin-off detective drama starring Kevin Whately, who returns to Oxford five years after Morse’s death to take up a Detective Inspector position there after recently becoming a 17 discs. widower.

UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 1470 min | 12 Item # 62973 | RRP £84.99 | Released 16th August

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Lost: Season 6

All 16 episodes from the sixth and final season of the hugely popular US drama series, which sees the ‘Oceanic 6’ suffer the consequences of a nuclear bomb detonation and face more mysterious encounters on the island. 5 discs Also available: 35 disc Box Set of the Complete Seasons 1-6. USA | 2010 | BUENA | Cert TBC Item # 62364-6 | RRP £44.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Midsomer Murders: Series 11 All seven episodes from the eleventh series of the longrunning ITV detective drama starring John Nettles as Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby, who uncovers the crimes hidden beneath the facade of local village life with the help of Sergeant Ben Jones (Jason Hughes). 6 discs.

UK | 2008 | ACORN | 744 min | | Cert 15 Item # 58546 | RRP £59.99 | Released 23rd Aug

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Miss Jones and Son: Series 1 Paula Wilcox stars in this sitcom depicting the complicated life of Elizabeth Jones, a young woman coming to terms with the responsibility of looking after her baby alone at a time when single mothers faced widespread prejudice. Coming from the creative team responsible for And Mother Makes Three, Man About the House and Robin’s Nest, Miss Jones and Son was notable for being the first British sitcom to depict a single mother. UK | 1977 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert PG Item # 62769 | RRP £12.99 | Released 30th August

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Mistresses: Series 3

The sexy, sophisticated BBC drama is back for a final series where love, betrayal, loss, forgiveness and, most of all, the enduring power of female friendship are on the menu. Having not seen each other for months, Katie, Trudi, Siobhan and Jessica get back together. But what caused these friends to split? The drama moves back five months to 2 discs. Also available: Series reveal all. 1-3 Box Set, 6-discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 240 min | Cert 15 Item # 62889-90 | RRP £19.99 | Out 6th Sept

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Morecambe & Wise: Series 9 The last series that Eric and Ernie made for the BBC, it was broadcast in 1976 (the year that they were awarded OBEs). It ranks as one of their finest and includes perhaps their most famous sketch – ‘The Breakfast Stripper’.

UK | 1976 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item # 62609 | RRP £15.99 | Released 23rd August

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Murdoch Mysteries: Series 1-3

Canadian historical crime drama series set in late 19th century Toronto. Yannick Bisson stars as Inspector William Murdoch, a dashing young detective who pioneers new scientific approaches to solving crime such as fingerprinting, forensic tech12 discs. niques and lie detector machines. Canada / UK | 2010 | G-VEN | Cert TBC Item # 62976 | RRP £89.99 | Released 30th August

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No Job for a Lady: Series 1 John Davies

Comedy icon Penelope Keith stars as Jean Price, a newly elected Labour MP who finds her principles severely tested in the unforgiving and often murky world of Westminster. As she tries to hold her own amid the swollen egos, rampant chauvinism and Machiavellian scheming of the political elite, husband Geoff (Mark Kingston) provides much-needed moral support.

The Eric Sykes Collection Recommended Director: Eric Sykes Contains: The Plank (1979), Rhubarb, Rhubarb (1980), If You Go Down In The Woods Today (1981), Mr H Is Late (1988), It’s Your Move (1982). Starring: Hattie Jacques, Eric Sykes, Bernard Cribbins, Arthur Lowe, Jimmy Edwards, Diana Dors, Charlie Drake, Deryck Guyler, Roy Kinnear Released: 23rd August UK | 1979-88 | REVEL | 184 min | Cert U | Item # 62256

These much-loved, Montreux prizefestooned comedies, all supervised by Sykes for Thames TV between 1979 and 1988, are fascinating not just as a staggering roll call of guest stars – an A-Z of British comedy talent, from Richard Briers to Reg Varney – but also as English counterpoints to the films of Jacques Tati. Silent except for music, sound effects and, in the case of Rhubarb Rhubarb, the word ‘Rhubarb’ as the only spoken dialogue, they brim with the kind of authority figures (incompetent police chiefs, vicars) and stock tradesmen (bungling house movers, builders) that English comedy has relied on from time immemorial. Sykes himself is the English Tati, from his physical similarity – lanky, gangling, with bemused countenance and well-meaning gestures – to the comic inventiveness he displays behind and on screen. But his influences go back much further, not only to his own music hall beginnings, but to the great era of American silent comedy. JU

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Television Sherlock

Normans

Three-part BBC historical documentary series, presented by Professor Robert Bartlett, exploring how the Normans developed from a band of marauding Vikings into the mighty warriors who conquered England in 1066, becoming a formidable force of Christian warriors whose legacy lives on to this day. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert E Item # 62693 | RRP £19.99 | Released 30th August

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North and South: Complete

The complete mini-series set in the 1800s in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) and George Hazard (James Read) form a strong bond at the US Military Academy – but their friendship is put to the test when they find their families are on opposing sides of the war. Also stars Kirstie Alley, and many guest stars, including David Carradine, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum and Johnny Cash. USA | 1985 | WHV | 539 min | Cert TBC Item # 62172 | RRP £24.99 | Released 6th September

Private Life of a Masterpiece

The award-winning BBC series that reveals the full and fascinating stories behind famous works of art, not just how they were created, but also how they influenced others and came to have a life of their own in the modern world. Four series are available: 17th Century Masters, Renaissance Masterpieces, Masterpieces of Sculpture and Masterpieces of the 20th Century.

UK | 2002 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert 12 Item # 62701-4 | RRP £15.99 | Released 16th August

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Roberts Robots: Series 1 This long-unseen children’s TV rarity finds an inventor (John Clive) engaged in a very special secret project: the development of sophisticated humanoid robots. Contains all seven episodes of series one, which was originally transmitted in 1973.

UK | 1973 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert U Item # 62731 | RRP £12.99 | Released 2nd August

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UK | 2010 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item # 62778-9 | RRP £19.99 | Released 30th August

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That’s My Boy: Series 1

Sitcom legend Mollie Sugden stars as the housekeeper who finds herself in a rather unusual situation when she goes to work for a doctor and his wife: having moved into the couple’s London flat, she gradually realises that her employer is in fact the son she gave up for adoption as a baby! Once she is over the shock, she starts to make her maternal presence felt... UK | 1981 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert PG Item # 62759 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is set in present-day London, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant detective and Martin Freeman as John Watson. Sherlock Holmes was always a modern man. Now he’s back as he should be – edgy, contemporary, difficult, 60 minute pilot episode. and dangerous.

The Cannon and Ball Show: Complete Series 1

Having been given their major TV break on Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night in 1978, Oldham weldersturned clubland stars Cannon and Ball went from strength to strength, and this LWT series, launched the following year, consolidated their success.

UK | 1979 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert TBC Item # 62760 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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The Phil Silvers Show: Season 1 What every Sgt. Bilko fan has been waiting for! The Phil Silvers Show arrives with all 34 digitally remastered episodes from the 5 classic first season. discs; Commentaries; Original network opening; Camel sponsor spots; Pontiac commercial; The Lost Audition Show.

USA | 1956 | PARAH | Cert PG Item # 62251 | RRP £24.99 | Released 6th September

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Spiral (Series 1 & 2) Recommended Starring: Grégory Fitoussi, Caroline Proust Released: 9th August Series 1 & 2 Box Set: 4 discs. France | 2008 | 2ENT | 800 min | subt | Cert 18 | Item # 62669

This superb French police drama has gained a loyal following on BBC Four, and you don’t have to be a detective to work out why. Like CSI, it boasts dashing investigators and extraordinarily gruesome murders, but the bleak Parisian setting, mordant dialogue and the tangled lives of its flawed protagonists lend what would otherwise be a standard police procedural thriller the class of a modern noir, with grainy, handheld, camerawork capturing stark, dimly-lit offices and billows of cigarette smoke. Spiral centres around the triumvirate of impossibly handsome Deputy Prosecutor Pierre Clément, tenacious Police Captain Laure Berthaud and steel-eyed Judge François Roban. Each series centres around a single, shocking murder, sparking an investigation which soon expands to reveal corruption and betrayal involving the investigators themselves. With series 3 coming soon, now is the perfect time to explore this gripping, well-made drama. Series 1 and 2 of Spiral are also available individually on DVD for £13.99 and £12.99 respectively

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The Protectors: Complete

Produced by Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill, The Protectors was one of ITC’s most ambitious projects, boasting actionpacked storylines and location filming in some of Europe’s most glamorous cities. Robert Vaughn stars as suave American Harry Rule, Tony Anholt plays the French agent, Paul Buchet, while Nyree Dawn Porter is the elegant Contessa di Contini. Contains all 52 half-hour episodes. 7 discs; Over 1500 stills; PDF promo material. UK | 1972-74 | NWORK | 1300 min | Cert PG Item # 62728 | RRP £59.99 | Released 23rd August

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Christmas With the Royle Family Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne, Ralf Little, Liz Smith, Craig Cash. A collection of Christmas episodes with TV’s first family of the sofa. Contains Christmas With the Royle Family, The Royle Family at Christmas and The New Sofa.

UK | 2008 | G-VEN | 125 min | Cert 15 Item # 62992 | RRP £19.99 | Released 16th August

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The Scarlet Pimpernel: Complete Series 1 & 2

The complete series of BBC’s stylish, witty period adventure starring Richard E. Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney, the nobleman with a double life as the elusive pimpernel, a man who dares to defy the French revolutionaries and keep the aristocracy from 4 discs. the gallows.

The Two Ronnies: Series 8

Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Diana Dors. In a packed programme tonight... All the episodes from series 8 of the longrunning comic institution starring Messrs Barker & Corbett, filled with comedic gold dust delivered with a nod and a wink.

UK | 1980 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 62898 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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The Untouchables: Season 3 The third season of the tough drama chronicling the cases of Chicagobased federal agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) and his team of agents. The series impressed critics with its gritty storylines and thrilled audiences with its spectacular 7 discs. shoot-outs.

USA | 1962 | PARAH | 1680 min | Cert 12 Item # 62791 | RRP £24.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Wycliffe: Series 2 & 3

Set amid the windswept beauty of Cornwall, Wycliffe follows Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe as he investigates the region’s most serious and challenging cases. Jack Shepherd is quietly charismatic in the title role, and the series also stars Jimmy Yuill and Helen Masters as his dependable colleagues. Series 2 and 3 available separately. 2 discs each series.

UK | 1996 | NWORK | 400 min | Cert 12 Item # 62777 | RRP £19.99 | Released 30th Aug

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UK | 2000 | STAX | Cert 12 Item # 62828 | RRP £15.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Mini-series based on Colleen McCullough’s best-selling novel, which follows sixty years in the lives of the Cleary family, especially the relationship between Richard Chamberlain’s ambitious priest and Rachel Ward’s young woman. 3 discs. Australia | 1983 | WHV | 456 min | Cert 15 Item # 62029 | RRP £24.99 | Released 6th September

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Antonio Carluccio’s Italian Feast UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 180 min | E | # 62611 | £19.99

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Birds of a Feather: S1 UK | 1990 | NWORK | 173 min | # 62775 | £12.99

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Birds of a Feather: S2 UK | 1990 | NWORK | 450 min | # 62776 | RRP £24.99

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Dallas: Season 13 USA | 1990 | WHV | Cert TBC | # 62150 | £24.99

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Dexter: Season 3 USA | 2008 | PARAH | 18 | # 61528 | £34.99

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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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Fresh Fields: Series 2 UK | 1984 | NWORK | 150 min | PG | # 62766 | £12.99

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Glee: Season 1 USA | 2010 | FOX | 12 | # 62526 | RRP £39.99

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In Loving Memory: S5 UK | 1986 | NWORK | 175 min | PG | # 62767 | £12.99

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In Sickness and in Health: S1-6 UK | 1985-92 | 2ENT | 12 | # 62895 | RRP £59.99

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The Thorn Birds: Complete Daryl Duke

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Selwyn: Complete UK | 1978 | 175 min | Cert PG | # 62757 | RRP £12.99

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The Advocates: S2 UK | 1991 | ALBA | 120 min | 15 | # 62340 | £19.99

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present Kick-Ass

New Releases Agora

Alejandro Amenábar

Historical epic set in Roman Egypt. Rachel Weisz stars as the astrologer and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to protect the wisdom of the ancient world from religious naysayers. As the Christians resort to violence for their cause, Hypatia’s slave is torn between loyalty and a chance of freedom. Spain | 2009 | PARAH | 121 min | Cert 12 Item # 62360 | RRP £19.99 | Released 16th August

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Matthew Vaughn

Violent action comedy based on the graphic novel, starring Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) as a run-of-the-mill high school student who, inspired by the comic books he loves, tries to become a real-life superhero, eventually joining forces with vigilante Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Hit-Girl. USA | 2010 | UPV | 117 min | Cert 15 Item # 62694 / 62697-8 | RRP £19.99 | Out 6th Sep

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Lymelife

Derick Martini Alec Baldwin, Cynthia Nixon. An indie comedy drama set in Long Island in the late 1970s, where, as the children of two dysfunctional families discover the awkward joys of young love, their parents find themselves in an American dreamturned-nightmare as infidelity and an outbreak of Lyme disease threaten to shatter the uneasy quiet of their affluent suburban neighbourhood.

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Sean Mathias

Clive Owen, Ian McKellen, Lothaire Bluteau. A moving love story set in pre-war fascist Germany that recounts the fate of three homosexual men during the rise of Nazism. 2 discs; Interviews; On-set Footage; Streets of Berlin music video.

USA | 2008 | NETWR | 95 min | Cert 15 Item # 62220 | RRP £14.99 | Released 23rd August

UK / USA | 1997 | PARKC | 100 min | Cert 18 Item # 62348 | RRP £19.99 | Released 6th Sept

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Manson Girl

Cemetery Junction

Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant

Reginald Harkema Aka Leslie, My Name is Evil. A satirical crime comedy based loosely on the Charles Manson murder trial in the 1960s. Gregory Smith stars as a sheltered engineer who falls in love with Manson Family hippy chick Leslie, after being on the jury at her murder trial.

A nostalgic coming-of-age comedy about three friends in 1970s Reading. While ladies’ man Bruce and loser Snork are happy with their lives, Freddie harbours dreams Gervais of escape. and Merchant in conversation; Commentary. UK | 2010 | COL-T | 95 min | 15 Item # 62583 / 62614 | RRP £17.99 | Out 30th Aug

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Cherrybomb

Ondine

Lisa Barros D’Sa

Neil Jordan

British coming-of-age drama which sees Rupert Grint’s (Harry Potter) Malachy put his family life, job and academic future on the line when, through escalating vandalism, drug-taking and theft, he competes with his best mate for a girl’s affection. UK | 2009 | UPV | 86 min | Cert 15 Item # 62149 | RRP £17.99 | Released 23rd August

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Canada | 2009 | MOMET | 85 min | Cert 18 Item # 61507 | RRP £12.99 | Released 9th August

Stephen Rea, Dervla Kirwan. Irish fantasy drama starring Colin Farrell as a poor fisherman who fishes a live woman out of the sea – a woman who transforms his, his daughter’s and the local townsfolk’s lives forever. Eire / USA | 2009 | PARAH | 111 min | Cert 12 Item # 62178 | RRP £19.99 | Released 16th August

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White Mischief Recommended EXCLUSIVE! Director: Michael Radford Starring: Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Grant, John Hurt, Ray McAnally, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard, Joss Ackland, Geraldine Chaplin Released: 5th September UK | 1988 | SPHE | 103 min | Cert 18 | Item # 60036

The decadence and immorality of the British settlers in colonial Africa was summed up in a scandal following the killing of a young earl, a notorious womanizer who had been sleeping with the wife of an elderly British rancher. The latter was tried for murder, and the debauched lifestyle of his compatriots was revealed – a world of obscene privilege, adultery and hedonism. Michael Radford expertly captures this world in White Mischief, an appropriately damning indictment of the worst aspects of British Colonial rule, which shows the background and aftermath of the case, and boasts a fantastic cast embodying the immoral Happy Valley set. Greta Scacchi, a key British actress of the 1980s, plays the beautiful, unfaithful wife who yearns for excitement away from her much older husband, and Sarah Miles contributes a daring turn as a particular outrageous member of the clique. Best of all is Joss Ackland as the cuckolded husband, at once dignified in comparison to the other settlers, yet just as unthinkingly racist when dealing with the Kenyan populace. AD

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The Passion Within Menno Meyjes

Aka Manolete. Adrien Brody stars in the title role of this romantic drama set in 1940s Spain and based on the life of legendary matador Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez, especially his passionate love affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penélope Cruz). Spain / UK | 2007 | MOMET | 115 min | Cert 15 Item # 61403 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd August

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Perrier’s Bounty Ian Fitzgibbon

A Dublin-set crime comedy in which – indebted to Dublin’s most ruthless gangster (Brendan Gleeson), Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy) embarks on a voyage through the city’s underworld in a frantic search for the cash that will save his skin. Eire / UK | 2009 | OPTIM | 88 min | Cert 15 Item # 62496 | RRP £17.99 | Released 16th August

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The Ploughman’s Lunch Richard Eyre

A drama scripted by Ian McEwan and set against the backdrop of the Falklands War. Jonathan Pryce stars as a deceitful journalist who uses every trick in the book to climb to the top – where he discovers that he has been the object of a deception far greater than his own. UK | 1983 | 4DVD | 100 min | Cert 15 Item # 62565 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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Proof

Jocelyn Moorhouse A dark, witty Australian drama. Blind from birth, Martin (Hugo Weaving) takes photos to prove that the world he senses is the same one other people see. Unfortunately, he trusts no-one enough to describe his photos to him – until he meets Andy (Russell Crowe), whose honesty and kindness touches him. But Martin’s jealous, love-stricken housekeeper (Geneviève Picot ) sets out to destroy their trusting relationship. Australia | 1991 | 4DVD | 90 min | Cert 15 Item # 62721 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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Scandal

Four Lions

Recommended

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Director: Chris Morris

Starring: Joanne Whalley, Ian McKellen, John Hurt, Britt Ekland, Jeroen Krabbe, Bridget Fonda,

Starring: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay

So how does this account of the early-sixties ‘Profumo Affair’ stand up, now that it’s finally been released on DVD? Rather well, as it happens. The fuss in 1989 over its sexual content now seems rather quaint, and Scandal seems even more like a high-calibre ‘heritage movie’ than it did back then: London in its justabout-to-swing phase is lovingly recreated, right down to the streetcorner milk-vending machines, and the British class system is shown in cross-section, from country houses and the corridors of power to ska clubs, bedsits and prefab housing. Joanne Whalley (as Christine Keeler) and Bridget Fonda (as Mandy Rice-Davies) are beguilingly wideeyed; Ian McKellen works miracles with the somewhat underwritten part of John Profumo; but the laurels go to John Hurt’s portrayal of Stephen Ward, a self-styled hedonist whose obsession with social climbing was his undoing. The scenes between Whalley and Hurt sketch the outline of a platonic love affair, but the film makes clear that the real scandal was the scapegoating of Ward by an establishment whose recreational needs he served so attentively. NR

This gripping, audacious film tracks a group of wannabe British suicide bombers as they plot a terror attack on the London Marathon. But Four Lions is not a 24-style thriller; instead, Brass Eye creator Chris Morris has taken a hard-hitting topic and turned it into a jaunty farce in the classic Ealing tradition. Despite its taboo subject matter, Four Lions marks a genuine change of pace for the arch-satirist. Morris has set out to prick the myth of martyrdom and the pomposity of Islamic extremism, but this is a surprisingly heartfelt Dad’s Army style comedy which never allows the audience to shield themselves behind cynicism. Four Lions is painfully, absurdly funny, but it is underscored by an unexpected sense of pathos. We are never asked to sympathise with the hapless terrorists, but scenes with Omar and his wife and child, who encourage him to pursue his mission against all odds, are as poignant as they are disturbing. And as the story approaches its climax, Four Lions impresses with sequences as suspenseful as any Hollywood blockbuster. MW

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Contemporary Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years

The Scouting Book for Boys Tom Harper

Clint Eastwood is one of the most prolific filmmakers out there, as an actor, director and producer. In celebration, Warner Brothers has produced this box set containing 35 of his films: Where Eagles Dare, Kelly’s Heroes, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Absolute Power, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Honkytonk Man, Firefox, Sudden Impact, Tight Rope, City Heat, Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, Bird (Director’s Cut), The Dead Pool, Pink Cadillac, The Rookie, White Hunter Black Heart, Unforgiven, Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil (Director’s Cut), True Crime, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Gran Torino and Invictus.

USA | 1968 - 2010 | WHV | Cert 18 Item # 62034 | RRP £ 119.99 | Released 16th August

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Daughters of Darkness Harry Kumel

Andrea Rau, Fons Rademakers. A cult vampire film that prefers psychosexuality to gore. Delphine Seyrig stars as the enigmatic and sexually ambiguous Countess Bathory, who creates tension between a honeymooning couple at a hotel. An inventive, teasing and exquisitely composed fairy tale for adults.

A dark coming-of-age thriller. Teenagers David (Thomas Turgoose) and Emily have grown up together in a Norfolk caravan park. When it emerges that Emily is to be sent away against her will, David agrees to help her hide out in a remote cave on the beach – leading police to fear that she has been kidnapped and mount a large-scale search. UK | 2009 | FOX | 93 min | Cert 15 Item # 62860 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd August

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Sister My Sister Nancy Meckler

Brilliantly photographed by Ashley Rowe, who creates an atmosphere of brooding madness, Sister My Sister tells of two sisters (Joely Richardson and Jodhi May) who work as maids in a middleclass home in 1930s France, where they find their passions released with disastrous results. France | 1994 | 4DVD | 89 min | Cert 15 Item # 62562 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th September

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Whip It

Drew Barrymore Barrymore’s debut directorial feature is a comingof-age comedy drama starring Ellen Page (Juno) as a rebellious Texas teen who throws in her small town beauty pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller derby, re-inventing herself as ‘Babe Ruthless’ on the way.

Belgium / France | 1970 | OPTIM | 96 min | Cert 18 Item # 62466 | RRP £15.99 | Released 30th August

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Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy

Capturing the exhilarating behind-the-scenes world of graffiti art, Exit Through... sees an eccentric Frenchman try to film and befriend elusive street artist Banksy, only for the artist to turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Edited by Banksy from footage filmed by LA-based filmmaker Thierry Guetta, the film follows graffiti artists, including Shepard Fairey, Invader and Banksy, at work – and also shows how Guetta created the pop-street-art alter-ego known as ‘Mr Brainwash’ and became an overnight sensation in the LA art world.

USA | 2009 | LGATE | 111 min | Cert 12 Item # 62490 | RRP £17.99 | Released 16th August

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Blu-rays Flash Gordon Mike Hodges

UK | 1980 | OPTIM | 106 min | PG | # 62714 | £24.99

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The Machinist Brad Anderson

USA | 2004 | 102 min | 15 | # 62432 | £24.99

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Mulholland Drive

USA / UK | 2010 | REV | 86 min | Cert 15 Item # 61912 / 61917 | RRP £19.99 | Out 6th Sept

David Lynch

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USA | 2001 | OPTIM | 148 min | 15 | # 62431 | £24.99

Also Released... A Boy Called Dad Brian Percival

UK | 2009 | KALHE | 80 min | 15 | # 62307 | £15.99

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After.Life

A Wojtowicz-Vosloo USA | 2009 | ANBAY | 103 min | # 61897 | £17.99

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Centurion

Neil Marshall UK | 2010 | FOX | 97 min | 15 | # 62699 | RRP £15.99

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Date Night Shawn Levy

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Dear John

Lasse Hallstrom USA | 2010 | 108 min | 12 | # 61993 | £24.99

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Homicide

David Mamet USA | 1991 | OPTIM | 97 min | 15 | # 62659 | £15.99

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Hot Tub Time Machine Steve Pink

USA | 2010 | FOX | 94 min | 15 | # 62522 | £19.99

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Judgement in Berlin Leo Penn

USA | 1988 | OPTIM | 92 min | PG | # 62505 | £15.99

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The Joneses Derrick Borte

USA | 2009 | E1 | 96 min | 15 | # 62829 | £17.99

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The Last Song

Julie Anne Robinson USA | 2010 | WDHV | 107 min | PG | # 62830 | £23.99

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My Life

Bruce Joel Rubin USA | 1993 | OPTIM | 112 min | 15 | # 62689 | £15.99

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Mike Newell

USA | 2010 | BUENA | 115 min | Cert 12 | # 63111 | RRP £17.99

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Gay & Lesbian Blu-ray Plan B

Marco Berger

Set in Buenos Aires, this beguiling feature masquerades as a familiar romantic comedy, only to confound expectations by testing the boundaries of gender and social demarcations, inviting us to explore contemporary ideas of desire, and to question what it means to play with love. Argentina | 2009 | NETWR | 103 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 62624 | RRP £15.99 | Released 13th Sept

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Pornography: A Thriller David Kittredge

David-Cronenberg-meetsDavid-Lynch in this psychological thriller set in the world of adult films. A famous gay model disappears at the height of his fame. Rumours about murder and blackmail abound until a young journalist decides to investigate, with his investigation bringing back the paranormal energy that destroyed the missing model, and which now threatens his own life as well.

Highlights Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard Fr | 1959 | OPTIM | subt | B&W | 15 | # 60791 | £24.99

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The Burmese Harp Kon Ichikawa

Japan | 1956 | EUREK | 116 min | subt | B&W | Cert 12 | # 63003 | RRP £22.99

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Four Lions Chris Morris

UK | 2009 | OPTIM | 97 min | 15 | # 62494 | £22.99

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The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin

USA | 1925 | 72 min | B&W | U | # 62357 | £19.99

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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Clive Donner

UK | 1968 | BFI | 96 min | Cert 15 | # 62359 | RRP £19.99

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Lebanon

USA | 2009 | PECCA | 113 min | Cert 18 Item # 62363 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th August

Samuel Maoz

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Twisted Romance Jose Campusano

Drama following an unusual romance. Raul (Oscar Genova) is a vulnerable teenager, while Roberto is a temperamental 50 year old. Despite their differences, the two men begin a volatile relationship which, although at times loving, can become violent. But how will Roberto react when Raul starts seeing someone his own age? Argentina | 2008 | TLAUK | 103 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 62336 | RRP £14.99 | Out 13th September

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Watercolors

David Oliveras A tender, romantic and engrossing film that charts the life-changing gay love affair between two young students, whose relationship is at risk from an abusive father, endemic homophobia and drug abuse. USA | 2008 | TLAUK | 110 min | Cert 15 Item # 62341 | RRP £14.99 | Released 30th Aug

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Israel | 2009 | 89 min | subt | 15 | # 63002 | £19.99

Modern Times Charlie Chaplin

USA | 1936 | 85 min | B&W | U | # 62356 | £19.99

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Mulholland Drive David Lynch

USA | 2001 | OPTIM | 148 min | 15 | # 62431 | £24.99

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The Pianist

Roman Polanski UK / France / Germany / Netherlands / Poland | 2002 | OPTIM | 149 min | Cert 15 | # 62479 | RRP £24.99

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The Third Man Carol Reed

UK | 1949 | OPTIM | B&W | PG | # 62502 | £24.99

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The World

Jia Zhang-ke China / Japan / France | 2004 | EUREK | 134 min | subt | Cert | # 62969 | RRP £22.99

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Vincere

Marco Bellocchio Italy / France | 2009 | ART-E | 125 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62627 | RRP £19.99

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BFI Blu-rays The Edge of the World Michael Powell

John Laurie, Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie. A powerful story of love, rivalry and survival set against the harsh elemental realities of island life and an everencroaching modernity. New High Definition presention; Alternative scenes; Commentary by Thelma SchoonmakerPowell and Professor Ian Christie; 200,000 feet on Foula read by Daniel Day-Lewis; Return to the Edge of the World (Michael Powell); Michael Powell’s Home Movies narrated by Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell; St Kilda – Britain’s Loneliest Isle; Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essay by Professor Ian Christie. UK | 1937 | BFI | 71 min | Cert U Item # 62358 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd August

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The Innocents Jack Clayton

Deborah Kerr. Clayton’s celebrated screen adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror. Commentary by Christopher Frayling; Filmed introduction (26 mins); The Bespoke Overcoat: Jack Clayton’s award-winning short; Naples is a Battlefield: Clayton’s documentary of the destruction and reconstruction of Naples; Booklet with essay by Jeremy Dyson. UK | 1961 | BFI | 100 min | Cert 12 Item # 59840 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd August

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A Zed and Two Noughts Peter Greenaway

An extraordinary tale of obsession in which the zoologist twin husbands of two women killed in a car crash start an affair with the female amputee driver. Tirelessly provocative, perversely comic and stylish, the film also pays tribute to the Dutch master of light Vermeer, is lit by 26 different forms of light and features a score by Michael New High Definition transfer; Nyman. Director Commentary; Introduction by Greenaway; Extracts from ?O, Zoo! (Philip Hoffman); Trailer; The Sea in Their Blood (Peter Greenaway): Rarely seen COI film exploring Britain’s coastline; Booklet. UK / Netherlands | 1985 | BFI | 115 min | Cert 15 Item # 62346 | RRP £19.99 | Released 23rd August

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

The Power and the Glory

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ll opinions about films are subjective but there’s a type of cinema that provokes more subjective responses than most. Exact definitions are pending but for now, let’s call them ‘Spiritual’ films. For some, this is the highest, most rarified peak of cinema, discussed in hushed, reverential tones. For others, the solemnity with which filmmakers like Dreyer, Bresson and Tarkovsky (to name three of the most conspicuous purveyors of what we’re calling Spiritual film) are treated is so much hooey. Expressions like ‘emperor’s new clothes’ are not uncommon. These are not, then, regular films. The pace is contemplative, there is less emphasis on conventional characterisation and the concerns are highminded: the nature of humanity, mankind’s spiritual yearnings and our relationship to the cosmos. Whew. That’s not to say these films are opaque and impenetrable: you can dig Bresson’s A Man Escaped as a rocksteady prison break thriller and ignore the sacred stuff; his Pickpocket was inspired by (and is comparable to) Crime and Punishment but it’s also a tense little crime flick. But, on the whole, these are films concerned more with internal states than external action. Reactions to them are, accordingly, very personal. For all that they get described as ‘cerebral’, films like Ordet, Mirror or L’Argent are profoundly visceral. It can be hard for admirers to articulate the intense reactions they describe. This, of course, is analogous to a religious experience: those of us who’ve seen the light want to share the Good News. Normal people can’t see what we’re gibbering about, assume we’re barking mad and wish we’d go and bother someone else. As conventional religious observance declines, these films become, if

‘Spiritual films’ fill an ever more important need in our world anything, more important. It’s important that non-believers and agnostics are not discouraged by the ecclesiastical overtones; the filmmakers were not proselytising. Rather, they wished to reflect on issues our species has wrestled with since the dawn of time; their musings are valid for anyone who finds themselves considering the numinous, whether they believe or not. The best known exponents of this work have passed on but there are still major works being produced in this field. Tarkovsky’s disciple Aleksandr Sokurov makes films work equal to his master (Mother and Son for one) while elsewhere, Terence Malick is readying a new film. His previous work has been obsessed with metaphysics – the nature of evil, of Eden and those who despoil it. (A brief aside: Malick’s most recent film, The New World, is still bewilderingly underrated. But it’s one of the very best films of the new century.)

Newly released on DVD in the country is The Island, a Russian film concerning a monk with a troubled past who might be able to work miracles. And there’s a welcome re-issue for Carlos Regadas’ remarkable Silent Light. True, Reygadas hasn’t quite transcended his influences (chiefly Tarkovsky, although there’s a prominent nod to Dreyer) but there are moments – an immersive sequence in a water hole, a stunning opening and closing shot – as good as anything you’ll ever see and the cumulative effect is overwhelming. It’s possible to take our devotions too seriously, of course – we should never forget how valuable honest entertainment and escapism is. And some folk need no more. But if they ever do, these films are here for them.

Related Films A Man Escaped Robert Bresson

France | 1956 | 95 min | subt | B&W | U | # 53594 | £19.99

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Carlos Reygadas Ger | 2007 | PALIS | 136 min | subt | 15 | # 62460 | £16.99

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Lebanon Samuel Maoz An award-winning Israeli war drama, based on the director’s own experiences, depicting 24 hours in the life of four Israeli paratroopers at the outset of the 1982 Lebanon invasion. Filmed almost entirely from the inside of the tank in which they are travelling, Lebanon is potent, unflinching cinema that won the Golden Lion in Venice, 2009. Germany / Israel / France | 2009 | MET-D | 89 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62590 | RRP £15.99

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