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irst and foremost – thank you! We love what we do here at MovieMail and it’s through your continued support that we get to share wonderful films and TV series. We look forward to bringing you ever more titles through 2014. Our final issue of 2013 may be shorter than usual but we’ve gone the extra mile to ensure it’s filled to the gunwhales with wonderful films, from the 1930s to the present day. Finally, don’t miss our Gift Guide selection of perfect
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December 2013 MovieMail Film Catalogue
MovieMail’s Film of the Month
David Copperfield Recommended Director: George Cukor Starring: Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, WC Fields, Maureen O’Sullivan, Frank Lawton,Freddie Bartholomew Released: Out Now Extras: Three musical shorts. Dutch import; Original English Soundtrack, optional subtitles Item# 73426 | USA | 1935 | par | 125 | B&W | Cert U
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The Charles Dickens Collection (BBC)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Oliver Twist (1985), A Christmas Carol (1977), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Great Expectations (1999), David Copperfield (1999), Pickwick Papers (1985) and Our Mutual Friend (1998). Item# 67436 UK | 1977-99 | 12 | £59.99
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GM’s prestige production of Dickens’ classic novel is a handsome, well-mounted adaptation that finds many of Hollywood’s finest character actors in rare form. If the claim in the tagline that the film features a ‘star cast of 65 players’ is possibly pushing it, America’s biggest studio certainly wasn’t shy about showing off the sheer talent at its disposal. There’s Roland Young, delivering perhaps the definitive screen version of the ‘ever so ‘umble’ Uriah Heep, WC Fields inhabiting the topper of the loquacious Mr Micawber, and Edna May Oliver and Jessie Ralph playing the two very different older women looking out for the callow young Copperfield. Basil Rathbone is in there too, as just about the last word in refined sadists – his right eyebrow is surely deserving of a spin-off movie of its own – and there are bits for Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher and Una O’Connor, as well as Lionel Barrymore, who makes as good a crusty old sea dog as you’d expect. The film’s hero, played by Freddie Bartholomew and later Frank Lawton, endures a typically Dickensian upbringing,
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MGM’s star-filled, prestige production of Dickens’ classic novel saturated with hardship and tragedy, before finding his true place in the world, via the usual colourfully-drawn characters. There’s also romance, of course, which arrives in the shape of the ever-underrated Madge Evans, a memorable presence in films like The Nuisance and Hallelujah, I’m a Bum – prior to her early retirement from pictures in 1938 – who’s very appealing as the love interest, Agnes. Incorporating a financial scandal, an atmospherically-charged storm at sea and a handful of spirited comic interludes, David Copperfield is a lively, good-looking and fascinatingly cast affair, scored to a tee by studio regular Herbert Stothart. It’s also a glossy and intelligent companion piece to David Lean’s twin triumphs of the following decade, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, which are far better known today, at least in Britain. Rick Burin Page 3
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December Christmas Gifts Selection An Age of Kings
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Hitchcock: The British Years
BBC’s live 1960 productions of Shakespeare’s pageant of eight history plays are an unmissable piece of broadcasting history. Stars include Sean Connery and Judi Dench. 5 discs.
An outstanding comic series, scripted by Galton and Simpson, about the goingson in a small Beaujolais town. Cyril Cusack and Wendy Hiller lead the impeccable cast. 2 discs.
10 British Hitchcock films: The Pleasure Garden, The Lodger, Downhill, Man Who Knew Too Much, 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent, Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn.
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Nine great 1940s noirs: Farewell My Lovely, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, The Killers, Crossfire, The Big Steal, The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key and This Gun For 9 discs. Hire.
The genius of Jacques Tati’s ‘democratic comedy’ x 5. Contains: Jour de Fête (1949), Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Parade (1974). 5 discs.
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George Formby Film Collection
Four films: Music Hath Charms (1935) – a cheerful maze of song, comedy and drama – Harmony Heaven (1930), The Song You Gave Me (1933) and Over She Goes (1938). 2 discs.
Seven Formby films from the forties: Much Too Shy, Get Cracking, Bell-Bottom George, I Didn’t Do It, South American George, He Snoops to Conquer, George 7 discs. in Civvy Street.
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Britten at 100
Heaven’s Gate
Lincoln
Tony Palmer
Michael Cimino
Steven Spielberg
Four films to commemorate Benjamin Britten’s centenary: Benjamin Britten and his Festival (1967), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967), A Time There Was (1979), Death in Venice (1980). 4 discs.
The restored director’s cut of one of the last epic westerns. It sank United Artists and was butchered on its release, but now it’s rightly hailed as a masterpiece of American cinema. 2 discs.
Spielberg’s mighty, Oscarwinning biopic stars a magnificent Daniel Day-Lewis as America’s 16th president as he oversees the end of slavery and Union victory in the American Civil War.
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The Sagas of Noggin the Nog
Tchaikovsky: The Classic Ballets
A treasure trove of films from Rank’s bright and breezy 1960s cine-magazine. Six volumes available, packed with films: Transport, Military, Science, Sport, Cultural Heritage and World Affairs.
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All three of Tchaikovsky’s ballets, as performed by the Royal Ballet, in one box set. Contains Swan Lake (2009), Sleeping Beauty (2006) and The Nutcracker (2012). 3 discs.
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Six hours of magical storytelling about Noggin, King of the Nogs and his wicked uncle, Nogbad the Bad. A much-loved piece of British TV history. 2 discs. Item# 22696 UK | 1959-1980 | 361 | U | £32.99
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Poirot: Definitive Collection
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Agatha Christie’s enigmatic, eccentric and intelligent detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions. Contains all 70 episodes plus many extras. David Suchet dons the moustache. 35 discs.
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Theo Angelopoulos: Volumes 1-3
Set in a meticulously recreated 17th century Dutch setting, this ghost story, adapted from Sheridan Le Fanu and made for BBC’s Omnibus, combines intelligence with artistry.
Vol 1: Reconstruction, Days of ‘36, Hunters, Travelling Players; Vol 2: Alexander, Cythera, Landscape, Step of the Stork, Beekeeper; Vol 3: Eternity, Ulysses, Meadow, Dust of Time.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The Uninvited
Régis Roinsard A charming French drama set in the world of 1950s competitive speed typing. Déborah François plays the woman typing her way to a better life under the tutelage of her charismatic boss.
42 actors, including Stephen Fry, David Tennant, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Stewart, Dominic West, Simon Russell Beale and Harriet Walter, read a sonnet each in this stimulating collection.
A first-rate frightener that influenced many subsequent filmmakers. Ray Milland stars as the composer who moves with his sister to a haunted Cornish clifftop mansion. 2 radio versions of the story.
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The Spirit of ‘45 Ken Loach
Woody Allen 20 Film Collection
Eight all-time British classics. Contains: Brief Encounter, The 39 Steps, The Wicked Lady, Genevieve, The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Hamlet and Henry V. 8 discs.
An impassioned film essay, made to address questions of the direction of society in our own times, about how the spirit of unity in wartime Britain created a vision of a fairer, more united land.
A tempting 20-film set that showcases the wit, range and talent of Woody Allen, from Bananas (1971) to Melinda and Melinda (2004) with all the greats in between. 20 discs.
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Breaking Bad (Complete)
This is filmmaking at the very highest level. Veteran actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play the elderly couple in crisis after she suffers a stroke. The fragility of human existence and the full import of the wedding vow ‘till death do you part’ have rarely been explored with such unflinching directness. MB
There’s been talk of the dramatic potential for modern TV’s long-form narratives for some time, but Breaking Bad exploits it like no other. By focusing on a tight group of characters and the consequences of their actions, this expertly-written crime series builds a dramatic intensity over its 62 episodes that cinema rarely attains. DH
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Before Midnight
Holy Motors
Richard Linklater
Leos Carax
They met in Before Sunrise; they were reunited in Before Sunset; now Jesse and Céline are married with children, and fighting for their share of happiness. The Hawke-DelpyLinklater combo here offers the most astonishing third act of the year, in which the idea of love itself is up for frank, funny, utterly engrossing discussion.MM
If the pleasure of heading off on a delirious cinematic journey appeals, Holy Motors is for you. Denis Lavant plays the shape-shifter who adopts various guises through the course of a day as he limo-glides the Parisian streets. What does it mean? Who knows. Leave all interpretation at the door and just enjoy the deviations of the ride. GH
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Pablo Berger
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Ravishingly photographed and impeccably played, this silent, monochrome retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, relocated to the world of bullfighting in 1920s Spain, is a magnificent piece of pure cinema which was described, accurately, by its director as ‘a love letter to European silent cinema’. DP
As Kore-eda showed in Nobody Knows, he is a master at drawing out captivating, naturalistic performances from children. I Wish, in which brothers separated by their parents’ break-up hatch a plan to bring them together, is no exception. It’s uplifting, unaffected cinema of the kind that Kore-Eda has made his own. GH
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Hot on the heels of last month’s celebration of the best vintag many of the films here are using the flexibility of modern film Pi’s spectacular computer generated imagery, NO’s 1980s vid cinema and the long natural takes that make up Before Midni series we’ve selected here is well-crafted storytelling – just as
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A moving and thoughtful ensemble drama exploring the effects on a string quartet when one of their members (Christopher Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. A perfect actor’s showcase, it is also one of the finest films about the beauty and solace of a life immersed in music. CH
There were few more pressing films released this year than Loach’s rousing film essay. Bringing a welcome historical perspective to present concerns, it challenges us to reflect that if a fairer society could be created out of the ashes of global conflict in the 1940s, then surely we can think more boldly about our own times. GH
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Life of Pi
The Hunt
Ang Lee
Thomas Vinterberg
Ang Lee described it as the most expensive arthouse movie ever made, but don’t let that put you off. Life of Pi is a matchless feast for the eyes with breathtaking displays of visual artistry, but there’s depth here too as this visceral sea-faring adventure takes us on a journey into the human soul – hop on board. DH
This compelling account of a small town turning against a popular teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) accused of molesting a young girl plays like a counterpoint to Vinterberg’s own Festen. The Hunt’s carefully shot scenes are just as devastating, and reveal the hysteria beneath the surface of a quiet, ordered community. JU
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This visually distinctive, stirring tribute to those ad men who mounted the campaign that led Chileans to vote against General Pinochet stands as Pablo Larraín’s most considerable achievement to date. Gael García Bernal gives a typically sharp performance as the creative who used laughter and songs to bring down a dictator. MM
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14 films: Island in the Sky, Hondo, The High and the Mighty, Hatari!, The Sons of Katie Elder, McLintock!, Donovan’s Reef, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, In Harm’s Way, El Dorado, True Grit, Rio Lobo, Big Jake, The 14 discs. Shootist.
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One of the most controversial films ever made by a British studio, its explosive mix of sexual depravity and sadistic violence outraging critics, audiences and censors. Linden Travers stars as a kidnapped heiress who is attracted by the savagery Digitally restored. of a brutal gangster. UK | 1948 | ODEON | 98 | Cert PG Item# 72937 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now | P&P £1.50
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A classic Warner Bros. noir melodrama starring Humphrey Bogart and George Raft as down-ontheir-luck truck-driving brothers. A chance encounter with a beautiful waitress brings more trouble than they can handle into their lives. Dutch Region 2 edition; Original English with optional subtitles. USA | 1940 | Parovisie | 91 | Cert PG Item# 72218 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now | P&P £1.50
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Terror of the Tongs
Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny
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Raoul Walsh
To Be or Not To Be
Extras: Dutch release; Original English soundtrack; Optional subtitles Item# 73495 USA | 1942 | PAR | 95 | B&W | Cert TBC
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To Be or Not To Be is the darkest, most ambitious movie to which Ernst Lubitsch ever turned his touch. It has a catchphrase about concentration camps, a palpable sense of fear, and gallows one-liners – yet it never strays into bad taste, thanks to the deftness of Lubitsch’s handling, the strength of his righteous fury, and a pitch-perfect ensemble. Jack Benny is Tura, an actor in Warsaw who comes complete with a massive ego and an unfaithful wife (Carole Lombard), also a renowned star. Their quarrelling is interrupted by the Nazis, and the arrival in Warsaw of a double-agent who plans to smash the resistance. Cue the actors putting their skills to good use in the real world, with Benny posing as a Gestapo commander and the spy. Lubitsch was a magnificent director of actors and here he draws careerbest performances from just about everyone involved. With such a subject, the film’s stakes are high, and yet it frequently breaks off into absurdity, pokes gentle fun at actorly pretension, or knocks you sideways with a deadpan gag. RB
Recommended Exclusive Director: Anthony Bushell Starring: Christopher Lee, Brian Worth, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone Released: 18th November Item# 71517 UK | 1961 | SONY | 90 | Cert TBC
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For all that Hammer Films were synonymous with looming castles and supernatural dread, their best work is to be found in their nonGothic films, of which Terror of the Tongs is an especially good example. Unavailable for many years, it’s one of the venerable studio’s most entertaining efforts. It’s set in Hong Kong in the early 20th century. Sturdy British sea captain Jackson Sale (Geoffrey Toone) dismisses tales of a criminal syndicate called the Red Dragon Tong until their wicked machinations affect him personally. He vows vengeance but since the Tong is headed by Christopher Lee at his silkiest, you can guess that this will prove tricky. We should, in the interests of sensitivity, note that many of the Chinese characters are played by Europeans. If you can get beyond that, though, this is tremendous fun, staffed by gloating villains who say things like, ‘you underestimate the Oriental mind, captain’ and decorated with white slavery, ‘exotic’ dancing and opium addled assassins. It’s perfect, in its own way. JO
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DVDs & Blu-rays from £5.99 The BBC is the hallmark for quality television, whether this be for costume drama, children’s adventures, comedies or compelling detective series new and old. All are well represented here, along with the perennial fans’ favourite, Doctor Who. And who else is going to mount a complete staging of Shakespeare’s plays? This sale pays testament to the institution’s diversity. The Tony Hancock Collection
Top of the Lake
‘Stone me, what a life!’ All 39 surviving episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour and Hancock, plus Hancock’s famous Face to Face interview. Essential British comedy. 8 discs.
A beautifully shot six-part crime drama set on New Zealand’s South Island, written and partly directed by Jane Campion, who brings a distinctive female perspective to the genre. 3 discs. Item# 70765 / 71564 Australia | 2013 | 342 | 15 | £19.99
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Huckleberry Finn and his Friends
All 37 of the Bard’s plays. Great directors and Shakespearian 37 discs. actors bring his works to life.
Dir: Jack B. Hively. One of the best screen versions of Mark Twain’s tales, much shown in the 1980s. 4 discs.
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Doctor Who: The Key to Time
Joyce Grenfell: The BBC Collection
Ripper Street: Series 1
The entire 26-episode intergalactic treasure hunt that makes up the 16th 7 discs. series. Tom Baker stars.
The finest moments from Joyce Grenfell’s one-woman show, which 2 discs. ran between 1964-1972.
Matthew Macfadyen’s detective tries to maintain law on the seedy streets 3 discs. of Victorian Whitechapel.
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Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach
Philippe Godeau An enthralling slow-burn French crime thriller based on a true story, starring a poker-faced François Cluzet as a security guard who goes from anonymity to public notoriety after he steals 11.6 million Euros in a meticulously planned heist. France | 2013 | SC | 97 | subt | 15 Item# 73090 | RRP £19.99 | 16th December | P&P £1.50
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Fireworks Wednesday Recommended Director: Asghar Farhadi
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Calin Peter Netzer
Released: 9th December
An award-winning Romanian drama that follows an overbearing and manipulative mother’s attempts to secure the release – by any means necessary and no matter the moral consequences – of her adult son following his involvement in a fatal car crash.
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Romania | 2013 | STUDC | 112 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 73092 | RRP £19.99 | 16th December | P&P £1.50
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The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino
Magnificent, virtuoso filmmaking from Paolo Sorrentino who pays appropriately sensuous tribute to the Eternal City as a journalist reflects upon his life. Fellini’s La Dolce Vita for modern times. Full review in our January issue. Italy | 2013 | ART-E | 141 | subt | 15 Item# 72820 / 72821 | RRP £15.99 | 13th Jan | P&P £1.50
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Marlen Khutsiev An essential film from the ‘New Wave’ of Soviet cinema. With its frankness and dreamlike interludes, it is an often surprising portrait of unfocussed youth and inter-generational conflict in early 1960s Moscow. It fell foul of the censor and was severely cut, but has now been restored to its Russian import; Optional English full length. subtitles; English language menus. Russia | 1965 | Ruscico | subt | Cert 164 Item# 72632 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now | P&P £1.50
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A landmark anniversary production of Benjamin Britten’s greatest opera on the very beach that inspired it, Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach was filmed in June 2013 during three extraordinary performances. Alan Oke sings the lead role. | P&P £1.50
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This third feature from the director of A Separation takes its name from the Iranian festival. The final Wednesday of the year is marked with bonfires, fire jumping and fireworks, their warmth and energy serving as a means of purification and nourishment. In Farhadi’s film the celebrations provide both the backdrop and the dramatic counterpoint. Whilst fireworks constantly crackle and explode in the distance, emotional fireworks occupy the foreground. Much like his Oscar-winning A Separation, the focus is on a splintering relationship, and once again the dramatics play out in a grittily realistic fashion with some outstanding central performances. While the festivities build, so too does our understanding of an increasingly complex situation. Comparisons with A Separation are inevitable, and Fireworks Wednesday makes a fine account for itself. It perfectly captures the messiness of its characters’ lives, growing into a multi-layered work that is deftly handled by Farhadi without recourse to cliché or sentimentality. AN
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Tchaikovsky’s ballet version of Charles Perrault’s classic fairytale, performed at Sadler’s Wells and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, who has Beauty pricking herself on the poisoned rose in 1911 and awakening 100 years later into the contemporary world.
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Klay Hall Disney’s spin-off from Cars (2006) sees a cropdusting plane dreaming of becoming a racer. With the help of a US Navy veteran, Dusty trains for a round-the-world competition – but faces a tough opponent in the defending champion. USA | 2013 | WDHV | 92 | Cert U Item# 73209 / 73253 | RRP £17.99 | 2nd Dec | P&P £1.50
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Mamoru Hosoda An elegaic Japanese anime from the director of The Girl who Leapt Through Time, which follows the growth of a pair of wolf children. A haunting romantic fairytale, it will appeal to fans of Studio Ghibli. Jap | 2012 | MANG | 117 | sub | PG Item# 73347 / 73348 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd Dec | P&P £1.50
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DVD & Blu-ray Sale Some of the richest and most rewarding cinema originates from France, as this selection ably demonstrates. Established classics such as the enchanting The Red Balloon and Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling resistance drama Army of Shadows mix with highly-regarded modern fare, such as Ozon’s eloquent In the House and the delightful Petit Nicolas. We’ve selected some of the very best at fantastic prices, so why not explore?
Claude Chabrol: Volume 1
In the House
8 fine films from ‘The French Hitchcock’: Les Biches, La Femme Infidèle, Que La Bête Meure, Le Boucher, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouge, Nada and Madame Bovary. 8 Discs.
Ozon nimbly flits between satire, scares and storytelling in this playful French black comedy exploring the relationship between a literature professor and a pupil. Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars.
Albert Lamorisse
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Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. This gripping adaptation of a seminal wartime novel is one of the most authentic portrayals of the French Resistance. Item# 57283 / 71107 Fra | 1969 | 145 | sub | 12 | £17.99
Dir: Laurent Tirard. A delightful French family comedy based on the 1950s comics chronicling the adventures of a mischievous schoolboy.
Claude Berri’s famed adaptations of Pagnol’s Provençal story of greed, betrayal and revenge. 2 discs. Item# 25185 France | 1986 | 225 | PG | £19.99
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Ernest & Celestine
Judex / Nuits Rouges
A mouse and a bear make unlikely allies in this artfully executed, familyfriendly fable adapted from the children’s books of Gabrielle Vincent.
A pairing of films from Georges Franju, director of Eyes without a Face. Judex is his dreamlike remake of Louis Feuillade’s silent series.
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The Red Balloon / White Mane
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Documentaries
Television New Releases Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Collection 9
David Suchet bows out as Agatha Christie’s enigmatic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in these final five episodes: Elephants Can Remember, The Big Four, The Labours of Hercules, Dead Man’s Folly and Curtain: Poirot’s 3 discs; Last Case. Being Poirot documentary; Also available: 35 disc complete Poirot set.
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The Bible
An epic mini-series from the History Channel presenting the story of God’s creation of the Earth and the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus, here played by Diogo Morgado. USA | 2013 | FOX | 440 | Cert TBC Item# 73291 / 73292 | RRP £24.99 | 26th Dec
UK | 2013 | 2ENT | 90 | Cert TBC Item# 73448 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd December
New Releases Exposed: Beyond Burlesque Beth B.
A film that profiles eight women and men – Rose Wood, Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, Dirty Martini, Bunny Love, Bambi the Mermaid, the World Famous *Bob* & Tigger – who use their nakedness to transport viewers beyond society’s sexual and social taboos. USA | 2013 | MATCH | 77 | Cert 15 Item# 71802 | RRP £15.99 | 30th December
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The Imposter Bart Layton
An incredible documentary that uses dramatised recreations and interviews to tell the bizarre story of a 23 year-old French Algerian who duped Spanish police, children’s centres, the FBI, the US State Department and a family into thinking he was a missing 16 year-old boy from Texas. UK | 2012 | 4DVD | 98 | Cert 15 Item# 73363 / 73364 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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The complete third season of the Danish political drama from the producers of The Killing. Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is no longer the Prime Minister of Denmark. Disillusioned with her party she forges an alliance with a journalist and forms a new one to fight her way Also available: Complete back to power. seasons 1-3 box set.
The Kingdom of Plants
Using the latest technology and advanced filming techniques in a series set at The Royal Botanic Gardens in London – home to a remarkable 90% of all known species of plant – David Attenborough and his team set out to capture the life and dynamism of plants, something that is often 3 discs. invisible to the human eye. UK | 2012 | GO-D | 150 | Cert E Item# 73211 / 73212 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Special Nick Hurran
The 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat and described by series producer Marcus Wilson as ‘a love letter to its fans’. Stars David Tennant, John Hurt and Matt Smith. UK | 2013 | 2ENT | 75 | Cert PG Item# 73009 / 73039 | RRP £12.99 | 2nd Dec | P&P £1.50
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A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963, scripted by Mark Gatiss. David Bradley takes the role of first Doctor William Hartnell, with Brian Cox, Reece Shearsmith, Jessica Raine and Steven Moffat among William the cast. Hartnell: The Original; Title sequences.
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Mike Lerner
A film about the balaclava wearing feminist art collective Pussy Riot, two of whose members – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina – are currently in Russian prisons on charges of ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’ for performing a 40 second ‘punk prayer’ inside Moscow’s main cathedral. Russia | 2013 | INDED | 88 | Cert 18 Item# 72850 | RRP £12.99 | 25th November | P&P £1.50
Red Dwarf: 25th Anniversary Collection
The 25th anniversary box set of Red Dwarf, featuring every episode to date of the sci-fi sitcom that begins sometime in the late 22nd century on board a mining spaceship. Craig Charles stars as surviving technician Dave Lister, Chris Barrie as his holographic companion and Danny John24 discs. Jules as the Cat. UK | 1988-2012 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item# 73144 | RRP £99.99 | 16th December | P&P £1.50
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Utopia
John Pilger
A powerful insight into a secret Australia that breaks what amounts to a national silence about the land’s indigenous first people, revealing the apartheid that lies deep within Australia’s past and 2 discs; Over present. 4 hours of extras. Australia | 2013 | NWORK | 110 | E Item# 73281 | RRP £14.99 | 2nd December | P&P £1.50
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December 2013 MovieMail Film Catalogue
Contemporary New Releases The Conjuring James Wan
A supernatural film based on the real-life American paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, whose reports inspired The Amityville Horror. When they come to the aid of a family, they realise they are not equipped to deal with the violent manifestation of evil they find. USA | 2013 | WHV | 112 | Cert 15 Item# 73159 / 73161 | RRP £19.99 | 9th Dec
The Rainbow Ken Russell
Ken Russell’s restrained and sensuous dramatisation of DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow, in which a young woman defies her parents and the moral constraints of Victorian England in her search for spiritual and sexual freedom. Sammi Davis stars as Ursula Brangwen, who enjoys a passionate affair with a gym mistress (Amanda Donohoe) at school, but then meets and marries a soldier (Paul McGann).
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Neill Blomkamp A dystopian sci-fi drama set in 2154, when the wealthy live on a space station and the rest on an overpopulated, resource depleted Earth. Matt Damon is the man who wants to bridge the gap between rich and poor, Jodie Foster the woman charged with enforcing immigration policies. USA | 2013 | COL-T | 109 | Cert 15 Item# 73055 / 73056 | RRP £19.99 | 26th Dec
Director: Shane Carruth
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Released: 30th December
John Hough
Item# 73130 USA | 2013 | MET-D | 96 | Cert 12
An adventure adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. Kim Burfield plays young Jim Hawkins, who gets his hands on Billy Bones’ treasure map and joins a ship to take him to its destination, but word of the booty soon reaches Long John SIlver (Orson Welles).
Shane Carruth, the American polymath who wrote, directed and starred in 2004’s sci-fi triumph Primer, is a singular talent worth following. If his latest film is a more expansive mood piece, it is also every bit as likely to confound or confuse as it is to compel – almost every fibre of the film is left deliberately open to interpretation. It begins with a sketchy-looking fellow harvesting bugs in order to drug a young woman. This opening stretch is composed with such quiet, rapt precision that the bugs’ reappearance under the heroine’s skin occasions an authentic frisson of horror. If nature moves in mysterious ways, that’s as nothing compared to Carruth’s film, which proceeds to have the woman ‘rescued’ by a pig farmer-cum-sound engineer-cumtransplant surgeon – an action that spawns a series of micro-narratives, parasites feeding off the film’s main theme of troubled couples. The cinematography is some of the most delicate you’ll see all year. This is bell-jar moviemaking, and we look at it as though it were under a microscope, waiting for us to provide the missing link or meaning of life. MM
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Find Me Guilty
A smart, funny coming-ofage comedy in which an emotionally abused 14 year-old boy, reluctantly spending the summer in Cape Cod with his mother and her new boyfriend, begins to grow in confidence after he is taken under the wing of a local water park manager.
Sidney Lumet
Vin Diesel stars as mobster Jack DiNorscio in this film based on the longest mafia trial in US history, which saw Jack defending himself, despite having no legal experience. Can this New York wise guy convince a jury he is not the monster he is portrayed to be? Germany / USA | 2006 | HIFLI | 125 | Cert 15 Item# 72469 / 73294 | RRP £15.99 | 23rd Dec
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Lovelace
Epstein / Friedman A biopic based on the life of the 1970s adult movie star, Linda Lovelace, from the directors of The Celluloid Closet. Amanda Seyfried takes the lead role as the woman who unexpectedly became a worldwide celebrity after starring in the highestgrossing porn film of all time, Deep Throat. USA | 2013 | LGATE | 93 | Cert 18 Item# 73087 / 73088 | RRP £17.99 | 23rd Dec | P&P £1.50
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Upstream Colour
A modern-day adaptation of Henry James’s novel of irresponsible parenting, which tells the story of a 6 year-old girl in the midst of her parents’ custody battle. Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan star and the film is told through the eyes of the young girl, who navigates the turmoil with innocence, charm and generosity of spirit. USA | 2012 | CFW | 99 | Cert 15 Item# 73385 / 73386 | RRP £15.99 | 6th January | P&P £1.50
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BFI Christmas DVD & Blu-ray Sale Satisfying film lovers’ tastes for years, the BFI are one of the few labels whose every release is absolutely worthy of your interest. Ranging across essential British documentary collections and films unjustly overlooked by the vagaries of time, classic masterpieces, silent wonders and some of the glories of world cinema, their catalogue is one of the most estimable in the business and requires joyful exploration. Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé
Ken Russell Russell’s bold commentary on religious hysteria and the corrupt marriage of church and state. Features fine performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave and sets by Derek Jarman. Item# 67088 UK | 1971 | 107 | 18 | £19.99
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The GPO Film Unit Collections All three volumes – Addressing the Nation, We Live in Two Worlds, If War Should Come – of the BFI’s superlative collection of restored films from the GPO Film Unit. 2 discs each; Comprehensive booklets.
A magical glimpse into the handcoloured, jewel-like world of ‘fairy films’ from the early 20th century, with each of the 25 films given a newly-commissioned soundtrack. Item# 70050 France | 1901-08 | 164 | PG | £19.99
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Arabian Nights
Deep End
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. The entrancing final film in Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’, after The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales.
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. A darkly poetic portrait of Britain in an era of uncertainty and changing sexual mores. Jane Asher stars. 2 discs.
Man with a Movie Camera
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The Draughtsman’s Contract
Six fascinating British Transport Films documenting the construction of the 2 discs. Victoria Line.
Dir: Peter Greenaway. A 17th century draughtsman undertakes a series of drawings in return for sexual favours.
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Dir: Jacques Rivette. A magically allusive meditation on the nature of fantasy and play. 2 discs.
Dir: Herbert Ponting. The amazing official record of Captain Scott’s illfated expedition to the South Pole.
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Dir: Dziga Vertov. An exhilarating montage of 1920s Moscow life with a new soundtrack by Michael Nyman. Item# 54440 Russia | 1929 | 68 | B&W | E | £15.99
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Dir: Chris Petit. A cult British road movie / mystery thriller with a startling new wave soundtrack. Offers a mythic vision of 1970s England. Item# 54196 UK | 1979 | 100 | B&W | 18 | £19.99
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CFF Collection: Scary Stories
The Innocents
La Règle du Jeu
Dir: Jack Clayton. A brilliant exercise in psychological horror, this adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the greatest of all ghost films.
Dir: Jean Renoir. Dismissed on release but now firmly established as one of the greats, this is a brilliant study of a decaying society.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
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Dir: Carlos Saura. A landmark Spanish film, set around the death of Franco and full of repressed passions and simmering unease. 2 discs. Item# 68452 Spain | 1976 | 105 | subt | 12 | £19.99
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Dir: John Cassavetes. A hard-boiled portrayal of a man with nothing to live for but his failing sleazy LA strip joint. Item# 72013 USA | 1976 | 108 | B&W | 15 | £19.99
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A fascinating, valuable compilation of the Bard’s works as they appeared on silent film, from King John (1899) to Richard III (1911). Item# 20162 UK / USA | 1899-1911 | 88 | B&W | E | £19.99
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