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elcome to our first issue of 2013 – and if the releases we have in store in these pages are anything to go by, it looks like following on from 2012 in being another excellent year for DVD and Blu-ray releases. Joining some of the most highly regarded, boundary pushing films of 2012 – Holy Motors, Tabu, The Imposter – we have a number of previously unreleased gems from the past arriving new to DVD, such as Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire and a brace of Ealings – including Dance Hall and their uncharacteristically moody noir Nowhere to Go. It’s genuinely exciting to be able to see, review and

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A double bill containing Les Misérables (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) - starring Fredric March as Jean Valjean and Charles Laughton as Inspector Javert, and Les Miserables (Lewis Milestone, 1952), starring Michael Rennie and Robert Newton in the title roles. Item# 70034 USA | 1952 | 205 | B&W | £9.99

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Disarmingly played by its young leads, René Clément’s study of innocence, grief and faith ranks among the most affecting films ever made, telling the story of an orphan and her friend who create a secret shared world in WWII France. Item# 70048 France | 1952 | 85 | subt | B&W | 12 | £15.99

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Joe Wright’s bold, theatrical new vision of Tolstoy’s epic love story was adapted by Tom Stoppard and stars Keira Knightley in the title role as the vibrant, beautiful woman who falls for the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky. Their mutual spark of attraction will not be ignored. Item# 69960 UK | 2012 | 130 | 12 | £19.99

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Leos Carax returns with Holy Motors - a brilliant, visually striking film that was one of the toasts of 2012’s Cannes Film Festival. The film sees Denis Lavant play Monsieur Oscar, who, over the course of a day, takes on ten other guises. Item# 69954 France | 2012 | 116 | subt | 18 | £15.99

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Anna Karenina Recommended Director: Joe Wright Starring: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron TaylorJohnson Released: 4th February Item# 69960 | UK | 2012 | UPV | 130 | Cert 12

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Atonement Joe Wright

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oe Wright’s bold version of Tolstoy’s novel is the text as Peter Greenaway might have filmed it, playing out on elaborate theatrical sets which are redressed and reordered as required. Yet it’s also Tolstoy as produced by Working Title, which means it can afford to push the experimentation yet further, and indulge the spectacle-for-spectacle’ssake we saw stirrings of in Wright’s Atonement. It may be mainstream cinema’s most radical rethink of the costume drama since The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The trains criss-crossing the source novel have been hijacked by screenwriter Tom Stoppard to serve as a remorseless means of time travel, allowing Wright to zip between soundstages, for Anna (Keira Knightley) to pass from husband to lover, and for Russia to speed away from its imperial past towards a revolutionary future. It’s heavy conceptual baggage to take on, but a fine ensemble ushers us past it. Matthew McFadyen is suitably puckish as Oblonsky, Domnhall Gleeson’s Levin toils soulfully in the fields, while Jude Law nails Alexei’s quiet, seething hurt. Crucially, Keira Knightley lends the film a

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Mainstream cinema’s most radical rethink of the costume drama since The French Lieutenant’s Woman patina of old-school glamour. She is young for the role, but has never been shot more adoringly or persuasively. It was Wright who, in Pride & Prejudice, first showed us the spirit of curiosity and self-improvement that lights up this actress’s beauty; here, he reveals Knightley almost as those von Sternberg melodramas did Marlene Dietrich, as a performer with the ability to look exactly as the film needs her to look in order to sweep the viewer along. It’s arguably a lively gloss on Tolstoy, rather than Tolstoy itself, more concerned with mood and motion than character or emotion. But let’s give Joe Wright credit for taking gambles, and for seeking to do something so nakedly unusual within period drama’s corset-like constraints. Mike McCahill Page 5

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21 Days: The Heineken Kidnapping Maarten Treurniet

A Dutch kidnapping thriller based on true events. Rutger Hauer stars as brewing magnate Alfred Heineken, kidnapped and held captive for 21 days until he pays a ransom. On his release, he sets out to find his kidnappers – and make them pay. Neth | 2011 | Arr | 117 | subt | 15 Item# 68590 / 69912 | RRP £12.99 | 4th February

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Django

Sergio Corbucci The spaghetti western that spawned over thirty sequels. Franco Nero stars as the gunfighter who fetches up in a border town where he is caught in the middle of a Longest-ever feud. version; Alex Cox Intro; Franco Nero Interview; English or Italian Audio. Italy | 1966 | AGT | 91 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 70210 / 70029 | RRP £12.99 | 21st Jan

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Django, Prepare a Coffin An unofficial sequel to Corbucci’s original, this 1968 entry stars Terence Hill as the wandering, coffin-toting gunslinger who assembles a gang to take revenge on a corrupt politician who had a hand in the death of his wife. Italy | 1968 | ARROW | 88 | Cert 15 Item# 70133 | RRP £12.99 | 14th January

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Above the Street, Below the Water

Ferdinando Baldi

And Hope to Die

Before his Oscar-winning film A Separation, Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi completed this no less taut drama, which begins as a Farsi The Big Chill, as a group of extended family and friends rent a villa for a weekend away by the sea. Initially, it’s all drinking and clowning around, as Farhadi hones in on two contrasting female personalities: spirited young mother Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) and the reticent Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti), a teacher who, despite Sepideh’s attempts at matchmaking, appears weirdly isolated, even before the incident that brings the fun and games to a halt. What we’re watching is the making of a director who – almost in reaction to the measured, observational cinema of Kiarostami et al – has resolved to pitch himself headlong into situations spiralling rapidly out of control. As the group closes ranks, realising just how little they know one another, Farhadi’s once-unobtrusive camera goes rogue, careening alongside those characters now running, either alarmed or aghast, through the frame. Even as we’re gripped by the fallout, we can’t fail to spot A Separation’s striking immediacy taking shape. MM

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A fugitive needs all his wits about him when he becomes involved in a criminal gang’s plot in this crime drama based on the David Goodis novel, Black Friday. Trying to outrun assassins on his trail, Tony (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arrives in Canada to start a new life, but soon finds himself having to seek the protection of a criminal gang led by Charley (Robert Ryan). Half the gang want to kill him and Tony has to think fast to stay one step ahead.The film has quite a pedigree, with music by Francis Lai (A Man and a Woman), cinematography by Edmond Richard (Chimes at Midnight) and with Jean-Jaques Beineix (Betty Blue) as assistant director. Item# 70307 France / Italy | 1972 | 135 | subt | 12 | £15.99

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The Deadly Trap Aka La maison sous les arbres. A suspenseful psychological thriller starring Faye Dunaway and Frank Langella. After moving to Paris with her computer expert husband Philippe (Langella), Jill (Dunaway) becomes worried for her family’s future when her husband suddenly quits his job, about which he has always been secretive, for no apparent reason. With Philippe’s former employers unwilling to part company, however, and her past psychological problems resurfacing in paranoia, Jill soon finds herself having to investigate her husband’s murky past, as the kidnapping of her children threatens to tip her over the edge. Item# 70305 France / Italy | 1971 | 94 | subt | 12 | £15.99

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Gervaise A vivid adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel L’Assommoir, which follows the struggles of a laundress trying to survive in 1850s Paris. Maria Schell, who took Best Actress honours at Venice, gives an exquisite leading performance as the limping laundress trying to raise three children while being torn between her alcoholic husband and her troubled lover. The film is all the more affecting for being rooted so firmly in the poetic realist depiction of 1850s Paris, which is brought to vivid life through Paul Bertrand’s sets and Robert Juillard’s monochrome photography, which match anything in David Lean’s Dickens pictures of the previous decade. Item# 70304 France | 1956 | 112 | subt | B&W | 12 | £15.99

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The Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice

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piercing, unforgettably poignant drama about the loss of childhood innocence in wartime, Forbidden Games has, at its heart, two quite extraordinary performances from its juvenile leads. 5 year-old Brigitte Fossey plays Paulette, the young girl who is orphaned when the convoy of civilians with whom she is fleeing with her parents is pitilessly bombed, 11 year-old Georges Poujouly the peasant farmer’s son, Michel, who finds her and persuades his father to take her into their home. She is trusting, determined, serious, he is eager, slightly impish; together, in their own words and their own way, they begin to come to terms with her loss. The only direct wartime action we see is at the film’s opening. It is a devastating few minutes of fear and confusion that says all that needs to be said about the brutal indifference of fate in such times and its arbitrary apportioning of death and survival, but everything thereafter, even though it takes place in a rural backwater, carries its taint. While Michel’s parents continue their long-running feud with neighbours, the children share a secret world that begins when they create a cemetery for animals in an abandoned mill. They first bury the girl’s puppy there, and then, so he won’t be

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A masterpiece led by its two extraordinary young leads lonely, add more creatures – a mole, a worm, a cockroach, a robin, a chick – to keep it company. For grave markers, they raid the village church for crosses, invoking the ire of the priest and inflaming the neighbours’ feud. Throughout Forbidden Games, director René Clément weaves its themes of loss, innocence, death, promise and betrayal as if conducting a musical score. There is the desperation of its martial opening, then rescue, succour and a rebuilding of trust – though all the while there are echoes and intimations of the war going on elsewhere – before the final act of betrayal and innocence lost: the bitter harvest of the bullets that seeded the earth in the opening scene. Forbidden Games is without question a heartbreaking watch at times, but Clément’s execeptional craftsmanship means that it is the children’s tenderness and resilience that remain with us long after the film has ended. Graeme Hobbs Page 9

World Cinema False Trail

Kjell Sundvall

A dark Scandinavian thriller that reunites its director with lead actor Rolf Lassgård (TV’s original Kurt Wallander) fifteen years after their collaboration on The Hunters (below). In False Trail, Lassgård’s dogged policeman reluctantly returns to his rural community in the north of Sweden to solve a brutal murder which proves to be more complex than first thought. Sweden | 2011 | Arrow E1 | 130 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 69594 / 69604 | RRP £19.99 | 28th Jan

Mario Bava

Bava at his abstract and delirious best. His tale of supernatural suspense sees Elke Sommer’s American tourist pursued by a Spanish Count through a feverish night. The film was re-cut for the US market and released as The House of Exorcism 3 (also included here). discs; English or Italian audio; Commentaries; Introductions; Making-of; Booklet. Italy | 1972-75 | ARROW | 95 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 70135 | RRP £22.99 | 28th January

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The Forgiveness of Blood Joshua Marston

The new film from the director of Maria Full of Grace is a story of bloodline honour in modern-day Albania, where a land dispute results in a father being accused of murder and the men of the family held housebound. 17 year-old Nik’s enforced isolation causes him to try and end the feud – even though it may cost him his life. USA / Denmark / Italy | 2011 | SodaElev | 109 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 69535 | RRP £15.99 | 1st January

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A box-office busting Swedish thriller starring Rolf Lassgård as the policeman who returns to his home village. At first he is welcomed, but when he tries to get to the truth about a spate of local reindeer poaching, the community unites against his quest for justice. Sweden | 1996 | Arrow E1 | 235 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 69742 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Jackpot

Magnus Martens Based on a story by Jo Nesbø (Headhunters), this blackly comic Norwegian crime thriller finds a young man attempting to explain how winning a jackpot on the pools with his friends led to a mass shootout in a backwoods strip joint on the Swedish border.

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André Dussollier and Catherine Frot star as the semi-retired husband and wife sleuths Bélisaire and Prudence Beresford in this light-hearted adaptation from Agatha Christie that sees a bored Prudence take on the case of a missing Russian heiress. France | 2012 | SC | 104 | subt | 12 Item# 70228 | RRP £15.99 | 7th January

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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family Jean-Marc Barr

Starring: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Henrique Espírito Santo

Item# 69956 Portugal | 2012 | NW | 118 | subt | B&W | 15

Pascal Thomas

Kjell Sundvall

Recommended Director: Miguel Gomes

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Mario Bava

Cult Italian horror originally banned by the BBFC. A woman accused of witchcraft is sentenced to the stake but a storm douses the fire and she is entombed. Revived two hundred years later, she survives by feeding on blood and plots to possess a descendant’s body.

Tabu

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Mask of Satan

Partners in Crime

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Lisa and the Devil / The House of Exorcism

This rapturously photographed, critically adored monochrome oddity (which came second in Sight & Sound’s best films of 2012 poll) establishes its eccentricity with a prologue involving a lovelorn explorer throwing himself to a crocodile, then subdivides into two parts. ‘A Paradise Lost’ unfolds during late 2010 in Lisbon, where devout, politically active Pilar becomes entwined with Aurora, a demanding neighbour drifting into senility. In Part Two, the wordless ‘Paradise Found’, we learn how the younger Aurora, a married adventuress, was seduced by dashing cad Ventura. This section aspires to the glamorous textures of 1930s melodrama, even when everyone begins lipsynching to Ramones tracks that offer puns on the plot. What it amounts to lies in the eye of the beholder, but this gorgeously ephemeral work is never less than beautiful to observe: a measured, quietly beguiling retreat from our world into nature, Portuguese history, and the lingering mysteries of the human heart. MM

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Enter the Void Gaspar Noe

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iewers at the Cannes premiere of Leos Carax’s first full-length feature in thirteen years uttered quite a few expressions beginning with ‘Holy…’, and it’s not hard to see why. From the Lewis Carroll / CS Lewis-like prologue in which a man (Carax himself) wakes up in a crepuscular hotel room to find a concealed door in the middle of a wallpapered forest and his finger tapering to a key, it’s clear that Holy Motors runs according to its own dreamlogic, and it’s best just to go with the flow. Monsieur Oscar (Carax’s regular alter ego Denis Lavant) is driven around Paris in a white stretch limo by the faithful Céline (Edith Scob, whose unforgettable blankfaced role in Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face is explicitly alluded to here in one of numerous nods to classic French cinema) to meet a series of appointments. For each, Oscar digs deep into the limo’s improbably well-stocked make-up chest to adopt a different persona, ranging from the nondescript (a businessman, a concerned father) to the eyebrow-raising (an old beggar-woman, a scarred gangster) to the flat-out demented (Monsieur Merde, a one-eyed, flowerscoffing, visibly priapic monster in a green leprechaun suit).

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An exhilarating and gloriously untamed dreamlike fantasy The world of Holy Motors is one in which gravestones sport URLs, where supermodels are kidnapped and forced to wear the niqab, and where the artifice of CGI is highlighted via a spellbinding dance sequence between two people wearing motion-capture outfits, whose illuminated dots themselves become an abstract ballet worthy of Len Lye or Oskar Fischinger. Oh, and it’s also got a full-on musical number with Kylie Minogue, who with this and Moulin Rouge! (2001) seems oddly drawn to rumbustiously eccentric Paris-set fantasies. Is it a dream? An insanely elaborate homage to cinema, riffing on every genre and archetype imaginable? A wildly indulgent folly of a kind that the medium hasn’t seen since Federico Fellini and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s heyday? It’s a firm yes to all three, and all the more exhilarating for it. But it’s also oddly moving, making time for clearly heartfelt reflections on life, art and identity. Michael Brooke Page 11

World Cinema Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne Hans Quest

1950s German comedy starring Heinz Rühmann as a lodger who is doted on by his landlady’s foster son, Ulli. When Ulli shows him a clown costume he has found, he tells the boy about his son who used to perform with him until he died. The pair begin performing themselves – until Ulli’s mother returns to take her son away. Germany | 1955 | Jeff | 95 | subt | Cert TBC Item# 69619 | RRP £12.99 | 4th February

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The Woodsman and the Rain Shuichi Okita

Japanese comedy drama in which a young movie director (Shun Oguri) and his crew travel to a small mountain village to film his next feature. While there, they enlist the help of the locals, one of whom is woodsman Katsuhiko – who finds himself striking up an unlikely friendship with Koichi.

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings

Dietrich and von Sternberg’s first Hollywood collaboration sees her don a man’s tuxedo and top hat in her role as a provocative cabaret singer who falls in love with Gary Cooper’s legionnaire. Item# 55881 USA | 1930 | 92 | B&W | U | £9.99

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Item# 69856 Ger | 1930 | EUREK | 107 | subt | B&W | PG

You have to feel sorry for poor Emil Jannings. There he was, a huge star, making his first sound feature and giving, arguably, his best performance as the schoolmaster who loses heart and head to a nightclub glamourpuss – and all anyone could talk about was the girl. This was the first film Marlene Dietrich made with her Svengali Josef von Sternberg, the opening chapter of one of the cinema’s very greatest achievements: their seven film investigation of desire and erotic humiliation. True, Marlene is here less lissome than she’d become in Hollywood and the film less glitzy (von Sternberg was something of a realist in his early years) but despite all that followed, it remains the clearest articulation of the themes they would explore together. Such an important film deserves the red carpet treatment and this Masters of Cinema release does just that. Offering both German and English versions of the film, it is surely the definitive presentation. JO

Angel Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Dietrich flutters her eyelashes and flirts between an English diplomat and an American old flame in this romantic comedy.

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Desire Dir: Frank Borzage. Dietrich stars as a seductively crafty jewel thief who uses Gary Cooper’s American tourist to smuggle stolen pearls.

ParaNorman

Chris Butler & Sam Fell A small town comes under siege by zombies and turns to misunderstood local boy Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies however, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and grown-ups. USA | 2012 | UPV | 93 | Cert PG Item# 70025 / 70026 | RRP £19.99 | 28th Jan

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Marlene Dietrich The Blue Angel DVD Sale

Item# 55967 USA | 1936 | 91 | B&W | U | £9.99

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Dishonored Dir: Josef von Sternberg. WWI espionage melodrama in which Dietrich plays a Mata Hari working for the Austrian Secret service. Item# 55968 USA | 1931 | 87 | B&W | PG | £9.99

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A Foreign Affair Dir: Billy Wilder. Classic romantic comedy in which John Lund’s army officer falls for nightclub singer Dietrich’s sultry charms. Item# 55965 USA | 1948 | 116 | B&W | U | £9.99

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Touch of Evil Dir: Orson Welles. A squalid Mexican border town hosts sordid deeds. Welles plays the crooked police chief, Dietrich the enigmatic gypsy. Item# 33641 / 66206 1958 | 105 | B&W | 12 | £15.99

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Mr Bongo

2 DVDs for £16

The Grim Reaper

My Voyage to Italy

Director: Alain Resnais

Bernardo Bertolucci

Martin Scorsese

Starring: Anny Duperey, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Amalric, Lambert Wilson, Anne Consigny, Gérard Lartigau

Bertolucci’s brilliant debut feature which follows the story of a police investigation into the murder of a prostitute in a Rome Park and examines the dark underbelly of life in the city.

A heartfelt documentary in which Scorsese discusses the Italian films that had a profound impact on him, this is both a brilliant portrait of a national cinema and a fascinating disguised autobiography.

Recommended

Only Alain Resnais could have conceived a film like this, let alone pulled it off. Self-reflexively misquoting The Jazz Singer in the title, it suggests that cinema is visually in the same state of transition as it was when Alan Crosland’s musical drama introduced narrative sound in 1927. It is also a wise reminder that no matter what else changes, text and performance will always be as crucial as any new technology or directorial interpretation. The film’s conceit is almost whodunit-like, as a deceased theatre director summons 13 actors to cast their verdict on a new version of a play in which they had once starred. Blending elements of Jean Anouilh’s Euridyce and Cher Antoine, Resnais revists notions of time, space and memory explored in Last Year at Marienbad as his players begin reclaiming their former characters. Their actions could be taken as a condemnation of remakes, and a gracious acknowledgement from a pivotal figure in the nouvelle vague that one generation’s present quickly becomes the next one’s past. DP

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Item# 65833 Italy / USA | 1999 | 237 | 12 | £12.99

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Boccaccio ‘70

Lola

Women take charge of their lives, their loves and morals in these four films directed by Fellini, De Sica, Visconti and Monicelli.

Dir: Jacques Demy. Anouk Aimée stars in Demy’s beautiful debut feature, which he described as a ‘musical without music’.

Item# 58602 Italy | 1962 | 203 | subt | 18 | £12.99

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Chung Kuo - China

Marriage Italian Style

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. A controversial 1972 documentary about the New China that earned a rebuke from Mao Zedong himself.

Dir: Vittorio De Sica. Sophia Loren is the shrewd mistress to Marcello Mastroianni’s businessman in De Sica’s sixties comedy.

Item# 67547 Italy | 1972 | 208 | subt | 12 | £13.99

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I Am Cuba

Memories of Underdevelopment

Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov. An extraordinary hymn to to the Castro revolution which uses amazing camera techniques to beautiful, lyrical effect. Item# 28904 Cuba | 1964 | 135 | subt | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Dir: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. A stirring, sophisticated treatment of the early days of the Castro regime. Item# 56348 Cuba | 1968 | 97 | B&W | 15 | £12.99

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Il Posto

Story of a Love Affair

Dir: Ermanno Olmi. A tender, funny coming-of-age story about a young man’s faltering steps in a faceless corporate world.

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. A film that exudes innovative power, with a suggestion of film noir added to its neo-realist tale of an affair.

Item# 64795 Italy | 1961 | 92 | subt | B&W | U | £12.99

Item# 52206 Italy | 1950 | 98 | subt | B&W | PG | £12.99

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King Lear

Two Daughters

Dir: Grigori Kozintsev. An astonishing, assured Soviet-era adatation of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Yuri Yarvet’s portrayal of Lear is superb.

Dir: Satyajit Ray. Two exquisitely crafted stories of life, love, friendship, poverty and freedom in rural India: The Postmaster and Samapti.

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The Blue Angel

The Magnificent New Year Film Sale World Cinema Cinema 16: European Short Films

Bertrand Bonello

A marvellous selection of 16 films including many unseen early works from some of Europe’s great directors, including Godard, Kieslowski, von Trier, Leconte and Švankmajer. Item# 18682 | 1957-2003 | 210 | subt | E | £17.99

Nostalgia for the Light

House of Tolerance Ravishing and opulent, this is a stylised and languid look at the final days of a turn-of-the-century brothel in Paris, its champagne and opium lifestyle, its regular clients and its ever-resourceful working women.

Patricio Guzmán

Item# 68113 France | 2011 | 125 | subt | 18 | £12.99

Item# 68894 / 69849 Chile | 2010 | 94 | subt | E | £15.99

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A profound and searching cinematic essay set in Chile’s Atacama desert. A meditation on time, space, astronomy, history and forgetting.

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Las Acacias

Children of Heaven

The Fairy

Dir: Pablo Giorgelli. A tender Latin American road movie about the bond between a truck driver and his mother and child road companions.

Dir: Majid Majidi. An uplifting Iranian family drama in which the accidental loss of a pair of shoes causes problems for a young boy.

Dir: Abel, Gordon & Romy. An enchanting slice of Tati-esque magical-realist whimsy following the directors’ 2009 film Rumba.

Item# 68654 Iran | 1997 | 84 | subt | PG | £19.99

Item# 69144 France | 2011 | 94 | subt | PG | £15.99

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The Alain Resnais Collection

Cinema 16: World Short Films

Faust

Contains I Want to Go Home (1989), Life is a Bed of Roses (1983), Love Unto Death and Mélo (1986).

16 short films from some of the finest names in world cinema: del Toro, Cuarón, Sokurov, Maddin and more.

Item# 61854 France | 1989 | 415 | subt | 15 | £39.99

Item# 56068 | 1983-2007 | 300 | subt | E | £19.99

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Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov. An evocative, free adaptation of the Faust legend from Sokurov that shows him to be in a cinematic world of his own. Item# 68403 / 68408 Ru | 2011 | 139 | sub | 15 | £15.99

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El Amor Brujo

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Gospel According to Matthew

Dir: Luis Buñuel. Six friends repeatedly gather to dine but never manage to. A film with plenty of bite still.

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. A respectful, passionate and moving adaptation of the biblical text.

Item# 68644 France | 1972 | 98 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 67266 Italy | 1964 | 137 | subt | B&W | U | £22.99

Dir: Carlos Saura. The third part of Saura’s flamenco trilogy – following Carmen and Blood Wedding – based on the ballet by Manuel de Falla. Item# 67261 Spain | 1986 | 98 | subt | PG | £15.99

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Café de Flore

Don Giovanni

The Insect Woman

Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée. A two-tiered French romantic drama that is a feast for the eye, ear and heart as it spans time-zones and tales.

Dir: Joseph Losey. A matchless adaptation of Mozart’s greatest opera with wonderful performances. 3 discs; Remastered.

Dir: Shohei Imamura. An audacious, unsparing study of working-class female life. 2 discs; Nishi-Ginza Station (Imamura, 1958).

Item# 68946 France | 2011 | 121 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 52717 Italy | 1979 | 169 | 12 | £24.99

Item# 66858 Japan | 1963 | 123 | subt | B&W | 15 | £22.99

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Carmen

Don Quixote

Dir: Francesco Rosi. A sumptuous adaptation of Bizet’s opera starring Plácido Domingo, Julia Migenes and Ruggero Raimondi. 2 discs.

Dir: Grigori Kozintsev. A grand, Soviet-era CinemaScope treatment of Cervantes’ novel. Nikolai Cherkassov (Ivan the Terrible) stars.

Ozu: The Student Comedies

Item# 65551 / 65550 Ita | 1984 | 149 | subt | PG | £19.99

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Days of Youth, I Flunked, But..., The Lady and the Beard and Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? 2 discs. Item# 67076 Japan | 1929-32 | subt | B&W | PG | £29.99

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Classic Movies The Flying Scotsman

Trio, Encore and Quartet

Lawrence Tierney plays a ladykiller – a real and brutal one – in this tough film noir. He’s irresistible to women, but has already killed twice without conscience or remorse – and he’s ready to kill again.

Castleton Knight

Ten adaptations from Somerset Maugham’s short stories, spread across three portmanteau films, each introduced by the writer himself and featuring an inspired selection of acting talent.

Item# 68767 USA | 1947 | 92 | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Robert Wise

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Charlie Bubbles Albert Finney, directing his only film, plays a working-class writer who has forgotten how to connect to people. From Shelagh Delaney’s script. Item# 55739 UK | 1967 | 89 | PG | £7.99

With daredevil stunts and the screen debut of Ray Milland, this early British sound film sees a discharged stoker out to make trouble on the line on an engine driver’s last run.

Convoy Dir: Pen Tennyson. A Royal Navy cruiser makes a valiant last stand to allow a convoy to get through in this distinguished Ealing WWII film. Item# 68629 UK | 1940 | 85 | B&W | PG | £15.99

The Harry Novak Collection: Volume 1

The Mummy’s Shroud

Three sexploitation films: Mantis in Lace, Kiss Me Quick, The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo & Juliet. 3 discs.

Item# 68631 UK | 1967 | 84 | PG | £22.99

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Murder by Decree

Item# 68763 UK | 1972 | 120 | PG | £15.99

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Dir: John Gilling. A vengeful spirit is unleashed on an archeological dig in 1920s Egypt in this notorious Hammer shocker. 2 discs.

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Dir: Waris Hussein. A powerful period drama featuring a wealth of stars. An award-winning Keith Michell stars.

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Dir: Bob Clark. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson get on the trail of Jack the Ripper. Christopher Plummer and James Mason star. Item# 67151 UK | 1979 | 118 | 12 | £15.99

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Crooks in Cloisters

The Landlord

Pandora’s Box

Dir: Jeremy Summers. A vintage British comedy in which a bunch of on-the-run petty crooks take to the cloth in an attempt to lay low.

Dir: Hal Ashby. Beau Bridges stars as a landlord out to evict his black tenants in this mix of social satire, urban drama and high comedy.

Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Has anyone ever acted with as much carefree fatalism as Louise Brooks here? Her performance amazes.

Item# 68703 UK | 1964 | 92 | U | £15.99

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Cross of Iron

Macbeth

Ring of Bright Water

Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah’s only war film, following a doomed German platoon in 1943. James Mason and James Coburn star.

Dir: Orson Welles. A dark, almost expressionist version of Shakespeare’s play, which works with its low budget rather than against it.

Dir: Jack Couffer. A jaded Londoner buys a domesticated otter and moves to the west of Scotland in this adaptation from Gavin Maxwell.

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Dracula, Prince of Darkness

The Man in a Grey Flannel Suit

Room at the Top

Dir: Terence Fisher. Seven years after Hammer’s Dracula, Christopher Lee dons the cape once more. 2 discs.

Dir: Nunnally Johnson. Gregory Peck plays the ex-soldier searching for meaning in a corporate world.

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Dir: Jack Clayton. Groundbreaking cinema from the British new wave with a blistering performance from Simone Signoret at its heart. Item# 56914 UK | 1959 | 113 | B&W | 12 | £14.99

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Born to Kill

Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

New Releases Abe Lincoln in Illinois John Cromwell

The story of Abraham Lincoln from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as the 16th President of the United States. Features a stellar performance in the title role from Raymond Massey and beautiful cinematography from James Wong Howe.

Dance Hall Recommended

Fear and Desire Recommended

Director: Charles Crichton

Director: Stanley Kubrick

USA | 1940 | ODEON | 110 | Cert PG Item# 70279 | RRP £12.99 | 28th January

Starring: Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, Diana Dors, Petula Clark, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton

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Adventures of Captain Fabian

Item# 69365 UK | 1950 | STUDC | 77 | B&W | Cert PG

William Marshall

1950s swashbuckler, written by and starring Errol Flynn as a dashing adventurer who returns to New Orleans to seek vengeance on the family who defrauded his father, stumbling upon murder in high society on the way. USA | 1951 | SIMP | 100 | Cert PG Item# 69712 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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Always a Bride Ralph Smart

Classic British comedy in which Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins play the father and daughter who pose as husband and wife to ply their scam on the Riviera – he ‘disappears with all of her savings’ and contributions pour in from sympathetic guests. But then she meets a man and thinks of a life away from scheming. UK | 1953 | SpiritStrawberry | 82 | Cert PG Item# 70119 | RRP £12.99 | 7th January

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And Now Tomorrow Irving Pichel

‘Who are you that a man can’t make love to you?’ Alan Ladd, Loretta Young and Susan Hayward star in this highly-wrought love story which sees a surgeon trying an experimental cure for deafness on a wealthy woman. USA | 1944 | SIMP | 82 | Cert PG Item# 69729 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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Eve (Natasha Parry) and her girlfriends (Jane Hylton, Diana Dors and Petula Clark) spend their days grafting at the local factory while in the evenings they sashay, swirl and socialise at the buzzing Palais de Danse. Eve is going steady with stolid, flat-footed and possessive Phil (Donald Houston). But with an amateur dance competition in the offing she’s teamed herself up with twinkle-toed Lothario, Alec (Bonar Colleano), who’s got more than just a Quickstep in mind for his gullible partner. It looks like there’s going to be blood on the dance floor. With the help of Douglas Slocombe’s swooping camera and with smooth sounds courtesy of bandleaders Ted Heath and Geraldo, there are enough quick-quick-slows, fleckles and chassées here to keep the most die-hard Strictly Come Dancing fan spellbound. As for its thrillingly noir-ish ending where Eve and Phil settle their differences – set against the Palais’ heady New Year’s celebrations – it’s a reminder that Ealing Studios (who produced this long forgotten gem) was about far more than just comedy. AB

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Before you run, you must learn to walk. And before you can make Dr. Strangelove... This vital collection documents the first steps of young photographerturned-filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, including his two newsreel shorts (Day of the Fight and The Flying Padre), an industrial ‘documentary’ that was his first film in colour (a union recruitment film, The Seafarers) and, most valuably, his very first feature, Fear and Desire. Set in an unnamed war, it follows a platoon trapped behind enemy lines as they battle not just the enemy but their own neuroses. Kubrick later disowned his debut and did his level best to suppress it. But, as long as they’re tolerant of its shortcomings, admirers will find much to intrigue them. It’s ambitious and remarkably assured for what is, essentially, an amateur film: the photography, always Kubrick’s strong suit, stands comparison with major studio productions of the time. These films are a fascinating glimpse at raw talent whose promise is already clear to see. JO

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Nowhere to Go Recommended Director: Seth Holt Starring: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee Released: 14th January Extras: Digitally remastered uncut version; New featurette including crew interviews. Item# 69372 | UK | 1958 | STUDC | 100 | B&W | Cert PG

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Night and the City Jules Dassin

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or a film you might not have heard of, Nowhere to Go scored a lot of firsts. It was the first of a handful of eye-catching films to be directed by the troubled but gifted Seth Holt; the first of a scant series of forays into screenwriting by theatre critic Kenneth Tynan; and the first big screen appearance of a young but sharply precocious Maggie Smith. Perhaps more notably, it’s also a fascinatingly uncharacteristic last-gasp thriller from the soon-to-be-defunct Ealing Studios (which released only one more film – ‘nowhere to go’ indeed). It has been called the ‘least Ealing’ Ealing film – the punchy dialogue, moody visuals and jazzy hard bop score (by Dizzy Reece) put it much more in league with the later classics of American noir than the elegant thrillers that had helped to define the British studio’s name. Hollywood import George Nader plays Canadian conman Paul Gregory, who inveigles himself into the trust of widow Bessie Love in order to relieve her of her late husband’s valuable rare coin collection. Aided and abetted by henchman Sloane (Bernard Lee), Gregory squirrels away the proceeds of the steal and lets himself be caught, secretly planning to reclaim his

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A punchy film noir from Ealing Studios, ripe for rediscovery spoils after serving a five stretch. But the plan goes awry when the judge sends him down for ten, necessitating an audacious prison breakout (a virtuoso piece of visual orchestration by Holt) before he can be reunited with the loot. But further misfortune lies ahead. Holt and Maggie Smith make early, indelible marks here, but the film is also powered by the now forgotten Nader, formerly a pretty-boy contract player with Universal, who delivers a convincingly tough but vulnerable lead performance. And there are poignant parallels with his wounded career. His tenure at Universal was sacrificed after an affair with fellow contract player Rock Hudson, for whom the studio had big but decidedly conservative plans; with avenues closed in Hollywood, Nader ended up a travelling player in European films of sadly diminishing returns. Nowhere to Go is thankfully one that gives him somewhere to go with his talent. Julian Upton Page 19

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The Sheltering Sky

Gary Ross

Bernardo Bertolucci

An exhilarating sci-fi thriller, based on Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novels, set in the ruins of what was once North America. Jennifer Lawrence plays the young girl in a fight for her life. 2 discs.

John Malkovich and Debra Winger play the couple who journey to North Africa to save their marriage. Distinguished by superlative cinematography, this is a magnificently evocative film.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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The Woman in the Fifth A Paris-set psychological thriller. Ethan Hawke plays the writer who heads to bohemian Paris and meets a seductive but mysterious woman (Kristin Scott Thomas).

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Antichrist

Kill List

Sappho

Dir: Lars Von Trier. This controversial exploration of guilt and sexuality stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grieving couple.

Dir: Ben Wheatley. A physically and mentally scarred ex-soldier turned contract killer unravels in this impressive British drama.

Dir: Robert Crombie. A provocative lesbian love story set in the 1920s, redolent of the erotic cinema of Tinto Brass.

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Dead Man

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Scandal

Dir: Jim Jarmusch. A monochrome neo-western combining quirky wit with stylised violence and nail-biting tension. Johnny Depp stars. Item# 67981 USA | 1995 | 115 | B&W | 18 | £15.99

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Dir: Michael Caton-Jones. Joanne Whalley, Ian McKellen and Bridget Fonda star in this film about the 1960s ‘Profumo affair’.

Dir: Nicolas Roeg. David Bowie stars as the androgynous alien of the title in this striking, multi-layered film. Item# 66418 USA | 1976 | 134 | 18 | £15.99

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The Descendants

Me & Orson Welles

Sleeping Beauty

Dir: Alexander Payne. An Oscarwinning comedy drama starring George Clooney as a lawyer forced to rethink his approach to life.

Dir: Richard Linklater. A drama set in the theatrical world of 1930s New York. Zac Efron plays the young man who joins Welles’ Mercury Theatre.

Dir: Julia Leigh. A provocative erotic drama, mentored by Jane Campion, in which a young female student is drawn into a sexual underworld.

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Meek’s Cutoff

Snowtown

Dir: Kelly Reichardt. A tense, enigmatic and beautifully-shot western set in 1845 during the earliest days of the Oregon Trail.

Dir: Justin Kurzel. A gritty, haunting Australian crime drama based on the infamous ‘Bodies in the Barrels’ murders of the 1990s.

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The Way

Dir: Wim Wenders. A noir mystery set in 1940s San Francisco, Hammett evocatively recreates the mood of the genre. Frederic Forrest stars.

Wes Anderson’s charming and moving coming-of-age comedy set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965.

Dir: Emilio Estevez. Martin Sheen plays the grieving father looking for meaning while on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.

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The Good Soldier

The first three volumes. Volume 1: Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968 & 2010 versions); Volume 2: The Stalls of Barchester and A Warning to the Curious; Volume 3: Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Ash Tree.

Kevin Billington

The House of Cards

An adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s classic Edwardian story of love and deception. Jeremy Brett relishes the title role in which he gave one of the outstanding performances of his career.

All three series of the popular political BBC drama: House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut. Ian Richardson gives a memorable Machiavellian turn. 3 discs.

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Armchair Theatre: Volume 3 A selection of twelve plays from ITV’s flagship drama anthology series, scripted by top writers. 3 discs.

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Lady Killers: Series 1

Ripping Yarns

All seven episodes from the first series of the drama which brings to life the trials of infamous female murderers. 2 discs.

All nine half-hour episodes of Michael Palin & Terry Jones’ series of extended parodies of ‘Boy’s Own’type adventures. 2 discs.

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Death in Paradise: Series 1

Look Back in Anger

The Shakespeare Collection

BBC crime drama in which a London DI is – reluctantly – assigned to a 2 discs. Caribbean island. Item# 67014 UK | 2011 | 466 | 12 | £19.99

Dir: Judi Dench. Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson star in this acclaimed TV presentation of John Osborne’s landmark play. Item# 67038 UK | 1989 | 114 | 12 | £12.99

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The Ebony Tower

The Male of the Species

Dir: Robert Knights. An adaptation from John Fowles’ novel. Laurence Olivier gives a formidable central performance as the elderly painter.

The Good Companions An adaptation of JB Priestley’s novel about a struggling concert party in 1930s England. 3 discs. Item# 65766 UK | 1980-81 | 450 | PG | £24.99

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Shoestring: Series 1

Dir: Charles Jarrott. A trilogy of plays, narrated by Laurence Olivier and starring Connery, Caine and Scofield. Item# 65699 USA | 1969 | 75 | PG | £12.99

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Contains the RSC’s Macbeth (1979), Romeo & Juliet (1976), Twelfth Night 4 discs. (1988), King Lear (1976). Item# 68356 UK | 1976-88 | 606 | PG | £19.99

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Trevor Eve plays the dishevelled private eye turned radio show host, Eddie Shoestring, in this West Country detective series. 4 discs. Item# 66116 UK | 1979 | 558 | 12 | £24.99

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Mr Rose: Series 1

Talking Heads

William Mervyn stars as Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Rose in this complete first series of the late 1960s crime drama. 4 discs.

Alan Bennett’s brilliantly natural monologues are brought to life by some of the UK’s finest talents. Essential TV drama. 3 discs.

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A History of Scotland

Mrs Brown’s Boys: Series 1 & 2

Village Hall: Series 1

A thought-provoking series that brings a new perspective to questions posed by Scotland’s turbulent past. Neil Oliver presents. 5 discs. Item# 60520 UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 12 | £29.99

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Writer/director Brendan O’Carroll stars in this Dublin-set sitcom about the life of Agnes Brown. 5 discs. Item# 69459 UK | 2012 | UPV | 15 | £39.99

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A Granada anthology with excellent scripts about the various stories that take place in a typical village hall. 2 discs. Item# 67031 UK | 1974 | 350 | 12 | £19.99

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Lease of Life Charles Frend

Four classic British romantic dramas: The Astonished Heart (Fisher & Darnborough, 1950), Always a Bride (Smart, 1953), cold war drama The Young Lovers (Asquith, 1954) and sci-fi drama Quest for Love (Ralph Thomas, 1971), based on John 4 discs. Wyndham’s story Random Quest. UK | 1950-71 | SpiritStrawberry | Cert PG Item# 70160 | RRP £19.99 | 21st January

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The Doris Day Collection

A nine movie set: Young at Heart (Douglas, 1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1956), Pillow Talk (Gordon, 1959), Midnight Lace (Miller, 1960), Lover Come Back (Mann, 1961), That Touch of Mink (Mann, 1962), The Thrill of It All (Jewison, 1963), Send Me No Flowers (Jewison, 1964) and The Ballad of 9 discs. Josie (McLaglen, 1967). USA | 1954 | UPV | 932 | Cert PG Item# 70212 | RRP £69.99 | 14th January

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Drums Across the River Nathan Juran

Walter Brennan, Audie Murphy and Lyle Bettger star in this classic western that sees a crook trying to get hold of the mineral resources on the Ute Indians’ land. Filled with plot twists and colourful characters, it gained universal plaudits when it was first released in 1954. USA | 1954 | SIMP | 75 | Cert PG Item# 69715 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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99 Women Women-behind-bars drama starring Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Rosalba Neri and Maria Rohm. In fact, Franco plays it fairly straight and tame here, with McCambridge and Lom as the sadistic wardens of an island prison filled with luscious young lovelies looking for revenge. Item# 70086 Spain / Italy | 1969 | 89 | 18 | £9.99

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The Bloody Judge

Kirk Douglas ignites the screen with one of his most personal roles as a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world. In the film he plays a fiercely independent cowboy who arranges to have himself locked up so that he can then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced.

Christopher Lee is unforgettable as Judge Jeffreys, the infamous 17th century witchfinder whose unholy obsession with a luscious wench (Maria Rohm), fuels a spree of torture, brutality and perversion. Maria Schell and Howard Vernon co-star in this gleefully deviant film, which has a score by Bruno Nicolai.

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Eugenie

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The Outsider Delbert Mann

A sympathetic social drama that sees Tony Curtis take the lead role as Pima Indian and WWII hero Ira Hamilton Hayes, a man who shocks his friends when he enlists in the US Army to join the fight against fascism – and ends up hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima.

Red Ball Express

Vincent Price stars in this 1968 thriller that has been described as ‘quite possibly the sleaziest movie AIP ever made’. It sees a vacationing couple (George Nader and Ann Smyrner) in Tangiers run into a friend searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slave traders.

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House of a 1000 Dolls

Spain / Germany | 1967 | MEDRA | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 70074 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

In his penultimate film, Robert Donat stars as a country vicar who is forced to re-evaluate his life and beliefs when he learns he has but a year to live. Deciding that he needs to be more honest with his parishioners, he begins preaching freedom of thought and action. But he soon has to face a crisis of conscience when, in need of funds for his daughter’s tuition, temptation rears its head.

Budd Boetticher

During the Allied push to Paris in WWII, General Patton’s tanks outrun their supply lines. A group of drivers led by Lieutenant Campbell (Jeff Chandler) and Sergeant Kallek (Alex Nicol) set out for the front lines, but the enmity between them makes the mission anything but straightforward.

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A film based on De Sade’s notorious Philosophy in the Boudoir, Eugenie tells a tale of debauchery and the corruption of virginal innocence. Marie Liljedahl plays the innocent taken to an island paradise where she is initiated into a world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance (Christopher Lee). Item# 70087 Italy | 1970 | 87 | 18 | £9.99

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The Girl from Rio A kinky cult favorite in the tradition of Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik, this is 1960s softcore sci-fi filled with go-go boots and Franco’s outrageous style. Golden Bond girl Shirley Eaton stars as the leader of a kingdom of warrior women who launches a plan to enslave men with her army. George Sanders co-stars. Item# 70097 Spain / USA | 1969 | 94 | | £12.99

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Venus in Furs

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Aka Paroxismus. James Darren plays the mixed-up trumpet player who finds the body of a beautiful woman (Maria Rohm) washed up in the surf and is sucked into a perverse mire of pyscho-sexual horror. Klaus Kinski and Dennis Price play decadent sadists; the music comes from Manfred Mann.

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Roy Boulting

A fine WWII adventure adapted from the novel by CS Forester. When a badly damaged German warship slips into a lagoon for repairs, an escaped Canadian POW (Jeffrey Hunter) makes a bid for freedom. Armed only with courage and a rifle, he must pin down the warship and its crew until the British fleet Alternate ending. arrives. UK / USA | 1953 | ODEON | 79 | Cert PG Item# 70273 | RRP £12.99 | 28th January

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Scotland Yard: Complete All 39 episodes of the 1957 crime series based on real cases faced by London’s Metropolitan Police. Russell Napier plays the indefatigable Inspector Duggan in the dramas, which were originally broadcast as cinema B-features. 6 discs.

UK | 1957 | NWORK | 1170 | PG Item# 69269 | RRP £59.99 | 14th January

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Sing, You Sinners Wesley Ruggles

One of Bing Crosby’s best 1930s films, giving him a platform to showcase his acting credentials as a wastrel on the fast track to destruction. Songs include I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams and Laugh and Call It Love. Fred MacMurray and Donald O’Connor co-star. USA | 1938 | SIMP | 85 | Cert PG Item# 69731 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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The Titfield Thunderbolt (Restored) Charles Crichton

A delightful Ealing comedy of community action that sees the inhabitants of Titfield make a spirited bid to run their branch line after its closure by British Making-of; Railways. Home Movies; The Lion Locomotive; Locations Featurette; Restoration comparison; Douglas Slocombe on Charles Crichton (Audio).

The Film & TV of

Maggie Smith A major stage actress, Dame Maggie Smith nevertheless took to film with gusto, and earned Oscars and a plethora of nominations in the process. While her greatest performance is possibly as the alcoholic wife in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, she is always a compelling screen presence – even in lighter roles such as her sardonic spinster in Ladies In Lavender.

My House in Umbria

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Richard Loncraine

Ronald Neame

A charming and evocative drama in which Smith plays a British romantic novelist who invites terrorist attack survivors to recuperate at her beautiful Italian villa.

Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Oscar in 1969 for her role as a naive schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh, gives one of the best performances of her career in this film.

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Downton Abbey

Ladies In Lavender

The first three series, available separately and in a set. Smith is the 3/4/11 discs. Dowager Countess.

Dir: Charles Dance. Smith and Judi Dench play the elderly sisters who nurse a young Polish back to health and encourage his musical talents.

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From Time to Time

Murder By Death

Dir: Julian Fellowes. A ghost story that sees an evacuee stumbling into another time-zone when he is sent to stay with his grandmother (Smith).

Dir: Robert Moore. A clever, starpacked spoof on murder mysteries in which the world’s great detectives are invited to solve a perfect murder.

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Gosford Park

Othello

Dir: Robert Altman. A fun, 1930s set country house whodunit, with a healthy sense of mischief in both plotting and production design.

Smith plays Desdemona to Olivier’s Othello in this film of John Dexter’s 1964 production of the play at the National Theatre.

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The Honey Pot

The Pumpkin Eater

Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A film based on Volpone. Rex Harrison is the playboy who pretends he is dying to see what three old flames will do.

Dir: Jack Clayton. Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch excel as the couple in crisis in this Pinter-scripted drama that is a British cousin to Antonioni.

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Keeping Mum

Talking Heads

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Dir: Niall Johnson. Rowan Atkinson’s dutiful vicar is too busy with sermons to notice his wife (Smith) is having an affair with her golf instructor.

Alan Bennett’s brilliantly natural monologues are brought to life by some of the UK’s finest talents. Essential TV drama. 3 discs.

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Television Programmes Originally Broadcast

Continuum: Season 1

New Releases The Arthur Haynes Show: Volume 6

A sixth volume of shows from ITV’s top comedian. Lack of repeats ensured that Haynes’ brilliance has been overlooked until now. Alf Garnett creator Johnny Speight wrote the scripts; Nicholas Parsons plays the straight guy. 2 discs.

UK | 1964 | NWORK | 325 | Cert PG Item# 70085 | RRP £19.99 | 28th January

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The complete first season of the time-travelling Canadian drama which sees a Vancouver law enforcement officer (Rachel Nichols) transported along with eight terrorists from the year 2077 to 2012, where she tries to track down them down and prevent 3 discs. them from changing the future.

USA | 2012 | UPV | 420 | Cert 12 Item# 70263 | RRP £24.99 | 28th January

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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror John Gorrie

Borgen: Season 2

The eighth serial from the first season of the longrunning BBC series. While trying to return to 1960s London the Doctor (in his first incarnation played by William Hartnell) finds himself caught up in the French revolution and his companions arrested as traitors and sentenced to death.

The complete second season of the Danish drama of political intrigue. In this series, Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is trying to balance her role of PM with that of divorcee and 3 discs; single-mother. Also available: 6 disc Seasons 1 & 2 box set.

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Call the Midwife: 2012 Christmas Special Philippa Lowthorpe

Christmas is coming and the midwives of Nonnatus House are busier than ever. There is a children’s nativity play to stage, and when an abandoned baby is left on the convent steps, the community rallies and tries to trace his mother.

Enlightened: Season 1

All ten episodes from the first season of the US comedy drama starring co-creator Laura Dern as a woman who, after recovering from a breakdown at a holistic treatment centre, returns to the real world and attempts to incorporate meditation and inner healing into her daily life – with varying degrees of success. Diane Ladd (Dern’s real-life mother) plays her mother in the series, Luke Wilson her 2 discs. addiction-battling ex-husband.

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Cities at War

Michael Darlow A four-part series detailing the travails of four cities that found themselves under aerial bombardment during World War II. Contains London: The First City, Berlin: The Doomed City, Paris: The Outraged City and Leningrad: The Hero City.

The Fear

Michael Samuels A commanding Peter Mullan stars as Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur Richie Beckett in Richard Cottan’s powerful and gripping new drama for Channel 4 that chronicles the disintegration of a criminal mind.

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The Girl Recommended Director: Julian Jarrold Starring: Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton Released: 7th January Item# 68986 UK | 2012 | ACORN | 90 | Cert 15

The rumours about Alfred Hitchcock’s ugly mistreatment of ‘Tippi’ Hedren suggested there was a shorter distance between the filmmaker and his films than previously suspected. Why, they even sound like a Hitchcock movie: powerful-yet-self-loathing man tries to mould a naive model into a star, and becomes obsessed. But when the powerful man’s feelings are not reciprocated, he finds ever more ingenious ways to torment her. It’s debatable if these stories are true but they make for a superior backstage drama from BBC/HBO, touching on the price of stardom and the shifting balance of power between the director and the puppet he can’t control. Director Julian Jarrold adopts some of Hitchcock’s favourite techniques (and even mimics early-sixties colour schemes), but it’s the casting that is most impressive. Toby Jones is typically fine as the ample auteur while Sienna Miller delivers her best performance to date as the unfortunate ‘Tippi’. Hitch probably wasn’t the monster he’s painted here, but as the great man liked to say, it’s only a movie. And an absorbing one at that. JO

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Tempo: Volume 1 Recommended Contains: Painter at Work: Graham Sutherland, The Medium Sized-Cage, Menuhin on Music, Harold Pinter, Orson Welles, A Guided Tour of Zero Mostel, A Tale of Two Talents: Tom Jones and Lynn Seymour, Don’t Let the Wig Fool You Mate!: Danny La Rue, Meet the Duke, Tativille, Jazz in Wonderland, Take a Simple Action and Look at it Again Released: 21st January Extras: 2 discs Item# 67791 | UK | 1965-67 | NWORK | 300 | B&W | Cert E

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o question about it, this first volume of programmes from Tempo, ABC Television’s wideranging 1960s Sunday afternoon arts series, is quite a find from the archives. It contains twelve programmes made between 1965-67, in which the happy marriage of skilled practitioners (the majority of programmes on the set were produced by Mike Hodges and directed by Jim Goddard) and the freedom of ratings-free television allowed them to get to the heart of the subject at hand in the manner they thought best. And some subjects these are too: Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Duke Ellington and Yehudi Menuhin to name but four. Film and music take up half of the set. There’s a visit to Tativille a year into the shoot of Playtime, tightly-cropped profiles of Harold Pinter and a puckish postChimes at Midnight Orson Welles (‘I began as a star and I’ve been working my way down ever since’), while Zero Mostel (a man with ‘a personality that’s no good for people of nervous disposition’) is interviewed by poet Al Alvarez on the set of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in Spain. Jazz is represented by an interview with a genial Duke Ellington, interspersed with

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A treasure trove of boundary-breaking 1960s arts programmes clips of him rehearsing with his band while on tour in Britain in 1966, while we also spend a day in the studio with Stan Tracey and his big band as they record Alice in Jazz Land. A Tale of Two Talents looks at the relative claims, expectations and stardom of two very different artists – singer Tom Jones and Royal Ballet Company dancer Lynn Seymour, while, by way of contrast, we also spend half-anhour in the company of Yehudi Menuhin and fellow players as they rehearse Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. Other profiles include female impersonator Danny La Rue and painter Graham Sutherland. Finally, boundary-breaking though Tempo was, its programme with radical psychiatrist RD Laing in which he explores the effects of LSD proved too controversial and was pulled before transmission. It’s included here though and is a fascinating piece of work – though you can see why the suits thought a simulated acid trip on Sunday afternoon TV might not be such a good idea. Graeme Hobbs Page 25

The Girl

• Introduced by famed author Edgar Lustgarten. • 39 thrillers from real-life cases in the files of Scotland Yard. • Produced between 1953 and 1961 at Merton Park Studios. • The highly successful sister series to ScaleS of JuSTIce. • Stars include Harry H. Corbett, Peter Bowles, and John Le Mesurier.

From film to DVD on 14th January.

• ITV’s seminal 60s arts programme. • The pre-cursor to aQuaRIuS and THe SouTH BaNK SHoW. • unseen for decades – interviews, reportage and features. • Burgeoning talents of Mike Hodges, Trevor Preston and Kenneth Tynan behind the camera. • featuring exclusive interviews with Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Harold Pinter and Zero Mostel. • featuring a never before seen episode on drugs that was banned twice.

2-disc set available on DVD from 21st January.

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Television The Glades: Season 1

All 13 episodes from the first season of the US crime drama starring Matt Passmore as an abrasive Chicago detective who decides to leave the cold winters of the Windy City behind and relocate to Florida, where he hopes to spend time improving his golf handicap in the sun. Unfortunately, murder never seems to be far away in what he had imagined was a sleepy 4 discs; Pilot Episode. backwater.

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Great British Railway Journeys: Series 3 All 25 programmes, containing 25 railway journeys across the British Isles and Ireland, from the third series of the programme in which Michael Portillo takes Bradshaw’s Handbook as his travelling guide. 5 discs.

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The Losers: Complete Series

Riding high on his success as both seedy landlord Rigsby and frustrated middlemanager Reggie Perrin, Leonard Rossiter slipped down the social ladder again to portray a struggling wrestling manager who deliberately backs a loser. in this wry sitcom penned by satirist Alan Coren. Features Alfred Molina in his first television role. UK | 1978 | NWORK | 150 | Cert PG Item# 67813 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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Spiral: Series 4

Borgen: Season 2 The complete second season of the drama of political and personal intrigue at the heart of the Danish parliament from the producers of The Killing. Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) has been Denmark’s Prime Minister for two years – years that have taken their toll on her private life. She now has to balance her role of PM with that of divorcee and single-mother. Politically, she has earned the respect of both her political allies and enemies, but tensions are mounting. Denmark’s participation in international wars as well as domestic policy issues are driving a wedge through parliament and Birgitte is finding herself having to compromise. 3 discs; Also available: 6 disc Seasons 1-2 Box Set. Item# Various Den | 2011 | Arrow | subt | £29.99

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Unit One: Season 1

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A third volume of episodes from the Italian crime and food drama based on the series of novels by Andrea Camilleri. Contains Turning Point (Il giro di boa), Equal Time (Par condicio), The Spider’s Patience (La pazienza del ragno) and Find the Lady (Il gioco delle tre carte). Luca Zingaretti plays Inspector and gourmet Salvo Montalbano, whose opportunities for a little home-cooking or lunch at his favourite restaurant are continually interrupted by his need to engage with politics, mafiosi, unreliable witnesses, unreliable cops and also his girlfriend, Livia (Katharina Böhm). In these four new and gripping cases, he faces challenges from all of the above and more. 2 discs.

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Merlin: Complete Series 5

The complete fifth series of the BBC fantasy drama set in the mythical city of Camelot, where wise sorcerer Merlin (Colin Morgan) guides a young King Arthur (Bradley James). In this series, a number of unexplained disappearances in a remote northern kingdom compel Arthur and his knights to investigate. 5 discs.

Aka Engrenages. All twelve episodes from the fourth series of the engagingly gritty French police procedural crime drama starring Caroline Proust as the doggedly determined police captain Laure Berthaud. In this series she is re-located to a Gang Unit who are targeting a group of urban guerrilla warfare activists – who in turn are waging a war against the Parisian Gendarmerie. Meanwhile, prosecutor Pierre Clément (Grégory Fitoussi) and lawyer Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) are struggling to survive, with Joséphine now a target for some of Paris’s low-lifes, and Judge Roban is on the warpath, determined to make an example of one of his colleagues over a case of professional misconduct. 4 discs; Also available: 11 disc Series 1-4 Box Set.

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All nine episodes from the first season of one of the most exhilarating and fast-paced of the recent Scandinavian crime exports, Danish crime drama Unit One. Based on recent real-life crimes, the series follows an elite mobile force as they are sent to assist local police in solving complex and high profile cases. It also asks many questions of the men and women portrayed in the show. What happens to those who have chosen to work in job like this? Can a marriage and a family cope with the continued absence that it demands? And what kind of team spirit do these men and women possess in order to achieve their amazing success rate? Mads Mikkelsen and Charlotte Fich star. 3 discs. Item# 70189 Denmark | 2000 | Arrow | £24.99

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Odd Man Out: Complete

After rising to stardom as Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?, John Inman starred in this ITV sitcom as Neville Sutcliffe, the owner of a Blackpool chippy who relocates to Sussex when he inherits his late father’s ailing seaside-rock business.

The Spies of Warsaw Coky Giedroyc

A thrilling spy story set in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War, The Spies of Warsaw sees French and German intelligence operatives locked in a lifeand-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. David Tennant and Janet

UK | 1977 | NWORK | 150 | Cert PG Item# 70082 | RRP £12.99 | 4th February

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Almost a decade after Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her performance in the film of the same name, Scottish TV dramatised Muriel Spark’s novel with Geraldine McEwan in the title role, the satisfying seven-part series allowing a fuller exploration of its characters. Muriel Spark on Miss Jean Brodie.

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This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper David Richards

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UK | 1978 | ACORN | 362 | Cert 12 Item# 70266 | RRP £19.99 | 7th January

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Privates

Bryn Higgins

A BBC drama series exploring the final days of conscription to National Service. Although the Cold War has begun, there is a recognition that times are changing – which is scant comfort to the teddy boys, peaceniks and posh boys who find themselves in the final group of recruits to be disciplined into a fighting 2 discs. machine whether they like it or not. UK | 2012 | ACORN | 225 | Cert 12 Item# 70281 | RRP £19.99 | 28th January

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Giles Foster

Aka This September. Secrets, betrayal, passion and greed are played out on the Aird estate in this adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher’s novel, which sees a family’s heritage and fortune at stake when a rapacious son-in-law (Adrian Lukis) becomes chairman of the family business. Charles Dance 2 discs. and Eileen Atkins head the cast

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Anna Karenina Joe Wright

Item# 69982 UK | 2012 | 130 | 12 | £24.99

The Blue Angel

Josef von Sternberg

Item# 69856 Germany | 1930 | 107 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Forbidden Games René Clément

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Holy Motors Leos Carax

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Keep the Lights On Ira Sachs

Item# 70154 USA | 2012 | 103 | 18 | £19.99

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A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge. Filmed as part of Sea Fever: The Story of Britain and the Sea, a major season on BBC Four that looked at the ways in which the sea has helped to shape modern Britain.

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Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

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Rosamunde Pilcher’s Shades of Love

Germany | 2010 | ACORN | 351 | Cert 12 Item# 70282 | RRP £19.99 | 7th January

A dramatisation of the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing its effect on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry. Alun Armstrong takes the lead.

Highlights

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Looper

Rian Johnson

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Samsara

Ron Fricke

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Shadow Dancer James Marsh

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Tabu

Miguel Gomes

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Take This Waltz Sarah Polley

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston

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Literary Adaptations FILM SALE Immerse yourself in these excellent screen adaptations of great works of pre-WWII literature which conjure memorable images to accompany the classic texts. Prices from £5.99 Lady Chatterley

James Ivory

Pascale Ferran

EM Forster’s masterful Edwardian Age romance adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory with tact and beauty. A superlative cast joins Vanessa Redgrave, who plays the dying Ruth Wilcox.

A memorably sensuous French adaptation, alive to the fecundity of the natural world, of DH Lawrence’s novel about a bored wife’s affair with a gamekeeper. Marina Hands takes the title role.

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Les Misérables (1935 & 1952 Versions) A double bill. Fredric March and Charles Laughton star as Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in the 1935 version, Michael Rennie and Robert Newton in the 1952 film. | P&P £1.50

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Barry Lyndon

The Four Feathers

Pride and Prejudice

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. A visually striking, four Oscar-winning film of Thackeray’s novel. Ryan O’Neal takes the lead as the adventurer.

Dir: Zoltan Korda. An action-filled Technicolor epic in which a young army officer fights to preserve his honour after he is branded a coward.

Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. From the golden age of Hollywood, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Import, playable on all UK players.

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The Canterbury Tales

Jane Eyre

La Reine Margot

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini himself takes the role of Chaucer in his bawdy and scandalous adaptation of Chaucer’s tales.

Dir: Robert Stevenson. Joan Fontaine plays the heroine, Orson Welles the brooding, enigmatic master in this Gothic adaptation of Brontë’s novel.

Dir: Patrice Chéreau. Isabelle Adjani stars in this bloody, streetwise account of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers

Dir: Josée Dayan. Gérard Depardieu takes the lead in this French miniseries, adaptated from Dumas’ novel. Item# 55243 France | 1998 | 360 | PG | £19.99

Dir: Victor Saville. The 1950 adaptation of Kipling’s novel, in which a young Indian street boy is found to be the son of a British officer. Item# 54610 USA | 1950 | 112 | U | £9.99

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Dangerous Liaisons

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Dir: Stephen Frears. A sombre treatment of Laclos’ epistolary novel in which a philanderer and his muse set out to destroy a woman’s reputation. Item# 1487 USA | 1988 | 115 | 15 | £19.99

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Dir: John Schlesinger. Terence Stamp and Julie Christie star in this film of Hardy’s tale of a woman’s passion. DVD: £6.99 Save £6

Time Regained Deneuve, Béart and Malkovich star in this supremely elegant, beautifully designed adaptation of the last volume of Proust’s masterwork. Item# 59593 France | 1999 | 155 | subt | 18 | £19.99

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Far from the Madding Crowd

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Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti. Ealing’s fine production of Dickens’ novel. Item# 67280 UK | 1947 | 107 | B&W | U | £15.99

Dir: Richard Lester. Swashbuckling fun with Michael York as D’Artagnan. Item# 54777 UK / USA / Spain | 1973-74 | 206 | PG | £15.99

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Madame Bovary

War and Peace

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

Dir: Sergei Bondarchuk. With a cast of thousands, stupendous sets and backgrounds, this 1968 Oscar-winner is an amazing spectacle. 5 discs.

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

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5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat

A chronicle of one Palestinian farmer’s non-violent resistance to the incursions of the Israeli army, this is an extraordinary work of cinematic activism, meshing personal essay and political cinema and showing how images and cameras can change lives and realities. It begins when Burnet buys a camera to keep a record of his son’s childhood. Palestine / Israel | 2011 | NW | 94 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 69980 | RRP £15.99 | 28th January

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The Guns of August Nathan Kroll

This 1964 documentary, based on Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, tells the story of the events that led to the world’s first global war – a conflict that raged for 4 years and resulted in over 37 million casualties. USA | 1964 | SIMP | 95 | Cert E Item# 69733 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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Look at Life – World Affairs

Five volumes of this concise, bright 1960s cine-magazine – on transport, the military, scientific innovation, sport and British cultural heritage – have already been released. This sixth volume presents twelve hours of films exploring many aspects of world 5 discs. affairs in the 1960s. UK | 1969 | NWORK | 720 | Cert E Item# 70088 | RRP £49.99 | 4th February

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The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane Released as part of the band’s ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations, Crossfire Hurricane tells the story of the group’s journey from blues obsessed teenagers in the early sixties to their undisputed present status as rock royalty. UK | 2012 | EROCK | 142 | Cert E Item# 70032 / 70033 | RRP £13.99 | 7th January

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Samsara Recommended

The Imposter Recommended

Director: Ron Fricke

Director: Bart Layton

Released: 14th January

Released: 7th January

Extras: 2 discs; Six featurettes; Trailer

Extras: Making-of; Director Q & A (40 mins).

Item# 69308 USA | 2011 | Arrow E1 | 102 | Cert 15

Item# 69106 UK | 2012 | REV | 98 | Cert 15

1982’s Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio and photographed by Ron Fricke, was a landmark countercultural film, using staggering imagery and a hypnotic Philip Glass score to warn how modern life’s accelerated pace had come to tip the planet out of balance. Fricke has since taken up the directorial mantle (and this cause) himself, first with Chronos (1985), then Baraka (1992), and now Samsara, which, inspired by Buddhism’s ‘wheel of life’ philosophy, ventures East both physically and spiritually. Samsara’s colour palette is what digital projection and HDTV were invented for, making painterly distinctions between the reds and golds of the desert, the lush greens of the jungle, and the purple and blue-painted faces of Far Eastern dancing girls, against which the drab greyness of our cities as viewed from afar starts to look damning indeed. There’s so much eye candy viewers may lapse into diabetic shock, but the editorial proves equally sobering: as Fricke’s regular inserts of statues make clear, Big Buddha is watching us. MM NB: 2-disc Blu-ray set of Baraka and Samsara available at £23.99

Years after the disappearance of a young Texan boy, his family receives a phone call telling them he has been found in Spain. After flying out to reunite with him, they immediately welcome him back into the family, despite some rather odd changes – he now has brown eyes, dark hair, appears to be several years older then the vanished youth, and speaks in a French accent. However, despite all evidence to the contrary, the family insist he is the lost boy – and then things get even more interesting. The Imposter was the most talked about documentary of 2012 and certainly looks likely to win an accolade or two come awards season this year. Its extraordinary subject matter and a breathtaking third act have ensured audiences and critics have fallen over themselves to recommend it, and the key character of Frédéric Bourdin is quite fascinating. Some audiences, this reviewer included, may be troubled by some of the moral decisions director Bart Layton takes in the last 30 minutes, but there’s no denying his chutzpah – this is a film that demands discussion. AD

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Gay & Lesbian Bumblef**k, USA

Aaron Douglas Johnston

Recommended Director: Penny Woolcock Released: 21st January Extras: Making-of (25 mins); SS Saxonia in Liverpool (Mitchell & Kenyon, 1901); Cunard Mail Steamer Lucania Leaving for America (Mitchell & Kenyon, 1901); Beside the Seaside (Grierson, 1935); Worker’s Weekend (Eaton, 1943); Caller Herrin’ (Harper, 1947); British Sea Power in rehearsal; Film and location ID track; Booklet. Item# 70166 UK | 2012 | BFI | 73 | Cert 12

The British coastline, home to docklands and seaside towns, to work and play – and the subject matter for more than a century’s worth of materials held by the British Film Institute’s National Archive. From the Sea to the Land Beyond has the unenviable task of condensing all of that wonderful footage into a single feature and yet does so with such a lightness of touch it seems to be the easiest job in the world. Eschewing narration in favour of the lilting, melodic accompaniment of Brighton-based band British Sea Power, Penny Woolcock stitches together astonishing image after astonishing image, taking us through two World Wars, the end of Empire and a decline in industry to Blackpool, beauty pageants and beachside parades. The cumulative effect is a rich tapestry, both of our national history and national cinema. Indeed, as an advertisement for the riches of its archive, the BFI surely couldn’t have hoped for more. AN

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USA | 2011 | PECCA | 110 | Cert 15 Item# 69154 | RRP £15.99 | 28th January

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The Journey

Ligy J Pullappally An award-winning Indian drama telling the story of two young women from a village in Kerala: the studious and reserved Kiran and her lifelong best friend Delilah. When the two women fall in love, the village is engulfed by scandal and Delilah’s mother forces her into an arranged marriage in an attempt to put an end to the relationship. India | 2004 | PECCA | 111 | subt | Cert PG Item# 69976 | RRP £12.99 | 28th January

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Keep the Lights On Ira Sachs

A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and love, which takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times. A filmmaker (Thure Lindhardt) and a closeted lawyer (Zachary Booth) meet through an anonymous phone sex line, but as their relationship turns from casual to committed, it is threatened by private addictions. Features music from the late Arthur Russell. USA | 2012 | PECCA | 103 | Cert 18 Item# 69984 / 70154 | RRP £15.99 | 28th Jan

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The Men Next Door Rob Williams

Prolific writer/director Rob Williams is back with a romantic comedy about a very unusual love triangle, in which a 40 year-old Pilates instructor falls for two very different but equally lovable men – who just happen to be father and son. USA | 2012 | TLAUK | 84 | Cert 18 Item# 69985 | RRP £15.99 | 14th January

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From the Sea to the Land Beyond

When a young woman trying to figure out the cause of a gay friend’s suicide arrives in smalltown USA to shoot a film about being gay in such an environment, she ends up on an unexpected voyage of discovery herself when she falls for lesbian artist Jennifer.

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

New Releases 360

Fernando Meirelles A kaleidoscopic tale of romantic life in the 21st century, loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 play La Ronde, in which characters from different cities and countries are unknowingly linked. Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Jude Law star. UK / Brazil | 2011 | ART-E | 110 | 15 Item# 69959 / 69961 | RRP £15.99 | 14th Jan

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Confession of a Child of the Century Sylvie Verheyde

Charlotte Gainsbourg stars opposite Pete Doherty in his film debut, a period drama based on Alfred de Musset’s 19th century novel in which he plays a debauched libertine who falls in love with a young widow. France | 2011 | SodaElev | 120 | 15 Item# 70113 | RRP £15.99 | 14th January

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Hysteria

Tanya Wexler Romantic comedy starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce, loosely based on the life of Doctor Mortimer Granville, the 19th century inventor of a novel device for treating ‘female hysteria’, i.e. the vibrator. Commentary; Cast interviews; Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm. UK / France / Germany | 2011 | COL-T | 99 | | Cert 15 Item# 69893 | RRP £17.99 | 14th January

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Keyhole

Guy Maddin Ghosts and gangsters meet in Guy Maddin’s surreal phantasmagoria of a film noir loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey and Maddin’s dreams. As strange and wonderful as you would expect. Jason Patric, Udo Kier and Isabella Rossellini star. Canada | 2011 | SODAelev | 94 | Cert TBC Item# 70028 | RRP £17.99 | 21st January

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Shadow Dancer Recommended Director: James Marsh Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson Released: 14th January Extras: World of Shadow Dancer; Commentary. Item# 69887 UK / Ireland | 2012 | PARAH | 102 | | | Cert 15

Despite a documentary background (he won an Oscar for Man on Wire), director James Marsh is an ideal choice to take on Tom Bradby’s political thriller, set in Northern Ireland during the peace process, as all his previous work has involved tension and suspense. Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as Colette, an IRA member who, following a botched terrorist attack in London, is faced with a choice – face a 20-year jail sentence, or work as an informer. The young mother selects that latter and returns to Belfast, where her brothers are planning a murder. Riseborough confirms her standing as one of Britain’s best actresses, with a compelling turn as a desperate woman in a horrific situation, while Clive Owen does his best work in years as the MI5 agent who recruits her. Marsh and his crew do an excellent job at recreating the look and tensions of 1990s Belfast. The opening two scenes – one in Belfast (suggesting why Colette joined the IRA in the first place), the other in London, are two of the best in recent British cinema. AD

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The Joy of Six Recommended Contains: Long Distance Information (Hart), Man in Fear (Jewell), A Gun for George (Holness), Scrubber (Garai), The Ellington Kid (Sully), Friend Request Pending (Foggin) Starring: Judi Dench, Peter Mullan, Tim Healy Released: 4th February Item# 70227 UK | 2012 | SodaElev | 80 | Cert 15

Short-film compilations are often hitor-miss, but this is a happy exception. Compiled to showcase new British talent, they range in length from Dan Sully’s snappily anecdotal 5-minute The Ellington Kid (essentially a one-joke sketch, but it’s funny and doesn’t outstay its welcome) to Romola Garai’s haunting 20-minute Scrubber, a Lynne Ramsay-esque piece about a young mother’s hesitant exploration of sexual urges that seem to contradict her OCD fixation with cleanliness. The most satirical pieces are Will Jewell’s Kafkaesque Man in Fear, in which Luke Treadaway tries to get himself locked up for his own protection, and Matthew Holness’s A Gun for George, in which a washed up pulp novelist wishes he was his legendary vigilante The Reprisalizer instead. Star power is provided by Peter Mullan as the bemused recipient of a Christmas phone call in Douglas Hart’s Long Distance Information, while Chris Foggin’s delightful Friend Request Pending sees Judi Dench on coruscating form as a silver surfer wrestling with online dating netiquette. MB

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Lawless

John Hillcoat

A crime thriller from John Hillcoat (The Road) set in prohibition-era rural Virginia in the early 1930s, adapted by musician Nick Cave from the biographical novel by Matt Bondurant, the grandson of one of the main characters. Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy play the bootleggers who find themselves under threat from the authorities who want their cut. USA | 2012 | MOMET | 110 | Cert 18 Item# 70006 / 70007 | RRP £17.99 | 14th Jan

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Les Miserables

Pusher

Vampire Ecstasy

Luis Prieto

Joseph W. Sarno

Richard Coyle and Agyness Deyn star in this English language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s cult Danish crime thriller. The film follows a particularly stressful week in the life of London drug dealer whose life is plunged into chaos and violence when a deal goes wrong. UK | 2012 | MOMET | 89 | Cert 18 Item# 70063 / 70130 | RRP £15.99 | 4th Feb

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The Sweeney Nick Love

Richard Jordan takes the lead as Jean Valjean in this lavish 1978 TV film of Victor Hugo’s tale of pursuit and revenge, brought to the screen with a fine cast. Anthony Perkins plays Valjean’s relentless pursuer, Inspector Javert.

A big screen modern-day revamp of the gritty 70s TV series. Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (Plan B) star as Regan and Carter, the cop duo played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in the original. Tearing up the streets of London, this is an exhilarating action thriller boasting a terrific British cast including Damien Lewis and Hayley Atwell.

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Looper

Rian Johnson

A highly-rated, smart and stylish sci-fi action thriller starring Joseph GordonLevitt as a time-travelling hitman whose own future self (played by Bruce Willis) is sent back for for assassination. When he recognises his target as himself, he has to figure out how to redirect the Commentary; future and save his own life. Featurettes; Deleted scenes. USA | 2012 | CTEND | 118 | Cert 15 Item# 70027 / 70030 | RRP £19.99 | 28th Jan

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky

Logan Lerman plays the shy introvert who finds himself immersed in a newfound world of music, friends, soft drugs and sexual confusion when he is befriended by Patrick (Ezra Miller) and his stepsister Sam (Emma Watson). USA | 2012 | CTEND | 102 | Cert 15 Item# 70036 / 70037 | RRP £15.99 | 4th Feb

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Take This Waltz Sarah Polley

An intelligent, sensitive drama from the director of Away From Her. When the happily married Margot (Michelle Williams), meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) on a trip, their chemistry is intense. Then she learns that Daniel lives just across the street and the certainty about her domestic life shatters as they steal moments through a steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Canada | 2011 | STUDC | 111 | Cert 15 Item# 69847 / 69848 | RRP £17.99 | 7th January

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To Walk with Lions Carl Schultz

The follow-up to Born Free, starring Richard Harris as renowned animal conservationist and lion expert George Adamson. John Michie plays the young man who joins him in his battle against poachers and government corruption.

A lesbian vampire’s soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants in this erotic horror – Bavarian castle, ritualistic orgies, bongos – from legendary sexploitation director Joseph W. Sarno. Made in Germany with a mixed German/Swedish cast, the movie was shot in English. Marie Forså stars. Sweden / Switzerland | 1973 | MEDRA | 102 | Cert 18 Item# 70067 | RRP £12.99 | 21st January

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What You Will Simon Reade

A tragicomic drama shot in the style of a fly-onthe-wall documentary and described as ‘a sort of theatrical Spinal Tap’. Interviews with Romola Garai and Dominic West are deviously mixed with behind-the-scenes filming of Twelfth Night, where the actors’ off-stage shenanigans reflect their onstage characters and the real and unreal meld into inglorious Technicolor. UK | 2012 | SodaElev | 88 | Cert 15 Item# 70002 | RRP £15.99 | 7th January

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Ethics Still of Toby Jones as Hitchcock in The Girl

limey, you wait ages for a Hitchcock biopic then two arrive at once. Next month, you can pop along to your local fleapit and see Anthony Hopkins pretend to direct Psycho. For now, though, let’s concentrate on the other film, The Girl (see page 20 for review). Hitchcock here is played by Toby Jones and the film focuses on his relationship with ‘Tippi’ Hedren (Sienna Miller). She was the young star of The Birds and Marnie who Hitchcock believed was the next Grace Kelly; the public didn’t agree and her career remained stuck on the runway. But was there more to it? In Donald Spoto’s biography, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Hedren states Hitchcock made sexual advances to her. When those were rebuffed, he tormented her on set, then scuppered her career. This account forms the story of The Girl. While we should always take allegations of sexual harassment seriously, there are legitimate grounds to doubt Hedren’s claims. Let’s leave those aside for now and broaden the debate slightly and consider the wider issues The Girl raises. Because everyone who knows anything about movies knows such behaviour is not unknown. That some of our finest filmmakers are, for want of better words, utter bastards. Next time you watch M, keep an eye open for the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of Peter Lorre being hurled down some stairs onto a concrete floor, without padding; Fritz Lang insisted on some twenty takes before he was satisfied. Many folk were convinced Lang was a sadist. Similar accusations have been levelled at Otto Preminger (famously unkind to Jean Seberg on Bonjour Tristesse), Michael Powell (who made Albert Bassermann cry on the set of The Red Shoes), John Ford

Movies are born of behaviour that would be tolerated in no other profession (who frequently tortured John Wayne) and many others. They all have their apologists. Some admirers suggest that these directors were just perfectionists, doing what they needed in order to get the shot or to bring a performance out of an inexpressive or inexperienced actor (that’s one of the defences of Hitch’s treatment of Hedren). And certainly that has to be the case in some instances. Film sets are high pressure environments, remember; everyone involved is racing against the light. As tempers fray, unwise things are said. Just like any workplace environment, not everyone gets along. But the role of film director offers unprecedented scope for power games and some people undoubtedly take advantage. Let’s go further: many directors abuse their authority because they know they can get away with it. (There’s a decent little film called The Stunt Man on this very theme; Peter O’Toole plays a megalomaniacal auteur toying with the titular stuntman.)

Stories circulate as gossip and slowly filter down to the film fans, who pass them around with amusement at the bad behaviour (Stanley Kubrick made Scatman Crothers do 148 takes of one scene in The Shining! – oh, that Stanley) but I can’t help finding myself troubled. 148 takes sounds less like filmmaking than psychological cruelty. There’s no conclusion to this, unless you want to restrict yourself to filmmakers whose work might earn the cinematic equivalent of the Fairtrade sticker (Ken Loach, David Cronenberg and Christopher Nolan are all famously very nice). Some movies are born of behaviour that would be tolerated in no other profession. And we sit back and enjoy the results.

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