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surprise hit from last month’s catalogue was the film Tawny Pipit. It turns out that people have been waiting ages for it to arrive on DVD. It’s utterly charming, and from Odeon Entertainment who are keeping fans of classic British and American films supplied with old favourites and new discoveries. Our Classic Movies section is full of their releases, and they have a sale on page 15. Lars von Trier was a controversial presence at the Cannes film festival. This is nothing new – he’s always been a playful and at times downright offensive figure. Regardless, we recommend his Danish hospital-set TV series, The Kingdom (see

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Film of the Month 5 True Grit Un Homme et une Femme Il Generale della Rovere

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The Great White Silence page 23). Compelling and completely crazy – there’s nothing like it. Finally, let me draw your eye to a cracking couple of exclusives – Edward Dmytryk’s film noir, Cornered and Douglas Sirk’s Summer Storm, see pages 12 and 13. Enjoy your films

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(Psycho on Blu-ray) Barry’s books include British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, Italian Cinema and The Man Who Left Too Soon, a biography of Stieg Larsson. He is currently preparing for Macmillan studies of British crime film and Scandinavian crime fiction, and has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines. He edits Crime Time.

Pasquale Iannone (Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte) is a lecturer in film at the University of Edinburgh

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Julian Upton (James Hill’s The Home Made Car – also a bonus film on Lunch Hour) wrote Fallen Stars. Offbeat is due out later this year.

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1 Black Swan

The Red Shoes meets Antichrist in this psychological thriller set in the world of American ballet. In an Oscar-winning performance, Natalie Portman stars as the obsessive dancer who begins to get in touch with her dark side. USA | 2010 | FOX | 103 min | Cert 15 | # 65165 | RRP £19.99

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Combining a live-action Alice with a Wonderland filled with threatening stopmotion characters, Jan Švankmajer’s style lends the film a pervading sense of unease and a menacing dream-logic which marries a sly visual wit with piercing psychological insight. Strange and wholly unforgettable. Czech Republic | 1988 | BFI | 86 min | subt | Cert PG | # 65092 | RRP £19.99

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Dir: Karel Reisz. Isadora Duncan was the most iconic free-style dancer of the 20th century, and a woman who courted admiration and scandal in equal measure. A stunning portrayal starring an oscar-nominated Vanessa Redgrave. UK / France | 1968 | ODEON | 134 min | Cert 12 | # 65309 | RRP £17.99

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Dir: Jacques Tourneur. The beautiful Hedy Lamarr stars as a woman who thinks she is losing her mind in this ripe slice of Hollywood Gothic. An uncanny, dreamlike atmosphere pervades. USA | 1944 | ODEON | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 65345 | RRP £9.99

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Reader Feedback Bob Hughes got in touch to comment on Andrew Grieve’s On The Black Hill, saying what a wonderful film it is, retaining the spirituality of the book, with which he identifies strongly, not least because his family on his mother’s side were Welsh hill farmers and he has two uncles who are identical twins, now in their 80s! Dan has a ‘what’s the name of the film?’ question this month. Shown on TV about 20 years ago and set in the present day, it was a talky French drama about a man and woman’s romantic relationship. Some of it at least was set in a hospital and he thinks it ended with a helicopter shot, slowly pulling away from the building. Any ideas? Please email feedback@moviemail-online.co.uk or send us a postcard.

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True Grit Recommended Director: Joel & Ethan Coen Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper Released: 13th June DVD Extras: Mattie’s True Grit; Re-creating Fort Smith; The Cast. USA | 2010 | PARAH | 110 min | Cert 15 | Item # 64873 | P&P £1

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Lee H. Katzin USA | 1971 | PARAH | 102 min | Cert PG | # 64871 | RRP £12.99

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Jacques Demy France | 1961 | 84 min | subt | B&W | Cert PG | # 63159 | RRP £12.99

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My Night with Maud Eric Rohmer

France | 1969 | ART-E | 105 min | subt | B&W | Cert PG | # 63037 | RRP £15.99

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laude Lelouch was once lauded for his talent of ‘photographing clichés so that they sparkle and glow with poetry’. Indeed, it’s the conventional wisdom that this is a beautiful melodrama that exploits the glamour of cinema and motor racing to bolster a slight romance. Yet it won Oscars for Best Foreign Film and Best Screenplay in 1967 and the Cannes Palme d’Or in 1966 (sharing the prize with The Birds, the Bees and the Italians). More importantly, the film’s romantic charm has continued to win devoted fans since its release over 40 years ago. The storyline is simple. Script supervisor Anouk Aimée is still mourning the death of her stuntman husband when she bumps into widowed motor ace Jean-Louis Trintignant as they drop their children at a Deauville school. Trintignant has also endured his share of tragedy, as his wife committed suicide when convinced he would not recover from a crash. But will past memories prevent them from grasping future happiness? Simple, touching, undeniably chic, over the years, Un Homme et une Femme has unjustly became something of a byword for cinematic superficiality, but much of this was motivated by snooty critics eager to

Claude Lelouch’s much-loved French romance; Francis Lai’s unforgettable theme song dash Lelouch’s auteur aspirations by dismissing him as a maker of pretty pictures. In fact, his cinematography is often exquisite and he was certainly not alone in exploiting his stars’ photogenicity. Even though Lelouch makes extensive use of long lenses and shallow focus, drifts in and out of colour and amasses some 4000 shots in compiling intricate montages and monologues, there’s much more to this touching tale than visual polish. In addition to an Oscar nomination, Aimée won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for her sensitive performance, while Francis Lai’s musical theme became a worldwide hit in a decade scarcely short of memorable melodies. All of which raises an interesting question. Was the picture unfairly castigated for those most egregious of arthouse sins: popularity and profitability? David Parkinson

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World Cinema Pigs and Battleships

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre

Shohei Imamura

Patrice Leconte

A classic of Japanese cinema in which Imamura answered his calling as Japanese cinema’s most dedicated chronicler of society’s underbelly. A cornerstone of the Japanese new wave and one of Imamura’s most entertaining works, this is a riotous portrait of gangsters battling for control of a business in a US 2 discs; Stolen Navy-occupied coastal town. Desire (Imamura, 1958); Booklet.

Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche. A passionate period drama, set in 1850 on the island of SaintPierre off the coast of Canada, where a man (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death – but with neither guillotine nor executioner on the island, he must wait, and while doing so becomes popular with the islanders. Then the guillotine arrives, and the battle to save his life escalates.

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A French movie that confronts the story of one of the most shameful acts of France’s wartime history – the 1942 ‘Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup’, in which a large police operation was mounted to round up 13,000 Jews, many of whom were sent on to Auschwitz. Jean Reno and Melanie Laurent star.

An episodic romantic drama chronicling the five major loves in the life of a woman. Audrey Dana stars as the cinema usherette whose love affairs – depicted in flashback as she recounts her life from the dock at her murder trial – touch on the key moments of 20th century European history.

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A Caracas-set hostage drama in which a conspicuously affluent couple are hijacked by three impoverished thugs who demand $20,000 to be delivered in hours. The woman phones her father to send the money, but events quickly go awry. Ven | 2005 | LG | 90 min | subt | 18 Item # 65543 | RRP £19.99 | Released 9th May

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Regarded as one of the great ‘lost’ masterpieces of international cinema, Huszárik’s 1971 film is a surreal, stylized film depicting the life and loves of traveller and womanizer Szindbád as he contemplates his life of hedonism. A filmic elegy that evokes time and memory to extraordinary Short film: Elegy. effect.

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Italy | 1970 | ARROW | 98 min | Cert 18 | # 62321 | RRP £24.99

Lucio Fulci

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Hungary | 1971 | 2RUN | 90 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 64819 | RRP £12.99 | Released 11th July

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In Rossellini’s understated masterpiece, Il Generale della Rovere, he returned to the themes of occupation, collaboration and resistance explored in his neorealist work. Set in war-torn Genoa in 1943 and based on real events, it’s the story of an inveterate swindler and gambler who, after apprehension by the Nazi authorities, is sent to prison where he is forced to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to obtain information on resistance activities. However, as he makes friends with other prisoners, he becomes a leader of sorts, and questions his actions. The film was a major success. Rossellini employs carefully orchestrated long takes throughout with wartime Genoa recreated entirely in the studios of Cinecittà, and in the central role of the unscrupulous rascal turned unlikely hero, actor-director Vittorio De Sica delivered one of his finest performances. The film won the prestigious Golden Lion at Venice in 1959. With it, Rossellini proved to critics and public alike that before anything else, he was a master craftsman. PI

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Essential French Cinema of the 1960s For sheer excitement, style, verve, joie de vivre and attitude in general, there’s nothing to touch the movies that were being made in France in the sixties. Essential directors and iconic faces fill this selection of old favourites and less familiar titles – all are certain to please.

Last Year in Marienbad

Paris vu Par Claude Chabrol

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Alain Resnais

The essence of 1960s Paris and its people are found in these six short nouvelle vague films about the city by six French directors – Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Pollet, Douchet and Rouch.

Five films starring the icy-eyed Delon: Plein Soleil (Clément, 1960), L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962), Un Flic (Melville, 1972), Traitement de Choc (Jessua, 1973) and Flic Story (Deray, 1975).

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Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. A trio of young moderns have bad attitudes and commit crimes around Paris to a hip score. Funny, irreverent, smart.

Eight essential films inc. Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de Jour, That Obscure Object of Desire and The Phantom of Liberty. 8 discs.

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

France | 1964 | BFI | 92 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 13474 | RRP £19.99

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

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Belle de Jour

Le Mépris

Dir: Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve plays a housewife who cautiously and discreetly explores her masochistic sexual fantasies.

Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. A stately, elegant tale of ideals colliding with chequebook art. Fritz Lang, Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot star.

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France | 1967 | OPTIM | 96 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 32018 | RRP £19.99

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Le Bossu

My Night with Maud

Sundays and Cybèle

Dir: André Hunebelle. Jean Marais. One of the all-time great swashbucklers, telling an epic tale of cut and thrust in the court of Louis XIV.

Dir: Eric Rohmer. The highlight of Rohmer’s moral tales sees JeanLouis Trintignant spend the night with Francoise Fabian’s worldly divorcee.

Dir: Serge Bourguignon. A heartbreakingly lovely gem about the innocent friendship between a war veteran (Hardy Krüger) and a child.

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Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Paris Nous Appartient

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece

France | 1961 | OPT | 94 min | subt | B&W | U | # 21840 | RRP £19.99

Dir: Demy & Varda. A vibrant homage to the classic MGM musical in which twin sisters are looking for love. France | 1967 | BFI | 126 min | Cert PG | # 55005 | RRP £22.99

Dir: Jacques Rivette. Conspiracy film redolent of its era of a long-vanished Paris of fleabag hotels and corduroyclad intellectuals. France | 1960 | BFI | 140 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 30163 | RRP £19.99

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Five films: Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Belle de Jour, Donkey Skin, Manon 70, Ma Saison Préférée. 5 discs. France | 1964-93 | OPTIM | subt | Cert 18 | # 32908 | RRP £34.99

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Dir: Jean-Jacques Vierne. A spirited live-action film, approved by Hergé! France | 1961 | BFI | 98 min | subt | Cert U | # 63325 | RRP £17.99

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Dir: François Truffaut. The anatomy of an affair between publisher Pierre and airline stewardess Nicole, described by Truffaut as ‘a truly modern love’.

Dir: Jacques Becker. One of the prison genre’s most unforgettable films, in which five prisoners meticulously plan their escape.

France | 1964 | CCLUB | 112 min | subt | 12 | # 32072 | RRP £19.99

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Three key films from JLG: Vivre sa Vie, Masculin Féminin, Two or Three Things I Know about Her. 3 discs. France | 1962 | NOUVE | subt | Cert 15 | # 32828 | RRP £39.99

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The epitome of the postwar European art film and an enigmatic meditation on the uncertainty of knowing. Toute La Memoire du Monde (Resnais, 1956).

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Coeur Fidèle Recommended Director: Jean Epstein Starring: Léon Mathot, Gina Manès Released: 27th June DVD Extras: 2 discs; DVD+Blu-ray; New score from Maxence Cyrin; 44-page booklet.

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France | 1923 | EUREK | 85 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 65481

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Balancing somnambulist visions of longing and foreboding, downbeat realism and swirling carnivalesque rhythms, Epstein’s Coeur Fidèle – the first of his films to be released on UK DVD – is a tale of thwarted love set around the docks of Marseille. Epstein said of it that he wanted to create ‘a melodrama so stripped of all the conventions ordinarily attached to the genre, so sober, so simple, that it might approach the nobility of tragedy’. It does. This is a pareddown story told through sequences of strong and remarkable images. It anticipates the contours and content of the great poetic realist films of the 1930s, and even, in certain lights, has its own Jean Gabin-esque leading man in the lovelorn Léon Mathot, whose thoughts of orphan girl Marie combine with those of the sea into visions of boundless love. Alas, a rival, the swaggering drunkard Petit Paul is on the scene, and has already arranged to take Marie away. The words scrawled in chalk on the bar wall where Marie works, for ever, will hold true, just, but they take their toll. All are scarred in this lyrical film about the injustice of love. GH

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The Great White Silence Recommended Director: Herbert Ponting Released: 21st June DVD Extras: 2 discs; 90° South (1933): Ponting’s final sound version of the film; The Great White Silence: How Did They Do It? – documentary on the film’s restoration; The Sound of Silence – documentary on Simon Fisher Turner’s score; Antarctic field recordings from Chris Watson; Archive newsreel (19101925); Illustrated booklet. UK | 1924 | BFI | 106 min | subt | B&W | Cert E | Item # 64644 | P&P £1.50

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Scott of the Antarctic Charles Frend

UK | 1948 | OPTIM | 105 min | Cert U | # 31544 | RRP £12.99

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hen we think of Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, the images that most readily spring to mind are probably those of Ealing’s 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, with a frozen-upper-lipped John Mills battling ultimately insuperable odds to the accompaniment of a haunting Vaughan Williams score. But, much earlier, Herbert Ponting’s amazing footage of the actual expedition had also been widely screened, initially to illustrate Ponting’s own lectures – he gave over a thousand in the 1910s and 1920s. Ponting then refashioned the footage into two stand-alone feature-length documentaries, The Great White Silence (1924) and 90˚ South (1933). Both are included on this release, though it’s the earlier film that deserves the most attention, as it’s the end product of an extensive and award-winning restoration that was unveiled at last year’s London Film Festival to the live accompaniment of a new score by Simon Fisher Turner (featured here). The quality of these legendary centuryold images of exploration and adventure is absolutely astonishing, thanks to the original 35mm negatives not only surviving (highly unusual for a film of this vintage) but being donated to the BFI shortly after

This BFI release is filled with astounding century-old images Ponting’s death, ensuring their proper preservation for future generations. Although Scott’s decision to invite a professional cameraman had commercial motives (media rights to Ponting’s images made a significant contribution to the expedition’s fundraising), the historical importance of the footage is clear from the opening shots of the ship ‘Terra Nova’ negotiating pack ice, and the scientific aspects of the expedition are depicted in fascinating detail – penguin lovers in particular will be in seventh heaven. For understandable practical reasons, Ponting did not accompany the Scott party on the final leg of their journey to the South Pole, but he was blessed with an extraordinary stroke of luck in that the four men he filmed demonstrating sledging and survival techniques comprised 80% of the final party. As a result, Ponting could intercut this footage with stills, maps, animated models and intertitles to recreate the full journey, giving an inescapably moving ‘you are there’ impression. Michael Brooke

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Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

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George Stevens Rip-roaring RKO western starring Barbara Stanwyk as the gal from the Ohio backwoods whose skill with the six-shooters wins her a place in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Then she gets top billing over a fellow gunslinger and jealousy intrudes.

USA | 1935 | ODEON | 87 min | U Item # 65568 | RRP £9.99 | Released 6th June

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The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer Irving Reis

Cary Grant is at his effortless best in this screwball comedy in which Shirley Temple has a crush on his debonaire artist. When she is found in his studio after hours, the judge (Myrna Loy playing the young girl’s older sister) sentences him to take her out until her infatuation fades!

David MacDonald

An atmospheric drama set on the Isle of Skye in the early 1900s where the arrival of a young orphan girl (Patricia Roc, who at times resembles a young Jeanne Moreau), sets the Macraes against their arch rivals, the McFarishes. Finlay Currie and John Laurie star and the film features some lovely location cinematography. UK | 1947 | PARKC | 87 min | Cert PG Item # 65122 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th June

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Bernard Knowles A portmanteau comedy about the perils of winning the football pools. In the four stories, a family wins the pools but it nearly tears them apart, a city clerk wins the jackpot and leaves his job, a group of pools cheats are dealt with by the authorities and a dispirited bass player tires of the high life. Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns and Bill Owen star.

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Floodtide

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Frederick Wilson

Blackbeard the Pirate

A late 1940s British romantic drama in which Gordon Jackson plays a farmer’s son who leaves the family business despite his father’s disapproval, and gets a job with a shipping company, where he falls for the boss’s daughter.

Raoul Walsh

A swashbuckling pirate yarn set on the high seas of the Carribean in 1674 and starring Robert Newton as the notorious pirate. Keith Andes plays the man who disguises himself as a surgeon on his ship, while Linda Darnell is the fair maiden in need of rescue. USA | 1952 | ODEON | 94 min | Cert U Item # 65489 | RRP £9.99 | Released 13th June

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Blood on the Moon Robert Wise

A moody noir western starring Robert Mitchum as a drifting cowboy who finds himself squaring up against a friend when he discovers his real motivation for getting him to help in a dispute. USA | 1948 | ODEON | 88 min | PG Item # 65485 | RRP £9.99 | Released 13th June

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Recommended Exclusive! Director: Edward Dmytryk Starring: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Nina Vale

Easy Money

UK | 1948 | ODEON | 90 min | Cert U Item # 65498 | RRP £12.99 | Released 27th June

USA | 1947 | ODEON | 95 min | Cert U Item # 65499 | RRP £9.99 | Released 27th June

Cornered

UK | 1949 | PARKC | 90 min | PG Item # 65131 | RRP £15.99 | Released 20th June

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The Halfway House Basil Dearden

A 1944 fantasy drama from Ealing, mixing ghostliness with wartime propaganda as a group of strangers, each with something to hide, finds shelter from a storm at a rural Welsh inn, where they begin to notice that all is not as it seems with their surroundings. Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Sally Ann Howes star. UK | 1944 | OPTIM | 92 min | Cert PG Item # 64900 | RRP £15.99 | Released 20th June

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Released: 23rd May USA | 1945 | ODEON | 102 min | B&W | Cert TBC | Item # 65346

A hard-edged, intense 1940s film noir, Cornered sees director Edward Dmytryk exercising the kind of caustic filmmaking skills that were his trademark. Dick Powell plays a demobbed Canadian air force pilot on the point of breakdown. He is attempting to cross the Channel; his French wife has been murdered at the direction of a corrupt Vichy collaborationist, leaving him with one simple, vengeful aim in life. Shot in the moody black and white that is the hallmark of the genre, the film is studded with several on-thenail character performances from the army of actors that Hollywood could call upon in this period. But the film belongs to its central actor. Dick Powell (who Raymond Chandler named as the best screen incarnations of his private eye Philip Marlowe), was wont to give a visceral intensity to his straight parts, and as he gets ever closer to his quarry, makes no attempt at likeability. Its this intensity that makes the film seem strikingly contemporary. The damn-the-consequences manhunt is a staple of the Hollywood thriller, but in 1945, Edward Dmytryk gave the theme one of its most single-minded workouts. BF

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Summer Storm Recommended

Exclusive! Director: Douglas Sirk Starring: Edward Everett Horton, George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee Released: 23rd May USA | 1944 | ODEON | 106 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 65347 | P&P £1

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See Also Chekhov Comedy Shorts UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 85 min | Cert PG | # 63815 | RRP £12.99

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Directed by Douglas Sirk USA | 1952-59 | UPV | 653 min | Cert PG | # 31006 | RRP £69.99

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Uncle Vanya Stuart Burge

UK | 1961 | BHE | 120 min | B&W | Cert Ex | # 15357 | RRP £14.99

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ouglas Sirk is most celebrated, of course, for his glossy melodramas of familial discontent. At first glance, Summer Storm seems like an entirely different kettle of fish – a low budget adaptation of Chekhov’s The Shooting Party. Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s one for completists only but this would be a mistake, for Summer Storm is a bona-fide masterpiece. Told in flashback, it is the story of Fedor Petroff, a provincial judge in the declining years of Tsarist Russia, about to exchange louche living for marital harmony with Nadena Kalenin (Anna Lee). But that is before he sets eyes on Olga (Linda Darnell) a beautiful – and ruthlessly ambitious – peasant girl. In spite of himself, Fedor becomes utterly infatuated with Olga, even as it costs him his fiancee. But Fedor is not the only man who has designs upon the young woman. During an afternoon’s shooting, passions overflow. Someone will be murdered and the lives of all involved will be changed forever. Sirk spent most of the 1940s as a director for hire but Summer Storm was a project close to his heart. He had wanted to adapt Chekhov’s only substantial novel when he was still working at UFA in

Douglas Sirk’s Chekhov adaptation is a masterpiece Germany and his adaptation certainly has more in common with his more personal later films than his other freelance work. Fedor is an archetypal Sirkian hero, conflicted and ultimately despairing. Olga, meanwhile, is the sort of upwardly mobile social climber who shows off the director’s interest both in materialism and social structures. The decor is, typically, carefully considered and the film is graced with beautiful flowing camerawork. Not the least of the attractions here is George Sanders. The film gives him a rare chance to act, rather than simply declaim his lines is a sardonic manner. He is truly sensational, giving more of himself here than he does in any other role. It’s a cruel reminder of how infrequently Hollywood provided him with material worthy of his talents. This DVD represents a major rediscovery. Douglas Sirk himself numbered it amongst his best films. In my opinion he was being modest; it might well be his greatest. James Oliver

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Classic Movies Isle of the Dead Mark Robson

A 1945 Val Lewton RKO production, starring Boris Karloff as a General whose cruelty surfaces when he learns that grave robbers have desecrated his wife’s remains. Even worse – plague has come to his island. Could it be that vampiric demon ‘Vorvolaka’ is at large? And is there anything that can stop it? USA | 1945 | ODEON | 69 min | Cert 15 Item # 65488 | RRP £9.99 | Released 6th June

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Director: Maurice Elvey Starring: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Felix Aylmer

Jumping for Joy

Released: 13th June

JP Carstairs

A fast-paced comedy which brought fame for Frankie Howerd, who stars as a sacked handyman at a greyhound track where he attempts to keep one step ahead of gangsters, crooked bookies and sports officials. Also stars Stanley Holloway, Bill Fraser and Lionel Jeffries. UK | 1956 | ODEON | 86 min | Cert U Item # 65503 | RRP £12.99 | Released 27th June

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They Met in the Dark Karel Lamac

A thrilling wartime espionage drama in which James Mason’s respected naval commander, found guilty of disobeying orders, comes up against a Nazi spy ring when striving to prove his innocence by tracking down the beautiful agent who double-crossed him. UK | 1944 | ODEON | 91 min | Cert PG Item # 65501 | RRP £12.99 | Released 6th June

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The Traitor

Michael McCarthy A German Jewish doctor and former French resistance fighter discovers that many of his former compatriots have died mysteriously. He begins to suspect that one of the ‘resistance’ fighters may in fact have been a Nazi agent who is now trying to eliminate all the members of the unit. Christopher Lee, Anton Diffring and Donald Digitally restored and remastered. Wolfit star. UK | 1957 | RENOWN | 81 min | Cert U Item # 65497 | RRP £12.99 | Released 27th June

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The Clairvoyant

Java Head / Tiger Bay Recommended Director: Thorold Dickinson / J. Elder Wills

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Starring: Anna May Wong, Ralph Richardson, John Loder, Elizabeth Allan, Henry Victor

UK | 1934 | ODEON | 80 min | B&W | Cert U | Item # 65500

Released: 20th June

Having established himself in The Invisible Man, Claude Rains returned to his native Britain for this thoroughly satisfying thriller. Rains plays Maximus, a music hall performer who’s devised a new mind reading act with his wife Rene (King Kong’s Fay Wray). On its debut, their performance goes awry but something strange happens to Maximus; he slides into a trance and seems to predict the future. When he foresees a train accident, Maximus becomes a media sensation. But is he really seeing what’s to come? Or do his pronouncements precipitate events? The authorities mean to find out – by putting Maximus on trial. Written by key Hitchcock collaborator Charles Bennett and directed by veteran Maurice Elvey, The Clairvoyant nails the lie that Hitchcock made the only British films worth bothering with in the thirties. It’s a punchy, pacy flick with a surprisingly sophisticated approach to the material. Rains is fantastic (did he ever give a bum performance?) and Wray clearly relishes Bennett’s witty script. Comparatively little known, it’s one of the most worthwhile films of its era. JO

UK | 1934 | OPTIM | 145 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 65048

Anna May Wong was the first nonwhite star in Western movies but Hollywood never knew how to handle her. Frustrated by the pitiful roles she was given in the States, the Chinese-American actress decamped to Europe in search of better opportunities; this disc contains two of the films she made during her sojourn. Java Head is a ripe Victorian melodrama set in Bristol. When sea captain John Loder returns home with a Chinese bride (Wong), his family are aghast but slowly take her to their bosom. However, the happy union is threatened when he meets his former sweetheart and realises he still has feelings for her. Elsewhere, Wong appeared in Tiger Bay (not the John Mills one). It’s an atmospheric, exotic film; our heroine plays the owner of a dance hall in a seedy colony. When she’s threatened by hoodlums, she takes matters into her own hands. The release of Piccadilly a few years ago heralded the re-discovery of Anna May Wong as a great film presence; the two films presented here both further testify to her beguiling talent. JO

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Turn Back the Clock

1940–1970

Take a trip back in time with these classic films from Odeon Entertainment, specialists in rescuing British films from unjust obscurity. You’ll find something for all tastes – creepy thrillers, adventure on the high seas, kitchen sink dramas, murky film noirs, adult dramas and huge gorillas!

Mighty Joe Young

Sinbad the Sailor

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Richard Wallace

The production team behind King Kong reunited for this movie in which a Tanzanian gorilla goes on the rampage in America. Features Oscar-winning special effects from Willis O’Brien’s team.

Classic Technicolor swashbuckler that sees suave Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) embark on an action-filled adventure when he lands on a tropical island in search of Alexander the Great’s treasure.

George More O’Ferrall

USA | 1949 | ODEON | 94 min | B&W | Cert U | # 63448 | RRP £9.99

USA | 1947 | ODEON | 116 min | Cert PG | # 62770 | RRP £9.99

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UK | 1951; 1955 | ODEON | 93 min | B&W | PG | # 63287 | RRP £12.99

The Big Clock

Four in the Morning

A Place to Go

Dir: John Farrow. A cracking little thriller. Ray Milland is the reporter on the run, Charles Laughton is his seedy, all-powerful boss.

Dir: Anthony Simmons. Judi Dench and Ann Lynn star in this brilliant, fractured study of relationships. Soundtrack from John Barry.

Dir: Basil Dearden. Classic 1960s kitchen sink crime drama set in London’s Bethnal Green, starring Michael Sarne and Rita Tushingham.

USA | 1948 | ODEON | 95 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 62788 | RRP £9.99

UK | 1965 | ODEON | 94 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 54133 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1963 | ODEON | 86 min | B&W | Cert | # 56307 | RRP £12.99

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Calculated Risk

Goodbye Gemini

Scarlet Street

Dir: Norman Harrison. Suspenseful British crime film which sees a gang of safecrackers try and pull off one last heist.

Dir: Alan Gibson. A bizarre thriller in which Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play creepy twins on the loose in swinging London.

Dir: Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson stars as an ordinary man who unwittingly strays from his normal path into a world of seduction and deceit.

UK | 1963 | ODEON | 72 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63532 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1970 | ODEON | 89 min | Cert 18 | # 61373 | RRP £14.99

USA | 1945 | ODEON | 103 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 55777 | RRP £12.99

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The Case of the Frightened Lady

Jungle Street / A Matter of Choice

Siren of Atlantis

Dir: George King. Edgar Wallace thriller in which Lady Lebanon’s desperation for an heir leads to murder.

Double-bill. The voluptuous Jill Ireland stars as a stripper in the tough British crime drama Jungle Street.

UK | 1940 | ODEON | 81 min | Cert U | # 53084 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1961-63 | ODEON | 168 min | B&W | 12 | # 55772 | RRP £12.99

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Cone of Silence

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Strongroom

UK | 1960 | ODEON | 88 min | B&W | Cert U | # 53085 | RRP £12.99

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Dir: Burgess Meredith. A cat-andmouse story of murder and blackmail. Charles Laughton plays Maigret. USA | 1949 | ODEON | 93 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 54125 | RRP £12.99

A portmanteau film of macabre tales of murder. Alan Badel is a constant presence in the tales, the last of which is charged with Orson Welles’ style. Return to Glennascaul. DVD: £7.99 Save £5

Dir: Gregg C. Tallas. A tale of mystery, love and revenge that is more than worthy of its cult status. Maria Montez plays the Queen of Atlantis USA | 1949 | ODEON | 75 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 55953 | RRP £12.99

Dir: Vernon Sewell. British crime classic in which a gang returns to the crime scene to free the manager from a vault before the police arrive. UK | 1962 | ODEON | 75 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 55996 | RRP £12.99

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Don’t Talk to Strange Men

The Painted Smile / Rag Doll

The Wind of Change / The Traitors

Dir: Pat Jackson. Creepy little thriller in which a schoolgirl gets drawn into a phone liaison with a strange man.

Dir: Lance Comfort. Double bill of British crime dramas starring Liz Fraser and Christina Gregg.

In The Wind... Donald Pleasence plays a liberal to his racist son, while The Traitors is an espionage film.

UK | 1962 | ODEON | 63 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 53977 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1958-62 | ODEON | 119 min | B&W | 12 | # 57427 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1961 | ODEON | 127 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 57421 | RRP £12.99

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Dir: Charles Frend. Gordon Jackson, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee and George Sanders star in this drama based around an air crash.

Three Cases of Murder

TV Heaven

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Drama and Comedy Colditz: Complete A TV gem from the early 1970s set in the supposedly escapeproof Colditz Castle during World War II, where the Allied prisoners are locked into a continual tussle of psychological warfare with their captors. 10 discs. UK | 1974 | 2ENT | 1400 min | Cert 12 | # 63581 | RRP £49.99

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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple All 12 episodes of the Marple mysteries starring Joan Hickson as the 12 discs. tweed-clad detective.

The Noel Coward Collection A star-studded collection of BBC adaptations of Coward’s plays. Contains The Vortex, Hayfever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Plays in Laughter, Suite in Two Keys and Tonight at 8:30. 7 discs. UK | 1969-1991 | BBC | 1200 min | Cert 15 | # 52754 | RRP £49.99

Sherlock A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, set in present-day London and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant detective and Martin Freeman as John Watson. 2 discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 270 min | Cert 12 | # 62778 | RRP £19.99

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The Likely Lads

Our Mutual Friend

James Bolam, Rodney Bewes. All the available Likely Lads episodes and the complete Whatever Happened To 6 discs. The Likely Lads?.

Steven Mackintosh stars in this epic BBC adaptation of Dickens’ complex tale of greed, passion and death in 2 discs. Victorian London.

UK | 1964-74 | BBC | Cert PG | # 30953 | RRP £34.99

UK | 1998 | BBC | 350 min | Cert PG | # 8020 | RRP £24.99

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Alan Bennett at the BBC

Middlemarch

Pennies from Heaven

George Eliot’s masterpiece brought to life with great performances. Juliet Aubrey takes the lead among a host of stars. 2 discs.

Dir: Piers Haggard. The strikingly innovative musical serial that consolidated Dennis Potter as the UK’s foremost television writer. 3 discs.

UK | 1984-87 | BBC | 1350 min | Cert PG | # 22350 | RRP £99.99

An exceptional selection of Bennett’s previously unreleased BBC material, containing 11 plays. 4 discs.

UK | 1993 | BBC-DD | 375 min | Cert PG | # 8012 | RRP £24.99

UK | 1978 | BBC | 477 min | Cert 12 | # 17879 | RRP £29.99

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Chekhov Comedy Shorts

Mike Leigh at the BBC

A Perfect Spy

Four Chekhov comedies screened in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Russian writer’s birth.

Contains Abigail’s Party, Nuts in May, Home Sweet Home, Hard Labour and five more films. 6 discs.

UK | 1978-92 | 2ENT | Cert 12 | # 59908 | RRP £29.99

Dir: Peter Smith. The colourful, troubled life of the charming liar and secret agent Magnus Pym. Adapted from le Carré’s novel. 3 discs. UK | 1987 | BBC | 374 min | Cert 15 | # 22348 | RRP £15.99

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 85 min | Cert PG | # 63815 | RRP £12.99

UK | 1973-84 | 2ENT | Cert 12 | # 58115 | RRP £59.99

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I, Claudius

Money

Dir: Herbert Wise. Derek Jacobi is a tour-de-force in the title role in this history of Imperial Rome, adapted from Robert Graves. 5 discs.

Dir: Jeremy Lovering. A fable of excess and flawed ambition, adapted from Martin Amis’s novel. Nick Frost stars as the anti-hero, John Self.

The Quatermass Collection

UK | 1970s | 2ENT | 648 min | Cert 15 | # 59124 | RRP £44.99

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 117 min | Cert | # 61664 | RRP £15.99

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Lark Rise to Candleford: S2 & 3

Nancy Astor

Silk

The lavish BBC period drama about the life and times of the first ever woman to sit in the House of 3 discs. Commons.

All six episodes of the courtroom drama set in the world of British criminal law. Maxine Peake and 2 discs. Rupert Penry-Jones star.

UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 495 min | Cert 12 | # 63635 | RRP £19.99

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert 12 | # 64507 | RRP £19.99

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BBC period drama based on Flora Thompson’s books. Series 2 and 3 available separately. 4 discs each. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | Cert PG | # 57497 | RRP £34.99

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1950s BBC series of Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, and Quatermass and the Pit. 3 discs. UK | 1953-59 | BBC-DD | 450 min | Cert PG | # 20890 | RRP £29.99

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Documentary and Stage Rufus Sewell stars as Italian detective Aurelio Zen in these three charming and engaging feature-length dramas from the BBC, set in and around Rome, and based on the best-selling novels by Michael Dibdin. 2 discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 270 min | Cert 15 | # 64247 | RRP £19.99

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A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals A highly enjoyable concert from the Royal Albert Hall, celebrating the golden age of Hollywood musicals with songs from all the greats. A highlight of the 2009 Proms season. USA | 2009 | 2ENT | 120 min | Cert E | # 62584 | RRP £19.99

Michael Wood’s Story of England BBC series presenting the consistently surprising story of one community – Kibworth in Leicestershire – through the whole of English history, setting it in the context of great events. 2 discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E | # 63708 | RRP £24.99

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Spiral: Collection

Ancient Worlds

All the episodes from the first two series of the highly-acclaimed French political crime drama that unravels a trail of corruption. 4 discs.

This comprehensive history of the classical world looks at how the civilisations of Greece and Rome made us what we are today. 2 discs.

Michael Parkinson Collection

France | 2008 | 2ENT | 800 min | subt | 18 | # 62669 | RRP £34.99

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E | # 63619 | RRP £24.99

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The Trip

The Art of Germany

Normans

Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Comedy favourites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this improvised tour of 2 discs. the north of England.

In a three-part epic journey through a 500 year artistic legacy, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the surprises, beauty and wonder of German art.

Historical documentary series exploring how the Normans developed from a band of marauding Vikings into conquerors. 2 discs.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 240 min | Cert 15 | # 63854 | RRP £19.99

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert E | # 64314 | RRP £19.99

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert E | # 62693 | RRP £19.99

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Tutti Frutti

David Attenborough: First Life

Simon Schama: A History of Britain

The epic story of the beginning of life on Earth from the respected naturalist and broadcaster.

A captivating series that brings Britain’s rich history, circa 3000BC – 2000AD, to life. 6 discs.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | Cert E | # 63637 | RRP £19.99

UK | 2000 | BBC | Cert E | # 32173 | RRP £59.99

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David Attenborough: The Life Collection

The Story of Science

All six episodes of the great BBC Scotland comedy drama series about over-the-hill Scottish rock band The Majestics. 2 discs. UK | 1987 | 2ENT | 300 min | Cert 12 | # 58226 | RRP £24.99

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Upstairs Downstairs One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert 15 | # 64381 | RRP £19.99

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Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister All the episodes from the two wonderfully witty parliament-set UK series. 7 discs. UK | 1980-88 | BBC | 1140 min | Cert PG | # 30957 | RRP £49.99

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Life ... on Earth, in the Freezer, of Birds, of Mammals, of Plants, in the Undergrowth, Trials of... 24 discs. UK | 1979-2005 | BBC | 73 hours min | Cert E | # 24631 | RRP £169.99

A career-spanning collection with sections of classic in-depth interviews 2 discs. chosen by Parky himself. UK | 1970s- | 2ENT | Cert E | # 63665 | RRP £24.99

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A series revealing the unique nature of science, its power, and why people struggle to accept much of what it has to say. 2 discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E | # 61918 | RRP £24.99

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Face to Face

Wonders of the Solar System

The landmark 1959-62 BBC series, in which John Freeman posed searching questions to the important 6 discs. personalities of the day. UK | 1959-62 | 2ENT | 1050 min | B&W | E | # 58281 | RRP £59.99

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This vivid tour of the world beyond our planet sees Brian Cox reveal the universe’s natural wonders. 2 discs. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 250 min | Cert E | # 61456 | RRP £19.99

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Jean Kent (The Woman in Question) stars in this exuberant 1940s comedy about a showgirl who marries a lord. But can an aristocrat really be happy with a young lady from the theatre? A delightful treat featuring early appearances by Hattie Jacques, Bill Owen, Christopher Lee and Roger Moore. UK | 1949 | ODEON | 92 min | Cert U Item # 65502 | RRP £12.99 | Released 6th June

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When the Bough Breaks L Huntington

An adoption drama starring Patricia Roc as a young single mother who is forced to leave her child in the care of a nursery worker (Rosamund John) when her husband is arrested as a bigamist. Later, when she tries to claim her son back, she finds that it’s not going to be easy for anyone. UK | 1947 | ODEON | 77 min | Cert PG Item # 65209 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd May

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UK | 1958 | 124 min | B&W | PG | # 64927 | £19.99

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Witchfinder General Reeves, Michael

UK | 1968 | ODEON | 83 min | 18 | # 64164 | £22.99

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Animation Akira

Seminal Japanese sci-fi set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where biker Tetsuo gets involved with a top secret research group attempting to channel an uncontrollable ancient power. The stunning vision of a dystopian, futuristic city deserves honourable comparison with Blade Runner and Metropolis. Japan | 1987 | MANGA | 124 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 64987-8 / 65093 | RRP £19.99 | 27th June

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A Wild Bunch of Westerns DVD Sale With gunfights, train robberies, hold-ups, runaway stagecoaches, shoot-outs, saloon brawls and chases on horseback, you’re set for quite a ride. Located in the dusty expanse of America’s untamed frontier, these much-loved films films have been a defining genre in cinema since its earliest days. The Spaghetti Western Collection

The Tall T

This epic western is a modern classic. Brad Pitt plays the legendary outlaw.

Sergio Leone’s supremely enjoyable trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Eastwood stars, Morricone scores. 3 discs; Available for £5.99 each.

Veteran cowboy actor Randolph Scott and Maureen O’Sullivan find themselves at the mercy of bandits and a cowardly husband in this Technicolor film that is one of the great westerns of the 1950s.

USA | 2007 | WHV | 155 min | Cert 15 | # 52636 | RRP £16.99

Italy | 1964-66 | FOX | Cert 18 | # 60273 | RRP £15.99

USA | 1957 | SPHE | 76 min | Cert PG | # 59559 | RRP £12.99

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3:10 to Yuma

Jubal

Rawhide: Series 1

Dir: Delmer Daves. Remade in 2007, this is the original classic. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin star. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard.

Dir: Delmer Daves. Glenn Ford plays driftin’ cowhand Jubal Troop. Storm clouds gather when his master’s wife takes a shine to the new man.

Get rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ with Clint Eastwood in the trail-blazing western series that jump-started his illustrious movie career. 6 discs.

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

USA | 1956 | SPHE | 97 min | Cert PG | # 58526 | RRP £12.99

USA | 1959 | REVEL | 1140 min | Cert PG | # 63375 | RRP £34.99

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Canyon Passage

McCabe and Mrs Miller

Sam Peckinpah: Legendary Westerns

Dir: Robert Altman. Warren Beatty and Julie Christie star in Altman’s wintry, poetic ‘anti-western’.

The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Ride the High Country. 6 discs.

USA | 1971 | WHV | 108 min | Cert 15 | # 14358 | RRP £15.99

USA | 1962-73 | WHV | Cert 18 | # 26478 | RRP £44.99

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Forty Guns

The Overlanders

The Searchers

Dir: Samuel Fuller. One of only two westerns from Sam Fuller. Barbara Stanwyck stars as a ruthless rancher caught up in range wars.

Dir: Harry Watt. WWII drama of Australian outback life, which follows a drover as he takes his cattle overland, halfway across the continent.

Dir: John Ford. The most majestic of westerns, this is also Ford’s darkest, most complex work, with John Wayne’s role one of his finest.

USA | 1957 | OPTIM | 77 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 19667 | RRP £9.99

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High Noon

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Dir: John Hillcoat. A stylish western, from a screenplay by Nick Cave, set in the Australian outback. Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone star. 2 discs

Dir: David Von Ancken. A great pursuit movie mixing elements of classic westerns with survival thrillers. Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan star.

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How the West was Won

Rancho Notorious

El Topo

Marlene Dietrich stars in Lang’s final film noir-infused western, which innovatively reworked his themes of love, betrayal and retribution.

Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. A leatherclad gun slinger assumes the guise of a god to wreak revenge in this surreal, allegorical cult western.

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Mexico | 1971 | TARTN | 125 min | subt | 18 | # 33299 | RRP £19.99

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Andrew Dominik

Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews star in this western romantic adventure story set in the wilds of Oregon. USA | 1946 | OPTIM | 92 min | Cert PG | # 50602 | RRP £12.99

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Dirs: Ford, Hathaway, Marshall. One of the great epic westerns, with many stars of the silver screen. 3 discs. USA | 1962 | WHV | 165 min | Cert PG | # 54603 | RRP £16.99

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Budd Boetticher

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New Releases A Brush with Sewell

A documentary featuring the renowned art critic Brian Sewell in conversation and sitting for three portrait artists: John Ward, Johnny Jonas and Michael Reynolds, with whom he has comprehensive discussions on the relationship between painter and sitter.

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Armadillo

A controversial film made at an army base in the Southern Afghan province of Helmand, where filmmaker Metz spent six months with the men, through periods of mindnumbing boredom and adrenaline-fuelled action, producing an excellent that takes you into the heart of combat. Denmark | 2010 | SodaElev | 105 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 65032 | RRP £12.99 | Released 13th June

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Dancing Dreams Anne Linsel

A documentary about Pina Bausch, the famous German choreographer and subject of Wim Wenders’ film, Pina. The film follows her as she stages a ballet using a group of 40 schoolchildren, tracking their rehearsals and their growing confidence in their own abilities. Germany | 2010 | SodaElev | 92 min | subt | Cert E Item # 65033 | RRP £17.99 | Released 27th June

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Fire in Babylon Stevan Riley

A film about the glorious supremacy of the West Indies cricket team in the 1970s and 80s – a team which struck a defiant blow at forces of white prejudice. It features legendary players and celebrates the emancipation of a people through sport. UK | 2010 | REV | 83 min | Cert 12 Item # 65034 / 36 | RRP £15.99 | Released 6th June

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Robinson in Ruins Recommended Director: Patrick Keiller Released: 20th June

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UK | 1960s | NWORK | 450 min | Cert E | Item # 65240

UK | 2010 | BFI | 101 min | Cert PG | Item # 65118

The Rank Organisation’s Look at Life series was a concise, bright ‘cine-magazine’, shot on 35mm colour film, that ran in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas from 1959-68 and which, before the main feature, presented cinemagoers with myriad aspects of British life in the 1960s. Over 500 Look at Life films were made, offering a treasure trove of high quality footage. One volume, covering more aspects of transport than you could possibly imagine, has already been released and this second collection, which includes many films that have remained unseen since the 1960s, features 45 films on the theme of the military. Among the many films included here are those on the subjects of aerial acrobatic teams, ceremonial soldiers, the Women’s Royal Naval Service and the WRAF, the NAAFI, bomb disposal squads, the training of Royal Marine Commandos, test pilots, amphibious craft, ‘jumping jets’, the Royal Green Jackets, unexploded WWII ordnance, free-fall parachutists, and plenty more besides! An endlessly fascinating collection.

Following his earlier peregrinations in London and Robinson in Space, which saw the mordant, deadpan narrator considering ‘the problem of England’, in Robinson in Ruins, our ever inquisitive but increasingly elusive guide resumes his journeys into the country on the day after the latest global financial crisis. Vanessa Redgrave takes over Paul Schofield’s earlier narrative duties, slipping into his same rhythms of speech and sly comment. Tracing histories of property, ownership and resistance through sites in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, Robinson looks into questions of land and labour, delineating the new geopolitical ley lines that run alongside the countryside’s more ancient ways, and pinpointing a nexus of financial and political connections in seemingly innocuous pockets of countryside. By the end, Robinson has headed west (maybe), leaving behind more erudite, surprising and stimulating visual considerations of the sources and sustenance of the new England – whatever and wherever that might be. GH

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Inside Job

The Miners’ Hymns

Charles Ferguson

Bill Morrison

The 2011 Oscar winner for Best Documentary, Inside Job looks at the global financial crisis of 2008, using interviews with politicians, journalists and financial insiders to chronicle the rise of a largely unregulated financial services industry that eventually imploded.

An elegy in film and music to the coal mining history of North East England, assembled by Bill Morrison (Decasia) and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, whose score draws upon the region’s Premiere brass music. highlights from Durham cathedral; Booklet.

USA | 2010 | COL-T | 108 min | Cert 12 Item # 65163 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th June

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Sweetgrass

Louis Malle

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Jacques Cousteau

The Oscar-winning documentary co-directed by the legendary diver Jacques Cousteau, who used new underwater filming technology to offer a window into the world beneath the sea.

USA | 2009 | DOGW | 101 min | E Item # 65119 | RRP £14.99 | Released 6th June

Italy / France | 1956 | GO-D | 86 min | Cert E Item # 65173 / 65615 | RRP £12.99 | Out 23rd May

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This 1964 Oscar winning film documents an experiment in which a team of divers, scientists and engineers attempted to live for a month in a purpose-built base rooted to the floor of the Red Sea. France | 1964 | GO-D | 89 min | E Item # 65189 / 65617 | RRP £12.99 | Released 23rd May

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The Look At Life releases compile selections from the short documentary film series produced in the 1950s and ’60s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation, screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. A fascinating snapshot of life in mid-20th century Britain, with many unseen since their first screening, this second volume is the definitive collection of 45 restored military short films, including such classics as The Black Arrows, Test Pilot, The Sky’s The Limit, and Girls Ahoy.

Legendary diver and ecologist Jacques Cousteau embarks on his most difficult expedition yet as he and the crew of his famous ship, Calypso, set sail for the treacherous waters of the Antarctic to explore uncharted territory there.

World Without Sun

An astonishingly beautiful, unsentimental elegy to the American West that follows the herders who lead their flocks of sheep into the breathtaking mountains of Montana for their summer pasture.

VOLUME 2: MILITARY

Philippe Cousteau

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The Silent World

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Voyage to the Edge of the World

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Television Programmes Originally Broadcast Exile

New Releases Alan Yentob: The Trouble with Tolstoy

In this BBC two-parter, Yentob takes a train ride through Russia, examining how the country’s great novelist became her great troublemaker. In At War with Himself, Yentob reveals a troubled youth, obsessed with sex and gambling, while In Search of Happiness looks at the success of War and Peace, which brought Tolstoy fame, wealth – and a mid-life crisis. UK | 2011 | DIGCL | 120 min | Cert E Item # 65452 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th June

Bored to Death

All six episodes of the BBC series in which historian Dan Cruickshank goes into some of Britain’s greatest private country houses, poking around in their attics, cellars and corridors to reveal their history and architecture as well as the human stories 2 discs. behind them.

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E Item # 65139 | RRP £19.99 | Released 20th June

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and starring Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan, this enduringly popular series interwove crime and medical storylines. This complete fourth series features guest appearances from Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter, Thora Hird, David 4 discs. McCallum and Tim Healy. UK | 1994 | NWORK | 800 min | Cert 12 Item # 65272 | RRP £39.99 | Released 27th June

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Family

Heartbeat: Series 4

The Country House Revealed

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USA | 2009 | WHVHB | 220 min | Cert 15 Item # 64058 | RRP £24.99 | Released 20th June

Michael Mosley embarks on an astonishing voyage through arguably the world’s most complex organism, taking us deep under our skin where we are dwarfed by even the smallest cell, where blood vessels become vast cathedrals and the tiniest cluster of cilia becomes an expansive forest. Spectacular photography shows human behaviour in super slow motion, revealing elements of ourselves of which we are 2 discs. completely unaware. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E Item # 65365 | RRP £19.99 | Released 30th May

Written by acclaimed novelist Roddy Doyle, this is a hard-hitting look at life in an Irish suburb that aired on BBC One and RTÉ One in 1994. The original transmission was a watershed moment in Irish TV history, leading to an outcry and a national debate about domestic violence.

The complete first season of the superb US comedy. Jason Schwartzman play an alcoholic writer who, after his girlfriend leaves him, pursues a second career as a private detective inspired by his favourite Raymond Chandler 2 discs; novels. Jonathan Ames’ Brooklyn.

Inside the Human Body

UK | 2011 | PNE | Cert 15 Item # 65484 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th June

Michael Winterbottom

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Only a small percentage of the wonders of ancient Egypt have been discovered. That’s all about to change, as from her NASA-sponsored lab, Dr Sarah Parcak uses satellite technology to probe beneath the sands, revealing its hidden cities, temples and pyramids.

BBC psychological thriller starring John Simm as a journalist returning to his northern roots to uncover the truth behind his past. As he tries to glean information from his Alzheimer’s affected father (Jim Broadbent), he becomes increasingly frustrated at his father’s inability to recall events. However, his dogged persistence begins to uncover secrets relating 2 discs; Behind to a decades-old scandal. the scenes; Alzheimer’s Society short films.

Injustice

Anthony Horowitz’s ITV drama about a criminal barrister (James Purefoy) recovering from a breakdown who finds himself questioning his belief in the legal system and his own ethics when an old friend from his past asks for his help in defending a murder charge. 2 discs. UK | 2011 | ACORN | 260 min | Cert 15 Item # 65523 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th June

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Julia Bradbury’s Canal Walks A BBC series exploring the canal walks of the UK, following presenter Bradbury as she discovers some peaceful new walks of the countryside. The locations are: Llangollen, Worcester and Birmingham, Caledonian and Kennet and Avon.

UK | 2010 | ACORN | 120 min | E Item # 63946 / 65571 | RRP £17.99 | Out 6th June

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The Kennedys: Season 1

Tom Wilkinson, Barry Pepper, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear and Diana Hardcastle star in the story of the most fabled political family in American history, told in a manner similar to The Godfather, with a manipulative, egocentric father determined to live out his own ambitions through his sons, who dance to his tune 3 discs. while trying to stand on their own. USA | 2011 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 65460 | RRP £24.99 | Released 4th July

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Land of the Giants: Series 2

Series 2 of the late 1960s sci-fi drama created by Irwin Allen in which a spaceship on a routine journey from New York to London drifts into strange cloud matter, landing on a planet where everything is 12 times bigger than on Earth. Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) leads his band of passengers as they are forced to avoid the planet’s menacing inhabitants and 7 discs. find a way back home. USA | 1970 | REV | 1220 min | Cert PG Item # 64160 | RRP £39.99 | Released 13th June

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The Kingdom: I and II Recommended Director: Lars von Trier Released: 4th July Contains: Series 1 and 2 DVD Extras: 4 discs; Original broadcast editions; Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars Von Trier; In Lars Von Trier’s Kingdom; Behind the scenes; Lars Von Trier’s TV commercials; Selected scene commentaries. Denmark | 1996 | 2ND | 573 min | subt | Cert 18 | Item # 65541 | P&P £2.50

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Lars Von Trier Denmark | 1991 | TARTN | 107 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 6824 | RRP £19.99

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Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition David Lynch

USA | 1990-91 | UPV | 1410 min | Cert 15 | # 61214 | RRP £69.99

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The Killing Denmark / Norway / Sweden | 2007 | Arrow E1 | 1100 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 64864 | RRP £59.99

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harp-eyed viewers of recent BBC4 hit The Killing might have spotted a credit for Morton Arnfred as one of its directors. A decade earlier, he was co-creator with the more headlinegrabbing Lars von Trier of the only other Danish television series to garner a British cult following – but aside from that and coincidentally alliterative English titles, they couldn’t be more different. While The Killing was an expertly-staged but ultimately familiar police procedural, The Kingdom tramples convention into the ground from each episode’s opening credits, which segue from sepia-tinted imitation Tarkovsky to something more like Police, Camera, Action!. We’re tipped off from the start that the large and notionally ultra-modern hospital known as the Kingdom may be haunted, but running alongside sightings of ghostly children and glowing-eyed devil-dogs is a hilarious satire of medical bureaucracy that could have been lifted straight out of one of the earlier, more politicised Casualty episodes. These scenes are dominated by the irascible Swedish neurosurgeon Dr Stig Helmer (Ernst-Hugo Järegård), one of television’s great comic monsters, who lets off steam by going up to the roof to scream abuse about Denmark’s

Lars von Trier’s answer to Twin Peaks is both brilliant and bonkers shortcomings, or to have heart-to-heart conversations with the toilet bowl. His infuriatingly passive boss Dr Moesgaard presides over a team that includes Helmer’s hated rival Dr Krogshøj, Dr Bondo, whose obsession with a rare form of tumour extends to him voluntarily transplanting one into his own body, and Dr Petersen, whose pregnancy makes the one in Rosemary’s Baby seem textbook. Meanwhile, elderly spiritualist Mrs Drusse is conducting deeply unofficial investigations into the more mysterious goings-on, naturally causing more problems than she solves – anything that involves cameo appearances by Udo Kier can only end badly. Only two series were made, and with five cast members now dead (including the irreplaceable Järegård and Rolffes), the planned final series now looks unfilmable. But this sumptuous four-disc set contains the full works, as originally broadcast (i.e. longer episodes and with the von Trier monologues omitted from earlier releases) plus plenty of extras. Michael Brooke

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Television Marple: Series 5

All four episodes – The Pale Horse, The Secret of Chimneys, The Blue Geranium and The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side from the fifth series of the ITV crime drama, adapted from the novels by Agatha Christie. Julia McKenzie stars as Miss Marple, and guest stars include Susan Lynch, Joanna Lumley and Lindsay Duncan.

Psychoville: Series 2

There’s more intrigue, suspense, weirdness and laughs with the return of the dark and twisted comic mystery written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and 2 Steve Pemberton. discs; Hallowe’en Special; Behind the scenes; Also available: 4 disc box set of series 1 & 2.

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Midsomer Murders: Dark Secrets / Death in the Slow Lane / Echoes of the Dead The detective series set among the leafy lanes of the English county of Midsomer enters a new era as DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon), a cousin of the original detective, moves in to fight the crime epidemic found there. Three investigations available separately.

UK | 2011 | ACORN | 90 min | Cert 12 Item # 65589-91 | RRP £17.99 | Released 20th June

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Graham Theakston

A superior TV drama with excellent performances from Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve, The Politician’s Wife sees a Government Minister’s affair with an escort girl exposed by the press. The support of the government and public depends on his wife standing by him. But what really lies behind her dutiful forgiveness? Political intrigue, adultery and betrayal is just the beginning as Flora takes her revenge.

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Primeval: Series 5 All the episodes from series five of the effectsladen thriller in which past, present and future collide. More terrifying creatures appear through anomalies – including a raptor on the rampage in Victorian London and an invasion of ferocious 2 discs. beetles.

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert 12 Item # 65465 | RRP £19.99 | Released 4th July

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Shadows: Series 2

An atmospheric anthology series offering supernatural tales for younger viewers. With characters finding themselves plunged into strange alternative realities, or encountering ghostly figures from the past, the young protagonists’ otherworldly experiences play upon common teenage fears. Penelope Lively, Rosemary Harris, Joan Aiken and Susan Cooper are among the writers for this series. UK | 1976 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert PG Item # 64928 | RRP £12.99 | Released 13th June

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The Politician’s Wife

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The Shadow Line

A gripping thriller starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as a detective on his first case since being shot in a botched police operation that left his partner dead. On the other side of the divide, Christopher Eccleston plays a criminal desperate to see through a massive drugs operation that will enable him to step out of the business forever. Stephen Rea’s enigmatic, ruthless 3 discs. criminal waits in the shadows. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 420 min | Cert 15 Item # 65553 | RRP £24.99 | Released 4th July

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Sorry!: Series 5

In a role specially written for him, Ronnie Corbett plays the eternally frustrated Timothy Lumsden, who dreams of being a lothario and star player in the local amateur dramatic group – anything but a 40-something mummy’s boy! UK | 1986 | 2ENT | Cert PG Item # 65403 | RRP £15.99 | Released 20th June

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This has to be one of the wildest classic serials the BBC ever made. The positioning and movement of the camera, the hallucinogenic effects and the abrasive score have all been designed to disconcert the viewer as much as heiress Beatie Edney, who is cast by her father’s death into the bizarre, substance-fuelled world of his dissolute brother, Uncle Silas (Peter O’Toole). A far cry from Charles Frank’s lowering 1947 adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel Uncle Silas, this series has atmosphere and grandiloquence more uppermost than coherence. Yet it makes for utterly compelling viewing, with Jane Lapotaire biting chunks out of the Harlaxton Manor setting as the deranged French governess and horror icon Barbara Shelley coolly playing against type as the kindly cousin. But everyone is upstaged by Peter O’Toole, who shifts gleefully from sinister benevolence to ranting wickedness as he strives to ease Edney out of her large inheritance, held in trust until she comes of age, to settle a lifetime’s debts. More Grand Guignol than Gothic, this has to be seen to be disbelieved. DP

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Speer and Hitler

Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) stars in this award-winning docudrama that tears open the veil of myths obscuring a central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions, Albert Speer was a cultivated intellectual and a brilliant architect who allied himself with the 20th century’s most horrifying embodiment of evil. However, in Hitler’s final months, he turned against his master. Mixes dramatic reconstruction with rare archive footage and interviews with Speer’s children. 2 discs; Epilogue: The Deception (88 mins). Germany | 2005 | 2ND | 272 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 65393 | RRP £19.99 | Released 6th June

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Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Series 1-7

Every episode from all 7 seasons of the popular Star Trek spin-off series. Incorporating a complex political backdrop that mirrored that of the times, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine was a bold venture 49 discs. into Gene Roddenberry’s galaxy. USA | 2000 | PARAH | Cert 15 Item # 65610 | RRP £199.99 | Released 4th July

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Take the High Road

The first six episodes of the long-running Scottish soap which was shot on location in the village of Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond, and which follows the people who live and work in the fictional village of 2 discs. Glendarroch.

UK | 1980 | ALBA | 142 min | E Item # 65606 | RRP £19.99 | Released 30th May

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Twilight Zone: Season 2

The complete second season of the classic American TV sci-fi series by Rod Serling. In this series, a WWII pilot finds himself alone in the desert with mysterious futuristic craft above him, a bottle genie grants an antiques dealer four wishes, a young couple acquire a camera that takes pictures showing events five minutes in the future, and a man finds himself thrown back in time to the day of President 5 discs. Lincoln’s assassination. USA | 1961 | PNE | Cert 12 Item # 65096 / 098 | RRP £34.99 | Out 20th June

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The Upper Hand: Series 7

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All the episodes from the seventh and final series of the engaging British sitcom, based on scripts for the hugely popular US series Who’s the Boss?. Diana Weston plays the executive who employs a retired footballer (Joe McGann) as a live-in help for her mother (Honor 2 discs.

UK | 1996 | NWORK | 320 min | Cert PG Item # 65028 | RRP £12.99 | Released 20th June

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Vera

A major new detective series, Vera stars an exceptional leading lady in the form of Brenda Blethyn, who plays Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, an experienced loner inclined to obsession with her work. Set in the North East, the series is based on the novels of crime 2 discs. writer Ann Cleeves. UK | 2011 | G-VEN | 356 min | Cert 12 Item # 64817 | RRP £24.99 | Released 23rd May

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Series 2

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First Light

Matthew Whiteman UK | 2010 | IMC | 79 min | 15 | # 65175 | RRP £14.99

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Footballers’ Wives: S 1 UK | 2001 | 415 min | 15 | # 65560 | RRP £19.99

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French Fields: Series 1 UK | 1989 | NWORK | 150 min | PG | # 64953 | £12.99

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Luther: Series 2 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert TBC | # 65456 | £20.42

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Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: Series 1-4 UK | 1990-94 | Cert PG | # 55737 | RRP £29.99

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Moody and Pegg: S2 UK | 1975 | 300 min | 12 | # 65004 | £19.99

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Never the Twain: S3&4

The complete second series of the 1960s sci-fi adventure, chronicling the voyages of Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Captain Crane (David Hedison) aboard the SSRN Seaview, a futuristic submarine in which they come up against fantastical monsters and 7 discs. save the world from cataclysm.

UK | 1983-84 | REVEL | Cert PG | # 64170 | £19.99

USA | 1966 | REV | 1270 min | Cert PG Item # 64162 | RRP £39.99 | Released 13th June

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Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club: Series 4

Bernard Manning comperes and fellow stand-up veteran Colin Crompton is ‘Mr Chairman’ at the working men’s club. This fourth series features comedy from Jim Bowen, Frank Carson, Dustin Gee and The Grumbleweeds, music from Gene Pitney and Joseph Locke and turns from the club’s 2 discs; favourite ‘unusualist’, Paul Daniels. 1975 New Year’s Eve Party Special. UK | 1977 | NWORK | 320 min | Cert E Item # 65029 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th June

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Shelley: Series 5 UK | 1982 | NWORK | Cert 12 | # 65011 | RRP £12.99

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Single-Handed UK | 2007 | ACORN | 278 min | 15 | # 61819 | £24.99

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Thirty Minutes Worth: Series 3 UK | 1973 | REVEL | 173 min | # 64135 | RRP £19.99

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To the Manor Born: S2 UK | 1980 | 210 min | U | # 65504 | £19.99

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Within These Walls: S4 UK | 1976 | 850 min | Cert 15 | # 65169 | RRP £49.99

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Yesterday’s Dreams: Complete UK | 1987 | NWORK | 12 | # 63369 | £19.99

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present The Fighter

New Releases 127 Hours

Danny Boyle

survive.

The incredible true story of a hiker’s fight for survival in the mountains of Utah. James Franco plays the man whose expedition goes wrong when a boulder traps his arm in a remote canyon. With no-one to hear him, he undergoes an unimaginable test of his will to Commentary.

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All the Way Boys Guiseppe Colizzi

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill star in this comedy as two pilots who abandon their planes in order to collect the insurance. Things go swimmingly until they crash for real – in the middle of a diamond mining town!

An enjoyable Brit flick from Frank Clarke (Letter To Brezhnev). Margi Clarke stars as a Liverpool girl who looks after herself with her fists and sets out to find her bare-knuckle fighting father, hooking up with an ex-Las Vegas showgirl (Carroll Baker) who becomes her boxing promoter, along the way.

The sexually-charged sequel to Fantasm in which newspaper agony aunt Collette (i.e. a bloke called Harry) shows eager new girl Libbie the ins and outs of the job. Includes some of the most famous adult stars of the 1970s. Australia | 1977 | NUCLE | 96 min | Cert 18 Item # 65211 | RRP £12.99 | Released 9th May

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A supernatural drama starring Matt Damon, this is a reflective study on the effect that death has on the living. In it, Damon’s reluctant psychic is contacted by a woman who escaped death in the Asian tsunami and a desperate single mother from London who has lost a son.

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The story of Allen Ginsberg, rebel, chronicler of the Beat Generation and the author of a work that started a revolution. The debut performance of his poem Howl is juxtaposed with scenes from the 1957 obscenity trial of the poem’s publisher. James Franco gives an uncanny performance as the young Ginsberg. USA | 2011 | SodaElev | 84 min | Cert 15 Item # 64948 / 977 | RRP £15.99 | Out 20th June

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Oranges and Sunshine Jim Loach

A moving drama about the woman who uncovered the plight of children in the British care system who were illegally deported during the 1940s-50s. Emily Watson stars as the Nottingham social worker who exposes the secret that the British government kept hidden for years. UK / Australia | 2011 | ICON | 105 min | Cert 15 Item # 65566 | RRP £17.99 | Released 2nd July

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Never Let Me Go

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Clint Eastwood

Rob Epstein

Frank Clarke

Colin Eggleston

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Hereafter

Howl

Blonde Fist

Fantasm Comes Again

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A double Oscar-winning drama (for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo) based on the lives of professional boxers and half-brothers Mickey ‘Irish’ Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund. In an extradorinary performance, Bale plays the flamboyant, crack-addicted former boxer who trains his sibling to hit the heights he never reached himself.

USA | 2010 | WHV | 129 min | Cert 15 Item # 65141 / 153 | RRP £19.99 | Out 13th June

Italy | 1972 | Jeff | 90 min | Cert 12 Item # 63866 | RRP £12.99 | Released 20th June

UK | 1991 | SCANB | 99 min | Cert 15 Item # 64532 | RRP £9.99 | Released 30th May

David O. Russell

With Never Let Me Go, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel from a script by The Beach’s Alex Garland, Mark Romanek has crafted a picture whose dark heart is designed to wrongfoot and perplex expectations at almost every step. It’s a wonderful looking film, with moments of stark beauty recalling Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line combining with a sense of aching fragility. It concerns three children, Cathy, Tommy and Ruth, who we watch grow to adulthood, with Cathy (Carey Mulligan) nursing an unrequited crush on Tommy (Andrew Garfield) while Ruth (Keira Knightley, outside her comfort zone and all the better for it) sees all and takes what she wants regardless. What complicates matters is that they were raised in a strange boarding school that has a mysterious agenda. To say more would ruin its unsettling story. Remarkably, the film was damned with faint praise on its cinematic release. It deserves better. It’s something of a gem that warrants serious reappraisal. PW

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The Top 10 Film Remakes John Carpenter Carpenter’s magnificently paranoid re-imagining of The Thing From Another World (Hawks & Nyby, 1951) had aspects from the original short story (John W Campbell’s Who Goes There?) that Hawks didn’t use. But Carpenter was such a fan (Assault on Precinct 13 is a semi-remake of Rio Bravo) that he was sure to tip his hat to the old master. USA | 1982 | UCA | 103 min | Cert 18 | # 14759 | RRP £9.99

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Inspired by our Film of the Month – the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, see page 5 – we present our Top 10 Remakes. Remakes often get a bum rap from film fans – and if you’ve ever suffered through Michael Winner’s disastrous take on The Big Sleep you’ll know why. But, as the following list attests, not every remake is a dud. Eschewing movies where the filmmakers went back to the original source (so no The Maltese Falcon, True Grit or His Girl Friday), here are ten (well, twelve) of the very best...

9 Heat

8 Breathless

Michael Mann

Jim McBride

7 Beat That My Heart Skipped

No studio was interested in Mann’s passion project, a script about a methodical robber and a driven cop. So he accepted an offer to make it as a TV movie, L.A. Takedown. It’s rubbish. Flash forward a few years and Mann – by now a Hollywood prince – had the opportunity to do it again, properly. The result – Heat – might well be his masterpiece.

What was Jim McBride thinking? Surely he didn’t think he could get away with remaking one of the cornerstones of world cinema? Predictably, the critics disembowelled this remake of À bout de souffle. But with its neon visuals and allegiance to pop culture, it channels Godard better than the fusspots realised. Deserving of far more respect.

Jacques Audiard

USA | 1995 | WHV | 164 min | Cert 15 | # 192 | RRP £19.99

USA | 1983 | MGMHE | 96 min | Cert 15 | # 16315 | RRP £12.99

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6 Obsession Brian De Palma

5 Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic

4 The Man Who Knew Too Much

De Palma is a director who polarises film fans and rarely more so than with this re-imagination of Vertigo. Detractors fancy it as little more than pastiche Hitchcock but they’re wrong. Rather, it’s a crucial example of De Palma’s intelligence: a remake (or reincarnation...?) of a film ‘about’ remaking (or reincarnations...?).

When he was a baby director, Lang watched with horror as his sprawling two part adventure set in India was taken away from him by its producer, who wanted to direct it himself. Forty years on, Lang jumped at the chance to do things his way. The phantasmagorical results have been criticised over the years, but are, simply, ace. 2 discs.

Alfred Hitchcock

USA | 1976 | Arrow | 94 min | Cert 15 | # 65237 | RRP £24.99

Germany | 1959 | EUR | 203 min | subt | PG | # 64914 | RRP £22.99

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3 Springtime in a Small Town

2 Magnificent Seven

1 Rio Bravo / El Dorado

Tian Zhuangzhuang

John Sturges

Howard Hawks

Little known in the west, Fu Mei’s tender tale of love and regret, Spring in a Small Town, is a classic of Chinese film. Its new incarnation is a graceful portrait of people reconciling themselves to their post-WWII lives. It’s perhaps even more heart-rending than its predecessor. One of the best films of the past decade.

Some cineastes get upset when Hollywood remakes foreign language flicks but in the case of Seven Samurai, there’s something appropriate about its Western relocation: after all, Kurosawa was massively influenced by the genre. And while indebted to Kurosawa, this is a film that stands on its own merits.

OK, a blatant cheat: Rio Bravo isn’t a remake, but since Hawks claimed it was his attempt to correct what he hated about High Noon and it’s also one of the most entertaining films ever made, that’s good enough for me. A few years later, Hawks rejigged it, calling it El Dorado. That’s enormous fun too.

China | 2002 | ART-E | 114 min | subt | Cert PG | # 15053 | RRP £19.99

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Hollywood routinely remakes foreign language movies but the traffic isn’t exclusively one way. Audiard relocated Fingers (1978) – a tale of a man torn between becoming either a mobster or a concert pianist – from America to France and cast Romain Duris in Harvey Keitel’s shoes. The results are outstanding. DVD: £6.99 Save £16

The first The Man Who Knew Too Much (‘the work of a talented amateur’ said its director) was obviously a film dear to Hitch’s heart: it was, after all, the beginning of his artistic maturity. The remake (‘the work of a professional) is equally important as the clearest representation of some of his key themes. USA | 1956 | UPV | 115 min | Cert PG | # 24486 | RRP £9.99

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Contemporary Rabbit Hole

John Cameron Mitchell

An honest portrait of a family searching for what remains in the most impossible of situations. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart star as a bereaved couple going through the painful, messy process of acceptance and healing, deciding whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together. USA | 2010 | MET-D | 87 min | Cert 12 Item # 65341 | RRP £19.99 | Released 20th June

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Red Hill

Director: Ken Russell

Patrick Hughes An Australian westernstyle thriller in which a young cop takes the law into his own hands when a murderer breaks out of prison and goes on the rampage in the small outback town where he has moved with his pregnant wife. Director’s commentary; 24 Days of Adrenaline. Australia | 2010 | MOMET | 95 min | Cert 15 Item # 64766 / 68 | RRP £12.99 | Released 30th May

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West is West

Andy DeEmmony

Eleven years after the hit British-Asian comedy drama, East is East, writer Ayub Khan-Din continues the story of the Khan family’s struggle with life between two worlds. It is set in 1975. Caught between his father’s insistence on Pakistani tradition and the intolerance of school bullies, Sajid reacts badly. His father (Om Puri) knows action is required, and decides to take him on an eye-opening trip to Pakistan. UK | 2010 | ICON | 103 min | Cert 15 Item # 65257-58 | RRP £17.99 | Released 20th June

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Francis Ford Coppola

Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now Redux and Hearts of Darkness. USA | 1979 | OPTIM | Cert 18 | # 65086 | £29.99

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Lord of the Rings: Extended Versions New Zealand | 2003 | EV | 590 min | Cert 12 | # 65422 | RRP £89.99

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The Music Lovers Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Kenneth Colley, Bruce Robinson Released: 27th June UK | 1970 | FCE | 123 min | Cert 18 | Colour | Item # 65140

A flamboyant account of Tchaikovsky’s turbulent life (he is played here by Richard Chamberlain), The Music Lovers was the film that really announced Ken Russell as British cinema’s enfant terrible; critics impressed by the previous year’s Women in Love quickly learned not to take such relative restraint for granted. But today – Glenda Jackson’s delirious naked tumble in a train carriage notwithstanding – this ‘story of a homosexual who married a nymphomaniac’, as it was billed, might only shock classical music extremists and women who still fancy their chances with Dr. Kildare. Instead, it’s a grandiose, breathtakingly beautiful big-screen summation of what until then had been Russell’s television oeuvre: films that celebrated the lives of composers with passion over intellect and pictures over words. The passages that visualise Tchaikovsky’s ‘greatest hits’ may have dismayed critics who believed ‘serious’ biopics demanded control and reverence, but these flourishes still dazzle. Long unavailable, it’s great to have The Music Lovers back in its colourful widescreen glory. JU

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Brighton Rock Recommended Director: Rowan Joffe Starring: Sam Riley, Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, John Hurt, Andy Serkis Released: 20th June DVD Extras: Director’s commentary; Cast and crew interviews; Mods and Rockers (1964). UK | 2010 | OPTIM | 106 min | Cert 15 | Item # 64929

By staging the action amid the Brighton riots of 1964, this pacy ‘update’ of Graham Greene’s 1930s crime novel successfully balances the weary, austere air of a creaky and impoverished England with a new era of teenage violence and rebellion. Of course, looming large over the proceedings is the spectre of the Boulting Brothers’ seminal 1947 version – which first launched Richard Attenborough to stardom as juvenile gangster Pinkie Brown – but, here, first-time director Rowan Joffe is free to capture the novel’s stark cynicism and brutality with considerably more force, and the youth riot angle serves as an ingenious backdrop for the copious seafront knife fights. As the fearless but naive Pinkie, Sam Riley ably fills Attenborough’s shoes (while looking, somewhat more believably, like a 17-year-old), and Joffe pays the kind of attention to period detail that was noticeably missing from the film version of The Who’s nod to the ‘Mods vs Rockers’ phenomenon, Quadrophenia. Solid support is also on hand from a strong cast of British luminaries. JU

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Gay & Lesbian Blu-ray Also Released... Age of Heroes Adrian Vitoria

UK | 2011 | MET-D | 90 min | Cert 15 | # 65472 | RRP £19.99

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The Company Men John Wells

USA | 2010 | UPV | 104 min | Cert 15 | # 65562 | RRP £19.99

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Dancing at the Blue Iguana Michael Radford

USA | 2000 | 23 min | 18 | # 65200 | RRP £12.99

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Doing Time for Patsy Cline Chris Kennedy

Australia | 1997 | CRAB | 95 min | Cert 15 | # 65123 | RRP £10.99

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Le Mans

Lee H. Katzin USA | 1971 | PARAH | 102 min | Cert PG | # 64871 | RRP £12.99

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Miracle at St. Anna Spike Lee

USA / Italy | 2008 | REV | 166 min | Cert 15 | # 65087 | RRP £14.99

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The New York Ripper Lucio Fulci

Italy | 1982 | SHAME | 86 min | 18 | # 64378 | £15.99

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Paul

Greg Mottola France / UK | 2011 | UPV | 104 min | Cert 15 | # 65441 | RRP £19.99

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The Resident Antti Jokinen

UK / USA | 2010 | ICON | 91 min | Cert 15 | # 65234 | RRP £15.99

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Savage Streets Danny Steinmann

USA | 1984 | ARROW | 93 min | Cert 18 | # 65576 | RRP £15.99

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Tenebrae

Dario Argento

Brotherhood

Nicolo Donato

A potent, fiery drama which explores what happens when you add same-sex attraction to the already volatile world of neo-Nazis. Dismissed from the army after allegedly making a pass at a fellow soldier, young Lars soon falls in with a gang of gay-bashing neo-Nazis – where his sexual longings jeopardise his life. Denmark | 2009 | TLAUK | 97 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 65190 | RRP £15.99 | Released 13th June

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David’s Birthday Marco Filiberti

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Taxi Zum Klo Frank Ripploh

This classic of gay cinema is a partly autobiographical account of director Frank Ripploh’s life. Ripploh plays himself, a teacher who cruises bars looking for one night stands. The film offers a sexually explicit slice of gay culture in West Germany in the early 1980s and has gained cult status. Germany | 1980 | PECCA | 83 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 65148 | RRP £15.99 | Released 23rd May

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Sea Purple

Donatella Maiorca A romantic drama set in 19th-century Sicily, where rebellious Angela (Valeria Solarino) finds herself attracted to her friend Sara (Isabella Ragonese). When Angela’s strict father forbids them to meet, her resourceful mother comes up with a solution that enables her live with her lover, and satisfy convention at the same time. A beautiful, seductive film, based on a true story.

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Italy | 1982 | ARROW | 101 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 62273 |

Highlights 127 Hours Danny Boyle

USA | 2010 | FOX | 94 min | 15 | # 65182 | £27.99

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Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo Japan | 1987 | 124 min | subt | 15 | # 64988 | £27.99

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Apocalypse Now: Special Edition

Francis Ford Coppola USA | 1979 | OPTIM | Cert 18 | # 65086 | RRP £29.99

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Brighton Rock Rowan Joffe

UK | 2010 | OPTIM | 106 min | 15 | # 64933 | £24.99

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Coeur Fidèle (MoC) Jean Epstein

Fr | 1923 | EUR | 85 min | B&W | # 65481 | £22.99

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The Great White Silence Herbert Ponting

UK | 1924 | BFI | 106 min | subt | B&W | E | # 64644 | £19.99

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Ice Cold in Alex J Lee Thompson

UK | 1958 | 124 min | B&W | PG | # 64927 | £19.99

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Lord of the Rings: Extended Versions Peter Jackson

New Zealand | 2003 | EV | 590 min | Cert 12 | # 65422 | RRP £89.99

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Never Let Me Go Mark Romanek

UK | 2010 | FOX | 103 min | 12 | # 65277 | £27.99

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Robinson in Ruins Patrick Keiller

UK | 2010 | BFI | 101 min | PG | # 65118 | £19.99

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The Fighter

David O. Russell USA | 2010 | MOMET | 115 min | 15 | # 64686 | RRP £24.99

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True Grit Joel Coen

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

ecil B DeMille liked to boast that he made the very first movie in Hollywood: The Squaw Man, in 1914. It was his efforts, he modestly claimed, that established the film colony in Los Angeles. Like so many stories, it’s baloney – DeMille followed an established trail to California – but there’s a spiritual truth to the idea DeMille founded Hollywood: the brash, bombastic Tinsel Town is just the sort of place that the brash, bombastic DeMille might have imagined. Always more popular with audiences than with critics, DeMille enjoys little posthumous reputation. Generally he’s only cited as an example of the worst excesses of the film industry (brash, bombastic etc). So why are we talking about him here? Specifically, it’s because the past few months have seen a trickle of his films appear on DVD. As a fan, I want to promote them. But more generally, I think DeMille has been a little hard done by. True, his early work has its admirers. While he might not have invented Hollywood, he was a pioneer in every sense. He should be rated alongside D.W. Griffith as one of the directors who established the great tradition of American film; moreover, his films of this period are much more watchable than Griffith’s antiques and are still praised for their beauty and restraint. But while his films were wellreceived, DeMille wanted more. He wanted huge audiences. So he developed a formula – approximately N x Y = $ (where n = giddy melodrama, y = garish sensation and $ = ker-ching!) – that made him perhaps the most consistently successful filmmaker ever. How can we embrace such a shameless figure? Surely DeMille is one of the most utterly cynical of film-

Brash, bombastic and shameless, Cecil B. DeMille was a born entertainer makers, a puffing Victorian hypocrite who smuggled his predilection for sin and scandal into the most unimpeachably respectable material (the Bible!). I gravitated for DeMille first as a guilty pleasure, amused by his cheerfully brazen cynicism. But I’m not sure that’s fair. You see, cynicism suggests that he was making films he didn’t believe in or that he had contempt either for his material or, worse, his audience. DeMille’s work is so consistent and so unforced, one starts to suspect that it is an authentic projection of his personality: that these films are honest expressions and that he really believed in what he was doing. Viewed this way, the films become not cynical but perversely innocent, the statements of a born entertainer. Moreover, many of his pictures stand up very well, especially those films he made about American history – Union Pacific, North West Mounted Police and The Plainsman are first rate pot-

boilers, beautifully composed and tremendously invigorating. Unconquered has some questionable moments (a native American tribe led by Big Chief Boris Karloff for example) but zips along with great brio. Reap The Wild Wind might be best of all, not just for its involving love triangle but the climax, where John Wayne battles a giant squid. These are grand operas, which might not find favour with modern tastes that favour work in minor keys; they might even be laughed at (now who’s being cynical, eh?). But if you want big, bold escapism, then our Cecil remains the benchmark. He was not a great artist. But there’s never been a better showman.

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