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Christmas 2011 MovieMail Film Catalogue
MovieMail’s Film of the Month
The Skin I Live In Recommended Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes Released: 26th December Extras: TBC Item # 66878 | Spain | 2011 | FOX | 120 min | subt | Cert 15
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See Also Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju
Item # 53632 France | 1960 | SECND | 86 min | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99
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Room in Rome Julio Medem
Item # 63479 Spain | 2010 | OPTIM | 103 min | subt | 18 | £19.99
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ven by Pedro Almodóvar’s heroically unconventional standards, The Skin I Live In is a unique piece of cinema. Mixing melodrama, horror, romance and sci-fi, the Spanish master (and he has directed enough modern classics to merit the title) has created a fascinating, often shocking work that mixes the outrageous antics of his early films to the perfectly judged melodrama of his later ‘mature’ works. Antonio Banderas plays a surgeon who keeps a beautiful young woman captive; we learn he has developed a new kind of skin that does not burn, which he has grafted on to his prisoner. When the surgeon is out, a bank robber effects entry into the house and sees the young woman on CCTV, sparking off a chain of events that spirals out of control – although as an extended flashback demonstrates, we ain’t seen nothing yet. There are strong performances from Almodóvar regulars Banderas and Marisa Paredes as the surgeon’s sinister servant, but the real standout is Elena Anaya, who, as Almodóvar’s imprisoned heroine displays an extraordinary range. The sexual
Fascinating, shocking cinema that could only come from Almodóvar politics that emerge as the story unfolds are uncomfortable, and may offend some viewers – to say why would give too much away, but it is no surprise the film has aroused controversy. In the hands of a less experienced director the film could have been a lurid mess of hysterical camp, yet when it comes to depictions of outré sexuality, no one does it better than Almodóvar. The film borrows its references from variety of sources. It is based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel Tarantula and there are some similarities, both in plot and in tone, to Eyes without a Face (1960) and The Collector (1965). And Hitchcock’s influence hangs over many of the later scenes, as the film becomes increasingly suspenseful (there is a hint of Rebecca’s Mrs Danvers to Paredes’ character). But, as ever, Almodóvar’s style remains unique. It’s a film no-one else would – or could – have made. Alex Davidson
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New DVDs of the Year 2011
Following last month’s vintage selection, here we present our favourite new films and TV of 2011. Unusually, almost half the films have a common theme – transcendence. Whether discovering mankind’s earliest known artworks or exploring the mysteries of life and death, this year brought us illuminating cinema with a scope beyond our everyday existence. An ongoing trend for our troubled times? We’ll see. Regardless, all twelve are more than worth your time and money, so don’t miss out.
Order these 12 wonderful titles now from MovieMail Another Year Mike Leigh Leigh’s study of twelve up-down months in the lives of happily married couple Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen yields varied responses with repeat viewings, suggesting a master dramatist at work. An exquisitely balanced piece, brimming with honesty and humanity, it’s superlatively acted, while ever-so-quietly profound. MM Item # 63960 UK | 2010 | MOMET | 129 min | subt | 12 | £15.99
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Chico and Rita
Werner Herzog
Marrying atmospheric animation with an excellent jazz soundtrack, this bewitching film follows two young Cuban musicians’ love affair from 1940s Havana to New York and beyond. This film was clearly a labour of love and the filmmaker’s passion for the era and a hugely fertile period in music makes for wonderful cinema. DH
With typically engaging and idiosyncratic narration joining unexpected detours into the realm of his fancies, Herzog takes us deep into the otherwise inaccessible Chauvet cave, home to mankind’s oldest painted artworks, and reflects upon the extraordinary wonders found therein. GH Item # 66565 / 566 France | 2010 | REV | 90 min | subt | U | £15.99
Fernando Trueba
Item # 64775 / 777 Spain | 2010 | CNX | 94 min | subt | 15 | £17.99
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The Illusionist
The Killing
The King’s Speech
Sylvain Chomet
This remarkable Danish series quickly joined the list of the shows that admirers of crime drama like nothing better than to proselytise about. The series audaciously takes its time, consisting of 20 steadily-paced but mesmerising hour-long episodes (written by Søren Sveistrup) which quickly became the most talkedabout, unmissable cult TV crime drama in years. BF
Tom Hooper
Item # 64864 Denmark | 2007 | Arrow | 1100 min | subt | 15 | £59.99
Item # 64684 / 64710 UK | 2010 | MOMET | 118 min | 12 | £19.99
Every hand-drawn frame of this lovely animated film breathes artisanal craftsmanship and a rare delicacy of vision. Based on an unproduced Tati script about an illusionist ekeing out a living in the dying days of the music hall, this bittersweet film is filled with the atmosphere of its era, and brings Tati’s magic to life once more. GH Item # 63911 UK / France | 2010 | FOX | 77 min | PG | £19.99
A reluctant King finds his voice with the help of an unconventional speech therapist in this Oscar-encrusted period drama, which features outstanding performances from Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. Tom Hooper brings real flair and suspense to proceedings – you’ll be hanging on every word. MW
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Of Gods and Men
Le Quattro Volte
Xavier Beauvois
Michelangelo Frammartino
Xavier Beauvois here takes a senseless real-life atrocity – the slaughter of seven Cistercian monks in Algeria in 1996 – and shapes it into something altogether meaningful: a philosophical meditation on the nature of true faith, and grace under pressure, blessed with intensely moving work from a fine acting ensemble. MM
A calm and beautifully poetic reverie on life, death and rebirth in rural Calabria, whose sights and sounds are shaped into a meditative – and often very funny – study of nature’s ceaseless turn. And when the film is given over to the goats and the Cannes prize-winning dog, Tati’s notion of ‘democratic comedy’ isn’t far away. GH
Juan José Campanella
Item # 64669 / 672 Fra | 2010 | ART-E | 121 min | subt | 15 | £15.99
Item # 65642 / 66466 Italy | 2010 | NW | 88 min | subt | U | £15.99
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Item # 66701 Argentina | 2009 | IN2F | 124 min | subt | 18 | £5.99
The Tree of Life
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Terrence Malick Many films are said to be meditative, but very few actually provoke that state of mind. Malick’s latest film pushes his non-linear, dreamy style further than ever before and such is his mastery of filmmaking, this contemplation of life, death and the nature of existence will take you on an inward journey to the heavens. DH Item # 66435 / 439 USA | 2011 | FOX | 139 min | 12 | £20.99
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul A dying man is visited by his family and two spiritual apparitions in this extraordinary, Palme d’or-winning fantasia. Blending hallucinatory visions (including an unforgettable encounter with a talking catfish) with sly wit, this is a unique and, ultimately, life-affirming film. AD Item # 63968/64441 Thai | 2010 | NW | 114 min | subt | 12 | £15.99
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The Secret in Their Eyes The acting, direction and cinematography of this strong police procedural, overlaid with unrequited love and guilt unproven, are faultless. Assuming your enjoyment of film is enhanced when you empathise, and sympathise, with the protagonists this was a deserved Oscar winner too. AH DVD: £5.99
Winter’s Bone Debra Granik Jennifer Lawrence delivers an Oscarnominated performance as a resilient young woman who must track down her fugitive father whilst caring for her young siblings in this redneck noir. Set in bleakly beautiful rural Missouri, the film is often harrowing, but the determination of its protagonist, and her dedication to her family, is inspiring. MW Item # 63696 USA | 2010 | ART-E | 100 min | 15 | £15.99
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French Cancan
Hamlet
Paul Feig
Jean Renoir
Grigori Kozintsev
Arriving on a wave of high praise, this laugh-out-loud comedy, written by women about women, sees Kristen Wiig’s lovelorn Annie bluffing her way through the rituals of being a maid of honour.
A Technicolor tour-de-force, set in the Paris of the Belle Époque, that brings to ravishing life a world familiar from the Impressionists’ paintings. One of the great films about life and theatre.
A renowned production that ranks among the finest of Shakespeare adaptations. The strong visual style places the characters on a rich canvas while preserving Hamlet’s inward character.
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Item # 66472 France | 1955 | BFI | 99 | subt | PG | £19.99
Item # 66473 Rus | 1964 | 144 min | subt | B&W | U | £12.99
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Earth
Frozen Planet
A Dovzhenko
Filled with jaw-dropping images and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this is the ultimate portrait of the flora and fauna of the Earth’s Polar wildernesses, both now under grave threat from climate change. 3 discs.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
A rhapsodic masterpiece of early Russian cinema, this paean to nature, community and rural prosperity through technical progress is told through its incredible images that fill the screen. Item # 61909 Rus | 1930 | Bongo | 78 min | B&W | 18 | £12.99
Herzog / Vasyukov With breathtaking imagery and evocative narration by Werner Herzog, Happy People follows a year in the lives of the fur trappers who live and work in the vast remoteness of Siberia.
Item # 66836-37 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | E | £29.99
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Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Gilbert and Sullivan Box Set
Luc Besson A thoroughly enjoyable period romp, set in 1912, and described as ‘Amelie meets Indiana Jones’! Louise Bourgoin plays the intrepid young reporter. Item # 65721 / 23 Fra | 2010 | OPT | 106 | subt | 12 | £17.99
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Five of Gilbert and Sullivan’s celebrated operas, as performed by Opera Australia. Contains The Gondoliers, HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury, Patience and 4 discs. The Mikado.
David Yates
Item # 66652 UK | 2011 | OPUS | 536 min | E | £19.99
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The sensational final instalment in the fantasy series sees the battle between the good and evil wizardry escalate into an all-out war. 2 discs. Item # 66748 UK | 2011 | WHV | 145 min | 12 | £24.99
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Film Noir Collection
The Great White Silence
Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow
Nine great 1940s noirs: Farewell My Lovely, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, The Killers, Crossfire, The Big Steal, The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key and This Gun for Hire. 9 discs.
Herbert Ponting
A rich, wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining collection of 44 films celebrating the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain, with films dating from 1912-2002. 2 discs.
Item # 50929 USA | 1942-49 | UN | 897 min | B&W | 12 | £29.99
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Beautifully restored by the BFI National Film Archive, this is the official record of Captain Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Amazing images of living history. DVD+Blu-ray: £9.99 Save £10
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Item # 65812 UK | 1912-2011 | BFI | 360 min | E | £22.99
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Perfect last-minute presents for friends, family and yourself! The Illusionist
Modern Times
Tawny Pipit
Sylvain Chomet
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Saunders
A wonderful hand-painted animated feature from the director of Belleville Rendezvous, based on a script from Jacques Tati. A bittersweet film that brings Tati’s magic to life.
A film replete with wonderful visual invention that sees Chaplin playing a factory worker struggling to live in a modern industrial society. A keen satire and one of the Chaplin greats.
A thoroughly charming wartime drama in which decency and English values are encapsulated in the effort to protect the eggs of a rare migrant bird from egg thieves and army alike.
Item # 63911 UK / France | 2010 | FOX | 77 min | PG | £19.99
Item # 64334 USA | 1936 | PARKC | 85 min | B&W | U | £15.99
Item # 65295 UK | 1944 | ODEON | 78 min | B&W | U | £12.99
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The Killing: S1&2
The Nativity
Acclaimed as one of the finest murder investigation series ever produced, and a big hit on BBC4, this is the riveting Danish TV thriller starring Sofie Gråbøl as Detective Sarah Lund. Series 1 (broadcast in early 2011) and 2 (broadcast this November) available separately and in a box set.
Coky Giedroyc
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley’s People
Item # 66344 UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 111 min | PG | £15.99
Double bill of enthralling BBC espionage mini-series based on the novels by John Le Carré and starring Alec Guinness as mild-mannered master spy George Smiley. 4 discs. Item # 66167 UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 687 min | 15 | £12.99
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Man of Aran
Night of the Demon
The Tree of Life
Jacques Tourneur
An intimate epic of universal and personal origins, this awe-inspiring, Palme d’Orwinner centres on a family in 1950s Texas, but reaches for cosmic significance. Sean Penn and Brad Pitt star.
Robert Flaherty A pioneering, celebrated documentary about the hardship of life and the relentless fight for existence on the scenic but inhospitable Aran Isles off the west coast of Ireland in the 1930s. Item # 64029 UK | 1934 | PARKC | 77 min | B&W | U | £17.99
A classic slice of 1950s psychological horror. Dana Andrews plays the psychologist out to expose Niall MacGinnis’s devil cult leader as a fraud and a charlatan – but is he? Item # 63072 UK | 1957 | PNE | 90 min | B&W | PG | £19.99
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Terrence Malick
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Mildred Pierce
The Princess of Montpensier
Went the Day Well? (Restored)
Kate Winslet stars in HBO’s acclaimed miniseries adapted from James M. Cain’s novel about an independent woman struggling to carve out a new life during the Depression. 2 discs.
Bertrand Tavernier
Alberto Cavalcanti
Item # 65922 / 24 USA | 2011 | WH | 328 | 15 | £24.99
A gripping, superbly-staged period romance, telling the story of a beautiful young aristocrat (Mélanie Thierry), whose passion for her cousin is thwarted when she is forced to marry.
Classic wartime propaganda thriller based on a story by Graham Greene in which enemy paratroopers invade a sleepy English village. A brilliant evocation of a nation at war.
Item # 66438 / 441 Fra | 2010 | SC | 139 | subt | 15 | £17.99
Item # 65769-70 UK | 1942 | OP | 93 mins | B&W | PG | £15.99
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Todd Haynes
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The BBC’s dramatisation of the birth of Jesus has won high approval for its recognisable characters and the spirit of faith and love with which it is imbued. Art Malik and Andrew Buchan star.
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Sci-fi meets western in this adventure based on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, which sees Daniel Craig’s loner, imprisoned by Harrison Ford’s megalomaniacal colonel, pull together a posse to fight alien marauders intent on abduction. USA | 2011 | PARAH | 118 min | Cert 12 Item # 66408-09 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th Dec
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Death in Paradise: Series 1 Caribbean-set AngloFrench crime series which finds Ben Miller’s DI yearning for the drizzle of home when assigned to investigate a murder on the paradise island of Saint-Marie. Fortunately, there is plenty of crime there to keep him busy. 2 discs.
David Eady
A suspenseful drama starring John Gregson as a factory owner who, on the day that his wife (Mai Zetterling) comes to tell him she wants a divorce, is blinded during an experiment. His wife relents, but he is as abrasive as ever, and now suspects that his wife and his partner are conspiring against him. UK | 1960 | RENOWN | 82 min | Cert PG Item # 66663 | RRP £12.99 | Released 28th Nov
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Great Authors: Dickens
A set exploring Dickens’ life and work. Includes the 1999 BBC production of David Copperfield. Contains Uncovering the Real Dickens, presented by Peter Ackroyd, A Christmas Carol read by Anton Lesser, Songs from Grope Lane in which Lucy Skeeping’s ensemble performs songs from Dickensian London and 3 discs. David Copperfield (BBC, 1999) UK | 1999-2003 | OPUS | 510 min | Cert E Item # 15546 | RRP £29.99 | Released 28th Nov
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The Devil’s Double Lee Tamahori
A thriller about the Iraqi soldier forced to be the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday. Dominic Cooper plays the man searching for a way out from his sadistic excesses, with his escape complicated by the attentions of Uday’s mistress (Ludivine Sagnier). Belgium | 2011 | ICON | 108 min | Cert 18 Item # 66803 | RRP £17.99 | Released 26th Dec
The complete second series of BBC3’s ‘antiromantic sitcom’ starring Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani as the unemployed couple who spend their days lazing around and doing their best to ignore the world outside their door. In this series their relationship blos2 discs. soms, but there’s trouble ahead.
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Brazilian political thriller that is the sequel to the award-winning Elite Squad. Roberto Nascimento has now been promoted. Launching a war on drug crime, he finds the real threat comes from corrupt police and politicians.
The film the BBFC didn’t want you to see, this sequel to the cult horror of 2010 reveals that Dr. Heiter has inspired a protege in ths shape of a disturbed car park attendant who takes his inspiration from the original film to horrific new extremes with a grotesque DIY gusto. Behind the scenes; Deleted scene; Foley session; Director interview.
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Sarah’s Key Recommended Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Frédéric Pierrot, Mélusine Mayance, Michel Duchaussoy Released: 28th November Extras: Making-of; Trailer. Item # 66507 | France | 2010 | STUDC | 103 min | Cert 12
The Holocaust, and the terrible shadows it cast, has been a frequent theme in films of late. Whether it is the scalphunters in Inglourious Basterds, Magneto’s rampage to find his former tormentors in X-Men: First Class, or the search for a Mengeletype character in The Debt, the scars remain on our screens. Sarah’s Key is subtler and more serious than those films, but no less approachable. An adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel, it interweaves the story of Sarah, a Jewish girl caught up in the horrors of wartime France, with that of Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas), a modern-day American journalist. As Julia excavates Sarah’s past, she uncovers more about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, in which French police arrested thousands of Jews who were then despatched to Auschwitz. Kristin Scott Thomas is as compelling a guide as ever and Mélusine Mayance gives an intelligent performance as Sarah, its subject. The film makes its central point well. This inhumanity, it says, should not be forgotten. PH
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All six episodes of the BBC courtroom drama set in the cutthroat world of British criminal law. Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones star as the ambitious young defence barristers applying to become QCs. 2 discs. Item # 64507 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 360 min | 12 | £19.99
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Spanish art takes centre stage as art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon goes on the road to reveal the fabulous art treasures of the country.
Dir: Giles Foster. A faithful adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel, in which Anna Massey plays a crime writer seeking to escape loneliness.
Every episode of the Ronnie Barker prison drama, also starring Fulton MacKay, Brian Wilde and Richard Beckinsale. 4 discs.
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Item # 14389 UK | 1986 | BBC-DD | 75 min | PG | £15.99
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Boys from the Blackstuff
I, Claudius
The Shadow Line
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.
A gripping, sophisticated conspiracy thriller starring, among others, Christopher Eccleston, Stephen Rea, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anthony Sher.
The reality of unemployment strikes home in Alan Bleasdale’s angry, funny politicised drama. 3 discs.
Item # 59124 UK | 1970s | 2ENT | 648 min | 15 | £44.99
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Luther: Series 2
Silas Marner
All six episodes from the second season of the BBC crime thriller series starring Idris Elba as the brilliant but flawed detective. 2 discs.
Dir: Giles Foster. Ben Kingsley inhabits the part of George Eliot’s lonely weaver and Patsy Kensit plays little Eppie in this 1985 adaptation.
Item # 13762 UK | 1989 | BBC | 305 min | 15 | £15.99
BBC time-travel drama that was part of the Play for Today season. Peter Firth and Patrick Magee star.
Item # 65456 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 15 | £20.42
Item # 52775 UK | 1985 | 2ENT | 90 min | PG | £15.99
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The Genius of Photography
The Michael Wood Collection
Simon Schama: Power of Art
Dir: David Byrne. The complete BBC4 series tracking the enthralling history of the art form. 2 discs.
In Search of the Trojan War, Myths and Heroes, Shakespeare, Alexander and Conquistadors. 5 discs.
A journey through eight artistic masterpieces, told in Schama’s unique style. 3 discs.
Item # 58888 UK | 2007 | 2ENT | 360 min | 18 | £24.99
Item # 24301 UK | 2004 | BBC | 999 min | E | £74.99
Item # 30873 UK | 2004 | BBC | 480 min | 12 | £24.99
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The Green Man
Oscar Wilde Box Set
The Singing Detective
Albert Finney plays the inn owner who frightens his guests with tales of his building’s ghosts – and then comes to know they are real.
Four BBC adaptations: An Ideal Husband (1969), Dorian Gray (1976), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1985) and The Importance... (1986). 2 discs.
Dennis Potter’s dark, twisting, noirtinged series is simply one of the most entertaining and crucial slices of television history. 3 discs.
Item # 33798 UK | 1990 | CCLUB | 165 min | 15 | £15.99
Item # 22052 UK | 1969-85 | CCLUB | TBC min | 12 | £24.99
Item # 16746 UK | 1986 | BBC | 360 min | 15 | £19.99
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Item # 22195 UK | 1980 | BBC | 168 min | 15 | £12.99
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New Releases The Inbetweeners Movie Ben Palmer
Big-screen spin-off of the C4 sitcom which follows the life of awkward suburban teenager Will and three of his friends, who take off on a lads’ holiday to Crete, where eye-opening and embarrassing rites of passage The DVD & await! Blu-ray edition contains the writer’s cut which has an extra four minutes of footage not shown theatrically. UK | 2011 | 4DVD | 93 min | Cert 15 Item # 66995 / 67129 | RRP £19.99 | Out 12th Dec
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Steve James
An ultimately uplifting film which chronicles the difficulty of breaking generational cycles of violence, The Interrupters explores the work in Chicago of ‘violence interrupters’ CeaseFire, all former gang members who, over the course of a year, try to protect their city from gang violence. USA | 2011 | DOGW | 128 min | Cert E Item # 67119 | RRP £14.99 | Released 5th December
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Iona: Dove Across the Water Eddie McConnell
Four films about Scottish islands: Over the Sea to Skye (1961), which sees a hiker travel around the island, Isle of Rhum (1961) which takes a look at its animal and plant life, Island of the Big Cloth (1971), which investigates the Isle of Harris and its tweed, and Iona: Dove Across the Water (1982), which looks at life on the island during the summer and winter.
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Kill List
Ben Wheatley
A genre-busting movie that marries horror with a Pinteresque character study, and which sees a mentally scarred ex-soldier who turns to contract killing unravelling into paranoia. Director and actors’ commentary; Making-of. UK | 2011 | STUDC | 95 min | Cert 18 Item # 66809 / 813 | RRP £15.99 | Out 26th Dec
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The gripping Danish crime thriller The Killing returns with another twisting tale of top-level cover-ups, betrayals and lies in a time of terrorism-inspired fear. Once again, Sofie Gråbøl (her jumper now red) investigates a murder which soon turns into a complex, and highly suspenseful criminal case that shakes Denmark’s government and military to the core. 3 discs.
Denmark | 2009 | Arrow E1 | 540 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 66619-20 | RRP £39.99 | Released 19th Dec
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L.A. Law: Season 1
The Interrupters
UK | 1961-82 | PANA | 88 min | Cert E Item # 67050 | RRP £19.99 | Released 21st Nov
The Killing: Season 2
Lauded as one of the best shows of its generation, and one of the first TV dramas to deal with emerging social issues of the time such as racism, HIV and domestic violence, L.A. Law is centred around a top Los Angeles law firm and follows the lives of its employees inside and outside the courtroom. USA | 1986-87 | REVE | Cert TBC Item # 67114 | RRP £34.99 | Released 1st January
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Leonardo with Tim Marlow Phil Grabsky
Art historian Tim Marlow presents this documentary on the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A pioneering painter, his interests also spread across many fields, including science, engineering and music. This film discusses a selection of his works. UK | 2011 | SEV-A | 23 min | Cert E Item # 66892 | RRP £15.99 | Released 28th Nov
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A Lonely Place to Die Julian Gilbey
Melissa George. An action thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, where a group of mountaineers stumble on a young Serbian girl buried in the ground and kept alive with only a breathing tube. They hatch a plan to escape from their remote location with the child – but her kidnappers have very different ideas. UK | 2011 | KALHE | 99 min | Cert 15 Item # 66585 / 66592 | RRP £19.99 | Out 26th Dec
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The Great Race Recommended
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Director: Blake Edwards Starring: Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Keenan Wynn, Ross Martin Released: 31st October NB Australian import, plays in all UK DVD players Item # 66906 | USA | 1965 | INNLC | 146 min | Cert U
After hitting the bull’s eye with the first two Inspector Clouseau films, director Blake Edwards embarked upon this, one of the most expansive (and expensive) comedies ever put on screen. Curtis stars as ‘The Great Leslie’, a heroic stunt performer in the early years of the 20th century. His nemesis is the moustache twirling ‘Professor Fate’ (a rare villainous turn from Jack Lemmon), whose dastardly efforts to thwart Leslie’s schemes invariably end in disarray. When Leslie proposes to race from New York to Paris, Fate cannot resist joining in. Joined by plucky suffragette Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood), the wacky racers endure fire, freezing and fights as they hurtle forward to France. This is, you will be unsurprised to learn, a distinctly broad film. Dedicated to ‘Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy’, The Great Race is an enthusiastic tribute to silent film comedies, complete with wild slapstick and the largest custard pie fight in movie history. With a cast giving it their all and comedy expert Edwards making sure it never runs out of gas, this is riotous fun. BK
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PERIOD DRAMA FILM & TV SALE Mystery and romance-filled period dramas are perfect escapism for dark winter nights. Our selection includes many of the very finest, with prices from just £5.99 Charles Dickens Collection
Doctor Zhivago
Eight BBC dramatisations: A Christmas Carol (1977), Two Cities (1980), Twist, Pickwick (1985), Chuzzlewit (1994), Mutual Friend (1998), Great Expectations (1999), David Copperfield (1999).
Filled with staggering visuals, Lean’s wintry adaptation of Pasternak’s Russian revolutionary romance is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking. Julie Christie and Omar Sharif star. 2 discs.
John Schlesinger
Item # 24653 UK | 1977-99 | BBC | 1921 min | 12 | £99.99
Item # 8890 USA | 1965 | WHV | 192 min | 12 | £19.99
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Item # 54753 UK | 1967 | OPTIM | 155 min | U | £12.99
Barry Lyndon
The Magnificent Ambersons
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Dir: Stanley Kubrick. A visually stunning, four Oscar-winning adaptation of Thackeray’s novel. Ryan O’Neal takes the lead as the adventurer. Item # 8315 UK | 1975 | WHV | 177 min | PG | £19.99
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Dir: Orson Welles. An intelligent, subtle, resplendent period drama that brilliantly recreates a bygone age. Item # 28274 USA | 1942 | UPV | 88 min | B&W | U | £15.99
Far from the Madding Crowd Julie Christie and Terence Stamp star in this fine adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale of a woman’s passion. Nicholas Roeg’s cinematography is superb. DVD: £6.99 Save £6
The Portrait of a Lady Dir: Jane Campion. Campion brings her strong, sensual vision to Henry James’ great novel of freedom and seduction. Nicole Kidman stars. Item # 7182 USA / UK | 1996 | UPV | 139 min | 15 | £9.99
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Bright Star
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Dir: Jane Campion. Ben Whishaw plays poet John Keats in this beautiful film about his romance with Fanny Brawne in Hampstead, 1818.
Dir: Giles Foster. Catherine Morland’s passion for macabre Gothic novels looks like coming true when the sinister Henry Tilney invites her home.
Dir: Joe Wright. Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen star in this fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic romance.
Item # 61078 Aus / UK | 2009 | FOX | 114 min | PG | £15.99
Item # 24617 UK | 1986 | BBC | 86 min | PG | £15.99
Item # 26812 UK | 2005 | UN | 121 min | PG | £19.99
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Gosford Park
The Painted Veil
White Mischief
Dir: Robert Altman. A fun,1930s-set, country house whodunit, with a healthy sense of mischief in both plotting and production design.
Dir: John Curran. Naomi Watts and Edward Norton star in this adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel, ripe with stunning Chinese locales.
Dir: Michael Radford. An elegant drama of trysts and murder in a British colony in 1940s Kenya. Greta Scacchi and Charles Dance star.
Item # 10978 UK / USA | 2001 | EV | 137 min | 15 | £19.99
Item # 50223 USA | 2007 | MOMET | 120 min | 12 | £17.99
Item # 60036 UK | 1988 | SPHE | 103 min | 18 | £12.99
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The Hireling
A Passage to India
The Woman in White
Dir: Alan Bridges. Sarah Miles plays the widowed aristocrat who takes up a hesitant relationship with her driver (Robert Shaw) in 1920s England.
Dir: David Lean. False accusations doom a friendship in colonial India in Lean’s Oscar-winning film of EM Forster’s novel.
Dir: John Bruce. An outstanding BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ Victorian mystery thriller, starring Alan Badel and Diana Quick. 2 discs.
Item # 57378 UK | 1973 | COL-T | 103 min | PG | £12.99
Item # 13042 UK | 1984 | MGMHE | 157 min | PG | £15.99
Item # 62596 UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 275 min | PG | £17.99
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Lord Jim
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Deluxe Edition
Wuthering Heights
Dir: Richard Brooks. Peter O’Toole takes the lead of the 19th century seaman in this effective, all-star adaptation of Conrad’s novel. Item # 19792 UK / USA | 1965 | COL-T | 148 min | PG | £12.99
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Dir: Peter Weir. The haunting film about disappearing schoolgirls. 3 discs; Director’s and original cuts. Item # 54432 Australia | 1975 | 2ND | 110 min | PG | £19.99
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Dir: William Wyler. The acclaimed 1939 Hollywood version of Emily Bronte’s classic tale, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Item # 18752 USA | 1939 | MGM | 100 min | B&W | U | £15.99
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David Lean
New Releases Misfits: Series 3
Series 3 of the Bafta-winning sci-fi comedy drama which follows five outsiders on community service – partygirl Alisha, hard-as-nails Kelly, one-time sporting hero Curtis, painfully shy Simon and new addition Rudy – who get caught in a flash storm and find themselves saddled with strange superpowers that they really don’t want. Also available: 3 disc series 1-3 box set.
UK | 2010 | 4DVD | Cert 18 Item # 64848-47 | RRP £19.99 | Released 26th Dec
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
UK | 1961 | RENOWN | 85 min | Cert U Item # 66665 | RRP £12.99 | Released 28th Nov
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Outnumbered: Series 4 – Christmas Special
The Series 4 Christmas Special of the acutely observed parenting comedy starring Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner as the hard-working, cash-strapped couple who are hopelessly outgunned by their three children, who have it all covered.
Pardon the Expression: Complete Series One of only two spin-off series from Coronation Street, this sitcom follows the mixed fortunes of Arthur Lowe’s assistant manager of a chain store, and helped to define the comic role for which he is fondly remembered: that of the pompous, quietly floundering buffoon. 6 discs.
UK | 1965-66 | NWORK | 925 min | Cert 12 Item # 66766 | RRP £29.99 | Released 12th Dec
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USA | 2011 | FOX | Cert 15 Item # 66966-67 | RRP £44.99 | Released 12th Dec
DVD Price: £40.49 Blu-ray: £75.49 Alfred Burke stars as down-at-heel ‘Enquiry Agent’ Frank Marker in this long-running downbeat British drama. The public found a great affinity with the believably down-at-heel character and, sustained by intelligent scripts and a fine central performance, the series’ downtrodden atmosphere set it apart from the more usual glamourous fittings for 15 discs. private detectives. All four series.
William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Cecil Parker and Brian Rix star in this 1961 British farce. Rix takes the dual roles of a celebrated RAF officer and his hopelessly incompetent double who ends up leading a secret mission while the real agent plays a decoy.
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All seven films in the series. Contains Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Planet of the Apes (2001) and Rise of the 7 discs. Planet of the Apes (2011).
Public Eye: Complete Series
Darcy Conyers
UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 66866 | RRP £9.99 | Released 26th Dec
Planet of the Apes: Evolution Collection
UK | 1965-75 | NWORK | 2300 min | Cert 15 Item # 66759 | RRP £79.99 | Released 12th Dec
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Laurent Bouhnik In his graphically erotic new film, given striking immediacy by the graphic depiction of real sex, controversial French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik uses the current economic crisis as the backdrop to the sexual lives of a group of teenInterviews. agers. France | 2011 | Axiom | 103 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 66968 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th December
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Retreat
Carl Tibbetts A thriller which sees a couple retreat to a remote island to recover from a recent loss. Then an injured man is washed ashore, claiming that they are at threat from an airborne virus. Trapped inside the cottage for safety, the couple try to make sense of the new arrival and his claims. UK | 2011 | COL-T | 86 min | Cert 15 Item # 66998 / 67003 | RRP £15.99 | Out 17th Oct
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The Theo Angelopoulos Collection: Vol 2 Recommended
Contains: Alexander the Great (1980), Voyage to Cythera (1984), The Beekeeper (1986), Landscape in the Mist (1988) and The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Released: 5th December Extras: 5 discs Item # 66468 | Greece | 1980-88 | ART-E | subt | Cert 15
The failure to heed the lessons of history links this second collection of deeply personal films by master Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos. Centring on a bandit’s kidnap of British tourists, Alexander the Great denounces the cult of personality and foreign interference in Greek affairs. In Voyage to Cythera, a political exile returns after three decades to find himself an irrelevance. This sense of journeying through familiar but estranged terrain is further experienced by Marcello Mastroianni in The Beekeeper, while the intrusion of Western ideals also informs Landscape in the Mist, in which two siblings search for their absent father. The latter three films form a ‘trilogy of silence’, which suggests that experience, love and faith count for nothing in a Greece detached from its ancient glory. The sense of done deeds losing their significance is further captured in The Suspended Step of the Stork, which again stars Mastroianni as a refugee with a possibly mysterious history. DP
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Christmas 2011 MovieMail Film Catalogue
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Rupert Wyatt
Filled with impressive special effects – not least those that transform Andy Serkis into Caesar the ape – Rise fills in the origins of the ape uprising with a cautionary tale about genetic experimentation going badly wrong. James Franco plays the scientist trying to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, but whose work leads to the threatening development of intelligence in apes. USA | 2011 | FOX | 100 min | Cert 12 Item # 66871-72 | RRP £19.99 | Released 12th Dec
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Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy Christopher Suen
Erotic drama in which a couple’s desire for more dynamism in their sex life leads them into danger when they are drawn into the company of the dedicated pleasure seeker Prince Ning, whose mountain top retreat harbours dark forces. Hong Kong | 2011 | MET-D | 110 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 67109 | RRP £19.99 | Released 2nd January
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The Tempest Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor’s big-screen version of Shakespeare’s play sees the sorcerer Prospero undergo a gender transformation into the sorceress Prospera, (played by a commanding Helen Mirren). Usurped by her scheming brother and banished to an island with her daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones), she uses her magical powers to find a way back into society. The supporting cast includes Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, Alfred Molina and Russell Brand. USA | 2010 | BUENA | 106 min | Cert 12 Item # 66947 | RRP £11.99 | Out 26th December
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Tosca: Royal Opera House Benoit Jacquot
This 2002 film of Puccini’s opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Antonio Pappano. Interviews; Costume featurette; Booklet. UK | 2002 | Axiom | 120 min | Cert E Item # 67019 | RRP £24.99 | Out 28th November
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Underwater Love Shinji Imaoka
J.J. Abrams An artful sci-fi thriller and a nostalgic paean to 1970s films about childhood, this Spielberg produced movie sees four friends who witness a catastrophic train crash while making an amateur movie drawn into strange events connected to its mysterious contents. USA | 2011 | PARAH | 111 min | Cert 12 Item # 66358 / 66361 | RRP £19.99 | Out 12th Dec
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The Singing Ringing Tree / The Tinderbox A double bill of strange and surreal fairy tales from a long-running strand of East German children’s films shown by the BBC throughout the 1960s under the banner of Tales from Europe. The Singing Ringing Tree has English narration.
Germany | 1957 | NWORK | 148 min | subt | Cert U Item # 66725 | RRP £19.99 | Out 12th December
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A genre-defying ‘pink musical’, this erotic Japanese musical drama sees a woman on the verge of marriage encounter the lost spirit of a teenage lover. Suddenly she finds herself facing a stark choice: to explore a teenage passion or settle for married life. Japan / Germany | 2011 | 3RDW | 83 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 66911 | RRP £15.99 | Released 21st November
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We Were Here
David Weissman An edifying film that has received worldwide accolades, We Were Here takes a reflective look at a definitive chapter in San Francisco’s queer history, exploring how its inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, the breakout of AIDS in the early 1980s. USA | 2011 | PECCA | 90 min | Cert E Item # 66970 | RRP £15.99 | Released 5th December
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Medea Recommended Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring: Maria Callas Released: 5th December Extras: 2 discs; Dual Format Edition; Original Italian language version plus alternative English language dub; Trailers; Illustrated booklet. Item # 66875 | Italy | 1970 | BFI | 106 min | subt | Cert 12
It might seem perverse to take a great dramatic soprano and give her a lead role in which she doesn’t sing a note, but Pasolini was primarily interested in Maria Callas’s intuitive understanding of how to convey wrenching tragedy through gesture and facial expression alone. When the warrior Jason invades her kingdom with the aim of taking the golden fleece, he becomes barbarian sorceress Medea’s lover, a relationship that triggers a collision between Jason’s notions of ‘civilisation’ and Medea’s far more ancient responses. Their story can only end in tragedy. Pasolini’s adaptation of Euripides’ play is set in an arid, timeless desert environment, where crops need fresh blood from a human sacrifice, and where life is conducted according to a series of elaborate rituals that make the opening scenes simultaneously mystifying and riveting. As Pasolini’s biographer Enzo Siciliano put it, ‘Medea embodies pre-history, where one lives by the senses alone, and where nature is a bundle of dark and inexplicable forces.’ MB
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Christmas Film & TV Our selection of festive film and television will inspire nostalgia, affection and a yuletide glow for Christmases past. DVDs and Blu-rays from £5.99 It’s a Wonderful Life
The Nativity
Adapted from John Masefield’s book this is a yuletide gem from the BBC in which a young boy becomes embroiled in a war of pagan gods during his pre-war Christmas holiday. Will inspire fond memories.
Frank Capra
The BBC’s dramatisation of the birth of Jesus won high approval for its recognisable characters and the spirit of faith and love with which it is imbued. Andrew Buchan, Art Malik and Peter Capaldi star.
Item # 58116 UK | 1984 | 2ENT | 166 min | U | £14.99
Item # 66770-71 US | 1946 | UP | 168 | B&W | U | £17.99
Renny Rye
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales Dir: Dave Unwin. Animated adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s delightful story, in Welsh and English versions. Item # 66975 UK | 2008 | PROPR | 28 min | U | £13.99
Jimmy Stewart stars in this heartwarming, evergreen tale in which an angel shows a despairing businessman how people’s lives would be if he had never existed.
Coky Giedroyc
Item # 66344 UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 111 min | PG | £15.99
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Father Christmas
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Dir: Dave Unwin. An enduringly popular animated tale from Raymond Briggs. Mel Smith voices the grumpy old soul who just wants a holiday! Item # 63789 UK | 1991 | UPV | 26 min | U | £5.99
Dir: Jalmari Helander. A quirky Finnish drama offering a dark, twisted alternative to the usual Christmas fare. Item # 65849/51 Fin | 2010 | ICO | 83 min | subt | 15 | £15.99
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A Christmas Carol
The Holly and the Ivy
The Snowman
Dir: Robert Zemeckis. An animated retelling of the Dickens classic; Jim Carrey gives voice to the multiple roles of Scrooge and the three spirits.
Dir: George More O’Ferrall. Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson star in this heartwarming vintage British film about the true spirit of Christmas.
Dir: Dianne Jackson. Raymond Briggs’ mesmerising animated tale about a snowman who comes to life. Includes the song ‘Walking in the Air’.
Item # 61125 USA | 2009 | BUENA | 96 min | £17.99
Item # 60096 UK | 1952 | OPTIM | 77 min | B&W | U | £15.99
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The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC)
Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
Four enchanting, live-action productions of CS Lewis’s fantasy for all ages. 4 discs.
Dir: George Seaton. A contemporary fairy tale worthy of Capra in which a shop store Santa claims to be real!
Item # 24605 UK | 1988-90 | BBC | 600 min | U | £14.99
Item # 6439 USA | 1947 | 20CFX | 92 min | B&W | U | £9.99
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Dir: Michael Curtiz. Crosby and Kaye play the buddies who become a successful song-and-dance act. A treasury of Irving Berlin classics. Item # 58094 USA | 1954 | PARAH | 115 min | U | £15.99
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