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MovieMail’s Film of the Month
Chaplin at Keystone Recommended Director: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Mack Swain, Mack Sennett Released: 6th December DVD Extras: 4 discs; The 34 surviving Keystone films newly transferred to HighDefinition from original film elements; 58-page fully illustrated booklet; A Thief Catcher (7 mins, extracts): recently rediscovered film with Chaplin as a Keystone Cop; Charlie’s White Elephant (6 mins): animation featuring Chaplin; Inside the Keystone Project (2010): a short restoration documentary; Silent Traces (2010): featurette on Keystone locations; Gallery. USA | 1914 | BFI | B&W | Cert U | Item # 59424 | P&P £2.50
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harlie Chaplin took a gamble when he went to Hollywood. After all, he’d built a useful reputation in the music halls and could look forward to a long career on the stage. Moving pictures offered an uncertain future. Was it really worth the risk? But Chaplin took the plunge: the rest is history. This painstakingly reconstructed and restored 4 DVD set containing 34 films does more than show his movie apprenticeship: it demonstrates exactly why Chaplin achieved such rapid, overwhelming fame. Put bluntly, it was because he was better than everyone else on screen. From his very first appearance in Making a Living, his clowning is more sophisticated, more inventive and just plain funnier than other Keystone players. Mack Sennett’s movies were lowest-common denominator slapstick but Chaplin plays even the crudest gag with a compelling grace. It wasn’t until Chaplin started to direct that talent blossomed into genius. The change in quality is both dramatic and near instant. The Property Man was his third film as director and his first masterpiece. The familiar Keystone chaos is there, but it
This BFI Box Set shows Chaplin’s talent blossoming into genius results from a tightly controlled story rather than casual violence. This is Chaplin evolving. Although the Tramp character makes his appearance early (in Kid Auto Races at Venice), Chaplin hadn’t settled on him as his only role: he plays toffs and drunkards too. Even the Tramp is not quite the figure he would later become. He’s a rougher figure, an agent of chaos rather than a loveable rogue. Chaplin was also experimenting with form, moving away from eruptions of anarchy to more sophisticated formats, such as the comedy of errors of His Trysting Places. He’d make better films, but there’s authentic joy here, a young man exploding with ideas and seeing what he could do. By the end of the period documented here, Chaplin was on his way to becoming the most famous man in the world. That is another story. Let’s hope it will be told in another set as good as this one. J Oliver
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New DVDs of the Year
Following last month’s top vintage DVDs of 2010, we now come to the main event – our dozen favourite new DVDs of 2010. They’re an unusually strong set, both in tone and quality – we recommend that you buy those you haven’t seen immediately! In particular, it is beyond doubt that it has been an excellent year for world cinema with both A Prophet and The White Ribbon guaranteed to be talked about for many years to come. The films were chosen by MovieMail staff and contributors with the aim of presenting the finest new releases of 2010.
An Education
The Ghost
Lone Scherfig
Roman Polanski
Carey Mulligan charmed us all as the 1960s schoolgirl who finds romance and the wide grown-up world in the arms of a flashy older man. Giving the performance of the year, Mulligan utterly inhabits the role of a girl teetering on the edge of adulthood – with all the vulnerability and naivety that entails. CH
With illegal wars, dead weapons inspectors, deals done at trattorias and ‘that’ smile, ex-PM Tony Blair’s life could be an airport thriller. So Polanski turned it into one with deep bite and cast Remington Steele himself – a permatanned Pierce Brosnan, as the Blair-a-like. Flirting with real life figures is rarely this much dark fun. DP
Niels Arden Oplev
UK | 2009 | E1 | 100 min | Cert 12 | # 60592 | RRP £19.99
USA / Germany | 2009 | OPTIM | 123 min | Cert 15 | # 62477 | RRP £19.99
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Sweden | 2009 | MOMET | 152 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 61988 | RRP £17.99
I Am Love
Father of My Children
Inception
Mia Hansen-Love
Marrying the resources of a huge Hollywood movie with an intelligent arthouse sensibility is something that regrettably few directors get the chance to do. Applaud Christopher Nolan then for creating a jaw-dropping sci-fi spectacle that plays out like a blockbuster devised by Jorge Luis Borges. DH
Luca Guadagnino Tilda Swinton merely has to be in a film to cause a stir but give her a melodramatically framed canvas and she soars. I Am Love doesn’t so much tell the story of an unravelling marriage as show it in all its sweeping destruction, accompanied by a suitably operatic score from John Adams to match. DP Italy | 2009 | MET-D | 119 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62794 | RRP £15.99
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Based on the life of the arthouse film producer Humbert Balsan, this is a highly accomplished work from its 29-year-old director. Partly a revealing glimpse into the world of film production and partly a captivating family drama, the film has wise and useful things to say about family, endeavor and death. DH France | 2009 | FMS | 110 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 61789 | RRP £15.99
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson’s bestseller gets a fitting big-screen adaptation with this complex tale of murder, abuse and corruption. Noomi Rapace makes the damaged, determined titular girl one of the most captivating screen characters for years. Don’t wait for the Hollywood remake – see the original first! PC DVD: £7.99 Save £10 Blu-ray: £15.99 Save £9
Christopher Nolan
USA / UK | 2010 | WHV | 148 min | Cert 12 | # 63263 | RRP £22.99
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A Prophet
Samson and Delilah
A Single Man
Jacques Audiard
Warwick Thornton
Tom Ford
Topping his own brilliant brew of musician and thug in The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard threw mystic and criminal together in A Prophet to concoct a gritty prison drama that dared to dream whilst the blood flowed. Shake in some volatile racial tension and the result justly made best of lists everywhere. DP
Warwick Thornton emerged unknown from the outback with this (critically) hot ‘love redeems all’ debut. Mostly wordless, this jagged romance of glances and shared experience in an Aborigine community takes its characters to the brink and back with a surprising amount of social bite. DP
First-time director Tom Ford is clearly a talent to watch judging by this adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood novella. With a perfectly-pitched emotional tone, we follow Colin Firth’s University professor over one day as he struggles to come to terms with the deal of his lover. Firth’s mesmerising performance is his finest to date. DH
France | 2009 | OPTIM | 149 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 61340 | RRP £19.99
Australia | 2009 | TRNTY | 97 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 61794 | RRP £15.99
USA | 2009 | ICON | 100 min | Cert 15 | # 61688 | RRP £19.99
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This is England ‘86
Up
The White Ribbon
Shane Meadows
Pete Docter
Michael Haneke
Meadows fulfils all his promise and more with this vision of our society’s hopeless rejects who aren’t hopeless at all as humans. Building understanding and empathy between middle class opinionators and these outcasts is the finest of enterprises. Fortunately it’s also entertaining and uplifting. AH
Proving that decent storytelling, character and talking dogs never go out of fashion, critics rightfully compare Pixar’s film to the height of Disney’s 1940s glory. The film managed to crack tears from the stone-hearted cynics at a screening in Cannes within the first ten minutes. What chance do the rest of us have! DP
This is superlative filmmaking. Haneke’s study of cruelty, adult hypocrisy and mysterious events in a German village in 1913 sends dark reverberations through the century that we know follows the film’s end. And what a joy to see a beautifully photographed new film coming to the screen in lustrous monochrome! GH
UK | 2010 | 4DVD | 180 min | Cert 18 | # 63473 | RRP £19.99
USA | 2009 | WDHV | 102 min | Cert U | # 61029 | RRP £19.99
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The Best of the Christmas Gift Guide The Agatha Christie Hour A collection of ten hour-long ITV adventures and supernatural dramas based on a selection of less familiar short stories from the immensely popular crime writer. Many familiar faces star. 5 discs. UK | 1982 | PNE | 515 min | Cert PG | # 61617 | RRP £29.99
Betty’s Bath
Dougal and the Blue Cat
A collection of eight short, ‘erotic’ silent films shot in Hollywood in the 1920s, where wannabe starlets took their clothes off on the studio stages after hours. 20% of profits from this DVD donated to Cancer Research.
Serge Danot
USA | 1920s | FILM | 36 min | B&W | Cert 18 | # 60453 | RRP £12.99
A long-unavailable cult classic, this is the 1970 feature length story from the Magic Roundabout, featuring the voices of Fenella Fielding and the incomparable Eric Thompson.
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France | 1970 | 2ND | 85 min | Cert U | # 63039 | RRP £15.99
An Inspector Calls
British Transport Films Box Set
Downton Abbey Series 1
Guy Hamilton A brilliantly mysterious Alastair Sim plays the enigmatic inspector who slowly reveals a family’s shameful secrets in this classic film adaptation of JB Priestley’s famous play.
All nine double-disc volumes of the BFI’s fabulous BTF archive, which forms an endlessly fascinating and important record of Britain’s transport and social heritage from the 1950s-80s. 18 discs.
ITV’s acclaimed costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an Edwardian country house. Maggie Smith stars as the Dowager Countess. 3 discs.
UK | 1954 | OPTIM | 76 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 60779 | RRP £15.99
UK | 1950s-80s | BFI | Cert E | # 56220 | RRP £99.99
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L’Avventura
Carlos the Jackal: Movie + Trilogy
Eric Rohmer: Tales of the Four Seasons
Olivier Assayas
A collection of Rohmer’s four understated dramas of character and humour. Features A Tale of Springtime (1990), A Winter’s Tale (1992), A Summer’s Tale (1996) and Autumn Tale (1998).
M Antonioni Monica Vitti stars in this landmark first film in a loose trilogy with La Notte and L’Eclisse. A fresco-like vision of an alienated middle-class, it controversially won the 1959 Jury Prize at Cannes. Italy | 1960 | Bongo | 136 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 54463 | RRP £12.99
The complete TV mini-series plus the 3 hour biopic chronicling the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal.
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France | 2010 | OPTIM | subt | Cert 12 | # 63462 | RRP £19.99
France | 1990-98 | ART-E | subt | Cert 15 | # 26164 | RRP £39.99
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Beiderbecke Trilogy
A Dance to the Music of Time
Heartbreaker
The complete Beiderbecke – the award winning comedydrama detective series, written by Alan Plater, inspired by musician Bix Beiderbecke, starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. 6 discs.
Christopher Morahan
A French romantic comedy starring Romain Duris as a handsome, charming and effortlessly cool ladykiller who offers his services as a professional relationship breaker. Then, along comes love...
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UK | 1988 | NWORK | 660 min | Cert PG | # 62733 | RRP £39.99
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C4’s adaptation of Anthony Powell’s 12 novels. Murder, friendship, adultery and ambition are set against a backdrop of life during the pivotal years of the 20th century.
Pascal Chaumeil
2 discs.
UK | 1997 | ACORN | 415 min | Cert 15 | # 61624 | RRP £19.99
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France | 2010 | REV | 105 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 63430 | RRP £19.99
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Perfect last-minute presents for friends, family and yourself! The Queen of Spades
The Singing Ringing Tree
The must-see blockbuster sci-fi thriller in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a fugitive thief who steals the thoughts, dreams and secrets buried in people’s minds. 2 discs.
Thorold Dickinson
Francesco Stefani
USA / UK | 2010 | WHV | 148 min | Cert 12 | # 63263 | RRP £22.99
This atmospheric suspense thriller is one of the finest British films of the forties. Anton Walbrook plays the Russian captain obsessed with stealing the secret of a card game.
The most memorable serial from a long-running strand of East German children’s films shown as Tales from Europe by the BBC throughout the 1960s. Watch out for the scary wicked dwarf!
UK | 1948 | OPTIM | 91 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 60859 | RRP £15.99
Germany | 1957 | NWORK | 71 min | subt | U | # 30694 | RRP £14.99
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Let the Right One In
The Railway Children
Toy Story 3
Tomas Alfredson
Lionel Jeffries
Acclaimed as one of the most brilliant horror films for years, this Swedish vampire film sees an ageless 12 yearold girl with an unquenchable thirst for blood befriend a sensitive young boy.
Lionel Jeffries’ beloved film version of E.S. Nesbit’s book, starring Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Dinah Sheridan and Bernard Cribbins. A timeless delight for all.
Funny, thrilling and unexpectedly moving, this third instalment in the series more than lives up to its predecessors, and marries quality storytelling, technical expertise and artistic excellence.
Christopher Nolan
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Lee Unkrich
USA | 2010 | BUENA | 86 min | Cert U | # 63728 | RRP £19.99
Sweden | 2008 | MOMET | 114 min | subt | 15 | # 59000 | RRP £17.99
UK | 1970 | OPTIM | 104 min | Cert U | # 61443 | RRP £12.99
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Metropolis (Reconstructed)
The Saragossa Manuscript
Tutti Frutti
Fritz Lang
Wojciech Has
There have been many releases of Metropolis, but this is definitive. At last, the full-length version of Lang’s science fiction film can be seen as he intended, with 25 minutes of footage restored after a miraculous find in a Buenos Aires archive. This is a collector’s dream.
Set in a Spain populated with ghosts, alluring demons, debauched royalty and mystical priests, this is a labyrinthine film of magical texts and worlds within worlds.
All six episodes of the highly enjoyable, darkly witty BBC Scotland comedy series about over-the-hill Scottish rock band The Majestics. Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson star. 2 discs. UK | 1987 | 2ENT | 300 min | Cert 12 | # 58226 | RRP £24.99
Germany | 1926 | EUREK | 150 min | B&W | PG | # 62224 | RRP £22.99
Poland | 1965 | Bongo | 180 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 53979 | £12.99
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Night of the Demon
Shakespeare at the Globe
The World at War (Restored)
Jacques Tourneur
A limited edition box set containing the Globe Theatre productions of As You Like It (Russman, 2009), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Romeo & Juliet (both Dromgoole, 2009). 4 discs.
This newly restored account of World War II, narrated by Laurence Olivier, is the definitive record of the conflict. One of the most powerful moments in our shared TV history. 11 discs.
UK | 2009 | OPUS | 485 min | Cert E | # 63126 | RRP £49.99
UK | 1974 | PNE | 1949 min | Cert E | # 62077 | RRP £79.99
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A classic slice of 1950s psychological horror. Dana Andrews plays the sceptical American psychologist; Niall MacGinnis his satanist adversary. Based on MR James’s Casting the Runes. UK | 1957 | PNE | 90 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63072 | RRP £19.99
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Ashley Horner A headily sexual British love story in which photographer Manchester and taxidermist Noon create an idyll of uninhibited lovemaking one summer, which Manchester photographs. Then his pictures get discovered by the art world – can their love survive the
lure of commerce? UK | 2010 | OPTIM | 96 min | Cert 18 Item # 63965 | RRP £15.99 | Released 11th January
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Abbas Kiarostami A mysterious and playful film that marries postmodern reality games with mature romantic comedy in a provocative package that pays homage to Journey to Italy. Juliette Binoche and William Shimell star as the couple who invent a shared life after an apparent chance meeting. France / Italy / Iran | 2010 | ART-E | 106 min | Cert 12 Item # 63706-07 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th Jan
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Hal Roach
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel. A rarely seen gem, this jolly musical comedy, also known as Fra Diavolo, is set in 18th century Italy, where Stanlio and Ollio determine to lead a life of crime. The film was one of Stan and Ollie’s favourites and shows the great duo at the top of their trade.
Fulci’s Box of Terror Lucio Fulci
A triple bill of violence, sex, murder, maniacs, desecration and insanity from the ‘godfather of gore’ – The Black Cat (1981), New York Ripper (1982) and Manhattan 3 discs. Baby (1982). Italy | 1981-82 | SHAME | 263 min | Cert 18 Item # 63701 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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France | 2010 | OPTIM | 116 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 63966-67 | RRP £17.99 | Released 11th Jan
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The Girl Who Played With Fire The second instalment in the trilogy of films based on Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ novels. Hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) disappears without trace after being framed for the murder of the authors of an exposé of the Swedish sex trade. Suspecting she has been set up, Mikael Blomkvist sets out to clear her name. Sweden / Denmark | 2009 | MOMET | 129 min | Cert 15 Item # 63305 / 63303 | RRP £17.99 | Out 10th Jan
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The Goodies ... At Last the 40th Anniversary!
The Devil’s Brother
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This original take on one of France’s great mavericks – the brilliantly talented, infamous Serge Gainsbourg – offers a glimpse of his early life in occupied Paris before moving into his successful songwriting years in the 1960s. Eric Elmosnino takes the lead and, in uncanny characterisations, Laetitia Casta plays Brigitte Bardot and Lucy Gordon Jane Birkin.
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USA | 1933 | CRNRS | 86 min | Cert U Item # 63955 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
Any Human Heart
Joann Sfar
In 1970, the Goodies – Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor – unleashed their blend of surreal storylines, satire, slapstick and lunacy on the public. This set contains 31 episodes – including the giant kitten and the Lancastrian art of 8 discs. Ecky Thump.
UK | 19970s | NWORK | 995 min | Cert 12 Item # 63716 | RRP £59.99 | Out Now
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The Master Race HJ Biberman
A drama set in postwar Europe where there are plenty of threats to the new-found peace – especially as Nazi Generals have been told to prepare for the Fourth Reich by fomenting hatred to disrupt reconstruction. USA | 1944 | ODEON | 95 min | Cert PG Item # 63452 | RRP £9.99 | Out Now
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The complete first series of C4’s adaptation of William Boyd’s novel, adapted for the screen by the author himself, and starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin as the writer Logan Mountstuart through stages of his life during the 20th century. The four films follow Logan from his time in Oxford through to encounters with Ernest Hemingway and Ian Fleming, the New York art 2 discs. scene, scandal and even heroism.
UK | 2010 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 63745 | RRP £24.99 | Released 27th Dec
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Notes on Cinea Nikkatsu / Roman Porno Box Set A collection of four famous Japanese erotic ‘pink films’ from Nikkatsu Studios: Abe Sada (Tanaka, 1975), Street of Joy (Kumashiro, 1974), Watcher in the Attic (Tanaka, 1974) and Gate of Flesh (Suzuki, 1964). 4 discs.
Japan | 1976 | HBF | 329 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 63830 | RRP £24.99 | Out Now
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The Nude in Art Phil Grabsky
Art expert Tim Marlow presents a four part series exploring the portrayal of the naked body through history. The programmes look at classical times, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the modern era, looking at the Venus de Milo and works by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Ingre, Manet and Picasso along the way. UK | 2000 | SEV-A | 100 min | Cert E Item # 63861 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Shadows: Series 1 Jenny Agutter and Sophie Ward feature among the cast of this spine-tingling anthology series of psychological and supernatural tales for younger viewers, originally screened between 1975-78. Atmospheric, superbly scripted and filled with the unexpected.
UK | 1975 | NWORK | 175 min | PG Item # 63876 | RRP £12.99 | Released 22nd Nov
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Winter Warmers DVD Box Set Sale! We present a wonderful sale of great value DVD Box Sets, largely from the BFI and Optimum. Including international masterpieces, home-grown horror, vintage British comedy and even a deerstalker, this selection has something for everyone. A winter treat for you or a perfect present for someone else – you decide!
The Agnès Varda Collection: Vol 2
Comic Icons: Alastair Sim
Contains four films: L’Une Chante, L’Autre Pas (1977), Vagabond (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1991) and The Beaches of Agnès (2008). 4 discs.
Five comedies with the characteristically lugubrious actor: The Green Man, Folly to be Wise, Geordie, Left, Right and Centre, Laughter in Paradise.
France | 2008 | ART-E | subt | Cert 18 | # 60476 | RRP £39.99
UK | 1953-61 | OPTIM | 447 min | Cert PG | # 50624 | RRP £34.99
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The Apu Trilogy Satyajit Ray
Eric Rohmer: Six Moral Tales
The Sherlock Holmes Box Set
Ray’s finest achievement in film. Each film – Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu – is a masterpiece. This is lifeaffirming cinema. 3 discs.
Six teasing tales: The Girl at the Monceau Bakery, Suzanne’s Career, My Night at Maud’s, Claire’s Knee, La Collectionneuse Love in the Afternoon. 5 discs.
The definitive collection of the 14 restored Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to Terror by Night. 7 discs.
India | 1955-59 | ART-E | subt | B&W | U | # 12274 | RRP £49.99
France | 1972 | ART-E | 480 min | subt | 15 | # 61401 | RRP £39.99
UK | 1939-46 | OPT | 974 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 21024 | RRP £49.99
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Film Noir Collection
RW Fassbinder
Three Otto Preminger films: Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950). 4 discs.
The Terence Davies Collection
6 discs.
Ger | 1980 | SECND | 910 min | subt | 15 | # 50820 | RRP £54.99
USA | 1950 | BFI | 375 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 60322 | RRP £29.99
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British Transport Films Box Set
Jan Svankmajer Complete Short Films 1964-1992
All nine double-disc volumes of the BFI’s fabulous BTF archive. A fascinating and important record of Britain’s transport and social heritage. 18 discs.
A landmark collection from the BFI containing 32 rare, long4 discs; booklet. unseen documentaries. UK | 1977 | BFI | 880 min | Cert 15 | # 63309 | RRP £34.99
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Contains The Terence Davies Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes and Of Time and the City. 4 discs. UK | 2008 | BFI | B&W | Cert 15 | # 60332 | RRP £39.99
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Tinto Brass Collection
An essential collection of short films by the legendary Czech Surrealist animator, from The 3 discs. Last Trick to Food.
Eight of Il Maestro’s sexiest romps: All Ladies Do It, Miranda, Paprika, The Key, Frivolous Lola, Black Angel, Cheeky and Private. 8 discs.
Czech | 1964-1992 | BFI | subt | Cert 15 | # 33886 | RRP £29.99
Italy | 1980-2004 | ARROW | subt | Cert 18 | # 19796 | RRP £49.99
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Claude Chabrol Collection: Vol 1
The Jacques Tati Collection
Ultimate Hammer Films Box Set
8 films from ‘The French Hitchcock’, including classics such as Les Biches, La Femme Infdèle, Que la Bête Meure and Le Boucher. 8 Discs.
The genius of Tati and his Monsieur Hulot in five films: Jour de Fête, Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle, Playtime, Parade. 5 discs.
21 lurid, fang-baring, monstercreating, devil-baiting, satanistouting, zombie-fighting, dinosaurdefying classics from Hammer studios. Have fun. 21 discs.
France | 1968-91 | ARROW | subt | Cert 15 | # 28359 | RRP £44.99
France | 1949-74 | BFI | 480 min | subt | Cert U | # 60161 | RRP £39.99
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This universally-acclaimed monument of late 20th-century filmmaking follows an ex-con trying to go straight in Weimar Germany.
Shadows of Progress Documentary Film in Post-war Britain
New Releases Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Edgar Wright
The War You Don’t See John Pilger
Stylised action comedy from Edgar ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Wright, which sees 22-year-old slacker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) fall for the gorgeous Ramona Flowers, whose seven evil ex-boyfriends stand in his way, each one more malicious than the last and all equally intent on obliter2 discs; ating her new love interest! Making-of; Deleted scenes; Much more!
Following The War on Democracy, Pilger’s new film is a timely investigation into the media’s role in war, which traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the current war in Afghanistan. But who is the real enemy today? Pilger asks ‘Do journalists beat the drums of war, then normalise the unthinkable?
USA | 2010 | UPV | 107 min | Cert 12 Item # 63765-67 | RRP £19.99 | Out 27th Dec
UK / USA | 2010 | NWORK | 120 min | Cert E Item # 63937 | RRP £14.99 | Released 13th Dec
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Thorne: Sleepyhead and Scaredycat
A pairing of crime thrillers starring David Morrissey as DI Tom Thorne, based on Mark Billingham’s novels. In Sleepyhead he investigates a mysterious serial killer, while Scaredy Cat sees him pitting against wits against murderers working as a team. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 63851 | RRP £19.99 | Released 10th January
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The Trip
One of the funniest things on TV for a long while, The Trip sees Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunited for a culinary tour of six restaurants in the north of England, which Coogan has been commissioned to review. There’s plenty of goodnatured bickering and impressions, but this is also a touching explora2 discs. tion of friendship and ageing too.
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Tom and Jerry Big Box
Contains seven movies – Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, Paws for a Holiday, Nutcracker Tale, Fast and the Furry, Magic Ring, Blast Off to Mars, Shiver Me Whiskers – and three volumes of cartoons, including their first adventure, Puss Gets 10 discs. the Boot. USA | 2002-10 | WHV | Cert PG Item # 63754 | RRP £29.99 | Out Now
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Conrad Phillips stars in the classic 1950s action adventure series set in the 14th century during the hostile Austrian occupation of Switzerland. In this Swiss version of Robin Hood, Tell is a reluctant freedom fighter, battling against the invading forces. Guests include Michael Caine 5 discs. and Christopher Lee. UK | 1958 | NWORK | 975 min | Cert PG Item # 63963 | RRP £39.99 | Out now
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Michael Winterbottom
UK | 2010 | 2ENT | Cert TBC Item # 63854 | RRP £19.99 | Released 13th Dec
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William Tell: Complete Series
Working with Pinter Harry Burton
A unique documentary about a unique writer. Gaining unprecedented access to Harold Pinter working with actors, the film captures his collaborative spirit and also offers a remarkable insight into his writing. Includes a 2005 masterclass, in-depth interviews and a liberal use of clips from productions of his plays. UK | 2007 | I-MIN | 106 min | Cert E Item # 63840 | RRP £17.99 | Released 25th Nov
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Hollywood Classics
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Mark Robson Bedlam: an 18th century lunatic asylum whose name aroused dread. Boris Karloff plays its malevolent director who takes a keen pleasure in cruelly abusing his inmates. Then an actress companion of the asylum’s patron pays a visit, and outraged by his barbarity, tries to initiate reforms – leading her to be locked up there. Produced by the legendary B-movie producer Val Lewton, this was one of his best, with the atmosphere set by the use of Hogarth’s engravings as transitional devices. This is intelligent horror with a dozen fearsome jolts. USA | 1946 | ODEON | 79 min | Cert PG Item # 63456 | RRP £9.99 | Released 25th October
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The Locket John Brahm
Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne. Before his wedding a bridegroom discovers a different side to his bride-to-be when a stranger recounts a tale of deceit, theft and murder. What follows is a labyrinthine dream of obsession, played out in a series of flashbacks that might just be the ravings of an unsound mind. Brahm’s distinctive RKO picture is a deliciously odd affair – two parts melodrama to one part film noir – that aficionados of baroque Hollywood will relish. The script is overwrought in the best possible way, the décor is ornate, the staging stylish and it’s garnished by intense performances. USA | 1946 | ODEON | 85 min | Cert PG Item # 63459 | RRP £9.99 | Released 1st November
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The Racket
John Cromwell Given that the director Nicholas Ray worked uncredited on John Cromwell’s film noir, and that one of the screenwriters was WR Burnett, it’s hardly surprising that this is one of the most intriguing entries in the genre. Robert Ryan plays the brutal gangster who has government and law-enforcement officials in his pocket. Those who can’t be bought are ruthlessly rubbed out. But the arrival of Robert Mitchum’s incorruptible police captain spells danger, especially when he persuades Lizabeth Scott’s sexy nightclub singer to testify against him. A fascinatingly bleak, fatalistic picture of corruption reaching to the upper echelons of political power. USA | 1951 | ODEON | 89 min | Cert PG Item # 63455 | RRP £9.99 | Released 25th October
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Big Hits from the BBC DVDs from £5.99! Including new and vintage dramas, documentaries on nature and the arts, plus hugely enjoyable comedy, these DVDs will make the dark winter nights a time to savour! Prices are very low, so stock up the winter DVD pile with these gems. The Chronicles of Narnia
Edge of Darkness Martin Campbell
Mike Leigh at the BBC
An enchanting production of C.S. Lewis’s powerful fantasy for all ages, mixing live action, animation and special effects to recreate an enchanting adventure in the magical world of Narnia. 4 discs.
Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley star in this superb drama of father/daughter relationships and terrifying conspiracies in the nuclear power industry. Clapton and Kamen’s score won a BAFTA.
A tremendous box set rounding up Leigh’s work for the BBC, from Hard Labour (1973) to Four Days in July (1984), with seven more titles in between, including the ever popular Abigail’s Party.
UK | 1988-90 | BBC | 600 min | Cert U | # 24605 | RRP £14.99
UK | 1985 | BBC-DD | 314 min | Cert 15 | # 13764 | RRP £15.99
UK | 1973-84 | 2ENT | Cert 12 | # 58115 | RRP £59.99
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The Blue Planet: Special Edition
Helen Mirren at the BBC
The Stephen Poliakoff Box Set
David Attenborough presents this definitive natural history of the world’s 3 discs. oceans.
Mirren stars in 11 dramas, including The Changeling, The Philanthropist, 6 discs. Cymbeline and The Hawk.
Perfect Strangers, Caught on a Train, Shooting the Past, Lost Prince, 9 discs. Crocodiles, Gideon.
UK | 2000 | BBC | 558 min | Cert E | # 24604 | RRP £29.99
UK | 1974-1995 | 2ENT | Cert 15 | # 52757 | RRP £39.99
UK | 1980-2005 | BBC | min | Cert 15 | # 26286 | RRP £59.99
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Colditz: Complete
A History of Christianity
This Life
UK | 1974 | 2ENT | 1400 min | Cert 12 | # 63581 | RRP £49.99
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A major series, both thought-provoking and intelligent, that reveals the 2 discs. true origins of Christianity. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert E | # 60519 | RRP £24.99
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Both series of the cult 1990s series that, as a kind of more realistic version of Friends, follows the lives of five young professionals. 7 discs. UK | 1996-97 | BBC | 1385 min | Cert 18 | # 26741 | RRP £49.99
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The Genius of Photography
The Noel Coward Collection
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Dir: David Byrne. All six episodes of the BBC4 series tracking the history of this amazing art form. 2 discs.
Seven plays, including The Vortex, Hayfever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Suite in Two Keys. 7 discs.
Dir: John Irvin. Le Carré’s spy thriller as enthralling drama. Alec Guinness is George Smiley. 2 discs.
UK | 2007 | 2ENT | 360 min | Cert 18 | # 58888 | RRP £24.99
UK | 1969-1991 | BBC | 1200 min | Cert 15 | # 52754 | RRP £49.99
UK | 1980 | BBC-DD | 315 min | Cert PG | # 13837 | RRP £15.99
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The Good Life
Our Friends in the North
Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister
One of the most ambitious British TV dramas, following the lives of four friends from 1963 to 1995. 3 discs.
All the episodes from the two wonderfully witty parliament-set UK series. 7 discs.
UK | 1996 | SIMP | 623 min | Cert 15 | # 62603 | RRP £34.99
UK | 1980-88 | BBC | 1140 min | Cert PG | # 30957 | RRP £49.99
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The Quatermass Collection (1953-59)
Wallander
The complete 1970s self-sufficiency sitcom. Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal play the couple who go back to the land – in Surbiton. 8 discs. UK | 1975-78 | ACORN | 880 min | Cert PG | # 63099 | RRP £79.99
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Hamlet Dir: Gregory Doran. The filmed adaptation of the RSC’s 2008 sell-out production of Hamlet, featuring David Tennant in the title role. UK | 2009 | 2ENT | 180 min | Cert 12 | # 60333 | RRP £19.99
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Contains the 1950s BBC series: The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Quatermass and the Pit. 3 discs. UK | 1953-59 | BBC-DD | 450 min | Cert PG | # 20890 | RRP £29.99
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Kenneth Branagh stars as detective Kurt Wallander in these murder mysteries. Series 1 & 2 available separately or as a 4 disc box set. UK | 2008 | BBC | 265 min | Cert 15 | # 56651 | RRP £39.99
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A TV gem from the early 1970s in which Allied prisoners hatch plans to break out of the supposedly escapeproof Colditz castle. 10 discs.
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