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The Secret in Their Eyes An Oscar-winning gem from Argentina

Gainsbourg Winter’s Bone Films of Ice & Snow Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt Out Now

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About MovieMail Moviemail Team Q. With the Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes (page 5) featuring as our film of the month, our monthly question this time around is simply, ‘recommend a Latin American film’.

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ats off to Helen Mirren, who in a recent award speech decried modern film’s worship at the altar of the anatomy of the young male (or words to that effect) while overseeing ‘the survival of some mediocre male actors and the professional demise of some brilliant female ones.’ Decent parts for mature women are, as ever, few and far between, something noticeable in this very catalogue, where apart from Jean Marsh (Upstairs Downstairs) and Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote), there are fairly slim pickings. Let’s hope that actresses such as Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy), Isabelle Huppert (White Material), Kristin Scott Thomas (Leaving), Emma Thompson

Film of the Month 5 The Secret in Their Eyes Gainsbourg Certified Copy BFI’s Ozu Collection

Gay and Lesbian 10 and Meryl Streep (to name but a very few) continue to get the plum parts they all deserve. Stop Press! As we were going to the printers we learned of the impending release of Orson Welles’ long unavailable and legendary film Chimes at Midnight. See page 12. Enjoy your films!

Television Network TV Classics Any Human Heart

Documentaries The War You Don’t See

Animation

Mary and Max

(Tony Manero) James is, amongst other things, a film writer and historian. ‘A new year heralds a new start – the perfect time to finally start the blog I’ve been meaning to launch for about five years now. The world has been denied my views on obscure British crime films and sundry low-grade tat for too long!’

Mike McCahill (The Maid) writes on film for The Sunday Telegraph. His full-length reviews can be found at http://cinesthesiac.blogspot.com

Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight Man Hunt

Winter’s Bone

James Oliver

Alex Davidson (Strawberry & Chocolate) is a content developer for the BFI mediatheque

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Michael Brooke (Whisky) is the curator of Screenonline and has a blog at http://michaelbrooke.com/kinoblog/

World Cinema

A. The Motorcycle Diaries (Salles, 2004)

Mike Bartlett (Liverpool) is a freelance film writer

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Special Offers François Truffaut

Julian Upton (Kiss of the Spider Woman) wrote Fallen Stars. Offbeat is due for release in 2011

Films of Ice & Snow 13

Milo Wakelin (The Motorcycle Diaries) is Screen Editor of Gay Times

Vintage British

Peter Wild (Amores Perros) edits Bookmunch, which is found at http://bookmunch.wordpress.com/

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1 Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored)

Dir: Fritz Lang. THE science fiction film, set in a radically divided society in which workers’ dehumanization is taken to the ultimate degree. This definitive version includes an extra 25 minutes of footage that was recently unearthed in a Buenos Aires archive. Finally, we can enjoy the film as it was meant to be seen. Germany | 1926 | EUREK | 150 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 62224 | RRP £22.99 | P&P £1

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2 Chaplin at Keystone

A stunning collection of the 34 surviving Chaplin Keystone films. Chaplin joined the Keystone Film Company in late 1913 and after a few initial uneasy steps, his rise was meteoric – making 35 films in a single year. The films are a revelation, showing how he developed the ‘Tramp’ character and why he shot to stardom. USA | 1914 | BFI | 561 min | subt | B&W | Cert U | # 59424 | RRP £29.99 | P&P £2.50

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Dir: Christopher Nolan. This blockbuster sci-fi thriller in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a thief who steals from people’s minds is a rare treat from Hollywood. USA / UK | 2010 | WHV | 148 min | Cert 12 | # 63263 | RRP £22.99 | P&P £1.50

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4 The Secret in Their Eyes

Dir: Juan José Campanella. The 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner stars Ricardo Darin as a man haunted by an unsolved 25 year-old murder case. Moving between two different time periods, this complex thriller is a real gem. Argentina | 2009 | MET-D | 124 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 64114 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Je t’aime Moi Non Plus

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est known over here for ‘Je t’aime, moi non plus’, the scandalous single that he recorded with future wife Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg (1928-91) was one of the last century’s French cultural legends. Born Lucien Ginsburg at a time of increasing anti-Semitism (and not just on the part of the Nazis who occupied France in his teens), he overcame this and his physical unattractiveness by developing a roguishly subversive wit and a facility with words and music unmatched by his peers or anyone since. A conventional biopic would still offer plenty of meat, but graphic novelist Joann Sfar goes much further, turning the story of one of his creative idols into a rollicking fantasia in which Gainsbourg’s waking life is constantly invaded by nightmares about his head becoming a cabbage, or inconveniently-timed visits by imaginary beings such as the taloned Professor Flipus, a caricatured projection of Gainsbourg’s many insecurities – not least his nagging belief that he has thrown away his real talent (painting) for a life of writing disposable commercial pap. The barely-known Eric Elmosnino is astonishing in the title role: neither he nor Sfar are remotely inclined to play down

A rollicking fantasia of a controversial French cultural legend Gainsbourg’s less savoury aspects, not least because they’re quintessential parts of his public persona: a climactic speech in which he brings around a crowd of nationalist would-be lynchers outraged by his reggae-backed defilement of ‘La Marseillaise’ is a show-stopper. There’s strong support from Laetitia Casta and the late Lucy Gordon as his two celebrity lovers (Casta plays Brigitte Bardot, smuggled into Gainsbourg’s parents’ flat to dodge the paparazzi) and especially from Kacey Mottet Klein as young Lucien, spending his teens cheeking officials and chatting up women noticeably older than himself. Sfar says that he wrote the first draft after bingeing on interviews in which Gainsbourg was often audibly the worse for wear – by the end Sfar said it was as though he’d been sitting in a smoky nightclub in the small hours listening to anecdotes that were so entertaining that he simply didn’t care whether or not they were true. His film gives much the same impression. Michael Brooke

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World Cinema

New from the BFI’s Ozu Collection

The Beyond Lucio Fulci

A woman inherits a hotel and decides to restore it to its former glory. But renovation work gets held up by a series of bizarre murders, and investigation reveals that the hotel is on a gateway to hell! A blend of atmospheric surrealism and nightmarish visions, this is quintessential Fulci and is regarded by many as his best film. Italy | 1981 | ARROW | 83 min | Cert 18 Item # 63514-15 | RRP £17.99 | Out 17th January | P&P £1

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The Fish Child

Equinox Flower / There Was a Father Recommended

Lucia Puenzo

Puenzo (XXY) returns with a film of forbidden lesbian romance between a rich teenager and her household’s young Payaguayan maid. A film festival favourite, it boasts excellent performances from its two female leads, Inés Efron and Mariela Vitale. Argentina | 2009 | PECCA | 96 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 63980 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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The Girl Who Played With Fire Daniel Alfredson

This second instalment – following The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy sees computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) disappear after being framed for murder. Suspecting that she has been set up, Michael Nyqvist’s editor Interviews; sets out to clear her name. Swedish or English Language Audio. Sweden | 2009 | MOMET | 129 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 63305 / 03 | RRP £17.99 | Out 10th January | P&P £1

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Jess Franco Collection 15 prime slices of Eurosleaze: Justine, Eugenie, Barbed Wire Dolls, Downtown, Ilsa, Blue Rita, Jack the Ripper, Portuguese Nun, Love Camp, Macumba Sexual, Sexy Sisters, Voodoo Passion, Sexual Story of O, Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle, Mansion 15 discs. of the Living Dead.

Switzerland / Germany | 1969-85 | ANBAY | 1302 min | Cert 18 Item # 63852 | RRP £59.99 | Released 17th January

Good Morning / I Was Born, But... Recommended

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Starring: Chishû Ryû, Shin Saburi

Starring: Chishû Ryû, Kôji Shitara

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Filmed in accordance with wartime strictures, There Was a Father (1942) remains among Ozu’s most unusual pictures, with its broad narrative span and diversity of setting standing in contrast to his more typically intense insularity. Its essential themes are patriarchy and patriotism. But the story of widowed Chishû Ryû’s selfsacrificing devotion to his son also contains an element of Buddhist passivity, as each endures the pain of separation to make the best of their limited opportunities. For all but three years of his career, Ozu worked in monochrome. But he finally turned to colour for Equinox Flower (1958), whose parallel plotlines make it one of his most playful pictures. Exposing the ironic duality of the subservient salaryman who insists on being master in his own household, Ozu uses this two-act satire to espouse the emancipation of women and the emergence of youth. These are two more jewels from the director Wim Wenders described as ‘cinema’s sacred treasure’. DP

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Those who are intimidated by Ozu’s reputation as an austere formalist should check out this wonderful double bill made up of his two best comedies. Boisterous tales of young kids rebelling against their parents, they come with fart jokes, slapstick, gossipy neighbours and the best – and funniest – child actors in movie history. 1933’s I Was Born, But... tells how two young boys cope with moving to a new neighbourhood where they have to take on the local bullies, only to lose faith in their father who kowtows shamelessly to his boss. It’s a film as sprightly and mischievous as its young protagonists, as anarchic in its use of travelling shots, visual gags and every damn trick in the cinematic book as the boys are in their acts of rebellion against authority. 1959’s Good Morning – Ozu’s 50th film – is a contemplative reworking of the same story, this time broadened out to take in the whole of suburban Japanese society for a wry comment on the country’s decline into consumerism. MBa

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Late Mizoguchi: Eight Films

Mizoguchi’s last decade of filmmaking produced some of the finest masterworks in all cinema. This wonderful set contains eight of them: Oyû-sama, Ugetsu monogatari, Gionbayashi, Sanshô-dayû, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Uwasa no onna, Yôkihi, 8 discs. Akasen-chitai.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Wai Keung Lau

Martial arts action drama set in Japanese-occupied 1920s Shanghai. Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen (portrayed by Bruce Lee in the 1972 film Fist of Fury and played here by Donnie Yen), the avenging hero returns, taking it upon himself to stop a wave of assassinations. Behind the Scenes; Interview; Digital Copy. Hong Kong / China | 2010 | MET-D | 102 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 64151-52 | RRP £19.99 | Out 31st January | P&P £1

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Other Russian Cinema (Box Set)

Four films that widen the perception of Soviet cinema: a horror film adapted from Gogol: VIY (Kropachyov & Yershov, 1967), a Russian version of Treasure Island (Fridman, 1971), the fairytale Jack Frost (Rou, 1964) and the Arabian fantasy Aladdin’s Magic 4 discs. Lamp (Rytsarev, 1966). Russia | 1971 | HBF | 342 min | subt | Cert 12 Item # 63814 | RRP £29.99 | Released 17th Jan

François Truffaut

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François Truffaut The Films Six classics, from Truffaut’s first, The 400 Blows (1959), to last, Finally, Sunday! (1983), along with Shoot the Pianist (1960), Jules et Jim (1962), Anne and Muriel (1971) and The Woman Next Door (1981). France | 1959-83 | CCLUB | 612 min | Cert 15 | # 58110 | RRP £59.99 | P&P £1

Jules et Jim Jeanne Moreau here gave her defining performance as the unknowable heroine at the heart of a ménage à trois. This was a daring, fresh film that exemplified the nouvelle vague in all its youthful joie de vivre. France | 1962 | CC | 105 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 30219 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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The 400 Blows

La Peau Douce

This profoundly influential film of a misunderstood adolescent is one of cinema’s most perceptive explorations of childhood.

This anatomy of an affair between publisher Pierre and airline stewardess Nicole was described by Truffaut as ‘a truly modern love’.

France | 1959 | CC | 99 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 30171 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Anne and Muriel

Shoot the Pianist

This touching evocation of passion on hold finds a young man (JeanPierre Léaud) fall in love with two young English women.

A homage to the gangster thriller, combining the style of American film noir with all the visual jokes and camera techniques of the nouvelle vague.

France | 1971 | CC | 124 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 30173 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Fahrenheit 451

Stolen Kisses

Julie Christie and Oskar Werner star in Truffaut’s first English language film, adapted from Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi story about a bookless future.

Truffaut mixes romance, hilarity and suspense as Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Antoine Doinel moves from turbulent adolescence to youthful rebellion.

UK | 1966 | UPV | 109 min | Cert PG | # 15527 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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Finally, Sunday!

The Wild Child

Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Truffaut’s final film is a brilliantly entertaining comedy thriller along Hitchcockian lines.

Based on a true story of a ‘wild child’ found in the forests in the late 1700s, this is a humane reflection on society and the civilizing process.

France | 1983 | CC | 110 min | subt | B&W | 18 | # 30174 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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The Last Metro

The Woman Next Door

Peepli Live

Anusha Rizvi An Indian political satire portraying the tragicomic plight of two poor farmers who face losing their land over an unpaid loan. A local politician suggests that one of them commit suicide in order to benefit from a grant scheme set up for the families of deceased farmers – but a journalist hears of their plan, and a media frenzy erupts. India | 2010 | ART-E | 104 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 63700 | RRP £15.99 | Released 24th January | P&P £1

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Catherine Deneuve. Depardieu plays a womanising actor in this thrilling story of love in occupied Paris. The winner of a phenomenal 10 Césars. France | 1980 | CCLUB | 126 min | subt | PG | # 32184 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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A film written especially for its two stars, Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant, who rekindle an intense affair. France | 1981 | CC | 106 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 30175 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Gay & Lesbian

A Serbian Film

Dare

Srdan Spasojevic

Adam Salky

This controversial, muchbanned, extreme Serbian horror film has graphic scenes of rape, torture and murder, and had over 4 minutes of its content removed by the BBFC. It features a retired porn star lured back to the profession – but who is unprepared for the nightmare that unfolds. The director says: ‘This is a diary of our molestation by the Serbian government – it’s about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don’t want to’. Serbia | 2009 | REV | 99 min | subt | Cert 18 Item # 63496 / 64248 | RRP £17.99 | Out 3rd Jan | P&P £1

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Baarìa Recommended

USA | 2009 | PECCA | 99 min | Cert TBC Item # 64044 | RRP £14.99 | Released 31st January

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

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Straight

Italy / France | 2009 | E1 | 151 min | subt | Cert 15 | Item # 63880

Nicolas Flessa Drenched in sex and style, Straight gets right down to the tantalizing details of a ménage à trios between a social worker constantly awash in a haze of sex and drugs, her boyfriend and a bi-curious hoodlum. A tense erotic drama tinged with biting humour. Germany | 2007 | EUREK | 59 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 63979 | RRP £14.99 | Released 27th Dec | P&P £1

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Stranded

Hugues Martin In the Algerian desert, a unit of elite soldiers in search of a missing aircraft come under attack from Algerian rebels. Taking shelter in an uncharted village, they cannot begin to imagine the deadly threat that lies in wait for them. Fra | 2010 | E1 | 99 min | subt | 15 Item # 64014 | RRP £12.99 | Released 24th January | P&P £1

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The Undercover War Nicolas Steil

May 1944: Luxembourg has been annexed by Nazi Germany. François, a youth forced to attend a German university by his fascist father returns home – and chooses a clandestine life in the Resistance. Luxembourg’s official submission to the 2010 Academy Awards. | P&P £1

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Returning to the Sicily that was the scene of both his childhood and Cinema Paradiso (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore has created an epic that is simultaneously intimate and operatic. At times, the scope and scale threaten to swamp shepherd’s son Francesco Scianna, as events move from the rise of Mussolini in the 1920s to the uneasy coalitions of the 1980s. But Enrico Lucidi’s camerawork and Ennio Morricone’s equally swooping score reinforce the mix of grandeur and parochialism that buffet the town of Bagherìa in a manner that variously recalls Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (1976) and Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979). In truth, the film is overlong and a little confused. But it’s the kind of glorious failure that ambitiously sweeps the viewer along and involves them in the lives of commonplace characters, who are aware of Fascism, Communism the Church and the Mafia, but refuse to let ideology or institution interfere with the endless struggles and fleeting pleasures of everyday existence. DP

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Three sexually ambivalent high school seniors are at a crossroads in their adult lives. Prissy drama student Alexa, told to try out new life experiences, tries to bed handsome loner Johnny. The problem is, her best friend Ben succeeds in ensnaring the confused Johnny first! As the love triangle closes in, Johnny’s sexual identity is up for grabs.

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Elena Undone Nicole Conn

Two very different women – one, a famous writer, the other the wife of a pastor – are on a collision course that shatters their preconceived notions about love. What begins as friendship blossoms into much more, but the two women are aware that a future together might be just a dream. USA | 2010 | PECCA | 111 min | Cert TBC Item # 64021 | RRP £15.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £1

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Role/Play

Rob Williams A recently outed soap opera actor crosses paths with a recently divorced gay marriage activist, forcing them to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community. Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan star. USA | 2010 | TLAUK | 86 min | 15 Item # 64027 | RRP £15.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £1

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Strapped

Joseph Graham A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler (strikingly handsome newcomer Ben Bonenfant) into a series of life-changing encounters in this gay drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like apartment building. A witty look into one young man’s moving journey towards understanding. USA | 2010 | TLAUK | 95 min | Cert 18 Item # 64116 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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Films of Ice & Snow Wintry DVDs from £5.99

When watching the excellent Winter’s Bone (see page 27) we were reminded of the unique, pervasive atmosphere that an expertly realised freezing world can convey. While on-screen summers bring a laissez faire tone, winter speaks a more complex language of hardship, challenges and threat – in short, perfect fodder for cinematic drama, that the films collected here make full use of.

Geoffrey Jones: Rhythm of Film

Winter in Wartime

Joel & Ethan Coen ‘A homespun murder story’ set in the snowy Minnesota landscape of the Coens’ childhood, this is an austere black comedy and morality tale of greed and the folly of pretending to be what one is not.

Nine unique films, including Snow, Rail and Locomotion. Inspired by Dziga Vertov, Snow is a BTF film that shows the work of clearing tracks set to a phased reworking of Sandy Nelson’s Teen Beat!

A Dutch coming-of-age drama in which a 14 year-old boy gets involved with the underground resistance movement after discovering the escaped pilot from a crashed British fighter plane.

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UK | 1958-80 | BFI | 117 min | B&W | Cert E | # 69 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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It’s Winter

The Shining

Dir: Rafi Pitts. A poignant tale of wintry unemployment in present day Tehran which has De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves in its ancestry.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson plays the writer who grabs a cosy job looking after an isolated snowbound hotel for the winter. 2 discs.

Dir: Zacharias Kunuk. An Inuit film set in the Arctic wilderness, where a shaman puts discord into a community.

Martin Koolhoven

Iran | 2006 | ART-E | 80 min | subt | Cert 12 | # 33184 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1980 | WHV | 114 min | Cert 15 | # 52641 | RRP £16.99 | P&P £1.50

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Far North

Marketa Lazarová

The Thing

Dir: Asif Kapadia. A thriller set in the desolate Arctic tundra where the survivors of a tribe of reindeer herders take in Sean Bean’s starving soldier.

Dir: Frantisek Vlacil. Set in the 13th century, this ambitious and multi-layered medieval epic is a stunning work of cinema. Voted best Czech film.

Dir: John Carpenter. Cult sci-fi film in which a group of Arctic research scientists find themselves confronting a lethal alien creature.

USA | 2007 | SODA | 89 min | Cert 15 | # 58582 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

Czech | 1967 | 2RUN | 173 min | subt | 15 | # 32128 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1982 | UPV | 103 min | Cert 18 | # 14759 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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Frozen River

McCabe and Mrs Miller

Touching the Void

Canada | 2001 | ICA | 168 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 60151 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

Dir: Courtney Hunt. Oscar-nominated drama in which two women smuggle immigrants across the St Lawrence’s treacherous frozen waters. USA | 2008 | Axiom | 97 min | Cert 15 | # 59646 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Robert Altman. A snowy Canadian-set ‘anti-western’ starring Julie Christie and Warren Beatty. USA | 1971 | WHV | 108 min | Cert 15 | # 14358 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

Dir: Kevin Macdonald. The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’ quest for survival in the Andes. One of the great tales of endurance. UK | 2003 | 4DVD | 106 min | Cert 15 | # 50885 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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The Holy Mountain

Nói Albínói

Uzak

Dir: Arnold Fanck. Fanck’s classic ‘Bergfilm’ stars Leni Riefenstahl as the blonde dancer caught in a love triangle. 2 discs.

Dir: Dagur Kári. Icelandic small-town boredom weighs heavily on bright drop-out Noi until a new waitress at a diner offers a likely escape.

Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A beautifullyphotographed film of melancholia in snowy Istanbul. Regarded as a true contemporary masterpiece.

Germany | 1926 | EUREK | 105 min | B&W | U | # 17611 | RRP £22.99 | P&P £2

Iceland | 2003 | ART-E | 91 min | Cert 15 | # 17375 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

Turkey | 2003 | ART-E | 105 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 19533 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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The Ice Storm

Runaway Train

Winter Light

Dir: Ang Lee. Infidelity, sex games, disenchantment and tragedy mark this evocation of the US suburbs at a particular moment in the early 1970s.

Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky. Jon Voight plays the violent life-termer who manages to escape from an ice-bound maximum security prison.

A stark, unsparing look at faith and its loss. Gunnar Björnstrand plays the flu-ridden pastor who ends up preaching to an empty church.

USA | 1997 | BUENA | 108 min | Cert 15 | # 10462 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1985 | ARROW | 104 min | Cert 15 | # 53506 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

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Echo of Diana / Shadow of Fear Ernest Morris

A pairing of suspense dramas. In Echo of Diana, after learning that her husband has been killed in an air crash, a woman is disturbed to read an ‘in memoriam’ from a mysterious ‘Diana’. Shadow of Fear is a tale of decoys, espionage and murder starring Paul Maxwell.

A Fire Has Been Arranged Leslie H. Hiscott

One of Britain’s best-loved double acts, music hall duo Flanagan and Allen, star in this crime caper which sees them find a shop built over their stash of jewels after their release from prison. Then store manager Alastair Sim reveals that imminent bankruptcy threatens... UK | 1935 | SMPLY | 66 min | Cert U Item # 64172 | RRP £12.99 | Released 10th January | P&P £1

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UK | 1963 | RENOWN | 120 min | Cert 12 Item # 63991 | RRP £14.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Kiss of Death

Terence Fisher

Margaret Leighton, Celia Johnson and Noël Coward star in Coward’s own tale of an adulterous love triangle. Coward (who later described himself as looking like a Chinese character actress) replaced Michael Redgrave as the lead.

Henry Hathaway

USA | 1947 | OPTIM | 94 min | Cert 12 Item # 64219 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

UK | 1950 | SPIRT | 87 min | Cert PG Item # 64339 | RRP £12.99 | Released 25th January | P&P £1

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Last Holiday Henry Cass

Cavalcade of Variety / Stars on Parade Oswald Mitchell

A pairing of films that offer a rare chance to see some of the headlining acts of the 1930s. Stars on Parade features John Rorke, Pat O’Brien and Arthur Lucan, while Cavalcade of Variety has Billy Cotton, Eve Becke, Phyllis Robins and more. UK | 1936 | RENOW | 120 min | PG Item # 63945 | RRP £14.99 | Released 31st January

In this classic British comedy, adapted from JB Priestley’s play, Alec Guinness stars as a salesman who finds out that he hasn’t long to live and takes the last holiday of the film’s title – whereupon he finds out he is a more interesting person than he has ever allowed himself to be! Also stars Sid James. UK | 1950 | OPTIM | 85 min | Cert U Item # 64195 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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The Man in a Grey Flannel Suit

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Deadfall

Nunnally Johnson

Bryan Forbes

Gregory Peck plays an ex-soldier who faces some tough ethical choices as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children, while questioning man’s purpose in world dominated by material culture. Co-stars Jennifer Jones.

Michael Caine stars as cat burglar, conman and recovering alcoholic in this glossy heist thriller in which a woman proposes an ingenious robbery with her husband. Then relationships get complicated by love. Co-stars Eric Portman. UK | 1968 | OPTIM | 114 min | Cert 12 Item # 64267 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January

USA | 1956 | OPTIM | 146 min | Cert 12 Item # 64200 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Recommended Director: Orson Welles

A two-bit thief puts his family in untold danger when the district attorney convinces him to squeal on a fellow inmate at Sing Sing: now the homicidal psychopath (Richard Widmark) will stop at nothing to gain revenge. Co-stars Coleen Gray, Karl Malden, Victor Mature and Brian Donlevy.

The Astonished Heart

Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

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In some ways, it’s a shame Orson Welles made Citizen Kane. Yes, it’s a great movie but it casts a huge shadow and too often eclipses Welles’ other work. And when that other work is as good as Chimes at Midnight, that’s unfortunate. In fairness, Welles had some help on the film – Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Richard II and The Merry Wives of Windsor provided much of the material, which Welles moulded into a script. Welles focussed on the recurrent character of Falstaff, the errant knight who takes young prince Hal wassailing, only to be cast aside when his former charge ascends to the throne. Like much of Welles’ work, it’s a film about the passing of a golden age and the pang of nostalgia: Falstaff dies, a forgotten figure as his former protege – Henry V now – invades France. It’s not going too far to say it’s the best Shakespearean adaptation the cinema has ever produced (well, in the English language at least). Indeed, it might be the best film Welles made – better even than Citizen Kane. JO

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Man Hunt Recommended Director: Fritz Lang Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, George Sanders Released: 31st January DVD Extras: Trailer USA | 1941 | OPTIM | 98 min | B&W | Cert PG | Item # 64180

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Foreign Correspondent Alfred Hitchcock

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Ministry of Fear Fritz Lang

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lthough made when America was still officially neutral in WWII, Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt is one of a cluster of Hollywood pictures (including such titles as The Great Dictator and Foreign Correspondent) that dropped any pretence of objectivity and showed sceptical American audiences how evil the Nazis really were. Seventy years on, its propaganda value is somewhat diminished. But as a thriller, Man Hunt really hasn’t aged at all. Indeed, it’s one of the best there is. It’s set pre-war, in 1939, and our hero is Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon). He’s a celebrated big game hunter but right now he has a different quarry in his sights: Adolf Hitler himself. Thorndike doesn’t mean to kill him – just see if he can. But such sporting bravado cuts no ice with the Gestapo, who take him for an assassin and treat him accordingly. Thorndike escapes back to Blighty where he’s sheltered by Jerry (Joan Bennett), a young ‘seamstress’. But the Nazis – headed by Quive-Smith (George Sanders at his most effortless) – don’t give up that easily; they don’t merely seek to kill Thorndike but to discredit the entire British empire... Adapted from Geoffrey Household’s classic thriller Rogue Male, Man Hunt was

As a thriller, Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt is simply one of the best there is originally set to be directed by John Ford; but Ford dropped out and the project passed to Fritz Lang, himself a refugee from fascism. Lang had little scope to alter the script but that doesn’t mean he didn’t make his mark. Indeed, the film stands as a textbook example of how a great director shapes a picture. Just about every frame bears Lang’s stamp – the design, the geometry, the lighting (all those shadows!) – but his influence goes far beyond mere decoration. The visuals are only part of a careful strategy of pacing and emphasis that builds to a climax that’s utterly, distinctively, Langian. It becomes a film about his favourite themes: the permeability of civilisation and the savagery of man. Why, there’s even one of the caves he was so fond of. As such, it’s the perfect introduction to the films of Fritz Lang. More than that, it is a brilliant bullet of a film that hits its targets dead centre. James Oliver

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Classic Movies The Mole People

Panic in the Streets

Virgil Vogel

Elia Kazan

Classic 1950s B-movie in which archaeologists (John Agar and Hugh Beaumont) stumble upon a race of Sumerian albinos living deep under the Earth where they keep mutant humanoid mole men as food-harvesting slaves. They fall in love with a slave, shunned because of her tanned skin – but can they all escape to the surface? USA | 1956 | FCE | 74 min | Cert PG Item # 63737 | RRP £14.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Cited by Kazan as a personal favourite, this is a dark film noir shot entirely on location. When the victim of a gangland killing is found to have pneumonic plague, a medical officer (Richard Widmark) allies with a bythe-book police chief to hunt down and kill the infected murderers before it spreads. USA | 1950 | OPTIM | 93 min | Cert PG Item # 64181 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Revenge of the Creature

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Jack Arnold

John Agar. Horror sequel to the Creature From the Black Lagoon in which a second expedition is sent up the Amazon to capture the mysterious Gill Man and bring him back to the Florida Oceanarium. Then the creature falls in love with a scientist and breaks out to capture her...

Karel Reisz

David Warner takes the lead role as a Marxist, gorilla-fixated, barely sane artist who kidnaps his ex-wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave in her Cannes Best Actress winning film debut) because she is about to marry again. A dark comedy. UK | 1966 | OPTIM | 93 min | Cert PG Item # 64185 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th January

USA | 1955 | FCE | 82 min | Cert PG Item # 63809 | RRP £14.99 | Released 8th November | P&P £1

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The Thin Red Line

Nudes of the World / Skin Deep

Andrew Marton

Arnold L. Miller

Nudes of the World, one of the earliest proper nudist films, sees a group of beauty contestants looking for an all-over tan on an English country estate – to the disapproval of the local villagers. It’s narrated by Valerie Singleton of all people. Skin Deep is a ‘shockumentary’ about cosmetic surgery from 1981. UK | 1981 | SFE | 75 min | Cert 18 Item # 64290 | RRP £12.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Jack Lee

Dirk Bogarde stars as a 1930s factory worker who leaves his job to become a motorbike rider. He is successful on the track, but a growing ego leads to a tragedy on the racecourse which brings him back to his senses. UK | 1948 | SPIRT | 98 min | Cert U Item # 64338 | RRP £12.99 | Released 25th January | P&P £1

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The first adaptation of James Jones’ novel, followed by Terrence Malick’s version in 1998, this focuses on the dreadful realities of a situation where young men in a foreign land realise they all may die. The waiting is as powerful as the combat sequences in this realistic, honest drama. Keir Dullea stars. USA | 1964 | OPTIM | 95 min | Cert 12 Item # 64176 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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What a Whopper Gilbert Gunn

Once a Jolly Swagman

Decision Before Dawn

Comedy from former documentarist Gunn which stars Adam Faith as a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster and heads for the Highlands to convince the locals to back his book. Filled with comedy stalwarts, from Sid James and Charles Hawtrey to Terry Scott, Wilfrid Brambell and Spike Milligan. UK | 1961 | RENOWN | 86 min | Cert U Item # 63956 | RRP £12.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £1

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Made just six years after the end of the Second World War, Decision Before Dawn is notable as perhaps the first American film to show what life was like for the Germans during the war. As the fighting grinds on and allied troops push the enemy back to their homeland, the American military recruit German POWs to go back and spy on their own side. One such is Corporal Karl Maurer (Oskar Werner), a young medic who is now thoroughly disgusted by the Nazi regime. As he gathers information for his masters, he sees the damage done to his countrymen and women by the war – at increasing risk to himself. Shot amidst the rubble of occupied Germany, Decision Before Dawn never celebrates combat, as most war films of the period do. With its concentration on the suffering of ordinary Germans, it anticipates Douglas Sirk’s A Time To Love and A Time To Die, although this is an altogether less romantic story. While modern war films are more brutal, few capture the sadness of war as accurately as this. BK

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Vintage British Cinema The Ghost of St Michael’s

The Ship That Died of Shame

Victoria the Great

Marcel Varnel

Basil Dearden

Classic 1940s comedy finds a schoolmaster (Will Hay) moved to Scotland and scoffing at the legends of a ghostly piper – until two headmasters come to a grisly end.

1950s British adventure drama based on Nicholas Montserrat’s novel, in which a group of unemployed naval men buy back their boat – and use it for a smuggling operation.

Dame Anna Neagle takes the title role in this classic account of the life of Queen Victoria – a film produced by Herbert Wilcox at the request of Edward VIII. It was followed by a sequel, Sixty Glorious Years.

UK | 1941 | OPTIM | 78 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64210 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1955 | OPTIM | 88 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 64212 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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The Angry Silence

The Lady is a Square

Dir: Guy Green. A powerful drama about loyalties in the industrial workplace in 1960s Britain. Richard Attenborough plays a strike-breaker.

A 1950s comedy musical in which singer Frankie Vaughan is looking for his big break and falls for the daughter of a classical music promoter.

Queen of Hearts / Look Up and Laugh

UK | 1960 | OPTIM | 95 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 64186 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1959 | OPTIM | 94 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64199 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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The Black Rose

The Lady with the Lamp

Dir: Henry Hathaway. A rousing, romantic Technicolor medieval melodrama starring Tyrone Power, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles.

Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Biopic about the reforming nurse Florence Nightingale. Anna Neagle stars.

Herbert Wilcox

UK | 1937 | OPTIM | 105 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64215 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

A rousing Gracie Fields double-bill. In Queen of Hearts she plays a seamstress who gets a chance on stage. UK | 1935-36 | OPTIM | 150 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64221 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Radio Parade of 1935 Dir: Arthur B Woods. One of the first screen outings for Will Hay, this sparkling 1930s musical comedy stars the cream of British variety acts. UK | 1935 | OPTIM | 90 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64190 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

USA / UK | 1950 | OPTIM | 115 min | Cert U | # 64224 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1951 | OPTIM | 99 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64211 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Love, Life & Laughter / Sing As We Go

Sally in our Alley / Looking on the Bright Side

Dir: Basil Dearden. This classic British wartime comedy sees Will Hay play a professor trying to expose a Nazi spy.

Dir: Basil Dean; Maurice Elvey. A double-bill starring the Rochdaleborn singer, Gracie Fields.

UK | 1942 | OPTIM | 74 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64209 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1934 | OPTIM | 155 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64220 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Derby Day

The Man Upstairs

The Show Goes On

A British ensemble drama tracing the events that befall a range of characters on a day at the races. Stars Anna Neagle and Googie Withers.

Dir: Don Chaffey. A psychological drama which sees Richard Attenborough play a deranged lodger with increasingly erratic behaviour.

Gracie Fields plays a mill girl whose dreams of the London stage are reignited when a composer discovers her and she reinvents his ballads.

UK | 1952 | OPTIM | 82 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64218 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1958 | OPTIM | 84 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 64188 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1937 | OPTIM | 85 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64213 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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I Live in Grosvenor Square

Private’s Progress

Sixty Glorious Years

Dir: John Boulting. Ian Carmichael plays the upper class twit who causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army.

Dir: Herbert Wilcox. A companion piece to the previous year’s Victoria the Great, with Anna Neagle again playing the monarch.

UK | 1956 | OPTIM | 96 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64192 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1938 | OPTIM | 91 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64223 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Herbert Wilcox. WWII romantic drama. Anna Neagle plays the lady who falls for an American sergeant. UK | 1945 | OPTIM | 109 min | B&W | Cert U | # 64194 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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This double-bill of Gracie Fields features her first film, Sally in our Alley. UK | 1931-32 | OPTIM | 148 min | B&W | PG | # 64222 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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New Year Film Sale World Cinema

The Girl on the Train

Late Spring

Vincere

Yasujiro Ozu

Marco Bellocchio

André Téchiné

Ozu’s first film in the famed Noriko trilogy, which centres on a liberal father coming to terms with the need to marry off his daughter. 2 discs; The Only Son (Ozu, 1936).

A significant new filmic perspective on the life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, based on the true story of his secret first wife and son who both went on to die in asylums for the insane.

A French drama based on real events in which an attentionseeking girl claims she is the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, provoking a dangerous media frenzy.

Japan | 1949 | BFI | 108 min | subt | B&W | U | # 60979 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Italy | 2009 | ART-E | 125 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62630 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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À Nos Amours

In Memory of Me

Dir: Maurice Pialat. In an astonishing film debut, Sandrine Bonnaire plays a free-spirited 16 year-old girl who goes on a sexual rampage.

Dir: Saverio Costanzo. A beautifully photographed, critically acclaimed drama about suspicion and distrust in a Venetian monastic order.

Phantom / Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs

France | 1983 | EUREK | 94 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 61180 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

Italy | 2007 | ART-E | 112 min | subt | Cert U | # 52954 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Breathless

Johnny Mad Dog

Read My Lips

An iconic example of the nouvelle vague, mixing subversive Gallic insouciance with American B-movies. Restored; Charlotte et son Jules.

Dir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire. Drama set in a war-ravaged African country where a commando of child soldiers are trained to plunder and murder.

Dir: Jacques Audiard. A nearly deaf woman helps a small time criminal to rob a nightclub in this twisting thriller starring Vincent Cassel.

France | 1959 | OPT | 90 min | subt | B&W | 15 | # 62470 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

France | 2008 | MOMET | 98 min | Cert 15 | # 60560 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

France | 2001 | OPTIM | 113 min | subt | 15 | # 62459 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Confucius

Lebanon

Secret Defense

Dir: Mei Hu. Big budget biopic of the Chinese thinker that has proved controversial by showing him as a military man rather than an educator.

Dir: Samuel Maoz. Golden Lionwinning Israeli war drama showing 24 hours in the life of four Israeli soldiers during the 1982 Lebanon invasion.

Dir: Jacques Rivette. Rivette is at his best in this complex drama of secrets from the past. Sandrine Bonnaire is riveting in the lead.

China | 2010 | SHOWB | 125 min | Cert 15 | # 63274 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

Israel | 2009 | MET-D | 89 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62590 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

France | 1998 | ART-E | 170 min | subt | PG | # 59165 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Early Summer

Mother

Séraphine

Dir: Yasujiro Ozu. The second film in Ozu’s Noriko Trilogy. 2 discs; What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu, 1937).

Dir: Joon-Ho Bong. A Korean murder mystery in which a determined woman sets out to prove her handicapped son’s innocence.

Dir: Martin Provost. Award-winning French drama about the painter Séraphine de Senlis, notable for its beautiful filming of her landscape.

France | 2009 | SodaElev | 105 min | subt | 15 | # 62463 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

Two Films by FW Murnau, showing his great versatility. 2 discs. Germany | 1922-24 | EUR | subt | B&W | PG | # 60076 | RRP £24.99 | P&P £1.50

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Japan | 1951 | BFI | 125 min | subt | B&W | U | # 60978 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

S Korea | 2009 | OPTIM | 129 min | subt | 15 | # 62458 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

France | 2008 | MET-D | 126 min | subt | 12 | # 60911 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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I Am Love

Pacific Battleship Yamato

Le Silence de la Mer

Dir: Luca Guadagnino. Tilda Swinton stars in this modern melodrama of repressed passion seething beneath the order of the Italian upper classes. Italy | 2009 | MET-D | 119 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 62794 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Junya Sato. A powerful, visually stunning Japanese WWII film focusing on the battleship’s last voyage. Japan | 2005 | MET-D | 145 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 63424 | £15.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. One of the most important French films dealing with WWII and the Resistance. Based on the famous novel by ‘Vercors’. France | 1949 | EUREK | 85 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 34186 | £19.99 | P&P £1

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Classic Movies Borzage Vol 1: Seventh Heaven / Street Angel

Diana Dors Double Bill

The Ox-Bow Incident

Maurice Elvey

William A. Wellman

A pairing of great silent melodramas directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Seventh Heaven won three Oscars. 2 discs.

Volume 2 of the BFI’s Adelphi Collection features the sprightly comedies Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? and My Wife’s Lodger both starring Diana Dors.

Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews star in this classic western about the perils of vigilante justice that makes a powerful case for leaving things to the law.

USA | 1928 | BFI | 212 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 57909 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1952-53 | BFI | 154 min | B&W | PG | # 61353 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1.50

USA | 1943 | OPTIM | 72 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 62438 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years

A Cottage on Dartmoor

The Olivier Box Set

An essential collection of 10 early British Hitchcocks, from The Pleasure 10 discs. Garden to Jamaica Inn.

Dir: Anthony Asquith. A dark tale of sexual jealousy and love that recalls Hitchcock in both style & substance.

UK | 1925-39 | NWORK | B&W | PG | # 52908 | RRP £59.99 | P&P £5.50

UK | 1929 | BFI | 84 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 54132 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

The Ghoul

The Old Dark House

Dir: T. Hayes Hunter. The first British film to be labelled ‘horrific’, this is a key film for any horror collection. Boris Karloff stars.

Dir: James Whale. A great fun oldschool creepy horror flick from the director of Frankenstein. Karloff is on fine form as a brutish manservant.

6 films, 6 TV plays and more! Henry V, Richard III, King Lear, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Merchant of 10 discs. Venice, Ebony Tower. UK | 1944-1983 | NWORK | Cert 15 | # 33373 | RRP £99.99 | P&P £5.50

UK | 1933 | NWORK | 68 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 57070 | RRP £14.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1932 | NWORK | 70 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 29583 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

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Borzage Volume 2: Lucky Star / Liliom

To Hell and Back

Rawhide

Dir: Jess Hibbs. Audie Murphy, WWII’s most decorated American soldier stars as himself in this actionpacked autobiographical war drama.

Dir: Henry Hathaway. A stagecoach employee and a stranded woman find themselves at the mercy of four desperate men. Tyrone Power stars.

UK | 1938 | NWORK | 85 min | Cert PG | # 23100 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

A Frank Borzage pairing, including Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor’s last silent film. The River (1929).

USA | 1955 | 2ND | 102 min | Cert | # 60390 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1951 | OPTIM | 83 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 62660 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Caught

The High Command

The Wolf Man

Dir: Max Ophuls. A dark melodrama in which a girl’s childhood dream marriage becomes a tormenting nightmare. James Mason stars.

Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Lionel Atwill plays the general with a dirty secret that comes back to haunt him. James Mason co-stars.

Dir: George Waggner. The last of Universal’s great monster movies. Lon Chaney plays the man bitten by a Welsh werewolf.

USA | 1948 | 2ND | 85 min | subt | B&W | U | # 55568 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1936 | OPTIM | 84 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 61970 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1941 | UPV | 70 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 61037 | RRP £5.99 | P&P £1

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Compulsion

The Horse’s Mouth

Dir: Richard Fleischer. A stylish thriller that sees two law students murder a boy in cold blood to ‘prove’ their superiority. Orson Welles stars.

Dir: Ronald Neame. Alec Guinness (Oscar nominated for his screenplay) excels as an irascible artist in this adaptation of Joyce Cary’s novel.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

USA | 1959 | 2ND | 99 min | B&W | Cert 12 | # 62987 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1958 | EUREK | 91 min | Cert PG | # 55786 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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USA | 1927; 1930 | BFI | min | B&W | Cert PG | # 57910 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

Dir: Vittorio De Sica. A saucy Italian sex trilogy starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren. Italy | 1963 | EUREK | 114 min | subt | Cert 15 | # 56962 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Classic Movies

RKO Classics Round-up

Bedlam

The Boy with Green Hair

Mark Robson Producer Val Lewton’s last movie for RKO, this is a highly atmospheric recreation of the 18th century lunatic asylum whose malevolent director (Boris Karloff) incarcerates a troublemaking young woman. She in turn sets about organising the inmates... USA | 1946 | ODEON | 79 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63456 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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Joseph Losey An idealistic anti-war allegory that sees Dean Stockwell play a 12 year-old war orphan whose hair turns green as a protest against yet another impending conflict – much to the consternation of the local townspeople. USA | 1948 | ODEON | 82 min | Cert U | # 63460 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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The Locket

The Lost Patrol

John Brahm

John Ford

Two parts melodrama to one part film noir, this classic Hollywood picture is a labyrinthine dream of obsession and hysteria in which a stranger recounts a tale of deceit, theft and murder to a bridegroom-to-be. Robert Mitchum stars.

An epic WWI story of passions in the burning sands, in which twelve fighting men battle it out to the death. Victor McLagen plays the Sergeant who finds his camp surrounded by Arab tribesmen; Boris Karloff the religious fanatic in his company.

USA | 1946 | ODEON | 85 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63459 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1934 | ODEON | 69 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63457 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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North West Mounted Police

The Racket

Cecil B. DeMille

An intriguing film noir that sees Robert Mitchum’s honest police chief up against a corrupt system and Robert Ryan’s mobster, who has officials in his pay. But then he gets Lizabeth Scott’s sexy nightclub singer on his side. Can he get her to testify?

John Cromwell

Filmed in sumptuous Technicolor on location in the Canadian Rockies, this is glorious fun, as Gary Cooper’s laconic Texas Ranger helps put down a rebellion. Paulette Goddard and Madeleine Carroll co-star. USA | 1940 | ODEON | 120 min | Cert PG | # 63458 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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USA | 1951 | ODEON | 89 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 63455 | RRP £9.99 | P&P £1

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Why is The Long Hot Summer not better known? Its star pedigree alone should have guaranteed its immortality with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick in the cast. Newman won the Best Actor award at Cannes, and it was the first time he and future wife Woodward acted together. Star power aside, it is also a terrific film. It follows Ben Quick (Newman), a barnstorming drifter, who enters the life of a Mississippi family, where he rapidly becomes favoured by the patriarch (Welles), much to the chagrin of his black sheep son, who soon has murder on the mind. At times the film resembles a less demented Tennessee Williams melodrama; although subtle in style, the passion bubbling beneath the surface is palpable in scenes between the wild Quick and the prim spinster, played beautifully by Woodward. Filled with juicy dialogue (‘Miss Clara, you slam the door in a man’s face before he even knocks on it’) and packed with memorable set pieces, this will delight anyone who enjoys great Southern melodramas. AD

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Scandal

A superbly scripted black comedy from satirist Chris Morris, sending up a hapless group of jihadists and would-be suicide bombers – but does this rag-tag team really pose a genuine threat to Britain?

Quay Brothers

John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Ian McKellen and Bridget Fonda star in this fine film about the government-toppling fallout from the 1960s espionage and sex scandal that was the ‘Profumo affair’.

UK | 2009 | OPTIM | 97 min | Cert 15 | # 62504 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1996 | BFI | 104 min | B&W | Cert PG | # 59833 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1.50

Chris Morris

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44 Inch Chest Dir: Malcolm Venville. British gangster drama from the makers of Sexy Beast with an excellent ensemble cast (Winstone, Hurt, McShane). UK | 2009 | MOMET | 95 min | Cert 18 | # 61630 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

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An extraordinary, mesmerising, haunting adaptation of Robert Walser’s novel, suffused with an atmosphere of intense repressed eroticism. 2 discs.

Michael Caton-Jones

UK | 1988 | ICON | 110 min | Cert 18 | # 61113 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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The Disappearance of Alice Creed

The Killer Inside Me

Dir: J. Blakeson. A British thriller starring Gemma Arterton as a kidnapped woman who refuses to play victim. UK | 2009 | ICON | 100 min | Cert 18 | # 62711 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

Dir: Michael Winterbottom. A graphically violent thriller starring Casey Affleck as a brutal Sheriff with a taste for rape and murder. USA | 2010 | ICON | 109 min | Cert 18 | # 62789 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

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1941

Dean Spanley

Dir: Steven Spielberg. A comedy set in the paranoid and hysterical Hollywood community during WWII. Stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

Delightful shaggy-dog tale about an Edwardian father and son’s frosty relationship. Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill lead.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

USA | 1979 | UPV | 112 min | Cert PG | # 59772 | RRP £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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USA | 2009 | MOMET | 93 min | Cert 15 | # 61047 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

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Amazing Grace

Double Take

Morvern Callar

Ioan Gruffudd inspires as William Wilberforce, the English MP who led the 19th century campaign to abolish England’s role in the slave trade.

Ingenious documentary by Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez that mixes up Alfred Hitchcock’s work and wit to explore cold war paranoia.

Samantha Morton lives it up as the Scottish shop worker who steals her dead boyfriend’s novel and has fun in Lynne Ramsay’s sensual adaptation.

UK | 2006 | MOMET | 112 min | Cert PG | # 50217 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

Belgium | 2009 | SODA | 80 min | Cert 15 | # 61380 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 2002 | MOMET | 97 min | Cert 15 | # 13880 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Aria (Special Edition)

Humpday

Radio On

Ambitious operatic anthology featuring ten classic arias reinterpreted by ten very different directors, including Altman, Godard, Russell and Jarman.

Dir: Lynn Shelton. Male friendship and rivalry come under the spotlight in this comedy in which old friends lock themselves into a mutual dare.

Dir: Chris Petit. A cult British road movie / mystery thriller with an evocative new wave soundtrack. Offers up a mythic vision of 1970s England.

Various | 1988 | 2ND | 85 min | subt | Cert 18 | # 58621 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

USA | 2009 | MOMET | 94 min | Cert 15 | # 61502 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

UK | 1979 | BFI | 100 min | B&W | Cert 18 | # 54196 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Daughters of Darkness

Immortal Beloved

Skeletons

Secrets from the past surface when Ludwig van Beethoven’s will reveals a mystery female benefactor. Gary Oldman stars as the great composer.

Dir: Nick Whitfield. A surreal, slightly eccentric British black comedy / psychodrama about a mismatched pair of travelling exorcists.

USA | 1995 | ICON | 115 min | Cert 15 | # 56794 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Harry Kumel. A cult vampire film starring Delphine Seyrig as an enigmatic, sexually ambiguous Countess. Belgium / France | 1970 | 96 min | Cert 18 | # 62466 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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Dir: Grant Heslov. A dark comedy about ‘psychic soldiers’ and the ‘war on terror’, starring George Clooney.

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Television Programmes Originally Broadcast

Doctor Who: Meglos

New Releases Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Collection 8

Four feature-length murder mysteries starring David Suchet as the moustachioed Belgian detective: The Clocks, Three Act Tragedy, Halloween Party and Murder on the Orient Express. Includes a topnotch roster of guest 4 discs. stars.

UK | 2009-10 | G-VEN | 403 min | Cert 15 Item # 63857 | RRP £24.99 | Released 3rd January | P&P £2.50

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Terence Dudley

The Dodecahedron – the mysterious source of all power on the planet Tigella, is failing, and on their way to help, the good doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) find the TARDIS trapped Meglos in a time loop. Men; Commentary; Scene Sync Story; Jacqueline Hill: A Life in Pictures; Entropy Explained. UK | 1980 | 2ENT | 87 min | Cert U Item # 63874 | RRP £19.99 | Released 10th January | P&P £1

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Doctor Who: The Mutants Christopher Barry

A 1972 adventure with third Doctor Jon Pertwee and his assistant Jo (Katy Manning) in which the TARDIS transports them to curious goings-on in 2 the 30th century. discs; Commentary; Cast and crew reflect; Race Against Time documentary about non-white actors in Doctor Who; Blue Peter extract; Dressing Doctor Who.

Bad Girls: Series One Hard-hitting, original and controversial, ITV’s Bad Girls depicted the hidden world of prison inmates and officers in the tense, sexually-charged world of a notorious women’s prison. The complete first series, first broadcast in 3 discs. 1999.

UK | 1999 | ACORN | 500 min | 18 Item # 64094 | RRP £24.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £2

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Christopher and His Kind Geoffrey Sax

Matt Smith stars as writer Christopher Isherwood in this drama written by Kevin Elyot. Frustrated by the restrictions of 1930s England, he moves to Germany to experience Berlin’s gay subculture and falls in love with a street cleaner (Douglas Booth), who he is soon having to protect from the Nazis. UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 90 min | Cert 15 Item # 63711 | RRP £19.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £1

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Doctor Who – The New Series: A Christmas Carol

UK | 1972 | 2ENT | 150 min | Cert PG Item # 64165 | RRP £19.99 | Released 31st Jan | P&P £1.50

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The Likes of Sykes

Three shows from Eric Sykes made for Thames TV between 1971 and 1982: Sykes: With the Lid Off, The Likes of Sykes and The Eric Sykes 1990 Show. Filled with his warm observational humour and exploiting his keen eye for the absurd, the shows reunite him with several comedy collaborators, including Tommy Cooper and Hattie Jacques. UK | 1980 | NWORK | 150 min | Cert PG Item # 64137 | RRP £14.99 | Released 24th January | P&P £1

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Garrow’s Law: Series Two

A festive edition of the time-travelling adventure in which the Doctor has to save the soul of an old miser. Guest stars Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins join Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. Doctor Who Confidential Christmas Special; Doctor Who at the Proms 2010.

The second series of the fictionalised drama based on the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who in an age of widespread corruption, bounty hunting and blood money, popularised cross-examination in defence of the accused. Andrew Buchan 2 discs; Also available: 4 disc box stars. set containing series 1 & 2.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 60 min | Cert PG Item # 64178 / 82 | RRP £12.99 | Out 24th January

UK | 2010 | ACORN | 240 min | Cert 15 Item # 64023 | RRP £19.99 | Released 7th Feb

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Network TV Classics MovieMail Exclusives The Four Just Men This ITC crime drama, loosely based on Edgar Wallace’s 1905 novel, assembled an astonishing array of talent: Jack Hawkins, Richard Conte, Vittorio de Sica and Dan Dailey star as the four men chosen to defeat tyranny 5 discs. worldwide. UK | 1959-60 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item # 64004 | RRP £49.99 | Out Now | P&P £3

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Man of the World: Complete Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn) stars as a high-flying photojournalist whose business takes him from the glamour of the catwalk to political hot spots. Unseen since the 1960s, this is a much soughtafter ITC series, with every episode containing mystery, danger and humour. Series writers include Brian Clemens, directors include Charles 5 discs. Crichton and Charles Frend! UK | 1962-63 | NWORK | 1000 min | Cert TBC Item # 64003 | RRP £39.99 | Out Now | P&P £3

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The Plane Makers: Volume 1

The prequel to ATV’s famous boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of the Scott Furlong airplane development company and its director, the ruthless John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). Never previously available in any format, this release contains the first 13 episodes of series two and the one 4 discs. remaining episode from series one. UK | 1963-64 | NWORK | 700 min | Cert TBC Item # 64002 | RRP £39.99 | Out Now | P&P £2.50

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Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance Stuart Burge

In one of his finest performances, Patrick McGoohan stars in John Arden’s anti-war play, adapted for TV by Arden himself, in which three army privates and their serjeant, all deserters from a foreign imperialist war, head to a northern British mining town in 1879. Arden’s pacifist theme remains universally significant. UK | 1961 | NWORK | 78 min | Cert PG Item # 60823 | RRP £14.99 | Released 6th December | P&P £1

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Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo: Series 1

BBC2 Documentary series in which Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train, from Carlisle to Glasgow, Liverpool to Eccles, Truro to Penzance and all points in between, learning the social history of the places he visits. 4 discs.

UK | 2010 | FHE | 600 min | Cert E Item # 64377 | RRP £34.99 | Released 7th Feb | P&P £2.50

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The House of Eliott: Series 1

Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard star in this classic series set in the 1920s, which tells the story of two sisters who find themselves penniless when their philandering father dies. Unable to rely on their inheritance they go into the dressmaking business and soon have the most prestigious establishment in London. The series, a surprise hit for the BBC, regularly 4 discs. attracted over 10 million viewers.

UK | 1991-93 | ACORN | 617 min | | Cert 12 Item # 63985 | RRP £32.99 | Released 7th Feb | P&P £2.50

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Gulliver’s Travels Charles Sturridge

Is It Legal? Series 1 & 2

Edward Petherbridge, Robert Hardy, James Fox, Geraldine Chaplin, John Gielgud, Edward Fox. A star-studded 1996 TV adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s timeless tale which follows the fantastical journeys of the shipwrecked Dr Lemuel Gulliver through strange and wonderful lands.

The complete first and second series, available separately, of the 1990s sitcom about the misadventures of an incompetent law firm in Hounslow, where ineptitude and boredom keep the staff heading for chaos at every opportunity. Richard Lumsden, Jeremy Clyde and Imelda Staunton star.

UK / USA | 1996 | 4DVD | 180 min | Cert PG Item # 64270 | RRP £19.99 | Released 6th December

UK | 1995 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert TBC Item # 62768 / 64140 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Halcyon River Diaries

A charming portrait of life by a typical English river told by award-winning wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James and his wife, TV presenter Philippa Forrester, this is also – thanks to the presence of their three young sons – a hilarious mix of wildlife and chaotic family life. Comedian Hugh Dennis narrates. 2 discs; Outtakes; Watching the Wild Otters. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 240 min | Cert E Item # 64042 | RRP £19.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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A History of Ancient Britain: Series 1 Neil Oliver begins an epic quest through the world of our prehistoric ancestors to explore how our land and its peoples came into being from the glacial wasteland of 12,000 BC through the glories of the Stone Age, travelling the British Isles to piece together this remarkable story.

UK | 2010 | 2ENT | Cert E Item # 64206 | RRP £19.99 | Released 7th March | P&P £1

Any Human Heart Recommended Starring: Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen, Sam Claflin, Gillian Anderson Released: 27th December DVD Extras: 2 discs; Cast Interviews; On set; From paper to screen: William Boyd interview. UK | 2010 | UPV | 240 min | Cert 15 | Item # 63745

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Land Girls: Series 1

The complete first series of the WWII drama about four girls doing their bit for the war effort. Nancy (Summer Strallen), Joyce (Becci Gemmell), Bea (Jo Woodcock) and Annie (Christine Bottomley) find their lives change drastically when they join up to the Women’s Land Army 2 discs. and move to the country.

UK | 2009 | ACORN | 223 min | Cert PG Item # 63952 | RRP £19.99 | Released 17th Jan | P&P £1.50

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Last of the Summer Wine: Series 19 and 20 The appearance of a mobile dating agency in Holmfirth gives heart to Compo – will Nora Batty finally give in to his romantic advances? But there’s a new man in town too, Walter Ridley – and the local ladies seem very interested. Can Compo up his game? More fun with the evergreen pensioners. 4 discs. UK | 1999 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 63724 | RRP £24.99 | Released 7th Feb | P&P £2.50

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William Boyd adapts his novel of the same name for television, charting the life of an aspiring writer from youthful Brideshead-style hedonism in the 1920s through to bitter memories and dicky tickers in 1980s France. It’s a swirling dream-like charge through Mountstuart’s preoccupations that barely catches its breath as the rousing score carries it along to the next cameo. Casting three actors – Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin – as Mountstuart neatly solves the age issues and also plays into the novel’s own preoccupation with changing personalities. All three impress but the shared mannerisms between Macfadyen and Broadbent as the older incarnations of Mountstuart delight particularly. It’s staggering how the makers of Any Human Heart manage to squeeze 80 years into four 90 minute episodes. Much enjoyment comes from the great supporting cast playing real-life figures: Gillian Anderson’s hissing Wallis Simpson drips as much menace as mirth! A touching and highly enjoyable TV treat. DDP

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Television Last Voices of World War I

What was it really like to be a British ‘Tommy’ fighting in the trenches in The Great War? How did it feel to face the wire, the artillery barrages and the poison gas clouds? To see your comrades dying around you day after day? This documentary draws on one hundred interviews with WWI veterans, most of whom had never been interviewed before. This is the most wideranging oral history of the British experience of 2 discs. the First World War ever recorded. UK | 2010 | SMPLY | 282 min | Cert E Item # 64173 | RRP £18.99 | Released 10th Jan

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Merlin: Complete Series 3

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Michael Bentine’s Potty Time: Series 2

The complete second series of the Thames TV children’s show devised, written, voiced and designed by ex-Goon Michael Bentine and featuring his many potty hand puppets – the Potties, as they take us on a tour of famous his2 discs. torical events.

UK | 1974 | NWORK | 325 min | Cert U Item # 64109 | RRP £15.99 | Released 7th Feb

My Friend Walter: Complete

Midsomer Murders: Series 13 - Not in My Backyard Another case for John Nettles’ DCI Barnaby. When a member of the Midsomer Conservation Society believes locals are involved in a property development fraud in the village of Great Pelfe, her suspicions soon lead Barnaby to investigate a case of murder.

UK | 2010 | ACORN | 89 min | Cert 12 Item # 64025 | RRP £17.99 | Released 17th January

Silent Witness: Series 9 & 10

All nine two-part episodes from series 9 and 10 of the BBC crime series. By now, new recruit Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) has become an indispensable member of the team which this series investigates a diverse collection of cases including people trafficking, a woman killed in a fire, a spate of drive-by shootings and a possible copycat sex killer preying on women in 4 discs. London and Amsterdam. UK | 2006 | 2ENT | 1170 min | Cert 15 Item # 63890 | RRP £24.99 | Released 10th Jan | P&P £2.50

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Ronald Pickup, Don Henderson and Prunella Scales star in this fantasy adventure series about a girl who sets out to save her family’s farm with the help of a mischievous time-travelling ancestor – the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh! Adapted from the children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo.

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The Other ‘Arf: Series 1

The complete first series of the 1980s comedy starring Lorraine Chase as the Cockney model and John Standing as the Tory MP who find love somehow blossoming between them. Developed by legendary comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the series was originally screened in 1980, and also stars Patricia Hodge and Caroline Quentin. UK | 1980 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert PG Item # 64131 | RRP £12.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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USA | 1996 | UPV | Cert PG Item # 63703 | RRP £34.99 | Released 31st Jan

UK | 1992 | NWORK | 100 min | Cert PG Item # 64110 | RRP £14.99 | Released 24th January

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The complete final season of tantalising mystery dramas starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, the widowed mystery writer who unfailingly stumbles across a murder in each episode. But can the viewer get to the truth before she can? 6 discs.

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All the episodes from the third series of the BBC fantasy drama set in the mythical city of Camelot, telling of the relationship between young King Arthur (Bradley James) and Merlin (Colin Morgan), the wise sorcerer who guides him to power. Anthony Head, John Hurt and Richard Wilson co-star.

Murder, She Wrote: Series 12

Nicholas Lyndhurst stars in this sitcom which lifts the lid on the shadowy world of espionage during the early 1990s – with startling results. When electronics lecturer Peter Chapman (Lyndhurst) finds himself coerced into working for MI5, he soon discovers that his spymasters are misinformed, bungling incompetents. Nevertheless, he uses his skill to combat Soviet agents and a still greater menace: the French secret service! And all while keeping it quiet from his wife. UK | 1991 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert PG Item # 64132 | RRP £12.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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Single-Handed

Produced by the team behind The Vice, SingleHanded explores the subject of rural policing. Owen McDonnell stars as the police sergeant stationed in the west of Ireland and responsible for a huge patch, from the Atlantic coast to the glacial lakes in the East, from Galway in the South to Killary Harbour in the North. He has learned one invaluable lesson: when the going gets tough, the only 3 discs. person he can rely on is himself.

UK | 2007 | ACORN | 278 min | Cert 15 Item # 61819 | RRP £24.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £2

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Spring and Autumn: Series 1

Jimmy Jewel stars in this 1970s sitcom about an embittered pensioner forced to move down south and live with his daughter and her garrulous husband in their highrise flat after his house is demolished by the local council. However, while there he soon strikes up a friendship with a 12 year-old cockney misfit. UK | 1973 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert TBC Item # 64126 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £1

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That’s My Boy: Series 2 Sitcom legend Mollie Sugden stars as housekeeper Ida Willis, who finds herself working for the son she gave up for adoption as a baby. She soon starts to make her maternal presence felt – and Robert’s adoptive mother finds that she has some stiff competition!

UK | 1983 | NWORK | 200 min | Cert PG Item # 64127 | RRP £12.99 | Released 24th January | P&P £1

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Thirty Minutes Worth: Series 2

All six episodes from the second series of the 1970s ITV sketch show starring comedian Harry Worth, in which the wellmeaning Harry reduces everyone he comes into contact with – whether it be neighbours, his doctor or the police – to a state of utter befuddlement.

UK | 1973 | REV | 146 min | Cert U Item # 63970 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now | P&P £1

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The Upper Hand: Series 6 After a career-ending injury, Joe McGann’s down-on-his-luck single dad gets a job as housekeeper at the country home of Diana Weston’s executive, whose scepticism to him gradually softens. Honor Blackman plays her naughty mother. 2 discs.

UK | 1995 | NWORK | 350 min | Cert TBC Item # 64133 | RRP £19.99 | Released 24th Jan | P&P £1.50

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Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Series

The complete LWT drama based on the lives of the masters and servants of 165, Eaton Place, the series chronicling the life of an English home, with household dramas interwoven with historical events. Gordon Jackson plays Hudson the butler and Jean Marsh (who cocreated the series with Eileen Atkins) the par17 discs. lourmaid. UK | 1971-75 | NWORK | 3400 min | Cert 12 Item # 64193 | RRP £59.99 | Released 31st January | P&P £6

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Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club: Series 3

The legendary Bernard Manning comperes, while fellow stand-up veteran Colin Crompton is ‘Mr Chairman’ at the friendliest working men’s club in the North. Amid the boozing, bingo and committee announcements, the show featured rising stars, contemporary acts and acclaimed performers – along with the 2 discs. occasional musical oddity.

UK | 1975 | NWORK | 360 min | Cert E Item # 64134 | RRP £19.99 | Released 7th Feb | P&P £1.50

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UK | 1982-83 | NWORK | 250 min | Cert 15 Item # 64112 | RRP £19.99 | Released 17th Jan | P&P £1.50

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Birds of a Feather: Series 3 and Series 4 UK | 1991 | 350 min | PG | # 64145 | £19.99 each

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Cowboys: Series 1 UK | 1980 | NWORK | 150 min | PG | # 63403 | £12.99

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Footballers’ Wives: S3 UK | 2004 | 468 min | 15 | # 64084 | RRP £25.99

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German Wanderlust With Julia Bradbury UK | 2010 | ACORN | 120 min | E | # 63186 | RRP £16.99 | P&P £1

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UK | 1972 | NWORK | 295 min | Cert E Item # 63981 | RRP £19.99 | Released 31st Jan

Lie to Me: Season 2

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Zen

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Swingtown: Season 1

John Alexander

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Rufus Sewell stars as the fictional Italian detective Aurelio Zen in three new feature-length dramas for the BBC, set in and around Rome, and based on the best-selling novels by the late Michael Dibdin. In the first instalment, Vendetta, Zen is called upon by the Ministry to re-investigate a multiple murder – 2 discs. and soon finds himself on a hit-list.

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Contains Walter (1982), Walter and June (1983) and Loving Walter. With a remarkable performance by Ian McKellen, who gained a Royal Television Society award for his portrayal of a man with mental and physical disabilities who is left at society’s mercy after the death of his parents, Walter was the centrepiece drama for Channel 2 discs. 4’s launch night in 1982.

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Stephen Frears

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Walter

Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia

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Whodunnit: Series 1 All six episodes, plus the pilot, from the first series of the brilliantly original 1970s murder mystery game show hosted by Edward Woodward, who each week invited a panel of celebrity sleuths to solve the clues in a dramatised murder by grilling the characters, before finally deciding on the culprit.

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The Office – An American Workplace: Series 1-5 USA | UPV | Cert 15 | # 63998 | RRP £79.99 | P&P £6

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The Royle Family: Christmas Special UK | 2010 | G-VEN | 60 min | 15 | # 63999 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

New Releases A Year to Remember

Using news footage and interviews from the BBC, British Pathé and other news services, this series provides a unique year by year look at what was making the news in various decades. Three volumes are available: the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s. 3 discs each volume.

UK | 1999 | SFE | 590 min | Cert E Item # 64265 / 64298-9 | RRP £24.99 | Out Now | P&P £2

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Michael Madsen A thought-provoking documentary that considers the storage of nuclear waste. Its central question is terrifyingly simple: how to store valuable toxic waste for 100,000 years, when no human structure has previously lasted even a tenth of that time.

Dietrich Wawzyn

An essential release for lovers of American blues, gospel, jazz and country, this documentary features priceless footage shot on a 1963 tour through America in the company of Arhoolie records founder Chris Strachwitz.

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Faces of Scotland (Blu-ray)

Nine classic restored Scottish documentaries. Contains the Oscarwinning Seawards The Great Ships (1960), The Big Mill (1963), The Silver City (1957), Pleasure Island (1960), A Kind of Seeing (1967), The Face of Scotland (1938), Still Life with Honesty (1970), New Day (1959) and Glasgow 1980 (1971).

UK | 1971 | PANA | 198 min | Cert E Item # 63904 | RRP £24.99 | Released 10th January | P&P £1

Our Blu-ray Price: £17.99 Is modern day economics simply the study of incentives? Taking the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything as their inspiration, Seth Gordon, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing and Morgan Spurlock examine the influence of incentives on human behaviour. USA | 2010 | OPTIM | 89 min | Cert 12 Item # 64202 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

BAFTA winning documentary in which English explorer and biographer Michael Asher retraces T.E. Lawrence’s footsteps across Jordan and Egypt, as well as recreating his epic camel ride across the Sinai desert. The film ends in London with Asher’s discovery of Lawrence’s real experiences in Sinai, recorded in his unpublished pocket diary, now in the British Museum.

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Down Home Music: A Journey Through the Heartland 1963

Freakonomics

In Search of Lawrence of Arabia

The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the turning points of WWII. Until now, our understanding of this crucial battle has been based on German materials, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly available Russian archives have revealed new facts. 2 discs; Feature-length bonus film, Battle for Stalingrad (1949), made by the Soviet Union to celebrate their victory. UK | 2010 | SMPLY | 150 min | Cert E Item # 64174 | RRP £18.99 | Released 10th Jan | P&P £1.50

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Shed Your Tears and Walk Away Jez Lewis

A real-life drama about why, in the beautiful rural town of Hebden Bridge, filmmaker Jez Lewis’s childhood friends are killing themselves. The film moves through a year-long drama of tragedy and redemption as one man attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. UK | 2009 | DRAKE | 90 min | Cert 15 Item # 63721 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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Following The War on Democracy, John Pilger’s new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war. It traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from WWI to Hiroshima, and from Vietnam to Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an electronic battlefield. But who is the real enemy today? John Pilger asks ‘Do journalists beat the drums of war, then normalise the unthinkable? ... it is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it.’ He also addresses new journalism, asking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about British secrecy laws. ‘When we look at the Official Secrets Act labelled documents, we see a statement that it is an offence to retain the information and it is an offence to destroy the information, so the only possible outcome is that we have to publish the information.’ This is an important film for anyone concerned with truth, justice and how it is reported.

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Into Eternity Thought-provoking films that explore transcendence, death and the infinite Inspired by the themes touched on by Into Eternity we present a selection of films that explore the mysteries and intrigues of man’s existence. Prices are low so don’t hesitate to begin your journey!

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Stanley Kubrick

A necessary, thought-provoking documentary that considers the issue of the long-term storage of nuclear waste – a substance that remains toxic for ten times longer than any human construction yet built.

A profound exploration of human consequence and inconsequence, Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s screenplay is given a treatment that still astonishes. 2 discs. USA | 1968 | WHV | 136 min | Cert U | # 30976 | RRP £16.99 | P&P £1.50

Michael Madsen

Finland | 2010 | DOGW | 75 min | Cert E | # 63993 | RRP £14.99 | P&P £1

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring Kim Ki-duk An entrancing, meditative film set on a lake in South Korea and charting the life of a Buddhist from his early days to the winter of his years. S Korea | 2003 | TARTN | 106 min | subt | 15 | # 19539 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Being John Malkovich

The Fountain

Dir: Spike Jonze. A captivatingly strange exploration of identity which features a portal that goes straight into John Malkovich’s head!

Dir: Darren Aronofsky. A dazzling reflection on death, which is here seen as a creative act and, as part of a process of rebirth, to be embraced.

Dir: David Lynch. This ‘love story in the city of dreams’ invites multiple interpretations on its dark trip through the flipside of Hollywood.

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USA | 2007 | FOX | 93 min | Cert 15 | # 33754 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Blind Chance

Heaven Can Wait

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Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski. A film that follows the three possible life paths for a man running after a train. This is consummate filmmaking.

Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Held up at the gates of Hell, Henry Van Cleve recounts his lively life and his women to see if he deserves entry.

Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer. One of the most beautifully photographed films ever made, in which a man truly believes he is the reincarnated Christ.

Poland | 1982 | ART-E | 124 min | subt | 18 | # 14661 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

USA | 1943 | 20CFX | min | Cert U | # 26288 | RRP £12.99 | P&P £1

Den | 1954 | BFI | 119 min | subt | B&W | 12 | # 26999 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Dekalog

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The Seventh Seal

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s series of films made for Polish TV, based on the 10 Commandments, and set in modern Warsaw. 2 volumes, 2 discs each.

Dir: Wachowski Brothers. The special effects will leave you dumbfounded, and the film will leave you wanting to know if the world is as it appears.

Bergman’s allegory of Man’s search for meaning in which a knight, after returning from the Crusades, plays a game of chess with Death.

Poland | 1988 | ART-E | subt | Cert 15 | # 9698 | RRP £24.99 | P&P £1.50

USA | 1998 | WHV | 190 min | Cert 15 | # 4943 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

Sweden | 1957 | PALIS | 92 min | subt | B&W | PG | # 50782 | £19.99 | P&P £1

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Departures

A Matter of Life and Death

Wings of Desire

A beautiful, touching film about life and death, telling the story of an unemployed cellist who finds himself working for an undertaker. Japan | 2008 | ARROW | 130 min | subt | 12 | # 61358 | RRP £17.99 | P&P £1

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The Double Life of Veronique Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski. A haunting film that proposes an intricate web of mysterious connections. 2 discs. France / Pol | 1991 | ART-E | 94 min | subt | 15 | # 27563 | £22.99 | P&P £1.50

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Dir: Powell & Pressburger. Romantic fantasy in which an airman debates his right to live in a heavenly court. UK | 1946 | CRLTN | 103 min | Cert U | # 3080 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Mother and Son Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov. Words almost fail to describe this uniquely moving film in which a son carries his dying mother through a landscape.

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Mulholland Drive

Dir: Wim Wenders. A spellbinding film about two angels moving invisibly in the world of mortals, listening to their thoughts and fears. Germany | 1987 | Axiom | 122 min | B&W | 12 | # 53872 | RRP £15.99 | P&P £1

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A Zed And Two Noughts Dir: Peter Greenaway. A tirelessly provocative, funny, stylish examination of life, death, decay and light.

Russia | 1997 | ART-E | 71 min | subt | Cert U | # 33185 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

UK / Netherlands | 1985 | BFI | 112 min | 15 | # 16673 | RRP £19.99 | P&P £1

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Henry Joost / Ariel Schulman A stranger-than-fiction ‘reality documentary’ exploring the unexpected consequences of social networking. The film follows a photographer who is contacted via Facebook by a girl in rural Michigan who asks to use his artwork. Soon he is in a web of online intrigue.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Peter Hyams

A remake of Fritz Lang’s 1956 noir thriller. Michael Douglas stars as district attorney Mark Hunter who is in the sights of an ambitious young reporter who begins investigating dark rumours. Just how far is he prepared to go for an exposé? USA | 2009 | EV | 105 min | Cert 12 Item # 63799-800 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now | P&P £1

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Black Dynamite Scott Sanders

Michael Jai White stars as Vietnam vet and former CIA agent ‘Black Dynamite’ in this action comedy parody of 1970s blaxploitation films. After his brother is murdered, he sets out on a supercharged one-man mission to avenge his death. USA | 2009 | ICON | 85 min | Cert 15 Item # 63794 | RRP £12.99 | Released 24th January

USA | 2010 | MOMET | 87 min | Cert 12 Item # 64065 | RRP £15.99 | Released 10th January | P&P £1

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Duffer / Moon Over the Alley Despins/Dumaresq

A pairing of rarely-seen films from the BFI National Archive. Duffer is an intense study of obsession that tells the story of a boy torn between a kindly prostitute and a sadistic older man, while The Moon Over the Alley is a dreamlike film about the multicultural residents in a 2 discs. Notting Hill boarding house. UK | 1971; 1976 | BFI | 183 min | Cert 15 Item # 63992 | RRP £19.99 | Released 17th Jan | P&P £1.50

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Eat Pray Love Ryan Murphy

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Ashley Horner A headily sexual British love story that sees a photographer called Manchester and a taxidermist called Noon create an idyll of uninhibited lovemaking one summer, which Manchester photographs. Can their relationship survive the attention that fame brings? UK | 2010 | OPTIM | 96 min | Cert 18 Item # 63965 | RRP £15.99 | Released 11th January | P&P £1

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The best of the UK’s new short sci-fi films, which look at identity through the lens of cloning, time travel and space flight. Are we who we think we are, were and will be when our DNA and past is up for Script 2 grabs? Screen; Inside Industry; Commentaries. UK | 2011 | CRNRS | 68 min | 15 Item # 63847 | RRP £9.99 | Released 17th January | P&P £1

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USA | 2010 | COL-T | 140 min | Cert 15 Item # 64097 / 082 | RRP £19.99 | Out 7th February

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Believing there’s more to life than a husband, house and career, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) finds herself with a new appetite for life in this inspiring true story in which she embarks on a year of travel to Italy, India and Bali, seeking self-discovery through good food, meditation and, perhaps, true love. Javier Bardem co-stars in this uplifting adventure.

Jackie Oudney A romantic comedy offering a wry look at the different ways the French and British approach romance. When he interviews film director and self-appointed expert on love Thierry Grimandi (Eric Cantona – who else?), Hugh Bonneville’s journalist is forced to re-evaluate his own love life. UK | 2008 | REV | 88 min | Cert 15 Item # 64271 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th February | P&P £1

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Private Road Recommended Director: Barney Platts-Mills Starring: Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson Released: 17th January DVD Extras: 2 discs; DVD & Blu-ray; Bonus films: St Christopher (Platts-Mills, 1967 and The Last Chapter (Tringham, 1974); Booklet. UK | 1971 | BFI | 89 min | Cert 15 | Item # 63983

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Shifting his focus from the workingclass East End to middle-class Surrey and north London, Platts-Mills followed Bronco Bullfrog with Private Road, a tale of love in which a bored young secretary (Susan Penhaligon) takes off with a writer (Bruce Robinson of Withnail and I), only to find bohemian life turning stale. Where Bullfrog was monochrome, primitive and ‘unprofessional’ (in the best sense), Private Road is sunnier (literally) and more visually polished. But in many ways it is a logical follow-on: it retains the highly naturalistic, improvised style of the earlier film – which also had a teenage elopement at its centre – and develops its themes of obstructed romance, personal freedom, compromise and responsibility. There are echoes of early Ken Loach and parallels with Mike Leigh’s Bleak Moments, but Platts-Mills was very much his own man, and Private Road stands as a maturation of the promise that was evident in Bullfrog. It’s a pity his film career stalled after this; seventies British cinema was to miss out on a growing, individualistic talent. JU

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Winter’s Bone Recommended Director: Debra Granik Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Shelley Waggener Released: 31st January DVD Extras: Making of; Deleted scenes; Alternative opening; Trailer (TBC). USA | 2010 | ART-E | 100 min | Cert 15 | Item # 63696

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