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e are back on the exclusives and rarities trail this month with a refreshingly diverse selection of films. We have a Japanese giant moth movie – Mothra (page 18), silent Soviet science-fiction unlike anything before or since – Aelita (also page 18), and a key Russian ‘new wave’ drama – I Am Twenty (page 14), along with limited stocks of the Humphrey Bogart classic, High Sierra (page 9). Something for all tastes there! We write this catalogue two weeks before you receive it so it’s sometimes tricky to anticipate the climate. For our big sale on pages 16-17, Dan (in London) originally went for ‘Late Summer’ as the temperature there is currently

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An uplifting tale of love, loss and the birth pangs of starting out on a new life, Love is All You Need was filmed in beautiful locations in Italy and Denmark and stars Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm as a couple who meet on the way to their offsprings’ wedding. Directed by Oscar winner Susanne Bier. Item# 71837 Denmark / Italy | 2012 | 116 | subt | 15 | £17.99

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Fritz Lang’s classic WWII thriller. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, Lang’s film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors and revolutionaries and finds him operating at the peak of his considerable powers. Item# 72322 USA | 1943 | 134 | B&W | PG | £14.99

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Set in the 1950s and with great visual style, Populaire is a charming, highly enjoyable French romantic comedy directed by Régis Roinsard and featuring an excellent cast including Romain Duris, Déborah François and Bérénice Bejo. Item# 72324 France | 2012 | 111 | subt | 12 | £17.99

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Spencer Tracy plays the mysterious stranger who arrives in a US desert town on a mission of honour. The town has secrets – and plans to keep them. This is a brilliant mood piece, a noir film in bright sunlight in small town America. Item# 72586 USA | 1954 | 78 | | £14.99

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Item# 72325 France | 2012 | 111 | subt | 12 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Howard Hawks

Item# 69866 1944 | 96 | B&W | PG | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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The Maltese Falcon John Huston

Item# 366 1941 | 99 | B&W | PG | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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They Drive by Night Raoul Walsh

Item# 72218 1940 | 91 | B&W | PG | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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umphrey Bogart made a name for himself in Hollywood with the gangster pictures of the 1930s. He didn’t become an icon, though, until the more hard-bitten crime flicks – ‘film noir’ some called them – of the following decade. Made in 1941, High Sierra can be seen as the crucial transition between these two phases, summarising what had gone before while pointing towards to the future. Bogie plays Roy Earle, who starts the film being let out of jail. His friends in the mob have procured him a pardon, but not out of the goodness of their hearts. Roy’s an ace stick-up man: ‘the boys’ have need of his talents and speedily dispatch him out west to supervise a job. Roy isn’t a bad sort at heart; he’s kind to those that deserve it and has dreams of settling down but things don’t work out that simply. His job misfires (amateurs, eh?) and he finds himself on the lam again, teamed up with a love-struck dame (Ida Lupino) and a devoted dog. Roy vowed once that he would never set foot in jail again; as the dragnet closes in, that vow will be put to the test. High Sierra was adapted by John Huston from the novel by William R. Burnett and directed by that most sophisticated of

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A key film with a starmaking performance from Humphrey Bogart tough guy directors, Raoul Walsh. Between them, Huston and Walsh bring a real nuance – pathos, even – to what might have been a straight-up crime caper. But this is Bogart’s show and is surely one of the key films in his career; for all he’s second-billed behind Ida Lupino, who makes the most of every moment, he eclipses her (and everyone else) in all departments. This is a star-making turn, in more ways than one – what’s fascinating is how you can see the famous Bogart persona take shape as Roy’s aspirations get blunted by disappointing reality: the shoulders hunch, the heart hardens ... and a star is born. Six months later, Bogie re-teamed with Huston for The Maltese Falcon. That would be the film that ultimately cemented his image, but he couldn’t have got there without passing through High Sierra first. For fans of classic Hollywood, it’s thoroughly recommended. But for Bogiephiles, it’s absolutely essential. James Oliver Page 11

Animation New Releases Epic

Chris Wedge Awakening in a magical forest world, a teenage girl (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) finds herself at the centre of a battle between good and evil in this animated fantasy adventure from the director of Ice Age and Robots.

Erotica & Horror Sale

With its stimulating mix of international erotica, British sex comedies and horror films, this sale from Nucleus Films is bound to thrill.

Ghost Story

Some Like It Sexy

Stephen Weeks

Donovan Winter

A dreamlike cult British horror film. Set in 1920s England it tells of three former public schoolfriends who reunite in a mansion haunted by a former resident (Marianne Faithfull). 2 discs.

60s sexploitation comedy set in London, where Christopher Matthews’ mod sex god flits from one boho pad to another in his babe wagon. ‘Like Alfie with more sex,’ said its director.

Item# 60267 UK | 1974 | 83 | 15 | £17.99

Item# 66061 UK | 1969 | 78 | 18 | £14.99

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Between Your Legs

Fantasm Comes Again

Dir: Manuel Gómez Pereira. A lusty Spanish thriller starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Abril as sex addicts who embark on an affair. Item# 24349 Spain | 1999 | 115 | subt | 18 | £14.99

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Bloodbath at the House of Death

Dir: Colin Eggleston. Fantasm’s saucy sequel, featuring some of the most famous adult stars of the 1970s. Item# 65211 Australia | 1977 | 96 | 18 | £12.99

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Good Little Girls

Dir: Ray Cameron. Kenny Everett and Vincent Price star in this spoof of every horror fan’s favourite films.

Dir: Jean-Claude Roy. Classic 70s French erotica in which aristocratic teenage sisters embark on a long hot summer of sexual awakening.

Item# 56284 UK | 1984 | 88 | 15 | £14.99

Item# 62232 France | 1972 | 85 | subt | 18 | £12.99

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Justine

Dir: Pierre B Reinhard. A highly charged Sadean journey into sexual depravity and corruption in the 1930s, now presented uncut.

Dir: Chris Boger. This adaptation of De Sade’s tale stars Koo Stark as the nubile young innocent who has difficulty keeping to the virtuous path.

Item# 53371 France | 1985 | 96 | 18 | £11.98

Item# 67841 UK | 1977 | 95 | 18 | £14.99

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Education Anglaise

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Dir: Jean-Claude Roy. Poor sweet young Sylvie is sent by her libertine uncle to a boarding school with strict correctional punishment. Uncut.

Dir: Jean-Claude Roy. Classic French erotica starring Brigitte Lahaie as a woman who blackmails young heiresses with her lover.

Item# 53372 France | 1982 | 88 | 18 | £11.98

Item# 57956 France | 1979 | 81 | subt | 18 | £12.99

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Escort Girls

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Dir: Donovan Winter. An X-rated tale of an escort agency and lonely souls looking for love at Christmas in London in 1974. Item# 66060 UK | 1974 | 100 | 18 | £14.99

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Dir: The definitive guide to the phenomenon of ‘Video Nasties’ in Britain. 3 discs.

USA | 2013 | FOX | 102 | Cert U Item# 72551 / 72552 | RRP £19.99 | 7th October

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From Up On Poppy Hill Goro Miyazaki

Capturing the thrills of young romance and the hope of a new dawn, this coming-of-age animation from Studio Ghibli is a love story whose main characters are the students who were to become the first generation of a new Japan. 2 discs; Japanese and English versions. Japan | 2011 | STUDC | 92 | subt | Cert U Item# 72776 / 72777 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd Sept

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The King and the Mocking Bird Paul Grimault

An inspiration for the creators of Studio Ghibli, this lovely animated film – scripted by French poet Jacques Prévert and a 30-year labour of love for its creator – retells Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. France | 1980 | SC | 80 | subt | U Item# 72696 | RRP £15.99 | 7th October

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Walt Disney’s Vintage Mickey Disney / Iwerks

Nine animated adventures from 1928-34 featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse (both voiced by Walt Disney). Contains: Plane Crazy, Steamboat Willie, The Karnival Kid, The Birthday Party, Mickey’s Orphans, The Castaway, Mickey’s Revue, Building a Building and Mickey’s Steam-Roller.

Item# 63958 UK | 2010 | 180 | 18 | £24.99

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Shakespeare Film Sale

Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George! Unquestionably the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, Shakespeare has provided rich material for many superb films. With a new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing reviewed this month (p27), we present a sale of very well known productions of the playwright’s work alongside hidden gems you may not have seen. All are at bargain prices, so head out onto the stage and prepare to be dazzled.

Hamlet

Orson Welles

Filmed in glorious 70mm, the gripping, insightful performances from the star-filled cast are complemented by breathtaking sets, making for a powerful interpretation of the Bard’s play.

One of Welles’ finest films sees him amalgamate Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard II, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor for his majestic portrayal of Falstaff.

Kenneth Branagh

Restored.

Item# 67890 UK | 1965 | 115 | PG | £13.99

Item# 50999 UK | 1996 | 242 | PG | £16.99

Laurence Olivier Shakespeare Collection Six performances from Olivier: As You Like It (Czinner, 1936), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1955), The Merchant of Venice (1974) and King Lear (1983).

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As You Like It

Julius Caesar

Dir: Kenneth Branagh. An innovative take on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy that is bright, breezy and instantly accessible.

Dir: Gregory Doran. An all black cast from the RSC turns Julius Caesar into a fast-moving, powerful thriller set in post-independence Africa.

Item# 52537 UK | 2006 | 127 | 12 | £17.99

Item# 70000 UK | 2012 | 191 | 12 | £17.99

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As You Like It

Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Tempest

Dir: Christine Edzard. A moderndress production of Shakespeare’s play set in a post-Thatcherite Britain, with Emma Croft starring as Rosalind.

Dir: Kenneth Branagh. Branagh’s light and effervescent song and dance adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy is set in the run-up to WWII.

Dir: Julie Taymor. Helen Mirren stars as the gender-changed sorceress Prospera in this ambitious big-screen version. Felicity Jones plays Miranda.

Item# 23520 UK | 1992 | 112 | U | £15.99

Item# 351 UK | 2000 | 90 | U | £12.99

Item# 66947 USA | 2010 | 106 | 12 | £11.99

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Being Shakespeare

Macbeth

Throne of Blood

Dir: John Wyver. A one-man show about the life and work of the Bard, featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow.

Dir: Polanski. A fast, bloody and accessible Macbeth. Jon Finch takes the lead and Francesca Annis plays his wicked wife.

Dir: Akira Kurosawa. The Bard’s evocation of 10th century Scotland is brilliantly re-imagined as late 15th century Japan. Toshiro Mifune stars.

Item# 68040 UK | 2011 | 109 | E | £14.99

Item# 11453 UK | 1971 | 134 | 15 | £19.99

Item# 8684 Japan | 1957 | 104 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Hamlet

The Merchant of Venice

West Side Story

Dir: Tony Richardson. Based on his stage performances of the role, Nicol Williamson portrays a rough, sensual and impulsive Hamlet. Item# 21148 UK | 1969 | 112 | U | £9.99

Dir: Michael Radford. An excellent recent Shakespeare adaptation. Al Pacino plays money-lender Shylock. Item# 21723 UK / USA | 2004 | 131 | PG | £15.99

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales These twelve 30 minute animated adaptations are a perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s world and themes. Item# 72855 UK / Russia | 1992 | 360 | | £29.99

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Dir: Robert Wise. 16th century theatrical genius inspires a film masterpiece as Romeo and Juliet is relocated to 1950s New York. Item# 16729 / 66215 USA | 1961 | 145 | PG | £19.99

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Henry V

Richard III

Dir: Laurence Olivier. Cry God for Harry, England, and Olivier! Made in 1944, this is as stirring a Shakespeare film as ever was made.

Dir: Laurence Olivier. Noël Coward described Olivier’s Richard as the greatest male performance he had ever witnessed. See what he meant.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Item# 4355 UK | 1944 | 137 | U | £9.99

Item# 26715 UK | 1955 | 152 | U | £14.99

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7 discs.

Item# 50230 UK | 1936-1983 | 716 | 15 | £79.99

Dir: Michael Hoffman. A delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic farce, played out by an all-star cast. Item# 15880 USA | 1999 | 115 | PG | £12.99

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Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language

Grand Départ

New Releases After Lucia

Michel Franco

A tense Mexican drama – winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2012 – in which a teenage girl become the object of abuse, violence and humiliation from classmates at her new school after being phone-filmed having sex. Meanwhile, her shellshocked father is struggling to cope after his wife’s sudden death. Mexico / France | 2012 | STUDC | 97 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72535 | RRP £19.99 | 16th September

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Augustine

Alice Winocour French historical drama exploring the relationship between 19th century neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (Vincent Lindon) and his ‘magnificent patient’, Augustine (the singer-actress Soko), an illiterate housemaid he uses as a case-study in his demonstrations for the cure of ‘hysteria’.

Nicolas Mercier

French comedy in which, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday and fed up with being the dependable rock of the family, a man (Pio Marmaï) thinks it his high time for him to face up to his bipolar brother and cantankerous father – a man with a neurodegenerative disease – in the hope that he can let loose his true identity. France | 2013 | STUDC | 82 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72753 | RRP £19.99 | 16th September

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Hunter’s Bride

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This thrilling filmed version of Weber’s romantic opera Der Freischütz has drawn favourable comparisons with Ingmar Bergman’s Magic Flute and Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni. The story follows two hunters who, as well as fighting alongside each other in the Napoleonic Wars, are vying for the love of the beautiful Agathe.

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Pablo Larraín

Come As You Are Geoffrey Enthoven

Under the guise of a wine tour, three young disabled Belgian virgins – one blind, one in a wheelchair and one paralysed – travel to Spain in search of sex in this spirited road movie. Three short films from British charities about each of the main character’s disabilities. Belgium | 2011 | EUREK | 114 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72187 / 72188 | RRP £14.99 | 7th October

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Everybody Has a Plan Ana Piterbarg

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Recommended Director: Ulrich Seidl

Jens Neubert

No to Pinochet: The Pablo Larraín Collection

Paradise: Love / Faith / Hope

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Celebrating the work of the acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín, this set presents his awardwinning trilogy of films revisiting the 17-year period of dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet. Contains Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No 3 discs; Interviews; Q&A.

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Paris-Manhattan Sophie Lellouche

Channelling the spirit of Play It Again Sam, this is a charming, chic French romantic comedy in which a heartbroken Parisian pharmacist (Alice Taglioni) shapes her choices in life and love through an obsessive love of Woody Allen.

In Kryzsztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours series, the last significant subtitled trilogy, his characters ended up clinging to a ferry’s wreckage. In his Paradise triptych, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl launches three women into the world clinging to more vulnerable notions. For Teresa, Love’s matronly protagonist, it’s the youthful (yet bought) affection she finds among gigolos at a Kenyan beach resort; for her sister, devout heroine of the satirically inclined Faith, it’s incarnated in the porcelain Jesus she touts door-to-door. In blurring the lines between pro and non-pro performers, sometime documentarist Seidl removes fiction cinema’s comforting conventions to confront us with some harsh realities. It’s challenging, yes, but also unsparingly honest, and the surprise with final instalment Hope – in which Teresa’s daughter finds companionship at fat camp – is that Seidl can appear sincerely optimistic without compromising any earlier scepticism. This concluding upnote confirms Seidl as the Arthouse King of Squirm – but also one of cinema’s notable and surprising visionaries. MM

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Italian Cinema Sale

Magnifico! With Paolo Sorrentino’s new film The Great Beauty arriving in cinemas to huge acclaim, we look at some of the finest films Italy has to offer. French film may be better known in the UK, but Italian cinema is the true leader through its impact on the course of cinema, psychological depth and, of course, visual beauty and style.

The Conformist

Il Divo

La Notte

Bernardo Bertolucci

Paolo Sorrentino

Michelangelo Antonioni

A gripping political thriller in which a nondescript functionary (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is forced to become a Fascist assassin. The style manual for 1970s cinema. 2 discs.

A riveting tale of political intrigue and organised crime, based on the extraordinary life of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, whose long career was dogged by persistent accusations of dark connections.

Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni are the couple in crisis in this profound study of modern alienation and spiritual desolation. One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema.

Item# 69724 / 66743 Ita | 1970 | 113 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 58669 Italy / France | 2008 | 114 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 53306 Italy | 1961 | 117 | subt | B&W | 12 | £19.99

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L’Avventura

The Family Friend

Medea

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Monica Vitti stars in this landmark first film in a loose trilogy which also comprises La Notte and L’Eclisse.

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino. A loathsome, misanthropic loan shark is smitten by a bride-to-be in this stylized, enigmatic drama.

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. An intense and ravishing retelling of Euripides’ Greek drama, starring Maria Callas in the title role as the high priestess.

Item# 54463 Italy | 1960 | 136 | subt | B&W | PG | £12.99

Item# 34086 Italy | 2006 | 96 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Item# 66875 Italy | 1970 | 106 | subt | 12 | £19.99

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Baarìa

The Garden of the Finzi-Contini

Melissa P

Item# 63880 Italy / France | 2009 | 151 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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Dir: Vittorio De Sica. This 1970 Oscar winner portrays an aristocratic Jewish family in 1930s fascist Italy. Item# 65999 Italy | 1970 | 90 | subt | 12 | £19.99

Dir: Luca Guadagnino. An adolescent girl loses her innocence in this erotic drama in the tradition of Tinto Brass and David Hamilton. Item# 30741 Italy | 2005 | | 18 | £19.99

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Before the Revolution

The Grim Reaper

Mid-August Lunch

Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. A brilliant early work from Bertolucci that celebrates the passions and ideology of the 1960s.

Bernardo Bertolucci’s brilliant debut feature delves into the underbelly of Rome as it follows a police investigation into the murder of a prostitute.

Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio. A charming, slice of life Italian comedy, in which a middle aged man looks after four elderly women in mid-summer Rome.

Item# 65807 Italy | 1964 | 107 | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99

Item# 64799 Italy | 1962 | 100 | subt | B&W | 12 | £12.99

Item# 60156 Italy | 2008 | 75 | subt | U | £15.99

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Bicycle Thieves

L’Innocente

Dir: Vittorio De Sica. Filmed in the backstreets of Rome, this neo-realist film is a profoundly moving story of a man’s struggle for employment.

Luchino Visconti’s last great film is a luscious melodrama with a typically understated power – and a piercing sting in its tail.

The Sentimental Education of Eugenie

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La Dolce Vita

The Leopard

Umberto D

A universally acclaimed morality play filled with gloriously memorable images in which Mastroianni plays a disillusioned journalist in Rome.

Dir: Luchino Visconti. A sumptuous masterpiece and a true epic based around an aristocratic Sicilian family threatened by political turmoil.

Dir: Vittorio De Sica. An impoverished retired man realises he must get rid of his only companion, his dog Flag. Simple, honest and devastating.

Item# 20041 Italy | 1960 | 174 | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99

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Dir: Aurelio Grimaldi. A film about a beautiful teenager’s sexual education. DVD: £5.99 Save £14

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Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. A sumptuous, semi-autobiographical drama of Sicilian life from the director of Cinema Paradiso.

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RW Fassbinder A bisexual sailor (Brad Davis) murders a fellow seaman and visits a brothel whose habitués succumb to his charms. Adapted from Jean Genet’s novel, this was Fassbinder’s last film and his most vividly surreal. Lurid, expressionist and replete with dreamlike imagery.

I Am Twenty

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Director: Marlen Khutsiyev

Shun Li and the Poet

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An elegiac Italian drama that tells the story of the growing friendship between an immigrant Chinese woman and a fisherman who both live on a small island in a Venetian lagoon and share a passion for poetry. As their friendship progresses so does the opposition to to their cultural integration. Italy / France | 2011 | ART-E | 98 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72326 | RRP £15.99 | 23rd September

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War and Peace

Sergei Bondarchuk Five years in the making, this majestic eight hour adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1968. Its cast of thousands, stupendous sets and backgrounds, grand balls and palaces all add to the authenticity of its widescreen wonder.

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The Hero

Satyajit Ray

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An epic film in two parts, I Am Twenty details the lives of four young Muscovites in a post-Stalinist world. It is a key work of the era, as fresh today as it was five decades ago. The first generation to have been born and raised after WWII, the youths shown were of a different breed to their fathers and elders, and director Marlen Khutsiev captures both their energy and their cynicism as they come of age without a guiding hand. The two parts echo this split perfectly: the first is brash and confident, the second more anxious and disillusioned as its three young men and one young woman increasingly search for meaning and purpose in their lives. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev was particularly offended: ‘The film makers think that young people ought to decide for themselves how to live,’ said he. I Am Twenty’s kinship with the Italian neo-realists and the French New Wave finds the film positively teeming with life. Its cinematography is particularly joyous, offering up a snapshot of a city at a pivotal moment. The fact that Khrushchev protested so much shows how deep that snapshot went. AN

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René Clément’s was one of the leading French directors of the post-WWII era. To mark the restoration of his masterful Plein Soleil, we present a sale of some of his finest films.

Plein Soleil The wonderful original version of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which a seductive, bronzed Alain Delon plays the charming murderer and forger, Tom Ripley. Restored. Item# 72189 / 72190 Fra | 1959 | 113 | sub | PG | £19.99

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And Hope to Die Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a fugitive trying to stay one step ahead of a criminal gang led by Robert Ryan after fleeing to Canada. Item# 70307 France / Italy | 1972 | 135 | subt | 12 | £15.99

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Forbidden Games An exquisite, poignant study of childhood innocence and grief in wartime. Simply one of the most affecting films ever made. Item# 70048 / 70049 1952 | 85 | sub | B&W | 12 | £15.99

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Gervaise A brilliant, poignant adaptation of Zola’s L’Assommoir, about the struggles of a laundress in 1850s Paris. Maris Schell takes the lead. Item# 70304 France | 1956 | 112 | subt | B&W | 12 | £15.99

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Is Paris Burning? Realistic sets spliced with real war footage add to the atmosphere of this film about the departure of German troops from Paris in 1944. Item# 31160 France | 1966 | 172 | PG | £15.99

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Rider on the Rain Charles Bronson is the investigator searching for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian thriller that confounds the audience at every turn. Item# 57886 France / Italy | 1969 | 113 | 18 | £15.99

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Like Someone in Love Recommended Director: Abbas Kiarostami Starring: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase Released: 14th October Extras: Making Of Like Someone In Love (45 mins) Item# 72653 | France / Japan | 2012 | NW | 110 | subt | Cert 12 | P&P £1.50

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Contains Certified Copy, Ten, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa and 10 on Ten Item# 64798 Iran / France | 1997-2010 | 582 | subt | 15 | £49.99 | P&P £1.50

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Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu

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he great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has expanded his field of vision in recent years. It’s not just that he’s moved away from his homeland; he also appears to have taken the minimalist-conceptual side of his filmmaking, as represented by Ten (2002), Five (2004) and the single shots of Shirin (2008) about as far as it will go without being confined to a gallery. In its place, there have followed more expansive travelogues: first 2010’s French-backed, Italian-based Certified Copy, and now the Tokyo-set Like Someone in Love, which may stand as this director’s most human achievement since 1997’s Taste of Cherry. The new film begins with a scene of negotiation that establishes the terms of agreement for everything that follows. Akiko, a student who works part-time as an escort, is being cajoled by her employer into travelling to the outskirts of town and spending the night in the company of a widowed translator. It’s already late though, and the girl has an exam to revise for, a grandmother visiting town, and unresolved personal issues to attend to; it hardly helps her mood that the man is old enough to be her grandfather. She goes, reluctantly, and the film begins to replay all Certified Copy’s themes of performance, this time in a more

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A return to form from one of the world’s great filmmakers accessible key. Underpinning the film is Kiarostami’s mastery of screen space; while the script sets about forging connections between people, his camera does likewise between these people and the places they inhabit. Kiarostami is one of the few overseas directors to have arrived in Tokyo with the express intention of not making it appear somehow alien; rather, he shows it simply, plainly as a place where people live and work (as students, in bars, in garages), and insinuates that it’s these human beings, deceiving themselves and others, who make it such a strange, surprising and sometimes terrifying destination. Slowly, quietly, the film opens lives up, peers inside, and reveals to us something of our own hidden needs and desires; what we see are those identities we’re prone to assuming to satisfy these needs and desires, and how they might just become obstacles to our future and sustained happiness. I liked it, genuinely. Mike McCahill Page 17

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Dustin Hoffman

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A landmark Spanish film, set around the death of Franco and full of repressed passions and simmering unease. The spellbinding Ana Torrent stars as the girl observing an adult world of secrets and lies.

Hoffman’s directorial debut is a charming comedy drama about a group of opera singers whose life is thrown into disarray by a new arrival at their bucolic retirement home. Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay star.

An impassioned documentary, made to address prevailing questions of the direction of society in our own times, about how the spirit of unity in wartime Britain created a vision of a fairer society.

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Alice in the Cities

Django Unchained

Benda Bilili

Dir: Wim Wenders. A beautiful, sensitive film about the friendship between a journalist with writer’s block and a 9 year-old girl.

Quentin Tarantino’s bold and bloody western stars Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who sets out to rescue his wife from a plantation owner.

Dir: Barret & de la Tullaye. The life-affirming story of a group of Kinshasa street musicians struggling to record their first album.

Item# 53870 Germany | 1974 | 107 | subt | B&W | U | £19.99

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Fanny and Alexander

Hyde Park on Hudson

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. ‘The sum total of my life as a filmmaker,’ said Bergman of this masterful, life-affirming family chronicle.

Dir: Roger Michell. Diplomacy juggles with domestic arrangements in this comedy based around King George VI’s visit to Roosevelt in 1939.

From the Sea to the Land Beyond

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The Housemaid

The Kreutzer Sonata

Music in the Air

Dir: Sang-soo Im. A psychological Korean thriller that charts a destructive sexual relationship between a man and his new maid.

Dir: Bernard Rose. Rose turns to Tolstoy for this sexually charged drama based around themes of love, sex, obsession and paranoia.

Dir: Reiner E. Moritz. A documentary that looks at the way classical music has been presented on television since the 1930s.

Item# 65487 South Korea | 2010 | 106 | subt | 18 | £15.99

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In a Better World

My Dog Tulip

Dir: Susanne Bier. An absorbing, Oscar-winning Danish drama whose characters are caught between notions of tolerance and vengeance.

Dir: Paul & Sandra Fierlinger. A touching, beautifully animated chronicle of a man’s memoir about his dog, a companion for 16 years.

Steel: A Century of Steelmaking on Film

Item# 66846 Denmark | 2010 | 119 | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item# 65483 USA | 2009 | 83 | 12 | £15.99

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Paris, Texas

Dir: Laurent Bouhnik. A graphically erotic film that tells stories of contemporary love and desire among a group of conflicted teenagers.

Dir: Wim Wenders. A sun-bleached tale of lost souls to a Ry Cooder soundtrack. Harry Dean Stanton and Natassja Kinski star.

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Item# 53873 / 70140 USA | 1984 | 139 | 12 | £15.99

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Dir: Penny Woolcock. A lyrical portrait of Britain’s coastline, combining evocative footage with stirring music. Item# 70166 UK | 2012 | 73 | 12 | £19.99

20 fabulously cinematic films spanning the 20th century on the subject of British steelmaking. Item# 70151 UK | 1928-84 | 348 | E | £24.99

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Woody Allen: A Documentary Dir: Robert B. Weide. A portrait of the multi-faceted filmmaker, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen. Item# 68896 / 68930 USA | 2011 | 15.99

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Classic Movies Johnny Guitar

Shall We Dance

Spellbound

Nicholas Ray

Mark Sandrich

Alfred Hitchcock

A brilliant ‘western’ from Ray in which conventions are turned on their head, gender roles are reversed and the dialogue consists almost entirely of cliches. Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden star.

A classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie, with exhilarating dances and songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including ‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off’ – as performed on roller skates!

Hitchcock goes psychoanalytical with this 1945 mystery thriller, featuring a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. Ingrid Bergman is the psychiatrist probing the recesses of Gregory Peck’s mind.

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Alice in Wonderland

The Naked City Dir: Jules Dassin. A vivid police procedural, shot entirely on location in New York, that remains a benchmark for naturalism in film noir.

Rebecca

Dir: Norman McLeod. Paramount’s all-star adaptation from Lewis Carroll, with WC Fields (Humpty Dumpty), Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and others. Item# 61982 USA | 1933 | 80 | B&W | | £9.99

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Bedlam

Never Let Go

She Done Him Wrong

Dir: Mark Robson. Boris Karloff plays the malevolent director of a lunatic asylum in this atmospheric thriller produced by Val Lewton.

Dir: John Guillermin. A memorable performance from Peter Sellers marks out this tough London thriller starring Richard Todd.

Dir: Lowell Sherman. Mae West’s starring debut, adapted from her outrageous stage play, Diamond Lil. Cary Grant shares the screen.

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Classic Sci-Fi Box Set

The Passionate Friends

Tiger Bay

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Dir: David Lean. A fine companion to Brief Encounter starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. Item# 54974 UK | 1948 | 87 | B&W | PG | £12.99

Dir: J. Lee Thompson. A vivid evocation of 1950s dockside life. Hayley Mills is outstanding as a streetwise urchin who witnesses murder. Item# 17680 UK | 1959 | 102 | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Blackout / Bond of Fear

The Peter Sellers Collection

WC Fields Collection

A double-bill of classic British thrillers: Bond of Fear (Cass, 1956) and Blackout (Baker, 1950).

Never Let Go (1960), Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962). 3 discs.

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Genevieve

A Place in the Sun

Dir: Henry Cornelius. A charming, gentle car rally comedy which perfectly captures the polite English romanticism of the early 1950s.

Dir: George Stevens. A dark, Oscarwinning drama with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. French release; Original English soundtrack.

The Wrong Arm of the Law

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Fields’ hard-drinking, lugubrious misanthrope was one of the great personas of American comedy. Here are 17 of his best films. Item# 50451 USA | 1932-1941 | | B&W | PG | £69.99

Dir: Cliff Owen. British crime caper in which Peter Sellers’ cockney gangster joins forces with Scotland Yard. Item# 11923 UK | 1962 | 94 | U | £9.99

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Director: Ishiro Honda

Director: Yakov Protazanov

Starring: Frankie Sakai, Kyoko Kagawa

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Extras: Russian import; Optional English intertitles; English language menus; Interview with film scholar P. Shepofinik; Photo album.

Extras: Subtitled Japanese version plus optional English dubbed version; Commentary; Booklet.

You can’t complain that you don’t get what you pay for: we watch these films specifically to see a gigantic creature laying waste to Tokyo, and that’s exactly what we get here (plus, for good measure, a further bout of destruction meted out on the fictional but clearly US-inspired ‘New Kirk City’). When entrepreneur Clark Nelson (from the fictional state of Rolisica, but his name betrays where he actually represents) kidnaps a pair of foot-high twin sisters and puts them on show in Tokyo, he reckons without them establishing a telepathic link with Mothra, a giant egg worshipped by the inhabitants of their home of Infant Island. And, inevitably, it starts to hatch... As with director Honda’s breakthrough Godzilla seven years earlier, Mothra also delivers an intelligent commentary on many pressing social and cultural issues. The familiar topic of nuclear testing and the aftermath of widespread irradiation is allied to a morality tale about the importance of preserving traditional cultures and not interfering with them through nakedly capitalist exploitation. MB

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With dreams, fantastical Martian visions and exhortations to Soviet nation building, Russia’s first sciencefiction feature has a habit of wrongfooting you just when you think you have its measure. Add in romantic melodrama, a bumbling detective and elements of crossdressing farce and you have a film that is entirely its own. A careworn Nikolai Tseretelli plays Moscow radio engineer Los. After a first quarrel with his wife – a woman with the unfortunate habit of being caught in compromising situations with their new co-tenant, the corrupt Soviet functionary Erlikh – he sets about turning his dream of constructing a rocket to Mars, whose spritelike queen, Aelita, has been nourishing his flights of fancy, into reality. Although scenes of 1920s NEP-era Moscow have their own interest, what has ensured the film’s lasting fascination is its extraordinary constructivist visualisation of Mars and its inhabitants. Its avant-garde stylings meant Aelita was greeted with some bewilderment at the time, but its look was influential on a number of films, not least the 1936 Flash Gordon serial. GH

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These are the first four volumes of Art21 – an award-winning series of 24 programmes in which 100 artists explain their perceptions of art and their creative processes. Change looks at how contemporary artists react to cultural, political and social changes, exploring the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, American photographer Catherine Opie and Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui. Fantasy presents the works of Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, German photograher Florian Maier-Aichen and Chinese media artist Cao Fei in an exploration of how the imagination is brought to life in unconventional ways. Identity examines the works of Bruce Nauman, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin and Louise Bourgeois in explorations of identity, stereotyping, self-awareness and the familiar versus the foreign. Protest explores how war, anguish and desensitization are represented in the works of Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Le and Nancy Spero. UK | 2013 | I-MIN | 55 | Cert E Item# Various | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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Tchaikovsky: Classic Ballets All three of Tchaikovsky’s ballets as performed by the Royal Ballet. Contains Sleeping Beauty (2006) with Alina Cojocaru and Federico Bonell, Swan Lake (2009), starring Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares and The Nutcracker (2012), with Meaghan Grace Hinkis 3 discs. and Ricardo Cervera.

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Artist Portraits Film Sale An artist’s life can challenge filmmakers to create their most beautiful work. With Van Gogh released this month, we present some of the best biopics of lives dedicated to artistic creation.

Recommended Director: Maurice Pialat Starring: Jacques Dutronc, Elsa Zylberstein Released: 23rd September Extras: 2 discs; New restoration; Van Gogh (Pialat, 1965) – a short documentary; Interviews; Deleted scenes; 56-page booklet. Item# 72477 France | 1991 | EUREK | 152 | subt | Cert 15

Given the mythology that surrounds Van Gogh (or ‘Van Gog’ as he’s known here), Pialat’s decision to set his film in the last two months of his life, in Auvers-sur-Oise, 20 km from Paris, is a bold one. The artist is removed from one of his great sources of nourishment – the southern sun of Arles, and dramatic events such as his relationship with Gauguin, his fits and his stay at the St. Rémy asylum are behind him. Also, to all intents and purposes, Van Gogh appeared healthy in his last days, all of which allows Pialat to concentrate on the man. By turns timid, restless, irascible, amused and resigned, Jacques Dutronc’s portrayal is convincing. Although we see little of Van Gogh’s paintings, Pialat performs a clever trick of making the surroundings look as if they are ready to be the subject of a canvas – as distinct from making them appear stiflingly picturesque. Director Maurice Pialat was himself a painter of renown. This is his compassionate tribute from a painter to a man. GH

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Rembrandt

Vincent and Theo

Alexander Korda

Robert Altman

The Dutch painter’s lonely final years are touchingly evoked through Charles Laughton’s subtle performance. Great sets and lovely camerawork make this a fine picture.

Skilfully avoiding tired cliches, Altman explores the remarkable relationship between Van Gogh (Tim Roth) in his final years and his brother Theo (Paul Rhys) in this absorbing biographical portrait.

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

Frida

Dir: Carol Reed. Charlton Heston is Michelangelo in this lavish epic about the painting of the Sistine Chapel. Item# 67895 USA | 1965 | 133 | U | £9.99

Dir: Julie Taymor. Colourful, vibrant and beautiful to look at, this account of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was made for lead Salma Hayek. Item# 65270 / 67965 USA | 2002 | 123 | 15 | £19.99

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Caravaggio

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Dir: Derek Jarman. One of Jarman’s most accessible works, this is a ravishing depiction of the painter’s life. Nigel Terry stars. Item# 32115 UK | 1986 | 89 | 18 | £19.99

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Dir: Peter Webber. A slowly budding beauty of a film in which Scarlett Johansson is a servant to Vermeer. Item# 17493 UK | 2003 | 95 | 12 | £19.99

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Carrington

Klimt

Dir: Christopher Hampton. A quirky, tender drama about the relationship between 1920s artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey.

Dir: Raúl Ruiz. A sumptuous portrait of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich), whose erotic paintings symbolize art nouveau style.

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Chihwaseon

Moulin Rouge

Dir: Im Kwon-Taek. A painter realises his best work comes from his greatest pleasures – women and drink, following both with passion.

Dir: John Huston. José Ferrer makes a touching Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in this beautifully-staged portrait of his life in fin de siècle Paris.

Item# 28837 South Korea | 2002 | 117 | subt | 15 | £12.99

Item# 33966 USA | 1952 | 114 | PG | £9.99

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Edvard Munch

Nightwatching

Dir: Peter Watkins. A multi-faceted biopic of the Norwegian Expressionist painter. Described by Ingmar Bergman as ‘a work of genius’.

A drama exploring the romantic and professional life of Rembrandt and his painting, The Night Watch. 2 discs; Rembrandt’s J’Accuse (Greenaway).

Item# 51378 Norway | 1976 | 221 | subt | PG | £19.99

Item# 60954 Netherlands / UK | 2007 | 136 | 18 | £15.99

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New Releases Agatha Christie Collection

A collection of classic TV whodunits adapted from stories by the Queen of Crime. Contains Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?. (1980), Tommy and Tuppence (1983), The Pale Horse, (1997) and Sparkling Cyanide (2003). 6 discs.

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Our DVD Price: £51.99 A psychological thriller based on the novel by Stephen King. Pierce Brosnan plays a novelist suffering from writer’s block after his wife’s death. A dream inspires him to return to their lakeside retreat, but he is plagued by nightmares and visitations, and he realises his late wife has something to tell him. USA | 2011 | COL-T | 156 | Cert 15 Item# 71955 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

Cilla’s Comedy Six

This sequel to the hugely successful Educating Marmalade charts the ongoing misdeeds and misadventures of ‘the worst girl in the world’ as she is launched into a series of work-experience placements. Charlotte Coleman plays the defiantly unreformed 2 discs. teenage tearaway.

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BBC sitcom about the relationships of staff and pupils at a secondary school. Catherine Tate plays the new French teacher whose arrival causes David Walliams’ disillusioned deputy head of chemistry to change his mind about leaving – but his amorous intentions face competition from Philip Glenister’s alpha male PE teacher and Steve Speirs’ clinically depressed geography teacher.

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Danger: Marmalade at Work

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Bag of Bones

Big School

Italian TV drama series depicting the life of Mafia crime boss Salvatore ‘Totò’ Riina, here portrayed by Claudio Gioè, between the years of 1943 and 1993. After his father and brother are killed by an unexploded bomb, Riina finds himself the head of his family. Enduring a life of poverty, he becomes involved with the local mafia in Corleone and begins to rise through the ranks. Meanwhile, his child6 discs. hood friend Biagio joins the police.

Dates

All nine episodes of Channel 4’s drama about internet dating. Each episode follows the first date between two people who have met through online dating. The ensemble cast includes Ben Chaplin, Will Mellor and Oona Chaplin while the directors include many recognisable names from British film.

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Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

Originally screened in 1975, when Cilla Black was making the transition from successful singer to TV celebrity, Cilla’s Comedy Six saw the Liverpudlian singer and comedienne dip a toe into the world of acting in a series of humorous vignettes in which she portrayed a range of roles.

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Answering the Brigadier’s space/time telegraph, the Doctor (Tom Baker), Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry (Ian Marter) arrive in a village near Loch Ness, where attacks on oil rigs are being blamed on the legendary monster – but which are in fact caused by the cyborg pet of 2 discs; Featurettes. the invading Zygons.

Six Centuries of Verse Recommended Starring: John Gielgud, Julian Glover, Stacy Keach, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Richardson, Lee Remick, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins Released: Out Now Extras: 2 discs. Item# 72108 UK | 1984 | NWORK | 400 | Cert PG

Compiled by writer and poet Anthony Thwaite, presented by John Gielgud and screened in 1984, Thames TV’s Six Centuries of Verse was the first television series to provide a systematic, chronological overview of ‘the supreme English art’. For anyone with a love of well-read poetry and an interest in the development of the form through the centuries it is absolutely essential. Actors giving voice to the words include a superb Julian Glover (Beowulf, John Donne, Philip Larkin), Cyril Cusack (WB Yeats), Anthony Hopkins (Dylan Thomas), Stacy Keach (Walt Whitman), and of course, John Gielgud, who links the whole with informed commentary. The real benefit here is that the well-chosen readers understand the words they are reading instead of lapsing into the default dying fall of cliched poetic diction. Allied with historical context and the reading of poems in settings appropriate to the date and subject, this is a genuinely useful – and long overdue – release. It is an essential compendium of masterful poetry, beautifully read. GH

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Television Sale Settle down on the sofa for our sale of excellent TV, old and new, from Acorn. Featuring detectives of all stripes – aristocratic, ecclesiastical, Italian; literary adaptations taken from the finest writers – Anthony Powell, JB Priestley, GK Chesterton, Henry James; and a smattering of comedy, drama and even a life-changing documentary this sale is packed with prime watching material.

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Inspector Montalbano ‘Great Food, Great Scenery, Great Murder.’ Four volumes of the crime and food-filled Italian drama based on Andrea Camilleri’s novels following the exploits of Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti). Item# Various Italy | 1999-2008 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Lost Empires Granada TV mini-series based on the novel by JB Priestley. Colin Firth takes the role of a young man who joins the music hall circuit in the early 20th century. Features one of Olivier’s final performances. 2 discs. Item# 68831 UK | 1986 | 411 | 15 | £19.99

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Campion: Complete

The Girl

All 16 episodes of the popular aristocratic detective series starring Peter Davison as the affable Albert Campion. 4 discs.

Dir: Julian Jarrold. Toby Jones and Sienna Miller star in this absorbing film chronicling Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with Tippi Hedren.

Paul Temple: Black and White Collection

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A Dance to the Music of Time

Lipstick on Your Collar

C4’s adaptation of Anthony Powell’s novels set against the upheavals of the 20th century. 2 discs.

Ewan McGregor stars in Dennis Potter’s hilarious musical recreation of 1950s England. 2 discs.

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Dear John: Series 1

Love on a Branch Line

The Spoils of Poynton

Classic 80s comedy with Ralph Bates in the lead role as the man who joins a singles club after his wife leaves him. 2 discs. Item# 61500 UK | 1986 | 210 | E | £19.99

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Michael Maloney stars as the civil servant sent to dismantle a research unit in a country mansion. 2 discs. Item# 30640 UK | 1994 | 198 | 12 | £19.99

Image from Lost Empires

The complete ITV crime drama starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman as two contrasting police officers investigating the murder of an 11 year-old boy in a Dorset town. Described as a British The Killing. 3 discs.

Francis Matthews takes the lead as the crime writer turned crime solver in these five episodes. 2 discs. Item# 68007 UK | 1971 | 245 | B&W | 12 | £19.99

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The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell’s powerful vision of the role that myth plays in our lives is essential viewing for everyone interested in us humans. 2 discs. Item# 65493 USA | 1988 | 342 | E | £19.99

An excellent four-part adaptation of Henry James’s classic novel, starring Ian Ogilvy, Gemma Jones and Pauline Jameson. 2 discs. Item# 68000 UK | 1970 | 168 | U | £19.99

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Dixon of Dock Green

Marriage Lines

Testament of Youth

Jack Warner takes the role of the avuncular Sergeant George Dixon in these first six available colour 2 discs. episodes from 1970-74.

A groundbreaking 1960s marital comedy starring Briers and Prunella Scales as newlyweds George and Kate Starling. 3 discs.

Dir: Moira Armstrong. The BAFTAwinning adaptation of Vera Brittain’s first volume of autobiography. Cheryl 2 discs. Campbell stars.

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Father Brown

Our Mutual Friend

Wessex Tales

All 13 episodes from the classic 1970s series featuring Kenneth More as GK Chesterton’s detective-cumclergyman. 4 discs.

Dir: Peter Hammond. Direct from the BBC’s golden age of costume drama, this 1976 adaptation boasts a superb cast in parts both large and small.

All six stand-alone episodes of the fondly-remembered 1970s BBC drama series based on Thomas Hardy’s short stories. 2 discs.

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Broadchurch

Definitive versions n ColleCtable eDitions

Edgar Wallace Presents: Circus of Fear

Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski star in this thrilling tale of a police officer who traces a bank robber to a circus and arrives to witness a series of brutal murders.

The Courtneys of Curzon Street a masterly drama of love across the social divide, Courtneys chronicles the changing fortunes of an aristocratic family over three generations.

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins one man’s journey of self-discovery in the frozen isolation of antarctica starring John Hurt and Hayley Mills and penned by Anthony Shaffer (sleuth, frenzy).

The Breaking of Bumbo sexy swinging sixties-set comedy starring Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley about a royal guardsman who falls for luscious pacifist susie.

Not Now Comrade Uproarious ‘70s british farce starring Leslie Phillips, Roy Kinnear, Windsor Davies, June Whitfield and Ian Lavender.

Red Wagon the story of an orphan child who sets out to fulfil his dream of owning a circus. starring Charles Bickford, Greta Nissen and Jimmy Hanley in his screen debut.

Dandy Dick a vicar becomes involved in a horse-doping scandal in this ‘30s farce starring comic genius Will Hay.

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Television Empire of the Seas

Dan Snow presents this four-part BBC2 series about the Royal Navy and its role in the development of a modern Britain. He takes a look at historical events such as England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the 1916 Battle of Jutland during WWI. Contains the episodes Heart of Oak, The Golden Ocean, 2 discs. High Tide and Sea Change. UK | 2010 | DAZZL | 240 | Cert E Item# 71946 | RRP £19.99 | 16th September

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Endeavour: The Complete First Series and Pilot

The pilot episode and the complete first series of the spin-off of ITV’s longrunning crime drama Inspector Morse. The show follows Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) in his younger years as a police constable during the 1960s after he dropped out of Oxford University. Roger Allam plays his senior partner, 3 discs. Detective Inspector Fred Thursday. UK | 2013 | G-VEN | Cert 15 Item# 72532 | RRP £24.99 | 7th October

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Give Us a Break

All seven episodes plus the Christmas special of the 1980s BBC sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Paul McGann as uneasy brothers-in-law. Micky (Lindsay) is a selfstyled promoter, sure of his expertise but lacking an act to promote, Mo (McGann) is a snooker player of great ability, but not yet a star. Will the two men help each other realise their dreams or 3 discs. simply get on each other’s nerves? UK | 1984 | SIMP | 445 | Cert 12 Item# 72682 | RRP £29.99 | 16th September

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The Green Green Grass: Series 1-4 The complete Only Fools and Horses spinoff, featuring Del’s fellow rogue trader, Boycie (John Challis), who with his wife (Sue Holderness), relocates from Peckham to a rambling farmhouse 8 discs. in Shropshire.

UK | 2005-09 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item# 72774 | RRP £29.99 | 30th September

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Harold Shipman: Doctor Death Roger Bamford

Mixing avuncular charm with detached menace, James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this Yorkshire TV drama about the GP who is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients throughout his career. UK | 2002 | SpiritStraw | 100 | 12 Item# 72702 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Hawking

Fall of Eagles Recommended Starring: Michael Hordern, Barry Foster, Patrick Stewart, Marius Goring, Curd Jürgens

Philip Martin

Released: 2nd September

A highly-rated BBC drama from 2003 starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the young Stephen Hawking who, as a bright and ambitious 21 year-old PhD student at Cambridge University, is diagnosed with a motor neurone disease and given two years to live. The drama tells how, against the odds, he goes on to achieve scientific success and worldwide acclaim.

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UK | 2003 | DAZZL | 93 | Cert PG Item# 72817 | RRP £19.99 | 14th October

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Homeland: Series 2

All 12 episodes from the second season of the Golden Globe-winning US drama about a CIA officer (Claire Danes) who is determined to prove that a returned hero (Damian Lewis), now a newlyelected US congressman, is actually an Al-Qaeda mole. This second season sees a major terrorist attack in the offing. 4 discs; Also available: 8 disc seasons 1-2 box set. USA | 2012 | FOX | 609 | Cert 15 Item# Various | RRP £34.99 | 23rd September

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In Search of Robert Burns David Hayman presents this documentary about Scottish poet Robert Burns, exploring his life from childhood to his rise to fame across the nation, while a team of forensic experts create a model of the writer’s head to show what he really looked like.

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Item# 72678 UK | 1974 | SIMP | 710 | Cert 12

From its opening blast of Mahler, this exceptional series brought history vividly alive. Over 13 episodes, it chronicled Europe’s drift to the Great War by following the fortunes of its three absolute dynasties: the Hapsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany and the Romanovs of Russia. Opening in 1848 with Emperor Franz Josef seeking a bride, the meticulously staged action explores weighty historical issues with a depth since lost to TV drama. Indeed, drawn from original correspondence, diaries and speeches, the writing is impeccable throughout, whether it’s considering the diplomacy surrounding the League of Three Emperors, the policy differences within Bolshevism or the romantic follies of the rulers and their relatives. Laurence Naismith, Barry Foster and Charles Kay excel as Franz Josef, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, but the supporting cast is equally superb, as momentous events unfold from the perspective of susceptible human beings whose personal foibles led their realms into a conflict that ended centuries of divine right autocracy. Masterly in every regard. DP

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Television The Kids from 47A

The brainchild of Black Beauty actress Charlotte Mitchell, this major 1970s children series chronicles what happens when a family of children aged between 8 and 16 is left to cope without adult assistance after their widowed mother is taken into hospital. The series’ high-calibre writers included Phil Redmond 2 discs. (Brookside) and Lynda La Plante. UK | 1973 | NWORK | 375 | Cert U Item# 72687 | RRP £19.99 | 14th October

A popular, pacy thriller that delves into the murky world of police corruption. When a counter-terrorism raid goes tragically wrong, DS Arnott (Martin Compston) refuses to participate in a cover-up. Ostracised by colleagues, he transfers to an anticorruption unit that is investigating one of the Force’s most respected officers, DCI Gates (Lennie James). Soon the pair are embroiled in a cat-and-mouse game 2 discs. with the stakes getting ever higher. UK | 2012 | ACORN | 300 | Cert 15 Item# 72378 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd September

Masters of British Comedy

Two volumes of programmes about some of the great British comedians. Volume 1 looks at Leonard Rossiter, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, while volume 2 features Ronnie Barker, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Spike Milligan. With an array of clips and rare interviews these films give a delightful 3 discs each. overview of the men’s careers.

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Mrs Thursday: Series 2

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Geoffrey Sax

Patrick Kennedy and Tamzin Merchant star in this two-part wartime crime drama set during the Blitz. Loosely based on the diaries of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office pathologist and modern forensics pioneer, Keith Simpson, the story follows young, up-and-coming pathologist Dr Lennox Collins as he investigates the dark deeds committed under the cover of wartime devastation. UK | 2013 | UPV | 91 | Cert 15 Item# 72380 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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Murder on the Home Front

Line of Duty: Series 1

UK | 1967 | NWORK | 650 | Cert PG Item# 72122 | RRP £39.99 | 30th September

The second post-watershed series spawned by The Bill. Sharing its parent show’s realism but stripped of soap-style content, this darker spinoff centres on an elite unit tackling homicide in the capital – from drive-by shootings to ritual murder. Lindsey Coulson, Richard 4 discs. Hope and Samantha Spiro star.

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The second series of the sitcom about a cheerful charlady (Kathleen Harrison) who inherits control of her late employer’s multi-million pound empire – along with his Mayfair mansion and his Rolls – and negotiates the pitfalls of the corporate world with plenty of good old-fashioned common sense.

Murder Investigation Team

New Scotland Yard: Series 3

An authentic portrayal of the complexities of police work in the increasingly violent London of the 1970s, New Scotland Yard benefited from the involvement of ex-Chief Superintendent Frank Williams, former head of the Yard’s Murder Squad, who acted as series adviser. John Woodvine stars as the workaholic 4 discs. DCS Kingdom.

UK | 1973 | NWORK | 650 | Cert Item# 72077 | RRP £39.99 | 23rd September

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New Tricks: Series 10

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It’s all change in this tenth series about the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad. Nicholas Lyndhurst joins the team and Tamzin Outhwaite replaces Amanda Redman as the head of the unit – only the second boss the team has ever known. 3 discs.

Plays for Britain Recommended Contains: The Paradise Run, Hitting Town, The Life Swappers, Sunshine in Brixton, Fast Hands and Shuttlecock Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Ray Winstone, Denis Lawson, Kevin McNally, Sheila Gish Released: 2nd September Extras: 2 discs Item# 72078 UK | 1976 | NWORK | 325 | Cert 15

An attempt by Thames TV to rival the BBC’s Play for Today strand, Plays for Britain largely eschews social realism for a stab at the progressive and the radical. As such, its view of life in modern Britain is boldly and unashamedly oblique. While there is much to savour here, Stephen Poliakoff’s Hitting Town stands out. Compelling and sharply provocative, it stars Deborah Norton and Mick Ford as adult siblings who, during one fractious night on the town, retreat from prosaic urban bleakness to a volatile incestuous union. But there is also the surreal invention of Roger McGough’s absurdist satire on sexual identity, The Life-Swappers; the political stridency of Howard Brenton’s character study of two soldiers in Northern Ireland, The Paradise Run; and the bittersweet, racially charged comedy of Brian Glover’s Sunshine in Brixton. Plays for Britain serves as a potent reminder of a sadly lost era of network television, when even ITV was prepared to challenge its audience with contentious, demanding and even ‘experimental’ drama. JU

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The Protectors: Season 2

The complete second season of the Emmy award-winning Danish drama which follows members of the elite Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen, from where they are tasked with guarding potential terrorist targets. 2 discs.

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Railway Roundabout The complete collection of the BBC television series of the late 1950s and early 1960s, featuring train lines that turned out to be on the point of closure and locomotives that were about to disappear forever. 4 discs.

UK | 1958-62 | GO-D | 480 | Cert E Item# 72485 | RRP £29.99 | 14th October

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Southcliffe Sean Durkin

A powerful four-part Channel 4 drama from the director of Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and written by Tony Grisoni (Red Riding), Southcliffe tells the story of a fictional English coastal town devastated by a spate of shootings that takes place over a single day. Rory Kinnear plays the journalist who goes to hear the stories of the surviving residents. The cast includes Eddie Marsan, Shirley Henderson and Kaya Scodelario. UK | 2013 | 4DVD | 190 | Cert 15 Item# 72605 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Story of the Jews

Treme: Season 3

The complete third season of the US drama set in New Orleans from the creators of The Wire. The residents of the Treme neighbourhood continue to rebuild their lives after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Wendell Pierce, Melissa Leo and Steve Zahn star as some of the diverse characters 4 discs. living within the community.

Monsters

Six collections of the Time Lord’s foes

Cybermen

USA | 2012 | WHV | Cert 15 Item# 72339 / 72343 | RRP £39.99 | 30th Sept

Contains The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, The Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel (2006), both with Tenth Doctor David Tennant.

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Victor and Maria Una Stubbs, at the time riding the wave of Worzel Gummidge success, reads the adventures of big white bear Victor and his friend Maria, adapted by David McKee from his own stories. The series shares the same sense of innocent fun as Crystal Tipps and Alistair.

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The Cedar Tree: Series 2

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The Daleks Contains the William Hartnell adventure The Daleks (1963), which introduced viewers to the Daleks, and Asylum of the Daleks (2012), starring Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith. Item# 71741 UK | 1963-2012 | PG | £9.99

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Davros Contains Genesis of the Daleks – a six-part adventure from 1975 with Fourth Doctor Tom Baker, The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End (2008) both starring Tenth Doctor David Tennant. Item# 71751 UK | 1975-2008 | PG | £9.99

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The Master

Family Tree: Series 1

Contains Terror of the Autons (1971) with Jon Pertwee, which introduced the power-mad Time Lord The Master, and The End of Time (2009) – the last story to feature David Tennant.

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Grand Designs: S10

Silurians

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Historian Simon Schama presents a five-part BBC documentary series that traces over 4,000 years of Jewish history. Travelling the globe from New York to Odessa, Berlin to Jerusalem, Schama tells ancient and modern stories that illuminate the passions and perplexities of the Jewish people today. No previous television series has focused so sharply on the interaction between Jewish culture and the rest 2 discs. of the world.

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Lewis: Series 1-7

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Contains the Jon Pertwee adventure Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970), and The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood (2010), which saw Matt Smith do battle with the updated monsters.

Spitting Image: S10

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Sontarans

Vera: Series 3

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Contains The Time Warrior (1973) – a four-part adventure starring Jon Pertwee, and the David Tennant adventures The Sontaran Stratagem and its sequel The Poison Sky (2008).

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

Rudolph Barshai: The Note

New Releases

Oleg Dorman

A profile of the Russian conductor and viola virtuoso, Rudolph Barshai, who, although finding fame as a founder of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the 1950s, left for the west in 1977 after increasing frustration with political inteference in his artistic freedom.

Blackfish

Gabriela Cowperthwaite A profoundly shocking film that exposes the truth about Orca whales (‘killer whales’) held in captivity for the benefit of a billion dollar sea park industry, presenting a convincing case against keeping these highly intelligent wild animals in captivity for human entertainment. USA | 2013 | DOGW | 82 | Cert 15 Item# 72633 | RRP £14.99 | 26th August

Roy Battersby A remarkable study of the human body. Narrated by Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave and with a commentary by poet Adrian Mitchell, the film traces its life-cycle from conception to death. Soundtrack by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin.

Canada | 2012 | ART-E | 109 | Cert 12 Item# 72009 / 72354 | RRP £15.99 | 23rd Sept

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Three Films by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade / Landscape / Revue

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Hawking

Stephen Finnigan

A documentary profile of the physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, in which he tells his story in his own words. Hawking also allowed director Stephen Finnigan unprecedented access to his private life, resulting in an intimate and revealing portrait of his challenges and achievements.

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Sophie Fiennes

The sequel to The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. Slavoj Žižek looks at how cinema, as the art of dreams, reveals much about the form and status of the ideologies that drive modern society. UK | 2012 | 4DVD | 136 | Cert 15 Item# 72802 | RRP £19.99 | 7th October

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Stories We Tell Canadian actress-turneddirector Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz), aims to shed some light on her family secrets in this fascinating, multi-layered film that highlights the unreliability of different accounts of the same story.

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Three documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog): Blockade (2006), an archive-led film about Hitler’s siege of Leningrad, Landscape (2003), in which Loznitsa records the inhabitants of the Russian village Okulovka while they wait at a bus stop in the middle of winter, and Revue (2008), a collection of 1950s2 discs. 60s Soviet propaganda.

Russia | 2003-08 | NW | 194 | Cert E Item# 72353 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd September

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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) examines the WikiLeaks phenomenon and the question of how information is accessed globally. In addition to detailing how the website came to be, the film also explores issues of freedom of information and moral responsibility.

British Home Front: Public Information Films of WWI Recommended Contains: Over 25 WWI Public Information Films Released: 2nd September Item# 72453 UK | 1914-18 | C-RED | 150 | B&W | Cert E

Containing 2½ hours of public information films, silent instructional dramas and animated propaganda drawn from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this collection provides a fascinating look at the concerns and attitudes of wartime, 1914-18. And fairly ripe some of these are too: ‘Every penny saved is a good work begun / Each six pence will help to blot out the Hun’ is a typical sentiment from a film promoting Savings Bonds. Lancelot Speed’s animated pen and wash drawings provide impressive visualizations of startling statistics, but it is with the various Ministry of Information mini-dramas that the collection really comes alive. Promoting War Savings Bonds, the cure for potato blight, growing your own vegetables, making dumplings without suet, the importance of saving bones for munitions, eating beans, helping out with part-time work and much else besides, they are a treasure trove of ideas and imagery of the time. Those who enjoyed the Mitchell & Kenyon films will find much to take the eye. GH

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New Releases The Breaking of Bumbo Andrew Sinclair

A time-capsule portrait of military rigour competing with the 60’s burgeoning sexual and social freedom. Richard Warwick plays an ensign in the Household Brigade whose life is rudely interrupted when he falls in with luscious revolutionary Susie (Joanna Lumley). UK | 1970 | NWORK | 90 | Cert PG Item# 72403 | RRP £9.99 | 23rd September

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Breathe In

Drake Doremus An intimate and intelligent romantic drama in which young foreign exchange student Sophie (Felicity Jones) arrives to stay with a family in New York, taking piano lessons from the father (Guy Pearce). Soon longing for adventure and disenchantment with family life combine into romance. USA | 2013 | CFW | 97 | Cert 15 Item# 72676 / 72677 | RRP £15.99 | 7th October

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Byzantium Neil Jordan

An atmospheric vampire thriller from Neil Jordan (Company of Wolves, Ondine) in which, having survived for over 200 years, single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter (Saoirse Ronan) shelter at a down-at-heel guest house in a rundown seaside resort. UK / USA / Ireland | 2012 | STUDC | 118 | Cert 15 Item# 72366 / 72323 | RRP £17.99 | 23rd Sept

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Dead Man Down Niels Arden Oplev

A neo-noir revenge thriller starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace as two strangers who are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge, Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). USA | 2013 | MOMET | 117 | Cert 15 Item# 72237 / 72247 | RRP £17.99 | 23rd Sept

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The Eye of the Storm Fred Schepisi

Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis star in this a hearfelt adaptation of Patrick White’s 1973 novel that sees a fading actor and his divorced sister return to their childhood home, a mansion in Centennial Park, Sydney, to visit their ailing mother, who still exerts a powerful hold over her children. Australia | 2011 | KALHE | 119 | Cert 12 Item# 72269 | RRP £15.99 | 16th September

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The Iceman Ariel Vromen

A gritty biopic tracing the career of a New York contract killer (Michael Shannon) who, after convincing his Catholic wife (Winona Ryder) that he works for Disney when he in fact produces porn videos, finds himself on the payroll of a local mobster (Ray Liotta) as an enforcer. USA | 2012 | LGATE | 106 | Cert 15 Item# 72397 / 72396 | RRP £17.99 | 30th Sept

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Inseparable Dayyan Eng

A genre-crossing Englishlanguage Chinese comedy starring Kevin Spacey as the mentor to prosthetic engineer Li who is contemplaing suicide as an escape from his daily woes. The two become superhero vigilantes, but as Li’s fight against injustice comes to a head his grasp on reality begins to slip. China | 2011 | MATCH | 94 | Cert 15 Item# 72743 / 72744 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

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The Kings of Summer J Vogt-Roberts

Coming-of-age comedy in which three friends decide to build a house in the woods and begin living off the land. However, with their newfound independence comes greater responsibility, and the three learn that escape may not be as favourable as they initially thought. USA | 2013 | STUDC | 95 | Cert 15 Item# 72688 / 72848 | RRP £19.99 | 30th Sept

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Much Ado About Nothing Recommended Director: Joss Whedon Starring: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Clark Gregg, Sean Maher, Nathan Fillion, Fran Kranz Released: 7th October Item# 72183 USA | 2012 | KALHE | 108 | B&W | Cert 12

The Bard’s tale of revels poisoned by malice has always made for good entry-level Shakespeare, and this concise, accessible production shows exactly why. Shot in blackand-white at director Joss Whedon’s house, this modern-dress rendition strips the play down to its essentials. The drama is closely observed and intimate, and the all-important physical comedy is deftly handled. There are no marquee names in the cast: Whedon draws on his unofficial repertory company of actors known mostly for their television work (notably his own Buffy, Serenity and Dollhouse series), and this might help to account for the film’s freshness. Fran Kranz is especially good as the ardent Claudio, and we get a terrific Beatrice and Benedick (Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof) and a gleefully pompous Dogberry (Nathan Fillion). Whedon’s devoted fanbase coalesced around his inventive tales of vampire slayers and superheroes, but his Much Ado has won acclaim from a wider audience, and rightly so. Any lover of Shakespeare will find this a richly entertaining film. NR

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Contemporary The Last American Virgin Boaz Davidson

Championed by Eli Roth (Hostel) as one of the most underrated films of its era, this is a raucous but also surprisingly intelligent and sobering look at peer pressure, unforeseen consequences and the hideousness of growing up. It’s also a superb snapshot of the early 80s music scene, with the soundtrack featuring Blondie, Devo, The Police, U2 and 2 discs; Interviews; Booklet. others. USA | 1982 | ARROW | 93 | Cert 18 Item# 71945 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd September

CFF Collection: Scary Stories Recommended

The Wicker Man (The Final Cut) Recommended

Contains: The Man from Nowhere (Hill, 1976), Haunters of the Deep (Bogle, 1984) and Out of the Darkness (Krish, 1985)

Director: Robin Hardy

Ray Cooney

Released: 23rd September

Packed with mistaken identities, assumed names and double entendres, this uproarious British 1970s farce about a Russian ballet star who defects to the West features a stellar line-up that includes comedy veterans Leslie Phillips, Roy Kinnear, June Whitfield, Ian Lavender, Windsor Davies and Don Estelle.

Released: 14th October

Extras: Fully illustrated booklet

Extras: 4 discs; Contains the restored Final Cut, UK Theatrical Cut & Director’s Cut plus soundtrack CD; Commentary; Restoration comparison; Burnt Offering: Mark Kermode documentary; Soundtrack featurette; Archive Interview with Hardy & Christopher Lee.

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Not Now Comrade

UK | 1976 | NWORK | 87 | Cert TBC Item# 72123 | RRP £9.99 | 30th September

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Passion

Brian De Palma

A remake of Alain Corneau’s 2010 French thriller, Love Crime, (which starred Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas) telling the enthralling story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the ruthless world of international business. Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace star. Germany / France | 2012 | MET-D | 100 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 72234 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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Penny Gold Jack Cardiff

A 1970s British crime drama from the Oscarwinning cinematographer Jack Cardiff, in which a detective finds himself drawn to the sister (Francesca Annis) of a murdered woman. But is she all she seems? UK | 1974 | SIMP | 87 | Cert 12 Item# 72832 | RRP £12.99 | 16th September

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Item# 72577 UK | 1974-85 | BFI | 182 | Cert PG

What really stands out in this geographically diverse collection is the quality of the storytelling. In setting and style, The Man from Nowhere (made by James Hill – Born Free, Lunch Hour) resembles a BBC ‘Ghost Story for Christmas’. In it, a determined young orphan girl befriends a group of villlage urchins who help her get to the bottom of the terrifying appearances of a mysterious black-clad man, warning her away from the manor where she has gone to live with her only surviving relative. Making use of local folklore and beliefs, Haunters of the Deep takes us to Cornwall with a tale of a haunted tin mine that a new owner wants to open up, despite dire warnings about such an action. Lastly, John Krish’s Out of the Darkness takes the history of the Derbyshire plague village of Eyam to craft a story of a young boy opening the channels of history to lay an unsettled spirit to rest. This is a quality collection with some genuine scares – just as the title says. GH

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Starring: Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Edward Woodward, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp

Item# 72644 UK | 1973 | STUDC | 84 | Cert 15

As far as ‘cult classics’ go, The Wicker Man takes some beating. From unpromising beginnings – print savaged by cutting, released as a B-movie, original rolls of film junked – Robin Hardy and Peter Shaffer’s tale of pagan sacrifice is now universally praised as one of the most unforgettable works of British cinema. The original long version seems to be irretrievably lost (rumour has it the cans are landfill beneath the M3), but after a worldwide search a film print of the so-called ‘middle version’ of the film, assembled by Hardy and released in US cinemas in 1979, was found and restored for this release. Containing three cuts of the film, including the director-approved, newly restored ‘final cut’, a CD of the evocative soundtrack, plus Mark Kermode’s 2001 documentary on the film, this is as complete a package as anyone can reasonably expect. Something to warm yourself by as the nights draw in.

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September 2013 MovieMail Film Catalogue

Gay & Lesbian The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mira Nair

A political thriller based on Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel. Riz Ahmed stars as Changez, a young Pakistani professor living the American dream, working on Wall Street and with a beautiful young artist girlfriend (Kate Hudson). Then 9/11 changes everything and he is forced to consider his allegiances. UK | 2012 | KALHE | 130 | Cert 15 Item# 72236 / 72239 | RRP £15.99 | 16th Sept

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Riddles of the Sphinx Mulvey / Wollen

An intellectually rigorous avant-garde British film that explores issues of female representation, the place of motherhood within society and the relationship between mother and daughter. Score from The Soft Machine’s Mike Ratledge. 2 discs; Laura Mulvey commentary and interview; Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (Wollen & Mulvey, 1974); Booklet. UK | 1977 | BFI | 92 | Cert PG Item# 71914 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd September

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Satan’s Slave / Prey Norman J. Warren

Double bill of horror films from Norman J. Warren: Satan’s Slave (1976), in which a young girl realises her uncle (Michael Gough) and cousin (Martin Potter) plan to use her as a sacrifice, and Prey (1978). 2 discs; Fragment (Warren, 1965). UK | 1976-78 | ODEON | 162 | 18 Item# 71827 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Sleepwalker Saxon Logan

Featuring a rare performance from Bill Douglas, this is an outrageous mix of biting satire and bloody horror reminiscent of unlikely bedfellows Dario Argento and Lindsay 2 discs; Anderson. The Insomniac (Giesler, 1971); Stepping Out (Logan, 1977); Working Surface (Logan, 1979). UK | 1985 | BFI | 120 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 72153 | RRP £19.99 | 23rd September

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The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan

Ian Holm plays the tightly coiled lawyer who tries to bring order to a town mourning the deaths of fourteen of its children in a school bus accident in Egoyan’s most successful film to date, which garnered 42 international festival awards – including the 1997 Cannes Grand Jury Prize – and two Oscar nominations. Canada | 1997 | ART-E | 107 | Cert 15 Item# 72007 / 72008 | RRP £15.99 | 9th Sept

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Also Released... Hamlet

Mike Mundell

Item# 72493 UK | 2000 | 220 | 12 | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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High Road to China Brian G. Hutton

Item# 72383 USA | 1983 | 100 | PG | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

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Squirm

Jeff Lieberman

Item# 71922 USA | 1976 | 92 | 18 | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Twixt

Francis Ford Coppola

Jack and Diane

Bradley Rust Gray

An unconventional love story sprinkled with startling forays into the horror genre, arresting animated sequences from the Quay Brothers, and a special appearance from Kylie Minogue. Consistently playful, charming and surprising, this is a visual treat, boasting beguiling performances from Riley Keough and Juno Temple at its strange little heart. USA | 2012 | TLAUK | 110 | Cert 15 Item# 71985 | RRP £15.99 | 14th October

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Les Invisibles

Sébastien Lifshitz Frank, affectionate and intimate portraits of gay and lesbian life from an older generation who often remain ignored and unheard in a youthobsessed society. Lifshitz talks to eleven men and women in their 60s and 70s who tell their revealing personal stories. France | 2012 | PECCA | 115 | subt | Cert E Item# 72651 | RRP £12.99 | 23rd September

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Let My People Go Mikael Buch

A sweet fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, which follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben, a French-Jewish mailman living in fairytale Finland with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend.

Item# 71919 USA | 2011 | 88 | 15 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Wayland’s Song Richard Jobson

Item# 72790 UK | 2013 | £15.99 | P&P £1.50

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Brian De Palma

Item# 70345 USA | 1976 | 94 | 18 | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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High Plains Drifter

France | 2011 | TLAUK | 96 | 15 Item# 71498 | RRP £15.99 | 14th October

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The Mermaids / Lady Pochoir Petra Clever

The Remains of the Day

A double-bill of short lesbian dramas from German director Petra Clever, The Mermaids (2012) in which the eyes of a German maths nerd are opened to a seriously Sapphic world when she starts to play American football, and Lady Pochoir (2010), in which a part-time graffiti artist attracts the attentions of a publisher and a policewoman.

Item# 72440 UK | 1993 | 129 | U | £12.99 | P&P £1.50

Germany | 2012 | TLAUK | 74 | Cert 15 Item# 72448 | RRP £15.99 | 23rd September

Clint Eastwood

Item# 72486 USA | 1972 | 101 | 18 | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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New York, New York Martin Scorsese

Item# 72531 USA | 1977 | 156 | PG | £14.99 | P&P £1.50

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James Ivory

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The Wicker Man: The Final Cut

James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Nostalgia and the CFF Image from The Boy who Turned Yellow

ostalgia ain’t what it used to be.... Nostalgia is a funny thing. It creeps up on you unawares and strikes in the most peculiar of ways. Just last week, I found myself caught in its grip. You may remember a certain very longrunning cinema advertisement, one that showed us images of the tropical Antilles which a chirpy cock-er-nee voiceover artiste assured us were ‘Peckham, on a wet Saturday afternoon’ and the like – if you were drinking a certain brand of white rum. I went to the cinema a lot back then and saw it Every. Single. Time. (‘Next door’s budgie’). Boy, did I hate it (‘The Dog and Duck, down the high street’). I did cartwheels of joy when it bit the dust (‘Catching the last bus home’). And yet, last week I felt the urge to look it up on YouTube as though it were an old friend. Like I say, nostalgia is a funny thing. Which leads us to The Children’s Film Foundation (CFF). For those of you too young to remember, the CFF was a film industry-funded production unit which created films for children to be screened at Saturday morning matinees. They ran from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Their work lingered a while on television (where I saw it) but slowly faded away, to no great dismay. They were something of a joke amongst my peer group – even in the 1980s, there was a touch of Enid Blyton about them, all apple-cheeked youngsters getting up to good clean fun. Still, they were a feature of my childhood cultural landscape: they may have been rubbish but they were MY rubbish and, as the years passed, my memories became more indulgent. Nostalgia took hold; I even began to wonder what they might look like through adult eyes...

Nostalgia may lead you here, but you’ll discover fine films I don’t doubt that it’s nostalgia that’s driven the BFI to start releasing collections of the CFF’s greatest hits but anyone who comes to these films in expectation of a jumpers-forgoalposts memory fest will be disappointed – and for the best possible reasons. For a start, many of these films are actually very good indeed (I can truthfully say that I haven’t enjoyed a film this year as much as I have Sammy’s Super T-Shirt); The Boy Who Turned Yellow (the last collaboration of Powell and Pressburger) is a delightful fantasy; John Krish’s The Salvage Gang has a beguiling simplicity that builds to a thrilling climax. (There’s another Krish film, Out of the Darkness, on the latest ‘Scary Stories’ collection – see page 28.) To approach CFF productions with rose-tinted spectacles is to make excuses for those films that don’t quite cut the mustard, and that does an injustice to the many very fine films that the CFF made. Nostalgia might be big business these days and technology offers us

ever more satisfying ways to scratch the itch (like looking up appalling adverts on YouTube). But that shouldn’t – mustn’t – mean we have to compromise our critical faculties. Some CFF films are, to be diplomatic, very much of their time. But why deny it? That way we can more truthfully hail their best work as the small triumphs that they are.

Related Films CFF: London Tales

The Salvage Gang (Krish, 1958), Operation Third Form (Eady, 1966) and Night Ferry (Eady, 1976). Item# 68627 1958-76 | 164 | B&W | U | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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CFF: The Race is On

Sammy’s Super T-Shirt (Summers, 1978), Soapbox Derby (Conyers, 1957) and The Sky Bike (Frend, 1967). Item# 70146 1957-78 | 176 | B&W | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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CFF: Weird Adventures

The Boy who Turned Yellow (Powell & Pressburger, 1972), The Monster of Highgate Ponds (Calvalcanti, 1961) and A Hitch in Time (Darnley-Smith, 1978). Item# 70680 UK | 1961-78 | 162 | U | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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CFF: Scary Stories See page 28 for full details.

Item# 72577 UK | 1974-85 | 182 | PG | £19.99 | P&P £1.50

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Hangmen Also Die

Fritz Lang’s gripping WWII thriller See page 7 for our full review

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Hangmen Also Die Fritz Lang Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda (Brain Donlevy) enlists the aid of a young woman (Anna Lee) who soon finds herself entangled in the revolution’s secret operations. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, Lang’s film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors and revolutionaries and finds him operating at the peak of his considerable powers. Item# 72322 USA | 1943 | 134 | B&W | PG | £14.99

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