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elcome to our kingsized Christmas issue! This month’s extra room is for our full Christmas Gift Guide, packed with great savings on perfect presents for the film and TV lovers in your life – turn to page 19 for our hand-picked selection. Our annual celebration of the finest releases of the year begins this month with our Vintage DVDs of 2011 – see pages 6 and 7. They’re a very fine bunch so do check out any that you’ve missed. They’ve mostly been published by independent British labels, many of which

Contents Film of the Month 5 The Princess of Montpensier

Vintage DVDs of the Year 6-7 8

World Cinema have had a tough year due to the Sony warehouse fire in August. James praises them in his blog (page 38), but I’d like to gently remind readers that they rely on your support, now more than ever. Enjoy your films,

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Classic Movies The Long Gray Line

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Happy People Living in the Material World

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The Killing: Season 2 Frozen Planet

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Nick Riddle (Kozintsev’s Hamlet) Nick became a film nut after stumbling across Fellini’s 8½ on BBC2, back in the days when they put that sort of thing on the telly. He is currently a writer and editor at the University of Bristol. His blog on troubadour Jaufré Rudel can be found at jaufre-outremer.blogspot.com

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Alexander Ballinger (The Complete Father Brown) wrote The Rough Guide to Film Noir

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1 The King’s Speech

Wonderful Oscar-winning drama from Tom Hooper telling the story of the relationship formed between King George VI (Colin Firth) and his unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). Colin Firth won a Best Actor Golden Globe, a BAFTA and an Oscar for his performance. Item # 64684 UK / Australia | 2010 | MOMET | 118 min | 12 | £19.99

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2 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley’s People

A double bill of enthralling BBC espionage series based on the novels by John le Carré. Alec Guinness stars as master spy George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) and Smiley’s People (1982). Item # 66167 UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 687 min | 15 | £12.99

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3 Of Gods and Men

Set in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s, Of Gods and Men studies eight French Christian monks who live there in harmony with their Muslim brothers until an Islamic fundamentalist group brings fear to the region. Wrestling with their faith, they must decide whether to stay or flee.

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Item # 64669 France | 2010 | ART-E | 121 min | subt | 15 | £15.99

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4 The Killing: Series 1

A smash hit from Denmark for BBC4, this was acclaimed as one of the finest murder investigation series ever produced. The thriller tries to answer the question, ‘who killed Nanna Birk Larsen?’. Dour detective Sarah Lund is on the case. Item # 64864 Denmark / Norway / Sweden | 2007 | Arrow E1 | 1100 min | subt | 15 | £59.99

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9 Silence

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Names of the Month: Henry Fonda, Ian Holm, Penenlope Wilton, George Harrison

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Also on Blu-ray The Princess of Montpensier

Item # 66441 France | 2010 | OPTIM | 139 min | subt | 15 | £22.99

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See Also The Iron Horse (MoC) John Ford

Item # 66126 USA | 1924 | EUREK | 150 min | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Directed by John Ford

Contains: The Informer (1935); The Fugitive (1947); Mary of Scotland (1936); Wagonmaster (1950). Item # 51210 USA | PG | £29.99

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Patton

Franklin J Schaffner Item # 27554 USA | 1969 | 20CFX | 144 min | PG | £17.99

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t’s no secret that John Ford became more conservative as he grew older but it’s sometimes said that this affected the quality of his work: that this great director became more interested in affirming a sometimes reactionary worldview than in exploring the individual human poetry that characterises his best work. Although it’s not one of his best-known works, The Long Gray Line is an excellent test-case with which to examine this thesis. It is, after all, set in West Point – the academy where the American army nurtures its officer caste – and even features a reverent cameo by President Eisenhower (occupant of The Oval Office when the film was made). It’s adapted from the memoir of Martin Maher, an Irish immigrant who joined the staff at West Point and worked there for fifty-five years. As played by Tyrone Power, Marty Maher is a bumptious lummox (complete with unfortunate ‘brogue’) who quickly settles into military life there and makes his marks on generations of cadets. But this is no unqualified, gung-ho celebration of martial values. Having established Marty’s place in things, Ford proceeds to pull the rug from under him. This is a film about duty and obligation but shows all too vividly the cost of such

Ever the consummate craftsman, John Ford plays the film beautifully things: individual aspirations have to be sublimated to the collective good. Marty has grand schemes that are never realised and is constantly aware that many of his beloved cadets will end up dead on foreign battlefields. Ever the consummate craftsman, Ford plays the film beautifully, deftly moving from the near-comedy of the first half into the ambiguities of the second. It also looks great: although this was the first time Ford worked in CinemaScope, his compositions are as masterful as ever. This, then, is a crucial film in Ford’s body of work. It certainly illustrates his belief in institutions and traditions. But it also exposes his ambivalence towards them: his artistry forbade blind obedience in anything, even in causes he venerated. Ford was one of America’s great directors – maybe its greatest. While few would argue this is one of his major works, it is ample proof of his genius. James Oliver

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Classic Movies Laurel and Hardy: Christmas Special

A festive collection of shorts featuring Stan and Ollie. They play Christmas Tree sales reps in Big Business (1929) and down-at-heel street musicians in Below Zero (1930), while Laughing Gravy (1931) sees Stan inherit a fortune – on condition that he renounces his friendship with ‘nitwit’ Oliver! USA | 1931 | UPV | subt | Cert U Item # 66597 | RRP £8.99 | Released 14th November

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Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game A delicious double-dose of effervescent vintage comedy-drama starring Britain’s blondest of bombshells, the one-andonly Diana Dors, here at her saucy best. Contains Miss Tulip Stays the Night (Arliss, 1955) and The Great Game (Elvey, 1953). 2 discs.

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Once Upon a Time in the West (Collector’s Edition) Sergio Leone

Characterised by its brooding, baroque grandeur, Ennio Morricone score, imposing closeups, superb widescreen compositions and a slow build of tension, this is the spaghetti western par excellence. Henry Fonda oozes sadistic menace; Claudia Cardinale vows vengeance for her slaughtered family. Jason Robards and Charles Bronson also star. Italy / USA | 1969 | PARAH | 159 min | Cert 12 Item # 66722 | RRP £19.99 | Released 21st November

Paul Temple Collection

19 films: The Immoral Mr. Teas, Wild Gals of the Naked West, Eve and the Handyman, Europe in the Raw, Lorna, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Motor Psycho, Mondo Topless, Mudhoney, Common Law Cabin, Good Morning..., Finders Keepers, Vixen!, Cherry, Black Snake, Supervixens, Up!, Ultra-Vixens, Pandora Peaks. 13 discs; Commentaries; Featurettes. USA | 1959-2001 | ARROW | 1660 min | Cert 18 Item # 66796 | RRP £59.99 | Released 31st October

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Touch of Evil (MoC) Orson Welles

Editions don’t come any more definitive than this, which contains five variants of Welles’ film of corruption in a Mexican border town: the 1958 Theatrical and 1998 Reconstructed versions in full-frame and widescreen and the 1958 Preview 2 discs; 4 Audio commentaries; Version. Featurettes; 56-page booklet.

UK | 1955 | BFI | 142 min | Cert PG Item # 66870 | RRP £15.99 | Out 5th December

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The Russ Meyer Collection: 19 Uplifting Classics

USA | 1958 | EUREK | 105 min | Cert 12 Item # 66206 | RRP £22.99 | Out 14th November

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Variety Jubilee Maclean Rogers

1940s drama chronicling three generations of music-hall owners, from the early 1900s to WWII. A last hurrah for English music hall veterans, including singers Charles Coborn and Marie Lloyd, comedian George Robey and sand dancers Wilson, Keppel and Betty. UK | 1943 | RENOWN | 71 min | Cert PG Item # 66684 | RRP £12.99 | Out 28th November

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Witchfinder General Michael Reeves

Contains Send For Paul Temple (1946), Calling Paul Temple (1948), Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950) and Paul Temple Returns (1952). Anthony Hulme takes the role of Francis Durbridge’s novelist and amateur sleuth in the first film, played thereafter by 4 discs. John Bentley.

One of the great British horror movies, filmed in East Anglia and set during the English civil war. A demonic Vincent Price plays the torturing ‘witchfinder general’ who spreads fear around the countryside. Ian Ogilvy plays the man who resolves to put an end to his infamy.

UK | 1946-52 | RENOWN | Cert PG Item # 66664 | RRP £29.99 | Out 28th November

UK | 1968 | ODEON | 84 min | Cert 18 Item # 66736 | RRP £14.99 | Out 14th November

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Tonight and Every Night Recommended

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Director: Victor Saville Starring: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman Released: 14th November Item # 66831 | USA | 1945 | SPHE | 88 min | Cert U

During the Blitz, the threat of bombs sends London’s theatre-land dark. But one establishment refuses to shut its doors: the lively Music Box thumbs its nose at the Luftwaffe and entertains punters with the prettiest dancing girls in town. Topping the bill is Rosalind Bruce (Hayworth); she’s heard every chat-up line around, so it takes someone special to whisk her off her feet. Squadron Leader Paul Lundy manages to do just that – but is he as honourable as he seems? Based on the famous Windmill Theatre (the only auditorium in London that supposedly never closed during wartime), this lively musical focuses on the moraleboosting entertainers that helped Londoners endure the bombing. Of course, the Windmill was famously more ribald than cinema censorship would allow and decency is preserved throughout. However, the song-and-dance numbers are spectacular enough to cushion this understandable historical inaccuracy. It’s one of Hayworth’s best films: an engaging and colourful salute to those who ensured the capital kept smiling through. BK

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As tough as a right hook to the jaw, as seductive as a femme fatale, Film Noir is the most compelling genre in cinema. We present 18 darkly delicious cinematic excursions into the night. Film Noir Box Set

Kiss Me Deadly

The Narrow Margin

Nine great noirs from the 1940s. Contains: Farewell My Lovely, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, The Killers, Crossfire, The Big Steal, The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key and This Gun For Hire. 9 discs.

Robert Aldrich

Richard Fleischer

Item # 50929 USA | 1942-49 | UN | 897 min | B&W | 12 | £29.99

The definitive noir of the 1950s, Aldrich’s film fairly bristles with ferocious intent and cold war menace. Ralph Meeker plays tough private eye Mike Hammer. The ending is a blinder.

One of the very best hard-boiled thrillers ever to come out of Hollywood. Charles McGraw plays the cop trying to get a mobster’s wife in front of a jury despite the best efforts of the mob to stop her.

Item # 14351 USA | 1955 | MGM | 101 min | B&W | 12 | £12.99

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Berlin Express

Gilda

Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon star in this film set in Germany in the aftermath of WWII, where holdout Nazis plan a murder.

Dir: Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth. Steamily atmospheric, sultry and vengeful noir, brilliantly shot and with sexual undercurrents to drown in!

Pickup on South Street

Item # 63109 USA | 1948 | ODEON | 83 min | B&W | PG | £9.99

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

The Glass Key

The Racket

Dir: Stuart Heisler. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in this entertaining whodunit, adapted from a Dashiell Hammett novel.

Dir: John Cromwell. Robert Mitchum plays the new, incorruptible police captain who spells danger for Robert Ryan’s mobster.

Dir: Fritz Lang. Lang’s ingenious final American film is a gripping dissection of the arbitrary nature of justice.

Dir: Samuel Fuller. NY set thriller suffused with a cold war atmosphere of mistrust and desperation. Item # 18966 USA | 1953 | OPTIM | 77 min | PG | £12.99

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Item # 32360 USA | 1942 | UPV | 85 min | B&W | PG | £9.99

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The Big Sleep

Laura

The Third Man

Dir: Howard Hawks. An essential noir, with Bogie/Bacall magic, fizzing sexual chemistry, labyrinthine plot and electric dialogue.

Dir: Otto Preminger. One of the indisputable classics of film noir, Laura is a delicious murder mystery starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews.

Dir: Carol Reed. One of the most justly famed of all British films. Welles talks about cuckoo clocks, Karas plays the zither. 2 discs.

Item # 6230 USA | 1946 | WHV | 110 min | B&W | PG | £15.99

Item # 33046 USA | 1944 | FOX | 87 min | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Blood on the Moon

The Locket

This Gun For Hire

Dir: Robert Wise. A moody noir western starring Robert Mitchum as a drifting cowboy who squares up to an old friend out for a land grab.

Dir: John Brahm. A distinctive RKO picture that uses multiple flashbacks to construct a psychological noir. Robert Mitchum stars.

Dir: Frank Tuttle. The first hit pairing of tough guy Alan Ladd and sultry blonde bombshell Veronica Lake in a hard-edged tale of love and betrayal.

Item # 65485 USA | 1948 | ODEON | 88 min | B&W | PG | £9.99

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Item # 32366 USA | 1942 | UPV | 80 min | B&W | PG | £9.99

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Film Noir Collection

Out of the Past

While the City Sleeps

Three Preminger films: Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), plus Dassin’s Night and the City (1950). 4 discs.

Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Aka Build My Gallows High. A quintessential film noir which catapulted Robert Mitchum to superstardom.

Dir: Fritz Lang. A superb noir that sees a group of newspapermen hunt for a sex murderer, with control of their newspaper the ultimate prize.

Item # 60322 USA | 1950 | BFI | 375 min | B&W | 12 | £29.99

Item # 32364 USA | 1947 | UPV | 93 min | B&W | PG | £9.99

Item # 62578 USA | 1955 | EXP-C | 100 min | B&W | PG | £11.99

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Item # 65847 USA | 1956 | EXP-C | 80 min | B&W | PG | £11.99

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Cars 2

John Lasseter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Pt 2 David Yates

Item # 66750 UK | 2011 | WHV | 145 min | 12 | £29.99

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Mildred Pierce Todd Haynes

The Phantom of the Opera

Item # 65924 USA | 2011 | WHV | 328 min | 15 | £29.99

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La Piscine

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Jacques Deray

Item # 66510 Italy / France | 1969 | PARKC | 123 min |

Director: Rupert Julian

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Poetry

Item # 66671 South Korea | 2010 | ARROW | 139 min | subt | 12 | £24.99

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A Separation Asghar Farhadi

Item # 66644 Iran | 2011 | ART-E | 123 min | subt | PG | £19.99

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Silent Running Douglas Trumball

Item # 66204 USA | 1974 | EUREK | 86 min | U | £19.99

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Three Colours Trilogy Krzysztof Kieslowski

Item # 66339 France | 1993-94 | ART-E | 277 min | subt | Cert 15 | £44.99

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The Tin Drum

Volker Schlondorff

Item # 66745 Germany / France | 1979 | ARROW | 142 min | subt | 15 | £29.99

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Touch of Evil (Masters of Cinema) Orson Welles

Item # 66206 USA | 1958 | EUREK | 105 min | B&W | 12 | £22.99

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TT: Closer to the Edge Richard de Aragues

Item # 66941 UK | 2011 | E1 | 15 | £25.99

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USA | 2011 | WDHV | 106 min | Cert U Item # 66776/778 | RRP £19.99 | Out 21st November

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Kung Fu Panda 2 Jennifer Yuh

Released: 21st November

Now a kung fu master, Panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) spends his days working alongside Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and The Furious Five – Monkey (Jackie Chan), Crane, Tigress, Viper and Mantis – to protect the Valley of Peace. But this harmonious existence is under threat from an evil emperor peacock (Gary Oldman).

Item # 66522 USA | 1925 | PARKC | 107 min | B&W | PG

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A new family friendly adventure from Pixar (creators of Cars, Up and Toy Story among others) which sees racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow-truck Mater head to the first-ever World Grand Prix and get caught up in international espionage along the way.

Starring: Lon Chaney Extras: 2 discs; All-new restoration; Includes both 1925 and 1929 versions; Three scores: from The Alloy Orchestra (2011), Gaylord Carter (1974) (in stereo) and Gabriel Thibaudeau (1990); Commentary; Stills gallery; Thibaudeau Interview; Reproduction of 1925 Programme and script.

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Animation

A must for all fans of the inimitable Lon Chaney, this splendid set presents both the original 1925 version of Rupert Julian’s adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s celebrated novel and the 1929 variation edited by Maurice Pivar and Lois Weber, which not only contains new scenes directed by Edward Sedgwick but also a masked ball sequence in experimental two-strip Technicolor. All eyes will naturally be on ‘the Man of a Thousand Faces’, who remains the screen’s finest Phantom, as he skulks around the bowels of the Paris Opera House seeking to ensure protégé Mary Philbin sings the part of Marguerite in the production of Gounod’s Faust and keep her out of the clutches of Norman Kerry’s amorous viscount. However, Charles Van Enger’s moody lighting of Chaney’s typically inventive make-up and Ben Carré’s Expressionist sets casts a suitably Gothic pall over proceedings. DP

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The Lion King Rob Minkoff

Rowan Atkinson, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick. The adventure-filled story of Simba the Lion who is finding it difficult to accept the responsibilities of his future role as king of the jungle. Along his journey he meets many marvellous characters who help him find his place in the great circle of life. USA | 1994 | WDHV | 85 min | Cert U Item # 66546-47 | RRP £19.99 | Out 7th November

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Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection Magical musical tales with original music from Paul McCartney. Contains the animated films Tropical Island Hum, Tuesday and Rupert and the Frog Song, originally produced for McCartney’s 1985 film Give My Regards to Broad Street.

UK | 1984 | MIRAM | 127 min | U Item # 66429 | RRP £19.99 | Released 17th October

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Christmas Gift Guide Free DVD when you spend £30 With a host of cinematic experiences that you won’t forget, these DVDs are anything but bargain basement. Choose from World Cinema, Classic Hollywood, Modern American and Best of British. Simply spend over £30 to qualify. The £30 can be spent on any MovieMail order. To claim, quote ‘GG2011’ when you place your order (online customers should put the code in the Offer Code field at the Checkout).

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Festen Thomas Vinterberg

I’ve Loved You So Long K Scott Thomas

Imitation of Life Douglas Sirk

Kes Ken Loach

Up in the Air George Clooney

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Classic Movies These evergreen films have proved their worth time and again and will make perfect presents for lovers of vintage cinema Screen Icons: Alec Guinness

It Happened Here

Five films from one of the most versatile of actors: The Last Holiday, The Man in the White Suit, The Captain’s Paradise, Barnacle Bill and that most perfect of golden age Ealing comedies, Kind Hearts and Coronets. 5 discs.

A remarkable film about life and unwitting collaboration in Nazioccupied England, set after the successful German invasion of 1940. A film made with such attention to authentic detail that you could be forgiven for thinking this actually happened.

Val Guest

Item # 50627 UK | 1949-53 | OPTIM | 618 min | PG | £34.99

Item # 25453 UK | 1964 | FILM | 97 min | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Item # 66010 UK / USA | 1955-57 | ICON | 160 min | 12 | £9.99

Bambi

The Music Lovers

David Hand

Ken Russell

A classic from the golden age of Disney which follows a young deer from his birth and woodland childhood through to his ascendancy into the antlered Prince of the Forest. A prime example of Disney’s ability to combine delightful whimsy with darker scenes.

‘The story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac,’ said Ken Russell of his flamboyant, often breathtaking film about Tchaikovsky. Richard Chamberlain takes the role of the composer, Glenda Jackson his wife.

Anthony Pelissier

Item # 64546 USA | 1942 | WDHV | 69 min | U | £19.99

Item # 65140 UK | 1970 | FCE | 123 min | 18 | £15.99

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Item # 66543 UK | 1949 | SPIRT | 87 min | B&W | PG | £12.99

Charlie Chan: Sidney Toler

North West Mounted Police

Ultimate Hammer Films Box Set

11 films featuring Sidney Toler as the famous detective: Charlie Chan ... In Honolulu, In Reno, At Treasure Island, City in Darkness, In Panama, Murder Cruise, At the Wax Museum, Murder Over New York, Dead Men Tell, In Rio, Castle in the Desert. 6 discs.

Cecil B. DeMille

21 lurid, fang-baring, monstercreating, devil-baiting, zombie -fighting, satanist-outing, dinosaur-defying, furry bikini-wearing classics from Hammer studios, including The Devil Rides Out, One Million Years BC and The Scars Of Dracula. Enter at your peril! 21 discs.

Item # 66080 USA | 1938-42 | ODEON | B&W | PG | £69.99

Item # 63458 USA | 1940 | ODEON | 120 min | PG | £9.99

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Brownlow & Mollo

A sumptuous Technicolor film shot on location in the Canadian Rockies, featuring jaw-dropping stunt work, explosive action, sexual treachery and imperialist tub-thumping! Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard star.

The Quatermass Double Bill A double-bill of early Hammer science-fiction based on Nigel Kneale’s scripts. Features the first of the ‘Hammer Horrors’, The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and Quatermass 2 (1957). Brian Donlevy stars. DVD: £7.99 Save £2

The Rocking Horse Winner A dark, atmospheric psychological British drama, adapted from DH Lawrence’s story about a young boy (a 10 year-old John Howard Davies) who gets a rocking horse for Christmas and learns to pick racing winners. DVD: £9.99 Save £3

Item # 30647 UK | 1965-72 | OPTIM | 1973 min | 18 | £149.99

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Charlie Chaplin Box Set

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Whisky Galore!

Eleven Chaplin classics, 19211957. Contains The Great Dictator, Modern Times, Gold Rush, Limelight, The Kid, The Circus, Monsieur Verdoux, City Lights, A Woman of Paris, A King in New York, The Chaplin Revue. Restored; 11 discs.

Ronald Neame

Classic Ealing comedy in which a cargo ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky founders off a Hebridean island. Can the villagers hide the illicit booty from Basil Radford’s interfering English officer and the Customs and Excise? Restored with extras.

Item # 65843 USA | 1921-57 | PARKC | B&W | PG | £69.99

Item # 61547 UK | 1969 | ACORN | 111 min | 15 | £16.99

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Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Oscar in 1969 for her role as a naive schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh, gives the best cinematic performance of her career in this film based on Muriel Spark’s best-selling novel. DVD: £7.99 Save £9

Alexander Mackendrick

Item # 65771-72 UK | 1949 | OP | 81 min | B&W | PG | £15.99

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World Cinema Stimulating films from around the globe that will make perfect presents for discerning friends and relatives Eric Rohmer: Six Moral Tales

Potiche

Jan Švankmajer Švankmajer’s surreal adaptation of Alice in Wonderland remains faithful to the original work but adds a pervading sense of unease and a menacing dream-logic. 2 discs; English and Czech versions.

A teasing, erudite and sagacious sextet: Suzanne’s Career, The Girl at the Monceau Bakery, My Night at Maud’s, Claire’s Knee, La Collectionneuse and Love in the Afternoon. 5 discs.

A wonderful French farce that reunites French cinema legends Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in a tale of a trophy wife taking over the running of her husband’s umbrella factory.

Item # 65092 Czech | 1988 | BFI | 86 min | subt | PG | £19.99

Item # 61401 France | 1972 | ART-E | subt | 15 | £39.99

Item # 66437/40 Fra | 2010 | SC | 102 min | subt | 15 | £17.99

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DVD: £10.99 Save £7 Blu-ray: £14.99

Andrei Tarkovsky Collection

Jean-Pierre Melville Collection

The Princess of Montpensier

Six classic films from the French director: Army of Shadows, Le Doulos, Léon Morin, Prêtre, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob Le Flambeur and Un Flic. 6 discs.

A superb period romance that tells the story of a beautiful young aristocrat (Mélanie Thierry). Intelligent and perceptive, for many this was the standout French release of 2011.

Item # 57277 France | 1961-72 | OPTIM | subt | PG | £44.99

Item # 66438/41 Fra | 2010 | SC | 139 min | subt | 15 | £17.99

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Chico and Rita

Little White Lies

Fernando Trueba

Guillaume Canet

A gorgeous animated love story set in the vibrant New York jazz scene of the late 1940s and early 50s, detailing the love affair between a handsome jazz pianist and a sultry nightclub singer.

Canet’s second film (after Tell No One) is an ensemble drama which follows a group of Parisians on their summer holiday and evolves from a breezy comedy into something much deeper.

Theo Angelopoulos: Volume 1

Item # 64775 Spain | 2010 | CNXHE | 94 min | subt | 15 | £17.99

Item # 65742/44 Fra | 2010 | LG | 154 min | subt | 15 | £17.99

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Early Kurosawa

Of Gods and Men

Akira Kurosawa

Xavier Beauvois

Costa-Gavras

Six early films from the Japanese master: Sanshiro Sugata Pts 1 & 2, The Most Beautiful, They Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail, No Regrets For Our Youth and One Wonderful Sunday.

A profoundly moving study of grace under pressure in which eight Christian monks remain in their Algerian monastery in spite of the growing threat from Islamic extremism. Based on a true story.

A gripping thriller set in a Mediterranean country under a totalitarian regime, where a murder points to a network of police and government Import, plays corruption. on all UK DVD players.

Item # 64667 Japan | 1943-47 | BFI | subt | B&W | £39.99

Item # 64669/72 Fra | 2010 | AE | 121 min | subt | 15 | £15.99

Item # 66659 France | 1969 | INNLC | 127 min | subt | £14.99

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All seven of Tarkovsky's masterpieces: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), The Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979), Nostalgia (1983), The Sacrifice (1986). 7 discs. Item # 62620 Russia | 1962-86 | ART-E | subt | 15 | £59.99

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François Ozon

Bertrand Tavernier

Four films from one of the overlooked masters of modern cinema: Reconstruction (1970), Days of ‘36 (1972), The Hunters (1977) and the masterly The Travelling Players (1975).

4 discs.

Item # 66338 Greece | 1970-77 | ART-E | subt | 15 | £39.99

DVD: £29.99 Save £10

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Television Great value for money, these superb TV series give hours of viewing pleasure and are just the thing for long winter evenings Brideshead Revisited

Hannah Hauxwell Box Set

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Contains Too Long a Winter, A Winter Too Many and An Innocent Abroad, three extraordinary Yorkshire TV documentaries about Daleswoman Hannah Hauxwell, struggling to survive alone on her beloved Low Birk Hat Farm. 3 discs.

Anthony Andrews, Jeremy Irons, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom ... this is ITV’s beloved adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel. Remains as captivating today as when it was first broadcast. 4 discs. Item # 65947 UK | 1981 | G-VEN | 641 min | 15 | £29.99

Item # 52976 UK | | G-VEN | 248 min | PG | £15.99

The Killing: S1&2 Acclaimed as one of the finest murder investigation series ever produced, and a big hit on BBC4, this is the riveting Danish TV thriller starring Sofie Gråbøl as Detective Sarah Lund. Series 1 (broadcast in early 2011) and 2 (broadcast this November) available separately and in a box set. Item # Various Denmark | 2007 | Arrow E1 | subt | 15 | £59.99

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S1: £29.99 S2: £29.99 S1+2: £47.99

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Hour

The Sagas of Noggin the Nog

Marc Munden Dark-edged period drama at its best, in which Michel Faber’s bestseller is brought to life by a top-drawer cast, led by Romola Garai. Immerses the viewer in a highly realistic portrayal of Victorian London. 2 discs. Item # 65482 UK | 2010 | PNE | 232 min | 15 | £24.99

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Downton Abbey Series 1 & 2, available separately and in a box set, of ITV1’s acclaimed costume drama, set in an Edwardian country house before and during the First World War. Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville star. Item # Various UK | 2010 | UPV | 12 | £24.99/£29.99/£39.99

S1: £9.99 S2: £22.99 S1&2: £32.99

Romola Garai, Dominic West and Ben Whishaw form the highly competitive, passionate love triangle at the heart of this sharp six-part BBC period drama which takes viewers behind the scenes of the launch of a topical news programme in London in 1956. 2 discs. Item # 66039 / 48 UK | 2011 | 2E | 360 min | 15 | £24.99

DVD: £14.99 Save £10 Blu-ray: £21.99

Jack Rosenthal at the BBC A showcase for one of British TV’s very greatest dramatists. Contains The Evacuees, Bar Mitzvah Boy, Eskimo Day, Cold Enough for Snow and the poignant Spend Spend Spend, a portrait of sixties Pools winner Viv Nicholson. 5 discs. Item # 64779 UK | 1997 | ACORN | 408 min | 15 | £35.99

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Frozen Planet

Lewis: Series 1-5

Narrated by David Attenborough, this is the ultimate portrait of the earth’s Polar regions. With both Poles under grave threat from climate change, this extraordinary series may be the last chance to witness these great wildernesses before they change forever. 3 discs.

All the episodes from series 1-5 of the Inspector Morse spin-off detective drama starring Kevin Whately, who returns to Oxford five years after Morse’s death to take up a DI position – and this time he has his own sidekick in the form of Laurence Fox’s Sergeant Hathaway. 19 discs.

Item # 66836-37 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert E | £29.99

Item # 64939 UK | 2011 | G-VEN | 1830 min | 12 | £99.99

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Postgate & Firmin Six hours of this magical, marvellous and much-loved piece of British TV history, narrated by Oliver Postgate and accompanied by Vernon Elliott’s haunting bassoon score. 2 discs; Booklet. Item # 22696 UK | 1959-1980 | DR-FS | 361 min | U | £32.99

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Wallander: Collected Films 1-7 & 8-13 The first 13 films, in two volumes, of the original Swedish TV feature-length crime thrillers starring Krister Henriksson as the perpetually hangdog detective Kurt Wallander. Item # 65222 / 65619 Sw | 2005 | Arr | subt | 15 | £49.99

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Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister All the episodes from the two wonderfully witty parliament-set UK series starring Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds and Nigel Hawthorne, whose manipulative Sir Humphrey Appleby is one of Britain’s great comic creations. 7 discs. Item # 30957 UK | 1980-88 | BBC | 1140 min | PG | £49.99

DVD: £14.99 Save £35

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Modern Film Animal Kingdom

The King’s Speech

Super 8

David Michôd

Tom Hooper

J.J. Abrams

A brooding Australian crime drama that has received rave reviews. It’s set in mid-1980s Melbourne, where a teenager goes to live with his grandmother – a fearsome crime matriarch presiding over a family of gangsters, dealers and sociopaths.

Wonderful Oscar-winning drama telling the story of the relationship formed between the stammering King George VI (Colin Firth) and the speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) engaged by his loyal wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham-Carter).

An artful sci-fi thriller set in 1979, this Spielberg-produced movie sees a group of children head into perilous territory when they set out to discover the truth behind a train crash they have inadvertently shot while making an amateur film.

Item # 65881/85 Aus | 2010 | OPTIM | 113 min | 18 | £17.99

Item # 64684/710 UK | 2010 | MOM | 118 min | 12 | £19.99

Item # 66358/361 USA | 2011 | PAR | 111 min | 12 | £19.99

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DVD: £12.99 DVD+Blu-ray: £19.99

Attack the Block

Never Let Me Go

The Tree of Life

Joe Cornish

Mark Romanek

Terrence Malick

One of 2011’s most delightful surprises, this is a fast, funny action adventure that pits a teenage gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters on a London housing estate. An affectionate tribute to the great monster movies of the 1970s and 80s.

A starkly beautiful adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield star as the three people who take a journey of discovery into the sinister heart of their shared and seemingly idyllic past.

An intimate epic of universal and personal origins, Malick’s ambitious, awe-inspiring, Palme d’Or-winner centres on a family in 1950s Texas, but reaches for cosmic significance in the creation of the universe itself. Sean Penn and Brad Pitt star.

Item # 65773-74 UK | 2011 | STUDC | 87 min | 15 | £19.99

Item # 65273/77 UK | 2010 | FOX | 103 min | 12 | £19.99

Item # 66435 USA | 2011 | FOX | 139 min | 12 | £20.99

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Black Swan

The Pillow Book

True Grit (2010)

Darren Aronofsky

Peter Greenaway

Coen Brothers

A stylish, intriguing and occasionally horrifying mix of psychological thrills, body horror and dance set in the insular world of New York ballet. An Oscar-winning Natalie Portman stars as the dancer who discovers her dark side.

Provocative, playful and erotic, this is a brilliantly filmed, ceaselessly creative exploration of a Japanese woman’s passion for having calligraphers write on her skin like the pages of a book. Vivian Wu and Ewan McGregor star.

The Coen Brothers update the classic 1969 western, with Jeff Bridges taking the John Wayne role of grizzled US Marshal ‘Rooster’ Cogburn, hired to help a young girl avenge the murder of her father. An entertaining, universal crowd-pleaser.

Item # 65165/67 USA | 2010 | FOX | 103 min | 15 | £19.99

Item # 65106-07 UK | 1995 | PARKC | 121 min | 18 | £15.99

Item # Various USA | 2010 | PARAH | 232 min | 15 | £19.99

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Submarine Richard Ayoade

The Woody Allen Collection

The directorial debut feature of British actor Richard Ayoade, this acclaimed coming-of-age comedy follows 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) in his dual quest to keep his family together and to lose his virginity before his 16th birthday.

A box set containing six of Woody Allen’s enduring favourites from the 1970s: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Sleeper, Love and Death and Bananas. 6 discs.

Item # 65732/31 UK | 2010 | OPTIM | 97 min | 15 | £17.99

Item # 20323 USA | 1971-79 | MGM | 507 min | 18 | £49.99

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David Yates The sensational final instalment in the fantasy adventure series based on JK Rowling’s bestsellers sees the battle between good and evil wizardry escalate into an all-out war. 2 discs. Item # 66748/50 UK | 2011 | WHV | 145 min | 12 | £24.99

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We present cinematic highlights of 2011 and notable releases from the recent past – all will make great presents!

Christmas Gift Guide

Documentaries British Transport Films Box Set All nine double-disc volumes from the BFI’s fabulous BTF archive, which forms an endlessly fascinating and important record of Britain’s transport and social heritage. Contains over 37 18 discs. hours of film! Item # 56220 UK | 1950s-80s | BFI | E | £99.99

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George Harrison: Living in the Material World Martin Scorsese Featuring rare and never-beforeseen archive footage, this is a thoughtful, honest and affectionate appreciation of the ‘Quiet One’ in the Beatles, chronicling his life and spiritual quest. Item # Various UK | 2011 | LGATE | 210 min | 12 | £19.99

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My Voyage to Italy Martin Scorsese A heartfelt, epic documentary in which Scorsese discusses the Italian films that have had a profound impact on his moviemaking and his life, this is both a brilliant exploration of a national cinema and a fascinating disguised autobiography. Item # 65833 Italy / USA | 1999 | Bongo | 237 min | 12 | £14.99

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

The Great White Silence

Senna

Werner Herzog

Herbert Ponting

Herzog takes an incredible journey deep into the otherwise inaccessible Chauvet cave in southern France, home to mankind’s oldest painted artworks. Blu-ray includes both 3D and 2D versions.

Beautifully restored by the BFI National Film Archive, this is the official record of Captain Scott’s ill-fated 1910-13 expedition to the South Pole. These are amazing, hundredyear-old images of living history. 2 discs.

A thrilling, moving tribute to one of the greatest of all racing drivers, Ayrton Senna. It’s not just for racing fans either – Kapadia’s mythic portrait is a masterclass in montage and the use of evocative archive footage. 2 discs.

Item # 66565-66 Fra | 2010 | REV | 90 min | subt | U | £15.99

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

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DVD+Blu-ray: £9.99 Save £10

DVD: £11.99 DVD+Blu-ray: £14.99

Stanley Kubrick Collection

Touch of Evil

William Wyler 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets, 11 Academy Awards and in its day the biggest budget in movie history. Charlton Heston brings a muscular presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, the enslaved Jewish prince out for revenge against the Romans.

A seven film collection that features A Clockwork Orange, the Blu-ray debuts of Lolita and Barry Lyndon, and the feature films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. Essential cinema. 8 discs.

A squalid Mexican border town hosts sordid deeds. Welles plays the crooked police chief, Heston the upright narcotics investigator, Dietrich the enigmatic gypsy. A big influence on Hitchcock’s Psycho. Five versions of the film!; Many extras.

Item # 65689 USA | 1959 | WHV | 213 min | PG | £24.99

Item # 65278 UK / USA | 1999 | WHV | 647 min | 18 | £60.99

Item # 66206 USA | 1958 | EU | 105 min | B&W | 12 | £22.99

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Blu-ray: £13.99 Save £9

Frozen Planet

Three Colours Trilogy

The Tree of Life

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Asif Kapadia

Item # 66290 UK | 2010 | UPV | 106 min | £19.99

Blu-rays Ben Hur

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Kieslowski’s superb, universally acclaimed meditations on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Three Colours: Blue, White and Red. Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irène Jacob star. Masterful filmaking. 3 discs; Item # 66339 France | 1993-94 | ART-E | subt | 15 | £44.99

Blu-ray: £32.49 Save £12.50

Orson Welles

2 discs;

Terrence Malick

Item # 66439 USA | 2011 | FOX | 139 min | 12 | £27.99

Blu-ray: £19.99 Save £8

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Films for the Family Dumbo

The Lion King

Winnie the Pooh

Ben Sharpsteen

Rob Minkoff

Stephen J. Anderson

This Disney classic (their fourth animated feature) about bigeared baby circus elephant Dumbo was one of their biggest critical and commercial successes, featuring hallucinogenic pink elephants and an Oscar-winning score!

Dirs: Minkoff & Allers. The adventure-filled coming-of-age story of Simba the lion cub and his friends. He just can’t wait to be king – but he is finding it difficult to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his future role as king of the jungle.

Steering clear of modern-day CGI animation and reverting to the watercolour-based handdrawn animation of Disney’s original ‘Winnie the Pooh’ films, this charming new outing sees the Hundred Acre Wood gang searching for a new tail for Eeyore.

Item # 61127-28 USA | 1941 | WDHV | 61 min | U | £17.99

Item # 66546-47 USA | 1994 | WDHV | 85 min | U | £19.99

Item # 66143 USA | 2011 | WDHV | 63 min | U | £13.99

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

The Railway Children

The Wizard of Oz

Lionel Jeffries

David Yates

The beloved original 1970 film of ES Nesbit’s book, starring Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Dinah Sheridan and Bernard Cribbins. A timeless British delight hat has inspired children and parents alike since its release.

One of the most famous and beloved films of all time, appealing to generation after generation. Features a delightfully imaginative score, the highlight of which must be the enchanting ‘Over the Rainbow’. Judy Garland stars. 2 discs.

The sensational final instalment in the fantasy adventure series based on JK Rowling’s bestsellers sees the battle between the good and evil in the wizarding world escalate into an all-out war. 2 discs. Item # 66748/50 UK | 2011 | WHV | 145 min | 12 | £25.52

DVD: £14.99 DVD+Blu-ray: £14.99

Victor Fleming

Item # 61443 UK | 1970 | OPTIM | 104 min | U | £12.99

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Item # 65159 USA | 1939 | WHV | 98 min | B&W | | £19.99

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The Abominable Snowman DVD £5.99

Any Human Heart DVD £5.99

The Army of Crime DVD £5.99

Casablanca DVD £5.99

Dead of Night DVD £5.99

The Edge of Love DVD £5.99

A Hard Day’s Night DVD £5.99

Heartbreaker DVD £5.99

Mildred Pierce DVD £5.99

Mrs Miniver DVD £5.99

No Country for Old Men DVD £5.99

The Red Balloon DVD £5.99

The Secret of Roan Inish DVD £5.99

Seraphine DVD £5.99

Shutter Island DVD £5.99

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy £5.99

Watership Down (Film) DVD £5.99

White Christmas DVD £5.99

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Christmas Gift Guide

MovieMail Staff Selection Andrei Tarkovsky Collection Chosen by Dan Hunter. Few film directors are as revered as Tarkovsky and, from what I’ve seen, he more than measures up to the praise. The Christmas break and this new box set will give me a great chance to fill in the blanks. Item # 62620 Russia | 1962-86 | ART-E | subt | 15 | £59.99

Frozen Planet Chosen by Susan Martin. Sir David Attenborourgh has produced another breathtaking series, this time comparing the poles throughout the seasons. With extraordinary photography featuring polar bears and Arctic wolves in the north and penguins and orcas in the south, this is a great documentary for all the family to enjoy. Item # 66836-37 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert E | £29.99

George Harrison: Living in the Material World Martin Scorsese Chosen by Graeme Hobbs. I’m looking forward to this. No matter how relentlessly The Beatles’ material and mythology is mined, the enduring fascination of the members and their times remains. Item # Various UK | 2011 | LGATE | 210 min | 12 | £19.99

DVD: £34.99 Save £25

DVD: £22.99 Save £7 Blu-ray: £25.99

My Voyage to Italy

Stanley Kubrick Collection

Chosen by Carol Hunter. A little film school module and an evocative trip down memory lane courtesy of Martin Scorsese – sounds like a great combination! Item # 65833 Italy / USA | 1999 | Bongo |

Chosen by Craig Wilson. I can think of nothing better than having the chance to see seven of Kubrick’s masterpieces in glorious HD. The Blu-ray debuts of Lolita and Barry Lyndon along with a host of extras will help the winter nights pass just that little bit quicker.

237 min | 12 | £14.99

Item # 65278 UK / USA | 1999 | WHV | 647 min | 18 | £60.99

Item # 65222 / 65619 Sw | 2005 | Arr | subt | 15 | £49.99

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Blu-ray: £29.99 Save £31

DVD: £29.99 Save £20

DVD: £11.99 Save £8 Blu-ray: £14.99

Wallander: 1-7 Chosen by Rebecca Smith. I’m a massive Henning Mankell fan and was very impressed by Krister Henrikson’s portrayal of Kurt Wallander. I’d like to lend this box set to friends who haven’t yet enjoyed this great series.

For those with everything! Betty’s Bath A fun and innocent collection of eight short, erotic films shot in Hollywood in the early 1920s on studio stages after hours and with wannabe starlets with their clothes off, disporting themselves in various situations. 20% of profits on the sale of this DVD will be donated to Cancer Research. Item # 60453 USA | 1920s | FILM | 36 min | B&W | 18 | £12.99

DVD: £7.99 Save £5

Gilbert and Sullivan Box Set Five of librettist William Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan’s celebrated operas, as performed by Opera Australia. Contains The Gondoliers, HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury, Patience and the most successful of their ‘Savoy’ operas, The Mikado. 4 discs. Item # 66652 UK | 2011 | OPUS | 536 min | E | £19.99

DVD: £14.99 Save £5

Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre

Talking Heads

A box set containing the Globe Theatre productions of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dromgoole, 2009), As You Like It (Russman, 2009) and Romeo & Juliet (Dromgoole, 2009). The next best thing to being there!

Alan Bennett’s brilliantly natural monologues, which turn on the heartbreaking details of daily life, are brought to life by some of the UK’s finest talents, Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and Alan Bennett himself among them. Essential viewing. 3 discs.

Stuart Burge

4 discs.

Item # 63126 UK | 2009 | OPUS | 485 min | £49.99

Item # 20951 UK | 1988 | BBC | 428 min | 12 | £24.99

DVD: £34.99 Save £15

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The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley’s People

A fascinating collection, in which Viktor Turin’s pioneering 1929 documentary, Turksib, is paired with a number of the British documentaries it influenced – including the celebrated Night Mail. 2 discs. Item # 65837 Rus | 1929 | BFI | 163 min | subt | U | £19.99

DVD+Blu-ray: £11.99 Save £8

A double bill of the enthralling BBC espionage mini-series based on the novels by John Le Carré. Alec Guinness stars as the mild-mannered master spy George Smiley, called in to clean up the ‘Circus’. 4 discs. Item # 66167 UK | 1982 | 2ENT | 687 min | 15 | £12.99

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality” Magic Trip

New Releases A Film Unfinished: Nazi Propaganda and the Warsaw Ghetto Yael Heronski

When it was discovered that much of a film originally made in the Warsaw Ghetto as Nazi propaganda was staged, Yael Heronski reconstructed the footage, resulting in a troubling example of how history can be manipulated beyond recognition. Israel | 2010 | ARTF | 88 min | E Item # 66797 | RRP £14.99 | Out 14th November

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Brilliant Moon Neten Chokling

Richard Gere and Lou Reed narrate this portrait of writer and meditation master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet’s most revered Buddhist ‘Jewel teachers. Mountain’ narrated by the Dalai Lama.

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Hollywood: The Fabulous Era Jack Haley Jnr

A vintage TV documentary narrated by Henry Fonda abut the golden age of Hollywood from the late 1920s to the 1960s. Features a pantheon of screen deities such as Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart. USA | 1962 | PALL | 60 min | Cert E Item # 66632 | RRP £12.99 | Released 17th October

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USA | 2011 | STUDC | 107 min | Cert 15 Item # 66542/66539 | RRP £17.99 | Out 21st Nov

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The Molly Dineen Collection: Vol. 3 – The Lie of the Land A third volume from the acclaimed documentarian. Contains Geri (1999), a portrait of Geri Halliwell after she left the Spice Girls, The Lords’ Tale (2002), about the abolition of hereditary peers, and The Lie of the Land (2007) in which she uncovers unpalatable truths about the British countryside.

Kevin Macdonald An amazing future time capsule, created from 4500 hours of footage submitted from 192 countries worldwide, that shows what it was like to alive on a single day – July 24, 2010. A profound, engaging, inspirational and touching paean to human life on earth. USA | 2011 | E1 | 90 min | Cert 15 Item # 64511 | RRP £19.99 | Released 31st October

Spanning the years 194474, This Sceptred Isle contains over a dozen archive travelogues packed with ideas for English day-trips and weekends away, as filmed by ‘quota quickie’ producer Harold Baim. A comprehensive 6-hour collection of films that would have originally been seen at the local 2 discs; cinema as secondary features. Bonus films: This is Guernsey (1963); Pete Murray Takes You to Hastings (1983). UK | 1974 | SFE | 365 min | Cert E Item # 66853 | RRP £20.99 | Out 28th November

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Richard de Aragues

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Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times Andrew Rossi

Granted unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom for a year, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the frantic nature of professional journalism as stories erupt and advances in technology continually force the paper to adapt. USA | 2011 | DOGW | 92 min | E Item # 66500 | RRP £14.99 | Out 14th November

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This previously unreleased 1946 documentary is one of the treasures of the Imperial War Museum’s archive. Shot and edited by the socialite Rosie Newman, it offers a personal insight into Audio WWII, in colour. commentary by Jane Fish of the IWM; Reproduction of Newman’s Britain at War (1948).

This Sceptred Isle: Day Trips in England 1940s to 1970s

TT: Closer to the Edge

Rosie Newman’s Britain at War in Colour

Life in a Day

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A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ fabled LSDfuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair in the Magic Bus in 1964. The journey was shot on 16mm but never made into a film – until now, when Gibney and Ellwood were given access to the raw footage by the Kesey family.

UK | 1999-2007 | BFI | 240 min | Cert 12 Item # 66474 | RRP £19.99 | Out 5th December

| 2010 | Axiom | 85 min | Cert E Item # 66631 | RRP £15.99 | Released 24th October

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Alex Gibney / Alison Ellwood

Jared Leto narrates this thrilling documentary, originally filmed in 3D, about the world’s most challenging motorcycle road race – the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, or TT, delving into its history and asking why riders are willing to risk their lives in 2 discs; Many extras. their bid to win. UK | 2011 | E1 | 103 min | Cert 15 Item # 66940 | RRP £19.99 | Out 28th November

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Stage

Der Rosenkavalier

Under the baton of Herbert Von Karajan, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the famous singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Otto Edelmann all combine to give a colourful and inspiring performance.

UK | 1962 | PARKC | 184 min | Cert E Item # 66461 | RRP £15.99 | Released 24th October

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Gilbert & Sullivan: Collection The bargain box set from Opus Arte presents fillmed recordings of much-praised Australian productions of The Mikado, The Gondoliers, HMS Pinafore, Trial By Jury and Patience. 4 discs.

UK | 1946 | SFE | 121 min | Cert E Item # 66636 | RRP £19.99 | Released 31st October

UK | 2011 | OPUS | 536 min | Cert E Item # 66652 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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George Harrison: Living in the Material World Recommended

Director: Martin Scorsese Released: 10th October

Extras: 2 discs; Interviews. Item # 66364 | UK | 2011 | LGATE | 210 min | Cert 12

George Harrison was always labelled the Quiet One. However, he speaks with eloquence and conviction in Martin Scorsese’s epic documentary, which not only achieves the remarkable feat of finding new angles on one of the most oft-told tales in modern showbiz, but also delves into the personality and philosophy of the Beatle who grew most as a man through his experiences in the best band popular music will ever know. Piecing together a chronicle of post-Beatles life – charity concerts, critically mauled tours, audacious film ventures, motor-racing and ukulele fixations, drug lapses, health scares and knife attacks – Scorsese concentrates on finding the man behind the songs, leavening discussions of his sincere spiritual search with revelations about his changeable temperament and periodic infidelity. What emerges is a thoughtful, honest and affectionate appreciation of a decent if sometimes conflicted Liverpudlian who always suspected that, for all his earthly success, the best was yet to come. DP

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COI Collection: Volume 6 – Worth the Risk? Recommended

Contains: 45 COI films (1946-2000) on the subjects of health and safety, risk and welfare Released: 7th November Extras: 2 discs; Furry Folk on Holiday (1967): Play Safe (1979); Booklet. Item # 66475 | UK | 1948-81 | BFI | 215 min | Cert E

The very first film on this latest BFI collection drawn from the archives of the Central Office of Information opens with the logo for The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. What follows over the next 3½ hours is a catalogue of nearmisses, dinks, scalds, crunches, shocks and bumps, along with such a diversity of fatalities that you are set to wondering just how you are going to make it through the days ahead. Taking us from the un-seatbelted era of the ‘one for the road’ 1940s to the zebra crossings and Green Cross Code Man of the 1970s and beyond, these many and various exhortations to take care and be a responsible citizen feature classic cartoon characters (Tufty, Charley) as well as well-known faces and voices of more recent years to help get their various messages across. Ranging from audacious, creepy and disturbingly inventive films to short, sharp shockers, this is an essential collection drawn from the golden age of the Public Information Film. GH

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga Recommended

Director: Dmitry Vasyukov / Werner Herzog Released: 28th November Item # 66134 | Germany | 2010 | 2ND | 90 min | Cert PG

People existing in extreme conditions on the margins of modern life have long held a fascination for Herzog, and in Happy People, he turns his eye on those living in some of the most testing conditions anywhere on Earth, namely the hunters of a small village deep in the heart of Siberia. As with Grizzly Man, Herzog lends his distinctive touch – and agreeably idiosyncratic narration – to someone else’s film, condensing a 4-hour TV documentary about fur trappers into an ode to the harsh beauty of wilderness life. And wilderness it is. A single trapper’s area is colossal, with ‘the enormity of solitude’ his companion in the winter season. Taking us through spring, summer, autumn and winter – the seasons distinct and challenging, from summer mosquitoes to winter temperatures of -54°C – the film offers a showcase for extreme survival skills (no offhand term here but deadly serious) such as turning a tree into skis or preparing mosquito repellent from birch tar and fish oil. With some amazing footage of the natural world, Happy People is a welcome addition to Herzog’s investigations of extreme living.

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Television Programmes Originally Broadcast

New Releases The Adventures of Robin Hood: Complete Series

Richard Greene stars as television’s most famous Robin Hood in ITV’s first hit adventure series from the early days of British commercial television. The four series ran between 1955-1960 and this box set contains all 143 18 discs episodes!

UK | 1955-60 | NWORK | Cert PG Item # 66762 | RRP £79.99 | Released 5th December

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Alice Through the Looking Glass John Henderson

A family-friendly adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, this madefor-TV adaptation has a twist – after reading a bedtime story to her child it is a grown-up Alice (Kate Beckinsale) who enters the magical land. An all-star cast includes Steve Coogan, Ian Holm, Siân Phillips, Penelope Wilton and Geoffrey Palmer. UK | 1999 | 2ND | 83 min | Cert PG Item # 66133 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th November

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The Borgias: Season 1

Set in 15th century Italy, Showtime’s The Borgias chronicles the rise of corrupt patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) to the papacy, where he uses his evil influence to amass power and wealth for himself and his family. 3 discs.

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John Henderson

The BAFTA-winning 1992 BBC series based on the novels by Mary Norton. Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Callard star as the fourinch high family who live under the floorboards and borrow what they need from the ‘human beans’. UK | 1992 | 2ENT | 90 min | Cert U Item # 66726 | RRP £14.99 | Released 31st October

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A festive edition of the time-travelling adventure. Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is he beyond redemption? Joining Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins. Doctor Who Confidential Christmas Special 2010; Doctor Who at the Proms 2010. UK | 2010 | 2ENT | 60 min | Cert PG Item # 64178/64182 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

Doctor Who – New Series 6 All 12 episodes, plus the Christmas special, from the sixth series of the relaunched sci-fi series starring Matt Smith as the 6 discs; Time Lord. Additional Scenes; Comic Relief Sketches; Monster Files; Commentaries; Doctor Who Confidential: A Nights’ Tale.

Leslie Manning

BBC’s 1992 Halloween special caused a storm of controversy. It ostensibly went out as a ‘live’ telecast about a haunted house on a north London estate, with Michael Parkinson as the studio anchor, Mike Smith presenting the phone-in, Sarah Greene as the reporter in the house, and Craig Charles as the Outside Broadcast interviewer. Then things began to go terribly wrong. Amazingly, it still has the power to unnerve.

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Jeremy Clarkson: War Stories Clarkson presents two of the bravest actions of World War II, that of Major Cain at the Battle of Arnhem and how he won the ‘finest Victoria Cross of the whole war’, and the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire.

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item # 66732/66729 | RRP £49.99 | Out 21st Nov

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 120 min | Cert E Item # 66936 | RRP £15.99 | Released 31st October

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Five Days II

A newborn baby is abandoned in a Yorkshire hospital; a Trans-Pennine train is halted by a suicidal jumper. From this moment, the lives of those on the train and in the hospital are changed irrevocably, not least for DC Laurie Franklin (Suranne Jones), who is drawn into the dark mystery linking these two events. A pedigree supporting cast includes David 2 discs. Morrissey and Bernard Hill.

UK | 2010 | IMC | 300 min | Cert 15 Item # 66578 | RRP £19.99 | Released 3rd October

Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey

The democracy, language, drama, philosophy, science and medicine of ancient Greece have left an enduring legacy on the fabric of our everyday lives. Here, Joanna Lumley embarks on a tour through Greece, from the islands to its northern borders.

UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 240 min | Cert E Item # 66835 | RRP £19.99 | Released 21st November

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Our DVD Price: £13.99 All 13 episodes from the fifth series of the ITV crime series starring Jill Gascoine as no-nonsense DI Maggie Forbes. Made when high-ranking female police officers were a rarity, the show broke new ground in its portrayal of the difficulties a woman might face in such a male-dominated environment.

Ghostwatch

UK | 1992 | 101 | 91 min | Cert 12 Item # 66755 | RRP £12.99 | Released 17th October

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The Gentle Touch: Series 5

The Borrowers

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Doctor Who – The New Series 5: A Christmas Carol

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The Little Match Girl Michael Custance

Twiggy, Roger Daltrey and Natalie Morse star in this musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s poignant yuletide tale, in which a match girl in Victorian London discovers a magical world in the flames of the matches she burns to keep warm.

UK | 1984 | NWORK | 650 min | Cert 15 Item # 66443 | RRP £39.99 | Out 14th November

UK | 1987 | NWORK | 90 min | Cert U Item # 66335 | RRP £7.99 | Released 7th November

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Love in a Cold Climate Donald McWhinnie

The original 1980 Thames TV adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, tracing the unconventional lives and loves of the Alconleigh family through the great changes of the 1920s and 30s. Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Michael Aldridge, Diana Fairfax 2 discs. and Simon Cadell star. UK | 1980 | NWORK | 400 min | Cert PG Item # 64941 | RRP £19.99 | Out 26th September

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Michael Bentine’s Potty Time: Series 4

A fourth series of the marvellously madcap puppet series created and presented by Michael Bentine. Here, the Potties show us why Drake’s global circumnavigation took as long as it did and how America really won its independence. It also features their ingenious escapes from Warmditz, and much more. UK | 1976 | NWORK | 175 min | Cert U Item # 66264 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th November

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One Life

Outnumbered: Series 4

When is Jake going to bring round his mysterious girlfriend? Why is Karen suddenly so obsessed with browsing?, and just what is Ben up to with the washing machine? Just some of the tricky questions facing Pete (Hugh Dennis) and Sue (Claire Skinner) in the fourth series of the hit comedy about a couple bringing up their three young children. Also Comic Relief available: Series 1-4 box set. sketch. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | 174 min | Cert 12 Item # 66123/122 | RRP £19.99 | Out 21st November

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Redcap

Both complete series of the 1960s drama starring John Thaw in his breakthrough role, as Sgt. John Mann, a short-tempered British Military Policeman whose cases take him to wherever the British Army is active, from Germany to Aden and Cyprus to Borneo. Includes many familar faces as guest stars. UK | 1964-66 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item # 66760 | RRP £49.99 | Out 21st November

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Rob Brydon: The Early Years

Martha Holmes Feature-length BBC wildlife documentary, narrated by Daniel Craig, celebrating the diversity and tenacity of life on earth. Edited from 10,000 hours of footage from BBC’s archives, the film focuses on the cyclical journey taken by all living things. 2 discs. UK | 2011 | KALHE | 84 min | Cert E Item # 66538/66540 | RRP £19.99 | Out 21st Nov

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Origins of Us

Exploring the anatomical changes that gave us, and our ancestors, the edge, Alice Roberts shows what makes us ‘the most successful human species ever’. However, physical attributes that played a crucial role in our development can later become a hindrance. This BBC series also examines the problematic side of our anatomical legacy. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert E Item # 66210 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th November

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A triple bill of television comedy shows starring Rob Brydon. Contains Marion and Geoff: Series 1, The Keith Barrett Show: Series 1 and the darkly gleaming Human Remains, a black comedy series in which he and Julia Davis play six couples caught in bizarre, dysfunctional or hopelessly imbalanced 3 discs. relationships.

UK | 2004 | 2ENT | Cert 15 Item # 66321 | RRP £12.99 | Out 14th November

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The Royal: Series 1 All the episodes from the first series of the British medical drama set in the 1960s at the fictional St Aidan’s Royal Free Hospital. Wendy Craig stars as the matron and the series follows her and the other hospital staff as they tend to the sick and face challenges both in and out of the workplace.

UK | 2003 | G-VEN | Cert 12 Item # 66643 | RRP £19.99 | Released 3rd October

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The Killing: Season 2 Recommended

Starring: Sofie Gråbøl

The original Danish series of The Killing was a cult hit in Britain, detailing the methodical investigation of a brutal killing by the unsmiling copper Sarah Lund, sporting the traditional male detective’s inability to sustain a normal family life. Season 2 successfully re-establishes the dynamic of the first series. Sofie Gråbøl subtly conveys that her character is still dealing with the psychological fallout of the earlier case, and has been consigned to an inconspicuous border job. But then a lawyer is murdered under strange circumstances, her supercilious boss decides to bring her back into the fold of the Copenhagen Homicide department, and she is once again on the trail of a ruthless killer. Employing the political element that was so successful in the first series, The Killing sees a youthful Minister of Justice trying to finesse a new terror act. And as a variety of new victims are within an elite army unit, Sarah finds many doors closed on her face. The new series is more concise, but fans of this groundbreaking crime drama will find all of its requisite elements are firmly in place. BF

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LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE T HE C OMPLETE S ERIES

An eight-part adaptation of two classic Nancy Mitford novels starring Judi Dench, Michael Williams and Michael Aldridge, Love in a Cold Climate presents the unconventional lives and loves of the English upper class of the Twenties and Thirties as seen by one of its most gifted chroniclers.

the little matchgirl Twiggy, Roger Daltrey, Paul Daneman, Jimmy Jewel and Stratford Johns star in this Emmy-nominated musical adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s poignant tale. One of the deﬁnitive Christmas stories, this well-loved version features the immortal festive hit MISTLETOE AND WINE, co-written by Jeremy Paul for the stage play, SCRAPS, on which this production is based.

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Television Shaun the Sheep: We Wish Ewe a Merry Christmas Aardman Animations

In these eight episodes, Bitzer gets the jazz bug, Shirley gets remotecontrolled and the flock have a disastrous game of pool. And, with the festive season drawing near, Pidsley tries to oust an ailing Bitzer from his fireside spot, snowballs fly as the farmer gets snowed in and the animals join together to make it a Christmas Day to remember. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert U Item # 66129 | RRP £7.99 | Released 3rd October

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The Slap: Series 1

At an Australian backyard BBQ, amongst alcohol, friendship and a children’s cricket game, a man slaps a child who is not his son. The child’s parents are so affronted they take the man to court. Couples are caught in the crossfire, beliefs are tested and relationships strained as the story, based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestseller, unfolds.

Betjeman on Television Classic BBC programmes, new to DVD A Bird’s Eye View

Betjeman narrates three classic BBC films: One Man’s County; Cornwall (1964), and the helicopter travelogues An Englishman’s Home – a trip over some of Britain’s extraordinary houses and history, and Beside the Seaside (1969), in which the flying camera captures the natural beauty of the British coastal landscape. UK | 1964-69 | SMPLY | 145 min | Cert E Item # 66903 | RRP £16.99 | Released 7th November

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A Passion for Churches Poet Laureate, writer and broadcaster – or ‘poet and hack’ as he described himself in Who’s Who – John Betjeman here celebrates the art and architecture of the churches in the Diocese of Norwich in a documentary made for the BBC in 1974.

Australia | 2011 | REV | Cert 15 Item # 66571 | RRP £19.99 | Out 21st November

UK | 1974 | SMPLY | 155 min | Cert E Item # 66902 | RRP £16.99 | Released 7th November

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Spooks: Series 10

In the tenth and final series of the BBC espionage television series, ghosts from the past come back to haunt MI5 chief Harry Pearce, prompting a shocking revelation about his time as a spy during the Cold War. 3 discs.

UK | 2011 | UPV | Cert TBC Item # 66761 | RRP £39.99 | Out 28th November

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Tales from Europe: The Singing Ringing Tree / The Tinderbox

Thank God It’s Sunday & Summoned by Bells Two classic films from the BBC archives. In Thank God it’s Sunday (1972), Betjeman looks at how Londoners spend Sunday, while Summoned by Bells (1976) is based on Betjeman’s verse autobiography, and covers his life up to the time he started his first job.

UK | 1972; 1976 | SMPLY | 100 min | Cert E Item # 66904 | RRP £16.99 | Released 7th November

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Victorian Architects and Architecture

A double bill of strange and surreal fairy tales from a long-running strand of East German children’s films shown by the BBC throughout the 1960s under the banner of Tales from Europe. The Singing Ringing Tree is the original uncut version with English narration that was added in 1964.

In the 1850s, English architects tried to find a style that would go with steam, glass and cast iron; they chose Gothic. This four part BBC series looks at the men associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival – Barry, Pugin, Butterfield, Scott, Waterhouse, Shaw, Comper, Robinson and Lutyens – and their famous constructions, including the Houses of Parliament, the Natural History Museum, the Albert Memorial and Westminster Abbey.

UK | SMPLY | 120 min | Cert E Item # 66905 | RRP £16.99 | Released 7th November

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Mildred Pierce Recommended Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce Released: 28th November Extras: 2 discs. Item # 65922 | USA | 2011 | WHVHB | 328 min | Cert 15

Todd Haynes’ five hour adaptation of James M Cain’s novel is more lavish, more sumptuous and has more breathing space than the 1945 film which starred Joan Crawford as the titular heroine. Recalling Haynes’ masterpiece Far From Heaven, HBO’s Mildred Pierce is the kind of period TV that will appeal to the many fans of Mad Men. Kate Winslet is superb as the eponymous heroine, a woman newly abandoned by her husband, looking to make her way in a Depressionstruck world with only her sense of propriety and self-worth to guide her. Eschewing the murder subplot grafted into the Crawford vehicle, Haynes is tremendously faithful to the source material, trailing Mildred through the launch of her own restaurant, a relationship with Guy Pearce and battles with her aloof daughters. Fans of Winslet’s performance in Revolutionary Road, or indeed fans of Todd Haynes in general, will find a lot to both like and admire about the series – and the experience is immeasurably enhanced with a rewatch of the Crawford original. PW

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Television Tales from the Darkside: S1

Revealing the dark underworld of our everyday existence, this popular horror anthology series includes stories penned by masters of horror such as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison and Clive Barker, and contains performances by some of Hollywood’s finest stars. Contains all 24 episodes of Tales from the 4 discs; George A Darkside’s first season. Romero commentary on Trick or Treat. USA | 1985 | REVE | Cert 15 Item # 66723 | RRP £19.99 | Released 21st November

Our DVD Price: £13.99 Originally produced in the 1960s, TV series Time To Remember touched on all aspects of life in the first half of the 20th century using British Pathé’s blend of political, social and cultural history. This revised BBC version reinterprets the material in 12 thematic episodes, retaining the charm of the original series and its narration by actors, including Michael Redgrave 3 discs. and Ralph Richardson. UK | 2003 | STUDC | Cert PG Item # 66713 | RRP £24.99 | Released 31st October

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Torchwood: Miracle Day

People are no longer dying. Overnight there is a population boom, and with the earth’s finite resources, the human race will cease to be viable in just four months. In a race against time, a CIA agent is led to an old, secret British institute. As he keeps asking ‘What is Torchwood?’. Also available: 17 discs series 4 discs; Featurettes. 1-4 box set. UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert 15 Item # 66081 | RRP £29.99 | Out 14th November

Item # 66598 UK | 2011 | G-VEN | PG | £19.99

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Land Girls: Series 2 Item # 66757 UK | 2011 | 222 min | £19.99

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Land Girls: S1 & 2

Item # 66756 UK | 2009-2011 | ACORN | 444 min | 12 | £39.99

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Item # 66653 UK | 2011 | 270 min | £19.99

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My Family: Complete Item # 66584 UK | 2011 | 2ENT | £79.99

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New Tricks: Series 8 Item # 66758 UK | 600 min | 12 | £25.99

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Sugartown

Christine Gernon

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Pardon the Expression: Complete Item # 66766 UK | B&W | 12 | £29.99

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The Professionals: The Complete Series 1-4 Item # 66451 UK | 1982 | E1 | 15 | £149.99

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Tenko: Complete S1-3 Item # 66610 UK | 1981 | 1761 min | £79.99

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Series Four Item # 65324 USA | 1968 | REV | 1250 min | PG |

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The first US TV series to regularly show Americans in combat in Vietnam, the show follows an infantry platoon on a tour of duty, commencing in 1967. As well as its action sequences, the series addressed more contro5 discs. versial issues.

USA | 1988 | PNE | Cert 15 Item # 66169 | RRP £49.99 | Released 7th November

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Harry Hill’s TV Burp: The Best Bits

Merlin: Series 4 – Vol 1

Time to Remember

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Frozen Planet Recommended Starring: David Attenborough Released: 8th December Extras: 3 discs. Item # 66836 | UK | 2011 | 2ENT | Cert E

Commitment to a cause comes in many forms. In the case of Frozen Planet, the BBC’s new nature series presented by David Attenborough which brings the frozen wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic to the screen in ways never before seen, the bare facts of the filming schedule tell their own story. It took 2,356 days to film and the crew spent 425 days at temperatures below -15ºC as well as 840 days trapped in blizzards. It goes without saying that the results are nothing less than truly spectacular and, as with previous BBC natural history programmes, boggle the mind at the diversity and skill of this planet’s creatures. We see terrifying sea spiders, woodlice the size of dinner plates, killer whales in a team seal hunt, washing the hapless animals from the safety of their ice floes by creating waves, the bloody business of polar bear mating, and even penguin surfing. All astonishing. This is not an unqualified pleasure though. As David Attenborough reminds us, with the current warming of the Poles, the animals and landscapes shown are ones we may well be seeing for the very last time.

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Gay & Lesbian Gigola

Laure Charpentier

Paris, 1963. The stylishly butch Gigola (Lou Doillon) spends her days in cafés, enticing pretty femmes away from their pimps, breaking hearts and making enemies, with her evenings spent in a lesbian cabaret bar, picking up rich older women to keep her flush. Stars many familiar faces of European cinema. France | 2010 | PECCA | 100 min | subt | Cert 15 Item # 66573 | RRP £15.99 | Out 14th November

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Harvest

Benjamin Cantu Winner of the audience award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Harvest details the relationship between two apprentices working on an agricultural complex near Berlin. Marko was born and raised in the countryside; Jacob has become attracted to life as a farm hand as an alternative to the world of finance in which he trained. Germany | 2011 | TLAUK | 88 min | subt | Cert TBC Item # 66579 | RRP £15.99 | Out 21st November

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Sappho

Robert Crombie

A provocative lesbian love story set in the 1920s, redolent of the erotic cinema of Tinto Brass. American heiress Sappho Lovell has the perfect life – but everything changes when she sets off on a trip to Lesbos with her husband and meets Helene, her summer friendship growing increasingly passionate. Ukraine | 2008 | SodaElev | 88 min | Cert 18 Item # 66533 | RRP £12.99 | Out 28th November

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Unhappy Birthday A queer take on the classic British horror film, inspired by classics such as The Wicker Man, in which a surprise birthday party becomes a living nightmare for three citydwellers when they are invited to a remote tidal island by an enigmatic local woman. UK | 2010 | PECCA | 90 min | Cert 18 Item # 66574 | RRP £15.99 | Released 24th October

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

The Devil’s Men

Costas Carayiannis

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Peter Cushing plays Baron Corofax, the leader of a modern Greek minotaur-worshipping cult; Donald Pleasence plays the village priest who tries to put a stop to his antics. Luan Peters also features. Brian Eno provides the music.

Beginners Mike Mills

A comedy drama in which a new relationship with the irreverent Anna (Mélanie Laurent) floods Ewan McGregor’s Oliver with memories of his father (Christopher Plummer), who came out of the closet at the age 75 to live a full and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. USA | 2010 | UPV | 104 min | Cert 15 Item # 66637-38 | RRP £19.99 | Out 14th November

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Bridesmaids Paul Feig

USA | 2011 | UPV | 125 min | Cert 15 Item # 66478/66486 | RRP £19.99 | Out 14th Nov

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Captain America: The First Avenger Joe Johnston

Superhero action adventure based on the 1940s Marvel Comics series. Chris Evans plays the man who is transformed in a top secret WWII project into super-soldier Captain America, who takes on Hitler’s henchman, Red Skull. USA | 2011 | PARAH | 124 min | 12 Item # 66386/ 66395-96 | RRP £19.99 | Out 5th Dec

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Robert Redford

An historical drama based on the military trial of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the first woman to be executed in the USA. Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood and Tom Wilkinson co-star. USA | 2010 | UPV | 123 min | 12 Item # 66412/66442 | RRP £12.99 | Out 24th Oct

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Recommended Director: Stuart Cooper Starring: John Hurt, David Warner Released: 24th October Extras: 2 discs; Put Yourself In My Place (Winham, 1974): comedy starring Judy Geeson; The Contraption (Dearden, 1977); Booklet. Item # 66479 | UK | 1974 | BFI | 105 min | Cert 15

Arriving on a wave of high praise, this laugh-out-loud comedy, written by women about women, sees the lovelorn and penniless Annie (Kristen Wiig) trying to bluff her way through the maid of honour rituals for her best friend’s wedding.

The Conspirator

Little Malcolm

The BFI’s Flipside strand has unearthed another belter in this subtly cinematic adaptation of David Halliwell’s 1965 stage play (Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs, to give its full title), a hilarious if unnerving satire on the impotence (literal and figurative) of radical politics. John Hurt is Malcolm, an expelled art student who, with a band of similarly deluded followers, forms the ‘Dynamic Erection Party’, a neofascist group intent on overthrowing the art school ‘status quo’. Shot in a beautifully bleak 1970s Oldham by John Alcott (Kubrick’s favoured cinematographer), Little Malcolm was the first film financed by George Harrison, five years ahead of Handmade Films. It’s superbly acted: Hurt is terrific – bombastic and combative with his cohorts, tongue-tied and diffident with his would-be girlfriend – and the scene where a bespectacled, duffle-coated David Warner gives a grandiloquent, straight-faced account of his heroic sexual magnetism could be the funniest thing you’ll see all year. JU

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East of Elephant Rock Don Boyd

Jeremy Kemp, Judi Bowker, Anton Rodgers, Christopher Cazenove. 1970s British drama inspired by the Ethel Proudlock murder case of 1911. Set in a South East Asian British colony in 1948, the film follows Nash (John Hurt), an Embassy secretary whose affairs with two women, a native and the wife of a plantation owner, lead to disastrous consequences. UK | 1976 | ODEON | 93 min | Cert 15 Item # 66676 | RRP £14.99 | out 28th November

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The Escape Artist Caleb Deschamel

The feature debut of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. A magician’s son tries to follow in his father’s footsteps, but Danny Masters (Griffin O’Neal) soon finds himself in trouble when he becomes involved with the son (Raúl Juliá) of a corrupt local mayor and is confronted with the mysterious circumstances surrounding his father’s untimely death. USA | 1982 | STUDC | 96 min | Cert PG Item # 66714 | RRP £15.99 | Released 7th November

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Harry Potter 1-7B

The complete eight film collection. Contains The Philosopher’s Stone (2001), The Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), The Goblet of Fire (2005), The Order of the Phoenix (2007), The HalfBlood Prince (2009) and The Deathly Hallows: Parts 1 & 2 8 discs. (2010-11). UK | 2001-2011 | WHV | Cert 12 Item # 66747/66749 | RRP £44.99 | Out 2nd Dec

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The Outsiders (SE) Francis Ford Coppola

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Recommended

Director: David Yates

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman Released: 2nd December Extras: 2 discs; The Goblins of Gringotts, When Harry Left Hogwarts, The Women of Harry Potter Item # 66748 | UK | 2011 | WHV | 145 min | Cert 12

The final Harry Potter film brings the series to a close with panache. With its audience having watched Harry, Hermione and Ron grow from kids to mature young adults, the film manages to be both spectacular and very moving. From its opening raid on Gringotts bank to the final Battle for Hogwarts, the film delivers stupendous action sequences throughout, with a ‘Visual Effects’ Oscar all but guaranteed. Yet it is the focus on human relationships that really sets the film apart, such as a wonderful scene where Harry, facing a devastating scenario, is visited by the spirits of all those who have loved him. Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is arguably the best of the series (only Goblet of Fire really rivals it). While people still debate its ‘Britishness’, there is no denying that the films’ use of British talent – in front of and behind the camera – has been a terrific boost for the country’s film industry. Harry will be sorely missed. AD

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A tale of gang rivalries in 1960s Oklahoma, Coppola’s coming-of-age drama launched ‘the Brat Pack’. C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Maccio, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane star in a tale of the ‘Socs’, who vow to take revenge on the ‘Greasers’ for muscling in on Director’s cut; Commentaries; their girls. Making-of; Featurettes; Additional scenes. USA | 1983 | STUDC | 115 min | Cert 12 Item # 65792-93 | RRP £17.99 | Out 31st October

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This Boy’s Life M Caton-Jones

The powerful tale of a rebellious teenage boy growing up in the 1950s with an abusive stepfather. The film features a legendary performance from Robert De Niro, alongside a young Leonardo DiCaprio in his first leading role. USA | 1993 | 2ND | 110 min | Cert 15 Item # 66166 | RRP £15.99 | Released 17th October

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Tom’s Midnight Garden Willard Carroll

Adaptation of the classic children’s tale in which a young boy finds a magical midnight garden filled with wondrous characters while staying with his Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and his Uncle Alan (James Wilby) in their dilapidated old manor. Strangely, he seems to be invisible to all of the garden’s inhabitants except the delightful Hatty. As they become friends, he is drawn ever deeper into the garden’s mystery. UK | 1999 | 2ND | 93 min | Cert PG Item # 66168 | RRP £12.99 | Released 7th November

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Item # 66801 USA | 2011 | 93 min | 12 | £19.99

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Bandidas

Espen Sandberg

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Broken Lines

Sallie Aprahamian

Item # 66753 UK | 2008 | 97 min | 15 | £15.99

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Caught in the Act Mark Greenstreet

Item # 66662 USA | 1997 | ODEON | 93 min | PG | £12.99

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Down Terrace Ben Wheatley

Item # 66790 UK | 2009 | 89 min | 18 | £5.99

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The Hangover: Part 2 Todd Phillips

Item # 66320 USA | 2011 | WHV | 101 min | 15 | £19.99

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Holy Rollers Kevin Asch

Item # 66810 USA | 2010 | 93 min | 15 | £15.99

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Lovely By Surprise Kirt Gunn

Item # 66230 USA | 2007 | EUREK | 98 min | 12 | £16.34

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Stake Land Jim Mickle

Item # 66490 USA | 2010 | MET-D | 94 min | 15 | £19.99

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon Michael Bay

Brazil

Item # 66385 USA | 2011 | PARAH | 154 min | 12 | £19.99

Item # 66857 UK | 1985 | 137 min | 15 | £17.99

Transformers 1-3

Terry Gilliam

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Silent Running (MoC)

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Item # 66384 USA | 2011 | PARAH | 12 | £27.99

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Douglas Trumball

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Labelled with Love

The UK DVD market is the most exciting in the world minds to blow and preconceptions to be reordered. I don’t think it’s too much to say the UK DVD market is the most exciting in the world. We might not have any single label with the reach and resources of the American Criterion Collection (still the world-beaters of DVD production) but we’ve got a cluster of companies that punch far above their weight. It’s not just ‘art film’ labels that are flourishing: few releases brought me as much pleasure this year as Cobra Woman and the Charlie Chan sets (all from Odeon). Shameless go from strength to strength (I especially recommend Don’t Torture a Duckling)

while Japanese specialists Third Window released Confessions. And I haven’t mention crackerjack releases from Artificial Eye, Second Sight, Exposure Cinema, Arrow.... Of course, you might think this emphasis on ‘labels’ is misleading: what matters is the film, not who puts it out, right? But I think the strong identity these smaller labels have developed is important. Unlike the big boys, their releases are carefully curated. Experience shows we can trust their judgement so we’re more likely try things they put out, even if we’re otherwise unfamiliar with them. I’d say that’s why the UK market is so interesting right now. There’s one thing missing from this round up – the viewer. If these labels are happy to supply, it’s because they know there is demand, that there is a loyal audience who care about interesting films and want to see them presented well. I would submit that, as long as that holds true, we shouldn’t be in such a hurry to bid au revoir to DVD.

Related Films Cobra Woman Robert Siodmak

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Harakiri (MoC)

Masaki Kobayashi

Item # 66112 Japan | 1962 | EUREK | 133 min | subt | B&W | 15 | £22.99

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The Soviet Influence Viktor Turin

Item # 65837 Rus | 1929 | BFI | subt | U | £19.99

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Szindbád

Zoltán Huszárik

Item # 64819 Hungary | 1971 | 2RUN | 90 min | subt | 15 | £12.99

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Image from Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume 1

ere’s a funny thing. Orthodox wisdom has it that DVD is on its uppers. We are told that ‘physical media’ (which is to say shiny silver discs, be they DVD or Blu-ray) will be replaced by internet streaming. DVD will collapse, the futurologists assure us, just as surely as compact discs. The trouble with this thesis is that no one seems to have told the DVD labels. Rather than winding down their lists or becoming ever more timid, the smaller British DVD manufacturers have given us a year that shows the format in rude health. Take Masters of Cinema. This year alone, they’ve given us some essential Fritz Lang (the criminally underrated Indian Epic films), early Antonioni, amazing Japanese films (get Harakiri now) and welcome contemporary fare (Colossal Youth). They’re also in the process of expanding their coverage of Hollywood films, starting with a definitive release of Touch of Evil. And it’s not just MoC: the venerable BFI have been spoiling us rotten. Do you start with their Ozu releases? The first part of their Complete Humphrey Jennings? Their on-going Flipside series (including the long-awaited Deep End)? Švankmajer’s Alice or a collection of films about British folk traditions? Possibly most exciting is The Soviet Influence from Turksib to Night Mail, a scholarly-but-unpretentious exploration of cinematic inspiration that uses the DVD medium brilliantly. Second Run have a much lower profile amongst DVD labels but are arguably the most important; no label works harder to nurture the obscure and the overlooked. For example: although well regarded in its native Hungary, Szindbád was all-but unknown internationally until Second Run released it this year, causing

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Salt of Life

Gianni Di Gregorio’s hilarious follow-up to Mid-August Lunch See page 10 for our full review

Salt of Life Gianni Di Gregorio A bittersweet Italian comedy, Salt of Life finds Gianni (Di Gregorio) – in a performance reminiscent of both Tati and Nanni Moretti – engaged in a desperate late middle-aged search for a little romance. Unfortunately, as a pensioner living with his wife and daughter and still at the beck and call of his demanding nonagenarian mother, circumstances are all against him. Subtly observed, and played with sensitivity, this is an astute and warm-hearted comedy. Item # 66720 Italy | 2011 | ART-E | 89 min | subt | 12 | £15.99

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