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This summer there has been a flurry of highly impressive box sets collecting the works of major directors including Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jacques Tati and Walerian Borowczyk (sadly, this last one sold out even before its release). From talking to publishers, we know that a box set is a less time-consuming method of releasing, say, six films than putting them out individually. And then there are the changes in the market. With the mainstream audience moving their attention away from film, the smaller labels are naturally homing in on the
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A comedy set in 1920s Europe, Wes Anderson’s latest is pure, magical cinema. Leading an all-star cast, Ralph Fiennes plays the hotel concierge who finds himself on the run with his loyal lobby boy after he is framed for a crime. Item# 74485 USA | 2014 | 100 | 15 | £19.99
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A 1962 film of smugglers, Excise men and strange nocturnal happenings. Peter Cushing stars as the mild-mannered clergyman who leads a double life as an infamous pirate. Great fun from Hammer, galloping along with a sense of style. Item# 74481 UK | 1962 | 78 | 12 | £14.99
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A hypnotic, sexy, innovative sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien entity in Scotland, where she preys upon men all too willing to give themselves to her. But then life in all its complexity starts to pierce her protective shell. Item# 74523 UK | 2013 | 108 | 15 | £19.99
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A Hard Day’s Night Recommended Director: Richard Lester Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti, Deryck Guyler Released: 21st July Extras: 50th Anniversary Edition; Director approved 4k restoration; In Their Own Voices: 1964 interviews with The Beatles with behind-thescenes footage and photos; Making-of; Performance outtake by The Beatles; New featurettes and interviews; Cast and crew commentary. Item# 74689 | UK | 1964 | 2ND | 84 | B&W | Cert 12
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he film that launched swinging sixties cinema! Well, more or less. Julie Christie may have abandoned Bradford for groovy London at the end of 1963’s Billy Liar, but The Beatles led the way in shifting pop culture from the smoky north to the shiny south, their chirpy-scouse assault on metropolitan mores a jubilant sign of a brighter, post-kitchen sink era. We meet John, Paul, George and Ringo on a train en route from Liverpool Lime Street to the capital, where they’re heading to record a TV show. They’re in First Class but they’re still the loveable, cheeky urchins we remember from that ‘rattle yer jewellery’ Royal Variety Performance. They’ve even brought Paul’s troublemaking granddad (Wilfrid Brambell) along for the ride. In London they encounter haughty TV execs and snooty ad men, and almost lose Ringo. But the show must go on and their collective sense of humour remains intact. A Hard Day’s Night is light and funny and freewheeling, but anyone who expected another cosy cash-in on the latest British music craze, a la Cliff Richard or Tommy Steele, got more than they bargained for.
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The restored 50th Anniversary Edition of a subversive 1960s classic From the outset, cheerful subversion reigns. Alun Owen’s script, which comically embellishes each of the Fab Four’s distinct personas (especially Ringo’s), channels Lennon’s favourite writer Edward Lear with a stream of inventive nonsense and nonsequiturs. Director Richard Lester delivers a panoply of surreal visuals, sight gags, technical trickery and proto-pop video interludes. Like the Beatles’ later music, this is pastiche and homage packaged into something fresh, experimental and exciting. The film’s influence on British cinema was significant. But to its credit it doesn’t let you stop and think about it. It still feels spontaneous – as much about sticking a tongue out to stuffy convention as an exercise in creating a new pop aesthetic. What’s more, you get The Beatles performing Can’t Buy Me Love, She Loves You and more. You can’t say you don’t get your money’s worth. Julian Upton Page 5
Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969
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Robert Wise
A 1953 Technicolor war film starring Richard Widmark as Chief Petty Officer Samuel T. McHale, who heads of a group of US Navy weathermen taking important measurements in the Gobi desert, where they make an uneasy alliance with Mongolian tribesmen.
Alive and Kicking Cyril Frankel
There are mischievous turns from Sybil Thorndyke, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood in this delightful comedy that tells the story of three ladies who take matters into their own hands when officialdom threatens their friendship. UK | 1964 | NWORK | 91 | Cert PG Item# 74584 | RRP £9.99 | 7th July
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Nathan Juran
A forbidding castle in the Black Forest holds mortal danger for Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) when he falls in love with the cruel Count’s captive wife, held prisoner by a hulking servant (Lon Chaney, Jr). Can the castle physician (Boris Karloff) free the lovers?
Four Men and a Prayer John Ford
Boy on a Dolphin Jean Negulesco
Sophia Loren, in her first American film – which provided one of her most iconic photographs, emerging from the sea in a wet, clinging dress – plays a diver in the Aegean who discovers an ancient statue, which is soon the object of a chase by an American archaeologist and an unscrupulous collector.
Henry Edwards
A rarely-seen comedy based on a 1913 farce by PG Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook. Gene Gerrard plays the young man who attempts to extricate himself from trouble in Monte Carlo by pretending to be his nonexistent twin brother. UK | 1932 | NWORK | 75 | Cert U Item# 74585 | RRP £9.99 | 14th July
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Female on the Beach
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A stylish noir that is a showcase for Joan Crawford’s intense lead performance. She plays a recent widow who moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber (Jeff Chandler).
The Black Castle
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Four brothers – an Oxford student (William Henry), a London barrister (George Sanders), an aviator (David Niven) and a British Embassy attaché (Richard Greene) – fight to clear the name of their father, a dishonourably discharged Army colonel, and bring down an arms syndicate in this globe-spanning adventure. USA | 1938 | SIMP | 80 | Cert 12 Item# 74430 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
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Curtis Harrington A wealthy socialite couple (James Caan and Katharine Ross) find themselves in over their heads in this edge-of-your seat thriller when they invite a mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) into their home. They discover her psychic abilities and ask her to arrange some kinky mind games, but the fun soon turns dangerous.
Home at Seven Recommended Director: Ralph Richardson Starring: Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, Jack Hawkins, Frederick Piper, Michael Shepley, Campbell Singer, Margaret Withers Released: Out Now Extras: Brand-new transfer from the original film elements; Gallery; Promotional Material PDFs. Item# 74004 UK | 1952 | NWORK | 82 | B&W | Cert U
The ongoing excavation of Britain’s film archives continues to bring forth worthwhile rediscoveries, such as this intriguing little amnesia thriller starring – and directed by – Ralph Richardson. He plays David Preston, an ordinary sort of chap who returns home from work one evening to find his wife in a right state: he hasn’t realised it but he’s been AWOL for 24 hours. A doctor diagnoses a blackout but what can have happened to him in the missing time? Could it involve robbery? Or even ... murder? This was the only film that Sir Ralph directed and he acquits himself well; it’s a small-scale affair, taken from a play (by RC Sheriff), but Richardson summons good performances from his cast and builds a useful atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust. Like many films of this vintage, it’s possessed of a certain period charm – it dates from an era when a nice cup of tea was evidently held to be some sort of universal panacea – but it is sufficiently ingenious to remain a thoroughly satisfying affair. JO
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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife Recommended Director: Ernst Lubitsch Starring: Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn Released: 14th July Item# 74861 | USA | 1938 | ODEON | 90 | B&W | Cert 12
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It Happened One Night Frank Capra
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The Palm Beach Story Preston Sturges
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t’s the tale of an antique bathtub, an ill-advised pre-nup and a pair of stripy pyjamas − an archetypal battleof-the-sexes comedy from a director who made many of the best. And fans of 22 Jump Street will be delighted to note that it features one of the cutest ‘meet cutes’ in cinematic history. Gary Cooper is an oft-married financial wizard who visits a department store to look for some pyjamas. Half of some pyjamas, as it turns out. He wants the top, Claudette Colbert wants the bottoms, and they both want each other. One agreeable coincidence later, and he’s buying Louis XIV’s bathtub from her greedy father (the immortal Edward Everett Horton), and sizing up a wedding suit. It’s at this juncture that Colbert learns her beloved has been married a full seven times, and hatches a subversive, progressive plan to knock him down a peg or 10, while taking him to the cleaners. Lubitsch made greater films than Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife − chief among them The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg and Ninotchka − but he made few as flatout funny, this 1938 outing benefiting from a blissful, blisteringly brilliant Billy Wilder / Charles Brackett script and a cast going at full pelt. No-one was better than Colbert at
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Ernst Lubitsch made few films as flat-out funny as this one this sort of material, while Cooper proves what an adept, understated and underrated comedian he always was, supported by a cast of veteran scene-stealers from Horton to Franklin Pangborn, Herman Bing and David Niven, the latter just about taking the film as Colbert’s hapless suitor. In his memoir, Bring on the Empty Horses, Niven memorably recalls Lubitsch’s coaching technique, the master director greeting the playing of each scene with ‘paroxysms of mirth’ followed by ‘a couple of little suggestions’ designed to pull the performances up to his dizzying standard. That affectionate, convivial and calculated approach − ‘He’s better than any of us!’ remarked Colbert of Lubitsch’s moraleboosting behaviour − informs every performance here, as the stars meet cute, bicker across Europe and snog in a sanatorium, wringing every single laugh from a sensational screenplay. And in the middle of that, there’s even room for Cooper to sing an unforgettable, irresistibly goofy song. Rick Burin Page 7
Classic Movies Girls Will Be Boys
Just for You
Marcel Varnel
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Gamine German star Dolly Haas plays a typically androgynous role in her British screen debut, which sees her cut off her curls and don trousers to fool a misogynistic Duke into thinking she is his grandson. The Duke finds the boy a trifle effeminate, but perhaps his estate worker can make a man out of him? UK | 1934 | NWORK | 68 | Cert U Item# 74587 | RRP £9.99 | 7th July
‘Pop Scene ‘64 - In Colour!’ An ultra-rare 60s musical film starring Sam Costa as a suave man about town, dispensing wisdom from the bed of his space age bachelor pad whilst watching a stream of musical performances, from The Bachelors, Freddie and The Dreamers, Millie, The Merseybeats, Mark Wynter and more, on his picture wall. UK | 1966 | NWORK | 62 | Cert PG Item# 74573 | RRP £9.99 | 21st July
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Hand in Hand
Loser Takes All
Philip Leacock
A profoundly moving film that recounts a story of friendship between two children, and the testing of that friendship by religious differences and entrenched prejudice. Captivating performances from its young leads led to the drama winning a Golden Globe for Promoting International Understanding.
Ken Annakin
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Josser in the Army
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk
Norman Lee
Herbert Wilcox
Sunderland-born MusicHall star Ernie Lotinga – admired by TS Eliot as ‘the greatest living British histrionic Artist’ – was massively popular in the 1930s with his comic creation ‘Josser’ but is now all but forgotten. This rare feature shows why his sparky and often irreverent humour was cherished. UK | 1932 | NWORK | 75 | Cert U Item# 74576 | RRP £9.99 | 28th July
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Journey Together John Boulting
A glamorous comedydrama, adapted by Graham Greene from his own novel, and starring Italian screen idol Rossano Brazzi as a newlywed gambler who heads to Monte Carlo for his honeymoon with a foolproof system to beat the house. Glynis Johns plays his wife.
A compelling courtroom thriller co-written by crime author and broadcaster Edgar Lustgarten. With a top-flight cast headed by Anthony Quayle and Anna Neagle, it tells a story of Cold War intrigue, and of a man’s refusal to reveal potentially devastating secret information. UK | 1958 | NWORK | 93 | Cert U Item# 74563 | RRP £9.99 | 21st July
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Mark of the Devil Michael Armstrong
A 1943 film from the RAF Film Unit which pays tribute to ‘The Few who served the Many’ – those in Flying Training Command. The journey is that taken by two prospective pilots, freshfaced Dave (Richard Attenborough) and insouciant Johnny (Jack Watling).
Once proclaimed as ‘positively the most horrifying film ever made’, this bloody and brutal study of religious corruption stars Udo Kier as a witchfinder’s apprentice whose faith in his master (Herbert Lom) becomes severely tested when they settle in an 2 discs; Uncut; Booklet. Austrian village.
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Unfaithfully Yours Recommended Director: Preston Sturges Starring: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell Released: Out Now Item# 74437 USA | 1948 | SIMP | 100 | B&W | Cert PG
One of the slickest and funniest of Preston Sturges’s comedies, Unfaithfully Yours is a black satire starring Rex Harrison as an orchestra conductor who believes his wife (Linda Darnell) has been having an affair. While conducting, he plans various forms of revenge, each played out with precision and skill. When it comes to putting his plan into action, however, things run a little less smoothly. The story of a composer whose jealousy of his adoring wife manifests itself in the visions he experiences while performing dated back to 1932, yet it remained incomplete for another 15 years, during which time rattling screwballs like The Lady Eve and Sullivan’s Travels had established Sturges as a comic genius with a sharp social conscience. Unfaithfully Yours never garnered the audience it deserved on its original release – a scandal involving its star, Rex Harrison, meant that Fox were unwilling to promote the film with their usual fanfare. However, it has more than stood the test of time, and many now see it as Sturges’s masterpiece. DP
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Vincent Price Man on a Tightrope Recommended
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Fredric March, Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou Released: Out Now Item# 74442 USA | 1953 | SIMP | 90 | B&W | Cert PG
Released in the same year that The Greatest Show on Earth picked up the Best Picture Oscar, Man on a Tightrope is a very different portrait of life in the big top. For a start, it’s set behind the Iron Curtain. The Cirkus Cernik is a dilapidated outfit under pressure from an intrusive state: it’s bad enough that the propaganda ministry demands changes to the clown acts, even worse that those changes aren’t funny. Circus manager Karel Cernik (Fredric March) has an audacious plan to escape to the west but the authorities are not far behind. While other directors would have played up the ra-ra elements, Elia Kazan took the film in a very different, more downbeat, direction. Man on a Tightrope (that title is strictly metaphorical, by the way) has a realism uncommon in films of the early 1950s. Always an actor’s director, Kazan prises career best performances from newcomers (Terry Moore) and old-timers (March) alike; indeed, while it’s not usually numbered amongst his masterpieces, it shows what a damned good director he really was. JO
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Vincent Price’s richly fruity baritone and screen presence guaranteed him icon status over his long acting career. Establishing himself in the 1940s with villanous roles in film noirs, the 1950s saw him move into horror, where his celebrated performances kept him in favour for decades.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Theatre of Blood
Roger Corman
An overlooked Shakespearean ham actor takes fitting revenge on his harshest critics by despatching them in methods inspired by the Bard. A gleefully overblown romp, with a fabulous cast.
The first of Corman’s Poe treatments, scripted by Richard Matheson. Price’s anguished conviction in one of his signature roles makes the film chillingly memorable. Item# 14939 / 71925 USA | 1960 | 76 | 15 | £12.99
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The Raven
Dir: John Farrow. Price plays a ham actor in this tense meoldrama starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.
Dir: Roger Corman. Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff star in this fantasy comedy about rival magicians duelling for supremacy.
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The House of the Long Shadows Dir: Pete Walker. Lee, Cushing, Price, Carradine and a deserted Welsh mansion star in this Gothic horror. Item# 67647 UK | 1983 | 90 | 15 | £17.99
Dir: Gordon Hessler. A conspiracy thriller / sci-fi movie, whose cast includes Price, Lee and Cushing. Item# 71861 UK | 1969 | 91 | 18 | £9.99
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Tower of London Dir: Rowland V. Lee. With the help of his club-footed executioner (Boris Karloff), the Duke of Gloucester (Price) aims for the throne. Item# 60778 UK | 1939 | 89 | B&W | 15 | £15.99
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Dir: William Castle. Classic Hollywood horror in which five people spend a night in a haunted mansion. Item# 69382 USA | 1959 | 75 | B&W | 12 | £9.99
Dir: Lindsay Anderson. Bette Davies and Lillian Gish play the ageing sisters on a Maine island, Price a Russian fisherman. Item# 72035 USA | 1987 | 87 | U | £12.99
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Witchfinder General
Dir: John M. Stahl. Price plays the jilted fiance determined to see justice done in this melodrama starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde.
Dir: Michael Reeves. A brilliant tale of 17th century fear and persecution, with Vincent Price frighteningly demonic in the lead.
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Screwball Comedy Sale To celebrate the arrival of Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, we’ve rounded up some of the best screwball comedies. Characterised by dominant women, snappy dialogue and farcical situations, the genre may have peaked in the 1940s but it continues to provide terrific entertainment today.
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Howard Hawks
An irresistible romantic comedy of misattributed motherhood, filled with scintillating dialogue and fine chemistry between its leads, Ginger Rogers (fresh from her Fred Astaire partnership) and David Niven.
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in one of Hollywood’s very best madcap capers, in which misadventures come fast and furious. Watch and be helpless with laughter.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lady Eve
Dir: Frank Capra. Just before his wedding, a drama critic discovers that his maiden aunts have hidden 13 bodies in the cellar. Ferociously funny.
Dir: Preston Sturges. Classic battleof-the-sexes screwball that boasts an impeccable lead pairing of Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck.
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The Awful Truth
Raising Arizona
Fanny
Dir: Leo McCarey. Love is a comic battlefield, especially when presided over by sparring partners Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. A classic romp.
Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. A weird and wonderful comedy that features troublesome quintuplets and set pieces of bewildering ingenuity.
Dir: Joshua Logan. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer star in this beautifully filmed romantic drama adapted from Marcel Pagnol.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Seven Year Itch
Hamlet
Dir: Billy Wilder. Monroe plays the woman who moves into a sublet upstairs and fires up a happilymarried man’s fantasies.
Dir: Mike Mundell. A vibrant cinematic adaption of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with William Houston in the role of the vacillating Dane.
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To Be or Not To Be
King Lear
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. A legendary black comedy which is set in Germanoccupied Poland in WWII. Carole Lombard’s final film.
Dir: Brian Blessed. A darkly brilliant, brooding production of King Lear from Brian Blessed, who both directs and takes the lead role.
Dir: Richard Lester. A bawdy romp through the Roman Empire. Item# 16672 USA | 1966 | 93 | PG | £12.99
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I Was a Male War Bride Dir: Howard Hawks. Cary Grant dons skirt and wig as a French army captain trying to get into the US.
Edward Mirzoeff BBC’s celebrated 1973 programme, which sees John Betjeman eulogise the culture and spirit of ‘Metro-land’ - the term coined for the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Railway in pre-war Britain. Five additional transport films; Booklet. Item# 74259 UK | 1973 | 50 | E | £24.99
Dir: Buzz Kulik. The 1989 TV miniseries of Verne’s classic tale, starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg. Item# 74768 USA | 1989 | 360 | | £14.99
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My Man Godfrey
Trouble in Paradise
Wuthering Heights
Dir: Gregory La Cava. A family adopts a tramp as a butler and finds out he is richer than they are. Carole Lombard and William Powell star.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful touch is in full flower in this sophisticated romantic comedy, loaded with sparkling dialogue and elegant invention.
Dir: Peter Sasdy. BBC’s rugged and earthy 1967 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Ian McShane and Angela Scoular take the leads.
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Classic Movies Rapture
The Man Who Would Be King
John Guillermin
John Huston
A striking coming-of-age tale filmed on the Brittany coast. Three years after she shot to prominence in Sundays and Cybele, Patricia Gozzi once again gives a truly extraordinary performance as the young girl whose isolated existence under her overbearing father is turned on its head with the arrival of a fugitive 2 discs; Booklet. (Dean Stockwell). USA / France | 1965 | EUREK | 105 | Cert 12 Item# 74717 | RRP £17.99 | 28th July
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Ring of Spies
Robert Tronson
Black Narcissus
Based on the true story of the ‘Portland spy ring’ – a Soviet operation active in southern England in the late 1950s – this drama charts the duel between Soviet and British intelligence, and a trade in deadly secrets directed from a bungalow in suburban Ruislip. Bernard Lee stars.
Michael Powell
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Counterspy
Vernon Sewell
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House of Darkness
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Oswald Mitchell
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Too Late Blues (MoC) Cassavetes followed up his 1959 debut Shadows with this film starring singer Bobby Darin as a jazz band leader who falls in love with a singer (Stella Stevens). Drama ensues when his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl. 2 discs; Video discussion by David Cairns; Booklet.
The Wild Affair John Krish
A lively romantic comedy directed by John Krish (Captured), starring Nancy Kwan as a girl who is determined to establish a notorious past with which to face a respectable future. Features an array of British comedy talent, including Terry-Thomas, Victor Spinetti and Bud Flanagan. UK | 1963 | NWORK | 85 | Cert 12 Item# 74593 | RRP £9.99 | 28th July
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Flavia the Heretic Gianfranco Mingozzi A notoriously graphic descent into the deviant world of ‘nunsploitation’. Florinda Bolkan plays the young woman sent to a convent, where she encounters both feverish ecstasy and hellish torture. Item# 52734 Italy | 1974 | 96 | 18 | £12.99
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The Frightened Woman Dir: Piero Schivazappa. Dagmar Lassander plays a Doctor’s living sex toy in this kitschy 60s pop-art fest. Item# 54277 Italy | 1969 | 86 | subt | 18 | £12.99
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Oasis of Fear
Elia Kazan
Dir: Umberto Lenzi. Sexploitation thriller in which two on the run hippies end up in the house of a mysterious woman (Irene Papas).
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Based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic story, John Huston’s engaging adventure film follows two British ex-soldiers (Sean Connery and Michael Caine, superb together) who give up the drudgery of eking out a living in India and set out for the isolated land of Kafiristan to become heroes or, perhaps, even kings.
On the Waterfront
Paul Temple’s Triumph Maclean Rogers
Item# 68134 UK | 1950 | 76 | B&W | £12.99
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Quiller Memorandum Michael Anderson
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Shameless Sexploitation Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978), Satan’s Baby Doll (1982), The Beast in Space (1980). 3 discs. Item# 68117 Italy | 1978-82 | 240 | 18 | £19.99
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Rear Window (60th Anniversary Edition) Alfred Hitchcock
Item# 74902 USA | 1954 | 162 | PG | £17.99
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The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh Dir: Sergio Martino. Suspense, S&M, sleaze and more ... voted one of the top giallos. Edwige Fenech stars. Item# 64388 Italy / Spain | 1971 | 98 | subt | 18 | £15.99
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Strip Nude For Your Killer
Basil Dearden
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Women Aren’t Angels Lawrence Huntington
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Dir: Andrea Bianchi. A gloriously trashy 70s giallo and kink-fest starring Edwige Fenech. Item# 56283 Italy | 1975 | 98 | 18 | £12.99
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Stage New Releases André Rieu: Magic of the Musicals
The Dutch violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra – formed in 1987 with the aim of promoting the waltz music he loves and introducing a wider audience to the pleasures of classical music – here turn their attention to memorable songs from stage musicals.
Netherlands | 2014 | DECCA | 93 | Cert E Item# 74938 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now
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Der Fliegende Holländer Jan Philipp Gloger
Gloger’s controversial production, in which he translates Wagner’s opera of the Dutchman to a high-tech world where human-cyborgs grind out an existence in a world subservient to commerce. Recorded live at Bayreuth in July 2013. Germany | 2013 | OPUS | 140 | subt | Cert E Item# 74843 / 74846 | RRP £24.99 | 30th June
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Macbeth: Shakespeare’s Globe Eve Best
Using Renaissance costumes and staging, this powerful production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth stars Jospeh Millson and Samantha Spiro as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, with the performance recorded live at The Globe in 2013. UK | 2014 | OPUS | 150 | Cert E Item# 74985 | RRP £19.99 | 28th July
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Three Sisters Olivier / Sichel
Directed by Laurence Olivier and featuring a score by William Walton, this filmed production of Chekhov’s play about dissatisfaction, broken dreams and compromise stars Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright and Ronald Pickup. It was filmed by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001). USA | 1970 | NWORK | 155 | Cert PG Item# 74564 | RRP £9.99 | 4th August
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Notre Dame de Paris
Tchaikovsky: The Classic Ballets
The Ballet Company and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala perform this new, modern-dress staging of Roland Petit’s ballet, based on Victor Hugo’s timeless tale of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Contains all three Tchaikovsky ballets – Swan Lake (2009), Sleeping Beauty (2006) and The Nutcracker (2012) – as performed by the Royal Ballet, in one essential collection. 3 discs.
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La Bayadère
Peter and the Wolf
Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta and Marianela Núñez are the lead dancers in the Royal Ballet’s 2009 production of Marius Pepita’s ballet.
A delightful version of Prokofiev’s musical fairy tale, created by young choreographer Matthew Hart for the Royal Ballet School.
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Don Quixote
Romeo and Juliet
The first venture into directing by the great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, with his and Marianela Núñez’s performances praised as peerless.
Lauren Cuthberson and Federico Bonelli dance the title roles in this Royal Opera House production of the Prokofiev ballet.
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The Firebird / Les Noces
The Sleeping Beauty
A Stravinsky double bill that contrasts the vibrant colours of The Firebird with the stark ritual of Les Noces. Item# 22029 | | 145 | E | £24.99
Covent Garden plays host to this 1994 performance of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, with Viviana Durante heading the cast of the Royal Ballet. Item# 59028 UK | 1994 | 126 | E | £14.99
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Giselle
Sylvia
Boris Gruzin conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in the quintessential Romantic ballet. Alina Cojocaru dances the title role.
Darcey Bussell stars in this re-staging of Frederick Ashton’s ballet for Sadler’s Wells 75th anniversary. Recorded live at the ROH in 2005.
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The Nutcracker
Swan Lake
The Royal Ballet’s 2000 production of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, with Anthony Dowell as Herr Drosselmeyer and Alina Cojocaru as Clara.
Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares head the cast in this acclaimed production for the Royal Ballet from March 2009.
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World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language
Northwest
New Releases Black Magic Rites Renato Polselli
Psychotronic 70s Eurotrash horrotica, in which satanic rituals take place in an ancient castle’s underground vaults and revive a witch who was killed 400 years before. The rites involve slaughtering seven naked virgins, already dazed by their experiences during a demonic orgy, but the ritual is interrupted... Italy | 1973 | SALV | 90 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74874 | RRP £12.99 | 28th July
Flu
Sung-su Kim A Korean actioner in which a shipping container of illegal immigrants brings a deadly strain of bird flu to the country. All of the immigrants are dead when the container is opened – all except one man who flees, and who could well be carrying an antibody to the virus. South Korea | 2013 | ALT | 122 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74568 | RRP £15.99 | 30th June
Philippe Garrel A semi-autobiographical drama from Philippe Garrel in which his son Louis plays the role of his own grandfather. It tells of the director’s father’s love affair with a woman – and how the son, by admiring her, unwittingly made his mother jealous. Fra | 2013 | SC | 77 | BW | subt | 15 Item# 74838 | RRP £19.99 | 4th August
A modern Greek tragedy that begins with a girl’s suicide and proceeds to pick at the surface of a family’s pretence of blissful domesticity, gradually revealing the horrors that lurk beneath the placid surface with deadpan detachment. Greece | 2013 | MET-D | 99 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74931 | RRP £17.99 | 7th July
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Pioneer
A conspiracy thriller from the director of Insomnia, set in the early 1980s, when divers from Norway and America go up against each other in a bid to win a lucrative deal. When tragedy strikes, Petter is left trying to discover the cause of his brother’s death. He finds a cover-up and is soon in way over his head. Norway | 2013 | Arrow E1 | 111 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74796 | RRP £17.99 | 4th August
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Gareth Evans
Jealousy
Alexandros Avranas
Denmark | 2013 | Arrow E1 | 91 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74657 | RRP £14.99 | 28th July
The Raid 2
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Casper is a housebreaker who makes ends meet working for a neighbourhood boss. When a rival gangster makes Caspar a better offer, matters escalate, placing Casper and his family at the centre of a conflict. A fresh script and a restrained approach elevate what could be a predictable genre tale above the ordinary.
Erik Skjoldbjaerg
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Michael Noer
An epic Indonesian martial arts action sequel to the hugely popular The Raid, defining the director as a master of the action movie. Still smarting from his last assignment, Jakarta cop Rama is tasked with going undercover and infiltrating the criminal underworld to find out who is really pulling the strings. Indonesia / USA | 2014 | MOMET | 150 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 75029 / 75030 | RRP £17.99 | 11th August
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Stalingrad (20th Anniversary Edition) Joseph Vilsmaier
A damning indictment of war, set in 1943 when the Russians lost threequarters of a million people in defending their city. The film follows a German platoon as they fight for every inch of ground, losing their humanity along the way.
We Are the Best! Recommended Director: Lukas Moodysson Starring: Mira Barkhammar, Liv LeMoyne Released: 28th July Item# 74775 Sweden | 2013 | MET-D | 102 | subt | Cert 15
With this spirited and charming film, Swedish enfant terrible Lukas Moodysson funnels his wayward adolescent angst into his characters. The focus here is on a pair of 13 year-old girls who form a punk band when they are told that punk is dead. Though the band starts as an outlet for letting off steam, the girls are just old enough to realise that performing might be a political act. The fun lies in the respect the film accords these kids. In what may be the most bang-up job of directing children since Richard Linklater made School of Rock, Moodysson regards these girls as emergent personalities rather than script delivery systems. Each loose, semi-improvised scene allows them to discover themselves – their look, their sound, the terms of their relationship – as the cameras are rolling, which provides a constant stream of fond, irreverent or otherwise amusing episodes. What builds up is a mosaic of Swedish middle-class life circa 1982. Recalling his infallibly heartening Together, there’s something winning about the director’s rediscovery of the funny, telling social detail. Indeed, it’s one of the most appreciable directorial comebacks in years. MM
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Werner Herzog Collection Recommended Contains: The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz, Last Words, Precautions Against Fanatics, Fata Morgana, Handicapped Future, Aguirre, Wrath of God, Land of Silence and Darkness, Stroszek, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Heart of Glass, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, Woyzeck, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Huie’s Sermon, God’s Angry Man, Cobra Verde. All Restored Released: 25th August Extras: Restored; 10 discs; Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe; Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982); Herzog’s Guardian Lecture (1988); The South Bank Show on Herzog (Jack Bond, 1982); Booklet. Item# 73973 1967-87 | BFI | 15 |
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hether you know these films or not, you should prepare to be astonished. Has any other filmmaker consistently gone to such extreme lengths in their quest to capture the ineffable and the extraordinary on film? For Herzog, the ‘ecstatic truth’ of an image is all and no journey is too arduous for its capture. This has been misunderstood as the approach of an adventurer, but comes instead from a deadly serious philosophy: ‘The images that surround us today are worn out,’ he says, ‘they are abused and useless and exhausted, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution ... if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.’ The results of such an approach are like no-one else’s, as this 18 film box set attests. It’s not for nothing that Herzog has talked of wanting to show how the world would look if you were seeing it for the very first time. Revisiting these films has been nothing but pleasure (and not just because of the startling clarity, depth and colours of these newly remastered presentations), whether the enjoyably off-balance tyro pieces or the more notorious productions such as Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and the
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A truly essential set of restored films from a one-of-a-kind filmmaker still extraordinary Nosferatu the Vampyre, in which Klaus Kinski’s portrayal of the Count is as indelible as that of Max Schreck in FW Murnau’s film five decades earlier. It’s also a good opportunity to see again those films that get overlooked, such as Fata Morgana, the 1970 film about trying to capture desert mirages on film that itself captures something fleeting of that era’s dreams and fears, Land of Silence and Darkness, about the experience of deafblindness, or The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, about the ‘ski-flyer’ Walter Steiner. And Heart of Glass is still as mesmerisingly other-worldly as you would expect from a film about an 18th century Bavarian glass factory made in large parts by a cast under hypnosis. Herzog’s willingness to talk freely of his approach to filmmaking has led to his films seeming more familiar than they actually are. This set gives the chance to see just what an authentically original and wholly instinctive filmmaker he is. He is one of the truly essential directors. Graeme Hobbs Page 15
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A Royal Affair
Jean-Luc Godard
Nikolaj Arcel
The Kreutzer Sonata
One of Godard’s brightest and most engaging films, in which a trio of young moderns make a world speed record attempt on the Louvre and dance the ‘Madison’ (among many other things). Cafe!
A bold and sumptuous tale of illicit love and political passion in the 1770s, this excellent period drama sees the Danish King’s wife embark on an affair with a radical libertarian (Mads Mikkelsen).
Bernard Rose
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The Deep
Les Valseuses
Before Midnight
A powerful Icelandic drama loosely based on real events, in which a fisherman survived the sinking of his ship in freezing waters.
Dir: Bertrand Blier. Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere star as the young French reprobates on a gleefully thieving, womanising spree.
Dir: Richard Linklater. The third part of Linklater’s beautifully crafted romantic trilogy starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.
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Notre Musique
Crimes of Passion
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. A knotty tale of espionage set in a psychiatric hospital where the beds fill up with spies interested in a new patient.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Godard’s typically thoughtful, poetic and uncompromising versions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
Dir: Ken Russell. Anthony Perkins plays the man trapped in a marriage who seeks solace with the alter ego of a woman terrified of intimacy.
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Le Week-End
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Million Pound Note
A beautifully observed, poignant film starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a couple who return to Paris to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary with hopes of sparking their relationship back into life.
Charles Jarrott
Ronald Neame
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Described as ‘one of the great lost movies of the 1970s’ this allstar historical drama sees a briliiant Vanessa Redgrave take the lead role of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Gregory Peck stars in this Anglicised update of the Mark Twain story in which a penniless man finds his life transformed after a wager in which he is given a £1m note.
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The Selfish Giant
Paris Blues
Q Planes
Dir: Clio Barnard. An outstanding work of poeticised social realism in the manner of Loach’s Kes, about two boys caught up in copper theft.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier star as two ex-pat American jazzmen eking out a living in integrated 60s Paris.
Dir: Tim Whelan. A witty, cleverly plotted pre-WWII spy drama, starring Laurence Olivier as a test pilot and Ralph Richardson as an investigator.
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Pickup on South Street
That Kind of Girl
Dir: Willard Carroll. Greta Scacchi and James Wilby star in this adaptation of the classic children’s tale.
Dir: Samuel Fuller. NY set thriller suffused with a Cold War atmosphere of mistrust and desperation.
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Roger Michell
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Dir: Gerry O’Hara. A cautionary tale in which a continental au pair finds herself wrestling with various men’s affections in 1960s London. Item# 60725 UK | 1963 | 74 | B&W | 12 | £17.99
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Independencia
L’Assassino Recommended
Director: Raya Martin
Director: Elio Petri
Starring: Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle
Released: 28th July
Released: 21st July
Extras: Booklet; Making-of; Director’s filmed introduction; Short film: Life Projections.
Extras: Restored; Documentaries; Booklet.
Item# 74709 Philippines | 2009 | 2RUN | 72 | sub | B&W | 15
The directorial debut of Elio Petri, L’Assassino has been bafflingly littleseen since its theatrical release. Although it revolves around a murder investigation, its director isn’t as interested in the crime itself as the shifting psychological state of the prime suspect, Marcello Mastroianni’s foppish man-about-town Alfredo Martelli. Despite him being the cashstrapped former lover of the wealthy victim, did he actually kill her? The interrogations are conducted by the deceptively affable Inspector Palumbo, and it’s not clear whether he’s primarily trying to solve the crime or justify his puritanical dislike of Martelli’s flamboyant lifestyle. Martelli isn’t quite in the same situation as Kafka’s Josef K, but the processes that he undergoes are similar, and his transition from confident would-be playboy to emotional wreck ranks among Mastroianni’s most memorable performances. The film is often terrifically stylish, with its gleaming black-and-white cinematography and slinky jazztinged score, but it’s Petri’s keen eye for the clashes between the personal and the political that makes it stand up so well today. MB
Melding historical events, fantasy and melodrama with the visual stylings of early film, Independencia sees young Filipino director Raya Martin reconnecting with Philippine history in a fresh and vital way. His film is set during the 1899-1902 Philippine–American War. Fearing for their lives, a mother and son head for refuge into the forest, where they make a home in an abandoned cabin. Time passes: a girl is found; the mother dies; a child is born; the father’s eyesight fails, and through the continual transfiguration of life, their world leans into that of fable. With its painted backdrops and studio sets, its creative mixture of fantasy, imaginary beings, inset visions of characters’ dreams and a penchant for lingering on the sights and sounds of the (recreated) jungle, Independencia will certainly appeal to admirers of the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee). In Independencia, Martin makes borrowed cinematic language entirely his own to address a wound in his country’s past and set about reclaiming territory, both cinematic and national. GH
Item# 74288 Italy | 1961 | ARROW | 105 | subt | Cert 12
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Venus in Fur Recommended Director: Roman Polanski Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric Released: 28th July Extras: Interviews with director and cast; Trailer Item# 74507 | France | 2013 | ART-E | 96 | subt | Cert 15
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Love on the Ground
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an we separate the art from the artist? Roman Polanski’s filmmaking, like its maker, has lately seemed to be under a form of house arrest. The Polanski who set sail for Knife in the Water, and tailed evil around Chinatown is no more; now we get circumscribed chamber pieces issued from single sets that can’t really be called home. The entrenchment continues with this adaptation of David Ives’ stageplay that takes place entirely in a backstreet Parisian theatre – and yet, for the first time in a decade, Polanski seizes upon this set and this text as his own: he sees in its central, sadomasochistic struggle between a director and an actress, a man and a woman, something vital and personal. It translates rather brilliantly. We join auditions for a staging of Venus in Furs, Sacher-Masoch’s 19th century classic of kink about a snivelling doctor’s obsession with a pitiless courtesan. Stressed writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) isn’t really in the mood for the arrival of gum-chewing bombshell Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner), not least as she’s shown up wearing trashy fetishwear rather than the expected period frills. Then she begins to read the text, and magic
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Distinctive visual beauty and assured style are the hallmarks of this selection, which includes sunlit memories, vibrant satires and saucy comedies. The films’ locations range right across the country, from Mantua, Milan and Rimini to Venice and Rome, shown to such wonderful effect in The Great Beauty, so get set for a glorious cinematic sojourn.
Bellissima (MoC)
The Great Beauty
I Am Love
Luchino Visconti
Paolo Sorrentino
Luca Guadagnino
A satire on the motivations and machinations at work in the film industry, starring the great Anna Magnani as the pushy mother of a young daughter, with the famous Cinecittà studios as a backdrop.
Enthralling, virtuoso filmmaking from writer/director Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Consequences of Love), this is La Dolce Vita for modern times, with Toni Servillo playing a journalist taking stock of his life.
A modern melodrama of passion seething beneath the ordered world of the Italian upper classes. Tilda Swinton stars as the Milanese matriarch for whom a chance meeting looses suppressed longing.
Item# 51131 Italy | 1951 | 109 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99
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Amarcord
Faccia a Faccia
Monamour
Dir: Federico Fellini. A vibrant film full of strange and beautiful images, Fellini’s ‘autobiographical striptease’ is set in 1930s Rimini.
Dir: Sergio Sollima. A gangbusting western saga and a gripping parable of the rise of fascism. Gian Maria Volonté stars.
Dir: Tinto Brass. A characteristically stylish and intoxicating mix of lies, betrayal and fantasy, set in the Italian city of Mantua.
Item# 19552 Italy | 1973 | 118 | subt | 15 | £12.99
Item# 63685 Italy / Spain | 1967 | 91 | subt | 15 | £15.99
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Baarìa
The Garden of the Finzi-Contini
La Notte (MoC)
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Dir: Vittorio De Sica. This 1970 Oscar winner finds an aristocratic Jewish family facing the reality of 1930s Italy. Item# 65999 Italy | 1970 | 90 | subt | 12 | £19.99
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Moreau and Mastroianni play the couple in crisis in this profound study of modern alienation. Item# 53306 / 70320 1961 | 117 | sub | BW | 12 | £19.99
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Cinema Paradiso
Il Postino
Oedipus Rex (MoC)
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. The poignant tale of a young Sicilian boy’s love affair with the cinema. Features a lavish Ennio Morricone score.
Dir: Michael Radford. A lovely, moving film in which a simple postman on an Italian island forms a friendship with exiled ‘poet of love’ Pablo Neruda.
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. A savage and highly personal take on Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy. Pasolini’s first colour feature.
Item# 7207 / 58907 Italy | 1989 | 167 | subt | PG | £19.99
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Item# 68503 Italy | 1967 | 106 | subt | 15 | £19.99
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The Conformist
Medea
Salt of Life
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. A gripping political thriller in which a nondescript functionary (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) becomes a Fascist assassin.
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. An intense and ravishing retelling of Euripides’ drama, starring Maria Callas in the title role.
Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio. A bittersweet Italian comedy about the trials of growing older from the director of the charming Mid-August Lunch.
Item# 69724 / 72715 Ita | 1970 | 113 | subt | 15 | £15.99
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Don Giovanni
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Dir: Joseph Losey. Baritone Ruggero Raimondi stars in this matchless adaptation of Mozart’s greatest opera. 3 discs; Remastered.
Dir: Luca Guadagnino. An adolescent girl loses her innocence in this film in the tradition of Tinto Brass and David Hamilton.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Item# 52717 Italy | 1979 | 169 | 12 | £24.99
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Dir: Vittorio De Sica. A saucy Italian sex trilogy starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren. Item# 56962 Italy | 1963 | 114 | subt | 15 | £15.99
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Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. A sumptuously-filmed, semiautobiographical drama from the director of Cinema Paradiso.
Truffaut returns to the UK Artificial Eye are returning the great French director’s work to the UK in newly restored DVD and Blu-ray editions . The series starts with these three masterful films.
The 400 Blows Recommended
Jules & Jim Recommended
Director: François Truffaut
Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy
Starring: Henri Serre, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Marie Dubois, Vanna Urbino
Released: 11th August Extras: Restored; Extras TBC. Item# 74502 France | 1959 | ART-E | 95 | subt | B&W | 12
Few filmmakers have approached the subject of adolescence with more honesty or simplicity than François Truffaut in this poignantly autobiographical tale of a youth who winds up in borstal while reeling from his mother’s adultery. With it, he sought to return French cinema to the purer days of poetic realism. Belying his reputation as a firebrand at Cahiers du Cinéma, Truffaut broke few rules with the story, but restored an audiovisual authenticity to French film, which had become stifled by literary pretension. Moreover, he gave fresh impetus to the Nouvelle Vague by winning the Best Director prize at Cannes and launching a masterly film cycle starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the character of Antoine Doinel. Throughout, Truffaut’s directorial choices are bold but never gratuitous, with the closing freeze frame remaining among the medium’’s most iconic moments. Yet it’s Henri Decaë’s monochrome cinematography that enabled Truffaut to achieve the directorial equivalent of Method acting, as he created great art from personal experience and psychological pain. DP
Released: 28th July Extras: Restored; Introduction by Serge Toubiana; Commentary by Jean Gruault. Item# 74498 France | 1962 | ART-E | 102 | subt | B&W | PG
As a critic at Cahiers du Cinéma, Truffaut had lamented the reverence with which filmmakers approached literary adaptation. So, in revisiting Henri-Pierre Roché’s 1955 novel about the impact a reckless free spirit has on the friendship between a French writer and an Austrian entomologist over a period of twenty years surrounding the First World War, he showed that texts and period settings could be translated to the screen in a way that reflected the personality of the director without compromising the author’s vision. He was fortunate in having a star as vivacious as Jeanne Moreau, as her spontaneity prevents her liaisons with Henri Serre and Oskar Werner from lapsing into melodrama. The contributions of cinematographer Raoul Coutard and composer Georges Delerue are impeccable, and Truffaut’s own use of jump cuts, swish pans and freeze frames captured the mood of both inter-war France and the Nouvelle Vague. The debt to Renoir is evident, but this is Truffaut’s triumph, as he brilliantly put his theories into practice. DP
Shoot the Pianist Recommended Director: François Truffaut Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois Released: 28th July Extras: Restored; Serge Toubiana introduction; Marie Dubois commentary and screen tests. Item# 74699 France | 1960 | ART-E | 82 | subt | B&W | 15
Sandwiched between two masterpieces – his debut, The 400 Blows, and the legendary Jules & Jim – Truffaut’s first film noir took a while to gain the praise it deserves. We can now see it as a prime example of the Nouvelle Vague, full of cinematic allusions and revelling in its own existential cussedness. Charles Aznavour plays Saroyan, a concert pianist who retreats into playing in bars after his life falls apart. Dragged out of exile when his ne’erdo-well brothers run afoul of some local hoods, he attracts the attentions of a waitress, the enigmatic Lena (Marie Dubois). Truffaut splinters points of view and narrative, defying us to get a handle on the characters or motivations. They’re probably easier to ‘read’ now than they were in 1960: Aznavour’s Saroyan is every inch the Gallic antihero, a figure out of Camus or Beckett, shy and withdrawn and reluctant to engage with the world. However, the richest character is the film itself: playful, enigmatic, and good company for an evening. NR
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A compelling new Irish TV drama that aired on BBC4, based around a search for a missing 14 year-old girl. As months go by the mystery deepens and disturbing new clues come to light, but these raise more questions than answers. What on earth really happened to Amber?.
The complete first and second series of the spinoff from ITV’s long-running crime drama, Inspector Morse. Set in 1965, the show follows Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) in his younger years as a police constable, as he works alongside his senior partner, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam), and PC 5 discs. James Strange (Sean Rigby).
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Friday Night Dinner: Series 2 A second helping of Channel 4’s hit sitcom about the regular friday evening dinners at home with Mum and Dad endured by two brothers (Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal). Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter play the parents, Mark Heap their distinctly odd neighbour. Series 1 recap; Behind the Scenes; Also available: 2-disc series 1 & 2 box set.
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Never before available, this is the complete third series of the hit TV comedy set in 1970s Liverpool. Polly James and Nerys Hughes star as flatmates as Beryl and Sandra, who face life’s perils – pet parrots, Valentine’s Day-doings, cranky Christenings and the risks of becoming Miss Hot Pants 1972 – 2 discs. with a smile.
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Luca Zingaretti, best known for his starring role in Inspector Montalbano, plays a detective who infiltrates a gang to try to prevent an audacious robbery in the Vatican in this Italian TV drama set in 1920s Rome.
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The final six feature-length episodes of the Swedish crime drama starring Krister Henriksson: The Troubled Man, Missing, The Betrayal, The Loss, The Arsonist and The Sad Bird.
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Wallander: Films 27-32
The first seven 90 minute crime films: Before the Frost, The Village Idiot, The Brothers, The Overdose, The African, Mastermind, The Tricksters.
The Liver Birds: Collection 2
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Midsomer Murders: The Complete Series 16 All five episodes from series 16 of the crime series starring Neil Dudgeon and Gwilym Lee. Contains The Christmas Haunting, Let Us Prey, Wild Harvest, The Flying Club and the 100th episode, The Killings of Copenhagen, which saw the detectives 5 discs. head to Denmark. UK | 2014 | ACORN | 405 | Cert 12 Item# 74800 | RRP £49.99 | 7th July
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Wallander: Films 8-13 The final six episodes from series 1: The Photographer, The Container Lorry, The Castle Ruins, The Black King, The Joker, The Secret. Item# 74792 Sweden | 2006 | 540 | 15 | £24.99
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Wallander: Films 14-20 Contains the seven episodes: The Revenge, The Guilt, The Courier, The Thief, The Cellist, Priest, The Leak. Item# 74790 Sweden | 2009 | 630 | subt | 15 | £24.99
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Wallander: Original Films 1-6 The original Wallander films, starring Rolf Lassgård: Pyramid, Firewall, One Step Behind, The Man Who Smiled. Item# 74793 Sweden | 2003-2007 | 300 | subt | 15 | £24.99
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1980s
TV Sale
This decade was British television’s golden age, when expertly-written dramas rubbed shoulders with incisive and hilarious comedies. In the background, a series of changes and innovations took place – a fourth channel was born, studio production largely gave way to location filming, and programmes began to reflect political events. As you can see, even three decades on the quality is extremely high.
Mike Leigh When Beverly (Alison Steadman) invites the neighbours round for drinks and nibbles, the stage is set for the best of British mayhem. An evergreen film that is a by-word for death by embarrassment. Item# 13759 UK | 1984 | 102 | PG | £15.99
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The Barchester Chronicles Alan Rickman stars in this adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s great classics The Warden and Barchester Towers.
Classic Ghost Stories of MR James Five expertly abridged, partiallydramatized MR James stories, read by Robert Powell, originally broadcast during Christmas, 1986. Three episodes of Spine Chillers. Item# 71928 UK | 1980-86 | 100 | 12 | £19.99
Ever Decreasing Circles Richard Briers plays the indefatigable neighbourhood organiser Martin Bryce in this ever-popular 1980s Sunday evening comedy, scripted by the writers of The Good Life. 5 discs. Item# 32737 UK | 1984-89 | 15 | £39.99
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Death in Venice
Silas Marner
Dir: Tony Palmer. An atmospheric film, shot on location in Venice, of Britten’s operatic adaptation of Thomas Mann’s haunting novella.
Dir: Giles Foster. Ben Kingsley inhabits the part of George Eliot’s lonely weaver in this 1985 adaptation. Patsy Kensit plays little Eppie.
Item# 68622 UK | 1981 | 132 | E | £13.99
Item# 52775 UK | 1985 | 90 | PG | £15.99
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The Benny Hill Annuals 1980-1989
Doctor Who: E-Space Trilogy
The Singing Detective
A decade’s worth of high-speed farce, saucy naughtiness and risqué 9 discs. jokes.
Three adventures with the Time Lord, (Tom Baker): Full Circle, State of 3 discs. Decay, Warrior’s Gate.
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Item# 57290 UK | 1980-81 | PG | £34.25
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Bergerac
Fortunes of War
Every episode from the Jerseybased detective series. John Nettles plays the recovering alcoholic, Jim Bergerac. 27 discs.
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and Rupert Graves star in this majestic serial set in the upheaval of Europe in the 1930s. 3 discs.
Stephen Poliakoff Box Set
Item# 59910 UK | 1981-91 | 15 | £91.90
Item# 30624 UK | 1987 | 407 | 15 | £29.99
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The Comic Strip Presents
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The complete collection of hilarious send-ups and spoofs from the regulars of The Comic Strip. 9 discs.
Dir: Alan Bell. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect go on a galactic journey in Douglas Adams’ tale. 2 discs.
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Dead Head
Private Schulz
Dir: Rob Walker. A neo-noir crime thriller scripted by playwright Howard Brenton and starring Denis Lawson as a petty crook in too deep.
Dir: Robert Chetwyn. Michael Elphick stars in this WWII comedy in which the Germans plan to destroy the British economy with forged notes.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Item# 70754 UK | 1986 | 191 | 15 | £19.99
Item# 54961 UK | 1981 | 300 | PG | £14.99
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Dennis Potter’s dark, twisting, noirtinged series is simply one of the most entertaining and crucial slices of television history. 3 discs. Item# 16746 UK | 1986 | 360 | 15 | £19.99
Perfect Strangers, Caught on a Train, Shooting the Past, The Lost Prince, Friends..., Gideon’s... 9 discs. Item# 26286 UK | 1980-2005 | 15 | £61.27
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You Rang, M’Lord? The complete series of the Edwardian-set sitcom created as a parody of period dramas such as Upstairs, Downstairs. 8 discs. Item# 30215 UK | 1988-93 | 1300 | PG | £71.48
Dir: Tony Wharmby. Agatha Christie’s classic whodunnit, starring James Warwick and Francesca Annis. Item# 72045 UK | 1980 | 186 | 12 | £17.99
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Abigail’s Party
Television All 28 original episodes from both 1974 series of the Mr Men, based on Roger Hargreaves’ characters and narrated, beautifully, by the avuncular Arthur Lowe. Completely charming children’s TV from another era entirely.
Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo
A new series that uncovers the Great War’s railway story, 100 years on. Each episode examines how the entire conflict was a railway war, with Portillo telling the story with the help of rail enthusiasts, descendants of those who fought and experts in military history.
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Pollyanna
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J Wyndham Davies
The Return of the Psammead
BBC’s six-part 1973 production of Eleanor H. Porter’s classic of children’s literature. Elizabeth Archard plays the sunny and eternally optimistic Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live with her wealthy but stern spinster aunt (Elaine Stritch).
Marilyn Fox
Popping up once again from the gravel pit in which he appeared in Five Children and It (1991), the Psammead – the furry sand fairy who makes children’s wishes come true – returns to grant more magic. Based on the character created by Edith Nesbit.
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Prey
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Nick Murphy
A high-octane three-part thriller starring John Simm as a Manchester copper, wrongly accused of a crime and now on the run, desperate to clear his name for the sake of his family. He is a wanted killer, but he is locked into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across the city with Acting Detective Chief Inspector Susan Reinhardt (Rosie Cavaliero), and he can’t rest until he knows the truth. UK | 2014 | DAZZL | 140 | Cert 15 Item# 74814 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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The complete second season of the original gripping Israeli drama on which the American series Homeland is based. It follows the lives of three Israeli Defence Force reservists who mysteriously return to Israel after seventeen years in captivity behind enemy lines. What hapened to them? Who are they now? How 5 discs. can they adapt to their freedom?
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Bafta-winning adaptation of Clive King’s novel about a shy young boy (Thomas Sangster) who learns to communicate with a caveman living at the bottom of a nearby quarry. So begins a very special friendship in a tale which has charmed children and adults alike ever since its publication in 1963.
The definitive collection of the groundbreaking TV mystery, containing every episode from the TV series and the Blu-ray debut of Lynch’s followup feature Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Along with a massive collection of pre-existing special features, the set is loaded with many new and exclusive items, including nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted / alternate scenes from Fire Walk With Me. A truly 10 discs. Also comprehensive collection. available on DVD for £13.49 per season. USA | 1990-91 | PARAH | 1410 | Cert 15 Item# 73730 | RRP £69.99 | 29th July
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Utopia: Series 2
The second series of the excellent C4 conspiracy thriller about a group of strangers who meet on a forum and become the targets of ‘The Network’ after realising they are somehow connected to each other through the plot of a legendary 2 discs; graphic novel. Also available: 4 disc series 1 & 2 box set. UK | 2013 | 4DVD | 300 | Cert TBC Item# 73589 / 73588 | RRP £19.99 | 25th August
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John Hay
Mark Frost & David Lynch
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Prisoners of War: Series 2
Israel | 2009 | Arrow E1 | 630 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 74801 | RRP £29.99 | 28th July
Stig of the Dump
Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery
Image from Twin Peaks
Mr Men: Complete
Trial and Retribution: The Complete Collection
All 22 episodes of the ITV police drama, written and produced by Lynda La Plante and which ran from 1997-2009. David Hayman, Kate Buffery and Victoria Smurfit play the detectives who oversee each case from the crime scene through to the law courts. 20 discs. Also available in three double collection packs. UK | 1997-2009 | ACORN | 3120 | Cert 18 Item# Various | RRP £59.99 | 14th July
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Cold War Film Sale The Cold War has been an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for films, with the genre inspiring directors, scriptwriters and actors to some of their finest work. It’s no surprise either, these are films set in an era when the stakes were high and causes deeply held, no matter how seedy the settings or the double-dealing. The era may have passed but these films remain absolutely captivating.
Goodbye Lenin!
Kiss Me Deadly
Wolfgang Becker
Robert Aldrich
A bittersweet comedy in which a dedicated socialist wakes from a coma into a Germany no longer bounded by an iron curtain – though her son tries to preserve the illusion to prevent a shock to her system.
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.
Martin Ritt
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The Bedford Incident
Hot Enough for June
Dir: James B. Harris. Suspenseful thriller in which a US vessel on a routine patrol ends up in a showdown with a Russian submarine.
Dir: Ralph Thomas. A satirical thriller starring Dirk Bogarde as an innocent writer sent on a commercial assignment behind the Iron Curtain.
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Billion Dollar Brain
The Ipcress File
The Quiet American
Dir: Ken Russell. Michael Caine stars in this third entry in the ‘Harry Palmer’ series, which sees the former spy sucked into cold war machinations.
Dir: Sidney J. Furie. A stylishly laconic thriller set in seamy 1960s London, with Michael Caine starring as the cocky Harry Palmer.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The original adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about US foreign policy in Indochina.
Item# 19875 UK | 1967 | 111 | PG | £12.99
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The Deadly Affair
The Kremlin Letter
The Russia House
Dir: Sidney Lumet. The muted, shabby ordinariness of spying is brilliantly captured here. James Mason plays Smiley in all but name.
Dir: John Huston. A black-hearted spy thriller crammed with cult interest and an astonishing cast, including Welles, von Sydow and Sanders.
Dir: Fred Schepisi. Sean Connery plays the publisher who finds himself working for British Intelligence in this suspenseful le Carré adaptation.
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Fail Safe
The Lives of Others
The Third Man
Dir: Sidney Lumet. An apocalyptic drama, similar to Dr Strangelove – except here, New York is offered to the Reds as a sacrifical lamb!
Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. This Oscar-winner is a gripping psychological thriller set in Stasi-era East Germany.
Dir: Carol Reed. One of the most justly famed of all British films, set in the uncertainty of postwar Vienna. An essential all-time great.
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Looking Glass War
When the Wind Blows
Dir: George Clooney. A great film about Ed Murrow’s attempt to bring down red-baiting senator McCarthy.
Dir: Frank Pierson. An unsparing spy thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson.
Item# 29160 / 59199 USA | 2005 | 90 | BW | PG | £19.99
Item# 25945 UK | 1969 | 103 | 12 | £12.99
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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold This brilliantly scripted take on le Carré’s novel perfectly captures the seedy atmosphere of Cold War espionage and features one of Richard Burton’s best performances. DVD: £5.99 Save £4
The Manchurian Candidate Dir: John Frankenheimer. A fine cold war thriller in which a Korean War hero is brainwashed by communists. Item# 6207 USA | 1962 | 121 | 15 | £9.99
Dir: Jimmy T. Murakami. A darkly satirical animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ tale of an elderly couple trying to survive a nuclear war. Item# 23390 UK | 1986 | 80 | PG | £19.99
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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present
Half of a Yellow Sun
New Releases Beyond the Edge Leanne Pooley
A docu-drama of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 ascent of Mount Everest. As well as featuring dramatised recreations shot on location, the film includes footage and photographs from the original expedition.
A Nigerian adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award-winning novel about the Biafran war. Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose play the twin sisters who move back to Nigeria from England in the late 1960s, Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) the ‘revolutionary professor’ with whom one falls in love. UK | 2013 | SodaElev | 111 | Cert 15 Item# 74734 / 74759 | RRP £17.99 | 4th August
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Jason Reitman
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Clockwork Orgy Nic Cramer
Insatiable women roam a futuristic cityscape in search of sexual thrills in this reworking of Stanley Kubrick’s film. The original gang’s boiler suits and DMs are replaced by hotpants and kinky boots, but the bowler hats remain intact. Kaitlyn Ashley, Isis Nile and Rebecca Lord star. USA | 1995 | SALV | 73 | Cert 18 Item# 74483 | RRP £12.99 | 30th June
A genre-crossing drama from Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), starring Josh Brolin as an escaped convict and Kate Winslet as the despairing divorced single mother with whom he lays low for a few days. The man’s initially threatening behaviour turns to caring responsibility and it looks like a shot at domestic bliss might be theirs – but the manhunt is still ongoing. USA | 2013 | PARAH | 111 | Cert 12 Item# 74693 / 74694 | RRP £19.99 | 4th August
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Michael Ninn
Deception
Giuseppe Tornatore An intriguing thriller with an air of Hitchcockian mystery from the director of Cinema Paradiso. Geoffrey Rush plays the cold-eyed art auctioneer called in to go through the estate of a reclusive European heiress (Sylvia Hoeks). Italy | 2013 | SIGNA | 125 | Cert 15 Item# 74849 | RRP £14.99 | 21st July
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The Double
Richard Ayoade A new take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella about a man who goes mad after the appearance of his doppelgänger. Jesse Eisenberg stars both as the timid office employee and his charismatic double. Mia Wasikowska co-stars. UK | 2013 | STUDC | 93 | Cert 15 Item# 74642 / 74643 | RRP £17.99 | 4th August
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Calvary Recommended Director: John Michael McDonagh Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Aidan Gillen, Owen Sharpe, Dylan Moran, Kelly Reilly, Gary Lydon
Labor Day
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Biyi Bandele
One of the cult films of the 1990s, Latex is an adult cyberpunk morality tale in which a man (Jon Dough) who has the ability to see people’s darkest sexual secrets when he touches them is imprisoned in an Orwellian world in which the government wants access to his mind. USA | 1995 | SALV | 75 | Cert 18 Item# 74857 | RRP £12.99 | 28th July
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The Monuments Men George Clooney
WWII action romp about an unlikely platoon made up of curators and art historians, tasked by President Roosevelt with rescuing masterpieces of art from the Nazis and returning them to their rightful owners. An all-star cast includes Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin. USA | 2013 | FOX | 118 | Cert 12 Item# 74388 / 74387 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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Brendan Gleeson is one of those bedrock actors you’d happily watch in anything. In this dark-hued comedy, he plays Father James, a Catholic priest in an Irish coastal town who’s growing increasingly isolated from his cynical superiors and dim-bulb underlings. More pressingly, he has also just been given a week to live by a parishioner, abused elsewhere during his time as an altar boy. The film opens in the confessional, where the man serves notice of his intention to kill this good priest by way of cosmic reordering, seven days hence. James takes the next week to wander among his flock, as much to put a few things of his own in order as to pin down who it is amongst them that might want him dead. If Calvary’s influences – Bresson, Ealing, every religiose American crime movie of the 1930s and 40s, right through to The Bells of St. Mary – don’t always mesh, Gleeson nevertheless steadies the film. You emerge not quite knowing whether to laugh or cry – but then I guess you could argue the same thing about life. MM
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July 2014 MovieMail Film Catalogue
Soulmate
Axelle Carolyn
A supernatural drama with an atmosphere of subdued Gothic horror, filmed in the picturesque Welsh countryside of the Brecon Beacons. After a failed suicide, young widow Audrey (Anna Walton) seeks refuge in an isolated cottage, where she makes the acquaintance of its long-dead former inhabitant. UK | 2013 | SodaElev | 104 | | Cert 18 Item# 74802 | RRP £15.99 | 11th August
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Sweet and Lowdown Woody Allen
A fictional biographical study of an invented 1930s jazz guitarist – inveterate womaniser, pimp and kleptomaniac Emmet Ray (Sean Penn). Samantha Morton plays the mute woman who loves him, Uma Thurman a society floozy. USA | 1999 | KALHE | 95 | Cert PG Item# 74718 | RRP £14.99 | 7th July
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Times Square Allan Moyle
A paean to teenage rebellion, this cult feature from 1980 tells the story of two girls who meet in a psychiatric unit and, bonding through a shared sense of alienation, go on the run together. As well as gloriously gritty scenes of early 80s New York, the film also boasts a soundtrack that features The Ramones, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and XTC. USA | 1980 | NWORK | 106 | Cert 15 Item# 74565 | RRP £9.99 | 14th July
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The Woody Allen Library
Seven Woody Allen films: Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Celebrity (1997), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Everyone Says I Love You (1997), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Small Time Crooks (2000) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), plus Barbara Kopple’s 1997 documentary Wild Man Blues, which follows 8 discs. Allen on tour with his jazz band. USA | 1994-1997 | KALHE | 797 | Cert 15 Item# 74731 | RRP £49.99 | 7th July
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Noah
Plenty
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Recommended
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Frank Langella, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone
Starring: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, Sam Neill
Released: 28th July
Released: 21st July
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Darren Aronofsky’s Noah mounts its Old Testament spectacle on the grandest imaginable scale, but submits individual elements to a surprising level of scrutiny. It’s the work of a 21st century filmmaker who has taken a huge chunk of Paramount money to see whether the biblical story of the flood still holds water. It feels like the most experimental event movie in some time and makes for a fascinatingly ambiguous, sometimes sceptical spectacle: a considered, secularhumanist retort to the blunt-force certainty of Mel Gibson’s Passion. If you like Great Things Happening, Noah is full of them – yet it’s also stocked deep with smaller details that merit close examination. There’s fierce debate within the movie too, as to whether the flood represents a blessed, God-given do-over, or a curse. As for Noah himself, Russell Crowe portrays him as a foursquare, practical man inclined to put up, shut up and do what he’s told. This is a determinedly nondenominational blockbuster that offers multiple readings, and much for us to marvel at. MM
If one Meryl Streep film from 1985 deserved a bag of Oscars, it was Plenty, not Out of Africa. While Plenty may demand more of its viewers, its rewards are greater. The film offers a sophisticated adaptation of David Hare’s 1978 play about a brilliant and beautiful but self-destructive young English woman, Susan (Streep), who is inspired and impassioned by active service in occupied France but defeated by post-war apathy and compromise in Britain. Director Fred Schepisi faithfully draws out the pervading allegory – Susan’s idealism is eroded alongside Britain’s sense of euphoria and optimism, with both decisively finished off by Suez – while successfully opening out the play for the big screen with an eye-catching attention to period detail. Streep shines in a complex role and there is standout support from Charles Dance (as her underachieving diplomat husband) and John Gielgud and Ian McKellan (as veteran Foreign Office men). Sting and Tracey Ullman are fashionably cast but hold their own among the heavyweight performers. JU
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The Double
Contemporary Blu-ray
Gay & Lesbian
The Zero Theorem
Monthly Highlights
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L’Assassino
I Am Happiness on Earth
Terry Gilliam
In an dystopian future world where corporations and capitalism have run riot and technology has led to a fracturing of human relations, reclusive computer genius Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) works as a programmer on a project aimed at discovering the meaning of life, or lack thereof, once and for all. Then the seductive Bainsley (Melanie Thierry) and the turbulent Bob (Lucas Hedges) barge into his tightly controlled universe, changing it forever. Romania / USA | 2013 | COL-T | 106 | Cert 15 Item# 74521 / 74522 | RRP £17.99 | 21st July
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Divergent Neil Burger
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A Long Way Down Pascal Chaumeil
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The 400 Blows François Truffaut
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Jules & Jim
François Truffaut
Mike Hodges
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop... Jon Avnet
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The Last Horror Film David Winters
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Sophie’s Choice Alan J. Pakula
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Antonio Hens
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Spain / Cuba | 2013 | TLAUK | 94 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74504 | RRP £15.99 | 28th July
A Hard Day’s Night Richard Lester
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Darren Aronofsky
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Plenty
Fred Schepisi
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Love or Whatever Rosser Goodman
Item# 74608 UK | 1985 | 125 | 15 | £14.99
Corey had it all – a successful career, bags of charm and, most of all, a bright future with his boyfriend. But, when his other half commits the ultimate betrayal and dumps him for a woman, he embarks upon a wild journey of self-discovery in this fresh and genuinely
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Get Carter
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The Last Match
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Enjoying a sold out gala premiere at the London Flare Festival, this is an engaging and emotional look at what happens when two boys fall in love against the backdrop of a repressive Cuban society. Milton García and Reinier Díaz star.
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The Raid 2
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With fine cinematography and some highly sensual scenes, this gay, selfreflexive Mexican drama details the erotic hide and seek story of a filmmaker and a dancer, and how the flirtation between them affects both men. Hugo Catalán stars.
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Julián Hernández
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Day of the Flowers
Elio Petri
Gareth Evans
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Shoot the Pianist François Truffaut
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Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery David Lynch
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Venus in Fur
Roman Polanski
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The Werner Herzog Collection (Box Set)
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funny gay comedy. USA | 2012 | TLAUK | 84 | Cert 18 Item# 71343 | RRP £15.99 | 28th July
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Chris M Johnson A timid dancer copes with misinformation and fear sparked by the growing AIDS crisis in this film that lovingly recreates gay life in 1980s San Francisco. With an upbeat 80s soundtrack, electrifying dance sequences and sensitive performances, this is a compelling drama from a tough time. USA | 2013 | PECCA | 89 | Cert 15 Item# 74511 | RRP £15.99 | 28th July
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Documentaries New Releases 20 Feet from Stardom Morgan Neville
The 2014 Oscar-winning documentary that explores the much neglected role of backing singers in rock‘n’roll, offering a necessary alternative pop history that reclaims decades of underacknowledged labour by women kept just out of the spotlight. USA | 2013 | ALT | 91 | Cert PG Item# 74827 / 74828 | RRP £15.99 | 21st July
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British Home Front: The First World War 1914-1918 A comprehensive overview of life on the Home Front during WWI, containing over 2½ hours of the very best newsreels and film clips, giving an idea of the varied roles and responsibilities shouldered by British citizens during a time of real sacrifice.
UK | 1914-18 | C-RED | 153 | Cert E Item# 74909 | RRP £16.99 | 28th July
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Dvorák: In Love? Tony Palmer
The Cello Concerto by Dvorák is one of the most popular concertos ever written and one of Dvorák’s last works, but a strange and rather tragic story, which Palmer explores here, lies behind its composition. This was the very first documentary to be shown on newlyliberated Czech television in 1990. Czechoslovakia / UK | 1988 | F-FLY | 52 | Cert E Item# 74999 | RRP £11.99 | 14th July
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From Scotland with Love Virginia Heath
Made up entirely of Scottish film archive footage, From Scotland with Love offers a journey into Scotland’s collective past, exploring universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Scottish musician King Creosote composed the score. UK | 2014 | PARKC | 75 | Cert E Item# 75041 | RRP £9.99 | 21st July
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The Great War Poets Bob Carruthers
The shattering experience of the Great War took its toll on a generation of men who were called up to fight in the trenches. For many the experience could only be summed up in verse. This film revisits the battlefields where the war poets found their inspiration and looks at the lives and work of poets such as Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. UK | 2014 | BECK | 48 | Cert E Item# 74884 | RRP £10.99 | Out Now
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London Can Take It
Seven WWII films about life in London during the blitz and the V-Bomb menace: London Can Take It (Jennings & Watt, 1940), The First Days (Jennings, Jackson & Watt, 1939), Neighbours Under Fire (Bond, 1940), Christmas under Fire (Watt & Hasse, 1941), Ordinary People (Knight, 1942), London Scrapbook (1942), Second Battle of London Manchester Took it Too (1941). (1944). UK | 1939-44 | SIMP | 117 | Cert E Item# 74993 | RRP £12.99 | 28th July
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On the Western Front: The Great War 1914-1918
A limited edition film and book set that looks at the conflicts on the Western Front. Includes over five hours of films and documentaries, including The Battle of the Somme, Apocalypse: The Road To War, Stalemate: Slaughter in the Trenches and Revolution: The 4 discs; 112 page book. End of Empires.
Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (Part 2) Jake West
and a featurette.
UK | 2014 | NUCLE | 840 | Cert 18 Item# 74777 | RRP £24.99 | 14th July
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Animation The Lego Movie Christopher Miller
Matching satire with shameless fun, this is an uproariously entertaining film for parents and children alike. In it, wicked Lord Business (Will Ferrell) is determined to destroy the Lego universe and rebuild it using glue. USA | 2013 | WHV | 100 | Cert U Item# 74770 / 74771 | RRP £19.99 | 21st July
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand
Disney’s first full-length production – an adaptation of the famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm in which Snow White takes refuge in the forest from her wicked stepmother – remains as enchanting as ever.
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Once Upon a Forest Luc Jacquet
Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins) and ecologist Francis Hallé pool their talents for this spectacular film about the primeval forest in French Guiana – the first in a series of projects about special forests still thriving around the world, despite the odds.
A limited edition set released to tie in with the 30th Anniversary of the Video Recordings Act. Contains Video Nasties: Draconian Days and The Section 3 List, in which the 82 titles listed under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act are presented with their trailer 3 discs; Postcards.
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Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy Peggy Holmes
The sixth film in Disney’s Tinker Bell series sees dust-keeper fairy Zarina steal the Blue Pixie Dust, without which Tinker Bell and her friends lose their ability to fly.
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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats
Otto Preminger
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f all the legacies of the French New Wave, I think the most pronounced might also be the least discussed: the way that the tastes of the former Cahiers du Cinéma critics essentially decided the film canon as we still understand it today, especially in regard to Hollywood. Before Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Uncle Jacques Rivette and all, serious English-language critics would turn their noses up at the likes of Hitchcock, Howard Hawks and, our subject for today, Otto Preminger. Preminger was an especial target for disdain: his work wasn’t just patronised, as Hitchcock’s so often was, but actively disparaged by reviewers, who thought his work was crass and dirty and – more bizarrely – thought that being ‘crass’ and ‘dirty’ was somehow a bad thing. That changed when our Gallic chums rode to his rescue; Jean-Luc Godard was an especially vocal disciple – his use of ‘Scope, he said, was directly inspired by Preminger, as was his casting of Preminger’s discovery Jean Seberg in À bout de souffle. Preminger was reconsidered, rehabilitated and elevated to the pantheon, while many one-time critical faves have been forgotten. (We shouldn’t laugh at the critics of yesteryear: they had their reasons. In the case of Preminger, we should not forget he was a master showman and a self-publicist to rival Hitchcock: I would submit the promotional hullabaloo that surrounded his films coloured the critical reaction to them – for the worse.) And yet, for all the esteem in which he is now held, I think we still misunderstand Preminger. The films
Otto Preminger’s films are alive with paradox and uncertainty that get the loudest praise – the film noirs he made at Fox, such as Laura, Whirlpool and Where the Sidewalk Ends – are his safest, most conventional work; there was so much more to him than that. While I like the early films, I think the real glory of Preminger comes later, in the films he made as an independent producer/ director. The melodramatic emphasis of the early work recedes and the films become more sophisticated, resisting easy answers to examine cause and effect in a nonjudgemental way. Take the magnificent sadness of Bonjour Tristesse (starring Seberg, in
the role that caught Godard’s eye). This is one of the great films of the 1950s, far closer to the ambiguities of best European cinema than the certainties of American movies. It is an apparently simple story but builds and grows into something far richer, more complex and, ultimately, emotionally devastating. Preminger’s best work is alive with paradox and uncertainty: Anatomy of a Murder is both yearningly idealistic and thoroughly cynical in its investigation of American jurisprudence. Exodus is a long film about the foundation of Israel that’s more interested in interrogating the cause than it is in fighting for it. Of course, those original critics weren’t entirely off the mark: my excuse for talking about Preminger now is the release of the trashy bonkbuster Forever Amber (it’s basically a Gone With the Wind rip-off but is much more fun than Selznick’s bloated epic) and as any Preminger fan will tell you, he was rubbish at comedy (I’ve endured Skidoo: you really shouldn’t). However, if you stick to the classics, you can’t go wrong. Hollywood could often be timid and trite; Preminger helped it to grow up.
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