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his issue is simply packed with exclusives and rarities we’ve sourced for you that you won’t easily find elsewhere. The eight films are all worthwhile – a Russian Crime and Punishment, I Was an Adventuress, Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station, Run Wild, Run Free, Royal Flash, Three Days of the Condor and Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing starring Maggie Smith. It really is an excellent selection – and there are more to come next month too! We’re pleased to present the new book Offbeat (page 8), Julian Upton’s mightily entertaining look at the unjustly overlooked films and neglected trends of British cinema, including

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contributions by MovieMail writers. It’s a must read for anyone interested in off-thebeaten-track British films. A growing number of the films discussed in the book are now available on DVD, so you can experience them for yourselves. Enjoy your films,

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Emma Paterson (Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk To Her) Emma recently embarked on a plan to watch every one of the Sight & Sound 2012 critics top 250 films and record her gut response to each, a project which will likely take her all the way to 2016. If she could live in a film it would be Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. She also writes for Little White Lies. Alex Ballinger (Julio Medem’s Vacas) wrote New Cinematographers

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Ken Loach’s impassioned documentary made to address a need and prevailing questions of the shape and direction of society in our own times, about how the spirit of unity which buoyed Britain during the war years carried through to create a vision of a fairer, more united society. Item# 71077 UK | 2013 | 98 | E | £14.99

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Starring a host of wonderful players - Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon – Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut is a charming comedy drama about a group of opera singers whose life is thrown into disarray by a new arrival at their bucolic retirement home. Item# 70834 UK | 2012 | 98 | 12 | £19.99

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4 Cría Cuervos

A moody, absorbing film, full of repressed passions and simmering unease, Saura’s film remains one of the most important works in Spanish cinema and won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1977. Item# 68452 Spain | 1976 | 105 | subt | 12 | £19.99

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Les Misérables Recommended Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter Released: 13th May Item# 71441 UK | 2012 | 158 | 12

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Outcast of the Islands Carol Reed

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espite the enthusiastic support of Graham Greene, two of the pictures in this quartet of Ealing rarities were allowed to slip into undeserved obscurity. The novelist was reviewing films for The Spectator when he saw Carol Reed’s take on Captain Marryat’s popular adventure, Midshipman Easy (1935), and noted down the debuting director as a talent to watch. Reed stages the action sequences with admirable brio, while reining in some of Marryat’s rambling excesses in showing how Hughie Green’s 1790s know-all wins the respect of his crewmates aboard HMS Harpy by rescuing Margaret Lockwood’s Spanish maiden from a dastardly brigand. Greene was even more impressed with Edmond T. Gréville’s handling of Brief Ecstasy (1937). Schooled in the poetic realist tradition, the French director brought a noirish sense of sensual despondency to a tale that sees a woman settle for marriage to an elderly professor after the dashing pilot who has stolen her heart leaves for India. The performances are admirable, but what makes this so compelling is cinematographer Ronald

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A very fine collection with films by Charles Frend and Carol Reed Neame’s eye for the minor details that convey the stifling reality of domestic ennui. Neame also shot Walter Forde’s The Four Just Men (1939), an updating of an Edgar Wallace story that reveals producer Michael Balcon’s vehement opposition to the policy of appeasing Hitler. The smartly-scripted plot centres on the efforts of a journalist, an actor, a playwright and a couturier to confound a plot to sabotage the Suez Canal that involves a pro-appeasement MP. It’s a rousing exercise in vigilante espionage that contrasts with Charles Frend’s The Big Blockade (1942), an unabashed piece of propaganda which seeks to justify the blockade and bombardment of the continent through sketches involving, among others, Will Hay and Bernard Miles as sailors resisting the Luftwaffe, Michael Redgrave as a witty Russian and Robert Morley as a triumphalist Nazi. David Parkinson Page 7

I Was an Adventuress

Classic Movies The House in Marsh Road / Monkey’s Paw Montgomery Tully / Norman Lee

A double-bill of British thrillers, containing supernatural drama The House in Marsh Road (Tully, 1960), in which a womanising writer (Tony Wright) finds a house has other ideas when he tries to get rid of his wife, and Monkey’s Paw (Lee, 1948), in which the object can grant its owner three wishes. Megs Jenkins and Milton Rosmer play the couple who tempt Digitally restored and remastered. fate. UK | 1948-60 | RENOWN | 128 | Cert PG Item# 71697 | RRP £14.99 | 20th May

Michèle Morgan plays the innocent young barmaid who finds herself caught between the firing squad and betraying the man she loves after she gets mixed up with an RAF pilot (Paul Henreid) trying to contact the Resistance.

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Split Second

Keep It Up Downstairs

Dick Powell

Robert Young

A bawdy British period romp which lampoons TV series Upstairs Downstairs and sees a host of stars – Mary Millington, Diana Dors, Willie Rushton, Françoise Pascal, Aimi Macdonald and erstwhile Artful Dodger, Jack Wild – shedding their Edwardian costumes to save the New transfer from original film family silver. elements; Music-only audio track.

John Lemont

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A lively musical tale of teen rebellion, made to promote the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, starring Kenneth More as a sympathetic choirmaster who offers some aimless teenagers (Ray Brooks, Frankie Dymon Jr and David Hemmings) the use of a church hall so they can Brand-new transfer. start a band.

Robert Stevenson

Konga

A witty slice of late 60s permissiveness filled with plenty of scheming and contraceptive pillswitching. David Niven stars as the banker who wants his wife (Deborah Kerr) to get pregnant by her secret lover so he can go off with his own. Digitally Remastered; In Coversation with David Niven (50 Mins).

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Joan of Paris

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Some People

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Prudence and the Pill

A ticking-clock thriller that builds to an explosive climax. Sam Hurley is Public Enemy Number One. He’s a violent killer who takes four hostages to blackmail a doctor into helping his injured pal. He heads for a ghost town in the desert to wait for the sawbones, unaware that he’s pitched up in a A-bomb testing site. USA | 1953 | ODEON | 82 | Cert PG Item# 69562 | RRP £12.99 | 3rd June

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Grace Kelly: To Catch a Thief / The Country Girl Hitchcock / Seaton

Michael Gough turns in a memorably demented performance in this sci-fi B-movie which takes a skewed look at the King Kong story, transposing the action from New York Brand-new to London. transfer from the original film elements.

A Grace Kelly double-bill, containing Hitchcock’s comedy thriller To Catch a Thief, and The Country Girl (for which she won an Oscar), in which she stars opposite Bing Crosby, whose alcoholic has-been actor is given one last chance at a comeback.

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Offbeat: British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems Recommended Edited by: Julian Upton Released: Out Now Edition: Paperback; 440 pages. Item# 71732 UK | 2012 | HEAD | Cert X

While critics sing from an overfamiliar hymn sheet of so-called ‘cult films’, there remains an epoch of British cinema that is every bit as provocative and deserving of attention. A passionate, irreverent and informative exploration of British cinema’s alternative history that will keep you reading until it’s long past bedtime, Offbeat is a book for the film lover who knows – or would like to know – that there’s much more to British cinema than Peeping Tom, Get Carter and The Wicker Man. Compiled by longtime MovieMail contributor Julian Upton, whose pithy and pungent reviews and overviews form the core of the book, Offbeat features in-depth reviews (a number by MovieMail writers Graeme Hobbs and James Oliver) of more than 100 films deserving of rediscovery, plus interviews and essays that together tell the wider story of British film, its neglected trends, unsung heroes and forgotten journeymen. An essential read for lovers of British film.

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Classic Westerns

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Man without a Star King Vidor

Taza, Son of Cochise

Kirk Douglas play a wandering cowboy who finds work at a tough woman’s ranch, but pulls out when she starts using barbed wire to cut land – which cues plenty of trouble from her new foreman.

Douglas Sirk

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The Battle at Apache Pass Dir: George Sherman. A new Indian Affairs agent threatens a fragile peace. Jeff Chandler plays Cochise. Item# 66783 USA | 1952 | 80 | PG | £10.99

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Pillars of the Sky Dir: George Marshall. An all-action western set in Oregon, where Indians fight troops intent on carving a road through their land. Lee Marvin stars. Item# 68613 USA | 1956 | 90 | PG | £12.99

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Column South

Rough Night in Jericho

Dir: Frederick De Cordova. Audie Murphy tries to prevent war between the Cavalry and the Navajo in this oater shot in Apple Valley, California. Item# 66715 USA | 1953 | 80 | PG | £9.99

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Ride Lonesome Budd Boetticher The collaboration between director Budd Boetticher and actor Randolph Scott produced the ‘Ranown Cycle’ – seven lean, mean chamber Westerns usually featuring the athletic, stoic Scott as a bereaved gunslinger searching for redemption. The highlights – Seven Men, The Tall T, Comanche Station (below) and Ride Lonesome – hold a strong case for being the best B-Westerns ever made, lit by breathtaking cinematography, spare dialogue and a complex worldview. Ride Lonesome, which sees bounty hunter Scott escorting a prisoner to a hanging, is probably the greatest of the lot: an action-packed, emotionally arresting oater that takes hold from the first, and just never lets go. RB Item# 71478 USA | 1959 | 72 | U | £12.99

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Dir: Arnold Laven. Jean Simmons plays the widow who tries to stop Dean Martin’s ruthless town boss. Item# 68056 USA | 1967 | 101 | 12 | £12.99

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Comanche Territory

Saskatchewan

Dir: George Sherman. A treaty protecting sacred Comanche territory expires, opening the land to fortune hunters. Maureen O’Hara stars.

Dir: Raoul Walsh. Alan Ladd plays the trapper who has to decide where his loyalties lie as Cree and Sioux aim to ally to fight the Cavalry.

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Incident at Phantom Hill

Texas Across the River

Dir: Earl Bellamy. A stolen shipment of gold is buried somewhere in the desert. Word of the treasure spreads.

Dir: Michael Gordon. A wild spoof of early frontier life starring Alain Delon and Dean Martin.

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The Last Sunset

Tomahawk

Dir: Robert Aldrich. Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas star in this gripping western written by Dalton Trumbo and photographed by Ernest Laszlo.

Dir: George Sherman. The government fails to negotiate a passage through Sioux territory so the cavalry decides to go ahead anyway...

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Comanche Station Budd Boetticher The last film in the Ranown Cycle is a fitting swansong: the saddest and most elegiac of the bunch. In his penultimate film, Randolph Scott stars as a mysterious stranger who frees a married woman from captivity a year after she was swiped by Comanches. But with the Indians on the warpath and a reward posted for her return, the pair are soon forced into an uneasy alliance with a shady figure from his past. From the unorthodox opening to one of the greatest endings in Western history, Comanche Station is a masterful film, full of warmth and wisdom, but touched by an acute melancholia, and featuring a hero not unlike The Searchers’ Ethan Edwards – another man consumed by an endless quest. Item# 71475 USA | 1960 | 70 | PG | £12.99

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Classic Movies Undercover Girl / Undercover Agent

Francis Searle / Vernon Sewell

British B-movie double bill featuring two crime dramas: Undercover Girl (Searle, 1958), in which a nightclub employee helps the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring, and Undercover Agent (Sewell, 1953), in which an accountant’s life is turned upside-down when a top secret package falls into his hands. UK | 1958 | RENOWN | 129 | Cert PG Item# 71565 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Value for Money Ken Annakin

1950s British romantic comedy starring John Gregson and Diana Dors. After inheriting a fortune from his father and breaking up with his girlfriend, a young northerner (Gregson) heads to London where he meets and falls for a nightclub performer (Dors). He proposes, but becomes suspicious that she may be after his money. UK | 1955 | SpiritStrawberry | 90 | Cert U Item# 70111 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock

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The Good, the Bad... Sergio Leone

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The Great Escape John Sturges

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Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

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Saboteur

Alfred Hitchcock

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Run Wild, Run Free

The Woman on the Beach Recommended

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Director: Jean Renoir

Starring: John Mills, Mark Lester, Fiona Fullerton, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Miles

Starring: Robert Ryan, Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie, Irene Ryan, Walter Sande

Released: 3rd June

Released: 13th May

Item# 71519 UK | 1969 | SONY | 95 | Cert U

Item# 71062 USA | 1947 | ODEON | 68 | B&W | Cert PG

If Run Wild, Run Free proves anything, it’s that, like books and their covers, we shouldn’t judge films on their synopses. Because in outline, this film sounds unappealing: an adorable-yet-troubled boy (Mark Lester, fresh from Oliver!) who hasn’t spoken since he was three discovers the joys of nature under the tutelage of a kindly old duffer (John Mills). Lo and behold, his condition improves. And yet that summary, suggesting cloying sentimentality and, worse, rustic accents, does an injustice to a very fine little film. With a sensitive, sincere script by David Rook (from his novel The White Colt) and Sarafian’s restrained direction, it resists easy manipulation for something far richer. Its greatest asset is the cast, all of whom (except Bernard Miles) avoid rustic accents. Sir John gives one of his least affected (and best) performances as the boy’s mentor but it’s Sylvia Syms who deserves most praise as the mother who loves, but can’t comprehend, her son. It’s hard to make films about the struggles of basically decent people. Run Wild, Run Free does it beautifully. JO

It’s all going swimmingly for Scott (Robert Ryan): he’s about to leave the Coast Guard, marry his devoted girlfriend and join her family’s flourishing boat-building business. The trouble is, he can’t shake off the recurrent nightmares he’s suffered since returning from WWII. However, once he becomes embroiled with one of the most perverse screen couples ever to grace the RKO backlot – Peggy (Joan Bennett) and her blind, embittered artist husband Tod (Charles Bickford) – memories of being torpedoed in the Pacific are the very least of his worries. Determined to free Peggy from her sado-masochistic relationship, Scott risks everything (including drowning, manslaughter and death-by-fire) to prove that Tod’s blindness is a sham. Meanwhile Peggy (Bennett completing a memorable trio of femme fatales after The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street) has other things in mind for the troubled coastguard. A taut, noir gem, Jean Renoir’s final American film was little heralded on release, but crams in more thrills, spills, angst and anguish than many films twice its length. AB

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Musicals! Ever since the arrival of sound, musicals have been a huge part of the movies. With our film of the month Les Misérables reinvigorating the modern musical genre, we’ve selected 18 resounding greats for this sale. From the old (Meet Me in St Louis) to the new (Dreamgirls) with many trips to France along the way (Les Chansons d’Amour), these films will give you an all-singing, all-dancing evening to remember.

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Dreamgirls

Jacques Demy

A trio of black female soul singers face the problems of the big time in this film adapted from the hit Broadway show, loosely based on the evolution of soul and R&B music in America.

Vincente Minnelli

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Item# 17688 USA | 1944 | 108 | U | £15.99

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Meet Me in St Louis Classic musical starring Judy Garland as a young St. Louis girl in love with the boy next door. A valentine to American idealism, echoed by its superlative score.

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8 Women

French Cancan

Sun Valley Serenade

Dir: François Ozon. Deneuve, Béart, Ardant and Huppert star in this fine comedic murder mystery, nominated for 12 César awards in France.

Dir: Jean Renoir. A Technicolor tour-de-force that brings to ravishing, dazzling life the Paris of the Impressionists. 2 discs.

Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. A lighthearted wartime musical featuring music from Glenn Miller and dancing by the Nicholas Brothers.

Item# 52436 France | 2002 | 106 | subt | 15 | £12.99

Item# 66472 France | 1955 | 99 | subt | PG | £19.99

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The Beggar’s Opera

Mamma Mia!

Dir: Peter Brook. Laurence Olivier. A primary-coloured, exuberant adaptation that brings John Gay’s opera to big-screen life.

Dir: Phyllida Lloyd. The feelgood blockbuster adaptation of the smashhit stage musical. Meryl Streep leads the all-star cast.

Tammy and the Bachelor

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Les Chansons d’Amour

Moulin Rouge

Top Hat

Dir: Baz Luhrmann. The contemporary re-invention of the musical – a riot of song, dance, romance, colour and melodrama.

Dir: Mark Sandrich. Anyone not already a Fred & Ginger fan will be won over by this film. Features Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.

Dir: Christophe Honoré. A fullyfledged contemporary musical about the lives of three lovers in Paris.

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Dir: Joseph Pevney. A delightful musical romance starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen. Item# 61830 USA | 1957 | 89 | U | £14.99

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Chicago

The Phantom of the Opera

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Dir: Joel Schumacher. The film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical, packed with favourite tunes.

Dir: Jacques Demy. Catherine Deneuve stars in this glorious feast of colour and song. 2 discs.

Item# 22534 / 32755 USA / UK | 2004 | 143 | 12 | £19.99

Item# 24158 France | 1964 | 86 | subt | U | £19.99

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Cover Girl

The Producers

The Wizard of Oz

Dir: Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly star in this lavish Hollywood musical which used its songs to drive along the story.

Dir: Mel Brooks. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder plan to make a mint by staging a flop musical – and what better than ‘Springtime for Hitler’!

Dir: Victor Fleming. An endlessly enchanting technicolor dream of a film, the highlight of which is the evergreen ‘Over the Rainbow’.

Item# 26800 USA | 1944 | 102 | U | £9.99

Item# 54754 USA | 1967 | 84 | PG | £12.99

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Dir: Rob Marshall. Oscar-winning big screen adaptation of the popular Broadway show starring Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones. Item# 65360 / 66424 USA | 2002 | 108 | 12 | £19.99

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A vibrant homage to the classic MGM musical in which twin sisters (real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac) look for love outside their home town.

Bill Condon

World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language

Hors Satan

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Franco Castellano A husband gambles away his wedding night and ends up dead - but he wins the opportunity to return to the world as a ghost to search for a good man for his widow (Edwige Fenech). But just who is good enough? And what does his ex-wife think of his meddling? Italy | 1981 | Jeff | 91 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 67549 | RRP £12.99 | 3rd June

Tinto Brass

Claudia Koll plays the woman who moves into a Venetian flat and embarks on an erotic voyage of discovery after her husband throws her out in this film inspired by the Mozart opera Così fan tutte. Brass balances eroticism and humour in 2 discs; this lively, sexually explicit comedy. Widescreen premiere; English or Italian audio. Italy | 1992 | ARROW | 93 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 70689 | RRP £19.99 | 20th May

Cristi Puiu Tough but perversely fascinating, this tale of compellingly ordinary madness which sees a man driven to extremes, may come to stand as the definitive work of the Romanian New Wave. Written, directed by and starring Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr Lazarescu).

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Sang-ho Yeon

Aurora

Gerardo Herrero

One of Brass’s most elegant films, with wintry Venetian locations, a beautiful Ennio Morricone score and a strong sense of period – it’s set in 1940, just before Mussolini’s Italy entered 2 discs; the war. Widescreen premiere; English or Italian audio.

The King of Pigs

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Frozen Silence

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The Key

All Ladies Do It

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The latest film from Bruno Dumont (L’Humanité, La Vie de Jesus), is a provocative mystical parable, both stark and strange, shot in northern France in the Pas-deCalais, where a taciturn loner appears to have healing powers. A local girl befriends and feeds him – but the devil seems to prowl the land. Bonus Short by Dumont: The Noise of the Spider’s Footsteps.

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Bruno Dumont

Highly-praised, ultraviolent Korean animation set in a high-school world in which rich ‘dogs’ rule over the ‘pigs’. Two former classmates meet and discuss their time in school, recalling the murky story of their bond and returning to the site where the most shocking truth of what happened there is finally revealed. South Korea | 2011 | TC-M | 97 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 70464 | RRP £14.99 | 13th May

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Night Train

Jerzy Kawalerowicz Strangers Jerzy and Marta end up sharing a sleeping compartment on a train heading for the Baltic coast. They are both on the run – but from what? A thriller and intriguing character study with a great jazz score by Andrzej Trzaskowski. About Night Train; Booklet. Poland | 1959 | 2RUN | 94 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 71784 | RRP £12.99 | 27th May

The Murderer Lives at 21 Recommended

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Starring: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair Released: 20th May Extras: Restored; Booklet; New interview. Item# 70318 France | 1942 | EUREK | 84 | subt | B&W | TBC

Clouzot directed a number of iconic, beautifully crafted French films and this, his debut, is most emphatically among them. A serial killer stalks the streets of Paris and the desperate Gendarmerie have finally got a lead as to his whereabouts – an eccentric boarding house (imagine a hybrid of those in The Ladykillers and Delicatessen) whose lodgers number as quirky an assortment of characters as you’ll find in all of French cinema. It’s up to Pierre Fresnay’s poised Inspecteur Wens, posing as a pastor in need of lodgings, to establish who is responsible for this spate of murders. He’s helped and hampered in his efforts by his chanteuse girlfriend, Mila Malou (Suzy Delair), who has also inveigled her way into this highly eccentric household. Critics have compared Fresnay and Delair to William Powell and Myrna Low from the ‘Thin Man’ series, but these two operate in a far murkier world. For starters, it’s one of the first films to deal with serial murders and in a few scenes you’d do well to have a sofa to hide behind. AB

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Cría Cuervos Recommended Director: Carlos Saura Starring: Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin, Héctor Alterio, Florinda Chico Released: 27th May Extras: 2 discs; Portrait of Carlos Saura (López-Linares, 2004, 60 mins); Interview with Carlos Saura (2012); Optional English language soundtrack; Booklet. Item# 68452 | Spain | 1975 | BFI | 105 | subt | Cert 12

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Elena

Andrey Zvyagintsev

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Quiet Flows the Don Sergei Gerasimov

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homegrown interpretation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel, Lev Kulidzhanov’s 1969 Crime and Punishment was shot in black and white widescreen with a host of celebrated Soviet performers. The combination of Dostoevsky’s tongue and original setting, not to mention the requisite length with which to tell his tale, adds up to one of cinema’s more definitive takes. Not that Kulidzhanov concerns himself with strict reality. The opening credits unfold over a dream sequence, one that’s marked by its use of freeze frames, jump cuts and slow motion that immediately puts us inside the mind of Raskolnikov, the ex-student who will soon commit premeditated murder to test his theory that he is a ‘great man’ and therefore exempt from moral codes. From this point onwards we are firmly with him throughout his deterioration. We hear the internal monologue and are subjected to further dream sequences (though nightmare would be more applicable) in a style that is often woozy or oppressive. For all the style, Kulidzhanov never loses sight of his performers. Many of the actors may not be recognisable to UK viewers (with the possible exception of Innokenty

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A near definitive Russian adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel Smoktunovksy, who had played Hamlet for Grigori Kozintsev in 1964), though that only adds to the sense of place. We’re assured of the quality of the performers, but are unlikely to be distracted by their other roles. Georgi Taratorkin is superb in the lead, visibly weakening as the film progresses to the point where he recalls Terence Stamp’s Toby Dammit in Federico Fellini’s portion of Spirits of the Dead; a usually handsome actor reduced to a sickly, pale shadow. Kulidzhanov’s close attention to his cast is best witnessed in A Few Days of One Film, the TV documentary on the film put together, in part, by assistant director Ara Gabrielyan and included in the set. There’s no commentary, just a succession of eavesdropped moments as actors are quietly spoken to between takes. Kulidzhanov prefers the close psychological reading, and it shows in the end result. Indeed, his Crime and Punishment stands up there with cinema’s very best. Anthony Nield Page 17

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Cannes Winner

The most exciting event in the film calendar, the Cannes Film Festival is a glimpse into premiering films from the world’s most exciting filmmakers. With this year’s event runn present a sale of some favourite past award winners so you can enjoy the cream of C

Palme d’Or

Grand Prix

The Ballad of Narayama

Barton Fink

Miracle in Milan

Joel & Ethan Coen

Vittorio De Sica

Shohei Imamura

John Turturro shines in the lead role as an acclaimed New York playwright who suffers a severe bout of writer’s block when he is enticed to 1940s Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture.

De Sica mingles his trademark realistic style with whimsical fantasy to address the shameful treatment of displaced persons after the war. Also includes Il Tetto (The Roof) (De Sica, 1956).

One of Imamura’s richest works, this transcendent film is an unsentimental rumination on mortality and an engrossing study of a community’s struggles against nature.

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Amour

The Knack... and How to Get It

Cría Cuervos

Item# 66222 Japan | 1983 | 130 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Dir: Michael Haneke. An unflinching and profoundly moving work of cinema from one of the great directors of our time. Item# 70350 / 70351 | 2012 | 127 | subt | 12 | £15.99

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Dir: Richard Lester. Colin gets his pal to show him how to score in this little snapshot of ‘swinging London’. Item# 18888 UK | 1965 | 85 | 15 | £15.99

Dir: Carlos Saura. A landmark Spanish film, set around the death of Franco and full of repressed passions and simmering unease. 2 discs. Item# 68452 Spain | 1975 | 105 | subt | 12 | £19.99

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The Apu Trilogy

The Leopard

Gate of Hell

Satyajit Ray’s finest achievement in cinema, with each film a masterpiece. Contains Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu. 3 discs.

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

Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa. This spectacular period drama was one of the key 1950s Japanese films to first reach foreign markets. 2 discs.

Item# 12274 India | 1955-59 | 333 | subt | B&W | U | £49.99

Item# 14870 / 61366 Ita | 1963 | 178 | subt | PG | £19.99

Item# 69204 Japan | 1953 | 91 | subt | | £19.99

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Dancer In The Dark

Sous le Soleil de Satan

If....

Dir: Lars von Trier. A heartrendingly tragic but transfixing musical in which Björk’s naive factory worker lives in her fantasy world of song. Item# 50895 Denmark | 2000 | 134 | 15 | £15.99

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Dir: Maurice Pialat. A great film of faith, starring Gérard Depardieu as a curate tortured by doubt. 2 discs. Item# 61182 France | 1987 | 93 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Dir: Lindsay Anderson. A harsh, dreamy, gimlet-eyed exorcism of hellish 1950s boarding school days. Thursday’s Children (Anderson). Item# 33665 UK | 1968 | 107 | 15 | £15.99

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The Go-Between

The Tin Drum

Mahler

Dir: Joseph Losey. The tale of a rural love affair cruelly thwarted by the class prejudice and convention. Scripted by Harold Pinter.

Dir: Volker Schlöndorff. Little Oscar decides to stop growing as a protest against the sordid Nazi society. From Gunter Grass’s novel.

Dir: Ken Russell. A controversial symbolic portrait of the life of one of the great composers. A fascinating study of art and sensuality.

Item# 32019 / 59123 UK | 1970 | 111 | PG | £15.99

Item# 66745 Germany | 1979 | 142 | subt | 15 | £29.99

Item# 67378 UK | 1974 | 111 | 15 | £12.99

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The Hireling

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Dir: Ermanno Olmi. An elegaic and engrossing portrait of peasant life in turn-of-the-century Lombardy.

Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A brilliantly photographed drama about a search for a body through a long night.

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Dir: Alan Bridges. Sarah Miles plays the widowed aristocrat who strikes up a hesitant relationship with her driver (Robert Shaw) in 20s England. Item# 57378 UK | 1973 | 103 | PG | £12.99

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o the year ahead for cinema, ning from 15th to 26th May, we Cannes’ past in your own home.

Best Actress

Best Director

Beyond the Hills

The Pumpkin Eater

Rififi

Cristian Mungiu

Jack Clayton

Jules Dassin

A powerful, riveting drama from the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days about faith, friendship and exorcism in present-day Romania, based on a true story. Released 10th June.

An award-winning Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch excel as the couple in crisis in this awardwinning, Pinter-scripted drama that stylistically and thematically resembles a British cousin to Antonioni.

The influential Gallic film noir, acknowledged as the inspiration for many modern-day crime capers and famous for its central, wordless half-hour sequence of a daring jewel heist.

Item# 71444 / 71445 | 2012 | 152 | subt | 12 | £15.99

Item# 60039 UK | 1964 | 105 | B&W | PG | £12.99

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The Browning Version

All About Eve

Drive

Dir: Anthony Asquith. Michael Redgrave gives a poignant performance as disillusioned public schoolmaster Crocker-Harris.

Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A scathing satire on Hollywood starring the award-winning Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders.

Dir: Nikolas Winding Refn. A gripping, woozily beautiful LA-set arthouse car chase thriller starring Ryan Gosling as a getaway driver.

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The Edge of Heaven

Certified Copy

Empire of Passion

Dir: Fatih Akin. Family and politics collide as a young German professor seeks out the daughter of his father’s mistress in this rich ensemble piece.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Postmodern reality games mix with mature romantic comedy in this provocative package starring Juliette Binoche.

Dir: Nagisa Oshima. A companion piece to the director’s notorious In the Realm of the Senses. Sensual, heady and visually rich.

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Look at Me

Interrogation

Fargo

Dir: Agnès Jaoui. Sophisticate, witty drama in which weight-conscious Lolita craves attention from her selfobsessed writer father.

Dir: Ryszard Bugajski. A harrowing masterpiece that served as a focus for the Solidarity movement. An astonishing Krystyna Janda stars.

Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. An austere morality tale of greed, stupidity and folly, set in the snowy Minnesota landscape of the Coens’ childhood.

Item# 21421 France | 2004 | 111 | subt | 12 | £19.99

Item# 23067 Poland | 1982 | 111 | subt | 18 | £12.99

Item# 12712 / 57958 USA | 1996 | 94 | 18 | £19.99

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Mephisto

Isadora

The Player

Dir: István Szabó. Szabó’s exceptional, cautionary film finds a actor faced with the seductive nature of evil in 1930s Germany.

Dir: Karel Reisz. In a bold and physical characterisation, Vanessa Redgrave stars as the iconic freestyle 2 discs. dancer.

Dir: Robert Altman. Stacked with in-jokes, set against a backdrop of Hollywood deals, this is a masterfully cynical take on the film industry.

Item# 29909 Hungary | 1980 | 139 | subt | 15 | £15.99

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Poetry

Volver

Rendez-Vous

Dir: Lee Chang-Dong. An understated Korean drama about a grandmother trying to hold onto beauty and meaning in life.

Dir: Pedro Almodóvar. Penélope Cruz has never been better (or more beautiful) than in this delightful film about family and murder. 2 discs.

Dir: André Téchiné. A provocative drama that gave Juliette Binoche her first major role – as an actress on a series of sexual encounters.

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World Cinema

Blu-ray Highlights 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet

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Amateur

Hal Hartley

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I Wish

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Recommended

Michael R. Roskam

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Hirokazu Kore-eda is Japanese cinema’s poet laureate of absence and loss. His latest, a winsome tale of two young brothers separated by divorce, has a lightness and delicacy of touch of which Ozu would have been proud. Elder brother Koichi is a weary 12 year-old who lives with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, in the shadow of a volcano that covers everything and everybody in ash. The younger, Ryunosuke, is a cheeky scamp running around the streets of Fukuoka, where he lives with his musician father. Somewhere in the background, plans are being made to connect the two cities by bullet train, but Kore-eda’s interest lies chiefly in the boys’ routines. They go to school, then come home; some nights they go swimming, after which they call one another. The boys plot to unite themselves in some way, and a latter-day adventure takes shape. What we’re watching, we realise, is a formative experience, but I Wish’s lightness and delicacy of touch are such you might not even notice. There will be more striking, more pressing films released this year, but there will be few as lovely. MM

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Breaking Bad: Season 5 Item# 70766 USA | 2012 | 359 | 15 | £29.99

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Chronicle of a Summer Jean Rouch

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Cría Cuervos Carlos Saura

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I Wish

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Cate Shortland

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Les Misérables Tom Hooper

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The Murderer Lives at 21 (Masters of Cinema) Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Royal Flash

Richard Lester

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Theorem

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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A Selection of

Erotica Sale Something for the weekend? At times sensuous and suggestive, occasionally lewd and lurid, here are explorations of dangerous desire, obsessive excess and swooning, charged eroticism. All tastes and moods are catered for – graphic excess from Tinto Brass, arthouse sensuality in Betty Blue, cult 60s sci-fi from the late Jess Franco and much more besides.

Caligula

Camille 2000

The Girl from Rio

Tinto Brass

Radley Metzger

Jess Franco

A notoriously excessive depiction of the riotously perverse and orgiastic days of Imperial Rome, here coming to you uncut and in its full explicit detail. Malcolm McDowell stars. 4 discs.

A sensual cinematic feast of colour, grandiose set design, bizarre costumes and frank sexuality, this is an essential piece of erotic film history and a must see for cult movie fans.

A kinky cult favorite in the tradition of Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik, this 60s softcore sci-fi is packed with go-go boots, miniskirts and outrageous Franco style. Golden Bond girl Shirley Eaton stars.

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Belle de Jour

Flavia the Heretic

Quiet Days in Clichy

Dir: Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve plays a housewife who cautiously and discreetly explores her masochistic sexual fantasies.

Dir: Gianfranco Mingozzi. The most notoriously graphic descent into the dark and deviant world of ‘nunsploitation’. Florinda Bolkan stars.

Dir: Jens Jørgen Thorsen. The orgiastic Paris of Henry Miller comes alive in this good humoured, graphic adaptation of his novel. Uncut.

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Betty’s Bath

Good Little Girls

A fun, innocent collection of eight short films shot in Hollywood in the early 1920s featuring wannabe starlets with their clothes off.

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

The Ultimate Bettie Page Box Set

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Betty Blue

The Lickerish Quartet

Vampire Ecstasy

Dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix. Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A sexy, sassy, serio-comic odyssey of obsession and neurotic lust.

Dir: Radley Metzger. This mindbending classic of erotica follows one night of bizarre carnality, fantasy fulfilment and highly charged love games.

Dir: Joseph W. Sarno. A lesbian vampire’s soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants in this erotic Euro horror.

Item# 68339 France | 1986 | 185 | subt | 18 | £15.99

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David Hamilton Set

Miranda

The Voyeur

Three films from photographer David Hamilton featuring plentiful nudity from a young cast: Bilitis, Laura and Summer in St Tropez. 3 discs.

Dir: Tinto Brass. An explicit sex comedy (based on a Carlo Goldoni play) starring Serena Grandi as a seductive landlady. Director’s cut.

Dir: Tinto Brass. A university professor relives various moments of his sex life through a series of erotic flashbacks. Director’s cut.

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Emmanuelle

Naked as Nature Intended / Secrets of a Windmill Girl

What?

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Dir: George Harrison Marks & Arnold L. Miller. Two 60s British nudie cuties. Item# 64901 UK | 1961; 1966 | 157 | 15 | £12.99

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Dir: Roman Polanski. A surreal sex comedy starring Sydne Rome as a hippie chick who ends up in a strange Mediterranean villa. Item# 56285 Italy | 1972 | 110 | £14.99

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Dir: Just Jaeckin. A classic of chic erotic cinema, this is the most popular soft porn film of all time. Sylvia Kristel stars. Uncut.

Dir: Irving Klaw. Three volumes of the pin-up queen: Bondage Queen, Irving Klaw Classics, Dark Angel. 3 discs.

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New Releases Bedtime: Series 1-3

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All three series of Andy Hamilton’s engaging comedy series set in the bedrooms of various adjoining houses during the last half-hour of the day. Andrew and Alice Oldfield (Timothy West and Sheila Hancock) are the couple to whom, and around whom, much 3 discs; Andy Hamilton Interview.

UK | 2003 | ACORN | 426 | Cert 15 Item# 71578 | RRP £25.99 | 6th May

Breaking Bad: Season 5

Still inexplicably without a UK broadcaster, this riveting, brilliantly-scripted, blackly comic series really deseves a bigger audience. Fortunately it’s all on DVD and Blu-ray. This is the fifth and penultimate series. Bryan Cranston returns as the one-time chemistry teacher who sets himself up as a crystal meth 3 discs. manufacturer in the face of cancer. USA | 2012 | COL-T | 359 | Cert 15 Item# 70416 / 70766 | RRP £24.99 | 3rd June

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Catweazle: Complete Series

Geoffrey Bayldon stars as the 11th century magician trapped in the 20th century and marvelling at the trappings of modern life, such as electrickery and the telling bone. He is befriended by a farmer’s son with whom he shares his adventures. 5 discs.

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The Century of Warfare Robert Powell narrates this eight volume history of 20th century global conflict, told in 26 onehour programmes that take us from the Great War, through various aspects of WWII, ‘wars in peace’, the Cold War and Vietnam to more recent wars in the Middle East 8 discs. and the Gulf.

UK | 1993 | UPV | 1560 | Cert E Item# 71769 | RRP £69.99 | 20th May

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The second mini-series of the C4 drama which explores the outer edges of technology in three standalone episodes. In Be Right Back, Martha (Hayley Atwell) connects with her recently deceased partner, White Bear sees the majority of the population turned into mindless voyeurs, while in The Waldo Moment, a cartoon bear stands for local office.

UK | 2013 | 4DVD | 130 | Cert 15 Item# 71700 | RRP £19.99 | 7th May

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The eighth series of the BBC documentary that explores the nature and history of all 9,000 miles of the British coastline. Experts offer comment on issues such as workers’ struggles in shipyards and the history of seaside entertainers in the six 2 discs. episodes.

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A Different World / Messenger from Poland

Two programmes from the C4 series The Struggles for Poland. Susannah York narrates A Different World – a nuanced and poignant look at life for Jewish people in Poland leading up to the war, while Messenger from Poland recounts the story of resistance fighter Jan Karski, who alerted Allied leaders to the extermination of European Jews. Booklet. UK | 1986 | PANA | 92 | Cert E Item# 71689 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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Doctor Who - The New Series: 7, Part 2 As the world’s longest running science fiction series builds toward its 50th anniversary in November 2013, The Doctor finds himself battling monsters, delving into the heart of the TARDIS, facing the Crimson Horror and coming face to face with an army of upgraded Cybermen.

Broadchurch Starring: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Pauline Quirke, Andrew Buchan

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Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror: Series 2

Who killed Danny Latimer? If that leading question makes ITV’s gripping, series-long crime mystery sound like a British version of The Killing, then it’s a comparison many others have made. Not that writer Chris Chibnall – who says it was more influenced by Thomas Hardy and Twin Peaks – agrees. ‘The show was never intended to be a whodunit. It was always about the tragedy’s impact on the community. The murder-mystery element was the engine that drove the story forward, buying us space to explore the emotional side.’ And explore it it does, as two police officers with contrasting approaches are assigned to the case. There’s Broadchurch resident DS Ellie Miller (a tremendous Olivia Colman), a friend of the boy’s mother who treads carefully to avoid offending the community, and outsider DI Alex Hardy (David Tennant) a man who is as efficient as he is blunt. As Broadchurch comes under a national spotlight, the town, its residents, and its secrets, are pulled apart. If you are looking for a well-plotted, involving and thoroughly satisfying crime series, look no further.

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TV Sale

Following on from last month’s selection, we present more favourites from a golden age of British TV – factual series par excellence with The Ascent of Man and World at War, memorable historical dramas such as The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Hard Times and even sci-fi with soon-to-be-remade Blake’s 7.

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The Ascent of Man

The Onedin Line

The complete 13 part series of Jacob Bronowski’s fascinating and wide-ranging account of the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present day. 4 discs.

Series 1 & 2, available separately, of the immensely popular 1970s seafaring drama starring Peter Gilmore as the young skipper who starts his own shipping business in 19th century England. 5/4 discs.

Item# 21438 UK | 1973 | 650 | E | £49.99

Item# 32738 / 61806 UK | 1971 | 750 | PG | £39.99

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Blake’s 7: Series 1-3

Hard Times

Our Mutual Friend

Blake and his disparate band of intergalactic travellers do battle with the Terran Federation. Series 1-3, available separately 5 discs each.

Dir: John Irvin. Granada’s BAFTAwinning adaptation, directed and dramatised by the team behind BBC’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

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

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Casting the Runes

Holocaust

Public Eye

Dir: Lawrence Gordon Clark. Iain Cuthbertson plays the malevolent Karswell in this ITV Playhouse version of MR James’s classic story.

The saga of a Jewish family’s struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany’s systematic extermination of their community. 3 discs.

Alfred Burke stars as the down-atheel private investigator. Three series, 4 discs each. available separately.

Item# 51170 UK | 1979 | 48 | PG | £9.99

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Colditz

John Pilger Volume 1

A TV gem from the early 1970s set in the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle – which doesn’t stop the Allied prisoners from trying. 10 discs.

Twelve of the Australian journalist’s most hard-hitting and inspirational films, spanning over 3 decades of filmmaking. 4 discs.

Item# 63581 UK | 1974 | 1400 | 12 | £49.99

Item# 30198 UK | 1970-2004 | 650 | E | £39.99

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

Just William

The Stone Tape

LWT’s definitive production of Richmal Crompton’s stories of the scruffy, crafty, but utterly likeable schoolboy. 4 discs.

Dir: Peter Sasdy. Nigel Kneale’s atmospheric ghost story which updates a haunting to the era of new technology. Michael Bryant stars.

Edward Fox stars as Edward VIII in this fine Thames TV drama of how a king chose love over the throne.

Pennies From Heaven Piers Haggard This strikingly innovative musical serial, starring Bob Hoskins as a sheet music salesman, consolidated Dennis Potter as our foremost television writer. 3 discs. Item# 17879 UK | 1978 | 477 | 12 | £29.99

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII The BBC’s Bafta-winning dramatisation of Henry VIII’s marital affairs. Keith Michel stars. 4 discs. Item# 32100 UK | 1970 | 535 | 15 | £34.99

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Father Brown

Law and Order

The World at War

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

The controversial mini-series which caused outrage on its release by highlighting corruption within law enforcement. 2 discs.

Thames TV’s powerful 1974 account of WWII was a powerful moment in television history. Laurence Olivier narrates. 11 discs; Restored.

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from the 1970s

Definitive versions n ColleCtable eDitions

network are proud to announce the launch of The British Film collection – a new range of classic films covering over half a century of british Cinema. showcasing a diverse mix of genres, The British Film collection features many titles that have never previously been released.

The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection Volume 2 ealing studios - a global byword for quality, quintessentially british cinema. this collection features four rare ealing titles including the third Man director Carol Reed’s debut feature Midshipman easy and wartime docu-drama the big blockade, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave.

Some People on the cusp of the ‘swinging sixties’, some People is a tale of teenage rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll starring Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills and David Hemmings.

Handgun Directed by british film and tv veteran Tony Garnett, Handgun is a shocking drama starring Karen Young as a victim of sexual violence who sets out to get revenge on her attackers.

The Lovers! Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox reprise their roles for the big screen adaptation of the classic ‘70s Jack Rosenthal sitcom.

Edgar Wallace’s The Four Just Men the 1939 adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s tale of a band of vigilantes who unite to thwart a dictator who threatens the british empire.

Konga Konga! the ever-growing manmade beast of immeasurable strength! Cult british b-movie starring Michael Gough and a giant ape.

Keep It Up Downstairs Diana Dors and Mary Millington star in this ‘70s sex comedy spoof of Upstairs Downstairs.

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May 2013 MovieMail Film Catalogue

Television Doctor Who: Inferno (Special Edition) Douglas Camfield

Still chafing at his exile to Earth, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) sees a drilling experiment for a new form of energy go horribly wrong when green slime at the drill site transforms those who touch it into primeval monsters. Meanwhile, the Doctor finds himself transported to a parallel version of the Earth, where the 2 Brigadier is an eyepatch-wearing fascist. discs; Remastered; Commentary; Featurettes. UK | 1970 | 2ENT | 167 | Cert PG Item# 70825 | RRP £19.99 | 27th May

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The Equalizer: Complete ‘Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer.’ Every episode of the 1980s crime drama starring Woodward as the ex-spy attempting to atone for his shady past by bringing justice to murderers, rapists, kidnappers and various 24 other villains. discs; The Story of The Equalizer. USA | 1989 | FAB-F | 4137 | Cert 15 Item# 71559 | RRP £124.99 | 13th May

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Executive Stress: Series 3

The complete third and final series of the 1980s ITV sitcom starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles as a husband and wife who are forced to keep their relationship a secret at their workplace – something that tests the patience and sanity of both.

UK | 1988 | NWORK | 150 | Cert PG Item# 71089 | RRP £12.99 | 20th May

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Foyle’s War: Series 7 All three episodes from the seventh series of the crime drama starring Michael Kitchen as Chief Superintendent Foyle, a man of scrupulous integrity who survived the First World War, solved crime during the Second, and now finds himself called into duty at the risk of a possible Third. 3 discs.

UK | 2010 | ACORN | 275 | Cert 15 Item# 71568 | RRP £25.99 | 13th May

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The Great Gatsby Robert Markowitz

Toby Stephens and Mira Sorvino star in this sumptuous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of doomed love and ambition. The tangled tale of wealth and entitlement, love and longing is told by Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway (Paul Rudd), a quiet but sophisticated observer. UK / USA | 2000 | G-VEN | Cert 12 Item# 71508 | RRP £7.99 | 6th May

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Heartbeat: Series 15

This series sees more challenging situations arising for Aidensfield’s police and medical staff, as PC Bellamy faces personal trauma during a hunt for two escaped prisoners, Dr Trent finds herself under suspicion in a suspected case of mercy-killing, and Sgt. Miller is involved in a tragedy that leaves his career in the balance. Jonathan Kerrigan, Mark 7 discs. Jordon and Sophie Ward star. UK | 2006 | NWORK | 1200 | Cert 12 Item# 71101 | RRP £49.99 | 27th May

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Labyrinth: Series 1

John Hurt, Jessica Brown Findlay and Vanessa Kirby star in this TV adaptation of Kate Mosse’s Holy Grail adventure that sees an archaeologist unearth two skeletons while on a dig in southern France, setting in motion a chain of events across time and 2 discs. space.

UK | 2012 | UPV | 215 | Cert 15 Item# 71673 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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Lightfields

ITV’s five-part follow-up to Marchlands, the supernatural saga centred around a family home. Lightfields is tainted by the tragedy of one terrible night in 1944. The house is abandoned and its history fades from memory, but as time passes, new families move in, each awakening a spine-chilling presence within the house which cannot find 2 discs. peace. UK | 2013 | G-VEN | Cert 12 Item# 71608 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Men’s Room

This top-class British TV serial, adapted from Ann Oakley’s novel about love and sexual politics, launched Bill Nighy’s career. He stars as an energetically unfaithful head of a university department, with Harriet Walter the married lecturer who falls hard for him. Their relationship is passionate, consuming and volatile, and the disintegration of their life 2 discs. together poignant and darkly comic.

UK | 1991 | SIMP | 250 | Cert 15 Item# 71713 | RRP £19.99 | 20th May

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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Series 1

Essie Davis stars as a glamorous lady sleuth in this popular Australian series which sees her tackle crime in the back streets and jazz clubs of 1920s Melbourne. As she delves ever deeper into the murky world of murder, she befriends the handsome Detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) who is irresistibly 4 discs. drawn to her charms. Australia | 2012 | ACORN | 706 | Cert 12 Item# 71621 | RRP £32.99 | 13th May

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The Politician’s Husband Simon Cellan Jones

David Tennant stars in this three-part BBC drama as a cabinet minister who finds it hard to adjust when the career of his wife (Emily Watson) takes off and leaves his own in the shade. As his life comes to a standstill, and with his marriage turned upside down, he takes increasing risks in his quest for power. UK | 2013 | 2ENT | 172 | Cert 15 Item# 70768 | RRP £18.99 | 13th May

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Stay Lucky: Series 4 The Yorkshire TV drama about a London gangster (Dennis Waterman) who discovers a new life in the county. Ian McNeice, Susan George and Leslie Ash join the regular cast for this fourth series, whose guests include Frances de la Tour and 3 discs. Peter Capaldi.

UK | 1993 | NWORK | 500 | Cert 15 Item# 71057 | RRP £29.99 | 13th May

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Television

Gay & Lesbian Animation

The Sullivans: Vols 3 & 4

Atomic Age

Volumes 3 and 4, available separately, of the long-running Australian drama which charts the effects of WWII on a middle-class Melbourne family, whose children have to emerge from their parents’ shadow to find their own path through the troubled years. 7 discs each volume.

Australia | 1978 | MEDRA | 1136 | Cert PG Item# 71561 / 71562 | RRP £39.99 | 27th May

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Van Veeteren: Borkmann’s Point / Münster’s Case / Moreno and Silence

A triple bill of Swedish crime dramas based on Håkan Nesser’s novels about the divorced, ageing and grumpy detective Van Veeteren (Sven Wollter). Contains three cases set in the fictitious city of Maardam, in an invented northern European country: Borkmann’s Point (2005), Münster’s Case 2 discs. (2005), Moreno and Silence (2006).

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Entertaining Mr Sloane Douglas Hickox

A dark and deliciously witty film based on Joe Orton’s play. Beryl Reid and Harry Andrews star as the brother and sister who attempt to procure the sexual services of their bisexual lodger, an attractive young charmer by the name of Mr. Joe Orton on The Sloane (Peter McEnery). Eamonn Andrews Show (1967). UK | 1969 | STUDC | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 71023 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean

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Veep: Season 1

All the episodes from the first season of the US political comedy spin-off from British show The Thick of It, directed by Armando Iannucci, Chris Morris and Tristram Shapeero and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the borderline inappropriate Vice President Selina 2 discs; Creators’ commentary.

USA | 2012 | WHVHB | 240 | Cert 15 Item# 70530 / 70557 | RRP £24.99 | 3rd June

Matthew Mishory

A series of dreamlike vignettes blend biography and fiction to present a portrait of Dean (James Preston) at a pivotal moment in his life, as he wrestles with the mental and sexual boundaries of the society in which he Short finds himself. Film: Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman. USA | 2012 | PECCA | 93 | Cert 15 Item# 71245 | RRP £15.99 | 13th May

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An insightful exploration into the underlying sexual tension between two male friends over the course of one night in Paris. This character study captures what it is like to be young men fumbling their way through sexual awakening and negotiating the bonds of friendship.

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Héléna Klotz

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The Visitor Tor Iben

The equilibrium of a young Turkish policeman in Berlin is upset when his girlfriend’s attractive male cousin arrives and years of suppressed feelings rise to the surface. A sensual drama that follows the rewarding journey of a man embracing his true self.

This witty, La Fontaine-esque tale of cross-species friendship is co-directed by the Belgian animators who scored a cult hit with the brilliantly bonkers A Town Called Panic. They’re in calmer mode, however, for this adaptation of a series of children’s books. A mouse and a bear can never be friends – that, at any rate, is the received wisdom in a French country town populated above ground by bears and below by a colony of mice. But Celestine, an artistically inclined mouse, questions this status quo, and soon puts it to the test when Ernest, a starving but musical bear, finds her hiding in a dustbin. In common with other recent European animation (A Cat in Paris, The Book of Kells), Ernest and Celestine favours atmosphere and lyricism over the wacketyschmackety Hollywood approach, although there are also some great visual gags. The digitally-rendered animation has a distinctive pen-andwash look and a lovely eye for detail, especially in the subterranean mouse metropolis. For an artfully executed, family-friendly fable, you couldn’t do much better. NR

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Spy Films Like their battered protagonists, spy films are relatively few in number. A rarefied breed, they combine the darkness and ambiguous morality of film noir with the gunplay of the action thriller. We’ve put Bond to one side to give space here to the other gems of the genre, which go deeper into the spy game and their heroes’ troubled psyches. Thrills, paranoia and mystery permeate their frames

Three Days of the Condor Limited Stocks

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The dark world of espionage has rarely been so memorably created on film as in this consummate piece of cinema – a thoroughly enjoyable thriller set in a world of intrigue, espionage, and blackmail.

Sydney Pollack

Tomas Alfredson

Item# 21144 Germany | 1928 | 143 | subt | PG | £19.99

An essential 1970s conspiracy thriller, filled with paranoia. Robert Redford stars as the hunted man, Faye Dunaway as the woman who hides him. Dutch release; Original English soundtrack.

A brilliant new adaptation of John le Carré’s cold war novel, featuring a top-notch cast, with Gary Oldman’s Smiley standing alongside Alec Guinness’s portrayal.

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5 Fingers

Les Espions

Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. James Mason stars as a spying ambassador’s valet in this WWII espionage tale. Score by Bernard Herrmann.

Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. A knotty and ambitious tale of espionage set in a dilapidated psychiatric hospital. Peter Ustinov stars.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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Notorious

Fritz Lang

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Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. This gripping adaptation of a seminal wartime novel is one of the most authentic portrayals of the French Resistance.

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. James Stewart and Doris Day play the couple who stumble into an assassination plot. Item# 13660 USA | 1956 | 115 | PG | £19.99

Dir: Ralph Thomas. A satirical Cold War thriller starring Dirk Bogarde as an innocent writer sent on an assignment behind the Iron Curtain.

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. A morally queasy classic in which Cary Grant’s agent forces a Nazi’s daughter (Ingrid Bergman) into a relationship.

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Berlin Express

The House on 92nd Street

The Quiller Memorandum

Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon star in this film set in the aftermath of WWII, when holdout Nazis plan an assassination. Item# 63109 USA | 1948 | 83 | B&W | PG | £9.99

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Black Book Dir: Paul Verhoeven. WWII drama filled with rip-roaring action, dastardly villains, gorgeous dames, betrayal, lust, lasciviousness and intrigue. Item# 33298 Netherlands | 2006 | 145 | 15 | £19.99

Dir: Henry Hathaway. Nazi agents are after A-bomb secrets. Can the FBI stop them before it’s too late?

Dir: Michael Anderson. Guinness, Segal and Max von Sydow square off against each other in this spy thriller.

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The Ipcress File

The Russia House

Dir: Sidney J. Furie. A stylishly laconic thriller set in seedy 1960s London, with Michael Caine starring as the cocky Harry Palmer. 2 discs.

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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The Deadly Affair

The Manchurian Candidate

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The muted, shabby, everyday ordinariness of espionage is brilliantly captured here. James Mason plays Le Carré’s Smiley in all but name. Item# 31234 UK | 1966 | 102 | 12 | £12.99

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Dir: John Frankenheimer. Laurence Harvey plays the Korean War hero who is brainwashed by communists.

Dir: Yves Robert. A delightful spy farce which also includes the sequel, The Return of the Tall Blond Man.

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Documentaries “The Creative Interpretation of Actuality”

New Releases Britain’s Railways: The Home Front War Years – 1939-41

The definitive archive-led documentary celebrating the railway’s vital role in the nation’s war effort. Contains significant amounts of previously unseen film footage from the vaults of the Imperial War Museum in combination with genuine wartime newsreel footage.

UK | 1939-41 | C-RED | 145 | Cert E Item# 71007 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

Recommended Director: Christopher Kenneally Released: 13th May Extras: 2 discs; Side by Side Unseen: over 4 hours of extended interviews.

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Item# 71100 USA | 2012 | Axiom | 99 | Cert 15

Planet Ocean

Y Arthus-Bertrand A documentary that seeks to change the way we view our oceans. Using the most advanced photographic equipment available, the director and his team set out on a journey of discovery to the least known areas of 2 discs. our planet. France | 2012 | UPV | 107 | Cert E Item# 71611 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Planet of Snail Yi Seung-jun

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Rolling Like a Stone Magnus Gertten

A documentary recalling a 1965 visit to Sweden by the Rolling Stones and tracking the lives of those affected by their visit. The basis of the film is a reel of 8mm film capturing a party in Malmö in 1965 in which the Rolling Stones were in attendance. Sweden | 2007 | BPF | 70 | Cert E Item# 71345 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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Side By Side

It is clear that cinema is undergoing a transition period, caught between the celluloid that has sustained it since its invention and new digital technology that offers a dazzling array of possibilities. In this state-ofthe-industry documentary, Keanu Reeves attempts to sort reality from science fiction in asking leading creatives the following: is our refusal to abandon film a nostalgic thing, or does it possess certain formal, aesthetic and emotional advantages? A Film Studies 101 guide gets us up to speed, providing an overview of how digital has rapidly progressed from those deliberately rough-hewn Dogme movies via Michael Mann’s mainstream experiments to the super-shiny likes of The Social Network and The Hobbit. Yet the bulk of Side by Side comprises a wealth of interviews, canvassing opinions on the future of cinema that vary from the buoyantly optimistic to the cheerfully resigned. If it betrays a bias in its own creation (it was shot on digital), its stimulating content suggests how technology now allows filmmakers to expand the scope of their cinematic inquiries without any loss of precision or focus. MM

Chronicle of a Summer Recommended Director: Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin Released: 27th May Extras: 2 discs; Restored; Un été +50 (2011, 75 mins): documentary on the making of Chronicle of a Summer; Jean Rouch at the NFT (1978, 55 mins): audio recording of Rouch’s lecture on Dziga Vertov and Robert Flaherty; Booklet. Item# 70675 France | 1961 | BFI | 90 | subt | B&W | Cert U

One of the most influential documentaries ever made, Chronicle of a Summer put the term ‘cinéma-vérité’ on the map and triggered debates about notions of ‘truth’ in documentary filmmaking. In fact, one of the many fascinating things about this study of the lives and opinions of inhabitants of Paris and Saint-Tropez in the summer of 1960 is the filmmakers’ scrupulous honesty – ethnographer Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin often appear on camera in order to discuss their aims with their subjects, and to show them the edited footage at the end to canvass their opinion about whether they were portrayed fairly. Along the way, there’s a vox-pop survey about what constitutes happiness, detailed conversations about hot-button issues such as immigration, mental illness, the stillongoing Algerian War and the legacy of WWII (sufficiently recent for a Holocaust survivor to still be a young and attractive woman), and the challenges of day-to-day living in a rapidly changing world. MB

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

New Releases Alex Cross Rob Cohen

A taut and exciting crime thriller based on Cross, the 12th novel in James Patterson’s detective series. Tyler Perry stars as the detective who is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits when he meets his match in serial killer Picasso (Matthew Fox). USA | 2012 | EV | 101 | Cert 15 Item# 71355 / 71359 | RRP £19.99 | 6th May

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Burke and Hare Vernon Sewell

A dark comedy thriller about the infamous 19th century ‘resurrection men’, William Burke and William Hare. Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards star as the body snatchers, Harry Andrews as the cadaver-seeking anatomist Dr Knox. UK | 1972 | SIMP | 91 | Cert 15 Item# 57983 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

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Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino’s bold, bloody and compulsively watchable Oscar-winning western stars Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who teams up with a bounty hunter (Cristoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from merciless plantation owner Calvin Caddie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Featurettes. USA | 2012 | COL-T | 165 | Cert 18 Item# 70805 / 70806 | RRP £19.99 | 20th May

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Flight

Robert Zemeckis Denzel Washington stars in this nail-biting drama as an airline pilot who finds himself in the line of fire after averting a catastrophe on a routine flight by performing a skilled emergency landing. Then it turns out he had alcohol in his system... USA | 2012 | PARAH | 138 | Cert 15 Item# 71589 / 71590 | RRP £19.99 | 3rd June

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Gangster Squad Ruben Fleischer

A star-studded crime drama set in late 1940s LA, inspired by the real life story of vicious mob boss Mickey Cohen and the LAPD officers who tried to bring him down. Sean Penn is the gangster with policemen and politicians at his command; Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling three of the men attempting to regain control of the city. USA | 2013 | WHV | 110 | Cert 15 Item# 71335 / 71336 | RRP £15.99 | 27th May

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Gone in 60 Seconds HB Halicki

A hi-octane action thriller from 1974 (remade in 2000 with Nicolas Cage), famous for its central 93 car-wrecking, 40-minute chase scene. The film’s star/director/writer HB Halicki plays a car thief who plans to steal 50 luxury cars for a mystery client – but finds one vehicle stuffed with heroin. USA | 1974 | KALHE | 93 | Cert 15 Item# 71214 / 71221 | RRP £9.99 | 20th May

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Handgun

Tony Garnett Karen Young gives an intense performance as a victim of sexual violence who turns vigilante in this hard-hitting Texas-set thriller written, produced and directed by British film and television veteran Tony Garnett, whose production credits include Kes and Prostitute. UK | 1984 | NWORK | 95 | Cert 18 Item# 71011 | RRP £9.99 | 20th May

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Hyde Park on Hudson Roger Michell

Period comedy drama from the director of Notting Hill, set in 1939, when President Roosevelt (Bill Murray) hosts the English monarch (Samuel West) who is looking for wartime support. But international affairs must be juggled with FDR’s domestic arrangements, as wife, mother, and mistresses make for an unforgettable weekend. UK | 2012 | UPV | 95 | Cert 12 Item# 71526 / 71527 | RRP £19.99 | 27th May

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Royal Flash Recommended Exclusive Director: Richard Lester Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland, Joss Ackland, David Jason, Bob Hoskins Released: 13th May Item# 71516 UK | 1975 | ODEON | 98 | Cert 15

Remarkably, Royal Flash is the only one of George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman books to have appeared on screen and more’s the pity as it’s a cracking adaptation of a rumbustious historical novel, with a passing nod to The Prisoner of Zenda. Malcolm McDowell wholeheartedly embodies the caddish, raffish, roguish Captain Harry Paget Flashman, whose unheroic exploits in the melting pots of the British Empire have somehow earned him a glowing military reputation. Here, he crosses swords with Otto von Bismarck (a terrifying Oliver Reed), beds Lola Montez (the hair-brush wielding Florinda Bolkan) and is coerced into assuming the identity of the crown prince of a fictional Duchy, to further the ambitions of Bismarck. With the help of a cornucopia of British actors – Alastair Sim as a bewhiskered go-between, a mute Lionel Jeffries, a weaselly Tom Bell and suave Alan Bates as Bismarck’s sidekicks – Richard Lester celebrates Flashman’s escapades while bringing 19th century history wonderfully to life. And the swordfights aren’t half-bad either. AB

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Contemporary The Great Gatsby

Opening Night

Jack Clayton

John Cassavetes

Mia Farrow and Robert Redford star in this romantic drama based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Jack Clayton (The Innocents). Sam Waterston plays the Yale graduate who is drawn into the circle of his self-made, hedonistic millionaire neighbour, Jay Gatsby. USA | 1974 | PARAH | 137 | Cert PG Item# 69274 / 69275 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now

Featuring a startling performance by Gena Rowlands, Opening Night is one of Cassavetes’ most self-reflexive works, offering an insightful and intriguing evocation of the theatrical experience from both sides of the 2 proscenium arch. discs; Commentary; Memories of John; Falk on Cassavetes. USA | 1977 | BFI | 144 | Cert 15 Item# 69085 | RRP £19.99 | 27th May

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The Sessions

The Last Stand

Ben Lewin

Kim Jee-Woon

A poignant, funny film based on the true story of California–based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien. John Hawkes star as the 38 year-old, paralysed by polio, who is determined to lose his virginity and arranges – with the support of his local priest (William H. Macy) – to employ the services of a sexual surrogate (Helen Hunt).

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much anticipated return to the big screen in this allaction crime thriller in which he plays a sheriff whose sleepy border town is shattered when a drug kingpin makes a spectacular escape. USA | 2013 | LGATE | 107 | Cert 15 Item# 71591 / 71592 | RRP £17.99 | 27th May

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The Lovers!

Tender Mercies

Herbert Wise

Reprising their TV series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society in this big-screen adaptation of New transfer. Jack Rosenthal’s sitcom. UK | 1973 | NWORK | 90 | Cert 12 Item# 71095 | RRP £9.99 | 27th May

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Bruce Beresford

Robert Duvall gives a deeply personal performance in this poignant tale of love, family, faith and redemption written by Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird), who won an Oscar for his screenplay. He plays a burnt-out, alcoholic country and western star who resolves to salvage his career and his relationship with his estranged daughter. Miracles and Mercies: A Look Back. USA | 1983 | STUDC | 97 | Cert PG Item# 71646 | RRP £15.99 | 3rd June

Nothing But the Truth Rod Lurie

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A tense political drama about the value of holding to principles. Kate Beckinsale stars as a journalist who reveals the name of a covert CIA agent in a story about a government scandal. When she refuses to reveal her source, she finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.

Trouble With the Curve Robert Lorenz

Baseball-themed fatherand-daughter drama starring Clint Eastwood as a baseball scout with failing eyesight who takes his daughter (Amy Adams) along for one last scouting trip. UltraViolet Digital Copy.

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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Recommended Exclusive Director: Alan J. Pakula Starring: Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms Released: Out Now Item# 71473 USA | 1973 | SONY | 113 | Cert 12

Two years after Harold and Maude, in which a young man began a relationship with a 79 year-old woman, Love and Pain... offered another odd couple. Walter (Timothy Bottoms), a shy, asthmatic man in his late teens quits a cycling tour in Spain and joins a tour bus, where he meets Lila (Maggie Smith), a similarly awkward thirtysomething. Both lack confidence, but are attracted to one another. As Lila fends off advances from various locals, Walter begins to make decisions for the first time in his life, and the two break away from the tour and set off in a caravan, testing their relationship to its limits. Pakula was hot property after directing Klute, Smith had won an Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Bottoms was fresh off his success in The Last Picture Show – so why isn’t this wonderful film better known? Perhaps because it doesn’t fit snugly into a genre. For much of its length it’s a comedy, but as the narrative unfurls it enters the territory of romance and melodrama. It’s release on DVD is long overdue and it’s great to have it with us. AD

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Hal Hartley

Inventive, smart, funny, romantic – Hartley’s indie films of the ‘80s & 90s earned many fans. While the movement has sadly faded away, these gems remain, now in great new editions.

Amateur American indie cinema gave us some real treasures in the1990s, and this quirky romantic thriller which mixes film noir elements (amnesia, femmes fatales, terse dialogue) with deadpan comedy and an existential bent is a high-water mark. Isabelle Huppert stars as a pornographypenning, virginal ex-nun who helps an amnesiac (Martin Donovan) recover his memory. Released in the same year as Pulp Fiction, Hartley’s deconstructed thriller is a reserved, intellectual cousin to Tarantino’s attention-grabber. Item# 71429 / 71010 USA | 1994 | 101 | 15 | £15.99

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Simple Men Hartley’s deadpan third feature follows the trail of two brothers determined to trace their missing father, a former baseball champion and student radical, who is somewhere on Long Island. When their motorbike breaks down near an out-of-the-way diner, they get entangled in local life with the beautiful Kate (Karen Sillas), mysterious Elina (Elina Löwensohn) – who leads them in a wonderful Godard-inspired dance to Sonic Youth’s Kool Thing – and short-tempered Martin (Hartley regular Martin Donovan). Item# 71455 / 71456 USA | 1992 | 101 | 15 | £15.99

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The Unbelievable Truth One of the first and funniest in the late 1980s wave of American independent features, Hartley’s spare, stylish and elliptical debut feature – shot in 12 days for very little – stars Adrienne Shelly as a frustrated Long Island teenager beset with worries of college, parents and nuclear war. Then the mysterious Josh (Robert Burke) – who could be a priest, mechanic, mass murderer, or all of the above – comes into her life. Item# 71096 / 71099 USA | 1989 | 96 | 15 | £15.99

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Blood for Irina Chris Alexander

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Bullet to the Head Walter Hill

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I Give It a Year Dan Mazer

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Motel Hell

Kevin Connor

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Sweet Vengeance Logan Miller

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Brian De Palma

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Escape from Alcatraz

Don Siegel

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In the Name of the Father Jim Sheridan

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The Long Riders

Die Zauberflöte: Glyndebourne John Cox

One in a series of historic recordings from the Glyndebourne Festival, performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Chorus, conducted by Bernard Haitink. Principal performers include Leo Goeke, Felicity Lott, Benjamin Luxon, May Sandoz and Thomas Thomaschke. David Hockney was responsible for the design. UK | 1978 | ART-H | 165 | Cert E Item# 71628 | RRP £14.99 | Out Now

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Fairport Convention: Live in Maidstone 1970 Tony Palmer

A sublime record of one of the key line-ups of Fairport Convention – Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Richard Thomson, Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks – performing at the sunny Maidstone Fiesta in Summer 1970. Includes CD. UK | 1970 | TONY | Cert E Item# 71647 | RRP £16.99 | 6th May

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Teatro Alla Scala: The Ballet Classics

A collection of ballets performed at Milan’s La Scala: Swan Lake (2001), Giselle (2005), with Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle, and Raymonda (2011) with Olesia Novikova, Friedemann Vogel and Mick Zeni. 3 discs.

Italy | 2001-11 | ART-H | 392 | Cert E Item# 71645 | RRP £29.99 | Out Now

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The Verdi Edition: 12 Operas

Joel Coen

A set of 12 operas celebrating the work of Italy’s greatest musical dramatist. Contains Macbeth, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra (Royal Opera House), Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Don Carlo (De Nederlandse Opera), Un Ballo in Maschera (Teatro Real), La Forza del Destino (Mariinsky Theatre), Aida and Otello 17 discs. (Liceu).

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Walter Hill

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Marathon Man John Schlesinger

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Raising Arizona Item# 71481 USA | 1987 | 90 | 12 | £14.99

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Actors – career criminals

orgive me for returning, yet again, to the subject of Old School British crime films but I find my fascination for these unloved and largely ignored movies only increasing. They show British film to be far more interesting and diverse than mainstream histories allow. This time, though, I want to talk about the actors. One of the pleasures of these films is seeing familiar faces doing unfamiliar things. These were not big-budget productions and they often drew their casts from up-andcomers who would later go on to bigger things: it’s always amusing to watch a hard-boiled thriller and to see someone later famous from a sitcom puffing himself up as the bad guy. Take Clash by Night (1962): there you get Peter Sallis, of Last of the Summer Wine fame, playing a mentally troubled pyromaniac. No less curious is the sight of his Holmfirth home-boy Bill Owen as a low-level jailbird / gangster in The Shakedown. The thing is, it’s quite easy to forget their other roles: these were very solid actors and they knew how to create very different characters. If you start amused by the sight of Compo as a wrong ‘un, it’s entirely possible to end up wondering why Bill Owen isn’t better remembered as an actor. One of the best examples of this is William Hartnell. He’s now ensconced in the collective memory as the First Doctor Who; a grandfather figure, tetchy but basically decent. It’s only by watching his earlier work that you realise what a bold piece of casting this was. For most of his career, Hartnell excelled at playing the bastard. He was the Sergeant Major (The Way Ahead and, er, Carry on Sergeant) or the villain (Brighton Rock, Hell Drivers – alongside a young actor called Sean

British crime films offer us a poignant glimpse of what might have been Connery). I gather Hartnell hated being the tough guy but he was ideally suited to it: he’s one of the great presences in British film and we do him an injustice if we recall only one performance at the expense of the others. Which leads us neatly to the case of Harry H Corbett. He’s most famous as the son of Steptoe but he was another regular in British crime films – a blunt working class copper in Marriage of Convenience, an on-themake-estate-agent in Time To Remember (to be found on volumes one and three, respectively, of the Edgar Wallace collections). More surprisingly, he’s also in The Shakedown, playing a Maltese (I think) pimp. And as you watch them, you realise what a bloody good actor he really was. You may have heard the stories that he was once one of Britain’s most exciting theatrical talents (‘Britain’s

Brando’, apparently): these films allow us to see the intelligence, aggression and poise that first caught the eyes of the critics. That is in no way to denigrate Steptoe and Son (one of the very greatest sitcoms): simply that it only showed a fraction of his talent. Watching British crime films can, then, be poignant: they offer a taste of what might have been, seeing actors before they took the roles that determined their careers and our memories of them. Then again, planning a career is a luxury few actors enjoy; most take work where they can find it, concerned less about building a legacy than about paying the rent.

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The Way Ahead Carol Reed

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Lore

A bewitching wartime drama See page 14 for our full review

Lore Cate Shortland Shot in bold and striking style by Cate Shortland (Somersault), Lore is a deeply moving and meticulously realized story of survival in a country ravaged by war. Stranded with her younger siblings after their Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) leads the remains of her family across war-torn Germany in 1945. When she encounters Thomas, a young Jewish refugee who begins to follow and help them, she finds the fragile construction of her reality troubled by feelings of both hatred and desire. As the consequences of her parents’ actions and beliefs slowly become apparent, she has to face the darkness residing within her. Item# 71055 UK / Austria / Germany | 2012 | 109 | subt | 15 | £15.99

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