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e have a wonderfully diverse selection of films on musical themes this month. Given that many people who enjoy watching films love music too, this is a happy marriage of art forms, especially when the songs are so well integrated into the fabric of films such as Robert Altman’s Nashville (page 5) – our film of the month, seeing its very first release on UK home video – and the Coen Brothers’ evocative Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the early 60s folk scene of Greenwich Village (page 27). For those on the lookout for more vintage musical fare, there’s a second volume of classic British Musicals (page 8), Ballad in Blue (with Ray Charles) and also Elstree
Contents Film of the Month 5 Nashville
Classic Movies
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Ace in the Hole
Gay and Lesbian 13 Stranger By the Lake Calling (which Hitchcock had a hand in). As I said, diverse! Finally, lest it gets lost among all the other goodies this month, I must draw your attention to the newly restored release of the ever-delightful Gregory’s Girl. Enjoy your films
A. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours: Blue
Contributors Nick Riddle (François Girard’s Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould) Nick has written on film and popular culture in the US and the UK and works as a writer/editor at the University of Bristol. He is currently binge-watching Damages and, by way of balance, Tony Palmer’s epic history of popular music, All You Need Is Love.
Animation
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World Cinema
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Il Postino The Past
Television
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True Detective Generation War
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Gregory’s Girl Inside Llewyn Davis
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Alex Davidson (Robert Altman’s Nashville) is a web producer for the BFI who regularly holds talks at BFI Southbank Gareth Evans (Tony Palmer’s Testimony) is a writer, producer and presenter who curates film for the Whitechapel Gallery Barry Forshaw (Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice) is an author whose latest book is British Gothic Cinema Mike McCahill (Jonathan Demme’s
Stop Making Sense) writes on film for The Sunday Telegraph and pens MovieMail’s cinema reviews. James Oliver (Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy) is a freelance writer on film David Parkinson (Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night) is a film critic and historian whose books include Thames & Hudson’s History of Film Julian Upton (Claude Whatham’s That’ll Be the Day) wrote Fallen Stars and edited Offbeat
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Cannes Winners 20-21 Mr Bongo
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An expertly crafted and compulsively plotted TV drama, described as a German Band of Brothers, which depicts the lives of five German friends during WWII. A groundbreaking German series which sparked a national debate. Item# 74540 Germany | 2013 | 270 | subt | 15 | £19.99
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A wild, sexy, ticklish and provocative tale of a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Lars von Trier’s film contains all the shock and provocation you would expect, but it’s also complex, multi-faceted and frequently funny. Item# 74146 Denmark | 2013 | 240 | 18 | £19.99
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Robert Altman spins together plot strands involving two dozen people over the course of a busy weekend in music city in this masterpiece of subtle irony, biting satire and human drama. Without question, one of the finest movies of the 70s. Item# 73959 USA | 1975 | 160 | 15 | £17.99
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Steve McQueen’s essential, Oscar-winning slave-narrative drama, based on the story of Solomon Northup, a free born black man kidnapped and sold into slavery. Storytelling nous combines with an artist’s eye to make a truly great film. Item# 74190 USA | 2013 | 134 | 15 | £19.99
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Nashville Recommended Director: Robert Altman Starring: Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Shelley Duvall, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Keenan Wynn, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin Released: 16th June Extras: 2 discs; Newly restored; 36-page booklet, vintage stills, and more. Item# 73959 | USA | 1975 | EUREK | 160 | Cert 15
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sprawling yet intricate tragicomic opus, Nashville follows 24 characters – singers, managers, associates, fans, politicians – over five days in the Music City. As they move about their business, from recording studios to nightclubs to an outdoor concert in support of a local presidential candidate, the characters’ lives cross and intertwine, revealing the personal and professional struggles behind the rhinestone razzle-dazzle. Arguably Robert Altman’s best film, Nashville is a blend of subtle irony, biting satire and human drama that hasn’t really dated in 40 years. Indeed, its deceptively casual, documentary-style cynicism has only been assimilated by the mainstream relatively recently. It plays like a wily example of observational cinema. Altman appears to let the camera (and, of course, the soundtrack) lazily pick up glimpses of character and shards of story. In doing so he captures a mood so evocatively you feel you’re there among the stars and the groupies and the wannabes, absorbing the experience from the smoky sidelines.
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Robert Altman’s masterpiece, finally available in the UK Some critics, especially those in Nashville itself, took issue with the perceived sneering at Country & Western culture. But while there is send-up in the air, and some of it quite savage, it’s worth remembering that music is the lifeblood of the film. Songs written and performed by cast members take up an hour of the running time. A couple are outright parodies and one or two are, perhaps, deliberately hokey. But Keith Carradine won an Oscar for his folksy, gentle ballad ‘I’m Easy’, and his ‘It Don’t Worry Me’ takes on a rousing poignancy when sung by Barbara Harris at the film’s dramatic climax. The bicentennial-celebration backdrop underlines Altman’s broader intentions. Nashville isn’t just about Nashville; it’s a microcosm of a troubled America, where the lines between politics and celebrity and dreams and delusions have become dangerously blurred. Julian Upton Page 5
Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969
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Ballad in Blue Paul Henreid
Making his only major film appearance and performing some of his best-loved songs, legendary musician Ray Charles helps transform the lives of a blind boy and his widowed mother in this poignant, uplifting musical film drama set in mid-1960s London. USA | 1964 | NWORK | 85 | Cert U Item# 74001 / 74126 | RRP £9.99 | 12th May
John Paddy Carstairs
Few actors could be better suited than David Tomlinson for the role of a doltish viscount unintentionally entangled in politics, and this brisk 1949 satire was a huge success both for the accomplished character player and his co-stars, Cecil Parker and 80 yearold film veteran AE Matthews. UK | 1949 | NWORK | 91 | Cert U Item# 73996 | RRP £9.99 | 5th May
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Death is a Woman Frederic Goode
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Teen pop sensation Patsy Ann Noble plays the scene-stealing, bikini-clad femme fatale in this stylish, cleverly plotted murder mystery in which an undercover agent is sent to investigate narcotics smuggling on a Mediterranean island.
Banana Ridge / Aren’t Men Beasts! Walter C. Mycroft
Aldwych Theatre farceur Robertson Hare and character comedian Alfred Drayton reprise their original stage roles in two comedies: Aren’t Men Beasts! (1937) and Banana Ridge (1942).
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The Door with Seven Locks Norman Lee
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Leslie Banks is on supremely malevolent form as the sinister Dr. Manetta in this Edgar Wallace murder mystery. Lilli Palmer plays the heiress caught in a caught in a web of deceit and torture when she tries to access her treasure, held in a tomb requiring seven
Banjo on My Knee John Cromwell
A musical romantic comedy starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck as a couple getting wed on a ship on the Mississippi, where, after an altercation, the groom believes he has killed a man and flees to New Orleans. USA | 1936 | SIMP | 90 | Cert PG Item# 74427 | RRP £12.99 | 12th May
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Boomerang! (Masters of Cinema) Elia Kazan
When the murder of a priest results in a botched police investigation, a prosecutor (Dana Andrews) leads an effort to bring the murderer to justice. An impactful noir in which a mobile camera creates a palpable sense 2 discs; of urgency. Restored; Booklet. USA | 1947 | EUREK | 88 | Cert 12 Item# 73962 | RRP £17.99 | 26th May
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Drake of England Arthur B Woods
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor Matheson Lang was one of the 20th century’s great Shakespearean players, and became one of Britain’s foremost screen actors during the 1920s. A portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain’s sea fortunes, Drake of England was one of Lang’s final films and sees him take the lead.
Samson and Delilah Recommended
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While scholars agree that the original tale of Samson and Delilah is the product of many hands, there can be no such doubt over the authorship of this movie version. It is the matter of a moment’s glance to realise it could only be the work of one man – a producer/director/showman whose name is still emblematic of Hollywood bombast: Cecil B DeMille. Samson and Delilah may be the quintessential DeMille feature: a big, brassy, biblical barnstormer which uses its ostensible godliness as a veil to allow the director to sneak all manner of sex and violence past the censors. It’s set in Judea where the Tribe of Dan are under the heel of the foul Philistines. But the Dan-ites have an ace to play: mountainous muscle man Samson (Victor Mature). After the Philistines push him too far, he starts a one-man rebellion. But there’s a chink in his armour, one that will be exploited by the voluptuous Delilah (Hedy Lamarr). It’s a masterpiece of sorts, as crazed, excessive and enjoyable as only DeMille could make it. JO
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Recommended Director: Elia Kazan Starring: Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan Released: 12th May Item# 74426 | USA | 1945 | SIMP | 125 | Cert U
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A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan
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here’s a time to bring a certain scholarly objectivity to a review, to place a film in its historical context, to discuss its relative merits and to ruminate emphatically if dispassionately upon its place in the cinematic canon. And then there’s a time to shout from the rooftops: ‘Hurray! One of my favourite 10 films of all time is finally − but, finally − out on DVD!’ Because Elia Kazan’s debut isn’t just one of the key artistic works of the studio era, but the sort of beguiling experience that reminds you why you fell in love with movies in the first place. Adapted from Betty Smith’s autobiographical memoir, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a coming-of-age drama of unmatched potency and poignancy, told through the eyes of an idealistic adolescent, Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner). Growing up in a Brooklyn tenement, she enjoys an uncertain relationship with her loving but steely mother (Dorothy McGuire), while idealising her alcoholic, periodically loquacious pipe dreamer of a father (James Dunn) beyond anything else in the world. Essentially one heartbreaking sequence after another, with occasional recourse to hard-won catharsis, it’s an intensely
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A film to remind you why you first fell in love with movies moving, dramatically stunning movie, lacking the documentary-style realism that the director would bring to subsequent films like On the Waterfront, but attaining a simple emotional truth that underscores every moment. Kazan was fresh from the theatre, and his gift for coaxing revelatory, performances from his actors was never more in evidence. For A Tree Grows in Brooklyn contains not one, not two, but three of the greatest performances ever committed to celluloid. There’s McGuire, delivering the finest turn of a miraculous year in which she also made The Spiral Staircase, as the fiercely protective mother who fears growing hard and cold in the face of poverty. Then Garner, playing every moment to perfection as the sweet-natured teen with the world on her shoulders. And finally Dunn, towering above all as the twinkly-eyed Irish charmer beset by guilt and self-loathing: the definitive cinematic pipe dreamer. It’s a film for the ages, finally − but, finally − out on DVD. Rick Burin Page 7
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Classic Movies Flame of Love
Richard Eichberg
One of five British films featuring ChineseAmerican actress Anna May Wong, made during her stay in London in the early 1930s, Flame of Love is set in the exotic surroundings of pre-WWI Russia and tells the tragic story of the doomed love between a young Chinese dancing girl and the adjutant to a Grand Duke. UK / Germany | 1930 | NWORK | 80 | Cert U Item# 73991 | RRP £9.99 | 2nd June
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Great British Movies: Film Noir Volume 2
Director: John Huston Starring: Trevor Howard, Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Herbert Lom, Orson Welles, Paul Lukas
Roy Boulting
Contains the sequel to the Oscar-winning Seven Days to Noon – High Treason (Boulting, 1951), suspense thriller Deadly Nightshade (Gilling, 1953), breakneck programmer The Big Chance (Scott, 1957) and the gripping B-movie noir Dublin Nightmare (Pomeroy, 1958).
Released: 12th May Item# 74423 USA | 1958 | SIMP | 100 | Cert 12
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I Was a Spy Victor Saville
A WWI espionage drama starring Madeleine Carroll as a young nurse in a hospital in Occupied Belgium, from where she is secretly feeding military information to the Allies. Conrad Veidt plays the German commandant who is in love with her. UK | 1933 | Strawberry | 87 | PG Item# 74095 | RRP £12.99 | 19th May
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An Inspector Calls (60th Anniversary Edition) Guy Hamilton
The classic adaptation of JB Priestley’s famous play. A brilliantly mysterious Alastair Sim stars as the enigmatic stranger who arrives at an upper class household at dinnertime and slowly reveals all the secrets that make the whole family complicit in a young girl’s suicide.
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The Roots of Heaven
No director has ever quite had the wanderlust of John Huston. Not for him the easy option of recreating remote places in the comfort of a studio: he went where the action was. Here he returns (give or take the odd thousand miles) to where he shot The African Queen, albeit with a more sombre story. The Roots of Heaven (from a novel by Romain Gary and scripted in part by Patrick Leigh Fermor) concerns a crusading, perhaps fanatical, conservationist (Trevor Howard). When his efforts to save elephants by legal means fails, he turns guerilla, terrorising those who would kill his beloved animals and forcing the colonial authorities to act. It’s not just the extensive location work (beautifully shot by the late Ossie Morris) that shows Huston’s adventurous spirit; the story, with its lost souls, colonial politics and pioneering ecological theme, demonstrates the sophistication that distinguished Huston from so many of his contemporaries. It’s notable too as the last Hollywood movie of Errol Flynn, guided by Huston into one of his best performances. JO
British Musicals of the 1930s: Volume 2 Recommended
Contains: Blossom Time (Stein, 1934), Over the Garden Wall (Daumery, 1934), Mister Cinders (Zelnik, 1934), Everything is Rhythm (Goulding, 1936) Starring: Richard Tauber, Harry Roy, Princess Pearl, Jane Baxter, Marian Marsh, Bobby Howes Released: 26th May Extras: 2 discs. Item# 73977 UK | 1936 | NWORK | 288 | Cert PG
This second volume of 1930s musical rarities features a distinct highlight in the form of Everything is Rhythm (1936), which proves what could be done with a little Hollywood know-how. Director Alfred J. Goulding drew on his vaudeville experience to pep up the musical numbers in a sprightly romp that sees bandleader Harry Roy lure a Ruritanian princess away from a pompous nobleman. The wingwalking sequence is shamelessly lifted from Flying Down to Rio, but the routine with Roy flitting across the keys of a giant piano is charming. Over the Garden Wall sees Bobby Howes defying a country feud to romance a neighbour, while Mister Cinders reworks Cinderella so a poor relation can marry a disguised American oil heiress. Finally, there’s a tuneful sweetness to Blossom Time, in which Schubert (Richard Tauber) helps the woman he unrequitedly loves to wed another man. DP
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It’s in the Bag
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One of the BFI’s 75 Most Wanted ‘Missing, Believed Lost’ films, It’s in the Bag stars Doris and Elsie Waters as cockney sisters Gert & Daisy, on the trail of an old dress left to them by their granny with £20,000 sewn in the Bonus short: bustle. Miss McTaggart Won’t Lie Down (Searle, 1966): Barbara Mullen plays a woman in a fight with a stubborn bureaucratic system which has her listed as legally dead. UK | 1944 | RENOWN | 63 | Cert PG Item# 74335 | RRP £12.99 | 19th May
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Josephine and Men Roy Boulting
Glynis Johns heads an impeccable cast in this sparkling comedy feature charting the romantic complications of a kindhearted woman who simply can’t resist an underdog. Donald Sinden and Peter Finch co-star. UK | 1955 | NWORK | 95 | Cert U Item# 74013 | RRP £9.99 | 12th May
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Noose for a Lady Wolf Rilla
A complex whodunit with a nerve-racking climax, Noose for a Lady marked the directorial debut of Wolf Rilla (Village of the Damned). Simon Gale (Dennis Price) returns from Uganda to find his cousin Margaret convicted of poisoning her husband. Refusing to believe in her guilt, he and Margaret’s stepdaughter set out to find the real killer. UK | 1953 | NWORK | 70 | Cert PG Item# 73987 | RRP £9.99 | 5th May
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Nothing Barred Darcy Conyers
Brian Rix joins fellow Whitehall Theatre stalwart Leo Franklyn and a host of famed character comedians – Naunton Wayne, Irene Handl and Bernard Cribbins among them – for this quintessentially English romp in which a penniless Lord plans a scam to save his sinking fortunes. UK | 1961 | NWORK | 80 | Cert U Item# 74015 | RRP £9.99 | 5th May
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Ace in the Hole Recommended Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling Released: 28th April Extras: 2 discs; Newly restored; 40-page booklet with a new essay, vintage stills, and more. Item# 73961 USA | 1951 | EUREK | 111 | B&W | Cert PG
Kirk Douglas is on pugnaciously good form as Chuck Tatum, a top flight but immoral newspaperman reduced to taking a job on the Albuquerque Sun-Bulletin, having been fired from all the prestigious papers back East. After a sobering year on this local rag, with its stories of soapbox derbies and columns on household hints, Tatum is ready to snap. But on his way out of town to cover a rattlesnake competition, he hears of a man trapped in a mine nearby. Sniffing a big story, he makes a detour. Now it’s just a case of delaying the rescue operation until he can break the news. Ace in the Hole is now regarded as a worthy equal to Billy Wilder’s caustic masterpieces of the forties and fifties, The Lost Weekend, Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. But it took a few years to secure its reputation; its unrelenting bitterness was rather too much for its early-fifties audience. There’s no shortage of Hollywood classics about tenacious newshounds. But where many now look cosy and light, Ace in the Hole still punches well above its weight. JU
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With Paths of Glory in cinemas and Ace in the Hole arriving on DVD and Blu-ray, we turn to the fine work of the steely-eyed star.
Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick One of Kubrick’s greatest films – a searing indictment of French military incompetence and coverup in which Douglas seeks in vain to overturn death sentences imposed on three of his blameless privates. Item# 11064 USA | 1957 | 84 | B&W | PG | £15.99
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Dir: Richard Fleischer. Disney’s fine adaptation of Verne’s adventure. Kirk Douglas plays harpoonist Ned Land. Item# 17443 USA | 1954 | 118 | U | £15.99
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The Fury Dir: Brian De Palma. A sinister John Cassavetes kidnaps the telepathic son of his colleague (Douglas) in this follow-up to Carrie. Item# 11174 / 72969 USA | 1978 | 113 | 18 | £12.99
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Lonely Are the Brave Dir: David Miller. Douglas ignites the screen with one of his most personal roles as a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world. Item# 69716 USA | 1962 | 103 | B&W | PG | £12.99
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Lust For Life Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Douglas stars as tortured Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh in this passionate biopic. Anthony Quinn plays Gauguin. Item# 26624 USA | 1956 | 121 | PG | £15.99
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Out of the Past Dir: Jacques Tourneur. A quintessential film noir which catapulted Robert Mitchum to superstardom. Douglas plays a cutthroat gangster. Item# 32364 USA | 1947 | 93 | B&W | PG | £9.99
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Classic Movies One Foot in Hell James B. Clark
A 1960 western starring Alan Ladd as a man on a mission of vengeance. After townspeople refuse the impoverished Mitch’s pregnant wife medical aid, she dies. Stricken with guilt, they offer him the post of deputy sheriff and, as the years pass, he becomes a respected member of the community. Deep inside though, the memory of his tragic loss festers, and he hatches a plan to bring the town to its knees. USA | 1960 | SIMP | 85 | Cert PG Item# 74421 | RRP £12.99 | 12th May
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Operation Bullshine Gilbert Gunn
A colourful wartime-set comedy whose cast includes Donald Sinden, Dora Bryan and Barbara Murray, Operation Bullshine charts the misadventures of a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls stationed at an anti-aircraft post on a remote stretch of the English coast. UK | 1959 | NWORK | 81 | Cert PG Item# 74016 | RRP £9.99 | 19th May
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Piccadilly Incident Herbert Wilcox
A massive box-office hit, this romantic wartime drama is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, who would become one of Britain’s best-loved film couples through the late 1940s. Features inventive dance sequences by choreographer Wendy Toye. UK | 1946 | NWORK | 99 | Cert PG Item# 73976 | RRP £9.99 | 26th May
Classic Film Sale Duck Soup
Shanghai Express
Leo McCarey
Josef von Sternberg
This inspired piece of slapstick insanity from the Marx Brothers is also a pointed political satire of 1930s Europe, featuring Groucho as Rufus T Firefly, the dictator of strife-torn Freedonia.
A characteristically stylish von Sternberg masterpiece in which Marlene Dietrich’s Shanghai Lily is reunited with ex-lover Captain ‘Doc’ Harvey (Clive Brook) while leaving Peking on the Shanghai train.
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The Day of the Jackal
Murder, My Sweet
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Edward Fox is superb as the chillingly efficient killer hired to assassinate De Gaulle. Based on Frederick Forsyth’s book.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Chandler’s legendary private eye Phillip Marlowe is brought moodily to life in a film that epitomises the very soul of film noir.
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Rotten to the Core John Boulting
A 1965 crime caper in the tradition of Two-Way Stretch and The Lavender Hill Mob. Anton Rodgers plays the head of a criminal gang, Eric Sykes a hapless private eye and, in her first credited film role, Charlotte Rampling as the boss’s girlfriend. UK | 1965 | NWORK | 86 | Cert PG Item# 74017 | RRP £9.99 | 19th May
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Gay & Lesbian Animation The Shadow of the Cat
New Releases
John Gilling
The second of two catrelated films starring Barbara Shelley (after 1957’s Cat Girl), Hammer horror The Shadow of the Cat sees a house cat become bent on revenge after it sees her mistress murdered by her husband and servants. UK | 1961 | FCE | 79 | Cert 12 Item# 74233 | RRP £14.99 | 19th May
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Ten North Frederick Philip Dunne
Revealing the hypocrisy of 1950s America, this penetrating portrait stars Gary Cooper as a lawyer with a beautiful wife, overachieving children and aspirations to political office. But his daughter’s reflections reveal a very different side to the man. USA | 1958 | SIMP | 95 | Cert PG Item# 74443 | RRP £12.99 | 12th May
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Thunder Rock Roy Boulting
Michael Redgrave plays a disillusioned journalist, who, after years of failing to alert the public to the dangers of Adolf Hitler, has retreated to a lighthouse in Canada. There, in his solitude, he is inspired by the ghosts of shipwrecked travellers to take up his cause again. UK | 1942 | RENOWN | 105 | Cert PG Item# 74334 | RRP £12.99 | 19th May
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George Stevens
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If.... (Masters of Cinema) Lindsay Anderson
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The King and the Mocking Bird Paul Grimault
Stranger By the Lake Recommended Director: Alain Guiraudie Starring: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte Released: 26th May Item# 74291 France | 2013 | PECCA | 100 | subt | Cert 18
Though it eventually shades into murder-mystery territory, Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes-lauded film begins by staking out a location that has never been detailed on screen to this extent: a remote gay cruising ground, on the banks of a lake. This locale has its own codes and etiquette, and it takes a while for an outsider like our entrance point – the lithe, boyish Franck, headed this way for adventure – to figure them out. He gets more than he bargained for one night when he observes a fellow cruiser, the swaggering, moustachioed Michel, drown another in the clear blue waters. The latest in French cinema’s ongoing series of studies in community, Stranger turns on a peculiar sort of mystery – not whodunit, because that’s as explicit as some of the imagery, but why, a question that pertains to wider matters of human desire. Around these men, Guiraudie fosters an eerie atmosphere that lingers long after the final fadeout; it transforms a quietly groundbreaking thriller into a genuine walk on the wild side. MM
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Moon Man
Stephan Schesch The Man in the Moon hitches a ride to Earth and explores the sights and creatures of a new planet. But his absence means none of the world’s children are able to sleep! Worse, the President believes he is the precursor of an alien attack. Can he make it home? Based on the much-loved children’s book by Tomi Ungerer. France / Germany / Ireland | 2012 | SPIRT | 95 | Cert U Item# 74459 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
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Princess Mononoke Hayao Miyazaki
An eco-fable of stirring power that was the first of Miyazaki’s films to gain mainstream attention in the West. The film depicts the clash between the natural world with its old gods and the rise of humans and modern 2 discs. civilisation. Japan | 1999 | STUDC | 128 | PG Item# 74229 | RRP £24.99 | 19th May
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Wrinkles
Ignacio Ferreras A poignant film about the friendship between two men in a care home. Recent arrival Emilio, in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, is helped by Miguel to prevent doctors discovering his condition and removing him to ‘the floor of lost causes’. Spain | 2011 | ANBAY | 86 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 73946 / 73951 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now
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The Great War on Film
The lamps went out across Europe in August 1914, almost one hundred years ago. We’ve selected some of the finest films and documentaries exploring the terrible conflict from a range of countries. Highlights include Jean Renoir’s deeply humane La Grande Illusion, the unmissable All Quiet on the Western Front and a fascinating collection of British Public Information Films.
Elizabeth of Ladymead
La Grande Illusion (Restored)
Public Information Films of WWI
Herbert Wilcox
Jean Renoir
A film which spans four generations to tell the cyclical story of a soldier who returns from four different wars to find his wife has changed. Anna Neagle stars.
Jean Gabin stars in one of the great anti-war films, whose subject is the universal humanity of man. The film was declared ‘Cinematographic Enemy No. 1’ by Goebbels.
An extensive compilation of WWI Public Information trailers and short films, made to encourage the ‘Civilian Army’ of Britain’s Home Front to greater resolve and patriotism. Contains more than 25 films.
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King and Country
My Boy Jack
Dir: Joseph Losey. Dirk Bogarde stars as the officer who defends a soldier charged with desertion from the battle of Passchendaele in 1917.
Dir: Brian Kirk. A superb featurelength TV drama starring Daniel Radcliffe as Rudyard Kipling’s son, keen to play his part in 1914.
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Gallipoli
The Long Gray Line
The Spy in Black
Dir: Peter Weir. An acclaimed Australian drama that centres on two young men caught up in the murderous WWI battle for Gallipoli.
Dir: John Ford. Tyrone Power stars as the man who rose from dishwasher to NCO at West Point in his 50 year military career.
An atmospheric spy thriller in which a German spy (Conrad Veidt) seeks to destroy a large number of the British fleet during WWI.
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Goodbye Mr Chips
The Lost Patrol
Dir: Sam Wood. Robert Donat plays the much-loved schoolteacher who ponders the sacrifices made by one generation after another in war.
Dir: John Ford. An epic story of boiling passions in the burning sands, in which twelve battered, fighting men battle it out to the death.
A Very Long Engagement
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The Guns of August
The Monocled Mutineer
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Dir: Nathan Kroll. A documentary that uses rare archive footage to tell the story of the events that led to the world’s first global war. Item# 69733 USA | 1964 | 95 | B&W | E | £12.99
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High romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution define this tale of deserter Percy Toplis. 2 discs. Item# 50318 UK | 1986 | 320 | 15 | £19.99
Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Audrey Tautou stars in this entrancing tale of romance, mystery and war. Item# 26090 France | 2004 | 134 | 15 | £15.99
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War Requiem Dir: Derek Jarman. A haunting film in which Jarman creates a visual evocation of the original recording of Britten’s choral masterpiece. Item# 55918 UK | 1989 | 92 | 12 | £19.99
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Joyeux Noel
Outskirts
World War I in Colour
Dir: Christian Carion. A poignant film about Christmas Eve 1914, when, for one night only, enemy soldiers played football together.
Dir: Boris Barnet. A tender, surprising love story between a Russian girl and a German prisoner of war who is sent to work in her village in WWI.
A landmark 6 part TV series that brings the First World War to life in colourised footage. Narrated by Kenneth Brannagh. 2 discs.
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Item# 69804 Russia | 1933 | 99 | subt | B&W | PG | £9.99
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Dir: Lewis Milestone. A renowned, moving and powerful anti-war film based on Erich Remarque’s novel.
World Cinema Films in a Foreign Language
New Releases A Brutal Game
Jean-Claude Brisseau
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A controversial cult 80s film in which a scientist and serial killer (Bruno Cremer) exercises tyrannical control over his paralysed adolescent daughter. As he descends into a moral abyss, she opens up to the world. A mesmerising character study which avoids serialBrisseau Interview.
France | 1983 | Axiom | 90 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 74336 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now
Andrés Baiz
Colombia / Spain | 2011 | MET-D | 92 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 71237 | RRP £15.99 | 26th May
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Lucrèce Borgia Christian-Jaque
A stylish historical drama about the ruthless power plays of the corrupt Borgia family in Renaissance Italy. Martine Carol takes the role of Lucrèce, who challenges the dominance of her brother César (Pedro Armendáriz) when she takes a wilful lover.
Sergei Gerasimov
An involving five and a half hour epic, filmed in colour along the banks of the Don river itself, that follows the tumultuous life of Grigori Melekhov from 4 discs; 1912-1922. Russian import; English language menus and optional English subtitles. Russia | 1957 | Ruscico | 330 | subt Item# 70780 | RRP £29.99 | Out Now
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Starring: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi
Item# 74516 Italy / France | 1995 | INNLC | 108 | subt |
When a relationship with his obsessive girlfriend Belén goes south, Adrián begins an intense affair with a colleague. Then Belén disappears, arousing the suspicions of the police and the anxiety of Adrián – who fears that she is up to no good.
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Hidden Face
Quiet Flows the Don
Recommended Director: Michael Radford Released: Out Now
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Il Postino
A sun-kissed postcard from the Mediterranean. Mario (Massimo Troisi), an uneducated son of a fisherman on a small Italian island, pines after Beatrice, a beautiful but aloof barmaid. Tongue-tied and gauche, Mario is too shy to make a move. Enter exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret), who locates to the island and encounters Mario, who is hired to be his postman when an avalanche of sympathetic fan mail arrives. Initially irritated by the local, Neruda gradually warms to him, and agrees to help Mario win Beatrice’s affection with beautiful words. The intellectual-teaches-bumpkin story outline sounds condescending, but thanks to terrific performances and screenplay, the relationship between the two men is a complex one. Screen veteran Noiret gives one of his most memorable performances, and Troisi is a revelation. The political undercurrents of the story – Pablo learns to articulate his communist leanings – add bite to the romance and its Mediterranean setting is thoroughly enticing. It remains the highpoint in director Michael Radford’s career. AD
Father of a Soldier Recommended Director: Rezo Chkheidze Starring: Sergo Zakariadze Released: Out Now Extras: Restored; Russian import with English language menus and optional subtitles. Item# 74027 Russia | 1964 | Ruscico | 87 | subt |
There is already an outstanding range of Russian titles detailing the profound traumas that conflict visited on a population accustomed to losses on a vast scale. Half a century on from its making, this too little known Georgian reading of Soviet experiences in WWII makes a welcome addition to this list. Father of a Soldier deploys an almost folkoric register in its telling of the travails of an elderly Georgian wine-growing peasant farmer as he searches for his tank commander son. The whole is filmed with a keen eye for the light and dark of landscapes both briefly peaceful and then suddenly blast-scarred, and with a vigorous energy alert to the minuteby-minute shifts in strategy in the chaotic surroundings of hand-tohand and tank-to-town combat. Most poignant is the film’s touching rendition of the bonds of kinship between parent and child, soldier and soldier, joining more recent work such as Sokurov’s Alexandra in using the parental quest to humanise conflagrations that seem, in their madness, to slip beyond telling. GE
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The Past Recommended Director: Asghar Farhadi Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Ali Mosaffa, Tahar Rahim Released: 9th June Extras: Interviews; Trailer Item# 74273 | France / Iran | 2013 | ART-E | 130 | subt | Cert 12
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t’s a bold move on Asghar Farhadi’s part to give The Past a roughly similar startpoint to his global breakthrough work A Separation: a couple meeting with the intention of signing their divorce papers. What follows is both a variation on and expansion of a discordant theme. This time, we’re in the Parisian suburbs rather than Tehran, and it’s clear some considerable upheaval has already taken place. A Separation was just the warm-up, a storm in a teacup; this time, a whole crockery cupboard teeters on the brink. Ahmad has flown from Iran to formalise his separation from his French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo) – or perhaps, given the open return he’s travelling on, to talk her into giving it one more go for the sake of their offspring. At any rate, Marie has agreed to put Ahmad up for the duration of his stay, although over the first night, it becomes apparent she has a new man (Tahar Rahim). From the moment the brooding Samir returns from work, there really are three people in this marriage. Early scenes economically sketch a home that, in everything from the wet paint on its doorless walls to the fraught and tentative relationships it houses, is very much under construction. Bridling against Marie’s neatfreakery, Samir’s young son throws a strop,
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A finely layered drama from the director of A Separation demanding to be returned to his ‘real’ home. But that home is also breaking up: Samir is himself still married, to a woman left comatose after a suicide attempt apparently sparked by her husband’s affair with Marie. It is, how you say, complicated. This is the genius of the Farhadi approach: to take characters whose social status might otherwise see them comfortable, and then show them becoming frazzled by an accumulation of everyday incidents. However melodramatic certain plot developments get, there are at least another two or three that could happen to you or me, which is why Farhadi remains such a valuable and pertinent filmmaker: his films don’t require supervillains to threaten the world, because they take the world as it is, full of irritations enough to generate their own friction and drama. He’s again aided by a cast who prove only too willing to flaunt their fraying nerves. This is a film whose remarkable dramatic weight pins you to your seat until its very final, ambiguous, image. Mike McCahill Page 17
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Cannes Winne
The most exciting event in the film calendar, the Cannes Film Festival is a glimpse into world’s finest filmmakers. With this year’s event running from 14th to 25th May, we pre you can enjoy the cream of Cannes in your own home.
Palme d’Or
Best Director
Jury Prize
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Fargo
Smiles of a Summer Night
Abdellatif Kechiche
‘A homespun murder story’ set in the bleak, snowy Minnesota landscape of the Coen Brothers’ childhood, this is an austere morality tale of greed, stupidity and the folly of pretending to be what one is not.
Ingmar Bergman
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Item# 8499 Sweden | 1955 | 104 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99
An epic of emotional transformation and a profoundly moving hymn to love and life, exploring a young woman’s longings. Stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Item# 73508 / 73509 Fra | 2013 | 179 | sub | 18 | £15.99
Joel & Ethan Coen
A delightfully barbed erotic comedy in which husbands dally and wives stray when three couples meet up on a midsummer weekend at a country estate.
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The Apu Trilogy
All About My Mother
The Angels’ Share
Ray’s finest achievement in film, with each film a masterpiece. Contains Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu. 3 discs.
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar. A poignant, inventive, passionate film about a mother’s journey through Barcelona’s underworld after her son’s death.
Dir: Ken Loach. A funny caper which captures the spirit of Ealing comedy in its tale of a wayward young lad with a nose for fine malt.
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The Class
L’Argent
Colonel Redl
Dir: Laurent Cantet. A justly lauded and sharply observed account of contemporary classroom life in a tough inner city Parisian school.
Dir: Robert Bresson. An adaptation of Tolstoy’s story, in which the passing of a forged banknote leads to theft, corruption and murder.
Dir: István Szabó. An examination of moral corruption, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as an ambitious officer in the dying Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Paris, Texas
Days of Heaven
Harakiri (MoC)
Dir: Wim Wenders. A sun-bleached tale of lost souls set to a Ry Cooder soundtrack. Harry Dean Stanton and Natassja Kinski star.
Dir: Terrence Malick. A ravishing, painfully beautiful film of lovers on the lam in the Texas Panhandle. Filled with breathtaking cinematography.
Dir: Masaki Kobayashi. A full-scale demolition job of samurai ideals and feudal hypocrisy, filmed with great artistry and precision.
Item# 53873 / 70140 USA | 1984 | 139 | 12 | £15.99
Item# 7938 USA | 1979 | 89 | PG | £9.99
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The Pianist
Hidden
Polisse
Dir: Roman Polanski. An absorbing film based on the true story of a Jewish concert pianist who became a fugitive in the ruins of Warsaw.
Dir: Michael Haneke. Lauded as ‘the first great film of the 21st century’, Hidden takes a provocative look at guilt and responsibility.
Dir: Maïwenn. A gritty and naturalistic French drama about a police child protection unit in Paris as it goes about its delicate, disturbing work.
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Underground
Rififi
Red Road
Dir: Emir Kusturica. With immense technical virtuosity and huge energy, this is the postwar history of Yugoslavia played out as a farce.
Dir: Jules Dassin. The gripping, highly influential Gallic film noir famous for its central, wordless half-hour robbery sequence.
Dir: Andrea Arnold. A CCTV operator spies a man she thought she would never see again. One of the best British films of the new millennium.
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Best Actor
Grand Prix Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The Hunt
Accident (Restored)
Thomas Vinterberg
Joseph Losey
An impressive Danish thriller from the director of Festen that plays on fears about child abuse. Mads Mikkelsen stars as the wrongly-accused innocent at the mercy of a community’s hysteria.
Sexual tension simmers under a glacial surface of detached companionship in leafy academia in Pinter and Losey’s screen collaboration. Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker and Vivien Merchant star.
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Item# 71079 / 71080 UK | 1967 | 100 | PG | £15.99
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The Artist
Arabian Nights
Gomorrah
Dir: Michel Hazanavicius. Jean Dujardin takes the lead in this highly enjoyable, Oscar-sweeping modernday silent film comedy.
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. The entrancing, dreamlike and sensuous final film in Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’ series, adapted from 1001 Nights.
Dir: Matteo Garrone. A hard-hitting, controversial inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families, based on the book by Roberto Saviano.
Item# 67979 / 67980 France | 2011 | 100 | PG | £24.99
Item# 66874 Italy / France | 1974 | 125 | subt | 18 | £19.99
Item# 57186 / 56954 Ita | 2008 | 137 | sub | 18 | £15.99
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The Collector
La Belle Noiseuse
The Lost Weekend
Dir: William Wyler. A seminal psychological drama based on John Fowles’ first novel. Both Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar won acting awards.
Dir: Jacques Rivette. An engrossing study of artistic creation. Michel Piccoli paints, Emmanuelle Béart models. 3 disc definitive edition.
Billy Wilder’s devastating look at alcoholism, in which Ray Milland goes on a 48 hour bender, flashing back to the events in his ruined life.
Item# 70013 UK | 1965 | 114 | 15 | £12.99
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House of Strangers
Blow-Up
The Marquise of O
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. An explosive drama with a powerhouse performance from Edward G Robinson as an Italian banker.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. A cinematic close-up of mid-60s London and a brilliantly scripted snapshot of a rootless generation.
Dir: Eric Rohmer. A painterly production set in 19th century Germany where society’s double standards and mixed morals are exposed.
Item# 69081 USA | 1949 | 97 | B&W | PG | £14.99
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In the Mood for Love
Brief Encounter
Pretty Baby
Dir: Wong Kar-Wai. A beautiful swoon of a movie of unexpected love between two people. Tony Leung amd Maggie Cheung star.
Dir: David Lean. A rightly celebrated tear-jerker recreating a little England on a northern railway platform. One of the all-time greats. Restored.
Dir: Louis Malle. The notorious film that starred a young Brooke Shields as the daughter of Susan Sarandon’s prostitute in 1917 New Orleans.
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Burnt by the Sun
Rome, Open City
Dir: Mike Leigh. A magnificent, snarling David Thewlis stars as a deeply frustrated idealist in this controversial black comedy.
Dir: Nikita Mikhalkov. A surprise guest disrupts Colonel Kotov’s idyll at his dacha in this poignant, beautifully shot Oscar winner.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini. Shot on the war-torn streets of Rome, this tale of Resistance is often cited as the true beginning of Italian neo-realism.
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An amazing film from a country little seen on film. In Laos, 10 year-old Ahlo is believed to bring bad luck. When his family is relocated for the building of a dam, he meets a spirited orphan and her eccentric uncle, and trying to regain his father’s trust, leads his family through a war-scarred land in search of a new home. Australia / Thailand | 2014 | EUREK | 96 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 74041 / 74042 | RRP £12.99 | 30th June
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An elegant, dialogue-free slice of magical realism from Slovenia, set during wartime in an unnamed Balkan country where the performers of the Circus Fantasticus captivate the lives of a broken family. Slovenia | 2010 | MATCH | 79 | 15 Item# 71240 | RRP £15.99 | 9th June
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The Sound and the Fury Jean-Claude Brisseau
Winner of the Youth Jury Prize at Cannes in 1988, this is a poignant and brutal look at the lives of children living in the Paris projects. A precursor to films such as City of God and La Haine, it features powerful performances from its young leads. Fra | 1988 | Axiom | 95 | sub | 18 Item# 74348 | RRP £15.99 | Out Now
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Beat the drum for the Mr Bongo DVD Bonanza – bringing you a dozen of the best world cinema titles at low prices. Don’t miss these seriously good films from Antonioni, Welles, Kozintsev, Demy, Wajda, Pasolini and others.
L’Avventura
Don Quixote
Michelangelo Antonioni
Grigori Kozintsev
A woman goes missing during a boating trip and the film’s attention is distracted from the quest to find her in this landmark first film in a loose trilogy which also comprises La Notte and L’Eclisse.
A Soviet-era CinemaScope treatment of Cervantes’ picaresque novel, filmed in the Crimea. Nikolai Cherkassov (Ivan the Terrible) stars as the fantasist who believes he is a knight-errant.
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Arsenal
Lola
Dir: Aleksandr Dovzhenko. A demobbed WWI soldier returns to Ukraine and agitates for Sovietisation in this remarkably vivid film.
Dir: Jacques Demy. Anouk Aimée stars in Demy’s beautiful debut feature, which he described as a ‘musical without music’.
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Item# 63159 France | 1961 | 84 | subt | B&W | PG | £12.99
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Black God, White Devil
Mamma Roma
Dir: Glauber Rocha. A revolutionary epic considered to be the greatest Brazilian film of all time. Item# 56359 Brazil | 1964 | 120 | subt | B&W | 18 | £12.99
Leos Carax
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By the Bluest of Seas
My Voyage to Italy
Dir: Boris Barnet. A lovely, light and lyrical film in which two sailors, shipwrecked in the Caspian sea, fall lovesick for the same woman.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Scorsese discusses the Italian films that have had a profound impact on his moviemaking and his life.
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Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Santa Sangre
Orson Welles amalgamates five Shakespeare plays for his majestic portrayal of Falstaff. Restored.
The Night Is Young
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Anna Magnani stars as the eponymous prostitute who longs to go straight, if only her pimp would leave her alone.
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Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. A charged, hallucinatory masterpiece that spins a deranged tale of the circus and the asylum. Item# 69098 / 69595 Italy | 1989 | 112 | 18 | £13.99
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Hamlet
Under the Volcano
Nosferatu The Vampyre (Limited Steelbook)
Dir: Grigori Kozintsev. This renowned Soviet production of Hamlet ranks among the finest adaptations of Shakespeare on film.
Dir: John Huston. The final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in a self-destructive tour de force).
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Films about Musicians Music and film go together like detectives and raincoats. With Nashville and Inside Llewyn Davis released this month, we present a sale of note-perfect films and documentaries where musicians and composers takes centre stage. Covering biopics and documentaries of musicians old and new, this sale is filled with hits, whatever your taste.
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
The Last Waltz
Topsy Turvy
Martin Scorsese
Mike Leigh
Tony Palmer
The celebrated portrayal of The Band’s legendary farewell concert, featuring interviews with the group and numerous performances by a wide range of rock legends.
Mike Leigh’s gloriously entertaining portrayal of the strained partnership between lyricist WS Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, showing Victorian life in all its lavishness and seaminess.
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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was
England, My England
Nannerl, Mozart’s Sister
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An in-depth portrait of one of the great English composers of the 20th century, with extracts from his works. Item# 55465 UK | 1979 | 103 | E | £14.99
Dir: Tony Palmer. John Osborne and Charles Wood’s story of composer Henry Purcell (Michael Ball). Simon Callow plays King Charles II. Item# 58531 UK | 1995 | 153 | 12 | £14.99
Dir: René Féret. A speculative account of musical prodigy Maria Anna ‘Nannerl’ Mozart. Item# 68269 France | 2010 | 120 | subt | 12 | £14.99
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The Benny Goodman Story
The Filth and the Fury
Dir: Valentine Davies. The King of Swing’s music comes to life in this wonderful biopic starring Steve Allen.
Dir: Julien Temple. An appropriately irreverent portrait of The Sex Pistols, charting their rise and implosion.
Item# 55455 USA | 1955 | 117 | U | £15.99
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Buena Vista Social Club
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Nowhere Boy
Dir: Wim Wenders. Ry Cooder goes to Cuba where he plays and records with legendary musicians in Havana. Item# 56896 Germany | 1999 | 100 | U | £15.99
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Coal Miner’s Daughter Dir: Michael Apted. Sissy Spacek excels in the rags-to-riches story of C&W singer Loretta Lynn. Item# 14481 USA | 1980 | 124 | 15 | £9.99
Dir: Michele Hozer. A film that follows the extraordinary life of the pianist. Item# 64455 Canada | 2009 | 108 | E | £15.99
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I, Berlioz Dir: Tony Palmer. A films that fulfils its aim of reawakening us to what an astonishingly fresh composer Hector Berlioz was. Item# 61183 UK | 1992 | 88 | E | £13.99
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Immortal Beloved
Dir: Anton Corbijn. A tragic, moving and tender drama about Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division. Sam Riley takes the lead.
Dir: Bernard Rose. A man goes in search of Beethoven’s mystery female benefactor in this biopic, starring Gary Oldman as the composer.
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Item# 56794 USA | 1995 | 115 | 15 | £12.99
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No Direction Home Dir: Martin Scorsese. The first authorized feature-length film biography of Bob Dylan, concentrating on the years 1961-66. Item# 24644 USA | 2005 | 240 | E | £19.99
Dir: Sam Taylor Wood. A likeable recreation of John Lennon’s teenage years before stardom came with The Beatles. Aaron Johnson stars. Item# 61225 UK | 2009 | 97 | 15 | £17.99
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O Thou Transcendent – The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams Dir: Tony Palmer. The first ever fulllength biography of the composer. Item# 52827 UK | 2008 | 129 | E | £14.99
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Dir: Mat Whitecross. A biopic of late, great British singer-songwriter Ian Dury, starring Andy Serkis. Item# 61795 UK | 2009 | 110 | 15 | £19.99
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An enthralling profile of the life of Gustav Holst – the extraordinary composer of The Planets whose musical interests ranged from Indian ragas to English folksong.
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New Releases 1914 All Out David Green
Written by playwright Colin Schindler after he saw a memorial commemorating those who had died in the Great War, 1914 All Out was filmed on location in the Yorkshire Dales, where a village cricket team plays its last match before its players go off to fight, confident that ‘it will all be over by Christmas’. UK | 1987 | SpiritStrawberry | 80 | Cert 12 Item# 74081 | RRP £12.99 | 19th May
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Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch take the lead roles of charismatic outlaws and America’s Number 1 Most Wanted criminals, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, in this two-part mini-series set in 1930s America. USA | 2013 | COL-T | 167 | Cert 15 Item# 74246 | RRP £24.99 | 19th May
In a British base hospital in WWI, a team of doctors, nurses and VADs are working together to heal the bodies and souls of the men in their care. Starring Oona Chaplin, Hermione Norris, Suranne Jones, Kevin Doyle and Kerry Fox, this BBC series tells the story of WWI’s 2 discs.
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Jack Taylor: Collection Two
Three feature-length dramas based on the novels by Ken Bruen and starring Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) as Jack Taylor – an Irish ex-cop who now works as a private investigator. Contains the three stories The Dramatist, The Priest and 2 discs. Shot Down.
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Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry sets out to explore the links between fashion tastes and social class. The series, which was initially screened on Channel Four and won the BAFTA for Best Specialist Factual Programme 2013, also finds Grayson at work on a series of tapestries called ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’.
Series 1-3, available separately, of the BBC comedy drama series starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as an Indian doctor who ends up in the sleepy Welsh mining village of Trefelin in 1963. The highflying Delhi graduate is eager to meet his new patients and settle in to the community, but his aristocratic wife finds it less easy to adapt, and the locals are unsure what to make of the new arrivals.
Bonnie and Clyde
David Attenborough uncovers the stories behind some of nature’s most baffling and intriguing creatures, exploring more curious tales from the natural world and more animals with curiously distinctive evolutionary quirks. 3 discs.
Neil Crombie
The Indian Doctor
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Grayson Perry: All in the Best Possible Taste
Jamaica Inn
Philippa Lowthorpe Daphne du Maurier’s famous tale of smuggling and romance gets a powerful new BBC adaptation starring Sean Harris, Jessica Brown Findlay and Joanne Whalley. NB The broadcast sound issues have been fixed for the DVD. UK | 2014 | PNE | 177 | Cert 15 Item# 74510 | RRP £17.99 | 26th May
True Detective: Season 1 Recommended Director: Cary Fukunaga Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan Released: 9th June Extras: 3 discs. Item# 74475 USA | 2014 | WHV | 480 | Cert 15
The division between TV and film is fading. One writer, one director, one plotline – is this latest highly-feted HBO saga a mini-series or actually an eight-hour long film? Slowly revealing itself, True Detective follows an investigation beginning in the 1990s with an occult murder in Louisiana and ending seventeen years later, uncovering a trail of corruption, secrets and very bad men along the way. True Detective may have originated on TV but, with its epic scope, consistency of tone, interwoven time periods and a defined ending, it certainly feels like cinema. The A-list cast helps: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson confidently handle the mismatched detective partners, and their incompatible world views (pessimism vs optimistic denial) spark dialogues of real substance that reveal a true talent in the writer, Nic Pizzolatto. However you think of it, and whatever the future is for TV and film, its enthralling sense of brooding concentration will captivate you. DH
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Generation War Recommended Director: Philipp Kadelbach Starring: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte Released: 12th May Item# 74540 | Germany | 2013 | ARROW | 270 | subt | Cert 15
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See Also Band of Brothers (Tin Case) Item# 63129 USA | 2001 | 600 | 15 | £39.99
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Das Boot (Mini Series)
Wolfgang Petersen
Item# 17895 Germany | 1981 | 282 | 12 | £24.99
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Heimat
Edgar Reitz
Item# 61920 Germany | 1984 | 924 | subt | 15 | £69.99
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hile no one can criticise the exemplary fashion with which the German people have faced up to the crimes committed in their name by the 1933-45 regime, German cinema has always been a bit more circumspect. While it’s not shied away from tackling that era, the standard line has been to show the German people as victims of an unrepresentative regime, unaware of the crimes its rulers were committing. Generation War – showing at time of writing on BBC2 – goes some way to correcting that. Originally broadcast on German television, it begins in 1941, introducing us to five ordinary young Berliners, friends involved in a conflict that they all expect to be over by Christmas. There is Wilhelm, a dedicated soldier, and his younger, more bookish, brother Friedhelm, who are both going to fight at the Russian front. Charley is going to the front too, only she’s working as a nurse. Greta intends to be an entertainer and is staying in Berlin with her lover, Viktor, although their affair is necessarily covert: Viktor, you see, is Jewish. As the original German title (which translates as Our Mothers, Our Fathers) suggests, it’s a story that has powerful
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A compulsively plotted and expertly crafted German war drama resonances for an audience descended from the sort of people portrayed herein, especially since it doesn’t whitewash what the German army got up to in Russia. No wonder it caused such soul searching in its native land upon its original broadcast. It can’t have the same impact for those of us raised on a very different history but even without the cultural baggage, it’s a striking and powerful piece of work, compulsively plotted and expertly crafted. While the history of the war suggests the trajectories that the characters’ lives will take, their stories unfold in frequently unexpected ways. Given that it compresses four years into a similar number of hours, there are some inevitable elisions. Then again, this isn’t a documentary; its subject is how individuals fared in the most terrible campaign in human history and in that it succeeds admirably. While it obviously evokes comparisons to Das Boot or Heimat, it’s more than strong enough to stand on its own merits. James Oliver Page 25
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A lavish new series from the makers of The White Queen and The Devil’s Whore, set in England and America in the 1680s. In England, the restored monarchy of Charles II has reverted to tyranny; in America, the English colonists are trying to throw off the shackles of the Crown. Four young people (Freya Mavor, Alice Englert, Jamie Dornan, Joe Dempsie), struggle 2 discs. to choose between love and ideals. UK / USA | 2014 | ACORN | 200 | Cert 12 Item# 74392 | RRP £19.99 | 19th May
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The Trip to Italy
Barry Davis
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Orange is the New Black
A highly-regarded US comedy-drama from the creator of Weeds, set in a women’s prison and telling the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), whose past returns to haunt her when she is convicted of a decade-old crime. Trading her comfortable New York life for a prison jumpsuit, she finds conflict and 4 discs. camaraderie with her fellow inmates. USA | 2013 | LGATE | 700 | Cert 15 Item# 74242 / 74243 | RRP £34.99 | 19th May
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Starring: Jon Øigarden, Terje Strømdahl, Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Anders T Andersen Released: 5th May Extras: 2 discs. Item# 74379 Norway | 2014 | Arrow E1 | 348 | subt | Cert 15
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Ray Donovan: Season 1 Item# 74249 USA | 2013 | 720 | 15 | £29.99
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The contemporary comedy about an inner city London vicar returns for a third series that asks big questions of the Reverend Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) as he and his wife Alex (Olivia Colman) adjust to life as new parents. How will Adam deal with parenthood on top of his small but demanding Church congregation? Also available: 5 disc series 1-3 box set.
Recommended Director: Cecilie A Mosli
Four years after they ate their way round the North of England, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan take a Grand Tour around Italy, following in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley for their culinary travelogue comedy, featuring beautiful scenery, exquisite gourmet cuisine and free-flowing improvised comedy. Also available: The Trip / The Trip to Italy TV series and feature films box sets.
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Rev.: Series 3
Mammon
M Winterbottom
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Diminutive variety star Jimmy Clitheroe was the perpetual schoolboy whose abundant northern humour charmed and entertained a generation of British audiences until his untimely death in 1973, aged just 51. Presenting all seven halfhour episodes of That’s My Boy – a sitcom which aired in the Midlands and northern England only – this set celebrates a uniquely talented yet now largely forgotten star. ITMA veteran Deryck Guyler co-stars.
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BBC’s aclaimed biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project – the American effort to create the atomic bomb during WWII. Sam Waterston takes the lead as the scientist who becomes increasingly ambivalent about his work.
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Our taste for Scandinavian crime drama continues unabated, and the latest series to have viewers riveted is from Norway. Practically everything that admirers of the genre look for is firmly in place in Mammon, in which maverick journalist Peter Verås attempts to expiate his guilt after bringing about the death of his brother. But it was not just a frontpage story which precipitated the suicide; Peter’s brother had a slew of secrets up his sleeve – not least that he was himself the source of the revelations that led to his exposure. As Peter begins to unravel a truly tangled knot of secrets, he becomes involved with a female member of the Financial Crimes division, Vibeke Haglund, and the duo find that corruption (as ever) reaches high up into the upper echelons of Norwegian politics and also that absolutely no one is to be trusted. Joining mesmerising predecessors such as The Killing and The Bridge, Mammon is a sinewy and complex crime drama that will assuredly keep Scandi-crime fans glued to their TV screens. BF
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from the 1970s
With three colour channels, the 1970s saw quality television really take off. Period dramas and sitcoms were the most popular types of programme with some examples – Pennies from Heaven and Rumpole of the Bailey – remaining high points to this day. Here we present some of the best of the decade at bargain prices.
Nicholas Nickleby
Robin Redbreast
Christopher Barry
James McTaggart
Rumpole of the Bailey: Complete
Nigel Havers takes his first leading role in this 1977 adaptation of Dicken’s celebrated novel about a young man thrown into the world to seek his fortune. Freddie Jones and Patricia Routledge co-star. 2 discs.
A legendary BBC Play for Today ‘folk horror’ from 1970 which prefigures The Wicker Man. Anna Cropper plays the woman who moves to the country and finds herself part of the villagers’ sinister plans.
Leo McKern stars as the eccentric, bibulous Old Bailey defence lawyer Horace Rumpole in this hugely popular series written by John Mortimer. Every episode and all the specials. 15 discs.
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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was
I Only Want You to Love Me
Shoestring: Series 1
An in-depth film portrait of one of the great English composers of the 20th century, with extracts from his works.
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Made in 1976, this touching drama is one of Fassbinder’s most personal works.
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Betjeman: Thank God It’s Sunday
JM Barrie and the Lost Boys
Swallows and Amazons
John Betjeman narrates two films: Thank God it’s Sunday (1972) and Summoned by Bells (1976).
Andrew Birkin’s haunting trilogy of biographical films about Peter Pan creator JM Barrie, starring Ian Holm.
Dir: Claude Whatham. A classic children’s adventure yarn based on Arthur Ransome’s book.
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Children of the Stones
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Two Ronnies
An intelligent, atmospheric and unnerving classic, situated inside Avebury’s Neolithic circle. 2 discs.
BBC costume drama at its best. Natalie Ogle stars as Little Nell in this excellent adaptation. 2 discs.
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Dawson’s Weekly
Pennies from Heaven
Van Der Valk
A series of half-hour comedy plays written by Galton and Simpson (Hancock’s Half Hour) and starring the incomparable Les Dawson.
Dir: Piers Haggard. The innovative musical serial that consolidated Dennis Potter as the UK’s foremost 3 discs. television writer.
Barry Foster stars as the no-nonsense Dutch detective who delighted audiences for two decades on ITV. All four series plus specials.
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Dead of Night
Ripping Yarns
World on a Wire
The three surviving episodes from the subversive and intelligent 1972 BBC horror series: The Exorcism, Return Flight and A Woman Sobbing.
All nine half-hour episodes of Michael Palin & Terry Jones’ series of extended parodies of ‘Boy’s Own’type adventures. 2 discs.
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A remarkable science-fiction drama that explores a computer-generated other world. 2 discs; Restored.
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Trevor Eve plays the dishevelled private eye radio show host, Eddie Shoestring, in this complete first series of his cases. 4 discs. Item# 66116 UK | 1979 | 558 | 12 | £24.99
Comedic goldust sprinkled with a nod and a wink from Ronnies B and C in their classic TV series. All seven series available. 2 discs each.
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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present
New Releases August: Osage County John Wells
An ensemble drama with Meryl Streep, Juliette Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch and Julia Roberts, which tells the touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives diverge until a family crisis sends them home to the Midwest. USA | 2013 | EV | 121 Cert 15 Item# 74314 / 74309 | RRP £22.99 | 26th May
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John Wayne stars as tough Irish-American cop Lieutenant Brannigan, who brings American law to the stuffy coppers of Scotland Yard when he is sent to London to fetch a mobster. Judy Geeson, Richard Attenborough and Mel Ferrer co-star. UK | 1975 | MGM | 107 | Cert 15 Item# 74323 | RRP £9.99 | Out Now
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The Canyons Paul Schrader
An erotic thriller scripted by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), starring James Deen as an LA trust-fund kid who spirals out of control and into a frenzy of psychological cruelty when he learns of an affair between Tara (Lindsay Lohan) and the lead of his film project. USA | 2013 | Koch | 100 | Cert 18 Item# 73879 | RRP £12.99 | 12th May
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Clive Gordon A thriller, scripted by Paul Laverty (The Angel’s Share), in which a backpacker (Daniel Brühl) loses his passport in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship to return to Europe. He is discovered, and finds himself at the mercy of a threatening crew and a mysterious captain (Peter Mullan). Spain / UK / Sweden | 2006 | 4DIGI | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 74230 | RRP £15.99 | 2nd June
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Gregory’s Girl Recommended
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal
Starring: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn
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Item# 73873 USA | 1973 | Parovisie | 102 | B&W |
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Paper Moon
Peter Bogdanovich was on a roll in the early 1970s. The Last Picture Show earned him comparisons with Orson Welles and What’s Up, Doc? gave Hawksian screwball antics a post-sixties makeover. Paper Moon completed his hat-trick; yet this assured, laconic comedy-drama – shot in black-and-white by master cinematographer László Kovács – seems to have fallen off the radar. It’s time to restore it to its proper place. In Depression-era Kansas, Addie (10-year-old Tatum O’Neal) is plucked from her mother’s graveside by Moses Pray (Ryan O’Neal), a confidence man who may or may not be her father. From the outset, the two begin to exploit each other, as Addie becomes an accomplice in Moses’ schemes. Supporting players include the late Madeline Kahn as a gold-digging floozy with designs on Moses’ illicit gains. But O’Neal father and daughter carry the bulk of the scenes, and they’re terrific together, whether squabbling, collaborating, or manipulating one another. This marked a peak for both of them, and for Bogdanovich too. NR
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Item# 73014 UK | 1980 | 2ND | 88 | Cert 12
The sex comedy became a rather regrettable staple of 1970s British cinema, but the genre was at least, er, topped and tailed by two of the most engaging films of the era. The newly restored Gregory’s Girl and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush sit at opposite ends of the decade, but they have a lot in common. Both feature comically persuasive performances of male awkwardness in John Gordon Sinclair’s Gregory and Barry Evans’ Jamie. And both have value as portraits of adolescent sexual awakening in sterile new towns (Cumbernauld and Stevenage). But Gregory’s Girl – the tale of gawky teenage Gregory’s infatuation for the new girl on the school football team (Dee Hepburn) – is not just a high point of the ‘sex comedy’, it’s a bone fide classic of British cinema. It is breezy and riotously funny, but also an illuminating portrait of provincial teenage life at the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain. That a film so defiantly regional was a worldwide box office hit is testament to its universal appeal. JU
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Something for the weekend? We present a sale of films that are at times sensuous and suggestive, occasionally lewd and lurid - explorations of dangerous desire, obsessive excess and swooning, charged eroticism. All tastes and moods are catered for, so stimulate your senses with these 18 provocative films. Behind Convent Walls
The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome
In an astonishing film debut, Sandrine Bonnaire plays a freespirited 16 year-old on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing father, ineffectual mother and brutish brother.
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The cloistered atmosphere of a 19th century convent becomes a hotbed of repressed desire in this graphic look at the sexual lives and fantasies of women in seclusion.
A collection of eight immersive, explicit Super 8 movies made between 1969-72 by the Britishborn New Yorker and unsung hero of gay underground filmmaking.
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Baise-Moi
The Girl from Rio
Premiers Désirs
Dir: Despentes & Trinh Thi. Sex and shooting assault the senses in this bloody buddy movie described as ‘Thelma and Louise on acid’.
Dir: Jess Franco. A kinky cult favorite, this 60s softcore sci-fi is packed with go-go boots and miniskirts. Golden Bond girl Shirley Eaton stars.
Dir: David Hamilton. Three girls learn about their sexuality after being stranded in the Mediterranean. Features a young Emmanuelle Béart.
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I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight
Shortbus
Maurice Pialat
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Dir: Ashley Horner. A headily sexual, erotic British love story that sees a couple’s passionate romance threatened by commerce. Item# 63965 UK | 2010 | 96 | 18 | £15.99
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Dir: Joseph McGrath. Cheeky 1970s British sex comedy starring Barry Andrews as a viriginal nerd. Item# 59809 UK | 1976 | 84 | 18 | £14.99
Dir: John Cameron Mitchell. A joyous mix of drama, comedy, animation and unsimulated sex that will send viewers’ toes curling with delight. Item# 33452 USA | 2006 | 101 | 18 | £19.99
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Camille 2000
Lady of the Night
The Story of O
Dir: Radley Metzger. A sensual cinematic feast of colour, grandiose set design, bizarre costumes and frank sexuality from 1969.
Dir: Piero Schivazappa. An Italian erotic thriller about a young woman’s search for sexual fulfilment. Serena Grandi (Miranda) stars.
A study of consent and power in which, in a secluded chateau, a beautiful young photographer is introduced to sadomasochism.
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Swedish Erotica: Collection 1
Lie With Me
Vanessa
Dir: Clement Virgo. A lust-drenched liaison turns into a terrifying full-blown emotional affair in this sexually explicit Canadian film.
Dir: Hubert Frank. The infamous saga of an innocent schoolgirl turned sexual plaything. The tantalizing Olivia Pascal (Bloody Moon) stars.
Christina Lindberg stars in The Language of Love, Anita: Swedish Nymphet and Exposed.
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Don’t Look Down
A Passion Trilogy
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Dir: Eliseo Subiela. A coming-of-age film in which a sleepwalking teenager falls through a roof into a beautiful woman’s bedroom.
Dir: Cheryl Newbrough. A tantalising trilogy of cult lesbian movies: Desire: An Erotic Fantasy Play (1996), Such a Crime, Goodbye Emma Jo (1998).
Dir: Roman Polanski. A surreal sex comedy starring Sydne Rome as a hippie chick who ends up in a strange Mediterranean villa.
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Inside Llewyn Davis Recommended Director: Joel & Ethan Coen Starring: Oscar Isaac, John Goodman, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake Released: 26th May Extras: Making-of Item# 74187 | USA | 2013 | STUDC | 105 | Cert 15
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Martin Scorsese
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oel and Ethan Coen excel whenever they stop to investigate the perimeters of the worlds they’ve sketched. Blood Simple, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo: all have their own rules and gatekeepers, their own governing fates, yet too many recent Coen Bros films have seemed ill-formed, scattering ideas in the dash to the next project. The good news with Inside Llewyn Davis is that the Coens have locked all these details down: it is at once their most complete picture for some while, and their most unreservedly pleasurable. The world here is the wintry Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, a pokily boho place whose inhabitants shuffle dampfooted between cave-like venues and mom-and-pop recording enterprises, trailing worn winter coats that can’t really insulate their souls; the eponymous Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is a down-on-his-luck folk singer reduced to couch-surfing after his recording partner’s suicide. If the subject is rootless drift, the film is anchored by its words and music. The actors roll the script round their mouths like tobacco, and everybody looks the part: Justin Timberlake is adroitly deployed as folk’s golden boy, clearly destined for brighter, more corporate things, while a
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An unreservedly pleasurable film from the Coen Brothers diversion, reaching out to Beat culture, finds Llewyn sharing a car with John Goodman, on engaged form as a Tom Parker-like impresario with bowel trouble and an amusing line in industry anecdotes. Yet none of these funny bitparts obscure Isaac’s skilful portrait of fraying desperation, or our sense that he is getting too old to be touting round a guitar case holding nothing but threadbare dreams. The younger Coens might have been indifferent to this character’s fate, but there’s a compassion here that elevates the film above the brothers’ snarkier projects. They’ve realised Llewyn isn’t so far removed from them: a storyteller trying to craft something on the fringes of a particular scene. This wistful, surprising creation myth presents itself as the Coens’ expression of fraternal sympathy for a figure who’s been out in the cold too long; it’s to be savoured by anybody who’s ever had to curl up on another’s sofa in pursuit of whatever they want, love and need to do. Mike McCahill Page 33
Inside Llewyn Davis
Contemporary Games That Lovers Play Malcolm Leigh
70s sexploitation comedy starring Joanna Lumley and set in 1920s London, where two rival brothel owners argue over whose girls provide the greatest satisfaction to customers. They compete to decide the argument and a straight-laced wine merchant (Richard Wattis) suddenly finds himself pursued by the alluring Fanny Hill (Lumley) and Constance Chatterly (Penny Brahms) and can’t quite believe his luck. UK | 1971 | SIMP | 91 | Cert 12 Item# 74063 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now
Kenneth Branagh
An action thriller starring Chris Pine, based on Tom Clancy’s novels. Jack Ryan works as a financial analyst for the CIA. Believing he has stumbled upon a plot by Russian billionaire Viktor Cherevin (Branagh) to crash the US economy, he is forced to go undercover to infiltrate Viktor’s network. USA | 2013 | PARAH | 105 | Cert 12 Item# 74356 / 74354 | RRP £19.99 | 2nd June
An all-star buddy comedy which follows four pasttheir-prime friends (Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline) out to set the Vegas strip alight on a four-night stag party. But once they hit the streets, the old-school thrill seekers discover that things have changed a lot since their prime.
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The outrageous, gamechanging movie that gave 1980s horror a gore-filled boot up the backside. It tells a dark tale of a deranged medical student (Jeffrey Combs), who can bring the dead back to 2 discs; Restored; life. Commentaries; Featurettes; Deleted scenes. USA | 1985 | 2ND | 84 | Cert 18 Item# 74463 / 74464 | RRP £15.99 | 2nd June
José Padilha
Jon Turteltaub
A gripping, gritty drama about family, fate and circumstance. Christian Bale plays the man with nothing to lose who goes looking for his disappeared brother, lured into a ruthless crime ring on his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Stuart Gordon
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Last Vegas
Scott Cooper
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Out of the Furnace
A dramatic retelling of the assassination of JFK. Paul Giamatti plays the amateur photographer who films the shooting, Billy Bob Thornton the agent on the trail of the apparent killer – former US Marine and Soviet defector Lee Harvey Oswald (Jeremy Strong).
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Re-Animator
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Parkland: The JFK Assassination Story
A remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film starring Joel Kinnaman as the man-machine police officer. It is the year 2028. OmniCorp have created a crime-fighting cyborg from the remnants of a police officer. But while cleaning up the streets of Detroit, RoboCop is tormented by memories of his former life and wants revenge. USA | 2014 | STUDC | 118 | Cert 12 Item# 74328 / 74329 | RRP £19.99 | 9th June
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The Sea
Stephen Brown A beautifully shot drama adapted by John Banville from his won Booker Prize-winning novel. Ciarán Hinds plays the man who returns to the seaside town where he spent his summers as a youth in a bid to come to terms with the loss of his wife (Sinéad Cusack). Charlotte Rampling plays his frosty landlady, Miss Vavasour. Ireland / UK | 2013 | INDED | 86 | Cert 12 Item# 74300 | RRP £12.99 | 26th May
Dallas Buyers Club Recommended Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Denis O’Hare Released: 2nd June Extras: A Look Inside Dallas Buyers Club Item# 74196 USA | 2013 | E1 | 116 | Cert 15
In an extraordinary Oscar-winning turn, Matthew McConaughey plays ‘Rocket’ Ron Woodroof, a womanising rodeo rider who was diagnosed with HIV at the height of the mid-80s AIDS epidemic. What’s novel here is that Woodroof was no martyr or victim, but a gun-toting wild card, such as might only exist in Texas, who spends the whole film giving his condition the finger. Ron was a can-do kind of cowboy and the movie dramatises how he used this maverick skillset to extend his life, and the lives of many others, beyond the initial 30-day stay of execution by smuggling in unlicensed drugs from Mexico. Director Jean-Marc Vallée keeps his focus tight and intimate. Indeed, Dallas Buyers Club doesn’t just settle for photographing the new-found contours of McConaughey’s face and body, but actively mirrors them: by paring away any excess flab, Vallée has found within the wider AIDS narrative several new, striking and eminently worthwhile angles to pursue. MM
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Seven Nights in Japan Lewis Gilbert
A sumptuous romantic adventure from Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, Shirley Valentine). Michael York stars as a British prince who falls in love with a beautiful Japanese tour guide when he leaves the stuffy atmosphere of the Ambassador’s residence and escapes for a week of romance and unexpected drama.
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
Forgotten Men
The Coen Brothers’ celebration of 60s folk music in their film Inside Llewyn Davis inspired this concert, which features, among others, Joan Baez, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch, Jack White and Oscar Isaac.
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Martin Scorsese
An exhilarating tale of the unquenchable thirst of greed, telling the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort, a man who goes from penny stocks and righteousness to a life of corruption in the late 1980s. Leonardo DiCaprio gives his strongest performance yet in a Scorsese film as the utterly amoral, entirely captivating Belfort. USA | 2013 | UPV | 180 | Cert 18 Item# 74037 / 74038 | RRP £19.99 | 19th May
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Chaplin: Leipziger Ballet Sonia Paramo
Recorded live at the Leipzig Opera in October 2013, Mario Schröder’s ballet explores the life and work of the great celluloid clown, Charlie Chaplin, set to music by Britten, Samuel Barber, Wagner and Chaplin himself. Germany | 2013 | EUROA | 100 | E Item# 74384 / 74390 | RRP £24.99 | Out Now
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James Griffiths
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Lone Survivor Peter Berg
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Elektra: Salzburg Festival 2010 (Special Edition) Nikolaus Lehnhoff
A special release to mark the occasion of Richard Strauss’s 150th anniversary, containing the complete recording of his opera, recorded at the 2010 Salzburg Festival, plus an exclusive bonus feature of more than 150 minutes of highlights from 50 opera, ballet and documentary productions. Austria | 2010 | ART-H | 109 | | Cert E Item# 74395 | RRP £8.99 | Out Now
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Theatre of Blood
Britain’s first musical film, an all-star vaudeville show in the guise of a ‘live’ TV broadcast. Tommy Handley compères and performers include Cicely Courtneidge, Anna May Wong, Will Fyffe and Lily Morris. Alfred Hitchcock was responsible for creating the sketches and linking material.
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Michael Caton-Jones
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Bob Clark
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General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the Gallipoli campaign, introduces this film about the events of WWI made close to the time of the conflict itself. It features extensive combat footage and interviews with men who survived the fighting in the trenches.
Chris Wilcha
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Norman Lee
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Kiss the Water Eric Steel
A beautifully lyrical documentary exploring the life and work of Megan Boyd, an eccentric Scottish woman who lived a hermit’s existence in the remote Highlands of Scotland yet became the world’s most celebrated maker of salmon fishing flies. UK / USA | 2013 | SodaElev | 76 | Cert E Item# 74142 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir Laurent Bouzereau
Roman Polanski talks candidly about his life and career with Andrew Braunsberg, his producer and friend of many years, taking us from his childhood in the Krakov ghetto to his work and life today in France with his wife Emmanuelle Seigner. UK / Italy | 2011 | NWORK | 92 | E Item# 74461 | RRP £14.99 | 2nd June
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The Royal Navy in the 1940s: The War Years The definitive compilation of newsreel reports – including actual combat footage – and rarely seen official Royal Navy archive documentaries chronicling the war years. The Fleet Air Arm and submarines are covered in addition to battlefleet ship classes.
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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats
Old films, old attitudes
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get a little irritated sometimes when people talk about ‘old movies’. We don’t talk about ‘old’ records, ‘old’ plays or ‘old’ painting, but that’s how film of a certain vintage gets labelled (and, before you point it out, I know I’ve done it myself), as though you needed to approach it in a different way than you would more contemporary fare. True art doesn’t have a sell-by date. While surface fashions change, underlying humanity doesn’t and that’s what keeps good films from becoming ‘old’. At least that’s what I’ve always thought. However, of late, I’m finding it harder to argue. I’m ever more aware of a gaping exception which exposes how conventions have changed in a way which might affect our enjoyment of a film. Recently, I watched the Mr. Moto series. They are, undeniably, great fun – tight B-pictures that expose how bloated most films are – but while the main character is meant to be Japanese, he’s played by the Hungarian Peter Lorre. Now, I love Lorre but watching him squint, gurn and ‘ah-so’ through the films was not a little awkward. Goodness knows, this was hardly a rare occurrence in Hollywood back then, when Caucasians routinely ‘yellowed-up’. For some reason Swedish actors were in particular demand to play Asian: Warner Oland in the Charlie Chan films or Nils Asther as the title character in Frank Capra’s masterful The Bitter Tea of General Yen. It’s true that these are characters presented with dignity. And yet they demonstrate all too clearly the problems that arise when an actor plays a character of a different ethnicity. No matter how respectfully they are portrayed, there is an
Racial stereotyping is a challenging issue for those of us who enjoy older films inevitable element of caricature involved. Even the most well-meant performances (perhaps especially the most well-meant performances) seem patronising as a result. The practice of Europeans playing Asians is especially bewildering given that at the time we’re talking about (the 1930s), there was a wealth of Asian-American talent in the movies, including Philip Ahn, Sessue Hayakawa and, especially, Anna May Wong. They were usually relegated to supporting roles, though – something Wong found so frustrating that she came to Britain for better roles, like the one she played in Piccadilly. Still, while Asians were no doubt aggrieved by this situation, they got off lightly. Watch a Charlie Chan film today and what’s shocking isn’t the portrayal of honourable Chan (one of the most competent characters in film history) but the treatment of black people. Black characters are invariably presented as lazy, stupid and cowardly, treated by the filmmakers
with a contempt that is genuinely horrifying. And this was common across Hollywood, even in the most prestigious productions: John Ford’s largely wonderful Steamboat Round the Bend is marred by the comedy racism of Stepin Fetchit, the most prominent, successful and best-paid black performer of the 1930s. Race is the single most challenging issue for those of us who enjoy older films. At best, we are confronted with examples of just how far conventions have changed. At worst, the results are unwatchable. I offer no solution: I still enjoy my Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films after all. But it does suggest ‘old’ film isn’t as accessible as I’d like to believe.
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Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen Brothers return with this Cannes Jury Prize winning gem, one of their finest films in years – full review on page 27
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen In their their most unreservedly pleasurable picture for some while, Joel and Ethan Coen transport us to the world of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, where down-on-his-luck, couch-surfing folk singer Llewyn Davis – along with an ever-present cat – mounts a last ditch bid to shed his hand-to-mouth existence by seeking to impress a major promoter. Smart, funny and suffused with the melancholy of changing times, this is a rewarding, music-filled film that brilliantly calls up the time and place of its setting. Item# 74187 USA | 2013 | 105 | 15 | £19.99
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