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very year we publish a gift guide containing a hand-picked selection of the best recent releases and old favourites, all chosen with gift giving in mind. This month you’ll find our early bird selection starting on p15 – ideal if you’re of a mind to do your present shopping in plenty of time. And if you’re not, why not reward yourself? I’m sure you deserve it! As we went to press, sad news came through of the death at the age of 95 of Herbert Lom, one of the greats of British film. Although he will always be associated with the role of Clouseau’s perpetually enraged superior in the Pink Panther films, his

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Gay and Lesbian 10 filmography was long and varied, with well over 100 titles to his name. Coincidentally, this month sees the welcome release of his first major TV role as a compassionate psychiatrist in the The Human Jungle (p 22) Enjoy your films,

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1 The Angels’ Share

This uplifting whisky-heist comedy finds the director Ken Loach on fine, funny and Cannes-winning form. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, a disillusioned small-time criminal is given one last chance to turn his life around. Item# 68964 UK / France | 2012 | 101 | 15 | £19.99

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A Danish period drama based on the true story of Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), the English princess who married King Christian VII of Denmark in the early 1770s, A Royal Affair is a bold, sumptuous tale of illicit love and political passion on a sweeping, epic scale. Item# 69570 Denmark / Sweden | 2012 | 138 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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3 The Man Who Never Was

A great example of the Boy’s Own-type British war film in which British officers Clifton Webb and Robert Flemyng hatch a plan to weaken the Germans’ North African campaign by having a dead Englishman wash up on the shores of southern Spain, armed with ‘top secret’ papers detailing bogus Allied activities.

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See Also Drole de Drame Marcel Carne

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Mon Oncle

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delicately tinted picture postcard from another age, an injection of colour and gaiety into postwar France, a satire on American postwar speed and efficiency, a showcase for a brilliant physical comedian’s slapstick routines – Jacques Tati’s feature debut, Jour de Fête, is an all-round charm. It sees the fair come to a rural town in la France profonde. In between the townsfolk’s casual flirtations, dressing-up for the day, rides on the merry-go-round and dancing to the pianola in the bar, Tati’s postman sees a film about American postal workers’ daredevil antics. From then on, his watchword (notwithstanding a woozy, boozy night slept off in a cattle truck) is rapidité! as he careers around the lanes on his bicycle, scattering farmyard animals and delivering letters haphazardly (if at all) – until his new-found ardour is cooled by a high-speed dunk in the river. The colour print seen on this DVD+Blu-ray release was for many years unrecoverable – a tragedy given how central colour was to Tati’s conception of the film. Thankfully, he also shot a black and white version of the film with a back-up camera and it was this that was originally released in 1949. Then in 1964,

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Tati’s wonderful feature debut joined by three Tati shorts Tati revisited the film, adding a new character of a visiting painter, who – literally – paints some colour into scenes of the fair. This 1964 version, making its DVD and Blu-ray debut here, has English narration that comments on the fair from an outsider’s point of view in place of the old local woman’s ruminations of the original. Also included in the set are three short films previously only available on VHS, including L’École des Facteurs (School for Postmen), the 1947 sketch from which Jour de Fête was expanded. There is also Soigne ton Gauche, a skit in which Tati’s lithe, stripy-topped farmhand sees his daydreaming get him into trouble when his shadow boxing is spotted by the trainer of a prizefighter, and Cours du Soir, made on the set of Playtime, which sees him mimicking certain ‘types’ to an evening class, allowing him to show off some of his famous ‘impressions sportives’ – the mime acts with which he had begun his career over three decades before. All in all, it’s a veritable feast of Tati. Graeme Hobbs Page 7

World Cinema Mon Oncle

Jacques Tati

Tati’s brilliant third feature takes Monsieur Hulot to Paris where his old-fashioned ways sit uneasily with the high-tech lifestyle of his relatives the Arpels, who resolve, with disastrous outcome, to get him a job. A masterpiece. Contains two versions of the film – the original French Mon Oncle and My Uncle, the English version Tati made for the international market. 2 discs; Illustrated booklet. France | 1958 | BFI | 98 | Cert U Item# 69474 | RRP £19.99 | 29th October

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The Night Child

Polisse Recommended Director: Maïwenn Starring: Karin Viard, Frédéric Pierrot, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marina Foïs, Emmanuelle Bercot

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Starring: Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann

A filmmaker researching satanic art unearths a painting that leads him into a world of post Exorcist Italian horror, where cursed medallions, possessed children and the influence of the dark lord converge to create a wildly eccentric exploitation classic from Massimo Dallamano (Venus in Exorcism Italian-Style; Booklet. Furs).

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Written by Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot, and directed by Maïwenn herself, this Cannes Jury Prize winner is an unusually feminine take on the police-procedural drama – but then the work of their subject, the BPM (Brigade de protection des mineurs), demands the utmost sensitivity. These are cops charged with the hugely delicate business of handling children caught up in criminal activity, whether as bolshy perpetrators or muted abuse victims. There’s no place for hot-headed mavericks in the ranks; the BPM are presented as a team – a surrogate family, even. Instead of the procedural’s usual linearity, Maïwenn fosters something looser and fresher, hopping between multiple strands in the interests of making broader points about the unit’s methods. The approach yields startlingly naturalistic performances – the actresses are particularly fierce – and often challenging shifts in tone. Yet this ability to turn from funny to heartbreaking on a centime makes Polisse an even more forceful tribute to the flexibility of this particular branch of the French authorities, and to the nature of work that can take the gravest, most lasting of tolls. MM

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Santa Sangre

Alejandro Jodorowsky Jodorowsky’s bizarre modern masterpiece, Santa Sangre is a Felliniesque nightmare of ripe psychedelic madness in which a circus mime artist carries out his mother’s bidding – including murder – after her arms were cut off by his father. Italy | 1989 | Bongo | 112 | Cert 18 Item# 69098 / 69595 | RRP £13.99 | 5th Nov

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Silent Souls

A Fedorchenko A moving Russian drama in which a widowed man asks his friend to accompany him in saying goodbye to his deceased wife according to the rituals of their ancient Merya tribe. The two set out on a road trip over thousands of miles of deserted roads to the banks of a sacred lake. Russia | 2010 | ART-E | 77 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 69143 | RRP £15.99 | 22nd October

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Item# 67405 Germany | 1937 | Jeff | 112 | subt

For understandable reasons, German cinema of the 1930s remains much less well known than the great Teutonic triumphs of the 1920s. However, this sprightly comedy thriller suggests it’s a period worthy of greater attention. When a figure wearing a deerstalker cap, brandishing a pipe and accompanied by a dedicated amanuensis boards a train, there’s an immediate sensation. Could it be the great detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson? No, of course not: it’s a pair of adventurers from London. But the pretence fools police and criminals alike and the counterfeit Holmes soon finds himself in the midst of a baffling case. Photographed by Fritz Arno Wagner (who also lensed Murnau’s Nosferatu), this is a delight, dispelling the canard about German comedy without forgetting its obligations as a thriller. Indeed, it’s not going too far to compare it to the thrillers that Alfred Hitchcock was making in Britain at the same time. It’s certainly good enough to make you wonder what else is in the vaults. JO

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Letter From an Unknown Woman

Possession

Sergei Paradjanov

Max Ophuls

A celebrated, dreamlike film which paints an astonishing portrait of an 18th century Armenian poet in a series of exquisitely orchestrated tableaux.

Joan Fontaine gives one of her great performances as the tragic heroine in this masterpiece set in turn of the century Vienna. Ophuls’ camera glides with the grace of a waltz.

Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill star as a couple with their marriage in pieces in this visceral horror film which won Adjani a Best Actress prize at Cannes – but was banned as a ‘video nasty’ in the UK.

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Belle Epoque

Daniel Deronda

Modesty Blaise

Dir: Fernando Trueba. In 1931 in sundrenched Spain, an army deserter finds happy refuge with an amiable artist and his four lovely daughters.

A sumptuous BBC adaptation of George Eliot’s novel from the director of The King’s Speech, charting an intense love affair in high society.

Dir: Joseph Losey. Monica Vitti stars as the world’s deadliest female agent. Outrageous sixties outfits and groovy design just add to the fun.

Item# 18898 Spain | 1992 | 105 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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The Black Cat

Hellzapoppin’

Move Over, Darling

Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. The first and possibly greatest pairing of Karloff and Lugosi. As near as Hollywood ever got to Expressionism.

Dir: H.C. Potter. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson star in this ground-breaking comedy classic filled with non-stop gags and hysterical mayhem.

Dir: Michael Gordon. A wonderful romantic comedy romp starring Doris Day as a long-lost wife who reappears for her ex’s wedding.

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The Horseman on the Roof

No Surrender

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Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. A lush, beautiful period drama in which an exiled Italian patriot finds romance. Item# 27090 France | 1995 | 130 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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Dir: Peter Smith. A great British comedy of the 1980s, written by Alan Bleasdale and set on New Year’s Eve in a run-down Liverpool club. Item# 65842 UK | 1985 | 100 | 15 | £15.99

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Un Coeur en Hiver

Lola Montès

Le Parfum d’Yvonne

Dir: Claude Sautet. Emmanuelle Béart and Daniel Auteuil star in this beautifully poignant, intimate tale of unrequited love.

Dir: Max Ophuls. Ophul’s breathtaking mastery was never more in evidence than in this tale of the legendary courtesan.

Dir: Patrice Leconte. A lyrical period piece about a young man’s memories of a summer’s passionate liaison on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Item# 14121 France | 1992 | 100 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Item# 57175 France | 1955 | 111 | subt | PG | £19.99

Item# 21278 France | 1994 | 86 | subt | 18 | £19.99

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Lord of the Flies

La Ronde

Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Depardieu excels as the poet-soldier in this colourful, swashbuckling version of the classic poetic drama.

Dir: Peter Brook. This adaptation of William Golding’s famous novel still retains the power to shock. Given an ‘X’ certificate on its 1963 release.

Dir: Max Ophuls. Anton Walbrook is the enigmatic master of ceremonies guiding us through a series of amorous encounters in 1900 Vienna.

Item# 24302 France | 1990 | 138 | subt | U | £19.99

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Dir: Ulrich Edel. A hard-hitting drama, made with non-professional actors, about a 14 year-old girl’s fall into drugs and prostitution.

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Super Bitch

Massimo Dallamano

Blue movie blackmail, sleaze and and sexual depravity are at the heart of a wicked scam to manipulate rich, perverted men in this softcore crime classic starring a little-clad Stephanie Beacham and Italian trash cinema icon Ivan Rassimov. Bullets, Babes and Blood Featurette; Ruggero Deodato on Ivan Rassimov. Italy / UK | 1973 | ARROW | 94 | Cert 18 Item# 69393 | RRP £15.99 | 29th October

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The Voyeur: Director’s Cut Tinto Brass

A young university professor – the voyeur of the title – relives moments of his life through a series of erotic flashbacks, trying to understand his wife’s sexual needs. He also observes the night-time habits of his brazen maid and the liberated Widescreen; dalliances of his student. Remastered version of the most complete cut. Italy | 1993 | AGT | 98 | Cert 18 Item# 69565 | RRP £14.99 | 22nd October

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Where Do We Go Now? Nadine Labaki

A Lebanese comedy drama from Nadine Labaki (Caramel) about a group of women who resort to unorthodox methods in a bid to ease religious tensions in their village – including the staging of fake miracles and baking hash cakes. Meanwhile, a young Muslim painter and a Christian woman fall in love – but are held back by fear of igniting conflict in their village. France / Lebanon / Egypt | 2011 | REV | 97 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 68928 | RRP £16.99 | 15th October

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The Women on the 6th Floor Philippe Le Guay

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Four years after he first drafted the scenario, Claude Sautet finally realised this comedy of romantic manners that many would rate as his finest achievement alongside Un Coeur en Hiver. The performances of Romy Schneider, Yves Montand and Sami Frey are impeccable, making the shifting vicissitudes of a bourgeois ménage à trois feel entirely plausible and also slyly amusing. While attending her mother’s wedding, Schneider bumps into Frey’s suave cartoonist who disappeared shortly after causing her marriage to collapse. Realising she still has feelings for him, Schneider tries to split up with the wealthy scrap merchant (Montand) she loves but refuses to commit to. However, he is so determined to preserve their relationship that he purchases the house where she spent her childhood holidays, only for Frey to move in with them and the two men to become increasingly firm friends. One can only hope that this is the first of the many unseen Sautet gems to be released in this country. DP

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Beauty Recommended Director: Oliver Hermanus Starring: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz Released: 8th October Item# 68451 South Africa | 2011 | PECCA | 105 | Cert 18

The raw meat of this piercing South African drama is the awkwardness of men around feelings. At a wedding – a breeding ground for this stuff – handsome law student Christian (Charlie Keegan) catches the eye of family friend François (Deon Lotz). We suspect François, a balding, long-married fortysomething, may be jealous of this upstart, yet cracks are emerging in his bluff businessman’s facade: after rowing with his wife, he checks into a hotel and begins tailing the younger man. Christian isn’t a rival, but the object of a badly misplaced affection. It’s high praise to call Beauty the queer Vertigo, yet Oliver Hermanus’s film similarly sets out to intuit exactly what its obsessive protagonist is thinking moment by moment – even if, as is clear from Lotz’s superb performance, those thoughts are tearing him apart. When, in a latenight confessional to Christian, François boasts ‘some people don’t know how to hold it together – I do’, the full extent to which he’s been deluding himself becomes painfully clear – even before this exceptionally realised film’s memorably tense and disturbing conclusion. MM

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Immerse yourself in the most pivotal and exciting moments in history with our sale. Inspired by our film of the month A Royal Affair (page 5), we’ve assembled a selection of great films that bring history to life and show that truth is often stranger – and more entertaining – than fiction. Whether you’d like to learn more about a particular era (though historical accuracy is often variable!) or just want a fascinating film, these titles are for you.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Danton

Franco Zeffirelli

Gérard Depardieu takes the title role in this dramatic recounting of the power struggle between the leading figures of the French revolution, Danton and Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak).

Victor Fleming

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Becket

The King’s Speech

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Reds

Dir: Peter Glenville. Burton and O’Toole play out the tempestuous friendship between King Henry II and his troublesome priest.

Dir: Tom Hooper. Colin Firth plays the stammering King George VI, Geoffrey Rush his speech therapist in this tremendous, Oscar-winning drama.

Item# 33491 UK / USA | 1964 | 142 | PG | £17.99

Item# 64684 / 64710 UK | 2010 | 118 | 12 | £19.99

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Ben Hur

The Lion in Winter

The Scarlet Empress

Dir: William Wyler. 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets, 11 Academy Awards. Charlton Heston takes the lead in this Roman epic.

Dir: Anthony Harvey. Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn star in this fine period drama about Henry II and his estranged wife.

Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Marlene Dietrich stars in this gloriously romanticised version of the story of Catherine the Great.

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The Duellists

Napoleon and Love

A Tale of Two Cities

Dir: Ridley Scott. The story of violent confrontation between two officers (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) in the Napoleonic Wars.

With an illustrious cast headed by Ian Holm and Billie Whitelaw, this is a dramatised account of the life and loves of Napoleon. 3 discs.

Dir: Ralph Thomas. One of the great British literary adaptations, based on the stormy Dickens novel set around the French revolution.

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Edward II

The New World

War and Peace

Dir: Derek Jarman. Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play radically and thrillingly adapted by Jarman for contemporary resonance.

Dir: Terrence Malick. This beautiful, award-winning adaptation of the Pocahontas legend finds Malick at his most meditative.

Dir: Sergei Bondarchuk. With a cast of thousands and stupendous sets, this is a simply amazing spectacle. 1968 Oscar winner. 5 discs.

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Ivan the Terrible

Quo Vadis

Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. Both parts of this stunningly photographed epic of one of Russia’s greatest leaders, now in a much improved print. 2 discs.

Dir: Mervyn Le Roy. A star-studded adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel, based in Rome during the time of Nero (Peter Ustinov).

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

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Dir: Warren Beatty. Oscar-winning historical epic about a radical journalist who aims to brings the idealism of the Russian Revolution to the US.

Dir: Ken Loach. A searingly powerful depiction of the Irish War of Independence. 2 discs. Item# 52353 UK / Ireland | 2006 | 122 | 15 | £15.99

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A lovely film which follows the life of Saint Francis of Assisi who, on leaving his comfortable family life, sought spiritual union with the natural world. Music by Donovan.

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Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

New Releases Battle of the V.1 in Colour Vernon Sewell

Michael Rennie and David Knight play the Polish resistance fighters who get themselves captured and sent to a forced labour camp so that they can spy on the Nazi’s experiments on the deadly new V1 rocket. Colourised version. B&W version available at same price. UK | 1958 | RENOWN | 109 | PG Item# 69691 | RRP £12.99 | 5th November

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Funny Girl / Funny Lady Wyler / Ross

Contains Funny Girl (Wyler, 1968), which sees an Oscar-winning Barbra Streisand play 1920s stage comedienne Fanny Brice as she travels from the Lower East Side to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Funny Lady (Ross, 1975), a lively musical that opens a new chapter in her career and love life. Omar Sharif and James Caan play the men in her life. USA | 1968-75 | COL-T | 273 | Cert PG Item# 69621 | RRP £9.99 | 1st October

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The Girl in the Picture Don Chaffey

A 4 year-old photograph published in the London Evening Echo provides a missing clue to a murder in this 1957 British crime drama starring Donald Houston as a reporter who delves into a case that is not as black and white as he first thought. UK | 1957 | SIMP | 63 | Cert PG Item# 68987 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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The Harry Palmer Collection A collection of five films starring Michael Caine as the spy Harry Palmer. Contains The Ipcress File (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Midnight in St. Petersburg (1995) and Bullet to Beijing (1995). 5 discs.

USA | 1965-95 | ANBAY | Cert 15 Item# 69536 | RRP £24.99 | 15th October

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The Window Recommended Director: Ted Tetzlaff Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Barbara Hale, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Restored) Recommended

Released: 8th October

Director: Michael Powell

Extras: Gallery; Booklet.

Starring: Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver, John Laurie

Item# 69254 USA | 1949 | ODEON | 70 | B&W | Cert PG

Tommy Woodley (Bobby Driscoll) is a young man with an overactive imagination – indeed, his mom and pop are thoroughly fed up with his tall tales. So they are not best pleased when he tells them that he has witnessed a murder. The trouble is, this time he is telling the truth. Although his parents and the police pay no attention, the killers know Tommy’s not making it up. Worried that someone might eventually believe the kid, they set out to silence him, forever. It takes a fair amount of courage to balance a whole film on a child’s performance but The Window pulls it off admirably – indeed, Bobby Driscoll was awarded a special junior Oscar for his accomplishments here. But this is no kid’s film. Adapted from a story by crime kingpin Cornell Woolrich, The Window is a brilliant illustration of pared-down suspense, scarcely wasting a frame as it turns the screws. Director Ted Tetzlaff served as Hitchcock’s cameraman on Notorious and obviously took notes. His studying pays off handsomely: The Window is a film worthy of the master. JO

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One of the greatest (not to mention wittiest and wisest) of all British films, Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece ran into trouble on its original release, when avid film buff Winston Churchill thought that its sympathetic treatment of its aristocratic German lead character would be unhelpful to the war effort. In fact, the film’s core message – that ‘Blimpish’ officers like Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) who believed in fair play and good sportsmanship, had no place in a modern war theatre – could hardly have been more urgently patriotic. Like The Red Shoes a few years ago, Colonel Blimp has been the subject of intensive restoration, once again overseen by Martin Scorsese. Restoring the full 163 minute version of the film required painstaking detective work, close examination of surviving prints, and some pioneering digital technology to give everything a uniform look. The result was premiered earlier this year, and acclaimed as a triumph. MB

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The Uninvited Recommended Director: Lewis Allen Starring: Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey Released: 29th October Extras: Two radio versions of the story; Remastered; Gallery; Booklet; Trailer. Item# 67592 | USA | 1944 | EXP-C | 95 | Cert PG

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Robert Siodmak

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o escape the stress of London, Roderick ‘Rick’ Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) buy a tumbledown clifftop mansion on the Cornish coast. As well as being handsomely rustic, it seems an ideal space for budding composer Rick to concentrate on his music, and for Pam to potter about being generally supportive. Undaunted by the fact that the previous owner met her demise by falling off said clifftop, Rick and Pam move cheerfully into Winwood House with their housekeeper, Lizzie, and begin acquainting themselves with the local community. One person Rick is keen to know better is 20-year-old Stella. But Stella disapproves of Rick’s purchase of the house, believing it to be haunted by her late mother, Mary Meredith. Sure enough, eerie things start to happen: the cat looks spooked, there are unidentified wailings in the night, and Lizzie swears she feels the presence of a ghost on the stairs. As creepy as all this is, The Uninvited lulls you into a false sense of security with its lively conflation of genres. There’s light comedy, romance and even agreeable mood music. (The tune Rick plays for his intended beau, ‘Stella by Starlight’, was a hit for Frank Sinatra three years after the

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Classic Movies Hell is a City

Park Row (MoC)

Val Guest

Samuel Fuller

A genuine British film noir (a rare venture into the genre from Hammer) starring Stanley Baker as a tough, world-weary detective on the trail of an American gangster who batters a prison warder to death before escaping. Set in a grey Manchester, it’s an abrasive piece given authenticity by the use of hand-held cameras and a number of the extras being played by the Manchester Police Force. Alternative ending. UK | 1959 | STUDC | 92 | Cert PG Item# 69194 | RRP £15.99 | 8th October

USA | 1952 | EUREK | 84 | subt | Cert PG Item# 69210 | RRP £16.99 | 22nd October

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John Gilling

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The Last Man on Earth Ubaldo Ragona

Vampire zombies stalk the earth in this sci-fi horror based on Richard Matheson’s novel, I Am Legend. Vincent Price stars as Robert Morgan, an everyday zombieslaying scientist immune to the virus that has killed people around the globe. Then he sees what looks like another living soul out in the daylight... USA / Italy | 1964 | STARL | 86 | Cert PG Item# 69384 | RRP £9.99 | 5th November

Elizabeth Sellars plays the beautiful young woman who finds herself playing a deadly game of seduction in the crime underworld as she tries to lead her father’s killer (Edward Underdown) into incriminating himself. UK | 1953 | SIMP | 77 | Cert 15 Item# 69087 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Singin’ in the Rain (60th Anniversary Edition) Stanley Donen

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Hour of Decision

CM Pennington-Richards A 1957 whodunnit starring Jeff Morrow as reporter Joe Saunders, who has to clear his wife (Hazel Court) from suspicion of murder after he finds out that the police are on her trail. Lionel Jeffries co-stars and Arthur Lowe also appears in an uncredited role. Digitally Restored and Remastered. UK | 1957 | RENOWN | 81 | Cert PG Item# 69543 | RRP £12.99 | 8th October

One of the best-loved motion pictures of all time, Singin’ in the Rain offers a witty parody of the movie industry during its transition from silent film to ‘talkies’. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds star. 3 discs; Remastered; Commentary; Making-of; Raining on a New Generation; Out-takes; 48-page hardback book (DVD+Blu-ray only). USA | 1952 | WHV | 98 | Cert U Item# 69550 / 68265 | RRP £24.99 | 29th Oct

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Henry Edwards

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Sam Fuller began his career as a tabloid reporter and thrillingly drew on his experiences in this extraordinary, selffinanced labour-of-love – an exhilarating tribute to the ideals of the free press in 1880s New York. A major American rediscovery. Lengthy video interviews; 56 page booklet.

A 1935 musical comedy which sees Betty Balfour return in the role of cockney flower seller ‘Squibs’, a character that made her famous in the silent film era. Here, her burgeoning romance with Stanley Holloway’s policeman is threatened by her father’s gambling. Digitally restored and remastered.

The Big Combo Recommended Director: Joseph H Lewis Starring: Richard Conte, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef Released: 22nd October Item# 67537 USA | 1955 | BHORSE | 87 | B&W | Cert PG

While American crime flicks of the forties were largely concerned with individual battles against cruel fate, those of the Eisenhower-era were more interested in structures and organisations. It’s a shift exemplified by The Big Combo. The story is simple: Mr. Brown (close friends get to call him ‘Brown’), is head of a huge, impersonal criminal conglomerate; Leonard Diamond is a cop who has sworn to nail Brown, no matter what it costs. This is one of the greatest film noirs, a movie obsessed by money and bedevilled by modernist angst, shot through with a post-Kinsey Report transgressiveness and flavoured with a pinch of paranoia. And if that sounds too la-di-da, don’t worry: there’s enough murder and misdirection to satisfy the most demanding crime fan. The Big Combo is one of those rare films where everyone involved was at the top of their game, none more so than cameraman John Alton: there are images here that deserve to hang in galleries as the very definition of film noir photography. So consider this a rave. It’s pure pulp perfection. JO

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Classic Movies These firm favourites have been enthralling audiences for decades and will delight any lover of vintage cinema CFF Collection: London Tales

Great British Movies: Film Noir

Passport to Pimlico

Contains Hunted (Crichton, 1952), So Long at the Fair (Fisher, 1950), 21 Days (Dean, 1937), Turn the Key Softly (Lee, 1953) and Sapphire (Dearden, 1959).

A quintessential Ealing comedy in which the citizens of Pimlico discover their hereditary Burgundian independence from Britain. An absolute charm. Restored.

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Item# 68141 / 68142 UK | 1949 | 80 | B&W | U | £15.99

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Chimes at Midnight

Idol on Parade

Pride and Prejudice

Orson Welles

Anthony Newley saw his career take off after being cast as the singing idol ‘Jeep Jackson’, the ‘King of Rocka-Boogie’, who is called up to National Service in this 1959 British musical comedy.

Three delightfully enjoyable family films from the Children’s Film Foundation: The Salvage Gang (Krish, 1958), Operation Third Form (Eady, 1966) and Night Ferry (Eady, 1976). 2 discs. Item# 68627 UK | 1958-76 | 164 | B&W | U | £19.99

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John Gilling

One of Welles’ finest films sees him amalgamate Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard II, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor for his majestic portrayal of Falstaff. Item# 67890 UK | 1965 | 115 | PG | £13.99

Item# 66834 UK | 1959 | 81 | PG | £12.99

Henry Cornelius

Robert Z Leonard A classic adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel with Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet and Laurence Olivier as Mr Darcy. French import, plays film in English in UK DVD players. Item# 69015 USA | 1940 | 113 | B&W | | £15.99

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Cleopatra

The Mudlark

Cecil B. DeMille

Jean Negulesco

Claudette Colbert takes the lead as the seductive Pharaoh queen in DeMIlle’s outrageously excessive pre-Hays code paean to decadence and depravity in ancient Egypt.

Alec Guinness and Irene Dunne star in this thoroughly enchanting 1950 British drama in which an orphan boy who survives on scavenging goes to Windsor Castle to see Queen Victoria.

Item# 69319 / 68516 US | 1934 | 100 | B/W | PG | £16.99

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Four films starring ‘the most poetic of all actresses’: Billy Liar (Schlesinger, 1963), Darling (Schlesinger, 1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (Schlesinger, 1967), and The Go-Between (Losey, 1970). 4 discs.

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Item# 32644 UK | 1963-73 | 489 | 15 | £34.99

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Die Nibelungen

The Spy in Black

Fritz Lang

Michael Powell

Five comedies starring the lugubrious actor: The Green Man (assassin), Folly to be Wise (army chaplain), Geordie (Laird), Left, Right and Centre (Lord), Laughter in Paradise (thriller writer).

An extraordinary film experience, Lang's stately 4 1/2 hour epic – adapted from the myth that served as the basis for Wagner’s Ring cycle – is one of the summits of his career. 2 discs.

An atmospheric spy thriller in which a German spy (Conrad Veidt) seeks to destroy a large number of the British fleet during WWI. The first collaboration between Powell and Pressburger.

Item# 50624 UK | 1953-61 | 447 | PG | £34.99

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Vigo’s poetic, surreal vision of newlyweds on a barge is the centrepiece of his complete works, presented here. Contains L’Atalante, Zéro de Conduite, À Propos de Nice, Taris.

Le Quattro Volte

The Mizoguchi Collection

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Michelangelo Frammartino

Four remastered films from the great director: Osaka Elegy (1936), Sisters of the Gion (1936), The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) and Utamaro and his Five Women (1946). 4 discs.

An unclassifiably brilliant reverie on life, death, nature and regeneration, this is a deceptively simple and playfully philosophical study of life through four seasons in a Calabrian village.

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The Bridge: Series 1

Mysteries of Lisbon

A Royal Affair

Hailed as a natural successor to The Killing, this gripping Scandinavian crime drama begins with the discovery of a body, made up of two people, halfway between Sweden and Denmark.

Raúl Ruiz

A bold and sumptuous tale of illicit love and political passion in the 1770s, this excellent period drama sees the Danish King's wife embark on an affair with a radical libertarian.

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A richly plotted rhapsodic whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, violent passions, vengeance and love affairs in 19th century Portugal.

Nikolaj Arcel

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By the Bluest of Seas

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

A Separation

Boris Barnet

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

A lovely, light and lyrical look at unrequited love on an island in the Caspian sea from ‘the greatest forgotten master of the golden age of Soviet cinema’. 2 discs; Hyperkino edition.

A masterful, beautifully photographed drama about a search for a body through a long night on the Anatolian steppes. Grand Prix winner at Cannes, 2012.

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar 2012, this is an intelligent drama detailing the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society. A morality play with universal resonance.

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Ingmar Bergman

Laurent Bouhnik

Five restored films from Ingmar Bergman: It Rains on Our Love (1946), A Ship Bound for India (1947), Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), Dreams (1955) and So Close to Life (1958). 5 discs.

A graphically erotic film set against the background of the current economic crisis in which the lives of a group of teenagers are radically changed when the enigmatic Cécile walks into their lives.

Wallander: Original Films 1-6

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Asghar Farhadi

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Rolf Lassgard stars in some of the first Wallander films ever to be produced: Pyramid, Firewall: Parts 1 & 2, One Step Behind and The Man Who Smiled Parts 1 & 2.

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The Deep Blue Sea

War Horse

Jean Dujardin takes the lead in this highly enjoyable, Oscar-sweeping modern-day silent film comedy that is universal in its appeal. A delightful film that fully deserves its wide acclaim.

Terence Davies

An epic odyssey of joy, sorrow and high adventure about a boy who searches for his horse after it is taken away to serve in the First World War. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel.

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Michel Hazanavicius

Steven Spielberg

A beautifully melodramatic study of forbidden love and suppressed desire in postwar Britain, based on Terence Rattigan’s play. Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston star.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Madden

Tomas Alfredson

Woody Allen 20 Film Collection

A life-affirming comedy drama about life, love and new beginnings starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and Maggie Smith as the residents of a Bangalore retirement home.

A brilliant new adaptation of John le Carré’s cold war novel, featuring a top-notch cast led by Gary Oldman, whose Smiley stands alongside Alec Guinness’s.

A 20-film set that showcases the wit, range and talent of Woody Allen, from Bananas (1971) to Melinda and Melinda (2004) with all the hits in between. 20 discs.

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Item# 67209 / 67777 UK | 2011 | 127 | 15 | £19.99

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Documentaries Humphrey Jennings Vol 2: Fires Were Started The heart of Jennings’ wartime work. Contains The Heart of Britain, Words for Battle, Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started and The Silent Village. Item# 67916 UK | 1943 | 138 | B&W | E | £19.99

Patience (After Sebald) Grant Gee

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A beautiful multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history and loss that explores the work and influence of writer WG Sebald, specifically his book, The Rings of Saturn. Item# 67977 UK | 2010 | 86 | 12 | £15.99

Oh Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams Tony Palmer The first ever full-length profile of the composer, made to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.

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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow

The Story of Film

Wonderful London

Mark Cousins

Harry B Parkinson

A wide-ranging and richly entertaining collection of 44 films celebrating the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain, with films dating from 1912-2002. 2 discs.

The story of international cinema, lovingly researched and five years in the making, told through the history of its innovation. Mark Cousins hosts the exhilarating 15 hour journey.

Twelve evocative portraits of city life from the mid-1920s that offer a rare, sometimes unexpected and wholly fascinating glimpse of London life during the silent era.

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All 12 episodes of the Miss Marple mysteries starring Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie’s elderly tweed-clad amateur detective. Episodes include The Bodyin the Library and A Pocketful of Rye. 12 discs. Item# 22350 UK | 1984-87 | 1350 | PG | £99.99

The Hollow Crown

Mad Men: Seasons 1-5

Four adaptations that establish a new benchmark for the Bard on the Box. A cast including Ben Whishaw and Tom Hiddleston bring Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Richard II, 4 discs and Henry V to life

An expertly-scripted, sophisticated drama about a prestigious New York ad agency. Seasons 1-5 available separately. 3 discs each.

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BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas (Box Set)

Inspector Montalbano: Collection 1

All 12 of the wonderful dark miniatures – many adapted from MR James – that make up the sought-after series from the 1970s and the 2000s.

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Four episodes of the Italian crime and food drama: The Snack Thief, The Voice of the Violin, The Shape of Water and The Mystery of the Terracotta Dog. 2 discs. Item# 67702 Italy | 1999-2000 | 268 | subt | 15 | £19.99

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A Very Peculiar Practice Andrew Davies’ surreal and searingly funny look at sexual politics, medical malpractice and academic rivalry at the height of the Thatcher era. Peter Davison stars. 5 discs. Item# 64142 UK | 1986-88 | 800 | 15 | £49.99

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Dixon of Dock Green

London 2012 Olympic Games

Wagner

‘Good evening all.’ Jack Warner takes the role of the avuncular Sergeant George Dixon in these first six available colour episodes, originally broadcast between 2 discs. 1970-74.

The official BBC highlights from London’s unforgettable Olympic Games, including Danny Boyle’s full opening ceremony, the closing ceremony and 7 hours of sport5 discs. ing endeavour.

An exhaustive biopic of the composer Richard Wagner starring Richard Burton in the title role. Described in Opera News as ‘one of the most beautiful motion pictures in history’. 3 discs.

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Christmas at Downton Abbey

Lost Empires

Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister

Brian Percival The Christmas episode of the immensely popular ITV costume drama sees preparations underway for a lavish Christmas party at Downton Abbey. Maggie Smith heads the cast. Item# 67375 UK | 2011 | 120 | 12 | £19.99

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

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Tony Palmer

All the episodes from the two wonderfully witty parliamentset UK series. Nigel Hawthorne’s corrupt Sir Humphrey Appleby is one of Britain's great comic creations. Item# 30957 UK | 1980-88 | 1140 | PG | £49.99

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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Collection

Classic Movies

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Britten: War Requiem

Classic British B features new to DVD

Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Volume 5

A fifth collection of noir-tinged 1960s dramas and thrillers based on the novels Edgar Wallace, the extremely popular English writer of crime and mystery fiction during the early 20th century. The films were helmed by notable directors, while actors appearing in this volume include Patrick Magee, Katherine Blake, Alan MacNaughton, Nigel Stock and John Thaw. The seven hour-length films contained in this set are: Ricochet, The Double, The Rivals, To Have and to Hold, The Partner, Accidental Death and Five 3 discs. to One. UK | 1963 | NWORK | Cert PG Item# 69295 | RRP £29.99 | 22nd October

Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Volume 6

A sixth collection of featurelength dramas, adapted as supporting features at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s. Blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel, the films often featured strong casts, with the actors to appear in this volume including Peter Barkworth, Nigel Davenport, Faith Brook, Bernard Lee and Jeremy Kemp. The episodes are: Downfall, The Verdict, We Shall See, Who Was Maddox?, Face of a Stranger, Act of Murder 3 discs. and Never Mention Murder. UK | 1964 | NWORK | Cert PG Item# 69296 | RRP £29.99 | 22nd October

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Volume 7

The seventh and final volume of feature-length dramas based on the stories of Edgar Wallace, updated for the 1960s screen. Unseen for decades, the films in all seven volumes in the series have been freshly transferred from the original film elements specifically for this release. Actors appearing in this volume including Michael Gough, Kenneth Cope, Basil Henson, John Thaw and Ann Firbank. The episodes are: The Main Chance, Game for Three Losers, Change Partners, Strangler’s Web and Dead Man’s 2 discs. Chest.

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Fans of vintage horror will find chills aplenty in these six new releases on DVD and Blu-ray, including remastered Hammer classics and a box set starring the inimitable Peter Cushing.

The Peter Cushing Collection Four classic horrors: the story of Edinburgh grave robbers in The Flesh and the Fiends (Gilling, 1960, new to DVD), The Hellfire Club (Baker & Berman, 1961, new to DVD), Asylum (Baker, 1972) and And Now the Screaming Starts (Baker, 1973). Item# 69547 UK | 1960-73 | £19.99

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UK | 1965 | NWORK | Cert PG Item# 69297 | RRP £29.99 | 22nd October

Classic Horror

The Blood Beast Terror Dir: Vernon Sewell. Woman, Death’shead moth – or both? Peter Cushing’s inspector learns the truth. Item# 69477 UK | 1968 | 88 | 12 | £22.99

Andris Nelsons leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in this 50th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, recorded live at Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 2012, 50 years after its premiere there.

UK | 2012 | ART-H | 97 | Cert E Item# 69654 / 69658 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

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Don Quixote: Rudolf Nureyev Robert Helpmann

The restored version of Rudolf Nureyev’s 1973 production of Ludwig Minkus’s Don Quixote, filmed in a Melbourne hangar. Nureyev directed, choreographed and starred in the ballet, alongside Lucette Aldous and Robert Helpmann. Restored & remastered; Behind-the-scenes. Australia | 1973 | WVI | 128 | Cert E Item# 69403 / 69404 | RRP £17.99 | Out Now

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Variety Acts and Turns of the Late 1930s Over three glorious hours of variety artists from the golden age, including Robb Wilton, Robinson Cleaver, Cyril Fletcher, Arthur Askey, Bernard Clifton, Joe Loss, George Formby, Norman Evans, Bob and Alf Pearson, Ronald Frankau, Gracie Fields and many more.

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The Curse of Frankenstein Dir: Terence Fisher. Hammer’s wildly successful film. Cushing plays Baron Frankenstein, Lee the Monster. Item# 69146 UK | 1957 | 80 | 15 | £22.99

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The Devil Rides Out Dir: Terence Fisher. Hammer at its best. Charles Gray leads a satanic cult and Christopher Lee gets a rare chance to play the hero. Item# 69193 UK | 1968 | 92 | 15 | £22.99

UK | 1930s | C-RED | 196 | Cert E Item# 69727 | RRP £14.99 | 29th October

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The Mummy’s Shroud Dir: John Gilling. 1920, Egypt – a routine expedition is about to unleash a vengeful spirit. A film notorious for its gruesome murder sequences. Item# 68631 UK | 1967 | 84 | PG | £22.99

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Rasputin: The Mad Monk Dir: Don Sharp. Christopher Lee enjoys his license to overact wildly in this tale of the sinister Russian monk. Item# 68804 UK | 1966 | 92 | 15 | £22.99

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Aleksander Dovzhenko: War Trilogy Contains Aleksander Dovzhenko’s remarkable ‘Ukraine Trilogy’: Zvenigora (1928), Arsenal (1929) and Earth (1930) – three lyrical, radically beautiful cine-poems that chronicle the country’s transformation from a traditional, pastoral society to a modern 3 discs. communist state.

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Television Programmes Originally Broadcast

Edwardian Period Drama

New Releases Armchair Theatre: Volume 2

Eight more plays from the hugely popular ITV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. Contains Wednesday’s Child, Competition, The Left Overs, High Summer, The Creditors, The Death of Glory, The Square of Three and According to the Rules. Actors include 2 discs. John Thaw and Susannah York.

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UK | 1973 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item# 69492 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Arthur Haynes Show: Volume 5 Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular of TV comics. Features wickedly funny scripts from Alf Garnett’s creator, Johnny Speight. 2 discs.

UK | 1964 | NWORK | Cert PG Item# 68681 | RRP £19.99 | 5th November

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The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles’ freewheeling, often bamboozling take on a charabanc trip to the seaside, originally produced for TV and shot with only the vaguest of scripts. The film’s fabulous supporting cast includes Victor Spinetti and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Contains the only Commentary live version of I am the Walrus. by Paul McCartney; Making-of; Unused scenes and songs by Traffic and Ivor Cutler. UK | 1967 | EMI | 52 | Cert E Item# 69668 / 69693 | RRP £17.99 | 8th October

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The Bionic Woman

The complete three series of the 1970s spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lindsay Wagner as a ‘the bionic woman’, who is fitted with bionic replacement parts after a serious accident while holidaying with her childhood sweetheart, Steve 18 discs. ‘Six-Million Dollar Man’ Austin. USA | 1976-78 | FAB-F | 3504 | Cert PG Item# 67660 | RRP £99.99 | 5th November

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Released: 29th October Contains: Opening and closing ceremonies plus 7 hours of sporting highlights Extras: 5 discs; Opening ceremony commentary by Danny Boyle; Over 30 mins of extra features including a rendition of Edward Elgar’s Nimrod by the London Symphony Orchestra. Item# 69537 UK | 2012 | 2ENT | Cert E

Now that the unforgettable summer of Olympic sport in Britain has come to an end, it’s hard to recall the national mood of collective trepidation that took hold before Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony – along with the relief, disbelief, tears of joy and swell of increasing pride in the fact that the wondrous show that unfolded could get so many things about our national story so right in the eyes of a global audience. The show is presented here in its entirety, as is Kim Gavin’s musical finale, the two extravaganzas bookending over seven hours of astonishing sporting highlights, from ‘Super Saturday’ in the Olympic stadium with Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford, to the world record-breaking achievements of the track cyclists in the velodrome, swimmers in the pool and the drama of the rowing at Eton Dorney. Here is the evidence that the whole astonishing event really happened.

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Downton Abbey: Series 3 This third instalment of Julian Fellowes’ hugely popular and richly entertaining series sees the return of all the much-loved characters in the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey. As they face new challenges in the 1920s, the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, remain inseparably interlinked – their lives rendered even more complicated by a turbulent wartime. Now the storms of war have finally cleared, how has the way of life known by all the inhabitants of the great house changed? Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery lead the cast, while series 3 also sees Shirley MacLaine join the drama as Martha Levinson, Cora’s mother. Item# 69421 / 69422 UK | 2012 | £29.99

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Parade’s End Susanna White Adapted by Tom Stoppard from Ford Madox Ford’s mighty 1920s masterpiece, Parade’s End spans a turbulent decade at the start of the 20th century in the life of Edwardian aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (a spellbinding Benedict Cumberbatch). Torn between loyalty to his adulterous wife (the ravishing Rebecca Hall) and love for a sparky, doting Suffragist (Adelaide Clemens), he watches helplessly as his career and social standing disintegrate around him. In the background, the horrors of WWI will change him and the outmoded feudal society he was born into forever. With its hefty budget, 146 locations and a cast list to die for, this is 5 hours of slow-burn TV drama that cinema would be hard-pushed to equal. AB Item# 69110 / 69179 UK / USA | 2012 | 287 | 15 | £24.99

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Television The Borgias: Season 2

The complete second season Neil Jordan’s Renaissance power and politics drama starring Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia. In this season, Rodrigo makes new allies, but conflicts within the family add strain to his precarious situation. 3 discs.

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Michael Apted / John Irvin

A double bill of made-forTV spine-chillers, originally aired over the 1974 Christmas period. Contains The Ferryman (John Irvin), based on a Kingsley Amis story and starring Jeremy Brett, and Poor Girl (Michael Apted), about an Edwardian governess (Lynne Miller) in a house she believes to be haunted. UK | 1974 | NWORK | 100 | Cert PG Item# 69283 | RRP £12.99 | 22nd October

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Casanova ‘73

All seven episodes of Galton & Simpson’s 1973 comedy which follows the adventures of an avaricious businessman (Leslie Phillips) who, despite having a beautiful wife (Jan Holden) at home, is determined not to let the sexual revolution pass without his participation. Mary Whitehouse wasn’t amused however, and her vehement protests led to the show’s cancel2 discs; Leslie Philiips lation after one series. Interview; Galton and Simpson interview. UK | 1973 | ACORN | 210 | Cert 15 Item# 69598 | RRP £19.99 | 8th October

Heartbeat: Series 12 All 25 episodes from the twelfth series of the Yorkshire Television police drama. In this series, following a dramatic sequence of events, PC Mike Bradley (Jason Durr) leaves Aidensfield, with PC Steve Crane (James Carlton) eager to step into 7 discs. his shoes.

UK | 2003 | NWORK | 1200 | Cert TBC Item# 69285 | RRP £49.99 | 8th October

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Human Jungle: Complete

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Doctor Who - The New Series: 7 (Part 1)

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are back for the first five episodes of series seven, which sees them encounter Daleks, weeping angels and even dinosaurs on a spaceship as the series builds to the departure of 2 discs. The Ponds...

All 26 episodes from the 1960s ABC Television series starring Herbert Lom in his first British television role as psychiatrist Dr Roger Corder, who applies his insights to the diversity of problems that afflict those who sit in his chair. John Barry’s rousing theme tune sets the scene for each story, based on a real-life case history, and the cast includes Joan Collins, Francesca Annis, Rita Tushingham and Alfred 7 discs. Burke among many others.

UK | 1965 | NWORK | 1300 | Cert PG Item# 67799 | RRP £59.99 | 29th October

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Haunted

Hunderby Tony Dow

The complete first series of Julia Davis’s wonderfully imaginative and macabre black comedy set in the 1830s and with more than a hint of a twisted Rebecca about it. Alexandra Roach plays the woman with a dark past who weds a village pastor. Housekeeper Dorothy (Davis) keeps a 2 discs. close watch on her every move. UK | 2012 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item# 69613 | RRP £19.99 | 5th November

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

Ghost Stories for Christmas (Box Set) Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, A Ghost Story for Christmas was a much-loved fixture in the BBC’s seasonal schedule during the 1970s (and later in 200506). This definitive collection brings all twelve of its episodes together, along with a number of essential extra features. Contains Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968), Whistle and I’ll Come to You (2010), The Stalls of Barchester (1971), A Warning to the Curious (1972), Lost Hearts (1973), The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974, The Ash Tree (1975), The Signalman (1976), Stigma (1977), The Ice House (1978), A View from a Hill (2005) and Number 13 (2006). Item# 69093 UK | 1968-2006 | 480 | 15 | £49.99

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BBC Ghost Stories Vol 5: View from a Hill / Number 13 The final volume in this muchrequested series contains two later entries – View from a Hill (Luke Watson, 2005) and Number 13 (Pier Wilkie, 2006). Like the majority of the 1970s films, both were adapted from the stories of MR James. Both were screened to acclaim from critics and fans, and are perfect complements to the vintage BBC Christmas Ghost Story productions. In A View from a Hill, a young man (Mark Letheren) borrows a pair of bewitched binoculars which seem to show things that can only be seen with a dead man’s eyes, while Number 13 finds an academic (Greg Wise) kept awake at night in a hotel from the room next door – which is no longer there in daylight. Item# 69094 UK | 2005-06 | 80 | 12 | £19.99

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Spine-chilling Tales Sale

Tense up in terror this Autumn before our coven of dread-inducing DVDs and Blu-rays. These are all films that prize atmosphere over guts and gore – dread and unnamed fear needs no 18 certificate. So as Halloween approaches, curl up on the couch and let these spine-tinglers make your evening go with a bump in the night. The Innocents

Vampyr

The Woman in Black

Jack Clayton

Carl Theodor Dreyer

One of the greatest of all ghost stories on film, this celebrated screen adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror. Deborah Kerr stars.

Dreyer’s first sound film, freely adapted from the supernatural tales of Sheridan Le Fanu, is a supremely strange, oneiric film through which the viewer is led as if in a trance.

James Watkins

Item# 31089 / 59840 UK | 1961 | 100 | B/W | 12 | £19.99

Item# 54986 Germany | 1932 | 72 | subt | B&W | PG | £19.99

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Item# 68064 / 68065 UK | 2011 | 95 | 12 | £19.99

The Devil’s Backbone

House

The Others

Dir: Guillermo del Toro. A terrific gothic drama set in an isolated orphanage during the final days of the Spanish Civil War.

Dir: Nobuhiko Obayashi. Bubblegum teen melodrama meets grisly phantasmagoria in this deranged supernatural Japanese tale.

Dir: Alejandro Amenábar. A chiller in which Nicole Kidman plays the mother of photosensitive children in a darkened, haunted house.

Item# 10282 / 64236 Sp | 2001 | 103 | subt | 15 | £19.99

Item# 60909 Japan | 1977 | 87 | subt | £17.99

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Don’t Look Now

The Kingdom: I and II

The Owl Service

Dir: Nicolas Roeg. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play the married couple rebuilding their lives in this haunting film. 2 discs.

Lars von Trier’s weird, otherworldly and unpredictable TV series set in a labyrinthine, ultra-modern Danish 4 discs. hospital.

A girl and her stepbrother are drawn into a world of the supernatural in this groundbreaking series that raised the bar for a teenage TV drama.

Item# 66460 / 64295 UK | 1973 | 105 | 15 | £15.99

Item# 65541 Denmark | 1996 | 573 | subt | 18 | £39.99

Item# 53806 UK | 1969 | 240 | 12 | £14.99

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The Green Man

Kuroneko

Albert Finney stars as the inn owner who frightens his guests with tales of the building’s ghosts – and then comes to know they are real.

Dir: Kaneto Shindo. A sparse, atmospheric horror based on a folktale in which a mother and daughter return from the dead as cat spirits.

The Phantom Carriage

Item# 33798 UK | 1990 | 165 | 15 | £15.99

Item# 22823 Japan | 1968 | 96 | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99

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The Haunted House of Horror

Mystery and Imagination

Dir: Michael Armstrong. It’s ‘Haunted House a Go-Go’ as teens look for kicks in a deserted mansion.

Distinguished casts play out fine gothic tales in ITV’s classic late 1960s horror anthology series. 4 discs.

Item# 66669 UK | 1969 | 91 | 15 | £12.99

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Hotel

Night of the Demon

The Shining

Dir: Jessica Hausner. A disturbing journey through mystery and terror in an Alpine woodland hotel. An early film from the director of Lourdes.

Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Tremendous 1950s psychological horror, based on MR James’s The Casting of the Runes. Dana Andrews stars.

Item# 62027 Austria | 2004 | 83 | subt | 12 | £15.99

Item# 63072 UK | 1957 | 90 | B&W | PG | £19.99

Item# 8334 / 53566 USA | 1980 | 114 | 18 | £19.99

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Daniel Radcliffe stars as the lawyer who uncovers tragic secrets when called to wind up an estate in this tension-filled film. A fine return to form from Hammer Films. DVD: £7.99 Save £12 Blu-ray: £9.99

Item# 51337 Sweden | 1921 | 91 | U | £15.99

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The Queen of Spades Dir: Thorold Dickinson. An atmospheric thriller, based on a Pushkin story, that is one of the finest British films of the 1940s. Item# 60859 UK | 1948 | 91 | B&W | PG | £15.99

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson plays the writer who grabs a cosy little job looking after an isolated hotel for the winter. 2 discs.

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Dir: Victor Sjöström. One of the great silent films set to a thrilling new ambient doom drone soundtrack.

THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES THE FINAL VOLUMES Q From the pen of legendary crime writer Edgar Wallace Q Newly restored from original film elements Q Exclusive booklets by author Kim Newman

OUT ON DVD THIS OCTOBER THE HUMAN JUNGLE THE COMPLETE SERIES Q

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Starring Herbert Lom as compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Roger Corder Featuring a rousing score from John Barry Cast includes Francesca Annis, Rita Tushingham and Alfred Burke

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB THE COMPLETE SERIES Q Unseen for over 50 years Based on the real life escapades of famous foreign correspondents Featuring appearances from a wealth of contemporary British acting talent Q

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Television Moone Boy

Overseas Press Club

All the episodes from series five of the universally acclaimed drama series set in a prestigious advertising agency in early 1960s New York, where sexism is a way of life and the glass ceiling 3 discs; is low. Commentaries; Gallery; Featurettes. Also available: 15 disc seasons 1-5 box set.

Declan Lowney

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UK | 2012 | 2ENT | 180 | Cert 15 Item# 69049 | RRP £19.99 | 15th October

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Michael Wood – The Great British Story

Michael Wood presents this BBC documentary series that explores Britain’s past with an eye to the contribution of ordinary men and women. Episodes are: Britannia, Tribes to Nations, The Norman Yoke, The Great Rising, Lost Worlds and New Worlds, The Age of Revolution, Industry and 3 discs. Empire and Modern Britain. UK | 2012 | ACORN | 480 | Cert E Item# 69606 | RRP £25.99 | 1st October

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Mission Impossible: 1989

The complete second and final series of the late 1980s remake of the popular sixties TV show following an elite group of government spies under the command of Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), who masterminds the Force’s assignments against assassins, cults and rogue 4 discs. leaders.

USA | 1989 | Koch | 772 | Cert 12 Item# 69209 | RRP £24.99 | 15th October

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Mister Corbett’s Ghost Danny Huston

England, New Year’s Eve, 1767. Being forced to work on a night of celebration is the final straw for the long-suffering employee of the tyrannical Mr Corbett (Paul Scofield), and he puts a curse on his employer’s life. But is he prepared for what follows? In one of his final screen roles, John Huston appears as the ‘Soul Collector’. UK / USA | 1987 | IND3D | 54 | Cert PG Item# 69371 | RRP £9.99 | 15th October

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An Irish / British sitcom created, co-written by and starring Chris O’Dowd. David Rawle stars as Martin Moone, a young boy who relies on the help of his imaginary friend Sean (O’Dowd) to deal with the vagaries of life in a wacky small-town Irish family in the 1980s.

A Mother’s Son Ed Bazelgette

An ITV thriller starring Martin Clunes and Hermione Norris as a couple who fear that her son from a previous marriage may be involved in the murder of a teenage schoolgirl in nearby woodland. And his son seems to have something to hide too... UK | 2012 | G-VEN | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 69408 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

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Mr Rose: Series 2

The complete second series of the 1960s crime drama starring William Mervyn as a retired Chief Inspector whose intention to write his memoirs arouses the interest of criminals and former colleagues. Soon, helped by his trusty manservant (Donald Webster) and his secretary (Gillian Lewis), he has plenty of fresh 2 discs. investigations on his hands. UK | 1968 | NWORK | 300 | Cert PG Item# 69287 | RRP £19.99 | 22nd October

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Out of Town: The Lost Episodes

All 13 episodes from the 1957 anthology series which followed the adventures of foreign correspondents around the world. Each of the episodes follows a different international news story from the perspective of a foreign correspondent, with actors including Phyllis Calvert, Richard 2 discs. O’Sullivan and Peter Wyngarde. UK | 1957 | NWORK | 325 | Cert PG Item# 69289 | RRP £19.99 | 22nd October

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Sinbad

A thrilling modern take on the famous legend from the Arabian Nights. On the run from his home town of Basra for a killing that led to the death of his brother, the streetwise Sinbad (Elliot Knight) is cast out to sea with a diverse band of travellers as he embarks on a quest to rid himself of his grandmother’s curse. 3 discs. UK | 2012 | 2ENT | 400 | Cert 12 Item# 69056 / 69058 | RRP £29.99 | 22nd Oct

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The Two Ronnies: Complete

‘And in a packed programme tonight...’ – the complete run of the BBC comedy show starring Ronnies Barker and Corbett, broadcast over 12 series between 1971-87. Contains 93 full episodes of The Two Ronnies, the four Christmas specials, two silent films – By the Sea and The Picnic – and The One Ronnie, Ronnie Corbett’s 2010 sketch show. 27 discs.

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For over 20 years Out Of Town provided a window on life in rural Britain. Apart from 28 episodes recreated by presenter Jack Hargreaves in 1986 (available as a 10 disc box set), it was presumed that all other examples of the original series had been lost forever – until now, when these 34 complete episodes, unseen since their original broadcast in 198010 discs each. 81, came to light.

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Mad Men: Season 5

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Documentaries Silent

Television Also Released... The British

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Cheers: Seasons 1-11 Item# 69314 USA | 1982-93 | 12 | £129.99

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Death in Paradise: Series 1 Item# 67014 UK | 2011 | 466 | 12 | £19.99

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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos (SE) Michael Ferguson

Item# 69107 UK | 1971 | 98 | U | £19.99

A profile of one of Hollywood’s greatest choreographers, Hermes Pan, filled with irresistible archive film. Collaborating with Fred Astaire through all of his films, Pan was the man behind some of the most iconic dance sequences captured on film, working with Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra among others. USA | 1994 | ART-H | 57 | Cert E Item# 69726 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

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Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart in Japan A prize-winning film about the triumphant return of Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida to her homeland in 1986, following her ecstatically received European performances of all 27 Mozart Piano Concertos.

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House: Season 8 - The Final Season Item# 69684 USA | 2012 | 924 | 15 | £34.99

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Inspector Montalbano: Complete Series One Item# 69625 Italy | 2002 | subt | 15 | £45.99

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A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales Item# 69694 UK | 2012 | £9.99

Robert Kuperberg

Tony Palmer

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Dance Crazy in Hollywood

The Royal Air Force in the Early 1970s: The Definitive Short Films Collection

The definitive collection of 20 official Royal Air Force training, information, recruitment and instructional films that give an unprecedented in-depth insight into RAF squadrons and the breadth of their operations during the 2 discs. early 1970s.

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Life’s Too Short: S1 Item# 68354 UK | 2011 | 180 | 15 | £19.99

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Lonesome Dove: Complete Collection Item# 69607 USA | 1989-1996 | 15 | £79.99

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Wagner’s Dream Susan Froemke

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Director Susan Froemke follows Robert Lepage as he takes on opera’s most monumental challenge: a back-to-back production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle. The film follows the turbulent five-year journey taken by Lepage and the New York Metropolitan Opera as they set about trying to realise Wagner’s dream of a perfect Ring.

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Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story Lamont Johnson

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The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters Recommended Director: Sergei Eisenstein / John Grierson Released: 5th November Extras: 2 discs; Bonus Films: Granton Trawler (Grierson, 1934), Trade Tattoo (Lye, 1937), North Sea (Watt, 1938); Booklet. Item# 68450 Russia / UK | 1929 | BFI | 124 | B&W | Cert PG

Recreating the simultaneous British premieres of Sergei Eisenstein’s incendiary Battleship Potemkin and John Grierson’s pioneering documentary Drifters in a double bill on 10 November 1929, this latest ‘Soviet Influence’ entry follows From Turksib to Night Mail in demonstrating the strong stylistic and historical links between the two films. Potemkin (presented here with Edmond Meisel’s famous score) is one of the cinema’s supreme masterpieces of visual composition and rhythmic editing. If the work of North Sea herring fishermen, the subject of Drifters, seems sedate by comparison, it’s nonetheless hard to miss Eisenstein’s influence on the way that Grierson uses montage. The double bill influenced several 1930s documentaries, three of which are included here: Grierson’s Granton Trawler, Len Lye’s rhythmic Trade Tattoo and Harry Watt’s intensely dramatic North Sea. MB

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See Also Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended) Peter Jackson

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Metropolis Fritz Lang

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Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (Box) Metropolitan Opera

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rguably the most visually ravishing movie ever made, Fritz Lang’s near five-hour adaptation of the myth that served as the basis for Wagner’s Ring opera cycle can honestly boast that each of its shots has the jaw hitting the floor. There are Icelandic castles surrounded by a sea of molten fire, a (rather sweet) dragon drinking from a brook in an idyllic glade, and the hairy hordes of Attila the Hun wassailing in a court that looks like a brothel out of One Million Years BC. One image of Siegfried’s bride, Kriemhild, framed by the archway into a giant cathedral, with the modernist towers of her castle behind her, gives such an eerie sense of the fantastic that it would leave a Star Wars production manager weeping into his Tattooine beer. Contemporary blockbuster makers have toiled to imitate the film’s epic nature, but there are no pixellated armies to be found here, nor CGI dioramas either. Instead, there are thousands of extras and those magnificent UFA sets that stretch as far as the eye can see. A silent film version of a story more familiar as an opera may seem an odd undertaking, but it’s in the very language of silent film – its more exaggerated acting, its

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Arguably the most visually ravishing film ever made reliance on visual metaphor rather than dialogue – that Lang discovers the ideal analogue for opera’s sweep and hysterical grandeur. And the story is not without complexity, showing how the fierce adherence to codes of love, honour and loyalty transforms each character into a monster; the finale, in which a demented Kriemhild watches as her family burns to death, is as troubling as it is moving. There is also a subtle commentary on the relationship between master and servant, king and vassal, that extends into the intimacy of the bedchamber, the question of whether a queen is submissive or dominant being one that affects whole empires. This superb new HD restoration preserves the filmic quality of the celluloid print, while rendering each image sharp and rich in detail. The new recording of Gottfreid Huppertz’s accompanying score is also beautiful. Overall, it’s a release that is as much of a triumph as the film itself. Mike Bartlett Page 27

Die Nibelungen

Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

New Releases Anna Pavlova Emil Loteanu

Made as a by-product of a Western / Soviet trade deal and originally to be directed by Michael Powell (who ended up in an supervisory role), this biopic for ballet lovers tells the story of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. Galina Belyayeva stars. Russ / UK | 1983 | ODEON | 126 | U Item# 69488 | RRP £17.99 | 8th October

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The Bengali Night Nicolas Klotz

A colonial-era drama, scripted by Jean-Claude Carrière, from the director of Heartbeat Detector (2007). Hugh Grant stars as an English engineer who falls in love with a Bengali girl – but can love overcome their vastly different cultural upbringings and the prejudices of those around them? France / UK | 1988 | F-FLY | 107 | subt | Cert PG Item# 69723 | RRP £12.99 | 8th October

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Black Beauty James Hill

A faithful adaptation of Anna Sewell’s children’s story, Black Beauty tells the adventures of a young boy (Mark Lester) and a spirited horse, whose journey shows him the best and worst in human nature before he is reunited with his first friend. A family classic. UK | 1971 | ODEON | 90 | Cert PG Item# 69487 / 67853 | RRP £14.99 | 22nd Oct

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Cross of Honour Petter Naess

Aka Into the White. A WWII drama starring Rupert Grint, in which crashed English and German aircrews put their animosity aside as they share a mountain cabin and try to deal with the merciless conditions of the Norwegian wilderness in which they are stranded. Norway / Sweden | 2012 | MET-D | 100 Cert 15 Item# 69615 / 69616 | RRP £15.99 | 1st October

Death Watch Recommended

The Hunter Recommended

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Director: Daniel Nettheim

Starring: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow, Thérèse Liotard

Starring: Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Jacek Koman, Sullivan Stapleton

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Extras: Extended Bertrand Tavernier Interview.

Item# 69158 Australia | 2011 | ART-E | 101 | Cert 15

Item# 67998 France | 1980 | PARKC | 124 | Cert 15

Willem Dafoe is at his brooding best in this Australian eco-thriller based on the novel by Julia Leigh. It’s a story of how nature tests our humanity, but also helps us rediscover it, and its meditative tone and dramatic location photography evokes Werner Herzog and Terrence Malick. Dafoe plays a mercenary hired by a shadowy biotech firm to obtain tissue samples from a Tasmanian tiger. One problem: this strange marsupial has been reported extinct for over 70 years, so David has to travel deep into the Tasmanian wilderness. Here, he befriends a troubled woman and her two children whose environmentalist father has gone missing. The film follows David as he treks through the bleak, beautiful landscape, crafting traps, catching and gutting bait, masking his scent, waiting, and watching. As he immerses himself physically and spiritually in his surroundings, the film becomes increasingly troubled by the family’s plight and his mission. This is an engrossing film which, like Dafoe’s performance, projects great dramatic power through stillness and silence. MW

Adapted from David G. Compton’s novel The Unsleeping Eye, Death Watch is a chillingly prescient treatise on the future of medicine and technology, the trivialisation of human existence and the use of television as a means of societal control. Tavernier expertly exploits the everyday here. His sci-fi speculation is set in the disconcerting reality of a Glasgow that has scarcely benefitted from a brave new world in which illness has been eradicated and the media is devoted to peddling propaganda and distracting the public from the truth. As a romantic novelist learning she is suffering from a fatal disease, Romy Schneider is touchingly vulnerable. She is also pluckily rebellious as she reneges on a deal to broadcast her demise and forges an alliance with Harvey Keitel’s drifter, unaware that his left eye is a camera capturing her every thought and deed for an engrossed audience. The denouement sees Schneider reunite with old flame Max von Sydow; its warning about audience responsibility is both provocative and troubling. DP

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Dark Shadows Tim Burton

Never Too Young to Rock Denis Abey

A fantasy drama-horror based on the cult 1960s TV series. Johnny Depp stars as the playboy turned into a vampire after breaking the heart of a witch and inadvertently freed two centuries later into the very changed world of 1972. USA | 2012 | WHV | 114 | Cert 12 Item# 69556 / 69557 | RRP £19.99 | 15th Oct

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Electrick Children Rebecca Thomas

An indie coming-of-age drama in which a sheltered young Mormon girl (Julia Garner) believes that she has become pregnant by listening to a pop song on a forbidden cassette recorder – and sets out in search of its singer. USA | 2012 | REV | 95 | | Cert 15 Item# 69178 | RRP £15.99 | 15th October

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The Harry Novak Collection: Volume 3

Three more servings of outrageous sleaze from legendary producer Harry Novak: ‘country nudie’ The Pigkeeper’s Daughter (Bethel Buckalew, 1972), Please Don’t Eat My Mother! (Carl Monson, 1973) – a spoof of Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors, and The Sinful Dwarf (Vidal Raski, 1973), a seriously sleazy Danish / US co-production originally deemed 3 discs. too shocking for release. USA | 1972-73 | REVEL | Cert 18 Item# 68193 | RRP £19.99 | 8th October

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Killer Joe

William Friedkin Matthew McConaughey and Juno Temple star in this lurid, violent black comedy thriller directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist). Set in the whitetrash backwaters of Texas, it sees a drug dealer and his father hire Dallas detective and hitman Killer Joe to bump off the dealer’s mother in the hope of getting their hands on her substantial life insurance policy. USA | 2011 | E1 | 103 | Cert 18 Item# 69413 / 69414 | RRP £19.99 | 5th Nov

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A madcap glittery time capsule made at the high point of glam rock and featuring some of the sounds of the era from Mud, The Rubettes and Cast The Glitter Band. and Director Interviews; Audio Commentary; Radio 1 Roadshow 1976 Documentary. UK | 1976 | ODEON | 96 | Cert U Item# 69478 | RRP £14.99 | 8th October

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Also Released... Basket Case: Trilogy Frank Henenlotter

Item# 69381 USA | 1991 | 259 | 18 | £29.99

Company of Wolves Neil Jordan

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With a haunting visual grandeur, Ridley Scott’s gripping sci-fi thriller sees the inhabitants of a spacecraft journey to probe the origins of human life on Earth – and find their inquisitiveness posing a threat to the future existence of humankind. Michael Fassbender excels as the Alternate Scenes. ship’s fastidious robot.

Fast Girls

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Rodrigo Cortés

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Saints and Soldiers 2 Ryan Little

Aka Airborne Creed. This prequel to Little’s 2003 film Saints and Soldiers tells the story of three US paratroopers fighting to stay alive on the front lines of war in France as they team up with members of the French resistance. USA | 2012 | MET-D | 94 | Cert 15 Item# 69644 / 69648 | RRP £15.99 | 15th Oct

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Snow White and the Huntsman Rupert Sanders

A dark fantasy adventure based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) puts a death sentence on her fair stepdaughter Snow White (Kristen Stewart) – but the huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) charged with killing her takes pity on the girl and teaches her the arts of war so she can put an end to the Evil Queen’s tyrannical rule. USA | 2012 | UPV | 127 | Cert 12 Item# 69245 / 69246 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

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Regan Hall

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Ill Manors Ben Drew

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Red Lights

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Your Sister’s Sister Lynn Shelton

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James Cameron

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Empire of the Sun Steven Spielberg

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Glengarry Glen Ross James Foley

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Indiana Jones: Complete Adventures Item# 68958 USA | 2008 | 482 | 12 | £64.99

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Who Dares Wins / The Commander Ian Sharp

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James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

The Black Economy

It Always Rains on Sunday

nce again, it’s been another banner year for DVD and it’s not over yet. Next month sees the release of a new edition of one of the least known masterpieces of British film, It Always Rains on Sunday. True, it has been available before but it’s been freshly scrubbed up and, better yet, earned promotion to Bluray, firmly establishing it amongst the premier titles of British film and the equal (at least) of director Robert Hamer’s other masterpiece, Kind Hearts and Coronets. Set against a backdrop of spivs and villains in the post-war East End, it’s a poetic study of regret, whose fatalistic title perfectly captures the film’s lowrent disappointments. It’s tempting to expound the rest of my word count singing its praises, but let’s broaden the discussion out a little: this wasn’t the only film of its era to focus on the black economy and it’s an underappreciated aspect of our national cinema. Although the immediate postwar years are remembered as a time of escapism in British film (Powell and Pressburger and so forth), there was also something of a boom in crime films, drawing on the criminal culture that flourished in the age of rationing. Brighton Rock (nominally set prewar) is probably the best known; far better is Cavalcanti’s remorseless They Made Me a Fugitive, in which Big Trevor Howard plots revenge on the racketeers who fitted him up for A Crime He Did Not Commit. Confounding many an expectation along the way (drug dealing, it would appear, began well before the 1960s), it builds to an ending that must be amongst the most nihilistic in British film. On a less elevated level is the uneven, but entertaining Noose,

In hindsight, we can see the excitement of new horizons in 1970s British film directed with a most un-British sense of style by ex-pat Frenchman Edmond T Greville. More importantly, it has a character called ‘Jumbo Hoyle’. We can, I hope, all agree that there are not enough characters called ‘Jumbo’ in films. It’s an interesting piece of synchronicity that these films – and there are many others – emerged at a time when similar things were happening across the Atlantic, the low-budget, hard-bitten crime films later known as Film Noir. But the British fxilmmakers weren’t, for once, imitating the Americans. Rather, they were responding to the same anxieties, about the costs (moral, mental, physical) and consequences of the war. It’s a movement who’s importance (and whose quality) is beginning to be recognised, in large part because more of these films are becoming available. Labels like Odeon and Renown, not to mention the BFI’s essential Flipside range, are helping us

to see the buried treasure that has languished in the crates for so long. Even after the initial wave subsided, the British continued to make excellent crime films (Panic, The Shakedown, The Squeeze to name just three of many). Indeed, factor in everything up to and including Gangster No.1 and Sexy Beast, and crime films look less of a national embarrassment (let us say nothing of the ‘lottery funded gangster films’ that blighted the earlier years of this century) and more like one of the genres at which the British excel. It Always Rains on Sunday, then, should be regarded not as a brilliant one-off but the tip of a fascinating iceberg.

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The Shakedown John Lemont

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The Soviet Influence Battleship Potemkin / Drifters See page 26 for our review

The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters The second in the BFI’s brilliant series exploring the influence of silent Soviet classics on British filmmakers of the 1930s, this edition presents one of the classics of world cinema, Sergei Eisentein’s Battleship Potemkin and accompanies it with John Grierson’s ground breaking 1929 documentary Drifters. Restored; 3 bonus films. Item# 68450 Russia / UK | 1929 | 124 | B&W | PG | £19.99

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