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 WELCOME TO OUR NEW DVD RELEASE NEWSLETTER FOR FEBRUARY-MARCH 2013 FRENCH CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013AMOUR (12A) 2012 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL £15.99 - DUE FOR DVD RELEASE ON 18 MARCH 2013 Drama exploring death, ageing and the fear of loss. Anne and George (Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) are a couple in their 80s who are enjoying their retirement, but that changes when, after an operation following a stroke, Anne is left wheelchair-bound and paralysed. Although she expresses her wish to die, even going so far as to make an attempt at taking her own life, George tries to remind her of the beauty and worth of life itself and the love that they share for each other. BLU RAY £19.99 ANGEL AND TONY (15) 2010 FRANCE DELAPORTE, ALIX £15.99
French drama chronicling the uneasy relationship that develops between
two very different people. Recently released from prison, the beautiful
but troubled Angèle (Clotilde Hesmé) answers a personal ad on a whim,
and soon finds herself caught up in the life of recently-bereaved
middle-aged fisherman Tony (Grégory Gadebois), who lives with his mother
in a small village on the Normandy coast. Despite a tricky beginning,
the two make a connection of sorts, with Tony helping Angèle to find a
job and a place to stay.
Both beleaguered by their own problems,
it takes time to establish a bond, but over time they manage to
negotiate a relationship that makes sense for them both. L'ASSASSIN HABITE AU 21/MURDERER LIVES AT 21 (TBA) 1942 FRANCE CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES £17.99 DUE FOR DVD RELEASE ON 18 MARCH 2013 A thief and killer stalks the streets of Paris, leaving a calling card from 'Monsieur Durand' at the scene of each crime. ASSOCIÉS CONTRE LE CRIME...,/PARTNERS IN CRIME (12) 2012 FRANCE THOMAS, PASCAL £12.99
André Dussollier and Catherine Frot reprise their roles as the
semi-retired husband and wife sleuths Bélisaire and Prudence 'Tuppence'
Beresford in this comic Agatha Christie adaptation. LE BEAU SERGE (12) 1958 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £17.99 - DUE FOR DVD RELEASE ON 25 MARCH 2013 Claude
Chabrol's directorial debut has been credited as the first film to
emerge from the French New Wave. François (Stéphane Audran) returns to
his hometown from the big city to find that his old friend Serge (Gérard Blain) is stuck in a loveless marriage and is drinking. François determines to help him turn his life around. BEAU TRAVAIL (15) 1998 FRANCE CLAIRE DENIS £19.99 Based on the Herman Melville book ‘Billy Budd’ set in the French Foreign Legion. CHRONIQUES SEXUELLES D'UNE FAMILLE D'AUJOURD'HUI/SEXUAL CHRONICLES OF A FRENCH FAMILY (18) 2012 FRANCE BARR, J.M/ARNOLD, P £15.99 French
comedy in which a family are moved to openly discuss their sex lives in
a bid to help the frustrated adolescent in their midst. THE CLAIRE DENIS COLLECTION (15) £29.99
Collection of four films - 'White Material' (2009), 'Beau Travail'
(1999), 'Nénette et Boni' (1996) and 'Chocolat' (1988). LA COURSE DU LIÈVRE À TRAVERS LES CHAMPS/AND HOPE TO DIE (12) 1972 FRANCE CLÉMENT,.RENÉ £15.99 A fugitive needs all his wits about him to outrun the assassins on his trail. LES COUSINS (12) 1959 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £17.99 - DUE FOR DVD RELEASE ON 25 MARCH 2013 The fortunes of two cousins whose bond is tested by a beautiful woman. DARDENNE BROTHERS COLLECTION (15) £59.99 Collection of six features from acclaimed filmmakers the Dardenne brothers. Contains - LE
GAMIN AU VELO/THE KID WITH A BIKE (2011), LE SILENCE DE LORNA/SILENCE
OF LORNA (2008), CHILD/L'ENFANT (2005), LE FILS/SON (2002), ROSETTA
(1999) & LA PROMESSE (1996)
LA FOLIE D'AMOUR: THE XAVIER DOLAN COLLECTION (15) £28.99 Contains - Heartbeats/I Killed My Mother/Laurence Anyways GERVAISE (12) 1956 FRANCE CLÉMENT, RENÉ £15.99 René Clément directs this adaptation of Émile Zola's novel
'L'Assommoir', that follows the struggles of a young laundress trying to
survive in 1850s Paris. HARD SEASON 1(15) 2008 FRANCE VERNEY, CATHY £15.99 Respectable
middle-class housewife and mother suddenly loses her husband in a freak
accident. On the day of his funeral the true nature of the family
business is finally disclosed to her: the production of porno movies! To
save her home and feed her children she has to immediately resume
management of the company, a business. Can she revitalise the fortunes
of the company and bring some much-needed new ideas to the business. HOLY MOTORS (18) FRANCE 2012 CARAX , LEOS £15.99 Surrealist French drama in which Monsieur
Oscar is driven around Paris by his chauffeur. At various points
throughout the day Oscar is a businessman, a beggar, an assassin, a
father and an old woman, venturing out into the world to engage with
others in each role and embarking on bizarre adventures. INTOUCHABLES/UNTOUCHABLE (15) 2011 FRANCE OLIVIER NAKACHE, O/TOLEDANO.E £19.99
Paul (François Cluzet), a rich aristocrat and habitual thrill-seeker,
becomes quadriplegic after a paragliding accident. Alone in the world
and unable to care for himself in even the most basic ways, Paul employs
young Senegalese émigré Driss (Omar Sy) as his carer.
Despite
their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men
quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons
about acceptance, respect and the true meaning of friendship in the
process. JEUX INTERDITS /FORBIDDEN GAMES (12) 1952 FRANCE CLÉMENT, RENÉ £15.99
Set in France in 1940, the story follows five-year-old Paulette
(Brigitte Fossey), who is left traumatised after her parents and pet dog
are killed in a Nazi air attack whilst fleeing Paris. She soon finds
herself befriended by ten-year-old Michel Dollé (Georges Poujouly),
however, whose peasant family takes her in.
As
Paulette and Michel become best friends, they find a way of coping with
the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own
world, and in particular, a small cemetery in the ruins of an old barn,
where they bury Paulette's dog, and any other dead animals and insects
they find. LAURENCE ANYWAYS (12) 2012 CANADA DOLAN, £15.99 French-Canadian romantic drama about the effect of a sex change on a long-standing heterosexual relationship. LA MAISON SOUS LES ARBRES/THE DEADLY TRAP (12) 1971 FRANCE CLÉMENT, RENÉ £15.99 After moving to Paris with her computer expert husband Philippe
(Langella), Jill (Dunaway) becomes worried for her family's future when
her husband suddenly quits his job for no apparent reason. With
Philippe's former employers unwilling to part company, however, and her
past psychological problems resurfacing, Jill soon finds herself having
to investigate her husband's murky past, as the suspected kidnapping of
her children threatens to throw her over the edge. NENETTE ET BONI (15) 1996 FRANCE DENIS, CLAIRE £15.99
Boni (Grégoire Colin) has enough trouble containing his erotic fixation
with the local baker's wife, but when his estranged younger sister,
Nenette (Alice Houri), arrives on his doorstep claiming she's pregnant, a
whole host of new problems come to the fore. As the two struggle to
adjust to their new situation, they begin to understand each other as
well as the new responsibility which awaits them in the future. PETIT NICOLAS (PG) 2009 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT £15.99
Comedy based on the 1950s comics by
René Goscinny. Eight-year-old Nicolas (Maxime Godart) has a perfect
set-up, with loving parents, good friendships and a happy school life.
His idyllic existence soon changes, however, when he misinterprets a
conversation that he overhears between his parents (Valérie Lemercier
and Kad Merad), leading him to believe that his mother is pregnant.
With
his imagination running wild, he soon jumps to the conclusion that his
parents will be too wrapped up with their new arrival to spare any time
for him, and quickly sets about planning how to keep things just the way
they are. DE ROUILLE ET D'OS/RUST AND BONE (15) 2012 FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES £17.99 The
film starts by telling two parallel stories: one of Ali (Matthias
Schoenaerts), a homeless father struggling to care for his five-year-old
son, and the other of Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a woman who loses
her legs in an accident while working as a trainer of killer whales.
Both strong, idiosyncratic characters who are used to defining the
parameters of their personal relationships, their union forces them out
of the emotional safety zones they have each developed for the purposes
of self-protection. LA POISON (PG) 1951 FRANCE GUITRY, SACHA £17.99
Early 1950s French black comedy from writer-director Sacha Guitry.
Married couple Paul and Blandine Braconnier (Michel Simon and Germaine
Reuver) detest one another - so much so that they both consider killing
the other. As Blandine plans to poison him, Paul fatally stabs her but
with the help of brilliant lawyer Maître Aubanel (Jean Debucourt) he may
just get away with murder..BLU RAY - £19.99. RUST AND BONE/DE ROUILLE ET D'OS (15) 2012 FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES £17.99 The
film starts by telling two parallel stories: one of Ali (Matthias
Schoenaerts), a homeless father struggling to care for his five-year-old
son, and the other of Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a woman who loses
her legs in an accident while working as a trainer of killer whales.
Both strong, idiosyncratic characters who are used to defining the
parameters of their personal relationships, their union forces them out
of the emotional safety zones they have each developed for the purposes
of self-protection. SISTER (15) 2012 FRANCE MEIER, URSULA £15.99 - DUE FOR DVD RELEASE ON 11 MARCH 2013
Set in a Swiss ski resort.
Every day, twelve-year-old Simon catches the cable car up the mountain
to an upmarket ski resort near his home in the Swiss Alps in order to
steal food, money and equipment from the wealthy guests in order to
support himself and his older sister. According to Simon, his parents
are dead, and Louise does all she can to avoid the responsibilities of
taking care of him.
Tension and ambiguity build as the facts of Simon's past and future become more and more uncertain. TRANSYLVANIA (15) 2006 FRANCE GATLIT, TONY £9.99
Impressionistic take on the road movie genre. When Zingarina (Asia
Argento) arrives in the mysterious backwaters of Transylvania, she has
but one thing on her mind: to find her long-lost lover Milan (Marco
Castoldi), a musician who made her pregnant and then left without a word
of explanation. After trawling the various clubs and bars with her
sister Marie (Amira Casar), she eventually finds him, only for Milan to
brutally reject her.
Totally distraught, Zingarina cuts herself
loose from Marie, and everything she holds dear. Plunged into the
thrumming festivities of a Romany carnival, she emerges in a daze only
to be lured ever deeper into the rolling hills of Romania. It is here
that she meets Tchangalo (Birol Unel), a travelling trader who takes her
under his wing.
They embark on a roadtrip upon which they indulge in wild bouts of gypsy folk dance, and nights of heady passion. VOUS N'AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU/YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET (PG) 2012 FRANCE RESNAIS, ALAIN £15.99 Theatre, memory and the past combine as a group of actors reunite on the wishes of their former director.
GERMAN CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013BARBARA (12A) 2012 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN £17.99
Set in pre-Berlin Wall East Germany in 1980. Nina Hoss stars as
Barbara, a young doctor starting a new job at a small hospital in the
provinces. It transpires she has been transferred there by the
government as punishment for applying for an exit visa from the GDR.
Her
aim is to escape to the West to join her boyfriend Jörg (Mark Waschke),
who has been planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. Barbara, detached
and self-contained, keeps her head down and gets on with her work,
despite being subjected to random home checks and intrusive body
searches. However, as the weeks go by, she becomes both beguiled and
confused by the attentions of her new boss, Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld).
Can she trust him, or has he been assigned to keep tabs on her?
Review - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/barbara-christian-petzold-105-mins-12a-8190724.html
BLAUE ENGEL/BLUE ANGEL (PG) GERMANY 1931 B/W STERNBERG, JOSEF VON £19.99
Marlene Dietrich stars in this classic adaptation of Heinrich Mann’s
novel. Now available in much improved quality and in Dual Format
(Blu-ray + DVD) with both the German-language “main” version, and the
simultaneously shot English-language version.
Also included
are newly translated optional subtitles on the German-language version; a
new exclusive video essay on the film by critic and scholar Tag
Gallagher; a feature-length audio commentary by critic and scholar Tony
Rayns on the German-language version; the original 1929 screen test with
Marlene Dietrich; an archival 1971 interview clip with Dietrich; three
clips of Dietrich in performance from 1963 and 1972 concerts; the
theatrical and re-release trailers; and a 48-PAGE BOOKLET containing: a
1968 essay by Josef von Sternberg about the film; a complete timeline of
the film’s production history by Werner Sudendorf; and copious rare
archival imagery from the production provided by Sudendorf and the
Deutsche Kinemathek.
WENN DER VATER MIT DEM SOHNE (U) 1955 GERMANY QUEST, HANS £12.99
Comedy drama starring Heinz Rühmann as the Clown Teddy who has lost
his way after the death of his son. His landladies sons reawakens Teddy
desire to preform as a clown again.ITALIAN CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013 ACE (U) 1981 ITALY CASTELLANO, FRANCO £12.99
Comedy in which Ace a newly wed poker player wins against a notorious
sore loser who employs a killer to do away with Ace for good. THE ARRIVAL OF WANG (15) 2011 ITALY MANETTI, MARCO AND ANTONIO £12.99
When a young Chinese interpreter receives a call from an old client
offering her some highly paid work, she wonders about the nature of the
job. What she is confronted with when she arrives is something she could
not have prepared herself for.
It appears that an alien has been
captured by the government and can only communicate in Chinese. Gaia is
then tasked with determining its intentions. LA CITTÀ DELLE DONNE/CITY OF WOMEN (18) 1980 ITALY FELLINI , FEDERICO £17.99 A
late work from celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini, which
features his usual blend of circus and comic strip grotesques. When
Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), a middle-aged businessman, is enticed
off a train he finds himself in a world completely dominated by women.
As more and more bizarre adventures happen to him, it is clear that he
is moving through his own fears and fantasies about women. DJANGO: UNCUT (15) 1966 ITALY CORBUCCI, SERGIO £12.99 Uncut version of the 1960s seminal spaghetti western originally banned in Britain. BLU RAY - £22.99 DJANGO, PREPARE A COFFIN (15) 1968 ITALY BALDI, FERDINANDO £15.99
Italian spaghetti western starring Terence Hill as gunslinger Django.
While working for a corrupt politician under the pretence of hanging
innocent men so his boss can claim their land, Django in fact fakes
their deaths and recruits them for his own gang so he can get revenge on
the man he holds responsible for his wife's murder. DJANGO SHOOTS FIRST (PG) 1966 ITALY DE MARTINO , ALBERTO £15.99
Spaghetti western starring Glenn Saxson as an avenging gunslinger out
to track down the crooked businessman who murdered his father over a
business deal. IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO/INSPECTOR MONTALBANO: COLLECTION THREE (15) ITALY £19.99
Four episodes of the Italian crime drama based on the series of novels
by Andrea Camilleri. The episodes are: 'Turning Point', 'Equal Time',
'The Spider's Patience' and 'Find the Lady'. IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO/INSPECTOR MONTALBANO: COLLECTION FOUR (15) ITALY £19.99
Features 'August Flame', 'The Wings of the Sphinx', 'Track of Sand' and 'Paper Moon'.
JAPANESE CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013 COMPLETE EXISTING FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA (PG) JAPAN 1937 £25.99
Although he made 22 films over a six - year period (before dying of
dysentery in a Japanese Imperial Army outpost in Manchuria at the age of
28), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in
the West.
Tange Sazen: The Million Ry ô Pot is a gloriously comic
adventure yarn as the titular one - eyed, one - armed swordsman becomes
embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden
treasure. In K ôchiyama Sôshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a
classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai
leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of
circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an
unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society
in the 18th century. FLOATING WEEDS (PG) 1959 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99 Restrained and bittersweet melodrama FOREIGN DUCK, THE NATIVE DUCK AND GOD IN A COIN LOCKER (15) 2007 JAPAN NAKAMURA, YOSHIHIRO £15.99
Shiina (Gaku Hamada) and his neighbour, Kawasaki (Eita) are polar
opposites which are attracted to each other by their mutual love of Bob
Dylan, but the friendship begins to be put under strain when Kawasaki's
warnings about the local bookstore owner may not be completely truthful
and it isn't long before all involved become embroiled in an absurd
series of events. JOURNEY TO AGARTHA (15) 2011 JAPAN SHINKAI,MAKOTO £19.99 Coming of age anime following the adventures of a young girl in a mysterious land. ONIBABA (15) 1964 JAPAN B/W SHINDO, KANETO £19.99 Strange and violent folk tale. THE WOODSMAN AND THE RAIN (12) JAPAN OKITA, SHÛICHI £15.99
Comedy drama about a young movie director and his crew travel to
Yamamura, a small mountain village to make a film. One of these locals
is woodsman finds himself helping the film crew and an unlikely
friendship with Koichi begins.
CHINESE CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013A SIMPLE LIFE (PG) 2011 CHINA HUI, ANN IN CANTONESE £17.99
Film about an elderly housekeeper and the employer who comes to look after her.
AFTERSHOCK (15) 2010 CHINA FENG, XIAOGANG IN MANDARIN £19.99
Chinese disaster film based on events surrounding the 1976 earthquake in Tangshan.
BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS (15) 2009 CHINA CHAN, TEDDY IN MANDARIN £17.99
Hong Kong martial arts action thriller starring Donnie Yen.
FLOWERS OF WAR (15) 2011 CHINA ZHANG, YIMOU CHINESE (NANJING
DIALECT), ENGLISH, JAPANESE, MANDARIN, SHANGHAINESE £15.99
Chinese historical war drama set in 1937 during the Japanese army's notorious 'Rape of Nanjing'.RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013 AURORA (12) 2010 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £15.99 Dark thriller that provides an insight into the mind of a psychopath and questions the motives behind such a violent act. ALL THAT I LOVE (TBA) 2009 POLAND BORCUCH, JACEK £14.99 Coming-of-age
drama about four schoolboys who form a punk band. Set over the course
of one year, against the backdrop of the political uprisings in Poland
in 1981 their emergent and often conflicting ideals in a dangerously
volatile political climate. BATTLE OF WARSAW 1920 (15) 2011 POLAND HOFFMAN, JERZY £15.99 Drama about the final battle of the Polish-Soviet War.
THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE - A COLLECTION (15) £23.99
Triple bill of Czechoslovakian New Wave films. In 'Diamonds of the
Night' (1964), two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them
from one Nazi death camp to another. As the boys run through the rugged
and unfamiliar terrain, hounded by a band of armed German villagers,
their flight is interpolated by their dreams, hallucinations, fantasies
and memories.
In 'Intimate Lighting' (1969), successful musician
Peter (Zdenek Bezusek) and his girlfriend visit an old friend who is in
charge of a small music school. The reunion then causes the characters
to reflect on their lives, where they've ended up and how the decisions
they've made have brought them there. In 'The Cremator' (1969), Karl
Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is the owner of a crematorium in the early
stages of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia who finds in the
situation an opportunity to fulfill his business ambitions, justify his anti-Semitism and exert his obsession for control.
His discovery that his wife has 'impure' blood sends him on a psychopathic spiral, leading to a tragic climax.ELENA (12) 2011 RUSSIAN ZVYAGINTSEV, ANDREI £15.99 Russian suspense drama. SCANDINAVIAN CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013ABOVE THE STREET, BELOW THE WATER (15) 2009 DENMARK SIELING, CHARLOTTE £12.99
Sidse Babett Knudsen stars in this contemporary family drama about a
couple struggling to juggle their commitments to their careers, their
children and each other. BABETTE’S FEAST (U) 1987 DENMARK £15.99
Oscar-winning film is set in a remote hamlet in Nineteenth century
Denmark. When Babette, a chef and refugee from France's civil war
arrives, she changes the status quo in this strict religious community
by her sumptuous cooking. BLU RAY £19.99 BORGEN: SEASON 2 (15) 2011 DENMARK £19.99
Birgitte Nyborg has been Denmark s Prime Minister for two years years
that have taken their toll on her private life. She must now balance her
role of PM with that of divorcée and single-mother. FALSE TRAIL (15) 2011 SWEDEN SUNDVALL, KJELL £15.99
Swedish crime thriller starring Rolf Lassgard and Peter Stormare. The
sequel to Jägarna (1996), the film concerns Erik (Lassgard) who is asked
to return to his hometown in Sweden to solve a brutal murder. Although
hesitant to go back due to unfavourable memories of the town, Erik
accepts, but finding an answer to the murder proves a complex task. THE HUNT (15) 2012 DENMARK VINTERBERG, THOMAS £17.99
Mads Mikkelsen stars as Lukas, a recently-divorced primary school
teacher locked in an acrimonious custody battle over his teenage son
Marcus. When Lukas is accused of child abuse he soon faces unanimous
condemnation from everyone around him, including his closest friends. JACKPOT (15) 2011 NORWAY MARTENS, MAGNUS £15.99
Norwegian crime thriller in which a young man attempts to explain how
winning a jackpot on the pools with his friends led to chaos. JÄGARNA (15) 2011 SWEDEN SUNDVALL, KJELL £19.99
Thriller in which Erik (Rolf Lassgård) returns to his hometown to
reunite with his brother after the death of their abusive father. While
there, he investigates a case of deer poaching and uncovers that his
brother may be involved with the gang of hunters. THE KILLING: SEASON 3 (15) 2012 DENMARK SVEISTRUP, SØREN £39.99
Final series in the Emmy-nominated Danish crime drama. Having found
peace after her previous ordeals, Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie
Gråbol) is brought into investigate what seems to be a random murder at
the Copenhagen docks. Attention is quickly drawn toward an oil business
run by the troubled Robert Zeuthen (Anders W. Berthelsen), and an old
flame of Sarah's believes that this seemingly random murder may be
connected to a possible assassination attempt on the Prime Minister. KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND (12A) 2010 NORWAY HOLST, MARIUS £17.99 On
a remote island off the coast of Norway in 1915, Governor Bestyreren
(Stellan Skarsgård) presides over the brutal and austere Bastoy Boys
Reform School. BLU RAY - £19.99 KISS ME (15) 2011 SWEDEN KEINING, ALEXANDRA-THERESE £15.99
Swedish drama following the intense relationship that develops between a
pair of young women who meet at an engagement party for their parents.PROTECTORS: SEASON 1 (15) 2009 DENMARK £23.99 Emmy award-winning about the three newest members of the elite
Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen who are tasked with
guarding people recognised as potential targets for terrorist groups,
such as members of the royal family or politicians. The series follows
them as they adjust to the pressures of their new job while trying to
maintain a balance in their personal lives. UNIT ONE: SEASON 1 (15) 2000 DENMARK £24.99 All
nine episodes of the first season of the Danish crime drama starring
Mads Mikkelsen and Charlotte Fich which follows an elite mobile task
force as they solve high-profile cases.DOCUMENTARIES - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 20135 BROKEN CAMERAS (E) 2011 EMAD BURNAT,E./DAVIDI G. £15.99
Documentary chronicling one Palestinian farmer's non-violent resistance
to the incursions of the Israeli army. In 2005, when his son Gibreel is
born, Emad Burnat, a Palestinian man living in the small farming
village of Bil'in, buys his first video camera in order to keep a record
of his son's childhood. However, on the day of Gibreel's birth, the
Israeli army erects a fence along the Israeli-Palestinian border,
cutting right through Bil'in.
Over the next five years Burnat
risks life and limb to capture the resulting land dispute between the
villagers (led by two of his closest friends) and the Israeli armed
forces, as well as documenting his son's childhood, which is inescapably
affected by the conflict and violence that has surrounded him from
birth. AFGHANISTAN: THE GREAT GAME (E) 2012 £15.99 Rory Stewart tells the story of foreign intervention in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. AFRICA (E) 2012 £24.99
David Attenborough presents this five-part BBC natural history series
exploring the stunning landscapes and undiscovered creatures of Africa's
five major regions. ANSEL ADAMS (E) 2002 BURNS, RIC £12.99
Look at the life and work of award-winning American photographer and
environmentalist Ansel Adams. Best known for his black-and-white
photographs of the American West, Adams' work has become widely
recognised and admired by many as being visionary in technique and
contributing towards a better understanding of the environment and man's
place within it. BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS! (E) 2011 GERTTEN, FREDRIK £14.99
Documentary following the attempts of food giant Dole to silence a film
crew who called their practices into question. In 2009, Swedish
filmmaker Fredrik Gertten made a documentary called 'Bananas!',
following a group of Nicaraguan workers who won a lawsuit against Dole
after claiming that they were being poisoned. Subsequently, the film
came up against distribution problems: the Los Angeles film festival,
which was lined up to premiere the film, was put under pressure to pull
it from its programme, while the director found himself issued with a
lawsuit from Dole, and Swedish journalists and MPs were also put under
pressure from the company. CALL ME KUCHU (E) 2012 WRIGHT, K F/ZOUHALI-WORRALL £14.99
Documentary about the struggle for gay rights in Uganda. When a new
bill is proposed that would make homosexuality punishable by death in
Uganda, David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow
activists risk life and limb to speak out and oppose the legislation.
But when a brutal murder shakes the movement to its core, the stakes of
their struggle are raised even higher. THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (E) 2012 JARECK, EUGENE £15.99
Documentary critique of the US government's drugs policy. Inspired by
the story of Nanni Jeter, a friend and employee of writer and director
Eugene Jarecki, the film includes interviews with police officers,
judges, prison staff, dealers, addicts and their families, medics and
experts on social policy, including investigative journalist turned screenwriter, David Simon, creator of the political drama series 'The Wire'. I AM (E) 2010 £12.99
Hollywood director Tom Shadyac asks some of the world's greatest
thinkers 'What's wrong with our world, and what can we do about it?'.
Contributors including Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Lynne McTaggart
share their own personal views about how to move forward. LES MISÉRABLES - FROM BOOK TO STAGE AND SCREEN (E) 2012 £12.99 Documentary about Victor Hugo's classic nineteenth-century story and its subsequent adaptations to stage and screen LOOK AT LIFE VOLUME 2 - (E) 3 DISCS £29.99 A
four-volume set of short documentary films produced by the Rank
Organisation that record aspects of life in Britain during the 1960s.
This collection, comprising 54 films, focuses on the military's role in
Britain at the time. LOOK AT LIFE: VOLUME 3 - (E) 3 DISCS £29.99 Digitally restored films providing an insight into the culture, news and concerns of 1960s Britain. LOOK AT LIFE: VOLUME 4 - SPORT (E) 3 DISCS £29.99 Contains
42 digitally restored films, many unseen since their initial cinematic
broadcast, that explore themes relating to sport and games in Britain
and include a look at the growth of winter sports in Scotland and the
Grand National. LOOK AT LIFE: VOLUME 5 - HERITAGE (E) 3 DISCS £39.99 This
volume contains 45 digitally restored films, many unseen since their
initial cinematic broadcast, that explore themes relating to the
heritage and culture of Great Britain. LOOK AT LIFE: VOLUME 6 - WORLD AFFAIRS (E) 5 DISCS £49.99
Sixth collection of short documentary films produced by the Rank
Organisation in the 1960s to show at the Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The
shorts were designed to replace cinematic newsreels, which had been
rendered largely redundant by the increasing prevalence of television
sets and televisual news broadcasts. This volume contains 45 digitally
restored films, many unseen since their initial cinematic broadcast,
that explore themes relating to world affairs. MCCULLIN (15) 2012 MORRIS, D & J £15.99
Documentary exploring the work of widely regarded British
photojournalist, Don McCullin. Working for The Sunday Times from 1969 to
1984, McCullin gained a unique vantage point from which he could
capture his images of war and suffering. Though his shots were shocking
and gave a candid look at the effects of war on those involved, he went
on to become one of the most acclaimed photojournalists of the 20th
century. BLU RAY - £19.99 THE PLANETS (E) £14.99
Collection of two original NASA documentary films exploring the worlds
beyond planet Earth. In 'Planet Mars', we are shown pictures which were
taken by the Viking space probe in 1975, giving a unique insight into
Mars's surface while highlighting the similarities it has with Earth. In
'Moon Old and New', the film takes a look at how the moon has
interested many people over hundreds of years and shows how the ways of
studying it have changed as new technology has allowed it to. SALUTE (PG) 2008 NORMAN. MATT £19.99
Matt Norman, nephew of Olympic silver medallist Peter Norman, directs
this documentary about an iconic moment in the civil rights movement
that took place at the 1968 Olympic games. SCI FI SCIENCE (E) £24.99 Theoretical
physicist Dr Michio Kaku examines the viability of pieces of technology
imagined by science fiction authors and filmmakers. From warp drives
and time travel to lightsabers and force fields, authors of speculative
fiction have imagined numerous technological marvels. Kaku talks to a
number of sci-fi fans and uses his own knowledge to comment on the
possibilities of future technological design. STEEL - A CENTURY OF STEELMAKING ON FILM (E) £24.99
Collection of 23 documentaries, animations and short films from the
20th century which illustrate the history of Britain's steel industry. A
major factor in the Second Industrial Revolution, the industry employed
hundreds of thousands of people and its influence can still be seen
around the country today. The collection features shots of the building
of the New Tyne Bridge in 1928 and the short documentary 'Steel' (1945). TEMPO: VOLUME 1 (E) 1967 £19.99
First volume of content from the 1960s ITV arts show. With a licence to
cover all areas of the arts, the show explored subjects relating to
cinema, music, dance, photography and writing and included interviews
and features with many of the most influential artists of the time. This
collection includes features on Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, Harold Pinter,
Charles Eames and Jean Luc-Godard. THIS IS NOT A FILM (U) 2010 IRAN PANAHI,JAFAR £14.99
Documentary following Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who also
co-directs, as he appeals against his six-year jail sentence and 20-year
ban on making films. Accused of creating propaganda opposing the
regime, Panahi has also been prohibited from talking to the press or
exiting the country. Under house arrest while awaiting the decision of
the appeal, he worries the result may mean the end of his artistry and
begins to capture a day in his life.
He shares the story of a
film he was going to make, is startled by fireworks and gunshot sounds
outside his apartment, tunes into the news and finds out about the
Japanese tsunami and talks to a young man who works in the building.LITERATURE ON DVD - NEW RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013A 360 (15) 2011 MEIRELLES, FERNANDO £15.99
Drama loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play 'La Ronde' and
starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ben Foster. A YOUNG DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK (15) 2012 £19.99
Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe star in this darkly comic four-part
drama, following the life of a young provincial doctor in
pre-revolutionary Russia. Based on the semi-autobiographical memoirs of
Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. ANNA KARENINA (12A) 2012 WRIGHT JOE £19.99 Tom Stoppard pens this adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love. Stars Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. ARMCHAIR THEATRE: VOLUME 4 (12) £39.99
12 plays from the hugely popular ITV drama anthology series that ran
from 1956 -1973. The series was broadcast on Sunday nights and featured
original scripts dealing with issues of the day from a number of
esteemed contemporary writers. This selection of plays features
performances by actors including Susannah York, Frank Finlay, Ian Holm,
Irene Handl, Donald Pleasence, Terry Thomas, Patrick Macnee, Arthur Lowe
and John Le Mesurier. BIRDSONG (15) 2012 MARTIN, PHILIP £19.99
Two-part TV adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's best-selling novel,
charting a doomed love story played out against the backdrop of World
War One BLANDINGS (12) 2012 £19.99 Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders star in this six-part British sitcom based on the stories by P.G. Wodehouse CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY (15) 2011 VERHEYDE, SYLVIE £15.99 Pete
Doherty and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in this period drama based on the
autobiographical 19th century novel by French writer Alfred de Musset. DOCTOR FAUSTUS: GLOBE THEATRE (12A) 2011 DUNSTER, MATTHEW £19.99 Production
of Christopher Marlowe's dark tragedy for the Globe Theatre. Paul
Hilton stars as Doctor Faustus, the tortured medic whose insatiable
thirst for knowledge and power leads him to sell his soul to the devil
through Lucifer's agent, Mephistopheles (Arthur Darvill). Dunster uses
puppets and masks to bring to life the play's central themes of magic,
morality and transformation. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (12) 2012 UK NEWELL, MIKE £19.99 Adaptation staring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (15) 1998 CUARÓN, ALFONSO £9.99
This modern-day version of the famous Charles Dickens novel begins when
ten-year-old Finn Bell is coerced by the convict Lustig (Robert De
Niro) into helping him escape from the authorities. JANE EYRE (12) 2011 FUKUNAGA, CARY £19.99 Adaptation
of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte in which a young governess
falls in love with her master. Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) emerges from a
troubled childhood to take on the position of governess at Thornfield
Hall. Thornfield is owned by the passionate and impulsive Rochester
(Michael Fassbender), who pays Jane unusual attention for someone below
his station. MAKING WAR HORSE (E) 2009 PHIL GRABSKY, P/BICKERSTAFF, D £10.99
Channel 4 documentary following the staging by the National Theatre of
the celebrated children's novel 'War Horse' by Michael Morpurgo. LES MISERABLES (1935)/LES MISERABLES (1952) (U) £9.99
Two big screen versions of Victor Hugo's classic tale, set in early
19th-century France. The story follows Jean Valjean (played by Fredric
March in the 1935 version, and by Michael Rennie in the 1952 film), a
prisoner who breaks his parole and spends the next two decades fleeing
from obsessive police inspector Javert (Charles Laughton/Robert Newton).
In his quest for personal redemption, Valjean adopts Cosette (Rochelle
Hudson/Debra Paget), daughter of impoverished prostitute Fantine
(Florence Eldridge/Sylvia Sydney), and is eventually elected as town
mayor.But it's not long before Valjean's past, in the shape of Inspector Javert, comes back to haunt him. LES MISÉRABLES - FROM BOOK TO STAGE AND SCREEN (E) 2012 £12.99 Documentary about Victor Hugo's classic nineteenth-century story and its subsequent adaptations to stage and screen
BRITISH CINEMA - NEW DVD RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013LITERATURE ON DVD - NEW RELEASES FEBRUARY/MARCH A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S...(15) 2012 £17.99
Animated biopic of Monty Python's Graham Chapman. Using a number of
audio recordings Chapman made before his death, fourteen different
animation studios worked together for this film which collects snippets
from his autobiography and turns them into a series of comedy skits.
Fellow Python members John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and
Michael Palin also contribute by voicing an assortment of characters who
may or may not have crossed Chapman's path in life. BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (15) 2012 UK STRICKLAND, PETER £19.99 Inventive
horror in which a sound engineer working in the confines of an Italian
movie studio becomes dangerously absorbed in his work. . BLU RAY £19.99 CFF COLLECTION: VOLUME 2 - THE RACE IS ON (PG) £19.99 Triple
bill of British movies produced by the Children's Film Foundation. In
'Sammy's Super T-Shirt' (1978), despite his small build, Sammy Smith
(Reggie Winch) dreams of being a top athlete. While in training for a
running competition, a couple of bullies hurl Sammy's lucky t-shirt
through a science lab window where an accident results in it gaining
super strength.
Sammy
retrieves the t-shirt and tries to use it to win the race but things
don't go according to plan. In 'Soapbox Derby' (1957), set in London, a
teenaged Michael Crawford makes his movie debut. The Battersea Bats and
the Victoria Victors, two rival gangs of children, are getting ready for
an upcoming soapbox derby.
When the Victors learn of a new car
design created by the Bats they try to get their hands on it before the
big race. In 'The Sky Bike' (1967) a bumbling inventor hopes to win a
contest with his new creation - a flying bicycle. With the help of his
young friend can he win the prize? GINGER AND ROSA (12) 2012 UK POTTER, SALLY £15.99 Drama
about two teenage girls living in London in the early 1960s. Elle
Fanning and Alice Englert star as Ginger and Rosa, best friends who were
both born on the day the first atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. The two are
inseparable until Rosa falls in love with Ginger's charismatic father
Roland (Alessandro Nivola).
Ginger, shattered and alone, becomes
increasingly immersed in the anti-nuclear movement, the looming horrors
of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis resonating with her own
personal nightmare. BLU RAY £19.99 I, ANNA (15) 2012 UK SOUTHCOMBE, BARNABY £15.99 This London-set noir thriller starring Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne. SHADOW DANCER (15) 2012 UK MARSH, JAMES £15.99 Thriller
starring Clive Owen and Angela Riseborough, adapted by Tom Bradby from
his own novel. Belfast native Colette McVeigh (Riseborough) comes from a
family of well-known IRA sympathisers. After being arrested on
suspicion of carrying a bomb on the London Underground, she is
questioned by MI5 operative Mac (Owen), and told that if she does not
co-operate with the authorities her young son will be taken from her.
As
Colette reluctantly takes on the role of informant for the British
secret services, Mac tries to use her as a means of breaking the cycle
of violence in 1990s Belfast.
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