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Directors: David Lean | Publisher: Warner Home Video | Release Date: 06 October 2008
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Titles Comprise: Ben Hur: Having swept the board at the Academy awards Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history winning eleven oscars in 1959 including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive million budget this 1950''s epic movie has always represented a cinematographic feat that has rarely been bettered. Doctor Zhivago:...
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Directors: Fritz Lang | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 22 February 2010
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Of all Fritz Lang's creations none have been more innovative or influential than M the film that launched German cinema into the sound era with stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Peter Lorre gives a legendary performance as the murderer Hans Beckert who soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. From cinema's first...
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Directors: Fritz Lang | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 22 February 2010
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Of all Fritz Lang's creations none have been more innovative or influential than M the film that launched German cinema into the sound era with stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Peter Lorre gives a legendary performance as the murderer Hans Beckert who soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. From cinema's first...
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Directors: F.W. Murnau | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 21 September 2009
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The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a...
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Directors: Maurice Pialat | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 22 September 2008
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Maurice Pialat's Police delivers on the raw promise of its title insofar as much of its action qualifies as an insistently 'procedural' descent into the Paris drugs underworld. But the hyper real route that the film takes to arrive there before veering into a zone of dangerous emotional play contributes to a disorienting adventurous and ultimately tremendously exciting experience unlike any...
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Directors: Carl Th. Dreyer | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment LTD | Release Date: 25 August 2008
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The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few if any works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer as though guided in a trance through a realm akin to a wakingdream a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural. Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian...
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Directors: Carl Dreyer | Publisher: Eureka Video | Release Date: 25 October 2004
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Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) directed 'Michael' in 1924 for Decla Bioscop the arstitic wing of German production powerhouse UFA. It was Dreyer's sixth feature in five years and his second in Germany. Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siecle study of 'decadent' elderly artist driven to despair by his relationship with his...
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Directors: Luchino Visconti | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment Ltd | Release Date: 24 September 2007
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When casting children's roles director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard; Death in Venice) is said to have been besieged by clamouring mothers each trying to attract his attention to their child with cries of ""Bellissima!"". In his film of the same name Visconti turned his experiences into art in the form of a satire on the motivations and machinations at work in the film industry with the...
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Directors: René Laloux | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment Ltd | Release Date: 22 October 2007
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Ren Laloux director of Fantastic Planet [La Plante sauvage] created Gandahar his final animated feature film in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon and a huge hit in France at the time of its release it combines Laloux's famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating adult animation which examines genetic mutation the...
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Directors: F. W. Murnau | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 21 September 2009
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The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a...
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Directors: Jia Zhang-ke | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 23 August 2010
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The fourth feature by internationally acclaimed auteur Jia Zhang-ke was also his breakout success an epic with a canvas as vast and intimate as its title suggests: a state-of-the-modern-world address and a look at the insular world of a troupe of Chinese stage-performers dreaming of freedom... Zhao Tao Jia's muse is one of these troupers. For Tao and the larger ensemble of pageant performers at...
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Directors: Nobuhiko OBAYASHI | Publisher: Eureka Entertainment | Release Date: 25 January 2010
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An unforgettable mixture of bubblegum teen melodrama and grisly phantasmagoria Obayashi's deranged fairy tale House is one of Japanese cinema's wildest supernatural ventures and a truly startling debut feature. Distressed by her widowed father's plans to remarry Angel sets off with six of her schoolgirl friends in tow for a summer getaway in her aunt's isolated mansion. But all is not well - in...
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