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• The Apu Trilogy (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration. The Apu Trilogy brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, following one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and finally a sensitive man of the world. These delicate masterworks- Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)-based on two books by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, were shot over the course of five years, and each stands on its own as a tender, visually radiant journey. They are among the most achingly beautiful, richly humane movies ever made-essential works for any film lover. Pather Panchali The release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray's debut, Pather Panchali, introduced to the world an eloquent and important new cinematic voice. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly auntie, Indir-vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist's perpetual sense of discovery, the Cannes-awarded Pather Panchali is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power. Aparajito Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to Pather Panchali, but after the film's international success, he decided to continue Apu's narrative. Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu. Apur Sansar By the time Apur Sansar was released, Satyajit Ray had directed not only the first two Apu films but also the masterpiece The Music Room, and was well on his way to becoming a legend. This extraordinary final chapter brings our protagonist's journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood. Featuring soon to be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, and demonstrating Ray's ever more impressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery, Apur Sansar is a moving conclusion to this monumental trilogy. Special Features: New 4K digital restorations of all three films, undertaken in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and L'Immagine Ritrovata, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays Audio recordings from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay A Long Time on the Little Road and in conversation with film historian Gideon Bachmann New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Shampa Srivastava, and Sharmila Tagore; camera assistant Soumendu Roy; and film writer Ujjal Chakraborty New video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson on the trilogy's evolution and production The Apu Trilogy : A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring composer Ravi Shankar The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray, a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta Footage of Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992 New program on the restorations by filmmaker :: kogonada New English subtitle translations PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu

• Office Space | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £8.72   |  Saving you £-2.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Peter Gibbons, thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, decides not to go to work at the same time his company is laying people off.

• K-Pax | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £6.56   |  Saving you £3.43 (52.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kevin Spacey is a mysterious patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from the planet K-pax. Jeff Bridges is the pyschiatrist who tries to help him, as this supposed alien has remarkable effect on his fellow patients.

• Pi | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the 216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max. This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world, venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. Pi is complex--occasionally toocomplex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. Pi won the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. --Jenny Brown

• Bad Santa | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £4.91   |  Saving you £15.08 (307.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Billy Bob Thorton is a Father Christmas with a difference in this outrageous festive comedy.

• Treasure of the Ninja and the Films of William | Blu Ray | (18/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Part of the 101 Films x AGFA range. Meet your new favourite action hero. Throughout the 1980s, Black filmmaker and martial artist William Lee wrote, produced, directed, and starred in dozens of D.I.Y. action epics -- all shot on Super 8 in Ohio and New York City. From Treasure Of The Ninja (1987, Lee's most ambitious and beloved movie) to The New Chinese Connection (1980, an homage to Bruce Lee -- William Lee's idol), these inclusive and explosive works serve as an inspiration to anyone with a dream, pulse, or appreciation for spinning kicks. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are elated to bring the best-of-the-best in William Lee's early filmography to a wider audience for the first time ever, complete with brand new transfers and a revelatory stack of previously unreleased films. NOTICE! Treasure Of The Ninja was shot on super 8 and edited on tape. Please approach the technical quality of the transfer with empathy. Product Features Bonus movie: DRAGON VS. NINJA (1984), previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Treasure Of The Ninja: New transfer from the original 3/4 master tape Treasure Of The Ninja: Commentary track with William Lee and Bleeding Skull's Annie Choi and Joseph A. Ziemba Short: The New Chinese Connection (1980), previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Shorts: the Willie Jack series, all previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Reversible cover artwork

• Basil Brush - Sports Spectacular | DVD | (24/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Everyone's favourite daft-as-a-brush fox is back and this time Basil has some sporting fun for your entertainment. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sports Spectacular 2. Revenge Of The Mummy 3. Basil's Millions

• Chutney Popcorn | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chutney Popcorn is an amusing exploration of surrogate motherhood that never lets cross-cultural or lesbian issues overrun what is essentially a family drama. Nisha Ganatra directs, writes and takes the lead role as Reena, a New York artist and lesbian with Indian roots that include an over-indulgent mother and newlywed perfect sister, Sarita. On finding that Sarita is infertile, Reena proposes becoming a surrogate mother, not just to help out her sister but to prove to her mother that she is capable of living up to the traditional values of womanhood. The pregnancy puts obvious strain on Sarita's marriage and she begins to distance herself from Reena and the unborn baby. At the same time, Reena's live-in girlfriend Lisa (Jill Hennessy) has commitment issues; babies never being part of her life equation. For her first feature film, Ganatra shows much promise with her ability to blend the various issues at the film's heart without becoming over-sentimental about them. Madhur Jaffrey offers a surprisingly sparky comic turn as the doting mother trying to hold on to the values of her homeland. The script is loaded towards the inevitable happy ending, which feels far too easy and upbeat, leaving the audience with unanswered questions about the future of the child. Despite such reservations, Chutney Popcorn is a spicy look into the alternative family that's more substantial than just a simple side dish. --Nikki Disney

• Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) is the daughter of Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) renowed proponent of classical music living in the Rann of Kutch. Nandini has been brought up with more freedom and education than her siblings as she is the most beloved of Pundit Darbar. Into the family comes Sameer (Salman Khan) a boy of Indo-Italian parentage. He is a music student and wants to grasp the essence of HIndustani music under the guidance of pUndit Darbar. During the course of his one year stay Sameer and Nandini fall in love. When their love is discovered Sameer is banished from the household. Meanwhile Nandini's parents have arranged to get her married. Nandini goes through the marriage with Vanraj (Ajay Devgan). He is deeply in love with her and all he asks is that in they maintain the charade of a happy couple for the sake of his family. They live in this deceit briefly until Sameer's letters reach Nandini and Vanraj discovers them. He then shows his true love and wisdom and takes Nandini to Hungary to search for Sameer. Nandini and Vanraj search for Sameer but always come up against a dead end. Soon the strain of the search shows on Nandini and she needs to be hospitalised. Vanraj selflessly devoets himself to caring for Nandini during her stay in the hospital. She sees her husband's adoration for her and wishes to drop the search and go back home.

• K-Pax | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kevin Spacey is a mysterious patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from the planet K-pax. Jeff Bridges is the pyschiatrist who tries to help him, as this supposed alien has remarkable effect on his fellow patients.

• Company | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (-200.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hard hitting drama based on the Indian mafia out of Bombay.

• Omkara | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-20.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The film is Vishal Bharadwaj's interpretation of William Shakespeare's classic play Othello. A play that has been made four times in Hollywood but is being brought to life for the first time as a mainstream Hindi film in a commercial format. Like the legendary Hollywood filmmaker Orson Wells Vishal Bharadwaj too is fascinated with Shakespearean drama - one of Vishal's finest works remains his interpretation of Shakespeare's Macbeth - Maqbool. Likewise Omkara in spirit stays true to the central theme of Othello and ends up humanizing Shakespeare's characters with all the necessary folklore and ethnic charm that is required for a contemporary Indian story setting. Set against the milieu of political warfare in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh the film follows one man's descent into sexual jealousy because of his passionate love for his woman and the final destruction of that love at the altar of blind obsession. Love is blind but jealousy is even blinder and that can tear apart even the strongest and bravest of warriors - in this case Omkara. Omkara or Omi is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws which include the crafty Langda Tyagi and the dynamic Kesu amongst his chief cohorts. The story begins when Omi appoints Kesu and not Langda as his chief lieutenant. Langda's pride is slighted and raging with envy he hatches a plot to falsely implicate Omi's beautiful wife Dolly in a love affair with Omi's ""favorite lieutenant"" Kesu. With the unwitting aid of Indu Langda's wife and the willing help of Rajju a fellow grouch Langda's plan blooms uncontrollably and results in horrific tragedy. Using petty insinuations and lies Langda keeps poisoning Omi's mind till one day it snaps and Omi goes about tearing up his own safe and secure world.. But like all love stories which never really end. Out of the ashes of this one too comes a twist...Omkara's dark love for Dolly Dolly's unquestioning love for Omi Langda's warped loyalty and jealousy for Omi the vibrant Kesu's unswerving devotion to Omi - all lead up to a dark tragedy by the end of which Omi finally realizes the backlash of his actions but is it too late...?

• The Crossing | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £3.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Sam returns home after a lengthy absence to find his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend. The two friends then end up in a drunken race where the question of who gets the girl will be decided at a train crossing...

• Ishq | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Romancing With Music Due to wealth when two couples get together the fathers set out to destroy the relationships. This Bollywood movie blends Romance Comedy and thrills together to make this film an enjoyable and quirky viewing experience.

• Lajja | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lajja is a journey...From the opulent city of New York to a remote village in Uttar Pradesh...From the adobe of the rich to the corner of poor...From the silence of a martyr to the outcry of a rebel...A journey that is unified by an astonishing discovery - that a woman wherever whenever has to face mankind at its heniour worst.As the journey extends so does the intensity of her misery...Why is VAIDEHI's womb the only weapon to fight the atrocities that she has to face? Why should

• Montana | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Claire tries to help the boss regain his authority after some money is stolen and a hit on him fails. But she soon finds that the police and a number of hitmen are after her....

• Dil Kya Kare | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Dil Kya Kare' is the poignant saga of three individuals who are thrown into the paths of emotional turmoil at the merciless hands of fate. It is a story about unconditional love - love between child and adult love between a husband and wife love between two lovers - love that knows no parameters no restrictions. Anand Kishore is a successful architect who leads a blissfully content life with his wife Kavita five-year-old daughter Neha and close friend Somu - a billionaire by line

• GANGAAJAL | DVD | (03/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a world of corruption, a young policeman is sent to most violent and corrupt city in India; in the hope that he can make things better. But soon he realises that the growing violence - most due to corrupt politicians and police officers that take law in their own hands - may be all too consuming. As the violence enters his own personal life is there anything he can do to help the city and preserve his existence...

• The Honeymooners | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £12.18   |  Saving you £7.81 (64.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is still looking for a get rich quick scheme min this comedy.

• Khakee | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £22.91 (283.54%)   |  RRP £30.99

  ""Our enemy is nameless faceless. We don't know their numbers except that they are sure to be many. We don't know their weapons except that they are sure to be more sophisticated than ours. All we know is that they are desperate and willing to do anything go to any extreme. We don't know when they will attack where they will attack how they will attack - but one thing we do know - they will attack. For sure."" It started as a routine mission. Escort hardened terrorist and ISI agen