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• Scenes From A Marriage | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage opens with a couple--Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johann (Erland Josephson)--being interviewed for a magazine. Every moment seems to teeter on the brink of some rupture; just as they start to get comfortable, the interviewer has them freeze for a photograph. After making some bland, general statements, they both start admitting intimate details, confessing that they were brought together by mutual misery, then cheerfully claiming that theirs is a model marriage. The entirety of Scenes from a Marriage--which chronicles their emotional relationship even after a divorce and marriages to other people--continues to have these contradictions, moments of honesty and self-deception, of cruelty and kindness, concern and self-obsession, all laid bare by the skilful actors and the subtle, constantly shifting screenplay. Every scene is a small movie unto itself; in fact, Scenes from a Marriage was originally a six-episode TV show, carefully edited down into a unified film. This is one of Bergman's most immediate and accessible works, concerned more with the facts of human behaviour than symbolism or abstract themes. Bergman understands how to balance what could be horrible pain and despair with the characters' earnest efforts to improve their lives. His imitators reduce everything to sheer suffering and alienation; Bergman sees the best in his characters, even when their actions are terrible. This 1973 film won numerous awards, including several acting honours for Ullmann. --Bret Fetzer

• Fight Back To School Trilogy - Deluxe Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (11/09/2023) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before he wowed the world with Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow was Hong Kong's best kept and funniest secret, and the Fight Back to School trilogy sees him at his hilarious best Here he's Star Chow, the toughest cop on the force... until some over-zealous police-work takes his career in a different direction: he's sent under-cover at a school. There he finds there are worse things than battling triads, like homework, maths tests and falling in love with your teacher. And once he's solved that case, he's back undercover in the sequels, demonstrating that he should have paid more attention in his lessons. This is the first time all three films have been released together on blu-ray, and 88 Films are thrilled to present the world premier of this classic trilogy of Cantonese comedy. Special Features Fight Back to School High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Lossless 2.0 Cantonese Mono Cantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1 Newly Translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto Theatrical Trailer Fight Back to School 2 High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Lossless 2.0 Cantonese Mono Cantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1 Newly Translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto Theatrical Trailer Fight Back to School 3 High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Lossless 2.0 Cantonese Mono Cantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1 Newly Translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto Theatrical Trailer

• Fight Back To School Trilogy | Blu Ray | (29/01/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before he wowed the world with Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow was Hong Kong's best kept - and funniest - secret, and the Fight Back to School trilogy sees him at his hilarious best.Here he's Star Chow, the toughest cop on the force... until some over-zealous police-work takes his career in a different direction: he's sent under-cover at a school. There he finds there are worse things than battling triads, like homework, maths tests and falling in love with your teacher.And once he's solved that case, he's back undercover in the sequels, demonstrating that he should have paid more attention in his lessons. This is the first time all three films have been released together on blu-ray, and 88 Films are thrilled to present the world premier of this classic trilogy of Cantonese comedy.Product FeaturesFight Back to SchoolHigh Definition (1080p) Blu-rayTM presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 Cantonese MonoCantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1Newly Translated English SubtitlesAudio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSantoTheatrical TrailerFight Back to School 2High Definition (1080p) Blu-rayTM presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 Cantonese MonoCantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1Newly Translated English SubtitlesAudio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSantoTheatrical TrailerFight Back to School 3High Definition (1080p) Blu-rayTM presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 Cantonese MonoCantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1Newly Translated English SubtitlesAudio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSantoTheatrical Trailer

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 2 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £9.21   |  Saving you £6.78 (73.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) return for another series of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Episodes Comprise: 1. Absent Friends 2. Heart to Heart 3. The Ant and the Grasshopper 4. One for the Road 5. The Great Race 6. Some Day We'll Laugh About This 7. In Harms Way 8. Affairs and Relations 9. The Expert 10. Between Ourselves 11. The Go Between 12. Conduct Unbecoming 13. The Shape of Things to Come

• Candy | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Young Candy is a college girl who seeks truth and meaning in life encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process... Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel a sendup of Voltaire's 'Candide'.

• Boccaccio 70' (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by The Decameron, World-Cinema greatests, Fellini, Visconti and De Sica lend their extraordinary talents to make these slice-of-life stories revolving around the sex games of the middle class. Working-class lovers marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified to do? A buxom carnival-booth manager who owes back taxes offers herself for one night in a lottery: a nerdy sacristan and a jealous suitor make for a lovers' triangle. In each, women take charge, albeit not always successfully ! Extras: Sophia, yesterday, today and tomorrow: a candid intimate interview with Sophia Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others New HD material, finally doing justice to the filmmaker's original vision New improved subtitles Exclusive Documentary on Sophia Loren

• Terry And June - The Complete First Series | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £4.71   |  Saving you £11.28 (239.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise things were much as before wi

• Up the Elephant and Round the Castle: The Complete Series | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedian Jim Davidson consolidated his phenomenal rise to fame with this hit early-eighties sitcom, starring as a happy-go-lucky Cockney who inherits a house but finds owning his own 'castle' brings its own set of problems. With guest stars including Linda Robson and The Bill's Christopher Ellison, Tony Scannell and Kevin Lloyd, this set contains all three series. Jim London is jobless, and he doesn't have much luck with the ladies, either. But he gets his first real break when his Auntie Min bequeaths him her house in South London's Elephant and Castle. 17 Railway Terrace might be small, but bachelor Jim's thrilled to have his own place at last. Sadly, he also inherits a cantankerous, unseen but oft-heard lodger, nosy neighbours and unwanted admirers and an army of dodgy visitors in need of Jim's help and/or a bed for the night...

• La Dolce Vita | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  At three brief hours, Fellini's cynical, engrossing social commentary, La Dolce Vita, stands as his timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence, as extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni, a man of paradoxical, emotional juxtapositions: cool but tortured, sexy but impotent. He dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticises about finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in a ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, "The Sweet Life"), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, as merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was actually a revival, in 1973, of the successful Dick Clements/Ian La Frenais 1960s comedy The Likely Lads, so notable for its fibrous but sympathetic treatment of life for two young men coming of age in North East England. This "Very Best of" collection brings together classic episodes from the 1973 series. Although tinged with nostalgia--the décor and styles of the early 1970s are almost pungently evocative--the quality of the writing defies the passage of time. Seven years on from their initial adventures, Rodney Bewes (upwardly mobile, self-improving Bob) and James Bolam (feckless, chippy Terry) meet by accident on the train. Bob is about to marry Thelma and move into modern semi-detached heaven, while Terry is just out of the army and drifting back home without a great deal of purpose. The relationship between the two men, basically sound but frequently compromised by their very different aspirations, is very cleverly drawn and played so that your sympathies never stay on one side for very long. Best of all, Brigit Forsyth's Thelma, a dragon in the making, adds an astringent dynamic. She is, says Terry, "so stuck up she thinks her backside's a perfume factory". The insecurity he generates in her is responsible for much of the comedy. On the DVD: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads comes to disc with no extras, simply standard 4:3 picture format video production and episode selection. But it's still fresh as a daisy all the same. --Piers Ford

• The Lost Weekend | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £11.27   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Birnam long-time alcoholic has been ""on the wagon"" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Actor Best Screenplay Best Director and Best Film.

• The Last Musician of Auschwitz | DVD | (17/03/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Armada: 12 Days to Save England | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dan Snow presents this three-part historical documentary examining the sinking of the Spanish Armada. Using dramatic reconstructions, featuring Anita Dobson as Queen Elizabeth I, and contributions from historians, the programme portrays the imminent threat England faced in the summer of 1588 and recounts how they were able to save the country from an attack by 125 Spanish ships keen on invasion.

• Torvill & Dean | Blu Ray | (25/03/2019) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Will Tudor (Game Of Thrones, Humans) and Poppy Lee Friar (Ackley Bridge, In The Club) as the iconic leads, This feature-length film explores Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's early years and the creative impetus that finally drove them to become ice dancing royalty. Written by William Ivory (Made in Dagenham), the inspirational drama follows the pair's humble beginnings and family life in Nottingham and how they came together to become Olympic champions. Acting royalty, Anita Dobson (Eastenders) takes the role of Miss Perry, Jayne's first coach at the Nottingham Ice Stadium, whilst Stephen Tompkinson (The Split, DCI Banks) plays Jayne's father George and Jo Hartley (Bliss, This Is England '90) plays her mum Betty. Dean Andrews (The Moorside, Last Tango in Halifax) and Christine Bottomley (Fearless, In the Club) play Chris's parents, Colin and Mavis, and Jaime Winstone (Babs, After Hours) is Janet Sawbridge, the ice dancing instructor who pairs Chris and Jayne together for the first time. Susan Earl (I Want My Wife Back, Reggie Perrin) takes the role of Betty Dean. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Fellini Four Films 8 1/2 Box Set | Blu Ray | (10/02/2020) from £34.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The 4 essential Fellini films in one musthave boxset collection. One of the most original creative minds of the 20th Century, Fellini is unanimously voted by critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors of all time. Fellini's most acclaimed work, 8 1/2 won 2 Oscars®, it is perennially voted the ultimate film ever, with Mastroianni playing Fellini's alterego, a film director with a creative block: struggling, he retreats in dreamy recollections of his life and lovers Rooted in Neorealism, I Vitelloni is a pivotal Fellini masterpiece, observing the mores of 1950s Italy where a clique of idlers, the ˜Vitelloni' of the title, try to avoid adulthood. It is the avowed prototype for films like ˜Mean Street' American Graffiti and others La Dolce Vita is Fellini's most popular masterpiece . An epochmaking landmark having become a cultural reference and an expression in itself, it is filled with mesmerising images like Anita Ekberg frolicking in Rome's Trevi fountain. It is one of the most influential and truly iconic films of all times. Giuietta degli Spiriti is Fellini's 1st colour masterpiece. Presented here for the 1st time ever in fullHD finally doing justice to the director's dazzling explosion of ˜felliniesque' vision. This idiosyncratic paean to Woman a breathtakingly beautiful fantastical carnival ride with outstanding colour cinematography. All the same extras as individual releases: including Interviews filmed especially for CultFilms with Sandra Milo (8 ½ & Juliet); with Lina Wertmuller (AD on 8 1/2) and Anita Ekberg (8 ½) Documentary on the making of 8 ½ with interviews with cast (including Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale), crew and Fellini himself: Explores one of filmlore's great mystery! Where a massive sequence of 8 ½ was shot with all the cast, but not included in the film, and it was never seen again. Exclusive video Essay by Guido Bonsaver on I Vitelloni and Juliet of the Spirits  Audio commentary by Kat Ellinger Understanding Fellini And many others

• La Dolce Vita (1961) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (18/10/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed FEDERICO FELLINI (8½) to international mainstream successironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalistplayed by a sublimely cool MARCELLO MASTROIANNI (8½)during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of the European 1960s, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New visual essay by : : kogonada New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who worked as assistant director on the film Scholar David Forgacs discusses the period in Italy's history when the film was made New interview with Italian film journalist Antonello Sarno about the outlandish fashions seen in the film Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera related to La dolce vita from the collection of Don Young PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins

• Girlfriends | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Thirtysomething's MELANIE MAYRON), trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi (The Magnificent Seven's ELI WALLACH)? A wonder of American independent filmmaking whose remarkably authentic vision of female relationships has become a touchstone for makers of an entire subgenre of films and television shows about young women trying to make it in the big city, this 1970s New York time capsule from CLAUDIA WEILL (It's My Turn) captures the complexities and contradictions of women's lives and relationships with wry humour and refreshing frankness. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Claudia Weill and director of photography Fred Murphy, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with Weill New interview with Weill and actors Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and Bob Balaban New interview with screenwriter Vicki Polon New interview with Weill and writer and director Joey Soloway Joyce at 34, a 1972 short film by Weill and Joyce Chopra Commuters, a 1973 short film by Weill Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and scholar Carol Gilligan

• Miracles | DVD | (04/02/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jackie Chan's wonderful Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra's ""A Pocketful of Miracles"" set in the 1930's. Full length Director's cut containing over 11 minutes of previously unseen footage. One of the most expensive Hong Kong movies ever made taking nine months to shoot and cost $HK 64 000 000 to make. Winner of the award for 'Best Choreography' at the 1990 Hong Kong Critics Awards.

• Demons 1 & 2 Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (22/02/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the early 1980s, Dario Argento, the famed horror maestro responsible for such classics as Suspiria and Deep Red, branched out from directing into producing, shepherding the work of his fellow filmmakers to the screen among them Lamberto Bava (Delirium, A Blade in the Dark), son of the legendary Mario Bava. Together, they crafted two tales of terror that would become synonymous with Italian 80s horror, in which the veil between the real world and the silver screen is torn asunder. In 1985's Demons, a motley assortment of unwitting filmgoers accept invitations to a screening at the mysterious Metropol theatre. However, as the brutal slasher film unspools, the horror breaks free from the constraints the screen, unleashing a swarm of slathering demons, intent on spreading their evil plague across the globe. Then, in 1986's Demons 2, Hell comes direct to the living room as bloodthirsty demons descend on a luxury apartment block, devouring the residents and propagating their deadly plague. Arrow Video is proud to present brand new 4K restorations of both classic films, more vivid and terrifying than ever before, alongside a wealth of bonus features old and new, making this the ultimate experience in celluloid terror. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 4K restoration of both films by Arrow Films from the original camera negatives High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentations of both films Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais Limited edition 60-page booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti, Rachael Nisbet and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Double-sided fold-out poster Exclusive mystery sneak preview movie ticket (admits one to the Metropol Theatre) DISC 1 DEMONS Two versions of the film: the full-length original cut in Italian and English, and the slightly trimmed US cut, featuring alternate dubbing and sound effects Brand new lossless English and Italian 5.1 audio tracks on the original cut Original lossless English and Italian 2.0 stereo audio tracks on the original cut Original lossless English 1.0 mono audio track on the US cut Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for both English soundtracks New audio commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Heather Drain, co-hosts of the Hell's Bells podcast Archival audio commentary by director Lamberto Bava and special makeup effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, moderated by journalist Loris Curci Archival audio commentary by Lamberto Bava, Sergio Stivaletti, composer Claudio Simonetti and actress Geretta Geretta Produced by Dario Argento, a new visual essay by author and critic Michael Mackenzie exploring the legendary filmmaker's career as a producer Dario's Demon Days, an archival interview with writer/producer Dario Argento Defining an Era in Music, an archival interview with Claudio Simonetti Splatter Spaghetti Style, an archival interview with long-time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi Italian theatrical trailer International English theatrical trailer US theatrical trailer DISC 2 DEMONS 2 Brand new lossless English and Italian 5.1 audio tracks Original lossless English and Italian 2.0 stereo audio tracks Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by critic Travis Crawford Archival audio commentary by director Lamberto Bava and special makeup effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, moderated by journalist Loris Curci Together and Apart, a new visual essay on space and technology in Demons and Demons 2 by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Creating Creature Carnage, an archival interview with Sergio Stivaletti Bava to Bava, an archival interview with Luigi Cozzi on the history of Italian horror Italian theatrical trailer English theatrical trailer

• La Dolce Vita | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £54.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  At three brief hours, Fellini's cynical, engrossing social commentary, La Dolce Vita, stands as his timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence, as extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni, a man of paradoxical, emotional juxtapositions: cool but tortured, sexy but impotent. He dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticises about finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in a ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, "The Sweet Life"), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, as merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com