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• Shootfighter | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two heroes are manipulated by the villain into participating in an illegal martial arts competition funded by bloodthirsty high rollers. The contests often end in death for the loser and the two heroes must face each other after the preliminary rounds are over. It'll tear your heart out!

• Beau Travail | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the very finest French films released in 2000, Claire Denis' resetting of Billy Budd among modern-day French Foreign Legionnaires welds near-experimental formal minimalism with a savage exposure of male aggression, jealousy and repressed homosexual desire, all set in an eye-peeling desert setting and choreographed to the grunts of men at work. Ravaged-featured Denis Lavant plays Galoup, who narrates his story in flashback, perhaps at the moment before his life ends. A sergeant in charge of a troop of Legionnaires, Galoup's position as the favourite of the Commander (Michel Subor) is threatened by the arrival of pretty-boy Sentain (Grégoire Colin, who played the spoiled wastrel in The Dream Life of Angels). Galloup plots to discredit his rival. As the drama unfolds through indirection and Galloup's unreliable disclosures, Denis dwells lovingly on the ballet of men at work as the soldiers run through their obstacle courses, practice combat pas de deux and disport like lean, khaki-clad dolphins by the Mediterranean shore. Sort of like Full Metal Jacket meets early Derek Jarman. It's a sensuous and exquisite film, as perceptive about relationships between men as it is about those between colonisers and the colonised. --Leslie Felperin

• The Story of Film: An Odyssey | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation.Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry.Described as a love letter to the movies, Cousins visits the key sites in the history of cinema; from Hollywood to Mumbai; from Hitchcock s London to the village where Pather Panchali was shot, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.

• Emily the Criminal | Blu Ray | (16/01/2023) from £9.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emily is a talented artist who, due to a minor criminal record, resorts to insecure contract work delivering food while her friend from art school, Liz makes work trips to Portugal for photo shoots. Down on her luck and saddled with student debt, Emily gets involved in a dangerous credit card scam that pulls her deep into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.

• The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Blu Ray | (26/07/2021) from £41.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion dollar globalised digital industry. Described as a 'love letter' to the movies, Cousins visits the key sites in the history of cinema; from Hollywood to Mumbai; from Hitchcock's London to the village where Pather Panchali was shot, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.

• Malanova | DVD | (14/04/2025) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jean Renoir - La Bete Humaine, La Grande Illusion, Le Crime De Monsieur Lange | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes the classic Renoir films La Bete Humaine La Grande Illusion and The Crime Of M. Lange. La Bete Humaine A mad train driver falls in love with a married woman. They plot to kill the wife's husband... La Grande Illusion One of the very first prison escape movies Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece of French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange Told in flashback this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...

• Infamous Serial Killers of Our Time | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £32.93   |  Saving you £-17.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The murderers next door What drives people to murder to torture and to mutilate? What happens that makes a monster out of a human being? And once that inner transformation has taken place how can they be stopped? In this fascinating collection we look at six of modern history's most notorious killers examining their early years for clues as to their murderous potential their private lives for details of their unusual thought processes their horrific crimes and the way each has been brought to justice.

• The Story of Film: An Odyssey | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (-37.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This exhilarating documentary sees critically acclaimed director, film critic and curator Mark Cousins embark on an epic journey, in which he chronicles the birth and evolution of the great and popular art form- cinema.

• Water & Sugar Carlo di Palma The Colours of Life | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £9.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A galaxy of cinema luminaries from Ken Loach and Ettore Scola to Wim Wenders and Bernardo Bertolucci pay tribute to the great Italian cinematographer Carlo di Palma, in a documentary that chronicles his extraordinary work for directors Visconiti, Antonioni, and Woody Allen. Directors and actors receive all the attention, but one of the key collaborators when making a film is the person behind the camera: the director of photography, or cinematographer. He cut his teeth as an assistant on some of the greatest films in cinema history: Visconti's Obsession, Rossellini's Rome, Open City De Sica's Bicycle Thieves.His eye for black-and-white film was masterful, but it was his innovations in colour with Antonioni's Red Desert and Blow-Up, in the mid-1960s, that set him apart as a genius of the medium. Director Fariborz Kamkari threads together stunning excerpts from the films, and interviews a galaxy of luminaries. The result is a glorious celebration of a humanist and an engaged artist of uncommon talent.

• x500 | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An emotional drama which evocatively explores the themes of identity, migration and transformation, X500 is the second feature from Colombian-Canadian writer-director Juan Andres Arango. It features memorable performances from Jembie Almazan, Bernardo Garnica Cruz and Jonathan Diaz Angulo as three teenagers living in different areas of the Americas yet going through the same experiences, thousands of kilometers apart. Maria: newly arrived in Montreal following the death of her mother, she is alienated and isolated both at home and at school. Alex: has returned to Colombia after being deported from the US, carrying with him the secret of his brother's death. David: following his father's death he leaves his indigenous Mazahua village to find work in Mexico City. Can they survive the violence of their new worlds?

• Ennio Morricone - Der Maestro - Special Edition (4K Ultra HD) (+ 2 Blu-rays) (+ CD) | Blu Ray | (27/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A