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• The War Bride | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marry in haste, repent at leisure, goes the old adage. Certainly, The War Bride sees the chirpy Cockney Lily (Anna Friel) with plenty of time to regret her lot. After a whirlwind romance in wartime Britain she marries her handsome Canadian hunk, Charlie (Aden Young). Finding herself pregnant and alone, Charlie having been sent back to the front, she jumps at the chance of a new life abroad when she receives a one-way ticket to Canada. Unfortunately Charlie's tales of his family ranch in Alberta are more fanciful than factual and when she gets there her natural ebullience is tested to the limit by a crumbling shack and a frostbite-inducing welcome from his widowed mother (Brenda Fricker, superbly dour) and his crippled sister (Molly Parker). They view her townie ways, her penchant for picture houses and scarlet lipstick, with deep suspicion. The only light in these dark days is derived from visits from her longstanding best friend Sophie (who also married a Canadian, but one with rather more to offer) and a burgeoning friendship with Joe, her sister-in-law's boyfriend. The film was inspired by the experiences of screenwriter Angela Workman's mother, one of 48,000 war brides who immigrated to Canada during World War II, and it vividly demonstrates that for the unlucky ones the future was far from rosy. The result could have been mawkish but it's saved by fine performances from Friel--who is increasingly showing herself to be an actress of some versatility--and the always splendid Brenda Fricker. --Harriet Smith

• Return To Cranford | Blu Ray | (01/03/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (68.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Cranford where all changes and all remains the same. Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realised in the birth of Tilly daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. The shadow of the railway still looms but to the relief of Matty and the Amazons the line has been halted five miles outside of Cranford because of Lady Ludlow's refusal to sell her land. Elsewhere Miss Matty's friend Mr Buxton returns to town with his son William and his niece Erminia. Miss Matty decides to introduce them to Peggy Bell a young woman who lives in an isolated cottage with her mother and domineering brother Edward in the hope of building friendships. But when tragedy strikes she comes to believe that she has opened Pandora's box and fears Cranford will never recover.

• A Return to Salem's Lot | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wim Wenders Documentaries Collection | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Five of iconic film director Wim Wenders' key documentaries collected together in Wenders Classics box set packaging with new bonus features and an exclusive limited edition collector's booklet. A must-have for Wenders fans. Nick's Film: Lightning Over Water: In 1979 award-winning German filmmaker Wim Wenders travelled to New York City to make a movie with legendary American auteur Nicholas Ray as he lay dying of terminal cancer. Surrounded by family and friends the director of such Hollywood classics as Rebel Without a Cause Johnny Guitar and They Live By Night reflects on a career of triumphs and compromises as he faces his final days with hope humour and the fierce independent spirit that defined his greatest works. Together Ray and Wenders create a film that is more than a documentary telling an extraordinarily moving story about collaboration that goes beyond friendship and ultimately a life in cinema that transcends death itself. Room 666: The year is 1982. Filmmakers across the globe converge on the south of France for the Cannes Film Festival the industry's most prestigious annual event. One by one they are led in to the cramped confines of Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez and forced to answer a difficult and engaging question: What is the future of cinema? The directors become the subject when some of the film's greatest visionaries bare their souls and wax romantic about the fate of moviemaking. Steven Spielberg Michelangelo Antonioni Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard headline an all-star cast of auteurs in this eclectic documentary by acclaimed director Wim Wenders. Tokyo-Ga: Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders turns his camera toward the Far East in this captivating love letter to the world's most bustling metropolis. Using the films of director Yasujiro Ozu as a window into the Tokyo landscape Wenders examines the sociology of Tokyo in both the past and present in an effort to understand the evolution of Japan's national identity. Highlighted by an interview with fellow filmmaker Werner Herzog Tokyo-Ga is a fascinating amalgam of personal experience and global introspection that aims to question the meaning of nostalgia in a city that thrives on change. Notebook On Cities And Clothes: In 1989 the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris asked director Wim Wenders to create a film about the world of fashion. Initially resistant to the idea Wenders soon became fascinated by the craft and philosophy of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto as he prepared his new season's collection. From the streets and studios of Tokyo to the boulevards and catwalks of Paris Wenders uncovers the essence of Yamamoto's work while exploring the enigma of style the language of images and the very nature of human identity. The result is an extraordinary examination of both fashion and cinema as a way of life carried along only by unique vision and vivid curiosity. A Trick Of The Light: Long fascinated with the ever-changing culture of world cinema exploratory director Wim Wenders pays a visit to his alma mater in an effort to recreate the magic and wonder of film in its most infantile state.

• Driver | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ryan O'Neal plays the driver - an ice-cool getaway ace for hire by whoever can afford his crash course skills. Bruce Dern is the detective - a man obsessed with arresting the speed demon at any cost... The Driver lures his foe into a deadly game of cross and double cross by leaving tantalising evidence at every heist until the vengeance-crazed Detective can stand no more and the film erupts into a frenzy of twisted metal and burning rubber. A 1970's classic from Walter Hill.

• Red Monarch | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a Russia where fear has become the everyday currency Stalin and Beria are the two double acts to end them all. With the Kremlin as their stage and the Politburo as their stooges Stalin signs death warrants while Beria chases women. United by their Georgian heritage and moral depravity they trust each other only as much as they have to. A humorous look at Stalin dictator and family man.

• Dirty Filthy Love | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dirty Filthy Love is an offbeat romantic comedy with a difference. Darkly funny quirky and poignant this single drama tells the story of a man with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Tourette's Syndrome negotiating his way through divorce and redundancy. Then he meets Charlotte who introduces him to love therapy and 'f*cked up neuro-transmitters'!

• Leonard Cohen - Under Review | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £12.33   |  Saving you £-6.34 (-105.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Leonard Cohen - Under Review 1934 -1977 is a 90-minute documentary film which reviews the poetry music performances and career of one of contemporary America's greatest artists. This documentary includes obscure footage rare interviews scarcely seen photographs live and studio recordings of Cohen's classics and reviews of some of Cohen's musical performances. There are reviews comments criticisms and insights from; official Cohen biographer Ira Nadel; Leonard's regular guitarist and band leader Ron Cornelius; producer on the New Skin For The Old Ceremony and New Positions albums John Lissauer; studio owner and engineer on Death Of A Ladies Man David Gold Cohen's backing vocalist Ronee Blakley; producer of Songs Of Leonard Cohen John Simon; Music Editor from Village Voice Robert Christgau; Rolling Stone magazine's Anthony De Curtis and many others.

• Nightmare on Elm Street '84 | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exclusive to Zavvi Red Carpet customers only 1, 2, Freddy's coming for you. And here he is, phantom fiend Freddy Krueger in all his razor-fingered infamy. Wes Craven (Scream movies) directs this trendsetting first into the slash-hit series. The premise is simple: Freddy (Robert Englund) homicidally haunts the sleep of the Elm Street teens. The results are terrifying and mind-blowingly innovative. There's another film debut too: Johnny Deppy. He plays the ready steady of the hottie mcsmarty (Heather Langenkamp) who figures a clever way to flambe the fiend. But ever-say-die Freddy will be 3, 4 back for more... Special Features include: READY FREDDY FOCUS POINTS See Alternate Takes and Learn Filmmaking Secrets Behind the Nightmare by Jumping to Video Highlights While Watching the Movie 2 Commentaries: 1) Director Wes Craven, Co-Stars Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon and Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin, 2) Wes Craven, Co-Stars Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and Ronee Blakley, Producer Robert Shaye and Co-Producer Sara Risher Alternate Endings 3 Featurettes: The House That Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror Never Sleep Again: The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares Interactive Trivia Track

• Driver | DVD | (17/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Nightmare On Elm Street | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nightmare on Elm Street is the only Elm street film that falls into the "really scary" category. A dead murderer returns in the dreams of the children of his old enemies, and torments them. Wes Craven tamps down the humour that would overtake the films and goes all out for shivers. There are several memorably surreal horror sequences involving tongued telephones and bottomless baths as Craven's unhealthy imagination runs riot. With Heather Langenkamp as the plucky Nancy, John Saxon and Ronee Blakely as her dim bulb parents, Amanda Wyss and young Johnny Depp as teen victims, and Robert Englund as "Fred" Krueger. -- Kim Newman