Set amidst the decadence and terror of Fascist Germany the multi award-winning Bent is above all a powerful and moving love story recounting the fate of three homosexual men during the rise of Nazism. The film is a harrowing but inspirational tale of struggle against oppression starring Clive Owen Lothaire Bluteau Ian McKellen and Mick Jagger and with original music by Philip Glass.
In 1998, Mike Hodges, director of the iconic Get Carter, returned to the genre that made his name with Croupier, an unforgettable thriller that put leading man Clive Owen firmly on the map and established itself as a classic of British crime cinema. Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. Taking a job as a casino croupier just to make ends meet, he finds himself seduced by the high stakes world of luck and chance. As the job takes over his life and his relationship to girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) begins to crumble, Jack's attention is caught by down-on-her-luck gambler Jani (Alex Kingston). Under pressure from her creditors, she asks Jack to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. It all sounds so easy. But even a pro can't predict the cards he will be dealt. With a screenplay by Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) Hodges first theatrical feature in almost a decade proved that he'd lost none of his edge. Cooly confident, mercilessly gripping and tautly directed, Croupier arrives on Arrow Video looking better than ever, newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative with a wealth of brand new special features. Product Features Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Mike Hodges Bonus disc containing brand new feature-length documentary Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker's Life Fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by film critics Barry Forshaw and Philip Kemp, plus select archival material Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley DISC 1 CROUPIER (BLU-RAY) High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Optional audio description for the visually impaired Brand new audio commentary by film critic Josh Nelson Archive audio commentary by director Mike Hodges A Streak of Fortune, a new interview with screenwriter Paul Mayersberg about the writing and making of Croupier Film, Scones and Fury, a new interview with actress Kate Hardie in which she looks back on the making of Croupier and her friendship with Mike Hodges Mike Hodges at the BFI, an archival audio interview with director Mike Hodges from the time of Croupier's release Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery DISC 2 MIKE HODGES: A FILM-MAKER'S LIFE (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE BLU-RAY) In this all new documentary from Arrow Films, film critic David Cairns sits down with Croupier, Get Carter and Flash Gordon director Mike Hodges to take a closer look at the entirety of his career; featuring candid insights into the making of each film and his experience of the industry at large, it is a remarkable portrait of one of Britain's finest filmmakers
From director David Schwimmer comes Trust a gripping haunting thriller featuring outstanding performances from Academy Award Nominees Clive Owen Catherine Keener and Viola Davis. Safe and sound in her suburban home 14-year old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of webroom chat and phonecalls Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked in to disbelief her parents Will and Lynne (Owen and Keener) struggle to come to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life. The devastating revelation sets in motion a chain of events that forever change their lives as Will fights to bring about his own kind of justice.
The Croupier sees Clive Owen suffering from a bad case of writer's block as author Jack Manfred. Sitting in his London flat staring at an empty computer screen, trying to find the words to narrate his meandering life, he reluctantly accepts a job from his absentee father (Nicholas Ball) in a second rate casino as a dealer, or croupier, a job he once held in South Africa. His immersion back into this world is intoxicating, thanks primarily to the power he holds over his nightly clientele. Jack is a straight arrow on the floor (unlike his co-workers) but the whisper of an inside-job robbery makes his life suddenly more intriguing, as do the women who begin to drift into his life: a fellow croupier (Kate Hardie) and an alluring gambler (Alex Kingston). Suddenly, Jack finds his own life is his best book material. There's something visceral about watching the world of gambling, and director Mike Hodges (the original Get Carter) taps into this allure; Jack's simple croupier tryout--handling cards and chips with skill and grace--is as captivating as most action scenes in big popcorn films. In the end, this little film, which went on to become an art-house hit, is as unpredictable as a roll of the dice. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
An ingenious story of the wheel of chance, of good luck against bad, of fate against coincidence, a plot against destiny.
All five Bourne films are available together in The Bourne Ultimate Collection! Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmanoeuvre anyone who stands in the way of his mission to discover the secrets of his mysterious past. As part of the next generation of genetically-engineered agents, Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross attempts to finish what Bourne started. Follow their explosive, action-packed adventures with the blockbuster films from one of the most popular series of all time: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. Loaded with hours of bonus features, The Bourne Ultimate Collection is the ultimate espionage experience for Bourne fans everywhere! BONUS FEATURES: BRINGING BACK MATT DAMON AS BOURNE SHUTTING DOWN THE LAS VEGAS STRIP DELETED SCENES NEW YORK CHASE ROOFTOP PURSUIT DRIVING SCHOOL FILMMAKER COMMENTARIES
Someone Is Playing A Very Deadly Game... This edge-of-your-seat thriller stars sexy Halle Berry (pre 'Monster's Ball') as a beautiful woman hopelessly trapped in a web of suspense and terror where nothing is what it seems! Josie Potenza (Berry) has it all: a fabulous home a life of privilege and a wealthy husband. But Josie's seemingly perfect life takes a nightmarish turn when her husband is brutally murdered making her the prime suspect in the police investigation...and the prime
While attending a fundraising gala Sarah Jordan (Jolie) a naive married American socialite living in England witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder renegade humanitarian Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen). His plea made on behalf of impoverished African children under his care turns Sarah's life upside down. Attracted to Nick and his cause she impulsively abandons her sheltered life in England to work along side him in his effort to aid the helpless and anguished victims.
Sin City 1: Robert Rodriguez Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino direct an amazing cast of big –screen favourites (Bruce Willis Jessica Alba Mickey Rourke Clive Owen Brittany Murphy Benicio Del Toro Rosario Dawson and more!) in this acclaimed and visually stunning hit that’s straight from the pages of Miller’s hop series of “Sin City” graphic novels. Sin City 2: Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants in this visually stunning thrill ride. With an all-star cast including Eva Green Josh Brolin Mickey Rourke Rosario Dawson Jessica Alba Bruce Willis Powers Boothe Joseph Gordon-Levitt Ray Liotta Jeremy Piven and Dennis Haysbert.
In the new film from the director of "Get Carter," Clive Owen plays a former London gang leader who is dragged back into the "business" to avenge the death of his brother.
Taking of Pelham 123: Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is a New York City subway dispatcher whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta) the criminal mastermind behind the hijacking and leader of a highly-armed gang of four threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money how can they possibly escape? Inside Man: Acclaimed actors Denzel Washington Clive Owen and Jodie Foster come together to explore the lure of power the ugliness of greed and the mystery of a perfect robbery in a combustible new crime drama from Spike Lee. The hardbitten but unorthodox Detective Fraiser (Washington) pits his wits against a high-class bank robber Dalton Russell (Owen) following the robbery of a Manhattan bank. As the chase unfolds political corruption and hidden agendas threaten to destabilise an already volatile situation. The Bone Collector: He takes his victims' lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer's deranged plan is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) a one-time top homicide investigator. After a tragic accident changes his life forever Rhyme can only watch as other cops bungle the case...until he teams up with a young rookie Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) who bravely becomes his eyes and ears and searches out the clues that help them solve the case. But as the killer senses the cops closing in Rhyme realizes that he and his partner are on the trail of a vicious sadistic murderer who will stop at nothing on his deadly mission. At any moment Rhyme and Amelia could become his next targets - and their first case could become their last.
Freely adapted from Robert Ludlum's 1980 bestseller, The Bourne Identity starts fast and never slows down. The twisting plot revs up in Zurich, where amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), with no memory of his name, profession, or recent activities, recruits a penniless German traveler (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) to assist in solving the puzzle of his missing identity. While his CIA superior (Chris Cooper) dispatches assassins to kill Bourne and thus cover up his failed mission, Bourne exercises his lethal training to leave a trail of bodies from Switzerland to Paris. Director Doug Liman (Go) infuses Ludlum's intricate plotting with a maverick's eye for character detail, matching breathtaking action with the humorous, thrill-seeking chemistry of Damon and Potente. Previously made as a 1988 TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain, The Bourne Identity benefits from the sharp talent of rising stars, offering intelligent, crowd-pleasing excitement from start to finish. --Jeff Shannon
Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com
A collection of 9 Spike Lee's most known films. Films Comprise: 1. Mo' Better Blues 2. Crooklyn 3. Inside Man 4. Clockers 5. School Daze 6. She Hates Me 7. Do the Right Thing 8. Get on the Bus 9. Jungle Fever
Inspired by a true story, "The Boys Are Back" is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood, that intimately evokes both the fragility and wonders of family life.
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground-breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alphaan ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. Also starring Rihanna, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer, Kris Wu, Ethan Hawke and Herbie Hancock.
A drama series directed by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich Contagion Ocean's Eleven) The Knick looks at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital ("the Knick") during the early twentieth century. The Hospital operates with innovative surgeons nurses and staff who have to overcome medicinal limitations to prevent staggeringly high mortality rates. Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is the newly appointed leader of the surgery staff who battles his cocaine and opium addictions with his ambition for medical discovery and reputation among his peers. While literally struggling to keep the lights on the hospital attempts to attract a wealthy clientele without sacrificing quality care.
New York 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen; Children of Men) has just been released from prison on good behaviour several years after he was involved in a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother Frank (Billy Crudup; Watchmen) a cop with a bright future. Hoping that Chris has changed Frank is willing to give his brother a chance; he shares his home finds him a job and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife (Marion Cotillard; The Dark Knight Rises). But Chris’ past quickly begins to catch up with him and his descent back into a life of crime becomes inevitable. For Frank it’s the last in a long line of betrayals and he banishes him from his life. But it’s already too late; the brothers’ destiny will be bounded forever. Blood ties are the ones that bind. Also starring; Mila Kunis (Black Swan) Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy) Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust & Bone) and James Caan (The Godfather) Special Features: 'Behind the scenes'
Sharman: The Complete Series (3 Discs)
All ten episodes from the second season of the medical drama directed by Steven Soderbergh and set in the early 20th century at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York. In this series, Dr. John 'Thack' Thackery (Clive Owen) is receiving treatment for his drug addiction which includes the administering of heroin. Spiralling from one addiction to another, Thackery is unable to return to his position as chief surgeon in the hospital. When Edwards (André Holland), acting chief of surgery, learns he has a detached retina as a result of his bar brawls, he struggles to win the sympathy of the hospital board. Fellow surgeon Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson) is outraged to discover Edwards has taken the top spot, which had been promised to him by Thackery. He decides drastic intervention is necessary to return Thack to his position in the hospital. The episodes are: 'Ten Knots', 'You're No Rose', 'The Best With the Best to Get the Best', 'Wonderful Surprises', 'Whiplash', 'There Are Rules', 'Williams and Walker', 'Not Well at All', 'Do You Remember Moon Flower?' and 'This Is All We Are'.
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