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• Roman Holiday | Blu Ray | (30/11/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the first time ever on Blu-ray, remastered from a 4K film transfer, Roman Holiday features a legendary, Oscar®-winning* performance from Audrey Hepburn (in her first starring role). Nominated for a total of 10 Oscars®, including Best Picture, it's the story of a modern-day princess who, rebelling against the royal obligations, explores Rome on her own. She soon meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who pretends ignorance of her true identity, in the hopes of obtaining an exclusive story. Naturally, his plan falters as they inevitably fall in love. Featuring Eddie Albert as a carefree cameraman pal, a classic Dalton Trumbo screenplay, expert direction from William Wyler, and featuring Edith Head's Oscar®-winning* costumes, it's a timeless romantic comedy considered to be one of the greatest films from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Includes the film on both Remastered Blu-ray and DVD as well as extensive bonus content going behind the scenes of old Hollywood and this timeless classic Leonard Maltin on Roman Holiday HD Behind the Gates: Costumes HD Rome with a Princess HD Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years HD Dalton Trumbo: From A-List to Blacklist HD Paramount in the ˜50s Remembering Audrey

• Cronos | Blu Ray | (24/02/2025) from £29.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro's (Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story and went on to win the Critics' Week award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. When antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) discovers an ancient artifact, in the form of a golden mechanical scarab, he is unaware of the power it holds. Whilst the parasite inside the device grants eternal life to its new host, it also causes an extreme aversion to daylight and an unquenchable thirst for human blood. Desperate to claim the device for himself, a dying millionaire (played by Claudio Brook) and his brutish nephew (Ron Perlman, Hellboy) are in hot pursuit. Newly restored in 4K, the BFI is delighted to be bringing Cronos back to UK audiences, in an extras packed limited edition Blu-ray.Extras¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)¢ Newly recorded audio commentary by Jason Wood¢ Audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro (2002)¢ Audio commentary with producers Arthur H Gorson and Bertha Navarro and co-producer Alejandro Springall (in English and Spanish with optional English subtitles)¢ Optional original Spanish-language voice-over introduction¢ Cronos - An Introduction (2024, 34 mins): director Guillermo del Toro in conversation with the former head of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes film festival and current managing director of Arte France Cinéma, Olivier Père (2024, 34 mins)¢ Geometria (1987, 7 mins): a short film by Guillermo del Toro about a young man who pays dearly to have his dreams come true¢ Guillermo del Toro on Geometria (7 mins): a short interview with the director about Geometria¢ BFI Screen Talk: Guillermo del Toro (2017, 74 mins): filmed around the release of The Shape of Water, the writer and director discusses his career with journalist, author and screenwriter Mark Salisbury and the BFI London Film Festival¢ The Making of Cronos: An Interview with Federico Luppi (2006, 5 mins): a short archival interview with the actor ¢ Interview with the director (2010, 60 mins): an archival interview with Guillermo del Toro¢ Interview with Guillermo del Toro (2010, 18 mins): an interview with the writer and director ¢ Interview with Guillermo Navarro (2010, 13 mins): an interview with the film's cinematographer¢ Interview with Ron Pearlman (2010, 7 mins): an interview with the actor who since Cronos has gone on to become one of Del Toro's regular collaborators¢ Theatrical trailer¢ Stills gallery¢ 60-page book featuring new essays by Michelle Kisner, Rich Johnson, Barry Forshaw, and Michael Leader. Also includes and edited version of ˜Guillermo del Toro: The origins of horror and Cronos', an interview that originally appeared in The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, by Jason Wood and an original Sight & Sound review by John Kraniauskas.¢ Fold-out poster featuring the new artwork for the film

• Mediterraneo | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set during World War II the story follows eight Italian soldiers sent to guard a small Greek island. After their ship is sunk and their radio breaks down it seems as if they no longer exist. Eventually a small Italo/Greek community is formed and the locals forget why they came. The soldiers' characters and beliefs start to change and they have no desire to return to the war. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film 1992.

• Cronos (2-disc Blu-ray Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2025) from £24.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro's (Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story and went on to win the Critics' Week award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993.When antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) discovers an ancient artifact, in the form of a golden mechanical scarab, he is unaware of the power it holds. Whilst the parasite inside the device grants eternal life to its new host, it also causes an extreme aversion to daylight and an unquenchable thirst for human blood. Desperate to claim the device for himself, a dying millionaire (played by Claudio Brook) and his brutish nephew (Ron Perlman, Hellboy) are in hot pursuit. Newly restored in 4K, the BFI is delighted to be bringing Cronos back to UK audiences, in an extras packed limited edition Blu-ray.Extras¢ Restored in 4K and presented in High Definition¢ Newly recorded audio commentary by Jason Wood¢ Audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro (2002)¢ Audio commentary with producers Arthur H Gorson and Bertha Navarro and co-producer Alejandro Springall (in English and Spanish with optional English subtitles)¢ Optional original Spanish-language voice-over introduction¢ Cronos - An Introduction (2024, 34 mins): director Guillermo del Toro in conversation with the former head of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes film festival and current managing director of Arte France Cinéma, Olivier Père (2024, 34 mins)¢ Geometria (1987, 7 mins): a short film by Guillermo del Toro about a young man who pays dearly to have his dreams come true¢ Guillermo del Toro on Geometria (7 mins): a short interview with the director about Geometria¢ BFI Screen Talk: Guillermo del Toro (2017, 74 mins): filmed around the release of The Shape of Water, the writer and director discusses his career with journalist, author and screenwriter Mark Salisbury and the BFI London Film Festival¢ The Making of Cronos: An Interview with Federico Luppi (2006, 5 mins): a short archival interview with the actor ¢ Interview with the director (2010, 60 mins): an archival interview with Guillermo del Toro¢ Interview with Guillermo del Toro (2010, 18 mins): an interview with the writer and director ¢ Interview with Guillermo Navarro (2010, 13 mins): an interview with the film's cinematographer¢ Interview with Ron Pearlman (2010, 7 mins): an interview with the actor who since Cronos has gone on to become one of Del Toro's regular collaborators¢ Theatrical trailer¢ Stills gallery¢ 60-page book featuring new essays by Michelle Kisner, Rich Johnson, Barry Forshaw, and Michael Leader. Also includes and edited version of ˜Guillermo del Toro: The origins of horror and Cronos', an interview that originally appeared in The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, by Jason Wood and an original Sight & Sound review by John Kraniauskas.¢ Fold-out poster featuring the new artwork for the film

• Roman Holiday | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £4.58   |  Saving you £12.67 (381.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The three-way combination of ingénue Audrey Hepburn, admirable Gregory Peck and the Eternal City itself guarantees that Roman Holiday (1953) still knocks the socks off any modern rom-com you might care to name. Add to this stellar triumvirate the meticulous, loving direction of William Wyler and a warm-hearted original story by Dalton Trumbo (blacklisted and uncredited at the time) and the result is assuredly one of Hollywood's timeless classics. At the leading man's own suggestion, newcomer Hepburn was generously accorded equal above-the-title billing with Peck: he knew that the film belonged to her anyway and wasn't one to stand on ceremony. As the princess who chafes at stuffy responsibility Hepburn's appealing girlishness is suffused with a will and wilfulness that rubs delightfully against Peck's more earnest mannerisms (even playing light-hearted comedy, he's still Atticus Finch at heart). The then-unusual decision to shoot entirely on location provides the movie with its glorious travelogue backdrop, and stalwart character-actor Eddie Albert is a fine foil for the two leads. Although Wyler is best known now for the grander vistas of The Big Country and Ben-Hur, none of his epics have as much heart as this. On the DVD: Roman Holiday comes to DVD in a good digitally restored print--in itself a powerful reason to acquire the movie on disc. Sound is clean Dolby mono. Extras include a brief piece on the film restoration process, and a short documentary about costume designer Edith Head, which isn't specifically about this movie. The 25-minute making-of featurette has recent and archive interviews with cast members, including Peck and Eddie Albert, as well as William Wyler's daughter, plus Hepburn's screen test footage. Still-photo galleries and trailers complete a pleasant selection. --Mark Walker

• Cronos | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A strange object the Cronos device has been found inside the statue of an angel in an antique store. While the dealer Jesus Gris is holding the device it springs open and its metallic legs pierces his flesh. Once bitten he develops a craving for human blood and his body grows more and more youthful with each drink. As the addiction spreads through his body he realizes he desires the blood of his innocent granddaughter... Winner of the Cannes Festival Critics' Week prize in 1992.

• Mediterraneo | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mediterraneo, the 1991 comedy by Gabriele Salvatores, was knocked for not being deep enough but it is what it is; and it is actually an easygoing, sunny movie about eight Italian soldiers who manage to strand themselves on a tiny Greek island paradise during World War II. The sort of mutts who would shoot a donkey for not knowing the proper password, these clumsy warriors become a comic variation on the Lotus Eaters of myth, their fighting spirit evaporated in the midst of so much beauty and sexual availability among the local women. There are also sundry opportunities for the men to find another purpose for their lives (one particularly artistic fellow works on the restoration of a church, for example). Amid the sometimes coarse jokes and gratuitous nudity, there are subtle themes about the contrast between what men are truly like in their natural state versus what they are like as killers. (The Thin Red Line this isn't but Salvatores does, in his own way, touch on some of the same themes.) Watch this one on a cold winter's day and vicariously enjoy the tans as well as the antiwar sentiment. --Tom Keogh

• Roman Holiday | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who explores Rome on her own. She meets Gregory Peck an American newspaperman who seeking an exclusive story pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they rapidly fall in love...

• The Beauty Jungle | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1960s British comedy drama in which a young woman finds a new career as a beauty queen. Attractive typist Shirley Freeman (Janette Scott) is encouraged by newspaper man Don Mackenzie (Ian Hendry) to enter a beauty pageant while on vacation. After winning she decides to quit her job and become a full-time contestant, proving to be very successful. However, her success won't last forever...

• Vows Of Deception | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this shocking sexually charged thriller a deadly maze of desire greed and betrayal explodes when a wealthy lawyer is found shot dead and his best friend sets out to prove the dead man's conniving wife is guilty of murder.

• Rossini - La Cenerentola (Abbado) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £12.61   |  Saving you £1.38 (10.94%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Five Adventures | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the heady days of Louis Xlll's France live Dogtanian and three courageous Muskehounds - Athos Porthos and Aramis. Pledged to a life of a adventure they are mnavericks fighting for justice despite their sometimes unorthodix methods. Chivalry honour and companionship are all upheld as they battle against the forces of evil legendary swordsmanship helping them escape danger in the nick of time... Whether overcoming the powerful Richelieu or waging war Dogtanian and the The Three Muskehounds never lose their sense of duty - or sense of humour. They are truly a law unto themselves.

• Around The World With Willy Fog - Vol. 2 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the reform club to travel around the world in eighty days he cannot have forseen what lies in front for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet against Fog - to stop Fog from winning his bet by all possible means. The other is Inspector Dix of The Yard who mistakenly wants to arrest Fog for a recent bank robbery. Fog's chosen route takes him to Paris Brindisi Suez and Bombay. Whilst crossing India he saves the beautiful Indian princess Romy from certain death - and acquires an extra travelling companion. His eventful journey continues via Calcutta Hong Kong Yokohama San Francisco and New York. Not only does Fog have to deal with Transfer's deliberate sabotage he also has to survive storms accidents and even unfriendly Red Indians...

• European Concert 1998 Stockholm | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £15.84   |  Saving you £4.15 (20.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Overture from Der Fliegende HollanderSymphonic Fantasia op.18 The TempestTrois nocturnes1. Nuages2. Fetes3. SirenesOuattro pezzi sacri1. Ave Maria su una scala enigmatica2. Stabat Mater3. Laudi alla virgine Maria4. Te DeumDocumentary

• Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Episodes 1 To 9 | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £8.11   |  Saving you £-5.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Based on the classic stories by Alexandre Dumas 9 swash-buckling episodes! In the heady days of Louis XIII's France live Dogtanian and 3 courageous Muskehounds - Athos Porthos and Aramis. Pledged to a life of adventure they are mavericks fighting for justice despite their sometimes unorthodox methods.

• Strauss: Elektra | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Richard Strauss's wildest and most passionate opera gets an almost ideal performance in this 1989 production with three great female singers at the height of their powers. Marton is terrifyingly unreasonable as Elektra, determined to mourn her dead father in the face of her mother who had him killed, and to hope and pray for the vengeance that her brother will one day bring. Told he is dead, her emotional collapse is equally total, and her eventual self-destructive dance of triumph is a bittersweet ecstasy of anger and joy. Studer gives the sometimes underplayed role of the normal, compromising "feminine" sister the weight and sympathy Strauss intended it to have. Fassbaender is electric as Clytemnestra, collapsing under the weight of her guilt and paranoia, but still scarily sexy and regal in her manipulation of those around her. Abbado's conducting is electric--from the opening "Agamemnon" chords to the final dying fall of Elektra's dance, he never puts a foot wrong or misjudges the pacing of this most difficult of opera scores. The DVD has subtitles in English, German and French. --Roz Kaveney

• Around The World With Willy Fog - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £4.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the Reform Club to travel around the world in 80 days he cannot have forseen what lies in store for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet

• Crimebusters | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A morally dubious duo feature in this hilarious escapade as they fall out with a mob who run a harbour complex. They resort to crime and plan a supermarket robbery which not surprisingly goes haywire.

• The Card Player | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (-6.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Policewoman Anna Mari plays a dangerous game with a serial killer: if she loses she will be forced to watch the murderer take another victim...

• Berg: Wozzeck | DVD | (15/11/2001) from £34.31   |  Saving you £-9.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The bleakness of Berg's operatic masterpiece Wozzeck is relatively easy to bring off: the plot, after all, tells of a man who is bullied, cuckolded and mocked by the society around him. What are harder to realise are the gallows humour and pitch-black comedy--and it's those qualities, along with the brilliant acting and edge-of-seat orchestral playing, that make this 1987 Vienna Staatsoper staging a stunning televisual operatic production. Everything works: the simple yet evocative sets translate effortlessly to the small screen, the pacing of the 15 short scenes is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster and the singing is beautifully focussed. Baritone Franz Grundheber is vocally and dramatically outstanding as Wozzeck, cringing and shuffling around the stage in a bewildered hang-dog manner and yet never losing sight of the character's humanity. Hildegard Behrens (Marie) has rarely sounded better, and switches between Straussian lushness and spiky sluttishness with ease. The direction is also full of wonderful touches, such as Wozzeck squeezing the Captain's nose while he's shaving him (and making his voice sound like a kazoo), and the musicians of the on-stage band being fully integrated into the tavern scene. Ironic, emotionally rich, musically faultless--this one's got it all. On the DVD: the production works beautifully on DVD, and bar one or two moments in the second tavern scene (Act 3, Scene 3) the voices rarely move out of microphone range. There are subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish and four trailers for other Arthaus DVD operas, but no other special features. --Warwick Thomson