"Actor: Fritz"

• Dinner With Friends | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £5.84   |  Saving you £8.15 (139.55%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Four Friends. Two Marriages. One Divorce. From the director of Moonstruck comes a movie about food fun and infidelity. Gabe and Karen Beth and Tom. Four close friends two close couples. Married for 12 years they planned on eating drinking and parenting their way into old age together. But when Gabe and Karen host a dinner to try out some new recipes on their best friends only one arrives bearing news that will test their friendship and even test their marriage. When a close

• Metropolis -- Two Disc Special Edition | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you think you know Fritz Lang's Metropolis backwards, this special edition will come as a revelation. Shortly after its premiere, the expensive epic--originally well over two hours--was pulled from distribution and re-edited against Lang's wishes, and this truncated, simplified form is what we have known ever since 1926. Though not quite as fully restored as the strapline claims, this 118-minute version is the closest we are likely to get to Lang's original vision, complete with tactful linking titles to fill in the scenes that are irretrievably missing. Not only does this version add many scenes unseen for decades, but it restores their order in the original version. Until now, Metropolis has usually been rated as a spectacular but simplistic science fiction film, but this version reveals that the futuristic setting is not so much prophetic as mythical, with elements of 1920s architecture, industry, design and politics mingled with the mediaeval and the Biblical to produce images of striking strangeness: a futuristic robot burned at the stake, a steel-handed mad scientist who is also a 15th Century alchemist, the trudging workers of a vast factory plodding into the jaws of a machine that is also the ancient God Moloch. Gustav Frohlich's performance as the hero who represents the heart is still wildly overdone, but Rudolf Klein-Rogge's engineer Rotwang, Alfred Abel's Master of Metropolis and, especially, Brigitte Helm in the dual role of saintly saviour and metal femme fatale are astonishing. By restoring a great deal of story delving into the mixed motivations of the characters, the wild plot now makes more sense, and we can see that it is as much a twisted family drama as epic of repression, revolution and reconciliation. A masterpiece, and an essential purchase. On the DVD: Metropolis has been saddled with all manner of scores over the years, ranging from jazz through electronica to prog-rock, but here it is sensibly accompanied by the orchestral music Gottfried Huppertz wrote for it in the first place. An enormous amount of work has been done with damaged or incomplete elements to spruce the image up digitally, and so even the scenes that were in the film all along shine with a wealth of new detail and afford a far greater appreciation for the brilliance of art direction, special effects and Helm's clockwork sexbomb. A commentary written but not delivered by historian Ennio Patalas covers the symbolism of the film and annotates its images, but the production information is left to a measured but unchallenging 45-minute documentary on the second disc (little is made of the astounding parallel between the screen story in which Klein-Rogge's character tries to destroy the city because the Master stole his wife and the fact that Lang married the actor's wife Thea von Harbou, authoress of the Metropolis novel and screenplay!). There are galleries of production photographs and sketches; biographies of all the principals; and an illustrated lecture on the restoration process which uses before and after clips to reveal just how huge a task has been accomplished in this important work. --Kim Newman

• Le Mepris | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ""Godard gives us `an abundance of cinematic virtuosity; the expressive colours stately camera moves and haunting music (borrowed by Scorsese for `Casino') all dovetail to stunning effect.' "" **** Empire When aspiring playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is called in as script doctor on a film of `The Odyssey' he is caught between a director (Fritz Lang) who wants to capture the reality of Homer's world and crass producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) who just wants more mermaids.

• Marathon Man | Blu Ray | (28/02/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The World's Greatest Lover | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz (Dom DeLuise) announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood - including Rudy Valentine (Wilder) a neurotic baker from Milwaukee who knows as little about romance as he does about acting. But when his wife Annie (Carol Kane) leaves him for the real Valentino Rudy goes to outrageous (and hilarious) lengths to win the role of a lifetime...and win back the love of his life.

• Herbie Goes Bananas | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £5.47   |  Saving you £10.78 (256.06%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in exotic locations in Central America the internationally renowned Herbie everyone's favourite ""love bug"" demonstrates his special brand of car-isma and high-octane humour in this action-packed stunt-filled comedy outing. The fun begins when Herbie sets sail for Rio de Janeiro's Grande Premio racing competition with his two new owners. En route they get sidetracked by a smuggling syndicate pestered by a pint-sized pickpocket and bullied by a raging bull. Laughter shifts in

• Marathon Man | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In New York City the brother of infamous Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) is killed in a car accident. Shortly thereafter members of a covert US government group called 'The Division' who are investigating the incident begin to be murdered one by one. When Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) a 'Division' agent is the latest to be attacked his brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman) witnesses his death and unwittingly becomes the pawn in a deadly game in which former SS denti

• Le Mepris | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Brigitte Bardot, then at the height of her fame, and Michel Piccoli as a married couple tearing the last strips off a failing marriage, Le Mépris is both one of Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films and perhaps his most excoriating and emotionally raw. Godard and his regular cinematographer Raoul Coutard (lensman for most of the greatest films of the New Wave) splashed out the budget for this international co-production on Bardot's salary and gorgeous CinemaScope photography to capture the Italian setting's intense beauty, bright as a knife. The nominal story concerns the film production of an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, on which Piccoli is the scriptwriter, much to the disgust of his wife Camille (Bardot) who preferred life when he merely wrote novels. Hired by Jack Palance's swaggering American producer to adapt the Greek epic for a film to be directed by the august Fritz Lang (director of M, here playing himself), Paul inadvertently sets in motion the elements which will unravel his marriage, earning his wife's contempt (the closest translation of the French word "mépris"). Soon, the tenderness of the film's opening sequence--wherein they loll naked on a bed as she coquettishly solicits his approval of each of her body parts--gives way to harrowing bickering, the meat of film's central 35-minute scene which will induce pained winces in anyone who has ever been through a bitter split-up. If that sounds harrowing, be reassured that Le Mépris is not without its lighter moments and joys: Godard's trademarked musings on the nature of cinema, Bardot looking exquisitely chic in a selection of soigné little outfits, Lang bemusedly quoting the German poet Hölderlin and Bertolt Brecht. As mannered as the New Wave posturings now seem, Le Mépris still looks unbeatably stylish, its themes as eternal as Homer and the Capri landscape. --Leslie Felperin

• Silent Movie | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The film Silent Movie is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn a filmmaker who has seen better days for one thing he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise) rescue him from despair and convince him to make another attempt at moviemaking Mel comes up with an idea a silent picture. Alas this is the 1970s and in

• Giorgio Moroder Presents: METROPOLIS (LIMITED EDITION DVD STEELBOOK) | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £33.02   |  Saving you £-13.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the era when one could still but only dream of a comprehensive restoration of Fritz Lang's silent sci-fi epic Metropolis, esteemed pop artist/producer and pioneering electronic composer Giorgio Moroder followed his work on Brian De Palma's cult-classic Al Pacino vehicle Scarface by assembling his own version of Lang's 1920s classic. The result was a zeitgeist-infused, high-kitsch/high-art amalgam of some of the quintessential cinema images and then-contemporary 1980s pop-chart melodrama. For millions around the world, it is this version of Metropolis – featuring music by Moroder himself and artistes such as Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, and Jon Anderson – which first comes to mind whenever mention is made of the Lang original or, indeed, the iconic imagery and power of silent cinema.

• Cave Of Forgotten Dreams | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog's exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years.

• The Razor's Edge | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Narrated by on-screen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall) this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Tyrone Power) who finds he can not settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and career he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and causes his distraght fiancee (Gene Tierney) to seek solace with another man (John Payne)...

• Wagner: Siegfried | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Le Mepris | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £18.39   |  Saving you £7.86 (45.88%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When aspiring playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is called in as script doctor on a film of 'The Odyssey' he is caught between a director (Fritz Lang) who wants to capture the reality of Homer's world and crass producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) who just wants more mermaids. As his artistic integrity gradually succumbs to the power of Prokosch's cheque book his wife Camille (Bardot) regards him with increasing contempt.

• Lost In Space - Season 3 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £25.99   |  Saving you £24.00 (92.34%)   |  RRP £49.99

  ""Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"" In the year 1997 Earth is suffering from massive overpopulation. Professor John Robinson his wife Maureen their children (Judy Penny and Will) and Major Don West are selected to go to the third planet in the Alpha Centauri star system to establish a colony so that other Earth people can settle there. However Doctor Zachary Smith an agent for an enemy government is sent to sabotage the mission. He is successful in reprogramming the ship's robot

• Day Of The Dolphin | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The most amazing outdoor adventure ever filmed! Dr Jake Terrell (Scott) who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English although they do have a limited vocabulary. When the dolphins are stolen he discovers they're to be used in an assassination attempt. Now he is in a race to discover who is the target and where the dolphins are before the attempt is carried out... The successful

• The Bridge at Remagen | Blu Ray | (20/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Antigone | DVD | (01/01/1975) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honour, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress, Genevieve Bujold, skilfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's retelling of Antigone stages the inescapably wrenching, central confrontation between Antigone and Creon by presenting Miss Bujold and Mr. Weaver seated at a long, executive-suite table - a hallmark of Anouilh's play. The New York Times critic, John J. O'Connor, lauded this Antigone as well acted, well directed and beautifully staged.

• Demon Seed | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A woman depressed over the recent death of her child and estranged from her scientist husband finds herself stuck in her home with an incredibly sophisticated computer. Unfortunately this machine called the Proteus IV and developed by her husband has become virtually a sentient being with human desires -- including the desire to reproduce. And it has decided that the scientist's wife would make the perfect mother for its offspring...

• Traffik | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  At the end of the 1980s, Traffik was an early indication that Channel 4's financial investment in film would be worthwhile and not pull any punches. The series depicts a soulless society embroiled in the catchments of its own greed. Drug trafficking is a political hot potato that one man alone cannot hope to spearhead a war against. Minister Jack Lithgow (Bill Paterson) realises this somewhere in between negotiating an international crackdown policy and discovering his daughter Caroline (Julia Ormond) is hooked on the very thing he's fighting to eradicate. This is one of three threads masterfully interwoven in Simon Moore's script and spread across six episodes. At the other corners of the Heroin triangle are Hamburg and Pakistan. In Germany, businessman Rosshalde is arrested on smuggling charges. This triggers a startling personality change in his wife Helen (Lindsay Duncan), who takes on a Lady Macbeth-like role in destroying everything obstructing her financial security. In Kurachi we follow the woes of farmer Fazal (Jamal Shah) as he finds work with drug baron Tariq Butt (Talat Hussain). Performances are outstanding as the taut plot draws these elements toward a cold finale. BAFTAs were awarded to the series' design, camerawork and sound. Technically it's as brilliant as Steven Soderbergh's 2000 cinematic remake Traffic. But in the characterisations of a populace who are all wrong in their views on drug use, you'll be hard pressed to find a better presentation of the subject on the big or small screen. On the DVD: Eight chapters per episode; picture and sound adequate. That's it. Like the subject of the series, the search for extra happiness is a fruitless one. --Paul Tonks