This haunting and magical film moves between Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a woman's attempts to come to terms with her mother's death through her childhood memories. Filled with flashbacks and dream sequences, it's also a film about islander's relationships with the ever-present sea. Margaret Tait's only feature-length film, from her own screenplay, was produced by the BFI in 1992 and was the first Scottish feature film directed by a woman. Now newly remastered in 2K and available on DVD and Blu-ray for the very first time. Special Features: Film Poems - the work of filmmaker Margaret Tait (2018, 31 mins): BFI curator Peter Todd welcome academic Lucy Reynolds and writers So Mayer and Anna Coatman to talk about the work, rhythm and poetry of film poet Margaret Tait Margaret Tait Film Maker (1983, 35 mins): Art Council England film featuring the only filmed interview with Margaret Tait Other extras TBC **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits
Sisters (Betty Garrett & Janet Leigh) who live in a Greenwich Village basement apartment find themselves mixed up with a magazine publisher (Jack Lemmon) who gives Ruth (Leigh) her big chance as a writer...
Kung Fu Panda: Prepare for awesomeness with DreamWorks Animation's KUNG FU PANDA. Jack Black is perfect as the voice of Po, a noodle slurping dreamer who must embrace his true self - fuzzy flaws and all - in order to become the legendary Dragon Warrior. With high-kicking humour, tons of kung fu action, and groundbreaking animation, KUNG FU PANDA is a heart-warming story of courage for the whole family! Kung Fu Panda 2: Jack Black is back as Po in DreamWork...
NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.
Winner of the 1950 Academy Award for writing (Best Motion Picture Story) and directed by Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront Street Car Named Desire) Panic In The Streets is a gripping and powerful crime story that builds relentlessly from beginning to its shattering end. What begins as a simple homicide case turns into a race against an epidemic of death! An autopsy of a murdered man reveals he had the bubonic plague; now his killer must be found before he becomes contagious and begins spreading the deadly scourge. It's a nightmare manhunt through the seamy steamy underside of the New Orleans waterfront. This classic crime melodrama features an all-star cast taut action and searing performances by Richard Widmark Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. Palance is the cold-blooded killer who becomes a ticking time bomb. Widmark is the public health service doctor who has 48 hours to find him.
Sparkling comedy about the strange relationship of a bachelor dentist (Matthau) with his nutty mistress (Oscar-winning Hawn) and his rather stoic receptionist (Bergman)...
Academy Award®-winner Peter Jackson directs King Kong, bringing his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster captured in the wilds and brought to civilization where he meets his tragic fate. In this smash hit, critically-acclaimed version, it is Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts' beauty killed the beast. Featuring stunning visual effects and an awe-inspiring recreation of 1930s New York City, this finely crafted masterwork also stars Oscar®-winner Adrian Brody and Jack Black. Individually Numbered & Exclusive to the UK - Limited to 2,000 - includes previously unseen 40pp Production Notes Booklet, Soft Touch / Spot Gloss Rigid Slipcase, 4K + BD + BD Bonus Disc Gloss & Embossed Steelbook, 5x Artcards, Double-Sided Poster & new 4K Disc Art. On Disc Bonus includes over 13 Hours of Bonus - Commentary with Director Peter Jackson - The Making of King Kong Feature Documentary - Peter Jackson's Production Diaries - Deleted Scenes - T-Rex Fight - Kong's New York & Much More! 4K audio - English DTS Headphone: X & English DTS:X (Theatrical and Extended Versions), French, Czech DTS Surround 5.1
Series creator Mike McMahan, writer and executive producer of Rick and Morty, takes you where no Star Trek series has gonebefore to the lower decks! Join rule-breaker Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), aspiring captain Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), rookie D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and part-Cyborg Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) as they attempt to navigate the most mysterious corners of our universe with very little experience and even less authority. Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 features nearly 2 hours of exclusive special features and includes guest appearances by John De Lancie (Star Trek: TheNext Generation), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and more! Extras 2 Hours Of Special Features Lower Decktionaries Crisis Point: The Rise Of Vindicta Trailer Faces Of The Fleet Hiding In Plain Sight Full Length Animatic Deleted Animatic Scenes
When a British ship sinks in foreign waters the world's superpowers begin a feverish race to find its cargo: a nuclear submarine control system. And 007 (Roger Moore) is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures as he rushes to join the search...and prevent global devastation!
Liz Lemon head writer of the sketch comedy show ""The Girlie Show"" must deal with an arrogant new boss and a crazy new star all while trying to run a successful TV show without losing her mind. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. The Aftermath 3. Blind Date 4. Jack The Winter 5. Jack-Tor 6. Jack Meets Dennis 7. Tracy Does Conan 8. The Break-Up 9. The Baby Show 10. The Rural Juror 11. Black Tie 12. The C Word 13. The Head And The Hair
A powerful film, "Bread and Roses" sees acclaimed UK director Ken Loach take on the City of Angels in his first US-set effort, based around the true-life janitors strike that hit the city in 1999.
Poldark, the drama that has become a cultural phenomenon, continues for a second series on the stunning beaches of Cornwall. Ross Poldark, the character redefined by the smouldering Aidan Turner, returns home following his arrest in the gripping finale of series one. 1790 and there is riot and revolution in the air. Ross must fight for his freedom when George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) tries to have him hanged as a revolutionary. While Francis (Kyle Soller) and Elizabeth (Heida Reed) watch on in horror, can Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) save Ross from himself? Crippled by debts, Ross and Francis try to heal old wounds by joining forces in a new mine free of the Warleggans. Ross and Elizabeth are thrown together by unforeseen circumstances, and Ross risks everything in a desperate smuggling venture. Amid catastrophic losses, significant triumphs and shattered relationships, they must learn to settle their differences once and for all, but at what cost?
An atomic bomb tested in the Arctic frees a gigantic dinosaur from the icy tomb that has encased it for 100 million years. An ice fall kills all witnesses except one Professor Tom Nesbitt (Paul Hubschmid) who returns to New York with the fantastic story. No one will believe his tale but the truth is revealed when the beast emerges from the ocean and lays waste to Manhattan! Can the Professor come up with a plan to save the city before it's too late?
This rollicking look inside the rural Deep South brings to life the primitive, ribald rustics of Erskine Caldwell's steamy bestselling novel. Both humorous and heartrending, this critically acclaimed film reveals the hidden passions and violent impulses heating up beneath the hot Southern sun, as well as the warmth and humour of every day life. A poor sharecropper's family struggling to survive is nearly torn apart as the patriarch stubbornly pursues his belief that gold is buried somewhere on his land. Nothing will stop him as he goes to outrageous lengths in his efforts to find the treasure.
Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange and Charles Grodin star in this remake of the adventure classic from director John Guillermin. Oil executive Fred Wilson (Grodin) sees the chance to make his fortune when he stumbles upon a remote island whose inhabitants worship a giant ape-god named Kong. Capturing the mighty beast, Wilson brings Kong back to New York, earmarking him as the greatest attraction to come to Broadway. The ape has other ideas, however, as he looks to escape and goes on the rampage through the streets of the Big Apple.
One of the successful run of pre-war Ealing comedies that secured George Formby's enduring popularity with the British public, It's in the Air finds everyone's favourite gawp fulfilling his dream of joining the RAF though, of course, he does it the hard way! Partly filmed at the famous London Air Park, it co-stars Polly Ward, Jack Hobbs, Garry Marsh and Hal Gordon and is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Hapless George's dreams of flying are continually thwarted, and when he's even rejected for a job as an Air Raid Warden he sneakily tries on his brother-in-law's RAF despatch rider uniform. Finding an urgent communiqué in its pockets he decides to deliver it himself... and ends up with his head in the clouds though not in the way he'd expected!
Jonathan Donald (Lawrence Fox - Lewis) is a fast car salesman who's as happy with his champagne lifestyle as he is with his six-figure pay-packet. He's invincible - in his world there's no problem money can't solve. So when he finds himself in court awaiting a fine for a drink-driving offence he's not remotely worried. What he isn't expecting is to be facing a disgruntled judge with a flair for creative sentencing - in Jonathan's case a 100 hour community service order. And when he turns up at the Moonbeam Club a drop in centre for young adults with learning disabilities he certainly isn't expecting to enjoy himself. Jonathan meets Freddie (Jack McMullen - Waterloo Road) at the end of his first day a hyperactive 20-year-old with a wicked sense of humour and a terminal illness. Freddie has grown up in care and has never been part of a real family. His last impossible wish is to have a traditional family Christmas. In a move that comes as a surprise to everyone Jonathan devotes his time to making Freddie's final wish come true. With the clock ticking Jonathan's mad dash to create the perfect Christmas family gathering involves a motley crew of petty criminals dodgy geezers and possibly the most loving relations Freddie will ever know. This beautifully told story with moments of both joy and sadness is wrapped with good humor and bundles of Christmas spirit. Also starring Tamzin Outhwaite as Patsy Morgan (Paradox; The Fixed; Hotel Babylon) and Sarah Smart as Laura Cooper (Wallander; Casualty; Five Days 1) and directed by David Richards (Foyles War; Wild at Heart).
Titles Comprise: The Dam Busters: Dr Barnes Wallis was possessed with a seemingly crazy idea - the creation of a bouncing bomb designed to destroy the Ruhr dams and paralyse the enemy's industrial nerve centre. He fought persistent scepticism and disbelief that such a feat was possible though even with the matchless skill of RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his squadron could such a mission succeed? Against The Wind: Starring Robert Beatty Jack Warner and Simone Signoret this is the story of a diverse group of people from very different backgrounds who were brought together in one of the strangest enterprises of the war. Sabotage was their job; sabotage organised from London in the form of macabre practical jokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy. The work was over-clouded with the constant fear of discovery - and what it would mean. The Colditz Story: One German maximum security prison was more famous than any other during World War II - Colditz castle. Although Colditz was considered 'escape proof' its boundaries were challenged many times by Allied prisoners of war with fatal results. On 15th October 1942 a group of British servicemen made the most historic and perhaps the most courageous attempt of all...
Pittsburgh (Dir. Lewis Seiler 1942): Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends his lovers and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance. Dakota (Dir. Joseph Kane 1945): John Devlin helps Dakota wheat farmers save their land from swindling entrepeneurs who hope to make a fortune selling it to the railroad for its right-of-way.
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