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• Happy End | Blu Ray | (26/03/2018) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon, Hidden) returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis. Featuring a cast of top acting talent, including Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz and Toby Jones, it's a piercing dark comedy on the blind preoccupations of middle-class angst. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Happy End bears all the hallmarks of Haneke's uniquely stark and unsympathetic style. Pairing pitch-black humour with chillingly precise direction, it's proof if we ever needed it that he remains one of modern cinema's true visionaries. Read more at https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/happy-end/#HiJoRqmElwrKDZ6e.99

• French Cancan | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legendary Jean Gabin plays Danglard, mentor to, and lover of, the stage stars of 1890s Paris. When he discovers a nave young laundress (Francoise Arnoul) dancing in a nightclub he is inspired by her talent to revive the forgotten cancan in a show that the whole of Paris, rich and poor, will never forget. Based on the true story of Moulin Rouge founder Charles Zidler, Jean Renoir’s exuberant tale of an impresario’s commitment to his art is a masterpiece of Technicolor brilliance, which features luminaries of the 1950s Parisian caf-concert scene, Edith Piaf and Patachou, as period artistes.

• L'Atalante and the films of Jean Vigo - 2 disc set | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  L'Atalante (1934):This intoxicatingly inventive masterpiece is one of the world's great films. A simple and engaging plot is transformed into a kaleidoscope of dazzling digressions and offbeat characterizations complete with tour-de-force scenes that still seem fresh and startling. propos de Nice (1930):What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.Taris (1931):An Inventive short portrait of a swimming champion Zero de Conduite (1933):A radical, delightful tale of boarding-school rebellion that has influenced countless film-makers.

• The Agnès Varda Collection | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £43.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eight films from the groundbreaking female director Agnès Varda; Cleo from 5 to 7 Jacquot de Nantes L une Chante, L autre Pas Le Bonheur The Gleaners and I The Beaches of Agnès Vagabond La Pointe Courte

• The Connection | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.

• Flash Gordon -Trip To Mars | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  This is the original 1938 serial film based on the comic strip Flash Gordon series starring Buster Crabbe. Another crisis is striking the Earth: a fictional chemical element called nitron is vanishing from the atmosphere causing hurricanes and other meteorological disasters. Flash and Zarkov use an airplane to take measurements only to discover that a ray-beam from Mars is the source of the nitron depletion. A comical newspaper journalist Happy Hapgood arrives on the scene to get the scoop and stows away when they together with Dale Arden leave to investigate in Zarkov's rocket ship. They discover that Azura Queen of Mars is working with Ming the Merciless their old nemesis from Mongo not dead as they had believed to conquer earth. All Martians who oppose her have been turned into clay humanoids consigned to live in a world of clay-walled caverns beneath the Martian soil. Flash Zarkov Dale and Happy take refuge from the Martians in one of these caverns and are captured by the Clay People and taken to their Clay King. From him they learn what is transpiring between Queen Azura and Ming and anxiously agree to help. Chapters Comprise: 1. New Worlds To Conquer 2. The Living Dead 3. Queen Of Magic 4. Ancient Enemies 5. The Boomerang 6. Tree-Men Of Mars 7. Symbol Of Death 8. Incense Of Forgetfulness 9. Human Bait 10. Ming The Merciless 11. The Prisoner Of Mongo 12. The Black Sapphire Of Kalu 13. The Miracle Of Magic 14. A Beast At Bay 15. An Eye For An Eye

• Henry And June | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £8.39   |  Saving you £1.60 (19.07%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma Thurman), who finances her husband's life in Paris so he may praise her beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband's writing and her lovers' affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed direction. The strength of the original material and Medeiros' strong performance make it worth viewing. -- James McGrath, Amazon.com

• Hetty Wainthropp: Missing Persons | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This pilot episode filmed in 1990 by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network stars Patricia Routledge as Hetty and John Graham Davies as DCI Adams. Nobody played Robert or Geoffrey. It wasn't until some years later that the series would get the go-ahead in 1996. In this episode Hetty decides to track down the long lost son of her friend's husband.....

• Dive Bomber | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With war approaching a new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of altitude sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude...

• Belle De Jour | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Undoubtedly Luis Bunuel's most accessible film Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine the glacially beautiful sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clmenti) and ignites an obsession that will court peril.

• Paranoia | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rich and lonely American widow befriends two young people whose motives become suspect.

• Boudu Saved From Drowning | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In an oeuvre permeated with ambivalence toward bourgeois life director Jean Renoir speculates on the result of the abandonment of those values in Boudu Saved From Drowning. Producer Michel Simon stars as Boudu a vagabond who attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine grieving over the loss of his dog. But Eduaord Lestingois (Charles Granval) a humane bookseller rescues him and takes him into his home hoping to reform the shaggy bum. Shortly thereafter anarchy

• Three Coins in the Fountain | Blu Ray | (28/03/2022) from £15.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A charming romantic comedy about three American roommates working in Italy who wish for the men of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain.

• Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Frank Capra classic, which earned the director an Oscar. When Vermont poet Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) inherits a fortune from his uncle, he sets off for New York to take over his new business empire. Newspaper editor MacWade (George Bancroft), believing the naive and trusting Deeds to be too good to be true, assigns reporter Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur) to dig up the dirt on him. Babe inveigles her way into Deeds' confidence by staging a fainting fit in front of his mansion, but despite her best efforts finds him to be nothing other than a gentleman. Others, however, are determined to prove that Deeds is not fit for his new fortune, and a court case ensues.

• The City Of Lost Children | Blu Ray | (14/03/2016) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The fantastic visions of Belgian film-makers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet find full fruition in this fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus strongman One (Ron Perlman), who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his little brother, snatched from him by a mysterious gang preying upon the children of the town. Rising from the harbour is an enigmatic castle where lives the evil scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who has lost the ability to dream and robs the nocturnal visions of the children he kidnaps, but receives only mad nightmares from the lonely cherubs. Other wild characters include the Fagin-like Octopus--Siamese twin sisters who control a small gang of runaways-turned-thieves--Krank's six cloned henchmen (all played by the memorable Dominique Pinon from Delicatessen), and a giant brain floating in an aquarium (voiced by Jean-Louis Trintignant). Caro and Jeunet are kindred souls to Terry Gilliam (who is a vocal fan), creating imaginative flights of fancy built of equal parts delight and dread, which seem to be painted on the screen in rich, dreamy colours. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Series | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The complete collection of the landmark British drama series' set in turn-of-the-century England chronicling life among the residents of 165 Eaton Place. For individual episode listings please refer to the individual boxed sets.

• Eloge De L'Amour | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaited Eloge de l'Amour was one of the highlights of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of contending threads. Certainly the plot is elusive. A young writer (Bruno Putzulu) wants a dark-haired woman (Cecile Camp) to play a role in his evolving project, a study of the four stages of love: meeting, physical passion, separation and reconciliation. By the time the funding comes through, she has killed herself and he looks back to the time when he might, or might not have met her before. Above all, the picture explores the blurred territory between the personal and the collective memory and the difference between a life which is simply lived and one in which the individual brings the power of imagination to their existence. Ultimately, the characters remain curiously faceless and the film fragments into a kaleidoscope of merging images, colours and landscapes and collective experience triumphs.Godard's legendary status as the godfather of French New Wave cinema has long since passed into the realms of cliché. Here, the "present" is shot on the streets of Paris in black and white. Godard's city of light looks as timeless as it did back in 1966 when he made Masculin Feminin. The second part of the film is shot in digital video, absorbing the audience with its electrically intense, mesmerising colours. Eloge de l'Amour is, more than anything, a sensual experience. Godard provokes but doesn't provide any answers. But fans of his more polemical work will enjoy the satirised American producers who want to purchase the rights to the Resistance couple's story. Americans have no memory, says the author. So they buy it from others. Godard never was a fence-sitter. --Piers Ford On the DVD: the main DVD extra on this disc sounds enticing: an interview with one of the world’s most innovative and influential directors. Yet the reality is disappointing, as it’s merely a transcript. The biography is more of the same. The only other additional feature is the subtitles, though there’s no option to turn them off. --Nikki Disney

• Blindspot - Season 1-2 | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sullivan Stapleton and Jaimie Alexander star in this one-hour action thriller from Berlanti Productions (The Flash, Arrow) and writer/executive producer Martin Gero. Stapleton stars as hardened FBI agent Kurt Weller, who is drawn into a complex conspiracy when a mysterious woman, with no memories of her past, is found in Times Square her body completely covered in intricate cryptic tattoos. As Weller and his teammates at the FBI -- Edgar Reade, Tasha Zapata and the tech-savvy Patterson -- begin to investigate the veritable road map of Jane Doe's tattoos, they are drawn into a high-stakes underworld that twists and turns through a labyrinth of secrets and revelations -- with the information exposing a larger conspiracy of crime, while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity.

• Legion: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (02/10/2017) from £27.72   |  Saving you £-12.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.25

  Based on the Marvel comics and featuring a powerful, all-star cast including DAN STEVENS, AUBREY PLAZA, JEAN SMART and RACHEL KELLER LEGION follows the story of David Haller (STEVENS), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of mental hospitals for years. But after a startling encounter with a new patient (KELLER), he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. With the help of a psychiatric therapist (SMART) and her unconventional methods, David embarks on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that leads to a new world of possibilities...and a new level of unexpected danger. Special Features: Fractured Reality: A Different Kind of Superhero Inside the Looks including Production Design, Makeup and Visual Effects Deleted Scenes

• Betty Blue | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most iconic films int he history of French cinema arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray in a deluxe box set. A landmark in French Cinema Jean-Jacques Beineix's erotically charged and visually intoxicating film also heralded the arrival of a new screen icon Beatrice Dalle. Laid-back handyman Zorg spends his time doing odd jobs on beach-front chalets making chilli and harbouring dreams of becoming a writer. His life is turned upside down with the arrival of a beautiful but volatile Betty. They begin a romance fuelled by intense passion but as Betty turns increasingly violent and self-destructive Zorg tries desperately to halt her slide into insanity. Special Features: 'The Making of Betty Blue' - A Second Sight Produced Documentary Featuring new Interviews with Jean-Jacques Beineix Beatrice Dalle Jean Hughes Anglade Claudie Ossard Gabriel Yared Jean-Francois Robin Beatrice Dalle Screen Tests