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• LA POISON | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the great late period films by Sacha Guitry - the total auteur who delighted (and scandalised) the French public and inspired the French New Wave as a model for authorship as director-writer-star of screen and stage alike. In every one of his pictures (and almost every one served as a rueful examination of the war between the sexes), Guitry sculpted by way of a rapier wit - one might say by way of the Guitry touch - some of the most sophisticated black comedies ever conceived... and La Poison [Poison] is one of his blackest. Michel Simon plays Paul Braconnier, a man with designs on murdering his wife Blandine (Germaine Reuver) - a woman with similar designs on her husband. When Braconnier visits Paris to consult with a lawyer about the perfect way of killing a spouse - that is, the way in which he can get away with it - an acid comedy unfolds that reaches its peak in a courtroom scene for the ages. From the moment of Guitry's trademark introduction of his principals in the opening credits, and on through the brilliant performance by national treasure Michel Simon (of Renoir's Boudu sauve des eaux and Vigo's L'Atalante, to mention only two high-water marks), here is fitting indication of why Guitry is considered by many the Gallic equal of Ernst Lubitsch. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to introduce Sacha Guitry into the catalogue with La Poison for the first time on video in the UK in a dazzling new Gaumont restoration. Special Features: Newly translated optional subtitles Substantial booklet containing writing on the film, vintage excerpts, and rare archival imagery

• Querelle | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from Jean Genet's novel the final film of director Fassbinder's career is a surreal tale of sex and murder that has become a cult favourite. Brad Davis (Midnight Express Chariots Of Fire) stars as Querelle an enigmatic drug-dealing sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest. Amidst the sultry highly charged atmosphere he embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery. With its striking iconic imagery set against the orange glow of a permanent sunset Querelle is a d

• Welcome Aboard | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Taillandier (Patrick Chesnais) is a well-known painter in his sixties, but despite his success he finds himself overwhelmed by depression and decides to give up on his art. With no direction or destination in mind, he leaves his home without giving an explanation to even those closest to him. During his travels he has an unlikely encounter with Marylou (Jeanne Lambert), a young girl rejected by her own mother and also seeking out her path in life. As the pair travels together the bond between them grows closer, akin to a father-daughter relationship, as they give each other the helping hand they both need to make sense of their lives once more.

• The Ghost | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Michael Madsen star in the action packed martial arts thriller about a mysterious young woman who becomes a legendary assasin for the Chinese underworld. Jing (Chung Lai) is a strikingly beautiful woman who is highly skilled in weaponry and the martial arts. After completing a dangerous mission involving a renegade mafia boss she goes undercover as an internet bride in Los Angeles. Using his corrupt police relationships and a ruthless team of bounty hunters the Mafia boss is determined to locate and destroy his enemies most secret weapon...Jing.

• Code 46 | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £9.68   |  Saving you £6.31 (65.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• Tomboy | Blu Ray | (05/03/2012) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare.

• Mulholland Drive / Eraserhead / Lost Highway | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams", Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. --Fionn Meade David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled-over movies of the 1990s. But there are no straight answers. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway. --Paul Tonks Eraserhead is a horror movie unlike any other. A fuzzy-haired young man, trapped in his apartment, has a series of nightmarish experiences, among which is a scene in which his head is used to make the rubbers that fit on the ends of pencils. --Nikki Disney

• The Bride Wore Black | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She was a bride when the violence happened... Now she's a widow and it's going to happen again. An engrossing enigmatic tale of passion and revenge this 1969 Golden Globe Nominee from director Francois Truffaut and co-writer Jean Louis Richard. The bewitching Jeanne Moreau is remarkable as a woman who will stop at nothing to avenge her husband's death. Julie (Moreau) a beautiful young bride has just married her childhood sweetheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible. One by one Julie sees to their demises and with each murder more bone-chilling and diabolically clever than the last the question is not who will be next - but rather how they will meet their ghastly end.

• Mickey Rooney Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £10.49   |  Saving you £-6.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Mickey Rooney Collection (3 Discs)

• Jules Et Jim | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £20.90   |  Saving you £-0.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jules Et Jim' is Francois Truffaut's beautiful and enigmatic film about the lifelong friendship between two writers - French novelist Jim (Henri Serre) and Austrian children's author Jules (Oskar Werner) - and their mutual love for the eccentric Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). With artful black-and-white imagery the story begins in 1920s Paris when Jules and Jim first meet and become friends. As young single men they gallavant about Paris chasing women or studying ancient art. When they meet the equally energetic Catherine whose impulses range from dressing up as a man to taking midnight plunges into the Seine their circle is complete. But when World War II erupts with Jules and Jim fighting on opposite sides everything changes. Jules marries Catherine before going off to battle. After the war they settle into a quiet existence in the French countryside. But Catherine is restless and unfaithful. Jim reunites with his oldest and closest friend and Catherine makes room for him in their house asking him to move in and become her lover. Jim complies as he wants nothing more than to please his friend Jules who agrees to the plan...

• Ghost / Sliding Doors | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sliding Doors: The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the tantalising 'what if?' in this delightful romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth overlap then surprisingly converge in the most romantic comedy in years. Don't miss it - romance was never this much fun! Ghost: A romantic thriller in which yuppie banker Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is murdered but returns to Earth as a ghost to protect his grief-stricken young girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) and solve his own murder. As he cannot communicate directly with his love he turns to fake medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) for help. Nobody is more shocked than Oda Mae to discover she has the genuine power to contact the dead. Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance and Bruce Joel Rubin won the statuette for Best Original Screenplay.

• Country Classics - Vol 1 & 2 | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Country Classics: Volumes 1 & 2

• Donizetti - Roberto Devereux (Haider, Dbs, Gruberova) | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £17.75   |  Saving you £-0.76 (-4.50%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In this new production of one of Donizetti's most powerful works, filmed in 2005 at Munich's Bavarian State Opera, Edita Gruberova, the reigning queen of bel canto, gives the performance of her career as Elizabeth I, driven to madness by the betrayal of her lover, Robert Devereux.

• Until the End of the World (Criterion Collection) | DVD | (10/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Le Paltoquet | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another stylish crime drama from Michel Deville in which the tensions between characters of disparate professions is played out over a game of bridge... Four men a journalist a doctor a professor and a merchant meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news that a dead body has been found nearby and the inspector in charge is sure that one of them did it.

• The Great Defender | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A skilfully constructed melodrama with a genuinely thrilling dénouement The Great Defender tells the story of an artist wrongly accused of murdering his model and of the efforts of an eminent KC to clear him. Featuring a characteristically powerful performance from Matheson Lang the classical actor who became one of Britain's most successful screen stars during the twenties this superb feature is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements. Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years' experience. Now in rapidly failing health he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love - a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago and whom he still loves deeply - walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye... Special Features: Promotional Material PDF

• Luis Bunuel Box Set | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes the classic Bunuel films Belle De Jour Diary Of A Chambermaid and The Milky Way. Belle De Jour Bunuel's wryly disturbing tale of a virginal bourgeois newlywed prone to erotic flights of fancy who works the day-shift in a Parisian brothel unbeknownst to her patient husband... Diary Of A Chambermaid Luis Bunuel's sharp unrelenting remake of Jean Renoir's 1946 film concerns fascism in 1939 France and how the bourgeoisie are viewed by maid Celestine (Jeanne Moreau) who stirs the desires of her new household and neighbours... The Milky Way Two men making a religious pilgrimage through France form the basis for string of lucid Luis Bunuel 'jokes' parables and surrealistic visions. Heretical funny and haunting...

• Le Secret | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An attractive and intelligent French woman has a guilty secret, one that she wants to keep from her husband: she's having a passionate affair with a layabout American.

• Cheaper By The Dozen | DVD | (28/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this touching yet hilarious comedy Clifton Webb stars as Frank Bunker Gilbreth a turn-of-the-century efficiency expert who tries to apply his exacting work standards to raising his children - all 12 of them! Based on the bestseller by children of the real Mr. Gilbreth and narrated by the Gilbreth's oldest daughter Ann (Jeanne Crain) Cheaper by the Dozen is an entertaining charming film that follows this unique family throughout their life together.

• We Remember Marilyn | DVD | (01/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A sex symbol becomes a thing", says Marilyn Monroe, her voice being approximated by Trudi Jo Marie Keck, who also doubles as the editor of We Remember Marilyn, an historical appreciation of the life of the much-vaunted sex goddess. "I always thought symbols were things you clashed together", she continues to muse, "but if I'm going to be a symbol of anything, I'd rather it be sex than some other things there are symbols for. I know how they'll remember me: 'Here lies Marilyn Monroe, 34-24-36'. But, anyway, they'll remember me." And remember her they do, in this concoction written and directed by Ted Newsom (Ed Wood--Look Back in Angora). Newsom doesn't bother to cite the source for the above words ascribed to Ms. Monroe so it's hard to say where they came from, but they pointedly set the tone for any discussion of sex-symbol iconography. And how better to sum up a career that moved between celebrity and the highest seats of power on a vehicle of sex, and ended early and abruptly. Film clips, photos (where Marilyn the icon truly shone), and a rich array of stock footage form the backdrop for the proceedings. At one point, the voice of director John Huston enriches the soundtrack. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com