"Actor: Jim Jarmus"

• The Aki Kaurismaki Collection - Leningrad Cowboys | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Leningrad Cowboys Go America: This hilarious road movie follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll band in the world the Leningrad Cowboys. When a promoter in their native Siberia stunned by the band's lack of talent advises them to try their luck in America they head for New York. Having learned English en-route on the plane and sporting shades outsize quiffs and outrageously long winkle-pickers they are passed off as Americans. Jim Jarmusch in a cameo role as a shifty car salesman sells them an old Cadillac in which they head south with their frozen bass player and a coffin full of beer. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses: After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico the members of struggling Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Under the guidance of their former manager Vladimir who now calls himself Moses they face a difficult journey over the ocean and across the European continent. But tormented by lack of money fuel and beverages the band begin to murmur against Moses and doubt his motives. On top of this they are persecuted by a certain member of the American intelligence agency who is hunting for the lost nose of the Statue of Liberty. Total Balalaika Show: At Helsinki's Senate Square on June 12 1993 an audience of 70 000 witnessed a historic event: Leningrad Cowboys performed for the first time with the 100 singers 40 musicians and 20 dancers of the Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble on the biggest stage ever seen in Finland. A roaring success the programme included rock classics from ""Happy Together"" and ""Delilah"" to ""Gimme All Your Lovin"" and ""Knocking On Heaven's Door"" as well as traditional hits from the Ensemble's own repertoire. Aki Kaurismki's film of the event is an extraordinary unforgettable encounter of the old and the new and of East and West.

• In The Soup | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Aspiring filmmaker Adolpho has written a script but in order to pay the rent has to sell to the highest bidder. In walks Joe a warm-hearted mobster who doesn't just want the script he wants to produce the film. Nave and desperate to see his work finally on the screen Adolpho is taken under his producer's wing as they embark on a hilarious mission to raise finance as only Joe knows how! Grand Jury prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Blank City | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £12.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (13.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Before HD there was Super 8; before Independent film there was Underground Cinema and in the late 1970's and 80's, downtown Manhattan was the epicentre of a new kind of explosive, raw and confrontational filmmaking that bore witness to the rising East Village art and No Wave music scenes and the birth of hip hop. Filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Beth B, Lizzie Borden and Amos Poe captured New York's gritty vibrance with dissonant tales and deadpan humour. Blank City tells their story and succeeds in capturing the glorious and grungy creative energy of another age, illustrated by extraordinary footage of their early work and the derelict landscapes of the Lower East Side. Interviews with Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore and Lydia Lunch explore how a group of young visionaries pooled resources to create a DIY film movement that had a major influence on independent film today. Special Features: 50 minutes of bonus features - Director Interview Out-takes Deleted and Extended Scenes Trailer

• Blue In The Face | DVD | (01/03/2005) from £8.07   |  Saving you £6.92 (46.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The companion film to 'Smoke' 'Blue In The Face' is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in

• Smoke / Blue In The Face | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Smoke (Dir. Wayne Wang 1995): Departing from the conventions of Hollywood story-telling Smoke is constructed like an emotional jigsaw puzzle: pieces interweave and interconnect to form an intricate whole. Unrelated characters - a cigar store manager (Harvey Keitel) who has taken photographs in front of his store at the same hour every day for 14 years; a novelist (William Hurt) unable to go on writing after his wife is killed in a random act of street violence; a man (Forest Whitaker) who ran away from his past and tries to start over after accidentally killing his wife. These characters amongst others making their way through the lonely urban landscape might seem to have little in common. But in the couse of this motion picture they cross paths by chance and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways. Blue in the Face (Dir. Wayne Wang & Paul Auster 1995): The companion film to Smoke Blue In The Face is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.

• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the 1980's The Z channel changed the way films lit up the airwaves unleashing little seen masterpieces and inspiring a generation of cinema's maverick icons. This is the incredible story of what happened next...

• Fishing With John | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £23.76   |  Saving you £-8.77 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An offbeat and original series which pairs musician/actor John Lurie with friends Dennis Hopper (looking for giant squid in Thailand) Jim Jarmusch (seeking shark in Montauk) Tom Waits (in Jamaica) Matt Dillon (in Costa Rica) and Willem Dafoe (ice fishing in Maine). The plan? Travel to the world's most exotic places and fish. The catch? Lurie doesn't know how to fish.

• Tigrero - A Film That Was Never Made | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tigrero documents the return visit of director Sam Fuller accompanied by Jim Jarmusch and Kaurismaki to the portion of the Amazon where Fuller had once begun work on an action film that was to star the biggest box-office attraction in America in its time John Wayne Although that film never happened this documentary gives Fuller the chance to reminisce about his legendary career and show the indigenous population his earlier footage an act which evokes great gratitude for temporarily bringing long dead relatives back to 'life'.

• Rest In Pieces - A Portrait Of Joe Coleman | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-12.03 (-133.80%)   |  RRP £8.99

  R.I.P: Rest In Pieces is director Robert-Adrian Pejo's intimate portrait of painter Joe Coleman who is known around the world as a shamanic moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America Coleman holds nothing back telling us of a world wracked with tumorous cities perversion divorce violence atomic bombs and a human race destroying itself ""simply because we are born"".