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• Eleanor's Secret | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring the best of children's fairytales characters such as Alice in Wonderland Red Riding Hood Peter Pan and many more Eleanor's Secret is a beautifully animated tale about the importance of being able to read. When their beloved aunt Eleanor dies Nathaniel and his family are left the house where they have spent every summer and Nathaniel has been bequeathed all the books in the library where he makes a startling discovery - after dark all the characters come to life! They tell him that to save them from extinction he must read the magic spell in the library. There is only one problem - Nathaniel can't read. In a race against time Nathaniel must battle against all the odds including a wily antique dealer who wants to buy all the books from his parents to save his new friends. A charming film for all ages.

• My Best Friend | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Daniel Auteil stars in the French comedy in which a universally disliked antique dealer must prove he has a friend.

• Novo | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

• Pourquoi Pas Moi? | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A group of gay friends plan to finally tell all of their parents the truth at a grand party, but nothing goes as planned.

• Paper Souls | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £1.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (703.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.

• Hotel Harabati | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  French drama starring Laurent Lucas and Helene Fillieres as married couple Philippe and Marion. After ten years of marriage the busy couple can finally afford the time to take a honeymoon. Once they arrive at the train station in Paris they find a bag filled with money and their lives suddenly take an unusual turn.

• A Woman In Winter | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Woman in Winter is a sensual story about the nature of obsessive love Michael is an astronomer on the brink of a new discovery! He believes his discovery will explain what connects the irreversible and unavoidable consequences of fate in the Universe. When a chance encounter brings him into contact with the mysterious Caroline a French photographer an all-consuming love affair follows. But as the relationship becomes more intense and intimate a series of events starts to make Michael doubt what is going on around him forcing him to question what is real and what is not. Told through a series of flashbacks we observe their world turn into a schizophrenic claustrophobic dreamscape set against a backdrop of parallel worlds and black holes!