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• Deliverance | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £10.94   |  Saving you £3.05 (27.88%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fellow; Burt Reynolds plays a strapping hunter-gatherer in urban clothes; Ned Beatty is a sweaty, weak-willed boy-man, and Ronny Cox essays a spirited, neighbourly type. Together they decide to answer the ancient call of men testing themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river. What they don't understand until it is too late is that they have ventured into Dickey's variation on the American underbelly, a wild, lawless, dangerous (and dangerously inbred) place isolated from the gloss of the late 20th century. In short order, the four men dig deep into their own suppressed primitiveness, defending themselves against armed cretins, facing the shock of real death on their carefully planned, death-defying adventure and then squarely facing the suspicions of authority over their concealed actions. Boorman, a master teller of stories about individuals on peculiarly mythical journeys, does a terrifying and beautiful job of revealing the complexity of private and collective character--the way one can never be the same after glimpsing the sharp-clawed survivor in one's soul. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• A Late Quartet | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £7.69   |  Saving you £8.30 (107.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert quite possibly their last only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy. Inspired by and structured around Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor A Late Quartet pays homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York.

• A Late Quartet | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (55.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert quite possibly their last only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy. Inspired by and structured around Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor A Late Quartet pays homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York.