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• The Master | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £9.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (70.41%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Kindly Uncle Tak a wise Chinese sifu skilled in the art of herbal healing and a noble fighter in the tradition of the legendary Wong Fei Hong takes his show on the road to Los Angeles. Trouble soon arrives in the form of a renegade student with a vendetta but Tak's loyal protege from Hong Kong helps out...

• The Red Squirrel | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Red Squirrel sees Jota, an ex-pop star with a penchant for doing nothing very much, standing on a bridge contemplating suicide. He’s pulled back to reality by a dramatic motorcycle accident and goes to help the victim, an attractive young woman apparently physically unscathed but with severe amnesia. At the hospital he is assumed to be her boyfriend, and so the deception begins, as he invents everything from her name (Lisa) through to the details of their imaginary four-year relationship. Though based on a lie, it gradually becomes real but is Lisa really an amnesiac or is she deceiving the deceiver? Who is the mysterious Felix, leaving pleas on a late-night radio programme to his missing, mentally disturbed 25-year-old wife, Sofia? As an array of incidental characters get drawn in, each seems to be practising their own deceit. This is a beautifully wrought, endlessly thought-provoking film, complemented by Alberto Iglesias's fabulous score. The two leads are superb: as Jota, Nancho Nova is both fey and hypnotic while Elisa (Emma Suárez) is wonderfully whimsical. Not surprisingly, it garnered a whole heap of awards, from Best Foreign Film at Cannes to Best Score at the Goya Awards. And the significance of the title? Red squirrels are, apparently, quick and cunning creatures; just like human beings. On the DVD: The Red Squirrel is presented in Dolby Digital original Spanish soundtrack with option of English subtitles and anamorphic widescreen print. The usual stuff is on offer as special features, including trailers for other world cinema films, filmographies of the director and two leading characters, and a concise but considered analysis of the plot.--Harriet Smith

• Audition / Talent Show (Konkurs) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Part one cuts between rehearsals/performance by rival brass bands and the competing attraction of a cross-country motorbike race. Part Two anticipates the audition scenes in Taking Off as a throng of female singers try out for a part in a show. Though originally made as separate featurettes the two episodes form a plausible entity being so similar stylistically and thematically. The approach is documentary with some fictional elements gently interpolated - in the first the defection of two youthful trombonists in the second the lightly sketched backgrounds of two of the singers. Extremely assured for an apprentice work this displays the same mix of shrewdness and tenderness that marked all Forman's early films. But as with many East European movies of this era one suspects that a political allegory is concealed at the heart of it all.

• Lohengrin - Richard Wagner | DVD | (28/03/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Richard Wagner was a one-man artistic movement a figure so massive that his influence was felt by all of his contemporaries and all of his major successors.Wolfgang Weber's simple staging muted colours dark clouds barren landscapes and simple shapes succeeds in evoking clear middle ages symbolism. His staging does not impress by means of the spectacular but underlines the dramatic sense embodied in the music allowing the outstanding singers full scope to express themselves.This remarkable production under Claudio Abbado has a stellar cast. Cheryl Studer as Elsa and Placido Domingo as Lohengrin (a role which he first performed on debut at the Hamburg State Opera in 1968 at the age of 27) are the cornerstone of a dream cast.

• Matador | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At his school in Madrid ex-bullfighter Diego Montes teaches his students the Corridor - ‘the art of the kill’. Trainee bullfighter Angelo sexually repressed and mother fixated is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego’s girlfriend. Failing in his attempt and consumed by guilt he confesses to murders he did not commit – the victims are killed with bullfighting instruments at the moment of sexual climax. Angel is defended by lawyer Maria Cardenal the real killer who is obsessed with Diego uses Angel to draw the maestro Matador into one last confrontation. Matador is a darkly comic and seductive celebration of Spanish desire repression and bullfighting inspired by the Hollywood melodrama 'Duel In The Sun'.

• Three Businessmen / Highway Patrolman | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £13.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (30.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three Businessmen (1998): Two lone businessmen Bennie and Frank find themselves alone one night in the dining room of a large Victorian hotel in Liverpool England. Abandoned by the staff of the weird dining room they tentatively join forces and go in search of food - in a city neither of them knows. But restaurant after restaurant fails them. Without realising their destination Bennie and Frank travel half way around the planet via public transport. Prattling on about cred

• The Ear | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Digitally remastered with full audio restoration The Ear is a story about paranoia and how it can turn the closest of people against each other. Banned by the Czech authorities in 1970 the film didn't resurface until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The director Karel Kachyna was posthumously nominated for the Cannes Golden Palm Award upon the film's revival.

• Puccini - Tosca | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Puccini: Tosca (Sinopoli Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

• Santa Sangre | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Confined to a mental hospital a young man traumatized throughout his childhood by his crazed father escapes his incarceration and reunites with his armless mother to plot a grisly campaign of murder and revenge...

• Welcome To Collinwood | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £5.47   |  Saving you £10.52 (65.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose.

• Love (Szerelem) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £35.12   |  Saving you £-22.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's (Mari Torcsik) husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law (Lili Darvas) a sweet and magnetic woman appears to believe that her son has emigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband's imprisonment the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman's good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husb

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• Comic Book Confidential | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hey gang! Check out this comic book movie!!! The only movie with your favourite artists and writers. See Marvel Master Stan Lee brings Spiderman's money worries to life! Hear underground artist Robert Crumb confess why he killed Fritz the Cat! Wonder at congressional hearings from the 1950s ""proving"" the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency! Comic Book Confidential is a funny smart eye popping history that finally gives comic books the respect they deserve.

• Rocco And His Brothers | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  ""Brilliant and overwhelming... Among the classics of the screen."" -The New York Times In sweeping epic style the award-winning Rocco & His Brothers tells the story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world. Fr

• Lily In Love | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  An ageing actor is desperate to star in a film written by his wife but he's entirely the wrong type for the role. Undaunted he disguises himself as a sexy Italian actor wins the part and heads to Budapest. His wife hasn't the slightest idea its him and complications arise when she falls in love with this 'young' man...

• Mozart: Great Piano Concertos - Vol. 4 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart: Great Piano Concertos Vol. IV features Mozart's piano concertos No's 5 8 17 & 27.

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut | DVD | (01/01/2024) from £6.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Murder In A Blue World | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Often described as 'the Spanish Clockwork Orange' this controversial shocker is set in a violent near future world. Honset citizens live in terror as gangs of leather clad whip wielding sadists roam the night time streets. Meanwhile in a top secret laboratory strange mind control experiments are being conducted. Against this background a beautiful nurse tries to ease the pain of those condemed to die. But who really is this angel of mercy and what is the purpose of her mission?

• Orson Welles' Othello | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A newly restored edition of Orson Welles's adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. The production began in 1948 but would not be completed untill four years later due to financial difficulties. Without full financing in place Welles would shoot until the money ran out shut down production while he tried to raise more in acting roles then reassemble the cast and crew months later. But typically the challenges presented by budgetary constraints only heightened Welles technical flair

• Around The World With Willy Fog - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £4.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the Reform Club to travel around the world in 80 days he cannot have forseen what lies in store for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet