"Actor: Lars Rudolph"

• Run Lola Run | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £9.22   |  Saving you £10.77 (116.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. --Jeremy Storey, Amazon.com

• Béla Tarr, A Curzon Collection - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (02/12/2024) from £84.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Are the hills going to march off? Will heaven fall upon us? Will the Earth open under us? We don't know. We don't know, for a total eclipse has come upon us... But... but no need to fear. It's not over.Behold the profound, melancholic works of Hungarian maestro, Béla Tarr, with this comprehensive 8-disc Blu-ray collection of his complete filmography. This set also features posters, an extensive booklet, and new artwork by Paul West. From his roots in the social realism of Hungary's Communist era, to his later masterpieces like Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse, Tarr has cemented his legacy as the dark magus of European 'slow cinema'. This collection will include the following feature films: Family Nest (1979) The Outsider (1981) The Prefab People (1982) Autumn Almanac (1984) Damnation (1988) - New 4K Restoration Sátántangó (1994) - 4K Restoration Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - New 4K Restoration The Man From London (2007) The Turin Horse (2011)

• Werckmeister Harmonies | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The population of a desolate provincial town on the Hungarian plain await the arrival of a circus that features the stuffed carcass of a whale and a mysterious Prince. Its appearance disturbs the order of the populace unleashing a torrent of violence and beauty. The Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr at last gained international recognition as one of the most distinctive and visionary of contemporary filmmakers with this quite extraordinary adaptation of L''szl'' Krazsnahorkai's novel 'The Melancholy of Resistance'. Featuring an outstanding cast including Fassbinder veteran Hanna Schygulla and a hauntingly beautiful score composed by Mih''ly V''-g The Werckmeister Harmonies is a hypnotic challenging and utterly compelling masterpiece.

• Werckmeister Harmonies 4K UHD+Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (18/11/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Witness the melancholy of resistance in Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, newly restored and available on 4K UHD. An innocent young man, János (Lars Rudolph), sees violence break out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions : a giant whale and a mysterious man named The Prince.

• The Princess And the Warrior | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From German director Tom Tykwer whose energetic 'Run Lola Run' wowed audiences in 1998 comes this ethereal modern-day fairy tale. Using beautiful visuals involving ice cubes underwater bubbles rain and the well-worn buildings of Wuppertal Tykwer implements his signature filming style. Bodo (Furmann) and Sissi (Potente) come together under strange circumstances: at the scene of an accident where Bodo saves Sissi's life after she is run over by a truck. Then he disappears. Sis

• Inheritors | DVD | (26/06/2000) from £16.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (-0.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a cruel and merciless farmer is murdered his last will and testament discloses an ironic gift: to everyone’s astonishment the old man leaves his land to the peasant workers he constantly humiliated. Rather than sell the land to a tyrannical rival farmer the strong-willed laborers decide to keep it for themselves. Their bold decision threatens to disrupt the rigid social order of their town but not before secrets are revealed and lives changed forever. A compelling tale of love defiance and tragedy set in a small Austrian village during the turn of the 20th century Inheritors is an internationally acclaimed award-winning drama.