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• Deadwood The Movie | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng ofrestless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything and everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker and Keith Carradine star in Deadwood.

• Madame De... | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It was her vanity that destroyed her... In the Paris of the early 20th century Louise wife of a general sells the earrings his husband gave her: she desperately needs money for a gambling debt. As the general should not know during an opera she acts as she had lost them. When the resulting fuss in Paris frightens the local jeweler he tells the truth to the general. The general secretly buys the earrings back and with disdain for his wife gives them to his mistress Lola. Lola sells the trinket to an Italian diplomat Baron Donati who buys them to impress his mistress back in Paris Louise... Ophuls camera glides with seemingly effortless elegance in this visually dazzling masterpiece which renowned film critic Andrew Sarris described as ""the most perfect film ever made.""

• Bizet: Carmen -- film version | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £17.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (11.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie version of Bizet's popular opera Carmen was filmed on location, conveying a kind of atmosphere, a sense of space, movement, and presence that's hard to achieve in a staged performance. It takes the action out of doors for many scenes, with the opening titles superimposed on the bloody conclusion of a bullfight. Elsewhere the changing of the guard, the crowd scenes, the dance number that opens Act 2, and the panoramic scenery of the smugglers' mountain hideout all benefit from the freedom granted by movie cameras. It's an exciting Carmen, too, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, though, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. Casting her in the role was a gamble, but it worked; she is a convincing actress. Unlike most opera-house performances this movie version uses the opera's original opera comique form with some spoken dialogue rather than recitatives.--Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• Criterion Collection: Earrings of Madame De | Blu Ray | (06/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• America Brown | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ricky Brown went looking for his hero and found himself. In America Brown a coming of age drama high school football star Ricky Brown (Ryan Kwanten) flees his hometown in West Texas to start a new life in New York City. He turns up on the doorstep of John Cross (Hill Harper) the last great quarterback from his hometown where he begins to cope with the accidental death of his older brother Daniel (Michael Rapaport) and the lingering pressures of a small town's football-crazed culture. As Ricky explores New York he finds solace and affection from an outspoken charming young waitress named Vera (Natasha Lyonne). On the surface Vera and Ricky are polar-opposite archetypes yet there's something about them that seems perfectly matched. After an emotional journey to New York Ricky returns to West Texas to confront what forced him to flee and finds personal forgiveness and acceptance.