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• Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 6-10 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The double-disc set Dekalog, Parts 6-10, contains the last five of Kieslowski's 10 one-hour modern morality tales, each one loosely linked to one of the 10 Commandments. All set in and around the same drab, high-rise Warsaw housing estate, they intriguingly explore moral dilemmas without ever coming to any glib conclusions. As always, Kieslowski is far more interested in posing questions than in supplying answers. The series was originally made for Polish television, and has since been shown on TV stations all round the world, though never in the cinema. While they can easily be watched separately, being individual stories, there's no question that they gain in impact from being taken in conjunction with each other. Kieslowski used a different cinematographer for each film (except Nos. 3 and 9, both photographed by Piotr Sobocinski) to give a distinct feel to each story. While none of them--as you might expect from this director--offer a barrel of laughs, some are decidedly lighter in tone. Indeed the series ends on an almost farcical note: Dekalog 10 tells the tale of two brothers seized with paranoia when their late father leaves them a valuable stamp collection. By contrast, Dekalog 6 is one of the most moving and compassionate in the collection: a woman who finds a young lad is obsessively spying on her inflicts an intolerable humiliation on him. This, like No. 5 in the series, was expanded by 25 minutes or so into a feature film, A Short Film about Love. Here too, it seems a pity that the longer version couldn't have been included in the set. On the DVDs: Dekalog, Parts 1-6 is slightly better served for extras than the first set; this includes a 50-minute interview with Kieslowski, one of the last he gave before his early death. As usual, he stonewalls all the questions with barely concealed impatience. The transfer captures the muted colours of the original, and the Dolby 1.0 sound is crisp and clear. --Philip Kemp

• El Bonaerense | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £7.33   |  Saving you £12.66 (172.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zapa is a young locksmith who works in a quiet sleepy part of Buenos Aires. Life is slow and the hours pass slowly untill one day he is sent on a job opening a safe in an office only to find that the next day he is arrested for robbing the establishment. His uncle bails him out and suddenly he has a new job a new love interest and his life has become stranger than fiction....

• Nightmare In Wax | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cameron Mitchell stars as Vince Rinaud a former special effects man for Paragon Studios. After he is facially scarred by jealous studio owner Max (Barry Kroeger) over the actress they both love (Anne Helm) he is jilted by the film company and so retires to run a Hollywood wax museum. Vince attracts new acclaim for his eerie and realistic wax models; however it isn't long before the enemies of Vince start to go missing and effigies of the AWOL actors start appearing in Vince's wax museum...