When novelist Joe (Alan Cumming) and his actress wife Sally (Jennifer Jason Leigh) throw themselves a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage both the hosts and the guests start telling each other the one thing they never hear in Hollywood - the truth! This scathingly funny drama takes an unflinching look at new friends old lovers annoying neighbours marriage and the movie business...
Set amidst the decadence and terror of pre-war Fascist Germany the multi award-winning Bent is above all a powerful and moving love story. Recounting the fate of three homosexual men during the rise of Nazism the film is a harrowing but inspirational tale of struggle against oppression.
As The Bourne Identity begins a man who may or may not be Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea and is hauled onto a fishing boat. When the ship's doctor examines the unconscious castaway he discovers two bullet wounds and an implanted device that displays a Swiss bank account number. With nothing but this code the amnesiac Bourne travels to Zurich and gains access to a safe-deposit box containing a gun thousands of dollars in various currencies and valid passports from numerous countries--each listing a different identity. Within minutes Bourne is on the run from a seemingly ever-present agency relying on language and fighting skills he didn't even know he possessed. Offering 000 for a ride to Paris Bourne gains the reluctant help of the nomadic Marie (Franka Potente). Meanwhile the shadowy organization headed by a tough-talking bureaucrat (Chris Cooper) sends numerous assassins (including the Professor played by Clive Owen) after Bourne and Marie. As their situation grows more perilous the two strangers struggle to find out who Bourne really is and why they are being hunted. The Bourne Supremacy re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Jason Bourne (Damon) who continues to find himself plagued by the splintered nightmares from his former life. The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage-replete with CIA plots turncoat agents and ever-shifting covert alliances-all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and answers to his own fragmented past. The Bourne Ultimatum: All he wanted was to disappear; instead Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is - a legendary assassin. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was. Now in the new chapter of this espionage series Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future.
A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is. Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom. On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The 'Hardy Bucks' are a group of bored slackers living is the sleepy hamlet of Castletown. Originally started as a bit of fun on Youtube, the mockumentary was entered into RTÉ's 'Storyland' competition, which it subsequently won. There followed two TV series and a Christmas Special on the Irish national station. In four short years Hardy Bucks have attained over 7 million Youtube views, with over 20,000 channel subscribers and have over 130,000 fans on their Facebook page. 'The Hardy Bucks Movie' sees the lads as they finally leave Castletown and head out on a wild road trip across Europe. ...The Hardy Bucks Movie (2013)
Stephen Crane is back: newly released from prison he sets about re-establishing his old contacts... All 7 episodes from Season 2: Jo Ashes Secrets Remembrance Blood Fall Sacrifice.
A truly joyous tale starring Doris Day as the union leader in a clothing factory. From the novel 'Seven And A Half Cents' by Richard Bissell and adapted into a successful musical which the french director Jean Luc Goddard called the first left wing operetta!
Box Set Contains: The Cinder Path The Fifteen Streets The Gambling Man & Tilly Trotter.
Anna Christie (1930): Garbo made her landmark transition to ""Talkies"" with this film playing a former prostitute whose past threatens her chance for happiness. A different director and cast join Garbo in a German-language version (Side B with English subtitles) filmed on the same sound stages immediately after the English version. Later Garbo called it the better film and this new DVD release gives fans the rare opportunity to compare the two versions. Mata Hari (1931): Garbo is mesmerizing as a dancer turned German secret agent in wartime Paris seething with secrets and betrayal. The notable supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore as a Russian general in love with her Lewis Stone as an icy master spy and Ramon Novarro as a handsome aviator who wins the heart Mata Hari did not know she possessed. Queen Christina (1933): To escape the burdens of the monarchy Sweden's Queen Christina (Garbo) rides into the countryside disguised as a boy. She meets and secretly falls for a dashing Spanish envoy on his way to the royal court. When her lover's true identity is revealed Christina knows her people will not accept her marriage to a foreigner. Torn between her duty and her heart she must make a fateful decision. Garbo is luminous in this lavish costume drama starring with her one-time off-screen fianc John Gilbert under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. Anna Karenina (1935): Leo Tolstoy's novel of a dutiful wife and doting mother who gives up her life of contentment to experience real passion receives sumptuous treatment in a David O. Selznick production. Clarence Brown directs a stellar cast - including Fredric March Basil Rathbone Maureen O'Sullivan and Freddie Bartholomew. Greta Garbo is the soul of the film in a nuanced performance that won the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award. At the height of her art Garbo is unforgettable as a woman helpless in love's grasp and heartbroken at the loss of her son. Camille (1936): Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Garbo) the Camille of this sumptuous romantic tale based on the enduring Alexandre Dumas story. Garbo earned an Academy Award nomination and the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award for her memorable work in this George Cukor-directed film. Ninotchka (1939): Garbo shines in her first comedy a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a clever script written in part by Billy Wilder director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. That's how we see Garbo's love struck Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous.
No children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for. Co-starring Michael Caine, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's highly acclaimed Children of Men received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Based on the novel by P.D. James.
Starring: Bill Owen, Leslie Dwyer, Dandy Nicholls, Joy Nicholls. Directed by Maclean Rodgers A classic black & white 1950s British comedy digitally restored and remastered. 2 Dustmen come into possession of a valuable book thanks to a good deed. The subsequent plot centres on their attempts to sell the book and the donors sisters devious attempts to retrieve it. One of several films which launched successful careers for its cast.
George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! Episode Comprise: 1. Just The Job 2. Days Of Beer And Rosie 3. You Must Have Showers 4. All Work And No Pay 5. Nappy Days 6. The Mating Game 7. On The Second Day Of Christmas
This visually stunning film explores passion betrayal vengeance and revenge and their effect on the life of a naive and unseasoned young man. Basil yearning for freedom from the constraints of aristocracy disregards his position and wealth to pursue the passionate love of a beautiful woman. Betrayed by this love and deceived by the man he thought a friend Basil finds he is the victim of a sinister plot for revenge. He hunts down his tormentor and in a violent fight comes face to face with the price of vengeance. He escaped to the coast of Ireland to face his demons comes to terms with his past and discovers a future that holds the promise of new beginnings.
He had a great job a beautiful wife and a habit the size of Utah. Based on the acclaimed autobiography of the same name Permanent Midnight stars Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Hurley in this emotionally riveting story about a hot television writer who learns first-hand about the dark side of success in Hollywood.
George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! Episodes Comprise: 1. Opportunity Knocks 2. And So To Bed 3. I Believe In Yesterday 4. The Four Letter Word 5. The Delivery Man 6. Life With Father
In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. Returning home with their discovery the expedition members soon find themselves being killed off by a mummy which can be revived by reading the words off the prince's burial shroud...
Based on actual events. When the commander of the crew of a B17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Be careful what you wish for: as this compendium about the perils of getting rich quick shows money doesn't always buy happiness. Here are four stories that show the down side to high living: a family scoops the pools but it nearly tears them apart and a mild mannered clerk wins the jackpot with unhappy consequences; greed and temptation turns honest people into crooks while a suddenly wealthy man finds himself missing his old life. Mixing laughter tears and suspense - and starring some of Britain's best loved actors (including Jack Warner Petula Clark David Tomlinson Mervyn Johns and Dennis Price) - Easy Money is a true classic of the British screen.
The godfather of British folk Richard Thompson takes songs dating back as far as the 15th century as well as contemporary hits and imbues them with own inimitable style. This release features the live set as it happened and 2 audio CDs of the material for your - strictly - listening pleasure. DVD - Tracklist: 1. Summer Is Icumen In 2. King Henry 3. So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo 4. Bonnie St. Johnstone 5. O Sleep Fond Fancy 6. Remember O Thou Man 7. Shenandoah 8. Blackleg Miner 9. I Live In Trafalgar Square 10. There is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast 11. Java Jive 12. Night And Day 13. Orange Coloured Sky 14. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 15. A-11 16. See My Friends 17. Friday On My Mind 18. Tempted 19. Oops!... I Did It Again 20. Cry Me A River 21. 1985 22. Sam Hall CD 1 - Tracklist: 1. Summer Is Icumen In 2. King Henry 3. So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo 4. Bonnie St. Johnstone 5. O Sleep Fond Fancy 6. Remember O Thou Man 7. Shenandoah 8. Blackleg Miner 9. I Live In Trafalgar Square 10. There is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast 11. Java Jive CD 2 - Tracklist: 1. Night And Day 2. Orange Coloured Sky 3. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 4. A-11 5. See My Friends 6. Friday On My Mind 7. Tempted 8. Oops!... I Did It Again 9. Cry Me A River 10. 1985 11. Sam Hall
Irvine Welsh & Dean Cavanagh bring you the Ultimate Credit Crunch Movie. Darts legend Andy The Arrows Samson and his voluptuous wife Big Sheila are the subject of a fly on the wall documentary that is unintentionally revealing a wardrobe full of skeletons. After suffering an heart attack Andy loses his throwing skills and he is faced with some stark home truths. Andy's ex-best friend and mentor Alwyn thinks he has the solution to Andy's dilemma. Big Sheila however is piling the hurt on and it's going to take a miracle to get Andy back at the oche. Good Arrows is an hilarious look at what happens when a star falls from the sky.
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