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• Targets (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/09/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is a retiring horrorstar bidding farewell to the limelight. Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) is an unassuming but disturbed Vietnam veteran who suddenly embarks on a murderous shooting rampage. As Byron makes one final public appearance, the two's worlds collide as Bobby brings carnage to a suburban Los Angeles drivein cinema. Both a comment on the terrors of contemporary America and homage to the horror films of Roger Corman, this thrilling crime drama launched the career of its director Peter Bogdanovich. Hailed as one of the most powerful films of the late 1960s, Targets is presented here as a brandnew High Definition remaster and on Bluray for the very first time.

• Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles (DVD) | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  2015 marks the centenary year of the remarkable Orson Welles, and this insightful documentary explores the enigma and polymath that was Welles. Jean-Luc Godard once said of this exceptional actor, writer and director: All of us will always owe him everything. Directed by critically-acclaimed documentary maker, Chuck Workman, Magician divides Welles' life into four chapters, with Workman portraying him as an artist who never stopped working throughout his career, but whose unconventional approach ensured he was much misunderstood by Hollywood. Magician is a montage, featuring scenes from almost every existing Welles film - from Hearts of Age to rarely-seen clips from his final unfinished films such as Don Quixote - as well as his television and commercial work. This is an essential film not just for fans of the great Orson Welles, but anyone interested in the magic of cinema.

• 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene | DVD | (11/12/2017) from £5.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously choreographed two-minute shower sequence in Psycho ripped apart cinema s definition of horror. With a shocking combination of exploitation and high art, Alfred Hitchcock upended his own acclaimed narrative structure by violently killing off a heroine a third of the way through his film, without explanation, justification, or higher purpose. Psycho played out like a horrific prank, forcing audiences to recognize that even the most banal domestic spaces were now fair game for unspeakable mayhem. With black-and-white film-geek reverence, director Alexandre O. Philippe breaks down this most notorious and essential scene shot for shot, enlisting the help of film buffs and filmmakers alike - including Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Karyn Kusama, Eli Roth and Peter Bogdanovich. 78/52 examines Janet Leigh s terrified facial expressions and the blink-and-you-miss-it camera work, not just within the context of the film but also with an eye toward America s changing social mores - revealing how one bloody, chaotic on-screen death killed off chaste cinema and eerily predicted a decade of unprecedented violence and upheaval.

• John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (39.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A fascinating and revealing documentary that explores the making of the Oscar-winning film which took Ford twenty years to bring to the big screen. Featuring heartfelt discussions with star Maureen O'Hara and fellow directors Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich and Jim Sheridan, as well as original home-movie footage of the cast and crew's time in Ashford Castle during filming.

• Jean Renoir - La Bete Humaine, La Grande Illusion, Le Crime De Monsieur Lange | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes the classic Renoir films La Bete Humaine La Grande Illusion and The Crime Of M. Lange. La Bete Humaine A mad train driver falls in love with a married woman. They plot to kill the wife's husband... La Grande Illusion One of the very first prison escape movies Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece of French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange Told in flashback this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...

• Abandoned | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A high-powered career woman is informed her boyfriend has vanished from hospital. As she rallies against the supposed cover-up and tries to discover the truth she begins to doubt her own sanity leading to a killer twist.

• Decade Under The Influence | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A documentary examining the last truly 'Golden Age' of Hollywood film production the 1970s in which arthouse successes such as 'The Godfather' and 'French Connection' became bona fide blockbusters at the box office in the days before multimedia conglomerations and pre-release test scores...

• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How the sex drugs and rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood. This searing documentary traces the highs and lows the scandals and celebrations the tragedies and the triumphs that shaped this phenomenal period in cinema history. Adapted from Peter Biskind's literary phenomenon the book that blew the lid off both Hollywood and the lives of the infamous celebrated movie makers who came to be known as the 'movie brats'. Contains never before seen fotage shot by the legendary film makers themselves from parties premieres and film sets. Packed with clips from such seminal movies as 'Bonnie And Clyde' 'Jaws' 'The Deer Hunter' 'Star Wars' 'Easy Rider' 'Taxi Driver' 'Shampoo' and 'Chinatown' and featuring all-new interviews with Dennis Hopper Roger Corman Cybil Shepherd Richard Dreyfuss and Peter Fonda.

• The Independent | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A mockumentary of the movie business a la 'Spinal Tap' featuring a film crew who follow the downward spiral of low budget moviemaker Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller)...

• Targets | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Aging horror film star Orlok (Karloff) announces his retirement as an apparently average young man (O'Kelly) goes on a shooting spree eventually showing up at a drive-in theater where Orlok is making his final personal appearance...

• Broken English | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £11.50   |  Saving you £4.49 (28.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Made by the daughter of iconoclastic filmmaker John Cassavetes, Broken English is about Nora, beautifully played by Parker Posey, a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job in a posh downtown hotel, but can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to establish a successful relationship. Nora is constantly reminded by her tactless mother (Gena Rowlands) just how unlucky she has been in love. Though Nora longs to enter into a blissful union she finds that the dating pool just isn't what it used to be. Things soon begin to look up, when Nora makes the acquaintance of handsome but quirky Frenchman with a passion for living. However things don't go quite to plan and Inevitably Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.

• American Mavericks - Driven by a Vision | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Donnie Darko - Director's Cut: October 1988 and small town USA is about to witness the end of the world. It's home to Donnie Darko a brilliant but troubled teenager plagued by terrifying visions of which he alone holds the key to the meaning. With his class mate and soul mate Gretchen and a mysterious ex teacher Grandma Death he must unravel the strange occurrences infecting his school his home and his life before a horrifying spectre known only as ""Frank"" can pull Donnie over the edge of his sanity. (Dir. Richard Kelly 2001) Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the sex drugs and rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood. This searing documentary traces the highs and lows the scandals and celebrations the tragedies and the triumphs that shaped this phenomenal period in cinema history. Adapted from Peter Biskind's literary phenomenon the book that blew the lid off both Hollywood and the lives of the infamous celebrated movie makers who came to be known as the 'movie brats'. Contains never before seen fotage shot by the legendary film makers themselves from parties premieres and film sets. Packed with clips from such seminal movies as 'Bonnie And Clyde' 'Jaws' 'The Deer Hunter' 'Star Wars' 'Easy Rider' 'Taxi Driver' 'Shampoo' and 'Chinatown' and featuring all-new interviews with Dennis Hopper Roger Corman Cybil Shepherd Richard Dreyfuss and Peter Fonda. (Dir. Kenneth Bowser 2003) Overnight: There's more than one way to shoot yourself in Hollywood! Alternately hilarious and horrifying Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy a Boston-bred bartender sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints. The deal includes a directing gig for Duffy a soundtrack gig for his band and at one point there's even an offer to purchase the bar he works at. Duffy uses his newfound good fortune as fuel to mistreat his associates friends and even his own brother. With his overwhelming arrogance he burns every bridge possible in both the music and film industries. Soon his calls go unreturned the studio drops the film and the picture ends up going into production with half the original budget. Duffy's rise and subsequent fall from Hollywood grace is something you won't believe unless you see it for yourself. (Dir. Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith 2003)