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• Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This ground-breaking collection brings together Walerian Borowczyk's key films from a twenty-five-year period stretching from 1959 through to 1984. This unique release includes five of Borowczyk s provocative feature films: Theatre de Monsieur et Madame Kabal, Goto, l ile d amour, Blanche, Contes Immoraux and La Bête as well as his ground-breaking short films from this period, in digital high definition restorations approved by the director s widow, Ligia Branice. In addition to exclusive documentaries featuring cast and crew, an hour long portrait of Borowczyk is included, featuring the director s musings on painting, animation and sex. Arrow Academy's Walerian Borowczyk Collection is a vital addition to the collection of anyone interested in either world cinema, animation or experimental film. 5-DISC SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS HD restorations of the five features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations Original uncompressed mono 1.0 audio English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeves featuring Borowczyk s original poster designs and artwork THEATRE OF MR AND MRS KABAL The short films Astronauts (1959), The Concert (1962), Grandmother s Encyclopaedia (1963), Renaissance (1963), Angels Games (1964), Joachim s Dictionary (1965), Rosalie (1966), Gavotte (1967), Diptych (1967), The Phonograph (1969), The Greatest Love of All Time (1978) and Scherzo Infernal (1984) Introduction by filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam Film is Not a Sausage, a documentary about Borowczyk s animated work featuring Borowczyk, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant André Heinrich and composer Bernard Parmegiani Blow Ups, a visual essay by Daniel Bird about Borowczyk s works on paper Commercials by Walerian Borowczyk: Holy Smoke (1963), The Museum (1964) and Tom Thumb (1966) GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE Introduction by artist and Turner Prize nominee Craigie Horsfield The Concentration Universe, a new interview programme featuring actor Jean-Pierre Andréani, cameraman Noël Véry and camera assistant Jean-Pierre Platel The Profligate Door, a new documentary about Borowczyk s sound sculptures featuring curator Maurice Corbet BLANCHE Introduction by Schalcken the Painter director Leslie Megahey Ballad of Imprisonment, a documentary about the film featuring producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant director André Heinrich, camera operator Noël Véry and assistant Patrice Leconte Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk, a newly edited archival interview in which Borowczyk discusses painting, cinema and sex Gunpoint, a documentary short by Peter Graham produced and edited by Borowczyk IMMORAL TALES Introduction by Borowczyk expert Daniel Bird Love Reveals Itself, a video essay about the film featuring production manager Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin and cinematographer Noël Véry Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Valerian Borowczyk, a newly edited archival interview in which the filmmaker discusses painting, cinema and sex Blow Ups, a visual essay by Daniel Bird about Borowczyk s works on paper Theatrical trailer THE BEAST An introduction by film critic Peter Bradshaw Borowczyk s erotic short film Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) The Making of the Beast, an hour-long documentary with rare on-set footage, narrated by cameraman Noël Véry Frenzy of Ecstasy, a visual essay about The Beast s design and the film s unmade sequel Original theatrical trailer

• The Bureau Season 2 | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Malotru , a French intelligence officer, undercover in Syria for 6 years, is called back home. He will face the difficulty to forget his undercover identity, the disappearance of a colleague in Algeria, and the training of a young girl.

• Le Plaisir | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Le Plaisir based on the stories of Guy du Maupassant takes a gently wistful approach to the subject of love and desire through its three tales. Le Masque is the melancholy story of an old man as a veritable dancing wax museum figure hopelessly grasping for his lost youth in a nightly masquerade. La Maison Tellier ""a fairy tale for adults "" in the words of the narrator (Jean Servais playing Maupassant) is a delightful tale of a local brothel that closes for a night for a visit to the country where the ladies have gone to celebrate a young girl's first communion. Jean Gabin is delightful as the charming country bumpkin who plays host to the troupe and becomes sweetly smitten with flirty Danielle Darrieux. The finale Le Modele stars Daniel Glin and Simone Simon as young lovers whose imminent breakup heads toward tragedy but takes a fateful turn both sad and sweet. Le Plaisir is a delicate portrait of love and desire. A favourite film of Jean-Luc Godard who called it ""the greatest film made in France since the liberation"".

• The Bureau Season 1 | DVD | (16/01/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the first season of the French political drama starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Sara Giraudeau. After returning to Paris following an extended undercover mission in Syria, French intelligence officer Guillaume Debailly (Kassovitz) must face up to the challenge of reconnecting with his estranged daughter and ex-wife as he attempts to adjust to life back at home. Now tasked with training new recruit Marina Loiseau (Giraudeau), Guillaume's situation is further complicated by the arrival in Paris of Nadia (Zineb Triki), his love interest from his time in Syria, and the case of a fellow agent who mysteriously goes missing while undercover in Algeria.

• Eyes Without a Face (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/08/2015) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most celebrated and controversial films in cinema history George Franju's notorious horror story follows an eminent plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur Goto Island of Love) as he tries to reconstruct his daughter's badly disfigured face by grafting the living tissue from beautiful girls kidnapped by his devoted assistant (Alida Valli Suspiria). Decades after it first shocked audiences around the world often in censored versions Eyes without a Face remains one the most unsettling and disturbing films ever made and has influenced countless filmmakers from Jesus Franco and Dario Argento to Pedro Aldomovar (The Skin I Live In). Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Theatrical trailer Le Sang Des Bêtes (Georges Franju 1949 20 mins) Les Fleurs Maladives De Georges Franju (2009 46 mins): documentary with Claude Chabrol Robert Hossein and others Extensive Booklet with Essay and Full Film Credits

• Les Enfants Du Paradis (2 discs, limited edition packaging) | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Voted 'The Best French Film ever made' by the French Film Academy. Les Enfants du Paradis is a film of such dazzling proportions it has been labelled the French Gone With The Wind.Set amidst the glittering theatre world of 19th century Paris, the story revoles around the beautiful and free-spirted courtesan, Garanace, and the four men who compete for her affections; a mime-artist, an actor, an aristocrat and a criminal. As the melodrama unfolds, we are treated to one of cinema's greatest love stories, a captivating tale of passion, deception and murder.

• Les Enfants Du Paradis | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film which regularly charts high in critics' polls of the best films of all time, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert's masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis is as solid a landmark in French film history as the Eiffel Tower is on the Parisian landscape. And at 187 minutes running time, it's a massy edifice indeed, built from a rambunctious cast of characters--ranging from pickpockets and prostitutes to aristocrats and actors--whose lives intersect around the Theatre des Funambules, a popular Parisian theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, during the 1840s. (The title refers to the poor who can only afford seats in the upper galleries of the theatre.) The heart of the plot is a love story between mime artiste Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and streetwalker Garance (the magnificent, sand-paper-voiced Arletty). When Garance is falsely accused of pickpocketing, Baptiste provides a mimed alibi for her to the police (one of the film's most famous set pieces). The rose she later throws him in gratitude sets off a romantic obsession, one of several that structure the film, as do love triangles, duels, and tortured confessions of feeling. Thematically, Les Enfant du Paradis gnaws over typically French cinematic preoccupations: illusion and reality, the nature of performance, the indomitable spirit of the proletariat and so on, all made the more charged and poignant when you know the film was shot during the Nazi occupation. (One actor, Robert Le Vigan, was reportedly a Nazi collaborator and disappeared during the filming under mysterious circumstances and so had to be replaced by Pierre Renoir.) --Leslie Felperin

• Goto, Isle of Love | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £17.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Walerian Borowczyk’s second feature was just as original as his first. Almost entirely live action this time it is situated on the archipelago of Goto which has been cut off from the rest of human civilisation by a massive earthquake and has consequently developed its own arcane rules. Melancholic dictator Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is married to the beautiful Glossia (Ligia Branice) who in turn is lusted after by the petty thief Gozo (Guy Saint-Jean) as he works his way up the hierarchy.

• Quai Des Brumes (DVD) (Digitally Restored) | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £10.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (46.03%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, the inimitable team of director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert deliver a quintessential example of poetic realism, one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema.Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news.Also starring the blue-eyed phenomenon Michele Morgan in her first major role, and the menacing Michel Simon, Port Of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes) starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.

• Spotlight On A Murderer | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £11.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the terminally ill Count Hervé de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur, Goto, Isle of Love) vanishes without trace, his heirs are told that they have to wait five years before he can be declared legally dead, forcing them to devise ways of paying for the upkeep of the vast family château in the meantime. While they set about transforming the place into an elaborate son et lumière tourist attraction, they are beset by a series of tragic accidents if that's really what they are The little-known third feature by the great French maverick Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Judex) is a delightfully playful romp through Agatha Christie territory, whose script (written by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac of Les Diaboliques and Vertigo fame) is mischievously aware of the hoariest old murder-mystery clichés and gleefully exploits as many of them as possible. They're equally aware of the detective story's antecedents in the Gothic novel, a connection that Franju is only too happy to emphasise visually at every opportunity thanks to his magnificent main location. A young Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist, Amour) is amongst the Kerloquen heirs. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations of the feature, restored by Gaumont Uncompressed French Mono 1.0 PCM Audio Optional English subtitles Vintage production featurette from 1960, shot on location and including interviews with Georges Franju and actors Pascale Audret, Pierre Brasseur, Marianne Koch, Dany Saval and Jean-Louis Trintignant Original theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara

• Eyes Without A Face | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Guilt-ridden after recklessly crashing his car and leaving his daughter severely disfigured celebrated plastic surgeon Dr Gennesier becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty by transplanting a new face onto her mutilated features. Aided by his devoted assistant Louisa young woman are lured back to his home to become unwitting 'donors' in his horrific procedures. Although too much for many critics of the day to stomach Franju's masterpiece is now considered to be one of the greatest most influential and disturbing horror films ever made.

• La Tete Contre Les Murs | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An intense study of the clash between medical ideals the first full-length work from Georges Franju (Les yeux sans visage Judex) is a gripping examination of postwar psychiatric care boasting a memorable cast including Pierre Brasseur Anouk Aim''e Charles Aznavour Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Mocky. Mocky plays Fran''ois G''rane an aimless young man whose delinquent tendencies cause his father to have him committed to a psychiatric ward. There under the cold command of Dr. Varmont (Brasseur) he finds himself fighting for his dignity sanity and freedom barely holding on through the new-found love of his girlfriend Stephanie (Aim''e) and the promise of rival Dr. Emery's (Meurisse) more humane techniques. Compassionate yet unflinching La T''te contre les murs is a bold precursor to the likes of Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest revealing Franju's poetic gift for creating images both concrete and evocative and an ominous hint of the clinical horrors yet to come in Les yeux sans visage. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the debut feature of a late-flowering great filmmaker.

• Quai Des Brumes | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £13.50   |  Saving you £4.49 (25.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan the inimitable team of director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert deliver a quintessential example of poetic realism one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema. Down a foggy desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin) an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate however has a different plan for him when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news. Also starring the blue-eyed phenomenon Michele Morgan in her first major role and the menacing Michel Simon Port Of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes) starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.

• Goto L'Ile D'Amour | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £31.70   |  Saving you £-11.71 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Port of Shadows | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On a foggy highway a lonely soldier hitches a ride and ends up in a lonely bar on the outskirts of town. The soldier (Jean Gabin) a deserter on the run meets sad runaway Nelly (Michele Morgan) and falls in love. He becomes entwined in the troubles of her life notably the lascivious guardian (Michel Simon) who lusts after Nelly and attempts to blackmail Jean and a cocky hot-headed gangster (Pierre Brasseur) who tries to scare Jean off.