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• Indigent 4 Film DVD Collection | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the independent studio behind the Sundance Film Festival smash 'Personal Velocity' come four of the hottest indie films in the 21st centuray digital revolution. Tape: After ten years apart three people come together at a motel to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. The nature of memory and truth the bonds between old friends and lovers are examined with hagged intensity. Amy arrives at the motel expecting only to see Vince but is stunned to be also facing John and her past. Chelsea Walls: The Chelsea Hotel used to be the hippest place to live for New York artists. Painters writers and musicians from Mark Twain to Jimi Hendrix enlivened the hotel's halls. Now even though the iron fa''ade has become rusty a new generation of dreamers inhabit the hotel. Memories aspirations passion and scandal influence the creative visionaries to create their own masterpieces... Ten Tiny Love Stories: Love. Sex. Stories. And everything in between! Ten women talk about the men they remember most. The man who last loved them; the man who left them; the man who wasn't enough; the man who was too cruel; the man who passed away; the man they married and the man they sent away. The film presents an honest portrait of women where memories are the only connection to the men that touched their lives. Final: When Bill (Denis Leary) wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumner Hospital he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality. He is quite certain of his sanity but memories of being cryogenically frozen tissue regeneration experiments and talk of a final lethal injection race through his mind. With the help of Ann (Hope Davis) the psychiatrist assigned to his case he struggles to piece his memories together while newer more rational memories flood his mind. Struggling with his paranoia Bill begins to question Ann's motives. Can he trust the only person in the position to help him or will she be the one holding the needle that does him in?

• The I Inside | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £7.23   |  Saving you £11.75 (277.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When you don't have a memory how can you remember who to trust? When Simon (Ryan Phillippe) awakens in the hospital with amnesia unable to remember the last two years of his life. However he discovers that he can travel back in time to change his future and possibly solve the mystery of his brother's murder...

• I Was A Teenage Vampire | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After Jeremy Capello is bitten by a beautiful and mysterious older woman his life begins to change dramatically as he realises he is becoming a vampire. What with the usual high school and teenage problems he soon realises that life isn't easy at seventeen...especially when you're a vampire.

• Tape | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Richard Linklater's Tape doesn't announce itself as a Dogme movie, but it might very well qualify. Acted out in real time in a single setting--a cramped, grimy motel room--with no music score, a cast of just three and shot on grainy digital video, it marks a further step back to basics for Linklater after the woeful miscalculation of his gangster period drama The Newton Boys (1998). It's set in Lansing, Michigan, hometown of petty drug-dealer and part-time firefighter Vince (Ethan Hawke), who's come back for the screening, in Lansing's film festival, of the debut feature of his old school friend Johnny (Robert Sean Leonard), now an indie filmmaker. At least, that's Vince's ostensible reason--but it turns out he's got a hidden agenda that involves Amy (Uma Thurman), the girl they both fancied in high-school, and now the local assistant DA. Tape was adapted from a stage play (by Stephen Belber, who also scripted) and often feels like it, with characters announcing their motivations and reactions in grandstanding, tell-don't-show speeches. The camerawork tends to the tricky, too--tilted angles and way too many whip-pans during dialogue sequences--as if Linklater was worried his single set might get visually boring. But the tight, twisty plotting, compact running time and intense performances keep the film absorbing. Hawke and Leonard's mutual lacerations carry a rancid sense of resentments banked up and brooded on for years, while Thurman's Amy, arriving halfway through the action, visibly relishes setting both men by the ears. As a meditation on the relativity of truth Tape may not be in the Rashomon class, but it shows Linklater doing what he does best, making pungent use of minimal resources. On the DVD: Tape offers no extras on disc, just the trailer. Production-value splendour was obviously never on the menu here, but the 2.0 Dolby Digital sound and 16:9 anamorphic widescreen transfer do the original no disservice. --Philip Kemp

• Tape | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After ten years apart three disparate people come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. As years of denial slowly peel away each is provoked into revealing their true nature.