"Actor: Virna Lisi"

• La Reine Margot | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £6.21   |  Saving you £13.78 (221.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Reine Margot concerns the events behind infamous Massacre of St Bartholomew in sixth-century France. Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, betrothed for political reasons to one man (Daniel Auteuil) by her mother (Virna Lisi), while she is, in fact, in love with another (Vincent Pérez). Despite the bond that grows between the reluctant couple, plots are hatching all over the castle against the royals. Adventurous, exciting, erotic and given strong artistic credibility through its outstanding cast, the film is enthralling and visually sumptuous. Directed by Patrice Chereau, less known outside of France than is the film's producer, Claude Berri (director of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources). --Tom Keogh

• Eve (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim) and Stanley Baker (Yesterday's Enemy) star as two lovers caught in a deadly affair in Joseph Losey's 1962 adaptation of the James Hadley Chase novel. A highly personal project for Losey, Eve was blighted by producer interference, and was heavily cut for its general release under the title Eva. Product Features Brand new 2K scan of Eye Filmmuseum's photochemical restoration of the longest known version of the film, with optional extended ending (126 mins) High Definition remaster of the original European theatrical release version of Eva (109 mins) High Definition remaster of the alternative The Devil's Woman version (108 mins) Original mono audio Other Places (1967, 9 mins): director Joseph Losey discusses Eve in this extract from the French television programme Cinéma Appetite for Destruction (1972, 5 mins): extract from the French television programme Tête d'affiche, featuring star Jeanne Moreau in conversation with actor France Roche The BEHP Interview with Reginald Beck (1987, 126 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the editor, and regular Losey collaborator, in conversation with Alan Lawson All About Eve (2020, 19 mins): interview with filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph Losey A Creation Myth (2020, 24 mins): appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard The Many Faces of Eve (2020, 16 mins): video comparison of the differences between the various versions of the film Image gallery: publicity and promotional material Original UK and French theatrical trailers New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• How To Murder Your Wife | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bachelorhood is bliss for cartoonist Stanley Ford (Lemmon) - complete with an English butler (Terry Thomas) delectable dames and extra-dry martinis. But when he attends a bachelor party and meets an Italian beauty (Lisi) who pops out of a cake his fate is sealed. The next morning he discovers he's married to her even though she can barely speak English - and now the consummate bachelor will go to any lengths to untie the knot!

• Joseph Losey Boxset | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Born in Wisconsin in 1909 Joseph Losey studied medicine and English but soon drifted to New York City where he became involved in theatre and worked together with the controversial German playwright Bertolt Brecht. He then caught the attention of MGM and started making short films such as A Gun in His Hand (1945). Losey directed his first feature film in 1947 entitled The Boy with Green Hair for RKO. Several other films followed which established him as an inventive individualistic director. In 1951 Losey was summoned to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) while he was shooting Imbarco a mezzanotte in Italy. His links with left-wing theatre groups and the concern for social justice expressed in many of his films attracted the attention of the Committee and led to him being blacklisted. Joseph Losey sought exile in Great Britain where he began re-building his career. His first British feature film THE SLEEPING TIGER (1954) which was credited at the time to Victor Hanbury saw the beginning of a long-lasting collaboration between the director and Dirk Bogarde. In 1960 now well established in the UK Losey began to look for more adventurous projects such as THE CRIMINAL starring an impeccable Stanley Baker as an underworld kingpin. The score of the film was composed by John Dankworth whose career was to become inextricably linked with that of Losey. In 1962 he directed EVA starring Jeanne Moreau and Stanley Baker an examination of sexual obsession boasting one of Moreau’s most iconic performances. Joseph Losey continued his collaboration with Dirk Bogarde in THE SERVANT (1963) which saw Bogarde as the sinister manservant who manipulates his foppish master and ACCIDENT (1967) about a university professor struggling to maintain control of his life. In 1970 Losey directed THE GO-BETWEEN a costume drama starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates which went on to win the Palme d’Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. It is considered to be one of his best works and was his third collaboration (after The Servant and Accident) with Harold Pinter who wrote the screenplay. The final film in this set is MR. KLEIN (1976) starring Alain Delon in which Joseph Losey tackled the dark subject of the Jewish repression in WWII France.

• Secret Of Santa Vittoria | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Arabella | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Virna Lisi, winner of 24 International Film Awards, stars as Arabella a wily but good-hearted Italian temptress. Riddled with lovable stereotypes, this European comedy romp follows an elderly Italian lady (Oscar and Golden Globe winner Margaret Rutherford), who finds herself in seriously deep water when her unpaid tax bill rears its ugly head. She owes money all the way from 1895 but there's simply no chance she can pay. Luckily for her, she has a cunning granddaughter who is ready to help Arabella. The young woman makes it her mission to save grandma from destitution with more than a few mishaps along the way. British comedian Terry-Thomas bounces between four roles in this riotous, star-studded frolic. Also features BAFTA and Golden Globe winner James Fox (A Passage to India) and Oscar nominee Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties).

• The Best Day Of My Life | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Troubled matriarch and widowed grandmother Irene lives alone in a decaying family villa. Since the death of her husband her eldest daughter Sara has lived in emotional solitude unable to open up even to her adolescent son marco. She fills the gap by obsessing about whether he might have an accident that he might be on drugs - or worse still - that he might be gay like his uncle Claudio. Claudio has never managed somehow to tell his mother about his sexual orientation and even tho

• Casanova 70 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An Italian sex comedy in which Marcello Mastroianni plays a Major who is impotent unless an element of danger is present in his wooing. When his lecherous psychiatrist tries to convince him to give up women it becomes obvious that the doctor has an agenda of his own.