"Director: Michael Winterbottom"

• Cracker Complete Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £17.12   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.12

  All 11 feature length Cracker adventures in one box set! Robbie Coltrane leads an all-star cast in Jimmy McGovern's groundbreaking gritty drama as the uncompromising idiosyncratic Fitz a man whose psychological insight extends to everyone but himself. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Mad Woman In The Attic 2. To Say I Love You 3. One Day A Lemming Will Fly 4. To Be A Somebody 5. The Big Crunch 6. Men Should Weep 7. Brotherly Love 8. Best Boys 9. True Romance 10. White Ghost 11. Cracker

• The Trip Collection | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £16.88   |  Saving you £4.17 (24.70%)   |  RRP £21.05

  The Trip Steve Coogan has been commissioned by a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants in the North of England. When his food-loving American girlfriend backs out, Steve is faced with a week of meals for one. Reluctantly, he calls Rob Brydon, the only person he can think of who will be available. Heading north in a stylish black Range Rover, the pair begin a journey of bickering, jokes and reflection. Across the dinner tables of the North's best restaurants, the neurotic and sardonic Coogan and the genial, eager-to-entertain Brydon spar on anything from Coleridge or career insecurities to which of them does the best Michael Caine impression. EXTRAS: Deleted Scenes / Costume Drama Rushes / Photo Gallery / Preparing the Food The Trip To Italy From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom comes the follow-up to the BAFTA winning first series The Trip. Four years after they ate their way round the North of England Brydon and Coogan take their own Grand Tour around Italy, following in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley. The Trip to Italy reunites two men for more delectable food, sharp-elbowed rivalry and plenty of laughs. EXTRAS: Deleted Scenes The Trip To Italy Just as Don Quixote undertook three journeys, so Steve and Rob will set off on a third jaunt of their own, this time travelling over 1,000 miles down the entire length of Spain. Following in the footsteps of poet and novelist Laurie Lee, Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos hit the road in search of culture, history, breath-taking vistas and, of course, some of the finest food in Europe.

• The Trip To Spain | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £9.78   |  Saving you £0.21 (2.15%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The BAFTA-winning series returns as Director Michael Winterbottom reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in a culinary coast-to-coast odyssey. Just as Don Quixote undertook three journeys, so Steve and Rob will set off on a third jaunt of their own, this time travelling over 1,000 miles down the entire length of Spain. Following in the footsteps of poet and novelist Laurie Lee, Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos hit the road in search of culture, history, breath-taking vistas and, of course, some of the finest food in Europe. All the while serving up sparkling free-flowing conversation, peppered with barbed back-and-forths, in-car singalongs and their peerless trademark impersonations.

• In This World | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Torn straight from the headlines Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan Jamal (impressive newcomer Jamal Udin Torabi)and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah)as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy Kurdish controlled pass the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris the Sangatte refugee centre and ultimately asylum in London. Re-affirming his status as one of Britain's most accomplished and diverse film making talents Winterbottom and his hugely gifted writer Tony Grisoni have struck a poignant searing and remarkable balance between the fictional and documentary elements of the narrative to perceptively and indeed objectively examine the plight of Jamal and the countless thousands like him. Digitally shot to fully explore and incorporate the full possibilities of the medium the timely In This World is an exciting at times harrowing and undeniably remarkable achievement that deservedly bought it's maker the coveted Golden Bear Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.

• Family | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by acclaimed novelist Roddy Doyle and directed by Michael Winterbottom Family is a searing television drama that aired on BBC One and RT One in 1994. Family is a compelling characteristically no-frills look at life in an Irish suburb where Charlo Spencer's violent behaviour infidelities and criminal activities are pushing his wife and children to breaking point. The original transmission was a watershed moment in Irish TV history leading to an outcry and national debate about domestic violence. Family centres on the Spencers a family living in a Dublin housing project. Charlo played by Sen McGinley is the abusive and cheating husband of Paula played by Ger Ryan. They have four children: teenagers John Paul and Nicola and younger children Leanne and Jack. Told over four episodes each one devoted to a different family member this series gives an often harrowing picture of Irish working class life in the 1990s. The first episode focuses on Charlo; the abusive alcoholic father and husband who makes his living as a small-time crook. Episode two takes up the story of rebellious teenager John Paul just as he's starting secondary school. The third instalment tells the story from the perspective of Nicola who works in a clothing factory and has a particularly strained relationship with her father. In the fourth and final part we meet the emotionally and physically battered matriarch Paula who reclaims her identity by throwing Charlo out of the house and getting a job.

• 9 Songs | Blu Ray | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The relationship between two lovers is examined through the 9 concerts they attend together.

• 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.68   |  Saving you £7.31 (128.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of the Manchester music scene from 70s punk through to the early nineties, as seen from the perspective of Tony Wilson, musical entrepenuer who signed countless bands from Joy Division to the Happy Mondays to his legendary Factory Records label.

• Butterfly Kiss | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £7.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (101.21%)   |  RRP £14.99

• The Killer Inside Me | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £7.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (150.21%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom's THE KILLER INSIDE ME tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff's deputy Lou Ford.

• A Mighty Heart | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £7.07   |  Saving you £12.92 (182.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angelina Jolie stars in this true story of one woman's struggle to cope with the murder of her journalist husband by Islamic extremists.

• The Look Of Love | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £6.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (190.63%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Steve Coogan's passion project reunites him with longtime collaborator Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story) for the real life story of the 'King of Soho', the legendary gentleman's club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond.

• The Trip | DVD | (13/12/2010) from £3.83   |  Saving you £16.16 (421.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Face of an Angel | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £7.05   |  Saving you £10.94 (155.18%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Thomas Lang is a film director who is offered the chance to adapt a book by American journalist Simone Ford which recounts the controversial trial of American student Jessica Fuller for the murder of her flatmate Elizabeth Pryce. To help with his research Simone takes Thomas to Siena where he is disturbed by the media frenzy that has developed around the case. Inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy Michael Winterbottom's film looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore both the media and the public's obsession with violent stories whether fictional or real.

• Welcome To Sarajevo | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.11   |  Saving you £-1.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Whether as a subject for historical investigation or social drama, the war in the former Yugoslavia is made for film, as 1997's Welcome to Sarajevo demonstrates. Inspired by the book Natasha's Story by ITN reporter Michael Nicholson, this takes very much a human-interest angle on the conflict. Stephen Dillane plays a journalist whose involvement moves from the professional to the personal as he faces up to marauding Serbian mercenaries, then family ties, to get the apparently orphaned Emira out of Sarajevo and back to the security of his own family in the UK. It could have been awash with journalists-are-good-guys-really sentiment, but director Michael Winterbottom is mindful to present the story in the context of the siege--some of the filming here is harrowingly realistic--and draws responsive performances from a cast including Woody Harrelson as a hard-living American reporter and Marisa Tomei as an aid worker determined to save children's lives at all costs. As a film about the "why" of the Yugoslavian war, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is unsurpassed, but Welcome to Sarajevo is a potent look into the "how". On the DVD: Welcome to Sarajevo comes to DVD with a decent 16:9 anamorphic picture and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound that has the necessary immediacy. English subtitles are included, rightly so in a film of this nature. Special features include 30 minutes of interview snippets with cast and crew, "on location" sequences and three theatrical/TV trailers. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Trip to Italy | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom comes the follow up to the BAFTA winning first series The Trip. Four years after they ate their way round the North of England Brydon and Coogan take their own Grand Tour around Italy, following in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley. The Trip to Italy reunites two men for more delectable food, sharp-elbowed rivalry and plenty of laughs.

• Jude | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (55.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude is a good example of Michael Winterbottom's inability to make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who holds the dream of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is enlisted to play his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• 9 Songs | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £6.79   |  Saving you £13.20 (194.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The relationship between two lovers is examined through the 9 concerts they attend together.

• The Trip (Feature Film Version) | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  “It is a homage to the north… there is geology and romanticism sightseeing and wine-tasting and much rumination on ageing and masculinity relationships love fame and comedy itself… and it is funny of course.” The Guardian Beautiful scenery exquisite gourmet cuisine and inspired free-flowing improvised comedy from two of the finest comic actors around. Steve Coogan has been commissioned by a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants in the North of England. When his food-loving American girlfriend backs out Steve is faced with a week of meals for one. Reluctantly he calls Rob Brydon the only person he can think of who will be available. Heading north in a stylish black Range Rover the pair begin a journey of bickering jokes and reflection. Across the dinner tables of the North’s best restaurants the neurotic and sardonic Coogan and the genial eager-to-entertain Brydon spar on anything from Coleridge or career insecurities to which of them does the best Michael Caine impression. Out of a relationship between two friends spending more time in one another’s company than they might wish emerges sparkling dialogue real poignancy and great laugh-out loud comedy. From acclaimed Director Michael Winterbottom full feature length edition. Extras: Deleted Scenes Costume Drama Rushes Photo Gallery Preparing the Food

• A Cock And Bull Story | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £5.19   |  Saving you £14.80 (285.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steve Coogan stars in this energetic, laugh out loud adaptation of "The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy".

• Go Now | DVD | (12/09/2016) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A gritty, uplifting drama of love and illness. Construction worker and keen amateur footballer Nick Cameron (Robert Carlyle) has the best of everything when he meets and moves in with soulmate Karen (Juliet Aubrey). But complications arise when symptoms of a mysterious illness including numbness and double vision begin to sap his energy. As MS sets in, his physical powers quickly diminish and he loses his job, his sport and his sexual drive. Eroded by frustration, anger and self-pity, Nick lashes out at Karen, even accusing her of sleeping with her boss. At his lowest ebb, summoning vestiges of pride and self-sacrifice, Nick urges Karen to leave him. Will she accept an easy escape from his despondency and rancour, or stand by this frail shell of the man she fell in love with? Heart-wrenching, intense and unforgettable, the raw emotion is cut with laddish dark humour, and the electrifying central performances are supported by engaging early screen appearances by James Nesbitt and Sophie Okonedo. First shown as part of BBC Two's ˜Love Bites' season of dramas in 1995, and now released on DVD, writers Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell who drew on his own experiences battling MS shared the Royal Television Society's Best Writer award the following year. £1 from every copy sold donated to MS Society UK by Simply Media Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Editing and Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer (Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell) Directed by acclaimed BAFTA winner Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) and written by Emmy and multi-BAFTA winner Jimmy McGovern (The Street) Stars Primetime Emmy nominee and BAFTA winner Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting / The Full Monty) and BAFTA winner Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) Also features Golden Globe nominee James Nesbitt (Cold Feet/ The Missing) and Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) Includes exclusive interview with Danny Wallace on football and MS