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Coming SoonPRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGThe KLF became the biggest selling singles act in the world in 1991 with a series of international smash hits including acid house anthems 3 A.M. Eternal, Last Train To Transcentral, and Justified & Anci..
Based on the best-selling novel by Ernest Hemingway, Frank Borzage's Oscar-winning adaptation of A Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper as Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American enlisted in the Italian ambulances corps. Through his friend, Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), he meets Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), an English nurse. What starts as a casual encounter soon develops into something much deeper – but can their passion survive the terri..
Carol Reed's last film for Alexander Korda and his first in colour is the whimsical tale of a young boy, Joe, who buys a small goat in the belief it's a magical unicorn that will grant him and his friends wishes. Meanwhile, romance blooms between beautiful Sonia (Diana Dors) and her body-building boyfriend Sam (Joe Robinson), who has the misfortune to get mixed up with crooked wrestling promoter Blackie Isaacs (Lou Jacobi). Colourfully ..
Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey had already played in the West End and on Broadway when Tony Richardson made his film adaptation, shot on location in Salford and Blackpool. Rita Tushingham made her indelible screen debut as Jo, a young girl who falls pregnant after leaving home and floozie of a mother, played by Dora Bryan in a revelatory performance. When Jo befriends Geoff, a kind-hearted gay art student, they move in together..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
A car collides with a swan outside a zoo. Two women passengers die but the driver, Alba Bewick (Andrea Ferreol) survives with a leg amputation. Obsessed with the accident, the zoologist husbands of the dead women – twins Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon) – become fascinated by the processes of decay and embark on an affair with the amputee. As dead animals decompose to the playful rhythms of Michael Nyman, symmetry is elevated b..
Peter Greenaway's surreal story has twin brothers (Brian and Eric Deacon), both zoologists, re-examining the meaning of life after a car accident involving a swan claims the lives of their wives. They study the decomposition of several animals with time-lapse photography, plot to liberate zoo animals, and begin a menage-a-trois with the one-legged woman who survived the crash...
Kore-eda Hirokazu, director of the acclaimed 1996 film 'Maborosi', returns with this meditation on happiness and memory. Arriving in Limbo, a way-station where the dead are invited to select which memory they wish to take with them into the afterlife, the newly dead are met by the staff who will help them chose. Over the following week, the recently-deceased think back over their lives, looking for the moment in which they were most hap..
Grappling with the unexpected death of her husband (Nasser Memarzia), Mary Hussain is tidying his things in their Dover home when she stumbles upon a secret connection he had across the Channel, in Calais. Armed with just a bag and his cell phone, she sets off to uncover the truth.Beautifully directed by Aleem Khan and abetted by sensitive performances from Joanna Scanlan (No Offence), Nathalie Richard and impressive youngster Talid ..
Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci, aka the Fox (a master of disguise who cannot seem to stay out of jail), in this comedy directed by Vittorio De Sica and adapted from Somerset Maughan's novel by Neil Simon. Vanucci has come up with a new money-making scheme that involves moving gold bullion from Cairo to Rome. To cover his tracks, Vanucci poses as the director of a film about a robbery, which stars his talentless sister (Britt Ekland - ..
Out of StockWerner Herzog directs this study of megalomania, set in 16th Century Peru. In the year 1560, a Spanish expedition crosses the Peruvian Sierras in search of the legendary Inca city of El Dorado. A power struggle within the group leads to its deputy (Klaus Kinski) seizing control in bloody fashion, his desire to set up his own kingdom threatening to destroy them all. Cast and crew apparently endured hardships comparable to those suffered ..
Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest filmmakers. His films have been acclaimed by critics the world over, and his celebrated samurai epics - featuring international star Toshiro Mifune - have inspired filmmakers as diverse as Steven Spielberg and Sergio Leone, and inspired countless films, including The Magnificent Seven. This indispensable Blu-ray collection contains digitally remastered High Definition presentations of five o..
Seven Samurai- When the residents of a small Japanese village seek protection they hire seven unemployed 'ronin' (masterless samurai). Unanimously hailed as one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, Seven Samurai has inspired countless films, including The Magnificent Seven.Yojimbo- A drifting samurai for hire plays both ends against the middle with two warring factions, surviving on his wits. Eventually the Samurai seeks seeks to elimin..
Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais' classic cine-conundrum Last Year of Marienbad, and as a leading novelist in the nouveau roman movement. Alain Robbe-Grillet was also the director a number of playful, stylish, controversial films which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trinignant (Haneke's Amour, Bertolucci's The Conformist) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis' White Material). Impossible to see for decad..
Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais’ classic cine-conundrum Last Year of Marienbad, and as a leading novelist in the nouveau roman movement of the 1950s, Alain Robbe-Grillet was the director a number of playful, stylish and controversial films which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trintignant (Haneke’s Amour, Bertolucci’s The Conformist) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis’ White Material). Impossible to ..
Although probably best remembered for the controversial and groundbreaking dramas Scum, Made in Britain and The Firm, the breadth of Alan Clarke’s radical, political, innovative and inspirational work, along with his influence on generations of filmmakers, such as Gus Van Sant, Paul Greengrass, Andrea Arnold, Harmony Korine, Clio Barnard and Shane Meadows should see him rightly regarded as one of Britain’s greatest ever filmmaking talen..
Out of StockJan Svankmajer’s Alice is a creepy and disturbing adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s original vision. Combining a live-action Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) with a stop-motion Wonderland filled with threatening, bizarre characters, the film brilliantly marries a sly visual wit with piercing psychological insight. Presented here fully uncut and in its original Czech-language version for the very first time, this comprehensive release also gathers..
Martin Scorsese directs this classic American romantic drama. When her husband is killed in a car crash, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) leaves her home in Socorro, New Mexico and heads west with her son Tommy (Alfred Lutter), determined to return to her home town of Monterey in California and make her own way in life as an independent woman. In order to reach Monterey however, Alice will have to stop off along the way to make enough money for he..
PRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGPete (Tom Stourton) is ready to leave his youthful indulgences behind and settle down with his girlfriend, Sonia (Charly Clive). When his university friends invite him for a country weekend away to celeb..
Originally sold with the provocative tagline 'Is 15 and a half too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?', this time-capsule of a film is the story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl. Starring Olivia Hussey, in her first post-Romeo and Juliet role, and the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room), this is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O'Hara, better known for his assistant-..
Strange, sumptous and visually stunning, this wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is played out against a backdrop of comic rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld. Kazuo Hasegawa stars, in the dual role of the actor and a thief, in a film which celebrates his 300th screen appearance. A heady cocktail of swooning romanticism and ..
Yasujiro Ozu’s elegiac final film, An Autumn Afternoon, charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth. Revisiting the story of his earlier masterpiece Late Spring (1949), Ozu once again casts Chishu Ryu in the role of Hirayama, the concerned father to unmarried Michiko. Harangued on all sides to marry off Michiko, Hirayama reluctantly prepares to bid his old life farewell. A cast of tragi-comic characters weaves..
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGBetween 1970 and 1988 Richard Woolley created a body of exciting and challenging work that has remained almost impossible to see until now.Tackling controversial themes, such as class, race, sexuality and the human instinct for violence, Woolley directed a numb..
Winner of the 'First Film Special Distinction' award at the Montreal World Film Festival, Chris Newby's film is a story of religious conflict set in the European Middle Ages. After a young girl, Christine Carpenter (Natalie Morse), experiences spiritual apparitions of the Virgin Mary she is coerced by the church priest into becoming an anchoress - a fate which requires her to be walled up in a chamber in the church where she must remain..
Intense, dreamlike, and, poetic, The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarman's films. With his painter's eye Jarman conjured, in a beautiful palette of light, colour and texture, an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare's love poems. Of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare, most were written to an unnamed young man, commonly referred to as the Fair Youth. Here Judi Dench's emotive readings of 14 s..
Anti-Clock, Jane Arden and Jack Bond’s last collaborative work, mixes pioneering video techniques with pin-sharp colour footage in order to create a densely woven, dream-like narrative which explores issues of personal identity and social conformity. Based on Jane Arden’s extraordinary writings on the limitations of rational thought, this groundbreaking film has remained unseen since its last public screening in 1983 and is presented he..
Italian drama directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Featuring a selection of stories concerning love, fate and destiny, the film follows the quest of Nur Ed Din (Franco Merli) as he travels in search of a slave girl named Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini) with whom he has fallen in love. While he does so, he meets many other travellers who share their own stories of romance and heartbreak with him...
All the surviving episodes from the 1960s surreal comedy sketch show, written by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman. The ensemble cast also features Eric Idle, Barry Cryer, Bill Oddie and Aimi MacDonald...
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGBabymother follows young black woman Anita (Anjela Lauren Smith), who dreams of becoming a successful dancehall deejay, whilst juggling the difficulties of raising her two children on a Harlesden housing estate. Her ambitious babyfather Byron (Wil Johnson, Outlan..
From acclaimed director Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock, Assembly) comes this breathtaking war epic which revisits one of the most catastrophic periods of twentieth century Chinese history: the famine in Henan Province during the 1942 Sino-Japanese War, which claimed three million lives. Zhang Guoli stars as Master Fan, a wealthy landlord who loses everything when he and his family flee their famine-stricken hometown. Academy Award winner Adr..
War epic set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a devastating drought takes hold of Henan province in China, a wealthy farmer named Fan (Guoli Zhang) manages to beat the struggle and maintains enough food to feed his family and the village. But that all changes when bandits rob and burn his village to the ground, murdering his son as they do so. Fan and his family are forced to flee with some of their fellow villagers, but more tro..
War epic set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a devastating drought takes hold of Henan province in China, a wealthy farmer named Fan (Guoli Zhang) manages to beat the struggle and maintains enough food to feed his family and the village. But that all changes when bandits rob and burn his village to the ground, murdering his son as they do so. Fan and his family are forced to flee with some of their fellow villagers, but more tro..
This was Akira Kurosawa's first independent feature and for it he adapted an Ed McBain thriller, transposing the action to Japan. In this tale of revenge, Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) obtains a position as private scretary to Iwabuchi (Masayuki Mori), the government official he suspects killed his father. Nishi then marries Iwabuchi's daughter and plans a fitting retribution...
Drama written and directed by Mark Jenkin and set in Cornwall. Having already sold his parents cottage to a wealthy couple from London, Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to save enough money to buy himself a boat. However, as the tourist season begins and visitors start flocking to the coast Martin can't hide his anger and growing resentment at the changes being made in the name of tourism...
Bande a Part, Godard's playful reimagining of the Hollywood crime films for the 1940s, follows young misfits Franz (Sami Frey), Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Odile (Anna Karina) as their plan to burgle a rich old lady goes tragicomically wrong. Shot in just 25 days on the wintry streets of suburban Paris, Bande a part remains one of Godard's most loved films and is often remembered for its exhilarating cafe dance sequence and famous race..
Gleefully putting into practice D W Griffith's maxim that 'all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun', Bande a part is Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the Forties, executed with typically Gallic cool. Franz and Arthur, a couple of streetwise chancers, team up with the shy Odile (a beguiling performance from Anna Karina) to plan a robbery. As the trio of misfits roams the cafes of suburban Paris, does..
In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet propaganda films profoundly influenced the emerging luminaries of British documentary filmmaking. Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking Battleship Potemkin was not seen in the UK until the momentous London Film Society screening in 1929, where it was double-billed with John Grierson's Drifters. This new restoration of Battleship Potemkin is presented with the 1926 Edmund Meisel score, while the digitally rema..
In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet propaganda films profoundly influenced the emerging luminaries of British documentary filmmaking. Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking Battleship Potemkin was not seen in the UK until the momentous London Film Society screening in 1929, where it was double-billed with John Grierson's Drifters. This new restoration of Battleship Potemkin is presented with the 1926 Edmund Meisel score. Also included amongst th..
Out of StockCollection of ghost stories adapted by the BBC. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (1968) Michael Hordern plays Professor Parkin who heads to a hotel on the east coast of England. While out on a walk he comes across a mysterious bone whistle which ends up having disturbing consequences for Parkin. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (2010) John Hurt stars as James Parkin who, in this version, is a retired astronomer taking a much needed br..
Restless teen Jennifer (Gillian Hills, Blow-up) escapes her square papa (David Farrar, Black Narcissus) at Soho's Off Beat coffee bar, rocking it with beatnik Dave (a super-cool Adam Faith), sensual singer Dodo (Shirley Anne Field) and icy-eyed Plaid Shirt (Oliver Reed). But a secret from Jennifer's French stepmother's past leads to the Les Girls strip joint, run by Kenny King (Christopher Lee). Remastered from the original negatives, a..
Out of StockAs one of a disparate group of fortune-seekers bound for Africa, hard-up Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) faces the swindling machinations of his fellow travellers as they await passage from a picturesque port on Italy’s Amalfi coast. But with scheming aplenty, will this motley crew miss the boat completely? Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre join Bogart among the star-studded cast. A masterful shaggy dog story that’s..
Collection of public information films for the British public with topics ranging from paying National Insurance, good design principles and safety warnings for children when playing outdoors...
American thriller directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras and starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger. FBI agent Cathy Weaver (Winger) goes undercover to investigate an underground white supremacist group connected to the killing of a controversial radio chat show host. During the course of her duties Cathy falls for the apparently upstanding family man, Gary Simmons (Berenger), however, when she discovers that he is one of the main perpetra..
Douglas's magnificent, award-winning Trilogy is the product of an assured, formidable artistic vision. These are some of the most compelling films about childhood ever made. Presented here in a High-Definition restoration, the Trilogy follows Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. This is cinematic poetry: Although shot in black and whi..
Sylvia (Anne Raitt) leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda (Sarah Stephenson) who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair. Released in 1971 to critical acclaim, Mike Leigh's debut feature film is a haunting study of social isolation. Uncompromising and deeply affecting, the film introduced Leigh’..
Political, subversive and artistically maverick, Pakistan's leading filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi's remarkable body of work stands out for its originality and engagement with social and political questions. He is an artist whose vision captures the diversity and power of both the religious and the secular in everyday life. In The Blood of Hussain (1980), the annual mourning procession for the murdered Hussain, grandson of the prophet Muhammad..
Blue was to be a very special final creative act by Derek Jarman and perhaps one of his singularly iconic works. With a score composed by Simon Fisher Turner, and sound design by Marvin Black, musicians including Coil, Momus, Miranda Sex Garden and Brian Eno, provide the highly textured soundscape in which the director and his close friends weave a rich vocal account of his life and loves. Close to his death, Jarman draws the viewer int..
This haunting and magical film moves between Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a photographer's attempts to come to terms with her mother’s death through her childhood memories. Filled with flashbacks and dream sequences, it’s also a film about islanders’ relationship with the ever-present sea. Margaret Tait's only feature film, from her own screenplay, was produced by the BFI in 1992 and was the first Scottish feature directed by a w..
American drama directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones.Army scientist Hank (Jones) is forced to move base following a scandal involving his wife Carly (Lange).However, having relocated to Alabama their marriage continues to struggle.Meanwhile, Hank's attempts at exposing a nuclear test accident brings further tension to their lives...
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Coming SoonPRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGDiscover a ‘lost’ masterpiece from acclaimed director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes and Peeping Tom), with this stunning adaptation of Béla Bartok’s expressionist opera.Starring Norman Foster as the mu..
Simon Pummell uses a collage of images to illustrate the story of our lives, from the moment the sperm pierces the egg until death. The story is told through moving images from home movies, famous films and other sources. The evocative score is supplied by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood...
Director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike to confront how the visual language of cinema is used to disempower women at the most fundamental level.Using more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power reveals a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that, from early cinema to the present ..
PRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGThe Duke is in London, and London will never be the same!”Veteran Chicago detective Jim Brannigan (John Wayne, The Searchers) is dispatched to London to bring back notorious gangster Ben Larkin (John V..
Collection of short films by British landscape artist Chris Welsby. Films are: 'Stream Line', 'Park Film', 'Windmill 3', 'Seven Days', 'Wind Vane', 'Sky Light', 'Drift' and 'River Yar'. Also includes 'theFrame: Chris Welsby': an interview with the artists including clips from many of his films and documentation of his installations...
Collection of three short films by British artist and filmmaker Jayne Parker. 'Free Show' (1979) is split into three acts and looks at domestic events which have overtones of threat as well as the circus (cutting liver, ironing a fly, plucking eyebrows). 'RX Recipe' (1980) features a large eel in a bath, stuffed with vegetables and bandaged by a woman who then similarly binds her own leg. Finally, 'Cat' (1980) is the first in a series o..
Pat (Cassie McFarlane), an ordinary London girl with a caring family, a job she enjoys and her own flat, seeks nothing more than to settle down to a life of married, middle-class conformity. Her cosy world is jolted when she meets Del (Victor Romero), a charming and vaguely discontented toolmaker, who soon moves in and then loses his job causing them both to challenge their assumptions about each other and their aspirations.Burning an..
Groundbreaking British feature exploring a black woman's questions of racial identity, set amongst the Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove areas of West London. Pat Williams (Cassie McFarlane) has a decent job, a flat and looks forward to settling down with her boyfriend, Del (Victor Romero). Her life begins to spirals out of control however after Del loses his job and is arrested after getting into a fight. As Pat gradually starts to reali..
The Flipside: rescuing weird and wonderful British films from obscurity and presenting them in new high-quality editions. Exploring the complex ways in which British POWs responded to brainwashing and torture techniques during the Korean War, John Krish's realistic and disturbing drama was previously only ever shown to a highly restricted audience of military officials. Made available to the public for the first time, Captured is presen..
Hugely significant to Jarman, his biopic of the Italian Baroque painter with whom he strongly identified was developed over many years. Shot on 35mm film, the tableaux and sets project a rich, painterly depth, brightness and colour. Nigel Terry, Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton deliver fine performances as the artist, model and partner caught up in a complex and fatally doomed love triangle with the famous artist. Caravaggio struggles to re..
Derek Jarman struggled for seven years to bring his portrait of the seventeenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio to the screen. The result was well worth the wait, and was greeted with critical acclaim: a freely dramatized portrait of the controversial artist and a powerful mediation on sexuality, criminality and art - a new and refreshing take on the usual biopic.The film centres on an imagined love-triangle between ..
Almost a precursor to the phenomenon that is reality TV today, this 1976 title delivers a voyeuristic look at how people interact and behave when confined to a single room. The film depicts the results of an idea by avant-garde director Stephen Dwoskin to bring together a group of strangers, who volunteered to participate, and film them over a period of five days encouraging them to explore and act out their fantasies. The outcome, whic..
Charlie Chaplin joined Mark Sennett's Keystone Film Company in late 1913 after being seen in Fred Karno's touring vaudeville troupe. After a few initial uneasy steps his rise was meteoric making 35 films in a single year, directing more than half of them, and developing his much-loved persona, the Tramp. This stunning 4-disc set, featuring the 34 surviving Chaplin Keystone films (including the feature Tillie's Punctured Romance), is the..
Collection of classic comedies by the legendary entertainer Charlie Chaplin. Featuring a selection of comedies produced by the Essanay Studios of Chicago, Illinois in 1915 and 1916, the works include 'His New Job' in which he causes chaos at a film studio while filling in for an extra, 'The Champion' in which he gets caught up in the world of boxing, and 'The Tramp' which shows exploits of the eponymous character Chaplin would come to b..
Collection of classic comedies by the legendary entertainer Charlie Chaplin. Featuring a selection of comedies produced by the Essanay Studios of Chicago, Illinois in 1915 and 1916, the works include 'His New Job' in which he causes chaos at a film studio while filling in for an extra, 'The Champion' in which he gets caught up in the world of boxing, and 'The Tramp' which shows exploits of the eponymous character Chaplin would come to b..
Out of StockCollection of 12 silent short films made by Charlie Chaplin during his partnership with Mutual Films. In 'The Floorwalker' (1916), Chaplin causes chaos in a department store and then runs into a thieving employee with whom he shares an uncanny resemblance. In 'The Fireman' (1916), a fire chief (Eric Campbell) is advised to ignore the burning house of a local (Lloyd Bacon) so he can collect the insurance money. But trouble ensues when an..
Collection of 12 silent short films made by Charlie Chaplin during his partnership with Mutual Films. In 'The Floorwalker' (1916), Chaplin causes chaos in a department store and then runs into a thieving employee with whom he shares an uncanny resemblance. In 'The Fireman' (1916), a fire chief (Eric Campbell) is advised to ignore the burning house of a local (Lloyd Bacon) so he can collect the insurance money. But trouble ensues when an..
Collection of films produced by the Children's Film Foundation between the years of 1956 and 1984. Included in the collection are: 'Peril for the Guy' (1956), 'Cup Fever' (1965), 'Mr Horatio Knibbles' (1971), 'Anoop and the Elephant' (1972), 'The Zoo Robbery' (1973), 'The Battle of Billy's Pond' (1976), 'One Hour to Zero' (1976), '4D Special Agents' (1981) and 'Pop Pirates!' (1984)...
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGFor over 30 years, The Children’s Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to our screens. The Bumper Box Col..
Another collection of films produced by the Children's Film Foundation. The titles are: 'Treasure at the Mill', 'Wings of Mystery', 'Seventy Deadly Pills', 'Go Kart Go', 'A Ghost of a Chance', 'The Sea Children', 'Sky Pirates', 'The Mine and the Minotaur' and 'Friend or Foe'...
Out of StockRobert Powell reads a selection of ghost stories by M.R. James which have been partially dramatised. The stories comprise: 'The Mezzotint', 'The Ash Tree', 'Wailing Well', 'The Rose Garden' and 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'...
American Western set in Montana, starring Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards and Richard Farnsworth. Cattle rancher Ella Connors (Fonda) comes under increasing pressure from local land baron J.W. Ewing (Robards) to sell her land to him. Under increasing financial difficulty Ella struggles on with the help of veteran cowhand Dodger (Farnsworth) and also WWII soldier Frank Athearn (Caan) who agrees to purchase a small piece of her land..
The epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s as punishment for their trade union activities. This rich and compelling account of injustice and heroism, from a director of singular vision and staring Vanessa Redgrave and Phillip David is presented here in a new High-Definition restoration with over two hours of new and archival extras.Special Features Lanterna Magicka - Bill Douglas A..
Directed by Alan Clarke (Scum, The Firm), and adapted by AFN Clarke from his own autobiographical book, Contact is a powerful, unsensational drama about a platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh. Finely-judged performances from Sean Chapman (Scum, Made in Britain) and the rest of the cast combine with fluid hand-held camerawork and night-vision imagery to create a sparse, documentary-like effect, expertly captur..
Out of StockBritish drama directed by Lewis Gilbert. Along with his friend Alfie (Ian Whittaker), Roy Walsh (James Kenney) causes havoc around the streets of London mugging vulnerable old women. However, even after being put on probation and despite the best efforts of his widowed mother Elsie (Betty Ann Davies), as well as girlfriend Rene (Joan Collins), Roy continues to partake in a number of violent robberies...
This influential silent film from 1929 tells the story of Joe (Uno Henning), a barber's assistant who becomes infatuated with Sally (Norah Baring), the manicurist who works beside him. The film opens with Joe's escape from Dartmoor prison and uses flashback scenes to show how he ended up there...
British drama written and directed by Henry Blake. Impressionable 14-year-old schoolboy Tyler (Conrad Khan) is caught up in the drugs trade when he comes under the influence of local drug dealer Simon (Harris Dickinson).Meanwhile, at home Tyler does his best to look after his young sister as his single parent mother Toni (Ashley Madekwe) works long hours.However, Tyler's increasing involvement with Simon results in him becoming more..
Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, Saura's masterpiece takes its title from a sinister Spanish proverb: 'Raise ravens and they'll pluck out your eyes'. A subtle yet unmistakeable indictment of the family as a repressive force in Spanish society, Cria cuervos centres on an eight-year-old orphan (the spellbinding Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive) who believes herself to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian fath..
Out of StockHailed as a breakthrough when it was first broadcast in 1964, Peter Watkins' Culloden - which brilliantly reconstructs the famous battle of 1746 - stunned viewers by approaching its historical subject matter in the style of contemporary TV news coverage. Watkins' The War Game, about a limited nuclear attack on Kent, blended fact and fiction to create a disturbing vision of the personal and public consequences of such an attack. Banned f..
Brilliant 17th century swordsman and poet Cyrano (Gérard Depardieu) is cursed with a very large nose and he feels this makes him too ugly for his beloved Roxanne (Anne Brochet). Consequently, he pours all his energy into helping his handsome but unintelligent friend, feeding him the lines he needs to win her heart. Unfortunately this plan backfires, leading the lovely Roxanne to fall in love with Cyrano's beautiful words just as much as..
Drench yourself in the high-energy, sweatbox world of British 2 Tone in the late-1970s and early 1980s with this legendary concert film.Brilliantly capturing the vibrancy of the genre, Dance Craze offers a vivid, immersive snapshot of the 2 Tone era, through kinetic concert performances by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Body Snatchers.Available on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time ever, the film ..
In South Carolina's sea islands at the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family of the Gullah community - former west African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors' Yoruba traditions - struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland and even further from their roots. The first widely released film by an African American female director, daughters of the dust was..
A Film by Carl Theodor Dreyer Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Day of Wrath is a dark and powerful tale of love and betrayal, and of a community obsessed with the fear of witchcraft. A priest tortures a confession out of an old woman accused of witchcraft; meanwhile his young wife (whose own mother had been suspected of being a witch) meets and falls in love with the priest's son by a former marriage. Seen by some as an allegory of t..
Three episodes from the BBC's horror anthology series from the 1970s. In 'The Exorcism' the past comes back to haunt four well-off friends - Dan (Clive Swift), Edmund (Edward Petherbridge), Rachel (Anna Cropper) and Margaret (Sylvia Kay) - during a Christmas get together. In 'Return Flight' pilot Captain Rolph (Peter Barkworth) struggles to maintain his reputation when he is confronted by the ghostly image of a Lancaster bomber from the..
Jerzy Skolimowski writes and directs this comedy drama exploring the dangers of unrequited love. After leaving school, 15-year-old Mike (John Moulder-Brown) goes to work in a bathhouse where he meets and falls for fellow employee Susan (Jane Asher) who is ten years his senior. Mike is already envious of Susan's young fiancé Chris (Christopher Sanford) but the situation intensifies when he finds out that she is also having an affair. Dri..
A woman’s nightmare of murder, maiming and mistrust proves to be more than a mere dream, in John Parker’s influential horror.Stripped of dialogue - using only sound effects and an unnerving score - Parker combines horror, film noir and expressionist methods to depict a mind descending into madness. Shocking audiences upon its original release, the film was initially banned by the New York State Film Board, who deemed it ‘inhuman, inde..
Inspired by the popular success of Silent Shakespeare, Dickens Before Sound is a unique collection of early adaptations of perhaps Britain's favourite (and after Shakespeare) most adapted author. This section ranges from the first extant adaptation, Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost photographed a mere thirty-one years after Dickens' death, to a bonus of the very first Dickensian sound film: Bransby Williams presenting his monologue in the ch..
Now that Eileen, Maisie and Tony are adults, their childhood memories - and in particular those associated with their father - are inconsistent. While Eileen clings to happier times, her siblings remember his brutal violent nature, which has been a major influence on their growth and development. This troubled family must deal with the day-to-day alongside their past. Terence Davies creates a loving portrait with this partly autobiograp..
Terence Davies' stunning debut feature Distant Voices, Still Lives was instantly recognised as a masterpiece on its release in 1988 and the director hailed as one of Britain's most gifted and remarkable filmmakers. Drawn from his own family memories, Distant Voices, Still Lives is a strikingly intimate portrait of working class life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. Focusing on the real-life experiences of his mother, sisters and brother wh..
Out of StockDr Sanada (Takashi Shimura), the drunken angel of the title, runs a clinic in the slums of Tokyo. When small-time hood Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) comes to his surgery after a gunfight Sanada diagnoses him with tuberculosis and convinces him to begin treatment. The disillusioned doctor feels that, by saving the young yakuza, he can retrieve a sense of his own lost youth and idealism. Thus, they embark on a troubled friendship which is te..
Duffer: An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.The Moon Over the Alley: From the writer-director team behind Duffer, explores the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house. Dark and disturbing, yet ..
A fascinating collection of 60 films from the pre-1910 period of cinema is presented here with optional insightful commentary written by film historian Barry Salt. It includes a selection of 35mm films such as Pathe's Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs and Magic Bricks, plus a newly restored and tinted version of Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery. This double-disc set provides an entertaining look at how many of today's film devic..
Six early shorts by the director of 'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'. 'A Walk Through H' describes a series of 92 maps that guide a dead ornithologist on his way to the afterlife, whilst 'Windows' is the history of 37 people who have fallen to their death from windows. The other shorts are 'H is For House', 'Intervals', 'Dear Phone' and 'Water Wrackets'...
He has other reputations as well as an academic, as a maker of curious artefacts, as a cataloguer of the bizarre and as a librarian of the absurd. Greenaway might as well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell, a character in an unmade project. Before The Draughtsman's Contract Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive films which established all the obsessions that run through his later work. In ..
Available on DVD for the first time, these 6 films from legendary auteur, Akira Kurosawa, were made at the start of his career and demonstrate the emergence of a profoundly influential directorial vision.This highly collectable box set of previously unreleased films includes SANSHURO SUGATA (1943, 79 min), SANSHURO SUGATA No 2 (1945, 83 min), THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (1944, 85 min), THE MEN WHO TREAD ON THE TIGER'S TAIL (1952, 58 min), NO R..
When family, friends and colleagues pressure Noriko - played with enigmatic brilliance by Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story, Late Spring) - to marry they provoke a surprising decision with wide-reaching consequences. A wonderfully poised ensemble work, Yasujiro Ozu's Early Summer presents the intricacies and contradictions of the three generations who have lived through the end of an era and are looking towards the new. Also included here is Oz..
Out of StockMore women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. But many of those pioneering female filmmakers were subsequently written out of cinematic history, their contributions eventually forgotten. This timely collection presents the work of nine of early cinema’s most innovative and influential women directors, restoring them and their work to the narrative of film history. International in scope, this groundbreak..
A semi-documentary based on the lives of two friends living on the remote Shetland island of Foula. It shows their struggles with the harshness of isolation and the everyday hurdles of love and survival. In 1978 director Michael Powell added a new (colour) introduction and epilogue to the film which was re-titled `Return to the Edge of the World'...
Out of StockRecalling her youth in 1950s northern Spain, Estrella revisits her relationship with her beloved father Agustin, raised in the south, and realises how little she knew of him and his secrets. Victor Erice's delicate and mysterious film reveals his abiding fascination with memory and loss, missed opportunities and the links between private dreams and political realities. The performances, like the meticulously lit compositions and evocati..
