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Review Bfi Video / Delius - Song Of Summer [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Maureen Pryor
  • Geraldine Sherman
  • Max Adrian
  • Christopher Gable
  • Ken Russell
  • David Collings
Release date: 2001-08-20
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Eric Fenby
RRP: £19.99
Price: £26.94

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Review Yume Pictures / Blind Beast [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Eiji Funakoshi
  • Noriko Sengoku
  • Yasuzo Masumura
  • Mako Midori
Release date: 2006-05-22
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Yoshio Shirasaka
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.98

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Review Bfi Video / Stray Dog [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Keiko Awaji
  • Noriko Sengoku
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Toshirô Mifune
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.68

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Review Criterion / Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Franca Marzi
  • Federico Fellini
  • Aldo Silvani
  • Giulietta Masina
  • François Périer
  • Dorian Gray
Release date: 1999-09-07
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Tullio Pinelli
Price: £17.93

Review Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

A year after his international breakthrough film La Strada, Federico Fellini and his leading lady/wife Giulietta Masina collaborated on another masterpiece, a magical mix of neorealism and romantic optimism set on the streets of Rome. Masina's moon-faced and bright-eyed Cabiria is a passionate streetwalker with a heart as big as Italy and the emotional spontaneity of a child, a woman with a hearty passion for life whose constant weakness is falling in love with mercenary creeps. For a couple of hours we share the dreams and disillusionments of Cabiria as she rattles around Rome before once again losing her heart. The bittersweet heartbreak is tempered with a soaring celebration of the human spirit: no other Fellini film offers such honest hope in the face of such bitter devastation. Fellini left the poor and the working class to revel in the decadence of Rome's high society for his next film, La Dolce Vita, a film that could have sprung from Cabiria's hilarious chance interlude with a matinee idol (played by Amedeo Nazzari). Rambling and leisurely paced, Nights of Cabiria is a sweet film of warmth and simple grace. It became the basis of Neil Simon's American musical Sweet Charity, with Shirley Maclaine taking Masina's role in Bob Fosse's film version. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Criterion / Ace in the Hole [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Robert Arthur
  • Michel Ciment
  • Annie Tresgot
  • Billy Wilder
  • Frank Cady
  • Porter Hall
  • Jan Sterling
Release date: 2007-07-17
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Victor Desny
Price: £18.25

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Review Metrodome Distribution / The Merchant Of Venice [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter De Jersey
  • David Bamber
  • Trevor Nunn
  • Jack James
  • Chris Hunt
  • Mark Umbers
  • Alexander Hanson
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 162 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.58

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Review Whe Europe Limited / Pepe Le Moko [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Julien Duvivier
  • Mireille Ballin
  • Jean Gabin
  • Gabriel Gabrio
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.99

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Review Generic / Dark Victory [DVD] Bette Davis; George Brent; Humphrey Bogart; Geraldine...
Actors & Directors
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George Brent
  • Edmund Goulding
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald
  • Bette Davis
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £2.75

Review Dark Victory [DVD] Bette Davis; George Brent; Humphrey Bogart; Geraldine... / Generic:

Region 2 Pal Dvd - Dvd features:commentary, featurette

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Une Femme Est Une Femme [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Claude Brialy
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Anna Karina
  • Jean-Luc Godard
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.95

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Review Bfi Video / Un Chant D'Amour [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Genet
  • Java
  • Coco Le Martiniquais
  • Lucien Sénémaud
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 25 min.
Creator: Nikos Papatakis
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.87

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Review Image Entertainment / Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Friedrich Haak
  • Melville Webber
  • Hildegarde Watson
  • Dorthea House
  • Fernand Léger
  • Herbert Stern
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Dudley Murphy
  • Charles Vidor
  • Edwin S. Porter
Release date: 2005-10-18
Run time: 1140 min.
Price: £49.10

Review Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [2005] / Image Entertainment:


Review delta home entertainment / Santa Fe Trail [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Errol Flynn;Olivia de Havilland;Raymond Massey;Ronald Reagan;Alan Hale;William Lundigan;Van Heflin;Gene Reynolds;Henry O'Neill;Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams;Alan Baxter;John Litel;Moroni Olsen;David Bruce;Hobart Cavanaugh
  • Michael Curtiz
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Bad Day at Black Rock [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Sturges
  • Walter Brennan
  • Robert Ryan
  • Anne Francis
  • Dean Jagger
  • Spencer Tracy
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Herman Hoffman
Price: £8.76

Review Bad Day at Black Rock [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Kelly
  • Henry King
  • Irving Cummings
  • Henry Fonda
  • Randolph Scott
  • Henry Hull
  • Tyrone Power
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Curtis Kenyon
Price: £6.00

Review Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review ITV DVD / The Importance Of Being Earnest [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Wattis
  • Walter Hudd
  • Michael Denison
  • Edith Evans
  • Anthony Asquith
  • Michael Redgrave
Release date: 2001-04-30
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Oscar Wilde
RRP: £15.99
Price: £23.94

Review The Importance Of Being Earnest [1952] / ITV DVD:

If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and you've got a comedic soufflé that's cooked to perfection. Opening with a proscenium nod to its theatrical origins, the film turns Wilde's comedy of clever deception and mixed identities into a cinematic treat, and while the 10-member cast is uniformly superb, special credit must be given to Dame Edith Evans, reprising her stage role as the imperiously stuffy Lady Bracknell. To hear her Wilde-ly hilarious inflections and elongated syllables is to witness British comedy in its purest form. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Columbia TriStar / Bunny Lake Is Missing [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martita Hunt
  • Anna Massey
  • Carol Lynley
  • Keir Dullea
  • Otto Preminger
  • Laurence Olivier
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: John Mortimer
Price: £5.64

Review Bunny Lake Is Missing [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / Boys Town [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Hull
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Norman Taurog
  • Gene Reynolds
  • Leslie Fenton
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 199 min.
Creator: John Meehan
Price: £7.47

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Review 20th Century Fox / The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Newman
  • Anthony Franciosa
  • Lee Remick
  • Martin Ritt
  • Joanne Woodward
  • Orson Welles
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: William Faulkner
Price: £5.55

Review The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Tartan Video / Persona [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Margaretha Krook
  • Bibi Andersson
  • Liv Ullmann
  • Jörgen Lindström
  • Gunnar Björnstrand
  • Ingmar Bergman
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Ulla Ryghe
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.96

Review Persona [1966] / Tartan Video:

Made in 1966, Persona is among Ingmar Bergman's greatest, most vital movies, made during a difficult period in his life (Bergman's life is one short on easy times), having been hospitalised following a viral infection. It was while laid up that he conceived the notion of Persona, in which a famous actress, Elisabet (Liv Ullmann) suddenly lapses into a muteness from which, though mentally and physically healthy, she refuses to emerge. She is attended to by a young, naive nurse, Alma (Bibi Andersson) who develops an obsession, bordering on infatuation with her silent charge. She finds herself jabbering all of her innermost secrets to her and, little by little, through dream sequences, repeated dialogue and trick photography, it's as if the consciousnesses of the two women have actually merged. With its opening sequence of cryptic projected reel images (allusions to Bergman's previous work), jarringly atonal soundtrack and devices such as the audible chatter of camera crew, Persona contains an unusual share of avant-garde trimmings, which haven't necessarily stood the test of time. However, the relationship between Alma and Elisabet dominates the movie. Some confounded critics wondered if theirs was a lesbian relationship. Actually, Persona is an occasionally cryptic but overwhelmingly powerful meditation on the parasitic interaction between Art and Life, the way the former feeds off the latter (Alma is distraught to discover a letter at one point which suggests Elisabet has been coolly observing her, as if for material). However, as an early scene featuring TV footage of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk torching himself as a protest against the war, it's also about the helpless incapacity of art to "say" anything in the face of grim reality. A small film budget-wise, but a colossal event in world cinema. [+]
-David Stubbs.

Review Eureka Entertainment Ltd / Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Fritz Lang
  • Rudolph Klein-Rogge; Lil Dagover
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £7.00

Review Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922] / Eureka Entertainment Ltd:


Models & Brands:
Delius - Song Of Summer [1968], Blind Beast [1969], Stray Dog [1949], Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ace in the Hole [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Merchant Of Venice [2001], Pepe Le Moko [1936], Dark Victory [DVD] Bette Davis; George Brent; Humphrey Bogart; Geraldine..., Une Femme Est Une Femme [1961], Un Chant D'Amour [1950], Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [2005], Santa Fe Trail [2002], Bad Day at Black Rock [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Importance Of Being Earnest [1952], Bunny Lake Is Missing [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Boys Town [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Persona [1966], Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922]

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