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Review Acorn Media / Vanity Fair [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Hampshire
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 219 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.91

Review Vanity Fair [1967] / Acorn Media:


Review Acorn Media / The House Of Eliott - Part 3
Actors & Directors
  • Louise Lombard
  • Stella Gonet
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.99

Review The House Of Eliott - Part 3 / Acorn Media:


Review Walt Disney Video / Swing Kids [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Christian Bale
  • Robert Sean Leonard
  • Frank Whaley
  • Thomas Carter
  • Tushka Bergen
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Harry Benn
Price: £3.72

Review Swing Kids [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Pathe Distribution / Farinelli - Il Castrato [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Stefano Dionisi
  • Elsa Zylberstein
  • Enrico Lo Verso
  • Jeroen Krabbe
Release date: 2006-06-12
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £49.99

Review Farinelli - Il Castrato [1994] / Pathe Distribution:

This interesting Belgian film from 1994 has a surface subject that might make a few guys wince: an 18th-century castrato, or castrated male opera singer. A superstar in Europe, Farinelli the vocalist-despite compromised equipment-gets his share of groupies and is showered with attention and gifts from rich patrons. Meanwhile, his brother-a so-so composer whose career and fortunes are inextricably linked to his sibling, as per their father's wishes-feels like a sham for enjoying the fruits of another's success. For director Gérard Corbiau, the real story is that of the forced bond between the two men, and their unspoken awareness that their separate destinies have been slowed by the arrangement. Corbiau gives us the best of two worlds: a costume drama with an unusual, even exotic, story line, and a tender, universal tale of real love. The opera sequences are a kick: the breathless crowds, Farinelli's hammy control over the drama, and his stunning castrato voice (manufactured by Corbiau via synthesized merger of male and female voices) and all make for great fun. -Tom Keogh.

Review Film Movement / The Way I Spent the End of the World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Catalin Mitulescu
  • Valentin Popescu
  • Florin Zamfirescu
  • Mircea Diaconu
  • Jean Constantin
  • Dorothea Petrie
Release date: 2007-12-04
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Alexander Balanescu
Price: £9.98

Review The Way I Spent the End of the World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Film Movement:


Review Hallmark / The Lion in Winter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Glenn Close
  • Antal Konrád
  • John Light
  • Andrew Howard
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 2004-07-20
Run time: 153 min.
Creator: James Goldman
Price: £5.72

Review The Lion in Winter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Hallmark:


Review Warner Home Video / Nuremberg [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jill Hennessy
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Yves Simoneau
  • Brian Cox
Release date: 2001-01-16
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Joseph E. Persico
Price: £8.96

Review Nuremberg [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Miramax / Life is Beautiful [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nicoletta Braschi
  • Roberto Benigni
  • Giorgio Cantarini
  • Roberto Benigni
  • Giustino Durano
  • Sergio Bini Bustric
Release date: 1999-11-09
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Vincenzo Cerami
Price: £7.55

Review Life is Beautiful [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation and the most successful foreign language film in US history, the picture also earned director-cowriter-star Benigni Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. He plays the Jewish country boy Guido, a madcap romantic in Mussolini's Italy who wins the heart of his sweetheart (Benigni's real-life sweetie, Nicoletta Braschi) and raises a darling son (the adorable Giorgio Cantarini) in the shadow of fascism. When the Nazis ship the men off to a concentration camp in the waning days of the war, Guido is determined to shelter his son from the evils around them and convinces him they're in an elaborate contest to win (of all things) a tank. Guido tirelessly maintains the ruse with comic ingenuity, even as the horrors escalate and the camp's population continues to dwindle-all the more impetus to keep his son safe, secure and, most of all, hidden. Benigni walks a fine line mining comedy from tragedy and his efforts are pure fantasy-he accomplishes feats no man could realistically pull off-both of which have drawn fire from a few critics. Yet for all its wacky humour and inventive gags, Life Is Beautiful is a moving and poignant tale of one father's sacrifice to save not just his young son's life but his innocence in the face of one of the most evil acts ever perpetrated by the human race. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Timeless Media Group / The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Davenport
  • Alex O'Loughlin
  • Peter Andrikidis
  • David Field
  • Romola Garai
  • Sam Neill
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 184 min.
Creator: Iva Davies
Price: £2.28

Review The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Timeless Media Group:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / A Tale of Two Cities [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Mills
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • James Wilby
  • Serena Gordon
  • Xavier Deluc
  • Philippe Monnier
Release date: 2001-10-02
Run time: 197 min.
Creator: Charles Dickens
Price: £12.97

Review A Tale of Two Cities [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Uca / Greatest Ever Costume Dramas Vol.2 (Steelbook)
Actors & Directors
  • Reese Witherspoon
  • Judi Dench
  • Mira Nair
  • Ben Affleck
  • John Madden
  • Shekhar Kapur
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Keira Knightley
  • Joe Wright
Release date: 2008-11-17
Run time: 603 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £25.32

Review Greatest Ever Costume Dramas Vol.2 (Steelbook) / Uca:


Review Turner Home Entertainment / You Know My Name [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn McCormick
  • Arliss Howard
  • John Kent Harrison
  • James Gammon
  • R. Lee Ermey
  • Sam Elliott
Release date: 2006-05-30
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Brandon Stoddard
Price: £5.61

Review You Know My Name [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home Entertainment:


Review Fox Lorber / Les Liaisons Dangereuses [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Danielle Darrieux
  • Josée Dayan
  • Leelee Sobieski
  • Catherine Deneuve
  • Nastassja Kinski
  • Rupert Everett
Release date: 2004-03-16
Run time: 203 min.
Creator: Jean-Luc Azoulay
Price: £8.58

Review Les Liaisons Dangereuses [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Alpha Video / Tom Brown's School Days [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barlowe Borland
  • Freddie Bartholomew
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Ernest Cossart
  • Alec Craig
  • Ian Fulton
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Anthony Collins
Price: £2.59

Review Tom Brown's School Days [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review MGM / Women in Love [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Bates
  • Glenda Jackson
  • Oliver Reed
  • Ken Russell
  • Eleanor Bron
  • Jennie Linden
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Martin Rosen
Price: £5.94

Review Women in Love [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of DH Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, Women in Love was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. -Marshall Fine.

Review Tartan Video / Cyrano De Bergerac [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Perez
  • Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Anne Brochet
  • Roland Bertin
  • Jacques Weber
Release date: 2000-11-20
Run time: 132 min.
Creator: Jean-Claude Carrière
Price: £19.99

Review Cyrano De Bergerac [1990] / Tartan Video:

Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting France's most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literature's meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must lendhis words of love to another man to woo the woman he yearns for. Rappeneau spared no expense in taking this Edmond Rostand play into realistic locations for the battle scenes in the second act, making the film as exciting as it is romantic and funny. Depardieu attacks the role in great gulps, consuming all the oxygen in any room he enters. Macho but sensitive, he creates a larger-than-life Cyrano, whose wrenching sadness at the lack of interest from his lady love will have you reaching for the tissues. -Marshall Fine.

Review Marvista Entertainment/Echo Bridge Home Enter / Some Things That Stay [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Ricossa
  • Katie Boland
  • Geraint Wyn Davies
  • Alberta Watson
  • Stuart Wilson
  • Gail Harvey
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Sarah Willis
Price: £2.26

Review Some Things That Stay [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Marvista Entertainment/Echo Bridge Home Enter:


Review Studio Latino / Fray Martin de Porres [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Juan Carlos Gardie
  • Dad Dager
  • Raymundo Calixto Sanchez
  • Muriel Laboriel
  • Aroldo Betancourt
Release date: 2007-09-18
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Emiliano González De León
Price: £6.47

Review Fray Martin de Porres [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Studio Latino:


Review Lions Gate / Dogville [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Bettany
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Lars von Trier
  • Harriet Andersson
  • Jean-Marc Barr
  • Nicole Kidman
Release date: 2004-08-24
Run time: 178 min.
Creator: Lars Jönsson
Price: £5.65

Review Dogville [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review New Line Home Video / The Notebook [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Garner
  • Ryan Gosling
  • Joan Allen
  • Nick Cassavetes
  • Rachel McAdams
  • Gena Rowlands
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Nicholas Sparks
Price: £7.48

Review The Notebook [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Models & Brands:
Vanity Fair [1967], The House Of Eliott - Part 3, Swing Kids [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Farinelli - Il Castrato [1994], The Way I Spent the End of the World [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Lion in Winter [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nuremberg [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Life is Beautiful [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Tale of Two Cities [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Greatest Ever Costume Dramas Vol.2 (Steelbook), You Know My Name [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Les Liaisons Dangereuses [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tom Brown's School Days [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Women in Love [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cyrano De Bergerac [1990], Some Things That Stay [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fray Martin de Porres [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dogville [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Notebook [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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