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Review Miramax / My Life So Far [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • Irène Jacob
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Colin Firth
  • Rosemary Harris
Release date: 2000-01-25
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £4.33

Review My Life So Far [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review MGM / The Moderns [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Lone
  • Keith Carradine
  • Linda Fiorentino
  • Geneviève Bujold
  • Alan Rudolph
  • Wallace Shawn
Release date: 2002-09-17
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £4.51

Review The Moderns [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Miramax / Frida [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Taymor
  • Diego Luna
  • Alejandro Usigli
  • Mía Maestro
  • Salma Hayek
  • Amelia Zapata
Release date: 2003-06-10
Run time: 123 min.
Price: £4.72

Review Frida [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Salma Hayek makes up for many bad movies with her fierce performance in the sumptuous biopic Frida. Hayek plays the Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, whose tempestuous life with her unfaithful husband, muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), drives the story. Maverick director Julie Taymor (Titus, the stage production of The Lion King) pulls out a wealth of gorgeous visuals to capture everything from the horrific bus accident that damaged Kahlo's spine to her and Rivera's trip to New York City, where Rivera's political leanings ruptured a commission from the Rockefeller family. Though the script spends too much time telling us how great Frida's painting is (rather than trusting in the power of the images themselves), Taymor's dynamic energy and Kahlo's forceful personality give Frida genuine emotional impact. The superb cast includes Roger Rees, Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas and Edward Norton. The Oscar-winning score is by Taymor's husband, Elliot Goldenthal. -Bret Fetzer.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Classics Collection - An Ideal Husband/Tom Jones/A Passage To India
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Parker
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Tony Richardson
  • Minnie Driver
  • Rupert Everett
  • Julianne Moore
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 367 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.86

Review Classics Collection - An Ideal Husband/Tom Jones/A Passage To India / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Acorn Media / The Good Soldier [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Garvie
  • Susan Fleetwood
  • Robin Ellis
  • Kevin Billington
  • Vickery Turner
  • Jeremy Brett
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £8.82

Review The Good Soldier [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / King of Texas [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marcia Gay Harden
  • Roy Scheider
  • Lauren Holly
  • Uli Edel
  • David Alan Grier
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £5.09

Review King of Texas [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Acorn Media / Berkeley Square - Part Two [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Williams
  • Victoria Smurfit
  • Richard Signy
  • Tabitha Wady
  • Lesley Manning
  • Richard Holthouse
  • Martin Hutchings
  • Rosemary Leach
  • Clare Wilkie
Release date: 1998-09-21
Run time: 245 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £25.00

Review Berkeley Square - Part Two [1998] / Acorn Media:


Review Genius Entertainment / The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jenny O'Hara
  • Ronald Pickup
  • Aran Bell
  • Tom Berenger
  • Bill Clark
  • Robert Jezek
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: David Freeman
Price: £4.69

Review The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Genius Entertainment:


Review Criterion / Young Torless [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marian Seidowsky
  • Lotte Ledl
  • Bernd Tischer
  • Mathieu Carrière
  • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Fred Dietz
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £11.34

Review Young Torless [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Cinema Club / A Dance To The Music Of Time [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Cake
  • Alvin Rakoff
  • Gillian Barge
  • Alan Bennett
  • Robin Bailey
  • Christopher Morahan
  • James D'Arcy
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 415 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £85.00

Review A Dance To The Music Of Time [1997] / Cinema Club:


Review Warner Home Video / Hearts in Atlantis [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hope Davis
  • Mika Boorem
  • Scott Hicks
  • David Morse
  • Anton Yelchin
  • Anthony Hopkins
Release date: 2002-02-12
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £3.87

Review Hearts in Atlantis [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

A film of real quality whose strengths might be a tad too familiar, Hearts in Atlantis is based on a chunk of a Stephen King novel which reprises the themes found in the film Stand By Me. David Morse-in the traditional role of grown-up version of the kid-goes to his old home for a funeral, which triggers a film-length flashback to the early 1960s. Eleven-year-old Bobby (Anton Yelchin) lives with a brittle, disappointed single mum (Hope Davis) until his life is transformed by the influence of an elderly man, Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins), who moves into the apartment above and hires the kid to read for him, also imparting temporarily some of his psychic power and beseeching him to be on the look-out for the sinister "low men" pursuing him. Screenwriter William Goldman prunes the supernatural/science fictional elements, leaving vague the origins of the low men who could as easily be an evil government organisation or the mob as pursuers from another dimension; director Scott Hicks (Shine) spends much more time on golden, melancholic nostalgia and imparting harsh and tender life lessons. Hopkins plays a benevolent Hannibal Lecter, dispensing wisdom and posing elegantly, but turning up the chill for a few scary King-type scenes. The kids are excellent, and Davis shows promise in a difficult role. On the DVD: Hearts in Atlantis on disc offers the trailer, a gallery of stills (Hicks horns his way into most of them), a 29-minute one-to-one interview between the director and Hopkins that teases out some interesting material. Also included is a thoughtful and detailed if unassuming commentary track from Hicks. -Kim Newman.

Review MGM / We Live Again [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Jaffe
  • Fredric March
  • Anna Sten
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • C. Aubrey Smith
  • Jane Baxter
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £4.68

Review We Live Again [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Fox Lorber / Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Isabelle Huppert
  • Marie Gillain
  • Vittorio Taviani
  • Jean-Hugues Anglade
  • Fabrizio Bentivoglio
  • Massimo Popolizio
  • Paolo Taviani
Release date: 2005-05-17
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £5.55

Review Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Fox Lorber / Two English Girls [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • René Gaillart
  • Marie Irakane
  • Marcel Berbert
  • Jean-Claude Dolbert
  • Sophie Baker
Release date: 1999-05-18
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Georges Delerue
Price: £13.72

Review Two English Girls [1971] / Fox Lorber:


Review Sony Pictures / September Dawn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Taylor Handley
  • Jon Gries
  • Trent Ford
  • Christopher Cain
  • Jon Voight
  • Tamara Hope
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £7.82

Review September Dawn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review Criterion / Days of Heaven [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gere
  • Gene Bell
  • Brooke Adams
  • Muriel Jolliffe
  • Doug Kershaw
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Haskell Wexler
Price: £15.73

Review Days of Heaven [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

Originally shown on the big screen in glorious 70 mm, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven is an aesthetically flawless eye-catching period piece that won its cinematographer, Néstor Almendros, an Oscar. Texture and colour are the unbilled characters in this tragic tale, and are just as important as the players. Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill at the turn of the 19th century, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing him to be dying and expecting to inherit a fortune, she agrees to marry him. Their plans change when Shepard fails to die and Gere takes matters into his own hands. The story, sadly, fades somewhat when compared to the glory of the visuals. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

Review Sony Pictures / Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Suzuka Ohgo
  • Kôji Yakusho
  • Rob Marshall
  • Ziyi Zhang
  • Youki Kudoh
  • Ken Watanabe
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 145 min.
Price: £8.17

Review Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review 20th Century Fox / The Man From Snowy River [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Bradshaw
  • Terence Donovan
  • Lorraine Bayly
  • Tony Bonner
  • Tom Burlinson
Release date: 2002-05-28
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Bruce Rowland
Price: £4.35

Review The Man From Snowy River [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Paramount / There Will Be Blood [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin J. O'Connor
  • Daniel Day Lewis
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Jacob Stringer
  • Martin Stringer (II)
  • Matthew Braden Stringer
Release date: 2008-04-08
Run time: 158 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £11.45

Review There Will Be Blood [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review WGBH Boston / Masterpiece Theatre: Bertie & Elizabeth [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Bates
  • Charles Edwards (VI)
  • Giles Foster
  • James Wilby
  • Eileen Atkins
  • Juliet Aubrey
Release date: 2005-01-04
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £6.73

Review Masterpiece Theatre: Bertie & Elizabeth [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Models & Brands:
My Life So Far [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Moderns [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frida [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Classics Collection - An Ideal Husband/Tom Jones/A Passage To India, The Good Soldier [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), King of Texas [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Berkeley Square - Part Two [1998], The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Young Torless [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Dance To The Music Of Time [1997], Hearts in Atlantis [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), We Live Again [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Elective Affinities [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Two English Girls [1971], September Dawn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Days of Heaven [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Memoirs of a Geisha [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Man From Snowy River [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), There Will Be Blood [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Masterpiece Theatre: Bertie & Elizabeth [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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