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Review Lolafilms Home Ent / El Embrujo de Shanghai [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jorge Sanz
  • Fernando Trueba
  • Ariadna Gil
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez
  • Antonio Resines
  • Rosa María Sardà
Release date: 2005-06-21
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Antoine Duhamel
Price: £7.51

Review El Embrujo de Shanghai [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lolafilms Home Ent:


Actors & Directors
  • Donal Donnelly
  • Cathal Black
  • Daniel Craig
  • Valerie Edmond
  • Greta Scacchi
  • Stephen Dillane
Release date: 2002-04-09
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £7.97

Review Love & Rage [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Miramax / The Wings of the Dove [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charlotte Rampling
  • Linus Roache
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Iain Softley
  • Elizabeth McGovern
  • Alison Elliott
Release date: 1999-09-14
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £3.25

Review The Wings of the Dove [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:

Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure-more PBS than MTV-for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money. Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honours for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity-admittedly sordid-arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme. One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own video for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a "chick flick". [+]
Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. -Donald Liebenson.

Review Image Entertainment / The Legend of 1900 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
  • Pruitt Taylor Vince
  • Clarence Williams III
  • Bill Nunn
  • Mélanie Thierry
  • Tim Roth
Release date: 2002-06-04
Run time: 125 min.
Price: £5.88

Review The Legend of 1900 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / The Emperor's Club [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emile Hirsch
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Michael Hoffman
  • Kevin Kline
  • Rob Morrow
  • Edward Herrmann
Release date: 2003-05-06
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £2.82

Review The Emperor's Club [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review 20th Century Fox / The Crucible [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Davison
  • Ken Cheeseman
  • Joan Allen
  • Frances Conroy
  • Mara Clark
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: George Fenton
Price: £5.24

Review The Crucible [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Polygram USA Video / Up at the Villa [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Davies
  • Philip Haas
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
  • James Fox
  • Sean Penn
  • Anne Bancroft
Release date: 2000-10-24
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Up at the Villa [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Polygram USA Video:


Review Quantum Leap / The Merry Wives Of Windsor [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Manning
  • Gloria Grahame
  • Leon Charles
  • Joel Asher
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.95

Review The Merry Wives Of Windsor [1983] / Quantum Leap:


Review Quantum Leap / Macbeth [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Piper Laurie
  • Arthur Allan Seidelman
  • Simon MacCorkindale
  • Barry Primus
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.36

Review Macbeth [1981] / Quantum Leap:


Review Fox Lorber / Elvira Madigan [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Cleo Jensen
  • Lennart Malmer
  • Thommy Berggren
  • Pia Degermark
  • Yvonne Ingdal
  • Bo Widerberg
Release date: 1999-03-30
Run time: 90 min.

Review Elvira Madigan [1967] / Fox Lorber:


Review Acorn Media / A Woman of Substance [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Bostwick
  • Dominic Guard
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Gayle Hunnicutt
  • Jenny Seagrove
  • Don Sharp
Release date: 2002-04-09
Run time: 312 min.
Price: £9.62

Review A Woman of Substance [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Criterion / Great Expectations - Criterion Collection [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Wager
  • Bernard Miles
  • David Lean
  • Valerie Hobson
  • John Mills
  • Jean Simmons
Release date: 1999-01-12
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £16.48

Review Great Expectations - Criterion Collection [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel captures the warm humour and richness of character that so many film-makers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) meets the desperate escaped criminal Magwitch (Finlay Currie) to the shadowy, musty mansion of the widow Miss Haversham (Martita Hunt) where he first meets the impertinent young beauty Estella (Jean Simmons), Lean captures a child-like exaggeration of reality with his elegant expressionism. When Pip's sudden change in fortune sends him to London as a burgeoning gentleman in high society, Lean sketches a beautiful, bustling city. John Mills's performance as the adult Pip charts his change from the wide-eyed wonder and generous spirit of the child he was to the class snob transformed by money and social standing, an ugly flaw that Pip confronts when his mysterious benefactor is finally revealed. The outstanding cast also features Valerie Hobson as the grown-up Estella, now a beguiling enchantress, a bright young Alec Guinness in his film debut as Pip's jovial London roommate Herbert Pocket, and the imposing Francis L. Sullivan as the decidedly humourless lawyer Jaggers. Exquisitely photographed by Guy Green (who won an Oscar for his work). Lean and his collaborators effectively maintain the heart of Dickens's epic drama while cutting it to its essentials in this vivid, compelling film. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Miramax / Malena [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Adele Daniele
  • Pietro Notarianni
  • Monica Bellucci
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
  • Luciano Federico
  • Giovanna Litrico
Release date: 2001-07-10
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Ennio Morricone
Price: £5.09

Review Malena [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Koch Vision / Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dave Moore
  • Alex Pettyfer
  • Stephen Fry
  • Harry Michell
  • Joseph Beattie
  • Jemma Redgrave
Release date: 2007-04-10
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £6.54

Review Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Vision:


Review Universal Studios / The Pianist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Katarzyna Figura
  • Adrien Brody
  • Maureen Lipman
  • Thomas Kretschmann
  • Roman Polanski
  • Frank Finlay
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Wojciech Kilar
Price: £5.24

Review The Pianist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. Unlike any previous dramatization of the Nazi holocaust, The Pianist steadfastly maintains its protagonist's singular point of view, allowing Polanski to create an intimate odyssey on an epic wartime scale, drawing a direct parallel between Szpilman's tenacious, primitive existence and the wholesale destruction of the city he refuses to abandon. Uncompromising in its physical and emotional authenticity, The Pianist strikes an ultimate note of hope and soulful purity. As with Schindler's List, it's one of the greatest films ever made about humanity's darkest chapter. -Jeff Shannon.

Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Barry (II)
  • Marie Kean
  • Doreen Keogh
  • Robin Lermitte
  • Sian Maguire
  • Jeananne Crowley
Release date: 2003-09-16
Run time: 198 min.
Price: £16.27

Review The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Fox Lorber / Effi Briest [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lilo Pempeit
  • Hanna Schygulla
  • Wolfgang Schenck
  • Ulli Lommel
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Herbert Steinmetz
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 140 min.

Review Effi Briest [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Natural [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Close
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Barry Levinson
  • Robert Redford
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Kim Basinger
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 132 min.
Price: £7.64

Review The Natural [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Director Barry Levinson treats The Natural as a kind of shrine to America's national pastime, baseball, complete with all the possible mythic resonance that can be gleaned from the subject. Fans of the Bernard Malamud novel may be dismayed, but anyone who fell for the similarly mythic Field of Dreams will be hooked. Levinson displays an unabashed devotion to the game, although the film could use more of the realities of chewing tobacco and pine tar. The story opens as a young man (Robert Redford, in soft lighting) emerges from the sun-dappled heartland as maybe the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. On his way to the majors, he is waylaid by an enigmatic black widow (Barbara Hershey) and vanishes for many years. When he re-emerges, a silent mystery, he lands a spot with a New York team and begins tearing up the league-he's still the natural. Redford is fine, and Kim Basinger and Oscar-nominated Glenn Close are effective as the women in his life. The crowning touch is the soaring, extraordinary music by Randy Newman, the singer-songwriter turned orchestral composer. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Prestige [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Michael Caine
  • Rebecca Hall
  • Piper Perabo
  • Hugh Jackman
  • Christian Bale
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £10.49

Review The Prestige [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:


Review Delta / The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923]
Actors & Directors
  • John Cossar
  • Gladys Brockwell
  • Winifred Bryson
  • Lon Chaney
  • Nigel de Brulier
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Tony Kornman
Price: £11.95

Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923] / Delta:


Models & Brands:
El Embrujo de Shanghai [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love & Rage [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wings of the Dove [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Legend of 1900 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Emperor's Club [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Crucible [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Up at the Villa [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Merry Wives Of Windsor [1983], Macbeth [1981], Elvira Madigan [1967], A Woman of Substance [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Great Expectations - Criterion Collection [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Malena [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tom Brown's Schooldays [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Pianist [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Real Charlotte [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Effi Briest [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Natural [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Prestige [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import], The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923]

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