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Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Portrait of a Lady [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Gifford
  • James Cellan Jones
  • Richard Chamberlain
  • Edward Fox
  • Suzanne Neve
  • Beatrix Lehmann
Release date: 2002-08-13
Run time: 240 min.
Price: £7.44

Review The Portrait of a Lady [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review New Yorker Video / Mararia [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Goya Toledo
  • Iain Glen
  • Ulises Hernández
  • Carmelo Gómez
  • Mirta Ibarra
  • Antonio José Betancor
Release date: 2003-03-11
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £13.31

Review Mararia [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Yorker Video:


Review Kino / Bertolt Brecht's Galileo [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Losey
  • John Sharp
  • Maurice Quick
  • Paul Curran
  • Topol
  • Ian Hoare
Release date: 2003-11-11
Run time: 138 min.
Price: £11.10

Review Bertolt Brecht's Galileo [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Kultur / Secret Service [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Warmflash
  • Mary Beth Hurt
  • Jonathan Penzner
  • Peter Levin
  • John Lithgow
  • Arthur Miller
Release date: 2002-06-11
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £17.60

Review Secret Service [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kultur:


Review Sony Pictures / September Dawn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Taylor Handley
  • Jon Voight
  • Jon Gries
  • Tamara Hope
  • Trent Ford
  • Christopher Cain
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £7.84

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


Review Universal Studios / Cinderella Man [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Craig Bierko
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Ron Howard
  • Paddy Considine
  • Russell Crowe
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 145 min.
Price: £12.94

Review Cinderella Man [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review First Run Features / Buffalo Boy [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Zan Sram Kra
  • Van Be Truong
  • The Lu Le
  • Huu Thanh Nguyen
  • Minh Nguyen-Vo
  • Thi Kieu Trinh Nguyen
Release date: 2006-03-21
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £8.55

Review Buffalo Boy [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Run Features:


Review Cinema Club / Anna Karenina [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin McKidd
  • Douglas Henshall
  • Amanda Root
  • Helen McCrory
  • Mark Strong (II)
  • David Blair (II)
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 240 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Anna Karenina [2000] / Cinema Club:


Review PBS / The Song of the Lark [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alison Elliott
  • Linda Carlson
  • Robert Floyd (III)
  • Karen Arthur
  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Maximilian Schell
Release date: 2006-05-09
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £7.35

Review The Song of the Lark [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / PBS:


Review Entertainment in Video / The Scarlet Letter [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Oldman
  • Lisa Joliffe-Andoh
  • Robert Duvall
  • Roland Joffé
  • Demi Moore
  • Edward Hardwicke
Release date: 1996-09-12
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.82

Review The Scarlet Letter [1995] / Entertainment in Video:

In yet another example of Demi Moore's astonishing narcissism, this appalling adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great American Novel becomes a teary, talk-show-worthy story of a woman rediscovering the erotic, of interrupted love, of a brave-but-beleaguered heroine's personal struggle against male stupidity. Never mind that this has little to do with Hawthorne's magnificent, protofeminist book, which is a million times more relevant today than this film could ever be. Director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) deserves to be horsewhipped for colluding with Moore's self-fascination, while Gary Oldman should be kicked in the pants for allowing the novel's main character to come off as an inconsequential ninny. Making matters worse, Robert Duvall can be seen ridiculously dancing with a deerskin on his head. If The Scarlet Letter were a joke, it would be a very bad joke. But it's not, and that's worse. -Tom Keogh.

Actors & Directors
  • Isabelle Adjani
  • Carlos Bracho
  • Narciso Busquets
  • Héctor Alterio
  • Carlos Saura
  • Victor Alcocer
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Pablo Gonzalez del Amo
Price: £17.95

Review Antonieta [1982] / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Velocity / ThinkFilm / Fateless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marcell Nagy
  • Lajos Koltai
  • Bálint Péntek
  • Péter Fancsikai
  • Béla Dóra
  • Áron Dimény
Release date: 2006-05-09
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £2.76

Review Fateless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Velocity / ThinkFilm:


Review Universal Studios / Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keith Gordon
  • Janet McTeer
  • Molly Parker
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • Billy Crudup
  • Paul Hipp
Release date: 2002-11-05
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £2.79

Review Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Waking the Dead, like director-writer Keith Gordon's earlier films (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear, Mother Night), is based on a well-regarded modern novel (by Scott Spencer) and has a great many quiet virtues: a genuine engagement with near-contemporary America, complicated characters well-played by a cast of perfectly selected not-quite-star performers and a questioning approach that sits ill with the too-easy answers of most contemporary films. The complex story opens in 1974 with the death in a car bomb explosion of Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), a radical working with a faction of left-wing Catholics to rescue dissidents from Chile. This has a devastating effect on her straighter boyfriend, Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup), who is working within the system with an eye on rising in the Democratic Party through the patronage of a senior figure (Hal Holbrook), the man who is eventually to become the President. We flash back to 1972 and Fielding's intense relationship with Sarah, marked by romantic and political differences that feel far more real than the contrived oppositional arguments in most political movies. Then skip 10 years forward to find a sleeker, hollow-faced Fielding running for Congress, tormented not only by memories of Sarah but her actual or phantasmal appearances. Another film might play this as a paranoid mystery thriller, but this goes for psychology, and Crudup delivers an intense portrait of a man cracking up by the loss of his ideals as much as his life's love-climaxing in a terrific restaurant outburst to his needy, congratulatory family. Unreleased theatrically in the UK, this outstanding film has award-quality performances from Crudup and Connelly, both doing their best screen work to date. On the DVD: The picture is presented in 1. 85. 1 anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital sound. [+]
You get the usual trailer, filmographies and puff piece featurette, but also three superb extras: a commentary from Gordon that passionately and intelligently addresses the thematic material and production circumstances of the film; a package of deleted scenes that goes well beyond the usual irrelevant snippets-everything here offers additional insights into the plot and character; tracks from the composers Tomandandy which play over the menus-a rare feature that's liable to become more common. -Kim Newman.

Review Fox Lorber / Perceval [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Schroeder
  • Solange Boulanger
  • André Dussollier
  • Francisco Orozco
  • Eric Rohmer
  • Fabrice Luchini
Release date: 2000-09-05
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £7.71

Review Perceval [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Tai Seng / The Butterfly Lovers [1995] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Judith Holzmeister
  • Tsui Hark
  • Xaver Schwarzenberger
  • Ludwig Hirsch
  • Michaela May
  • Wolfgang Gasser
  • Carrie Ng
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Ulrike Schwarzenberger
Price: £14.39

Review The Butterfly Lovers [1995] (Region 1) (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review A&E Home Video / Henry Fielding's Tom Jones [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Benjamin Whitrow
  • Sara Kestelman
  • John Sessions
  • Metin Hüseyin
  • Ron Cook
  • Tessa Peake-Jones
Release date: 2002-03-26
Run time: 300 min.
Price: £12.95

Review Henry Fielding's Tom Jones [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Granada Media / Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 7 [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicola Pagett
  • Hannah Gordon
  • Christopher Hodson
  • Christopher Beeny
  • Raymond Huntley
  • Madeleine Cannon
  • Derek Bennett
  • Bill Bain
  • Raymond Menmuir
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £19.98

Review Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 7 [1971] / Granada Media:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Emma [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • John Carson
  • Constance Chapman
  • Ellen Dryden
  • John Glenister
  • Donald Eccles
  • Doran Godwin
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 256 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.21

Review Emma [1972] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Live/Artisan / Return to Lonesome Dove [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Robe
  • Jon Voight
  • William Petersen
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Rick Schroder
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 340 min.
Price: £5.04

Review Return to Lonesome Dove [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Image Entertainment / Stavisky [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Alain Resnais
  • Roberto Bisacco
  • Michael Lonsdale
  • François Périer
  • Anny Duperey
Release date: 2002-03-12
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £127.95

Review Stavisky [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
The Portrait of a Lady [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mararia [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bertolt Brecht's Galileo [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Secret Service [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC), September Dawn [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cinderella Man [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Buffalo Boy [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Anna Karenina [2000], The Song of the Lark [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Scarlet Letter [1995], Antonieta [1982], Fateless [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waking the Dead [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Perceval [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Butterfly Lovers [1995] (Region 1) (NTSC), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 7 [1971], Emma [1972], Return to Lonesome Dove [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stavisky [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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