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Review Paramount / Ask the Dust [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Farrell
  • Salma Hayek
  • Eileen Atkins
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Idina Menzel
  • Robert Towne
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £13.91

Review Ask the Dust [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Accent Cinema / The Prince of Homburg [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Toni Bertorelli
  • Anita Laurenzi
  • Barbora Bobulova
  • Fabio Camilli
  • Marco Bellocchio
  • Andrea Di Stefano
Release date: 2003-09-23
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Heinrich von Kleist
Price: £35.42

Review The Prince of Homburg [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Accent Cinema:


Review Sony Wonder / The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Brown
  • Cicely Tyson
  • Arnold Wilkerson
  • Joel Fluellen
  • Richard Dysart
  • John Korty
Release date: 2003-01-14
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Robert W. Christiansen
Price: £22.95

Review The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Wonder:


Review Columbia TriStar / Shadrach [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Sheen
  • Ginnie Randall
  • Darrell Larson
  • John Franklin Sawyer
  • Susanna Styron
  • Scott Terra
Release date: 1999-02-23
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £99.65

Review Shadrach [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Forsyte Saga
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth More|Eric Porter|Nyree Dawn Porter|Susan Hampshire
Release date: 2002-03-03
Price: £69.99

Review The Forsyte Saga / 2 Entertain Video:


Review New Yorker Video / Lancelot of the Lake [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Bernhard
  • Vladimir Antolek-Oresek
  • Laura Duke Condominas
  • Humbert Balsan
  • Luc Simon
  • Robert Bresson
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: François Rochas
Price: £56.95

Review Lancelot of the Lake [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Yorker Video:


Review V.I.E.W. Video / Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anna-Maria Ferrero
  • Sandro Ruffini
  • Pierre Cressoy
  • Raffaello Matarazzo
  • Camillo Pilotto
  • Gaby André
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Piero Pierotti
RRP: £26.99
Price: £9.09

Review Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / V.I.E.W. Video:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / Micawber [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Quigley
  • Michael Troughton
  • David Jason
  • Adrian Shergold
  • Lucinda Dryzek
  • Annabelle Apsion
Release date: 2002-09-24
Run time: 197 min.
Creator: Charles Dickens
Price: £33.95

Review Micawber [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:

Micawber was ITV's big weapon in the Christmas 2001 television ratings war. With its gritty recreation of Dickensian London and David Jason-a name guaranteed to attract viewers regardless of the programme-in the title role it certainly had all the hallmarks of blockbusting television drama. Jason is certainly a fine Micawber, wringing every ounce of pathos and relentless optimism from one of Dickens' most well loved characters. And he is ably abetted by Annabelle Apsion as his put-upon wife who stands by him through thick and thin and who "never will desert him". The trouble is that if you're going to lift a familiar fictional character out of his original context and give him a whole new life and set of adventures, they really have to match or improve on the original. And Micawber has already been through so much during the course of David Copperfield that stretching him across four episodes and a plot which can only really offer a series of variations on the original theme doesn't give much room for development or dramatic impact. In the writer's corner, Jason's long-term collaborator John Sullivan (creator of Only Fools and Horses) makes a valiant attempt to generate some authentic Dickensian atmosphere. Touches of authentic Victoriana abound in the backstage theatre scenes, a dancing bear, the pawn shop and the highly imaginative flashbacks to the source of Micawber's straightened state. The script tends to combine gritty costume drama with modern comedy in an occasionally uneasy mixture; sometimes we see the ghosts of Del Boy or Pa Larkin rather than Dickens' hapless, pathetic but great-hearted victim of circumstance. But fans of Jason won't complain and there's enough soul in the story to make it compelling. [+]
-Piers Ford.

Review World Artists / Women [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Michal Bat-Adam
  • Levana Finkelstein
  • Amos Lavi
  • Moshé Mizrahi
  • Arieh Elias
  • Shosha Goren
Release date: 2001-05-29
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Yehuda Burla
Price: £13.95

Review Women [1996] / World Artists:


Review Image Entertainment / The World of Geisha [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hideaki Esumi
  • Nahomi Oka
  • Gô Awazu
  • Junko Miyashita
  • Moeko Ezawa
  • Tatsumi Kumashiro
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Kafu Nagai
Price: £56.70

Review The World of Geisha [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Road Home [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bin Li
  • Yulian Zhao
  • Ziyi Zhang
  • Honglei Sun
  • Hao Zheng
  • Yimou Zhang
Release date: 2001-11-27
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Shi Bao
Price: £13.47

Review The Road Home [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

The latest film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, The Road Home (1999) is a story of past and present. In black and white we see a young businessman return to a rural village where his father has died. His mother wants a traditional funeral, which involves carrying the coffin several miles in the depths of winter. Then, in flashback and brilliant colour, we are told the story of his parents' courtship. His father had come as the local schoolteacher and had fallen in love with his mother, a local girl. Political complications ensue and they are separated for two years, but at last reunited. This apparently simply tale is told with great insight and dazzlingly beautiful camerawork, in a style which echoes the Italian neo-realist films of the 1940s. Perhaps it doesn't have the complexity of the director's earlier film, Raise the Red Lantern (1991), which starred the luminous Gong Li, but The Road Home has her match in Zhang Ziyi, who also starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). On the DVD: The quality of the sound and picture (in 2. 35:1 ratio) are excellent. [+]
There are no additional features except for subtitles in English and 15 other languages. -Ed Buscombe.

Review Cda Entertainment / Gone With The Wind (Deluxe Series) [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Clark Gable
  • Sam Wood
  • Harry Davenport
  • Yakima Canutt
  • George Cukor
  • Victor Jory
  • Victor Fleming
  • Jane Darwell
Release date: 2002-08-12
Run time: 224 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £44.99

Review Gone With The Wind (Deluxe Series) [1939] / Cda Entertainment:


Review Acorn Media / Anna Karenina - Part 2 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Porter
  • Stuart Wilson
  • Basil Coleman
  • Nicola Pagett
Release date: 2003-02-10
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.10

Review Anna Karenina - Part 2 [1978] / Acorn Media:


Review Platinum Disc / Buffalo Soldiers [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Dix
  • Bill Collins
  • John Cardos
  • John "Red" Fox
  • Robert DoQui
  • Steve Drexel
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Stu Phillips
Price: £67.77

Review Buffalo Soldiers [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Actors & Directors
  • Linda Cropper
  • Julia Blake
  • Peter Duncan
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Claudia Karvan
  • Simon Burke
Release date: 2007-10-25
Creator: Simon Martin
Price: £3.97

Review Passion [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tva Films:


Review Acorn Media / Love for Lydia [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Osmund Bullock
  • Holly De Jong
  • Georgine Anderson
  • David Firth
  • Basil Clarke
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 650 min.
Creator: Tony Maynard
Price: £22.99

Review Love for Lydia [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / Deacon Brodie [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Donald
  • Lorcan Cranitch
  • Al Anderson
  • Philip Saville
  • Ewen Bremner
  • Billy Connolly
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Greg Brenman
Price: £23.95

Review Deacon Brodie [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Alfonso Arau
  • Giancarlo Giannini
  • Angélica Aragón
Release date: 2001-01-09
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Mark Miller

Review A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Keanu Reeves is completely wooden in this romantic misfire by Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate). Reeves plays a World War II vet who hits the road as a travelling salesman and agrees to help a desperate, pregnant woman (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon)-who is afraid to let her father (Giancarlo Giannini) see her condition-by pretending to be her husband. Most of the story takes place in the old man's vineyard, and Arau makes a life of swollen fruit, grape-stomping, sunlight and tan flesh that looks amazingly erotic. But there are plenty of sillier distractions, such as the sight of farm hands chasing insects with flapping gossamer wings attached to their arms. Reeves is terribly self-conscious, while stalwart Anthony Quinn is memorable as the damsel's benevolent grandfather. -Tom Keogh.

Review Tai Seng / Sex and the Emperor [1994] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shu-Kei Wong
  • Yut Fei Wong
  • Gwan Chin
  • Julie Lee
  • King-Tan Yuen
  • Sherman Wong
Release date: 2001-11-20
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £10.85

Review Sex and the Emperor [1994] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review Quantum Leap / Antony And Cleopatra
Actors & Directors
  • Lawrence Carra
  • Sharon Barr
  • Paul Bowman
  • Michael Billington
  • Earl Boen
  • James Avery
Release date: 2001-03-05
Run time: 183 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
RRP: £14.99
Price: £23.89

Review Antony And Cleopatra / Quantum Leap:


Models & Brands:
Ask the Dust [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Prince of Homburg [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shadrach [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Forsyte Saga, Lancelot of the Lake [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Micawber [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Women [1996], The World of Geisha [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Road Home [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gone With The Wind (Deluxe Series) [1939], Anna Karenina - Part 2 [1978], Buffalo Soldiers [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Passion [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Love for Lydia [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Deacon Brodie [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Walk in the Clouds [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sex and the Emperor [1994] (NTSC), Antony And Cleopatra

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