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Review Live/Artisan / A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joss Ackland
  • Rupert Everett
  • Marek Kanievska
  • Richard McMillan
  • Mimi Kuzyk
  • Anne Lambton
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Normand Corbeil
Price: £5.07

Review A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / Catherine Cookson: The Girl [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Jameson
  • Jill Baker
  • Siobhan Flynn
  • David Wheatley
  • Jonathan Cake
  • Mark Benton
Release date: 2001-07-01
Run time: 156 min.
Creator: Gordon Hann

Review Catherine Cookson: The Girl [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Sommerville House / Wedding in White [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Carol Kane
  • William Fruet
  • Doug McGrath
  • Leo Phillips
  • Doris Petrie
Release date: 2006-09-20
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Milan Kymlicka
Price: £5.71

Review Wedding in White [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sommerville House:


Review Live/Artisan / Les Miserables [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Gielgud
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Glenn Jordan
  • Claude Dauphin
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Richard Jordan
Release date: 2004-06-22
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Victor Hugo
Price: £5.85

Review Les Miserables [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Warner Home Video / Goodbye Mr. Chips [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Kilburn
  • Greer Garson
  • Paul Henreid
  • Sam Wood
  • Robert Donat
  • John Mills
Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Claudine West
Price: £8.96

Review Goodbye Mr. Chips [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

One more terrific film from a terrific year for movies-1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach, among others-Sam Wood's Goodbye Mr Chips is a deeply stirring work starring Robert Donat as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Told mostly in flashbacks, the film wraps itself around a history of an older England as seen through the generations of boys who pass through Mr Chips's classroom. Greer Garson is her usual classy, sexy-intelligent self as Donat's wife, their earlier courtship one of the film's highlights. Get a box of tissues at the ready, for this one. -Tom Keogh The first film adaptation of James Hilton's British school saga, Goodbye Mr Chips is a genuine Hollywood classic. Despite competition from Gone with the Wind, The Four Feathers and The Wizard of Oz (all 1939) the film won a Best Actor Oscar for Robert Donat and six further major nominations. Donat, who had previously starred in Hilton adaptation Knight Without Armour (1937), is superb as a beloved public-school Latin teacher in an episodic tale spanning 1870-1933. From initially incompetent young teacher, he meets his wife (well played by Greer Garson) during an extended idyll in Austria, only to endure the horror of former pupils becoming victims of the Great War. Though studio-bound and sentimental by current standards, Goodbye Mr Chips contains great warmth and humanity, and is eventually extremely moving. There is an excellent score by Richard Addinsell, and the evocation of the tragedy of 1914-18, together with Chips' friendship with German teacher Staefel (Paul Henreid), must have struck a truly resonant note in 1939. [+]
James Hilton had previously been responsible for Lost Horizon (1937), and oddly both that film and Chips would be remade as musicals, in 1973 and 1969 respectively. Chips would again emerge as a BBC serial (1984) and a 2002 TV movie starring Martin Clunes; but for many this original screen version will always remain the best. On the DVD: Goodbye Mr Chips is presented on a basic disc with the only extras being an alternative French soundtrack and various subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. The mono sound is fairly good, though there is occasional distortion on the music. The b/w picture is transferred in the original Academy ratio but the print used shows frequent, though minor, damage. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Irishman (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robyn Nevin
  • Donald Crombie
  • Michael Craig
  • Lou Brown
  • Simon Burke
  • Gerard Kennedy
Release date: 2002-02-19
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Elizabeth O'Connor
Price: £19.75

Review The Irishman (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Paramount / An American Rhapsody [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Nastassja Kinski
  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Éva Gárdos
  • Ágnes Bánfalvy
  • Raffaella Bánsági
Release date: 2002-01-22
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Jay Firestone
Price: £91.95

Review An American Rhapsody [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Paramount / Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gregor Seberg
  • Bruce Beresford
  • Vincent Perez
  • Jonathan Pryce
  • Simon Verhoeven
  • Sarah Wynter
Release date: 2001-11-13
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Marilyn Levy
Price: £11.91

Review Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Acorn Media / Nicholas Nickleby [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James D'Arcy
  • Charles Dance
  • Sophia Myles
  • Diana Kent
  • John Dallimore
  • Stephen Whittaker
Release date: 2002-01-08
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Martyn Hesford
Price: £12.12

Review Nicholas Nickleby [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:

This 2000 television adaptation confirms Nicholas Nickleby's place among television dramatists' favourite Dickens novels. It has all the vital ingredients: a sensitive, intelligent young hero cast by circumstances in the role of everyman whose fortitude is tested at every turn; romance; danger; one of Dickens' richest braces of characters; and a sense of humanity that is, at times, overwhelming. Condensing all this into three hours is no mean achievement. Martyn Edward Hesford's screenplay maintains an impressive balance between dramatic tension and allowing the characters the space they need to reveal their essential qualities. Only in the last 30 minutes does it become something of a gallop to the finishing post. True, the horrors of the boarding school could be more horrific; the grime of Victorian London and its toothless inhabitants could be grimier and less cosmetic. But as always with a superior production of a Dickens novel, the richness and depth of the drama outweigh such minor quibbles. As for the cast, James D'Arcy's Nicholas is pitch-perfect: part cipher for the injustices and despair he encounters, part emblem for the triumph of goodness, an innocent whose eyes are quickly forced open to the darker realities of life. These darker realities are congealed in Charles Dance's relentlessly chilling, heartless Ralph Nickleby. This is a deceptively complex performance; even as we cheer the gathering forces which finally extinguish his increasingly desperate power, the awful tragedy of his end still elicits a discomforting ounce of sympathy. [+]
Gregor Fisher as the one-eyed Squeers and Pam Ferris as his fearsomely lascivious wife are outstanding in an ensemble of fine character actors. And Lee Ingleby's Smike gives our tear ducts a good workout while steering just the right side of sentimentality. On the DVD: Nicholas Nickleby is presented in widescreen format with Dolby Digital soundtrack, and has all the technical qualities you might expect from the DVD release of a modern television production. Extras include cast filmographies, a Dickens biography and a list of his work, all of which add to the disc's merits as a literary educational tool. -Piers Ford.

Review Lance Entertainment / Cause Celebe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Ford Davies
  • Norma West
  • Helen Mirren
  • John Gorrie
  • Harry Andrews
  • David Morrissey
Release date: 2002-01-29
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Terence Rattigan
Price: £17.92

Review Cause Celebe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lance Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Of Freaks and Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Aleksei Balabanov
  • Aleksei Dyo
  • Anzhelika Nevolina
  • Viktor Sukhorukov
  • Sergei Makovetsky
  • Dinara Drukarova
Release date: 2001-12-18
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Sergei Selyanov
Price: £23.95

Review Of Freaks and Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Quantum Leap / King Lear [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Daryl Hickman
  • Mike Kellen
  • Charles Aidman
  • Alan Cooke
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 182 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.48

Review King Lear [1983] / Quantum Leap:


Review Columbia TriStar / Wilde [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Fry
  • Jude Law
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Gemma Jones
  • Brian Gilbert
  • Jennifer Ehle
Release date: 2002-03-19
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Oscar Wilde
Price: £10.85

Review Wilde [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Wilde could easily have been nothing more than another well-dressed literary film from the British costume drama stable, but thanks to a richly textured performance from Stephen Fry in the title role, it becomes something deeper-a moving study of how the conflict between individual desires and social expectations can ruin lives. Oscar Wilde's writing may be justifiably legendary for its sly, barbed wit, but Wilde the film is far from a comedy, even though Fry relishes delivering the great man's famous quips. It takes on tragic dimensions as soon as Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie, the strikingly beautiful but viciously selfish young aristocrat who wins Oscar's heart but loses him his reputation, marriage and freedom. Fry is brilliant at capturing how the intensity of Wilde's love for Bosie threw him off balance, becoming an all-consuming force he was unable to resist. Jude Law expertly depicts both Bosie's allure and his spitefully destructive side, there are subtle supporting performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle and Zoe Wanamaker, and the period trappings are lavishly trowelled on. But this is Fry's show all the way: from Oscar the darling of theatrical London to Wilde the prisoner broken on the wheel of Victorian moralism, he doesn't put a foot wrong. It feels like the role he was born to play. -Andy Medhurst.

Review Westlake Entertainment Group / Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Reg Evans
  • Harry Andrews
  • Derek Hardwick
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • David Cameron
Release date: 2003-10-28
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Georges Delerue
Price: £3.32

Review Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Westlake Entertainment Group:


Review Quantum Leap / King Lear [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Aidman
  • Mike Kellen
  • Daryl Hickman
  • Alan Cooke
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 182 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.48

Review King Lear [1983] / Quantum Leap:


Actors & Directors
  • Li Mengan
  • Liu Huai-Liang
  • Zhang Jian
  • Shu Qi
  • Liu Ye
Release date: 2004-08-16
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Yao Jianyun
Price: £8.43

Review The Foliage [2004] / Tai Seng:


Review Knight / Journey to the Western Xia Empire [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Badema
  • Ni Dahong
  • Gong Qujia
  • Wang Ning
  • Lu Wei
Release date: 2004-06-15
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Liu Xiaoqing
Price: £13.85

Review Journey to the Western Xia Empire [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Knight:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / Heroes & Villains: Full Throttle [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Palmer
  • Mark Chapman
  • Gavin Richards
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Crispin Bonham-Carter
  • Ken Kitson
Release date: 2001-07-17
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Kit Hesketh-Harvey
Price: £92.95

Review Heroes & Villains: Full Throttle [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Live/Artisan / A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard McMillan
  • Anne Lambton
  • Mimi Kuzyk
  • Rupert Everett
  • Joss Ackland
  • Marek Kanievska
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Normand Corbeil
Price: £5.07

Review A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Paramount / Brother Sun, Sister Moon [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leigh Lawson
  • Lee Montague
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Judi Bowker
  • Franco Zeffirelli
  • Graham Faulkner
Release date: 2004-03-09
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Price: £5.89

Review Brother Sun, Sister Moon [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

It seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes a decorous effort at communicating the ideals of Francis and even tweaking the character toward flower-power relevance. But the result is feel-good fluff, a boring movie that doesn't penetrate its subject as much as reinvent him toward a modern bias. Graham Faulkner is entirely forgettable in the lead and Donovan's songs on this project aren't exactly first-rate, either. -Tom Keogh.

Models & Brands:
A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Catherine Cookson: The Girl [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wedding in White [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Les Miserables [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Goodbye Mr. Chips [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Irishman (REGION 1) (NTSC), An American Rhapsody [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bride of the Wind [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nicholas Nickleby [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cause Celebe [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Of Freaks and Men [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), King Lear [1983], Wilde [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), King Lear [1983], The Foliage [2004], Journey to the Western Xia Empire [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heroes & Villains: Full Throttle [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Different Loyalty [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Brother Sun, Sister Moon [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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