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• The Michael Haneke Trilogy | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Seventh Continent (1989): Described by Haneke as a reflection on ""the progressive emotional glaciation of Austria "" The Seventh Continent focuses on George (Dieter Berner) a middling engineer and his sardonic wife Anna (Birgit Doll). Unable to empathize with their daughter's compulsion for lying and uninterested in each other's emotional well-being the couple turns their pedestrian way of life into a vortex of subjective malaise. And while a recurring ad for an Australian vacation stands as a signal of potential blissfulness the couple's perfunctory melancholy eventually materialized into barbarism. Based on a true story and filmed as a succession of beautifully composed and yet mundane tableaux this unsentimental depiction of individual and family collapse ""ranks among the most truly terrifying in modern cinema"" (Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune). More than a metaphor of hope and escape The Seventh Continent is a meticulous dive into the postmodern disregard of affect - and a stark look at lives severed from feelings. Benny's Video (1993): Winner of the FIPRESCI award given by the International Federation of Film Critics in 1993 Benny's Video is the second installment of Michael Haneke's (The Piano Teacher Cache) ""emotional glaciation"" trilogy. Written and directed by Haneke the bone-chilling story opens with the amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. This unceremonious recording is owned by 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch; Haneke's Funny Gamers) a boy whose preferred mediums of experience are video cameras action movies and the surveillance monitors placed in his room. Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom TV Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swing. Staying alone is his parents' apartment Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl immediately exposing her to the rapturous videotaping. Then after revealing that he stole the gun that took the pig's life Benny coldly shoots his guest and turns his unwrought curiosity into a slaughter video franchise. ""I once saw a TV program about the tricks they use in action films "" says Benny. ""It's all ketchup and plastic."" By colliding the differences between frames and flesh Haneke's sophomore theatrical release offers a lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with - and be hurt by - others. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance (1994): With his signature cold cerebral style his long slow takes and meticulous action Austrian director Michael Haneke presents a series of isolated scenes of unrelated people that culminates in an act of sudden and senseless violence in a bank. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance delves into some of the prevalent themes of Haneke's earlier films The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video: existential isolation the oppressive force of contemporary western civilization the effects of television on human experience and sudden inscrutable violence. Similar to Antonioni Haneke has become one of the contemporary cinema's greatest provocateurs deliberately withholding crucial information and denying any audience expectation. The eerie and beautiful 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance hovers between a terrible nihilism and a tenuous humanism.

• The Rolling Stones - Live At The Max | DVD | (26/11/1999) from £16.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (19.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This 1991 concert film was shot in the IMAX format and was originally presented on enormous IMAX screens, with outstanding visual and audio clarity. The dimensions may have been scaled down for this DVD release, but the show is still huge in energy and talent. Filmed during a European leg of the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels tour, this production boasts 15 songs and an extraordinary stage set with inflatable floozies (for "Honky Tonk Woman") and wild dogs (rather cleverly for "Street Fighting Man"). The Stones' set emphasises material from the late 1960s and early 70s ("Tumbling Dice", "Happy", "You Can't Always Get What You Want"), but the band's performance is so furious that the show is far from a pandering oldies act. Highlights include "Paint it Black", at once brutal and delicate, as well as a muscular "Rock and a Hard Place", a psychedelicised "2,000 Light Years from Home", and a cheeky "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll". Once kings of a gloriously sloppy sound, the Stones prove to be as effective in their artistic maturity with small, breathtaking touches as they are with chunky orchestration. Guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood play as if they are of one mind, Richards providing powerful leads while his partner captures some of the texture of the group's original recordings. Bassist Bill Wyman, still in the band at this phase, offers wit and an encyclopaedic grasp of rhythm & blues history, while drummer Charlie Watts adds control and swing. Mick Jagger prowls, climbs around the set, and delivers all the charismatic goods for adoring audiences, even touching the forbidden fruit again in a feverish performance of "Sympathy for the Devil". The DVD also includes a full Stones discography. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Benny's Video | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (65.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  To fill the void of his middle class existence 14-year-old Benny immerses himself in the world of home video recordings and becomes increasingly distant from his family and the world around him. After inviting a girl to his house events take a nasty turn when he re-enacts a scene from one of his favourite videos - the slaughtering of a pig. With the critical and box-office success of Hidden (Cach'') and the remake of his classic Funny Games Michael Haneke has established himself as a leading director on the world's stage. Making films that are as shocking as they are intelligent Haneke's controversial journeys into the dark places within our media-saturated society continue to be unique and unparalleled.

• Blood For Dracula / Flash For Frankenstein | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Andy Warhol along with his long-time collaborator and director Paul Morrissey combined their mighty talents for these campy trashy masterpieces of mid-70s horror. Flesh or Frankenstein (1973): Dr. Frankenstein desires to create perfect male and female specimens from body parts he has 'collected'. If all goes well his creations will then start a 'perfect' new race. However when the brain of a holy man is mistakenly placed in the head of the male creature things don't go as the good doctor planned. The result is an abundance of nudity and gore as well as a disturbing gall bladder fetish! Blood For Dracula (1974): Tired and sickly Count Dracula (Udo Kier) travels to Italy in search of a virgin bride. He and his domineering assistant Anton stumble across the supposedly virginal DiFiore family. Unfortunately the DiFiore daughters are less than virginal thanks to the determined efforts of servant Mario Balato (Joe Dallesandro) prompting the Count to bed all the sisters until he has found one with pure virgin blood.

• Bedways | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in Berlin film director Nina Bader wants to shoot a movie about love and sex and invites her actor-friends Hans and Marie for screen tests for a couple of days. For Nina love is not necessarily a matter of emotion - she is rather looking for an authentic depiction of sex. The intimate collaboration turns into experiments with film love and bodies and finally has an impact on the private relationships between the three of them. It seems that the boundaries between acting and reality begin to disappear. At times shocking and explicit Bedways is without doubt an unforgettable viewing experience.

• Blood For Dracula | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £12.15   |  Saving you £7.84 (64.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the minds of Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisey comes this cult horror film starring Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro one of the most prominent actors from 'The Factory'. Tired and sickly Count Dracula (Udo Kier) travels to Italy in search of a virgin bride. He and his domineering assistant Anton stumble across the supposedly virginal DiFiore family. Unfortunately the DiFiore daughters are less than virginal thanks to the determined efforts of servant Mario Balato (Joe Dallesandro

• Justine De Sade | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Adapted from the notorious novel by the Marquis De Sade, the story is that of a poor 18th century orphan girl who is 'familiar with every nuance of misfortune'. Rescued from certain death at the executioner's hand by a wealthy couple, Therese (Alice Arno) is persuaded to tell them her story of depravity as she struggles to maintain her virtue in a world of sin. Her kindly trusting nature continually gets her into trouble as her experiences range from being abused by her boss while working as ...