A string of masterpieces behind him including Ossessione, Senso, The Leopard and Death in Venice the great Italian director Luchino Visconti turned his attentions to the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1972, resulting in an epic of 19th-century decadence. Dominated by Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Bloodstained Butterfly) in the title role, Ludwig nevertheless manages to find room for an impressive cast list: Romy Schneider (reprising her Elisabeth of Austria characterisation from the Sissi trilogy), Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice), Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger), John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) and Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter) as Richard Wagner. As opulent as any of Visconti's epics Piero Tosi's costume design was nominated for an Academy Award Ludwig is presented here in its complete form in accordance with the director's wishes. Special Features 2K restoration from the original film negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Two viewing options: the full-length theatrical cut or as five individual parts Original Italian soundtrack with optional English subtitles Original English soundtrack with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Interview with actor Helmut Berger Interview with producer Dieter Geissler Luchino Visconti, an hour-long documentary portrait of the director by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill, Requiescant) containing interviews with Burt Lancaster, Vittorio Gassman, Francesco Rosi, Claudia Cardinale and others Speaking with Suso Cecchi d'Amico, an interview with the screenwriter Silvana Mangano: The Scent of a Primrose, a half-hour portrait of the actress Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of original poster artwork
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor McLeod. He is immortal. Connor McLeod (Christopher Lambert - Mortal Kombat Subway) survives a wound that should kill him in a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands in 1536 and is banished from his village. Years later McLeod is met by Juan Sanchez Vlla-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery - The Untouchables The Hunt for Red October) a swordsman who teaches McLeod the truth about himself; he is immortal one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another the loser's power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches McLeod the ways of the sword until he is killed by his gravest foe the evil Kurgan (Clancy Brown - The Shawshank Redemption) who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals The Prize; enough power to rule the earth forever. McLeod must fight his way through the centuries until the time of the Gathering when the few immortals who have survived the ages will come together to fight until only one remains. In New York City the final fight is about to begin and in the end there can be only one.
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The city faces a deadly killer. He goes by many names has many faces... all of them deadly. Is he Kevin Sherwood? Is He Ring Master Jesus. Is he The Matanza Killer? Ian Sparks will learn. Fighting crime became a mission for Sparks when he lost his parents in a fireball car crash. Burning with desire for revenge he finds himself in the belly of the beast where havoc is wreaked for profit and life is cheap.p>Joining a handful of super heroes operating in the shadows what they have in common is greater than Sparks can imagine; but the cost of finding the killer and uncovering the truth may be more than he can afford. Special Features: The Making Of Sparks Unseen Scene Audio Commentary
One of Hammer's most controversial features, Val Guest's The Camp on Blood Island was a huge box-office hit, despite drawing the wrath of critics who accused the film of sensationalising and exploiting the sufferings of soldiers and civilians imprisoned and abused by the Japanese during the Second World War. Certainly, the film's brutal representation of life for Allied captives in a Malayan prisoner-of-war camp is unusually grim and graphic for the time, but is buoyed by Guest's sharp and naturalistic direction, and a terrific cast is headed by André Morell (Cash on Demand, Ben-Hur), Carl Möhner (Rififi) and the late, great Hammer icon Barbara Shelley (The Gorgon, The Shadow of the Cat). Special Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with Hammer icon Barbara Shelley and horror novelist Stephen Laws The Brutal Truth: Inside The Camp on Blood Island' (2018, 29 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by Claire Louise Amias, and featuring film historians Alan Barnes and Jonathan Rigby Hammer's Women: Mary Merrall (2018, 11 mins): Diabolique magazine's editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger explores the life and career of the prolific English film, stage and television actress From Light to Dark (2018, 18 mins): Steve Chibnall, author of British Horror Cinema, takes a look at Val Guest's career and the making of The Camp on Blood Island Return to Blood Island (2018, 4 mins): interview with the film's script supervisor Renée Glynne Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Based on the popular cult comic book franchise of the same namge, Preacher is an absurdly twisted and action-packed thrill ride. When Jesse Custer, a small-town preacher with a criminal past, realizes God is absent from Heaven, Jesse sets out to find Him. Along for the rise are Tulip, Jesse's best mate. The gang ends up in New Orleans, where they must dodge local gangster, dangerous secret agents in white suits and the Saint of Killers, an unstoppable murderous cowboy from Hell. Click Images to Enlarge
Winner of the BAFTA for Best Entertainment programme, The Experiments features Derren Brown at his jaw-dropping best. Unwitting members of the public are taken through four thrilling sociological experiments like nothing seen before on TV. In The Assassin, Derren asks - is it possible to hypnotise someone to carry out an assassination? The imprisoned killer of Robert Kennedy has claimed that the CIA programmed him to murder the senator. Are such claims remotely plausible, or just the stuff of conspiracy theorists? Derren looks for a profoundly suggestible member of the public, and secretly trains him to assassinate Stephen Fry. In The Gameshow, Derren hosts a fake game show designed to see how being anonymous and part of a crowd affects our sense of right and wrong. Filmed just before the British riots took place, this show offers a dark insight into mob mentality. An unwitting member of the public, out on a Friday night, must suffer the consequences of decisions made by a studio audience watching his every move. In The Guilt Trip, an unsuspecting 'nice guy' is invited to take part in what purports to be a seminar in old country hotel. He has no idea that everyone he meets is an actor, and that he is taking part in a TV show designed to see if he can be made to admit to a murder he did not commit. Even his hero, Tim MInchin, is in on the game. A weekend from hell awaits him...In The Secret of Luck, an entire town is the subject of Derren's experiment. With the help of journalist Dawn Porter, a rumour is spread in a remote town that a local statue of a dog brings good luck. As the story takes hold amongst the townsfolk, we see what really separates lucky from unlucky people and how we can create good luck for ourselves. The journey culminates in one man betting his entire life-savings on the roll of a dice.
A Christmas-time drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years.
Earth. Early in the 21st Century. Much has changed since the last Mortal Kombat. A universe that was once balanced by a system based on honour and tradition is now governed by chaos and deceit. Dark forces from sinister realms have begun invading Earth. The only warriors who could possibly meet this challenge are the Defenders of the Realm. Kombat Begins Again - While the MKs are battling Cyrax and Sketor Sub-zero joins them. This triggers memories and self-doubt in Liu Kang and mistrust for the ice-ninja in Sonya and others. When Headquarters is attacked Sub-Zero must prove where his loyalties really fall. The Swords of Ilkan - Sonya is feeling overwhelmed by the endless fighting and the lack of any other females to relate to. Sonya tries to get close to the elusive Kitana who is faced with a painful part of her past when they travel to a realm ruled by a ruthless Amazon-like warrior. Familiar Red - Nightwolf repeatedly sends the MKs to 'rips' that don't appear to exist. They begin to think his computer skills are shot. Finally Nightwolf discovers that it's a clever ruse which Kano is behind. Discovering Kano is still alive triggers intense feelings in Sonya feelings that she failed her old partner. Abandoned - Jax considers quitting the team. While he is away the Emperor Shao Kahn is easily able to capture the MK. As the story unfolds Jax comes to realise that no matter where he goes he needs to find balance between his needs and his duty.
Denver Bayliss (Kiefer Sutherland) is a cold-blooded killer who has been sentenced to death and is awaiting execution. Fred Whitmore (Forest Whitaker) is the haunted prison guard who befriends him: two men forced to live with the violence and degradation of death row. This is the story of one man who chooses to defy it until death and the shattering effect that struggle has on everyone close to him: the stone-hearted cell-block lieutenant (Clancy Brown) Denver's estranged sister (Amanda Plummer) and his ex-attorney (Kathleen Quinlan).
Can Emelia and Beth escape the ties of small town existence and free themselves of the Albatross around their necks?
Jake Robbins (Kristofferson) was shot down over Cambodia while serving in the Air Force and presumed dead by his wife Sarah (Williams). In fact Jake was captured and then he escaped with the help of Leang a Khmer Rouge peasant. Although they are on opposite sides Jake and Leang develop an understanding and fall in love. But after years of raising a family together Jake is forcibly separated from Leang when it is discovered he is an American Citizen. Waking up in the United Stat
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
An adaptation of one of the most successful and unusual musicals of all time. A group of Broadway hopefuls auditioning for a place in the chorus line of a new show relate the stories of their lives -- their disappointments their dreams and the professional rejections and successes. Among the dancers trying to make the grade is the director's former lover a woman who once made it big and now would be grateful just to dance in the chorus.
Can a professional jewel thief ever really retire, even when temptation is right in front of him? Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek star in this sun-soaked outing
This hilarious collection of the brilliant Farrelly brothers directorial and producing work contains: *'Stuck On You' *'Say It Isn't So' (Produced by the Farrelly brothers directed by James B. Rogers assisting director on Farrelly brothers other feature films.) *'There's Something About Mary: Special Edition' (1 Disc version) *'Me Myself and Irene' *'Shallow Hal' *Please See Individual Titles for Synopsis and further information.
In Waxwork a waxwork museum appears overnight in an American small town and sinister showman David Warner invites a group of typical teens to a midnight party. However, as expected, the place is home to nasty secrets, and the blundering kids find themselves transported via the exhibits into the presence of "the 18 most evil men in history". What this means is that the film gets to trot out gory vignettes featuring such horror staples as Count Dracula (played inaptly with designer stubble and a Clint croak by ex-Tarzan Miles O'Keefe), the Marquis de Sade, an anonymous werewolf with floppy bunny ears (John Rhys-Davies in human form) and the Mummy. Nerdy hero Zach Galligan appeals to wheelchair-bound monster fighter Patrick MacNee for help. Waxwork is strictly a film buff's movie--with Warner and MacNee turning in knowingly camp performances, and references to everything from Crimes of Passion to Little Shop of Horrors cluttering up its very straggly story line. It's not without ragged charms, though the tone veers between comic and sick (the de Sade scene, although inexplicit, features some lurid dialogue) more or less at random. The effects are likewise variable, and in any case rather fudged by direction, which frequently fails to point up the gags properly. It winds up with a scrappy Blazing Saddles-style fight between the forces of Good and a whole pack of monsters, and the budget runs out before the climactic burning-down-the-waxworks scene. The episodic approach echoes the old Amicus omnibus horrors (Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The House that Dripped Blood etc.), and various cameos allow director Anthony Hickox to parody/emulate the styles of Hammer films, Night of the Living Dead and Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. On the DVD: It's a nice-looking and sounding print, but fullscreen format. The only extras are filmographies taken from the IMDB and the trailer.--Kim Newman
Rock music's most celebrated musicians pay tribute to the legendary George Harrison with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
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