"Actor: Charles Aznavour"

• The François Truffaut Collection | DVD | (08/12/2014) from £11.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (500.50%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Features SHOOT THE PIANIST, JULES ET JIM, THE SOFT SKIN, ANNE & MURIEL, A GORGEOUS GIRL LIKE ME, THE LAST METRO, THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR, FINALLY SUNDAY Extras Audio commentaries Presentations by Serge Toubiana on all titles Deleted scenes Trailers

• Candy | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Young Candy is a college girl who seeks truth and meaning in life encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process... Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel a sendup of Voltaire's 'Candide'.

• Shoot The Pianist | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charlie is a piano player in a rundown jazz bar he used to be Edouard Saroyan a gifted classical pianist but after suffering his wife's suicide gave up his rising fame. He's miserable and lonely and so self-absorbed that he can't see that Lena the bars waitress is in love with him. When Chico Charlie's crooked brother uses the bar as a refuge from two gangsters he's double-crossed Charlie becomes embroiled in the mayhem. Will the resulting events awaken Charlie's emotions again?

• Sky Riders | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Action adventure directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn and Robert Culp. When a rich industrialist by the name of Bracken (Culp) finds that his wife and children have been kidnapped by terrorists, he has the police try to capture them and rescue his family. But the police fail in every attempt and Bracken's last hope lies in his wife's former husband McCabe (Coburn) who has his own plan of action and recruits a team of professional hang gliders for a daring mountain top rescue.

• Shoot The Pianist | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Francois Truffaut portrays a film noir world of gangsters and intrigue with Charles Aznavour as a famous concert pianist who leaves his former life behind to play in a sleazy Parisian bar. He gradually becomes involved in the criminal activities of the big-city underworld.

• The Francois Truffaut Collection - 6 Disc Box Set (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £99.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  The Woman Next Door (1981) Madame Jouve the narrator tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day a couple Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings. The 400 Blows (1959) For his feature-film debut critic-turned-director Franois Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Laud as Antoine Doinel Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble) Antoine frequently runs away from both places. The boy finally quits school after being accused of plagiarism by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his father (Albert Remy) to finance his plans to leave home. The father angrily turns Antoine over to the police who lock the boy up with hardened criminals. A psychiatrist at a delinquency center probes Antoine's unhappiness which he reveals in a fragmented series of monologues. Shoot the Pianist (1960) Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother Chico a crook takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico Ernest Momo Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him) and Lena... Jules and Jim (1962) Acclaimed French director Franois Truffaut's third and for many viewers best film is an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roch. Set between 1912 and 1933 it stars Oskar Werner as the German Jules and Henri Serre as the Frenchman Jim kindred spirits who while on holiday in Greece fall in love with the smile on the face of a sculpture. Back in Paris the smile comes to life in the person of Catherine (Jeanne Moreau); the three individuals become constant companions determined to live their lives to the fullest despite the world war around them. When Jules declares his love for Catherine Jim agrees to let Jules pursue her despite his own similar feelings; Jules and Catherine marry and have a child (Sabine Haudepin) but Catherine still loves Jim as well. Anne and Muriel (1971) Story of two British sisters who are in love with the same Frenchman over a period of 20 years. Screenplay by Francois Truffaut Jean Grault Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Finally Sunday! (1963) Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel Julien's wife was Massoulier's mistress Julien is very suspected. But his secretary Barbara Becker while not quite convinced he is innocent defends him and leads her private investigations...

• The Blockhouse (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based upon harrowing real events which were turned in to a 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clébert, The Blockhouse starts explosively with an Allied air raid on a Nazi prison camp. Six escaped prisoners take shelter in an underground blockhouse, which is soon destroyed by heavy shelling. Trapped underground, with an almost endless supply of food, wine and candles, the men must endure confinement with no prospect of escape or rescue. Featuring a stunning ensemble cast that includes Peter Sellers (Hoffman), Charles Aznavour (Shoot the Pianist), Peter Vaughan (Symptoms), Jeremy Kemp (The Strange Affair), Per Oscarsson (A Dandy in Aspic) and Leon Lissek (Marat/Sade), The Blockhouse was filmed on the Channel Islands in a horribly dank and dark underground bunker, giving the film a suffocating sense of claustrophobia. This new restoration edition marks the film's worldwide Blu-ray premiere.

• Shoot The Pianist | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Francois Truffaut portrays a film noir world of gangsters and intrigue with Charles Aznavour as a famous concert pianist who leaves his former life behind to play in a sleazy Parisian bar. He gradually becomes involved in the criminal activities of the big-city underworld.

• Ararat | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Interrogated by a customs officer a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

• La Tete Contre Les Murs | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An intense study of the clash between medical ideals the first full-length work from Georges Franju (Les yeux sans visage Judex) is a gripping examination of postwar psychiatric care boasting a memorable cast including Pierre Brasseur Anouk Aim''e Charles Aznavour Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Mocky. Mocky plays Fran''ois G''rane an aimless young man whose delinquent tendencies cause his father to have him committed to a psychiatric ward. There under the cold command of Dr. Varmont (Brasseur) he finds himself fighting for his dignity sanity and freedom barely holding on through the new-found love of his girlfriend Stephanie (Aim''e) and the promise of rival Dr. Emery's (Meurisse) more humane techniques. Compassionate yet unflinching La T''te contre les murs is a bold precursor to the likes of Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest revealing Franju's poetic gift for creating images both concrete and evocative and an ominous hint of the clinical horrors yet to come in Les yeux sans visage. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the debut feature of a late-flowering great filmmaker.

• The Blockhouse | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £9.85   |  Saving you £0.14 (1.42%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1944 a group of POW's are working to build trenches along the French coast in preparation from the impending D-Day attacks. But when an unexpected aerial attack arrives they are forced to seek shelter deep inside a Blockhouse - a giant underground storage facility packed with frontline supplies and hidden Nazi treasures. When the heavy bombardment causes the entrance walls to collapse the seven men are trapped within and forced deeper into the vast underground chamber.

• Aznavour and Minnelli | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Footage from the live performance by Charles Aznavour and Liza Minnelli at the Palais Des Congres in 1992. Tracklist: 1. The Sound Of Your Name 2. Mon Emouvant Amour 3. Les Comediens 4. Sa Jeunesse 5. Napoli Chante 6. Vous Et Tu 7. La Marguerite 8. Tu T'Laisses Aller 9. Non Je N'Ai Rien Oublie 10. Je Bois 11. Comme Ils Disent 12. Les Plaisirs Demodes 13. La Boheme 14. Je M'Voyais Deja 15. Pour Faire Une Jam 16. Bonjour Paris 17. God Bless The Child 18. Old Friend 19. Liza Wit

• The Blockhouse | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £12.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (12.37%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This is a true story about seven men... Only two will survive. This is a compelling movie starring one of cinema's greatest comic artists in a straight role as a French man who hides in a bunker with a group of fellow patriots in occupied France during World War II.

• Tirez Sur Le Pianiste | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The opening of Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's second feature film, is one of the signal moments of the French New Wave--an inspired intersection of grim fatality and happy accident, location shooting and lurid melodrama, movie convention and frowzy, uncontainable life. A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching over his shoulder for pursuers, the running man charges smack into a lamppost. The figure that helps him to his feet is not one of the pursuers (they've oddly disappeared) but an anonymous passer-by, who proceeds to escort him for a block or two, genially schmoozing about the mundane, slow-blooming glories of marriage. The Good Samaritan departs at the next turning, never to be identified and never to be seen again. And the first man--who, despite this evocative introduction, is not even destined to be the main character of the movie--immediately resumes his helter-skelter flight from an as-yet-unspecified and unseen menace. At this point in his career--right after The 400 Blows, just before his great Jules and Jim--the world seemed wide for Truffaut, as wide as the Dyaliscope screen that he and cinematographer Raoul Coutard deployed with unprecedented spontaneity and lyricism. Anything might wander into frame and become part of the flow: an oddball digression, an unexpected change of mood, a small miracle of poetic insight. The official agenda of the movie is adapting a noir-ish story by American writer David Goodis, about a celebrated concert musician (Charles Aznavour) hiding out as a piano player in a saloon. He's on the run as much as the guy--his older brother--in the first scene. But whereas the brother is worried about a couple of buffoonish gangsters, Charlie Koller is ducking out on life, love and the possibility that he might be hurt, or cause hurt, again. Decades after its original release, Shoot the Piano Player remains as fresh, exhilarating, and heartbreaking--as open to the magic of movies and life--as ever. --Richard T Jameson

• Aznavour: Live Au Carnegie Hall | DVD | (01/03/2005) from £23.34   |  Saving you £-11.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.13

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• Blood Of A Poet / Testament Of Orpheus | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Blockhouse (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/07/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based upon harrowing real events which were turned into a 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clébert, The Blockhouse starts explosively with an Allied air raid on a Nazi prison camp. Six escaped prisoners take shelter in an underground blockhouse, which is soon destroyed by heavy shelling. Trapped underground, with an almost endless supply of food, wine and candles, the men must endure confinement with no prospect of escape or rescue. Featuring a stunning ensemble cast that includes Peter Sellers (Hoffman), Charles Aznavour (Shoot the Pianist), Peter Vaughan (Symptoms), Jeremy Kemp (The Strange Affair), Per Oscarsson (A Dandy in Aspic) and Leon Lissek (Marat/Sade), The Blockhouse was filmed on the Channel Islands in a dank and dark underground bunker, giving the film a suffocating sense of claustrophobia. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES Restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Powerhouse Films Two feature presentations: the distributor version (92 mins); and the director's version (92 mins) featuring revised and extended opening and closing captions Original mono audio Shots in the Dark (2022, 6 mins): co-star Leon Lissek remembers the highs and lows of filming on the Channel Islands Out of the Darkness (2022, 13 mins): Fred Rees and Gilda Rees, director Clive Rees' son and widow, recall the film's turbulent production history Underground Filmmaking (2022, 19 mins): producer Kent Walwin on the many challenges of making a low-budget war film Down to Earth (2022, 12 mins): production manager Matthew Raymond recalls procuring a Spitfire for the opening battle When Lights Go Low (2022, 10 mins): electrician Peter Bloor on the perils of powering a shoot deep underground The Channel Islands 19401945 (1945, 17 mins): short film produced by the Crown Film Unit which sees Channel Islanders re-enact incidents from the German occupation during World War II Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing