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• Hagazussa Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (11/05/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Debut filmmaker Lukas Feigelfeld has crafted one of the most celebrated horror debuts in recent years, playing prestigious festivals worldwide it is one of the most original takes on the subject of witchcraft which echoes Robert Eggers The Witch but draws on broader influences including the creeping dread and hallucinogenic imagery of David Lynch and Panos Cosmatos. In an isolated Alpine hut at the turn of the 15th Century, Albrun is a young girl growing up alone. As an adult, she is a single mother and a marked woman, outcast by a society twisted in deep-rooted superstitions and misogyny. Still haunted by the death of her own mother and increasingly abused by the community around her, Albrun starts to defy the role she has been dealt in life and embarks on a path of self-empowerment the price of which may be an even greater darkness than she has ever known before. Described as a spellbinding audiovisual symphony (The Hollywood Reporter) and ranked 3rd in Rotten Tomatoes Best Horror Movies of 2019 , Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse is a journey into the madness prevalent both in our minds and in the world around us, and whether the difference between the two is always as clear as we hope for it to be. 2-DISC DIRECTOR APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: Limited Edition Blu-ray and Soundtrack CD collection (2000 copies) High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround and LPCM Stereo 2.0 Audio Optional English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring artwork by Adrian Baxter Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Kier-La Janisse and press book extracts, illustrated with original stills Double-sided fold-out poster featuring two artworks Slipcover featuring original artwork by Adrian Baxter DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] - HAGAZUSSA Audio commentary by critic and author Kat Ellinger Select scene audio commentary by writer-director Lukas Feigelfeld Beton [Concrete] (2013, 55 mins) and Interferenz (2013, 48 mins), two short films by Lukas Feigelfeld Deleted scene with optional commentary by Feigelfeld MMMD Music Video Theatrical trailer Teaser DISC 2 [CD] - HAGAZUSSA SOUNDTRACK [Limited Edition Exclusive] CD containing the complete Hagazussa Soundtrack by MMMD

• Dog Days | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (67.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If your idea of Austrians is of cheerful folk cavorting about mountains or relaxing in old-world coffee-shops, Dog Days will come as quite a shock. Set amid the residential streets and shopping precincts of a charmless, sterile southern suburb of Vienna, documentary-maker Ulrich Seidl's first feature revels in the ugliness, both physical and moral, of his characters. None of these are people you'd want to spend time with: in fact most of them you'd go several miles out of your way to avoid, which perhaps accounts for the strangely perverse fascination there is about watching them. Dog Days--it takes place, as you might guess, during a sticky, sweltering July heatwave that improves tempers not one bit--comes on rather like a low-rent version of Robert Altman's Short Cuts. We meet a dozen or so main characters, all of whom gradually come to impact on each other's lives in various ways. Among them, a girl with a psychotically jealous boyfriend; an elderly man who obsessively stockpiles groceries, first weighing them to check for the least hint of short measure; an estranged couple still sharing a house, where the wife entertains her lovers under her husband's morose gaze; a middle-aged schoolteacher whose abusive lover invites lowlifes to join in humiliating her; a no-hoper salesman of security systems; and the world's most excruciatingly irritating hitch-hiker. There's a dark humour at work here; after a while the sheer bleakness and collective vindictiveness become wincingly funny. Seidl's disenchanted view of his compatriots, and his contempt for their vaunted gemütlichkeit, is epitomised by his image of a man forced to sing the Austrian national anthem ("A nation blessed by its sense of beauty") stark naked with a lighted candle up his backside. To cap it all, he can't remember the words. --Philip Kemp

• 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Haneke's articulate critique of the isolating effects of western society the media and television in particular is composed of an intricate series of unrelated scenes culminating in an apparently motiveless act of violence. Perfectly paced and executed Haneke's skilful weaving of these tableaux into a coherent and compelling whole is mesmerising and strangely beautiful.