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• Sunrise (Dual Format Blu-ray+DVD) | Blu Ray | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This new edition of Sunrise (for the first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray) contains two versions of the film: the previously released Movietone version and an alternate silent version of the film, recently discovered in the Czech Republic, of a higher visualquality than any other known source.The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history, F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished, Murnau’s tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a vamp-like seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) created a milestone of film expressionism.Made in the twilight of the silent era, Sunrise became both a swan song for a vanishing medium and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status. Winner of three Oscars for Best Actress (Gaynor), Cinematography, and a never-repeated award for “Unique and Artistic Picture”, its influence and stature has only grown with each passing year. SPECIAL DUAL FORMAT EDITION: Film-restored HD transfers of two different versions: Movietone and Czech Original English intertitles on the Movietone and optional English subtitles on the Czech Original Movietone score (mono) + alternate Olympic Chamber Orchestra score (stereo) Full-length audio commentary by cinematographer John Bailey on the Movietone version Rare outtakes with John Bailey commentary Murnau’s 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film – Janet Bergstrom’s updated documentary Original theatrical trailer 20-page booklet with details of the film restorations and comparison of versions

• Fat Friends - Series 1 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £20.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (23.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kay Mellor's comedy drama series following a collection of characters whose personal life struggles are relayed to each other during their weekly slimming class... Series 1 episodes comprise: 1. Love Me Slender 2. Fat Chance 3. Fat Free 4. Growing Pains 5. Face The Fat 6. When The Fat Lady Sings

• Fat Friends - Series 3 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kay Mellor's comedy drama series following a collection of characters whose personal life struggles are relayed to each other during their weekly slimming class... Episodes comprise: 1. Eat Your Heart Out 2. Leggs Over Easy 3. Food For Thought 4. Bacon Bagels And The Bishop 5. Afters 6. Food Of Love

• Lucky Star | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film was the last silent film Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor made as a team and their soulful chemistry is more evident in this film than any other they made together. The story revolves around the relationship between Mary a poor farm girl and Tim who Mary meets just before he is posted to the battlefields of Europe in World War I and their subsequent reunion upon Tim's wounded return.

• A Star is Born | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Seventh Heaven | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £14.84   |  Saving you £5.15 (34.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seventh Heaven directed by Frank Borzage is a tender love story set in pre-World War I Paris which unites two unlikely people in becoming a highly popular twosome. It stars the pert and angelic Janet Gaynor opposite the tall but not-so-rugged Charles Farrell in their initial union their first of twelve movies in which they were to appear together. The film won three Oscars including the Best Actress award for Janet Gaynor and also the Best Director award for Frank Borzage.

• F.W. Murnau Horror Classics - Faust / Nosferatu | DVD | (22/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The pleasant and peaceful life of a nave country man (George O'Brien) is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city (Margaret Livingston) who persuades him to drown his virtuous wife (Janet Gaynor) in order to be with her... F. W. Murnau - invited to America by William Fox the promise of complete artistic freedom and a blank cheque - made Sunrise on the cusp of two eras: it represents the silent film at the peak of its poetic sophistication and the sound film in its infancy. Fox told Murnau to take his time to make any film he wished and 'Sunrise' was completed without any studio interference - as though with a dying flourish in a medium which at that moment had achieved a startling richness of expression. It was the swan song of the era. Conceived by Murnau and written by Carl Mayer while they were both still in Germany Sunrise takes a simple situation - the marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) from a country hamlet invaded by a seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) - and elevates it to the realm of fable stripped of melodrama yet brimming with poetic impulses. George O'Brien becomes almost gothically depressed by his affair and plots a Dreiser-like boat accident for Gaynor his sweet wife. This doom hovers and flits like moonlight over the rest of the film which lithely tries to dodge it. Murnau captivated the Americans with his legendary ""invisible"" tracking shots and together with double exposures expressive lighting and distorted sets the viewer is immersed in the fate of these simple characters. Sunrise won three Oscars at the very first Academy Awards ceremony honouring the 1927-1928 season. Janet Gaynor won for Best Actress; Charles Rosher and Karl Struss for Best Cinematography; and the film itself won a special Oscar for ""Unique and Artistic Picture"" the only time this award has ever been given. This is a restored edition of what Cahiers du Cinema described as ""the single greatest masterwork in the history of the cinema"".

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Is the price of stardom a broken heart? Janet Gaynor plays smalltown girl Esther Blodgett in this marvellous drama of love versus a lifetime dream. The young Esther is determined to become a star; and her determination pays off when she takes a job as a waitress at a Hollywood party and meets falls in love with and marries her idol filmstar Norman Maine (Fredric March). With Norman's contacts she is soon being film tested and heading toward screen stardom and everything she'

• Sunrise | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1928 Sunrise won Oscars for Janet Gaynor as Best Actress and cinematography as a "Unique and Artistic Picture". In 1967 it was declared "the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema" by key French new wave magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Released with a synchronised score and effects soundtrack but no dialogue, it is a cinematic landmark from the transition period between silent cinema and the talkies. Beginning as a prototype film noir in which a farmer (George O' Brien) plans the murder of his wife (Gaynor) with his vacationing lover from the city (Margaret Livingstone), the film develops from tense thriller into a story of reawakened love and redemption. Anticipating Orson Welles's artistic freedom on Citizen Kane (1941), German expressionist director FW Murnau was given carte blanche following the huge American success of The Last Laugh (1924). The result was this poetic fable making inventive use of every technical device then available, including in-camera multiple exposures and superimpositions, long elegant tracking shots, forced perspectives, complex miniatures and synchronised sound, as well as the largest single-street-scene set ever built. The result is a film that influenced everything from Hitchcock suspense to Titanic (1997) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Murnau summons powerful performances from his principal players--Gaynor would later headline A Star Is Born (1937) and O'Brien would take important roles in several classic John Ford westerns--while the transcendent finale evokes and reworks the ending of the director's earlier classic, Nosferatu (1922). Though now inevitably dated Sunrise remains essential for anyone seriously interested in the development of cinematic art. On the DVD:Sunrise is presented on an immaculately produced two-disc special edition. Though restored to full length and presented in the original 1.2:1 ratio with the complete music and effects soundtrack, the film has been taken from a print made in 1936, the original camera negative having been destroyed in a fire. As a result this is the best possible modern presentation of Sunrise, though the print, while perfectly acceptable, is very grainy, lined and flickery by contemporary standards. The mono sound has been superbly restored and is remarkably effective for its vintage; an alternative stereo musical track recorded for recent reissue sounds excellent. The film also boasts a commentary by John Bailey: apart from talking a little too much about how beautiful the lighting is, Bailey offers seriously in-depth knowledge about the film and about Murnau that really puts everything into historical context and explains the constant technical ingenuity. The second disc presents the useful A Song of Two Humans, a 12-minute visual essay by film historian R Dixon Smith, and almost 10 minutes of outtakes with optional commentary by John Bailey, as well as a trailer, stills gallery and notes explaining the nature of the restoration. There is also an excellent 40-minute documentary Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film, telling the story of the director's lost follow up to Sunrise. Microsoft Word and PDF files available via DVD-ROM present various incarnations of the screenplays for both Sunrise and 4 Devils. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Screen Sirens | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Screen Sirens (8 Discs)

• Sunrise | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a Machiavellian seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) created a milestone of film expressionism. Made in the twilight of the silent era it became both a swan song for a vanishing medium and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status. Winner of three Oscars for Best Actress (Gaynor) Cinematography and a never-repeated award for Unique and Artistic Picture its influence and stature has only grown with each passing year. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a new 2-disc special edition of the film including an all-new alternate version recently discovered in a Czech archive of a higher visual quality than any other known source.

• Sunrise | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a Machiavellian seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) created a milestone of film expressionism. Made in the twilight of the silent era it became both a swan song for a vanishing medium and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status. Winner of three Oscars for Best Actress (Gaynor) Cinematography and a never-repeated award for Unique and Artistic Picture its influence and stature has only grown with each passing year. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a new 2-disc special edition of the film including an all-new alternate version recently discovered in a Czech archive of a higher visual quality than any other known source.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £6.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Farm girl Esther dreams of making it big in Hollywood and travels to Tinseltown to be closer to her dream. She lands a waitressing job at a celebrity party and meets idol Norman Maine. Thanks to Norman's intervention she lands her big break.