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• Manhattan | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalogue of Things that Make Life Worth Living. Allen's "Rhapsody in Gray" concerns, as his own character puts it, "people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more insoluble, terrifying problems about the universe". It's a romantic comedy about infidelity and betrayal, the rules of love and friendship, young girls (a radiant and sweet Mariel Hemingway) and older men (Allen), innocence, and sophistication. (a favourite phrase is used to describe a piece of sculpture at the Guggenheim: "It has a marvellous kind of negative capability".) The film's themes can be summed up in two key lines: "I can't believe you met somebody you like better than me", and "It's very important to have some kind of personal integrity". OK, so they may not sound like such sparkling snatches of brilliant dialogue, but Manhattan puts those ideas across with such emotion that you feel an ache in your heart. --Jim Emerson

• Stanley And Iris | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £17.76   |  Saving you £-4.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Some people need love spelled out for them. An illiterate cook (Robert De Niro) at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman (Jane Fonda). As they get to know one another she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night....

• Ruby's Dream | DVD | (20/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Joe Pesci's first starring role after making a name for himself in Raging Bull Ruby's Dream is a poignant and searing saga of one man's desperate struggle to achieve his dreams. Pesci plays Ruby Dennis a small time bowling alley/night club owner in a blue collar New Jersey neighbourhood who dreams of making it in the glitzy glamourous world of Las Vegas. Pesci brings a gritty realism to this dark exploration of the murky world of broken dreams and lost hope as he learns to accept what is truly important in his life. A must for Joe Pesci fans.

• The Fields | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Fields is a psychological thriller based on true events that occurred in the fall of 1973.A young boy and his family find the safety and solitude of their small farm shattered by a mysterious presence emerging from the vast cornfields surrounding them. Violence escalates as they struggle to find out what comes for them from...the fields.