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• She Killed In Ecstasy | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Horror classic in which a young doctor commits suicide after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one... Also known as ""Mrs. Hyde"".

• World On A Wire | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or 'identity units'. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance Dr Stiller becomes his successor. However Stiller also begins to behave bizarrely. He speaks of people disappearing whom no one else knows belives someone is trying to murder him and has nausea attacks. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 2 part TV production is a science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world pre-dating The Matrix by 26 years. Since its original broadcast in 1973 it has rarely been shown and following increasing demand the Fassbinder Foundation have restored this remarkable film under the artistic direction of the film's highly acclaimed cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.

• Sissi Trilogie - Purpurrot-Edition | DVD | (13/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Puccini: Tosca -- 2002 Film Version | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £15.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (36.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Benoit Jacquot's filmed Tosca treads a fine line between operatic staginess and cinematic contrivance. As per the libretto, each act takes place in a single setting, but with the singers here miming to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Jacquot freely reminds us of the conceit with cutaways to the recording session itself--revealing conductor, orchestra and soloists at work--thus a bridge is made between the on-screen action and the music-making itself, and the inherent duality of any opera production is laid refreshingly bare. The same cannot be said for the director's decision to interpolate spoken dialogue over the music in key places--a distraction not an enhancement. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are glamorous and attractive enough to make the most of their Hollywood-style close-ups; their singing easily bears similar close scrutiny--as anyone who owns the CD soundtrack album will surely already know. If Alagna lacks a little power as Cavaradossi on record, his charismatic screen presence happily compensates; Gheorghiu is both vocally and physically almost ideal as Tosca. Ruggero Raimondi's Scarpia completes an outstanding trio, and in the pit (or, rather, in the studio) conductor Antonio Pappano handles the drama of Puccini's score without missing a single nuance. Both musically and visually, then, this is a Tosca to treasure. On the DVD: Tosca on disc looks vibrant in this warm, widescreen picture accompanied by a DTS 5.1 soundtrack. Three filmed interviews--with Gheorghiu, Pappano and Jacquot--provide some insight into the making of this production. --Mark Walker

• From The Life Of The Marionettes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in Munich while Bergman was in self-imposed exile from Sweden, From the Life of the Marionettes is not so much a "whodunit" as a "whydunnit". The film opens with the shockingly violent and senseless murder of a prostitute by Peter, a young, successful businessman. Through a series of non-chronological flashbacks to a time before the crime, we attempt to fathom just what impelled Peter to perpetrate this terrible murder. Along with wife Katarina, the character Peter also featured in Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. Here, as there, we see that they are wedded in the sense of being emotionally chained to each other, yet hating each other for their mutual dependency. There is also a perturbing scene in which they both appear to "get off" when he takes a knife to her throat. His cold and duplicitous psychiatrist glibly ascribes the murder to a repressed homosexuality resulting in a violent outburst, while Katarina's business partner, who is gay, appears to harbour a desire to sabotage the pair's marriage. This film has an airless, fake-lit quality about it, which reflects the conditions of the characters' lives but by the end, leaves you mesmerised and still uncertain as to why what happened has happened. A late but great Bergman work. On the DVD: This edition adequately enhances the stark monochrome in which most of the film is set. Bergman's notes reveal that his depictions of Peter in his psychiatric ward were based on his own behaviour during a recent spell in a similar institution following his arrest for tax evasion. Philip Strick's critical notes observe that the sparing use of colour at the beginning and end of the film signify what may have been the only times in Peter's life when he "experienced reality". --David Stubbs

• Fontane - Effi Briest | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1974.

• Kung Phooey | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Kung Phooey' is a family film with crossover adult appeal. Modelled very much on films like 'Airplane' Kung Phooey is a brilliant spoof on just about every Kung Fu movie ever made from the 'Kalsshopper' wisdom of the original TV series to the tree walking of 'Crouching Tiger'. Art's wild adventures and mishaps begin when he arrives in America on his quest for the magical Ancient Peach he encounters a crazy host of characters; the evil Helen Hu her bodyguards One Ton Lo Fat an

• Sonata | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (23.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  We are never alone... This edge-of-your-seat supernatural horror takes you into a disturbing world and explores the fine line between sanity and madness. Locked up in a remote house and kept away from the real world by her overprotective mother Megan has created a secret world of her own. When a mysterious stranger begins sending Megan cryptic love letters mother is furious and assumes that she has been sneaking out of the house behind her back. But mother is soon to fin

• Sonata | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  We are never alone... This edge-of-your-seat supernatural horror takes you into a disturbing world and explores the fine line between sanity and madness. Locked up in a remote house and kept away from the real world by her overprotective mother Megan has created a secret world of her own. When a mysterious stranger begins sending Megan cryptic love letters mother is furious and assumes that she has been sneaking out of the house behind her back. But mother is soon to find out that the truth about the mysterious stranger is far more horrifying than even her twisted mind could ever imagine.

• Welt am Draht | DVD | (18/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A