The Invitation (L'invitation)
September 16th 2011. The TV news networks newspapers blogs websites and radio stations are all reporting on one story: star author Michel Houellebecq winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010 has been abducted. Some members of the media go so far as to suggest that Al-Qaeda may be involved. For the next few days the news ripples through literary circles and members of the press feeding buzz and speculation. A brazen kidnapping? An identity crisis? A plan to escape abroad? A schizophrenic delirium? Michel will never provide the media with any rational explanation for what happened to him.
A collection of slasher movies from Shameless Screen Entertainment (Torso, Night Train Murders & Killer Nun)Night Train Murders & Killer Nun are both part of the DPP list of 'video nasties'. Video nasty was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by various religious organizations, in the press and by commentators.
Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship and estrangement. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Franois Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with The 400 Blows which triumphs in Cannes in 1959 he helps his older friend shift to directing offering him a screenplay which already has a title A bout de souffle or Breathless. Through the 1960s the two loyally support each other. History and politics separate them in 1968 and afterwards - when Godard plunges into radical politics but Truffaut continues his career as before. Between the two of them the actor Jean-Pierre Laud is torn like a child caught between two separated and warring parents. Their friendship and their break-up embody the story of French cinema. Exploring the letters personal archives and films of the two New Wave directors Two in the Wave takes us back to a prodigious decade that transformed the world of cinema.
Available for the first time on DVD!!! A man remembers an idyllic summer in 1958 spent on the shores of Lake Geneva in avoiding participation in the Algerian conflict during which he encountered the beguiling Yvonne and her friend Dr. Meinthe. On their first encounter he was drawn to her and they seemed destined to be together however the sun filled days of social gatherings and passionate assignations would be all too fleeting. Patrice Leconte's erotic masterpiece is available f
East meets West in this classic train robbery movie as one of the bandits gets away with not only all the money but a priceless Samurai Sword owned by Japanese gentleman Kuroda Jubie. Kuruda and his allies tear off in search of the stolen sword only to discover a violent twist of events that will change their lives forever...
Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with this stylised thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno and Portman. Rather than cave in to the cookie-cutter look and feel of American action pictures, Besson brings a bit of his glossy style from French hits La Femme Nikita and Subway to the production of The Professional, and the results are refreshing even if the bullets and explosions are awfully familiar.--Tom Keogh
After slipping on a banana peel and injuring himself the Inspector was put together again with special gadgets that aid him in his bid to stop Dr Claw and his MAD agency taking over the world. Episodes comprise: Monster Lake / Down On The Farm / Gadget At The Circus / Amazon / Health Spa
Histoire Du Cinema (3 Discs)
Winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1974 Lancelot Du Lac Bresson's masterpiece has lost none of its power and continues to cast a mystical spell. In this compelling and hypnotic film about the Arthurian legend the Knights of the Round Table their numbers depleted by their bloody and fruitless quest for the Holy Grail return to King Arthur's court. Once there Lancelot's passionate relationship with Queen Guinevere causes the Knights to fall out amongst themselves eventually leading to their downfall.
Five of iconic film director Wim Wenders' key documentaries collected together in Wenders Classics box set packaging with new bonus features and an exclusive limited edition collector's booklet. A must-have for Wenders fans. Nick's Film: Lightning Over Water: In 1979 award-winning German filmmaker Wim Wenders travelled to New York City to make a movie with legendary American auteur Nicholas Ray as he lay dying of terminal cancer. Surrounded by family and friends the director of such Hollywood classics as Rebel Without a Cause Johnny Guitar and They Live By Night reflects on a career of triumphs and compromises as he faces his final days with hope humour and the fierce independent spirit that defined his greatest works. Together Ray and Wenders create a film that is more than a documentary telling an extraordinarily moving story about collaboration that goes beyond friendship and ultimately a life in cinema that transcends death itself. Room 666: The year is 1982. Filmmakers across the globe converge on the south of France for the Cannes Film Festival the industry's most prestigious annual event. One by one they are led in to the cramped confines of Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez and forced to answer a difficult and engaging question: What is the future of cinema? The directors become the subject when some of the film's greatest visionaries bare their souls and wax romantic about the fate of moviemaking. Steven Spielberg Michelangelo Antonioni Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard headline an all-star cast of auteurs in this eclectic documentary by acclaimed director Wim Wenders. Tokyo-Ga: Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders turns his camera toward the Far East in this captivating love letter to the world's most bustling metropolis. Using the films of director Yasujiro Ozu as a window into the Tokyo landscape Wenders examines the sociology of Tokyo in both the past and present in an effort to understand the evolution of Japan's national identity. Highlighted by an interview with fellow filmmaker Werner Herzog Tokyo-Ga is a fascinating amalgam of personal experience and global introspection that aims to question the meaning of nostalgia in a city that thrives on change. Notebook On Cities And Clothes: In 1989 the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris asked director Wim Wenders to create a film about the world of fashion. Initially resistant to the idea Wenders soon became fascinated by the craft and philosophy of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto as he prepared his new season's collection. From the streets and studios of Tokyo to the boulevards and catwalks of Paris Wenders uncovers the essence of Yamamoto's work while exploring the enigma of style the language of images and the very nature of human identity. The result is an extraordinary examination of both fashion and cinema as a way of life carried along only by unique vision and vivid curiosity. A Trick Of The Light: Long fascinated with the ever-changing culture of world cinema exploratory director Wim Wenders pays a visit to his alma mater in an effort to recreate the magic and wonder of film in its most infantile state.
Four thrilling Cirque Du Soleil DVDs in one spectacular box set. Titles include: 'Nouvelle Experience' 'Saltimbanco' 'Reinvente' 'Magie Continue'.
Bruno Dumont's (Life Of Jesus) visionary and hauntingly powerful film tells the story of Pharaon De winter (Emmanuel Schotte) a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work. His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it strug
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Part poetry part journalism part philosophy master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's 'Notre Musique' is a witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell represented by modern war and then moves to Purgatory set in Sarajevo. Finally Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from the United States. At the same time the film also follows the parallel stories
Juliette (Marina Vlady) is a chic bored housewife and young married mother who chooses to supplement her income by spending one day a week in central Paris engaged in prostitution. Hoping she will somehow be able to escape the high-rise suburban drudgery in which she lives with her family Juliette embarks on a desperate search for happiness and a sense of meaning to her life...
A superb fun filled feature film for all the family! At Christmas the children of a village organise a snowball fight. But the flight gets a little bit out of control and both sides learn a lesson they will never forget.
While hunting a cultured intelligent and vicious psychopath Inspector Amaldi comes face-to-face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past. A psychological-thriller in the classic 'Giallo' mould...
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