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• La Regle du Jeu | Blu Ray | (29/05/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Denigrated by the public, vilified by the critics, re-cut at the insistence of its producers, and finally banned by the French government as demoralising and unpatriotic, La Règle du jeu was a commercial disaster at the time of its original release. On the surface, a series of interlinked romantic intrigues taking place at a weekend shooting party in a country chateau, the film is in fact a study of corruption and decay within French society on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Its reputation firmly restored, Renoir's brilliant comedy is now widely recognized as one of the greatest films ever made. Product Features Restored in 4K in 2021 by La Cinémathèque française and Les Grands Films Classiques and presented on Blu-ray A 42-minute documentary on the making of La Règle du Jeu, directed by Pierre Oscar Levy (1987) for the series Image par Image Other extras TBC

• La Regle Du Jeu | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £9.42   |  Saving you £10.57 (112.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dismissed by both the public and critics on its first release re-cut by its producers and then banned by the French government as 'demoralising' 'La Regle Du Jeu' now features in the Top Ten greatest film lists of both critics and director's and is one of the most requested world cinema DVD releases by film fans. Renoir's tale of romantic intrigues at a weekend shooting party in a country chateau is now widely recognised as one of the greatest films ever made as a brilliant com

• Michael | Blu Ray | (12/02/2018) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a decadent elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or intimate theatre, foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent final film Gertrud, by forty years with its Now I may die content, for I have seen great love epigraph. Michael was scripted by Dreyer with Fritz Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou (Metropolis, M, etc). It stars the director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan); Walter Slezak (Hitchcock's Lifeboat); Nora Gregor (Renoir's The Rules of the Game); Mady Christians (Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman); and Karl Freund (who also shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed most of Michael too, but left to work on Murnau's The Last Laugh, and Rudolph Maté took over.