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• The Aki Kaurismaki Collection - Leningrad Cowboys | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Leningrad Cowboys Go America: This hilarious road movie follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll band in the world the Leningrad Cowboys. When a promoter in their native Siberia stunned by the band's lack of talent advises them to try their luck in America they head for New York. Having learned English en-route on the plane and sporting shades outsize quiffs and outrageously long winkle-pickers they are passed off as Americans. Jim Jarmusch in a cameo role as a shifty car salesman sells them an old Cadillac in which they head south with their frozen bass player and a coffin full of beer. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses: After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico the members of struggling Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Under the guidance of their former manager Vladimir who now calls himself Moses they face a difficult journey over the ocean and across the European continent. But tormented by lack of money fuel and beverages the band begin to murmur against Moses and doubt his motives. On top of this they are persecuted by a certain member of the American intelligence agency who is hunting for the lost nose of the Statue of Liberty. Total Balalaika Show: At Helsinki's Senate Square on June 12 1993 an audience of 70 000 witnessed a historic event: Leningrad Cowboys performed for the first time with the 100 singers 40 musicians and 20 dancers of the Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble on the biggest stage ever seen in Finland. A roaring success the programme included rock classics from ""Happy Together"" and ""Delilah"" to ""Gimme All Your Lovin"" and ""Knocking On Heaven's Door"" as well as traditional hits from the Ensemble's own repertoire. Aki Kaurismki's film of the event is an extraordinary unforgettable encounter of the old and the new and of East and West.

• The Aki Kaurismaki Collection - Vol. 3 | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-50.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Aki Kaurism''ki s deadpan ironic and idiosyncratic films have established him as one of modern European cinema's most accomplished filmmakers. This box set presents three of his remarkable and highly acclaimed features. Crime and Punishment: Kaurism''ki s first feature follows the descent into crime of Rahikainen a slaughterhouse worker and former law student who murders a businessman and then begins a tense game of cat and mouse with the police. Effectively updating Dostoevsky s great novel to 1980s Helsinki this remarkably assured debut offers a sharp critique of Finnish society. Calamari Union: A group of men all bar one called Frank abandon their downtrodden neighbourhood in search of Eira a near mythical district across town that promises a better life. Kaurism''ki s second features details their misadventures along the way with deadpan humour and rock and roll attitude. Hamlet Goes Buisness: In this wicked and hilarious satire of the corporate world Kaurism''ki liberally updates Shakespeare s tragedy as a hard-boiled noir B-movie. Finnish comic Pirkka-Pekka Petelius plays an irresponsible playboy who finds himself involved in a vicious boardroom power struggle with his uncle who plans to sell off his company s assets in order to corner the market on Swedish rubber ducks. La Vie de Boh''me: Freely adapted from Henri Murger s 1851 novel this is Kaurism''ki s highly individual take on the story of three bohemian artists a poet a painter and a composer set in a timeless Paris. Shifting between heartbreaking drama and black humour the fine cast features cameos from Jean-Pierre L''aud Sam Fuller and Louis Malle.

• The Aki Kaurismäki Collection | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £57.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (25.00%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Included Titles: Crime And Punishment Calamari Union Shadows In Paradise Drifting Clouds Oo Aina Ihminen Hamlet Goes Business La Vie Boheme Ariel Match Factory Girl Valimo Leningrad Cowboys Lenigrad Cowboys Go America Total Balalaika Show Take Care Of You Scarf Tatjana Juha The Man Without A Past The Dusk La Havre The Other Side Of Hope Lights In Included Shorts: These Boots Those Were The Days Thru The Wire Rocky IV Rich Little Bitch Dogs Have No Hell Valim

• The Man Without A Past | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (17.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A delirious mixture of black comedy film noir and love sory Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's rapturously received The Man Without A Past triumphed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival carrying off the Best Actress and Grand Jury Prize. Markku Peltola plays 'M' who arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously set upon by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. By some miracle he revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. Rebuilding his life from scratch 'M' acquires a melancholy dog (a recurring Kaurismaki motif) named Hannibal and falls in love with a Salvation Army soup kitchen volunteer (Kati Outinen). But the past inevitably cataches up with him forcing him to confront his future. Nominated for an Academy Award The Man Without A Past is a beautifully observed and effortlessly charming masterpiece stylishly infused with Kauismaki's keen eye for the surreal - nowhere more in evidence than in the deadpan dialogue - and the film-maker's compassion for the dispossessed. Containing nods to Hollywood amnesiac pictures of the 1950s and the director's beloved rock and roll it's a unique work existing in an ultimately tender universe all of its very own.

• The Man Without A Past | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A delirious mixture of black comedy film noir and love sory Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's rapturously received The Man Without A Past triumphed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival carrying off the Best Actress and Grand Jury Prize. Markku Peltola plays 'M' who arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously set upon by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. By some miracle he revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. Rebuilding his life from scratch 'M' acquires a melanchol