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• Paris, Texas | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Something like a perfect artistic union is achieved in the major components of Paris, Texas: the twang of Ry Cooder's guitar, the lonely light of Robbie Muller's camera, the craggy landscape of Harry Dean Stanton's face. In his greatest role, longtime character actor Stanton plays a man brought back to his old life after wandering in the desert (or somewhere) for four years. He has a 7-year-old son to get to know, and his wife has gone missing. The material is much in the wanderlust spirit of director Wim Wenders, working from a script by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson. If the long climactic conversation between Stanton and Nastassja Kinski renders the movie uneven and slightly inscrutable, it's hard to think of a more fitting ending--and besides, the achingly empty American spaces stick longer in the memory than the dialogue. Winner of the top prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. --Robert Horton

• Break Of Dawn | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two dangerous men.... An unusual friendship.... A showdown to the death.... Two men who have never met before are hired to simulate an assassination but this is no ordinary operation.... One a specialist at high-risk bank robberies has just been released from prison. The other a young mercenary and p[rofessional sniper. When they are offered to pull off a fake assassination they see a chance of solving all of their problems. The catch is that the two men have agreed to be killed as a part of the scam. The two unlikely partners realize too late the job is a set up. They must find the truth to protect their families and despite the plan stay alive. A gripping adventure of double-crossing and deceit.