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• Battleship Potemkin / Pet Shop Boys Score (Limited Edition Blu-ray & CD) | Unknown | (05/09/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein's legendary film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is celebrated for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it's hard not to be swept along. Despite endless quotation and parody, the set-piece massacre on the Odessa Steps still packs a sledgehammer punch.First revealed at a special outdoor screening in front of an estimated 25,000 in Trafalgar Square in 2004, Pet Shop Boys' score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a contemporary cinematic experience.Extras· Hochhaussinfonie (2017, 68 mins): a multimedia musical production by the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra and Pet Shop Boys, conceived by Markus Rindt and directed by Sven Helbig, on the evening of 20 July 2006, in Dresden· Trafalgar Square Highlights (2004, 4 mins): a behind-the-scenes film when Pet Shop Boys performed their newly composed score for Battleship Potemkin, accompanied by the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra in Trafalgar Square, London· CD featuring the score by Pet Shop Boys and Dresdner Sinfoniker· Trailer (2025)· **LIMITED EDITION** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Chris Heath and Sarah Cleary, and archive pieces by Neil Tennant and Michael Brooke· First time the film has been available with the Pet Shop Boys score· Pet Shop Boys have a devoted fanbase across the globe· Battleship Potemkin is still regarded as a must-have disc in any serious film collection· 2025 is the centenary of Battleship Potemkin

• Oil Lamps | Blu Ray | (28/04/2025) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of The Cremator and Morgiana, Juraj Herz's distinctive, ‹decadent film is adapted from the renowned novel by Jaroslav Havlicek. Set at the turn of the 19th-century in the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this atmospheric period drama is a bitter ‹'romance' which centres on the tragic marriage between two cousins. Stepa (the wonderful Iva Janzurova), is a vivacious, modern-minded, wealthy young woman, but who is desperately seeking love and happiness; Pavel (Petr Cepek), is an arrogant, self-serving retired army officer weighed down by debt, cynicism, and syphilis. Herz's lavish film evokes a pungent atmosphere of decay and features superb performances by its two leads, gorgeous costume and set design, and stunning cinematography by Dodo Simoncic. An iconic classic of Czech cinema, presented from a new 4K restoration. ¢ Oil Lamps (Petrolejove lampy, 1971) presented from a new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive. ¢ Projection Booth commentary with film historians Mike White, Kat Ellinger and Jonathan Owen. ¢ A Conversation on a Train (Rozhovor ve vlaku, 1947): An early short Czech public information film on the perils of alcohol and STDs. ¢ Trailer. ¢ Booklet with new writing on the film by author and Czech cinema expert Peter Hames. ¢ New English subtitle translation. ¢ World premiere on Blu-ray.

• The Magnificent Seven | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £8.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (71.53%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Akira Kurosawa's rousing Seven Samurai was a natural for an American remake--after all, the codes and conventions of ancient Japan and the Wild West (at least the mythical movie West) are not so very far apart. Thus The Magnificent Seven effortlessly turns samurai into cowboys (the same trick worked more than once: Kurosawa's Yojimbo became Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars). The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by banditos, hire seven gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen are cool and capable, with most of the actors playing them just on the cusp of '60s stardom: Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. The man who brings these warriors together is Yul Brynner, the baddest bald man in the West. There's nothing especially stylish about the approach of veteran director John Sturges (The Great Escape), but the storytelling is clear and strong, and the charisma of the young guns fairly flies off the screen. If that isn't enough to awaken the 12-year-old kid inside anyone, the unforgettable Elmer Bernstein music will do it: bum-bum-ba-bum, bum-ba-bum-ba-bum... Followed by three inferior sequels, Return of the Seven, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven Ride! --Robert Horton

• The Magnificent Seven Collection | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Magnificent Seven effortlessly turn samurai into cowboys (the same trick worked more than once: Kurosawa'sYojimbo became Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars) and Akira Kurosawa's rousing Seven Samuri was a natural for an American remake through this movie--after all, the codes and conventions of ancient Japan and the Wild West (at least the mythical movie West) are not so very far apart. The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by banditos, hire seven gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen are cool and capable, with most of the actors playing them just on the cusp of 60s stardom: Steve McQueen, JamesCoburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. The man who brings these warriors together is Yul Brynner, the baddest bald man in the West. There's nothing especially stylish about the approach of veteran director John Sturges (The Great Escape), but the storytelling is clear and strong, and the charisma of the young guns fairly flies off the screen. If that isn't enough to awaken the 12-year-old kid inside anyone, the unforgettable Elmer Bernstein music will do it: bum-bum-ba-bum, bum-ba-bum-ba-bum... followed by three inferior sequels, Return of the Seven, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven Ride!--Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• For Whom The Bell Tolls | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan who aides anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Oscar winning performance) the dangerously undependable Pablo and th

• Behind Enemy Lines | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £5.75   |  Saving you £12.24 (212.87%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A drama about a pilot and a naval flight officer (Owen Wilson and Gabriel Macht) shot down behind enemy lines in Bosnia, and the clandestine mission their commanding officer (Gene Hackman) sets up to rescue them.

• Ken Loach Collection (3-disc DVD) | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  KEN LOACH COLLECTION (3-DVD set) This new collection brings together three of Ken Loach's finest films from the 1990s, titles linked by the director's career long drive to tackle social injustice and contemporary political issues. In Riff Raff Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city poverty is brought to the fore in Raining Stones, as unemployed Bob's (Bruce Jones) desperate attempts to afford a communion dress for his daughter results in a succession of disasters. Inspired by real events, Ladybird Ladybird is an emotional and harrowing story of a woman's fight to keep her children and relationship intact in the face of bureaucratic interference. Special Features Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full credits Other extras TBC UK | 1991 - 1994 | colour | 90 + 90 + 102 mins | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | cert 18

• Spacewalker | DVD | (30/10/2017) from £5.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it's up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown They were supposed to do what no man has done before and no man imagined what would happen next SPACEWALKER is an edge-of-your-seat space thriller from the team behind Wanted, Apollo 18 and Night Watch.

• The 13th Warrior | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £6.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (153.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel

• Night Watch/Day Watch | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £9.47   |  Saving you £15.52 (163.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Nightwatch: Embrace the day. Fear the night. With a centuries old truce beginning to break down the forces of light and darkness come to do battle in modern day Moscow... Based on the first of Sergei Lukyanenko's trilogy of sci-fi horror novels Night Watch is a groundbreaking new phenomenon the highest-grossing Russian film of all time! Daywatch: Like The Matrix Day Watch combines cutting-edge digital effects and mind-blowing action to create a stunningly original world. Only one thing stands between peace and Armageddon: the supernatural agents of Day Watch who fight to control the armies of light and darkness. When the son of a senior Day Watch officer turns to the darkness forces beyond the imagination are unleashed and the fate of the world hangs in the balance!

• Brief Encounters (Vintage World Cinema) | Blu Ray | (18/09/2023) from £9.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967) was the debut feature from Kira Muratova. It was here we saw the beginnings of Muratova's impressionistic style, blending observational realism with new wave experimentation. Despite the continued censorship Muratova's work received (Brief Encounters was banned for twenty years) she still managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in Ukraine and Russian cinema, building a very successful film career from the 1960s onwards due to her boundary pushing directorial approach and aesthetics. Brief Encounters tells the story of an intricate love triangle, connecting a city planner (played by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geologist husband (legendary Soviet protest singer Vladimir Vysotsky), and the young woman from the countryside (Nina Ruslanova) whom she hires as their housekeeper. Product Features Interview with Dr. Elena Gorfinkel Isabel Jacobs on Brief Encounters Video essay by Masha Shpolberg

• Road To Morocco | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shipwreck survivors Jeff and Turkey (Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) are guests of a beautiful princess (Dorothy Lamour) who plans to marry Turkey. But the jealous Sheik Kassim has other plans for the groom. Jeff and Turkey manage to save their skins at the brink of a desert war. The film garnered 2 Academy Award Nominations including Best Original Screenplay.

• The In-Laws | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.36   |  Saving you £7.63 (119.97%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Just before his daughter is to be married, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers his in-laws are not what they seem...

• Alexander Nevsky | DVD | (21/03/2000) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein's landmark tale of Russia thwarting the German invasion of the 13th century, was wildly popular with home-grown audiences back in 1938, quite intentionally so, given the prevailing Nazi geopolitical advancement and destruction at the time. It can still be viewed as a masterful use of imagery and music, with the "Battle on the Ice" sequence as the obvious highlight. Unfortunately, the rest of the film pales in comparison. A great score by Prokofiev was effectively integrated by the Russian filmmaker, but stands on its own merit as well. --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• The Return | Blu Ray | (16/04/2018) from £10.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes his feature debut with this haunting, poignant family drama. Teenage brothers Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) have lived with their mother (Natalya Vdovina) and grandmother (Galina Petrova) for as long as they can remember when their long-lost father (Konstantin Lavronenko) suddenly turns up after a twelve-year absence. While Andrei seems happy to see him, the younger Ivan is reluctant and suspicious of his father's motives. The three take a boat to a deserted island in a remote lake in the north of Russia - a trip which turns into an endurance test as the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and cruel, mysterious ways

• Ruslan And Lyudmila | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Glinka's opera 'Ruslan And Lyudmila'.

• Bolshoi Ballet - Trapeze/Fragments of a Biography (Maximova) | DVD | (02/08/2007) from £22.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (11.81%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Horowitz in Moscow | DVD | (20/10/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-8.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  One of the most widely publicized concert of the 20th century occurred on April 20 1986 when 82-year old piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz returned to the country of his birth for the first time in 61 years to perform a recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Beginning with a jauntily unassuming wave to his rapt audience as he took the stage Horowitz did not stint in his choices: selections include sublime music from Chopin Schubert Rachmaninoff Scarlotti Shumann Scriabin Liszt and Mozart exquisitely interpreted by arguably the greatest piano maestro ever recorded.

• The Equalizer | 4K UHD | (30/07/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  McCall (Denzel Washington) has put his mysterious past behind him and is dedicatedto living a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultraviolent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his selfimposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem; if the odds are stacked against them; if they have nowhere else to turn: McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. Features: 4K ULTRA HD™ DISC SPECIAL FEATURES* ALL NEW 5 NeverBeforeSeen Deleted Scenes featuring McCall's Epilogue teasing THE EQUALIZER 2 A Villain's Psychosis featurette Boston: On Location featurette A Modern Hero featurette Joining Forces Again: Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua featurette Playing the Part: The Cast of The Equalizer featurette The Home Mart Advantage: The Action of The Equalizer featurette Vengeance Mode with Denzel Washington & Antoine Fuqua 6 Featurettes Photo Gallery

• The Ascent (1977) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from LARISA SHEPITKO (Wings) won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus. When they fall into the hands of German forces and come face-to-face with death, each must choose between martyrdom and betrayal, in a spiritual ordeal that lifts the film's earthy drama to the plane of religious allegory. With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimov Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko's life, work, and relationship with Klimov Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Shepitko New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by poet Fanny Howe