"Director: François Reichenbach"

• The Chris Marker Collection | Blu Ray | (02/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This Collection Consists of Two DVD Discs and One Blu-Ray Disc. This DVD collection of Chris Marker films consists of three works that pre-date La Jetée the featurette that firmly planted his name as a filmmaker as well as a series of seven shorter films that span each decade of his career thereafter. These remarkable curios reveal much about him his ideas and his visuality as well as his take on the modern world from an artistic point-of-view - from China Siberia and Israel in the 1950s to the Pentagon art collectives Cheshire cats haikus and early new media. Films Included: Sunday In Peking (Dimanche à Pékin 1956) (also on Blu-Ray) Letter To Siberia (Lettre de Sibérie 1958) (also on Blu-Ray) Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat 1960) The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (La Sixième face du Pentagone 1968) The Embassy (L'Ambassade 1973) Theory Of Sets (Théorie des ensembles 1991) Three Video Haikus (Trois Video Haikus 1994) Blue Helmet (Casque bleu 1996) E-CLIP-SE (1999) The Case Of The Grinning Cat (Chats Perchés 2004)

• America As Seen By A Frenchman | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian François Reichenbach (F for Fake, Portrait: Orson Welles), whose lens captured the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Johnny Hallyday, spent eighteen months travelling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America As Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed perhaps even naïve journey through a multitude of different Americas, filtered through a French sensibility and serving as a fascinating exploration of a culture that is both immediately familiar and thoroughly alien. Prison rodeos; Miss America pageants; visits to Disneyland and a school for striptease; a town inhabited solely by twins; rows of newborns in incubators, like products on an assembly line all these weird and wondrous sights, and more, are captured, sans jugement, by Reichenbach's camera, aided by whimsical narration (provided by, among others, Jean Cocteau) and a jaunty musical score by the late, great Michel Legrand (Une femme est une femme). Titled L'Amérique insolite literally unusual America in its native tongue, America As Seen by a Frenchman lovingly renders the various eccentricities of Americana circa the mid-twentieth century, and proves the old adage that reality really is stranger than fiction. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation Original uncompressed mono audio Newly translated English subtitles New video appreciation of the film by author and critic Philip Kemp Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Caspar Salmon