"Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara"

• Antonio Gaudi (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (09/03/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Catalan architect ANTONI GAUDÍ (18521926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA (Woman in the Dunes) constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. In Antonio Gaudí, their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara's film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí's truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film. Special Edition Features High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview with architect Arata Isozaki from 2008 Gaudí, Catalunya, 1959, footage from director Hiroshi Teshigahara's first trip to Spain Visions of Space: Antoni Gaudí, an hour-long documentary from 2003 on the architect's life and work BBC program on Gaudí by filmmaker Ken Russell Sculptures by SofuVita, a 1963 short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of his father, Sofu Teshigahara Trailer PLUS: An essay by art historian Dore Ashton, a 1986 reminiscence by Hiroshi Teshigahara, and excerpts from a 1959 conversation between Hiroshi and Sofu Teshigahara on their trip to the West

• The Face Of Another | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Facially scarred in a fire a businessman (Nakadai) receives psychotherapy and an amazingly lifelike mask. However he finds it difficult to re-integrate into society and discovers that his personal habits are changing. Is the mask controlling him or did he create the new personality of the mask? Director Hiroshi Teshigahara teamed up once more with screenwriter and novelist Kobo Abe and experimental composer Toru Takemitsu following their collaboration on the seminal 'Sunna No Onna'

• Woman Of The Dunes | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hiroshi Teshigahara's powerful masterpiece based on the novel by Kobo Abe follows an amateur biologist who escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing erotic lust.

• Pitfall | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A wandering miner looking for work with his young son is pursued and savagely killed by a mysterious silent assassin in a white suit and hat. The killer threatens a female witness to lie to the police and blame it on someone else. As mistrust and more killings spread through the barely populated rundown mining community ghosts of the dead appear and follow the action unheard by the living yet imploring them for answers. Who is the man in white and why does he sow confusion? Te