"Director: Isaac Julien"

• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring celebrated British actor Colin Salmon (Arrow, Prime Suspect, Tomorrow Never Dies) as Fanon, and using reconstructions, archive footage and interviews with major theorists and writers (such as Stuart Hall, Françoise Vergès and Homi K Bhabha) Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask tells the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon. Together, artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels) and curator and producer Mark Nash (Documenta 11) undertake an intellectual and poetic exploration of Fanon's life, influence and legacy, from his early years in Martinique (then a colony of France) to his professional life as a psychiatric doctor and revolutionary in Algeria during the bloody war of independence with France. Now, as the film's twentieth anniversary approaches and we witness Arab uprisings, religious fundamentalisms and the so-called ˜War on Terror', Fanon and his work are more pertinent than ever. Features: Stills Gallery Extensive booklet with essays and film credits Downloadable PDFs of extended essays and archive materials Cast and Crew: Directed by Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels, Derek) Starring Colin Salmon (Arrow, Law & Order: UK, Tomorrow Never Dies)

• Young Soul Rebels | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £18.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (10.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Issac Julien comes this powerful drama set on an East London housing estate in the summer of 1977. Focussing on Chris and Caz a pair of pirate radio DJs living amongst punks and skinheads Julien's film explores the social and sexual tensions that arise in a community following the murder of a local black gay man.

• Young Soul Rebels | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Summer 1977 the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Passion is in the air of the dark blue London sky. TJ is out cruising the park for love and is murdered. A beatbox lying in the bushes is the only clue... Soul mates since childhood Chris and Caz are two young black disc jockeys who run the coolest pirate radio station in town Soul Patrol. The skins on Chris's housing estate mock him and Caz; they envy their black soul boy style. However Chris has ambitions beyond the pirat

• Derek | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek is an insightful imaginative and loving appreciation of Jarman from filmmaker Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston Young Soul Rebels) and actress Tilda Swinton who appeared in many of Jarman's films and here acts as an executive producer screenwriter and narrator. This documentary is a very good introduction to both Jarman the man - born during World War II reveler in the swingin' '60s and mature artist from the '70s until his death from AIDS in 1994 - and Jarman the multi-talented painter theatre and film designer author activist and filmmaker.

• Baad Asssss Cinema - A Bold Look At 70's Blaxploitation Films | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring a wealth of footage from classic films such as Superfly (1972) Shaft (1971) and Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's BaadAsssss Song (1971) and interviews with such key players as Richard Roundtree Quentin Tarantino and Pam Grier Baadasssss Cinema thoroughly explores blaxpolitation films from their breakout casting and the unforgettable soundtracks to the outrageous fashions and hilariously over-the-top storylines that together helped the genre ach

• Looking For Langston | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This stylish avant-garde film is a meditation on the work of acclaimed black poet Langston Hughes. The film reclaims and celebrates Langston Hughes as an important black gay voice in American culture. Original footage of the Cotton Club in the 1920s archival footage depicting the Harlem Renaissance period and Robert Mapplethorpe's photos of beautiful black men set the scene for this exploration of attitudes toward homosexuality.