"Director: Todd Solondz"

• Happiness | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At times brilliant and insightful, at times repellent and false, Happiness is director Todd Solondz's multi-story tale of sex, perversion and loneliness. Plumbing depths of Crumb-like angst and rejection, Solondz won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1998 and the film was a staple of nearly every critic's Top 10 list. Admirable, shocking, and hilarious for its sarcastic yet strangely empathetic look at consenting adults' confusion between lust and love, the film stares unflinchingly until the audience blinks. But it doesn't stop there. A word of strong caution to parents: One of the main characters, a suburban super dad (played by Dylan Baker), is really a predatory paedophile and there is more than an attempt to paint him as a sympathetic character. Children are used in this film as running gags or, worse, the means to an end. Whether that end is a humorous scene for Solondz or sexual gratification for the rapist becomes largely irrelevant. Happiness is an intelligent, sad film, revelatory and exact at moments. It's also abuse in the guise of art. That's nothing to celebrate. --Keith Simanton

• Life During Wartime | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joy (Shirkey Henderson) is married to a man with an unresolved 'affliction' and recieves visitations from her deceased ex-lover. Her sister Trish (Allison Janney) meets an unlikely new suitor (Michael Lerner) who she hopes will bring stability to her family while her husband (Ciaran Hinds) is just out of prison and keen to reconnect with his son. Helen (Ally Sheedy) the third sister is feeling intense pressure from her family and her Hollywood success. Ten years after the critically acclaimed Happiness director Todd Solondz returns to the familiar themes and characters with Life During Wartime and presents us with a tale thats poignant funny disturbing shocking and sad while creating a resonant portrait of modern life and love.

• Dark Horse | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Writer/director Todd Solondz ('Welcome to the Dollhouse', 'Happiness') examines the irretrievability of youth in the hilariously dark and idiosyncratic comedy Dark Horse, featuring an all-star cast led by Jordan Gelber ('Boardwalk Empire'), Selma Blair ('Cruel Intentions'), Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow ('Rosemary's Baby') and Justin Bartha ('The Hangover').Tempering his trademark lacerating humour with unexpected tenderness, Solondz creates a poignant and provocative portrait of two dysfunctional thirty-somethings, their plans to marry and a besieged man-child and his fractured family.

• Wiener Dog | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £6.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedy written and directed by Todd Solondz which follows a loveable Dachshund as it travels around the country, changing the lives of a number of very different owners along the way. After setting off on a road trip with veterinary assistant Dawn Wiener (Greta Gerwig), the dog then encounters young cancer survivor Remi (Keaton Nigel Cooke), failing film professor Dave Schmerz (Danny DeVito) and troubled grandmother Nana (Ellen Burstyn).

• Storytelling | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £9.28   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Todd Solondz presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. The first story ""Fiction"" stars Selma Blair as Vi a confused university student who engages in an impulsive tryst with her Pulitzer Prize-winning professor (Robert Wisdom) after arguing with her cerebral palsy-afflicted boyfriend (Leo Fitzpatrick). The second (and longer) tale ""Non-Fiction "" stars Paul Giamatti as Toby a down-on-his-luck documentary filmmaker who turns his ca

• Palindromes | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thirteen-year-old Aviva wants to be a Mom - and will go to any lengths to realise her dream.

• Welcome To The Dollhouse | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £27.49   |  Saving you £-11.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not all girls want to play with dolls. Todd Solendz became the most talked-about new director in recent years with this acclaimed comedy about the suburban condition. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 1996 Welcome To The Dollhouse follows 11-year old Dawn ""Wienerdog"" Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates tormented by the school bully Dawn develops an improbable plan to

• AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS Volume 1 | DVD | (09/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  HALF NELSON (2006) Dir. Ryan Fleck Ryan Gosling (Drive) turns in a stunning, Oscar-nominated performance in the smart, moving and politically engaged HALF NELSON, winner of multiple Independent Spirit Awards and Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival 2006. Special features: Commentary, interview and audience Q&A with the filmmakers, outtakes, deleted & extended scenes. SUGAR (2008) Dir. Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden Boden and Fleck's powerful and ambitious follow-up to their startlingly assured feature debut, Half Nelson, SUGAR is an original and provocative portrait of the modern-day immigrant experience by two of America's most distinctive young filmmakers. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2008. Special features: Interviews with the directors and cast. DARK HORSE (2011) Dir. Todd Solondz Acclaimed writer/director Todd Solondz (Happiness) examines the loss of youth in this darkly hilarious comedy, featuring a cast led by Jordan Gelber (Boardwalk Empire), Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions), Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter) and Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby). BALLAST (2008) Dir. Lance Hammer A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival, BALLAST is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption. Special features: Ballast Scene Development (36 mins) HONEYDRIPPER (2007) Dir. John Sayles The godfather of American independent cinema, writer/director John Sayles (Lone Star, City of Hope), brings the birth of rock ˜n' roll to life with electrifying effect, with Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon) leading a stellar ensemble cast. Special features: Commentary with writer/director John Sayles.