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• Four Films From Fellini - La Dolce Vita ; I Vitelloni ; 8 1/2 ; Giuliette Degli Spiriti | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  La Dolce Vita (1960): Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society in this classic Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)... Giuliette Degli Spiriti (1965) I Vitelloni (1953): Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives. Criterion's DVD also includes an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste and other actors technicians and scholars; the original trailer and newsreels from the time of the film's release; a collection of stills posters and memorabilia; and more. 8 1/2: (1963) One of the greatest films about film ever made Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastrioanni) is a director whose film -- and life -- is collapsing around him. An early working title for the film was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion) and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream a circus and a magic act. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film - one of the most written about talked about and imitated movies of all time -- in a beautifully restored new all digital transfer. Disc Two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb this ""imagined documentary"" of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.

• Barakamon | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An aspiring artist's world is about to be turned upside down. Seishu exiles himself to a small island to rediscover his passion as a calligrapher after violently attacking one of his most vocal critics. While the Goto Islands appear to be a tranquil paradise on the surface, this young mapmaker soon learns that wacky neighbors and hyperactive children just might provide him the sense of humor he needs on his journey towards self-discovery. Based on the popular manga series comes a tale of finding inspiration in the most hilarious and unlikely of places.

• The Designated Victim | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £18.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A true high point in 70s Italian thriller cinema this inspired remake of Hitchcocks Strangers on a Train from director Maurizio Lucidi is able to push the concept of the original movie into something far more unbearably tense and deliciously twisted. Stefano (Thomas Milian; Traffic Amistad JFK) needs to sort out his troublesome wife who is seriously cramping his future plans. A chance meeting with a wealthy Count Matteo (Pierre Clemente) leads to an extraordinary plan where both will do each other a murderous favour to free them from the people who ail them. The problem is Stefano treats this as a joke whilst Matteo is deadly serious and what he does drives Stefano to the edge of sanity in a gripping race against time! Shot in a mist-wreathed eerily beautiful Venice this near dream-like melding of thriller with baroque giallo overtones has remained until now a criminally hidden psychological gem.

• A Love To Hide | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (-33.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After witnessing the death of her parents at the hands of the Nazis a young Jewish girl tries to survive by taking shelter from an old friend. The gestapo soon track her down and she is forced to flee once more to the support of a childhood vacation friend who passes her off as an employee of the family business. However the girls presence soon gets her protectors into trouble themselves.

• The Dungeon of Black Company - The Complete Season | DVD | (28/11/2022) from £7.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Teleported to another world, Kinji is forced to work for a mining company that focuses solely on profits and has no care whatsoever for the safety and well-being of its employees. Kinji begins devising plans to get rich quickly, building connections with others in this new world and making his best efforts to escape the stringent corporate life.

• WHY NOT YOU | DVD | (24/05/2021) from £7.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Arifureta: From Commonplace to World s Strongest: Season 1: Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (21/12/2020) from £54.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The ordinary life of 17-year-old otaku Hajime Nagumo is disrupted when he and his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind. While his classmates are gifted with impressive abilities useful in combat, Hajime is belittled for only gaining an inferior transmutation skill that lacks any real offensive power. During an expedition in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime is betrayed by one of his classmates, plummeting him to the bottom of an abyss. Though he survives the fall, Hajime is faced with menacing monsters and misfortunes that send him spiraling into a grim nightmare. Desperate to live and return home one day, he resolves to fight for his survival only to meet an imprisoned vampire he names Yue, who is also seeking to escape the labyrinth. Taking an interest in him, Yue and a few others along the way accompany Hajime on his journey to find a way back home, while steadily transforming from commonplace to the world's strongest. Limited Edition includes: 2x enamel pins, 1x 40 page art book, 1x filler box, 6x art cards, 3x vinyl stickers

• Black Peter | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials, Second Run presents the debut feature film of the late, great Czech filmmaker Milos Forman. Black Peter is a wonderfully wry and provocative comedy about a young man growing up in a 1960s Czech provincial town. Taking the Best Film prize at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival, this early masterpiece of the emerging Czech New Wave brought to the screen something that Czechoslovak filmgoers weren t used to an authentic testimony about the lives of young people. Forman went on to become the most successful of all his Czech contemporaries, moving to America where he had huge international hits with films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Amadeus works that won him Best Director Academy Awards in 1976 and 1985 respectively. Forman made many important American films, but stayed true to his Czech roots. Black Peter, along with his other early works (which include his classic 1965 film A Blonde in Love), perfectly capture the authenticity and atmosphere of life in the eastern bloc during the early 60s, and the feelings of Czech teenagers in youthful rebellion on the cusp of the Prague Spring. DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Black Peter ( erný Petr, 1964) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive. Life As It Is: Milos Forman on his Czech films: Part one of an archival film-by-film interview, newly edited for this release with never-before-seen footage. All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael Brooke Trailer Booklet featuring new writing on the film by an author, academic and programmer Jonathan Owen New and improved English subtitle translation. Region free Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio

• A Magnificent Haunting | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pietro (Elio Germano) spends his evenings working nightshifts in a local bakery. He has just moved to Rome and has big dreams of becoming a successful actor. He finds a very beautiful old apartment which despite being in need of a little repair has an unbelievably cheap rent. This place seems just so perfect! But soon after settling in he notices that objects get moved around and there are strange noises coming from the empty rooms. It soon becomes clear that he is not living alone. Determined not to run Pietro tries everything he can to get rid of the seven and a half other worldly beings that have been resident in the house since World War Two. But this mysterious ghostly theatre company will not leave. Over time they all fall into a routine of domesticity and Pietro realises that he now has a group of friends that he can share his desires fears and secrets with. But what happened during the Second World War to confine them all to this old house? What is the secret behind the tragedy of this ghostly theatre company. Pietro is determined to find out his search for the truth takes him on an astonishing journey. Ferzan Özpetek the director of the award winning comedy Loose Cannons returns with A Magnificent Haunting an exciting tale of a young man whose life is turned upside down when he overcomes his deepest fears to help a ghostly group break free of their eternal prison.

• Maquia - Collector's Combi | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The people of Iolph are known for two things: their youthful longevity and peaceful lives weaving tapestry. When that is disturbed and their home thrown into chaos by those believing that their blood gifts longer life, Maquia loses not only her friends, but a place to return to. Lost in both mind and body, she stumbles into a dark forest and happens upon Aliel, an orphaned baby boy. Together, the two embark on an emotional journey of the bond between the ageless and the mortal. Contains the film on Blu-Ray and DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in Collectors packaging.

• Vampyros Lesbos | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Soledad Miranda plays the countess Nadine who lures people back to her island for vampire enslavement and a bit of necro-nookie. Naughty Nadine also has a liking for female flesh and blood as does the clinical camera work. This epic of sleaze is accompanied by the easy listening soundtrack sensation of the century !

• Gatchaman Crowds Insight DVD/Blu-ray Combo Pack | Blu Ray | (15/05/2017) from £34.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gatchaman Crowds insight contains episodes 1-13 of season two of Gatchaman Crowds. You can't keep a good Gatchaman down, especially when a new organization called VAPE (short for Violent Ape) starts hijacking CROWDS technology. The ensuing wave of Red CROWDS incidents targeting high profile targets like the Prime Minister make it clear that the good team needs to start recruiting; fast. Fortunately, help arrives quickly, and with a rather... loud entrance. The alien Gelsadra's ship crashes in a rice paddy in Nijima! Besides being generally peaceful, Gelsadra has a unique power involving comic-book-like speech bubbles that display a person's inner feelings, rather like an emoji. There's also the fireworks enthusiast, Tsubasa, whose life becomes the focus of millions of viewers when she's chosen as the newest Gatchaman - on nationwide live television! As if that wasn't enough pressure for a teenage girl to handle, she's also assigned Hajime as her mentor! Will she survive? Will the world survive? Things are about to get really wild and crazy in GATCHAMAN CROWDS INSIGHT!

• Memories Of Underdevelopment | Blu Ray | (17/02/2017) from £13.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hailed as one of if not the most sophisticated films ever to come out of Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias Del Subdesarollo) is visionary Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's tour de force. Now, thanks to Mr Bongo Films, the film is set to arrive in a stunningly restored version on UK Blu-ray for the first time. Listed at number fifty-four on Derek Malcolm's 100 Greatest Movies, this cinematic masterpiece has been fully restored using the original camera and sound negative by Cineteca di Bologna with a vintage duplicate provided by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos. This international initiative to save the film from decay was funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation and the Martin Scorsese-chaired World Cinema Project, founded to provide a resource for those countries lacking archival and technical facilities. Memories of Underdevelopment makes its Blu-ray debut on 20 February 2017. Memories of Underdevelopment follows Sergio (Sergio Corrieri Soy Cuba), through his life, following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion, before meeting Elena (Daisy Granados), a young woman he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself? Even though director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a staunch and devoted supporter of the revolution, Memories of Underdevelopment offers a raw and uncompromising analysis of the newly formed system of government. Through a moving blend of narrative fiction, still photography and rare documentary footage, Alea catalogues the intricacies of the early days of the Castro regime; producing a stirring and enigmatic work that feeds off the culture of the very subject it is studying: Cuba. One of the early landmark films of post-revolutionary Cuban cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea said of his 1968 opus: ˜Every day, to build our society, we have to confront the type of people we despise I hope with my film, to annoy, provoke, and upset all of them.'

• Mai Mai Miracle (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (19/06/2017) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Sunao Katabuchi (director of In This Corner of the World, Assistant Director of Kiki's Delivery Service and director of Black Lagoon) and animation production by Madhouse (One Punch Man, Perfect Blue). Funded with Kickstarter Shinko, is a third grade elementary school student with a magically active imagination. She spends a lot of her time listening to her grandfather's history lessons, imagining what her town was like 1,000 years earlier. One day, a sad and sombre girl called Kiiko transfers to Shinko's school from Tokyo. A strong friendship soon grows between the two girls as Shinko helps Kiiko come out of her shell and deal with her loss - all thanks to their adventures, both imagined and real. Contains the film on Blu-Ray and DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Extras: Japanese Trailer Dubbing Mai Mai Miracle: an interview with Michael Sinterniklass

• Negima 4 - Magic 401: Magical Enhancements | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's summer break at Mahora Academy but things are far from quiet. And while vacation means a break from the classroom hassle and hilarity fill the class agenda. After all Professor Negi Springfield's still on duty! Monday - A Presidential class trip Tuesday - Super smoocher pillow fight challenge Wednesday - Amusement park antics Thursday - Cooking and how not to Friday - Spin the bottle... but who's playing? Of books and bells and magic spells - The girls of Class 2-A lite

• Aaltra | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £11.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (30.92%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day in the course of a violent dispute an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them both to hospital. They are both released in wheelchairs paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However before they know it they both end up on the same platform waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again for better or worse. An unpredictable odyssey then starts taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery for their accident...

• The Last Summer of La Boyita | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £7.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (53.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the tradition of tender coming-of-age tales such as Lucia Puenzo’s XXY and Celine Sciamma’s Tomboy, comes Julia Solomonoff’s The Last Summer of La Boyita, a sumptuously-shot ode to childhood summers past, executive produced by Pedro Almodovar.'La Boyita', a little bubble-shaped caravan, has always been a place of refuge, games and confessions for Jorgelina and her older sister Luciana. As Luciana enters puberty she begins to seek privacy and independence from her adoring sibling. Rather than tag along after her sister at the beach, Jorgelina decides to spend her summer holidays with her father in the country. There she develops a close friendship with Mario, a local farm boy and jockey. As the children explore the sun-drenched Pampas prairies and each other, they begin to question the similarities they share, and what makes them different.

• City Of Men | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £4.88   |  Saving you £7.11 (145.70%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The struggle for survival amongst Rio's favelas continues, as "City Of Men" arrives on DVD on 23rd February 2009

• The Complex | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Japanese horror directed by Hideo Nakata. Student nurse Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) moves into a rundown apartment building with her parents and younger brother. Kept awake at night by muffled scratching noises from her neighbour's room, she grows weary of the other inhabitants and fearful of the spooky building. Determined to find out what the scratching noises are she decides to investigate, but what she finds may compromise her sanity...

• Jack and Diane | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sexy thrilling and exciting plus Kylie as you've never seen her Jack and Diane is anything but your usual lesbian tale. When Jack and Diane meet one hot summer meet sparks immediately fly. The relationship is as powerful as either have ever felt. But when Jack announces she has to move away their intensity manifests itself in a way neither was expecting.