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• The Student Comedies (The Ozu Collection) | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £19.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) has been revered all over the world for the unique and poetic style of his films. This 2-disc set brings together all of his surviving early student-genre comedies on DVD for the first time.The collection features the following four films: Days of Youth, I Flunked, But..., The Lady and the Beard, and Where now are the Dreams of Youth as well as the surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy I Graduated, But...

• Arabian Nights (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £16.48   |  Saving you £6.50 (48.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life series was two years in the making. The locations – Yemen, Ethiopia, Iran and Nepal – form a rich, exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing, mysterious, profound and liberating, Arabian Nights is an exquisitely dreamlike, sensuous and adult interpretation of the original folk tales, presented here in a beautiful new high-definition restoration. Extras include an alternative English language version, deleted sequences and the original trailer.

• Man With a Movie Camera (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/07/2015) from £16.83   |  Saving you £4.42 (28.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "An experiment in the creative communication of visible events without the aid of inter-titles, a scenario or theatre "aiming at creating a truly international absolute language of cinema," is how the inter-titles describe what is about to be seen. Bold claims indeed, but in its awesome sophistication The Man with a Movie Camera does live up to them, making it one of the most contemporary of silent movies. The subject, the life of a city from dawn to dusk, was not original even for 1928, but its treatment was--the cameraman as voyeur, social commentator and prankster, exploiting every trick permissible with the technology of the day (slow motion, dissolves, split screens, freeze frames, stop motion animation, etc). A young woman stirs in her bed, apparently fighting a nightmare in which a cameraman is about to be crushed by an oncoming train. She wakes up, and the sequence is revealed to be a simple trick shot. As she blinks her weary eyes, the shutters of her window mimic her viewpoint, and the iris of the camera spins open. Self-reflexive wit like this abounds here--there's even a delicious counterpoint made between the splicing of film and the painting of a woman's nails.The film was the brainchild of the Moscow-based film-maker Dziga Vertov (real name Denis Arkadyevich Kaufman), a furiously inventive poet of the cinema who made innumerable shorts about daily life (such as the much-quoted "Kino-Pravda"), and played at candid camerawork and cinema vérité long before they became the clichés of the television age. The editing has a fantastic abandon that makes most pop videos look sluggish. --David Thompson

• Rocco and his Brothers (1961) | Blu Ray | (14/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Eureka Entertainment to release Luchino Visconti's ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, the melodramatic 1960 masterpiece with an extraordinary cast, on Blu-ray for the first time in the world on 14 March 2016 From Luchino Visconti the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La dolce vita and Antonioni's L'avventura, Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid to confront head-on the hypocrisies of the ruling class, the squalor in urban living, and the collision between generations. When a tight-knit family moves from Italy's rural south to metropolitan Milan, the new possibilities - and threats - present in their fresh surroundings have alarming, unforeseen consequences. Operatically weaving the five brothers' stories across a vast canvas, with an extraordinary cast including Alain Delon, Annie Girardot and Claudia Cardinale, Rocco and His Brothers stands as one of the most majestic and influential works of its era. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present one of Visconti's most revered films for the first time in the world on Blu-ray. Special Features: Gorgeous high-definition 1080p presentation from a new 4k restoration Optional English subtitles Two audio choices; the original Italian, and the French dub Les coulisses du tournage, a 2003 French documentary about the film A 1999 interview with Visconti's cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno An interview with actress Claudia Cardinale A 2002 interview with actress Annie Girardot Luchino Visconti, an hour-long documentary about the life and work of Visconti Two vintage newsreels Original Italian trailer PLUS: A 40-PAGE BOOKLET featuring writing by Guido Aristarco, an essay written by the director in 1960, a vintage interview with Visconti and rare archival imagery. Click Images to Enlarge

• No Hard Feelings | DVD | (07/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 - The Complete Season | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ryota Sato just went from office worker to monster slayer! While this is better than his past life, he seems stuck at level 1 and unable to gain new skills. But with an ability that grants rare items, Ryota just might thrive in this magical land.

• Wah-Wah | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £5.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (237.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.

• Branded to Kill | Blu Ray | (18/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seijun Suzuki's absolutely mad yakuza movie Branded to Kill bends the hit-man genre so out-of-shape it more resembles a Luis Bunuel take on Martin Scorsese. Number Three killer Goro Hanada (Jo Shishido) is a hired gun who loves his work, but when he misses a target after a mere butterfly sets his carefully balanced aim astray, he becomes the next target of the mob. Goro is no pushover and easily dispatches the first comers, leaving them splayed in death contortions that could qualify for an Olympic event, but the rat-a-tat violence gives way to a surreal, sadistic game of cat and mouse. The legendary Number One mercilessly taunts his target before moving in with him in a macho, testosterone-laden Odd Couple truce that ends up with them handcuffed together. Kinky? Not compared to earlier scenes. The smell of boiling rice sets Goro's libido for his mistress so aflame that Suzuki censors the gymnastic sex with animated black bars that come to life in an animated cha-cha. Because Suzuki pushed his yakuza parodies and cinematic surrealism too far, his studio, Nikkatsu, finally called in their own metaphoric hit and fired the director with such force that he was effectively blackballed from the industry for a decade. It took about that long for audiences to embrace his audacious genre bending--Suzuki's pop-art sensibilities were just a bit ahead of their time. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Nostalgia | Blu Ray | (19/09/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrei Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist, Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in Italy. Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia, his beautiful Italian interpreter, Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children, and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task. Nostalgia is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary images, all of which coalesce into a miraculous whole in the film's final shot. As in all Tarkovsky's films, nature, the elements of fire and water, music, painting and poetry all play a major role

• Germany Year Zero (DVD) | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Newly restored version of Roberto Rossellini’s closing part of his celebrated War Trilogy. Amidst the ruins of Berlin in the immediate post-war years a young boy Edmund attempts to support his family. This devastating portrait of an obliterated post-war Europe remains one of the most affecting films in the history of cinema. This new DVD edition also includes L’Amore (1948) Rossellini’s two-part anthology film which proved hugely controversial on its original release. The first part was co-scripted by Rossellini and Federico Fellini and stars Fellini as Saint Joseph who villainously impregnates Nanni (Anna Magnani) a disturbed peasant who believes herself to be the Virgin Mary. The second part is based on Jean Cocteau’s play La voix humaine. Features: Newly restored presentations of Germany Year Zero and L’Amore L’Amore (Roberto Rossellini 1948 70 mins): anthology film with sections written by Jean Cocteau and Federico Fellini and starring Anna Magnani Illustrated booklet with film notes and complete credits

• Kuroneko (1968) | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £12.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (27.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Kaneto Shindô's Kuroneko (Yabu no naka no kuroneko or The Black Cat Inside the Bamboo Grove) — released to great acclaim in 1968 — is a sparse atmospheric horror story ascribing to the director’s philosophy of using beauty and purity to evoke emotion. Eccentric and more overtly supernatural than its breakthrough companion piece Onibaba Kuroneko revisits similar themes to reveal a haunting meditation on duty conformity and love. In this magnificently eerie and romantic film — loosely based on the Japanese folktale The Cat’s Return — a mother and daughter-in-law (Nobuko Otowa and Kiwako Taichi) are raped and murdered by pillagers but return from the dead as vampiric cat spirits intent on revenge. As the ghosts lure soldiers into the bamboo groves a fearless samurai Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) is sent to stop their reign of terror. Kuroneko remains a standout film of the kaidan eiga genre of period ghost stories often based on old legends or kabuki plays. Marking Shindô’s first use of wire work as Yone and Shige battle against samurai blades the film is subtly complimented by Kiyomi Kuroda’s award-winning chiaroscuro cinematography Hikaru Hayashi’s vibrant score and riveting performances from many of the greatest actors of Japan’s golden age of film.

• Home From Home - A Chronicle of A Vision BR | Blu Ray | (15/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Edgar Reitz (director of the Heimat Trilogy) continues his visionary journey through German history with a domestic drama and love story set against the backdrop of a forgotten tragedy. In the mid-19th century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans emigrated to faraway South America. It was a desperate bid to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Jakob, the younger of two brothers, dreams about leaving his small village for adventures in the wild Brazilian jungle. Everyone who encounters Jakob is drawn into the maelstrom of his dreams: his parents, his belligerent brother Gustav, and above all, Henriette, the daughter of a gem cutter fallen on hard times. His brother's imminent return from military service, however, is destined to shatter Jakob's world and his love for Henriette.

• Space Dandy Complete BD Set | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £34.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it's first come first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety of aliens. Join the best-dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe! Contains Seasons 1 & 2 of Space Dandy (Episodes 1-26) on Blu-Ray with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Extras: Complete seasons 1 & 2, episodes 1-26 on Blu-Ray Clean Opening Clean Closing Trailer Collection Digital Art Gallery

• Black Butler Complete Series Box Set | DVD | (26/03/2012) from £9.49   |  Saving you £30.50 (321.39%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Butler From Hell!Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon Butler summoned from the very pits of hell.Together, they'll prowl the darkest alleys of London on a mission to snuff out those who would do evil. They're a rare sight, these two: the Butler who dismembers with dazzling cutlery and the Young Master who carries the devil's marking. Rest assured that wherever they may be headed, it'll be one hell of a ride.

• The Bodyguard From Beijing | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £13.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness. Complications arise when the bodyguard and the witness must confront their deep feelings for one another.

• Shikabane Hime - Complete Series | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £35.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (14.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  She'll Kill Anything That's Dead!In the dark of night at a Buddhist temple, a mysterious ritual is performed causing the dead body of a beautiful teenage girl to be brought back to life. This girl is Makina Hoshino, the latest Shikabane Hime (corpse princess), or killer of restless souls. Caught between here and the afterworld, and bound to the monk who reanimated her, Makina can only gain eternal peace by killing 108 fellow zombies before she is murdered all over again.

• Vitalina Varela | DVD | (31/08/2020) from £11.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following on from his exquisite works Horse Money, Colossal Youth, Casa de Lava and Blood, Vitalina Varela is the latest film from Pedro Costa. Winner of the prestigious 'Best Film' and Best Actress' Awards at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival, and the Silver Hugo Jury Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, Costa's film follows the titular Vitalina, a woman left behind in Cape Verde when her husband leaves to find work in Portugal. Years later, she finally makes the journey to Lisbon herself but arrives three days after his funeral. Alone and isolated in her late husband's home, Vitalina is determined to persevere and confront the ghosts of the past.. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Vitalina Varela (2019) presented from a director-approved HD transfer of the film New filmed interview with director Pedro Costa Teaser trailers Booklet featuring writing on the film Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C) Original soundtrack in 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo + MORE TBC

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Inspired by the bestselling novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship.

• One Piece (Uncut) Collection 20 (Episodes 469-492) | DVD | (17/12/2018) from £24.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As Luffy advances across the bay of Marineford to save Ace, the Whitebeard Pirates come to his aid in a no-holds-barred clash with the Navy forces. Just when the brothers make a mad dash toward freedom, Ace turns back to lend Whitebeard a hand, refusing to leave him for dead. But before he can reach his destination, Akainu appears to test the might of his magma against the flames of Fire Fist Ace.

• The Voyeur | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £13.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (11.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young university professor, is the Voyeur of the title reliving various moments of his sex life through a series of erotic flashbacks, trying to understand his wife's bizarre sexual needs and win her back. He also observes the night-time habits of his brazen uninhibited maid and witnesses the totally liberated dalliances of one of his student, a dusky beauty. Remastered in its original sumptuous widescreen, The Voyeur finally gets the release it deserves, in its longest, most complete form ever!