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• Bubblegum Crisis, Vol. 2 | DVD | (16/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.94

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Bubblegum Crisis, Vol. 1 | DVD | (16/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.94

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Pergolesi's Lo Frate 'nnamorato | DVD | (26/08/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.36

• Dracula's Fiancee | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Boccaccio 70 | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by The Decameron, World-Cinema greatests, Fellini, Visconti and De Sica lend their extraordinary talents to make these slice-of-life stories revolving around the sex games of the middle class. Working-class lovers marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified to do? A buxom carnival-booth manager who owes back taxes offers herself for one night in a lottery: a nerdy sacristan and a jealous suitor make for a lovers' triangle. In each, women take charge, albeit not always successfully ! Extras: Sophia, yesterday, today and tomorrow: a candid intimate interview with Sophia Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others New HD material, finally doing justice to the filmmaker's original vision New improved subtitles Exclusive Documentary on Sophia Loren

• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (DVD) | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the film which features the - literally - epoch-making, iconic, striptease by Sophia Loren! Presented for the very 1st time in its English spoken version (also optional original Italian with revised subtiles) for the 1st time restored in its longer original version from new HD materials with faithful filmic look. Director DeSica (Two Women, Umberto D, Bicycle Thieves) tells three rambunctious stories celebrating beautiful women (all played by Loren) and suave Latin lovers (all played by Mastroianni), his joyous YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW made La Dolce Vita, the sweet-life, attainable for all - less cerebral than Fellini.. and more fun! Time to get on our scooters and go Ciao Bella! Extras: Sophia, yesterday, today and tomorrow: a candid intimate interview with of Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others Vittorio D: Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With participations from the likes of Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh,etc

• Juliet ot the Spirits (DVD) | DVD | (20/08/2018) from £16.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fellini's first colour film is an homage to his real-life wife, Giulietta Masina who gives a superb yet nuanced performance in this stunning cinema classic. Giulietta plays her namesake, a bored, timid and unfulfilled wife who, suspecting her husband's infidelity, enters a surreal fantasy journey of self-discovery filled with dreams and fantasies. Much of her fantasies involve her sexually liberated neighbour Suzy, played by Sandra Milo (Fellini's lover in real life!! - those Italians can be so ˜adult' about things!) Fellini becomes Felliniesque - and for the 1st time, in colour! emphasised as always though by a delightful whimsical Nino Rota score.

• Vampir Cuadecuc | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella's extraordinary Vampir Cuadecuc ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco's shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental 'making of' documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, becomes a powerful political metaphor for bloodthirsty fascism epitomised by Franco and tyrants like him, a witty allegory with Dracula as the dictator whose demise is certain. Dispensing almost entirely with dialogue, Portabella utilises an abstract, fabulously idiosyncratic soundscape created by renowned Catalan artist and musician Carles Santos. The effect is surreal and wondrous to behold. Our release is presented from a new HD transfer of the film and features a new and exclusive interview with director Pere Portabella, plus two short films and more. DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Vampir Cuadecuc (1971) presented from a new HD restoration from original materials A new interview with director Pere Portabella A new filmed introduction by Will Fowler Pere Portabella s experimental short films La Tempesta (2003) and No Al No (2006). Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by journalist Stanley Schtinter Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono

• A Journey Through French Cinema | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bertrand Tavernier writes and directs this documentary which looks at some of the most influential figures from French cinema during a period of 40 years up to the late 1970s. A life-long film fan himself, Tavernier profiles a number of renowned directors, actors and writers as he discusses the influence they have had on his own career and also the role each has played in French cinema history. Featuring archive clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage, the film focuses on key figures such as Jacques Becker, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

• Dimension W - Standard (DVD) | DVD | (17/12/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the near future, devices known as coils harness the power of another dimension. Seeking illegal coils, bounty hunter Kyoma Mabuchi spends his days resisting the use of dimensional energy. That is, until a very realistic and adorable robot, Mira, gets mixed up in things. Partnering with the reluctant Kyoma on his missions, together they uncover the truth behind the mysterious power. Contains episodes 1 to 12 on DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• A Moment in the Reeds | DVD | (15/10/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi s father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection in the heat of the Finnish summer. A Moment in the Reeds is one of the first queer feature films made in Finland. Viewing Finland from both the perspectives of an immigrant and an emigrant, the film casts the long-marginalised voices of sexual and ethnic minorities centre-stage in a story about the search for freedom, acceptance and a place to call home.

• The Wound | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £6.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every year, the Xhosa tribe's young men are brought to the mountains of the Eastern Cape, South Africa to participate in an ancient coming-of-age ritual. Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by musician Nakhane Touré), is assigned to guide Kwanda, a city boy from Johannesburg sent by his father to be toughened up, through this rite of passage into manhood. As Kwanda defiantly negotiates his queer identity within this masculine environment, he quickly recognises the nature of Xolani's relationship with fellow guide Vija. The three men commence a dangerous dance with each other and their own desires and, soon, the threat of exposure elevates the tension to breaking point.

• Marriage Italian Style | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £25.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rich shop owner Don Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) meets 17-year old Filumena Maturano (Sophia Loren) in a Naples brothel during a Second World War air raid. He rescues her, sets her up as his mistress, and over the years exploits her ... She loves him dearly but is disillusioned when she finds he is having an affair with the shop's young cashier. To win him back, she stages her own death! and when this doesn't work, she admits that she's the mother of three sons, one of whom is Domenico's; but she refuses to say which one! At long last he gives in and they finally get married. Loren gets her man! Extras: TWO SPECIAL DOCUMENTARIES: Sophia, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: a candid, intimate interview with Sophia Loren, with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others Vittorio D: Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With interviews with Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh etc Separate Italian audio with new improved subtitles Exclusive Documentary on Sophia Loren Exclusive Documentary on Vittorio De Sica

• Austerlitz | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This big budget French production accurately depicts Napoleon's most celebrated military victory - the Battle of Austerlitz.

• Occultic Nine Volume 2 (Episodes 7-12) | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the creator of 'Steins;Gate', the truth is revealed as the adventure of the Occultic Nine reaches its climax! With the help of the young FBI detective, Asuna Kisaki, the truth behind the Inokashira Incident is revealed. Unable to accept the truth, Yuta escapes into denial and starts to lose sight of himself. At his father's radio station, Ryoka appears and there, she reveals one final shocking truth.

• Digimon Adventure Tri The Movie Part 5 DVD | DVD | (11/12/2018) from £7.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  COEXISTENCE An enraged Meicoomon digivolves to Meicrackmon and leaves through a distortion. Hackmon proceeds to reveal the truth: Homeostasis, which is trying to maintain the world's harmony, has now personally declared Meicoomon a danger for becoming too powerful, and is attempting to get rid of her. The arrival of the rampaging Meicoomon starts the countdown to the real world's collapse. A series of abnormal phenomena occur all over the place. The Digimon who appear through the distortions were waiting for this time to come... The DigiDestined are cast out of the Digital World and after returning to the real world are persecuted by the people. Finding themselves alone and unaided, they desperately search for a way to fix the situation, whilst a grief-stricken Meiko can't hear her friends and Digimon calling out to her. The adventure now evolves once again...

• Hattrick | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hat Trick! is a story of the triumph of the human spirit. Deriving it's name from the famous magical expression of a ""Hat Trick"" it deals with four stories from different slices of life in different parts of the world each of which reach a crescendo and each of which need the protagonist to pull out a magic trick from the hat.. Something that they've never done before and something that must be done now in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds... Because it will mak

• Ismael's Ghosts | DVD | (24/09/2018) from £11.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (Ma vie en rose), Mathieu Almaric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) team up for the latest feature from acclaimed writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale). Filmmaker Ismael (Almaric) lives with his wife Sylvia (Gainsbourg) but remains obsessed with his ex-wife (Cotillard), who disappeared 20 years ago and is believed to be dead. When she suddenly reappears, Ismael's life already complicated by a film project he is unable to finish takes a strange turn. Complex, playful and humorous, Ismael's Ghosts is a wonderful showcase for some of French cinema's finest acting talent. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Standard Definition presentation Optional English subtitles Interview with director Arnaud Desplechin Interview with star Marion Cottilard Interview with star Charlotte Gainsbourg Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring two artworks

• Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions! The Movie: Take On Me | DVD | (30/07/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rikka is now a third-year student, but she still has 'chunibyo' syndrome. University entrance exams loom on the horizon, and it's spring break, and Yuta and Rikka are together as usual. One day, Rikka's older sister Toka declares that she's going to take Rikka to Italy with her, as Toka is moving to Italy for work and she thinks they should move together as a family. Yuta understands Toka's opinion, but thinks that at this rate he and Rikka will be separated. Shinka and the other members suggest that Yuta and Rikka should 'elope' and thus sets the stage for Yuta and Rikka's travels throughout Japan in their escape drama.

• Whore Hospital | DVD | (08/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Chise Matoba, the man behind the pink cinema classic Maid in Japan, returns to the formula he does best, that is comedy erotica, except with Whore Hospital he ups the ante, especially the sex! Set in a hospital where all the nurses are nyphomaniacs specialising in non-traditional medical treatments and patients are keen to try out the new medicine, Whore Hospital will make any viewer feel better. It you love naughty nurses then this is the film for you!