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• Bicycle Thieves | DVD | (24/08/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, De Sica's seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming the film as a direct influence on their own. Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle. Bicycle Thieves is as much about the position of Italians in post-War, post-Fascist Italy as the relationship between father and son, told through the labyrinth of the cinematic city with De Sica's arresting visual poetry. Defining neorealism, a small period of filmmaking that focused on simple, humanist stories, Bicycle Thieves was one of the most captivating and moving. Now presented in a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative Original mono Audio Feature length audio commentary by Italian Cinema expert Robert Gordon, author of BFI Modern Classics Bicycle Thieves Money Has Been My Ruin a brand new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns on Vittorio De Sica's career and filmmaking Indiscretion of an American Film Producer a brand new video essay by film historian Kat Ellinger on De Sica's relationship with Hollywood producers David O. Selznick and Joseph H. Levine and the version that never was Original trailer advertising De Sica's films, featuring Bicycle Thieves star Lamberto Maggiorani and Francesco Golisano presenting Miracle in Milan Optional English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vince McIndoe

• Spice & Wolf - Season 1 Collection | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Hunting for riches more precious than gold!Lawrence, a traveling merchant searching for profit, finds a naked girl with the ears and tail of a wolf asleep in his cart. Her name is Holo - a harvest goddess with an untamed beast lurking inside who longs to return to her beloved northern home. Armed with his street smarts and her animal instincts, a simple peddler and a forgotten deity begin a journey through the wild countryside. Along their path, the riches of happiness shall be reaped, even as the bankruptcy which dwells in the human heart is exposed.

• The Protectors: Season 1 | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A stellar Scandinavian cast head this international Emmy Award Winning Nordic Noir Series.

• Master Of Disguise | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dana Carvey stars as Pistachio Disguisey, a sweet natured Italian waiter who discovers he has inherited the ability to be a Master of Disguise from his family when his parents are kidnapped.

• Since the last time we met | DVD | (15/04/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Norte, the End of History | Blu Ray | (29/09/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this reimagining of Crime and Punishment, set in the northern Philippine province of Luzon, Fabian, a law-school drop-out, frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy, commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man, Joaquin, takes the blame and receives a life sentence, leaving behind his wife Eliza and two children, whilst Fabian roams free, and is taken over by evil. Joaquin is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.

• Durarara!! Season 1 | Blu Ray | (11/05/2015) from £35.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (41.65%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Takahiro Omori

• Jujutsu Kaisen - Part 1 | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £27.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A boy fights... for the right death. Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse. Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back. Contains: Episodes 1 12 with Japanese and English audio and English subtitles. Bonus Content: Clean Opening Clean Closing Trailers

• Tokyo Ghoul Root A | Blu Ray | (25/07/2016) from £30.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (14.16%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In modern day Tokyo, society lives in fear of Ghouls: mysterious creatures who look exactly like humans -- yet hunger insatiably for their flesh. None of this mattered to Ken Kaneki, a bookish and ordinary young man, until a dark and violent encounter turned him into the first ever Ghoul-human half-breed. Picking up where the first season left off Ken continues onwards into the dark world he has found himself in. Contains all 12 episodes with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• Your Lie in April Part 1 (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £23.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  YOU EXIST INSIDE A SPRING THAT CAN'T BE REPLACED. Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mothers sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But then he meets one violinist by the name of Kaori Miyazono. This carefree, independent and sometimes shorttempered girl had an eccentric playing style that immediately fascinated Kousei. His once monotonous life was about to change forever. Contains the episodes 111 on BluRay with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• The Bodyguard From Beijing 4K Ultra HD | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £26.98   |  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.

• The Bride Wore Black | Blu Ray | (20/11/2023) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim) stars as the titular bride, who after marrying her love sees him murdered on the steps outside the church. From here she enacts her ruthless revenge on the group of men responsible. Undoubtedly an influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, François Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black was itself influenced by the director's idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Adapting celebrated crime writer Cornel Woolrich (who was also the author of the short story Hitchcock's Rear Window is based on) Truffaut's film is a deliciously entertaining tale that was one of the director's biggest hits. Alongside Moreau, the film boasts a sensational cast, including Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Clude Brialy, Charles Denner and Michel Bouquet among others, and features a score by the maestro, Bernard Herrman (Psycho). Product Features High-Definition digital transfer Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Archival interviews with François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau (1968, 1969) Appreciation by filmmaker Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut) Barry Forshaw on Cornel Woolrich and the adaptation Trailer Optional English subtitles

• Fruits Basket -prelude- - The Movie | Blu Ray | (05/12/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Before there was Tohru and Kyo there was Katsuya and Kyoko. Discover the turbulent beginning of Tohru's mom's dark past, and the man who breathed new hope into her. Watch the evolution of their love story and the birth of the Honda family, as this chapter completes the full adaptation of the heartwarming Fruits Basket story.

• Jean Cocteau Collection | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This stunning Jean Cocteau box set features Le Sang D'Un Poete (aka: The Blood Of The Poet) and Testament D'Orphee (aka: Testament Of Orpheus). Also an artist poet playwright and novelist Jean Cocteau is widely regarded as one of the most pioneering and important avant-garde directors cinema has produced. His debut Le Sang D'Un Poete and swansong La Testament D'Orphee are released here together in a boxset for the first time in the UK; made 30 years apart they bookend his filmic career and are both masterpieces of the avant-garde movement of which he was at the heart. Cocteau released 12 films in his lifetime including the award-winning La Belle Et La Bete (1946) perhaps his most accessible (and therefore well-known) work. Though often described as a poet first and foremost Cocteau's films were also infused with the phantasmorgorical surrealist imagery and rich symbolism characteristic of all his work. Le Sang D'un Poete (1930): In an artist's studio an unfinished statue comes to life. The lips of its androgynous face move pressing a kiss to the artist's hand. At the statue's demand he plunges it into a mirror. Le Testament D'orphee (1960): Jean Cocteau gave the cinema a truly abstract piece of work as his swansong in which the mind of a poet (played by Cocteau himself) takes control of reality twisting and re-moulding it until it bears not the slightest resemblance to reality as we know it in real life.

• Havana Blues | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (-1.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ruy and Tito have spent years together in a band in Cuba pursuing a recording contract that will bring them international recognition and success. Their long awaited break comes when a Spanish music producer arrives on the island looking to sign new bands with the Havana sound. As the band come closer to realising their dream Ruy and the producer become romantically involved and things begin to fall apart. The prospect of a recording contract in Spain is tantalisingly close but comes at a price; once they leave Cuba they can never return. For Tito it is an easy choice to make but Ruy has a wife and children pulling him in a different direction. He has to make a final decision one which will surprise everyone...

• Autumn Almanac | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of Béla Tarr's most revered films. A grim, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama where the inhabitants try to relate to one another by revealing their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities. Autumn Almanac is one of the most important films in Tarr's oeuvre as it marks the turning point in his stylistic choices. Social realism was left behind and from Almanac onwards he has firmly embraced and pioneered the world of stylised, beautiful and captivating cinematography to tell his stories, something which he is now famous for.

• Diary Of A Country Priest | DVD | (30/09/2007) from £9.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (89.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With his fourth film Robert Bresson began to implement this stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions the dialogue and the music exacting a purity of image and sound.

• The Dance of Reality DVD | DVD | (14/09/2015) from £8.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (99.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Dance of Reality written produced and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky is a mystical autobiography of Jodorowsky s childhood blending his personal history with metaphor mythology and poetry. The film reflects the director's view that reality is not objective but rather a dance created by our imaginations.

• Suzume Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (01/04/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.Product FeaturesRidgid Box, 4 x Art Cards & 60 Page Art Book Directors Commentary, Directors Interview, Directors Filmography Recap, Radwimps Interview, The Making Of Documentary, Ending Scene Tadaima Version, Special Commemoration Videos, Promo Video Collection, Teaser & Trailers, Roundtable Interview With Makoto Shinkai, Yojiro Noda & Kazuma Jinnai

• Apostles | DVD | (22/01/2024) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A