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• Mysterious Object At Noon | Blu Ray | (25/04/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The extraordinary films of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (BLISSFULLY YOURS, TROPICAL MALADY, SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, Cannes Palme d'Or-winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR) have defined him as one of contemporary cinema's most unique voices. Apichatpong's hallucinatory debut feature MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand. A film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchair-bound young boy and his teacher. The resulting stories are later re-enacted by non-professional actors in dramatic re-creations of the freely associated narrative strokes supplied. The daisy-chain structure of interlocking vignettes is inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpses, and its formal strategies are aligned with both documentary realism and the avant-garde, but this boldly original debut looks and feels like nothing else. Second Run present the film from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation and includes exclusive extra features. SPECIAL FEATURES ¢ Presented from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. ¢ Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Meteorites (Nimit, 2007) ¢ New and exclusive filmed interview with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. ¢ Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by film historian and author Tony Rayns. ¢ Original Thai soundtrack in DTS-HD master audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM on the Blu-ray / 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo on the DVD.

• Hit the Road | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Driving across endless miles of rugged landscape, a family navigates a long road trip alongside a range of conflicting emotions. Dad's got a broken leg and a mood to match whilst Mum fusses over her two children and their pet dog. And when he's not drawing on the car windows, their energetic youngest son couldn't be louder as he sings along to the car radio whilst his elder brother tries to concentrate on the road ahead. As the journey twists and turns and their destination draws ever closer, the chaotic claustrophobia in the car grows as does the love and affection they have for each other. Accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack, Panah Panahi's thrilling debut feature is a treasure; tender, quirky, and laugh-out-loud funny. Get ready to take an unmissable journey along the dusty road of life.

• Point Blank | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £2.53   |  Saving you £11.46 (452.96%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Everything is going well for Samuel (Gilles Lellouche; Tell Know One Sherlock Holmes Mesrine Little White Lies) and his beautiful wife Nadia (Elana Anaya; The Skin I Live In Sex and Lucia Van Helsing Talk to Her Mesrine). But everything changes when Nadia is kidnapped right in front of Samuel who is knocked out cold trying to stop the kidnapper. When he comes to his phone is ringing; he has just three hours to get Startet (Roschdy Zem; Just Like a Woman The Cold Light of Day) a man who is under police surveillance out of the hospital in which Samuel works. His destiny now lies in the hands of a man who is wanted by the police but if he wants to see his wife again he must act fast...

• Kemono Michi: Rise Up - The Complete Series Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (28/12/2020) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Professional wrestler and animal lover Shibata Genzo is suddenly summoned to another world. Greeted by a princess, she requests to get rid of the evil beasts roaming in this world. Outraged that he was asked to kill monsters, Genzo German suplexes the princess. Unable to get back to Earth, he decides to live a peaceful life and manage a monster pet shop.

• Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Jindich Polák, director of the 1963 Czech sci-fi classic Ikarie XB-1, comes another foray into science-fiction with this lesser known but equally impressive feature Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea. But unlike the serious hard sci-fi approach of Ikarie, this film is a deliciously demented time-travel romp that manages to be both hilariously silly and impressively ingenious at the same time. In the near-future, time travel has become a possibility, and a group of neo-Nazi's hijack a time-ship in order to go back to 1944 to deliver a hydrogen bomb to Hitler and thus secure victory in WWII Polák expertly balances the film's disparate elements to produce a work of immense pleasure which is unpredictable, irreverent, intelligent and wildly funny - and which emerges one of the great undiscovered sci-fi movies of the 1970s. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea presented from a new HD remaster from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive. An all-new Projection Booth commentary with Kat Ellinger, Jonathan Owen and Mike White. Trailer. Booklet featuring a new essay by writer and filmmaker Graham Williamson. New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray. Plus more TBC

• Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 | DVD | (25/09/2023) from £13.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gamer is magically summoned into a parallel universe, where he is chosen as one of four heroes destined to save the world from its prophesied doom.

• Crazy Thunder Road | Blu Ray | (21/02/2022) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hailed both as Japan's Mad Max, Sogo Ishii's high-octane, loud-and-proud breakthrough hit was one of that country's great success stories, a graduation project from a film school punk rocker bought by Toei Studios and released nationwide. The plot involves Ken, a gang leader dreaming of a quiet life with his girlfriend Noriko, and Jin, Ken's maverick successor, who isn't about to let yakuza kingpins or right-wing nutjobs tell him what to do or whom to kill. Jin's violent individualism in a world where even outlaws follow the bosses' orders references the doomed anti-establishment heroes of Kinji Fukasaku, but Crazy Thunder Road points toward a new style of genre filmmaking-fast-paced, quick-witted and brilliantly stylized. New master approved by the director New interview with Gakuryu (Sogo) Ishii Audio commentary by Tom Mes Video Essay: Jasper Sharp on Jishu Eiga

• By The Light Of Day (Alla Luce Del Sole) | DVD | (22/12/2014) from £9.22   |  Saving you £3.77 (40.89%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A priest(Luca Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children, by providing them with a place to play and learn, and then works on their parents. The church slowly becomes the focal point of the community and very quickly ends up full with standing room only. There's a heavy Mafia presence in the community but the priest stands up to them and encourages his parishioners to do the same. He does this effectively and suffers the consequences as the antagonism grows between him and the Mafia. Based on a true story, the ending is truly heart-rending.The acting is superb all round, the children in particular are very genuine and believable. The character of the priest is in keeping with the benign and virtuous Monatlbano and Zingaretti gives a powerful performance in this truly wonderful movie This movie is a must have for any Inspector Montalbano or Luca Zingaretti fan

• I Vitelloni (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (27/08/2018) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fellini's take on youth which directly influenced films like Mean Streets, American Graffiti, Diner and other coming of age movies. Leonard Maltin rates it as Fellini's absolute masterpiece, yet it has been rarely revived perhaps overshadowed by his epoch-making, harbinger of a generation lifestyle, his DOLCE VITA! When discovering Fellini's I VITELLONI ('young bucks'), fans will instead recognise the director's influence on many later films adopting its bunch-of-guys-hanging-out format. Close to their 30s, the film's, mostly unemployed, long-time pals are too old to be kids but still uncertain about settling down in their Italian seaside town I VITELLONI is also terribly funny!.. and even if rooted in Italian neo-realism, Fellini is already announcing his fantastical, carnivalesque cinema of weirdness.. The Felliniesque Cinema. Extras: TBA: will include new Extras on Fellini's cinema

• Girl | DVD | (06/05/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Determined 15-year-old Lara (Victor Polster) is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara's adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realises her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was born a boy. Camera d'Or for best first feature and Queer Palm at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. London Film Festival's First Feature Competition Winner 2018.

• Santa Sangre | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £11.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (9.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Santa Sangre is a temple torn down by bulldozers over the protestations of its leader Concha (Bianca Guerra); the wife of an unfaithful circus performer (Guy Stockwell) and the mother of Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky). The Church is built on a gruesome crime scene, the first of many primal scenes for the young Fenix which also includes the death of the beloved circus elephant, the surreal funeral which follows, and above all the hideous violence which separates him from his family and leaves him con.

• Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Steelbook | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Violent misfortunes frequently occur around 16-year-old Yuuta Okkotsu, a timid victim of high school bullying. Yuuta is saddled with a monstrous curse, a power that dishes out brutal revenge against his bullies. Rika Orimoto, Yuuta's curse, is a shadow from his tragic childhood and a potentially lethal threat to anyone who dares wrong him.

• Loro | Blu Ray | (24/06/2019) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sergio is a guileful businessman who manages a group of young escorts which he uses to bribe local politicians and authority figures. With a desire for increased political leverage, he sets his eyes on bigger game and makes it his duty to work his way into the ranks of a man with a notorious taste for both hedonism and corruption - Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Master filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) teams up once again with longtime collaborator Toni Servillo (Il Divo, The Great Beauty) to reveal the scandalous and, until now, unseen private life of Italy s most infamous politician.

• Kokkoku - Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £36.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A single moment can mean the difference between hope and despair... It s 6:59 forever... The members of the Yukawa family have inherited the Stasis Spell, the power to stop time. When they use their power, they enter Stasis, a world where everything has stopped. One day, Juri s nephew and brother get kidnapped. Trying to rescue them, their grandfather uses the Stasis Spell, but they are suddenly attacked by others who are also able to move in Stasis. It s not a race against time, it s a race outside of time and the dangers are increasing with every non-second in KOKKOKU! Contains the complete series (12 episodes) on Blu-Ray with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in collector s packaging. Extras/Episodes: Complete series, 12 episodes on Blu-Ray Collector s Packaging Artcards Poster

• Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's 1960. The first electronic computer transistor in the world, produced by Olivetti, is about to go into production and prepares to launch into the American market. Adriano Olivetti is in the prime of his life, at his peak of his career. But on the morning of February 27th this adventure stops abruptly: Adriano gets on a train in Switzerland and dies of a heart attack. Leaving behind a trail of questions, doubts & regrets, Olivetti also left an indelible mark in the history of social, cultural and political life. Starring Luca Zingaretti (Inspector Montalbano) & Stefania Rocca (The Talented Mr Ripley).

• After Love | DVD | (09/01/2017) from £7.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After 15 years of living together, Marie (Berenice Bejo) and Boris (Cedric Kahn) decide to get a divorce - but the separation proves far from simple.

• Insyriated | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

• Once Were Warriors (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £17.47   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori (The Edge) directed this brutal but powerful story drawn from the culture of poverty and alienation enveloping contemporary Maori life. Rena Owen plays the beleaguered mother of two boys--one of whom is already in prison while the other contemplates membership in a gang--and a daughter whose potential is being smothered at home. Temuera Morrison gives an outstanding and sometimes shocking performance as the violent head of the household, more adept at keeping up his social stature within his community of friends than holding down a job. Once Were Warriors pulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a people digging down deep to find their pride. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Touchez Pas Au Grisbi | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi occupies a significant part in French cinema history. Max (Jean Gabin, La Grande Illusion) and Riton (René Dary) are two ageing gangsters who manage to pull off their final heist, a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. All is well until Max's former girlfriend Josy (Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim) tips off a rival gangster, Angelo (Lino Ventura). The latter kidnaps Ritton and threatens to kill him unless Max hands over the spoils from his robbery Helping to birth the French policier, a European transposition of the fantastic American gangster films of the 1940s, Touchez Pas au Grisbi exerted a huge influence on subsequent directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville.