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• Before We Vanish | Blu Ray | (11/02/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse) returned to Cannes with this genre-bending mashup, both a darkly comedic sci-fi and a slow-paced action spectacle. Three aliens on a reconnaissance mission to Earth take over the bodies of human hosts to explore the world they re about to invade. On the way they steal individual concepts from the minds of anyone who crosses their path, from work, to free will, to love, leaving behind them a trail of soulless bodies. In doing so they start to unwittingly define the essential aspects of what it means to be human. The film follows Narumi (Masami Nagasawa, I Wish), whose husband, Shinji (Ryuhei Matsuda), becomes one of the three hosts. As the invasion grows nearer, Narumi s attempts to save humanity from extinction become increasingly entwined with Shinji s decision on whether to save the humanity within himself. Combining the best of Kurosawa s genre stylings with his forays into dark family dramas, Before We Vanish sees the director delivering a twist on the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers narrative by recontextualising it in a disconnected modern world. Presenting a unique vision to how invasions have been portrayed in popular culture in the past it asks the question, how much is humanity worth, if we ve become too alienated to be able to recongnise the aliens among us? SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Optional English subtitles The Making Of Before We Vanish, an 53-minute featurette including on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew Inside The Story and Inside The Characters, two featurettes with cast and crew interviews Looking Back, members of the cast reunite to discuss memories of the production Red carpet interviews from the Cannes Film Festival premiere Cast and crew Q&As from four screenings including the Japanese premiere Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Neil Mitchell

• The Devil's Trap | Blu Ray | (28/02/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first in František Vláčil's trilogy of beautifully realised historical epics (which also includes his legendary works Marketa Lazarová and The Valley of the Bees), The Devil's Trap is set in 16th century Bohemia where a miller and his son find themselves under investigation by Inquisition authorities after daring to question the local landowner's decision to build on unstable land. Evoking a time where religious authority holds sway, and an understanding of the natural world is interpreted as evidence of a diabolical pact, The Devil's Trap stunningly creates a cruel but credible world torn between superstition and science. Special Edition Contents: The Devil's Trap (Ďáblova past, 1961) presented from a new HD transfer from original materials created by the Czech National Film Archive, Prague. In the Web of Time (V síti času, 1989): cinematographer František Uldrich's documentary portrait of Vláčil. The Week Starts on Friday (Týden začíná v pátek, 1962): Elmar Kloss' short film about Czech cinema exhibition in the early 1960s, and featuring The Devils Trap. Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and Czechoslovak cinema specialist Peter Hames. New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray.

• Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman 1953) | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Desperately they fought the desires the passions that dragged them down deeper and deeper into... 'The Naked Night' On a gray morning a circus caravan arrives in the town where Albert the ringmaster's family lives. He hasn't seen them for three years and has taken a mistress the young and buxom Anne. Albert calls on his wife; Anne jealous and wanting out visits a theatrical troupe and lets an actor Frans seduce her in exchange for a necklace he says is valuable. Anne finds out it's worthless at about the same time Albert's wife declines to let him live with the family. Albert and Anne are stuck with the circus and each other; there's a show tonight Frans will be there smirking and sardonic the bear is mangy the clown is as sour as they come and suicide offers an exit.

• Fairy Tail Collection 7 (Episodes 143-164) | Blu Ray | (21/12/2020) from £16.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Time is running out for the guild when Oración Seis kidnaps Lucy with plans to merge her with a catastrophic clock. Fairy Tail must work quickly to save their guildmate and stop the enchanted timepiece before Fiore Kingdom falls into a waking nightmare. But that's not all that stands in their way: the Legion Platoon has decided to save the world as well, but they plan to destroy the clock and Lucy along with it! With each chime reality descends into chaos, and in the end, the wizards might be too late to save anyone. But at least they have the Grand Magic Games to look forward to when the dust settles! Although this guild-versus-guild battle may be masking a sinister plot, as more than one guild plans to target Fairy Tail. Before the competition even begins, Natsu and his friends will be lucky if they even make it to the opening ceremony alive!

• The Deer King (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the aftermath of a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack, leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside but are pursued by nefarious forces. Intent on protecting Yuna at all costs, Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom and its possible cure.

• Bergman Island | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £13.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A filmmaking couple living in America, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the Summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively blur and tear our couple even more apart.

• I Am Happiness on Earth | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Emiliano films intimate moments with a group of male dancers, recording their defined, tight bodies in strong, energetic movements and soon forms an impassioned relationship with one of his subjects. Although the relationship is emotional, erotic and intense, Emiliano finds it impossible to remain faithful and enters into a series of sexual encounters with handsome street hustlers. Directed by Julian Hernandez, one of Mexico's most famous directors (Broken Sky, Raging Sun Raging Sky), I AM.

• Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, Part 2 | Blu Ray | (26/08/2019) from £38.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Second Squad Jam is going to be held and Karens friend, Miyu, decides to join her in the battle royale. Converting her avatar from another VRMMORPG, she joins Gun Gale Online as Fukaziroh. As the Squad Jam approaches, LLENN becomes nervous about taking Pitohui down. Before she faces off with Pitohui, LLENN makes a big decision! Extras/Episodes: Episodes 7-12 on Blu-Ray Collectors Packaging 28 Page Booklet Artcard Set

• L'Appartement | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £9.85   |  Saving you £8.14 (82.64%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Max the romantic protagonist is planning a marriage investigating a murder chasing after a lost love and getting bizarrely hooked up with a mystery girl. Switching between time women chic cafes and beautiful Parisian apartments Mimouni's film makes the most of its deliriously romantic setting whilst effortlessly unravelling an intricate and unpredictable plot which playfully ties its lovelorn characters up in knots as it races along to a heady conclusion.

• The Olive Tree (2016) (DVD) | DVD | (15/05/2017) from £5.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alma is a young girl with emotional problems and a special relationship with her grandfather Ramón, an old country man who stopped talking about 12 years ago after his son, Alma's father, sold a 2000-years-old olive tree in order to open a restaurant. Dominated by the sadness and the melancholia by the loss of his most beloved tree, Ramon spends his days visiting the place where the olive tree was planted, hoping the day the tree returns. Unable to bear the situation any longer, Alma looking for the olive tree, discovering that it was acquired by a Germany's energy company located in Dusseldorf. Without money or resources, Alma convinces her uncle Alcachofa and her friend Rafa (who has a love interest for her) to go in a truck from Spain to Germany to recover the tree, starting a travel with unexpected consequences for everyone...

• Fruits Basket Season 2 Part 1 | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, 16-year-old high schooler Tooru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out... into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Souma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tooru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Soumas have a secret of their ownš when hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!

• Three Times | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hou Hsiao- Hsien's Three Times is a lyrical exploration on the different expressions of love in different times. Set in three different eras 1966 1911 and 2005 Shu Qi and Chang Chen play different characters in each period and explore the central theme of Hsien's work in different circumstances. Episode 1 1966 Kaohsiung - A Time For Love ('Lian'ai meng'): Chen (Chang Chen) meets May (Shu Qi) who works at his favourite pool-hall. They play pool together soon after he enlists for national service. On a day-release from the army Chen comes to visit her but he finds out that she has quit her job and no one knows where she's gone... Episode 2 1911 Dadaocheng - A Time For Freedom (`Ziyou meng'): The owner of a tea plantation and his son discuss buying out a young courtesan's contract. Finding out that the son has got her pregnant Mr Chang (Chang Chen) steps in to hasten ne- gotiations: the courtesan is now the father's concubine...Mr Chang leaves for Japan to join a Chinese revolutionary who fled to escape persecution during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Episode 3 2005 Taipei - A Time For Youth (Qingchun meng'): Epileptic and losing sight in her right eye Jing (Shu Qi) is a singer in present day Taipei and lives with her mother and grandmother and also has a woman lover: Micky. Zhen (Chen Chang) works in a digital photo shop and lives with his girlfriend Blue. When Blue finds out that Zhen has fallen for Jing she hits the roof...Where can the four of them go from here? None of them will find happiness this side of the grave...

• Second Run Jerzy Skolimowski Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £44.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Always Say Yes | DVD | (22/07/2019) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wild Strawberries (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £9.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Opening with a starkly symbolic dream sequence, Wild Strawberries follows Professor Isak Borg as he journeys by car in the company of his daughter-in-law to collect an award from his former university. The trip occasions a series of reminiscences and reveries, as the ageing Borg revisits the scenes of his youth and reflects on an unhappy marriage. Bergman pays tribute to his forebears by casting great silent filmmaker Victor Sjöstrom as Borg, but strikes out for a new form of intellectual cinema characterised by probing into the nature of existence. Presented in High Definition Fully illustrated booklet featuring an essay by Geoff Andrew, original review and full film credits

• Biutiful | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive for love and forever.

• The Colour of Pomegranates: Special Edition | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Paradjanov's celebrated dreamlike masterpiece paints an astonishing portrait of the 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova the 'King of Song'. Paradjanov's aim was not a conventional biography but a cinematic expression of his work resulting in an extraordinary visual poem. Key moments in his subject's life are illustrated through a series of exquisitely orchestrated tableaux filled with rich colour and stunning iconography each scene a celluloid painting alive with stylised movement. One of cinema's most revered and beautiful films The Colour of Pomegranates is a unique and rewarding experience that haunts the memory long after viewing.

• The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vol. 3 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £43.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, wrote, directed, produced and starred in over 40 films in his short but prolific life, before passing away of a drugs overdose in 1982 aged just 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder vol. 3 brings together a collection of his lesser seen works from various stages in his career, featuring high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. Gods of the Plague portrays a newly released ex-con as he reacquaints himself with Munich's criminal underworld to plan the robbery of a supermarket. In Rio Das Mortes, two feckless young friends, Michel and Günther, embark on a hare-brained scheme to look for lost treasure in Peru, against strong opposition from Michel's fiancée. Unseen between its first television broadcast in 1970 and its rediscovery in 2002, The Niklashausen Journey chronicles the journey of a young peasant in the 15th century and his quest to overcome social injustice, in Fassbinder's allegorical critique of the student movement. The American Soldier sees Fassbinder continue to pursue the cinephilic homage to classic Hollywood crime films of his feature debut, Love is Colder than Death, in a tale of a German-American Vietnam vet turned small-time hoodlum who finds himself on the wrong side of the law in Munich, where he grew up. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven stars Brigitte Mira (Fear Eats the Soul) as a middle-aged housewife who is roused into revolutionary activity after her blue-collar husband runs amok at his workplace. Based on a story by Asta Scheib, Fear of Fear features Fassbinder favourite Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) as the young mother plagued with feelings of anxiety and depression as she is left to spend her hours alone surrounded by her judgemental in-laws while her husband spends his days at work. Satan's Brew sees Fassbinder foray into riotous comedy, with Kurt Raab starring as a once famous poet stricken with writer's block who inadvertently assumes the persona of the prewar symbolist Stefan George. Product Features High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven and Satan's Brew prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation Original uncompressed Pcm mono 1.0 sound for all films Optional English subtitles for all films Reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde Disc One - Gods Of The Plague & Rio Das Mortes Alter Ego: Harry Baer on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a 40-minute interview with the star of Gods of the Plague Taking Off, an interview with Michael König on Rio Das Mortes Original theatrical trailer for Gods of the Plague Disc Two - The Niklashausen Journey & The American Soldier Audio commentary by critic Olaf Möller on The Niklashausen Journey Audio commentary by critic Tony Rayns on The American Soldier Fassbinder Shoots Film No 8, a 1971 television documentary by Michael Ballhaus and Dieter Buchmann on Rainer Werner Fassbinder filming The American Soldier The Shadow Man, an in-depth interview with Fassbinder's collaborator Michael Fengler Freedom or Death!, an interview with Michael König on The Niklashausen Journey Disc Three - Mother Küsters Goes To Heaven & Fear Of Fear Audio commentary by critic Olaf Möller on Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven Interviews with Renate Leiffer, assistant director on Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven and Fear of Fear Interview with writer Asta Scheib on Fear of Fear Play It Again, Rainer! Fassbinder's Musical Obsessions, a video essay by Margaret Deriaz on the use of music in Fassbinder's films Disc Four - Satan's Brew Audio commentary by critic Tony Rayns The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me: Views of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a 1976 documentary portrait of the director by Gert Ellinghaus Fassbinder: Love Without Demands, Christian Braad Thomsen's feature-length 2015 documentary portrait of his friend Fassbinder and the people who worked with him Original theatrical trailer

• Blue | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Jarman's final film which takes place against a stark blue background and features an interwoven soundtrack of voices and music.

• The Chamermaid Lynn | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £8.15   |  Saving you £7.84 (96.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An obsessive-compulsive, voyeuristic chambermaid (Vicky Krieps) begins a lesbian affair with a dominatrix (Lena Lauzemis) in this crtically-lauded erotic lesbian drama in the tradtion of classics like 'BOUND'. OFFICIAL SELECTION: FLARE 2016