The Gospel According To St. Matthew

The Gospel According To St. Matthew [1967] [DVD]
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
Italian
Region 0
Dolby Digital Italian
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Wally Hammond Film Notes
English

Synopsis
Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes Him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's meetings with the men who were to become his disciples, the Last Supper, and the betrayal by Judas. Note the rich music of Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev and Webern and Odetta's passionate singing. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Adapted) Score.

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Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries [1957] [DVD]
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Made in 1957, Wild Strawberries finds the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman at the height of his powers. It's a road movie, in effect: an aged medical professor (Victor Sjöström)--lonely, disillusioned and haunted by dreams of death--travels across country to receive an honorary degree. But as with all good road movies, the outer journey parallels an inner one. Incidents along the road conjure up memories, and Professor Borg finds himself forced to confront the failures and lost opportunities of his life. Gentle and elegiac, Bergman's film is a masterpiece of compassion and reconciliation, and also a tribute to his predecessor Sjöström, the greatest Swedish director of the silent era. The 78-year-old film maker gives an austere, moving performance, and Bergman treats his lined features like a landscape of yearning and regret. Sjöström is ably supported by other members of Bergman's regular repertory company of the period, particularly Bibi Andersson, heartbreakingly appealing, as the lost love of Borg's youth. --Philip Kemp

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Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 follow-up to the The Seventh Seal, is a "journey" movie. Victor Sjostrom plays Isak Borg, an elderly retired professor of medicine, setting out by car to the University of Lund to receive a Jubilee doctorate degree. With him on the journey is his daughter-in-law Marianne (Ingrid Thulin). Along the way, they pick up a bickering couple and three hitchhikers, including effervescent sprite Sara (Bibi Andersson). Borg also experiences some troubling and beautifully realised dream sequences, as well as flashbacks evoked by a visit to the country house of his youth. Through these, we learn of Borg's awareness of his imminent demise and his underlying regret that his personal relationships have always been distant and reserved, especially with his wife and son.

With his magnificently aged and infinitely expressive emotional range borne of his years as a silent movie actor, Sjostrom superbly conveys a dawning sense of remorse and self-realisation. However, the performance is almost too good. The central accusation of the film--that the doctor is "utterly cold"--hardly squares with what we see of him on screen. We just have to take Bergman's word for the doctor's past aloofness. Wild Strawberries is so overpoweringly rich and ruminative a film, however, that what should be a major flaw is reduced to a barely visible crack.

On the DVD: the text-only extras are notes from Bergman's own memoir, in which he discusses his own estrangement from his parents (the autobiographical inspiration for Wild Strawberries) while critic Geoff Andrews' additional comments are helpful. He hails the film as "one of the first great road movies".--David Stubbs

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DVD Special Features:

Star and director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Geoff Andrew Film notes
Extract from 'Bergman's book 'Images-My life in Film'
The Bergman Collection Trailer

Language: Swedish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English
Video Aspect Ratio: Original Academy Ratio

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The Killers [DVD]

The Killers [DVD] [1946]
Directed by Robert Siodmak

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This 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story adds well over an hour of new material to the original tale. The reason is, while director Robert Siodmak, star Burt Lancaster, and an outstanding supporting cast are faithful to Hemingway's work, his story only takes up about 15 minutes of screen time. Burt Lancaster plays the doomed man sought by hired guns in a small town. Hemingway's bruisingly concise dialogue makes an early sequence set in a diner quite unnerving, but after the killers dispense with their prey, Siodmak turns to an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) who looks into the reasons behind the murder. An exemplary film noir (complete with a fickle femme fatale played by Ava Gardner), The Killers is all mood and fatalism.--Tom Keogh

Synopsis
A former fighter awaits the arrival of his executioners. When they arrive they shoot him dead without a fight. An insurance investigator must decide why it is that a man gave up his life so easily...

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The Innocents

The Innocents [1961] [DVD]
Directed by Jack Clayton

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Based on Henry James's TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS is a chilling psychological horror film about a woman, Miss Giddens (Kerr), who takes a position as governess for two orphans in a stately Victorian home. Alone with the children and only a few servants, Miss Giddens soon begins to see what she believes to be ghosts and begins to suspect that the children's increasingly bizarre behaviour may be the result of some supernatural power. When she learns the fate of the house's previous governess and valet, Miss Giddens takes it upon herself to rescue the children from the supernatural being that seems to have them in its grips, all the while questioning her own sanity. Kerr's nuanced performance, possibly the best of her career, and Francis's atmospheric cinematography help make this a true horror classic.

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Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle [1958] [DVD]
Directed by Jacques Tati

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A comic masterpiece from director-star Jacques Tati (Playtime, Traffic), this 1958 film--Tati's first in colour--reprises the carefree, oblivious title character from the director's hilarious international hit Mr. Hulot's Holiday. This time, the story finds Hulot, a self-involved twit on a constant collision with the physical world, grappling with 1950s-style progress. Visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their ultra-progressive household full of noisy gadgets and futuristic decor, Hulot inevitably has dust-ups with modernity, each one exceptionally funny. Taking a page from Buster Keaton's play book, Tati also employs his trademark techniques with sound and production design to achieve the indefinable, comic genius of his films: the rhythmic clacking of footsteps, the cartoon-panel distance of his camera frame from the heart of the action. (Why are funny things funnierwhen seen from a few extra feet away?) Tati is one of the cinema's great treasures, and Mon Oncle is unforgettable. --Tom Keogh

Synopsis
The comic adventures of an accident prone uncle trying to guide his 7-year-old nephew around the 20th century's technical complexities. French dialogue with English subtitles.

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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Combi Pack

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Combi Pack (2 Blu-ray Discs + DVD) [1937]
Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, David Hand, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Wilfred Jackson

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If you dig back into the dim and distant past, Disney as a company was slow to appreciate the potential of the DVD format. And while it very much got its act together in the end, the very early Disney DVDs were distinctly underwhelming. The company has made no such mistake with Blu-ray, embracing the format astoundingly well, as perfectly demonstrated by its release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

As part of the firm’s Diamond Collection, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is crammed to the rafters with terrific and engaging extra features, which somehow find more things to say about a film that’s seven decades old. But it’s the attention that the main feature itself has been given that puts pretty much everyone else to shame.

You could be forgiven for thinking Disney might have been hamstrung by the age of the material here, but there’s little evidence of that with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The transfer here is stunningly good, with the film looking more as if it was made in the last few years rather than back in the 1930s. Consider the number of Blu-ray catalogue titles of just ten years ago that look quite shaky, and it’s all the more impressive an achievement. The audio, too, has been treated to a spruce up, and the whole disc feels like no detail was too much trouble. It’s a superb Blu-ray of a genuine classic film, and further proof as to why Disney is so highly regarded for its high definition discs. --Simon Brew

DVD Description
No film in history has captured the world’s imagination like Walt Disney’s first full-length animated masterpiece. Through astonishing Blu-ray high definition technology, experience this timeless classic in its most spectacular presentation ever. With an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration and Disney enhanced High Definition sound, the breathtaking animation and unforgettable music of the most revered Disney film of all time will enthral you like never before.

Join the beautiful princess Snow White as she escapes her jealous stepmother, the queen, and befriends a lovable group of dwarfs. But when she falls under the queen’s wicked spell, only true love’s kiss can save her.

This three-disc set includes a digitally-restored copy of the movie on Blu-ray, a Blu-ray features disc (see the packshot above for details of features and extras), plus a digitally-restored copy of the movie on DVD.

Synopsis
Disney's first full-length animated masterpiece features all the elements of a classic fairy tale--a beautiful heroine, an evil queen, Prince Charming...and a septet of whistling dwarfs. In hiding from her jealous and wicked stepmother, the fair Snow White takes refuge with a band of kind-hearted, hard-working dwarves: Bashful, Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey and Doc. Eventually the vain queen finds Snow White and tricks her into eating a poisoned apple. Luckily, a wandering prince comes to her rescue, but can he break the evil queen's spell?

Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS was initially thought a crazy idea for a feature film by those at Walt Disney. However, its lush production and charming characters proved otherwise. Standing the test of time since its release in 1937, the film has entranced audiences for decades, teaching them to never be vain and always whistle while they work.

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Dumbo Special Edition

Dumbo Special Edition [DVD] [1941]
From Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of your movie collection whether or not you have children. The storytelling was never as lean as in Dumbo, the songs rarely as haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well defined. The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr. (Dumbo is a mean-spirited nickname) is ostracised from the circus pack shortly after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk, and demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow" crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly", should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. If you don't mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you may be legally pronounced dead. --Keith Simanton

DVD Description
Mrs. Jumbo, a veteran circus elephant, receives a baby from the stork. He soon becomes the laughing stock of the herd because of his jumbo-sized ears and is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo". When Mrs. Jumbo loses her temper, she is locked up as a mad elephant and Dumbo finds himself all alone, except for a self-appointed mentor-protector, Timothy Q. Mouse. After Dumbo and Timothy meet a group of crows, they convince Dumbo that he might be able to fly with a boost of confidence. With his "magic feather," Dumbo takes flight. When he loses his feather, Dumbo realises that he could fly by himself the entire time. After performing for the circus, Dumbo is a media sensation with Timothy as his manager and his mother by his side.

DVD Special Features

Deleted Scenes
Deleted Scene: The Mouse's Tale
Deleted Song: "Are You a Man or a Mouse"

Backstage Disney
Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo
Magic of Dumbo: Ride of Passage Sound Design Excerpt from "The Reluctant Dragon"

Original Walt Disney Television Introduction

Synopsis
Deceptively simple, beautiful, moving, and hilarious, DUMBO is often overlooked when considering Disney's greatest films because perhaps of its lack of extravagance, its brief running time, and its simple story. Baby elephant Jumbo Jr. is delivered by the stork to his elephant mother with much fanfare but soon receives a cold shoulder from the snobby female pachyderms and the rest of the circus due to his oversize ears. When his mother goes on a rampage in order to protect him from some snickering rubes, she winds up locked away. Dumbo is left without a friend in the world until the street-smart Timothy Mouse decides to become his manager and a telephone line full of delightful jive-talking crows convince him he can fly. Highlights include Dumbo accidentally getting drunk and experiencing the surreal musical sequence Pink Elephants on Parade and a soundtrack packed with such priceless songs as the Oscar-winning 'Baby Mine' and the crow's soulful number, 'When I see an Elephant Fly'. There's nary an imperfect moment to be found in this raucous, tender, sublime film, which has been delighting audiences for generations.

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Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise [DVD]
Directed by Jospeh Losey

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Modesty Blaise is, like Rolls-Royces, built to last --Time Out

Gloriously camp caper that superbly captures the mod-mad pop art times --Film4.com

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Beyonce

Beyonce [DVD]
Beyonce

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Award winning singer, actress, and dancer...this triple threat diva has made the world sit back and take notice. Beyonce Giselle Knowles overcame shyness from her humble beginnings in Texas to transform herself into the music mogul simply know as Beyonce.

Early in her teens she formed Destiny's Child. Interviews with Beyonce', Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams illustrate the group's early beginnings, accolades, and internal conflicts which ultimately led to platinum status.

After the spilt in 2005, Beyonce achieved greater success as a solo artist. With over 120 million records sold; nine top charting hits; 16 Grammys; and countless other music awards...she started her own fashion line, beauty school, and starred in several feature films including Dreamgirls and Austin Power: Goldmember in her spare time.

Beyonce: Global Icon explores her destined rise to stardom from her first public performance in the hit TV series Star Search through to her emotional show stopping performance at the Inauguration of President Obama. Packed with interviews from Destiny's Child, A-List celebrities, and musical performances from around the world the program is an absolute 'must have' for any collection.

With passion and hard work, Beyonce continues to reach new heights to the delight of her many fans around the world.

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The Snapper

The Snapper [DVD] [1993]
Directed by Stephen Frears

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There are some secrets you can’t keep forever.

Based on the second of Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown" trilogy, which includes THE COMMITMENTS and THE VAN, THE SNAPPER is a warmly comic and moving look at working class Irish life – full of vibrant and eccentric characters, heartaches and laughs.

Sharon Curley is 20, works in a Dublin supermarket, lives at home and is pregnant. If that isn't bad enough, she adamantly refuses to name the father. In turn shocked, concerned, defensive, embarrassed and angry, her own father, Dessie, is determined to support her but as the small town is driven into a frenzy of gossip, his loyalty is soon put to the test.

As speculation, suggestion and rumour mount will Sharon manage to keep her secret intact? Will Dessie continue to stand by his daughter and how will the ‘snapper’ be welcomed into the world?

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Elmo Loves You

Elmo Loves You [DVD]
From Abbey Home Media

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The Best One Of Recent Releases5
Easily one the best, have many of the recent sesame street dvds and i always pick this one when i have to listen to it as i have no shame in admitting, it is one the best! i love the songs and grover is hilarious as always with a couple of others thrown in for good measure.

Its my daughters favourite, and surely an expert cannot be wrong.

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Cougar Town Season 1

Cougar Town Season 1 [DVD] [2009]
From Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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Meet Jules Cobb. She’s a successful 40-year-old real-estate agent with a nice house, good friends and a relatively well-adjusted teenage son. While most women in their twenties go through life experiencing the challenges and often humorous pitfalls of meeting men, Jules took on the responsibilities of marriage and raising a son. She’s recently divorced and realises her love life needs some work. However, when it comes to re-entering the dating pool, she struggles to swim. Keep in mind that she’s up against every over tanned and underdressed divorcee prowling her Florida town – a town where women (and men) embrace cougardom – and Jules doesn’t want any part in that. She’s going to do everything she can to prove that, even at 40, women can have it all.

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Opera and Ballet Highlights

The Blu-ray Experience: Opera & Ballet Highlights [DVD] [1999]
Various

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Features performance extracts from Verdi's IL TROVATORE, Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE, Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, Puccini's LA BOHEME and GIANNI SCHICCHI, Bizet's CARMEN, Mendelssohn's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Strauss' DIE FLEDERMAUS, Rameau's ZOROASTRE, Bellini's NORMA, and Balanchine's JEWELS.

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Last Train From Gun Hill

Last Train From Gun Hill [DVD] [1959]
Directed by John Sturges

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Western tale of a U.S. Marshal who traces a killer to Gun Hill, only to discover he is the son of a good friend...

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Mikio Naruse Collection [1955]

Mikio Naruse Collection [1955] [DVD]
Directed by Mikio Naruse

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Acclaimed Japanese director Mikio Naruse's career spanned from the end of the silent era through to the sixties, producing 89 films. His work is imbued with the bleak cynicism associated with shomin-geki (working-class drama), yet the struggle for a life better than the one dealt by fate, is celebrated with dignified restraint. This release features three beautiful melodramas all of which have become regarded as masterpieces of world cinema.


WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960), FLOATING CLOUDS (1955) and LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1958) all feature women as the main protagonists and offer an interesting contrast between the traditional and modern Japanese culture.

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Classic Action Films

Knowing what really makes the grade can be tricky, so here are some all time favourite action features that won't disappoint.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger in his entire gun-blazing glory

If you're a fan of Arnie and the first 'Terminator' movie, the second time around will be sure to not disappoint. Ten years after the Terminator last failed to destroy Sarah Connor and her son, John, a new Terminator is back under instruction from Skynet, with more guns, action, determination and science fiction than ever before.

Speed - Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in high-adrenaline, edge-of-your-seat action

With a ticking time bomb set to blow on a bus full of people that can't drop below a certain speed (ha...there it is...the movie title!), who is going to save the day but our favourite action heroes Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) and Officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves).

Die Hard - Early Bruce Willis in "40 stories of sheer adventure"

Released in 1988, this epic tale of an NYC cop trying to stop terrorists killing his wife (and everyone else in the LA office high rise) makes this movie an action classic. With the calculating mind of John McClane (Bruce Willis) working overtime to try and save his wife and the police playing it by the book, this really gets the mind thinking, "what will happen next?"

Commando - Of course Arnold Schwarzenegger made it to the list twice!

Ex-army Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has retired to live a life of simplicity in the Californian wilderness with daughter Jenny. When she is taken by an old army subordinate, a raft of dramatic events occur, all of which involves greed and a power struggle. Matrix takes back control, Commando style.

First Blood - Rambo makes his first appearance

After stumbling into a less-than-welcoming town, former Green Beret John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is tortured within an inch of his life by Sherriff Will Teasle and ultimately loses his marbles in the process. Once Rambo has snapped and killed a second-in-command, he arms himself with enough ammunition for a small army and heads for the hills. Aside from the 'Rocky' movies, this is one of the most popular action flicks that Stallone has starred in.

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he Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Platinum Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968

The Jungle Book : 40th Anniversary 2 Disc Platinum Edition [1967] [DVD] [1968]
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman

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Disney's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's original, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me". --Tom Keogh

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One of the very best animated films that the Walt Disney Studio has ever released (and the last to be produced by Walt Disney himself), and as downright brilliant as it was on its debut in 1967, The Jungle Book makes a very welcome return to DVD in this excellent 40th anniversary double-disc set.

Based loosely on the Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the film tells the story of man-cub Mowgli, and the friends he makes in the jungle. And it’s these friends who ignite the film, with some of the most memorable characters and songs that Disney has ever put on the screen. Kings of The Jungle Book are the likes of Baloo the Bear, King Louie the villainous Shere Khan the Tiger, while supporting characters such as Colonel Hathi are just as memorable. It’s astonishing that it packs so much and so many into its relatively short running time.

It’s an amazing achievement too that The Jungle Book bristles with such energy and fun, and that it’s just as likely to enthral the current generation of youngsters as well as those of us who saw it first time round. And when those songs start playing--from Bare Necessities through to I Wanna Be Like You--it'll take some effort to not start tapping your feet. A brilliant, brilliant film, and as vintage as the Disney back catalogue gets. --Simon Brew

Synopsis
The 19th animated feature produced by Disney studios and the last film supervised by Walt Disney himself. This endearing feature is based on Rudyard Kipling's children's story about a boy named Mowgli raised by wolves in the wilderness of India. During his delightful and scary adventures with a series of wild creatures, Mowgli learns he must leave the jungle and be what nature intended him to be -- a man. Delightful jazz-inspired songs make this a Disney classic.

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