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"mightily impressive follow-up to last year's 'Half Nelson'... compassionate, intelligent and politically assured filmmaking of the highest order." 4 STARS
TIME OUT
"a picture of integrity, intelligence and empathy that studiously avoids cliche" 4 STARS
Wendy Ide, THE TIMES
"Utterly gripping, profoundly moving... One of the finest films this year." 5 STARS
David Edwards, THE DAILY MIRROR
"beautiful and mesmerising... deserves to be seen by as many people as possible."
LITTLE WHITE LIES
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's account of a young Dominican pitcher's experiences in the competitive world of US baseball is a powerful and ambitious follow-up to their startlingly assured feature debut (the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson). But just as their first film was not your average high school drama, nor is SUGAR even close to being just another American sports movie.
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) realises his opportunity to achieve the American Dream, when he is picked to enter a US rookie academy and given a chance to play in the major league. But thoughts of success, fame and celebrity are thwarted by the reality of his situation. Increasingly isolated, he has to decide whether to continue on the path that is expected of him, or breakout and discover his own place in the world.
Featuring a remarkable performance by Algenis Perez Soto, SUGAR is an original and provocative portrait of the modern-day immigrant experience by two of America's most distinctive young filmmakers.
Bonus features include a exclusive interviews with writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and actors Algenis Perez Soto and Michael Gaston plus more TBC...
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"impressive... blissful... a pinsharp cine-poem of romance." 4 STARS
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"beautifully acted... hauntingly luminous" 4 STARS
FINANCIAL TIMES
"I was hooked"
Jason Solomons, FILM WEEKLY – THE GUARDIAN
"Beautifully acted, imaginatively directed... this funny, touching movie is a treat."
TIME OUT
BLUE EYELIDS (PARPADOS AZULES) is the critically acclaimed account of the developing relationship between two people in the vast metropolis of Mexico City. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, it has earned director Ernesto Contreras a place alongside Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros, Babel) and Carlos Reygadas (Japon, Silent Light) as a major new force in world cinema.
Marina (Cecilia Suarez), a shy employee at a local factory, wins an all-expenses-paid holiday for two from her work. Although initially unable to find someone to accompany her, she encounters Victor (Enrique Arreola) in a coffee bar. Her invite prompts a series of dates that are by turns funny and awkward, as Ernesto Contreras skilfully explores the difficulties of finding happiness in the modern world.
With music by Ray Davies and featuring exceptional performances by Suarez and Arreola, BLUE EYELIDS is a subtly nuanced and wonderfully unconventional love story.
Bonus features include an exclusive interview with director Ernesto Contreras, stills galleries and trailer.
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FILM OF THE WEEK
"a glorious explosion of sight, sound and feeling"
***** 5 STARS - TIME OUT
"This is perfection... utterly transfixing, and it cuts to the heart of what cinema is all about."
***** 5 STARS - THE TIMES
"a hugely fresh and endlessly intriguing fable... it's some kind of masterwork."
***** 5 STARS - THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"outstanding... superbly shot and hauntingly enigmatic"
**** 4 STARS - Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"A masterly treatise... ingenious"
**** 4 STARS - David Parkinson, EMPIRE
"utterly mesmerising... a brilliantly directed, richly rewarding film that demands to be seen."
***** 5 STARS - VIEW LONDON
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA is one of the most acclaimed European films of recent years and marks the international breakthrough of Spanish director, Jose Luis Guerin.
In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer and Robert Bresson, Guerin presents the deceptively simple tale of a man seeking the woman he met six years before. With only a sketch to identify her, he searches the streets and cafes of Strasbourg, hoping to encounter the object of his desire.
Seductively shot and featuring excellent performances by Xavier Lafitte and Pilar Lopez de Ayala, IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA is a sensual and enigmatic journey that beautifully captures the complexity of human emotions.
Bonus features include exclusive interviews with director Jose Luis Guerin, actor Xavier Lafitte and cinematographer Natasha Braier, filmed sketches, stills galleries and trailer.
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"Succulently dramatic - a tribute both to the stars' power"
THE TIMES
"Breathtakingly dramatic and emotional"
OPERA NOW MAGAZINE
"an extraordinary theatrical opera film"
CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
"the world's finest soprano-tenor team... Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon don't only sing with beauty and power; they can also act."
THE EVENING STANDARD
GIACOMO PUCCINI's immortal opera is brought to life in a lavish new feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee ROBERT DORNHELM (The Children of Theatre Street) and starring the opera world's "dream team", soprano ANNA NETREBKO and tenor ROLANDO VILLAZON.
Bonus features include interviews with Robert Dornhelm, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Nicole Cabell and George von Bergen, a 30-minute documentary "The Making of La Boheme", stills gallery, trailer and an exclusive limited edition collector's booklet.
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"outrageous"
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"a cerebral skin flick... Suave and salacious"
A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"unabashedly erotic... the execution is hypnotic"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
THE EXTERMINATING ANGELS is the second part of filmmaker provocateur Jean-Claude Brisseau's (Choses Secretes, A l'Aventure) startling trilogy exploring societal taboos.
Director Francois (Frederic van den Driessche) is fascinated by the mystery surrounding women and sexual pleasure. Intent on making a film about the subject, he auditions a series of actresses, encouraging them to enact their most secret, forbidden desires. Watched over by two fallen angels, Francois' immersion into the world of his performers' fantasies threatens to destroy him.
Brisseau's sexually charged film, whose philosophical inquiry into pleasures of the flesh is often leavened by his sly humour, is a provocative and intense experience.
Bonus features include an interview with director Jean-Claude Brisseau and editor Maria Luisa Garcia, a deleted scene, with an introduction by Brisseau, and stills gallery.
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"An intelligent, thoughtful script and outstanding performances make this a rare example of an erotic-themed that doesn't simply exist for reasons of titillation." 4 STARS
FILMSTAR MAGAZINE
"Tongue-in-cheek fun"
TIME OUT
"This former school teacher's lectures on spiritualized sex and landscape... are a more moving and useful curriculum than anything to be got in most high schools."
LA WEEKLY
Provocateur, philosopher and taboo-breaker, Jean Claude Brisseau (Secret Things, The Exterminating Angels) ends his trilogy with one woman's exploration of her deepest desires in A L'AVENTURE.
Desperate to leave her sexually unfulfilling relationship, Sandrine encounters a mysterious woman through Greg, a young psychologist. Fascinated by and attracted to Sophie, Sandrine leaves her life behind in order to accompany her muse on a journey that will allow her to explore her sexuality to the full.
With its rumination on the nature of existence, sexual abandon and more than a fair share of sly humour, A L'AVENTURE is Jean Claude Brisseau at his provocative, unflinching best.
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"absorbing... a transcendent experience"
TIME OUT
"touching, sad... and ultimately uplifting... unforgettable filmmaking"
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"magical"
NEW YORK TIMES
Internationally acclaimed Senegalese singer YOUSSOU N'DOUR explores Africa's enduring musical legacy from its historical roots in the slave trade, to its far reach across the globe in RETURN TO GOREE.
With renowned jazz pianist MONCEF GENOUD, their journey takes them from the Goree trading post, where African slaves were processed on to ships bound for the Americas, to Atlanta, New Orleans, New York City and finally Luxembourg. Revealing the history of jazz, the rich legacy of their ancestors and the influence on the cultures they became part of.
RETURN TO GOREE gathers together some of the world's most exceptional musicians and singers from gospel, traditional jazz and soul, including IDRIS MUHAMMAD, ERNIE HAMMES and GREGOIRE MARET and culminates in an exclusive 'one off' live concert on the island of Goree.
Released in a TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION, including:
Feature documentary: "Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree"
Exclusive concert performed on the island of Goree
Interviews with Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Youssou N'Dour, Moncef Genoud, Amiri Baraka and many more
Trailer
Music video "Door of No Return" by Steel Pulse
Exclusive limited edition collector's booklet.
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"wonderful"
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
"sunshine for the soul... opulent, organic and as intoxicating as a rum binge, dripping with joie de vivre and rumbling with passion. Terrific, truly liberating stuff."
4 STARS
TOTAL FILM
"breathtaking... moving, uplifting"
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
Cuba's rich and colourful past comes vividly to life in this legendary, Oscar-nominated documentary from director Wim Wenders (PARIS, TEXAS, WINGS OF DESIRE).
The Grammy Award-winning Buena Vista Social Club album produced by Ry Cooder, remains the biggest-selling world music album ever. It showcases the talents of a dream team of veterans from Cuban music's golden age and it introduced the rhythms of Son, Bolero and Danzon to a whole new audience, making instant international stars of Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo.
Never a regular band, The Buena Vista Social Club had gone their separate ways after that sensational album but in this extraordinary film Wenders intimately documents Ry Cooder's return to Havana, encountering these musical legends again as they look back to the halcyon days of Cuba's music scene, when the rich and famous travelled from all over the world to listen to them. In the climax their music comes alive once again, as they rehearse for their first – and only – performance in America, at New York's Carnegie Hall. More than a musical occasion that historic sell-out show is the uplifting finale to this documentary, which remains one of the greatest musical films ever made.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, interview with Juan de Marcos Gonzales, deleted scenes, an exclusive limited edition collector's booklet, and optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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"fascinating" 5 STARS
TIME OUT
"What I have always found so evocative about Wim's work is the lush romanticism of cinephilia. He suggests much of the tradition that has gone before him while looking to the future with an intense curiosity. It's this alchemy - between a strong sense of conjuring the past while dreaming of what's to come - that is personally so inspiring about his cinema."
Atom Egoyan
Award-winning filmmaker WIM WENDERS (Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire) explores the power of film in five documentaries that cover three decades of a remarkable career.
At the heart of these films is a desire to understand the nature of film and filming. What attracts us to the visual medium? How has it shaped our lives? And what does the future hold for it?
NICK'S FILM (LIGHTNING OVER WATER) (1979) - A moving portrait of Hollywood maverick Nicholas Ray.
Special features: Feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, "Nicholas Ray: Especially For Pierre" lecture.
ROOM 666 (1982) - Fifteen directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog and Steven Spielberg discuss the future of cinema.
TOKYO-GA (1985) - The legacy of Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is examined on a journey through contemporary Tokyo.
Special features: Deleted scenes.
NOTEBOOK ON CITIES AND CLOTHES (1989) - The relationship between fashion and film is explored in an intimate portrait of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto.
Special features: Feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, deleted scenes with commentary, "Yamamoto: 12 Years Later" featurette.
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT (1996) - The story of the Skladanowsky brothers, pioneers of the moving image, is told in a film celebrating the first century of cinema.
Special features: Feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, deleted scenes.
Also included in the 5-disc box-set is a 24-page booklet containing essays on each of the films, plus an 8-page booklet containing an exclusive interview with Wim Wenders discussing his documentaries.
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"Wenders' most vital work in more than a decade"
LA WEEKLY
"a thoughtful look at a post-9/11 United States from one of its most caring longtime observers"
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Angered by the American government's response to the events of 11 September 2001, LAND OF PLENTY is one of Wim Wenders' most impassioned films.
Lana (Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) returns from missionary work overseas in order to find her uncle (John Diehl), amidst the paranoia of post 9/11 America. What she discovers is a country in pain, whose growing underbelly of poor and dispossessed are a portent of hopelessness for the future.
Featuring THE WIRE's Wendell Pierce and Shaun Toub (CRASH, THE KITE RUNNER, IRON MAN), LAND OF PLENTY is an urgent call for harmony in a world torn apart by violence and extremism.
Bonus features include an exclusive in-depth interview with Wim Wenders, "The Making of Land of Plenty" featurette, deleted scenes, trailer, stills gallery, English subtitles for the hearing imparied, 5.1 surround sound and reversible "Wenders Classics" DVD sleeve for collectors.
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"Wim Wenders's masterpiece"
5 STARS
EMPIRE
"a modern classic"
THE GUARDIAN
"something special... an intimate, haunting, epic drama"
THE TIMES
With his outsider's view of America, Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Alice in the Cities) transforms PARIS, TEXAS into a haunting tale of loss, redemption and the ties that bind families together, and is arguably Wenders' greatest achievement.
Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) walks out of the desert after four years, to the amazement of his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Reunited with Hunter, his seven-year-old son, Travis decides that they should search for his ex-wife (Nastassja Kinski) so that they can be a family once again.
Beautifully shot by Robbie Muller, Sam Shepard's beguilingly simple story is stunningly realised by Wenders, whose stark imagery is accompanied by Ry Cooder's acclaimed score.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and the Best Director prize at BAFTA in 1985, PARIS, TEXAS is rightly regarded as one of the artistic triumphs of contemporary world cinema.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, deleted scenes with optional commentary, a "Home Movies" featurette, Cannes Film Festival footage, the original trailer, English subtitles for the hearing impaired and a limited edition collector's booklet (includes Sam Shepard short story and L.M. Kit Carson film diaries).
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"illuminating... a stirring tribute to the power of music."
CRITICS' CHOICE, 4 STARS
TIME OUT
"immensely likable, highly characteristic... exuberant"
FILM OF THE WEEK
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
"Triumphant"
4 STARS
TOTAL FILM
Acclaimed writer/director John Sayles (LONE STAR, PASSION FISH) brings the birth of rock 'n' roll to life with electrifying effect in HONEYDRIPPER.
Tyrone Purvis is a bar owner down on his luck. To drum-up business, he enlists the services of the legendary Guitar Sam. What he gets will forever change his Saturday nights, but threatens to raise demons from the past that could destroy his future.
With a stunning soundtrack and a stellar cast, including Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Stacey Keach and Mary Steenburgen, as well as performances by Motown legend Dr. Mable John, Keb' Mo' and rising star Gary Clark Jr, HONEYDRIPPER is a rock 'n' roll story as it has never been told before.
Bonus features on this two-disc edition include a feature-length commentary with John Sayles; exclusive interviews with John Sayles, Maggie Renzi (producer), Danny Glover and Dr. Mable John; a rare performance of "Keeping Time" - the short story that inspired HONEYDRIPPER - read by John Sayles; character biographies; theatrical trailer; stills gallery; English subtitles for the hearing impaired and a limited edition collector's booklet, including "Keeping Time".
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"elaborate and brilliant"
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"outstanding... Ganz gives a wholly remarkable performance... a thriller and a half"
THE GUARDIAN
"a really extraordinary performance by Ganz... stunning"
THE SUNDAY TIMES
"fascinating... extremely powerful... perfect Hitchcockian set-pieces... Bruno Ganz is excellent"
4 STARS
EMPIRE
In THE AMERICAN FRIEND, acclaimed director Wim Wenders transforms Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game into a gripping European noir.
Professional frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) has been diagnosed with a terminal blood disease. A chance encounter with the enigmatic Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) offers him a way to ensure a stable future for his family. But as Jonathan embarks on his new and dangerous role, Tom questions his motives for involving his new friend.
Superbly shot by Robbie Muller, Wim Wenders draws on his love of American cinema and pays homage to the B-movie and Film Noir tradition. The result is one of his finest films.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders and Dennis Hopper, deleted scenes with optional commentary, the original German trailer and a limited edition collector's booklet.
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"a triumph for Wim Wenders"
5 STARS
EMPIRE
"remarkable... few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious."
TIME OUT
"a masterpiece"
THE GUARDIAN
In WINGS OF DESIRE, director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human.
Every day, Dammiel (Bruno Ganz, The American Friend, Downfall) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin, Until the End of the World) whose eloquent expression of her doubts and fears makes him yearn for a life where he can feel happiness and love.
Like Michael Powell's A Matter of Life and Death, the afterlife in WINGS OF DESIRE is a world in monochrome. Only the living can see in full colour and it is their lives, with their moments of sorrow and joy, that Wim Wenders captures so eloquently in this singularly original film that was co-written with Peter Handke (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick, Wrong Move).
Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, WINGS OF DESIRE is both a paean to Germany's capital and a rumination on human existence, and remains one of the most vital films ever made.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders and star Peter Falk, outtakes and deleted scenes with commentary, "Conversations on Wings of Desire" featurette, the original trailer and a limited edition collector's booklet.
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"mesmerising"
THE SUNDAY TIMES
"marvelous... one of the great films"
TIME OUT
"excellent"
THE GUARDIAN
"exhilarating"
SIGHT & SOUND
The final part of Wim Wenders' loose trilogy of road movies (following on from Alice in the Cities and Wrong Move), KINGS OF THE ROAD (aka IN THE COURSE OF TIME) has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1970s and remains Wenders' most remarkable portrait of his own country.
After driving his car at high speed off a road and into a river, losing all his worldly possessions, Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) hitches a ride with Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler), who travels across Germany's hinterland repairing projectors in run-down cinemas. Along the way, the two men meet people whose lives are as at odds with the modern world as their own. In attempting to reconcile their past, the two men find themselves increasingly at odds with each other.
KINGS OF THE ROAD (aka IN THE COURSE OF TIME) is a meditation on the passing of the age of great cinema, an acute study of life in post-war Germany and to this day remains one of Wim Wenders' most accomplished films.
Bonus features on this two-disc set include a 'Conversations on Kings of the Road' featurette, deleted scenes and a limited edition collector's booklet.
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"one of Wenders's most beautifully made projects"
THE GUARDIAN
"tantalising"
TIME OUT
Following their successful collaboration on The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders and playwright Peter Handke reunite for WRONG MOVE - the second instalment of Wenders's acclaimed road movie trilogy (bookended by Alice and the Cities and Kings of the Road).
Wilhelm (Rudiger Vogler) embarks on a journey across Germany in order to find his voice as a writer. Introspective and seemingly without personality, he encounters a series of eccentric characters, including a beautiful and enigmatic actress (Hanna Schygulla) and a mute girl (Nastassja Kinski), who draw Wilhelm into their worlds.
Loosely based on Goethe's landmark novel, 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship', Wim Wenders once again shows his mastery over the road movie genre and creates a brilliant character study of one man's alienation from the world around him.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with Wim Wenders, 'On the Set of Wrong Move' featurette and a limited edition collector's booklet.
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"one of Wenders's crispest, finest moments"
Tim Robey, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"a bittersweet gem...blissful...should not be missed"
CRITICS' CHOICE
4 STARS
TIME OUT
"More distinctive than ever... an intriguing movie that lives in the mind for hours after the lights have come up"
4 STARS
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"One of the films that altered my perception of cinema"
Walter Salles
One of the key films of the New German Cinema, ALICE IN THE CITIES marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of the 1970s. It is also widely accepted to be one of the director's most poignant films and the first to be shot partly in the United States.
Through Rudiger Vogler's portrayal of the embittered Winter, Wenders presents a stark but witty account of the changing face of Europe, the onset of global consumerism and the influences of American pop culture.
Bonus features include an exclusive in-depth interview with Wim Wenders by film critic Mark Cousins, rare interviews with stars Rudiger Vogler and Yella Rottlander and a limited edition collector's booklet.
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WINNER - Grand Jury Prize (Documentary) - Sundance Film Festival 2005
"excellent... alarming... superb"
THE GUARDIAN
"extremely timely and urgently relevant"
TIME OUT
"excellent... powerful... this isn’t a one-sided film"
5 STARS
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"Beautifully shot, extensively researched... the antithesis of Michael Moore"
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Featuring Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and many others, WHY WE FIGHT explores a half century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as President Eisenhower warned in his 1961 farewell address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges in this award-winning film is a portrait of a nation in transition – drifting dangerously far from her founding principles towards a more imperial and uncertain future.
Bonus features include a commentary by director Eugene Jarecki and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, additional scenes, extended character featurettes, audience Q&A with Jarecki, filmmaker TV appearances: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Charlie Rose.
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Winner of the Director's Fortnight section, Cannes Film Festival
"moving, honest and flawlessly acted."
THE OBSERVER
4 STARS, CRITICS' CHOICE
TIME OUT
"Heartbreaking yet hopeful... outstanding"
THE INDEPENDENT
"A little jewel from heaven that confirms the rebirth of Italian cinema"
LE MONDE
Italian actor KIM ROSSI STUART (Romanzo Criminale, The Keys to the House) makes his impressive directorial debut with this moving and richly rewarding coming-of-age drama that he co-wrote with LINDA FERRI (The Son's Room). Featuring a stand-out debut performance from the young ALESSANDRO MORACE as Tommi, and from Rossi Stuart himself as the raging single father, LIBERO rightly won the Directors' Fortnight prize at the Cannes Film Festival and has been hailed as a modern update on the masters of the French and Italian neo-realist tradition.
Bonus features include an interview with Kim Rossi Stuart, Behind The Scenes featurette, deleted scenes, screen tests (including Alessandro Morace's audition) and stills gallery.
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WINNER - Amnesty International Doen Award (Special Jury Mention) - Rotterdam International Film Festival 2003
"An edge of wry humour... Diao has a fine, surrealist eye for visual incongruities"
TIME OUT
"beautifully observed... great performances"
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
"deceptively simple... filled with sly humour"
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
The directorial debut of YINAN DIAO (writer of the acclaimed comedy drama Shower), UNIFORM is a taut thriller that exposes the corrupting influence of poverty in contemporary China.
With the local factory closed and his ailing father unemployed, street tailor Xiao Jian finds himself unable to pay his family's bills. When a laundered police-officer's shirt remains uncollected he decides to play the role of cop, with unexpected results. Extorting payments from drivers who break minor traffic laws, attracting the attention of a young woman who works in a CD store and suddenly becoming visible to the world at large, Xiao Jian also discovers the terrible cost of leading such a precarious double life.
One of the defining films of the Chinese Sixth Generation, UNIFORM deftly balances social comment with an intimate character study of a man desperate enough to risk everything in order to escape the life in which he is trapped.
Bonus features include an interview with director Yinan Diao and an exclusive limited edition collector's booklet.
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Official Selection - In Competition - Venice Film Festival 2006
"modern cinema's reigning genius"
NEW YORK TIMES
FILM OF THE WEEK
(5 STARS)
TIME OUT
"superbly haunting"
SIGHT & SOUND
Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture, mood and feel, and featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the vivid, crowded, neon-lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming-Liang can capture...
As with most of Tsai's films, actor Lee Kang-Sheng features, this time in dual roles as both a homeless bum and a paralysed young man.
Bonus features include an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang by the writer and critic Tony Rayns.
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Winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Berlin Film Festival 2005
"high comedy, high-camp musical numbers and a vast amount of hardcore porn."
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"cinematic invention and balls-to-the-wall daring... I loved it."
Tim Robey, DAILY TELEGRAPH
"makes 'Last Tango in Paris' seem very coy"
(4 STARS)
TIME OUT
Internationally acclaimed auteur Tsai Ming Liang helms this outrageous blend of sex, comedy, musical and drama. It went down a storm at the London Film Festival, leaving some audience members completely stunned. Daring, controversial and very funny.
Bonus features include an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang by the writer and critic, Tony Rayns.
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Official Selection - In Competition - Rome Film Festival 2006
Official Selection - Toronto Film Festival 2006
Official Selection - London Film Festival 2006
"another... intelligent, deeply involving piece of cinema... that moment by moment, scene by subtle scene, completely enfolds you."
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"a master... on a par with Antonioni and Herzog"
EMPIRE
Widely applauded by international critics, and premiering in Official Selection at both Toronto and Rome Film Festivals, BORN & BRED is the latest film from Argentinean director Pablo Trapero. The follow up to the highly acclaimed Familia Rodante, BORN & BRED charts the emotional journey of a father trying to rebuild his life after a terrible family accident. With excellent performances from Guillermo Pfening and Federico Esquerro, it is Pablo Trapero's most personal film to date.
Bonus features include an interview with Pablo Trapero and behind the scenes footage of the making of BORN & BRED.
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"...brains, attitude and blistering performances. Essential viewing."
James King, BBC RADIO 1
"a masterpiece"
THE TIMES
"Just wonderful... A film you’ll remember."
(4 STARS)
EMPIRE
Smart, moving and politically engaged HALF NELSON is one of the most exciting American independent films in years. Outstanding performances from the cast, including an Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling (Fracture, The Notebook, The Believer), Independent Spirit Award winner Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, Million Dollar Baby), with an original score that features Canadian indie rock group Broken Social Scene, enable director Ryan Fleck to weave together a moving story of redemption in an unforgiving world.
Bonus features
Feature-length commentary with filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Fleck and Boden's Sundance award-winning short film "Gowanus, Brooklyn"
Exclusive interview with the filmmakers
Audience Q&A at the Everyman Cinema, London
Outtakes and Deleted and Extended Scenes
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"...black, black comedy... a movie that should not be allowed to disappear... funny and perceptive."
(4 STARS)
EMPIRE
"Shockingly funny"
ROLLING STONE
One of America’s most acclaimed contemporary screenwriters and directors, DAVID O. RUSSELL made his feature film debut in 1994 with the black comedy Spanking The Monkey, which won The Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and caused a stir with its incestuous subplot and portrayal of adolescent restlessness. The film also displays much of what has become Russell’s trademark idiosyncratic, offbeat humour, later seen in Flirting With Disaster, the iconoclastic Three Kings and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, marking him as a maverick director with cult appeal.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with director David O. Russell.
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"Good-natured bittersweet tale"
THE GUARDIAN
"Nolte is truly superb"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Premiering in 'Official Selection' at the Sundance Film Festival 2006, JAMES PONSOLDT's debut film is an assured and beautifully played drama about a broken man's redemptive relationship with the son he never had. Featuring an outstanding leading performance from two-time Oscar-nominee NICK NOLTE (Hotel Rwanda, Hulk, The Thin Red Line), the film also stars TREVOR MORGAN (Mean Creek, The Patriot), ROSEMARIE DEWITT (Rachel Getting Married), Oscar-winner TIMOTHY HUTTON (The Good Shepherd, Kinsey) and Oscar-nominee SALLY KIRKLAND (Bruce Almighty, EDTV).
Bonus features
Feature-legth commentary with director James Ponsoldt
"Off The Black" Production Video Diary
Stills Gallery
English subtitles for the hearing impaired
Widescreen 2.35:1 letterbox presentation
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"Superb" (4 STARS)
TIME OUT
“Recalls classic Woody Allen”
LOS ANGELES TIMES
From director DANIEL BURMAN, one of the most prominent and exciting of the young directors forming the "New Wave" in Argentine Cinema, comes this much anticipated, highly acclaimed and award-winning comedy. A story of a first, bittersweet encounter between a father and his young adult son, the film conjures up an ensemble of engaging characters who pursue their humble dreams with witty humour, irresistible passion and an infectious generosity of spirit.
Bonus features
Documentary film "The Making of Lost Embrace"
An interview with Daniel Burman, from ITV's The South Bank Show: Argentine Cinema
Stills Gallery
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"...something approaching perfection."
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
"A gem" (5 STARS)
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
An award-winning and unprecedented film adaptation of the work of internationally-acclaimed author, HARUKI MURAKAMI, director JUN ICHIKAWA brings to the screen Murakami’s emotive tale of solitude and obsession accompanied by a haunting original soundtrack from Academy Award-winning composer and musician, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO. Starring ISSEY OGATA (The Sun) and RIE MIYAZAWA, this unique film is one of the finest adaptations of the work of a major writer ever brought to the screen.
Bonus features
Documentary film "The Making of Tony Takitani" (1'07")
Stills Gallery
Theatrical trailer
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"Performed with conviction and directed with verve, Any Way the Wind Blows rates as one of the most mature and ambitious debuts in years, wafting in a great new talent for Belgium's cinema scene."
FILM4
Belgian musician TOM BARMAN, founder of the rock band dEUS and concept group MAGNUS, with techno phrophet, CJ Bolland, has made a wild, ambitious debut that draws its influences from sources as varied as Woody Allen, P.T. Anderson, Frank Zappa (whose song gives the film its title) and Jeff Wall. Playing out to a killer soundtrack, Barman’s slice of life film is filled with family crises, romantic entanglements and eccentric coincidences. An auspicious and playful debut, this film moves, and doesn’t want to stop.
2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION
Bonus features
"The Making of Any Way The Wind Blows" (25')
"A Portrait of Tom Barman" (60')
Deleted scenes with director's commentary
Radio interview with Tom Barman over a photo assembly
Music Video "Summer's Here"
Theatrical trailer + bonus trailer
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"Atash is undoubtedly a beautiful film. Abu Wael is arguably the most exciting Arab film-maker to have emerged in more than a decade."
SIGHT&SOUND
Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this beautiful and powerful debut feature from the brilliant young Arab filmmaker, TAWFIK ABU WAEL, is also an important groundbreaking collaboration between a Palestinian writer/director and an Israeli producer, financiers and crew - the first of its kind.
Featuring haunting music, stunning cinematography, and incredibly moving performances from the non-professional cast, Atash is a complex, assured and vivid first feature from an exciting filmmaker, and one to watch for the future.
Bonus features
Tawfik Abu Wael's award-winning short film "Diary of A Male Whore"
Interview with Tawfik Abu Wael
Stills Gallery
Theatrical trailer
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"one of the finest films released here this year." (4 STARS)
Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT
A hilarious and charming road movie, Familia Rodante is the latest feature from PABLO TRAPERO, one of the new generation of directors currently revolutionising Argentinian cinema.
Bonus features include "The Making of Familia Rodante"
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"El Bola comes wreathed in awards... painful, convincingly acted, and well observed"
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
A powerful, award-winning drama from director ACHERO MANAS, featuring an astonishing debut performance from 12-year old JUAN JOSE BALLESTA.
Bonus features include the theatrical trailer
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"The movie offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen on a movie or television screen"
NEW YORK TIMES
"...brilliant" (4 STARS)
BBC MOVIES
Life and Debt focuses on the holiday paradise of Jamaica, providing a searing dissection of the stark inequalities resulting from economic globalisation.
Narrator-writer JAMAICA KINCAID graphically shows how a once vibrant local economy is now finding itself displaced by container ships bearing discounted imports and the pre-fabricated sweat shops of the global brand icons.
Bonus features include additional interview footage and music video
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Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil led the cast in Pascal Bonitzer's drama.
Bonus features include "The Making of Petites Coupures"
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"...powerful and gripping... this is a classic of the future"
THE GUARDIAN
Puccini's acclaimed opera starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna and Ruggero Raimondi
Bonus features include interviews with the director and stars.
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