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Podcast: Sundays and Cybele - Elements of Beauty

In this edition of the podcast, Graeme Hobbs looks at the 1964 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, Sundays and Cybele, a profoundly moving and beautiful film.

A profoundly moving and beautiful film, Sundays and Cybele is characterised by wonderful monochrome photography by Henri Decae, and a script and setting in harmony with its subject of a traumatised airman recoveri...

 

Our March Film Catalogue is out now!

Adorning our front cover is a striking image from The White Ribbon, it's our film of the month and real must-see. Inside, we've an excellent Oscars sale and a great line-up of reviews including An Education, Fritz Lang's M and An Inspector Calls.

 

Blog: Transgressions of Cinema

After a hiatus of blog updates,we're back with a sparkling new look and a great new entry from James Oliver, inspired by our current Controversial Film Sale.

 

Cinema review: Clint Eastwood's Invictus

Milo Wakelin is impressed by this engaging biopic of Nelson Mandela, here played by Morgan Freeman, which takes the 1995 Rugby World Cup as its backdrop.

Among his many achievements, Nelson Mandela already has a modest film credit to his name, playing a Soweto schoolteacher in the closing moments of Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992). On screen, Mandela has already been ...

 

The films of Googie Withers - DVDs from £5.99

Explore the excellent back-catalogue of this very fine actress who is long overdue wider recognition.

Georgette Lizette Withers was born in India, 1917. In her long career in the British film industry she worked with many of the most-admired directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Hamer and Michael Powell and a...

 

Two World Cinema DVDs for £12 - for one week only!

Any fan of world cinema will not want to miss this outstanding sale - the range and quality of the films on sale is mouth-watering!

The selection of over 230 DVDs on sale here is truly rich with films from world-class directors such as Rohmer, Bresson, Haneke, Ozu and Kieslowski to name but a handful.These DVDs are £6.99 and upwards to buy ind...

 

BBC Sale - Save up to 75% on over 100 DVDs!

Inspired by last Friday's release of the Mel Gibson remake, we present a massive BBC sale starring the original Edge of Darkness and many other great series.

Make the most of staying in with this fine selection of programmes from the BBC.You'll find some of the finest British dramas ever made (Edge of Darkness), arts and history series par excellence (The Ascent of Man...

 

Mary, Queen of Scots - 'one of the great lost films of the 1970s'

Nominated for 5 Oscars and starring Vanessa Redgrave in the lead role, this all-star drama makes a very welcome debut on DVD. Alex Davidson revists the historical epic.

After making the hugely successful Anne of the Thousand Days (about Anne Boleyn), director Charles Jarrott chose two more queens for his infinitely more enjoyable follow-up, Mary Queen of Scots. Spicing up what co...

 

COI Collection: Volume 1 - Police and Thieves, just £11.99

A fascinating BFI set of films from the archives of the Central Office of Information, about crime and punishment in postwar Britain. Graeme Hobbs takes a look.

Arriving on the back of their superlative collections showcasing British Transport Films, the GPO Film Unit, and latterly the National Coal Board Film Unit, the BFI here turns its attention to films produced by th...

 

The Victors - a star-studded exclusive DVD

James Oliver takes a look at this epic tale of GI's in wartime Europe, and finds a commendably realistic treatment, shorn of Hollywood heroics.

Two years after he produced The Guns of Navarone, Carl Foreman returned to the battlefield with The Victors, an altogether different sort of war film. Gone is the all star derring-do; in its place, a realistic – a...

 

Oscar Nominations 2010 - Cameron vs Bigelow

The nominations for the 2010 Oscars have been announced today and leading the pack with 9 nominations each are ex-husband and wife James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow for their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker.

Just behind them is Inglourious Basterds with a strong 8 nominations. An Education is the best performing British film with 3 nominations for Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and, impressively, Best Picture. ...

 

Edge of Darkness - one of the finest TV series ever made, just £6.99

Today sees the cinema release of the new Edge of Darkness film starring Mel Gibson. In case you didn't know, it's a remake of a vastly superior BBC series from 1985. If you haven't seen the original then we're envious of you - it's wonderful.