Film Collections

A Tribute to David Watkin, Cinematographer

Introduction One of the world's top cinematographers, David was a good friend to MovieMail since becoming a customer in October 1998, and was always happy to share his knowledge about B...

Includes A Delicate Balance, Catch 22, Chariots Of Fire, Endless Love, Goldfinger, Hamlet (Zeffirelli, 1990), Help! (The Beatles).

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A Beginner's Guide to Dogme 95

Introduction Dogme 95 was a film-making movement begun by the Danish film directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen in 1995. Its goal was t...

Includes Breaking The Waves, Dancer in The Dark, In Your Hands, Italian for Beginners, Julien Donkey-Boy, Red Road, The Idiots.

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A Beginner's Guide to Italian Neo-realism

Introduction Roberto Rossellini, one of Italian neo-realism's pre-eminent directors, defined it as, “above all a moral position from which to look at the world”. Coming in the wake of s...

Includes Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Miracle In Milan, Ossessione, Rome, Open City, Shoeshine, Umberto D.

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A Beginner's Guide to Nouvelle Vague

Introduction The revolution in filmmaking that occurred in France at the end of the 1950s altered irrevocably the way films were made and understood. With filmmakers' opportunities aide...

Includes Bande à Part, Bob Le Flambeur, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Eric Rohmer: The Early Works, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Volume 1), Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Volume 2).

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Surrealism on Film

Introduction A revolutionary movement, born in the 1920s from a mixture of a complete rejection of rational values combined with Freud-inspired methods of liberating the unconscious, su...

Includes A Hard Days Night, A Snake Of June, Brazil, Celine And Julie Go Boating, Cinema Dada, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Fantômas.

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Shakespeare - The Complete Film Works

Introduction Here you'll find over 100 films based on the works of Shakespeare - everything we could find available in the UK!
Shakespearean cinema divides into two broad schools: '...

Includes 10 Things I Hate About You, A Midsummer Nights Dream (BBC, 1981), A Winters Tale (BBC, 1981), A Winters Tale (Rohmer, 1992), Alls Well That Ends Well (BBC), Animated Shakespeare Act 1 (The Taming of the Shrew & Macbeth), Animated Shakespeare Act 2 (Julius Caesar & Twelfth Night).

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French New Wave

Introduction Cahiers du Cinéma is a French Film magazine for which many great French filmmakers wrote before becoming celebrated directors. Their work would soon trigger one of the most...

Includes Breathless (Godard, 1959), Cleo From 5 to 7, Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Volume 1), Jules et Jim, Last Year in Marienbad, Les Biches, The 400 Blows.

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Experimental Animation

Introduction

Includes A Scanner Darkly, Berthold Bartosch - L Idee, Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage, Fluxus - Fluxfilm Anthology, Harry Smith - Early Abstractions, Len Lye - Rhythms, Norman McLaren - The Masters Edition.

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Wartime Documentaries

Introduction Concentrating on films focused on World War 1 and World War 2.

Includes 40s Britain - Fishermen At War, Battle For The Skies, Britains Home Front at War - London Can Take It!, Britains Home Front At War - The Home Guard and Britains Citizen Army, Britains Home Front at War - Women and Children at War, Britains Home Front At War - Words for Battle / Writers at War, Burma Victory.

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The Best of British Horror

Introduction A moustachioed ruffian emerges out of a thick pea-souper, brandishing a cudgel. A terrified farmgirl, her skirts wet with mud, run desperately through the wet night of a bl...

Includes 28 Days Later, Alien, Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold, Altered States, An American Werewolf In London, Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Dont Look Now.

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Rare French Film Soundtracks

Introduction These CDs are a great find - some of cinema's most stylish and atmospheric soundtracks presented by New Note in digi-packs with bilingual (French/English) booklets, bonus t...

Includes A Bout De Souffle et al - Martial Solal (Soundtrack), Beau Pere - Philippe Sarde (Soundtrack), Boulevard De Rhum - Francois De Roubaix (Soundtrack), Cannabis / Ce Sacre Grand-pere - Serge Gainsbourg (Soundtrack), La Folie Des Grandeurs - Michel Polnareff (Soundtrack), La Metamorphose Des Cloportes - Jimmy Smith (Soundtrack), Le Boucher et al - Pierre Jansen (Soundtrack).

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Re:Voir - Superb Art Films

Introduction Re:Voir is a company from France that specialises in high quality animation and artists' films. Among the highlights are two volumes of classic animation from Oskar Fischin...

Includes Barbara Hammer - Sanctus, Berthold Bartosch - L Idee, Bill Morrison - 8 Films, Boris Lehman - A La Recherche du Lieu de ma Naissance, Boris Lehman - Lecon De Vie, Cinema Dada, Divine Horsemen: Living Gods Of Haiti.

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GPO / Crown Film Unit Films

Introduction Established in 1933 when it was headed by the legendary John Grierson, the GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office, and produced many fascinating docu...

Includes 40s Britain - Fishermen At War, Classical Music In The Forties, Drifters / Caller Herrin, GPO Animation, Len Lye - Rhythms, London Pride, Night Mail / West Highland.

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British Transport Films

Introduction In 1949 British Transport Films (BTF) was created to make documentaries celebrating Britain's achievements in the transport sector, with a heavy emphasis on rail travel. Th...

Includes All That Mighty Heart, British Buses - The Golden Years, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 1): On and Off the Rails, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 2): See Britain by Train, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 3): Running a Railway, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 4): Reshaping British Railways, Farewell To The Routemaster - The Last Days Of The Famous London Bus.

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The British Documentary Awards Nominees and Winner

Introduction The Grierson Awards commemorate the pioneering Scottish documentary maker John Grierson (1898 – 1972), famous for Drifters and Night Mail, and the man widely regarded as th...

Includes Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer & The Selling of a Serial Killer, Auschwitz - The Final Solution, Biggie and Tupac, Capturing The Friedmans, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Jamies Kitchen, Live 8.

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Best Short Film Compilations

Introduction There has been a long-overdue resurgence of the short film recently, with DVD compilations numbering among the bestsellers every month. The wonderful Cinema 16 DVDs (long m...

Includes Anger 1, Anger 3, Big Stories, Small Flashes, Campfire, Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films (Vol 2), Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films (Vol. 1), Cinema 16: American Short Films.

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Best Portmanteau Films

Introduction A loose definition of a portmanteau film is a movie consisting of a series of separate plotlines that are connected, albeit tenuously, by a connecting theme. Some of these ...

Includes 11/09/01 - September 11, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Coffee And Cigarettes, Crash (2004), Dekalog (Parts 1-5), Dekalog (Parts 6-10).

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World Cinema For Children

Introduction The wealth of films from around the world is not something that should be restricted to adults. We've carefully selected some excellent World Cinema films that will encoura...

Includes Central Station, Cyrano De Bergerac (1990), Kolya, My Life as A Dog, Spirited Away, The Chorus, Whale Rider.

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Unique Visions

Introduction All of the directors in this list are connected by the fact that they have made films like no-one else, and in so doing, have expanded the range of cinematic possibility. T...

Includes A Man Escaped, A Zed And Two Noughts, Eloge de l Amour, Gertrud, Journey To Italy, Julien Donkey-Boy, Man Without a Past.

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Best Science-Fiction Titles

Introduction With so many science-fiction films and TV series currently available, compiling this collection required a ruthless hand in deciding which titles should be culled from the ...

Includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, A History Of Science Fiction Movies, A.I., Alien Quadrilogy (Box Set), Babylon 5 Series 1, Back to the Future Trilogy, Barbarella.

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Studio Ghibli Films

Introduction Although little-known in the Western world before the breakthrough film (and Oscar-winner) Spirited Away, the Japanese anime studio has been producing incredible animation ...

Includes Grave of the Fireflies, Howls Moving Castle, Kikis Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle In The Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, My Neighbours The Yamadas, Nausicaä Valley Of The Wind.

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Best Anti-War Films

Introduction Given the increasingly horrific weapons and tactics being devised by humanity to destroy its fellow man, plus the widespread news coverage of the devastation that war bring...

Includes All Quiet On The Western Front (1930), All Quiet On The Western Front (1978), Born on the Fourth of July, Casualties of War, Catch 22, Come and See, Coming Home.

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This Year's Oscar Winners

Introduction In a year of unusually terrific films (the line-up for Best Picture was the most stellar in years), there was only one real surprise win on the night itself, when Brokeback...

Includes Brokeback Mountain, Crash (2004), Hustle And Flow, King Kong (2005), March Of The Penguins, Memoirs Of A Geisha, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Undercurrents DVDs and VHS

Introduction Put together by a radical, non-profit outlet for alternative voices, Undercurrents News Network features stories and clips that won't make it onto the mainstream news. The ...

Includes Broad Horizons (Undercurrents), Greenham - The Making Of A Monument (Undercurrents), The Mark Thomas Live Comedy Show (Undercurrents), Undercurrents News Network.

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Classic Romances

Introduction With so much soppy dross being released at the cinemas nowadays, MovieMail has decided to put together a collection of our favourite classic romantic movies. Some of these ...

Includes A Matter of Life and Death , An Affair To Remember, An American In Paris, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Brief Encounter (1945), Carousel, Casablanca.

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Best Westerns

Introduction The history of the Western film is one of the more interesting examples of genre evolution in cinema. Although the earliest Westerns were filmed in studio sets, it graduall...

Includes A Fistful Of Dollars, A Fistful Of Dynamite, Annie Get Your Gun, Blazing Saddles, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, El Dorado, For A Few Dollars More.

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Artist DVDs (The Eye Collection)

Introduction The Eye Collection offers many fascinating insights into the work of many of the best modern artists currently at work today. In each film an artist discusses his or her wo...

Includes The Eye - Anish Kapoor, The Eye - Anthony Caro, The Eye - Antony Gormley, The Eye - Boyle Family, The Eye - Chris Ofili, The Eye - Dalziel And Scullion, The Eye - David Batchelor.

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Second Run DVDs

Introduction Formed in August 2005, Second Run is a UK-based DVD company specialising in world cinema never before available on DVD. All the films selected for release are re-mastered t...

Includes A Long Weekend In Pest And Buda, Another Way, Audition / Talent Competition, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, Black Sun (2005), Blissfully Yours, David Holzmans Diary & My Girlfriends Wedding.

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Masters Of Cinema

Introduction Formed in early 2004 with the label Eureka, the Masters Of Cinema series aims to provide film fans access to some great movies that have never been available on DVD in the ...

Includes Abhijan (Masters Of Cinema), Asphalt (Masters Of Cinema), Assassination (Masters Of Cinema), Bellissima (Masters of Cinema), Diary Of A Lost Girl, Edvard Munch (Masters of Cinema), F For Fake.

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Film First - MovieMail's Sister DVD Label

Introduction In 2005 MovieMail launched its sister film label: Film First. Although there are plenty of labels out there already, we feel that there are not enough, and that many top qu...

Includes It Happened Here, The Alcohol Years, The Humphrey Jennings Collection.

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Best Melodramas

Introduction The melodrama is one of the most maligned genres; many critics sneer at these movies of heightened-drama, dubbing them "weepies", "women's pictures" or, at best, "guilty pl...

Includes A Star Is Born, All About My Mother, An Affair To Remember, Bad Education, Black Narcissus, Bonjour Tristesse, Brief Encounter (1945).

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Best European Political Films

Introduction As the world becomes more and more politically aware, and the number of activists and demonstrations gradually increases, it is interesting to examine the sudden glut of po...

Includes A Thousand Months, Another Way, Audition / Talent Competition, Basque Ball, Blind Chance, Goodbye Lenin!, Innocence Unprotected.

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Best Christmas Films

Introduction Christmas films are a diverse bunch, too often consisting of sickly-sweet sentiment, blatant product placement and a general lack of imagination. Fortunately enough quality...

Includes A Christmas Carol (1984), A Christmas Carol - The Musical, A Winters Tale (Rohmer, 1992), Bad Santa, Black Christmas (1974), Blackadders Christmas Carol, Christmas Carol - The Movie (Animated).

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Greatest Screwball Comedies

Introduction A product of the Great Depression, when Americans sought escapism from their destitution through the movies, the early screwball comedies remain some of the funniest films ...

Includes Arsenic and Old Lace, Born Yesterday, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Holiday (1938), I Was A Male War Bride, It Happened One Night.

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Best World Cinema Horror Films

Introduction Over the last few years the horror genre has enjoyed a resurrection, mainly thanks to the success of the Scream films and a succession of profitable remakes of Japanese gho...

Includes A Tale of Two Sisters, Audition, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Cronos, Cube, Dans Ma Peau, Dark Water.

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Greatest Filmed Adaptations Of Novels

Introduction Film studios often keep an eye on the book bestseller list for possible movie spin-offs, knowing that their films would be guaranteed an audience from many of the readers w...

Includes 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Farewell To Arms (1932), A Room With A View, A Tale Of Two Cities, Alice In Wonderland (Miller), All Quiet On The Western Front (1930).

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Best Black Cinema

Introduction Black actors and directors have appeared in cinema from the very beginning, though sadly the earlier appearances were invariably in servile roles, or playing murderous nati...

Includes Ali, Bamboozled, Boyz N The Hood, Burning An Illusion, Carmen Jones, Cleopatra Jones, Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold.

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Dogma Films

Introduction In 1995 a group of directors (notably Thomas Vinterberg and Lars Von Trier) launched a tongue-in-cheek cinema manifesto rebelling against the films made since the 1960s' pr...

Includes In Your Hands, Italian for Beginners, Julien Donkey-Boy, Open Hearts, The Celebration / Festen, The Idiots, The King Is Alive.

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Films About Sexuality

Introduction Sexuality and sexual passion are rarely examined seriously in Anglophone cinema. Almost all of the UK films involving sex are tiresome seaside-postcard humored "comedies" (...

Includes 9 Songs, A Ma Soeur, A Short Film About Love, Anatomy Of Hell, Baise-Moi, Black Narcissus, Boogie Nights.

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Films About Terrorism

Introduction This compilation of films was difficult to compose for two reasons. First of all, so many movies about terrorists are dreadful, and sifting out the quality films for this l...

Includes 11/09/01 - September 11, 9/11, Arlington Road, Brazil, Die Hard (6 Disc Collectors Edition) (DVD), Europa, Exodus (Preminger, 1960).

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Best Children's DVDs and VHS

Introduction There is so much choice in the world of kids' DVDs that it is often difficult choosing a quality product. Many modern programmes for children seem patronising or lack artis...

Includes Back to the Future Trilogy, Chicken Run / James And The Giant Peach, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dark Crystal, Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds (Complete First Series), ET - The Extra-Terrestrial, Finding Nemo.

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Films About Filmmaking

Introduction When cinema turns retrospective, the results are not always successes - films about filmmaking often lead to hyperbole and unintentionally amusing scenes of camp (Mommie De...

Includes A Star Is Born, Adaptation, Bad Education, Bollywood Hollywood, Boogie Nights, Camera Buff, Celebrity.

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American Film Theatre DVDs

Introduction The ambitious American Film Theatre project which ran in the early 1970s was an interesting cinematic experiment thought up by producer Ely Landau. The basic idea was to me...

Includes A Delicate Balance, Butley, Galileo, In Celebration, Lost in the Stars, Luther (1973), Rhinoceros.

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Best London-Set Films

Introduction Filmmakers love to wax rhapsodic about the allure of The City, and the mystique of Paris, Rome and, of course, New York have been explored in countless films. London, howev...

Includes 10 Rillington Place, 28 Days Later, 84 Charing Cross Road, 9 Songs, Alfie (1965), An American Werewolf In London, Betjemans London.

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Great Film Twists

Introduction Knowing that a film has a twist in its tale can sometimes ruin a movie, as the audience will immediately start looking for clues - the (rather unfairly) maligned The Villag...

Includes 24 (Season 1), A Tale of Two Sisters, Angel Heart, Citizen Kane, Dont Look Now, Fight Club, GoldenEye.

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Black Comedies

Introduction Black comedies are a tricky genre to master - too much joviality can soften the sharp tang of the darker laughs, whilst an over-abundance of morbidity can suck the humour f...

Includes American Psycho, Arsenic and Old Lace, Brazil, Buffet Froid, Charlie Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux, Delicatessen, Dr Strangelove.

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Best Wining and Dining Films

Introduction With our ever-increasing obsession on dieting and healthy eating, it is a guilty pleasure to peruse some cinematic representations of feasting that see wining and dining as...

Includes Babettes Feast, Carnages, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Chocolat (2000), Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe, Jamies Kitchen, Jamies School Dinners.

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BFI Ten Best Films For Children

Introduction This list is compiled by Cary Bazalgette of the BFI based on nominations from those attending the 'Watch This!' debate at the Barbican Cinema on 13th July 2005, from a numb...

Includes Billy Elliot, ET - The Extra-Terrestrial, Kes, My Life as A Dog, Spirited Away, The 400 Blows, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Flynn).

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Comic Book Adaptations

Introduction Hollywood has always been eager to adapt popular comic books for the big screen, and they are usually guaranteed a massive audience. The Batman, Superman and Spider-Man fil...

Includes Addams Family Values, Alien vs Predator, American Splendor, Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Barbarella, Batman, Batman - The Movie (1966).

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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winners

Introduction Although the Academy are notoriously reluctant to honour any film in a foreign language in a "major" Oscar category (no world cinema has ever won the Best Picture award), t...

Includes All About My Mother, Amarcord, Babettes Feast, Belle Epoque, Cinema Paradiso, Closely Observed Trains, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Road Movies

Introduction The road has long been the USA's favourite metaphor for life, and the road movie is an especially (though not uniquely) American film sub-genre. The typical road movie invo...

Includes Badlands, Baise-Moi, Bonnie And Clyde, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, Central Station, Convoy, Dead End (2003).

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Political Films

Introduction With the election dominating the news, now seems a good time to reflect upon the many cinematic and televisual depictions of these political events. Unsurprisingly, many of...

Includes All The Kings Men, All The Presidents Men, Birth Of A Nation, Election, Fahrenheit 9/11, Gangs of New York, His Girl Friday.

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Promising Directorial Debuts

Introduction Directorial debuts often rank among the very best works in a filmmaker's canon, as there is a real eagerness among first-time directors to make an immediate impact; many of...

Includes Alien 3, Amores Perros, Angel (1982), Badlands, Being John Malkovich, Bleak Moments, Blood Simple.

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Female Directors

Introduction In spite of the huge progress women have made in almost all other areas of the art world, just 4% of movies are made by women. This pitiful statistic is all the more surpri...

Includes A Ma Soeur, American Psycho, An Angel At My Table, Anatomy Of Hell, At Five In The Afternoon, Awakenings, Beau Travail.

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We've Been Watching

Introduction Every month, the MovieMail staff select the best films they've watched recently and devote a page in the Newsletter to highlight these works which may not have received gre...

Includes Beckett On Film (Box Set), Crumb, Das Boot, David, Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1932 And 1941 Versions), Dracula - Pages From A Virgins Diary, Elephant.

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Top 100 Animations

Introduction In a recent Channel 4 survey, the public voted for their 100 favourite cartoons, and it was refreshing to see many quality products feature highly in the poll. Hayao Miyaza...

Includes 2DTV, 2DTV (Series 3), 2DTV (Series 4), Alice In Wonderland (1951), Animal Farm (Animated) (1955), Belleville Rendez-vous (aka The Triplets of Belleville), Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection.

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Extreme Cinema

Introduction The films in the following collection are (in)famous for arousing controversy on their initial release, be it for explicit scenes of violence (Irreversible), sex (Romance) ...

Includes A Clockwork Orange, A Ma Soeur, Audition, Baise-Moi, Birth Of A Nation, Cannibal Ferox, Crash.

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Academy Award Best Picture Winners

Introduction Although winning the Best Picture Oscar does not necessarily guarantee a film classic status (the relatively recent triumphs of Driving Miss Daisy and Braveheart drained mu...

Includes A Man For All Seasons, All About Eve, All Quiet On The Western Front (1930), All The Kings Men, Amadeus, American Beauty, An American In Paris.

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Saul Bass Collection

Introduction Saul Bass is probably the only credits-sequence director a film buff would recognise by name, and with good reason - his arresting title designs immediately set the tone of...

Includes Alien, Anatomy of a Murder, Around The World In Eighty Days, Cape Fear (1991), Carmen Jones, Casino, Exodus (Preminger, 1960).

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Musical Films

Introduction The recent resurrection of the musical, with both Moulin Rouge and Chicago earning immense critical and commercial success, has been a cheering phenomenon, for the genre ha...

Includes 8 Women, A Chorus Line, A Star Is Born, All That Jazz, An American In Paris, Annie / Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun.

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Palme D'Or Winners

Introduction Although the Cannes Film Festival has bestowed its greatest honour, the Palme d'Or, on a wide variety of cinema (including mainstream films such as Pulp Fiction and Marty),...

Includes All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now Redux, Blow-up, Brief Encounter (1945), Dancer in The Dark, Elephant, Kagemusha.

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British Social Realism

Introduction Although a preoccupation with social realism was strongly evident in forties British cinema - John Baxter's Love on the Dole, the work of Humphrey Jennings, early Ealing fi...

Includes Alfie (1965), Billy Liar, Darling, Kes, Meantime, The Blue Lamp, The Entertainer.

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High School Films

Introduction The High-School movie has long been a cinematic staple and has produced a wide range of innovative, vibrant and entertaining films. The ingredients are often the same - joc...

Includes American Graffiti, Back to the Future Trilogy, Battle Royale, Carrie, Dazed and Confused, Donnie Darko - Directors cut, Election.

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Counter Culture

Introduction Woodstock & Haight-Ashbury, the Summer of Love and the shadow of Vietnam; the sixties were a time of questioning authority, looking for new role-models and investigating al...

Includes Alices Restaurant, Crumb, Easy Rider, Fritz The Cat, Hair, Harold and Maude, Head (NTSC).

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Best of British

Introduction Although the British Film Industry has recently been guilty of some heinous misjudgments (endless gangster flicks, Richard Curtis' romantic "comedies"), a quick glance at i...

Includes A Fish Called Wanda, A Matter of Life and Death , A Room With A View, Blow-up, Brazil, Brief Encounter (1945), Brighton Rock.

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The Best of Gay and Lesbian Cinema

Introduction It is ironic that the widespread acceptance of homosexuality has been detrimental to the quality of output found in gay film. The media-friendly camp stereotype propagated ...

Includes 100 Days Before The Command, 15, All About My Mother, All Over Me, Another Way, Bad Education, Beau Travail.

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Sight and Sound Critics Choice 2002

Introduction Every ten years since 1952, Sight & Sound Magazine, has published the results of their pollings of the world's leading film critics, to compile a list of the best films of ...

Includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Rublev, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Fanny and Alexander.

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Film Noir

Introduction The American film noir was born in the years immediately after the Second World War, and its style was hugely influenced by Weimar-era German film directors such as Robert ...

Includes Basic Instinct, Body And Soul, Body Heat, Brick, Call Northside 777, Chinatown, Crossfire.

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