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Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail which are due out soon. The prices listed are the current prices on Amazon.
Twenty Twelve Series 2 As the Games get ever nearer the Algerian Olympic team threaten to boycott the Games after discovering that the Shared Belief Centre does not face Mecca. Ian and his team have just hours to find a solution that will keep everyone happy. Head of Infrastructure Graham ends up accompanying Ian to a crucial three-way teleconference with Sebastian Coe, the British Foreign Office and the Algerian representative, Dr Benhamadi. No chance then, that events will end up veering badly off track. Twenty Twelve Series 2 is released on DVD and Series 1 & 2 DVD. |
Delicacy 
Starring Audrey Tautou, this film is about a French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior to courted by a Swedish co-worker. |
Le Havre
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight. |
Himizu
Sumida (Shometani) and his schoolmate Keiko (Nikaido) are 15 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents hope and encourage them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan, which are used as a backdrop, the story follows roughly that of the manga of the same name. Don t give up. The constant refrain repeated in radio and television programmes to a nation hit by the merciless catastrophe sounds even more ominous when written in a note left by Yuichi Sumida s mother after running off with her lover. At fifteen, Sumida (Shôta Sometani) is left alone to manage the family s languishing boat-rental business and fend off his drunk and penniless father s bouts of violence. Sumida sees his simple dream for an ordinary future rapidly evapo¬rating before his eyes. Sharing similarly humble but fading dreams is his classmate Keiko Chazawa (Fumi Nikaidou), who also happens to have a major crush on him, even though Sumida seems deeply annoyed by her presence. Sumida fights frequently with his father, is abandoned by his mother and tends to reject friendly advances of others. Real violence enters Sumida s life when his drunken father goes too far in taunting him. Shocked by the crime he has committed, and the fact he ll never be able to lead the ordinary life he planned on, Sumida paints his face and stalks the city streets with a kitchen knife, crazily determined to make amends to society by killing wrong-doers. Extras:
Deleted Scenes Interview with actor Denden Theatrical Trailer |
Flowers of War
It’s 1937 and China is on the brink of collapse. Nanking is under siege from the Japanese Imperial Army, the streets awash with violence, the civilians desperate. The protective walls of a western church provide the only haven from the vicious battles outside. Here, an American John Miller (Christian Bale) caught in the midst of the chaos, joins a small group trying escape the violence wrought by the Japanese army. Through one act of heroism, this group of disparate refugees fight back, risking their lives for the sake of others and the nation. Inspired by true events, The Flowers of War tells the incredible story of an unlikely group standing up against an unimaginable and overwhelming evil. |
Heaven 17 – Penthouse and Pavement Live in Concert 2010
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the band’s debut album, Penthouse and Pavement, this 2 disc DVD combines the band’s full live concert filmed in Sheffield in March 2010, with never-seen-before documentary and rehearsal footage. Also included is a unique collection of all the digital videos used as the back drop to the live show, set to the accompanying live audio from the performance. Each video was commissioned by a different visual artist and includes some of the biggest and talented up-and-coming artists from the worlds of digital and graphic design, fine art and film. A must for any fan, featuring 19 classic tracks, including Temptation, (We Don t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang and a cover version of the Human League s Being Boiled Penthouse and Pavement Live in Concert perfectly captures one of the most influential bands of their generation, as relevant and exciting today as they were when they first formed. Included in the special edition package is a bonus DVD featuring an exclusively extended version of the documentary Heaven 17: The Story of Penthouse and Pavement, plus never before seen footage including rehearsals. Heaven 17 – Penthouse and Pavement Live in Concert 2010 is released on DVD. |
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