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Staring:
Grandmaster Caz, Damon Dash, Doze, Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott, Futura 2000
Director:
Lisa Leone, Thibaut de Longeville
 A great US perspective on trainers, 2010-08-19
This enjoyable documentary covers the history of trainers in the US from basic athletic footwear to status symbol, via Run DMC and Michael Jordan.
I think trainers are treated differently in the US to the UK. The American obsession with putting old trainers 'on ice' and attempting to preserve their immaculacy, their function as status-symbols, and those who collect hundreds of them, is eye-opening.
I hope someone makes a companion documentary from a European perspective.
Recommended to all who like their footwear.
List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £4.75
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Yolande Moreau, Dominique Pinon, Michel Robin
Director:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
With its use of special effects to express the main character's internal emotions, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie could have been mistaken for a French version of Ally McBeal; however, unlike Ally--"woe is me for I cannot find a man"--McBeal, Amelie is not distressed by the lack of men in her life, in fact the whole idea of sex seems to amuse her no end. Basic pleasures such as cracking the top of a Crème Brule offer her all the sensual satisfaction she needs and her existence in the "Paris of Dreams" is the stuff of fairy tales. Indeed, this cinematic treat must have worked wonders for the Paris tourist board: Jeunet's beautiful interpretation of Parisian life is depicted in all the vibrant colours you would expect from the director of Delicatessen. On the DVD: Amelie has received an additional disc for this special edition release. Disc 1 is the same as the original single-disc release, with a choice of DTS or Dolby 5.1 sound and an 16.9 anamorphic widescreen picture with optional director's commentary. The second disc contains the new special features and, just like original disc, a lot of thought has gone into the access menu with its lavish...
Red Letter Day In French Cinema, 2010-08-26
To truly appreciate the unalloyed pleasure so many have taken from Amelie, you need to have endured the pretentious side of French films; especially the ones set in labyrinthine Parisian apartments, full of barren silences, naked people staring wistfully out of windows or uttering the kind of fruitless psychobabble that would drive any rational person with an iota of common sense into a state of apoplexy.
Then along comes this visually gorgeous, fantastic, original and vividly imaginative story of a young woman and her attempts to make life more beautiful for the denizens of Montmartre; acts of charity that serve, once again, to distract her from the emptiness of her own personal life. Chance encounters lead to a happy ending richly deserved.
Beautifully scored and charmingly acted, but still replete with some nasty jokes and cruel barbs that rightly earn it a 15-certificate, Amelie may become cloying if watched too frequently, but deserves to be on your shelf for the days when the world has become dull and spiritless.
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £4.49
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Albert Dupontel
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Self's the man, 2010-04-05
In Self-Made Hero,Audiard shows his capacity to fashion his film around a strong male actor,concealing the formidable techniques of film-making, while constructing the craft of story-telling through self-conscious narration.Albert Dehousse,literally reinvents a past for himself through discretion,omission and charm, superposing himself into relationships with benevolent mentors,the Captain Dionnet and Monsieur Jo,he positions himself into photographs with veterans or at war trials and joins Resistance group-meetings.He invents a past for himself as a Resistance hero during the German Occupation;these carefully crafted,totally invented tales are then collaged with equally fake documentaries and television reportage.
This is a perfectly light-hearted approach to national guilt and personal impotence taking a few satirical swipes at France under the Occupation(who collaborated?) and the post-war need to reinvent its past, to reclaim lost pride and honour.The hero moves up through the Resistance world in comic mode as he is adopted by his father-figures,and the outcome is surprising, playing as it does on the human need to invent oneself.Mattieu Kassovitch plays this dreamer,Walter Mitty character to perfection. The supporting cast are second to none,especially the two female actresses,Kimberlaine and Grinberg.Actors need to lie to become other people.They learn their lines to become someone else,without being those people.
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £3.63
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Nicole Kidman, Vincent Cassel, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans
Director:
Jez Butterworth
most amusing, 2007-05-08
... if you like this kind of film then you'll like this - sounds silly but if you didn't like Wimbledon for instance don't bother with this. It is British comedy and as such the plot is very much grounded in the idea of every day life gone a little bit awry, I suppose you could call it a farce of sorts.
Nicole Kidman is absolutely brilliant in this, but then so is the lead actor, but he's not as famous or as beautiful so I can't remember his name - that guy out of 'Game On' will have to suffice.
Also really great to see a French actor I recognise from some seriously odd non-English films (e.g. Irreversible) getting away with playing a Russian.
The UK locations as opposed to US locations (how many times do we have to see New York on film?) really give this comedy a kind of gritty realism. Obviously if you are outside the UK this won't work for you but you'll get a change to see a few bits of the UK not previously shown (i.e. outside London).
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.80
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Munich is a film with no easy answers, and plenty of uncomfortable moments. It also finds Steven Spielberg on masterly form behind the camera, telling a relentlessly serious and unsettling story with the gravitas it absolutely requires. Set immediately after the murder of nine Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics (an event that’s brutally re-enacted), the film is supposedly a fictionalised account based on true events of what happened next. Namely, the Israelis ordering together a secret team--led by Eric Bana’s Avner--to take out those they considered responsible. Only it’s not that easy. It doesn’t take long for the film to start blurring the moral debate. Is what Avner and his team are doing that different from the original assassins? Can he reconcile the brutality of his actions? And what happens when the programme of retaliation doesn’t go quite to plan? By turns, Munich is a brutal, gripping and important film. It’s not always easy to penetrate, and it really demands some good old-fashioned concentration to fully appreciate it. Yet it’s superb filmmaking, and an engrossing piece of cinema. Oscar may have snubbed it, but you’d...
Munich, 2010-08-15
Excellent film. Fast pace. Scary in that you get rid of major extremists who are then replaced by further extremists, so nothing changes in this world of ours. Lots to think about!
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £1.29
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Evans
Director:
Jez Butterworth
Birthday Girl, 2008-09-08
Very funny, sexy and a little bit scary..... classic Ben Chaplin as a convincingly sad Banker-with-a-silent-W, Nicole Kidman almost unrecognisable and Russian. If you like a spot of bondage with your bank job this is the film for you.
First viewing leaves you a bit breathless with its climax ! but it is a funnier film from its second viewing with delightful cameo appearances from League of Gentlemen and Smack the Pony comedy genius'.
This film was delayed in its release and sadly missed its perfect window a year before when mail order brides where headline news, so became more cult than mainstream which is a pity because it is a must-see, the acting is faultless, the comedy spontaneous and beautifully black.
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru
Director:
Costa-Gavras
Collective Guilt, 2009-10-08
A bleak, searing indictment of the Vatican and the Allies silence (and complicity) in the Holocaust. From naivete to outright anti-semitism, the reasons vary, but the upshot is the same - six million dead Jews. Easily director Costa-Gavras best film for too many years - he serves up a harrowing and ultimately moving story that inspires righteous anger and is at the forefront of filmic examinations of the Shoah. A low-key classic.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.93
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Michael Lonsdale
Munich is a film with no easy answers, and plenty of uncomfortable moments. It also finds Steven Spielberg on masterly form behind the camera, telling a relentlessly serious and unsettling story with the gravitas it absolutely requires. Set immediately after the murder of nine Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics (an event that’s brutally re-enacted), the film is supposedly a fictionalised account based on true events of what happened next. Namely, the Israelis ordering together a secret team--led by Eric Bana’s Avner--to take out those they considered responsible. Only it’s not that easy. It doesn’t take long for the film to start blurring the moral debate. Is what Avner and his team are doing that different from the original assassins? Can he reconcile the brutality of his actions? And what happens when the programme of retaliation doesn’t go quite to plan? By turns, Munich is a brutal, gripping and important film. It’s not always easy to penetrate, and it really demands some good old-fashioned concentration to fully appreciate it. Yet it’s superb filmmaking, and an engrossing piece of cinema. Oscar may have snubbed it, but you’d...
Munich, 2010-08-15
Excellent film. Fast pace. Scary in that you get rid of major extremists who are then replaced by further extremists, so nothing changes in this world of ours. Lots to think about!
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