April 2008 DVDs
Kids
$14.95 (Digital video disc / Reel Dvd )
Powerful, compelling and deeply shocking, Kids spends 24 frenetic hours with a group of New York teenagers. Skateboarders Telly and Casper hang out, shoplift, do drugs and seduce girls. Jennie follows the pair across the...
Into The Wild
$19.95 (Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures )
Into the Wild is based on a true story and the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gives hi...
Death At A Funeral
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution )
Last Rites... And Wrongs A dignified send-off for a loved one erupts into uproarious chaos when romance, jealousy, in-laws, hallucinogens, dark secrets, life-long yearnings and a spot of bold blackmail all collide graves...
Conversations With My Gardener
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Rialto )
After the death of his mother, a Parisian landscape painter (Auteuil) returns to claim the ramshackle country house he grew up in. Noticing the houses’ once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into neglect, he hires a...
Red Road
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Force Video )
A startling thriller of pain and retribution, Red Road centres on Jackie (KATE DICKIE), an operator of Glasgow’s surveillance cameras. She is emotionally disconnected to life and Jackie likes it that way. One day a face ...
In The Realm Of The Senses
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )
Nagisa Oshima’s extraordinary tale of sexual obsession remains equally shocking 30 years later. Inspiring censorship (it was banned in Australia on release in 1976), controversy and critical ire—all because it dared to b...
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc: Distinction Series
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Kaleidoscope Film )
With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded...
Hiroshima Mon Amour
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )
One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais’ first feature sees a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their cons...
Tell No One
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )
Pediatric Alex Beck (Francois Cluzet), still devastated by the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze) in the early days of their marriage eight years ago, receives an anonymous email. When he clicks on the ...
Stone Special: 2 Disc Collectors Edition
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )
The Oz Biker Classic in a Special 2 DVD Collectors Edition! An Australian Easy Rider, Stone is a wild combination of biker movie, gore flick, whodunit, action film and remains the best known cult exploitation film of the...
Forbidden Lie$
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Palace Films )
Norma Khouri is a thief, a saint, a seductress and a sociopath depending on who is talking. Men want to marry her, Islamic extremists want to kill her, and the global publishing industry wishes she would just disappear. ...
Away From Her
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )
Away From Her is a beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and tribulations of a long marriage. Together for fifty years, the union between Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) appears unwaverin...
September
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment )
In his feature film debut, Australian director Peter Carstairs has created a deeply humane and moving portrait of friendship, family and identity. September is the first film to emerge from the Tropfest Feature Film Prog...
Vitus
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Rialto )
Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet. He has hearing like a bat, he plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopedias at the age of five. No wonder his parents begin to plan a brilliant future fo...
Bubble: Director's Suite
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Directors Suite )
In this unique cinematic experiment, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh brings this tragic story to life with startling realism. A bizarre love triangle as born at a doll factory in a small town in America's Midwest. L...
4: Limited Edition DVD/CD Pack
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd )
In four corners of the globe, in each of the four seasons, four outstanding violinists guide us on an extraordinary journey through homelands. Available for a limited time only!
Nosferatu: Director's Suite
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Directors Suite )
German director F.W. Murnau's 1922 version remains a definitive adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Created when German silent films were at the forefront of visual technique and experimentation, Murnau's classic is rem...
Herzog On Music: Distinction Series
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Kaleidoscope Film )
Two disc set of Herzog’s documentaries. Features the documentaries Gesualdo: Death For Five Voices and The Transformation Of The World Into Music GESUALDO: DEATH FOR FIVE VOICES Exploring the tumultuous and tragic life o...
Brothers Of The Head
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )
For some people... Rock & Roll was always a freak show. An explosive story of shadowy cultural icons Tom and Barry Howes, conjoined twins from an isolated headland on the east coast of England. Plucked from the safet...
Glastonbury
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )
Glastonbury is now the best-known, longest-running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, this groundbreaking documentary embraces the spirit, characters and overwhelmin...
Poison
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Accent Film )
POISON is the celebrated first feature by TODD HAYNES. The film was inspired by the writings of Jean Genet and deftly interweaves three tales - Hero, Horror and Homo - and builds towards a devastating climax. Hero, shot ...
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
$24.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )
In the crucible of war, men kill without remorse. “Bowie’s screen presence is mercurial and arresting.” The New York Times The first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses...
The Element Of Crime
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Accent Film )
Fisher has returned to Cairo after leading a murder investigation in Europe. Obviously traumatised by the experience he remembers little, is obsessive and is plague by crippling headaches. He seeks the help of a therapis...
Love In A Cold Climate
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )
An adaptation of Nancy Mitford's two best-known novels, hits an entirely appropriate balance between the comic and the sentimentally tragic. Set in 1930s England this is the story of three upper class girls, Fanny, Linda...
How Art Made The World
$29.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )
Embark on a thrilling journey through time and five continents to the heart of creativity. Fusing social history, politics, science, nature, archaeology and religion, this international landmark series unravels a univers...
Judge John Deed: Series One
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )
Despite the red robe and wig, Judge John Deed is no average high court judge. Good-looking, fit and fifty-something, he has a rakish charm that belies his sharp intellect. His passion for justice and his maverick approac...
Judi Dench Collection: DVD Box Set
$129.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )
This collection contains classic, early performances from Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench, including Talking to a Stranger (1966), Make and Break (1987), Absolute Hell (1991), The Cherry Orchard (1981), Ghosts (198...
Miffy The Original Series: Miffys Dream
$19.95 (Digital video disc / Mad4 Kids )
"MIFFY THE ORIGINAL SERIES" is a special collection of the original animations, based on the stories of the internationally recognised children's author Dick Bruna. The stories are gentle everyday tales about the life of...