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March 2008 DVDs

Flower Drum Song
Henry Koster

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

The charm, grace and novelty of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1958 Broadway hit has been wonderfully translated to the screen in this hit 1961 romantic musical. A four way love story set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the fou... More »

The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals this to her mother, her mot... More »


Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent )

In Death Proof director Tarantino's take on such peddle to the metal shockers as White Line Fever Kurt Russell stars as an engine revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally re... More »

Elizabeth and the Golden Age
Shekhar Kapoor

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid )

The story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. As her cousin Mary Stuart conspires with Philip of Spain to topple the throne, Elizabeth (Bl... More »


The Jammed
Dee Mclachlan

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent )

Winner of 3 IF Awards…Including Best Feature Film Young Melbourne woman, Ashley Hudson, is drawn into a world she had no idea existed as she reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her ,missing daughter. A... More »

Paddington: 50th Anniversary Edition Box Set
Horden Michael (Narrator)

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Although Paddington now lives in London, England, he originally came from Darkest Peru where he was brought up by his Aunt Lucy after he was orphaned following an earthquake when he was just a few weeks old.

When Aunt Lu... More »


The Assassination of Jesse James
Andrew Dominik

$14.95 (Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid )

Robert Ford joins Jesse James's gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and hatch a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West. More »

Dreams: Directors Suite
Ingmar Bergman

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

World-renowned Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman brings us DREAMS, a romantic tale about love, loss and life filmed in some of Sweden's most recognisable locales. Stockholm-based fashion photographer Susanne spends her da... More »


4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Kojo Film )

The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceausescu era, most probably in the city of Iasi, although never stated in the film. It tells the tragic story of two students, room mates in the uni... More »

Control: Director's Suite
Anton Corbjin

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Directors Suite )

Globally renowned photographer and image-maker to superstar bands like Depeche Mode and U2, Anton Corbijn brings us his first feature film CONTROL-the story of the tortured love triangle between Joy Division's frontman I... More »


The Cherry Orchard
Michael Cacoyannis

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Set in Russia during the Nineteenth Century, THE CHERRY ORCHARD is based on the play by Anton Chekhov and is concerned with the effects of industrialisation and social change in Russia. In the film, aristocratic Madame R... More »

The Young Girls Of Rochefort
Jacques Demy

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

In THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, the follow up to the revolutionary UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1963), director Jacques Demy continues his experiments with narrative and the musical form, as well as his collaboration with co... More »


Fido
Andrew Currie

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Sony Pictures Home Entertain )

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep... More »

Weekend: Distinction Series
Jean Luc Godard

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Kaleidoscope Film )

French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard’s Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central ... More »


The Bothersome Man
Jens Lien

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment-even a beautiful girlfriend. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The peo... More »

Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent )

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest o... More »


Gertrud: Director's Suite
Carl Theodor Dreyer

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Based on the 1906 play by Swedish dramatist Hjalmar Söderberg, Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer's final film, Gertrud, follows the vicissitudes of Gertrud Kanning, a former opera singer married to a prominent politician... More »

Indie Sex
Dita Von Teese

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd )

A look at sex and sexuality in cinema; from censorship and how industry bodies and interest groups have attempted to regulate the images that filmmakers create and who gets to see them; to teen sex and how it has been re... More »


Robert Altman Presents Gun
Various

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Force Video )

Presented by Oscar® Nominated Director Robert Altman (The Player, Gosford Park), this anthology series follows the path of a handgun and the impact it has on the lives of those who encounter it. An all-star cast, acclaim... More »

The Page Turner
Denis Dercourt

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Schoolgirl Mélanie aspires to a musical career, but during her Conservatory audition, one of the judges, celebrated concert pianist Ariane Fouchécourt, unwittingly distracts her, ruining her chances of a place. Asa resul... More »


Sherlock Holmes Collection Box Set
Basil Rathbone

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Force Video )

Contains 4 clasic Sherlock Holmes Films: Dressed To Kill The Woman In Green The Secret Weapon Terror By Night More »

Jane Austen Collection
Various

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Time Life )

Emma: Kate Beckinsale (The Aviator; Pearl Harbour) leads a prestigious cast in this Emmy® Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated costume drama. Emma is the beautiful, rich, clever and infuriating heroine who likes nothing bet... More »


Eastern Promises
David Cronenberg

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent )

The new thriller from director David Cronenberg reteams him with his "A History of Violence" leading man Viggo Mortensen. The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Mr. Mortensen), who is tied to one of London... More »

Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky: Distinction Series
Andrei Tarkovsky

$79.95 (Digital video disc / Kaleidoscope Film )

Considered by many to be one of, if not the most important Russian filmmakers of the 20th Century, Andrei Tarkovsky was a filmic visionary whose body of work stands as a realisation of his notion of ‘sculpting in time’. ... More »


East West 101
Peter Andrikidis

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Post 9/11, the London and Bali bombings, Muslims and non Muslims live side by side in a climate of fear ... Zane Malik is a brilliant, but hot-headed, detective in the Major Crime Squad. Malik is also a Muslim. And at a ... More »

Outrageous Fortune: Series One

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition of thievery, larceny and petty crime - until now. When patriarch Wolfgang West is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife Cheryl decides enough is enough; th... More »


Skins: Series One

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Skins follows a group of teenagers living on the wild side, who get high, get drunk, get laid and get up for their A levels. This British series currently screening on SBS features a whole cross- section of teenagers, ra... More »

Eerie Indiana
Jose Rivera

$59.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

This pre-adolescent supernatural TV series from 1991 sees thirteen-year-old Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) and his family move from his beloved New Jersey to the picture perfect town of Eerie, Indiana. But as the boy observ... More »


The Last Seduction
John Dahl

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence and a marriage to Clay, a wealthy physician (Bill Pullman). But everything isn’t enough for Bridget, who persuades her husband to make dirty d... More »

Dr Plonk
Rolf De Heer

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Palace Films )

It is the great year of 1907. Dr Plonk, eminent scientist and inventor, calculates that the world will end in exactly 101 years unless immediate action is taken. As befalls visionaries through the ages, Plonk is ridicule... More »


Priceless
Pierre Saladori

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Irène (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barman Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for one of her usual prey, she is abhorred to di... More »

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