Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play SYNOPSIS Made barely a year after Claude Chabrol&s debut Le Beau Serge Les Cousins featured the earlier film&s same starring pair of Jean
- Claude Brialy & G erard Blain here reversing the good
- guybad
- guy roles of the previous picture The result is a simmering venomous study in human temperament that not only won the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Festival but also drew audiences in droves & effectively launched Chabrol&s incredible fifty
- year
- long career In Les Cousins Blain&s character journeys from the country to Paris to crash at the luxurious flat of his worldly & decadent cousin portrayed by Brialy during the study period for an upcoming law exam which both have set out to undertake It becomes clear soon enough that only one of the cousins is terribly committed to his work; as sexual promises & alcohol intervene the set
- up becomes untenable for the provincial
- & a tragic slide ensues A gripping & urbane examination of city & country ambition & ease Les Cousins continues to captivate & shock audiences with its brilliant scenario the performances of Brialy & Blain & the assuredness of Chabrol&s precocious directorial hand The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Claude Chabrol&s breakthrough film in a beautiful new Gaumont restoration on Blu
- ray & DVD for the first time in the UK SPECIAL DVD EDITION Gorgeous new Gaumont restoration of the film in its original aspect ratio New & enhanced English subtitles Original theatrical trailer A 47
- minute documentary about the making of the film L & Homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Chabrol&s 1964 short film A lengthy booklet with a new & exclusive essay by critic Emmanuel Burdeau; a new & exclusive translation of a rare text about actress Françoise Vatel provided for this release by its author the filmmaker & critic Luc Moullet; excerpts of interviews & writing by Chabrol; & more








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Tracklist For Lena & Lennie (En flanant dans Paris) Rat Race (la course au rat) Stockholm Sweetnin' (Un Coin Merveilleux) Boo's Bloos (Au temps des Indiens) Doodlin' (Tout en dodelinant) Meet Benny Bailey (Au Bout du Fil) Evening in Paris (Il y a fort longtemps) Count'em (T'as foutu l'camp) Tickle Toe Early Autumn Sweets Naima Westwood Walk A Night in Tunisia A Ballad Scrapple From The Apple Boplicity Moanin' Fascinating Rythm Walkin' ...

Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s Marcel Carne&s LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty) Each loves Garance in his own fashion but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result it is he who suffers most hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal ...

Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s Marcel Carne&s LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty) Each loves Garance in his own fashion but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result it is he who suffers most hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eleven men & women born between the wars Seemingly they have nothing in common except their homosexuality & growing up in a less open more intolerant society Now in their 60s & 70s they tell their personal stories either shared or alone These lives are often revealing & pioneering as they recall their personal experiences Sebastien Lifshitz director of Presque Rien & Wild Side offers us intimate portraits of gay & lesbian life from an older generation who often remain ignored & unheard in a youth-obsessed society Winner of the Cesar Award for Best Documentary & nominated for the BFI London Film Festival Grierson Award LES INVISIBLES is an affectionate but frank account that is in turn touching & amusing reflecting our own concerns about growing old Director Sebastien Lifshitz Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 1661 Anamorphic Languages French
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English
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Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) starring Hugh Jackman Russell Crowe & Anne Hathaway & also featuring Amanda Seyfreid Helena Bonham-Carter & Sacha Baron-Cohen Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of the great works of western literature Victor Hugo's tale of injustice heroism & love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat by his own conscience when owing to a case of mistaken identity another man is arrested in his place; & by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free however for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway) driven to prostitution by poverty Victor Hugo (1802-85) wrote volumes of criticism Romantic costume dramas satirical verse & political journalism but is best remembered for his novels especially Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) also known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame & Les Miserables (1862) which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time ' All human life is here' Cameron Mackintosh producer of the musical Les Miserables' One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world' Upton Sinclair'A great writer
- inventive witty sly innovatory' A S Byatt author of Possession
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One of the most widely read novels of all time Les Miserables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's career An enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I the novel tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean
- unjustly imprisoned & hounded by his nemesis the magnificently realized police detective Javert A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed Les Miserables captures the entirety of life in 19th-century France
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Filmed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the musical & Les Miserables& this theatrical extravaganza features over 250 performers including many of the most popular actors ever to have appeared in the & Les Miserables& company The cast

Includes:: Colm Wilkinson Ruthie Henshall Alun Armstrong Michael Ball & Judy Kuhn Actors Michael Ball Colm Wilkinson Philip Quast Ruthie Henshall Jenny Galloway Directors Gavin Taylor Language English Number of discs 2

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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Based on Victor Hugo&s classic novel this is an epic tale of love honour & obsession against the dramatic background of the French Revolution Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson) lives a life on the run for stealing a loaf of bread Settling in a remote town he devotes himself to the care of the poor including the beautiful young & poverty stricken Fantine (Uma Thurman) When Fantine dies she leaves a daughter Cosette (Claire Danes) who Valjean raises But they are haunted by Javert (Geoffrey Rush) a policeman whose lifelong search for Valjean has become an obsession A hunt begins that will come to a final confrontation on the revolution torn streets of Paris Age Rating 12 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play THE KING&S SPEECH&s Tom Hooper directs this adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh&s successful musical version of Victor Hugo&s classic novel The drama surrounds a the obsessive quest of Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) as he spends years in an effort to capture escaped convict Jean Valjean Hugh Jackman stars in the Universal Pictures production Anne Hathaway Amanda Seyfried & Sacha Baron Cohen co-star ...