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Britain's Home Front At War: Britain's Citizen Army (2 Discs)
Britain's Home Front At War: London Can Take It
Britain's Home Front At War: Women And Children At War
Britain's Home Front At War: Words For Battle

Cottage To Let: Special Edition (aka: Bombsight Stolen)

DB7

A Kid For Two Farthings
Equus
Sweeney! / Sweeney 2
The Four Feathers
Dark Journey
Simon and Laura
Hell Drivers
The Card
Leather Boys
Peeping Tom: Special Edition
Terry-Thomas Collection Box Set
Dr. Crippen
Circus Of Horrors
The Raging Moon
Saraband For Dead Lovers
Mandy
Gonks Go Beat
Dirk Bogarde Collection
The James Mason Collection
The Family Way
Happy Is The Bride
The Magic Box
Suspect
Cairo Road
Beat Girl

theuofc

Julie Christie 5 DVD Collection boxset due out 12 March 2007:



The divine Julie Christie brings her glamorous presence to this superb box
set containing 5 of her finest films.

Featuring:

Darling (1965): Julie Christie plays Diana Scott, a beautiful and charming
model, who enjoys the new freedoms of 1960's Swinging London society more than most. Alongside her goodtime girl attitude lays a propensity to discard people and relationships as soon as she gets bored and as frequently as she might the latest fashion, for example. Abandoning her young, immature husband, she runs off with the older, more sophisticated Robert (Dirk Bogarde) who in turn has left his wife and family so they can set up house together. It isn't long
before Diana is restless again, but this time has she got herself into a situation
that she may not be able to so easily escape from?

Billy Liar (1963): Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, Billy
Liar is a warm and sensitive work from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) that
undoubtedly remains one of the finest British films of the 60s. Oozing a blend
of immaturity, intelligence and good intent, Tom Courtenay (Last Orders)
delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher, an undertaker's assistant in
a drab Northern town who escapes his humdrum existence by escaping,
Walter-Mitty-like into a world of fantasy. Fisher's parents despair of his antics, but
could Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), with her dreams of
a life in London offer hope of genuine excitement and escape? Gently
subversive, the film marries visual and verbal wit and a genuine capacity to entertain
with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams.

Far From The Madding Crowd (1967): Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, Far
From The Madding Crowd was the third film (after Billy Liar and Darling) that
paired Julie Christie and director John Schlesinger, and sees Christie as
Bathsheba, a headstrong young woman living in Dorset in late rural Victorian times
who finds herself being courted by three very different suitors: dashing
soldier Sgt Troy (Terence Stamp), stuffy landowner Willian Boldwood (Peter Finch)
and poor farmer Gabriel Oaks (Alan Bates).

The Go-Between (1970): Christie stars as Marian, sister to Marcus and about
to be engaged to Hugh (Edward Fox), a good-natured Viscount and her perfect
match. During the course of Summer, 1900, 13-year-old Leo comes to stay at the
Norfolk stately home of his classmate Marcus, and is soon befriended by Marian.
Initially ignorant of the implications, Leo agrees to carry messages between
Marian and her neighbour, the eminently unsuitable local farmer Ted Burgess
(Alan Bates). As the oppressive heat intensifies, so do Leo's questions about the
laws of attraction and love - and as his childhood innocence is threatened,
so is the fragile web of relationships so recently forged over the course of
this summer's passions, deceptions and revelations...

Don't Look Now (1973): John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they
meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists
that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura
is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own
psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as
well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Rob Compton

Thanks rediffusion, these look very interesting. They cover the same sort of ground (but with some different films) as the Panamint releases I've mentioned here before.

Talking of Panamint, there seems to be a change happening with regard to that company's selling of DVD's - if you look at the web site Historical and Nostalgic Documentary Films, UK - Panamint Cinema they are saying that the mail order business will in future be carried out by another company. I assume - and hope - that doesn't affect Panamint's own plans for more releases.

rgds
Rob

dylan

Remember this from 1969?

Big Breadwinner Hog (Complete Series) / Spindoe (Complete Series) - DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK

It was compulsive viewing at the time and it will be interesting to compare Hog with more recent films/series about 60s gangland London like The Krays and The Long Firm.

D.

Carmel

Its great to see some of these films finally released on DVD. Lets just hope some more great titles follow.

Geoffers

Delighted to hear that Beat Girl is getting a release. I hope it's better than the US release which was cut and awful quality - looked like it was copied from an old video.

Not that it's a good film, but it is John Barry's first ever film score.

Talking of Barry, I was hoping the Terry-Thomas box-set might include A Matter of W.H.O., in which the John Barry Seven make a rare cameo appearance. I think I'm destined never to see this film!

It's an excellent list of new releases, though. I'm looking forward to at least 75% of them.

Chris B

I have got to agree, A MATTER OF WHO is a little gem, the opening title song and the way it is introduced sets the scene, it was introducing the late ROY CASTLE singing the title song, and RICHARD BRIERS and TERRY THOMAS is at his best, unfortunately I have only got the film on 16mm film stock otherwise I would do you a copy. Still you never know whats round the corner
Regards Chris