Coming soon.....

[rediffusion]

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]

name='rediffusion']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)

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