Madman September DVD Releases

It’s Super Spring September – the prettiest time of year.

A perfect match for Brighton Rock. Love. Murder. Revenge.

Brighton, 1964. Organised crime has moved into this sleepy English seaside town. Ambitious young gangster Pinkie Brown (Control’s Sam Riley), is determined to stop other gangs taking over his patch, but when he kills a rival, vital evidence falls into the innocent hands of an impressionable young waitress, Rose (Andrea Riseborough, Made in Dagenham and Never Let Me Go).

Pinkie romances Rose to stop her talking, but her employer Ida (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren, The Queen) is suspicious of their relationship. A year before the abolition of the death penalty, can Pinkie trust Rose not to betray him and can Rose trust Pinkie not to make her his next victim? Or will the distrustful Ida win out?

Also starring John Hurt (The Elephant Man) and Andy Sirkis (Lord of the Rings trilogy), Brighton Rock is a stylish and razor-sharp adaptation of Graham Greene's 1938 novel, from the producer of Atonement and Eastern Promises.

“Compelling..... A very stylish thriller” – David Stratton, At the Movies

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Something Exquisite

Mademoiselle Chambon, a film by Stephane Brize.

After the international success of Not Here to Be Loved, Stéphane Brizé returns with his usual elegance and subtle scriptwriting, in a story that echoes in each and every one of us.

Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerizing, unlike any woman he has ever met before.

This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organized life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?

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Love a good documentary

This one is super great viewing.  His & Hers - A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, and his mother the longest.

Using his mother's life as inspiration, filmmaker Ken Wardrop has created a film that explores how we share life's journey with the opposite sex. His and Hers is an investigation into the ordinary to discover the extraordinary. It finds comedy in the mundane, tragedy in the profound and provides an original insight into a life. The hallways, living rooms and kitchens of the Irish Midlands are used as the canvas for the film's rich tapestry of female characters. His & Hers unfolds sequentially through young to old with a charmingly unabashed array of Irish ladies, and there's not a man in sight.

“Impossible charming and sweetly profound.”

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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within. Mad, Bad and dangerous to know.

A prominent member of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of 20th century literature. Addressing queer and drug culture in the 1950s, his novel Naked Lunch became one of the most recognized and respected of contemporary literary works, and has influenced generations of artists.

Narrated by Peter Weller and featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Sonic Youth and David Cronenberg, Yony Leyser's William S. Burroughs: A Man Within is a probing look at the man whose works at once savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements, and reconfigured 20th century culture.

In their own words: British Novelists. The Story of the modern novel, told by the Authors themselves.

This is the story of the 20th century novel, told by the authors themselves. Great novelists talking candidly about their life and work include Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells and EM Forster through to Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel. This series includes the only recording of Virginia Woolf in existence and William Golding explaining Lord of the Flies to a room of young school pupils.

The deadliest county in England.

Time for everyone’s favourite! Midsomer Murders Season 13 (Part 2). 

John Nettles returns to investigate deadly deeds and gruesome goings-on in his final four episodes of the top rating mystery series. Unflappable detectives DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones uncover affairs, tragedy and long-held family secrets as mystery; murder and mayhem shatter the peaceful and picturesque surroundings of the Midsomer villages once again.

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Keeping with a classic..... The Sherlock Holmes Collection.

The original BBC adaptation of the world's most famous detective - remastered for DVD.

Peter Cushing had already starred as Sherlock Holmes in Hammer's movie The Hound of the Baskervilles when, in 1968, he replaced Douglas Wilmer as Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective in the BBC television series. Cushing immediately fashioned his own portrayal of the illustrious figure and is credited with bringing a great authenticity to the role. For the first time, all 5 surviving stories are collected on DVD from the series which was acclaimed by Holmes enthusiasts as the most faithful adaptations of the original novels.

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Check it out... its Stalag Luft.

What happens in a POW camp when the Germans escape and the British decide to stay?

Britain's top comic talents are behind this sharply-observed comedy drama set in a POW camp in deepest Germany. Stephen Fry is the arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester who has 23 escape attempts to his name, in the spoof of the great wartime escape movies, Forrester plans the Big One - the escape of all 327 prisoners in one go. Written by the award-winning David Nobbs' Stalag Luft is produced by David Reynolds and directed by Adrian Shergold. Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as the insubordinate 'Chump' Cosgrove and Geoffrey Palmer is the twitchy Camp Kommandant.
 

Published 1st Sep 2011

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