The Testament of Orpheus
[ Directors Suite / Studio Canal / DVD - released 2/Dec/2010 ] The third and concluding episode of surrealist Jean Cocteau's renowned Orphic trilogy is a panegyric to life as an artist. Returning to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Cocteau looks back over his career as a poet, painter, playwright,... |
This is Not a Film
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 14/Jun/2012 ] PG: |
Transylvania - Tony Gatlif / Directors Suite
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Feb/2009 ] The latest musical odyssey from Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Exils, Swing) sees Zingarina, played by the magnetic Asia Argento, arrive deep in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a... |
The Ultimate Luc Besson Collection
[ Directors Suite DVD / 3 DVD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] The ultimate Luc Besson collection, featuring 7 of his best-loved classics: THE LAST BATTLE, SUBWAY, THE BIG BLUE, LA FEMME NIKITA, ATLANTIS, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, THE FIFTH ELEMENT |
Workingman's Death (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Dec/2007 ] Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur... |
You, the Living (Roy Andersson / Directors Suite)
[ Madman Films / DVD - released 13/Aug/2009 ] M - Contains sex scenes. |
Young and Innocent (1937)
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] PG - Contains violence. |
The Young One
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 19/Nov/2009 ] R16 - Contains sexual abuse themes. |
Double Indemnity - A Film By Billy Wilder (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2006 ] Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a smoothtalking but naïve insurance salesman, falls for the seductive charms of his beautiful client Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). The couple are immediately drawn to each other... |
Billy Wilder (director)
The Major and the Minor (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 10/May/2007 ] A classic screwball comedy replete with improbable scenarios and acerbic wit, Billy Wilder's first film as director was a hit that kick-started his long and hallowed career. Is She A Kid - Or Is She Kidding? In New York for only one year and... |
Cronos
[ Directors Suite DVD / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] The directorial debut from Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth), Cronos combines a surreal and distinctive take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations. Cronos concerns elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris... |
Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 11/Oct/2006 ] A study in job satisfaction. From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line, comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by... |
Takeshi Kitano (director)
Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano) (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show biz celebrity. But, his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series... |
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders' Documentaries (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / 3 DVD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2008 ] Three films by acclaimed German director Wim Wenders. Tokyo-Ga: Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in his films. Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders talks with Japanese... |
Wim Wenders (director)
The American Friend (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 11/Oct/2006 ] Based on Patricia Highsmith's bestseller Ripley's Game, Wim Wenders' cult hit stars Dennis Hopper as the American sociopath Tom Ripley, and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmerman, an art restorer dying from a rare blood disease. After Zimmerman refuses to... |
Wim Wenders (director)
Wim Wenders Road Movies (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 14/Nov/2007 ] A trilogy of road movies created by German iconoclast Wim Wenders in the mid-1970s, these three films,each starring Rüdiger Vogler, form a commentary on the adoption of American culture within a rapidly modernising West Germany. Alice in the... |