Sales Gallery: Recent Releases
1 Jan 0001
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Quintessential Hawks fare in which men are men and women have to be equally tough. At a South American outpost, mail pilot Cary Grant becomes…
- 1 Jan 0001
Patton (1970)
- George C. Scott is unnervingly convincing as the real life WW2 General with whose military convictions were indeed unnerving. Co–written by…
- 1 Jan 0001
Burlesque On Carmen (1916)
- A twist ending highlights Chaplin's second 'feature' in which his forlorn soldier is loved and left by a gypsy girl.
- 1 Jan 0001
Henry V (1989)
- A remarkable achievement from Kenneth Branagh both as actor and first–time director, he brings a new vitality to Shakespeare's most energetic…
- 1 Jan 0001
Dreamchild (1985)
- The real–life Alice who inspired Lewis Carroll's stories, reflects upon her life and offers some insight into his eccentric and fantasiacal…
- 1 Jan 0001
Chocolat (1988)
- Quietly rewarding autobiographical work follows a young woman to West Africa where she reminisces her childhood. Early work by the director of BEAU…
- 1 Jan 0001
Life and Nothing But (1990)
- Philippe Noiret plays a Missing–in–Action chief officer whose obsession to account for the anonymous casualties of WW1 draws him to a…
- 1 Jan 0001
Olivier Olivier (1991)
- After disappearing from his country home six years earlier, a boy's mysterious return brings with it a mix of salvation and suspicion to his…
- 1 Jan 0001
Day of the Beast (1996)
- If Almodovar made a horror movie it might look like this – beautifully shot and designed, funny and exciting. Though he can't quite sustain the…
- 1 Jan 0001
Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938)
- Chronicles the numerous exploits of the famed explorer, played by Gary Cooper. More light–hearted than the usual swashbuckler.
- 1 Jan 0001
Dambusters, The (Dam Busters, The) (1954)
- British inventor Barnes Wallis's ingenious attempts to destroy German dams during WWII forms the basis of this splendid thriller. Michael Redgrave…
- 1 Jan 0001
Menace II Society (1993)
- A ghetto drama about young men on a no–win cycle of guns and drugs in south central L.A., this covers simlar geographical and philosophical…
- 1 Jan 0001
Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
- The indie success story of '96 was made by 23–year–old Croghan on a shoestring with her Melbourne film school buddies.
Love is a…
- 1 Jan 0001
Love Serenade (1996)
- Two sisters fall for a middle–aged, schmoozing radio–jock in this perfectly measured Australian comedy set in a tinpot outback town.…
- 1 Jan 0001
Les Miserables (1995)
- Widely considered the definitive screen version of this granddaddy of French literary staples. Few concessions have been allowed in staging a…
- 1 Jan 0001
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
- Rugged ships captain John Wayne conducts hair–raising salvages off the 19th century Florida coast, in this spectacular sea–adventure,…
- 1 Jan 0001
Guantanamera (1996)
- A quirky mix of low–speed road movie and romantic comedy following the unsteady progress of a funeral procession across the length of Cuba…
- 1 Jan 0001
Pillow Book, The (1997)
- Peter Greenaway's further explores the perimeters of cinema with this lush, seductive tale that intertwines the delights of the flesh and literature.…
- 1 Jan 0001
I Went Down (1997)
- Irish filmmakers lift a few steps from the TRAINSPOTTING lads and the Coen Bros for this deadpan skid into misadventure, amongst a crew of criminal…
- 1 Jan 0001
Like Grains of Sand (1995)
- Remarkable, intense Japanese high school romance is centrally about a gay relationship, though it essentially captures the universal,…
- 1 Jan 0001
Deep Impact (1998)
- Contrasting the gung–ho cartoonery of the other meteor–disaster–pic, ARMAGEDDON, this chooses to show the 'human side' of an…
- 1 Jan 0001
Love and Death On Long Island (1997)
- Delightful central conceit sees John Hurt fall in love with flaky teen–movie actor Jason Priestley in this decidedly genre and…
- 1 Jan 0001
Modulations (1998)
- Sub–captioned "Cinema for the Ear", this is an enlightening exposition of electronic music – a marginalised yet broadly significant music…
- 1 Jan 0001
Bedrooms and Hallways (1999)
- Utterly delightful relationship comedy about men, and gay men in particular, but appealing to human beings of any of the three sexual orientations…
- 1 Jan 0001
Praise (1999)
- Sex, beer and co–dependency dominate this brazen, bleakly comic study of a doomed relationship between two afflicted souls (he with asthma, she…
- 1 Jan 0001
Post Coitum (1997)
- The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
- 1 Jan 0001
Character (1997)
- A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
- 1 Jan 0001
Soft Fruit (1999)
- From NZ short film dir. Christina Andreef comes this ripely entertaining comic drama about the ties that separate and bind as four Aussie siblings…
- 1 Jan 0001
Lip Gloss (1993)
- The lives of transvestites, drag queens and female impersonators are chronicled in this revealing portrait that takes you behind the scenes as they…
- 1 Jan 0001
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
- A young Scottish undertaker (Tennant) follows an aspiring American actress back to La–la land, where he competes with the shallow excesses and…
- 1 Jan 0001