BFI 75th Anniversary Box Set (Play.com Exclusive)

Featuring: Erwin Splettosser, Annie Schreyer & Nora Gregor

Format: DVD | Rating: 12 years & over

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Set Comprises:

Man with a Movie Camera (1929): 'Man With a Movie Camera' is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, a montage of urban Russian life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was Vertov's first full-length film, and he used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze-frames - to produce a work that is exhilarating and intellectually brillant.

People on Sunday (1929): A tale of five young Berliners - a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model - spending a typical Sunday. In this vivid snapshot of Berlin life, a trip to the countryside reveals the flirtations, rivalries, jealousies, and petty irritations common to any group outing. All too soon it is the end of the day, and the prospect of Monday looms, and the return to the weekday routine.

Le Regle Du Jeu (1939): Dismissed by both the public and critics on its first release, re-cut by its producers and then banned by the French government as 'demoralising', 'La Regle Du Jeu' now features in the Top Ten greatest film lists of both critics and director's, and is one of the most requested world cinema DVD releases by film fans.

Fallen Angel (1945): Down on his luck Eric meets the wealthy June and formulates a plan to marry her, then divorce her and steal her fortune that will enable him to live in comfort with Stella with whom he is in love. However, when Stella is mysteriously murdered things start to go very wrong indeed...

Jour de Fete (1949): Hilarious expose of the modern obsession with speed and efficiency set in the rural surroundings of a French village where Francoise the postman tries to improve his round. The visual comedy, invention and above all, timing is superb. The evocation of rural France really does seem as if from another century....

Les Enfant Terribles (1949): In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, teenage brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth live "like two limbs of a single apology", creating an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room. When outsiders intrude into their world however, the scene is set for tragedy. Based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 novel, who also provided the voice-over.

Throne of Blood (1957): Kurosawa's transposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth to sixteenth century Japan is, like the great Russian adaptations of King Lear and Hamlet, immensely successful in capturing the 'spirit' of the original. Any loss in language or characterisation is more than compensated by the evocation of the misty and forbidding locale, the bravura ghostly apparitions, and the fascinating incursions of specifically Japanese elements, such as the echoes of Noh drama.

Le Doulos (1961) One of Melville's own favourite films in which ambiguity is the name of the game as a convicted burglar completes his incarceration only to get himself straight back into trouble...

The Leopard (1963): A 19th century Italian prince (Burt Lancaster) presides over the transition from his old world to a modern one where his class will no longer rule...

Bande A Part (1964): 'Bande A Part' is Jean-Luc Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s, executed with typically Gallic cool.

Franz and Arthur, a couple of streetwise characters, team up with the shy Odile (Anna Karina) to plan a robbery. As the trio of misfits does a lightning tour of the Louvre, roams the cafes of suburban Paris and play-acts shoot-outs, the suspicion grows that this is one heist that is not going to go according to plan...

Actors	Erwin Splettosser, Annie Schreyer, Nora Gregor, Mila Parely, Claire Gerard, Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Bruce Cabot, Jacques Tati, Nicole Stephane, Toshiro Mifune, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale & Anna Karina
Director	Dziga Vertov, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Jean Renoir, Otto Preminger, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Melville, Akira Kurosawa, Luchino Visconti & Jean-Luc Godard
Certificate	12 years and over
Year	1929 ; 1939 ; 1945 ; 1949 ; 1957 ; 1961 ; 1963
Languages	French ; English ; Japanese
Subtitles	English
Region	Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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