Curzon Artificial Eye nurses CHRONIC (review)

Tim Roth plays home care nurse David devotes his entire being to the care of his patients to point that he needs them perhaps even more than they need him in this compelling character study.

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CHRONIC DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 stereo
• Theatrical Trailer

Artificial Eye scuffles with LES COMBATTANTS (review)

In this quirky romantic comedy, Arnaud is trying to keep his family's building business afloat in a dead-end town after their father's death.  He becomes fascinated with a young woman who is enlisting in the army and discovers that she is really gearing up for the end of the world.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

LES COMBATTANTS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye goes CYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE (review)

In this intellectual and delightfully funny French comedy, a TV star wants to do something more respectable and decides to mount one of Moliere's most difficult plays on the stage.  He approaches a reclusive former actor for advice only to find himself vying for the lead in his own play.  A warm friendship develops, but it could all fall apart when a beautiful yet blunt Italian widow comes into their lives.  Fabrice Luchini and Lambert Wilson star.

REVIEW LINK: Artficial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

CYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

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Charlotte Rampling is Artificial Eye's I, ANNA (review)

Charlotte Rampling (UNDER THE SAND) is the prime suspect for a murder and the object of a detective's obsession in the modern noir I, ANNA, based on the novel by Elsa Lewin.  Gabriel Byrne (GOTHIC), Jodhi May (NIGHTWATCHING), Max Deacon (FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL), and Honor Blackman (GOLDFINGER) also star.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

I, ANNA DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by director Barnaby Southecombe and actress Charlotte Rampling
• Deleted Scenes (with optional commentary)
• Promo Film (with optional commentary)
• Making-of featurette
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye presents ALPS (review)

Giorgios Lanthimos follows up his arthouse hit DOGTOOH with ALPS, the quirky story of a secret group of people who comfort the recently bereaved by taking on the identities of the recently departed.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

ALPS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Greek Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye present THE CLAIRE DENIS COLLECTION (review)

Artificial Eye brings together four masterworks of French director Claire Denis starting with her feature debut up to her most recent highly-acclaimed film WHITE MATERIAL.  In CHOCOLAT, France Dalens revisits Cameroon where she lived as a child and recalls (in flashback) the sexual and racial tensions of which she was once oblivious.  Francois Cluzet (TELL NO ONE), Giulia Boschi, and Kenneth Cranham (HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II) star.  In NENETTE ET BONI, pizza cook Boni's life is upset when his long lost sister Nenette shows up on his doorstep seven months pregnant.  Gregoire Colin (A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES) stars.  BEAU TRAVAIL is Denis' French adaptation of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd" set in the Foreign Legion.  Gregoire Colin and Denis Lavant star.  Finally, in Denis' most recent film WHITE MATERIAL, Isabelle Huppert plays a coffee planter who defiantly tries to keep her family plantation afloat amidst the political turmoil of Cameroon.  Christophe Lambert (HIGHLANDER) also stars.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE CLAIRE DENIS COLLECTION DVD specs:

• Disc One "Chocolat" (1988)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Trailer
• Artificial Eye Trailers
• Disc Two "Nenette et Boni" (1996)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.73:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Trailer
• Disc Three "Beau Travail" (1999)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Trailer
• Filmographies
• Disc Four "White Material" (2009)
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• French/Cameroon Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Interviews with Claire Denis and Christophe Lambert
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye goes "Le Ronde" with 360 (review)

An ensemble cast including Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, and a host of international talent star as characters whose intersecting lives all lead to brushes with fate both passionate and dangerous.  Directed by CITY OF GOD's Fernando Mereilles and written by FROST/NIXON's Peter Morgan.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

360 DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Interview with director
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye rides HOLY MOTORS (review)

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

HOLY MOTORS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Deleted Scenes (7 minutes)
• Conversation with Leos Carax (63 minutes)

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Artificial Eye and Michael Haneke visit Kafka's THE CASTLE (review)

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE CASTLE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.75:1 widescreen
• German Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Documentary "24 Realities per Second" (56 mins)
• Michael Haneke Trailers

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Artificial Eye and Kristin Scott Thomas are IN YOUR HANDS (review)

Loneliness and solitude (enforced and otherwise) are a volatile mix in Lola Doillon's IN YOUR HANDS.  When adamantly single doctor Anna (Kristin Scott-Thomas, LOVE CRIME) returns from her holiday, she is abducted and imprisoned by Yann (Pio Marmai), an unhinged man whose wife died under Anna's care.  He torments her and plans to kill her but lust soon overcomes loss.  What will Anna do when she has the opportunity to escape?

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

IN YOUR HANDS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

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Artificial Eye investigates the POLISSE (review)

Actress Maiwenn (HIGH TENSION) stars and directs herself in POLISSE as Melissa, a photographer following the professional and private lives of Paris' Child Protection Unit as they raid Romanian caravans, interrogate molesters, comfort rape victims, track down child abductors, and assist in special operations. 

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL (DVDBeaver)

POLISSE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

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Artificial Eye presents the ALEXANDER SOKUROV COLLECTION (review)

Artificial Eye presents a trio of lesser known works of Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK), the heir apparent to Andrei Tarkovsky.  Emma is the original "Material Girl" in SAVE AND PROTECT an eccentric arty adaptation of Gustav Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY, a young man experiences a bureaucratic hell trying to bury his estranged father in THE SECOND CIRCLE, and husband and wife musicians Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (a cellist who studied under Dmitri Shostakovich) and Galina Vishnevskaya (an opera singer who took the Bolshoi Theatre by storm at an early age) and their fifty-year marriage are the subjects of the documentary ELEGY OF LIFE.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

ALEXANDER SOKUROV COLLECTION DVD specs:

• SAVE AND PROTECT
•  4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen (original aspect ratio) transfer of the 2009 director's cut.
• Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• THE SECOND CIRCLE
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen (original aspect ratio) transfer of the 2005 director's cut.
• Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• ELEGY OF LIVE
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Russian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles

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Artificial Eye experiences LOVE LIKE POISON (review)

Anna comes home from boarding school for vacation to discover that her mother has left her father (who has a new woman in his life) and moved in with his parents.  A week before her confirmation, Anna experiences enough teen angst (her dying grandfather, her parents' marital strife, the inklings of physical attraction to a childhood friend) to test her faith in director Katell Quillevere's feature directorial debut.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

LOVE LIKE POISON DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with director Katell Quillévéré
• Interview with actor Michel Galabru
• Interview with cinematographer Tom Harari
• Theatrical Trailer
• Short film WITH ALL MY MIGHT?

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Artificial Eye tells A SWEDISH LOVE STORY (review)

It's love at first sight when Par meets Annika... or something, because these two have never been in love before and the first romantic stirrings of their relationship are sensitively explored by TV commercial director Roy Andersson in his feature debut. Andersson's film is a deceptively simple look at first love against social backgrounds, family problems, and the awkwardness of just being young (but, to be young in Sweden 1970...).


REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)


A SWEDISH LOVE STORY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Swedish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Excerpts from Roy Andersson's films

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Artificial Eye presents THE THEO ANGELOPOULOS COLLECTION VOLUME III (review)

Artificial Eye presents their third volume of films of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, including exclusive releases of ULYSSES' GAZE and ETERNITY AND A DAY.  The set also features the first two entries in his trilogy THE WEEPING MEADOW and THE DUST OF TIME (the third film THE OTHER SEA remains unfinished due to his untimely death during production).  In ULYSSES' GAZE, a filmmaker (Harvey Keitel) crosses war-torn Yugoslavia in search of three undeveloped reels from a pair of Greek filmmakers working at the turn of the century.  In ETERNITY AND A DAY, a dying poet (Bruno Ganz) relives his past while trying to get an Albanian boy back across the border.  In THE WEEPING MEADOW, refugeees Alex and Eleni grow up together and fall in love just as the coming war threatens their happiness.  Finally, in his last film THE DUST OF TIME, another filmmaker (Willem Dafoe) making a film about his mother's attempt to reconnect with her exiled husband.  Irene Jacob, Michel Piccoli, and Bruno Ganz also star.


REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE THEO ANGELOPOULOS COLLECTION VOLUME III DVD specs:

• Four disc set
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen presentations of ULYSSES' GAZE, ETERNITY AND A DAY, THE WEEPING MEADOW, and THE DUST OF TIME
• Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio (5.1 surround on THE DUST OF TIME)
• Optional English subtitles
• Theo Angelopoulos Interview (on THE WEEPING MEADOW)
• Theo Angelopoulos Filmography/Biography (on THE WEEPING MEADOW)

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Artificial Eye is terrorized by LOS BASTARDOS (review)

Two illegal immigrants cross the border daily looking for construction work in Southern California.  Today, however, they've been offered a very lucrative business proposition: to kill a single mother.  What should be an easy job goes quickly off kilter as the two men become entranced with the meager luxuries of the suburban home.  The film culminates in a shockingly violent scene that will have audiences jumping.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

LOS BASTARDOS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Spanish/English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

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Artificial Eye gives us ATTENBERG (review)

From the makers of DOGTOOTH comes another bit of Greek psychosexual weirdness.  Marina lives with her dying father.  Her only knowledge of sexuality comes from nature documentaries narrated by David Attenborough and the fleshy demonstrations of her predatory friend Bella.  Yorgos Lanthimos, Oscar-nominated director of DOGTOOTH co-stars.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

ATTENBERG DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Greek Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Director Interview
• Trailer

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Artificial Eye broadcasts from PEEPLI [LIVE] (review)

In this funny Bollywood satire, the residents of dying village Peepli become the focus of a media circus when farmer Natha decides to commit suicide to get compensation for his family farm which is at risk of being auctioned off when they cannot pay back their loan.  Rival political parties weigh in on the issue and soon it may no longer be Natha's choice whether he lives or dies!

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

PEEPLI [LIVE] DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Making of PEEPLI [LIVE]
• Deleted Scenes
• Four Behind the Scenes Featurettes
• Trailers
• Still Gallery

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Artificial Eye's POLICE, ADJECTIVE (review)

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

POLICE, ADJECTIVE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Romanian Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Director Interview
• Theatrical Trailer

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Artificial Eye and Takashi Miike take on 13 ASSASSINS (review)

Takashi Miike's epic samurai pic hits UK DVD and Blu-Ray courtesy of Artificial Eye.  The Japanese version ran roughly twenty minutes longer than the international version, but the DVDs feature all of the trimmed footage in the deleted scenes section!

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13 ASSASSINS Artificial Eye DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Interview with Takashi Miike
• Deleted Scenes

13 ASSASSINS Magnolia/Magnet DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Interview with Takashi Miike
• Deleted Scenes
• Digital Copy disc