{"id":9088,"date":"2010-09-13T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T02:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2010-09-14T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T02:09:00","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-13th-september-2010-studio-canal-collection-dogtooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/13\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-13th-september-2010-studio-canal-collection-dogtooth\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 13th September 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Third Man<\/strong><\/a> (Optimum Home Entertainment): One of the genuine landmarks of cinema, a tale of a writer (Joseph Cotten) visiting an elusive friend (Orson Welles) in post-war Vienna. It featured a bewildering array of talent behind and in front of the camera: Carol Reed directed from a script by Graham Greene, whilst Alexander Korda and David O’Selznick co-produced and aside from Welles and Cotten the cast features Trevor Howard and Allida Valli.<\/p>\n

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Famous for its iconic set pieces – light illuminating a doorway, a dialogue on a enormous ferris wheel, a chase through the sewers and two funerals, it also has one of the most distinctive scores courtesy of Anton Karas\u2019 zither. It also won the Palme D\u2019Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Cinematography. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a>] *Read our longer review here<\/a>*<\/p>\n

Breathless<\/a><\/strong> (1960): Perhaps the iconic film of the French New Wave, this tale of a small time crook (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who goes on the run after stealing a car and shooting a cop, sees him end up in Paris with an American girlfriend (Jean Seberg).<\/p>\n

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With its loose narrative, location shooting, improvised dialogue, jump cuts, deliberately mismatched shots and literary references, it remains a landmark film. It gave French and European cinema a much needed shot of inspiration when it first came out in 1960, with audiences and critics responding to its energy and artistic verve. N.B. The Special Edition DVD release also comes out the same day as the Blu-ray but has slightly different extras. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a> \/ Buy the 50th Anniversary DVD<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Graduate<\/a><\/strong> (1967): One of the iconic films of the late 1960s saw Dustin Hoffman play the eponymous graduate, a recent university graduate drifting aimlessly in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), only to fall in love with her daughter (Katharine Ross).<\/p>\n

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Director Mike Nichols struck a chord with a younger generation of audiences by using techniques borrowed from the French New Wave to craft a witty tale of youthful alienation. Odd angles and unconventional editing were combined with a sharp script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham (adapted from from Charles Webb’s novel) and the result was a huge hit, launching Hoffman’s career and also boosting Simon and Garfunkel whose music features heavily on the soundtrack. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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