Sales Gallery: Recent Releases
1 Jul 0001
Fiddler On the Roof (1971)
- Epic folk tale of community survival is given a vivid musical setting, as a Jewish family travel from pre–revolutionary Ukraine to America in…
- 1 Jul 0001
Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
- Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's sci–fi novel, set in a book–burning 'utopian' future, has naïve fireman Oskar Werner questioning the…
- 1 Jul 0001
Full Monty, The (1997)
- British success story of the decade is small but perfected–formed tale of triumphant underdogs.
That it convinces that five pretty unsexy…
- 1 Jul 0001
Castle, The (1997)
- Uniquely Antipodean comedy about a blissfully naïve family that become forced to take on the council Goliath who wish to convert their beloved…
- 1 Jul 0001
Titanic (1997)
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet cross class lines to consummate their passion just before the iceberg severs the stern from the bow in…
- 1 Jul 0001
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
- Wes Craven takes the townies–breakdown–in–the–desert chestnut to its logical extreme, where it turns out the hills also have…
- 1 Jul 0001
Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
- 1 Jul 0001
My Fair Lady (1964)
- Ever–popular, though rather long musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion', starring Audrey Hepburn as riffraff transformed into…
- 1 Jul 0001
Limelight (1951)
- Charlie Chaplin's final film recreates in spirit his poverty–stricken London boyhood and escape into the vaudeville world.
With such…
- 1 Jul 0001
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
- A studiously arthouse rendition of WWII, isolating a crucial battle of the Pacific campaign (Guadacanal) as a minutely observed microcosm of humanity…
- 1 Jul 0001
Thing, The (1982)
- Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
- 1 Jul 0001
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
- 1 Jul 0001
In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) (1976)
- Hailed as an erotic masterpiece in some quarters and condemned as mere sexually explicit exploitation in others, Oshima’s indisputably elegant…
- 1 Jul 0001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Speculative sci–fi at its most fascinating and opaque, this project developed by Stanley Kubrick is comparable to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in…
- 1 Jul 0001
Insomnia (2002)
- Consummate thriller from the director of “Memento” is an exemplary remake that follows closely yet deftly refines the well–regarded yet…
- 1 Jul 0001
Brainstorm (1983)
- A ‘Hard Sci–fi’ fable about the development of a sensory experience device – ‘virtual reality’ in today’s…
- 1 Jul 0001
Eye, The (2002)
- Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
- 1 Jul 0001
Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Collection (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Mirror Crack'd, Endless Night) (1972-1981)
- Four of the best latterday adaptations of mystery–writer Agatha Christie.
- 1 Jul 0001
Lethal Weapon Legacy (Lethal Weapon 1-4) (1987-1998)
- All four outings for Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched cops.
- 1 Jul 0001
Rambo Quadrilogy Box Set (First Blood, Rambo 2, Rambo 3, Rambo) (1982-2007)
- Four of Stallone's rip–roaring features, from the relatively moody FIRST BLOOD to the full–on bombast of RAMBO (2007).
- 1 Jul 0001
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King) (2001-2003)
- A set of all three parts of Peter Jackson's monumental adapation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy epic, in their original cinema release versions:
The…
- 1 Jul 0001
Tremors Movie Collection (Tremors 1, Tremors 2, Tremors 3) (1990-2001)- 1 Jul 0001
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992)
- Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
- 1 Jul 0001
Last House on the Left, The (1972)
- Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
- 1 Jul 0001
Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus (1968)
- A time–capsule of swinging London at its height, this TV special performance (which was never actually aired) has an unusual line–up,…
- 1 Jul 0001
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
- Thoroughly eye–popping expose of the sordid and ridiculous tale of super–successful 1970s porno film DEEP THROAT: funded by the Mob,…
- 1 Jul 0001
Maddigan's Quest (TV Series) (2006)
- Nicely–produced local series for children – adapted from Margaret Mahy's bestseller – set in a post–technological future…
- 1 Jul 0001
Road to Guantanamo, The (2006)
- A searing, politically pertinent docu–drama from the prolific Michael Winterbottom (w/ co–dir. Whitecross), reenacting with…
- 1 Jul 0001
Shortbus (Short bus) (2006)
- A raucous, freewheeling comedy of intercourse from gay auteur John Cameron Mitchell, audacious in its employment of explicit sex, unknown actors and…
- 1 Jul 0001
Ans Westra - Private Journeys/Public Signposts (2006)
- Photographer laureate Ans Westra takes to the other side of the camera in this insightful, contemplative retrospective of her photography, and…
- 1 Jul 0001