New DVDs June/July/August/September 2013 - Part one

Around the world in eighty days (1956) Dir: Michael Anderson ; starring Noel Coward, John Gielgud and Trevor Howard.

Childrens Film Foundation - The race is on: Soapbox derby / The sky-bike / Sammy's super t-shirt (1957, 1967 and 1978) Dir: Charles Frend, Darcy Conyers and Jeremy Summers ; starring, a very young, Michael Crawford

Childrens Film Foundation - London tales : The salvage gang / Operation third form / Night ferry (1958, 1966 and 1976) Dir: John Krish and David Eady ; starring Bernard Cribbins and Frazer Hines. 

Childrens Film Foundation - Weird adventures : The monster of Highgate ponds / The boy who turned yellow / A hitch in time (1961, 1972 and 1978) Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Michael Powell and Jan Darnley-Smith ; starring Patrick Troughton.

The counterfeiters (2007) Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky ; starring Karl Markovics and August Diehl.

Elephant (2003) Written and directed by Gus Van Sant ; starring Alex Frost, Eric Deulen and John Robinson.



The Lacey rituals : films by Bruce Lacey (and friends) (1951-2002) Dir: Bruce Lacey, et al ; written by and starring Bruce Lacey, et al.

Last days (2005) Written and directed by Gus Van Sant ; starring Michael Pitt and Lukas Haas.

Nathan Barley: Series 1 (2005) Dir: Christopher Morris ; written by Charlie Brooker and Christopher Morris ; starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Claire Keelan, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding.

Paranoid park (2007) Dir: Gus Van Sant ; starring Gabe Nevins and Taylor Momsen.

They live (1988) Dir: John Carpenter ; starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster.

Voyage to the bottom of the sea (1953) Dir: Irwin Allen ; starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine.

W. S. Burroughs cut-up films (1963-1973) Dir: Antony Balch ; written by William S. Burroughs ; starring William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Alexander Trocchi, and Antony Balch. - Burroughs and his friend's 'home movies' in London, Paris and Tangiers

20,000 leagues under the sea (1954) Dir: Richard Fleischer ; starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Peter Lorre.