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Where can I find a good alternative / world cinema / arthouse DVD rental store in Central London?
I'm not interested in Blockbuster style Hollywood movies, and really want to find a great indie hire store, in central-ish London.
When I lived in Wimbledon (not central I know but...) my local library had the best range of art house and world cinema films I've found anywhere so far. They also had a lot of old films on video that have not yet been remastered for DVD as an added bonus, and worked out much cheaper than the nasty high street places. As a side point, UCI cinemas usually have a 'director's chair' night (the Sutton one near me was on a Tuesday) when they show brilliant art house/alternative/just plain old films. You're quite right; most mainstream video shops like cinemas are overstocked with absolute cr@p.
Bastard Squad / Proud to be Fodder - Live at the Arthouse 17/4/11 (coming soon on DVD)
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Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films (50-DVD box set and Book) $400.00 |
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PYGMALION STRONG (ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE) /STRONG DVD $17.98 |
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House NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan $31.99 |
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Nobody's Fool NEW PAL Arthouse DVD P. Newman B. Willis $27.99 |
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ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: Vol 3 - Kurosawa, Wajda, Fellini,... CRITERION NEW DVDS!! $54.92 |
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Essential Art House: Vol. 2 - Pygmalion/ La Strada/ 400 Blows/ Black Orpheus/... $35.00 |
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Chinese Take-Away NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Sebastián Borensztein Ricardo Darín $32.99 |
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You Instead NEW PAL Arthouse DVD David Mackenzie Luke Treadaway Natalia Tena $29.99 |
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The Good Shepherd NEW Arthouse Blu-Ray DVD Robert De Niro Matt Damon A. Jolie $24.99 |
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Essential Art House: Jules And Jim DVD $13.88 |
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The Doll Master NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Yu-mi Kim S. Korea $20.99 |
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Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne NEW PAL Arthouse DVD $31.99 |
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell NEW PAL Arthouse DVD $32.99 |
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Madonna: Innocence Lost NEW PAL Arthouse DVD B. May $23.99 |
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The Loved Ones NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Xavier Samuel $26.99 |
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She-Devil NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Meryl Streep Roseanne $22.99 |
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Variety Lights -- Essential Art House -- Federico Fellini -- Italy 1950 $6.99 |
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Knife in the Water -- Essential Art House -- Roman Polanski -- Poland 1962 $6.99 |
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GRAND ILLUSION - ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE *NEW DVD***** $40.99 |
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Intimate Relations NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Julie Walters $27.99 |
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE *NEW DVD $11.99 |
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Valley of Flowers NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Pan Nalin $32.99 |
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The Lost Thing NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Shaun Tan Australia $48.99 |
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Johnny Tsunami NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Steve Boyum $28.99 |
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Images NEW PAL Classic Arthouse DVD Robert Altman Susannah York Rene Auberjonois $29.99 |
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Georges Melies Collection NEW PAL/NTSC Arthouse DVD Jacques Meny Daniel Ceccaldi $38.99 |
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A Funny Man NEW Arthouse Blu-Ray DVD Martin Zandvliet Nikolaj Lie Kaas Denmark $57.99 |
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Tokyo Sonata NEW Arthouse Blu-Ray DVD Kiyoshi Kurosawa Teruyuki Kagawa Japan $42.99 |
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Blood Wedding NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Carlos Saura Antonio Gades C. Hoyos Spain $36.99 |
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Colonel Redl NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Istvan Szabo Klaus Maria Brandauer Germany $24.99 |
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Naked Trucker and T-Bones: Live at the Troubadour $4.19 Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 10/16/2007... |
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Camille 2000 $3.99 ... |
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Essential Art House, Volume II (Black Orpheus / The 400 Blows / Ikiru / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / Pygmalion / La Strada) $56.16 Six-disc set includes the "Essential Art House" releases of "Pygmalion" (1938), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," "La Strada," "Black Orpheus," "Ikiru," and "The 400 Blows."... |
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Essential Art House, Volume I (Beauty and the Beast / Grand Illusion / Knife in the Water / Lord of the Flies / Rashomon / Wild Strawberries) $67.00 ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE:V1 - DVD Movie... |
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VISUAL ACOUSTICS: THE MODERNISM OF JULIUS SHULMAN (DVD) ... |
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JOAN MITCHELL: PORTRAIT OF AN ABSTRACT PAINTER (DVD) ... |
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ALICE NEEL (DVD) $34.50 ... |
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Arthouse $9.99 Arthouse  is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic—The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell’s inventive deconstruction and representation of modern cinema. At times borrowing imagery, plot, or character elements, and at times rendering lighting, rhythm, costuming, or shot sequences into fictional language, The Professor’s journey sends him from the Southwestern town of Pueblo, Colorado, into the role of rescuer as he aids an attempted-rape victim, and finally to Italy. Ultimately though, The Professor is left alone, struggling to reconcile the real world with his life in cinema. |
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Italian Cinema: Arthouse To Exploitation $6.49 From the unbridled sensuality of the orgy scenes in silent Italian cinema, through a topless Sophia Loren in a 1950s historical epic and the image of Silvana Mangano, her skirt provocatively tucked into her underwear, in the neo-realist classic Bitter Rice, to the erotic obsessions of Fellini and the more cerebral but still passion-centred movies of Antonioni, eroticism is ever-present in Italian cinema. And then there are the popular movies: the acres of tanned flesh (both male and female) on offer in the many sword and sandal epics of the peplum era through to the inextricable mix of sexuality and violence in the gialli of such directors as Mario Bava and Dario Argento, in which death and sex meet in a blood-drenched, orgasmic coda. Of course, there's far more to Italian cinema: it is one of the most glorious and energetic celebrations of the medium that any nation has ever offered. For many years, this astonishing legacy was largely unseen, but the DVD revolution is making virtually everything available, from Steve Reeves' muscle epics to long-unseen Italian art house movies. The one characteristic that most of the great (and not so great) Italian movies have in common is the sheer individualism of the directors. And this applies to the populist moviemakers as much as to the giants of serious cinema. While Fellini, Visconti and Antonioni have rightly assumed their places in the pantheon, so have such talented popular auteurs as Sergio Leone, who was doing something with the Western that no American director would dare do, so radical was the rethink. All the glory of Italian cinema is celebrated here in comprehensive essays, along with every key film in an easy-to-use reference format. |
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From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse $54.99 This collection of essays represents key contributions to 'transgression cinema:' overlooked, forgotten, or under-analyzed movies that walk the fine line between 'arthouse' and 'grindhouse' film. |
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From The Arthouse To The Grindhouse: Highbrow And Lowbrow Transgression In Cinema's First Century $45.59 While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema very few attempt to examine both. Covering the first 100 years of cinematic transgressions From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse is a collection of numerous essays representing key contributions to overlooked forgotten or under-analyzed parts of film history. From cult favorites like Arch Hall Jr. to revered but under-documented marquee names like Lon Chaney filmmakers both major and minor are covered here. Starting with a section that pairs exploitation pioneers like Dwain Esper alongside cutting edge auteurs like Erich Von Stroheim the volume documents the bleeding edge of the high/low cultural divide. Other essays examine the sexual melodramas of Weimer German cinema explore theconcept of Borat as a model for the new standardized cult film and discuss the films of directors Tod Browning Pier Pasolini and Peter Watkins. This volume also contains a section devoted to the idea of "reality" inside and outside the documentary sphere emphasizing audiences' desire to believe that "this is really happening " whether they're horrified or titillated. Addressing many aspects of "transgression" in cinema these essays suggest that the distance between the venues and the audiences may not be quite as wide as viewers might imagine.While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema very few attempt to examine both. Covering the first 100 years of cinematic transgressions From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse is a collection of numerous essays representing key contributions to overlooked forgotten or under-analyzed parts of film history. From cult favorites like Arch Hall Jr. to revered but under-documented marquee names like Lon Chaney filmmakers both major and minor are covered here. Starting with a section that pairs exploitation pioneers like Dwain Esper alongside cutting edge auteurs like Erich Von Stroheim the volume documents the bleeding edge of the high/low cultural divide. Other essays examine the sexual melodramas of Weimer German cinema explore theconcept of Borat as a model for the new standardized cult film and discuss the films of directors Tod Browning Pier Pasolini and Peter Watkins. This volume also contains a section devoted to the idea of "reality" inside and outside the documentary sphere emphasizing audiences' desire to believe that "this is really happening " whether they're horrified or titillated. Addressing many aspects of "transgression" in cinema these essays suggest that the distance between the venues and the audiences may not be quite as wide as viewers might imagine. |
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