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BFI - British Film Institute

The DVD shop in Paris for BFI.

Le MacGuffin propose la collection du British Film Institute en France. Le British Film Institute est une organisation caritative de cinéma et de télévision qui promeut et préserve le cinéma et la télévision au Royaume-Uni.

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  • By: BFI

    Back To 1942 (aka Yi Jiu Si Er) - DVD

    9,95 €

    War epic set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a devastating drought takes hold of Henan province in China, a wealthy farmer named Fan (Guoli Zhang) manages to beat the struggle and maintains enough food to feed his family and the village. But that all changes when bandits rob and burn his village to the ground, murdering his son as they do so.
    Fan and his family are forced to flee with some of their fellow villagers, but more troubles follow as Fan's money and food supplies are stolen by army officials. This leads the starving and helpless family to make some tough decisions in order to acquire the necessities they so desperately need. Meanwhile an American journalist (Adrien Brody) examines the Government's policy on giving aid to refugees such as Fan, with serious consequences.

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  • By: BFI

    Nosferatu the Vampyre (DVD)

    17,95 €

    Au XIXe siècle, Jonathan Harker se rend en Transylvanie pour vendre un manoir au comte Dracula. Sur la route, les villageois lui conseillent de rebrousser chemin mais le jeune homme refuse. Au moment de la signature, Dracula aperçoit un portrait de la fiancée de Harker, identique en tous points à sa défunte épouse. Jonathan est fait prisonnier et le comte se rend à Londres pour retrouver la jeune femme.

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  • By: BFI

    Beautiful Thing

    24,95 €
    Hettie MacDonald directs this drama based on the play by Jonathan Harvey. Ste (Scott Neal), a popular sporting hero at school, is being bullied mercilessly by his drunken father and so he decides to seek refuge with Sandra (Linda Henry), the single mother of Ste's classmate Jamie (Glenn Berry). One night, Jamie and Ste end up sharing a bed in Sandra's flat and from these beginnings a romance develops between the two boys.
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  • By: Les Films du Camélia

    The Appointment (1981) - Blu-ray

    44,95 €

    Une entité maléfique et énigmatique plonge une famille dans la tourmente… Dans l’incapacité d’assister au récital de violon de sa fille, Ian, son père, est hanté par une série de cauchemars prophétiques qui semblent annoncer une tragédie imminente. Les forces obscures se rassemblent-elles pour se déchaîner contre lui ?

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  • By: BFI

    Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

    24,95 €
    Tim MacKenzie-Smith directs this documentary about British band Cymande. Formed in south London in the early 1970s, their music fused jazz, funk and soul and their talent was recognised in America where they became the first British band to headline the Apollo Theatre in New York. However, in Britain they fell into obscurity and disbanded in 1975, but when their music was sampled by hip-hop DJs and rap artists in the 1980s and 90s, they found a new generation of fans and ultimately reformed after nearly four decades.
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  • By: BFI

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    22,95 €
    Thomas von Steinaecker directs this documentary about the life and career of German film-maker Werner Herzog. von Steinaecker explores Herzog's cinematic highlights including 'Even Dwarfs Started Small' (1970), 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972) and 'Fitzcarraldo' (1982) and his later documentary work such as 'Grizzly Man' (2005). Archival footage, movie clips and interviews with Herzog and collaborators including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and Carl Weathers are featured.
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  • By: BFI

    The Eternal Daughter

    24,95 €
    Joanna Hogg writes and directs this gothic drama starring Tilda Swinton in a dual role as both middle-aged film-maker Julie and her elderly mother, Rosalind. Soon after the death of Julie's father, the two women visit a seemingly deserted country hotel shrouded in fog. While Julie tries to write a film about her mother, Rosalind recounts painful memories from her wartime childhood spent in the hotel, which was then a family home.As Rosalind's birthday approaches, Julie must come to terms with her complex feelings regarding her mother.
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  • By: BFI

    Three Films By Yosujiro Ozu

    34,95 €
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  • By: BFI

    Takeshi Kitano Collection

    44,95 €

    A collection of three films by Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano, widely considered to be Japan's most important and influential director since Kurosawa.

    Contents:

    1. Violent Cop
    2. Boiling Point
    3. Sonatine

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  • By: BFI

    Eye Of The Needle (Dual Format Edition)

    21,95 €
    British thriller in which Nazi spy Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) poses as an Englishman when he is shipwrecked on a Scottish island en route to Germany. Befriending the beautiful Lucy (Kate Nelligan) whose marriage to a crippled, embittered pilot is faltering, Faber sets about seducing her as he intends to use her to help carry out his mission and prevent the D-Day invasion.
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  • By: BFI

    Medea Dual Format

    24,95 €
    Pier Paolo Pasolini's screen adaptation of the Greek tragedy stars opera diva Maria Callas in her only film role. Medea (Callas), daughter of a king, falls in love with Jason (Giuseppe Gentile) and helps him steal the Golden Fleece. She becomes Jason's wife and queen, but when he decides to leave her she wreaks a horrible revenge, murdering her own children.
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