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TITLE (DIRECTOR)

ARIA (Various)

BARAKA - REMASTERED (DVD) (Ron Fricke)

BARAKA -REMASTERED (BLURAY) (Ron Fricke)

BARAKA/CHRONOS BOX SET (Ron Fricke)

BECKET (Peter Glenville)

BEDAZZLED (Stanley Donen)

BELLE CAPTIVE, LA (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

BELLE EPOQUE (Fernando Treuba)

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

BEYOND THE CLOUDS (Michelangelo Antonioni)

BLACK CAT, THE (Edgar G Ulmer)

BLACK ORPHEUS (Marcel Camus)

BODY AND SOUL (Robert Rossen)

BOILING POINT (Takeshi Kitano)

BOOM! (Joseph Losey)

BOSSU, LE (Phillipe de Broca)

BRAIN DAMAGE (Frank Henenlotter)

BREAKDANCE : THE MOVIE (Joel Silberg)

BREAKDANCE 2 : ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (Sam Firstenberg)

BREAKING AWAY (Peter Yates)

BRIEF CROSSING (Catherine Breillat)

BROWNING VERSION, THE (Anthony Asquith)

BURNT BY THE SUN (Nikita Mikhalkov)

BUTTERFLY KISS (Michael Winterbottom)

CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Henry Hathaway)

CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (Peter Weir)

CAUGHT (Max Ophuls)

CEREMONIE, LA (Claude Chabrol)

CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE, LE (Yves Robert)

CHRISTIANE F (Uli Edel)

CHRONOS (Ron Fricke)

COEUR EN HIVER, UN (Claude Sautet)

COLD FEVER (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)

COMPULSION (Richard Fleischer)

COOL AS ICE (David Kellogg)

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

D'ARTAGNAN'S DAUGHTER (Bertrand Tavernier)

DANTON (Andrzej Wajda)

DON GIOVANNI (Joseph Losey)

DOUGAL AND THE BLUE CAT (Serge Danot)

DOWN AMONG THE Z MEN, THE GOONS IN (Rogers MacLean)

EDWARD II (Derek Jarman)

ELECTRIC DREAMS (Steve Barron)

ENFANTS DU PARADIS, LES (Marcel Carné)

ENFER, L' (Claude Chabrol)

EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju)

FORCE OF EVIL (Abraham Polonsky)

GAMBIT (Ronald Neame)

GETTING ANY? (Takeshi Kitano)

GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, THE (Frank Tashlin)

GLOIRE DE MON PÈRE, LA (Yves Robert)

HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND, THE (Patrice Leconte)

HEIMAT FRAGMENTS - THE WOMEN (Edgar Reitz)

HEIMAT (Edgar Reitz)

HEIMAT 2 (Edgar Reitz)

HELLZAPOPPIN' (H.C. Potter)

HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS (Summers Jeremy Booth Harry)

HOPSCOTCH (Ronald Neame)

HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF, THE (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

I AM CURIOUS YELLOW/BLUE (Vilgot Sjöman)

IN THE SOUP (Alexandre Rockwell)

IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)

JUBILEE (Derek Jarman)

KIDS RETURN (Takeshi Kitano)

LAST OF ENGLAND, THE (Derek Jarman)

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)

LIVING IN OBLIVION (Tom DiCillo)

LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)

LORD OF THE FLIES (Peter Brook)

MACBETH (Orson Welles)

MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls)

MAJOR BARBARA (Gabriel Pascal)

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (Charles Jarrott)

MICROCOSMOS (Claude Nuridsany)

MICROCOSMOS (BLURAY) (Claude Nuridsany)

MODESTY BLAISE (Joseph Losey)

MONSIEUR HIRE (Patrice Leconte)

MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Michael Sarne)

NOCE BLANCHE (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

OTHELLO (Orson Welles)

PANDORA'S BOX (G.W. Pabst)

PARFUM D'YVONNE, LE (Patrice Leconte)

PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston)

PARTING GLANCES (Bill Sherwood)

PATRICE LECONTE COLLECTION, THE (Patrice Leconte)

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Peter Weir)

PLAISIR, LE (Max Ophuls)

POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski)

PYGMALION (Anthony Asquith)

QUERELLE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

QUEST FOR FIRE (Jean-Jacques Annaud)

RAVEN, THE (Lew Landers)

RECKLESS MOMENT, THE (Max Ophuls)

RENDEZ-VOUS (André Téchiné)

RIDICULE (Patrice Leconte)

RIEN NE VA PLUS (Claude Chabrol)

RING FINGER, THE (Diane Bertrand)

RONDE, LA (Max Ophuls)

RUTLES 30TH ANNIVERSARY, THE (Gary Weiss)

SCENE AT THE SEA, A (Takeshi Kitano)

SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA, THE (Tran Anh Hung)

SEBASTIANE (Derek Jarman)

SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY (Jess Franco)

SONATINE (Takeshi Kitano)

STORMY WEATHER (Andrew L. Stone)

SUMMERTIME (David Lean)

TAKESHI KITANO COLLECTION (Takeshi Kitano)

TANGO (Patrice Leconte)

TEMPEST, THE (Jarman. Derek)

TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (BLURAY) (Tobe Hooper)

TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (DVD) (Tobe Hooper)

TIME REGAINED (Raoul Ruiz)

TO HELL AND BACK (Jesse Hibbs)

TOTO THE HERO (Jaco Van Dormael)

VALSEUSES, LES (Betrand Blier)

VAMPYROS LESBOS (Jess Franco)

VIOLENT COP (Takeshi Kitano)

WAR REQUIEM - 20TH ANNIVERSARY (Derek Jarman)

WILD STYLE (Charlie Ahearn)

WILD TARGET (Pierre Salvadori)

WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Ratio: 1.66:1 / 16:9 anamorphic widescreen
French Language/English Subtitles
Audio: Original Mono
COLOUR PAL · Region Code 2
Running Time 85 Mins
Cat no. 2NDVD 3166
Cert: 15

LA BELLE CAPTIVE

‘Steeped in surreal eroticism’
Independent Film Quarterly

DANIEL MESGUICH, CYRIELLE CLAIRE
DANIEL EMILFORK, GABRIELLE LAZURE
AND FRANCOIS CHAUMETTE

Presented for the first time in a newly restored version remastered from the original 35mm negative, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s erotic, surreal classic is a precursor to David Lynch’s world of enigmatic characters and dreamlike encounters. 

A man called Walter encounters a beautiful woman at a club then later finds her lying bound and bloodied in the road. He takes her to a nearby isolated villa where a sinister group of wealthy men in tuxedos are gathered and take a keen interest in the injured woman.  The couple are given a room for the night where they are locked in. They make love but the following morning Walter wakes to find the woman gone, the villa a deserteded ruin and blood on his neck. Did it happen, or was it a dream? Nothing is quite what it seems.

Special Feature
  • Audio commentary by
    Professor Roch Charles Smith
    author of ‘Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet’