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DIRECTOR (TITLE)

AHEARN, CHARLIE (Wild Style)

AMATEAU, ROD (The Garbage Pail Kids)

ANDERSON, JOEL (Lake Mungo)

ANDERSON, STEPHEN MILBURN (South Central)

ANNAUD, JEAN-JACQUES (Quest For Fire)

ANNAUD, JEAN-JACQUES (Quest For Fire)

ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO (Beyond the Clouds)

ARAKI, GREGG (The Doom Generation)

ARAKI, GREGG (Nowhere)

ASHBY, HAL (8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE)

ASQUITH, ANTHONY (The Browning Version)

ASQUITH, ANTHONY (Pygmalion)

ASSAYAS, OLIVIER (Irma Vep)

BADHAM, JOHN (Short Circuit)

BADHAM, JOHN (Short Circuit)

BARRON, STEVE (Electric Dreams)

BEEMAN, GREG (License To Drive)

BERTRAND, DIANE (The Ring Finger)

BLIER, BETRAND (Les Valseuses)

BOOTH HARRY, SUMMERS JEREMY (Here Come The Double Deckers)

BREILLAT, CATHERINE (Brief Crossing)

BRELOER, HEINRICH (Speer & Hitler)

BRISSEAU, JEAN-CLAUDE (Noce Blanche)

BROOK, PETER (Lord Of The Flies)

CAMUS, MARCEL (Black Orpheus)

CARNÉ MARCEL (Les Enfants du Paradis)

CARNÉ, MARCEL (Les Enfants Du Paradis)

CARROLL, WILLARD (Tom's Midnight Garden)

CATON-JONES, MICHAEL (This Boy's Life)

CHABROL, CLAUDE (L' Enfer)

CHABROL, CLAUDE (Rien Ne Va PLus)

CRONENBERG, DAVID (Scanners)

CRONENBERG, DAVID (Scanners)

CRONENBERG, DAVID (The Brood)

CRONENBERG, DAVID (The Brood)

DANOT, SERGE (Dougal And The Blue Cat)

DANTE, JOE (Piranha)

DARABONT, FRANK (Buried Alive)

DE BROCA, PHILLIPE (Le Bossu)

DICILLO, TOM (Living In Oblivion)

DICKERSON, ERNEST R. (Juice)

DONEN, STANLEY (Bedazzled)

DUGUAY, CHRISTIAN (Scanners II, The New Order)

DUGUAY, CHRISTIAN (Scanners III, The Takeover)

DUHAME, DOC (The Open Door)

EDEL, ULI (Christiane F)

FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER (Berlin Alexanderplatz)

FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER (Querelle)

FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER (World On A Wire)

FELDMAN, MARTY (The Last Remake Of Beau Geste)

FIRSTENBERG, SAM (Breakdance 2 : Electric Boogaloo)

FLANAGAN, MIKE (Absentia)

FLEISCHER, RICHARD (Compulsion)

FORBES, BRYAN (The Slipper And The Rose)

FRANCO, JESS (She Killed In Ecstasy)

FRANCO, JESS (Vampyros Lesbos)

FRANJU, GEORGES (Eyes Without A Face)

FRICKE, RON (Chronos)

FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM (The Guardian)

GLENVILLE, PETER (Becket)

GORDON, KEITH (A Midnight Clear (DVD))

GORDON, KEITH (A Midnight Clear (Bluray))

GORDON, MICHAEL (Move Over, Darling)

GORDON, STUART (From Beyond)

GORDON, STUART (From Beyond)

GREENGRASS, PAUL (Resurrected)

HENDERSON, JOHN (Alice Through The Looking Glass)

HENENLOTTER, FRANK (Brain Damage)

HENENLOTTER, FRANK (Basket Case)

HENENLOTTER, FRANK (Basket Case)

HIBBS, JESSE (To Hell And Back)

HILL, WALTER (Southern Comfort)

HILL, WALTER (Southern Comfort)

HILL, WALTER (The Long Riders)

HOOPER, TOBE (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (BluRay))

HOOPER, TOBE (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (DVD))

HOOPER, TOM (Daniel Deronda)

HUNG, TRAN ANH (The Scent Of The Green Papaya)

HUSTON, JOHN (Wise Blood)

JARMAN, DEREK (Edward II)

JARMAN, DEREK (Jubilee)

JARMAN, DEREK (The Last Of England)

JARMAN, DEREK (Sebastiane)

JARMAN, DEREK (War Requiem - 20th Anniversary)

JARMAN. DEREK (The Tempest)

JARROTT, CHARLES (Mary Queen of Scots)

JEFFRIES, LIONEL (The Amazing Mr Blunden)

JOHNSON, LAMONT (The Last American Hero)

KELLOGG, DAVID (Cool As Ice)

KERSHNER, IRVING (Raid On Entebbe)

KITANO, TAKESHI (Boiling Point)

KITANO, TAKESHI (Violent Cop)

KITANO, TAKESHI (Sonatine)

KITANO, TAKESHI (Getting Any?)

KITANO, TAKESHI (Kids Return)

KITANO, TAKESHI (A Scene At The Sea)

KLEISER, RANDAL (Flight of the Navigator)

KLEISER, RANDAL (Flight of the Navigator)

KOUNEN, JAN (Dobermann)

LANDERS, LEW (The Raven)

LEAN, DAVID (Summertime)

LECONTE, PATRICE (The Hairdresser's Husband)

LECONTE, PATRICE (Monsieur Hire)

LECONTE, PATRICE (Le Parfum d'Yvonne)

LECONTE, PATRICE (Ridicule)

LECONTE, PATRICE (Tango)

LESLIE WOODHEAD AND BUD GREENSPAN (Endurance)

LETTICH, SHELDON (Double Impact)

LEVY, RALPH (Do Not Disturb)

LIVINGSTON, JENNIE (Paris Is Burning)

LOSEY, JOSEPH (Don Giovanni)

LOSEY, JOSEPH (Boom!)

LOSEY, JOSEPH (Modesty Blaise)

MACLEAN, ROGERS (The Goons in

Down Among The Z Men)

MARTINS, HARDY (As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me)

MCLOUGHLIN, TOM (Sometimes They Come Back)

MIKHALKOV, NIKITA (Burnt By The Sun)

MILIUS, JOHN (Farewell To The King)

MINER, STEVE (Warlock)

NEAME, RONALD (Hopscotch)

NEAME, RONALD (Gambit)

NURIDSANY, CLAUDE (Microcosmos)

NURIDSANY, CLAUDE (Microcosmos (BluRay))

O'BANNON, DAN (The Return of The Living Dead (DVD))

O'BANNON, DAN (The Return Of The Living Dead (Steelbook Bluray))

OPHULS, MAX (Lola Montès)

OPHULS, MAX (Caught)

OPHULS, MAX (Letter From An Unknown Woman)

OPHULS, MAX (Madame De…)

OPHULS, MAX (Le Plaisir)

OPHULS, MAX (The Reckless Moment)

OPHULS, MAX (La Ronde)

ORTIZ, ISIDRO (Shiver)

PABST, G.W. (Pandora's Box)

PARADJANOV, SERGEI (The Colour of Pomegranates)

PASCAL, GABRIEL (Major Barbara)

POLONSKY, ABRAHAM (Force of Evil)

POTTER, H.C. (Hellzapoppin')

RAFFILL, STEWART (Mac and Me)

RAPPENEAU, JEAN-PAUL (Cyrano De Bergerac)

RAPPENEAU, JEAN-PAUL (The Horseman on the Roof)

REED, CAROL (Trapeze)

REITZ, EDGAR (Heimat 2)

REITZ, EDGAR (Heimat)

REITZ, EDGAR (Heimat Fragments - The Women)

RICHTER, ROLAND SUSO (The Tunnel)

ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN (La Belle Captive)

ROBERT, YVES (La Gloire De Mon Père & Le Chateau De Ma Mere)

ROBERT, YVES (La Gloire De Mon Pere & Le Chateau De Ma Mere)

ROCKWELL, ALEXANDRE (In The Soup)

ROSI, FRANCESCO (Carmen (DVD))

ROSI, FRANCESCO (Carmen (BLURAY))

RUIZ, RAOUL (Time Regained)

SALVADORI, PIERRE (Wild Target)

SARNE, MICHAEL (Myra Breckinridge)

SAUTET, CLAUDE (Un Coeur En Hiver)

SCHATZBERG, JERRY (The Panic In Needle Park)

SCHULTZ, CARL (To Walk With Lions)

SCHWABACH, PETER (The Secret Laughter of Women)

SHERWOOD, BILL (Parting Glances)

SILBERG, JOEL (Breakdance : The Movie)

SJÖMAN, VILGOT (I Am Curious Yellow/Blue)

SMITH, PETER (No Surrender)

STONE, ANDREW L. (Stormy Weather)

SULLIVAN, BRADLEY SCOTT (I Didn't Come Here To Die)

TÉCHINÉ, ANDRÉ (Rendez-Vous)

TASHLIN, FRANK (The Girl Can't Help It)

TASHLIN, FRANK (Caprice)

TAVERNIER, BERTRAND (D'Artagnan's Daughter)

TREUBA, FERNANDO (Belle Epoque)

VAN DORMAEL, JACO (Toto The Hero)

VARIOUS (Aria)

VASYUKOV, DMITRY (Happy People)

VON TRIER, LARS (The Kingdom I & II)

WAJDA, ANDRZEJ (Danton)

WEIR, PETER (Picnic At Hanging Rock)

WEIR, PETER (The Cars That Ate Paris)

WEISS, GARY (The Rutles, 30th Anniversary)

WELLES, ORSON (Macbeth)

WELLES,ORSON (Othello)

WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL (Butterfly Kiss)

YATES, PETER (Breaking Away)

ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ (Possession)

ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ (Possession)

Main Feature 84 mins
Cat No 2NDVD 3104
Cert: U 

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN

The MAX OPHULS Collection

‘Incredibly beautiful’ François Truffaut
‘For some of us, Max Ophuls was the
best French filmmaker’ François Truffaut

Starring
JOAN FONTAINE · LOUIS JOURDAN
MADY CHRISTIANS · MARCEL JOURNET

Philandering concert pianist Stefan arrives home to find a letter which begins ‘by the time you read this I may be dead’. So unfolds the story of Lisa, one of many woman with whom he had shared a brief encounter over the years and swiftly forgotten. Her life had been spent loving him unfalteringly and now he would learn the truth about his past.

Set in turn of the century Vienna, this haunting tale is perhaps cinema’s greatest unrequited love story and is considered to be one of Ophul’s great masterpieces.

Max Ophuls is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most revered directors in the history of cinema. His trademark array of lavish, fluid camera movements would influence generations of filmmakers to come. Among the many who have praised his genius are François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick (who believed ‘his camera could pass through walls’) and more recently directors such as Todd Haynes and Paul Thomas Anderson who called him his ‘idol’.

Special Feature
  • Video Essay by film historian Tag Gallagher