New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
Edge of the City (1957)
7.2/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Jack Warden, John Cassavetes, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier
Aka 'A Man is Ten Feet Tall'. Two labourers (Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes) face corruption on the New York waterfront and share a bond cutting a... Read more
Trainspotting ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Ro...
A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more
La Traviata (1982)
6.9/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo
"(Teresa) Stratas not only sings magnificently but also looks the role ... She is a screen presence as riveting to watch as to listen to ... Having ca... Read more
Elizabeth Taylor: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Butterfield 8 / Father of the Bride / The Sandpiper (1965)
6.7/10
Director: Daniel Mann, Richard Brooks, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Spencer Tracy
Elizabeth Taylor Box Set: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958) - Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize play thunders across the screen in a powerful film adapt... Read more
James Cagney: City for Conquest / G Men / Each Dawn I Die / White Heat (1949)
7.7/10
Director: Anatole Litvak, Raoul Walsh, William Keighley
Starring: Ann Dvorak, Ann Sheridan, Edmond O'Brien, George Raft, James Cagney, Margaret Li...
James Cagney Box Set. 'White Heat' (1949) - "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" James Cagney's Cody Jarrett - a psychotic thug devoted to his tough-as-na... Read more
A Long Ride From Hell (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Camillo Bazzoni
Starring: Steve Reeves
A Long Ride from Hell, in the original Italian known as Vivo per la tua morte (literally "I Live for Your Death!"). The film was bodybuilder Steve Ree... Read more