New @ Alice
To try to do justice to the avalanche of interesting finds, documentaries, curios and plain old good and great films arriving daily, Alice has split new additions into Recent Arrivals (3 Day Hire), Featured Acquisitions (7 Day Hire) , New TV to DVD (7 Day Hire) . This is designed to spotlight these offerings before they find their final resting place among Alice's eclectic permanent collection.
We trust these features be some help in your quest to ferret out a gem or three - and ultimately guide you towards expansion of your cinematic horizons and filmic enlightenment....
Goto, l'île d'amour (Blu-ray) (1969)
6.6/10
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Ginette Leclerc
A simpleton thief on Goto, an isolated island ruled by a barbaric dictator, climbs ranks from criminal to fly-catcher, dog-keeper and boot polisher, w... Read more
The Assassination Bureau (Blu-ray) (1969)
6.5/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge. Read more
Witchfinder General (1968)
7.9/10
Director: Michael Reeves
Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Wymark
Aka "The Conqueror Worm". 1645 sees England in the grip of a bloody civil war. The structure of law and order has broken down. During this climate of... Read more
House Of Cards (Blu-ray) (1968)
5.8/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Michell
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order. Read more
Witchfinder General (Blu-ray) (1968)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Reeves
Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Wymark
Aka "The Conqueror Worm". 1645 sees England in the grip of a bloody civil war. The structure of law and order has broken down. During this climate of... Read more
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Gordon Jackson
Maggie Smith, in her Oscar-winning performance, is superb as the unconventional, eccentric teacher in an all-girls school in Edinburgh. Set during th... Read more
David Holzman's Diary (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Jim McBride
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something im... Read more
David Cronenberg's Early Works (Blu-ray) (1967)
Director: David Cronenberg
One of the most singular auteurs of the horror and science fiction genres, David Cronenberg has wowed audiences with his depictions of body transforma... Read more
Coach To Vienna (Blu-ray) (1966)
Director: Karel Kachyna
Starring: Iva Janzurová
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate. Read more
Red Angel (Blu-ray) (1966)
7.8/10
Starring: Ayako Wakao
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine. Read more