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The Coca-Cola Kid - A movie never felt so refreshing! Greta Scacchi (The Player) and Eric Roberts (The Dark Night) star in this caffeinated Australian comedy that pits a grizzled small-town soda baron against the multinational might of the Coke corporation. Nominated for 8 AFIs and the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, this fizzy first time Australia DVD release includes an exclusive interview with Greta Scacchi. (May)Les Patterson Saves the World - Dr. Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KBE, Australia’s slovenly cultural attaché, is hired by the UN to avert global destruction alongside CIA agent, Dame Edna Everage. Barry Humphries is brilliant in this daring Oz comedy classic, released for the first time on DVD and packed with fair dinkum special features including an exclusive interview with Mr Humphries. (April)
Arthouse
Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks) – Following its outstanding theatrical run across Australia, this daring French psycho-thriller finally comes to DVD. From Academy Award-winning director Claude Lelouch (A Man And A Woman), Roman de Gare stars Fanny Ardant (Elizabeth, 8 Femmes) as an author and femme fatale whose ghost writer (the brilliant Dominique Pinon - Amelie) emerges like a haunting character in one of her own novels. (April)Cult Classics
The Harder They Come - The film that took reggae music to the world, this is the essential rebel-reggae story of a young Kingston musician whose efforts to make a hit record instead lead to drugs and murder. Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff plays the young outlaw and contributes classic songs to the seminal soundtrack including "The Harder They Come" and "Many Rivers to Cross". (May)Blue Water, White Death - The inspiration for JAWS! Featuring the greatest shark experts of all-time, Valerie and Ron Taylor, this groundbreaking 1971 documentary features exhilarating underwater shots of The Great White Shark in its natural habitat as divers stand face-to-face with the marauding beast in a revolutionary shark cage. The first-ever underwater documentary about sharks comes to DVD for the first time with extensive special features including commentaries with Valerie and Ron! (March)
Idiot Box
Watership Down TV Series (5 Disc Set) - All 39 episodes for the first time on DVD! Twenty years after the feature-length adaptation of Richard Adams' best-seller, we return to the South Downs to retell the story of the rabbits of Watership Down. Features voices from Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Stephen Fry, and John Hurt and Richard Briers who played Hazel and Fiver in the feature film, also available on Umbrella. (May)Frost Nixon - With the current theatrical release of the massively acclaimed Frost Nixon movie currently in cinemas Umbrella is excited to announce that we will be releasing the original Frost Nixon Interviews. Acknowledged as one of the greatest media events of the Twentieth Century, these interviews were first broadcast in May 1977, they drew the biggest ever worldwide audience for a news interview. Over 28 grueling hours Frost questioned Nixon on everything from Vietnam, China, to the presidential office’s abuse of power. The most enthralling sessions were on the Watergate scandal, with two full days dedicated to Nixon answering questions on his government’s part in the scandal. Through these incredible interviews a picture emerges of a White House under siege, of burglars and hush money, of a Nixon close to tears, having to sacrifice his closest aides culminating in the unprecedented sight of a President apologising to his people. This is a must see title. (June)
