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The Beach Boys are quite simply America's finest pop group. Their combination of great melodies, intricate harmonies, intelligent songwriting and sheer fun has ensured that they remain loved and admired throughout the world more than forty years on.

On 'Endless Harmony, The Beach Boys' finally get the opportunity to tell their own story. Combining exclusive interviews with Brian and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston with the band's own archive footage and rarely heard tracks, it gives a real insight into both the success and the sadness of 'The Beach Boys'. There are also contributions from many who worked with the band or were inspired by them including Maurice Gibb, Elvis Costello, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, Carol Kaye and Glenn Campbell. Featuring excerpts from 45 Beach Boys' songs including rarities and previously unreleased versions of the classics:
- Good Vibrations
- California Girls
- God Only Knows
- Heroes and Villians

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The sleeper hit of 1965, 'Cat Ballou' was declared an instant classic when its sly blend of Western parody and rapid-fire action hit the screen.

Lee Marvin won an Oscar for Best Actor for his dual role as noseless ("it got bit off in a fight") gunslinger Tim Strawn and as Kid Shelleen, the woozy, boozy has-been who goes up against him. Jane Fonda co-stars as Catherine "Cat" Ballou, the schoolmarm-turned-outlaw who teams up with Kid. Singer Nat King Cole and comedian Stubby Kaye also appear, singing the title song, "The Ballad of Cat Ballou".

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When insurance underwriter Hugh Drummond (Richard Johnson) learns of the deaths of top oil executives - at the hands of a pair of beautiful but brutal female assassins - he is convinced that it is the work of an international crime syndicate.

His investigations uncover that the syndicate is after a big oil concession, and to get it they must commit regicide...

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Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel. Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman. Charley robs small banks with small payrolls.

That keeps him out of trouble until he stumbles onto the Mob's secret stash. The chase is on as the Big Boys go after the "Last of the Independents". It's a heart-pounding ride that builds to a fiery airborne climax as Charley makes his last desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.

Like everyone else, Geoffrey (Richard Beckinsale) and Beryl (Paula Wilcox) want to fall in love - or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn't live in Manchester in 1972...

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Undoubtly Luis Bunuel's most accessibly film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 40 years ago.

Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs cold with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clementi), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. Expertly dramatizing the collision between fantasy and reality, and between depravity and respectable bourgeois values, Bunuel, working from the novel by Joseph Kessel, fashions an immaculately designed (the fetishistic interiors and production designs are astonishing) and amoral comedy of manners.

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Expert mountaineers Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lead rival expeditions to scale the highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest. Their quest becomes dangerous when the fearless climbers collide head-on with one of the fiercest blizzards in the mountain's history.

Faced against impossible conditions, the limits of human spirit and physical endurance are put to the ultimate test in an epic struggle for survival in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller based on actual events.

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In this colourful classic from acclaimed B-movie director Arthur Marks, the ever-sexy Pam Grier plays a magazine photographer who accidentally witnesses an assassination attempt.

Stalked across town by a criminal cult, it is up to the genre's biggest star, and future Jackie Brown performer, to stay one step ahead of her antagonists.

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It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait.

Someday two no-account desert rats - who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand - will drop by for a drink...

In 1959, Kit (Martin Sheen) who has killed several people, and his new girlfriend Holly (Sissy Spacek), who watched him do it, are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment across South Dakota and Montana. They're playing make-believe but the bullets and bloodshed are very real...

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Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was one of the most important and influential British playwrights of the last century. While best known for his work for the stage, this collection celebrates Pinter's significant contribution to television.

His work for the screen shares many of the qualities of that for the stage, from a fascination with the private roots of power and an abiding preoccupation with memory, to a belief in the agency of women. Featuring 10 plays made for the BBC between 1965 and 1988, and previously unavailable on video.

The Plays:
1. Old Times (1975)
2. The Hothouse (1982)
3. Mountain Language (1988)
4. The Basement (1967)
5. A Slight Ache (1967)
6. A Night Out (1967)
7. Monologue (1972)
8. Tea Party (1965)
9. Landscape (1983)
10. The Birthday Party (1987)

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The latest addition to the acclaimed and award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of The Beach Boys ground breaking album 'Pet Sounds', which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

'Pet Sounds' was recorded in late 1965 and early 1966 about a year after Brian Wilson had withdrawn from playing live with The Beach Boys in order to concentrate on composing and studio work. Whilst the rest of the band were out on tour, Brian Wilson worked in the studio creating multi-layered compositions with painstaking attention to detail utilising orchestration, sound effects and unusual instruments. When the band returned from tour they went into the studio to add their trademark complex vocal harmonies. The new direction of the music caused some consternation within the group and the programme explores the band's relationship at this time as well as the creation of the music through interviews with all the surviving Beach Boys and others involved in the creation of the album. The US press didn't know what to make of the album at first, although it later became acknowledged as both important and influential. In the UK the album was immediately acclaimed and commercially successful, peaking at No.2 in the albums chart and remaining in the Top 10 for 6 months. 'Pet Sounds' is now universally regarded as one of the finest albums of the sixties and thoroughly merits its place in the Classic Albums series.

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Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a true giant of Japanese cinema.

Rich with archive footage and personal reminiscences from family and friends, this Keanu Reeves - narrated documentary shines a light on both the man and the actor, from his childhood and military service to his early years in the film industry and the string of masterpieces made with legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Okazaki and featuring contributions from Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, 'Mifune: The Last Samurai' reveals him as a formidable and mercurial talent, both onscreen and off, and an influence that still resonates through world cinema.

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This is the true story of Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) who in 1963 before a United States Investigating Committee and a vast live television audience explained for the first time the inner workings of The Mafia, Valachi serving his third prison term was speaking from experience having been a

valued member of Cosa Nostra for thirty three years, from driver to 'hit man' he had witnessed the power struggles of the Mafia's key figures including Lucky Luciano (Angelo Infanti) and Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura).

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Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters

union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history...