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Remember for ever - TV and film to keep

	Blackadder - The Complete Collection [DVD] Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £14.95 Lots of laughs, lots of catchphrases, and a bit of history on the side
	Brideshead Revisited - Complete Series [DVD] [1981] Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £9.29 Amazing production values, poignant, beautiful, sheer self indulgence for the viewer
	The Hustler [1961] [DVD] Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £1.66 Classic Newman - good looking, moody, cool soundtrack, downbeat but with a thrill twist
	Bleak House - BBC (3 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2005] Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £8.99 Gillian Anderson IS Lady Dedlock and Charles Dance IS Tulkinghorn - memorable evocations of great characters in a simplied version of the great novel
	Our Mutual Friend [DVD] [1998] Buy new: £7.98 One of the best Dickens adaptions ever made - watch it in chunks and you have a month or more of drama here
	The Man Who Knew Too Much [DVD] [1955] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 Excellent Hitchcock yarn, with a good song from Doris Day thrown in and an incredible climax in the Albert Hall for which the rest of the film simply trains you.
	The Verdict [1982] [DVD] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.99 Outstanding trial drama largely based outside the courtroom with lawyers drunk (Paul Newman) and urbane (James Mason)
	The Green Mile [DVD] [2000] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.00 Deeply disturbing but once you start watching this you won't be able to stop
	Brief Encounter [DVD] [1945] Buy new: £11.08 / Used from: £1.84 Masterbpiece of black and white photography with steam trains and passionate Rachmaninov music in the background frames the ultimate upper middle class doomed romance
	Lawrence of Arabia - Two Disc Set [DVD] [1962] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.00 David Lean makes full use of the big screen while Peter O'Toole puts in the performance of a lifetime in this lush piece of hero worship
	Bedrooms & Hallways Buy used from: £23.71 Crazy that this bittersweet and very funny romantic comedy should have sunk without trace just because it has a bisexual tang to it
	Great Expectations [DVD] [1946] Buy new: £14.78 / Used from: £4.00 Scratchy film quality and sound are soon forgotten as the story takes over and countless memorable scenes etch themselves into your mind
	Strictly Ballroom [DVD] [1992] Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.89 boy meets girl goes ballroom dancing in Australia - amazing what an entertaining feelgood film this turns out to be
	The Arsenal Stadium Mystery [1939] [DVD] [1940] Buy new: £12.88 / Used from: £12.24 No more than a curiosity - but here are real footballers and a real football manager putting in a decent performances in a well wrought little story
	Chicago [DVD] [2002] Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.49 Feeble storyline but my goodness the singing and dancing sweep you away just the same
	Four Weddings And A Funeral [DVD] [1994] Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £3.00 The English wedding nailed with wicked accuracy and humour by British character actors at the top of their game enjoying a first class script
	Brokeback Mountain [DVD] [2005] Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.69 Brief Encounter for a new generation - works out every emotional muscle you have
	Jeeves And Wooster : Complete ITV Series (8 Disc Box Set) [DVD] [1990] Buy used from: £38.99 Just like the Wodehouse books - formulaic but funny, lightweight but entertaining. Great location shooting and who would have thought Hugh Laurie could really play the piano so well?
	Easter Parade [DVD] [1948] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.89 Weird to see Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in the same film but they are at their peak: he the greatest dancer of all time, she a unique face and voice who plays well with him. Sweet.
	The Godfather Trilogy: Remastered Collection [DVD] [1972] Buy new: £14.98 Two masterpieces from Coppola (the third is much weaker) which mature in the memory and stand the test of time whenever you go back to them.
	Ice Cold In Alex [DVD] [1958] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.40 Top World War Two story
	The Ipcress File [DVD] [1965] Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.50 Taut and spare to the point of bafflement unless you pay very close attention but hugely stylish and exciting.
	Sleuth [DVD] [1972] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £4.07 Two great actors in a slick and vertiginous entertainment from Anthony Schaffer
	The Devil, Probably [DVD] [1977] Buy new: £4.58 Nihilism to remember
	L'Homme Du Train [DVD] [2003] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.30 A respectable man befriends a bank robber: a classic film which combines action with feeling

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