Cycle Tours & Vintage at Southbank Centre for the weekend of 29/30/31 July only in celebration of the re-release of THE LAVENDER HILL MOB! 

Digitally restored & back in cinemas for its 60th Anniversary 22nd July 2011 / On DVD / Blu-ray / EST 1st August  Atop a classic 1920'sstyle British made bicycle, lucky cyclists will be able to enjoy a turn around some of London’s most recognizable landmarks, as well as some of it’s hidden wonders, whilst being treated to commentary from an experienced Tally Ho! tour leader and British Cinema expert Richard Dacre. Each tour will concentrate on famous locations from the three films. One feature tour a day will end in time for a screening of said Ealing classic at Vintage at Southbank Centre, Wayne Hemingway’s award-winning Festival celebrating 7 decades of British cool – either on the Cinema Bus (free), or at the BFI Southbank (book tickets here: LHB at BFI <http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/vintage/the_lavender_hill_mob> ).

For more details and to book tickets please visit: http://www.tallyhocycletours.com/

Enjoy 3 iconic British War films on blu-ray for the first time for Father’s Day!

Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, CROSS OF IRON is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle of wills between aristocratic Prussian Officer Stransky (Maximilian Schell) and gutsy Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn). Director Sam Peckinpah has served as an inspiration for everyone from Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow. With a host of specially created new extras from footage shot on set, CROSS OF IRON is out to buy on blu-ray on June 6^th.

Optimum Releasing are proud to announce that they will be releasing Nic Roeg’s classic Don’t Look Now on blu-ray for the first time in the UK, following a full digital restoration approved by Nic Roeg himself. Fresh from a recent BFI Roeg retrospective, Don’t Look Now was also recently voted the Best British Film of all time in a Time Out poll of filmmakers and critics.

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nic Roeg’s brilliantly atmospheric adaptation of the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice where he is to oversee the restoration of an old church. Here they encounter a pair of elderly sisters: one of them a blind psychic who claims to have been in communication with the couple’s dead child. Whilst Laura is intrigued John resists the idea, despite the possibility that he is having his own visions that threaten to put his life in danger….

Heralded by many as the film that crystallizes most perfectly the experience of the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory masterpiece APOCALYPSE NOW has been painstakingly restored by his own Zoetrope studios under his close supervision, and will be released back in cinemas by Optimum Releasing on May 27^th 2011 and then in a special 3-disc edition blu-ray on June 13^th 2011.

 Martin Sheen (TV’s The West Wing) stars as Army Captain Willard, a troubled man sent on a dangerous top-secret mission into Cambodia to assassinate a rogue Green Beret, Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, Last Tango in Paris), who has barricaded himself in a remote outpost. As Willard ventures deeper and deeper into the wilderness of the jungle, he embarks on a strange journey that leads him to Kurtz – but also forces him to come face to face with the terrifying vision of the heart of darkness in us all.