The wonderful people over at Second Run DVD have released another hidden gem: 'Daisies' (Sedmikrasky), originally made in 1966 by Vera Chytilova, who has since been called 'the first lady of Czech cinema' and whose efforts also earnt her a screening at the First International Festival of Women's Films in New York in 1972. find out more...

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Simon Stylites, to be nearer to God, has perched on a pillar for years and provided an inspiration to the surrounding people and a resolute defiance to the temptations, including a very tempting Silvia Pinal, of the Devil. However the Devil gets the last laugh after transporting him to a modern-day New York night-club. Wonderfully blasphemous. find out more...