Dean Spanley

Director: Toa Fraser
Producers: Alan Harris and Matthew Metcalfe
Writers: Alan Sharp and Lord Dunsany
Cast: Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown

DEAN SPANLEY is about fathers, sons, fine wines and reconnecting with loved ones in the most unexpected of ways. Toa Fraser, whose directorial debut was the acclaimed No. 2, directs.

Out now on DVD.

The Painted Veil

Director: John Curran
Writers: Ron Nyswaner and W. Somerset Maugham
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg

A sumptuous adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, The Painted Veil represents our third collaboration with John Curran.

THE PAINTED VEIL gross over $4m in Australia and New Zealand and is now out on DVD.

Good

Director: Vicente Amorim
Producers: Miriam Segal, Dan Lupovitz, Kevin Loader, Sarah Boote and Billy Dietrich
Writers: C.P. Taylor and John Wrathall
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker

Good shook us to the core, a powerful examination of the need to make the right moral choices which is as relevant now as the time period it is set in.

Out now on DVD.

Salute

Director: Matt Norman
Producers: Matt Norman and David Redman
Writer: Matt Norman
Documentary

The black power salute at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights movement. What part in this did the white Australian who ran second, Peter Norman, play and what price did he pay for standing up for his beliefs?

Official Salute Website
Salute Study Guide

SALUTE is out now on DVD.

Prime Mover

Director: David Caesar
Producer: Vincent Sheehan
Writer: David Caesar
Cast: Michael Dorman, Emily Barclay, Ben Mendelsohn, Anthony Hayes, William McInnes

From the team behind the Aussie hit Mullet comes a diesel-charged love story about ambition, pressure, responsibility and the love shared by a man, a woman and his truck.

Out now on DVD.

My Year Without Sex

Director: Sarah Watt
Producer: Bridget Ikin
Writer: Sarah Watt
Cast: Sacha Horler, Matt Day

Synopsis: MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX is a story about one messy year in the life of a family - now about to question everything. Along the way, they will be consoled and distracted by sex, shopping, sport, storage solutions, Santa, religion and singing.

This wry exploration of what we choose to believe in comes from the award-winning writer/ director of LOOK BOTH WAYS, Sarah Watt.

A Footprint Films release. Out now on DVD.

Charlie and Boots

Director: Dean Murphy
Writer: Dean Murphy and Stewart Faichney
Producers: David Redman, Shana Levine and Dean Murphy
Cast: Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson

Transmission is proud to announce CHARLIE & BOOTS starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson as a father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfil their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia’s northern tip. The comedy, to shoot later this year, is written by STRANGE BEDFELLOWS writers Dean Murphy and Stewart Faichney and will be produced by Shana Levine, David Redman and Dean Murphy.

Out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

Balibo

Director: Robert Connolly
Producers: John Maynard, Rebecca Williamson
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Nathan Phillips

Synopsis: Anthony Lapaglia plays war correspondent Roger East in BALIBO, the incredible true story of the 1975 murders of five Australian Journalists. BALIBO is a powerful political thriller about the struggle for the truth, directed by Robert Connolly (THE BANK) and written by Connolly and David Williamson.

A Footprint Films release. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

Che (Part One and Part Two)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producers: Laura Bickford, Benicio Del Toro
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Catalina Sandino Moreno

CHE: PART ONE

Synopsis: On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto “Che” Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. This film tracks Che’s rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero.

CHE: PART TWO

Synopsis: After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.

Transmission is proud to present these landmark films from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh. Benicio del Toro (winner Best Actor Cannes 2008) stars as Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.

Out now on DVD.

Samson & Delilah

Director: Warwick Thornton
Producer: Kath Shelper

From the team behind the the acclaimed short GREEN BUSH comes the acclaimed Camera d’Or winner.

Out now on DVD.

An Education

Director: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Emma Thompson, Rosamund Pike, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Olivia Williams, Sally Hawkins

Official Selection: 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, 2009 Telluride Film Festival
Awards: 2009 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for World Cinema - Dramatic

Synopsis: The smash hit of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Out now on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Antichrist

Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Official Selection: 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Selected Awards: 2009 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress - Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2009 Cannes Film Festival Nomination for Palme d’Or

Synopsis: A grieving couple retreat to ‘Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse…

Out now on DVD.

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portilla, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave, Lola Duenas, Angela Molina

Synopsis: BROKEN EMBRACES is the new film from Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar. Set in the 1990s and the present day, the story centres on a four-way tale of dangerous love, shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir. Following their successful collaboration on Volver, Almodovar reteams with Penélope Cruz, in addition to Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina and Rossy de Palma.

Out now on DVD.

Ricky

Director: François Ozon
Cast: Alexandra Lamy, Sergi López

Synopsis: When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something magical happens: an extraordinary child is born.

Coming soon to DVD.

Boy

Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, James Rolleston, Taika Waititi

Official Selection: Sundance 2010

Synopsis: Summer, girls, beer, drugs, gangs … it’s not easy being eleven years old. BOY is a coming of age comedy inspired by Taika’s award-winning, Oscar-nominated short, TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT.

Now showing New Zealand. Opens August 26th in Australia.

Beneath Hill 60

Director: Jeremy Sims
Cast: Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Jacqueline MacKenzie, Aden Young

Synopsis: It’s 1916 and Woodward must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines, Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel system packed with enough high explosives to change the course of the War.

Coming soon to DVD.

The White Ribbon

Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock

Winner 2009 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or

Synopsis: A village in Protestant northern Germany.1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?

Coming soon to DVD.

Fish Tank

Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Katie Jervis

Official Selection: 2009 Cannes Film Festival

Synopsis: Live, love and give as good as you get. Mia, a volatile 15 year-old who is always in trouble, has been excluded from school and ostracised by her friends. One hot summer’s day her mother brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives.

Coming soon to DVD.

Cairo Time

Director: Ruba Nadda
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: When Juliette’s husband is unavoidably delayed he sends his friend Tareq, a retired Egyptian police officer, to escort her through the beautiful and exotic city of Cairo. A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.

Opens August 19th 2010.

The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2

Director: Peter Andrikidis
Cast: Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Alex Dimitriades, Kevin Sorbo, Cosima Coppola, Zeta Makripoulia

Synopsis: A few years after we last saw Steve, things aren’t going so well for the ‘Wog Boy’. He has lost his true love (a ’67 Valiant Pacer) and all his assets because he trusted the wrong Italian. His best mate, Frank, has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortune, as ever, favours the ‘Wog’ when Steve discovers that he has inherited a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he has never met - a beach worth millions…

Coming soon to DVD.

Tracker

Director: Ian Sharp
Cast: Ray Winstone, Temeura Morrison
Synopsis: At the turn of the last century, a South African living in New Zealand - an ex-Boer War guerilla - is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Set in the beautiful landscapes of southern New Zealand, Tracker is a taut and compelling story that explores the courage and strength required to be a good man.

Opens 2011.

Griff The Invisible

Director: Leon Ford
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody

Synopsis: Griff, a superhero who spends his days fighting bullish coworkers and his nights fighting evil, has his worlds turned upside when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

Coming in 2011.

Full Treatment

Director: Pierre Salvadori
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila

Synopsis: 30-year-old Emilie runs a hairdressing salon, and provides an endless stream of well-meaning advice to her clients and friends. The one person she can’t seem to help is Maddy, her mother, who has given up the will to live since being left by her husband.

Lourdes

Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Lea Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini, Elina Lowensohn
Official Selection: 66th Venice Film Festival

Selected Awards: 25th Warsaw Film Festival Grand Prix, 66th Venice Film Festival Brian Award, 66th Venice International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize, 66th Venice International Film Festival SIGNIS Award, 66th Venice International Film Festival Sergio Trasatti Award

Synopsis: Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains.

The King’s Speech

Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush
Synopsis: A chronicle of King George VI’s effort to overcome his nervous stammer with the assistance of speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Coming December 2010.

Sleeping Beauty

Director: Julia Leigh
Cast: Emily Browning

Synopsis: A disenchanted and financially strapped university student accepts work as a sleeper in a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ chamber. The first man to visit Lucy venerates her youth and beauty. The second is sadistic. Nonetheless she returns…

Coming in 2011.

The Guard

Director: John McDonagh
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle

Synopsis: A hard-living Galway Guard is forced to team up with a black FBI agent to break a drug smuggling ring off the West Coast. Three drug-dealers are planning to land half a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine off the west coast of Ireland. The only men standing in their way are straight-laced FBI Agent Wendell Everett and Gerry Boyle, an unconventional and over-the-hill Guard, with a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and a heightened sense of the absurd.

Coming in 2011.

Room In Rome

Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Early Summer. A hotel room in the heart of Rome. Two young women who have only just met travel together on an intimate, passionate physical journey that will mark their bodies and souls deeply. The story unfolds over twelve hours, through the night and into the early morning, before each woman departs, Alba to Spain and Natasha to Russia.

Coming soon to DVD.

Cosi

Director: Chris Menaul
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Rosamund Pike, Mia Maestro

Synopsis: Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he’s little more than a city suit living the capitalist’s dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of a female conductor he’s been pursuing whom – it just so happens – is the first to be recruited for his showpiece. A troupe of sexy young singers are garnered and the stage is set for a night all will remember.

Coming in 2011.

Real Time

Director: Randall Cole
Cast: Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel

Synopsis: REAL TIME is a comedic drama about a compulsive gambler given one hour to live by the man hired to kill him.

Out now on DVD.

The Killing of John Lennon

Director: Andrew Piddington
Cast: Jonas Ball

Synopsis: “I was nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on earth.” A dramatisation of the assassination of John Lennon.

Out now on DVD.

Closed For Winter

Director: James Bogle
Cast: Natalie Imbruglia

Synopsis: The emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister’s disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she must face dark family secrets that have remained unspoken.  As the past is revealed, Elise at last finds the courage to begin to live.

Out now on DVD.

Deep In The Valley

Director: Christian Forte
Cast: Chris Pratt, Brendan Hines, Tracy Morgan, Denise Richards, Scott Caan

Synopsis: Best friends, Carl and Lester, find themselves magically transported into an alternate universe straight out of a real-life adult movie. Hilarity ensues as they embark upon a journey of adult-themed mayhem while Carl ultimately finds true love in the most unlikely of places.

Out now on DVD.

Battle For Terra

Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Cast: (voices of) Luke Wilson, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, David Cross, James Garner, Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Out now on DVD.

The End

Director: Nicola Collins
Cast: Victor Dark, Les Falco, Jimmy Tibbs and a host of British underworld figures

Synopsis: Against the background of the East End of London England, Nicola Collins explores the fascinating complexity of the lives of her father and his friends: infamous criminals that shaped their war torn environment into a violent underworld. The End is a story never before told, of a group of men with a common bond. The End reveals the bloody history and the confessions of the cockney gangster.

Out now on DVD.

The Definitive Chaplin Collection

The complete collection of CHAPLIN classics, including THE GOLD RUSH, THE KID, THE GREAT DICTATOR and many more - newly restored and out now on DVD.

Holly

Director: Guy Moshe
Cast: Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thuy Nguyen

Synopsis: In Cambodia, Holly, a 12 year old Vietnamese girl, encounters Patrick, an American stolen artifacts dealer. The story follows their strong connection and her unrelenting efforts to escape her fate.

Coming soon to DVD.

Women Without Men

Director: Shirin Neshat
Cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Toth

Selected Awards: 66th Venice Film Festival Silver Lion for Best Director

Synopsis: Against the tumultuous backdrop of the of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’etat, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard where they find independence, solace and companionship.

The Tree

Director: Julie Bertucelli
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas, Aden Young

Closing night Cannes 2010

Synopsis: After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots. As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonising decision. But have they left it too late?

Opens Sept 30th, 2010.

Agora

Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac

Official selection Cannes 2009

Synsopis: A stunning historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

Opens November 2010.

Streetdance 3D

Directors: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Flawless, Diversity

Synopsis: In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

Coming soon to DVD.

Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: A dramatisation of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Opens October 2010.