Sergio Leone's largely neglected oddball socio-political Western Duck You Sucker had been chopped to bits in initial release but gets a new life in a restored DVD out today. The film starred Rod Steiger as a Mexican peasant (!; don't think about it too hard) who meets Irish revolutionary James Coburn; the two of them plot to rob a bank in Arizona, only to discover it's actually being used as a political prison. This handsome transfer restores the film to all its lengthy glory.

Wrote Mark Hodgson in Twitch: "Dorm is likely to get caught up in the latest wave of Asian horror films from Thailand. But it's not a horror film, so much as a ghost story. Despite the young cast, it's certainly not childish - it has an uncomfortably dark side, reminiscent of Stand By Me, that makes it unsuitable for a younger audience. Anyhow, while I can't quite categorise it, I can say that it's the best Thai film that I've seen so far... [A] beautifully shot film, with finely-judged performances."

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By Michael Fox

"The murderously genteel Claude Chabrol has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock by so many critics, capsule biographers, trailer producers and pressbook writers that the label "France's master of suspense" is forever stuck to his lapel. The seed was planted back in the '50s when Chabrol co-authored an early book on the then-undervalued British filmmaker with fellow Cahiers du Cinema critic (and soon-to-be fellow Nouvelle Vague instigator) Eric Rohmer."

Two of Claude Chabrol's films starring Isabelle Huppert are now available on DVD; The Comedy of Power (2006), and Violette (1978). Read on as Michael Fox shares an overview of some of the director's most memorable works.