By William Gallagher BBC News Online

Umberto Eco's novel was first published in 1980

It might sound like Cadfael, but it is a lot more raw and menacing.

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud seems as happy this is out as we are: he has done two commentaries, one in French and one in English.

There is also a fairly good Making Of, though it is narrated in German, but it's really the gorgeous film you want this for. The book is better, mind.

The Name of the Rose was released on 30 August, priced �19.99.

Life and Loves of A She-Devil

Not the jaw-flappingly bad film, but rather the exceptional four-part BBC version starring Patricia Hodge, Dennis Waterman and Julie T Wallace.

Dennis Waterman (top left) incurs the wrath of his wife

Bobbo (Waterman) is having an affair and his wife Ruth's (Wallace) rage escalates into Satanic proportions.

It is engrossing, frightening, and the performances are all first class.

As is the DVD which, as with most Network Video discs, is done the way you'd do it if you had your own DVD company: there's an hour of extras.

No audio commentary, unfortunately, but plenty of contemporary features such as a Bookmark special on novelist Fay Weldon and Breakfast Time interviews.

Note that it is a two-disc set and the labels are on the wrong DVDs.

Life and Loves of A She-Devil was released on 20 August, priced �19.99.

Till Death Us Do Part

"I wouldn't watch that BBC filth," roars Alf Garnett in one of the seven episodes on this set of the famous comedy's 1974 series.

Alf Garnett (Mitchell) became a household name in the UK

It raised the ire of Mary Whitehouse - who is smartly ridiculed in these episodes - chiefly for its language, though now it seems tame.

But it is the attitudes it mocks - the ignorance of racism - that still gives this an edge, plus the fact that it's got some very good jokes.

The DVD comes with a disc of extras including all that is left of the original pilot, the whole first episode and a profile of writer Johnny Speight.

The extras disc also contains a PDF of one of the original scripts from this run.

Till Death Us Do Part was released on 30 August, priced �15.99.