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  • Alan Clarke – Horace (1972)

    1971-1980Alan ClarkeDramaTVUnited Kingdom

    Diabetic Horace is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy, Gordon Blackett who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Ansikte mot ansikte AKA Face to Face (TV Version) (1976)

    1971-1980DramaIngmar BergmanSwedenTV

    Psychiatrist Dr. Jenny Isaksson has temporally moved in with her grandparents in the house in which she grew up. In watching her grandmother lovingly take care of her ailing grandfather, remembering back to her childhood with her grandparents, spending time with her friend Tomas, and processing an event associated with one of her more severe cases, Jenny, in a fragile mental state, begins to have a nervous breakdown. In a semi-lucid state while conscious, and in semi-consciousness regarding reality when she dreams in her sleep, Jenny may begin to process her fragile mental state, especially if it is better to be alive or dead.Read More »

  • Jim O’Brien – Rebecca (1997)

    1991-2000ClassicsJim O'BrienTVUnited Kingdom

    Adapted from the gothic romance by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a Classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter (Charles Dance) marries a woman half his age (Emilia Fox) only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies.

    Maxim’s shy bride finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg) worsens the situation as she despises her for taking her darling Rebecca’s place.Read More »

  • Robert Gardner – Screening Room: Jonas Mekas (1981)

    1981-1990Robert GardnerTVUSA

    Jonas Mekas – filmmaker, film critic, archivist, poet, lecturer and curator – is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde film and video. Born in Lithuania, he immigrated to New York in 1949 after spending time in Nazi forced labor camps and displaced persons camps. In addition to his many narrative and diary films that have screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world, he has worked as editor-in-chief of Film Culture, movie critic for the Village Voice and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films.Read More »

  • Robert Scheerer – It Happened at Lakewood Manor AKA Ants! (1977)

    1971-1980Robert ScheererThrillerTVUSA

    Plot: During construction at the old, hard-pressed Lakewood Hotel, two workers stumble upon a swarm of ants in a closed section of the building. After discovering the unusually aggressive and dangerous ants, the workers attempt to get the warning out, but they are accidentally buried alive.
    Shortly after, the unscrupulous real estate magnate Anthony Fleming (Gerald Gordon) and his partner and mistress Gloria (Suzanne Somers) arrive at the hotel, there to haggle with the elderly proprietor, Ethel Adams (Myrna Loy), and her daughter Valerie (Lynda Day George) as they pursue plans to convert Lakewood into a casino.Read More »

  • Jack Smight – Double Indemnity (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeJack SmightTVUSA

    A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator’s boss, not knowing he’s involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to solve it.Read More »

  • Alan Clarke – Screenplay: Christine (1987)

    1981-1990Alan ClarkeDramaTVUnited Kingdom

    Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

    Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one peer-aged client to another during the deserted daytime of the suburbs.Read More »

  • Alan Clarke – To Encourage the Others (1972)

    1971-1980Alan ClarkeDramaTVUnited Kingdom

    In a play drawn from his non-fiction book of the same name, David Yallop combines dramatic reconstruction with direct documentary address to detail the miscarriage of justice which led to the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953.

    The tense opening film sequence shows 16-year-old Christopher Craig’s shoot-out with police, during which PC Sidney Miles is shot dead. Craig’s 19-year-old friend Derek Bentley is unarmed and placidly under arrest throughout. In court, however, both are found guilty of murder; Craig is too young to receive the death sentence but Bentley, despite widespread protests, is hanged. Yallop uncovers serious judicial failings, and denies that Bentley incited Craig, or that he ever said the famous phrase “let him have it, Chris”.Read More »

  • Orson Welles – Orson Welles’ Magic Show (1985)

    Orson Welles1981-1990PerformanceTVUSA

    IMDB wrote:
    What does it take to make a good magician? A bunch of good illusions and a lot of charisma. Orson Welles knows a few tricks, and his charisma is incredible! Did you ever feel an actor is pushing you into your seat only by his sheer performance? Welles did so, especially during his first trick.Read More »

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