Gavin is thirty-one-years-old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy, but before he knows it, there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.Read More »
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Randal Kleiser – Getting It Right (1989)
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Christopher Petit & Iain Sinclair – Asylum (2000)
1991-2000Christopher PetitDocumentaryIain SinclairUnited KingdomSynopsis
A mix of both documentary and fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century. A virus has wiped out most of the culture.Read More » -
Don Letts – Punk: Attitude (2005)
2001-2010DocumentaryDon LettsUnited KingdomQuote:
Punk: Attitude is a documentary on the history of punk rock in the USA and UK. The film traces the different styles of punk from their roots in 60s garage and psychedelic bands (Count Five, the Stooges) through glam-punk (New York Dolls) to the 70s New York and London scenes and into the hardcore present. Interviews with many of the musicians are edited with live clips and historical footage.Read More » -
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
1941-1950DramaEmeric PressburgerFantasyFilm BlancMichael PowellUnited KingdomQuote:
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the bureaucratic error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist afterlife. Intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.Read More » -
Paul Carlin – The Spectre of Hope (2001)
2001-2010DocumentaryPaul CarlinUnited KingdomIntroduction
The Spectre of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictures of globalization and its consequences – most notably, the mass migrations of populations around the world. In the film, Salgado presents his remarkable photographs in conversation with John Berger.Read More » -
Frank Nesbitt – Walk a Tightrope (1963)
1961-1970CrimeFrank NesbittMysteryUnited KingdomIn this complex mystery, an American woman is married to a British businessman. The trouble begins when the woman suspects that she is being stalked. She tells this to her husband and his friend. They then go home. While the friend is upstairs making a phone call, the stalker sneaks in and kills her husband. The friend hears the commotion and rushes downstairs. He gets there just in time to hear the killer requesting payment from the wife for services rendered.Read More »
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Mark Romanek – Never Let Me Go (2010)
2001-2010DramaMark RomanekSci-FiUnited KingdomThe lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.Read More »
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Dez Vylenz – The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)
2001-2010Dez VylenzDocumentaryPhilosophyPhilosophy on ScreenUnited KingdomALAN MOORE -writer, artist and performer- is the world’s most critically acclaimed and widely admired creator of comic books and graphic novels.
In The Mindscape of Alan Moore we see a portrait of the artist as contemporary shaman, someone with the power to transform consciousness by means of manipulating language, symbols and images.
The film leads the audience through Moore’s world with the writer himself as guide, beginning with his childhood background, following the evolution of his career as he transformed the comics medium, through to his immersion in a magical worldview where science, spirituality and society are part of the same universe.Read More »
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Hanna Aqvilin – Fay Presto: The Queen of Close Up (2017)
2011-2020DocumentaryHanna AqvilinShort FilmUnited KingdomA portrait documentary about the legendary Fay Presto; the UK’s most in-demand close-up and cabaret magician who would rather die on stage than quit performingRead More »