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  • Ralph Thomas – Venetian Bird (1952)

    1951-1960ActionRalph ThomasThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San Marco and is greeted by a smiling street photographer, Cassana. Mercer makes his way to a shop and finds his first contact dead from a knife stab, and the trail leads him to Adrianna. He faces danger from police chief Spaloni and also from a group of foreign patriots, led by Count Borian and Lieutenant Longo, who want to use him as a stool-pigeon for a planned Coup d’Etat. A hectic race across the roof tops, high above the great square, brings Mercer to grips against his unknown enemy.Read More »

  • Franklin Gollings – Connecting Rooms (1970)

    Drama1961-1970Franklin GollingsUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Connecting Rooms is a 1970 British drama film written and directed by Franklin Gollings. The screenplay is based on the play The Cellist by Marion Hart. The plot explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house owned by dour Mrs. Brent. Among them are busker Wanda Fleming, who is flattered by the attention paid her by rebellious pop songwriter wannabe Mickey Hollister, and former schoolmaster James Wallraven, who has been accused of pedophilia and reduced to working as a janitor in an art gallery.Read More »

  • Horace Ové – Pressure (1976)

    1971-1980DramaHorace OvéUnited Kingdom

    A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures. from imdb

    Review from bfi
    Horace Ov’s landmark films Pressure(1975) and Baldwin’s Nigger (1969), presented together on one disc, form the third DVD release under the BFI’s Black World initiative.Read More »

  • Gerald Thomas – The Iron Maiden (1962)

    1961-1970ComedyGerald ThomasUnited Kingdom

    Storyline:
    An American airline firm plan to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the plane’s designer Jack Hopkins and Kathy Fisher the daughter of the Airline owner, take an instant dislike to each other, after crashing into each other in a quiet country lane. With each blaming the other for the accident, the arrangement looks in trouble, unless nature takes a hand.Read More »

  • Melvin Frank – A Touch of Class (1973)

    1971-1980ComedyMelvin FrankRomanceUnited Kingdom

    IMDb wrote:
    Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.

    WarnerBros wrote:
    They thought it would be a simple fling. Instead, they got flung. Being free and easy proves neither free nor easy for already-married Steve and divorced Vickie when they fall in love.Read More »

  • Michael Tuchner – Villain (1971)

    1971-1980CrimeDramaMichael TuchnerQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

    Quote:
    “Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped, afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic, who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe, plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmailing of Members of Parliament with a taste for unorthodox sex. Scotland Yard Police Inspector Matthews, playing Javert to Vic’s Jean Valjean, is moving in on him and the gang. Gang-member Frank is hospitalized for an ulcer, and Inspector Matthews might be able to make him sing. Will Frank spill the beans to the coppers before Vic can silence him?” – Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb)Read More »

  • Fred Scott – Being a Human Person (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFred ScottUnited Kingdom

    At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process. Over the course of a career spanning decades, he’s remained enigmatic and reclusive… until now.Read More »

  • Mike Figgis & Ann Van den Broek – The Co(te)lette Film (2010)

    2001-2010Ann Van den BroekExperimentalMike FiggisPerformanceUnited Kingdom

    The Co(te)lette Film is Mike Figgis’ cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek.

    Women and flesh, beauty and perishableness, raw and fragile. A delirious desire overwhelms the dancers. A desire for physical and mental satisfaction. The dancers go from appeal to sensuality, over lust, fleshness, fame, success, reflection and control, to silence. They are slaves of their own desires while trying to get in control of them. Female bodies in a frenzy.Read More »

  • Carol Reed – The Stars Look Down (1940)

    1931-1940Carol ReedDramaUnited Kingdom

    Plot Summary:
    Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realises Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.Read More »

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