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  • Rob Curry & Tim Plester – The Ballad of Shirley Collins (2017)

    Rob Curry2011-2020DocumentaryTim PlesterUnited Kingdom
    The Ballad of Shirley Collins (2017)
    The Ballad of Shirley Collins (2017)

    “Widely regarded as the 20th century’s most important singer of English traditional song, Shirley Collins is someone who was born to invoke the old songs.

    Alongside her sister Dolly, Shirley stood at the epicentre of the folkmusic revival during the 1960s and 1970s. But in 1980 she developed a disorder of the vocal chords known as dysphonia, which robbed her of her unique singing voice and forced her into early retirement.Read More »

  • Savanah Leaf – Earth Mama (2023) (HD)

    2021-2030DramaSavanah LeafUnited Kingdom
    Earth Mama (2023)
    Earth Mama (2023)

    An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.Read More »

  • Terry Gilliam – Brazil (1985)

    1981-1990DramaSci-FiTerry GilliamUnited Kingdom
    Brazil (1985)
    Brazil (1985)

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    Through its wildly comic, furiously creative, and intensely moving façade, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil ponders a future made to sustain a draconian past molded by inequality. In this dystopia, the rich, having long knelt at the alter of radical capitalistic tyranny, spend their days having their flesh stretched, sliced, and injected with ultraviolet potions, while the working class types, files, signs, and stamps its way through pointless paperwork. Overrun by communicative ducts, coated wires, cement and metals, and magnified, miniature computer screens, the future conjured up by Gilliam averts the familiar prophecy of an anaesthetized, plastic world overrun by rampantly advancing technology. Indeed, men, who see advancing technology as an affront to their fiscal station and take the pecuniary gain of the morbid, perverse 1% as their modus operandi, unmistakably run the future of Gilliam’s film. New technology is expensive; paper is cheap.Read More »

  • Iggy London – Area Boy (2023)

    2021-2030DramaIggy LondonShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    Area Boy (2023)
    Area Boy (2023)

    Area Boy tells a poignant tale of one boy’s attempt to cut off a part of himself in the wake of his baptism.Read More »

  • Paul Almond – Seven Up! (1964)

    Paul Almond1961-1970DocumentaryUnited Kingdom
    Seven Up! (1964)
    Seven Up! (1964)

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    Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, renowned director Michael Apted has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to the same subjects, examining the progression of their lives. From cab driver Tony to East End schoolmates Jackie, Lynn, and Susan and the heart-breaking Neil, we see, as they enter their 40’s, how close these subjects are to realizing their ambitions. An extraordinary look at the structure of life in the 20th century, The Up Series is, according to Roger Ebert, “an inspired, almost noble use of the film medium. Apted penetrates to the central mystery of life.”Read More »

  • Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex (2023)

    2021-2030DramaMolly Manning WalkerUnited Kingdom
    How to Have Sex (2023)
    How to Have Sex (2023)

    Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.Read More »

  • Richard Stanley – Hardware (1990)

    Richard Stanley1981-1990HorrorSci-FiUnited Kingdom
    Hardware (1990)
    Hardware (1990)

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    It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Golden Globe winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice) stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military’s most ferocious bio-mechanical combat droid. It is cunning, cruel and can reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn….and no flesh shall be spared. Stacey Travis (Ghost World) co-star – along with appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motorhead and much by Ministry and Public Image Ltd. – in the kick-ass sci-fi thriller from Richard Stanley (Dust Devil) that Fangoria calls “gritty, trippy and frightening….Hardware is one of the best horror movies you’ve never seen!”Read More »

  • Joe Wright – Atonement (2007)

    2001-2010DramaJoe WrightRomanceUnited Kingdom
    Atonement (2007)
    Atonement (2007)

    Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.Read More »

  • Paul W.S. Anderson – Shopping (1994)

    1991-2000DramaPaul W.S. AndersonThrillerUnited Kingdom
    Shopping (1994)
    Shopping (1994)

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    Shopping takes a look at a subculture unknown outside of the UK. It was banned in the UK, presumably because it might encourage the practice of ram-raiding. It is a very insightful film about a young man’s search for his identity; whether he will continue on a potentially self destructive path and prove himself by ram-raiding, or whether he will brave a different life in a different city with his girlfriend.Read More »

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