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  • Robert Hughes – American Visions Vol. 1-8 (1997)

    Arthouse1991-2000DocumentaryRobert HughesUnited Kingdom

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    Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.Read More »

  • Lance Comfort – The Breaking Point (1961)

    1961-1970CrimeFilm NoirLance ComfortUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Based on a novel by Laurence Meynell, this film tells of a young businessman from England who who gets involved in a scheme to inundate a small communist country in the Middle East with counterfeit money. Things do not go as planned when his wife begins digging into matters. This thriller runs a short 59 minutes. ~ Kristie Hassen, RoviRead More »

  • Joseph Losey – The Go-Between (1971)

    1971-1980DramaJoseph LoseyRomanceUnited Kingdom

    British teenager Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian (Julie Christie). Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the “go-between” for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), a handsome neighboring farmer.Read More »

  • Derek Jarman – War Requiem (1989)

    1981-1990ArthouseDerek JarmanExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    War Requiem is a 1989 film adaptation of Benjamin Britten’s musical piece of the same name.

    It was shot in 1988 by the British film director Derek Jarman with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC. Decca Records required that the 1963 recording be heard on its own, with no overlaid soundtrack or other sound effects. The film featured Nathaniel Parker as Wilfred Owen, and Laurence Olivier in his last acting appearance in any medium before his death in July 1989. The film is structured as the reminiscences of Olivier’s character, the Old Soldier in a wheelchair, and Olivier recites “Strange Meeting” in the film’s prologue.Read More »

  • Don Levy – Herostratus (1967)

    1961-1970Don LevyDramaExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.Read More »

  • Thorold Dickinson – Gaslight (1940)

    1931-1940DramaMysteryThorold DickinsonUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    ‘Twenty years ago, old Mrs. Barlow was killed in her home at 12, Pimlico Square for her priceless rubies. The murderer searched the whole house without finding them, then disappeared. The house has been empty since then, but now Paul and Bella Mallen move into the apartment. Bella Mallen suffers from forgetfulness and nervousness – at least that is what her husband tells her. An elderly horse wrangler, B.G. Rough worked as a policeman twenty years ago and still remembers the unsolved case. He notices that Mr. Mallen looks just like Louis Barre, Mrs. Barlow’s nephew. And why does Mr. Mallen mysteriously leave every night just to go into the apartment next door, no. 14?’
    – Mattias ThuressonRead More »

  • Tony Richardson – Look Back in Anger (1959)

    Drama1951-1960Tony RichardsonUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    ‘Three years after its incendiary run on the London stage, director Tony Richardson’s film version of John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger (1959) became one of the precursors to the British “kitchen sink” dramas of the 1960s. Enhancing the aim to show British life as it really was through the hopeless existence of enraged working class stiff Jimmy Porter and his put-upon, better-born wife Allison, Richardson unstintingly reveals the grunginess of their industrial city residential milieu with its drab row houses and unkempt children.Read More »

  • Gerard Johnson – Hyena (2014) (HD)

    2011-2020CrimeDramaGerard JohnsonUnited Kingdom

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    A corrupt cop with access to all the money and drugs he needs suddenly finds his comfortable way of life turned upside down by the arrival of ruthless Albanian gangsters in his patch of London. Crime thriller, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham and Neil Maskell.Read More »

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Secret Agent (1936)

    1931-1940Alfred HitchcockDramaThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    ‘In World War I, Brodie, a successful novelist and soldier, is pronounced dead and given a new identity by the Secret Service. Sent on an espionage mission in Switzerland, he is teamed with a fake ‘wife’, Elsa and an assassin, the General.’
    – BFI ScreenonlineRead More »

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