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  • Antonia Bird – Priest (1994)

    1991-2000Antonia BirdDramaThe Female GazeUnited Kingdom

    Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic
    priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church.
    Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an
    intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one
    life over another.Read More »

  • John Guillermin – Death on the Nile (1978)

    1971-1980CrimeJohn GuillerminMysteryUnited Kingdom

    As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?Read More »

  • James Ivory – Howards End (1992)

    1991-2000DramaJames IvoryUnited Kingdom

    Quote:The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England. Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for her dynamic portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, a flighty yet compassionate middle-class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country’s highest and lowest social echelons. With a brilliant, layered script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who also won an Oscar) and a roster of gripping performances, Howards End is a work of both great beauty and vivid darkness, and one of cinema’s best literary adaptations.Read More »

  • Michael Winterbottom – I Want You (1998)

    1991-2000DramaMichael WinterbottomUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    “This neo-noir British crime drama, set at a decaying English beach resort, begins with a body dropped from a pier. Hairdresser Helen (Rachel Weisz) goes with local deejay Bob (Ben Daniels), but mute bicyclist Honda (Luka Petrusic), who secretly tapes people’s conversations, meets Helen at the beachfront and begins sending her flowers. Honda’s sad nympho sister Smokey (Macedonian-born Labina Mitevska) sings at a local club. A figure from Helen’s past, the enigmatic, mysterious Martin (Alessandro Nivola) checks out Helen but keeps his distance. Read More »

  • Andrew L. Stone – The Password Is Courage (1962)

    1961-1970Andrew L. StoneDramaUnited KingdomWar

    A British officer, captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, amongst many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross !! Based on a true story.Read More »

  • Paul Morrison – Solomon and Gaenor AKA Solomon and Gaenor (1999)

    1991-2000DramaPaul MorrisonRomanceUnited Kingdom

    A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.Read More »

  • Peter Whitehead – The Fall (1969)

    1961-1970DocumentaryExperimentalPeter WhiteheadUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Considered by Whitehead to be his most important film, The Fall is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America. Filmed entirely in and around New York between October 1967 and June 1968, it features Robert Kennedy, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Paul Auster (fresh-faced as a Columbia student), Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Arthur Miller, Robert Lowell, Robert Rauschenberg and The Deconstructivists. Richard Roud, co-director of the New York Film Festival wrote of the film, “…an attempt to come to grips with today, both in terms of its content as well as of its form.”Read More »

  • Peter Mullan – Neds (2010)

    2001-2010DramaPeter MullanUnited Kingdom

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    Encompassed by violent street gangs, neglectful parents, bullying teachers and a dearth of positive role models, a studious but emotionally abandoned kid turns thug.Read More »

  • Bryan Forbes – The Whisperers (1967)

    1961-1970Bryan ForbesDramaUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She insists that she hears “whisperers” plotting and planning against her at all times; she also believes that these imaginary entities are spying on her. So suspicious is Ms. Evans of her nonexistent whisperers that she fails to notice the very real predators around her. — Hal Erickson (Rovi)Read More »

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