The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love with Valentine Wilmot, the club’s owner. One night, as Mabel and Vic perform their act, there is a disruption caused by a customer who is unhappy about a dirty plate. When Wilmot goes back to the kitchen to investigate, he finds several employees in the scullery watching Shosho, one of the dishwashers, dancing on a table. That night, Wilmot fires both Shosho and Victor. But the club’s sagging fortunes soon lead him to re-evaluate Shosho’s talent.Read More »
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Ewald André Dupont – Piccadilly [+ Extras] (1929)
1921-1930DramaEwald André DupontSilentUnited Kingdom -
Michael Apted – 63 Up (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryMichael AptedUnited KingdomDirector Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.Read More »
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Daniel Gordon – The Game of Their Lives (2002)
2001-2010Daniel GordonDocumentaryUnited KingdomThis is a great documentary about the North Korean soccer team that staged a series of improbable upsets as they advanced through the 1966 World Cup. More than just a sports documentary, it’s a fascinating look at the hermetic nation of North Korea, as well as 1960’s England fascination with their little known or understood guests.Read More »
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Roy Battersby – Gentry (1987)
Drama1981-1990Roy BattersbyTVUnited KingdomSynopsis:
‘Gentry stars Roger Daltrey in a blackly comic suspense drama in which a couple buy a shabby house in an up-and-coming area but find themselves drawn into the aftermath of an armed robbery.’
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Terence Davies – Sunset Song (2015)
2011-2020DramaTerence DaviesUnited KingdomAN EPIC STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND THE LAND THAT INSPIRED IT ALL.
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Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson – Red White And Zero (1967)
1961-1970ComedyDramaLindsay AndersonPeter BrookTony RichardsonUnited KingdomA film in three parts
Part One – The Ride of The ValkyrieAn opera singer must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance.Read More »
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William Keighley – No Time for Comedy (1940)
1931-1940ClassicsComedyScrewball ComedyUnited KingdomWilliam KeighleySynopsis:
Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about comedy and concentrate on writing a tragedy. The end result nearly destroys his career and his marriage.Read More » -
Lindsay Anderson – The White Bus (1967)
Drama1961-1970Lindsay AndersonShort FilmUnited KingdomLindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney’s The White Bus is a surrealistic film about a secretary who takes a strange trip, part of which takes place on the eponymous vehicle. The nameless girl has a seemingly dull life, which is interrupted by periodic flights of fantasy involving suicide, recreations of paintings, and pieces of meat that suddenly run blood-run. Between these fantasies are the details of her real life, especially as she begins a journey home to visit her family. She encounters a wide variety of people — a teen-ager exceedingly angry that his rubgy team has lost a match, a young man who proposes marriage, a lord mayor who enjoys feeling her leg — as she travels to locations ranging from a community center and a public library to a natural history museum and a civil defense demonstration. Read More »
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John Schlesinger – Yanks (1979)
1971-1980DramaJohn SchlesingerUnited KingdomWarSynopsis:
John Schlesinger directs the war romance Yanks, based on the story by Colin Welland. Set in England at the end of WWII, the story concerns three American GIs and their affairs with British women of varying social status. The central romance concerns Sgt. Matt Dyson (Richard Gere) and Jean Moreton (Lisa Eichhorn making her film debut), who is the daughter of shopkeepers (Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody). He falls in love with her but she is still infatuated with her boyfriend Ken (Derek Thompson). Higher up on the class scale, the officer John (William Devane) has a brief extramarital affair with socialite Helen (Vanessa Redgrave). The third pairing involves Sgt. Danny Ruffelo (Chick Vennera) in a fling with Mollie (Wendy Morgan).Read More »