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  • Hal Hartley – The New Math(s) (2000)

    1991-2000Hal HartleyShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    The New Math(s) (2000)
    The New Math(s) (2000)

    Two students and their teacher seem to be fighting – literally – over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secrete urges? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch heavyweight, Louis Andriessen. Hal Hartley fashioned this whimsical piece of fight choreography with three of his recent performer/collaborators, Miho Nikaido, David Neumann and DJ Mendel.Read More »

  • Geoff Lowe – The Terminal Game (1982)

    1981-1990Geoff LoweSci-FiThrillerUnited Kingdom
    The Terminal Game (1982)
    The Terminal Game (1982)

    THE TERMINAL GAME is a British short thriller in which a man attempts to shut down a futuristic computer programme.Read More »

  • Franklin J. Schaffner – The Boys from Brazil (1978)

    1971-1980Franklin J. SchaffnerSci-FiThrillerUnited Kingdom
    The Boys from Brazil (1978)
    The Boys from Brazil (1978)

    Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler’s findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eageRead More »

  • Noel Coward & David Lean – In Which We Serve (1942)

    David Lean1941-1950DramaNoël CowardUnited KingdomWar
    In Which We Serve (1942)
    In Which We Serve (1942)

    Plot / Synopsis
    In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean. Coward and Lean ended up codirecting the large-scale project—an impressive undertaking, especially considering that neither of them had directed for the big screen before (this would be Coward’s only such credit). Cutting between a major naval battle and flashbacks to the men’s lives before they left home, In Which We Serve (an Oscar nominee for best picture) was a major breakthrough for both filmmakers and a sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda.Read More »

  • Michael McCarthy – Operation Amsterdam (1959)

    Michael McCarthy1951-1960ActionUnited KingdomWar
    Operation Amsterdam (1959)
    Operation Amsterdam (1959)

    A British army officer teams with two members of the Dutch underground for a covert mission to Amsterdam to lift a stash of diamonds before the city is overrun by Nazi occupiers in this action-packed wartime heist drama.Read More »

  • Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)

    Nancy Meckler1941-1950DramaQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom
    Sister My Sister (1994)
    Sister My Sister (1994)

    This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certainRead More »

  • Jana Bokova – Arena: Tales from Barcelona (1989)

    1981-1990DocumentaryJana BokovaUnited Kingdom
    Tales from Barcelona (1989)
    Tales from Barcelona (1989)

    Award-winning director Jana Bokova presents a typically idiosyncratic portrait of Europe’s most fashionable city. An equally eccentric and fascinating collection of characters offer a personal view of Barcelona, where a new cosmopolitan awareness sits alongside the proud Catalan sense of place and history. Tony Miro is one of Barcelona’s top fashion designers, Tito makes gigantic sculptures out of human hair, and Carmen de Roca Sastre is a wonderfully imposing 80-year-old Catalan who lives in Gaudi’s magnificent La Pedrera. They are joined by performance artist, Albert Vidal; futuristic designer, Louis Fortes; and transvestites Emmy and Liberty. As they tell us about their lives, they reveal the more bizarre side of the city that has become Spain’s gateway to Europe.Read More »

  • David Lean – Brief Encounter (1945)

    David Lean1941-1950ClassicsDramaUnited Kingdom
    Brief Encounter (1945)
    Brief Encounter (1945)

    Based on Noël Coward’s play “Still Life,” Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. Read More »

  • Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)

    Sam H. Freeman2021-2030Ng Choon PingQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUnited Kingdom
    Femme (2023)
    Femme (2023)

    Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More »

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