Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet’s daughter Juliet…Read More »
Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarman’s films. With his painter’s eye, Jarman conjured, in a beautiful palette of light, colour and texture, an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare’s love poems.Read More »
A fictional Alfred Hitchcock narrates an explanation of some of the lesser known cinematic techniques he used in his movies, richly illustrated with clips from his entire 50-year career.Read More »
Records the migration of a Uganda tribe to a foreign region and their relations with the pigmies they find there.Read More »
Synopsis:
GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Rogosin’s powerful response to militarism and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries, amassing footage of war atrocities from national archives. He then interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party’s inane chatter. The juxtaposition satirizes the tragic irresponsibility of modern man. Good Times, Wonderful Times, released at the height of the Vietnam conflict, became one of the great antiwar films of the era. It won the Cine Forum Award as the official British entry for feature film at the 1965 Venice film festival.Read More »
Multicultural British teens from Leeds’ inner city pursue spoken poetry. They compete at Brave New Voices, a prestigious slam competition in Washington D.C., confronting youth stereotypes through their words.Read More »
Moonlight on the Highway is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on 12 April 1969 as part of ITV’s Saturday Night Theatre strand. The tale of a young Al Bowlly obsessive attempting to blot out memories of sexual abuse via his fixation with the singer, the play was the first of Potter’s works to use popular music as a dramatic device and strongly anticipated Potter’s later ‘serials with songs’ Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993).Read More »
In 1933, retired detective Hercule Poirot starts to receive threatening letters signed “ABC”. When he informs Scotland Yard, they ignore his fears, and soon enough, a series of killings begins.Read More »
Two writer brothers, one upright, the other psychopathic, compete for their secretary’s affection. The psychopath plans a “perfect crime” with an ex-convict, blurring fiction and reality.Read More »