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Fear in the Night (1972)Dynasty of Fear
Peggy (Judy Geeson) is recovering from a nervous breakdown when she is attacked by an unseen assailant. As she struggles to break free, her attacker's artificial arm comes loose and Peggy blacks out in sheer terror. Peggy and her new husband Robert (Ralph Bates) spend their honeymoon at the country school where Robert is a teacher. The school is eerily deserted. Except for the headmaster Michael (Peter Cushing) and his wife Molly (Joan Collins). Returning to her cottage. Peggy is once more attacked by a man with one arm. Robert goes to London on behalf of the headmaster, but leaves his shotgun behind to reassure Peggy. Michael visits Peggy at the cottage late one night, and she notices for the first time that he only has one arm. Terrified, she reaches for the gun. - Director:
- Jimmy Sangster
- Cast:
- Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates
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It's 1981 and Londoner John Self (Nick Frost) - a successful director of commercials, a hedonist and habitual drunk - is invited to New York by film producer Fielding Goodney in order to shoot his first film. But things are not straightforward. Self's cast of acting legends and up-and-coming stars find their egos and emotional issues aggravated by the roles they've been given. Back home, his father is invoicing him for his childhood and Self is starting to suspect his girlfriend, Selina, is cheating. He is also receiving phone calls from a mysterious stalker who seems to know his every move, demands money and threatens retribution... Meanwhile, Goodney's budget increases by the day. Is John Self's life about to implode? - Director:
- Jeremy Lovering
- Cast:
- Nick Frost, Emma Pierson, Adrian Lukis
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Farewell (2009)L'affaire Farewell
In 1981, disenchanted with what the communist ideal has become, KGB Colonel Grigoriev decides to change the world by passing on secret documents to Pierre, a French engineer working in Moscow. With Pierre acting as a go-between, the valuable documents find their way into the hands of France's President Mitterrand and the French Secret Service, who give the Moscow source the codename 'Farewell'. Based on a true story, Farewell reveals one of the most astounding espionage cases to come out of the Cold War. - Director:
- Christian Carion
- Cast:
- Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara
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A Comedy of Power (2006)L'ivresse du pouvoir
Judge Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert) is assigned the job of investigating a high-profile case of corruption and embezzlement at a giant state-supported company. Under her orders the CEO Michel Humeau (Francois Berleand) is taken in to custody. As her investigation gathers momentum, Killman uncovers an immense scandal reaching into the upper echelons of government. The deeper she delves and the more she uncovers, the more powerful she becomes. However, under the pressures of her sudden influence and notoriety, Killman's private life begins to unravel, and she finds herself probing both the limits of her own power and its intoxicating grip. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel
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Quiet please - action! Mel is back on the big screen, but this time it's not quite as noisy! A has-been modern director goes to the head of a big studio with a groundbreaking idea which looks back to the early days of moviemaking - let's make a silent movie. Greeted at first by stunned silence, the whisper soon goes around Hollywood that this is a picture that will save the studio! - Director:
- Mel Brooks
- Cast:
- Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise
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Set in the late 1970's, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie (Florence Pugh), a young, fiery but unfulfilled British actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Alexander Skarsgård), while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and their encounter entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Michael Shannon). Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent but despite her natural mastery of the task at hand, she finds herself inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of duplicity and compromised humanity. Blurring the fine lines between love and hate, truth and fiction, and right and wrong, 'The Little Drummer Girl' weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Simona Brown, Michael Moshonov, Clare Holman
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ITV's seminal arts programme, 'Tempo' ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost open-ended remit, enabling it to cover subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing - and much more besides. At a time when television was being criticised for dumbing down, 'Tempo' - more than any other series - showed that ITV could indeed go highbrow whilst still remaining populist - a philosophy and outlook that was to continue into the 1970's and beyond with its successors 'Aquarius' and 'The South Bank Show'. Unseen for decades, this two-disc set contains interviews, reportage and features on Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, Harold Pinter, Charles Eames, Jean Luc-Godard and more. - Director:
- Frederic Goode
- Cast:
- David Mahlowe, Alan Dell, Antony Hopkins
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Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)Fanatic
Directed by Silvio Narizano and produced by Hammer Films, the infamous British studio known for Gothic horror classics. 'Die! Die! My Darling!' stars the legendary Tallulah Bankhead in her final film performance. She plays the psychotic Mrs. Trefoile, a demented mother who terrorises and imprisons her dead son's fiancee Pat to avenge her son's tragic death, with the help of her bumbling gardener. A domineering religious fanatic, Mrs. Trefoile grows obsessed with her late son who died several years earlier in an auto wreck. When her son's former lover pays an unexpected visit, Mrs. Trefoile kidnaps the beautiful young woman, holding her hostage in the basement to "cleanse" her soul, so she can be reunited with her son in heaven. Trapped and tortured, Pat must fight for her life to escape. - Director:
- Silvio Narizzano
- Cast:
- Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan
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Caught in a loveless Manhattan marriage, Wally obsesses over Wallis Simpson, the stylish American divorcee who captured the heart of Edward VIII. In order to marry the love of his life, Edward VIII had to abdicate the throne as King of England. As the Duchess of Windsor Wallis spends the rest of her life in celebrity exile. Inspired by Wallis and Edward, Wally escapes into the arms of another man, whose love sets her free. - Director:
- Madonna
- Cast:
- Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough
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The 1970's was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea. Every standard by which we set our cultural clocks was either turned inside out or thrown away completely and reinvented. For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience - moviegoers who were hungry for stories that reflected their own experiences and who were turning their backs on the age-old formulas of the Hollywood studios. As a result, emerging filmmakers influenced by foreign directors such as Godard, Fellini and Kurosawa and by the changing social climate and struggling studio system, converged to create a new kind of moviemaking. Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Julie Christie, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Roger Corman, Paul Schrader, Hal Ashby: all revolutionised moviemaking with their personal visions and all are brought together in A Decade Under The Influence. In this excellent documentary by the late Ted Demme (Director of Beautiful Girls, Blow and others before his tragic death in 2002) and Richard LaGravenese (acclaimed for his screenplays of The Fisher King, Beloved and The Bridges Of Madison County), all the key players in what became known as the Second Hollywood golden Age talk about their colleagues, films and memories of that extraordinary era. The result is a fantastic celebration of the artists and films that left a vital and lasting stamp on America's national cinema and identity. - Director:
- Ted Demme
- Cast:
- Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Julie Christie
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Address Unknown (2001)Suchwiin bulmyeong
A middle-aged woman tries in vain to track down the American soldier who fathered her child but one after the other her letters are returned with the words address unknown stamped across them. Her son, already a subject of social scorn falls in love with a high school girl who has found herself trapped in an abusive relationship with an American G.I. The boy's love for the girl combined with his free-floating rage against society soon fuel a violent outburst that will change the lives of everyone involved. - Director:
- Ki-duk Kim
- Cast:
- Dong-kun Yang, Min-jung Ban, Young-min Kim
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Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons plays Tom Crick, a high school history teacher who is having trouble connecting - with his class and his wife. Faced with the sack from his boss (John Heard), Tom begins to interrupt his classes with a series of extraordinary stories about his upbringing in the English Fens. However, one student proves to be more of a challenge, pushing Tom to make revelations about his past which still have a haunting grip on his life, threatening to consume all around him. - Director:
- Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Cast:
- Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke
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Destricted invited seven artists to make short films representing their views on sex and pornography. The result is a collection of sexy, humorous, stimulating and provocative scenarios. Destricted boasts a heavyweight line-up of the most acclaimed directors and artists of our time; Larry Clark, Gaspar Now, Sam Taylor-wood, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla and Marina Abramovic. These distinctive and entirely uncensored films portray very different points of view, revealing diverse attitudes about how we represent ourselves sexually. - Director:
- Marco Brambilla
- Cast:
- August, Jasmine Byrne, Dillan Lauren
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Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illustrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics. Haskell's collaborations with such world-class filmmakers as Elia Kazan, Milos Forman, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Mike Nichols include such works as Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, American Graffiti, Coming Home, Bound For Glory and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The film features interviews with these artists, along with such luminaries as Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Ron Howard and Julia Roberts. But the true "star" of Tell Them Who You Are is Haskell himself, a larger-than-life character who challenges his son's choices about camera placement, lighting and storytelling while announcing with complete conviction that he could have done a better job directing most of the films he's shot. As these two men swap positions on camera and behind it - sometimes shooting one another simultaneously - the film looks with honesty and compassion at their attempts to reconcile before it's too late. - Director:
- Mark Wexler
- Cast:
- Haskell Wexler, Mark Wexler, Billy Crystal
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet
T.S. Spivet lives on a remote ranch in Montana with his parents, his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. A gifted child with a passion for science, he has invented a perpetual motion machine, for which he has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He leaves a note for his family and hops on a freight train to make his way across the United States and receive his prize. But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret... - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast:
- Helena Bonham Carter, Chris Cinnamon, Solenn Gaillot
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