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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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Beloved (2011)Les bien-aimés
Christophe Honore's new film is a return to the musical format of Les Chansons d'Amour, using Alex Beaupain as composer once again and adding Catherine Deneuve as the ultimate Jacques Demy, tribute to his stock company of Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni and Louis Garrel. Real-life mother and daughter Deneuve and Mastroianni play mother and daughter with Sagnier as the young Deneuve in a story that examines, with the lightest of touches, love and desire through the decades from the 60's to the present day, from Paris to Prague to London, Montreal and back to Paris again. - Director:
- Christophe Honoré
- Cast:
- Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier
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It is 1792 in Spain and through the eyes of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) unfolds the story of a group of people caught up in the brutal later years of the Spanish Inquisition, the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army and the restoration of the Spanish monarchy by Wellington's powerful invading army. Javier Bardem is Brother Lorenzo, an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes involved with Goya's teenage muse, Ines (Natalie Portman), when she is falsely accused of heresy, sent to prison and the horrors begin... - Director:
- Milos Forman
- Cast:
- Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård
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The story of an exotic dancer with multiple personalities struggling to remain true to herself while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius and a Southern white racist woman named Alice. In order to stop the multiple voices in her head, Frankie works together with a psychotherapist to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her. - Director:
- Geoffrey Sax
- Cast:
- Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad
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And Your Mother Too (2001)Y Tu Mama Tambien
Julio and Tenoch are typical over-sexed and under-occupied teenagers. During a festive afternoon with their families they meet Luisa, a twenty eight year old Spaniard, and flirt with her with all the style and grace seventeen year old boys are known for. As a joke, they invite her to accompany them on a road trip to a beach called Boca Del Cielo, neglecting to mention that they wouldn't know where to find it, even if it did actually exist. To their astonishment, she accepts. - Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast:
- Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Gael García Bernal
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Anatomy of Hell (2004)Anatomie De L'Enfer
A woman (gorgeous ex-model Amira Cesar) stands in a gay bar, observing the men and their shared desire, with their requisite need for nothing else. She retires to the ladies room where she slices her wrists. When asked why by one of the clubs protagonists (internationally known porn star Rocco Siffredi), she replies ‘because I am a woman’. This is how they meet. The Girl proposes that she pay him to watch her in ways ‘that are unwatchable’ and so begins four nights of confrontation, her against him. Four nights to confront the unspeakable, to explore what can’t be shown: that which is secret.Adapting her own, poetic-polemic novel for the screen, Catherine Breillat takes her trademark exploration of gender-politics and sexual mores to a shocking conclusion. - Director:
- Catherine Breillat
- Cast:
- Catherine Breillat, Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
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