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Conceived, developed and produced by Don Boyd, Aria is a completely unique film both structurally and also in the sheer scale of the production itself.

Ten of the world's most creative and celebrated directors were each given the same brief: to choose a piece of opera music and then present a visual interpretation of that music with complete artistic freedom to stray from the narrative of the piece. The diversity of approaches and filmmaking styles resulted in an exhilarating operatic anthology by turns erotic, violent, funny and poignant. As well as the most prestigious collection of directors ever assembled, the stills photographers assigned to each were equally celebrated, among them David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, Snowdon, Terry O'Neill and John Swannell. The impressive cast list includes John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Bridget Fonda, Elizabeth Hurley, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo and Sophie Ward.

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The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe

Bernard Milan covets Louis Toulouse's job - director of a secret service. To get rid of his overly ambitious assistant, Toulouse sends Milan off on a wild goose chase after a dangerous spy who is in fact just an ordinary Joe. So Milan starts shadowing Francois Perrin, an absentminded violinist. This odd game of espionage entraps the three men in a web of hilarious situations as they go from one surprise to the next.

The Return of the Tall Blond Man
After a host of misadventures, the Tall Blond Man, with the charming Catherine by his side, has left for Brazil wearing his black shoe and carrying his violin. Tought Toulouse's killers are too ham-handed to upset his well-deserved holiday. Everything would be fine if, in Paris, a lowly police captain with an acute sense of justice, weren't investigating Milan's bizarre death. Colonel Toulouse has a major problem when the Tall Blond Man returns....And everything starts all over again.

Loosely based on the fable Little Red Riding Hood, this gritty thriller follows a savvy young lady as she leaves her dysfunctional family for peace in the trailer-home of her grandma. Pursued by an evil, child psychologist on her journey for redemption, she must use wit and cunning to survive.

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At a remote glacier drilling station on the outskirts of the arctic circle, two young researchers wake up to discover that their station base camp has been mysteriously abandoned with their team nowhere to be found.

As the arctic weather worsens and darkness descends, their hostile surroundings become plagued by ear-splitting screams, unexplainable events and mysterious figures wandering in the distance. Believing these to be signs of their missing colleagues the pair head out into the dark and deadly arctic conditions, not knowing who or what they will find...

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Adapted from a Simenon novel and written in collaboration with legendary screenwriters Aurenche and Bost, The Watchmaker Of St. Paul was Tavernier's debut feature.

An ordinary man, the watchmaker of the title, finds his well ordered life blown apart by the discovery that his son is wanted for murder. Deeply shocked, The Watchmaker is forced to explore his own actions and ideals in a search for answers. His journey leads him to question old relationships, as well as forging new ones, as a wary understanding begins to form between him and the police inspector investigating the crime.

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Cool and sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizing - with a long line of conquests to prove it - while the naive and awkward Colin (Michael Crawford) desperately wants a piece of it.

But when Colin falls for an innocent country girl, it's not long before the self-assured Tolen moves in for the kill. Is all fair in love and war, or can Colin get the knack and beat Tolen at his own game?

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Glover is a shadow of the man he was. Once handsome playboy, he is now confined to the luxurious prison of his hotel suite, trapped in a useless body, tormented by the memory of how it used to be. Chris is an irresistible young hustler with a sideline in casual violence.

On the run from his latest crime, he stumbles into Glover's suite to take refuge. Both men realise that the other has something to offer. Glover has the wealth and trappings that Chris envies. Chris has the youth and looks that Glover will never regain. Slowly the balance of power begins to shift as Glover manipulates Chris into acting out his fantasies and becoming his sexual and emotional surrogate. What begins as a game soon becomes a dangerous battle, as Glover pushes Chris into even more bizarre challenges, culminating in a murder attempt on a young women who turns tables on both of them.

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Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple - he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic - who share a bizzare sexual relationship, living in a remote castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering.

Only an outsider can disrupt their make-believe lifestyle. That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of Richard and Albert, two oddball gangsters straight out of a 1940's film noir, wounded, desperate and on the run. They demand shelter, and as Richard waits for instructions from his gangland boss, he slips into a dangerous round of gameplaying with his unwilling hosts. But it seems that Richard is not always to have the upper hand. With its larger-than-life performances, wicked black humour and superb use of striking outdoor locations - the film was shot on Holy Island in Northumberland - Polanski has created an exceptional film which is very different to but no less memorable than Repulsion.

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On the fifth anniversary of the end of the Bosnia civil war, former news reported Simon Hunt (Richard Gere, Primal Fear) mysteriously appears years after imploding on live television and disappearing into a self-imposed exile.

Hunt convinces his ex hot-shot cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard, Iron Man, Crash) to go on a dangerous journey to get an interview with a notorious wanted war criminal simply known as "The Fox". Together, with the help of a mysterious but beautiful informer (Diane Kruger, National Treasure) they drive deep into Serb territory, facing more intrigue and danger than they ever could have imagined – not only from the Serbs but from deep inside their own country.

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Winnipeg 1933: it's the midst of the Great Depression and beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to find the saddest music in the world.

Musicians from across the globe - from Mexican mariachi to Scottish bagpipers to African drummers - travel to Winnipeg to play their woeful tunes in hopes of winning the $25,000 grand prize. Failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) brings his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) home to his native Winnipeg and enter the competition as the American contingent. He soon finds himself embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. Ultimately, a cataclysmic fire and the machinations of fate sort matters out for the sad characters and the denizens of the saddest city on earth. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers.

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' is a masterful, moving and multi-award winning film based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. When the wife of Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director, suddenly passes away, she leaves behind a secret.

Two years later, Kafuku meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reserved young woman assigned to be his chauffeur on a work trip to Hiroshima. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him.

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Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni, Michael Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with prostitutes and a local school teacher (Andrea Ferreol), who seems

to be up for anything... At once jovial and sinister, the film's jet-black humour has a further twist as the reputed actors (whose characters use their own names) buck their respectable trend for a descent into fart-filled chaos that delivers a feast for the eyes and mind.

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In the summer of 1982, video/filmmakers Peter Stuart and Adam Small came upon a large-scale project which immediately captured their imagination: The Better Youth Organisation of Los Angeles was planning a North American tour - eleven assorted punks travelling across the country in a broken down

school bus. It was a chance to explore and document the punk rock community more extensively than ever before. On August 17, 1982, armed with one production assistant, Stuart and Small set off in their rental truck on this journey through the underground. For six weeks and ten thousand miles they recorded the adventures of the two touring bands - Youth Brigade and Social Distortion. More than just concert footage, this film documents the rich collection of characters in and around the tour, and the hardships and dangers of life on the road.

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A satirical, subversive, surreal and irreverent story of rebellion, Vera Chytilova's classic film is arguably the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960's.

Two young women, both named Marie, revolt against a degenerate and decayed society by attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture in hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative ways. Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? Refreshingly uncompromising, Daisies is a riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that remains a cinematic enigma and continues to provoke, stimulate and entertain audiences and influence filmmakers even today.

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Bob (Michael Keaton) and Gail (Nicole Kidman) Jones are expecting their first child, but Bob has cancer and might not live to see their new baby. While fighting his illness, Bob decides to make a video of his life as a gift to his child.

In the process of making the video, he comes to the realisation that he has virtually no understanding of who he is or what his life has been about. With the help of a Chinese healer, Bob is thrust into a journey of self-discovery as he explores the density of the human heart and the expansiveness of the human soul. Accepting the inevitability of his illness, Bob discovers the rewards of family love and reconciliation while his video voyage becomes a celebration of life.