richard-1's - Rented List

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Charts the early years of 'HandMade Films' seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison. With unreleased archive interviews and footage with Harrison, exclusive interviews with Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Richard E.

Grant, Neil Jordan, Ray Cooper, and unseen interviews with Bob Hoskins, 'An Accidental Studio' explores HandMade's baptism by fire, the risk it took in producing uniquely crafted intelligent films and the stories that grew up around it...

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As 'Boys on Film' reaches the end of its teenage years, we take a look at those unique boys; Boys who will go one step further, who excite, invigorate, and always impress. Boys who break boundaries, shape their worlds and are more than what they appear to be…

Michael Joseph Jason John
A single man imagines how life might be with a mysterious stranger he picks up on the New York City subway. A romantic thriller exploring one-night stands and the inherent thrill and risks of our hook-up culture.
The Fish Curry
Having decided to come out to his parents, Lalit spends the day cooking his father's favourite dish, Maacher Jhol. He pours his heart and soul into the meal before serving his father the delicious fish curry, but will his dish be more palatable than his confession?
Blood Out of a Stone
Because first impressions matter Michael sets Dan a challenge on their very first date together. But Dan is out of his comfort zone; he isn't used to dates requiring such vulnerability. East London provides the backdrop to this intimate story of immediate "connection".
No More We
After Hampus declares "There's No More We" he feels total relief, the weight of their destructive relationship slips off his shoulders. For his fiancé Adrian it's a devastating shock. How can they now help each other navigate the beginning of the end?
Between Here and Now
Visiting Copenhagen, Tony meets local boy Oscar at a bar. Initially cautious, Tony finds himself drawn to Oscar and their relationship rapidly intensifies; they want each other, they need each other, but can each trust the other?
Run(a)Way Arab
As drag queen Queen Za Dream prepares to go on stage, she recalls the joy of being an 8 year-old boy helping her flamboyant Iraqi-Egyptian mother get ready, and the transgressive moment that broke their close bond. 'Run(a)way Arab' is a semi-autobiographical film from British-Iraqi director Amrou Al-Kadhi.
Meatoo
A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red. Based on a real event, 'Meatoo' is an improvised film that was conceived and shot in a day.
Dusk
Growing up in 1950's England, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider society. When Chris meets dream woman Julie, life lightens a little, but the growing feeling that theirs is a life half lived haunts Chris. They start to imagine what might have been…Starring Duncan James (Hollyoaks).
Jermaine and Elsie
Elsie is fiercely independent, but due to a drink problem, is now reluctantly reliant on carers. When Jermaine, a black, sexually ambiguous carer arrives she gives him hell, but patient and caring Jermaine quickly wins her over. When Jermaine disappears without a word, Elsie makes it her mission to find out what happened to him.
Four Quartets
Raf is young, he's fun and on the pull, but tonight is struggling to find his place among the crowd. Sometimes it's that moment when you stop trying that magic really strikes.

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Filmmaker James Scott has enjoyed a diverse career, ranging from early experimental art documentaries on key 1960's figures such as David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg and R B Kitaj, to work with the radical Berwick Street Collective, independent features and the Oscar-winning 1982

short A Shocking Accident The son of celebrated painter William Scott, his film Every Picture Tells a Story is his sensitive, exploratory portrait of his father's early years in working-class Scotland and Northern Ireland of the 1930's and his entry into the art world. Bringing together films totalling more than four hours, this long-overdue collection celebrates the talented filmmaker and explores his art films which include such diverse artists as Stuart Brisley, Jamie Reid and Hannah Wilke.

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a courageous teen who desperately needs his help - and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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This is the legendary story of two brothers who battled to found the greatest empire history has ever known: Rome.

With stunning visuals and immersive battle scenes, the film follows Romulus and Remus as they escape captivity and battle sacred fire and violent warriors, leading one of them to form the eternal nation. A journey that will see one brother killed by the other to seal his fate as the chosen one.

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Jenny Bowman (Judy Garland), strong-headed, absent mother turns up in the lives of her ex-lover David (Dirk Bogarde) and their son, rocking the boat in these otherwise still waters.

Who can resist a showbiz mum who turns up at boarding school and charms everyone she meets; who sings her way into the heart of a nation. David knows he must, because with the best will in the world, this is a woman strong enough to build a mountain of love and bring it crashing down without looking back.

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"Tucked" is a raw and tender drama about an ageing 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they realise how to truly be themselves.

A classic British "slice of life" story about love, loss and friendship with a great charm and sense of humour...

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Featuring a hot all-male cast and set in a military academy, Private Romeo's fabulously homoerotic slant on the classic play makes it the most exciting adaptation of Shakespeare's masterwork since Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet".

When eight cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives. Incorporating the original text of "Romeo and Juliet"- replete with the play's most romantic, tender and also vicious moments, the classic story is treated to a decidedly modern twist via YouTube videos and lip-synced indie rock music. Private Romeo takes us on a mysterious, tender ride that only Shakespeare (and a group of the sexiest military men you've ever seen!) could have inspired.

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A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barrelling down on a city and only two men can stop It: a veteran engineer (Danzel Washington), and a young conductor (Chris Pine).

Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

Two brothers - Eli and Charlie Sisters - are hired to kill a prospector who has stolen from their boss. A reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man.

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Mann's film tells of Jeff Webster (James Stewart) and his sidekick Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan), two stoic adventurers driving cattle to market from Wyoming to Canada who become at loggerheads with a corrupt judge (John McIntire) and his henchmen.

Ruth Roman (Strangers on a Train) plays a sultry saloon keeper who falls for Stewart, teaming up with him to take on the errant lawman.

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Valentine Wilmot (Jameson Thomas), the owner of the popular Piccadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles (Cyril Ritchard) has quit and that the public has judged Victors partner Mabel (Gilda Gray) as over the hill.

Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future. When a customer (Charles Laughton in his first feature film) complains of a dirty dish, Valentine discovers the answer to all his problems down in the clubs scullery...

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Matias (Ignacio Rogers) and Jeronimo (Esteban Masturini) have know each other since childhood. The summer before the start of high school they experience their sexual awakening together and the friendship transforms. But soon after they are separated as Matias and his family move away.

More than ten years later, Matias returns to his old town and runs into Jeronimo who has accepted his homosexuality and lives his life as he chooses. Seeing his friend again reminds him of what they shared together when they were teenagers and gives Matias the chance to choose his real feelings rather than what he felt he had to do to please others.

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Starring acting giants Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) as Juan Miranda, an amoral peasant-turned-outlaw, and James Coburn (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) as John Mallory, a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary who has fled to Mexico after becoming a fugitive in his own country.

Together, they're a devilishly volatile mix of anti-establishment philosophies and violent tendencies as they attempt to liberate political prisoners, defend their compatriots against a well-equipped militia, and risk their lives on a train filled with explosives.

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The renowned photographer Richard Billingham made his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70's and early 80's, and then of his father and mother in the late 90's.

Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs - his alcoholic father Ray (Justin Salinger / Patrick Romer); his mother Liz (Ella Smith); and his younger brother Jason - with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of control.