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Mon
18
May
- Comedy
- USA
- B&W
- 68 mins.
Madness and laughs aplenty are unleashed when the bankrupt state of Freedonia appoints Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) as its leader at the request of wealthy patron Mrs. Teasdale (the wonderfully deadpan Margaret Dumont). Featuring some of the best comic sequences ever filmed including the famous "mirror…
Tue
20
Aug
- Drama. Romance
- USA
- Colour
- 115 mins.
East of Eden (1955) is director Elia Kazan's updated re-telling of the Biblical story of rival brothers, Cain and Abel and a paradise lost. Writer Paul Osborn's screenplay adapted John Steinbeck's 1952 novel with the same title for this dramatic Warner Bros. film. [The film tells only…
Tue
10
Mar
- Comedy Drama
- USA
- B&W
- 126 mins.
Director Tim Burton's loving homage to Movie Director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Edward Davis Wood, Jr. whose 1950's Horror, Western and Science Fiction films earned him a celebrated reputation as one of the worst but most exuberant directors of all time. Johnny Depp is perfectly cast as…
Tue
10
Nov
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Wed
04
Apr
- Romantic comedy drama
- United States
- Colour
- 103 mins.
Welcome to the twilight zone of Charlie Kaufman, the man behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. and the most innovative writer in Hollywood today. In this inventive collaboration with music video director Michel Gondry (the duo also made eccentric comedy Human Nature together), Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) meet…
Tue
05
Feb
- Documentary, Drama
- USA
- Colour
- 89 mins.
Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focuses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a…
Tue
19
Aug
- Drama
- Sweden/Norway/Finland
- Colour
- 147 mins.
Written by Ingmar Bergman, Faithless tells the story of Marianne, an actress married to a famous orchestra conductor and drawn to her husband's best friend, with devastating consequences. Nominated for the Palme d'Or Award at Cannes in 2000, Faithless is a mesmerising film of the highest order…
Tue
16
Dec
- Black comedy thriller
- USA
- Colour
- 94 mins.
One of the Coen Brothers' finest and best loved films, Fargo tells the story of struggling car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's bungled attempts at embezzlement and kidnapping, three grisly murders and the tenacious work of a very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson to solve the crimes. Nominated for…
Tue
05
Sep
- Comedy, Romance
- USA
- 92 mins.
In this comedy, Stanley Banks' (Spencer Tracy) well-ordered life is thrown into chaos when his beloved daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) announces her engagement. The story is told via flashback and chronicles the many travails, financial and emotional, suffered by Stanley as he tries to give Kay a…
