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Tue
29
Oct
- Drama. Film Noir. Romance
- USA
- B&W
- 105 mins.
"There never was a woman like Gilda!" shrieked the original poster (designed by James Bond title wizard Maurice Binder), and there never was anyone to capture the imagination like Rita Hayworth, whose first appearance in this movie is a classic star introduction. Highlights include her striptease (well,…
Tue
07
Feb
- Period drama based on a true story
- USA/France/UK/Japan
- B&W
- 89 mins.
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK; George Clooney's second film as director is an understated ensemble piece that details a campaign by journalists to take on the might of Senator Joe McCarthy during his attempts to root out "communists" in the 1950s. Clooney also appears as CBS newsroom…
Tue
02
Apr
- Crime drama
- USA
- Colour
- 139 mins.
This unflinching depiction of the attraction and brutal reality of the Mafia lifestyle from Martin Scorsese is a masterwork on every artistic level. Direction, script (based on Nicholas Pileggi's non-fiction book Wiseguy), photography, ensemble acting (Joe Pesci won a deserved Oscar, but he's matched by Robert De…
Tue
15
Dec
- Satirical comedy drama
- USA
- Colour
- 106 mins.
Restless young college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) arrives for his homecoming party and meets the beguiling Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). They soon begin an affair, but Benjamin finds himself torn between his older lover and his burgeoning romance with her daughter Elaine. Superb performances from Anne…
Tue
07
Aug
- Colour
Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
Tue
16
Aug
- Comedy / Drama / Romance
- USA
- Colour
- 108 mins.
A young white woman (Katherine Houghton) brings her African-American fiancé (Sydney Poitier), home to meet her parents, played by one of Hollywood’s greatest duos; Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey in their final film together. Made at a time when inter-racial marriage was still illegal in parts of…
Tue
14
Jun
- Film Noir
- USA
- B&W
- 87 mins.
This unsung minor masterpiece influenced everything from the work of Jean-Luc Godard to Bonnie and Clyde and Natural Born Killers. A stylish film noir from director Joseph H Lewis, it's about a smouldering femme fatale (Peggy Cummins in the role of her life) who leads the psychotic,…
Tue
01
May
- Drama
- Japan
- B&W
- 133 mins.
In a magnificent performance, Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Hanshiro Tsugumo, a down and out samurai who enters the home of a feudal lord requesting to commit honourable ritual suicide on his property. Suspected of simply fishing for charity, Hanshiro is told, in gruesome detail, the story of…
Tue
04
Jul
- Colour
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Sat
31
Oct
- Silent horror documentary
- Sweden
- B&W
- 102 mins.
This unique live performance combines the shadowy world of Benjamin Christensen's 1922 documentary/Fantasy/Drama of the history of Witchcraft in seven parts with mesmerising musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne (Piano, flute, accordion) and Tony Orrell (Percussion and electronics). Stephen HorneStephen has long been considered one of the world's…
