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A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (BREATHLESS)

Godard's first film. Its hip, cool & anarchic style launched the "Nouvelle Vague" in 1959. A homage to the 'B' gangster movies of Monogram with Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo.

 

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
Wonderful attempt to reflect through song, dance and dialogue 'swinging' England of the early sixties.

 

ABIGAIL'S PARTY
Mike Leigh's modern classic of an evening social get-together of married couples becoming a time-bomb of emotional tension.

 

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
Wonderful attempt to reflect through song, dance and dialogue 'swinging' England of the early sixties.

 

ABSOLUTION
Burton as wise but tortured priest in Catholic boys school. Taunted by his favourite pupil he finds himself the butt of an evil mind.

 

ACCATONE
Dir Pasolini. Chronicle of harsh life of Italian vagabond whose cynicism is changed by putative relationship with innocent young girl.

 

ACCIDENT
Losey & Pinter explore the motivations  of love and jealousy among group of Oxford Dons after a death springs the trap of guilt, remorse, thwarted sexual ambition. Dirk Bogarde, Jacqueline Sassard.

 

THE ACCUSED
Acclaimed film of hardliving girl who is gang-raped and the subsequent trial of her attackers and the cheering onlookers.

 

THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Bogart & Hepburn as prim missionary with boozy river-trader going down African river in first World War. Marvelous classic.

 

AFTER HOURS
Dir Martin Scorsese. In sleazy New York a computer expert meets a blind date and has a horrible chain of events happen to him.

 

AGNES OF GOD
A young nun accused of infanticide naively denies any knowledge of conception and claims it is the work of spirits.

 

AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD
Epic of Conquistadors going up Amazon in search of gold. Aguirre has delusions of grandeur. Dir. Werner Herzog. Subtitles.

 

AIRPLANE
Hilarious spoof of potential airliner disaster when crew get food poisoning and ex-fighter pilot has to take to the controls.

 

ALEXEI SAYLE'S PIRATE VIDEO
Now almost historical (not to say hysterical) series of monologues by the then young comedian.

 

ALEXANDER NEVSKY
Eisenstein's famous film of the Russian hero who led his people against the Teutonic Knights. Music by Prokofiev highlights the charge across the ice. Subtitles.

 

AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE
. First film of Jane Campion who went on to make PIANO. Autobiographical of her childhood of poverty and later in youth.

 

THE ANIMALS FILM

   136 MINS.  Although now some years old, this film is probably the most comprehensive survey of the injustices committed against animals in Western society, from the casual mistreatment of household pets to the systematic abuse of animals in factory farming and research. Made over a period of two years in Britain and the United States, the film includes interviews, clandestinely shot footage of stag hunting and pharmaceutical research and rarely seen material of the military use of animals for training, weapons testing and nuclear research.  It is in the best sense, provocative, a genuine challenge to our assumptions and our complacency.  Narrator-Julie Christie. Director-Victor Schonfeld. 

 

ALFIE

A cockney lecher's selfish seduction of a series of compliant females in the swinging sixties. Dir Lewis Gilbert, with Michael Caine.

 

Arms for the Poor

.  USA 1998  25 mins.  (11) NTSC standard.  Study Guide supplied. The case against the taxpayer-financed US weapons-export business to developing countries where the poor cry out for food, housing, schools and medical care A similar situation exists in Britain).

 

ALICE IN THE CITIES
Dir. Wim Wenders. Disillusioned young photojournalist becomes involved in little girl's search for her family in North German industrial heartland. Evocative of 20th century technological jungle.

 

ALICE'S RESTAURANT
Off-beat, lively entertaining mixture of satire, humour and social comment in the days when hippies were in full flower.

 

ALLEGRO NON TROPPO

Italian animated feature parodying FANTASIA. Inventive & imaginative it also sticks to short popular classics. Bruno Bozzetto.

 

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Original 1930 version. Classic First World War story by Eric Maria Remarque. Caught the mood of pacificism of that time.

 

ALIEN
Chilling sci-fi thriller of astronauts returning to earth in battered starship and become victims of galactic creature of horror.

 

ALL THAT JAZZ
Spectacular musical centering on life and death fantasies of overworked Broadway director/choreographer. Winner of 4 Oscars.

 

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
The gripping story of how Nixon tried to cover up Watergate. Redford & Hoffman as the two Washington Post journalists.

 

ALPHAVILLE
Godard's pseudo sci-fi story of Lemmy Caution, private eye arriving to destroy the ruthless computer controlled civilization of Alphaville and rescue a girl. Subtitled & dubbed versions on same cassette.

 

AMADEUS
Milos Forman's story of a course bawdy drunkard, a screeching raucous child and the composer of some of the greatest music ever written.

 

AMAZING YEARS OF EARLY CINEMA
THE CLOWNS, made in Southern France, and THE COWBOYS, Tom Mix and William S. Hart. (the Rambo of his day).

 

THE AMERICAN FRIEND
By Wim Wenders. A dying man is cajoled into becoming a contract killer in order to leave his widow with some money.

 

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
Mixture of horror, spoof, comedy and shock. Basic story: two American tourists are bitten by a werewolf.

 

MONTY PYTHON'S "AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT"
An anthology of some of the funniest sketches from the legendary BBC TV series.

 

ANDREI RUBLEV
Dir. Tarkovsky. Charts the life of the great icon painter through the turbulent 15th Century in a Russia of rival Princes. E.S.T.

 

ANGEL
Made by Neil Jordan in Eire. A showband's manager is assassinated. The saxophonist sets out to revenge the killing.

 

AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE
First film of Jane Campion who went on to make PIANO. Autobiographical of her childhood of poverty and later in youth.

 

ANGEL HEART
What seemed a straightforward missing person search becomes a murder hunt by down and out private eye Harry Angel.

 

ANIMAL CRACKERS
Marx Brothers classic farce.

 

ANIMAL FARM
The animation version by Halas & Batchelor.

 

ANNA KARENINA
Four versions of the famous story by Tolstoy of the woman married to a high Tsarist government official who sacrifices everything, home, position and child, to run away with a Russian army officer.
1935 version. Dir. Clarence Brown with Greta Garbo and Basil Rathbone.
1947 version. Dir. Julien Duvivier with Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson.
1985 version. Dir. Simon Langton with Jacquel Bissett and Paul Scofield.
1990 double cassette version. A BBC TV  with Nicola Paget and Eric Porter

 

ANNIE HALL
Woody Allen tells of a relationship as only he can. A stand-up comic, he falls in love with Annie, but her psychiatrist tells her to be more liberated and to do as she pleases, which she does.

 

ANOTHER COUNTRY
Rupert Everett as the traitor in his highly acclaimed performance as Guy Burgess who later fled to Russia.

 

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
The Charlton Heston version. 1972. 165 mins.

 

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
The Royal Shakespeare Company version with Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman in the title roles. 1980. 162 mins.

 

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
BBC TV. Colin Blakely & Jane Lapotaire. 1989.172mins.

 

APOCALYPSE NOW
Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the madness of the Vietnam War.

 

                                                                                ARMS FOR THE POOR 

.  USA 1998  25 mins.  (11) NTSC standard.  Study Guide supplied. The case against the taxpayer-financed US weapons-export business to developing countries where the poor cry out for food, housing, schools and medical care A similar situation exists in Britain).

 

 

ARSENAL
Russian film classic by Dovzhenko of the revolutionary period in 1917. Silent with a music soundtrack. Highly symbolic film that makes many demands on the viewer and is resistant to easy interpretation. View twice!

 

AS YOU LIKE IT
Stratford Canada Festival version. 1982. 158 mins.

 

AS YOU LIKE IT
BBC TV version. Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner. 1989.152 mins.

 

ASCENDANCY
The daughter of a shipbuilding tycoon, mourns the death of her brother in the 'Great War', Ian, a young officer causes her more torment.

 

THE ASCENT
Larisa Shepitko's haunting allegory based on the fate of Russian Partisans in German hands in 1942. E.S.T. Made in USSR 1976.

 

ASHES and DIAMONDS
Part 3 of the Andrzej Wajda's remarkable trilogy about the youth of the Polish Resistance. Made in 1958. E.S.T.

 

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
Taut well-made excellently acted police suspense thriller. Young solitary policeman is attacked by gang of cut-throats.

 

ATLANTIC CITY
A small time crook pretends to an aspiring girl croupier that he has been a big-time gangster when he was just a hanger-on.

 

ATOMIC CAFE
Hilarious and horrifying 'cold war' compilation of U.S. Gov. and Hollywood films on the need for atomic defense against the Soviet Union.

 

AUTUMN SONATA
By Ingmar Bergman. A successful concert pianist has just lost the man she lived with for 20 years. This devastates her. E.S.T.

 

AWAKENINGS
The dramatization of the story of Dr Sayer (Robin Williams) discovers the way to 'awaken' a group of forgotten survivors of the 1919 Sleeping Sickness epidemic. Inspirational and critically acclaimed.


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