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THE CABINET of DR CALIGARI

Famous German Expressionist film of 1919. English titles. Imaginative sets. Eerie horror story of a somnambulist.

 

THE CAINE MUTINY

Jealousies among officers of a destroyer come to a head when neurotic captain panics during a typhoon and is relieved of his post.

 

CAL
Romantic drama set against the background of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Catholic boy takes part in the murder of a Protestant policeman and later becomes involved with the unhappy widow.

 

 THE CAMELS ARE COMING.   

Dir. Tim Whelan. 1934.  A typical frothy pre-war British picture (for an exception to this rule see ‘Hindle Wakes’).  Starring Jack Hulbert & Anna Lee.  Jack Campbell is a flier employed by the Egyptian Government to clean up the drug trade.  A strange plane piloted by a beautiful woman catches Jack’s attention. Songs are incongruously introduced into this strange mixture.  Black & White. A Gainsborough Picture.  72 minutes.

 

                                                                              CANADA BACON  

 Canada 1995   91 mins    Only available on DVD.  Michael Moore’s first film.  An acidic satire.  The US President (Alan Alda), faced with sagging approval ratings, decides to cook up a new Cold War…with Canada! After a flood of media propaganda, Americans waste no time in ‘patriotically’ burning their ice skates and boycotting maple syrup.

 

CARAVAGGIO
Derek Jarman portrait of 17th century Italian artist. A meditation on sexuality, criminality and art.

 

THE CARD
Arnold Bennett's novel of the cheeky deceiver who cajoles his way to fame and fortune. Along the way he is inspired by three women.

 

CARMEN  (Ballet)
A Flamenco dance company is developing a dance version of 'Carmen'. A triangle developes between choeographer, principal dancer and the girl. Soon the theme of the play starts to show itself in real life. EST.

 

CARMEN (Opera)
Placido Domingo and Julia Migenes-Johnson star in this sumptuous and faithful interpretation of Bizet' opera.

 

CASABLANCA
Bogart and Bergman in Michael Curtis's original version. Their love affair is set against the background of the Vichy French colony.

 

CATCH 22
Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. An anti-war satire of epic proportions.

 

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
When first released in 1958 its highly charged atmosphere of dramatic conflict and sexual tension moved the limits of cinema permissiveness. Burl Ives as the patriarchal "Big Daddy".

 

CHAMPIONS

A top steeplechase jockey's world falls apart when he is told he has cancer. Written off by the world of racing, he keeps on fighting.

 

THE CHANT of JIMMIE BLACKSMITH
In 1900 a half-caste Aboriginal boy who doesn't fit into either society goes berserk. "An epic story" Sunday Times.

 

CHAPAYEV
During the 1919 Civil War in Turkestan the bandit Chapayev is converted into a Russian Red Army leader. English subtitles.

 

CHARIOTS of FIRE
Festival prizewinner in which a Scotsman and a Jew run for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. Wider insights into Olympic issues.

 

CHARLY
New methods of surgery cure a mentally retarded young man who becomes a genius, but the effects wear off. Cliff Robertson.

 

THE CHILDHOOD of MAXIM GORKY
The first of the famous trilogy by Mark Donskoi illustrating the life of the great Russian humanistic writer. EST.

 

CHILDREN of the LESSER GOD
Touching poignant love story of a young beautiful deaf mute girl who leaves school with a big chip on her shoulder.

 

THE CHINA SYNDROME
Jane Fonda as a TV news reporter, filming a routine story at a nuclear reactor, becomes aware that an accident is happening.

 

CHINATOWN
Based on a Raymond Chandler thriller. Starts as a straight-forward crime case but opens out into a public scandal. Dir Polanski.

 

CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI
World cinema masterpiece based on Carlo Levi's exile to remote peasant region of Italy for opposition to Mussolini. EST.

 

CHRISTIANE F
Horrifying story of life for very young drug addicts in what was West Berlin. Badly dubbed but it faithfully shows the squalor.

 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
BBC version of the immortal story by Charles Dickens with Michael Hordern , John Le Mesurier and Bernard Lee.

 

CIDER WITH ROSIE
Dramatization of Laurie Lee's famous story of his growing up in a peaceful village in the Cotswolds. Halcyon days and harsh times.

 

CINEMA PARADISO
Winner of award for best foreign film. In a small Italian village a boy is fascinated by the allure of the silver screen. Wrapped up in this charming story are many tantalizing glimpses of world renowned films.

 

CITIZEN KANE
Orson Welles great epic which parallels the life of William Randolf Hearst, (the Rupert Murdoch of his day?). Told in newsreel style.

 

CITY LIGHTS
Chaplin melancholic and beautiful film. Revolves round the little tramp's love for a blind flower girl.

 

CLEOPATRA
The original 4 hour wide screen version with Taylor & Burton. One of the most expensive British films and a financial disaster!

 

CLOCKWISE
John Cleese as a school headmaster who runs his entire life as he runs his school - by the clock. Called on to give the keynote speech at an important conference everything goes wrong in true Fawlty Towers style.

 

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the THIRD KIND
Spielberg's famous film of UFOs landing in Indiana. Technical effects are magnificent and there is mysticism also.

 

THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES. + LEGEND OF THE SURAM FORTRESS
Two films, one Armenian and the other Georgian, both made by Paradjanov who fought against Soviet film censorship throughout his life. EST.

 

THE COLOUR PURPLE
A young black girl in the deep South is ill used by her father and then her husband, but gains emancipation. Novel by Alice Walker.

 

COMA
Dr Wheeler suspects that at her hospital someone is murdering patients.  She becomes obsessed with finding out the guilty one.

 

COME BACK to the 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN

F. Years after the death of their idol, the former members of his fan club meet again. Self deception is destroyed.

 

A COMEDY OF ERRORS
Trevor Nunn's innovative musical R.S.C. production with a contemporary yet dateless setting. Fresh and exhilarating.

 

COMFORT and JOY
A jokey Glaswegian DJ loses his girl friend and gets involved in a vendetta between rival Italian ice-cream families.

 

THE COMPANY of WOLVES
Red Riding Hood and Werewolf legends abound in a magic mystical world bathed in sexual imagery.

 

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT
Orson Welles' second European film returns to his fascination with total power as shown in CITIZEN KANE.

 

THE CONVERSATION
A man uses complex technology to spy on others. He lives a tense lonely existence, his eves-dropping, his only reason for living.

 

THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE and HER LOVER
A London gangland leader, his browbeaten wife and the gang eat in a sumptuous restaurant run by the cook.

 

THE COTTON CLUB
Coppola's  epic set at the end of America's roaring Twenties. The Cotton Club where the tickets to the top are murder & money.

 

COUNTRY
A small farmer goes to pieces when the bank forecloses but his wife is of sterner stuff and rallies the community to fight back.

 

THE COUNTRY DIARY of an EDWARDIAN LADY
A nature diary brought to life. Edith Holden's book faithfully adapted. Pippa Guard as Edith Holden.

 

COX and BOX
One of the lesser known of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas.

 

CRIES AND WHISPERS
Ingmar Bergman's classic of a young woman dying at home and watched over by her two sisters. They confront and relive their past.

 

CROCODILE DUNDEE
'Crocodile' is macho, bronzed and big-mouthed, he also is a charmer and can take care of himself. In New York it's a culture shock.

 

CROCODILE DUNDEE II
More of the same but this time he is pursued by the New York crooks back to the Australian out-back.

 

CROMWELL

Disappointing history of Oliver Cromwell. Tries to combine serious intentions with widest appeal. Richard Harris, Alec Guinness. Dir. Ken Hughes

 

CRY FREEDOM
Richard Attenborough's story of the friendship between black activist Steve Biko and liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods in South Africa in the period of apartheid and the almost martial law days.

 

CUL-DE-SAC
Polanski's claustrophobic black comedy set in an old castle on an isolated Northumbrian island. Two gangsters get their come-uppance.

 

CULLODEN

CULLODEN  Peter Watkins for BBC TV 1964.  This reconstruction of the famous battle of 1746  is presented as a current news report by a television crew.  Stunning in its powerful imagery and the immediacy of its storytelling. Up until this film Peter had been an amateur filmmaker and he worked with amateur actors. CULLODEN presented the audience with the savagery of battle which turns men into beasts. (I was distributing this film on 16mm to schools in the mid sixties and a teacher commented that it was the most powerful indictment of war as a means of solving conflicts that he had ever seen-Eric Walker)  70 minutes.

 

CUTTERS WAY
Chilling story of corruption and murder in post Vietnam America, also an abrasive but moving portrait of love, despair & revenge.

 

CYRANO de BERGERAC
Most successful French film shown in U.K. Depardieu as the long-nosed romantic poet and dauntless officer suffering from love.


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