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THE EAGLE

Most famous film of Rudolph Valentino. Silent film with titles and music background. (Not very good picture quality).

 

EAST OF EDEN

James Dean plays the rebel son of Californian farmer in 1917. This film, made by Elia Kazan, made a teen-age idol of Dean.

 

EARTH

Dovzhenko's famous Soviet film set in the Ukraine and showing the struggle between the peasants and the local landlords. Naturally from a communist point of view. Silent with titles and music score.

 

EASY RIDER

Two drop-outs ride across America and get into various heavy situations.  A great hit at the time of the 'hippy' revolution.

 

EATING RAOL

Black comedy about a couple who want to open a restaurant. In a confused story their incompetence leads into Bunuel-like escapades.

 

EDGE OF DARKNESS

Important two part TV drama about twilight world of half-truths and half-lives where state security, nuclear power and terrorism interlocks with sinister and furtive forces from big business.

 

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Early British film of 1937 by Michael Powell. This is a newly restored version of the tale of life on a remote Shetland Isle.

 

84 CHARING CROSS RD

A heartwarming film which won acclaim. An American woman corresponds with a bookshop and sends food parcels during the war.

 

EDUCATING RITA

Hilarious tale of a sparky Liverpudlian who enrolls at Open University and a life changes radically. Both comic and touching.

 

THE ELEPHANT MAN

One of the most original and perfectly realized of recent films. Story of appallingly deformed man and society's responses.

 

ELVIRA MADIGAN

Lyrical elegy of circus performer who elopes with cavalry officer. Eventually they both commit suicide. Beautifully photographed and set to a Mozart concerto. Pia Negermark. Dir. Bo Widerberg. Swedish-EST.

 

THE EMERALD FOREST

Young son of dam constructor is kidnapped by one of the threatened tribe and brought up as one of them. A plea for conservation.

 

END OF ST. PETERSBURG

Pudovkin film of a young boy who comes searching for work in St. Petersburg at the time of the October Revolution. Silent.

 

THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER

Dir. Werner Herzog. EST. German Dialogue. True story of a man born and kept in a dark cellar until he was adult.

 

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD

The story of how actress Coral Browne whilst touring in Russia was met by a stranger, rather drunk, who was Guy Burgess, disgraced British diplomat and spy for the Soviet Union.

 

THE ENTERTAINER

Monumental performance by Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice, faded seaside comedian who tours seedy music halls. A visit by his daughter (Joan Plowright) precipitates an emotional crisis with painful memories.

 

ENTERTAINING ANGELS: THE DOROTHY DAY STORY

. USA 1996. 107 mins. Moira Kelly, Martin Sheen.  Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was no saint. An impassioned New York journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement and put her convictions into controversial action. An American ‘Mother Teresa’ A moving saga of a faith not just believed but lived.

 

ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE

Acclaimed Joe Orton play. Blackmailed into becoming their lodger, handsome Mr. Sloane becomes the object of a brother and sister's lustful desires. They get a tougher response than expected.

 

EQUUS

Highly acclaimed film. Psychological drama of psychiatric treatment of a boy with a fascination for horses. Richard Burton. Dir. Sidney Lumet.

 

ERIN BROCKOVICH.

 USA 2000 131 mins.    Albert Finney & Julia Roberts. Based on a true story, Julia Roberts shines as a single mum who takes out an historic legal suit against a chemical plant. Albert Finney provides superb support as a gruff boss with a heart of gold. She battles on against the plant which was polluting the water of the neighbourhood with cancer-causing toxins

 

ET DIEU.....CREA LA FEMME

(And God Created Woman). An 18 year old finds herself fatally attracted to men. Gives Bardot an excuse to almost strip on the St Tropez beach. Dir. Roger Vadim. EST. French dialogue.

 

THE EUROPEANS

From the novel by Henry James. Two sophisticated Europeans come to USA to improve their fortunes. Their meeting with plain-living, high-thinking New England cousins is fruitful and instructive to all.

 

EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL

Herzog's second film is a savage, bizarre and blackly humorous account of dwarfs detained in a penal colony. After the departure of the Governor a rebellion starts. EST. German dialogue.


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