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THE FABULOUS FLEISCHER FOLIO

A retrospective of early colour cartoons (1932-1950) by Disney's rival Max Fleischer who never made it to the top.

 

FAIL SAFE

A computer malfunction starts the countdown to an accidental nuclear war. US President (Henry Fonda) is unable to stop the pending catastrophe. Made at the height of the cold war by Sidney Lumet.

 

THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN

A famous TV series from the mid-eighties of Perrin as sales manager for Sunshine Desserts. A brilliant script and Leonard Rossiter make this comedy well worth seeing.

 

THE FALLEN IDOL

A beautiful film by Carol Reed from a short story by Graham Greene about the young son of an ambassador who mistakenly believes that the butler has committed a crime. Winner of many awards.

 

THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY

This documentary was made by Esfir Shub in 1927 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Revised and given a soundtrack in 1967. Of course does not tell the complete story.

 

FAMILY LIFE

A powerful story of the treatment of a teenage girl whose mildly irrational behavior turns into schizophrenia, mainly as a result of conventional treatment of her condition. Made in 1971 by Ken Loach.

 

FANNY and ALEXANDER

Double cassette video running 5 hours. The theatrical Ekdahl family live in a provincial Swedish city in 1907. The father dies and the puritanical local bishop charms the widow to go and live in his Bishop's palace. The mother in law becomes concerned for the children. A film of grace and elegance by Ingmar Bergman. EST with Swedish dialogue.

 

FANTASIA

Disney's celebrated and often requested blend of classic music and animation including Mickey Mouse as "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and other classics such as "Rites of Spring" and "Night on a Bare Mountain.

 

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

Epic spanning 50 years of Chinese art, passion & revolution seen through eyes of two rising stars of Peking Opera. EST.

 

FAREWELL MY LOVELY

A remake of the 1944 original but in general pretty good. Raymond Chandler's crime thriller.

 

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
The romantic novel by Thomas Hardy set in Dorset. A fine cast of Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terrance Stamp tell the love story of a girl who makes the wrong choice.

 

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

The original version(1932) with Gary Cooper of Hemingway's novel about a wounded World War 1 American ambulance driver falling in love with his nurse. Dir. Frank Borzage.

 

FATHERLAND

By award winning director Ken Loach. An East German is forced to go to the West because of anti-state activities. There he finds life is also corrupt but differently, also learns the truth about his father.

 

FAWLTY TOWERS

Three hilarious episodes from the John Cleese hysterical series: 'Basil The Rat', 'Communication Problems' and 'The Anniversary'.

 

FAWLTY TOWERS
Another three episodes: 'The Kipper and the Corpse', ' Waldorf Salad' and 'Gourmet Night.

 

FELLINI SATYRICON

Sexual adventures in pre-Christian Rome set against background of violence and perversion. EST. Italian dialogue.

 

FELLOW TRAVELLER

Leading American screenwriter moves to London to escape McCarthyism but he cannot escape the psychic and political pressures that drove him to exile. Dir Phillip Saville, with Imogen Stubbs.

 

A FISH CALLED WANDA

John Cleese in a tale of murder, greed, lust and seafood The usual sort of inventive comedy that one expects to find Cleese in.

 

FITZCARROLDO

A man with a wild dream to build an opera house in the upper reaches of the Amazon, struggles to get a river steamer up there over the rapids and hills. Everything finally collapses in disaster. EST. German.

 

FLYING DOWN TO RIO

The first Astaire & Rogers (1933) musical caused a great change in the evolution of the screen musical spectacular.

 

                                                                                   FOG OF WAR   

USA 2003 106 mins.  Oscar winner for Best Documentary of the year. A compelling complex and thought-provoking portrait of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defence in the 1960s during the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam war that reveals some of the reasoning behind many contentious official policies.

 

FOR LOVE OR MONEY

First and possibly only documentary on the history of the Australian women's worker's movement told in form of detective fiction.

 

48 HOURS

San Francisco cop and criminal on parole try to track down a gang. Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy.

 

42nd STREET

The first of the large scale musicals (1933) by Busby Berkeley. Typical story of trials and tribulations putting on a show.

 

FRANKENSTEIN + BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Have an evening of 1931 horror! In a prologue, the producer comes on stage and warns any of the audience with heart problems to immediately leave the cinema!

 

FREEDOM ROAD

Little-known film starring Muhammad Ali & Kris Kristofferson. Story of racial tensions in the deep South at end of American Civil War.

 

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Thin story of New York cops tracking down heroin smugglers made watchable by Gene Hackman as the obsessive and brutish cop.

 

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

A great success in the cinema. A society man jilts his fiancée for the deserted mistress of a French sailor. Meryl Steep.

 

FRENZY

Thriller of RAF officer under suspicion for series of murders. A not very good example of Hitchcock but included to complete our collection.

 

FRITZ THE CAT

Animation. Ralph Bakshi's tale of a raunchy New York tom cat. Wicked comment on radical-hippy lifestyles. Examines the effect of the alternative culture on Fritz. Fritz goes to Harlem to examine LIFE!

 

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

Winner of 8 Academy Awards in 1953. Sexual and other frustrations of servicemen in Honolulu barracks at time of Pearl Harbour.

 

FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES

Little known Ingmar Bergman film. Businessman murders a prostitute. His psychiatrist tells what happens in the weeks before the crime. English Dubbed, but not too badly.

 

THE FULL MONTY

Dir. Peter Cattaneo  1997.  88 minutes.  Combines black humour, roaring hilarity and all the absurdity, heartache and pathos of six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers trying to keep body, soul and dignity together. Well, just about!  One of them convinces the rest that a strip routine can bring in the lolly. A most successful British comedy  with a good sound track of hits by Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones.

 


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