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GALLIPOLI

G. Film which made Peter Weir's name. Two Australians trek across desert to enlist and become involved in attack on Turkish trenches.

 

GANDHI

Won 8 Oscars. Richard Attenborough's epic on the life of Gandhi with Ben Kingsley playing wonderfully in the title role.

 

THE GARDEN

Set around Derek Jarman's coastal home. A series of allegorical dreamscapes. Jarman asleep at his desk, dreams and transposes New Testament events into a contemporary context examining repressive attitudes.

 

THE GARDEN OF ALLAH

One of the first Technicolor films made. Starring Marlene Dietrich. A romantic weepy of unrequited love.

 

GASLIGHT

The famous story of the husband who obsessed with the idea of hidden jewels in the house, tries to drive his wife mad. Mystery and Menace

 

THE GAY DIVORCEE

USA 1934  100 mins.  Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.  Their first major box office success. A story of love and mistaken identity.

 

THE GENERAL

Famous old (1927) Buster Keaton silent film in which he is a train driver caught up in US Civil War. But the engine is the real hero.

 

THE GENERAL LINE

Eisenstein's film of the mechanization and collectivization of agriculture in Soviet Union. Interesting to compare with the reality of the mass starvation which we now know happened at that time.

 

A GENERATION

The first of the trilogy (the others are KANAL and ASHES AND DIAMONDS) that made Wajda's name. Warsaw just before the uprising. EST.

 

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

A dumb blonde and a showgirl go to Paris in search of rich husbands. Various adventures befall them on the liner.

 

A GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT

Winner of Award for best film of 1947. One of the first films to explore the theme of anti-semitism. A journalist commissioned to write an article, pretends to be Jewish. Gregory Peck. Dir. Elia Kazan.

 

GERMINAL

The Emile Zola classic about life in a poverty stricken mining village in the north of France in the last century. Conditions get worse a strike happens with terrifying results Gerard Depardieu. French dialogue-EST.

 

GHOSTBUSTERS

Three unemployed and enterprising parapsychologists cause mayhem as they try to catch a host of little green ghosts, spooks and other weird happenings in New York.  A most successful comedy.

 

THE GHOST TRAIN

Arthur Askey in this old British comedy thriller. Group of marooned passengers are told tales by the stationmaster to pass the night.

 

GISSELLE

Spectacular TV presentation starring Rudolf Nurryev and Lynn Seymour.

 

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY

Although this, possibly the last 'Beatle's' film has many of the great hits of the Beatles era, it didn't do very well at the box office. Slight story of theft of master tapes of new album.

 

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

A Tennessee Williams' story of a shy crippled girl living with her possessive mother who lives in a fantasy world. Laura's brother tries to help her escape by bringing a 'gentleman caller'.

 

The Golden Banquet: Politics of Food. 

 (11)USA 2001 Two Parts 28 mins each.  NTSC   Part 1.  Who’s Invited?    Giant corporations control most of the world’s food system through free trade policies. This video examines how the corporate globalisation of food threatens the livelihoods of small farmers in the U.S. and developing countries.

Part 2  What’s on the Menu?    Mass-produced and subsidised low-cost food imports to developing countries and cash crop exports from them, combine to render them unable to lift their standard of living. Many groups work together to rewrite unjust free trade policies.  A Study Guide is supplied.

 

THE GO-BETWEEN

Beautifully told tale of a young boy who loses his boyish heart to a headstrong woman who uses him for her own purposes and so causes the death of a fine man and changes the boy's chances of love and marriage.

 

THE GOALKEEPER'S FEAR OF THE PENALTY

A study of alienation. A man at the end of his tether, enfeebled by everyday pressures. His attempts to break out of this situation founder. Dir. Wim Wenders. EST with German dialogue.

 

THE GODFATHER

Coppola's original masterpiece of Brando as the patriach of the Corieone family. A chilling picture of the rise and near fall of a Mafia family in New York. Family life and the ugly business of crime.

 

THE GODFATHER PART II

This brilliant companion piece to the original continues the saga of two generations of successive power in the Corieone family.

 

THE GOLD RUSH

Easily one of the most nearly perfect pictures of our time. Made by Chaplin in 1925 and re-released in 1942 with an original music score and spoken commentary by Chaplin himself.

 

The Golden Banquet: Politics of Food. 

 USA 2001 Two Parts 28 mins each.  NTSC   Part 1.  Who’s Invited?    Giant corporations control most of the world’s food system through free trade policies. This video examines how the corporate globalisation of food threatens the livelihoods of small farmers in the U.S. and developing countries.

Part 2  What’s on the Menu?    Mass-produced and subsidised low-cost food imports to developing countries and cash crop exports from them, combine to render them unable to lift their standard of living. Many groups work together to rewrite unjust free trade policies.  A Study Guide is supplied.

 

 

GOODBYE LENIN!

Germany 2003 110 mins.  Dedicated socialist Christine awakes from a coma into a G.D.R. no longer bounded by an iron curtain. Doctors tell her son that any shock can kill her and so he sets about reverting their apartment to the communist era and playing old TV footage when she wants to watch the news. How long can he keep the outside world at bay?  A playful bittersweet comedy Note! Only DVD

 

THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES

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

 

THE GONDOLIERS

Gilbert & Sullivan opera with Keith Michell, Anne Collins. London Symphony Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Singers.

 

GONE WITH THE WIND

The all time classic epic of the self-centered Southern girl who loses the only man she loves but survives the Civil War. 10 Oscars.

 

GOOD MORNING BABYLON

Two Italian craftsmen go to Hollywood and find work and romance on the set of a D.W. Griffith epic. Italian with E.S.T.

 

GORILLAS IN THE MIDST of MAN

A BBC Wildlife Special on the work of George Schaller & Diane Fossey, the first scientist totally accepted by gorillas.

 

GORKY PARK

Inspector Arkady Renko feels that the KGB are hampering his efforts to identify 3 faceless corpses found in Moscow's Grorky Park.

 

GOSPEL according to ST. MATTHEW

Acclaimed as Pasolini's finest work. A startling visual rendering of the bible text. Italian dialogue with EST.

 

GOTHIC

A imagined party at Lake Geneva in which Lord Byron and Mary Shelley take part which inspires the writing of Frankenstein and Dracula.

 

GRAND HOTEL

Garbo and John Barrymore star in this 1932 screen drama set in Berlin's opulent Grand Hotel where guests glitter with chilled brilliance.

 

GRAPES OF WRATH

John Steinbeck's classic of the migration of dustbowl farmers to California. Full of compassion for poor honest people struggling for dignity against seemingly insurmountable odds. Henry Fonda.

 

THE GREAT DICTATOR

Chaplin's first dialogue film and a step away from the character of the little tramp. He plays dual role of dictator/Jewish barber.

 

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The original classic from 1946 with John Mills, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness. The opening shot with Pip running along the sea wall always sticks in the mind.

 

GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A 1980 remake starring Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason and Robert Morley. Director Joseph Hardy.

 

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The BBC 1981 TV version is the longest of our versions at almost 5 hours! With Stratford Johns, Joan Hickson and Gerry Sundquist.

 

THE GREAT GATSBY

Gatsby, a dashing enigmatic millionaire is obsessed with the elusive and spoiled Daisy. F.Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of jazz age.

 

THE GREAT McGONAGALL

Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria and Spike Milligan as McGonnagall the worst poet in the world. A riot of lunacy.

 

A GREAT WALL

A Chinese-American family visit Peking to meet long lost relations and have a wonderful time discovering China and each other.

 

GREEN ANIMATION

This is a compilation of young artists expressing quirky and wondrously fresh ideas about conservation and pollution.

 

GREGORY's GIRL

Almost Bill Forsyth's first film. Slight but highly entertaining comedy about Scottish schoolgirl who becomes a football star to the resentment of the boys, and about lanky Gregory who falls for her.

 

GREMLINS

One of Steven Spielberg's earlier successes. The gremlins are a horde of knee-high demons able to move in surprising and savage ways.

 

THE GREY FOX

A 'gentleman bandit' released from a very long sentence for robbing stagecoaches, turns his hand to robbing trains. Caught again, he still proves to be a wily old fox.

 

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER

When the daughter of well to do liberals brings home as her boy friend, a Negro, her parents discover questions about their liberalism. Sidney Potier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

 

GUNGA DIN

A great adventure of the days of the British Empire in India. Gunga Din, watercarrier saves the Regiment! Victor McLaglen,Cary Grant.

 

GUYS AND DOLLS

The classic musical of Damen Runyon's New York with its fantasy city of gangsters, broads, and street life. Sinatra  and Brando.


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