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Considered by many to be director Fritz Lang's finest. Peter Lorre is a compulsive child murderer in the slums of Dusseldorf. 1931. German with EST.

	MACBETH (Polanski)
A very visual but brutal version. Polanski composes beautiful images. With Jon Finch, Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.

	MACBETH (BBC)
Jack Gold directs an excellent cast in Shakespeare's dark and savage tale. Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire, Mark Dignam.

	MADE IN BRITAIN
UK 1983 Dir: Alan Clarke. Tim Roth plays the part of an intelligent skinhead who rejects a society which has no role for him. An unsettling experience to view but it is a problem to be faced.

	THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN
Everybody has a price as this irreverent comedy shows. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Spike Milligan, John Cleese and other famous stars.

	THE MAGIC FLUTE
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman spent 20 years thinking how to make it a fairy tale for children and an entertainment for adults. "Succeeds well in overcoming theatre conventions" Swedish with EST.

	THE MAGICIAN
Bergman's attack on modern rationality & cynicism. Hypnotist and magician Dr Vogler heads a troupe of traveling players. Humiliated by a medical officer, during a performance they take revenge. Swedish with EST.

	THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Orson Welles story of a great family in decline.

	THE MALTESE FALCON
Taut whodunit with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. Dir. John Huston. From the great era of Warner Brothers.

	A MAN ESCAPES
The most famous film of Robert Bresson. True story of Resistance fighter sentenced to death. Totally involves the viewer in tale of courage and faith. Stunning denouement to Mozart Mass in C. French-EST.

	THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
One of the Ealing greats with Alec Guinness who invents fabric which never wears out and so threatens capitalism.

	A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Screenplay by Robert Bolt. Henry VIII's conflict with Sir Thomas More over the divorce so that Henry can marry Anne Boleyn.

	MAN OF ARRAN
The hard life on Arran in the 1930's of the islanders as they battle against the elements dramatically shown in Robert Flaherty's film.

MAN OF IRON

Poland 1981 152 mins. Wajda’s remarkable sequel to Man of Marble welds footage of the Solidarity strike to fiction in an investigative drama. The young film student (Krystyna Janda) has moved to Gdansk and searches for the son of Birkut, about whom she made a film 4 years earlier. Meanwhile a drink-sodden radio producer arrives also in Gdansk. His mission is to smear the strike activists. Media cynicism, censorship and corruption are again dominant themes, this time anchored through T.V. coverage of the strike.

MAN OF MARBLE

Poland 1976 160 mins. Directed by Andrzej Wajda, this and its sequel ‘Man of Iron’, created sensations when released in then communist Poland. Birkut, a Hero of Labour, becomes involved in politics and condemned by the party to obscurity. A young film student tries to make a documentary about him. Originally famed for breaking the rules and showing Poland’s Stalinist past, it now stands as an artistic achievement, operating at an intense pace melding quasi documentary and real feature footage.

	THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
Oscar winning haunting animation tale of a man's determination to turn a wasteland into a Garden of Eden.

	MANHATTAN
Woody Allen pokes affectionate fun at the merry-go-round of modern relationships known as life in New York. With Diane Keaton.

	MANSFIELD PARK
A BBC TV Classic production of Jane Austen's story. Fanny Price is the poor cousin living with her rich relations. Surviving many adversities, virtue eventually has its reward and she eventually marries the man she loves, cousin Edmund. A double cassette version.

. MANUFACTURING CONSENT..

Canada 1992 170 mins Noam Chomsky talks about the manipulation of public opinion and illustrates his thesis with many examples from the world of newspapers and television. Discussion notes supplied with video. If using this film in a discussion group it would be best for a discussion leader to view the film first and then plan to show it section by section with discussion interspersed with the viewing by sections. For the best use probably 3 or 4 two hour sessions would be needed.

	MAPANTSULA
Turmoil on the streets of Soweto. A petty criminal's gradual coming to political consciousness. Paints vivid and sometimes frightening picture of township life under apartheid.

	THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
Newly married, her husband goes to war and does not return. Maria takes up with black American soldier but Herman returns and kills her lover. Dir. Werner Fassbinder. Dubbed into English.

	Martin Luther King.
USA 1977 30 mins. A dramatised documentary of the life of the leader of the non-violent movement to end race segregation in the deep south of the USA.

	M.A.S.H
The original cinema film from which was developed the TV series.

	MASK
Moving story of a boy with a deforming disease. But his wacky mother and a gang of evil-looking but nice Hells Angels help him live life fully.

	A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. UK 1946 103 mins.Starring David Niven, Roger Livesey and Kim Hunter. An intriguing film. A World Warr II airman is shot down but accidentally missed by Death, falls in love whilst his right to live is debated in a heavenly courtroom. Stunning in its set design and fertile imagination.

	THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
BBC TV Classics series. Double cassette version of Thomas Hardy novel of man who sells his wife when drunk and later when a respectable member of society, she returns. Alan Bates, Anna Massey.

	THE MEANING OF LIFE
Monty Python cornucopia of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Based (loosely) on Bertrand Russell's History of Western Civilization.

	MEASURE FOR MEASURE
BBC TV Shakespeare series. Kate Nelligan, Tim Pigott-Smith and other well-known Shakespearean actors.

	MEDEA
Dir Pasolini. Adapted from the Euripidean drama, a disturbing vision of personal and national conflict. Maria Callas as the high priestess. EST.

	MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR
Set in the future after some unspecified catastrophe Julie Christie tries to carry on. A strange teenager is billeted on her.

	THE MEN
Marlon Brando as paraplegic war ex-serviceman. His performance dominates every scene of his rehabilitation. Dir. Fred Zinnemann.

	MEPHISTO
Based on real life story of ambitious German provincial actor through the rise of Nazi Germany. Remarkable cinematic study of the alluring theatricality of emergent Nazism. Dir. Istvan Szabo. German-EST.

	THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
(Nat Theatre). Based on Jonathan Miller's brilliant stage production. Laurence Oliver, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett.

	MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE
Tom Conti as a Major in a Japanese P.O.W. camp. He acts as go-between doing his best to keep the peace.

	THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
BBC TV Shakespeare series. Alan Bennet, Prunella Scales and Richard Griffiths. Dir. David Jones.

	THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Nicolai's opera performed by Zagreb Opera with Norman Foster, Mildred Miller, Igor Gorin and Colette Boky.

	METROLAND
The late Poet-Laureate Sir John Betjeman's nostalgic journey through the suburban Shangri-La built by the Metropolitan Railway Company.

METAL OF DISHONOUR

USA 1996. 50 mins Ground-breaking documentary which exposed the Pentagon’s use of radio-active weapons in the Gulf War of 1991 and the long term effects on thousands of people. It follows ill-informed G.I.s into contaminated burntout tanks, and visitors into Iraqi hospitals filled with deformed children. Veterans and experts such as physician Helen Caldicott, former Attorney General Ramsay Clark give testimony and address the Pentagon’s continuoing use of human beings as guinea pigs in outrageous experimenting. Finally it raises uncomfortable questions about our illusions of security in a nuclear age. N.B. The quality of this video is not brilliant

	METROPOLIS (ORIGINAL)
Fritz Lang's 1926 vision of a futuristic city where forces of dictatorship use scientific trickery to quell worker revolt. Not surprisingly it was considered subversive by the Nazis. B & W, Silent.

	METROPOLIS (ROCK)
A colourised version with added rock music sound track. The insert titles are replaced by subtitles thus 'speeding up' the film.

	MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
True story of young American in prison in Turkey for minor drug offence. Horrifying prison conditions are exposed.

	MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
BBC TV Shakespeare Series with Helen Mirren, Peter McEnery, Nigel Davenport. Produced by Jonathan Miller.

	THE MIKADO
The Gilbert & Sullivan opera with William Conrad, Kate Flowers, Clive Revill, Ann Collins, London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus

	MIRACLE IN MILAN
A foundling goes to live with poor family on outskirts of Milan and a guardian angel returns to help them. Dir. de Sica. Italian-EST.

	MIRROR
Many layered film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Real life and family relationships intertwine with memories of childhood. Russian-EST.

	MISS JULIE
R.S.C. in outstanding production of Strindberg's play. Helen Mirren, Donal McCann. Miss Julie imprisoned by conventions seduces her father's valet. Inevitably she and her lover find it an impossible situation.

	MISSING
Dramatization of true life story of journalist who disappears in Chile and how his conservative father is led up blind alleys and confronted with lies from both US & foreign officials when he searches for his son.

	THE MISSION
18th century Spanish colonisation of South Africa. The only protection for natives is a Jesuit priest intent on converting them.

	MISSISSIPPI BURNING
The FBI is tracing the killers of 3 Civil Rights workers. In the search for the KKK a community is rent apart.

	MODERN TIMES
Chaplin's great classic of the 'little man' at work on a production line who inadvertently becomes classed as a 'red' agent.

	MONA LISA
A soft-hearted Kings Cross tart's minder who tries in his muddleheaded way to understand and then change her life style.

	MON ONCLE
Jacques Tati satirical look at mechanized 20th century. Uncle guides his 7 year old nephew from the clinical gadgetry of his 'modernized' home to the fun and excitement of the real world.

	MONSIEUR HIRE
Psychological thriller based on Georges Simenon novel of love and attraction which takes a pernicious and tragic turn. French-EST.

	MONSIEUR VERDOUS
Chaplin abandons his tramp character to become a dapper modern Bluebeard who supports his family by marrying and then murdering a succession of rich and usually empty-headed women.

	A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
Not the Turgenev play. 2 Great War survivors come to a Yorkshire village to heal their battle scarred minds. Kenneth Branagh.

	MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Anarchical sequence of sketches of thesearch by King Arthur and his Knights for the Holy Grail.

	MONTY PYTHON LIVE AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Many of the more famous Monty Python sketches.

	MOON IN THE GUTTER
Stevedore in mysterious town is haunted by suicide of his sister until he meets girl who resembles her. Depardieu. French-EST.

	MOONLIGHTING
In 1981 4 Poles are working illegally in London. One of them learns of martial law in Poland but tries to keep it to himself so that they will keep working and get a bonus. Jeremy Irons. Dir. Skolimowski.

	MORGAN: A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT
Young woman decides to leave her talented but half mad husband. Vanessa Redgrave. Dir. Karel Reisz.

	MOTHER
An old (1926) classic from Soviet Union. Dir Pudovkin. Silent with music score. Based on novel by Maxim Gorky set in 1905. A mother tries to keep the peace between her husband and son who work in same factory.

	MR HULOT'S HOLIDAY
Another Tati classic. Quintessentially French yet with universal charm. Hulot wreaks havoc in the little resort of St. Marc-on-Sea.

	MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Frank Capra's story of the innocent Senator who finally realises that he is being used as a stooge. James Stewart.

	THE MUSIC LOVERS
Dramatic highlights from life of Tchaikovsky done in the excessive baroque style we expect from Ken Russell. Richard Chamberlain.

	MUSICAL TALES
Four ballets, Nutcraker, Petrushka, Coppelia and Sleeping Beauty done with animated puppets.

	MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
The remake with Marlon Brando & Trevor Howard. Captain Bligh is a sadist. The crew revolt.

	MY APPRENTICESHIP
2nd part of famous Gorky trilogy directed by Mark Donskoi. Here Gorky is in service of a monstrous family. His wise and patient grandmother helps him on his travels. 1939. Russian-EST.

	MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE
Unemployed Asian lad runs a decrepit launderette with help of his ex-National Front pal. A modest but very popular film.

	MY FAIR LADY
A great screen musical version of PYGMALION. With Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Winner of 8 Oscars.

	MY LEARNED FRIEND
Will Hay was one of Britain's top comics in the 30's. A black comedy of a lawyer on a convict's hit list. Dir. Basil Dearden.

	MY LEFT FOOT
Daniel Day Lewis gives an inspiring fascinating and optimistic performance as Christy Brown, Irish working class writer and painter born paralyzed and dismissed by all except his family.

	MY LIFE AS A DOG
Exquisite tale of 12 year old living with elder brother and sick mother to whom his natural high spirits and mischievous pranks are a trial. The boy manages to distance himself from catastrophe. Swedish-EST.

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