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OCTOBER |
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| Eisenstein's visually dynamic version of Russia's October Revolution. Great propaganda but also a major advance in film technique. No film had had quicker editing until then. 1927. Silent with music. | |
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ODD MAN OUT |
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| Set in prewar times. an IRA gunman is wounded and on the run and helped & hindered by various Belfast people. Made in 1946 by Carol Reed. | |||
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OEDIPUS REX |
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| Son's loving obsession with his mother turns to patricide and incest. Pasolini explores this theme with his version Sophocles' play.EST. | |||
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE |
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. Dir. John Cromwell. USA 1934 83 mins. B & W. Set in London in the 1920s, Leslie Howard is a disabled man who falls for a tarty cockney waitress (Bette Davis). For years he struggles to escape her hold on him. From the story by Somerset Maughan. This was the first major role for Davis and she was rightly heralded as a star of the first order. | |
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THE OFFICERS' WARD |
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France 2001. 126 mins. English Subtitles. A moving account of men, mutilated by war, together as a community, and their tentative attempts to come to terms with their injuries and the outside world’s reactions to them. Had this starred Gerard Depardieu it would probably have been an international hit, but as the star-free work of an unknown director it’s more of a neglected near-masterpiece. Official Selection for Cannes Film Festival 2001 Dir. Francois Dupeyron. Cast: Sabine Azema, Isabelle Reynald, Denis Podalydes, Eric Caravaca. | |
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THE OFFICIAL VERSION |
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| Alicia is a successful teacher who accepts Government version of her country's past. Ignorant of origins of her adopted child, events force her to question the official version. Argentina. Spanish-EST. | |||
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OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR |
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| All star cast in stirring anti-war film. Shot mainly on Brighton Pier it attacks the jingoism of the Great war era. | |||
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OLIVER TWIST |
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| (BBC) Double cassette version with Eric Porter. | |||
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OLIVER TWIST (1948) |
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| A simplified but cinematic version of Dicken's tale. Alec Guinness, Robert Newton. Dir. David Lean. | |||
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OLIVER TWIST (1982) |
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| Yet another version. Dir. Clive Donner. With George C. Scott, Timothy West and Micheal Hordern. | |||
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O LUCKY MAN! |
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| Odyssey of a trainee salesman who after climbing to the top settled down to be a do-gooder. Wry version of Candide by Lindsay Anderson. | |||
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ON GOLDEN POND |
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| Delightful story of peace and tranquility of old retired couple shattered when their daughter leaves young son with them. Father and daughter always had stormy relationship but become reconciled. Superbly played by real life father & daughter, Henry & Jane Fonda + Katherine Hepburn | |||
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ON THE WATERFRONT |
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| Film that made Brando's name. Young stevedore breaks hold of waterfront gang. Powerful 'mood' dockside thriller. Dir. Elia Kazan | |||
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST |
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| Winner of 5 Oscars. Powerful story of psychiatric ward under control of sinisterly well meaning Sister Rachel. | |||
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA |
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| Massive gangster saga of prohibition era. Robert de Niro, James Woods, Tuesday Weld. Dir. Sergio Leone. | |||
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THE ONION FIELD |
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| True story of murder of L.A. policeman by psychopath and ordeal of cop's partner as court case drags on for 7 years. James Woods. | |||
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ONLY TWO CAN PLAY |
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| Peter Sellers as bored Welsh librarian having doomed love affair with local businessman's glamorous wife. The result is sophisticated slapstick of funniest kind. With Mai Zetterling. | |||
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ORDINARY PEOPLE |
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| Family is torn apart as their life is shattered by death by accident of oldest son. Younger son is shattered by guilt. 4 Oscars. | |||
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ORLANDO |
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| Sumptuous epic adaptation of Virginia Woolf novel telling life of Orlando born into Elizabethan Court and has extraordinary journey to Asian deserts and eventually transforms into a woman in 20th century London. | |||
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ORPHEE |
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| Jean Cocteau's modernized version of Orpheus's trip to the under-world. Hell is a bomb damaged wasteland with sinister motorcyclists as the emissaries of Death which is a darkly mocking princess. French with EST. | |||
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OSSESSIONE |
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| Visconti's adaptation of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE to an Italian setting. Restless wife Giovanna meets rough & handsome vagabond. Their passionate affair leads to murder of boorish husband. Italian-EST. | |||
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OTHELLO (BBC). |
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| Double cassette version. of the Shakespeare tragedy. Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins,Penelope Wilton. 206 minutes. | |||
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OTHELLO (OLIVIER) |
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| As well as Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith and Frank Finlay appear in this 170 minute version. | |||
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| OUR DAILY BREAD. |
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USA 1934 74 MINS. Dir. King Vidor. A heartfelt film which follows a young married couple as they fight the deprivations of the Depression to establish a communal farm in America’s heartlands.
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| OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH |
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UK 1996 623 mins Perhaps the most ambitious drama on British TV in the 90s. An overtly political view of British social history in the second half of the 20th century played out through the contrasting fortunes of four Geordie friends. Four cassettes. | |
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OUT OF AFRICA |
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| Romantic epic gained 7 Oscars. Story of off-beat relationship between Kenyan plantation owner and a maverick pioneer, a free spirit who steals her heart while protecting his own. Dir. Sydney Pollack. | |||
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OVERLORD |
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| Fiction which uses much newsreel footage. A boy is called up and killed in the D-Day landings. A brilliant and moving film. | |||
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