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TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN

Woody Allen plays a frail shy kid with a massive I.Q. who, lonely and confused, turns to a life of crime - unsuccessfully.

 

A TALE OF SPRINGTIME

A Parisian tale of two girl's whose friendship is threatened when one of them thinks the other is trying to marry her father mainly to spite his girlfriend. Dir. Eric Rohmer. French-EST.

 

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Dirk Bogarde in Charles Dickens's great classic as Sidney Carton, a disillusioned English lawyer who redeems his dissolute life by changing places with a young French aristocrat condemned to death.

 

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

A BBC TV Classic Series production of Dickens story. with Paul Shelley. 'It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known'.

 

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

In this version words take second place to violent action & rioting colour. Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor

 

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
BBC TV Shakespeare series with John Cleese & Sarah Badel. Jonathan Miller's sympathetic, vibrant & hilarious adaptation.

 

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Lynne Griffin & Peter Dews in this production from the Canadian renowned Stratford Festival. Teaching notes.

 

TARKA THE OTTER

Based on the classic Henry Williamson book and set in beautiful English countryside. Story teller Peter Ustinov.

 

A TASTE OF HONEY

Adventures of a pregnant Salford teenager, her sluttish mother, black lover & homosexual friend. Written by teenager Shelagh Delaney. Fascinating offbeat comedy drama set on Merseyside.

 

TAXI DRIVER

Dir. Martin Scorsese with Jodie Foster & Robert de Niro. Lonely Vietnam veteran becomes New York taxi-driver & allows violence & squalor around him to explode in his mind. Unlovely but brilliant film.

 

TEMPEST

Not able to tolerate compromises, Philip flees from his stormy marriage & with his teenage daughter heads for Greece where he meets a spirited woman who becomes his mistress. John Cassavetes & Susan Sarandon.

 

THE TEMPEST

BBC Shakespeare series. Michael Horden, Andrew Sachs & Judith Rees. Skilfully designed sets and camerawork evoke play's intrinsic magic.

 

TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Documentary of the Russian revolution in 1917, dramatic reconstructions, eyewitness accounts & footage. Granada TV.

 

TEN RILLINGTON PLACE

Story of a crime which resulted in abolition of death penalty. Timothy Evans was wrongly found guilty of the murders carried out by his landlord Christie. John Hurt, Richard Attenborough.

 

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

Thoughtful story of captivating mother/daughter relationship over 30 years. Shirley McLaine & Jack Nicholson.

 

TESS

Acclaimed adaptation by Polanski of Hardy's novel. 5 Oscars. Peasant girl thinks she is of noble birth but enters tragic situation with child.

 

TESTAMENT

Feature film relying on understatement, about disintegration of California community which escaped immediate effects of a nuclear war.

 

THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE

Luis Bunuel's final film chronicles deliciously cruel series of sexual humiliations. French - EST.

 

THAT SINKING FEELING

Modest Bill Forsyth film of unemployed youngsters in Glasgow who mastermind pointless and fairly harmless robbery.

 

THELMA AND LOUISE

Two bored women friends go off on 3 day trip but get involved with would-be drunken rapist. Under simplistic plot are many undercurrents and with the great mid-western music made the film a hit.

 

THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY ?

Days of Great Depression in USA. Young people enter dance marathon hoping for a win to lift them out of hopeless life. A ruthless promoter exploits them. Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin.

 

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

Made by Korda at height of success of London Film Productions. Magic & fantasy of Arabian Nights story is magnificently conjured up in tale of flying horses and a great Djinn. Sabu.

 

THINGS TO COME

Another great story from Korda's Denham Studios. Based on HG Wells classic. Set in a fictional "Everytown", everything about this film was of epic proportions in 1936. Ralph Richardson .Dir. William Cameron.

 

THE THIRD MAN

Set in immediate postwar Vienna in the murk of black markets and shady medical drug dealing. The 'Harry Lime' theme played on the zither added to the black mood of the film. Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles. Dir. C Reed.

 

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

Ingmar Bergman film. Girl schizophrenic sinking into madness is focal, point for emotions of 3 men. Swedish with EST.

 

THE THIRTY NINE STEPS

Early Hitchcock thriller based on John Buchan's story. Now-classic theme of innocent man on the run from villains and police. Robert Donat, Madeleine Carrol. Peggy Ashcroft, Godfrey Tearle.

 

THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD

Based on life of famous classical pianist. The thoughts behind his actions, from brilliant piano playing to dealing on the stock exchange portrayed in 32 sections based around the Goldberg Variations by Bach.

 

36 CHOWRINGHEE LANE

Atmosphere-filled film of difficult life of ageing Anglo-Indian teacher played by Jennifer Kendal living in bygone era in Calcutta. Perceptive picture of her loneliness - rowdy classroom scenes.

 

THIS SPORTING LIFE

Professional rugby player carries violence of the field into his affair with frigid & withdrawn woman. Dir. Lindsay Anderson.

 

THREADS

Excellent film by BBC TV of Britain being devastated in a nuclear war. Set in Sheffield it shows that those who died in the initial blast may have been the lucky ones. Written by Barry Hines (KES).

 

THRONE OF BLOOD

Shakespeare's MACBETH is transferred to 16th Century Japan and successfully captures the spirit of the original. Dir. Kurosawa. EST.

 

TILL DEATH DO US PART

A cinema film of the famous TV series. Not specially notable  but the characters have entered our folklore. Dir Norman Cohen.

 

TIME BANDITS

Extraordinary sci-fi for all ages made by Monty Python team. 11 year old dreams of invasion by amiable dwarfs who take him on surreal journey through space & time. Exciting special effects. Dir. Terry Gilliam.

 

TIME IN THE SUN

This is the version of Sergei Eisenstein' QUE VIVA MEXICO! made by Marie Seaton who had succeeded in getting hold of part of his footage. Compare it with QUE VIVA MEXICO! which is also in our library.

 

THE TIN DRUM

Prizewinner at Festivals, based on Gunter Grass's novel. Charts rise of Nazi Germany through eyes of young boy living in Danzig (now Gdansk). Dir Volker Schlondorff. German with EST

 

THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT

Ealing Studio's railway comedy of the locals who decide to reopen their closed branch line & feud with local bus company.

 

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (ORIGINAL)

1942 version of this comedy made by Ernst Lubitsch of Polish actors in underground plot.Jack Benny & Carole Lombard.

 

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1983)

Mel Brooks remake of the above with himself, & Anne Bancroft. Two actors get caught up in German invasion of Poland.

 

TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD

Soft spoken small town lawyer in Deep South is given task of defending a black unjustly charged with rape. He also brings up his motherless children. Racial prejudice links with social insight of children. A compassionate film. Dir. Robert Mulligan with Gregory Peck.

 

TOM & VIV
The courtship and marriage of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, beautiful aristocrat, to the poet T.S. Elliot. William Dafoe & Miranda Richardson.

 

TO RUSSIA WITH ELTON

Record of 1980 tour of Soviet Union by Elton John which, still in Cold War times, showed that people are basically the same.

 

TO SIR WITH LOVE

Black novice teacher faces class of rowdy undisciplined kids in this film which also reflected some of the problems of teens in the 60s. Sidney Potier gives a good performance teaching in London's East End.

 

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

Adaptation by Colin Gregg of Virginia Woolf novel. A large family holiday in Cornwall in 1912. They return a few years later. BBC TV.

 

TOOTSIE

Marvelously funny story of out of work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. See this with MRS DOUBTFIRE and compare Dustin Hoffman in this with Robin Williams as Mrs Doubtfire.

 

TOP HAT

. USA 1938  100 mins.    Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.

 

 

TORCH SONG TRILOGY

Personal account of flamboyant New York artiste who searches for love, and acceptance in a world to which he does not belong.

 

TOUT VA BIEN

Radical journalist & film director boyfriend are taken hostage when they go to report on a strike   and are taken prisoner by militant strikers. Jane Fonda, Yves Montand. Dir.Jean Luc-Godard French-EST.

 

TRADING PLACES

Eddie Murphy is a hustler in the ghetto who finds his station in life greatly changed when 'swopped' with an investment executive

 

TRAFFIC

Famous Jacques Tati classic. He has invented revolutionary new car which he takes to Amsterdam Auto Show. Unable to ship it he drives there with his inefficient staff. Trouble never far away, is met head on on trip.

 

TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

Dir John Huston. Humphrey Bogart is one of 3 penniless prospectors who, greed and lure of quick wealth, corrupt.

 

THE TRIAL

Kafka's nightmare novel set mainly in the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Orson Welles directed this in 1962, also with Anthony Perkins.

 

TRIAL BY JURY

Gilbert & Sullivan opera with Frankie Howerd as the learned judge. Also Kate Flowers & Ryland Davies. L.S.O. and Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

 

TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

Brilliant & chilling piece of filmmaking of Nazi party congress of 1934. The rally scenes are terrifying example of the camera's power for propaganda. Dir. Leni Riefenstahl

 

A TV DANTE: THE INFERNO CANTOS 1-VIII

Peter Greenway brings a dazzling life to this version of Dante. With John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley.

 

TWELTH NIGHT (BBC)

Shakespeare's story of disguise and ambiguity. With Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendall, Annette Crosbie. Dir. John Gorrie.

 

TWELTH NIGHT (1981)

Another version with Joan Plowright, Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness and Tommy Steele. Dir. John Sichel.

 

TWELVE ANGRY MEN

Fate of a teenager accused of murder rests on verdict of twelve 'good men and true' locked inside a steamy jury room. All seems cut & dried but Henry Fonda is the lone man with a reasonable doubt. Acting and direction are super and the film grips throughout. Also Lee J. Cobb.

 

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Ahead of its time, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 master-piece reaches outer limits of interplanetary space & man's inner destiny.

 

TWO TRAGIC BLONDES

Documentary which tries to draw a parallel between the unhappy lives of Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow by using footage, stills etc



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