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JAWS

4/9/2015

 
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‘Jaws’ remains the definitive thriller about man vs. nature, and one of the best pure entertaining rides you'll ever have with a movie.

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GIRLHOOD

4/9/2015

 
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Girlhood's non-patronising and credible representation of class, race and gender is a rare and perceptive illustration of the intricacies of social inequality.

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400 BLOWS

18/8/2015

 
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Director Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is a truly unique coming-of-age film. It is intensely personal – no surprise, given that it is substantially autobiographical. 

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STILL ALICE

18/8/2015

 
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Adapted from Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel of the same name, Still Alice is a very serious story beautifully told.

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THE TERMINATOR

18/8/2015

 
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Based on the short experimental film ‘La Jetée’, it is a warning to those in power today not to forget that our children will inherit our mistakes. Director James Cameron has created a post-holocaust nightmare… set in A.D.2029, where brainy machines have crushed most of the human populace

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QUAI DES ORFEVRES

18/8/2015

 
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 Henri-Georges Clouzot was a pivotal and divisive figure of Forties and Fifties French cinema, often referred to as ‘the French Hitchcock’ as he dealt in misanthropic, black-humoured tales of greed, jealousy, murder, immorality, and revenge. The films we also stinging critiques of bourgeois society and had an unflinching view of the sordid side of life…

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LE MEPRIS

18/8/2015

 
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'Contempt' was Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 attempt at a big-budget, big- star production, and more or less satisfied his curiosity. It was not the direction he wanted to move in, and the rest of his career can be seen, in a way, as a reaction to the experience. 

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LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT

18/8/2015

 
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Comic genius Jacques Tati’s wonderful character and alter ego Monsieur Hulot first seen here in ‘Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot’ has deservedly became one of the finest comic creations of all time. 

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MANON DES SOURCES

18/8/2015

 
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‘Manon of the Spring’ moves with a majestic pacing over the affairs of four generations, demonstrating that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children.

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LES DIABOLIQUES

27/4/2015

 
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Clouzot has been endlessly accused of cruelly manipulating both his characters and audience and with Les Diabolques – a work of audacious trickery - he entirely reinvented the rules for mystery cinema. 

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LA BELLE ET LA BETE

27/4/2015

 
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Director Jean Cocteau’s French classic (1946) is a magical masterpiece that casts a unique spell. This is simply poetry on screen and possibly the loveliest film ever made.

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JEZEBEL

27/4/2015

 
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Jezebel is a movie just as concerned with the fate of a strong-willed woman in a rigid society as Gone With The Wind, but more harshly realistic about the ways society revenges itself.

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HARVEY

27/4/2015

 
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This whimsical feel-good movie about a man who really wants to escape reality is jam-packed with innocence, acceptance and messages of individuality and living life without fear - a beautiful comedy or errors. ‘Harvey’s is one of cinema’s best-loved creations.

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BIRDMAN

27/4/2015

 
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Birdman is consistently entertaining, thought-provoking, funny, and genuinely surreal – a remarkable achievement and a deserved Oscar success.

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THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

27/4/2015

 
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The unlikely collaboration between actor Robert Mitchum and actor turned Director Charles Laughton produced a slice of cinematic magic. Mitchum was a troublemaker – part myth and part reality – Laughton was a perfectionist – could this dynamic work? The film has now quite correctly become a cult classic

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THE THIN MAN

27/4/2015

 
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The pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy spurned 16 films in all – six of which were as the lovely couple Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man films.

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WHIPLASH

27/4/2015

 
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In many ways not a film about drumming at all but rather a psychological study; this is a truly gripping, fascinating and hugely entertaining movie…

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

9/4/2015

 
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This is an unconventional love story centred around two immensely unconventional people, which of course looks at their dealing with his moto-neuron disease and the emphasis is firmly placed on the impact and implications that his condition had on the young couple.

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GONE GIRL

12/2/2015

 
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Director David Fincher has turned to Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel, ‘Gone Girl’ as the inspiration for his latest film. Known to be salacious and twisted, with clever jabs at celebrity culture, it's also a pretty clever mystery full of dark corners in the human psyche ready to be explored.

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THE HOMESMAN

5/2/2015

 
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Tommy Lee Jones, wrote the screenplay, directed and stars in this film, based on Glendon Swarthout's 1988 novel, which was originally intended for Paul Newman to direct some years ago before he gave up on the project.

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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

3/2/2015

 
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No film like Robert Wiene’s classic Expressionist film, ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ (1920) about Caligari, the mad scientist, (wonderfully portrayed by Werner Krauss) and his cruel somnambulist fellow, Cesare (sleek and androgynous) do we get a sense of what this meant for the cinema, let alone the German films of the period.

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BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING

27/1/2015

 
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Jean Renoir's effortless masterpiece – a satirical comedy Boudu Saved From Drowning, adapted from the play of the same name by René Fauchois, opened in France in 1932 and like most of Renoir’s films it deals in social commentary.

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TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

23/1/2015

 
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Director James Kent, whose background is in television drama and documentary here tells of a British woman’s coming of age during World War I using Vera Brittain’s autobiography as his source material and Juliette Towhidi (writer of Calendar Girls) has written this with drama and a heart.

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'71

22/1/2015

 
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Set in Belfast in 1971, debut director Yann Demange has taken the brave decision to look at the ‘troubles’ through the eyes of naïve soldier Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell), a young English recruit.

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SERENA

15/1/2015

 
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Set in Depression–era North Carolina, Danish director Susanne Bier (‘In A Better World’) has created an atmospheric drama adapted from Ron Rash’s best-selling 2008 novel of the same name about a grubby world of greed and corruption.


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