La Regle Du Jeu (Subtitled)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on his vast estate. The guest list includes Robert’s mistress Genevieve (Mila Parely), from whom he’s trying to part, and Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a famed aviator who is in lo…
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La Terra Trema (Subtitled)
An example of the neo-realism school of Italian cinema, this is the story of a Sicilian fisherman whose toils are exploited by the men of the fish market. Highly influential Italian director Luchino Visconti;s second film, LA TERRA TREMA is a powerful drama that integrates real Sicilian locals into the cast….
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Piccadilly (Silent)
A British silent murder mystery about Shosho (Anna May Wong, SHANGHAI EXPRESS), scullery maid turned dancer from China, who finds herself caught up in a crooked liaison between a suave nightclub owner Valentine and an obsessive fellow dancer Mabel (Gilda Gray). Features a cameo by Charles Laughton in his feature debut. This is E.A. Dupont’s original silent, with a commissioned score by Neil Brand, and amber and blue tinting as appeared in an original 1929 print. This stylish and evocative Jazz A…
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To Sleep With Anger
Charles Burnett’s beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention (Danny Glover), an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon (Paul Butler), who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry’s charming, down-home manner hides a malicious penchant for stirring up trouble, and he exerts a strange and powerful effect on Gideon and his thoroughly assimilated black, middle-class family, inclu…
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Un Chant D’Amour (Silent)
The author Jean Genet wrote and directed his one and only short film, UN CHANT D’AMOUR using a cast plucked from his associates and male lovers from Paris streets. Set in a French prison the film examines intense homosexual desire. Banned for many years it became a cause celebre for gay rights campaigners as well as being a masterpiece of poetic film-making….
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The Early Films Of Peter Greenaway Vol. 1
Featuring the titles ‘A Walk Through H’, ‘H Is For House’, ‘Windows’, ‘Intervals’, ‘Dear Phone’ and ‘Water Wrackets’….
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The Early Films Of Peter Greenaway Vol. 2
A collection of film shorts….
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A Zed And Two Noughts (Wide Screen)
The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. This tale concerns twin zoologist brothers whose wives are killed in a freak car crash involving a rare swan. The brothers form an unusual and strangely close relationship with Alba, the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Preoccupied with death and decomposition, the brothers organise elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals, making time-lapse films of dalmatians and zebras to chart the deca…
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The Draughtsman’s Contract (Wide Screen)
Set in Wiltshire in 1694, on the country estate of Mr and Mrs Herbert, this erotic murder mystery is Greenaway’s lavish breakthrough creation as director. The Herbert’s are having some marital difficulties, so he decides to take a two week holiday by himself. To surprise him on his return, Mrs. Herbert commissions an effete artist to draw twelve portraits of her estate. The artist agrees on the condition that he may sexually exploit Mrs. Herbert’s body for those two weeks, she accepts his condit…
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Sixth Happiness (Wide Screen)
Based on the autobiographical novel by Kanga. A boy is born with brittle bones in Bombay in 1962….
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Bande A Part (Subtitled)
Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with dime store novels and American crime films with BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a free-spirited romp in the same vein as the director’s breakthrough smash, BREATHLESS. The story follows two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), who are searching for a way to make a big score. When Franz meets the beautiful Odile (Anna Karina) and she informs him of a large chunk of cash her aunt keeps hidden in her house, the duo are convinced that this is the…
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A River Called Titas (Subtitled)
A story based on a novel and set in Ghatak’s hometown of East Bengal, where a couple are divided by a kidnapping. Bengali dialogue with English subtitles….
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Campfire
Bavo Defurne’s film follows a young boy scout who must choose between his girlfriend and his best friend on a camping trip….
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Journey To Italy
George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman play Alexander and Katherine Joyce, a bored married couple in Naples, waiting around for an inherited house to be sold. With time on their hands the cracks begin to show in their marriage. Rejecting Hollywood norms, Rossellini uses periods of pure cinematography, in this case of Naples and Mt Vesuvius, to illustrate the passage of time and moments of ennui. The director also deliberately kept the actors uninformed about the script and story, and with this enforc…
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The Navigators (Wide Screen)
Ken Loach’s THE NAVIGATORS follows a group of South Yorkshire railway workers during the mid-1990s privatisation of British Rail. The film features Loach’s typically asute social commentary and subtle humour….
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The Caretaker
Harold Pinter’s renowned play is brought to the screen by Clive Donner in this acclaimed production starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, and Robert Shaw….
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Phil Mulloy - Extreme Animation
EXTREME ANIMATION presents the dark and mischievious work of animator Phil Mulloy. Simply put, these cartoon aren’t for kids–they feature sex, violence, and plenty of nonsense. Short films include The Sound of Music, The Sex Life of a Chair, and much more….
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Burning An Illusion
Pat Williams has a job, a home and a boyfriend she hopes to one day marry. One night, Del, her boyfriend is arrested after a fight and suddenly life isn’t so settled……
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The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Animated) (Silent)
Considered by many to be the first full-length animated film, the story of Lotte Reiniger’s mesmerizing work is taken from THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. A young prince embarks on a series of great adventures, including uniting with Aladdin and the Witch of the Fiery Mountains to save a beautiful princess. Produced in Germany this color-tinted film utilizes laboriously cut out silhouettes to tell its story….
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Alice In Wonderland
Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller’s vision was a picture of upper-middle-class society as it may have appeared through the eyes of Alice, a small girl with a wild imagination. A stellar cast includes Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, Alan Bennett, Sir…
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