Blind Shaft
With a suspenseful plotline that keeps viewers glued to the screen awaiting each new development in this harsh tale of miners and murder in northern China, multi-award-winning BLIND SHAFT depicts desperate men who will do anything for money. Controversial in its commentary on China’s social problems, with characters poisoned by greed and infidelity having abandoned their families and lost any sense of dignity, the story is anything but simple. Mid-way through, the film takes an endearing turn th…
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Eloge De L’Amour (Subtitled)
Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard’s film is about nothing and everything as a man continually speaks of his project, with many of the characters conversing offscreen in fabulously vague and confusing parables and platitudes. The plot comes in bits and pieces, in memorable shots…
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Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress (Subtitled)
The story of two young men, Ma and Luo, from the city who, during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, are sent to a isolated mountain village to be re-educated in Maoist teachings. They discover a cache of forbidden foreign books by writers such as Dumas and Flaubert and read them to the local seamstress, with whom they have fallen in love. Based on an international best-selling novel, this adaptation stars Zhou Xun (BEIJING BICYCLE) as the seamstress….
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Breathless (aka A Bout De Souffle) (Subtitled)
Godard’s first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero, Humphrey Bogart. BREATHLESS is the arguable cornerstone of the French New Wave, exhibiting the trademark documentary shooting style, natural sound design, and thematic interest in the de…
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Angela (Subtitled)
Angela’s husband runs a shop acting as a front for a Mafia drugs operation. When she embarks on an affair with Masino, both their lives are put at risk….
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Prince Of Central Park
After his mother dies and he is placed in the care of an abusive foster mother, twelve-year-old J.J. Somerled (Frankie Nasso) runs away–literally–from a difficult past, taking only his electronic keyboard with him, and begins living in New York City’s Central Park. Making music and enjoying the beauty of the park and his new freedom, J.J. meets The Guardian (an elf-like Harvey Keitel) and befriends a sad old couple who lost their own son (Kathleen Turner, Danny Aiello). An children’s story tha…
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Amores Perros (Love’s A Bitch) (Subtitled)
Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters–OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU–the film concerns the issue of love in the lives of several individuals residing in modern day Mexico City. Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) has fallen in love with his brother’s wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche). He begins e…
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Murder At Devil’s Glen
Four students bury a body after an accidental shooting. Years later each receives a phone call reminding them of their deeds….
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Historias Minimas (Subtitled)
Three people on a journey to realise their dreams walk through the Patagonia countryside….
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Joshua’s Heart
Ten-year-old Joshua’s father has a new girl-friend every few months but when his father’s love for Claudia dies after a few months Joshua’s love for her doesn’t……
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Dragonflies (Subtitled)
A taut, psychological thriller, written by Nikolaj Frobenius (best known for writing INSOMNIA), in which a couple, Eddie and Maria, are living a happy and secluded life in the country. Their seclusion is upset by the arrival of Kullman, a friend of Eddie. Eddie and Kullman had once been criminals, an activity which led to Kullman going to jail. To Maria’s growing concern, Kullman shows no sign of leaving and seems to be moving in permanently. Slowly, Kullmans’ real reasons for coming to stay are…
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Danielle Steel’s Daddy
Oliver Watson’s safe world is set to crash at his feet. His marriage crumbles, his mother dies and his eldest son rejects him. As the only parent Oliver must now cope with his family and his widowed father. Based on the novel by Danielle Steel….
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Broken Wings (Subtitled)
A father’s death brings much emotion and change to a family….
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Savages
The first American film from Merchant Ivory Productions, SAVAGES is an allegorical tale which takes a hard look at what we deem civilized. When a croquet ball rolls into the middle of a human sacrifice, a tribe called the Mud People becomes curious and follows it into a deserted stately home. After the primitive people enter the mansion, a mysterious change occurs and the motley crew is suddenly transformed into refined individuals attending an elegant dinner party in 1930s. The group includes a…
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In Custody
A drama based on the novel by Anita Desai which follows Deven, a teacher at an Indian college and his attempt to interview a famous poet. English subtitles….
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Jane Austen In Manhattan
Director James Ivory brings the intrigue and guile of rival theatre companies to life in JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. At Sotheby?s auction house in New York, a theatre producer and an ambitious off-Broadway director buy an obscure childhood play written by Jane Austen. Robert Powell stars as Pierre, an avant-garde director who becomes engaged in a heated rivalry with his former mentor and lover, traditionalist director Lilianna Zorska (Anne Baxter). While competing to produce different versions of…
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Leave Of Absence
Sam and Eliza have been married for twenty years and their relationship has always been extremely close. When Nell enters their lives Sam feels his marriage threatened until one day he discovers that Nell is dying……
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Snap Decision
Three children who are happily running around the house and bouncing on their beds are captured on film by their loving godmother. As a result of this the children’s mother is accused of pornography and she faces the chance of spending years behind bars……
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Haven
This poignant made-for-television drama star Natasha Richardson as Ruth Gruber, a brave woman from Brooklyn, New York, who travels to Europe during World War II to help thousands of Jews escape to America. The all-star supporting cast includes Colm Feore, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Hal Holbrook, and William L. Petersen….
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Sherlock Holmes - The Woman In Green
Attractive women are being killed. The police are baffled and invite Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to assist them. The corpses are found minus a right forefinger. Rich victims are being hypnotised into believing they have committed one of the murders. The man behind the evil plot is Holmes’ deadly enemy Moriarty, ‘Napoleon of Crime’….
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