Moving documentary about the internationally renowned Ballets Russes, composed of a well researched narrative and infused with illuminating, amusing anecdotes from some of the major players. The film maps the company's Diaghilev-era inception in fin-de-siecle Paris to its inevitable swan song, a history which encompasses some of the best known artists of the period including Dame Alicia Markova, Frederic Franklin, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Miro, Matisse and Stravinsky. Ballets Russes repres
find out more...
BUGSY MALONE (1976)
CertificationU Our Rating
All-singing, all-dancing musical extravaganza with a cast completely composed of mind-bogglingly talented children. Scott Baio is sinisterly covincing as the legendary gangster while Jodie Foster shows more than a glimmer of her Oscar-winning talent as his moll. Funny and hugely entertaining.
find out more...
GIACOMO PUCCINI'S LA BOHEME (1993)
CertificationE Our Rating
Recorded in the San Francisco Opera House in 1988, this performance of Puccini's La Boheme contains an international cast of singers and players, including Italo Tajo and Luciano Pavarotti
find out more...
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS (2005)
Certification12 Our Rating
Laura Henderson has just lost her husband, but while others might grieve she decides to refocus her considerable energies and on an apparent whim buys London's Windmill Theatre. A firm believer of demonstrative eccentricity, Mrs Henderson soon finds herself in trouble with the law when she decides to boost the theatre's faltering ticket sales by introducing nudity to the stage - a stroke of genius that is not without its pitfalls, particularly since her decision coincides with the arrival of WWI
find out more...
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
Certification12 Our Rating
Born in New Orleans, abandoned and adopted on the day of the end of WWI, Benjamin Button is a medical mystery. Entering life as a physically old man, over the course of his remarkable existence he rejuvenates to infancy. He has a unique, poignant, but also joyous, perspective on the world around him. Very loosely adapted from F Scott Fitzgerald's excellent short story of the same title, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is a beautifully visualised and whimsical tale that drifts through the e
find out more...