A succesful photograper in swinging sixties London leads an aimless existence. Then one day he apparently witnesses a murder in the park. A slow moving thriller, Antonioni's film is also a meditation on the relationship of film to reality and the relationship of the individual to society.
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BORN INTO BROTHELS (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th
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DELIRIOUS (STEVE BUSCEMI) (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Homeless young Toby ends up sleeping in the cupboard of neurotic, failing, sleazy paparazzi Les. However a chance meeting with equally mentally challenged starlet K'harma starts his meteoric rise to stardom in this fine satire on celebrity and the business opportunities that go with it.
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Knowing that his father had been some sort of WW2 war hero writer James Bradley set out to discover the truth about him and the fellow marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima for the now infamously 'fraudulent' photgraph. We follow this ironically socially heterogeneous group of men through the horrors of one of the most bloody battles of WW2, interspliced with the early return home of three of the 'heroes' to act as politically manipulated cheerleaders for further fundraising to continue the
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FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
From the window of her New York apartment beautiful bored housewife Diane spots her beast, a mysterious masked man, and is transfixed. This it will turn out is Diane Arbus' epiphany, a portal that will take her on a journey that unleashes not just her soul but her remarkable gift as a photographer. Hirsute ‘Wolf Man' Lionel, part Elephant Man, part seductive gentleman, takes Diane into his world of outsiders and gradually wins her heart before turning into a handsome prince and disappearing in a
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SALVADOR (1986)
Certification18 Our Rating
A totally brilliant movie. A down on his luck photo-journalist and his 'out for kicks' buddy head down to El Salvador to earn some money and have a good time. They soon find themselves caught-up in a bloody civil war. Violent, compelling and politicaly right-on. The best thriller for years! See it.
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THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (2007)
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The Devil Came On Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His is an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction
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THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
A self-narrated and consequently potted history of the producer Robert Evans, a man who rose from nowhere and made possible some of the greatest movies of the 1970s. Not least of which being ‘The Godfather'. A prodigious mover and shaker, Evans' rarefied world went belly up when the scandals started to come thicker and faster than the successes. The kid stays in the picture is a fascinating insight into the world of the Hollywood power broker.
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