20th Century Flicks, Bristol

The intertwined lives of 2 women in 1970's France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' l find out more...

LOULOU (1980)

Certification18 Our Rating

France's greatest screen actor is a no-good petty thief who meets a middle class yuppie at a disco. He excites her so much that she abandons her steady relationship with her boss and moves in with him. A portrait of France in the 70s, blue collar, big-bellied and chauvinist; well acted with the seedier side of Paris brilliantly evoked. find out more...

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LOVE IS THE DEVIL: STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BACON (1998)

Certification18 Our Rating

A fascinating biopic of Francis Bacon, concentrating on his relationship with George Dyer, a burglar whom he caught in his house and promptly seduced, whose amorality and innocence he found attractive and whom he introduced to his Soho pals. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking, pill popping and nightmares strain the relationship in this clash between the arty, boozy Soho set and the East End criminal fraternity, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints and talks wit find out more...

MINNIE AND MOSCOWITZ (1971)

Certification12 Our Rating

Life is crazy. You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy. We're all a little bit Minnie, and a little bit Moskowitz. Sometimes it does seem best to be sensible...but then what might you be missing out on? You gotta be you. You don't have to park cars and semi-randomly yell at people, but you can't hide yourself behind a veil (or dark sunglasses) and pretend and act like ever find out more...

MY LEFT FOOT (1988)

Certification15 Our Rating

Christy Brown was an Irish cerebal palsy victim who overcame his severe handicap to become a talented painter and author with just the use of his left foot. Daniel Day Lewis is totally and utterly convincing as Brown - using method acting he became Brown and his thoroughness makes the film a great one. find out more...

RADIO ON (1980)

Certification18 Our Rating

A highly stylised British road movie as a comment on the 70s. DJ Beams drives from London to Bristol (play spot the location), in a battered old Rover, to unravel his brother's mysterious death, but it's the incidental characters that he meets on the way that provide the body of the film. Beautifully shot in monochrome and with a fantastic punky soundtrack including Bowie, Kraftwerk and Wreckless Eric. find out more...

RATCATCHER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A relatively simple story that's so well told, played and visually conceived that it actually manages to leave you in numbed silence long after it has finished. Twelve year old James lives on a grindingly depressing Glascow estate in the 70s. The family home has been designed around the word 'misery' and one of James's few friends has drowned, a death that haunts him. Into his dark world comes Margaret and a relationship develops which provides the two of them with an escape from the previously find out more...

REQUIEM (2006)

Certification12 Our Rating

An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, and decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing. Based on the tragic true story of Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student, who endured an exorcism in Miltenberg, Germany in 1976, Requiem is a powerful and sad dramatisation of a misguided attempt for salvation. find out more...

SEPARATE TABLES (1958)

Certification12 Our Rating

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...