Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved.
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DONNIE DARKO: DIRECTOR'S CUT (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved.
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DOWN BY LAW (1986)
Certification15 Our Rating
A brilliant movie from the same director as "Stranger Than Paradise". Our three low-life heroes escape from jail into the Louisiana swamps and find that they might have been better off inside. Off-beat, very stylish, funny and just brilliant!
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DRUGSTORE COWBOY (1989)
Certification18 Our Rating
Matt Dillon gives his best performance to date as Bob, a streetwise junkie, who, with his wife Diane and a couple of spaced-out cronies, travel smalltown America staging robberies to finance their insatiable cravings. A gritty and compelling insight into the harsh realities of drugs and life.
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ELEPHANT (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Gus Van Sant's take on the shooting at Columbine High School is a masterpiece. Using a cast of unprofessional actors, he has created a unique and highly affecting film, rich in atmosphere and style. The non-linear narrative follows the experiences of the key characters, giving a different perspective of events in the short time frame (most of the events shown in the film take place in about an hour). While the tension in the film obviously comes from the impending violence, the film's strongest
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FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
Certification12 Our Rating
A lovingly created homage to the melodramas of the 1950s sees Frank and Cathy Whitaker's picture perfect marriage masking a relationship based on lies. A blossoming friendship with the black gardener and a husband whose fallen in love with another man leave Cathy shunned by her friends and neighbours, her outwardly idylic world finally revealed for the sham that it is. Far from Heaven looks stunning, the recreation of the period nothing short of immaculate, but I have never been a fan of 1950s m
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LES DIABOLIQUES (1954)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Acclaimed and imitated, this is Clouzot's classic tale of the sadistic head-teacher who brutalises his unfortunate wife. With the help of her husband's mal-treated mistress, a willing accomplice, the two women set out to exact revenge. But when his body goes astray this macabre story truly unfolds...
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LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Charlotte has joined her new husband in Tokyo, but what she had hoped would be an adventure for them both finds her marooned and alone. Staying in the same hotel is Bob, a jaded film star in the city to do a whiskey commercial, and it is only when the sleepless pair meet in the hotel bar that their depressed isolation begins to lift. Lost in Translation is remarkably simple in its conception, two people who would seem to have nothing in common, but who form a bond of affection and unspoken under
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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
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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Finally! A popular 'indie' movie written and directed by a woman! This film shines with wit and warmth and brains, interesting people, beautiful dialogue and dark, dark humour.
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