20th Century Flicks, Bristol

'All My Loving' was created when John Lennon and Paul McCartney challenged Palmer, then a classical music documentarian, to make a film that encompassed the 1968 music world in one hour of screen time. This was the time of student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the music describes this struggle while also providing an escape from the troubles of the day. Great footage and interviews with the likes of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd - who had just lost Syd Barrett - find out more...

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1972)

CertificationPG Our Rating

(Showing at the Cube Cinema, Thursday June 26th 2014): The definitive nostalgia movie. A multitude of budding stars made their debuts in this fond look at the innocence of teenage life in '62. Difficult decisions, sex, booze, amazing cars and a brilliant soundtrack make this a film which is touching, perceptive, very funny and hugely entertaining.

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AMERICAN ME (1992)

Certification18 Our Rating

Powerful drama exploring the underlying erosion of stability in American society by following three generations of a Hispanic American family from the 1940's to the mid 70's. This story illustrates the roots of gang culture in LA, and digs beneath the surface. Excellently directed. find out more...

AN EDUCATION (2009)

Certification12 Our Rating

An easy going tale of a 1960s eye-opening affair between 16-year-old middle class and Oxford bound smart aleck Jenny and flash 30-something working class Jack set in the glorious suburb of Twickenham. find out more...

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE (2018)

Certification15 Our Rating

In the late 1950s in Châteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, Chantal is a great source of happiness for Rachel. She wishes for Philippe to legally acknowledge his daughter, which would give her his last name. A battle find out more...

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AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer and with only a few weeks to live, his son Blake returned to the Yorkshire village of his youth and visited his ailing father in the hospital where he had spent so much time as a GP. Blake reminisces on their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we find out more...

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AUSTIN POWERS INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997)

Certification15 Our Rating

Comic genius Mike Myers (Wayne's World, So I Married an Axe Murderer) hits the jackpot with this humdinger of a homage to the swinging '60's spy thriller. Austin Powers (International Man of Mystery-cum-fashion photographer) is defrosted after 30 years on ice and, after the longest find out more...

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AUSTIN POWERS THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME (1999)

Certification12 Our Rating

Mike Myers' seriously groovy alter ego achieved official cult status when he knocked the latest Star Wars movie off the top spot both here and in the U.S, which must make this the most eagerly awaited sequel ever. Yeah baby, Austin Powers is back, but all is not well. Arch enemy Dr Evil has stolen Austin's biggest asset - his sex drive, so the psychedelic era's silliest secret agent must again do battle with the dastardly doc and his sinister new sidekick, creepy clone Mini-Me. The only duff mom find out more...

AUTO FOCUS (2002)

Certification18 Our Rating

Bob Crane was the star of the hugely successful 1960s TV series "Hogan's Heroes", a man of fine upstanding character until he's befriended by a svengali-like video technician. Together the two men embark on an increasingly dark journey of sexual hedonism that leaves Crane increasingly estranged from reality and, ultimately, dead. Auto Focus is a fascinating film, visually atmospheric, superbly performed by the two leads and an utterly gripping account of one man's decent into addiction. find out more...

BAARIA (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in the small town in Sicily where he was born. We see a number of important historical events through the eyes of young Peppino, watching the fortunes of his town and his family rise and fall. While open to accusations of nostalgia, superficiality and indulgence the film is something of a feast for the senses.
A rambunctious family saga the kind they don't, and probably shouldn't, make any more. find out more...