A languid Oxford summer is the background to this self-assured treatment of Harold Pinter's screenplay. A calm veneer of civilization is laboriously peeled away after an undergraduate is killed in a car crash, setting the six central characters, (three men, two wives and a girl), at odds as they gradually tear each other to shreds. Superb performances and a disconcertingly urbane atmosphere.
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BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
Certification18 Our Rating
The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation, but a stalk'n'slash freak is on the loose and one by one the residents get suffocated, chopped etc. Will any of them survive? Director Bob Clark's tense, effective film is a precursor, in effect the template, to the 'stalk'n'slash' films, Friday 13th, Halloween et al, that would come a half decade later.
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An ivy league college becomes an explosive battle ground for racial tensions that have been simmering away for decades after a horrendous Halloween party is thrown in poor taste by the affluent, over-entitled, racist white kids. Hilarious and right on the money, make time for it.
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HORSE FEATHERS (1932)
CertificationU Our Rating
The Marx Brothers unleash their unique brand of surreal slapstick on the world of academia. The title means nonsense or hokum so you know what they think of the over educated. Genius.
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LOVE STORY (1971)
CertificationPG Our Rating
This excellent adaptation of Erich Segal's novel has passed into the realms of film classic. Ryan O'Neil and Ali McGraw shot to stardom after playing the lovestruck couple who cross social barriers to be together, but meet tragedy. Emotional and romantic.
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THE ACCIDENT/THE FAMILY WAY (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Accident (1967):- a languid Oxford summer is the background to this self-assured treatment of Harold Pinter's screenplay. A calm veneer of civilization is laboriously peeled away, after an undergraduate is killed in a car crash and his girlfriend stays with a philosophy professor, setting the six central characters (three men, two wives and the girl) at odds as they gradually tear each other to shreds. Superb performances and a disconcertingly urbane atmosphere.
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WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960)
CertificationPG Our Rating
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece.
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