A mission deep into space in the year 2163 becomes a perilous struggle against insanity when the crew become infected by a malignant dark star. Jindrich Polák's pioneering and much-imitated feature is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. Adapted from Stanislaw Lem's 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud, and predating Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek and Kubrick's 2001. Ikarie XB-1's influence can be seen on both and on almost every other science-fiction film that has followed.& find out more...
Madalenna is a married woman who leads a respectable, socially acceptable life. Except at certain intervals in that life, when a childhood trauma produces amnesia. She is no longer the respectable married woman, but a gypsy possessed by a wild, free-living spirit. This, supposedly true story, is the most bonkers of all the melodramas that Gainsborough produced. Madonna of the Seven Moons abandons the usual British historical setting in favour of a highly stylised Florence, nominally set in th find out more...