20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Episode 17: Cutbacks. Liz is willing to do anything to avoid cutbacks at T.G.S., while Jack is forced to fire his personal assistant and hire Kenneth as his part-time assistant.
Episode 18: Jackie Jormp-Jomp. Jack tries to turn an accidental obituary for Jenna into a marketing opportunity for her Janis Joplin-based biopic. Meanwhile Liz makes friends with a group of single women while away from work for sexual harassment.
Episode 19: The Ones. Jack has second thoughts about marrying find out more...

ASHES OF TIME 'REDUX' (1994)

Certification15 Our Rating

In ancient China, on the edge of a vast desert and living the life of a vagabond, swordsman Ouyang Feng controls a network of deadly assassins. Pitiless and cynical, his heart has long been wounded by a love he neglected then lost. But as seasons, friends and enemies come and go, he begins to reflect back upon the origin of his embittered solitude. 'Ashes of Time �Redux'' is a timely re-working of Wong Kar Wai's early martial arts epic and in a style of movie making that most of us westerners ar find out more...

BABEL (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

Four interlocking stories run in parallel; two set in Morocco, one in Mexico and one in Japan and all four follow different cinematic traditions that can be described as coming from World Cinema, American melodrama, American thriller and Asian New Wave. The accidental shooting of an American tourist is the trigger that begins a chain of misery that slowly envelopes four seemingly disparate groups of people from different social, cultural and geographic backgrounds. Borrowing, at a distance, from find out more...

BAGDAD CAFE (1988)

CertificationPG Our Rating

After an argument with her husband a large German tourist gets out of her car and takes a walk. The place she ends up is the Bagdad Cafe, a run down establishment in the Arizona desert inhabited by an off-beat bunch of characters. A great understated movie - a European look at America. find out more...

BEAU TRAVAIL (1998)

Certification15 Our Rating

A sergeant-major finds himself threatened by the heroism of an attractive new recruit and, fuelled by resentment, envy and hate, becomes obsessed with plotting the young man's downfall. Though little is spelt out explicitly in this tale of repressed emotion leading to murderous jealousy, the film is accessible and clear throughout. The director's concerns are with how a wide open colonial outpost may become a prison, how men cope with an all-male society and how the physical can mirror the metap find out more...

DAFT PUNK'S ELECTROMA (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

The boys behind Daft Punk move into experimental art house cinema with this their directorial debut about two robots (oh yes) on a quest to become human. An intriguing, though perhaps not entirely successful, labour of love that, though with a frustratingly small amount of their own fine music, boasts an excellent soundtrack from Mayfield, Eno, Haydn and Chopin. A cinematographically beautiful midnight movie. find out more...

DUNE (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

Lynch has toiled to condense Frank Herbert's mammoth SF novel into two hours twenty: 10000 years in the future the life-and-death struggle between the Atreides and Harkonnens for the vital spice Melange, which is vital for space travel and is guarded by giant mile-long worms, takes place on a third planet - Arrakis, the desert planet, home to the Fremen, dune dwellers with vivid blue eyes. Fremen legend tells of a Messiah who will be able to drink the water of life, previous tasters having tried find out more...

EASY RIDER (1969)

Certification18 Our Rating

A couple of dudes sell some drugs, buy a couple of groovy looking choppers and set off on a road trip, en route meeting segments of the American counter-culture, taking a lot of drugs themselves and using far out language. find out more...

EVOLUTION (2015)

Certification15 Our Rating

A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...

FLANDRES (2007)

Certification18 Our Rating

Flanders tells the story of a group of young men, including local farmer Demster, from rural northern France, who go to fight, with brutal consequences, in a war in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Juxtaposing rural images of their home village against the savage and unrelenting landscape of battle, the film charts familiar Dumont territory offering a unique vision against the backdrop of an unconventional love story between Demester and his fragile, sometime girlfriend, Barbe. find out more...