Queen Elizabeth I travels forward in time to witness the disintegration of her realm - a post-Thatcher wasteland where female punks roam a junky and violent landscape. An original, bold and controversial punk film - originally banned by the Video Nastys Act - which launched Jarman's career.
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LOULOU (1980)
Certification18 Our Rating
France's greatest screen actor is a no-good petty thief who meets a middle class yuppie at a disco. He excites her so much that she abandons her steady relationship with her boss and moves in with him. A portrait of France in the 70s, blue collar, big-bellied and chauvinist; well acted with the seedier side of Paris brilliantly evoked.
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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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MY LEFT FOOT (1988)
Certification15 Our Rating
Christy Brown was an Irish cerebal palsy victim who overcame his severe handicap to become a talented painter and author with just the use of his left foot. Daniel Day Lewis is totally and utterly convincing as Brown - using method acting he became Brown and his thoroughness makes the film a great one.
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RADIO ON (1980)
Certification18 Our Rating
A highly stylised British road movie as a comment on the 70s. DJ Beams drives from London to Bristol (play spot the location), in a battered old Rover, to unravel his brother's mysterious death, but it's the incidental characters that he meets on the way that provide the body of the film. Beautifully shot in monochrome and with a fantastic punky soundtrack including Bowie, Kraftwerk and Wreckless Eric.
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THE ICE STORM (1997)
Certification15 Our Rating
In a masterly film Ang Lee turns his sharp, compassionate eye on affluent ex-urban New England during Thanksgiving 1973. As the Watergate scandal escalates Nixon's bad faith is echoed in the life of an adulterous Wall Street analyst, Kevin Kline, whose children are in revolt and whose wife is shouting for help. An extraordinary tale of sexual jealousy, of children acting like adults and of adults like children, leading up to the tragic night of the Icestorm, the worst weather to hit the area for
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