Into Great Silence is the first film about life inside The Grande Chartreuse, the Alpine mother house of the legendary Carthusian Order. This next to silent film, no music, except the chants in the monastery, no interviews, no commentaries, is an austere meditation on a very pure form of monastic life. The seasons come and go as do the rituals of the day and we are transported into the lives of the monks. An often hypnotic observation of awareness, absolute presence, and the life of men who devo find out more...

Derek Jarman's shock-horror-outrage account of the life of Saint Sebastiane who, according to the controversial director, was gay. Sebastian is played as a Roman soldier, posted to the back of beyond with a small platoon of bored colleagues, who gets selfishly absorbed in his own mysticism and then picked on by his emotionally crippled captain. This was the first offering in Channel 4's ever so tempting "red triangle" season, and is, in fact, a powerful, visually stunning and sensitively made tr find out more...