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Tue
26
Feb
- B&W
Classic courtroom drama, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara. When an army lieutenant is held for the killing of a bartender, his defence is "justifiable homicide", on the grounds that the man had viciously assaulted and raped his wife. Paul Biegler is the lawyer hired…
Tue
25
Oct
- Biography, Drama, History
- Soviet Union
- B&W
- 205 mins.
Widely regarded as Andrei Tarkovsky’s finest film, Andrei Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th-century Russian history which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic scale, it does not flinch from…
Tue
28
Dec
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- USA
- B&W
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Lord Frederick Barker is the British representative to the League of Nations. Current geopolitical tensions, which could lead to war if not dealt with, have him preoccupied with work, he more…
Tue
30
Jun
- Romantic comedy
- France
- B&W
- 91 mins.
On a summer night in Paris André, a small-time ex-con, owes money to the mob and will be killed if he doesn't pay by midnight. In desperation he climbs onto a bridge over the Seine, stumbling across a beautiful and mysterious woman, Angel-A, preparing to end her…
Tue
02
Jun
- Comedy
- USA
- B&W
- 97 mins.
Famed African explorer and big game hunter Captain Spalding (Groucho Marx) goes hunting for a valuable missing painting in the home of society matron Mrs Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) in this madcap Marx Brothers comedy. Based on their Broadway show and a box office hit on release, Animal…
Tue
07
Oct
- Crime drama
- Australia
- Colour
- 108 mins.
David Michôd's remarkable, multi award winning debut feature is quite simply one of the finest Australian films ever made. A superbly paced and impeccably acted crime drama, featuring electrifying performances from some of Australia's best acting talent, Animal Kingdom tells the story of 17 year old "J"…
Tue
17
Feb
- Colour
Wartime drama, filmed on the Black Isle, starring Phyllis Logan and Giovanni Mauriello. At the end of the Second World War in a rural Scottish farming community, a young housewife leads a cold, laborious life with her husband. She finds herself drawn to Luigi, one of three…
Tue
19
Feb
- Romantic Comedy
- USA
- B&W
- 125 mins.
A somewhat contemptuous recognition of human weakness underlies Billy Wilder's work, a sense of the ease with which people are drawn into being procurers, gigolos, hacks, embezzlers, black-marketeers, killers. The Apartment, reissued in a new widescreen print that does justice to its smoky monochrome, sees him at…
Tue
02
Oct
- War, Drama
- USA
- Colour
- 147 mins.
During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz (famously played by Marlon Brando), who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people and constructed a strange kingdom for…
Tue
27
Apr
Jean-Pierre Melville's reputation rests largely on American-style gangster movies such as Le Deuxième Souffle and Le Samouraï, but Army of Shadows may be his greatest film. In this long but utterly mesmerising vengeance thriller, set during the Second World War, Lino Ventura plays a Resistance fighter searching…
Wed
25
Feb
- Silent romantic drama
- France/Belgium
- B&W
- 100 mins.
Set in roaring twenties Hollywood, Michel Hazanavicius's highly acclaimed film shows swashbuckling silent film star George Valentin's career in sharp decline with the advent of Talking Pictures, while studio extra Peppy Miller is rising through the ranks to become a star. Their destinies entwined, The Artist is…
Tue
23
Jan
- Colour
Drama starring Zbigniew Cybulski. May 1945: the war is over but Polish society is divided. An abortive assassination attempt leaves Maciek with a night to kill in a provincial town. As the local VIPs celebrate, Maciek's assignation with a barmaid leads to a love that will shatter…
