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PRIDE OF MANCHESTER SELF ISOLATION CINEMA CLUB |
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC  |
| Julie Andrews stars in this heartwarming musical from 1965, adapted from the Rodgers & Hammerstein stage musical, itself inspired by the 1956 film 'Die Trapp Familie'. Timeless songs and stunning images of the Austrian Alps, make this story of a singing nun-turned-nanny, who assists the family she works for avoid capture by the Nazis, a favourite for all ages. |
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THE STRAIGHT STORY |
| David Lynch's perfect G-rated, Disney-produced, family-friendly beautiful-looking film from 1999 that sees Richard Farnsworth give an Oscar-nominated performance as an Iowa farmer who travels across America by lawnmower to visit his dying brother in Wisconsin. |
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FORT APACHE |
| This magnificent western is one of the highlights of American cinema, the first of John Ford's remarkable "Cavalry Trilogy" in 1948 - although not related in storyline to "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" or "Rio Grande". Starring John Wayne in one of his finest, most delicate performances alongside a particularly outstanding Henry Fonda, its primary emphasis is on military etiquette. (Black & White). |
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WAGON MASTER |
| One of the greatest and most warmly human films in the series of Westerns made by the master of the genre, John Ford. His least appreciated 1950 masterpiece, it follows an 1849 Mormon wagon train bound for the westward Promised Land in alliance with a pair of rootless horse-traders, a trio of theatrical drunks, and a tribe of nomadic Navajos, tested by the stunning landscape and the threat of some villainous bandits. (Black & White). |
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VIDEOMAN |
| Kristian A. Söderström's wryly funny, bleakly melancholic Swedish noir comedy from 2018 in which an embittered VHS horror collector is plunged into his own personal giallo and threatened by a mysterious (and possibly murderous) buyer. (Subtitles). |
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IDA |
| Pawel Pawlikowski's 2013 Oscar-winning eerily beautiful black-and-white stunning drama which is riveting, original and breathtakingly accomplished on every level - the kind of film that can make you wish colour film had never been invented. It’s Poland in the early 1960s under communist rule and a young orphan raised by Catholic nuns, leaves the convent to meet her estranged next of kin only to discover a family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation. (Black & White. Subtitles). |
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IN WHICH WE SERVE |
| Commissioned in 1942 to make a war film on a subject of his choosing, Noel Coward selected a naval story based on the exploits of Lord Louis Mountbatten aboard HMS Kelly for one of the most eloquent Oscar-winning motion pictures of wartime. (Black & White). |
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MANK |
| Released in December 2020, David Fincher's visually sumptuous Oscar-favourite stars Gary Oldman, Charles Dance and Amanda Seyfried in about the life of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood (and "Citizen Kane") screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz. (Black & White). |
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THE HURT LOCKER |
| Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Best Picture winner is the best and most insightful anti-war film about Iraq, that doesn’t preach or pontificate. A gripping, super-sharp, nerve-shredding thriller that tells the story of a US Army bomb-disposal squad as they voluntarily put themselves next to deadly IEDs. |
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A STAR IS BORN |
| One of the most famous movie titles of all time in its second incarnation, the 1937 ground-breaking Oscar-winning version of the film - for many the best - was the first Technicolor movie to receive a Best Picture nomination and starred Janet Gaynor as a young star on the way up in Hollywood and Fredric March as an ageing star on the way out in Tinseltown. |
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WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?  |
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| An effective origin story, the 1932 pre-Code melodrama has many resemblances |
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| Judy Garland & James Mason star in the most celebrated version of the film. |
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| Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson give the film a 1970s cocaine and rock edge. |
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| Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga adapt the story to be a modern look at the music industry. |
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THE SACRIFICE |
| Andrei Tarkovsky's final film in 1986, a BAFTA winning drama centering on an academic (Erland Josephson) living contentedly in the Swedish countryside with his young son, who is forced to reassess his priorities thanks to the coming of nuclear apocalypse. Subtitles. |
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CHICKEN RUN |
| The highest grossing stop-motion animated movie of all time, Aardman Animations first attempt at making a feature film in 2000, is a sweet and homely typically British story about chickens escaping from a cruel farmer, which offers genuinely superb entertainment for all. |
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BEANPOLE |
| Possibly the best film of 2019, this quite extraordinary Russian film "Dylda", from director Kantemir Balagov was a prize-winner in Cannes and is a gorgeous, glacial exploration of lives permanently changed by the Second World War. A vital movie. Don’t miss it. (Subtitles). |
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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI |
| Funny, brutal and breathtakingly beautiful, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson & Sam Rockwell star in this multi-Oscar winning 2018 black comedy about a desperate divorced mother bankrolling an ad campaign to find her daughter's killer. Beautifully scripted, watching it makes you feel like you're having your funny bone struck repeatedly. |
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THE OLD DARK HOUSE |
| The granddaddy of haunted house movies, James Whale's wondrously eccentric chilling 1932 British romp offers expertly orchestrated scares with a humorous camp parlour movie undertow, with a cast including Boris Karloff, alongside a young Charles Laughton and Gloria Stuart, |
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TRAINSPOTTING |
| Radcliffe director Danny Boyle's fiercely original and provocative second movie from 1996, based on Irvine Welsh's controversial bestseller, Unapologetic and hard-hitting, it stars the absolutely brilliant Ewan McGregor and an unforgettable performance by Robert Carlyle as they embark on an endless drugs and petty-crime bender. |
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| Choose Life. Choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint. Released in 2017, eleven years after the original, it's a wildly invigorating and enjoyable film true to the spirit of the original which rides along similar lines but it is just not quite as good. |
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LADY BIRD |
| Saoirse Ronan & Laurie Metcalf are electric as warring daughter and mother in Greta Gerwig’s beautifully observed gloriously funny and wistfully autobiographical coming-of-age 2017 comedy-drama, set in Sacramento, California in 2002. |
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ON THE TOWN |
| One of MGM's brightest films of the post-WWII era, this 1949 Technicolor cinematic musical stars Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin as as three sailors who enjoy the delights of 'New York, New York' whilst on shore leave . |
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MONSTERS, INC. |
| John Goodman & Billy Crystal are brilliantly bickering buddies in Pixar's soaringly lovely fourth feature from 2002, which is a hugely creative, fast-paced romp that will keep both children and their parents thoroughly entertained. |
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| The 2013 prequel is basically "Revenge of the Nerds" for kids. |
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ELLE |
| "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven's 2016 frankly extraordinary piece of work that demands to be seen. A troublingly funny, subversively French chic rape-revenge thriller that Hitchcock would have been proud, featuring utterly arresting performance by Isabelle Huppert. (French with subtitles) |
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI |
| Jeff Bridges and John Goodman are exemplary in the Coen Brothers, classic 1998 goofy tribute to film noir. An insane labyrinth of plot and counterplot fill this comic masterpiece as ageing hippy Geoffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski becomes embroiled in a kidnapping when debt collectors mistake him for the millionaire Geoffrey Lebowski. |
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THE LION KING |
| More a favourite of the children than adult Disney fans, 1994's superbly drawn animated feature, with a few memorable Elton John songs, is the story of how a lion cub, exiled by his wicked uncle, achieves his destiny. The last Disney picture made in the classic vein. |
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| Jon Favreau's 2019 resplendent but pointless CGI remake. |
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST |
| Sergio Leone's 1968 cowboy epic is remembered mostly for a career-high turn from Henry Fonda, alongside Charles Bronson and a stirring quasi-operatic soundtrack from Ennio Morricone. The story focuses on a brutish gunfighter who dreams of becoming a tycoon, but is still prepared to resort to old methods to drive a widow off the land wanted by a ruthless railroad company. |
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UP |
| Disney Pixar's lovely, charming and visually stunning family comedy contains arguably the greatest montage in movie animation. Taking its influence from "King Kong" and "Fitzcarraldo," this is a coming-of-old-age story that breaks the heart, tickles the funny bone and fires the imagination as it follows a grumpy old widower on a lifelong dream adventure to South America. |
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THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT |
| Aardman Animation's Wallace & Gromit enjoy plasticine's finest hour in their full length Oscar-winning 2005 movie, which sees them running a pest control service and protecting the local produce from a plague of cute bunnies, ahead of Tottington's Giant Vegetable Competition. |
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| A GRAND DAY OUT |
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| Wallace & Gromit's 23 minute long 1989 debut sees them visit the moon. |
THE WRONG TROUSERS  |
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| 1993's half hour Oscar-winner sees Wallace & Gromit take in a penguin lodger. |
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| Gromit is framed for sheep rustling in the half hour 1995 Oscar-winner. |
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| Wallace & Gromit open a bakery in the 2008 Oscar-winning half hour who-doughnut. |
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ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY |
| An educational, informative, engaging and entertaining documentary which looks at the the subject of voter suppression in America, and particularly the history of black suffrage from its early days of George Washington, until the civil rights movement and Donald Trump. |
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MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE |
| A wonderfully affecting Oscar-nominated 2016 Swiss stop-motion animation masterpiece, "Ma vie de Courgette" , follows a young boy who is sent to a foster home with other orphans. A superlative family film, and one that dares to be different, described as "Ken Loach for kids". Available in English, or the superior original French version with subtitles. |
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PADDINGTON 2 |
| Hugh Grant stars in this piece of pure cinematic magic from 2017; a family-friendly triumphant sequel which is irresistibly good fun, taking what made the first film a hit and upping the ante to spectacular effect with Paddington picking up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. It's possible to watch without having seen the first film. |
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| Made in 2014 with anti-Brexit undertones, Nicole Kidman stars in the original big-screen debut of Michael Bond’s beloved bear, which is absolutely crammed with hilarious one-liners, endlessly inventive visual gags and quirky supporting characters, as a young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. |
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ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 |
| A joy to behold: a taut, aesthetic blast of violence, this tension-filled cult classic is a gripping 1976 thriller from director John Carpenter. One of the ultimate siege movies, it follows an attack on a nearly abandoned police station by a heavily armed street gang keen to slay the catatonic killer of their fearless leader, who's taken refuge inside. |
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| The lavish 2005 remake with Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne crackles with raw energy, edgy acting and a gradual accumulation of suspense set-pieces. |
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BAIT |
| Strange, spellbinding and timely. Mark Jenkins' 2019 genuine modern masterpiece is one of the most thrillingly original British films in years. A bizarre expressionist melodrama, at the heart of the deceptively simple story is a Cornish fisherman who resents the smugly bourgeois outsiders who have turned his home into a tourist town. (Black & White). |
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RESIDUE |
| Released in 2020, this visually striking and timely engrossing drama from first-time writer-director Merawi Gerima sees a working class black film-maker return to a gentrified Washington DC neighbourhood that has changed beyond recognition. |
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AN AUSTRALIAN DREAM |
| Thoughtful, emotive, inspiring and argumentative, but ultimately depressing documentary, from June 2020, which looks at deep-seated ugly, gurning, moronic, spittle-flecked racial disharmony in Australia through the story of Aussie Rules star and Indigenous activist Adam Goodes. |
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD |
| Gregory Peck & Robert Duvall start in the 1962 Oscar-winning black-and-white "black-and-white" film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic by Harper Lee, about racial inequality in 1930's Depression-era Alabama, told through the eyes of a child. (Black & White) |
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THE REVENANT |
| A tall, brutal tale, thrillingly told, Leonardo DiCaprio puts in an Oscar-winning performance alongside Tom Hardy in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s 2015 brutal western, based on the ordeals of a real 19th-Century fur-trapper, who is mauled by a bear, and then treks for miles through hellishly harsh terrain, dodging vengeful natives and vicious soldiers along the way. |
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RATATOUILLE |
| Many people's favourite Pixar movie, this sensational witty 2007 tale of a French rat who dreams of becoming a top chef purveys huge charm; enough to make you fall in love with the rat species and head to your kitchen to cook. |
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THE UNTOUCHABLES |
| Brian de Palma's 1987 strikingly authentic re-creation of 1930's gangster films and Prohibition-era Chicago is dominated by the Oscar-winning performance of Sean Connery, alongside Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia, and a plumped-up Robert De Niro as Al Capone. |
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LOOPER |
| Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Emily Blunt star in this fashionably sleek, unfashionably smart head-spinning time-travel science-fiction film that sees its machine gun-packing revenge mission tick along with pocket-watch precision. Set in a very rundown Kansas in AD2044, crime bosses of the distant future return bad guys or troublesome citizens back in time to be killed. |
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THE IMPOSTER |
| Fascinating and frightening documentary that is as gripping as any white-knuckle thriller. Retelling the well publicised 1997 US tabloid scandal of the disappearance of a 13-year-old in Texas, who mysteriously reappeared 3 years later in Spain. Or did he? If this were fiction it might well stretch credibility to breaking point. |
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THE ELEPHANT MAN |
| John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, and Michael Elphick star in David Lynch's very powerful, quite heart-rending, 8 Oscar nominated true life tale from 1980 about John Merrick, a deformed man in Victorian London, who travels as a circus exhibit, and is rescued by a doctor who introduces him to high society. (Black & White). |
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THE BIG COUNTRY |
| Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, and an Oscar-winning Burl Ives star in this 1958 epic, heartbreaking cowboy story with staggering vistas and a grandiose story from "Ben Hur" director William Wyler, which was distinguished to the realm of a screen classic by the best Western theme ever. |
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BLACK IS KING |
| Beyoncé's "Lion King"-inspired visual album is a feast for the eyes, celebrating the beauty and richness of African cultures with emotion and power. It tells the story of a young king who embarks on a journey to reclaim his throne and is a companion for the music from 'The Lion King: The Gift' – soundtrack album which she recorded in 2019 for the Disney live-action remake. |
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PRINCESS MONONOKE |
| 1990's Oscar-winning captivating fantasy from Hayao Miyazaki's legendary Studio Ghibli that sets a new benchmark for animation. A beautifully drawn and wonderfully composed work of art which takes us on a rocket-fuelled flight of fancy, it's available in the Japanese original with subtitles, or, if you really want, dubbed with American voices. |
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BORAT |
| Absurd, outrageous, gross, disturbing, insightful, and so funny it'll burst half the blood vessels in your face, Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" mocu-reality comedy is arguably the funniest film ever made. |
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| The Trump inspired 2020 comedy sequel "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". |
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HIS HOUSE |
| A creepy and disorienting maggot-ridden haunted house, supernatural horror movie, released for Halloween 2020, which also explores the hostile environment experienced by Sudanese refugees on an Essex housing estate |
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IT FOLLOWS |
| David Robert Mitchell's 2015 petrifying and refreshingly original first-rate horror movie about a young woman who discovers she has been inducted into a supernatural death cult after sleeping with someone, will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Scalp-pricklingly scary! |
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THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION |
| Thoroughly gripping, and pretty refreshing, the highest rated movie on IMDB (from 1995) is widely considered a feelgood masterpiece. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman play two prisoners who bond over a number of years finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. It's moving, warm and rewarding. |
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CONTROL |
| Anton Corbijn's 2007 painstakingly heartfelt monochrome reflection on the tragically brief life and career of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, played by an impressive Sam Riley. Gripping and desperately moving, with enough wit and credibility to entertain as well as educate, this is one of the most perceptive of rock music biopics. (Black & White). |
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LOOKING FOR ERIC |
| Ken Loach's powerful and heartbreaking classic Manchester drama which has all the heart and humour of a mainstream comedy-drama, with none of the tedious predictability. Starring the terrific Salford actor, Steve Evets as Eric, a postman on the brink of mental collapse, amongst a loveable Mancunian cast including King Eric Cantona himself. |
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JANE EYRE |
| Aldous Huxley and "Mary Poppins" director Robert Stevenson's 1943 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel in which an orphan is hired by the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. Starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. (Black & White). |
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| George C Scott is suitably dark and moody, while Susannah York is a plain Jane with attitude in this 1970 made for TV movie. |
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| Sticking closely to the book, but shaving much of its complex dialogue, Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 version starred William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Elle McPherson and Anna Paquin. |
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| Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Judi Dench star in this intelligent, beautifully crafted, good-looking, serious and well-acted 2011 version. |
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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT |
| Suspenseful, gripping Belgian drama, "Deux Jours, Une Nuit" from writer-director brother act Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, in which Marion Cotillard plays a factory worker who learns that her 16 co-workers have been offered a €1,000 bonus on the condition of voting to make her position redundant. She has the weekend to persuade them to vote against their own financial interests in order to save her job. (French with Subtitles). |
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TIME |
| Garrett Bradley’s profoundly intimate multi-award winning 2020 documentary about the impact of prison life on a New Orleans family after a 60-year sentence is handed down for a bank robbery. |
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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY |
| Proceed with care. If you're in the mood for something different...something possibly completely different...Peter Strickland' 2014 film will fit the bill. This is a bonkers, inventive, peculiar, perfectly lean and beautiful, melancholic and haunting exploration of an S&M relationship between two women, which nods to vintage European erotica. |
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THE BABADOOK |
| A bold and intensely emotional psychological horror from 2014, this Australian creepy corker, is a nightmarish fairytale about enchanted books and accursed dreams, which owes as much to Roman Polanski as Roald Dahl. |
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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT |
| Sidney Poitier & Rod Steiger star in this multi-Oscar winning sweat-dappled 1967 police investigation classic, set amongst the violent racism of smalltown Mississippi. |
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| Taken on its own terms, the 1970 sequel is a slightly below average crime drama. |
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| Sidney Poitier returned in 1971 for a bit more shooting and untangling of identities. |
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LOVELESS |
| "Leviathan" director Andrei Zvyagintsev's best foreign-language Oscar and BAFTA nominated pristine drama, an eerie thriller that is a pitiless critique on Putin's Russia. A hard, unhappy watch, it follows two selfish Moscovites going through a bitter divorce whilst their almost forgotten 12 year old son is caught in the middle. (Russian with Subtitles) |
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THE ASSISTANT |
| A captivating performance of few words but immense physical eloquence by Julia Garner anchors this impressively chilling, elegant, gripping and minimalist #MeToo-era drama from 2020 about workplace harassment and abuse. |
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RAIN MAN |
| The 1988 Oscar-winning road trip drama about a selfish yuppie whose father leaves the family fortune to the savant autistic brother he didn't know he had. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. |
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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN |
| Bernard Cribbins is terrific in Lionel Jeffries' tremendous 1970's adaptation of E Nesbitt's loveable family classic, in which an Edwardian London family relocate to the idyllic Yorkshire Dales, following their father's wrongful arrest for treason. |
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| Richard Attenborough leads an all-star cast in Simon Nye's 2000 remake. |
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CINDERELLA |
| Walt Disney's beautiful 1950 industrial-strength animated fantasy classic which reinforces all the coy clichés of Charles Perrault's classic story, adding some delightful singing mice, a sadistically erotic stepmother and a languidly cruel cat called Lucifer. |
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| Kenneth Branagh’s live-action Disney remake, which is unashamedly old-fashioned and stars Lily James as Cinders and Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother. |
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A QUIET PLACE |
| Part heartfelt Spielbergian family drama, part quirky Carpenter-esque creature feature, writer/director/star John Krasinski' stars alongside his wife Emily Blunt in this 2018 sensational shocker which is an instant sci-fi horror classic and simply screams from the screen to be seen. |
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MEMENTO |
| Guy Pearce stars in Christopher Nolan's dazzling, highly original labyrinthine 'anti-thriller', from 2000, about a man with short-term memory loss who can remember everything up to the attack that killed his wife but everything else is a haze. |
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12 MONKEYS |
| Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis star in Terry Gilliam's gripping, hauntingly atmospheric dystopian labyrinthine sci-fi thriller, in which the world is doomed to viral annihilation unless a time traveller can prevent the disaster. |
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| "Twelve Monkeys" was based on this 1962 French short story told through still images. |
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| TV series based on the film, aimed squarely at the sci-fi hardcore. |
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JOY DIVISION |
| Thought-provoking and genuinely heartfelt, this revealing portrait of the ground-breaking Manchester band is a riveting watch whether you're a fan or not. Newfound audio recordings help make this more revealing and there's industrial imagery aplenty, too, as the documentary immerses us into the bleak urban landscape of Manchester in the 1970s. |
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APOSTASY |
| One of 2018's best British films, Siobhán Finneran, Molly Wright and Sacha Parkinson, are superb in this intimate, bleak and compelling drama which offers a very uncomfortable yet non-judgemental insight into the lives of Jehovah's Witnesses in Manchester. |
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A KIND OF LOVING |
| Alan Bates, June Ritchie, and Thora Hird star in John Schlesinger's 1962 debut kitchen sink drama of Stan Barstow's classic Manchester tale in which young adults battle a society that once seemed promising but is now unforgiving. (Black & White). |
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NICO 1988 |
| Trine Dyrholm stars in the cinema biopic of the later Manchester years of iconic 1960's German model and Velvet Underground singer Christa Päffgen - better known as Nico - who had fallen from grace to become a heroin addict, tortured by the separation from her only child, and eking out a solo career playing her material in small local clubs. |
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HOBSON'S CHOICE |
| Winner of the British Academy Award for best British film in 1954, David Lean's Manchester classic is a splendid adaptation of the celebrated Harold Brighouse play in which Charles Laughton plays a cobbler who runs an upper-class boot shop in Salford, and his three unmarried daughters, whom he struggles to control. Great fun and must-see Mancunian viewing. |
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| The first adaptation of the 1916 play is a faithful if largely studio bound silent movie, enlivened by a gallery of engaging performances. |
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F FOR FAKE |
| Orson Welles genre-warping 1974 documentary about fraud and fakery which focuses on notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer, Clifford Irving, who found fame with his celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography. |
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DARKEST HOUR |
| Manchester Town Hall and John Rylands Library act as the Houses of Parliament in this high-octane historical political thriller which saw Gary Oldman rewarded with an Oscar for his phenomenal performance in an absorbing study of the over-mythologised Winston Churchill. |
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EAST IS EAST |
| A towering performance from Om Puri anchors this funny, charming and refreshing 1999 adaptation of Ayub Khan Din's celebrated stage play, about a mixed race family wrestling with their Pakistani-English heritage in 1971 Salford. |
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| Full of cinematic delights with consistently top notch acting, the 2011 sequel perhaps doesn't have the novelty of the first film, but it's refreshingly un-parochial, with charm and fun. |
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THE IMITATION GAME |
| Benedict Cumberbatch puts in a brilliant turn as University of Manchester mathematician and wartime code-cracking genius Alan Turing, alongside Kiera Knightley, in this handsomely engrossing and poignantly melancholic Oscar-winning thriller from 2014. |
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SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS |
| Described by the Guardian as one of the best British movies ever, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott & Alastair Sim star in this 1960 comedy about a young man who finds a very special school that teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation. |
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| The 2006 remake by "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips, with Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder and Ben Stiller is terrible but deserves some points simply for knowing about the original gem. |
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