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Twenty Twenty-Four
Gripping sci-fi thriller winning acclaim on the indie film circuit. A scientist anticipates nuclear disaster and holes up in a bunker. With just an intelligent computer for company, he begins to question his self-imposed isolation and whether he is really alone. Shot on location in Portsmouth, the cinematography and central performance are truly distinctive. 3
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Son of Saul
At several camps the Nazis established units of Jewish male prisoners (sonderkommandos) picked for their youth and relative health. Those at Auschwitz-Birkenau lived in better physical conditions than other inmates and were divided into different groups, each with specialised functions including greeting new arrivals to the camp; sorting their suitcases and packages for shipping to
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A United Kingdom
In this romantic drama set in post-war Britain and Bechuanaland (now Botswana), writer-director Amma Asante revives a long-forgotten chapter of Britain’s imperial history which still has resonance today. British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo (whose stand-out performance as Martin Luther King in Selma was seen as having been undeservedly snubbed by the Academy in the ‘Oscars so
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Victim
While a few recent films had touched on the issue obliquely or through a historical setting (e.g. The Trials of Oscar Wilde), Victim stood out as a contemporary drama focusing unambiguously and sympathetically on homosexuality. Star Dirk Bogarde recalled in his biography “countless letters of gratitude flooding in” from gay men after the film’s release.
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The Conversation
The story of a surveillance expert facing a moral dilemma, The Conversation is considered the finest of the four great paranoia thrillers of the 1970s alongside All the President’s Men, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor. Ironically, it came to be seen as a lesser Coppola work, being overshadowed by The Godfather
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Chevalier
In contrast with images now so often associated with Greece, Chevalier is a comedy set on a boat. A group of six men that have gone on a fishing tour are entering a competition of “The best man in general”. Any skill or physical endowment that can possibly be judged is put down in their
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive was nominated for Palme d’Or but won the Soundtrack Award. The film is full of music from different centuries, much of it performed by Jarmusch’s own band, SQÜRL. It spans from Paganini to Wanda Jackson and the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. Equally, the sources of the music also vary
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The New Man
In this creative documentary (funded by the Wellcome Trust) director Josh Appignanesi and his partner, academic and author Dr Devorah Baum, turn the camera on themselves. The film charts from both the female and male point of view the impact of IVF treatment, pregnancy and new parenthood on their lives. Josh came to the WFC
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The Rocket
This Australian underdog drama about a young boy thought to bring bad luck to his family is set in the little-filmed country of Laos (one of the world’s few remaining communist states and one of the poorest countries in East Asia), and spoken in the Lao language. While some of the film was filmed in
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The Olive Tree
Alma is very close to her grandfather although he has retreated into dementia. The family has sold of his beloved thousand-year-old olive tree, to pay his debt, but the loss of the tree has brought the grandfather into a depression. When her grandfather refuses to eat, Alma sets out to find the tree for him.
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