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Donnie Darko
It’s the run up to the 1988 presidential election in the States and troubled teenager, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit predicting the end of the world. As Donnie tries to discover the laws that influence the future and why he escaped a fatal accident, he is led by…
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The Night of the Hunter
Convict Harry Powell, (Robert Mitchum), learns from a cellmate facing execution, of a stash of loot hidden at his family home. On his release Powell poses as a preacher and inveigles himself into the man’s home. Marriage and murder follow.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
The film recounts the 1952 expedition, partly by motorcycle, across South America by Ernesto Guevara, later known as the revolutionary leader Ché, and his friend Alberto Granado. The screenplay is based primarily on Guevara’s trip diary of the same name, with additional context supplied by Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by…
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Angels and Insects
The film, Angels and Insects, was adapted for the screen from Booker prize-winning author AS Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia, one of the two novellas in her book Angels and Insects. With Dame Antonia on hand to give us a master class on both book and film, Programme Notes are superfluous. This is a work of clarity,…
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Mullholland Drive
A woman regains consciousness after a car crash in Mulholland Drive on the outskirts of LA. Suffering from amnesia Rita is befriended by aspiring actress, Betty. Together they search for her true identity in unscrupulous Hollywood. And just when you think you know where the plot is going, that enthusiastic amateur detective Betty will triumphantly…
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Holes
Stanley is dogged by the family curse and blamed for a crime he didn’t commit. Sent to juvenile detention centre, Camp Green Lake, Stanley is forced to dig holes in the desert. A story of good against evil, courage and redemption, Holes delivers a murder mystery and treasure hunt that takes in racism and prison…
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Key Largo
Frank McCloud (Bogart) visits the family of a GI friend killed in the war and finds they have been taken hostage by gangster on the run, Rocco (Edward G. Robinson). A hurricane approaches as McCloud and Rocco face up to each other. In this fourth screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall, the chemistry is still…
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The Shining
Aspiring writer, Torrance (Nicholson), takes a job as a winter caretaker at the isolated, snowbound Overlook Hotel to create space in his life for a writing project. The hotel’s macabre past doesn’t put him off the job or raise questions in his mind like, Is this really suitable for my wife and possibly-psychic young son?…
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Hustle and Flow
Not just another story of urban tough guys, but a fresh take on music movies and widely hailed as a modern day On the Waterfront or Rocky. Sticky and gritty as a hot day on the streets, Hustle and Flow has the raw feel of real people leading desperate lives. DJay (Terence Howard), a Memphis…
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Breaking Away
Its the 1970s and Bloomington, Indiana is a campus community with town-and-gown tensions. Four working-class teenage boys leave school and spend one last summer together before making the transition into adulthood and responsibility. Dave (Christopher) is obsessed with becoming an Italian champion bicycle racer and who knows maybe, in the Bloomington Little 500 race, dreams…
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