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Alfie (1965)

Director, Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron. A wild and ribald comedy, filled with sex and sin, about a successful London playwright who is also a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about. 113 min. DVD 558

Aldgate, Tony. "Alfie." History Today, Vol. 46, October 1996

Carson, Bruce. "Comedy, sexuality and "Swinging London" films." Journal of Popular British Cinema nr 1 (1998); p 48-62.

Fuller, Graham. "Ordinary Bloke." Film Comment v. 40 no. 2 (March/April 2004) p. 26-7, 29-30, 32, 34, 36

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Alice Through the Looking Glass (TV, 1998)

Director, John Henderson. Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Sian Phillips, Geoffrey Palmer, Steve Coogan, Gary Olsen, Greg Wise, Desmond Barritt, Ian Richardson. Alice has already traveled to Wonderland once, now she is taking another journey to the fascinating world with the memorable character Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, Red King and Queen, Red and White Knights, and Jabberwocky. 86 min. DVD 3461

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

Directed by William Sterling. Cast: Peter Sellers, Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Robert Helpmann, Flora Robson, Dudley Moore. A live action musical rendition of Lewis Carroll's beloved story of Alice who follows the frantic White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and through the magical, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland. 95 min. DVD 3675

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All Night Long (UK, 1962)

Director, Basil Dearden. Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Mitchell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris ; guest stars: Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth, Charles Mingus. An updating of Shakespeare's Othello, set in the jazz world of London in the early 1960s. Because of a rumour set about by a jealous rival, a jazz trumpeter at an all-night party tries to strangle his wife. 84 min. DVD 9829

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Amazing Grace (UK / USA, 2006)

Directed by Michael Apted. Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaran Hinds. A dramatization of the life of the human rights activist, cultural reformer and member of Parliament, William Wilberforce who sustained a twenty-year fight in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. Wilberforce encountered intense opposition from members of Parliament but his minister John Newton, a reformed slave ship captain who penned the hymn "Amazing Grace" urged him to see the cause through. 118 min. DVD 8799

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An American Werewolf in London (UK, 1981)

Directed by John Landis. Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine. It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital. 98 min. DVD 8105

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The Angelic Conversation (UK, 1985)

Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Dave Baby, Timothy Burke, Simon Costin ... [et al.]. Fourteen of Shakespeare's sonnets are taken as a basis for a rapturous celebration of homoerotic love in both its spiritual and sensual dimensions. Emotive readings of Shakespeare sonnets by Judi Dench. 78 min. DVD X59

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Anna Karenina (1948)

Director, Julien Duvivier; Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Sally Ann Howes. Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia. Anna (Leigh), the wife of a stuffy bureaucrat, falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer. Ultimately discarded by her lover, she is driven to suicide. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. 110 min. 999:22

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Makoveeva, Irina. "Cinematic Adaptations of Anna Karenina." Studies in Slavic Cultures. 2:111-34. 2001

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Anne of the Thousand Days (UK, 1969)

Directed by Charles Jarrott. Cast: Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos.Henry VIII of England (1491 - 1547) divorces his first wife, Katharine of Aragon (1485 - 1536), who has failed to produce a male heir. Instead, he favors the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn (1501/1507 - 1536). Henry weds Anne and soon she gives him a child. The girl, Elizabeth (1533-1603), is a bitter disappointment to Henry, who desperately wants a male heir. Jane Seymour is at court and Henry's wandering eye has found her. The Queen has her sent away, but, if Anne will bring Jane back to court, the King promises to sign the Act of Succession to insure that Elizabeth will be Queen. Anne's one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of her head on the block. Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson. 146 min. DVD X832

Atonement (UK, 2007)

Directed by Simon Callow. Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Juno Temple, Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Kennedy, Harriet Walter, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays, Nonso Anozie, Gina McKee, Jérémie Rénier, Michelle Duncan. When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstanding and childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed when in fact it was a visitor to the estate. Special features: Deleted scenes with commentary from director Joe Wright; Bringing the past to life: the making of Atonement; From novel to screen: adapting a classic; feature commentary with director Joe Wright. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan. 123 min. DVD X815

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)

Directed by Simon Callow. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger, Cork Hubbert, Austin Pendleton, Beth Dixon, Lanny Flaherty, Mert Hatfield, Earl Hindman, Anne Pitoniak. Plain-faced and unhappy, the eccentric Miss Amelia marries and publicly humiliates Marvin Macy, a charming con man who has fallen in love with her, causing him to battle to break her. Based on the story by Carson McCullers and play by Edward Albee. 100 min. 999:643

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger. Redmond Barry is a reckless scoundrel who fakes and fights his way up the 18th century social ladder toward his single-minded goals of power, wealth and status. Army desertion, duels, gambling, and betrayal are Lyndon's stepping stones to acquiring success and fortune. Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray 185 min. DVD 251; VHS 999:199

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Beat Girl (1962)

Directed by Edmond T. Greville. Cast: Gillian Hills, David Farrar, Christopher Lee, Adam Faith, Oliver Reed, Noelle Adam. This is the British version of Rebel Without a Cause, set in the beatnik world where jaded restless kids rule the night in smokey coffee bars, at suicidal chickie runs and at wild impromptu parties. 79 min. 999:1745

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Beautiful People (UK, 1999)

Directed by Jasmin Dizdar. Cast: Linda Bassett, Charlotte Coleman, Edin Dzandzanovic, Nicolas Farrell, Julian Firth, Walentine Giorgiewa, Dado Jehan. "In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the]families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match." [IMDB] 117 min. DVD 1948

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Becket (1964)

Directed by Peter Glenville. Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud. As young men, Thomas a Becket and King Henry II of 12th century England wench and carouse together. In middle age, Henry appoints Becket Archbishop of Canterbury but a stormy clash develops when Becket, sobered by his office, challenges Henry's royal edicts. 151 min. 999:208

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Bedazzled (1967)

Directed by Stanley Donen. Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Michael Bates. A short-order cook is hopelessly in love with a waitress who barely knows he's alive. Enter the Devil, who grants him seven wishes in order to win her over, but his efforts are hampered by the Seven Deadly sins including the insatiable Lillian Lust! Special features: Peter and Dud: an interview with the devil ; Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on the Paul Ryan show ; a "Bedazzled" conversation with Harold Ramis ; original theatrical trailer ; still gallery. 104 min. DVD 7840

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Cook, William. "The legacy of Bedazzled." New Statesman. Jul 25, 2005. Vol. 18, Iss. 869; pg. 40, 3 pgs

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Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson. Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. 112 min. DVD 1948

Beyond the Gates (aka Shooting Dogs) (UK / Germany, 2005)

Director, Michael Caton-Jones. Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Clare-Hope Ashitey. A powerful re-telling of the true events of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia. Filmed in the original location of the scenes it portrays with many survivors of the massacre employed as part of the production crew and in minor acting roles. 112 min. DVD 8785

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Bhaji on the Beach (1995)

Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria, Akbar Kurtha, Mo Sesay, Lalita Ahmed, Shaheen Khan. A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought together by a day at the beach. In the course of their day together , their ordinary lives become an extraordinary celebration. A unique look at female friendship. 100 min. 999:1331

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Black Narcissus (1947)

Director, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron. This film marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith. Special features: Audio commentary by Michael Powell and documentary on Jack Cardiff and Black Narcissus, rare behind-the-scenes production stills, including shots not used in the final version of the film, original theatrical trailer. 101 min. DVD 510

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Bleak Moments (UK, TV, 1971)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman, Mike Bradwell. Centers around a shy but intelligent middle-class girl, Sylvia, who is barely surviving suburban loneliness while looking after her mentally retarded sister Hilda. 170 min. DVD X2023

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Blow Up (UK / Italy, 1966)

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles. A young London photographer believes he was an inadvertent witness to murder and that a picture he took may be incriminating evidence. 102 min. DVD 2213; 999:75

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Blue (UK, 1993)

Directed by Derek Jarman. With the voices of John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton ; musicians. A year before director Derek Jarman succumbed fully to AIDS, he made his last film. In Blue, the color blue is all there is to see as Jarman tries to bring the audience into his vision-impaired world. Jarman offers his insights on life, love, disease, the meaning of art, and the symbology of the color blue over a blue screen. Actors, including Tilda Swinton and John Quentin, also read from Jarman's journals and poetry. 78 min. DVD X59

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The Blue Lamp(UK, 1993)

Directed by Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng. British crime drama about the killing of a Scotland Yard policeman and the manhunt that follows. Shot in a semi-documentary style, examines a new breed of criminals hardened by the war years. 81 min. DVD X1916

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Bollywood Queen (UK, 2002)

Directed by Jeremy Wooding. Cast: Preeya Kalidas, James McAvoy, Amerjit Deu, Ray Panthaki, Ronny Jhutti. Nineteen-year-old Geena is entranced by the glamour of Bollywood and seduced by the sounds of R & B girl groups. When Geena meets Jay she finds that life can be just like the adventure and romance of the Bollywood movies she loves. 88 min. DVD 3847

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Borderline (UK, 1930)

Directed by Kenneth MacPherson. Cast: Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, Helga Doorn, Gavin Arthur, Charlotte Arthur, Blanche Lewin. This experimental silent film, made in Switzerland by an independent British film company, is chiefly remembered as Paul Robeson's first film. Boldly blending Eisensteinian montage and domestic melodrama, the film features Robeson and his wife, Eslanda, as lovers caught up in a tangled web of interracial affairs. 63 min. DVD 7281

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (UK / USA 2008)

Director, Mark Herman. Cast: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, David Hayman, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Amber Beattie, Jim Norton, Sheila Hancock, Richard Johnson. Set in Poland during World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods where he comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops. Based on the book "The Boy in the striped pajamas" by John Boyne. Bonus features: "Friendship beyond the fence" featurette (ca. 20 min.) ; Optional audio feature commentary by writer/director Mark Herman and author John Boyne ; Deleted scenes with optional commentary by writer/director Mark Herman and author John Boyne. 94 min. DVD X1498

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Brassed Off!(UK /USA, 1996)

Director Mark Herman. Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Jim Carter, Sue Johnston, Stephen Moore, Ken Colley, Grimethorpe Colliery Band. A story about two old friends and ex-lovers whose surprise reunion turns their lives and the lives of everyone else in town hilariously upside down! 101 min. DVD 5841

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Brazil (1985)

Directed by Terry Gilliam. Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins. In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.

142 min. DVD 101 (the final cut, with audio commentary by Terry Gilliam).

131 min. VHS 999:1435

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Brazil: The Production Notebook

Two documentary films on the making of Brazil plus a production notebook of special features: Screenwriters illuminate the script's development through three drafts and three treatments; the production designer displays his designs for the films unique sets; the costume designer discusses the couture of fantasy and fascism; includes storyboards for original dream sequences many of which didn't make it into the film; the composer unveils the sources of his score; includes special effects study with raw footage of unfinished effects; theatrical trailer, and publicity and production stills. Contents: What is Brazil? - Rob Hedden (1985, 30 min.) -- The Battle of Brazil: a Video History - Jack Mathews (1995, 56 min.) 86 min. DVD 102

Brazil: The "Love Conquers All" Version

This 94 minute version of Brazil, rearranged in the hope of making the film commercial, stands as a fascinating document to the power of editing to change a picture. Everything is different in this version, the only Brazil not cut by the director, Terry Gilliam. Sometimes known as the syndicated television version or the Sheinberg Edit (from Universal's then boss Sid Sheinberg), it includes all the cuts and changes Gilliam refused to make, from the alternate opening to the infamous happy ending. 94 min. DVD 103

Bread and Roses(UK / France / Germany / Spain / Italy / Switzerland, 2000)

Director, Ken Loach. Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez, Alonso Chavez, Monica Rivas. Maya is an illegal alien who has crossed the U.S. border from Mexico to search for her sister Rosa, and to begin a new life. After being reunited, Rosa gets Maya a job with a janitorial service in a large office building. While working, Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator whom the service-workers' union has assigned to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Appalled at the work conditions and unfair labor practices, Maya and Sam team up to fight her employer. 110 min. DVD 5453

Brick Lane (UK / India, 2007)

Directed by Sarah Gavron. Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson. Follows the life of Nazneen a young Muslim girl who leaves her Bangladeshi village after an arranged marriage at seventeen. She and her husband move to London's East End. There she tries to devote herself to duty and family, yet is drawn to Karim, a young hothead. The story is set in 1980s Britain, during a climate of rising racial tensions. Based on the novel by Monica Ali. 102 min. DVD X1115

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The Brides of Fu Manchu(UK / West Germany, 1966)

Director, Don Sharp. Cast: Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Heinz Drache, Marie Versini. Christopher Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's insidious Asian villain Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen. Based on the story "The bride of Fu Manchu" by Sax Rohmer. 80 min. DVD 7860

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Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Director: David Lean. Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span. DVD special features (Disc 2): Exclusive documentary: Adaptation of Boulle's novel, casting, history of production, score, release, restoration and more; original featurette: Rise and fall of a jungle giant; USC short film introduced by William Holden; an appreciation by filmmaker John Milius; photo gallery; interactive and animated menus; scene selections with motion; theatrical trailer; talent files. 161 min. DVD 547; VHS 999:400

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Brownlow, Kevin. "The making of David Lean's film of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai.'" Cineaste v22, n2 (Spring, 1996):10 (7 pages).

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Bridget Jones's Diary(UK / France, 2001)

Director, Sharon Maguire. Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones. In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love. Based on the novel by Helen Fielding. Special features: Portrait of the make-up artist; domestic and international TV spots; a guide to Bridget Britishisms; the young and the mateless (an expert's guide to being single); "Bridget Jones: the edge of reason" excerpt; 'Bridge Jones's diary' reviews; behind-the-scenes featurette; deleted scenes; the complete 'Bridge Jones's diary' columns. 98 min. DVD 7860

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Brief Encounter (1946)

Directed by David Lean. Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Deftly explores the thrill, pain and tenderness of an illicit romance in the dour, gray Britain of 1945. From a chance meeting on a train platform, a middle-aged married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a quietly passionate, ultimately doomed love affair, set to a swirling Rachmaninoff score. Written by Noel Coward, based on his play "Still Life". 86 min. DVD 1182

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Britannia Hospital (1982)

Director, Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Joan Plowright, Jill Bennett, Malcolm McDowell. In this dark comedy with an element of deeper social criticism, chaos results when the panicked staff of a major British hospital attempts to prepare for a visit by the Queen Mother, only to face every problem imaginable. 123 min. 999:2162

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British Avant-garde in the Twenties

Focuses on the burgeoning British avant-garde scene of the 1920s - an era of great formal experimentation influenced by the 'art' cinema of USSR and Germany. This compilation of rare, short films, some of which have not been seen for decades, features early work by Len Lye, Hans Richter and the entertaining Bluebottles - an H.G Wells scripted comedy starring husband and wife team Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester (best known for The Bride of Frankenstein). The varied films on this compilation represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the period.".

Contents: Tusalava / Len Lye (1929) -- Crossing the Great Sagrada / Adrian Brunel (1924) -- Bluebottles / Ivor Montagu (1928) -- C.O.D-a mellow drama / Desmond Dickensen (1929) -- Everyday / Hans Richter (1929) -- Equation: X+X=0 / Robert Fairthorne/Brian Salt (1936). Video/C MM438

British Avant-garde in the Thirties

Coming from a decade which saw the founding of British realism as well as a flourishing surrealist movement, the thirteen films in this collection reveal a diversity of aesthetics and politics. Different styles and genres jostle each other from Len Lye's magical advertisement of Shell Oil, The birth of the robot, to Norman McLaren's anti-war classic Hell Unltd, while Elton and Anstey's Housing problems points to the future format of the television documentary.

Contents: Song of Ceylon / director, Basil Wright; producer, John Grierson (1934, 38 min.) -- Bread / Kino Production Group (1934, 11 min.) -- Tell me if it hurts / director/producer, Richard Massingham (1934, 19 min.) -- Beyond this open road / director, B. Vivian Braun (1934, 10 min.) -- Coal face / director, Alberto Cavalcanti; producer, John Grierson (1935, 11 min.) -- Housing problems / director/producer, Arthur Elton (1935, 15 min.) -- The birth of the robot / director/producer, Len Lye (1935, 6 min.) -- A colour box / director, Len Lye; producer, John Grierson (1935, 3 min.) -- Camera makes whoopee / director/animator, Norman McLaren (1935, 18 min.) -- Hell unltd / directors/producers, Norman McLaren, Helen Biggar -- Love on the wing / director, Norman McLaren; producer, Alberto Cavalcanti (1938, 5 min.) -- N or NW / director, Len Lye (1938, 8 min.) -- Spare time / director, Humphrey Jennings; producer, Alberto Cavalcanti (1939, 14 min.). Video/C 9417

The Buddha of Suburbia (UK, TV, 1993)

Directed by Roger Michell. Cast: Naveen Andrews, Brenda Blethyn, Roshan Seth, David Bamber. Karim is the son of an assimilated Indian businessman in London. When his Zen-obsessed father becomes the guru of the swinging suburban scene, Karim is swept up into the world of theater, art, drugs, rock and roll and sexual exploration. Based on the novel by Hanif Kureishi. 215 min. DVD 8772

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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Clive Revill, Noel Coward. Ann Lake goes to pick up her daughter, Bunny, at a London preschool but is told that they have no child registered by that name. The police can find no evidence that Bunny ever existed and wonder if the child was only a figment of Ann's imagination. 107 min. DVD 6130

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Burning an Illusion (1981)

Directed by Menelik Shabazz. Cast: Cassie McFarlane, Victor Romero, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Chris Tummings. A young British-born woman of color comes of age while seeking security through marriage. But the false arrest and merciless beating of her boyfriend by police forces a turning point in both their lives. While in prison, Del asks Pat to bring him books on Black history; she reads them first. As she becomes more politically aware, their relationship changes and Pat begins to question her middle-class aspirations and attitudes. She begins shedding her old biases to reclaim her African heritage. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 101 min. DVD 6200

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Butterfly Kiss (UK, 1995)

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Paul Brown Freda Dowie, Des McAleer, Ricky Tomlinson. When unpredictable and dangerous Eunice falls for sad and solitary Miriam who is hard of hearing, they take to the roads of grimy England. When Eunice turns out to be a sociopathic killer, can Miriam save her before she herself is ruined? 90 min. DVD 3616

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Director, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: John Sweet, Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price. A modern retelling of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this is the story of four travelers who journey along the same path as Chaucer's pilgrims and how their lives are intertwined. It is set during World War II, and has breathtaking film of the Kent countryside. Special DVD features: (Disc 1) audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie; excerpts from the American version with Kim Hunter; (Disc 2) new interview with Sheila Sim; "A pilgrim's return," a documentary about John Sweet; "A Canterbury trail," a documentary visit to film locations; "Listen to Britain," a 2001 video-installation piece by Victor Burgin inspired by the film; "Listen to Britain," a 1942 documentary by Humphrey Jennings. 123 min. DVD 8324; vhs 999:863

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The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Directed by Anthony Kimmins. Cast: Alec Guinness, Yvonne de Carlo, Celia Johnson. Sir Alec Guinness is Henry St. James, captain of an international ferry boat who has discovered the secret to the perfect double life: in Gibraltar he has a British housewife, while in Tangier his second wife is a hotblooded Spanish vixen. When the Captain becomes careless with anniversary gifts, he must see if he can not only outwit two betrayed wives, but survive a very serious firing squad. 88 min. DVD 8120

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Caravaggio. (1986)

Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Davenport, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gough, Garry Cooper, Dexter Fletcher. A film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest Italian post-Renaissance painter. Caravaggio was the 'enfant terrible' of Italian Art and his short life, marked with extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently. 97 min. DVD X59; vhs 999:2139

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Champagne Charlie (Ealing Studios, 1944)

Director, Alberto Cavalcanti. Cast: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Jean Kent, Austin Trevor. A comic tale of 19th century vaudeville rivals, capturing the bawdy, energetic atmosphere of the Great British music hall featuring classic Victorian musical numbers in this nostalgic tribute to a bygone era. Non-US format (PAL) DVD. 100 min. DVD 3671

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Chance of a Lifetime(UK, 1950)

Directed by Bernard Miles. Cast: Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Basil Radford, Hattie Jacques. Story centers around the difficulties and conflicts between labor and management on a farm-implement factory in post-WWII England. Dickens, after being bombarded again by, Baxter, the leading grouser in the worker ranks, blurts out the wish that some of them had his job in order to realize how hard it is. Taking the remark as a challenge, the workers elect Stevens and Morris to assume the management role. For a short while, everything runs smoothly but the mistakes made by the new "management" team leads to the workers once again becoming disgruntled with management. 89 min. DVD 9913

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A Christmas Carol(1951)

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern. On Christmas Eve, a despicable miser is visited by three spirits who show him visions of Christmasses past, present, and future. He is totally changed by these experiences and becomes cheerful and benevolent. 86 min. 999:1521

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McIlroy, B. "British filmmaking in the 1930s and 1940s: the example of Brian Desmond Hurst." In: Re-viewing British cinema, 1900-1992: essays and interviews / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. pp: 143-53 Albany: State University of New York Press, c1994. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.R4 1994)

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

A six part historical documentary focusing on the early days of the movie industry and the enormous contribution made to this industry by Europe. Includes rarely seen footage from early movies and interviews with some of the film industry's pioneers. DVD 603; Video/C 5590-5592

Clockwork Orange (1971)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke. Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime. 137 min. DVD 574; VHS 999:715

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Corridors of Blood (UK, 1958)

Directed by Robert Day. Cast: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Francis Matthews, Adrienne Corri, Francis De Wolff, Basil Dignam, Frank Pettingell, Carl Bernard, Marian Spencer, Nigel Green, John Gabriel, Howard Lang, Yvonne Warren, Christopher Lee. In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer, as well as Bolton's devastating addiction to his own medicines. 87 min. DVD 9116

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Contraband (1940)

Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender. Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth. 88 min. 999:3231

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A Cottage on Dartmoor(Sweden / UK, 1929)

Directed by Anthony Asquith. Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow. A tense, shocking thriller that evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. It opens with the escape of a prisoner from Dartmoor prison, and flashes back to show how a love triangle led him to jail. 87 min. DVD X1887

Cry, The Beloved Country(1951)

Directed by Zoltan Korda. Cast: Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier. The story of two fathers living in South Africa, a black minister and a white farmer, whose lives are bound together by mutual tragedy. Based on the novel of the same title by Alan Paton. 86 min. 999:941

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The Crying Game. (UK / Japan, 1992)

Writer/director, Neil Jordan. Cast: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker. A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists in the Irish Republican Army, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend. 112 min. DVD 1177; vhs 999:1484

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[Battle of] Culloden (1967)

Director, Peter Watkins. Re-creates the 1746 Battle of Culloden between the rebellious highland Scottish forces of Bonnie Prince Charles and the regular British Army sent to Scotland to put down the rebellion. 104 min. DVD 6040; vhs Video/C 3971

Cull, Nicholas J. "Peter Watkins's Culloden and the Alternative Form in Historical Filmmaking." In: Retrovision : reinventing the past in film and fiction / edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan. London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2001. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H5.R46 2001)

Gomez, Joseph A. Peter Watkins. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1979 ( MAIN: PN1998.A3 .W3524; Storage Info: B 5 092 395)

Lajtha, Terry. "Brechtian Devices in Non-Brechtian Cinema: Culloden." Literature/Film Quarterly. 1981. Vol. 9, Iss. 1; p. 9 (6 pages)

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Welsh, James Michael. Peter Watkins : a guide to references and resources Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1986. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 W35281 1986; Storage Info: B 5 092 396)

The Colditz Story (1954)

Director: Guy Hamilton. Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, Theodore Bikel. Deep inside the Reich, prisoners of every nationality make it a point of honor to attempt departure from the ultimate in escape-proof prisons. This is the true story of men who dared defy the might of Hitler's fortress, Colditz Castle. 98 min. DVD 3742

The Cruel Sea (1952)

Director: Charles Frend. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott, Virginia McKenna. Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama. 127 min. DVD 3738

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Cry Freedom. (UK, 1987)

Directed by Richard Attenborough. Stars Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline. Based on books Biko and Asking for Trouble by Donald Woods. Director, Richard Attenborough. Story of South African Black activist Stephen Biko and liberal White newspaper editor Donald Woods who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world. 157 min. DVD 8406; vhs 999:226

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The Dam Busters (1954)

Director: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr. Tells the true World War II story of how the Royal Air Force 617 Squadron carried out a raid on three of the most important dams in Germany. 125 min. DVD 3741

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Darling (1965)

Directed by John Schlesinger. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie. A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the synthetic, stomach-turning output of the television-advertising age. 122 min. DVD X1043; vhs 999:3014

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Brooker-Bowers, Nancy. John Schlesinger : a guide to references and resources Boston : G. K. Hall, c1978. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 S3374; MOFF: PN1998.A3 S3374)

Geraghty, Christine. "Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl." In: The British cinema book. Edited by Robert Murphy. 2nd ed. London: British Film Institute, 2001. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.B66 2001)

Tarr, Carrie "Sapphire, Darling and the boundaries of permitted pleasure." Screen Vol XXVI nr 1 (Jan-Feb 1985); p 50-65

Mann, William J. Edge of midnight : the life of John Schlesinger (MAIN: PN1998.3.S34 M36 2004)

Phillips, Gene D. John Schlesinger Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981 (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .P2852; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .P2852)

Day of the Triffids (UK, 1962)

Directed by Steve Sekely. Cast: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Mervyn Johns. A spectacular meteor shower blinds most of Earth's population and unleashes a plant spore that grows into giant mobile carnivorous plants threatening humankind. As these Triffids multiphy, an American seaman and his friends flee to Spain for a final confrontation with the plants. Based on the classic novel by John Wyndham. 95 min. DVD X1473

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The Dead (UK / Ireland / USA, 1987)

Directors, John Houston. Cast: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Rachel Dowling, Ingrid Craigie, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Sean McClory, Frank Patterson. Takes place in turn-of-the century Dublin, at a holiday feast vibrant with food and spirit. A young couple at the party, Gretta and Gabriel Conroy, seem to have everything to be grateful for. But that night, a tenor's voice recalls poignant memories, and Gabriel learns of his wife's unforgotten young love. An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. Based on the short story The dead from the collection Dubliners by James Joyce. 83 min. 999:258

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Gibbons, Luke. "The cracked looking glass" of cinema: James Joyce, John Huston, and the memory of "The Dead". (The Theater of Irish Cinema)(Critical Essay) The Yale Journal of Criticism Spring 2002 v15 i1 p127(22)

Howes, Marjorie. "Tradition, gender, and migration in "The Dead," or: how many people has Gretta Conroy killed?" The Yale Journal of Criticism Spring 2002 v15 i1 p149(23)

Whelan, Kevin. "The memories of "The Dead". The Yale Journal of Criticism Spring 2002 v15 i1 p59(39)

Dead of Night (Ealing Studios, 1945)

Directors, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne. An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. 104 min. DVD 4092; vhs 999:1124

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Deadly Game (aka Third Party Risk) (UK, 1954)

Directed by Daniel Birt. Cast: Simone Silva, Finlay Currie, Maureen Swanson, Ferdy Mayne. Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, Phil runs into an old friend and agrees to drive his car to London for him. After saying goodbye to his old buddy, another hotel guest, the enigmatic Mr. Darius, as well as a local police inspector, tell Phil that his old friend has become involved in criminal enterprises. When Phil finds him murdered upon returning to Britain, he finds himself in possession of an envelope filled with mysterious microfilm that everyone seems to want. 63 min. DVD 8360

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The Devils (UK, 1971)

Directed by Ken Russell. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin. This film centers on the staggering true-life dementia of events in France in 1643. Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial. Based on the play: The devils by John Whiting, and the book: The devils of London by Aldous Huxley. Special features (70 min.): "Hell on earth" documentary, "Year of censorship", UK censors, James Ferman, trailers. 111 min. DVD 9759

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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj,Dhobi Oparei. Nigerian exile Okwe and Turkish chambermaid Senay toil at a west London hotel that is full of illegal activity. Late one night Okwe makes a shocking discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits of all they know. 97 min. DVD 2389

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The Draughtsman's Contract (1983)

Director, Peter Greenaway. Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne Louise Lambert, Neil Cunningham, Hugh Fraser. An English noblewoman hires a young draughtsman to create twelve drawings of her estate in return for twelve sexual favors. This simple arrangement soon spirals out of control and the draughtsman finds himself as the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery. 104 min. DVD 5927; vhs 999:2381

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The Duchess (UK / Italy / France, 2008)

Director, Saul Dibb. Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney. Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757 - 1806) who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. A vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time, Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal. Now she must face an agonizing choice between her hopeless but passionate love affair or her responsibilities as a duchess. Special features: How far she went-- making The Duchess; Georgiana in her own words; Costume diary. Based on the book "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Amanda Foreman. 109 min. DVD X964

Early British Film

Includes works of Cecil Hepworth; James Williamson, et al. See

Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914: 999:1007; 999:1008

What Do Those Old Films Mean?: Great Britain 1900-1912: along the Great Divide Video/C 1406:1

The Early Films of Peter Greenaway. Disc 1 (1969-1978)

A collection of Peter Greenaway's early avant-garde films created between 1969 and 1978. A series of highly innovative and witty short films which are immensely playful and take pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. Contents: A Walk Through H (1978, 41 min.) -- H is for House (1976, 9 min.) -- Windows (1974, 4 min.) -- Intervals (1969, 6 min.) -- Dear Phone (1976, 17 min.) -- Water Wrackets (1978, 11 min.). DVD 2374

The Early Films of Peter Greenaway. Disc 2 (1978-1980)

Presents two major works by Peter Greenaway. In Vertical Features Remakes (1978, 44 min.), a playful parody of avant-garde theorising, academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best-known fictional character. The Falls (1980, 187 min.), is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by "VUE," the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying. DVD 2375

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The Edge of the World (1937)

Director, Michael Powell. Cast: Michael Powell, Eric Berry, Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie. Centers on the story of two families living in a fishing community in the Shetland Islands, who are forced to leave their homes when their waters are fished out. Special bonus: "Includes Powell's ... Return to the Edge of the world and his heartbreaking World War II short, An Airman's letter to his mother.". Filmed on location on the Outer Hebrides island of Foula. 73 min. vhs 999:2958

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Educating Rita(1983)

Director, Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman. Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed into a free spirit, Frank is forced to confront his own life. Based on the stage play by Willy Russell. 111 min. DVD X1977

Edward II. (1991)

Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin Collins, Jerome Flynn, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton, Annie Lennox. "Edward II embraces the essential dramatic themes of passion, murder, and unrequited love. Steven Waddington plays the monarch as a man whose destiny hangs on his overpowering passion and lack of responsibility to the British throne. He rebuffs his wife, Isabella, lavishing affection on the handsome Gaveston -- a choice that ultimately seals his fate." Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe. 91 min. 999:671

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8 1/2 Women (UK / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Germany, 1999)

Directed by Peter Greenaway. Cast: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Toni Collette, Amanda Plummer, Polly Walker. After seeing Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, a father and son are inspired to turn their Swiss mansion into a chateau of sexual pleasure. But soon their wild sexual fantasies begin to unravel, and the two men discover that when fantasy becomes reality, the balance of power can shift. 121 min. DVD 7492

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Elephant (1989, TV)

Director, Alan Clarke. Cast: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small, Robert J. Taylor, Joe Cauley. A disturbing depiction of a series of eighteen violent sectarian killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible. Shot entirely on location with unknown actors. 52 min. DVD 5546

The Emerald Forest (1960)

Director, John Boorman. Cast: Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster, Rui Polonah. Bill Markham, an engineer building a dam on the Amazon, returns to the jungle year after year searching for his son, who had disappeared into the jungle. After ten years, Markham finds the man who had once been his boy, but now is a warrior from another world. 113 min. DVD 5005; vhs 999:598

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Elizabeth (UK, 1998)

Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud. Young, passionate Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1603) comes to the throne amidst bloody turmoil in 1554 England. Among her courtiers are the venerable Sir William Cecil, her lover the Duke of Leicester, the imperious Duke of Norfolk, and her advisor Walsingham. The new Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head in this thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs. 149 min. DVD 4821 999:2435

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Bruzzi, Stella. "Elizabeth.(Review)." Sight and Sound 8.11 (Nov 1998): 47(2).

Delamoir, Jeannette. "Elizabeth's costumes: the power of spectacle or spectacle of power?." Metro Magazine 141 (Summer 2004): 46(8).

Duncan-Jones, Katherine. "Elizabeth.(Review)." TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Feb 5, 1999): 18(1).

Gillard, Garry. "'I have become a virgin'--Elizabeth.(Film As Text)." Australian Screen Education 37 (Winter 2004): 153(3).

Knowles, Sarah. "Elizabeth." Film & History, Sep2003, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p78-80, 3p

O'Leary, Alan. "The gendered space of cinema and nation in Elizabeth and Michael Collins." Studies in European Cinema, 2004, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p117-127, 11p

Pigeon, Renee. ""No man's Elizabeth" : the Virgin Queen in recent films." In: Retrovision : reinventing the past in film and fiction / edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan. London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2001. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H5.R46 2001)

Sweet, Rosemary. "Elizabeth.(Review)." American Historical Review 104.1 (Feb 1999): 297(2).

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (UK, 2007)

Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Moll?a, Samantha Morton, Eddie Redmayne, Clive Owen. Sequel to: Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisors must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer Walter Raleigh captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies, and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. Special features: Deleted scenes; "The reign continues: the making of Elizabeth: the golden age" featurette; "Inside Elizabeth's world" featurette; "Commanding the winds: creating the Armada" featurette; "Towers, courts and cathedrals" featurette; audio commentary with director Shekhar Kapur. 115 min. DVD X495

The Entertainer (1960)

Director, Tony Richardson; screenplay by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesay, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Shirley Ann Field, Albert Finney. A drama of seedy music hall life. Archie Rice, a third rate vaudevillian whose song and dance routines are unappealing and boring, is nagged by his shrewish alcoholic wife about his failures. His world comes tumbling down onto the garbage heap he has built up through his lifetime of self delusion and duplicity. 97 min. 999:2181

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St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. "Music Hall Mimesis in Those Were the Days (1934), Champagne Charlie (1944), and The Entertainer (1960)." Quarterly Review of Film & Video. 18(4):437-49. 2001 Oct

The Europeans (1979)

Director, James Ivory; producer, Ismail Merchant. Cast: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate, Lisa Eichhorn, Kristin Griffith, Nancy New, Norman Snow, Helen Stenborg, Tim Woodward. In this classic satire the Baroness Eugenia and her brother, Felix arrive in the autumnal New England of 1850 in hopes of improving their sagging fortunes. Seeking out their rich American cousins, Eugenia sets her sights on Robert, the most eligible gentleman in the neighborhood, but also encourages the affections of her young cousin, Clifford. Romance blooms for some as Felix falls in love, but not for Eugenia, whose European sophistication and guile are her undoing. Philippe, an ambassador's small son and good friend of Baines the butler, is confused by the complexities and evasions of adult life. He tries to keep secrets but ends up telling them. Finally he resolves not to listen to adults' stories anymore when Baines is suspected of murdering his shrewish wife and no one will listen to Philippe's vital information. Based on a novel of the same title by Henry James. 90 min. 999:1845

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Evil Mind (aka The Clairvoyant)(1934)

Director, Maurice Elvey. Cast: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jack Raine, Margaret Davidge. A vaudeville con-man discovers he has the power to see the future, but only in the presence of the attractive young daughter of a big-time publisher. He exploits this talent, alienates his wife and is accused of indirectly causing a disastrous accident that he foresaw. 72 min. 999:3836

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The Fallen Idol (1948)

Director, Carol Reed; screenplay by Graham Greene. Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Jack Hawkins, Bobby Henry, Denis O'Dea, Hack Hawkins. Philippe, an ambassador's small son and good friend of Baines the butler, is confused by the complexities and evasions of adult life. He tries to keep secrets but ends up telling them. Finally he resolves not to listen to adults' stories anymore when Baines is suspected of murdering his shrewish wife and no one will listen to Philippe's vital information. 123 min. DVD DVD X1390; vhs 999:223

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Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)

Director, John Schlesinger; screenplay by Frederic Raphael. Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates. Screen version of Thomas Hardy's classic love story about a headstrong young woman whose life becomes entwined with three disparate men: a dashing soldier, a wealthy landowner, and a sheep farmer. 97 min. vhs 999:395

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Fire Over England (UK, 1937)

Director: William K. Howard. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Leslie Banks, Vivian Leigh, Raymond Massey, Tamara Desni, Morton Selten. The men in Queen Elizabeth's court should be thinking about how to foil those pesky Spanish who gained far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things while Michael is mainly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting. But soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain. Based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. 89 min. DVD X983

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Finding Neverland (UK / USA, 2004)

Directed by Marc Forster. Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore, Joe Prospero, Nick Roud, Luke Spill, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald. Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the boy who never grows up. 101 min. DVD 3665

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The Firm (1988, TV)

Directed by Alan Clarke. Cast: Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville, Philip Davis. Bex Bissell is the head of a soccer firm (group of fans) who proposes a union with two other local groups, positing himself as the leader. A family man earning a decent living as an estate agent, he devotes his spare time to the sport and his fellow hooligans. When his proposal falls on deaf ears, his baser tendencies rise to the surface against his better judgment. 67 min. DVD 5546

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First a Girl (1935)

Directed by Victor Saville. Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Alfred Drayton. A racy musical starring English songbird Jessie Matthews as a girl who leads a double life, pretending to be a boy who is a female impersonator at a famed Paris cabaret. She becomes an overnight sensation, but it also complicates her love life greatly. 93 min. 999:3144

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A Fond Kiss--(UK / Belgium / Germany / Italy / Spain, 2004)

Directed by Ken Loach. Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar, Ahmad Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh. A second generation Pakistani in Glasgow falls for the White, Irish Catholic music teacher at his sister's school. They try to make the relationship work despite a tentative arranged marriage and parental and societal pressures. 114 min. DVD 6806

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49th Parallel (UK, 1941)

Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell, Niall MacGinnis, Glynis Johns, Finlay Currie. When a Nazi U-boat crew headed by the ruthless Lieutenant Hirth is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities before trying to cross the border into the still-neutral United States. Special features: Audio commentary by film and music historian Bruce Eder; "The volunteer"; a 1943 Powell and Pressburger war-effort short staring Ralph Richardson; "A pretty British affair": a BBC documentary on the careers of Powell and Pressburger, which consider their WWII-era collaborations and features rare footage of the filmmakers together; excerpts from Michael Powell's audio dictations for his autobiography; original theatrical trailer; new essay by fil scholar Charles Barr and Powell's 1941 premiere speech. 123 min. DVD 7438

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Four days in July(1984)

Written and directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Stephen Rea, David Coyle, John Keegan, John Hewitt, Ann Hasson. In this made-for-television drama set in the Ulster province of Ireland, two families are depicted in their every day life for four days, from July 11th to July 13. The year is not specified. One family is Catholic, the other is Protestant. Their ways are quite different, but both wives are pregnant, and both have their baby on the same day, July 12th. 99 min. DVD 6994

Freakmaker (aka Doctor of evil; Mutation) (UK, 1974)

Directed by Jack Cardiff. Cast Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege, Michael Dunn, Scott Antony, Jill Haworth, Olga Anthony. Professor Nolter, a renowned university teacher, believes it is man's destiny to survive an uncertain future by evolving into a hybrid plant/human mutation. To test his theories, Nolter experiments on abducted young co-eds, fusing them with mutant plants developed in his laboratory. 92 min. DVD 7850

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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Directed by Karel Reisz. Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell, Lynsey Baxter, Jean Faulds, Peter Vaughan, Colin Jeavons. Sarah Woodruff is ostracized by Victorian society and is abandoned by her French lieutenant lover. Charles Smithson discovers Sarah and resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past. Based on the novel of the same title by John Fowles. Screenplay by Harold Pinter. 116 min. 999:970

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Pinter, Harold. The French lieutenant's woman : a screenplay Little, Brown, c1981. (MAIN: PN1997 .F744)

Pinter, Harold. The French Lieutenant's woman, and other screenplays. London : Methuen, 1982.(MAIN: PN1997 .F744 1982)

The Full Monty(1982)

Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Steve Huison, William Snape. Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked. A hilarious, heartfelt comedy in which six friends discover the inner strength to overcome the problems in their personal lives. 95 min. 999:3861

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Gandhi(1982)

Directed by Richard Attenborough. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen. This film follows Gandhi's life from young lawyer through his historic struggle to free India from colonial rule. Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best picture, actor, director and screenplay. 149 min. 999:1749

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Genevieve (1954)

Director, Henry Cornelius. Cast: Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Geoffrey Keen, Joyce Grenfell, Michael Medwin. Film revolves around the adventures of a young couple and their ancient car "Genevieve" who become involved in a car rally. In a wager with the owner of another car, they must race each other from Brighton back to London in the veteran vehicles. Developing into a furious free-for-all, the cars race to the finish. 86 min. DVD X287

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Georgy Girl (1966)

Director, Silvio Narizzano. Cast: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling. Warm, winning and fun-loving Georgy rooms with sultry, moody Meredith. Meredith gets a baby with Jos and is indifferent to the child so Georgy winds up taking care of the baby. Now radiant with motherly feelings Georgy becomes the object of desire of a wealthy widower ... and Jos. 100 min. DVD 8980; vhs 999:3059

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Carson, Bruce. "Comedy, sexuality and "Swinging London" films." Journal of Popular British Cinema nr 1 (1998); p 48-62.

Get Carter (1971)

Directed by Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland. A small-time gangster journeys to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother's killing. Once there he finds himself drawn into the local underworld where he encounters the full spectrum of violence and corruption. 111 min. DVD 4842

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The Glass Tomb (aka The Glass Cage) (UK, 1955)

Directed by Montgomery Tully. Cast: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlman, Sidney James. A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by "Sapolio", on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning. 59 min. DVD 8346

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The Golden Bowl (1972)

Director, James Clellan Jones. Cast: Cyril Cusack, Barry Morse, Jill Townsend, Daniel Massey, Kathleen Byron. Wealthy American widower, Adam Verver, is traveling in Europe with his daughter Maggie when she is introduced to handsome but penniless Prince Amerigo. The Prince and Maggie eventually marry and Adam also marries Charlotte, a close friend of Maggies. However, no one knows that Amerigo and Charlotte were once lovers, who broke off their relationship because he couldn't marry a commoner with no money. Their passion is eventually too strong and they embark on an adulterous affair. Based on the novel by Henry James. Contents: Cassette 1: Part 1, The Prince; Part 2, Mr. Verver (90 min.); Cassette 2: Part 3, Charlotte; Part 4, Fanny (90 min.); Cassette 3: Part 5, Maggie; Part 6, End game (90 min.). 270 min. total running time. 999:2975

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Directed by Sam Wood. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Von Henreid. For years, Charles Chipping has been known throughout Brookfield School as an austere, humorless man -- a Latin teacher who can't reach his students. But when Chipping falls for the beautiful Katherine, his life immediately changes for the better. 115 min. 999:442

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Great Expectations (1946)

Director, David Lean. Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Alec Guiness, Jean Simmons, Francio L. Sullivan, Bernard Miles, Martita Hunt. In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth. 118 min. DVD 667; VHS 999:236

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Green Street Hooligans (2005)

Directed by Lexi Alexander. Cast: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory. Matt, a wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of soccer hooliganism. Initially alarmed by the violence, Matt soons ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends. But as events roll on, suspicion, shocking revelations and unsettled scores combine to a devastating climax. 108 min. DVD 5645

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(UK, 1984)

Directed by Hugh Hudson. Cast: Sir Ralph Richardson, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm. Tarzan, the ape-raised son of shipwrecked aristocrats is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke. Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot, after discovering Tarzan brings him home to his grandfather and the understanding Jane Porter in Edwardian England. Based on the story "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 137 min. DVD 9659

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Grown Ups (UK, TV, 1980)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Sam Kelly, Lindsay Duncan, Janine Duvitsky, Christin Butcher. Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple move into a council house in Cantebury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action. The entire film come to a head when both couples are found wrestling in the hall while trying to oust the poor sister from the Mr. Butcher's bathroom. 95 min. DVD X2019

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Gumshoe (UK, 1972)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Franklin Finlay, Janice Rule. A private eye caper loaded with adventure, intrigue and laughs. Part-time comic and full-time dreamer, Ginley places an ad in a Liverpool paper offering his services as a detective. Before you can say "gumshoe," his mundane world turns to mayhem as this newcomer sleuth tangles with a big-time drug operation--and murder. Bonus features: Original trailer, Martini minutes: "how to become a villain" and "secrets of seduction". 85 min. DVD X1715; vhs 999:2406

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The Hamburg Cell (TV, 2004)

Directed by Antonia Bird. Cast: Karim Saleh, Kamel, Omar Berdouni. A dramatization of events focused on the hijackers leading up to the September 11th Twin Towers attack. A chilling drama based on exhaustive research, including personal interviews, unpublished correspondence, and the official 9/11 Commission report. 185 min. 999:2052

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Happy-go-lucky (2008)

Director, Mike Leigh. Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Stanley Townsend, Kate O'Flynn, Caroline Martin, Oliver Maltman, Sarah Niles, Samuel Roukin, Karina Fernandez, Nonso Anozie. Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students. Bonus features: Behind the wheel of "Happy go lucky" ; Happy-in-character ; audio commentary by director Mike Leigh. 119 min. DVD X1463

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Director, Richard Lester. Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. This lively, good-natured classic captures all the fun, excitement and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George and Ringo at the height of "Beatlemania." Portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group and packed with all-time Beatle favorites, they perform their songs and look for adventure ... all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans! The Beatles perform I'll cry instead, A hard day's night, I should've known better, If I fell, And I love her, I'm happy just to dance with you, Ringo's theme (this boy), Tell me why, Don't bother me, I wanna be your man, All my lovin', and She loves you. 92 min. DVD 1348; vhs 999:147 (also computer interactive version COMPU/D 253)

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Hard Labour (UK, TV, 1973)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Alison Steadman, Ben Kingsley, Liz Smith, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway, Bernard Hill. Mrs. Thornley works very hard without notice or appreciation. Every day she keeps her own house clean, attends to her husband and unmarried daughter, Ann, then cleans other women's houses. She looks tired and has little affect. Mrs. Thornley's husband works nights, except for Saturdays, when he expects conjugal attention. Ann's worried about pregnancy and talks to her mum about labor and childbirth. Later, Mrs. Thornley goes to confession at her parish church, and makes an extraordinary revelation. 70 min. DVD X2018

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Directed by Chris Columbus. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 152 min. DVD 4846

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Directed by Chris Columbus. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Jason Isaacs, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters. Finds young wizard Harry and his friends Ron and Hermoine facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school. 161 min. DVD 4847

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Gary Oldman. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life. 142 min. DVD 4848

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The Hasty Heart (UK, 1949)

Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Howard Crawford, Anthony Nicholls. The war is suddenly over for two Allied soldiers injured in Burma and sent to a remote jungle hospital. Facing the battle of recovery, the easy-going Yank and the proud yet stubborn Scotsman form a bond with the other patients and Army staff. From the stage play by John Patrick. 102 min. DVD X199; vhs 999:3852

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The Haunted Strangler (UK, 1958)

Directed by Robert Day. Cast: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Vera Day, Tim Turner, Diane Aubrey, Max Brimmel, Leslie Perrins, Jessica Cairns, Dorothy Gordon, Desmond Roberts, Roy Russell, Derek Birch, Peggy Ann Clifford, John Fabian, Joan Elvin. Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret. 79 min. DVD 9117

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Heavenly Creatures(UK / Germany / New Zealand, 1994)

Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O'Connor. Based on an actual crime, this is the true-life case of two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who were charged with clubbing to death Pauline's mother in Christchurch New Zealand in 1954. The film opens two years before the murder, and follows the friendship as the two become obsessed with each other, retreating into a fantasy life which leads to shocking consequences. 99 min. DVD 9177; vhs 999:1994

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Hell Drivers (UK, 1957)

Directed by C. Raker Endfield. Cast: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Sidney James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum, Sean Connery. When ex-con Tom signs up as a truck driver for a dodgy road-haulage company, he uncovers shady dealings going on between the viciously ambitious foreman and the sly, devious manager. The drivers are paid per job, a situation which encourages reckless and dangerous driving, and the stakes are raised when a fatal accident has Tom vowing revenge. From the short story by John Kruse, adapted from the screen by C. Raker Endfield. Special features (Disc 1). Commentary with sound assistant Harry Fairbairn and journalist; theatrical trailer; The Stanley Baker story (16 min.); Look in on Hell drivers (directed by Bill Morton, 14 min.); image gallery; comic strip gallery. (Disc 2). Who killed Lamb? (directed by David Cunliffe, 65 min.,1974); Danger man: loyalty always pays (directed by Peter Yates, 49 min., 1965); Bruce Lewis interviews Stanley Baker (1960s); new footage of the unveiling of a plaque by Stanly Baker (1970); Return to the Rhondda (directed by Colin Voisey, 37 min., 1965). 104 min. DVD X1889

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Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)DVD 1098; Video/C 999:1008

How it Feels to be Run Over (1900)DVD 1098; Video/C 999:1008

Rescued by Rover (1905) DVD 1098; Video/C 999:1008

High Hopes (UK, 1988)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Dore, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias, Lesley Manville, David Bamber. A satire in the grand style of dry English humor set around King's Cross in the early weeks of 1988. "High hopes" weaves a wonderful tapesty of yippies and yuppies, fantasy and reality, broken dreams and ... high hopes. 110 min. DVD X241

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Hindle Wakes (UK, 1927)

Directed by Maurice Elvey. Cast: Estelle Brody, Norman McKinnel, Humberstone Wright, Marie Ault, John Stuart, Irene Rooke, Peggy Carlisle, B. Graham Soutten, Arthur Chesney, Gladys Jennings. Two factory workers decide to spend their holiday at Blackpool, where Fanny Hawthorne meets the son of a local factory owner. After they have an affair his family decides he must do the honorable thing and propose marriage to Fanny. A controversial ground-breaking film with scenes shot in the 1927 streets of Lancashire and Blackpool that have an astonishing documentary realism. 117 min. DVD X838

The History Boys (UK, 2006)

Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Cast: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Clive Merrison. Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success. Special features: Commentary by director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett; "History boys around the world: tour diaries" featurette; "Pass it on": 'The history boys' on screen" featurette; theatrical trailers. 112 min. DVD 7961

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Hobson's Choice (1954)

Directed by David Lean. Cast: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Joseph Tomelty, Richard Wattis, Prunella Scales, Derek Blomfield, Helen Haye. An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life. Based on the play by Harold Brighouse. Special features: Commentary featuring film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini; Theatrical trailer; Episode of The Hollywood greats: Charles Laughton / written and presented by Barry Norman; producer, Barry Brown; director, Margaret Sharp ; BBC (ca. 44 min. ; 1978). 108 min. DVD X2044

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Home Sweet Home (UK, TV, 1982)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Eric Richard, Timothy Spall, Kay Stonham, Lorraine Brunning. The life and times of three not so jolly postmen, centering on Stan, a sullen ladies' man who has been deserted by his wife. Stan makes up for his losses by having affairs with his co-workers' wives. This is England as it is rarely shown, a patchwork of bitter individuals, isolated by class, unconsoled in marriage and pigeon-holed by the state. 90 min. DVD X2024

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Hope and Glory (1987)

Director, John Boorman. Cast: Sebastian Rice Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O'Connor. Set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII, tells the story of 7 yr. old Billy who finds his childhood to be a time of great danger and even greater discovery. From thunderous bombings and the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shaped by the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary. 113 min. DVD 1714

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The Horses's Mouth (1958)

Directed by Ronald Neame. Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan, Robert Coote. In this perceptive examination of the struggle for artistic creation, an eccentric artist will stop at nothing to get money. His comic odyssey takes him from prison to the Tate Museum and finally off to parts unknown. 95 min. DVD 3608

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How I Won the War (1967)

Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague. Black comedy about war, revolving around an inept and idiotic lieutenant who is first assigned to North Africa to construct a cricket pitch in the middle of the desert, and then to Europe to capture a bridge over the Rhine, which he accomplishes by making a deal with a German officer. 111 min. 999:2919

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Dempsey, M. "War as movie theater - two films." Film Quarterly Vol XXV nr 2 (Winter 1971-72); p 33-36.

Hanke, Ken "The British film invasion of the 1960s, part III." Films in Review Vol XL nr 6-7 (June-July 1989); p 348-356

"How I Won the War." Literature/Film Quarterly.v1.n3.July 1973 p.Summer 256-262

Howard's End (1991)

Director, James Ivory; producer, Ismail Merchant. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Prunella Scales. Tells the story of the idealistic, independent and highly educated Schlegel sisters and their tangled relationships with a rich businessman and his family, and with an unhappily married young bank clerk. 143 min. DVD 366; VHS 999:1522

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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney. A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a young naval officer who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans. 91 min. DVD 1183; vhs 999:3505

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Hunted (1952)

Directed by Charles Crichton. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Kay Walsh, Elizabeth Sellars, Frederick Piper, Julian Somers. Robbie, a scared six-year-old, accidentally sets fire to his foster-parent's living room and fearing the consequences, flees into London's dockland and into even greater trouble. Straight into the arms of murderer Chris Lloyd, who in a jealous rage, has just killed his wife's lover in the ruined warehouse in which Robbie had hoped to hide. Desperate to escape, Lloyd is forced to take Robbie with him in his dash for the Scottish border. 81 min. DVD X1917

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I Am a Camera (1969)

Director, Henry Cornelius. Cast: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters. Into a struggling writer's life comes a madcap chanteuse whose decadent lifestyle and zest for living effects everyone around her. The film takes place in the pre-Nazi Berlin of the early 1930s. Based on the novel "Berlin stories" by Christopher Isherwood and the play by John Van Druten. 95 min. DVD X2076

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If... (1969)

Director, Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Robert Swann, Chris tine Noonan. This film takes a look at a British boarding school and three unruly seniors who fail to conform. If ... is an amazing blend of fact and fantasy. The students at College House are kept in line by tradition, strict discipline, and prefects. The film also documents the repressive conditions and the painfulness of rebelling as it builds to its surreal and violent ending when the students have their day. Special features (Disc 1): Audio commentary featuring film critic and historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell ; (Disc 2): A 2003 episode from the Scottish TV series "Cast and crew," featuring McDowell, Ondricek, Rakoff, director's assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin; new video interview with actor Graham Crowden; "Thursday's children" (1954), an Academy Award-winning documentary about a school for deaf children, directed by Anderson and Guy Brenton and narrated by Richard Burton ; plus, a booklet featuring pieces by critic David Ehrenstein, screenwriter David Sherwin, and director Lindsay Anderson. 111 min. DVD 8077; vhs 999:786

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I'll Get You (aka Escape Route) (UK, 1952)

Directed by Seymour Friedman and Peter Graham Scott. Cast: George Raft, Sally Grey, Frederick Piper, Reginald Tate, Clifford Evans. An F.B.I. agent illegally enters England following the disappearance of several noted atomic scientists. He promptly 'disappears' himself and is dogged by trouble and the Scotland Yard. 79 min. DVD 8250

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Imagine Me and You (2005)

Directed by Ol Parker. Cast: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Darren Boyd, Anthony Head. A blushing bride's nuptials take a surprising turn at the altar, when an innocent glance between her and a female guest sparks a love at first sight romance. She is soon forced to choose between her husband and the girl of her dreams. 93 min. DVD 6143

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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Director, Anthony Asquith. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin, Joan Greenwood. A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest. Based on the play by Oscar Wilde. 95 min. 999:1742

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In My Country (Country of My Skull) (UK / Ireland / South Africa, 2004)

Directed by John Boorman. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi "Ngubs" Ngubane. A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Based on the book Country of my skull by Antjie Krog. 94 min. DVD 500

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In this World (2002)

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah. Tells of the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions. Special features: Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary from Michael Winterbottom and Tony Grisoni; director's introduction from the Sundance Film Series; U.S. and UK theatrical trailers; production notes and biographies; highlights from the 2003 Sundance Film Series. 88 min. DVD 2410

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In Which We Serve (1942)

Director, Noel Coward, David Lean. Cast: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Daniel Massey, Juliet Mills. When the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin is torpedoed in WWII, a small lifeboat of survivors cling to their memories and their courage in this spellbinding tribute to the human spirit which is based on true events. As told through flashback as they dodge enemy fire and pray for rescue, the survivors remember their loved ones left behind and shipmates who once stood beside them as they recall the ship's war-time career. 100 min. DVD 2868; vhs 999:2304

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Roisman-Cooper, Barbara. "Real to reel: World War II and British film." British Heritage Nov 2003 v24 i6 p38(8)

Wintersole, Margaret. "In Which We Serve: Noel Coward's Vision of the British Navy at War." In: Visions of war : World War II in popular literature and culture / edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992. (Main Stack PN56.W665.V64 1992)

Intimacy (France / UK / Germany / Spain, 2001)

Director, Patrice Chéreau. Cast: Kerry Fox, Mark Rylance, Timothy Spall, Philippe Calvario, Alastair Galbraith, Marianne Faithful. What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man and a married woman turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need. Based on stories by Hanif Kureishi 115 min. DVD X2164

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It Always Rains on Sunday (Ealing Studios, 1947)

Director, Robert Hamer. Cast: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, Susan Shaw, John McCallum, Edward Chapman, Jimmy Hanley, John Carol, John Slater. Tale of a woman torn between her cosy East End married life and her passion for her ex-fiance -- a man on the run from Dartmoor Prison. Meanwhile, her daughter is also finding herself seduced by the grimy glamour of Bethnal Green's criminal underworld. Based on the novel by Arthur La Bern. 87 min. DVD X1841; also DVD 3671 (Non-US format) (PAL)

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Casino Royale(USA / UK / Germany / Czech Republic, 2006)

Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankole, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Milicevic, Sebastien Foucan. Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. "M", head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. "M" places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury offical Vesper Lynd. At first skeptical of what value Vesper can provide, Bond's interest in her deepens as they brave danger together. Le Chiffre's cunning and cruelty come to bear on them both in a way Bond could never imagine, and he learns his most important lesson: Trust no one. Special features: Becoming Bond, James Bond for real, Bond girls are forever (2006), Chris Cornell music video, trailers. 144 min. DVD 7221

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Diamonds Are Forever (UK, 1971)

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Bernard Lee. Smugglers are out to capture the world's glittering diamond market. Bond uses fast cars, hearses, jets, helicopters and moon machines in a perplexing search to find out why. Seductive smuggler Tiffany Case and millionaire recluse Willard Whyte do their best to deter Bond's efforts. Special features (Disc 2: DVD 6724): Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 120 min. DVD 6724; DVD 5889 (single-disc version)

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Die Another DayUK / USA, 2002)

Directed by Lee Tamahori. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosmund Pike, John Cleese, Judi Dench. While on assignment in North Korea, James Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. 132 min. DVD 3532

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Dr. No(UK, 1962)

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, John Kitzmiller, Zena Marshall, Eunice Gayson. James Bond, Agent 007, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British Secret Service agent. This is the first James Bond film adventure. Special features: Top-level access; Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. Music, Monty Norman. 110 min. DVD 6779; DVD 5904 [single-disc version]; vhs 999:3145

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For Your Eyes Only(UK / USA, 1981)

Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Cassandra Harris, Jill Bennett, Michael Gothard, John Wyman, Jack Hedley, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. James Bond is thrust into one of his most reveting adventures filled with outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. James has a lethal determination to infiltrate the Greek underworld and races against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines. Special features: Frame-by-frame digital restoration; never before released (newly recorded audio commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore); declassified: MI6 vault (deleted scenes; expanded angles; Bond in Greece; Bond in Cortina; Neptune's journey); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'For your eyes only'); mission dossier (audio commentry featuring John Glen and actors; audio commentary featuring Michael G. Wilson and crew; inside 'For your eyes only'; animated storyboards sequences; Sheena Easton Music video); ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots and radio communications). 128 min. DVD 6767

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From Russia With Love (UK, 1963)

Directed by Terence Young. Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Francis de Wolff, George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn. A beautiful Russian girl is used as part of an international conspiracy to kill James Bond, Agent 007. The adventure leads him through Istanbul aboard the Orient Express. Desert Island discs; animated storyboard sequence); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'From Russia with love'; The complete special features library: Mission dossier (Audio commentary featuring director Terence Young and members of the cast and crew; Harry Saltzman: showman); Ministry of propaganda (Original trailers, TV spots, radio communications). 115 min. DVD 6770; DVD 5905 [single-disc version]

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Goldeneye(UK / USA, 1995)

Directed by Martin Campbell. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker. When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond. Special features: Declassified: MI6 vault: Deleted scenes with introductions by director Martin Campbell; Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles; Building a better Bond: pre-production featurette; The return of Bond: the start of production press event; Driven to Bond: Remy Julienne; Anatomy of a stunt: tank versus Perrier; Making it in small pictures: Derek Meddings; On location with Peter Lamont; "GoldenEye": the secret files; Pre-title storyboard sequence with Martin Campbell; 007 Misson control: Interactive guide into the world of "GoldenEye"; Mission dossier: Audio commentary featuring Martin Campbell and Michael G. Wilson ; "The world of 007": original 1995 TV special hosted by Elizabeth Hurley; The "GoldenEye" video journal promotional featurette; "GoldenEye" music video performed by Tina Turner; Ministry of propaganda: Original trailers; TV spots; Photo gallery. 130 min. DVD 6766

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Goldfinger((UK, 1964)

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear radiation. Special features (Disc 2: DVD 6723): Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 110 min. DVD 6723; single-disc version DVD 1673

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Licence to Kill(UK, 1981)

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius W. Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell. James Bond battles the forces of black magic that hurtles him from the streets of New York City to Louisiana's bayou country. With charm, wit and deadly assurance, James takes on a powerful drug lord with a diabolical scheme to conquer the world. Special features: Frame-by-frame digital restoration; never before released newly recorded audio commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore; declassified: MI6 vault ("Bond 1973" the lost documentary; Roger Moore as James Bond, circa 1964; 'Live and let die' conceptual art); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'Live and let die'); mission dossier (audio commentary featuring Guy Hamilton; audio commentary featuring Tom Mankiewicz; inside 'Live and let die'; on set with Roger Moore); ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots & radio communications). 122 min. DVD 6790

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Live and Let Die(UK / USA, 1989)

Directed by John Glen. Cast: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe. Timothy Dalton portrays the superagent 007 who leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez. 133 min. DVD 6790

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The Man with the Golden Gun(UK, 1974)

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize, Clifton James. Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 and faces off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga. Features a wild car chase through Bangkok and Bond's stunning confrontation with an entire martial arts school. 125 min. DVD 6739

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Moonraker (UK / France, 1979)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery. Roger Moore stars for the fourth time as Agent 007 and joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying all human life on Earth. 121 min. DVD 6781

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Never Say Never Again (UK / USA / West Germany, 1983)

Directed by Irvin Kershner. Cast: Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Edward Fox. From the luxury yacht the length of a football field, Largo oversees a master plan of mayhem involving stolen cruise missiles, nuclear extortion, deadly video games and all the other evils in SPECTRE'S arsenal. James Bond, Agent 007, goes into battle with a fabulous flying motorcycle and other ghastly gadgets, including a fountain pen that can write you off with a bang. 133 min. DVD 5870

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Octopussy(UK / USA, 1983)

Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi. Roger Moore portrays the immortal action hero James Bond as he investigates the murder of a fellow agent who was clutching a priceless Faberge egg at the time of his death. 131 min. DVD 6782

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service(UK, 1969)

Directed by Peter Hunt. Cast: Geogre Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppar, Lois Maxwell, George Baker, Bernard Lee, Bernard Horsfall, Desmond Llewelyn. James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps and becomes involved in artillery-laden ski pursuits, incredible stunts and thrills. James finds love with the beautiful and seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo. But first Bond must stop the evil genius Blofeld from realising a germ warfare plot could kill millions. Special features: Frame-by-frame digial restoration; Declassified: MI6 vault (casting 'On her majesty's secret service'; press day in Portugal; George Lazenby: in his own words; shot on ice - original 1969 Ford promo film; "Swiss movement" original 1969 featurette); 007 mission control (interactive guide into the world of 'On her majesty's secret service); Mission dossier (audio commentary featuring director Peter Hunt and memebers of the cast and crew; inside 'On her majesty's secret service'; inside Q's lab; "Above it all" original 1969 featurette; ministry of propaganda (original trailers; TV spots & radio communications). 142 min. DVD 6769

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The Spy Who Loved Me(UK, 1977)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro. Roger Moore brings inimitable style to Agent 007 as he teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomaniac Stromberg from unleashing a horrific scheme for world domination. 126 min.DVD 6791

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Thunderball (UK, 1965)

Directed by Terence Young. Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi. Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust. 130 min. DVD 6787; DVD 5891 [single-disc version]

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Tomorrow Never Dies (UK / USA, 1997)

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench. Pierce Brosnan returns as Agent 007, stepping in to prevent World War III when a ruthless media tycoon tries to destabilise the world economy by orchestrating a deadly standoff between world superpowers. 119 min. DVD 6783

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A View to a Kill (UK / USA, 1985)

Directed by John Glen. Cast: Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Chistopher Walken. Roger Moore's Bond confronts Max Zorin, who has devised a plan to corner the world's microchip market, even if he has to kill millions to do it. Before Bond can stop the madman, he must confront Zorin's beautiful and deadly companion May Day. 131 min. DVD 6789

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You Only Live Twice (UK, 1967)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Gray, Bernard Lee, Donald Pleasence. When U.S. and Soviet manned spaceships are hijacked in Earth's orbit, Agent 007 must race to prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers. His dangerous mission takes him to Japan, where he battles the evil SPECTRE organization and its diabolical leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Special features: Declassified: M16 vault; 007 mission control; Mission dossier; ministry of propaganda. 117 min. DVD 6780; DVD 5890 [single-disc version]

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Jerico (1937)

Directed by Thornton Freeland. Cast: Paul Robeson, Henry Wilcoxon, Wallace Ford. Paul Robeson is in fine voice in this musical drama about a GI who, after he accidentally kills a man, escapes into the desert where he joins an African tribe to avoid punishment. 75 min. DVD 7282

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Jubilee (1977)

Directed by Derrik Jarman. Cast: Jenny Runacre, Richard O'Brien, Little Nell, Toyah Willcox, Wayne County, Adam Ant, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane, Ian Charleson, Karl Johnson, Linda Spurrier, Neil Kennedy, Orlando. When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex. 106 min. DVD 3613

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Jude (1996)

Director, Michael Winterbottom, Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslett, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths, June Whitfield. In rural 19th century England a working class stonemason has scholarly ambitions that are sidetracked by an unhappy marriage and an obsession with his cousin. Eventally he leaves his wife to live with his cousin with tragic consquences. Based on the novel of Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy. 227 min. 999:2667

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1950)

Directed by Robert Hamer. Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson. Impatient to become duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy. Obstructing the path to his title is Alec Guinness, in one of his greatest performances, playing all eight relatives. 110 min. DVD 8122; 999:3009

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King Solomon's Mines(UK, 1937)

Director, Robert Stevenson. Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, Anna Lee. Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard. 80 min. DVD 9661

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Kiss of Death (UK, TV, 1977)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: David Threlfall, John Wheatley, Kay Adhead, Angela Curran. Mike Leigh's whimsical, puckish sense of humor comes to full flower in this story of Trevor, the 'dead quiet' undertaker's assistant, and his attempts at romance. Socially awkward, Trevor's courtships have to be among the most humorous in all of cinema's history. 80 min. DVD X2025

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The Knack - and How to Get It(1965)

Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly. You either have it or you don't. That is, the knack of seduction! Cool and sophisticated Tolen has a monopoly on womanizing in 1960's London and his friend Colin simply wants to learn the secret. Based on the play "The knack" by Ann Jellicoe. 85 min. DVD X151; vhs 999:3165

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Carson, Bruce. "Comedy, sexuality and "Swinging London" films." Journal of Popular British Cinema nr 1 (1998); p 48-62.

The Krays (1990)

Directed by Peter Medak. Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp. Based on a true story. During the 1960's, twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray dominated London's underworld and their passion for violence and fearlessness made them legends in their own times. They emerged from their violent schooldays into leaders of their own criminal mob. Soon their personal lives began to crumble, they were tried for two brutal murders and are now serving a 30 year prison sentence. 119 min. 999:3633

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Lady Chatterly (1992)

Director, Ken Russell. Cast: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Anne Field. When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever. 205 min. DVD 1771

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The Ladykillers (1955)

Director, Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, Danny Green. Professor Marcus and his gang of vicious bank robbers rent a room from an elderly widow. When she begins to meddle in their 'perfect crime', the crooks decide she must be killed ... but can they? 91 min. DVD 8124

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Last Holiday(UK, 1950)

Directed by Henry Cass. Cast: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Bernard Lee. Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his identity caught between upstairs and downstairs, the guest and the "help." 89 min. DVD X1668

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The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Cast: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney, David Oyelowo, Abby Mukiibi, Adam Kotz, Barbara Rafferty, David Ashton. Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny. Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive. Garrigan grows increasingly prone to exploitation. 123 min. DVD 7376

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The Lavender Hill Mob(1951)

Directed by Charles Crichton. Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James. Sir Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, a meek clerk who devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But his idea to melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers and smuggle them to France turns his perfect crime into a disastrous caper with unexpected surprises. 81 min. DVD 8121

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Director, David Lean. Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole. The story of T. E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. Special features (Disc 1): DVD-ROM features: archives of Arabia: historic photographs take you behind the scenes (Pt. 1) ; Journey with Lawrence: Interactive map of the Middle East. Special features (Disc 2): Documentary: The Making of Lawrence of Arabia ; conversation with Steven Spielberg ; four original featurettes: Maan, Jordan: the camels are cast -- In search of Lawrence -- Romance of Arabia -- Wind, sand and star: the making of a classic ; original newsreel footage of the New York premiere ; DVD-ROM features: archives of Arabia: historic photographs take you behind the scenes (Pt. 2) ; advertising campaigns ; theatrical trailers ; talent files. 227 min. DVD 666; VHS 999:382

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The Leather Boys (1963)

Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Cast: Rita Tushingham, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Colin Campbell. Dot and Reg, a pair of British high school sweethearts marry and quickly learn about the follies and hardships of adulthood. When the couple splits, Reg finds solace in the company of his irresponsible pal Pete, but comes to discover that even this carefree friendship is not without its complications. 105 min. 999:2582

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Let Him Have It(1991)

Directed by Peter Medak. Cast: Chris Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Michael Elphick, Mark McGann, Tom Courtenay. In 1950s England, 16 year old mentally handicapped Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Based on true events, after Bentley's execution, the ensuing public outcry eventually led to the abolition of the death penalty. 110 min. DVD 6819

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Letter to Brezhnev (1984)

Directed by Chris Bernard. Cast: Peter Firth, Alfred Molina, Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke, Neil Cunningham, Ken Campbell, Angela Clarke, Tracy Lea. Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two English girls, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite. Non-US (PAL) format DVD. 88 min. DVD 6277

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, Harry Welchman, Arthur Wontner, Albert Lieven. Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt, and bewildered that his lifelong code of gentlemanly conduct has become an anachronism in a world threatened by a monster like Hitler. 163 min. DVD 1648

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The Lion in Winter (1968)

Directed by Anthony Harvey. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn. Queen Eleanor (Hepburn) tries to align herself with France in order to insure her eldest son's position as heir to the throne. King Henry (O'Toole) favors his youngest son for the coveted title. The sons care little for either parent, and each will stop at nothing to obtain personal power. The King and Queen's relationship is dissected as they plot, love, cheat, connive and try to politically devour each other. Based on the drama by James Goldman. 136 min. 999:204

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Directed by Guy Ritchie. Cast: Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, Sting. A streetwise charmer who loses his friends' money in a rigged game comes up with a plan to make everything come out right, but ends up in a comedy of errors. 108 min. DVD 8211

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner(UK, 1962)

Directed by Tony Richardson. Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alec McGowan. An 18-year-old boy, a product of a slum environment, is sent to reform school where he becomes the top runner and the best bet to win against a private school. 104 min. DVD 8093; vhs 999:3494

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Look Back in Anger (1980)

Director, Lindsay Anderson; featuring Malcolm McDowell. In a claustrophobic English flat on a dreary, depressing Sunday, an educated working class anti-hero raised his voice in bitterness and rage against his wife, his friend and his whole hopeless world. Based on the novel of the same title by John Osborne. 100 min. 999:155

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Loophole (1981)

Directed by John Quested. Cast: Martin Sheen, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Robert Morley, Tony Doyle. When architect Stephen Brooker loses his partnership, he finds that jobs are hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults. 105 min. DVD X230

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Lord Jim (1965)

Directed by Richard Brooks. Cast: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff, Daliah Lavi. Joseph Conrad's saga of an idealistic merchant marine officer who disgraces himself when he abandons ship in the Far East. A tale of both cowardice and redemption. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. 155 min. 999:1293

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Dawson, Catherine. Moore, Gene M. "Colonialism and Local Color in Outcast of the Islands and Lord Jim." In: Conrad on film / edited by Gene M. Moore. pp: 104-19. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Main Stack PR6005.O4.Z581165 1997)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Directed by Peter Brook. Cast: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, and Hugh Edwards. Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys completely cut off from society who revert to brutal, primitive savagery. 97 min. DVD 1168; VHS 999:530

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Love and Death on Long Island (UK / Canada, 1996)

Directed by Richard Kwietniowski. Cast: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock, Harvey Atkin, Gavin Grainger, Elizabeth Quinn, Maury Chaykin. A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath. Focuses on the genteel obsession of an older man for a younger man. 94 min. DVD 4749

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Love + Hate (UK / Ireland, 2005)

Directed by Dominic Savage. Cast: Tracy Brabin, Samina Awan, Tom Hudson, Nichola Burley. Looks at race relations in working class northwest England as seen through the stories of 17-year-old Naseema, a second generation British-Pakistani Muslim who falls for her white racist colleague, and her elder brother Yousif, whose attitudes to race, religion and women are called into question. 82 min. DVD 9396

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Made in Britain (1982, TV)

Directed by Alan Clarke. Cast: Tim Roth, Eric Richard, Terry Richards. Trevor is a temperamental 16-year-old skinhead complete with a swastika etched into his forehead. Thrown back into the penal system after smashing open a shop window, he refuses help from his social worker and retreats so deeply into his own sense of hatred that he seems impossible to reach. Easily provoked and prone to screaming and irrational behavior, Trevor comes to represent a truly terrifying vision of things to come. 73 min. DVD 5546

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The Madness of King George (UK, 1994)

Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Graves, Rupert Everett. Based on the life of King George III (1738-1820), this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness. Based on Alan Bennett's stage play The madness of George III. 110 min. DVD X1056; vhs 999:2805

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The Maggie

Director, Alexander Mackendrick. Ealing Studios. Cast: Paul Douglas, Hubert Gregg, Alex MacKenzie, Abe Barker, James Copeland, Tommy Kearins. A wily Scottish ship captain cons a rich American into letting his coal burning scow "The Maggie" carry a valuable load of furniture to a Scottish island. The American soon realises he's been conned but can he stop the captain from ripping him off? 1954. 92 min. DVD 7398 (US standard DVD); Non-US formatDVD 3671(PAL)

Major Barbara (1941)

Directed by Gabriel Pascal. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Deborah Kerr, Sybil Thorndike, Robert Newton. The story of the daughter of an armaments millionaire who joins the Salvation Army but later joins her new husband in his business when she realizes that his factory will enable her to save more souls than her charity work. The factory also will serve as an avenue for more money for the Salvation Army. Based on the play with the same title written by Bernard Shaw. 131 min. Video/C 2953

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The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker. Sir Alec Guinness is Sidney Stratton, an eccentric chemist who invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out, or gets dirty. But when mill owners and workers realize this miracle fiber will destroy their industry, Sidney becomes the most hunted man in the nation. 85 min. DVD 8123

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The Man Who Cried(UK / France, 2000)

Directed by Sally Potter. Cast: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton. "A Russian Jewish father emigrates to America in 1923, with a promise to send for his mother and young daughter when he is settled. When his village is burned in a pogrom, his mother is killed and his daughter is separated from other youngsters who make it to the port to emigrate. She ends up on a ship bound for England, where she is renamed Suzie and raised by a British family. Many years later, Suzie's talent for singing and dancing sees her accepted into a Paris dance troupe where she is befriended by Lola, a fellow dancer from Moscow. Cesar, a handsome brooding gypsy who works with the troupe later becomes her lover. Lola pursues Dante, an egotistical tenor who is performing in the area. All is well until the Nazis march into Paris, and Suzie's Russian Jewish background places her in danger. She must decide whether to leave Cesar and her friends and continue the search for her father in America" [IMDB] 100 min. DVD X359

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Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade) (1966)

Directed by Peter Brook. Cast: Glenda Jackson, Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson. The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. 120 min. DVD 133; vhs C-1638

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Mary, Queen of Scots (UK, 1972)

Directed by Charles Jarrott. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, Daniel Massey, Ian Holm. Mary Stuart (Mary I, 1542-1587) was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old. Mary would be the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth (1533-1603), the Queen of England and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary would end with her beheading. With her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne is finally removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history. 132 min. DVD X832

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A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) (UK, 1946)

Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Richard Attenborough. British flyer Peter Carter returning from England in his severely damaged plane gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the USAAF, and they are quite moved by the encounter. He eventually must jump from his burning plane without a parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. 102 min. DVD X1382; vhs 999:3504 (PAL format)

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Maurice (1987)

Directed by James Ivory. Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Patrick Godfrey, Mark Tandy, and Ben Kingsley. Set in pre-World War I England this film, based on the semi-aubiographical novel by E.M. Forster, concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice and Clive struggle with the desires of their hearts and the rigid constraints of British society. 100 min. DVD 9143; vhs 999:3486

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The Millionairess (1960)

Directed by Anthony Asquith. Cast: Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price. In this comic film a beautiful, spoiled heiress has everything money can buy, except a husband. After a disastrous first marriage, she sets her sights on a dedicated but poor Indian doctor who has saved her from suicide. Based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. 90 min. DVD 818

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[Mitchell, Sagar and Kenyon, James] The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon

Over a century ago, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales filming the everyday lives of people at work and at play. Their films begin with the bustling streets at home in Britain and the controversial war abroad and move on to show the British workers at leisure and enjoying sports. Presents the first ever crime reconstruction film and finally the success of Mitchell and Kenyon in the U.S. and the ultimate demise of their partnership. 176 min. DVD 3603

Mason, John. "The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon." History Today. London: May 2005. Vol. 55, Iss. 5; p. 77 (2 pages)

Mayhall, Laura E. Nym. "The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film." Victorian Studies. Bloomington: Spring 2006. Vol. 48, Iss. 3; p. 560 (3 pages)

Sargeant, Amy. "The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon." Journal of British Cinema & Television, 2005, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p356-357, 2p

Whalley, Robin; Worden, Peter. "Forgotten Firm: A Short Chronological Account of Mitchell and Kenyon, Cinematographers." Film History, Vol. 10, No. 1, Cinema Pioneers (1998), pp. 35-51

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Mona Lisa (1986)

Directed by Neil Jordan. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Caine, Clarke Peters, Sammi Davis, Kate Hardie, Zoe Nathenson. George, an ex-con employed as a chauffeur to an enigmatic, high-class call girl, initially detests her but winds up under her spell. His fascination with her leads him on a dangerous quest through the sordid underbelly of London, where love is a weakness to be exploited and betrayed. 104 min. DVD 1927

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in this hysterical, historical tour-de-farce. Watch as the knights wage battle against the fierce Killer Rabbit. Can they pass the test of valor and cut down yon tree with herring? Or will they blow themselves to smithereens with the Holy Hand Grenade? 92 min. DVD 503

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Morgan: a Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)

Directed by Karel Reisz. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw. A landmark black comedy which chronicles one man's descent into a life of absurdist fantasy. Morgan's futile efforts at marital reconciliation lead him to a triumphant discovery that life is really easier to deal with while dressed in a gorilla suit. 93 min. 999:3631

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Moulin Rouge (Silent, 1929)

Directed by E. A. Dupont. Portrays cafe society of Paris in the 1920's. A beautiful cafe actress finds that her daughter's finace has fallen in love with her. As a result of an auto accident, the young man finally reconsiders his affections and marries the daughter. 93 min. 999:3379

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Mrs. Dalloway(UK / USA / Netherlands, 1997)

Director Marleen Gorris. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Lena Headey, Amelia Bullmore, Sarah Badel, Phyllis Calvert, Oliver Ford Davies, Robert Hardy, Robert Portal, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny. Based upon the novel by Virginia Woolf. 97 min. DVD 9151; vhs Video/C 999:2172

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Mrs. Henderson Presents (1930)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow, Anna Brewster. Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her through war torn London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it. The two don't seem to get along at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres begin to copy the idea and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily for Laura, she is friends with him. 103 min. DVD 5444

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My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warnecke. Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches. Based on Hanif's Kureishi novel. (UCB Main PR6061.U68 M9 1996; PN1997 .M8871 1986) DVD 1635; vhs 999:431

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My Son the Fanatic (UK / France, 1999)

Directed by Udayan Prasad. Parvez, a cab driver who left Pakistan for Great Britain in search of a better life must choose between his relationship with his disinterested wife, his increasingly Islamic fundamentalist son and his friendship with a prostitute who provides him support and tenderness he does not experience within his own family. 87 min. DVD 9114; vhs 999:2649

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The Naked Civil Servant: The Autobiography of Quentin Crisp (UK, TV, 1975)

Directed by Jack Gold. Cast: John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Frederick Treves, Katharine Schofield, Frank Forsyth, Stanley Lebor. Based on Quentin Crisp's autobiography, this once-controversial picture stars John Hurt as Crisp, a flamboyant character who publicly declared his homosexuality during the brutally homophobic and misogynistic England of the 1930s and '40s -- a time when this alternative lifestyle was still an offense punishable by imprisonment in Great Britain. Special features: Audio commentary with John Hurt, director Jack Gold, and executive producer Verity Lambert; "Deja vu with Quentin Crisp": Quentin Crisp's observations on British and American culture. 77 min. DVD 8241

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A Night to Remember (UK, 1958)

Directed by Roy Baker. Cast: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum, Tucker McGuire, John Merivale, Frank Lawton, Laurence Naismith, George Rose. This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter Lord. The film covers the life and death of the huge vessel from its launching celebration to that fateful night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Special features: Audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall; the making of "A Night to Remember" (1993), a 60 minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty's rare behind-the-scenes footage; includes original theatrical trailer. 123 min. DVD 8185; also DVD X287

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Howells, Richard. "Atlantic Crossings: Nation, Class and Identity in Titanic (1953) and A Night to Remember (1958)." Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, Oct99, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p421-438, 18p

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Nina's Heavenly Delights (UK, 2006)

Directed by Pratibha Parmar. Cast: Laura Fraser, Art Malik, Ronnie Jhutti, Veena Sood, Shelley Conn. A young woman must take over her father's Indian restaurant and compete in The Best of the West Curry Competition. When Nina then falls in love with the beautiful Lisa, she begins to question a world that has been thrown into sudden turmoil. Now she wonders if her feelings will ever be reciprocated and if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family? 94 min. DVD 8743

1984 (1956)

Directed by Michael Anderson. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, David Kossoff, Donald Pleasance, Mervyn Johns, Carol Wolveridge. Set in London in the future (1984), this is a story of love and tragic betrayal in a twisted, horrific, totalitarian world. 88 min. 999:859

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None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Directed by Clifford Odets. Cast: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez. Set in London's pre-war East End, tells the story of a restless wandering Cockney and his mother reaching out for a better life. Ironically, both and mother and son turn to crime to help the other in this moving tale of love and family loyalty. 113 min. 999:3721

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Not Quite Paradise (UK, 1985)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Joanna Pacula, Sam Robards, Todd Graff, Kevin McNally. Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or search for themselves. But when American pre-med student Mike falls for tough kibbutz women Gila, he must make the most difficult choice of his life. 106 min. DVD X1988

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Notes on a Scandal (1944)

Directed by Richard Eyre. Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy. Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say, but she finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara's cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined. Special features: Commentary by director, featurette, conversation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy, in character with Cate Blanchett. 92 min. DVD 7375

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Nuts in May (UK, TV, 1979)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O'Donnell. Hilarious and appalling things happen to Keith and Candice-Marie, a pair of terrifically self-satisfied, middle-class vegetarians still high on the hippy philosophy of the 1960's. The film follows the pair on a camping trip in Dorset that is a near disaster for them. 84 min. DVD X2022

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O Lucky Man! (UK, 1973)

Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Dandy Nichols, Mona Washbourne. This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Armed with ambition and a strong work ethic, he finds that desire alone can't bring wealth and status. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone. Special features: Commentary by Malcolm McDowell, Alan Price and screenwriter David Sherwin; new feature-length career profile "O lucky Malcolm!" produced/directed by Jan Harlan, edited by Katia de Vidas; vintage featurette "O lucky man! innovations in entertainment"; theatrical trailer. 178 min. DVD X1462

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Odd Man Out (1947)

Director, Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan. An IRA gunman, Johnny McQueen, after escaping from prison organizes a payroll robbery. Now maimed and bleeding, he must weave an escape route through Belfast's seedy underground while each of his comrades falls prey to bounty hunters and police. 123 min. DVD 474

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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Director: Attenborough, Richard. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Pierre Cassel, John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Susannah York, John Mills, Ian Holm. A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time. Special features: Commentary by director Lord Richard Attenborough; 3-part documentary: Welcome to World War I, The Smith family album, Keep the home fires burning. Based on Joan Littlewood's theatre workshop production by Charles Chilton and the members of the original cast after a stage treatment by Ted Allan. 144 min. DVD 6676

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Oliver! (1969)

Director, Carol Reed. Cast: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester. A musical version of the novel by Charles Dickens in which a young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But, Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and that true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned. Freely adapted from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. 145 min. 999:1287

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Oliver Twist (1948)

Director, David Lean. Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Newley, John Howard Davies. An orphan boy discovers good and evil forces on the streets of London and unwittingly seals his fate when he pick-pockets his own grandfather. 116 min. DVD 188; VHS 999:1288

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One of Our Aircraft is Missing(1942)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cast: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Pamela Brown, Googie Withers, Peter Ustinov, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones, Roland Culver. In the darkness of an English morning, a Wellington bomber flies home across the North Sea. In a blinding flash, it crashes into the high tension wires above the base. Forced to bail out, the six crewmen wander around occupied Holland. One of the six men is wounded, one is missing. With diehard courage they head toward the North Sea and freedom. After eluding enemy soldiers and quislings, they find themselves trapped inside Nazi headquarters, forced to trust a woman who offers to smuggle them home. A moving British propaganda piece about a conquered country's patriotism and will-to-resist. 103 min. DVD 8770

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Orlando(1992)

Directed by Sally Potter. Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey, Heathcote Williams, Quentin Crisp. Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations that humorously, hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes. Based on the book by Virginia Woolf. 999:1327

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Our Man in Havana (UK, 1959)

Directed by Carol Reed. Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow. Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service to become an unlikely agent in Cuba. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle. Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Special features: Original trailer; Martini minutes: "Secrets of seduction" and "How to travel in style." 111 min. DVD X1809

Overlord (UK, 1975)

Director: Stuart Cooper. Cast: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner. Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrrative tells the story of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day revealing all the terrors of war with jolting authenticity. Special features: Audio commentary featuring Cooper and actor Brian Stirner; "Mining the archive": a new video featuring Imperial War Museum film archivists detailing the war footage used in the film; "Capa influences Cooper": a new photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa; "A test of violence" (1969): Cooper's short film about Spanish artist Juan Genov�s; "Cameramen at war": the British Ministry of Information's 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen; "Germany calling": a 1941 British Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord; Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner; theatrical trailer ; plus, a new essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization, by Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 82 min. DVD X819

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Paid to Kill (aka Five Days) (UK, 1954)

Directed by Montgomery Tully. Cast: Dane Clark, Paul Carpenter, Thea Gregory, Cecile Chevreau. A man's business deal fails and to provide for his "adoring" wife, he hires his best friend to kill him so his wife can collect on his insurance. The business deal comes through at the last minute, but he finds he can't call off the murder. His treacherous double-crossing wife has different ideas. 71 min. DVD 8346

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A Passage to India (1984)

Director, David Lean. Cast: Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee. While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster and the play by Santha Rama Rau. Special DVD features: Reflections of David Lean ; bonus trailers; talent files; interactive menus ; production notes; scene selections. 164 min. DVD 667; VHS 999:2304

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Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Director, Henry Cornelius. Cast: Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Paul Dupuis. Detonation of an unexploded bomb left from WWII German bombings uncovers an ancient document which reveals that London's Pimlico district really belongs to France. The community, eager to abandon post-war constraints, establish their independence as a ration-free state. 75 min. DVD DVD 7399; vhs 999:3143

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Williams, T. "The repressed fantastic in Passport to Pimlico." In: Re-viewing British cinema, 1900-1992: essays and interviews / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. pp: 143-53 Albany: State University of New York Press, c1994.(Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.R4 1994)

Peeping Tom (1945)

Director, Michael Powell. Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley. A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera. 101 min. DVD 187; VHS 999:535

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Performance (1970)

Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg. Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg. In this underground film presenting a study of the 1960's, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to hide after carrying out a hit. He finds the perfect cover in the form of a guest house run by the mysterious Mr. Turner, an ex-rocker looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent. 104 min. DVD 7354; vhs 999:3010

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Frey, M. "London a la mod: Fashion, Genre, and Historical Space in "Performance"." Quarterly Review of Film and Video v. 23 no. 4 (2006) p. 369-75

Savage, Jon. "Snapshots of the sixties." Sight & Sound Vol III nr 5 (May 1993); p 14-18.

Wollen, Peter; Savage, Jon. "Possession./ Tuning into wonders." Sight & Sound Vol V nr 9 (Sept 1995); p 20-25.

Petulia (1970)

Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain. Set during the swinging sixties in San Francisco, this landmark romantic drama tells of the charmingly kooky socialite Petulia, who has been recently married. Unhappy with her marriage, she embarks on a love affair with a melancholy recently-divorced doctor. As they try to make sense of their dispassionate lives they strive to find the courage to change the course of their lives in the face of their respective demons. Based on a novel by John Haase ; adaptation by Barbara Turner. Special DVD features: New featurette "The uncommon making of 'Petulia'"; Vintage featurette "'Petulia': the uncommon movie"; Theatrical trailer. 105 min. DVD X1013; vhs 999:3026

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The Phantom Light (1935)

Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Cast: Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer. The disappearance of two lighthouse keepers on the coast of Wales is linked to the specter of a rogue beacon that lures freight ships to their destruction on the rocks. Two bickering sleuths must solve the mystery of the "Phantom Light" or become its next victims. 76 min. DVD X100

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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (British TV, 1986)

Originally produced for television in 1986.

Pickup on Noon Street Cast: Powers Boothe, Robin Givens, Kate Trotter, Christopher Newton, Ken Pogue, Gene Clark, Al Waxman. 51 min. Video/C 7171

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Guns at Cyrano's Cast: Powers Boothe, Roxanne Hart, Cec Linder, Mark Humphrey, Angelo Rizacos, John Ireland. 51 min. Video/C 7171

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Trouble is My Business Cast: Powers Boothe, Kate Reid, Jennifer Dale, Booth Savage, Paul Hecht. 51 min. Video/C 7172

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Spanish Blood Cast: Powers Boothe, Helen Shaver, Ron Van Hart, Mavor Moore, Dixie Seatle, John Vernon. 51 min. Video/C 7172

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Blackmailers Don't Shoot Cast: Powers Boothe, Melody Anderson, Allan Royal, Peter Dvorsky, Robert Morelli, John Winston Carroll, August Schellenberg. 51 min. Video/C 7173

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Trouble is My Business Cast: Powers Boothe, Helen Shaver, Ron Van Hart, Mavor Moore, Dixie Seatle, John Vernon. 51 min. Video/C 7173

Picadilly (UK, 1929)

Direced by E.A. Dupont. Cast: Anna Mae Wong, Jameson Thomas, Gilda Gray, Charles Laughton, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones. "Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama Piccadilly. By the time the film was released in 1929, talking pictures had taken a firm hold of the British film industry, obliging DuPont to reshoot much of the picture with dialogue. American screen favorites Anna May Wong and Gilda Gray (the girl who popularized the "shimmy dance") head the cast, the former as Shosho, a dishwasher in the London nightclub where the latter, cast as dancer Mabel Greenfield, performs nightly. Jealous of Mabel's dancing partner Victor Smiles (Cyril Ritchard), club owner Wilmot (Jameson Thomas) fires Victor, whereupon business drops off dramatically. In desperation, Wilmot takes Shosho out of the kitchen and puts her on stage, where she scores a big success. Feeling threatened by Shosho, Mabel heads to her rival's apartment with blood in her eye. A shot rings out, Shosho falls dead, and Mabel is accused of murder. But during the trial, it turns out that Shosho was done in by her Chinese sweetheart Jim (Kim Ho Chang). In his first feature film appearance, Charles Laughton performs an outrageous bit as a rowdy night club patron; also seen in a minuscule role is young Ray Milland. The talkie version of Piccadilly wasn't released in the U.S. until 1932." (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide) 109 min. DVD 3597

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The Pillow Book (France / UK / Netherlands / Luxembourg, 1996)

Director, Peter Greenaway. Cast: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg. A modern-day Japanese woman's life experiences are inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan and her father's relationship with his publisher.126 min. DVD 9132; vhs 999:2380

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Playing Away (UK/USA, 1986)

Directed by Horace Ove. To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a stiff and snooty cricket team in a small English village invites a West Indian cricket team from South London to a charity game with comic results. 102 min. Video 999:1992

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The Portrait of a Lady (1933)

Director, Jane Campion. Cast: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Winters, Richard Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen,Valentina Cervi, John Gielgud. Isabel Archer is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her head-strong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond. Portrays Henry VIII's various marriages beginning with the execution of Anne Boleyn. Includes his marriage to Jane Seymour and the birth of a male heir, his marriage to Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Based on the novel by Henry James. 144 min. 999:1755

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Pressure (UK, 1975)

Director, Horace Ové. Cast: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, Ed Deveraux, Norman A hard-hitting drama of the struggle and disenchantment faced by British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy. 120 min. DVD 6206

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Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Director, Stephen Frears. Cast: Gary Oldman (Joe Orton), Alfred Molina (Kenneth Halliwell), Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson, Frances Barber, Margaret Tyzack, Wallace Shawn. Based on the true story of the murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself. 105 min. 999:3488

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The Private life of Don Juan(UK, 1934)

Directed by Cast: Alexander Korda. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.; Merle Oberon ; Benita Hume ; Bruce Winston ; Gina Malo. When Don Juan fakes his own death - only to find that he has promptly been forgotten - can a raven-haired beauty coax him back into the business? Based on the story by Henri Bataille. 87 min. DVD X1657

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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Director, Alexander Korda. Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie. Portrays Henry VIII's various marriages beginning with the execution of Anne Boleyn. Includes his marriage to Jane Seymour and the birth of a male heir, his marriage to Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. 97 min. DVD X1656; vhs 999:22

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Street, Sarah. "Stepping Westward: The Distribution of British Feature Films in America, and the Case of The Private Life of Henry VIII." In: British cinema, past and present / edited by Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2000. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.B695 2000; PFA PN1993.5.G7.B695 2000)

Walker, Greg. The private life of Henry VIII London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2003. (MAIN: PN1997 .P769 2003)

Walker, Greg. "The roots of Alexander Korda: myths of identity and the international film." Patterns of Prejudice, 37:1, 3 - 25, 2003

Wayne, Mike. "Constellating Walter Benjamin and British Cinema: A Study of The Private Life of Henry VIII." Quarterly Review of Film and Video v. 19 no. 3 (2002) p. 249-60

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The Proud Valley (UK, 1940)

Director, Pen Tennyson. Cast: Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Edward Rigby, Simon Lack, Janet Johnson, Rachel Thomas. Paul Robeson plays a sailor who comes to a Welsh coal mining town and helps re-open the mine at the cost of his life. Special features include a radio interview with Paul Robeson from 1958. 76 min. DVD 7283

Pygmalion (1938)

Directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard; screenplay and dialogue by George Bernard Shaw. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wifrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland. Follows the transformation of a Cockney flower girl's speech, dress, and manners as the result of a wager between Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering until she successfully passes as a duchess at an ambassador's reception. 96 min. 999:367

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Quadrophenia (The Who)(1979)

Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Mark Wingett, Michael Elphick, Sting. Features songs by The Who in an adaptation of the Who's classic rock opera set against the background of the passions of British street kids, circa 1964. The story centers around young Jimmy Cooper who rebels against his English working class surroundings while he and his Mod clique face their enemies the Rockers in seaside clashes. 115 min. DVD 1594

The Quare Fellow (UK, 1962)

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss. Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly, Jack Cunningham. A rookie prison guard, and advocate of capital punishment, has a change of heart after he begins an affair with a condemned man's wife and discovers that key evidence was withheld from his trial. Based on the play by Brendan Behan. 89 min. DVD X2032

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[W. Somerset Maugham's] Quartet (UK, 1948)

Contents: Facts of life / directed by Ralph Smart -- The Alien corn / directed by Harold French -- The Kite / directed by Arthur Crabtree -- The Colonel's lady / directed by Ken Annakin. Cast: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Robertson Justice, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Maurice Denham, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, George Cole, Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne, Ernest Thesiger. Summary Film adaptation of four short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. 114 min. DVD X1915

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The Queen (UK / France / Italy, 2006)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Helen Mirren (HM Queen Elizabeth II), Michael Sheen (Tony Blair), James Cromwell (Prince Philip), Helen McCrory (Cherie Blair), Alex Jennings (Prince Charles), Roger Allam (Robin Janvrin), and Sylvia Syms (HM The Queen Mother). The Queen opens with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of the adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the monarch and Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to the resulting torrent of national grief. Special features: The Making Of ... "The Queen" part one "Playing real people" ; part two "The design" ; part three "That week" (20 min.) ; audio commentary by director Stephen Frears and writer Peter Morgan ; audio commentary by British historian and royal expert Robert Lacey, author of "Majesty". The picture of dignity -- Prime Minister Tony -- Diana -- Upsetting news -- The people's princess -- A public funeral -- Modern men -- The royal standard -- A quiet revolution -- Captive beauty -- A serious mistake -- A day of mourning -- Shared grief -- The funeral -- Two months later -- End credits. 103 min. DVD 7563

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Queen of Spades (1948)

Directed by Thorold Dickerson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold, Yvonne Mitchell. An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit. 95 min. DVD 4092

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Race for Life (aka Mask of Dust) (UK, 1954)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris, Peter Illing, Alec Mango. An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital, he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix or make peace with his adversary. 65 min. DVD 8361

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Ratcatcher (UK / France, 1999)

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. Cast: William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews. A haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970's, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Special features: Video interview with Lynne Ramsay; three award-winning short films by Lynne Ramsay: Small deaths (1995), Kill the day (1996), and Gasman (1997); stills gallery; and original theatrical trailer. 94 min. DVD 8167

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Reach for the Sky (UK, 1956)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison, Sydney Tafter, Jack Watling, Nigel Green. The amazing story of Douglas Bader, who after losing both legs as a result of an aeroplane crash, overcame insurmountable odds to not only master the art of walking with two artificial legs, but to dance, play golf, and to become one of the most remarkable fighter aces in history. 135 min. DVD X287

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Red Ensign (1934)

Directed by Michael Powell. Cast: Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton, Donald Calthrop. With England's commercial fleet in decline, idealistic shipbuilder David Barr conceives a radical new ship design to revolutionize the industry. A ruthless rival will stop at nothing, even murder, to obtain Barr's top secret design. 69 min. DVD X100

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The Red Shoes (1948)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Albert Basserman, Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Leonide Massine. Intricately weaving backstage life with the thrill of performance, this film centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer. From the story by Hans Christian Andersen. 134 min. DVD 748

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The Remains of the Day (1993)

Directed by James Ivory; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; producers, Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve. The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically perfect butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper in the employ of a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe. Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. 134 min. 999:2456

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Resident Evil (UK / Germany / France / USA, 2002)

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, Colin Salmon. A virus has escaped and infected a secret lab and the scientists turned into zombies. A special-operations force is sent to battle the virus before it infects the planet. Based upon Capcom's video game "Resident evil." Special features: Alternate ending; cast and filmmakers' commentary; visual effects commentary; 11 featurettes; filmographies; theatrical trailer. 101 min. DVD 7678

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The Rise of Catherine the Great(UK, 1934)

Directed by Paul Czinner. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elizabeth Bergner, Gerald du Maurier, Flora Robson, Irene Vanbrugh. Peek into the life of Catherine II, from the beautiful royal courts of 18th century Russia to her troubled marriage to Peter III (portrayed in nearly 'screwball' fashion). 94 min. DVD X1658

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Rome Express (1932)

Director, Walter Forde. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Donald Calthrop, Finlay Currie, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper. A fast paced British mystery set on the Paris-Rome express train in which a stolen painting leads to 91 min. 999:3030

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Room at the Top (1959)

Directed by Jack Clayton. Cast: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Hermione Baddeley, Donald Wolfit, Ambrosine Philpotts, Donald Houston. The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group who is unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women. Adapted from the novel by John Braine. 118 min. DVD X1487

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A Room with a View (1986)

Directed by James Ivory; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; producer, Ismail Merchant. Cast: Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day Lewis. All she wanted was a room with a view on her first trip to Florence. Little did she realize that her wish would lead her into impropriety, confusion, and passion. Based on E.M. Forster's "A room with a view." 117 min. DVD 234; VHS 999:461

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The Ruling Class (1972)

Director, Peter Medak. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Michael Bryant, Nigel Green. A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, a blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system, that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy. 154 min. DVD 904

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A Run for Your Money (1949)

Directed by Charles Frend. Ealing Studios. Cast: Donald Houston, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Meredith Edwards, Hugh Griffith, Clive Morton, Leslie Perrins, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby. Two Welsh mining brothers win tickets to a rugby match in London pitting England against Wales. Overzealous in their first trip to London, the brothers become separated from their group and then each other, and a newpaper gardening correspondent is given the task of locating the brothers for a human interest story. 83 min. DVD 7400

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Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Directed by David Lean. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, Sarah Miles. In Ireland in 1916, young Rosy Ryan marries a gentle, middle-aged schoolmaster but later falls in love and has an affair with a British soldier stationed in town. 206 min. 999:3635

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan Din, Roland Gift, Wendy Gazelle. London's out of control in the punked-out Eighties and Rosie's radical politics land her in everyone's bed but Sammy's - but if they want to inherit Rafi's fortune, they'll have to come up with the grandchild he wants. 97 min. 999:3575

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Sanders of the River (1935)

Directed by Alexander Korda. Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook. After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn her daughter she gave up for adoption is black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family, the resulting chaos leads to a series of secrets and lies being revealed at last. Special features: True Pioneer: the British films of Paul Robeson, a new video program with Paul Robeson Jr. and film historians Stephens Bourne and Ian Christie, including film clips from Song of freedom (1936), King Solomon's mine (1937), and Big Fella (1937). 87 min. DVD 7282

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Directed by Karel Reisz. Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Hylda Baker, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Norman Rossington. Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham working-class rebel tied to a dead-end factory job, lives for drink and women. "What I want", he says, "is a good time. All the rest is propaganda." But when he becomes romantically involved with the beautiful, and very conventional Doreen, the wilder "Saturday night" of his life begins to give way to the more responsible, realistic "Sunday morning" and Arthur must now choose between the voice of his conscience, and a life where settling down could mean settling for less. 89 min. DVD 3013; vhs 999:1613

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The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934)

Directed by Harold Young. Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Gardner, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Anthony Bushell, Nigel Bruce. An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution. 95 min. DVD 4634

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Scotland Yard Inspector (aka Lady in the Fog)(UK, 1952)

Directed by Sam Newfield. Cast: Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell, Geoffrey Keen. Cesar Romero stars in this Hammer mystery as a Yank newspaperman in London who sets out to solve a murder, American style when an English woman asks him to help find her brother's killer. Adapted from the popular B.B.C. serial by Lester Powell. 73 min. DVD X919

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Scrooge (1970)

Directed by Ronald Neame. In this version the classic Charles Dickens tale the cold hearted miser of "A Christmas Carol" is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas is transformed into a singing, dancing spectacular. 115 min. 999:1513

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Scum (1979)

Director, Alan Clarke. Originally commissioned in 1977 for the BBC's Play for Today series, but banned by the BBC before transmission. Writer Roy Minton approached Alan Clarke to have his social commentary screenplay remade as a feature film consisting of a largely unknown cast. Young juvenile offender Carlin is sent to a remote prison for boys. Upon arrival he finds a brutal authoritarian system completely uninterested in reforming any of the young charges; equally treacherous is the inmate hierarchy which he must learn to navigate. Carlin quickly ascends to the role of 'Daddy' or top dog, but not at a small price. Unfortunately others are not so savvy and fall afoul of the social system, leading to beatings, a brutal rape, a bloody suicide, and a vicious climactic revolt. 98 min. DVD 5546

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Sebastiane (1976)

Directed by Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman. Cast: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Richard Warwick, Ken Hicks, Janusz Romanov, Neil Kennedy. Describes the last few days of the life of the Catholic martyr St. Sebastian, in particular his relationship with the Emperor Diocletian in 303 A.D., his banishment to a remote outpost of the Roman Empire because of his Christian sympathies, the ambiguous relation with his commanding officer, Severus, and finally his execution by his fellow soldiers. "St. Sebastiane was an obscure Roman mystic who might barely be remembered today were it not for the homoerotic rumors which have persistently clung to him. In Sebastiane, directors Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress bring all the implied into the foreground, creating the frankly homosexual world of their St. Sebastiane. In the process they have pulled off an amazing trick. They have made a beautiful film which evokes a realistic feeling of another place and time, explores the dual nature of spirituality and sexuality, and also depicts an ultimate homosexual fantasy." [PopCornQ] 85 min. DVD 1621

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Secret Agent (1963)

Directed by Joseph Losey; screenplay, Harold Pinter. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig. Psychological drama in which a sinister manservant attempts to gain power over his wealthy young master by luring him into an increasingly decadent lifestyle. 112 min. 999:654

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The Secret Garden(TV, 1975)

Director Katrina Murray. Cast: Sarah Hollis Andrews, John Woodnutt, David Patterson, Jacqueline Hoyle. In 19th-century India, little Mary Lennox is suddenly orphaned by cholera. Her only living relative is her crook-backed uncle, Archibald Craven, so Mary is sent to live at his estate on the Yorkshire moors. Rude and unpleasant, Mary gradually begins to change as she explores the manor and grows to know some of the servants, particularly her maid Martha, and Ben Weatherstaff the gardener. With the help of a robin, Mary discovers a secret garden. She also discovers a cousin she never knew she had, and begins to form plans that transform her cousin, the garden, and ultimately herself. 200 min. DVD 6816

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The Servant (1963)

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Houston, B.; Kinder, Marsha. "The Losey-Pinter collaboration." Film Quarterly Vol XXXIII nr 1 (Fall 1978); p 17-30

Shadowlands(1993)

Directed by Richard Attenborough. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, James Frain, Daniel Goode, Scott Handy. Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcee. 133 min. DVD 6395

Shakespeare Wallah (1965)

Directed by James Ivory. The story of two lovers, Lizzie and Sanju, one from an obsolete English travelling theatre group, the other a rich young Indian playboy. Their sudden, electric, and brief affair provides the pivot for a story about the decline and fall of British power in modern India. 122 min. DVD 2563

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The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)

Directed by Michael Relph and Basil Dearden. Cast: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna. After intense WWII fighting while in the British Navy, a trio buy their old ship but then use it for smuggling and worse, before they finally come to their senses. 92 min. DVD 3739

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Shaun of the Dead (UK / France, 2004)

Directed by Edgar Wright. Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Billy Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Jessica Stevenson. When flesh eating zombies go on the hunt for a bite to eat, it is up to Shaun and his best pal to save their friends and family from becoming the next entree. Special features: Missing bits: outrageous outtakes and all-new deleted scenes not shown in theaters; "Raw meat": never-before-seen casting tapes; Simon Pegg's video diary and special effects comparisons; TV bits: includes interview with Coldplay; plus uncensored commentary with the cast and crew; a zombie photo gallery; Zomb-o-meter (zombie-trivia) and more hilarious special features. 99 min. DVD 7578

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Cox, David. "Gross-Out Horror Meets Slacker Comedy British-Style in Shaun of the Dead, A Cult Sitcom Director's Movie Debut" Film Comment. May/Jun 2004. Vol. 40, Iss. 3; pg. 14, 2 pgs

Edwards, Kim.

Moribundity, Mundanity and Modernity: Shaun of the Dead." Screen Education, Winter2008 Issue 50, p99-103, 5p; (AN 33160420)

Maio, Kathi. "Mission Accomplished at the Zombie Jamboree." Fantasy & Science Fiction. Oct/Nov 2007. Vol. 113, Iss. 4/5; pg. 192, 5 pgs

Michel, Frann "Life and Death and Something in Between: Reviewing Recent Horror Cinema." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Dec 2007. Vol. 12, Iss. 4; pg. 390, 8 pgs

Newman, K. "Shaun of the Dead." Sight & Sound v. ns14 no. 5 (May 2004) p. 72-3

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Sid & Nancy (UK / USA, 1986)

Director, Alex Cox. Cast: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop. Portrays the love affair between the famous bad boy, Sid Vicious of the rock group Sex Pistols and his American groupie girlfiend, Nancy Spungen, from the initial euphoria of their romance to their tragic plunge into the vortex of drugs and self-delusion. 113 min. 999:2772

The Singing Detective (Australia/UK, TV, 1986)

Directed by Jon Amiel; Based on the novel by Dennis Potter. Cast: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Janet Suzman. The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band. Vol. 1. Skin -- Vol. 2. Heat -- Vol. 3. Lovely days -- Vol. 4. Clues -- Vol. 5. Pitter patter -- Vol. 6. Who done it. Approx. 70 min. each 999:1750 (6 parts)

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16 Years of Alcohol (2003)

Directed by Richard Jobson. Cast: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Jim Carter, Ewen Bremner. An intelligent but angry man, who has had a rough upbringing and has spent years leading a street gang in Edinburgh, meets the love of his life and he is forever changed. 96 min. DVD 4698

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The Sleeping Tiger(UK, 1954)

Directed by Joseph Losey. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith, Patricia McCarron, Maxine Audley, Glyn Houston. A psychotherapist decides to try and rehabilitate an ex-convict by inviting him into his home, in order to work with him in exchange for not turning him into the police, for his attempted break-in. The therapist's wife is, at first, resentful of his presence in her home and treats the man poorly. Eventually, the woman grows intrigued by the man and his past and she then throws herself at him, in the hopes he will take her away from her mundane life. When the ex-convict decides to rebuke her advances and try to live a straight and honest life, the wife takes steps to gain revenge for her rejection. Based on the novel by Maurice Moiseiwitsch. 87 min. DVD X1918

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The Small Back Room (UK, 1949)

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks, Michael Gough, Cyril Cusack. Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon. Special features: Audio commentary by Charles Barr; video interview with Chris Challis; excerpts from Michael Powell's audio dictations for his autobiography; in booklet: essay, "Whiskey galore!" by Nick James. 107 min. DVD X95

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The Snapper(UK | Ireland, TV, 1993)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanaghan, Aidan Gillen. Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle. 95 min. DVD X1930

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The Spanish Gardener (UK, 1956)

Directed by Philip Leacock. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack. Summary The friendship between a gardener and a boy sparks violent jealousy in his domineering father who attempts unreasonable measures to end the friendship which in turn leads to open rebellion by the child. Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin. 91 min. DVD X1919

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Stalag Luft (UK, TV, 1994)

Director,Adrian Shergold. Cast: Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Kelly, Hugh Bonneville. In a spoof of the great wartime escape movies, arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester, who has 23 escape attempts to his name and zero escapes, plans the Big One, the escape of all 327 prisoners from a POW camp in Germany. The only problem is he expects them to escape all at once. 102 min. DVD X848

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Summertime (UK / US, 1955)

Director, David Lean. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin. The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man. 100 min. DVD 7423

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Director, John Schlesinger. Cast: Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Bessie Love, Vivian Pickles. The story of two Londoners coping with the noncommittal affections of the lover they have in common. Bob, a young designer unencumbered by any sense of guilt, shares his sexual favors equally between lovers of different sexes, a Jewish doctor and a lady executive. 110 min. DVD 1890

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Brooker-Bowers, Nancy. John Schlesinger : a guide to references and resources Boston : G. K. Hall, c1978. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 S3374; MOFF: PN1998.A3 S3374)

Gilliatt, Penelope. "Writing bloody writing." American Film Vol XI nr 5 (Mar 1986); p 61-64

Gilliatt, Penelope. Sunday bloody Sunday : the original screenplay of the John Schlesinger film : with an introductory essay, "Making Sunday bloody Sunday" New York : Dodd, Mead, c1986. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .P2852; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .P2852

Childs, J. "Interview with P.G. focusing on "Sunday, bloody Sunday." Film Comment Vol VIII nr 2 (Summer 1972); p 22-26

Mann, William J. Edge of midnight : the life of John Schlesinger (MAIN: PN1998.3.S34 M36 2004)

Phillips, Gene D. John Schlesinger Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981 (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .P2852; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .P2852)

Sunshine(UK / USA, 2007)

Director, Danny Boyle. Cast: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Cillian Murphy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mark Strong, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh. It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all. Special features: Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Danny Boyle; alternate ending; web production diaries; two short films with intro by Danny Boyle; audio commentary by director Danny Boyle; audio commentary by Dr. Brian Cox, University of Manchester. 107 min. DVD X549

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A Taste of Honey (1961)

Directed by Tony Richardson. Cast: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah. An awkward young girl, on her own when her mother finds a new husband, has a brief affair with a black sailor, becomes pregnant, and finds a friend in her gay male roommate. PAL format tape. 96 min. 999:3610

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Taste the blood of Dracula (1969)

Directed by Peter Sasdy. Cast: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Ralph Bates, Anthony Corlan, John Carson, Peter Sallis, Isla Blair, Martin Jarvis. Three community leaders out on a lark think they've done it all but of course, they haven't. They're duped into an adventure that transforms Dracula from moldering dust into blood-lusting flesh. 95 min. DVD 6491

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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Cast: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray. Ex-RAF flyer Morgan, bored with civilian life, joins a gang led by Narcy. On his first job, a policeman is killed, Morgan is framed for the killing and jailed. He escapes and makes it to London, where he is sheltered by Sally, who falls in love with him. Seeking revenge, he confronts Narcy and the gang in an abandoned warehouse. 103 min. 999:3232

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Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Director, Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan. Cast: Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram, Miles Malleson, Morton Selten. When the mischievous scoundrel Abu helps the rightful King of Bagdad escape from prison, he finds himself involved in an incredible series of adventures. 106 min. 999:1720

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Things to Come (1936)

Directed by W.C. Menzies. This screen adaptation by H.G. Wells, based on his novel. The Shape of things to come, is a science fiction fantasy about the world after a devastating war. 92 min. DVD 559; VHS 999:531

The Third Man (1949)

Director, Carol Reed; screenplay by Graham Greene. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. "An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime." [IMDB] Special features on DVD 7683: Disc 1: Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich; 2 audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy and one by film scholar Dana Polan; abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke ; Disc 2: "Shadowing The third man" (2005): a 90-min. feature documentary on the making of the film; "Graham Greene: the hunted man": an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist; "Who was the third man?" (2000): a 30-min. Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew; The third man on the radio: the 1951 "A ticket to Tangiers" episode of the series The lives of Harry Lime, written and performed by Orson Welles, and the 1951 Lux radio theatre adaptation of The third man; illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer; actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version; archival footage of postwar Vienna; a look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film ; plus, a booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr. Special features on DVD 140: Introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich; Abridged recording of Graham Green's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke; Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voiceover narration for the U.S. version; Archival footage of composer Anton Karas and the film's famous sewer location; Collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos, with a brief production history; Original and re-release theatrical trailers, restoration demonstation. 101 min. DVD 7683; DVD 140; vhs 999:184

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This Is England (2006)

Directed by Shane Meadows. Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joe Gilgun, Rosamund Nanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson, George Newton. School is out for the summer and twelve-year-old Shaun is about to find a dangerous new group of friends. Having lost his father in the Fakland War, life has been lonely in this grim coastal town in northern England. But when Shaun meets the local skinheads, their companionship, and even their violence, appeal to Shaun's hurt and rage. Combo is an older volatile skinhead whom Shaun finds to be like a big brother and under his leadership, the gang and young Shawn will arrive at an irreversible act of violence. 98 min. DVD 8862

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This Sporting Life (1963)

Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell, Colin Blakely, George Sewell, Vanda Godsell, Arthur Lowe, Jack Watson, Harry Markham. Set in Northern Ireland this is the story of a professional rugby player who carries the violence of the football field into every area of his life. 134 min. DVD 1178

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Threads (UK / Australia / USA, TV, 1984)

Directed by Mick Jackson. Cast: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Rita May. Produced by BBC TV presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization. 113 min. DVD 7861

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Time Bandits (UK, 1981)

Directed by Terry Gilliam. Cast: Craig Warnock, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner. A young boy escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon, but the Evil Genius is watching their every move! 116 min. DVD X563

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Time Without Pity (1957)

Directed by Joseph Losey. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen, Renee Houston, Paul Daneman. Tension rises to a fevered pitch in this psychological thriller about an alcoholic, long-absent father who discovers he has only one day to save his son from the gallows. As he races against time to prove that his child is not a killer, the atmosphere is thick with panic in this impassioned plea against apathy. 88 min. DVD 3606

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The Titfield Thunderbolt (Ealing Studios, 1952)

Director, Charles Crichton. Cast: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Griffith, Gabrielle Brune, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, Edie Martin, Michael Trubshawe Jack McGowran, Ewan Roberts, Herbert C. Walton. The British government, having nationalized the railways in 1947, announces that the Titfield-Mallingford Railway is being replaced by an "alternative passenger omnibus service". Titfield locals rally to save and operate the line independently, thanks to a loophole in the 1947 Transport Act. A rival company conspires to prevent the comeback. 84 min. DVD 7402

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To Sir, With Love (1966)

Directed by James Clavell. A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of teens in the 60's. Stars Sidney Poitier. 105 min. 999:721

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Tom Jones (1960)

Director, Tony Richardson; screenplay by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale. Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento. Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Tom Jones is an orphan raised by the village squire who grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison! 121 min. 999:698

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Tommy (1975)

Directed by Ken Russell. Cast: The Who (Music group), Ann Margret, Elton John, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Paul Nicholas, Robert Powell. A classic rock opera about a boy, traumatized by the murder of his father, who becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Growing into manhood he is subjected to bizarre cure attempts by The Acid Queen, the Preacher, and the Specialist. In spite of his handicap, Tommy defeats the Pinball Wizard and attains a devoted following and finally cured, is hailed by his fans as a "Messiah". 108 min. 999:1483

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Topsy-turvy (1999)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook, Wendy Nottingham, Kevin McKidd, Shirley Henderson, Dorothy Atkinson, Martin Savage, Eleanor David. Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado. 161 min. DVD 5476

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Trainspotting (1996)

Directed by Danny Boyle. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald. In this freeform Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life a group of disaffected Scottish youths turn to heroin to escape the banalities of modern-day existence. As they begin to suffer the consequences they realize there are no easy solutions to the inherent loneliness and pain of life. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. 94 min. 999:2085

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Directed by Mike Dibb and Stephen Frears. Stephen Frears leads a discussion with other British filmmakers, and explores the wealth of images created by the British film industry over the last century. Video/C MM442

24 Hour Party People (2001)

Director, Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Steve Coogan, Keith Allen, Rob Brydon, Enzo Gilenti, Ron Cook, Chris Coghill, Paddy Considine, Danny Cunningham, Dave Gorman, Sean Harris. A dramatization based on true events of the rise, fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to England and the rest of the world. Pulsates with the rhythmic energy from the post punk movement through the evolution of rave music. 117 min. DVD 1794

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Unholy Four (aka A Stranger Came Home) (UK, 1954)

Director, Terence Fisher. Cast: Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt, Paul Carpenter. Someone knocked a man out and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case. 80 min. DVD 8361

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The Upturned Glass (1947)

Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Cast: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Kellino-Mason, Morland Graham. Dr. Michael Joyce falls in love with the mother of a young patient. When her missing husband returns, the woman reluctantly ends the affair, only to be killed in a mysterious fall. 90 min. DVD X100

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Velvet Goldmine (UK / USA, 1998)

Director, Todd Haynes. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard. "1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero." [Internet Movie Database] DVD. 119 min. DVD 2886

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Vera Drake (2004)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney, Eddie Marsan, Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Fenella Woolgar, Lesley Sharp, Anthony O'Donnell, Jim Broadbent. Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. 125 min. DVD 3721

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Victim (UK, 1961)

Directed by Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird. A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action. Widely regarded as the film that provoked the British parliament to begin amending its laws against homosexual acts. 100 min. DVD 1613; also DVD X1920

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Waking Ned Devine (UK / France / USA, 1998)

Directed by Kirk Jones. Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt. When Ned Devine dies from shock after winning the lottery, two longtime friends, Michael and Jackie, discover the body and agree Ned would want them to benefit from his good luck. They embark upon an outrageous scheme to claim the ticket, but first they have to get all the townsfolk to go along with their plan. 91 min. DVD X1766; vhs vhs 999:3837

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The Wall (Pink Floyd)(UK, 1982)

Director, Alan Marshall. Cast: Bob Geldof (Pink), Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Bob Hoskins. Rock superstar Pink has had too many shows, too much dope and too much applause, and sits locked in his motel room watching war movies, and slowly loosing touch with reality. Features the music of Pink Floyd and animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe. Special features: Previously unreleased film footage; "The Other Side of the Wall" documentary; "Retrospective" documentary featuring interviews with Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe, Alan Parker, Peter Biziou, Allan Marshall, and James Guthrie; audio commentary with Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe; original film trailer and production stills; lyrics; music videos. 95 min. DVD 1318

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The War Game (1965)

Director, Peter Watkins. A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check. 47 min. DVD 6040; vhs Video/C 3971

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Sydney, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, David Farrar, Thora Hird, Frank Lawton, Valerie Taylor, Edward Rigby, C.V. France, Muriel George, Norman Pierce. The villagers of Bromley End, an English hamlet, welcome a platoon of soldiers who have been assigned to their village during World War II. When the residents discover that the soldiers are disguised German paratroopers who plan to take over Bromley End, they bravely fight the Nazi occupation of their village. 93 min. DVD 3740

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When the Wind Blows (UK, 1986)

Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. Voices: John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft. Animated story of an elderly couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs follow British government guidelines in preparation for a nuclear attack. They paint their windows white, take the washing in and put away two packets of ginger nuts, a tin of pineapple chunks and a good supply of tea. The pair are unaware that the nature of war has changed since World War II, and slowly become poisoned by radiation. 80 min. DVD 7870

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Whisky Galore (Tight Little Island) (1949)

Director, Alexander Mackendrick. Ealing Studios. Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson.When a ship loaded with whisky is wrecked on a Scottish island, a battle of wits ensues between the canny Scots islanders and the local customs inspector. DVD 740 (US standard DVD); DVD 3671 (Non-US format); vhs 999:520

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Who's Who (UK, TV, 1979)

Directed by Mike Leigh. Cast: Bridget Kane, Simon Chandler, Adam Norton, Philip Davis, Joolia Cappleman. Summary Tells the story of workers in a London brokerage firm, and their struggles with class and society. Their experiences prove, with humor, that the higher one rises on the social scale the more likely one is to be greedy and petty. 75 min. DVD X2021

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Wilde(1997)

Directed by Brian Gilbert. Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt. Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature. 116 min. 999:3056

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Attack on a China Mission (1900)DVD 1097; vhs Video/C 999:1007

The Big Swallow (1901)DVD 1097; vhs Video/C 999:1007

Fire (1901)DVD 1097; vhs Video/C 999:1007

An Interesting Story (1905)DVD 1097; vhs Video/C 999:1007

Stop Thief (1901)DVD 1097; vhs Video/C 999:1007

Winstanley (UK, 1975)

Directed by Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo. Cast: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins, Phil Oliver, David Bramley.Winstanley: A dramatized history of a Reformation-era religious sect called the Diggers, who set out to form a commune and till the soil on "common land," which by law permits grazing-- but not settlement and cultivation. Led by Gerard Winstanley (1609 - 1676), theirs is a nonviolent action to reclaim land for the poor who have been dispossessed by Oliver Cromwell's recent Civil War. But the local villagers saw the Diggers as a threat to their livelihood and, and led by the Presbyterian parson, John Platt, took violent action to harass and burn them out. Based on the novel: Comrade Jacob by David Caute. Special features: It happened here again: A look at the making of Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley, the second of their films to be made on a low budget. Brownlow and Mollo talk of their beginnings in the film industry; their first commercial venture; how they came to make low-budget films and various aspects of the film Winstanley (49 min). 92min. DVD X796

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Wittgenstein. (1993)

Directed by Derek Jarman. A surreal and fanciful biography of the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who strove to define and teach insights on communication and the powers and limits of language. "Wittgenstein is shown as a boy living a repressive youth, demonstrated by his family appearing in Roman togas. When Wittgenstein leaves to study under Bertrand Russell at Cambridge, he begins to investigate language and apply the strictures and constructs of language to philosophical study. The subject of Wittgenstein's homosexuality is depicted when, after World War I, he falls in love with a poor philosophy student, Johnny (Kevin Collins). Also portrayed is Wittgenstein's death at an early age from prostate cancer." -- Paul Brenner [All-Movie Guide]. 75 min. DVD X59; vhs 999:1155

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The Woman in White (1997)

Directed by Tim Fywell. Cast: Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Simon Callow, Justine Waddell, Andrew Lincoln. A young drawing master hired to teach two young women is startled by an encounter with a ghostly woman dressed in white who resembles one of his new students. Their determination to learn about the mysterious woman in white draws them into a world of secrets, crime and treacherous involvement with the fascinating, but sinister, Count Fosco. 120 min. 999:3648

Women in Love (1969)

Directed by Ken Russell. Cast: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden. A sensual investigation of the relationships of two couples, exploring the thin line between love and lust. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.999:884

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The Wooden Horse(UK, 1950)

Directed by Jack Lee. Cast: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Peter Burton. Dramatization of the true story behind the escape of three British POWs from Nazi Germany during World War II. A British officer has the idea of starting a daily gynmastics routine using a vaulting horse: they can place it near the boundary and start a tunnel from under it. Produced only 5 years after the end of WWII, the film established a model for many similar films that followed. Based on the book by Eric Williams. 98 min. DVD X2047

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Yield to the Night (UK, 1956)

Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Geoffrey Keen, Athene Seyler. A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend's mistress. Condemned to death for her crime, she awaits her fate at the hands of the legal system. Produced as an impassioned cry against the death penalty at a time when it was the subject of national debate in Britain. Based on the book by Joan Henry. 96 min. DVD X1840

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Young Soul Rebels (1991)

Directed by Isaac Julien. Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr, Gary McDonald, Debra Gillett. Set in London at the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, Chris and Caz are disc-jockeys on a pirate black radio station which they run from the back of an East End garage. When a mutual friend who is gay is murdered while cruising a London park, life takes a startling turn for them both as Chris is arrested for the murder. PAL format DVD. 120 min. DVD 3115

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Reid, Mark A. "Diary of a Young Soul Rebel." Film Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1. (Autumn, 1992), pp. 56-57.

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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Directed by Peter Greenaway. Cast: Andrea Ferreol, Eric Deacon, Brian Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland. Darkly comic story of twin zoologists who become obsessed with the search for life's meaning. When their wives are killed in a freak car accident, the brothers start an affair with the car's driver, Alba, who lost a leg in the accident. Throughout this affair, the two become fixated on the process of decay and begin an intense study on decomposition using animals from the zoo that leads to the ultimate experiment. 115 min. DVD 5928

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Aventure Malgache (1944)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A film made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free. 58 min. 999:990

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Blackmail (1929)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard. A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killers identity, but so has someone else. During production of this silent feature, Hitchcock added dialog with the advent of talking pictures in America, making this England's first talkie. 85 min. DVD 159; VHS 999:74

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Bon Voyage (1944)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A film made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. Bon Voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free. 58 min. 999:990

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Champagne (silent, 1928)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Theo Von Alten, Gordon Harker. A millionaire tries to teach his daughter a lesson by telling her that he has been ruined, to save her from the man with whom she is planning to elope. 84 min. 999:2199

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Downhill(1927)

Director, Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel, Robin Irvine, Jerrold Robertshaw, Sybil Rhoda. After a youth is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft, his life falls apart in a series of misadventures. 82 min. DVD X1045

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Easy Virtue (silent, 1927)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams. Easy virtue: After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past. 80 min. DVD 159

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The Farmer's Wife (silent, 1928)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jameson Thomas, Lilian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill, Louise Pounds, Olga Slade, Ruth Maitland. Farmer Samuel Sweetland, a middle-aged widower sets out to choose a wife from the unattached women in the neighborhood. He and his housekeeper make a list of eligible females, whom he then pursues with interesting consequences. This dramatic comedy provides a rare glimpse into Hitchcock's silent film era. Easy virtue: After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past. 80 min. DVD 156

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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders. A naive reporter is dispatched to Europe on the eve of World War II. While covering a pacifist conference in with the daughter of the group's founder, and befriends an elderly diplomat who holds the secret of peace. When the diplomat disappears, the reporter stumbles onto the bloody trail of a major Nazi spy ring--and his future father-in-law may be the leader! 120 min. 999:565; Video Disc 48

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Frenzy (1972)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw. In their hunt for a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer, the London police suspect an innocent man, who eludes them and proves his innocence by finding the real murderer. 116 min. DVD 1029; VHS 999:564

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Jamaica Inn (1939)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Mervyn Johns, Marie Ney, Wylie Watson. The story of an Irish orphan who lives on the rugged coast of Cornwall with her uncle. After vessels smash on the deadly rocks, Mary begins to suspect it's more than accidental. By the time she realizes what's going on, she is a target for the marauding smugglers and highwaymen who are ravaging the area. Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier. 98 min. DVD 149

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Juno and the Paycock (1930)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman, Sidney Morgan, Sara Allgood, John Laurie, Dave Morris, Kathleen O'Regan, John Longden. A poor Dublin family that waits expectantly to inherit what is for them a great fortune, is stricken by various sorts of tragedies during the Irish uprisings of the early 1920's. Based on the play by Sean O'Casey. 85 min. 999:2378

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Morgan, Jack. "Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock." Irish University Review, vol. 24 no. 2. 994 Fall-Winter. pp: 212-16

The Lady Vanishes (1955)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker. En route back to England by train from Switzerland,a young woman meets a charming old lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman to suspect a conspiracy. When she begins investigating, she is drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Based on the novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White. Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder; Crook's tour, a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure, available for the first time on home video, starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprising their beloved The lady vanishes roles; excerpts from Francois Truffaut's legendary 1962 audio interview with Alfred Hitchcock; Mystery train, a new video essay about Hitchcock and The lady vanishes by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff; stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art; plus: new essays by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr. Special features on DVD 53: Restored image and sound, additional audio track with commentary by film historian Bruce Eder. 97 min. DVD 8895 (2 discs); DVD 53; DVD 157; vhs VHS 999:561

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The Lodger (silent, 1926)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Cast: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello. The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is suspected of being the notorious "Avenger", a killer who has been stalking women in London and strangling them. 83 min. DVD 111; VHS 999:563

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Curzon, Arthur Benjamin. An American couple vacationing in French Morocco are accidentally drawn into a series of mysterious adventures when they appear on the scene of a murder. Special DVD features: Introduction by Tony Curtis and bonus clip of the original theatrical trailer for Hitchcock's "Saboteur.". Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham Lewis. 75 min. DVD 87; VHS 999:319

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Manxman (silent, 1929)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton. Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film is a romantic melodrama about two friends, a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. When her father denies her the right to marry Pete, the fisherman, he goes to sea. When he is reported lost at sea she has an affair with the lawyer, but when Pete returns they marry and she must reveal the identity of the father of the child she is carrying. 85 min. DVD 150

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Murder! (1930)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Donald Calthrop. An actress is convicted of murder, but one of the jurists is the only person who believes in her innocence and painstakingly reconstructs a murder to prove her innocent. Based on the novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. 100 min. DVD 155; VHS 999:1194

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Number 17 (1932)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop, Barry Jones, Ann Casson, Henry Caine, Garry Marsh. A comedy-thriller about an unsuspecting, innocent hobo who accidentally stumbles across the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves. 63 min. DVD 153

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The Pleasure Garden (UK, 1925)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, Georg Schnell. Patsy Brand is a chorus girl and dancer at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around. Based on the novel by Oliver Sandys. 60 min. DVD X934

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Rich and Strange (1932)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph, Aubrey Dexter, Hannah Jones. Instead of waiting for their inheritance, Fred and Emily Hill ask for it in advance. When their rich uncle surprisingly obliges they set out to use the money in the best possible way--by spending it. 90 min. DVD 160; VHS 999:2379

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The Ring (silent, 1927)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Carl Brisson, Lilian Hall Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker. A silent film with musical soundtrack) is about a carnival fighter trying to make it as a professional to please his girlfriend. 63 min. DVD 153

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Sabotage (1936)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester. An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town. Based on the novel The secret agent by Joseph Conrad. 76 min. DVD 111; VHS 999:563

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The Skin Game(1931)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, Helen Haye[s], Frank Lawton. In this early Hitchcock outing he sets two clans against each other in an English village. An old and long-established family squares off against another more "progressive" family. As their feud continues, each side becomes more and more determined, battling to the brink of disaster. Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and a bonus clip of the original theatrical trailer from Dial M for murder. Based on the book by John Galsworthy. 79 min. DVD 151

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Thirty-nine Steps (1935)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Wylie Watson, Louis Levy. In this classic Hitchcock brain twister a man falsely accused of murdering a spy is chased across Scotland as he tries to uncover a secret organization and catch the real villain. 86 min. DVD 63; VHS 999:275

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Under Capricorn (1949)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker. In Australia in l830, an English immigrant stays with his cousin Heneritta and her cruel husband, setting a triangle to explode and reveal a strange crime. From a novel by Helen Simpson, adapted by Hume Cronyn. 117 min. DVD X1717

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Young and Innocent (1937)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick DeMarney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare. A woman's body is discovered on the beach by one of her former lovers. He is seen running away and is believed to be the killer, so he must avoid capture by the pursuing police, while trying to prove his innocence. 85 min. DVD 154; Video/D 57; VHS 999:579

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Bad Blonde (1953)

Directed by Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sid James, Tony Wright. A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager who is promoting the young man's career. 81 min. DVD 6021

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Black Glove (aka Face the Music) (UK, 1954)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Eleanor Summerfield, John Saley, Paul Carpenter, Geoffrey Keen. A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet. 84 min. DVD 8360

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Blackout (1954)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield, Andrew Osborn. An American drifter in London meets a stunning blonde while on a bender at a bar. The girl tricks him into marrying her while he is in a drunken stupor. When he wakes up he finds 500 pounds in his pocket and discovers he is involved in a murder and an inheritance scam. 87 min. DVD 6021

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Brides of Dracula (UK, 1960)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, David Peel. A young French girl, stranded enroute to a teaching assignment in Eastern Europe, is persuaded to spend the night at the nearly deserted castle of a mysterious Baroness. 86 min. DVD 4450

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Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Melvyn Hayes, Valerie Gaunt, Paul Hardtmuth, Noel Hood, Fred Johnson, Claude Kingston, Alex Gallier, Michael Mulcaster. A young German nobleman has uncovered life's mystery and unleashed a chain of blood-curdling terrors that seem similar to the monstrous horrors of a generation earlier. Outraged, the local citizenry imprisons the nobleman and condemns him to death, hoping to blot from the earth his family's ignominious name. The townspeople now understand something their forebears did not--the young man's name is more than a name, it's the curse of Frankenstein. 83 min. DVD 6483; 999:1003

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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller. A young man is unable to deny the dark forces within himself as he becomes an uncontrollable, seemingly unstoppable killer when the moon is full. 91 min. DVD 4450

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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (Hammer Films, 1972)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Cast: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswich, Gerald Sim, Lewis Flander, Susan Brodrick, Dorothy Alison. In foggy Victorian London, Dr. Jekyll experiments with an elixir of life which transforms him into the beautiful, but murderous, Sister Hyde. His lethal, sultry twin stalks Whitechapel to provide victims to continue his blood-stained research. 93 min. 999:1527

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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (UK, 1972)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker. In foggy Victorian London, Dr. Jekyll experiments with an elixir of life which transforms him into the beautiful, but murderous, Sister Hyde. His lethal, sultry twin stalks Whitechapel to provide victims to continue his blood-stained research. 93 min. 999:1527

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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews, Ewan Hooper. When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young neice his bride. 92 min.DVD 6490

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The Evil of Frankenstein (UK, 1964)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, Sandor Eles. Baron von Frankenstein attempts to resurrect his original monster but he needs the help of Zoltan, a mystical hypnotist, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and punish the chief of police, which leads to a violent confrontation between the Baron and the townspeople. 87 min. DVD 4450

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Fear in the Night (UK, 1972)

Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Cast: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, James Cossins, Gillian Lind. A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her new teacher-husband to a remote country boarding school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man - and nobody believes her. 94 min. DVD 2170

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley. Frankenstein wields his scalpel on the cutting edge of medical research, experimenting with brain transplants. Alas, the procedure is imperfect and a new pitiable terror now stalks an unsuspecting world. 101 min. DVD 6489

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The Gambler and the Lady (1952)

Directed by Patrick Jenkins. Cast: Dane Clark, Naomi Chance, Meredith Edwards, Thomas Gallagher, Eric Pohlmann, Anthony Forwood. A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, and neither is his past. 72 min. DVD 6021

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Heat Wave (aka The House Across the Lake) (1954)

Directed by Ken Hughes. Cast: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Susan Stephen, Sid James, Alan Wheatley, Paul Carpenter. An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband. 68 min. DVD 6021

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Horror of Dracula (1958)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. Dracula, a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal blood-crazed half-life, travels from his native Transylvania to London and to a savage fate. In the decadent nightlife he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing, a brilliant scientist, who becomes Dracula's implacable foe in a bat-and-mouse game of blood-red Gothic gore. 81 min. DVD 6482; vhs 999:994

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Kiss of the Vampire (UK, 1962)

Directed by Don Sharp. Cast: Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Barry Warren. Lost on the way to their honeymoon, a young couple stumbles upon a mysterious family of vampires and their unspeakably evil leader. 88 min. DVD 4450

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Man Bait (1952)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Diana Dors. The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in his entanglement in blackmail and murder. 84 min. DVD 6021

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The Mummy (UK, 1959)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux. Feliz Aylmer, Raymond Huntley, Eddie Byrne, George Postel. RThree British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it an evil curse falls on them for having woken up the mighty guard of the grave who was buried with the priest. 88 min. DVD 6484

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Night Creatures (UK, 1962)

Directed by Peter Graham Scott. Cast: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper. The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in a small 18th century seaside town, so they send Captain Collier and his crew to check it out. As the Captain gets into his investigation, mysterious swamp phantoms cloud up the issue. The Captan suspects that the odd village vicar might be hiding something, and what better way to do that than by fortuitous ghosts to scare away the curious. 82 min. DVD 4450

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Nightmare (UK, 1953)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce. As a child Janet saw her insane mother murder her father, and now as a young woman, Janet's convinced she'll also go insane. She and her teacher go to the home of her guardian for help, but at his home her fears come to life. Are her problems in her head, or is there a sinister force at work? 83 min. DVD 4450

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One Million Years B.C. (Hammer Films, 1967)

Directed by Don Chaffey. Cast: John Richardson, Raquel Welch. A prehistoric man, banished from the Rock People tribe, finds a friend in a tribeswomen from the Shell People tribe. They decide to face the world together cut off from all tribal support in a deadly world of dinosaurs and earthshattering volcanic eruptions. This film's pioneering special effects have made it a classic. 91 min. 999:1707

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Paranoic (UK, 1963)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Alexander Davion. Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his mother in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, son of the attorney for the family estate, who has been dipping into the family trust fund. 80 min. DVD 4450

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The Phantom of the Opera (UK, 1962)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters. A madman called the Phantom terrorizes an opera house. When a singer named Christine is contacted by the specter, her producer tracks him to his underground lair and finds he is a brilliant but disfigured composer demanding revenge. Christine is the Phantom's only weakness and he pays the ultimate price to keep his love for her. 85 min. DVD 4450

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Race for Life (aka Mask of Dust) (UK, 1954)

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Stolen Face (1952)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, Mary Mackenzie, Andre Morell, John Wood. A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, who leaves him to return to her previous boyfriend. He finds a horribly scared patient and fashions her face into the image of his former lover and enters into a marriage that is disappointing. 72 min. DVD 6021

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Taste the Blood of Dracula (UK, 1969)

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Terror Street (aka 36 Hours) (UK, 1953)

Directed by Montgomery Tully. Cast: Elsy Albin, Ann Gudrun, Eric Polmann, Dan Duryea. U.S. Air Force pilot becomes the logical suspect after his wife is shot and killed. The thirty-six hours he has to clear himself are filled with twists and turns culminating in an exciting climax. 85 min. DVD 8345

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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Massie, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams, David Kossoff, Francis de Wolff. After years of unsuccessful scientific experimentation, attempting to reveal his subjects' hidden personalities, Dr. Henry Jekyll finally turns the testing on himself. The doctor succeeds in releasing his own alter ego, transforming himself into Edward Hyde, a handsome playboy whose charming exterior masks an insidious creature. 87 min. 999:2574

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Unholy Four (aka A Stranger Came Home) (UK, 1954)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt, Paul Carpenter. Someone knocked a man out and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case. 80 min. DVD 8361

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Wings of Danger (UK, 1952)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Kay Kendall, Naomi Chance, Arthur Lane. A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is supected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion. 73 min. DVD 8345

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Bloody Sunday (2002)

Directed by Paul Greengrass. Cast: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Mcsorley, Kathy Keira Clarke. A dramatic recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day. 110 min. DVD 6469

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The Boxer (1993)

Directed by Jim Sheridan. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Kenneth Cranham. When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career as a boxer and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives. 114 min. DVD X1077; vhs 999:2725

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Breakfast on Pluto (2002)

Directed by Neil Jordan. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson. As foster kid Patrick 'Kitten' Braden grows up, he leaves behind his small-town life in Ireland for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in the 1960s and 70s. 129 min. DVD 5445

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Cal (1993)

Directed by Pat O'Connor. Cast: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh, Ray McAnally. Cal is 19, frightened and lonely with no stomach for the violence that surrounds him in this harrowing, sensitive love story set within the hatred of strife-torn Northern Ireland. 104 min. 999:2046

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The Commitments(1991)

Directed by Alan Parker. Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Felim Gormley, Glen Hansard. Fueled by raw talent and driven by dreams of glory, a dozen dead-enders from Dublin's gritty North Side share a passion for soul music that takes their band on a wild rollercoaster ride from the streets to superstardom!. 117 min. DVD 2413

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In the Name of the Father (1993)

Directed by Jim Sheridan. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Terry George and Jim Sheridan. The fact-based story of Gerry Conlon, a petty thief from Belfast. When he angers the IRA, his father sends him to England where, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, he is accused of a terrorist bombing and forced to confess. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison as members of the "Guildford Four". Behind bars, Gerry works for 15 years with the help of a dedicated lawyer, to clear their names. Based on the autobiographical book Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon. 185 min. DVD X1059; vhs 999:2052

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Irish Cinema: Ourselves alone?

Produced and directed by Donald Taylor Black; editor, Maurice Healy. Donald Taylor Black presents a history of the Irish film industry, complete with film clips and interviews with directors, writers and producers. Video/C MM442

Michael Collins (1996)

Directed by Neil Jordan. Cast: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts. A docu-drama of the life of the Irish statesman and revolutionary, Michael Collins, who negotiated Ireland's break from England and whose fighting tactics became a model for other 20th century struggles. 133 min. 999:1662

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My Left Foot (Ireland / UK, 1989)

Directed by Jim Sheridan. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan. Based on Christy Brown's true life story, My Left Foot features Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Award winning performance as a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness. DVD Special features: "The real Christy Brown" featuring biographical details on Brown (5 min.) ; "An inspirational journey : the making of 'My left foot' " with commentaries on the pre-production process (11 min.); stills gallery; "My left foot" reviews from the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the LA Weekly. 103 min. DVD 9204; vhs 999:2182

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Omagh (1989)

Directed by Pete Travis. Cast: Gerard McSorley, Mich`elle Forbes, Brenda Fricker. Based on true events, this drama concerns one father's search for justice in the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland. 106 min. DVD 6513

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On the Edge: a Joyride Through Sex, Love and Other Activities (Ireland, 2000)

Directed by John Carney. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Tricia Vessey, Stephen Rea, Jonathan Jackson, Tom O'Suilleabhain, Marcella Plunkett. Jonathan, like many teenagers, is used to concealing the pain of growing up behind a witty sense of humor. It isn't until he falls in love that Jonathan begins to discover that life doesn't have to be so crazy after all. 85 min. DVD 4835

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ireland, 1977)

Directed by Joseph Strick. Cast: Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud. Young Stephen Dedalus, an Irish poet-scholar, awakens to his talents as a writer while he wrestles with the oppressive fetters of authority imposed by family, government and the Church. Through his struggles, Dedalus is able to find his own voice and eventually chooses a self-imposed exile from Ireland to pursue his art. Based on the novel by James Joyce. 92 min. DVD 311; vhs Video/C 1439

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Some Mother's Son(Ireland / USA, 1996)

Directed by Terry George. Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanaghan, Aidan Gillen. Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war. 112 min. 999:3118

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Ulysses (Ireland, 1967)

Directed by Joseph Strick. Cast: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roeves, T. P. McKenna, Anna Manahan. This film depicts a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home. Based on the novel by James Joyce. 124 min. DVD 311; vhs Video/C 1440

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ireland / UK / Germany / Italy / Spain / France, 2006)

Directed by Ken Loach. Cast: Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh ; production designer, Fergus Clegg. Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom in Ireland in 1920. As the Irish freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted against one another, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test. 127 min. DVD 8399

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