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Tag Archives: UK
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality Read More »
England Made Me (1973) Peter Duffell, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil
A story about an English businessman in 1930s Germany who encounters a financier who has forged his career on greed Read More »
Elizabeth I (2005) Tom Hooper, Helen Mirren, Hugh Dancy, Toby Jones
Mini-series about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I. Read More »
Toxic Schlock (2017) Sam Mason-Bell, Tony Newton, Suzy Weatherall, Martin W. Payne, Simon Berry
A quiet seaside town is stalked by a killer while a group of environmentalists lay low. Read More »
The Show Goes On (1937) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Owen Nares, John Stuart
A mill worker is plucked from obscurity and thrust towards fame and fortune when an ailing composer needs a singer to perform his work. Read More »
Sing As We Go! (1934) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, John Loder, Dorothy Hyson
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool. Read More »
Dandelion Dead (1994) Mike Hodges, Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong Read More »
Look Up and Laugh (1935) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Douglas Wakefield
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. Read More »
Hold Back the Night (1999) Philip Davis, Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock
A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway Read More »