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Tag Archives: UK
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair

It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Ang Lee, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet

When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage Read More »
Evdokia (1971) Alexis Damianos, Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou

A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Read More »
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher

The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Read More »
Alice AKA Alicja (1982) Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza, Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. Read More »
Testament (1988) John Akomfrah, Tania Rogers, Evans Oma Hunter, Frank Parkes

In Testament, the condition of the postcolony is embodied in the figure of activist turned television reporter Abena Read More »
Isadora (1968) Karel Reisz, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Read More »
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958) Karel Reisz, Jon Rollason, Tony Benson, Adrian Harding

Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Paul Schrader, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson

An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them Read More »