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A young boy moves with his mother in a new neighborhood: a social housing in the subburbs of Paris (Bagnolet, where Brisseau was once teaching litterature and shot all his first films). He meets a mysterious classmate.Read More »

Two girls with the same name-Nadezhda (Hope) -live in the same apartment. Great Nadezhda is isolated from other people. She has no other aspirations than to marry a much older than her man. Over time, she will realize that this is her father, whom her mother is hiding. A small Nadezhda is the complete opposite of a great Nadezhda. She lives for others. Take care of Grandpa. She opposes rudeness and meanness. Gradually, the two girls change places. They become two parts of one whole.Read More »

“Eight Deadly Shots is perhaps the most nuanced picture of the working of the economic system in the history of our cinema: a close-up of a man up against the wall, at the most basic level of breathing.”
–Peter von Bagh, Kansan UutisetRead More »

Extract from the Radio Times for the broadcast:
We begin tonight with the comedy – Ken Russell’s version of The Diary Of A Nobody by the Brothers Grossmith. Ken Russell, who will be remembered from his many Monitor films, including those on Elgar and Bartok, has been an ardent admirer of this Victorian novel for many years. The film he has made of it is unusual, hilarious, and, at heart, very tender. It is an account, in the style of the early movies, of the life of a Victorian City clerk, Mr Pooter. We see Mr Pooter’s fervent desires for the well-being of his family coming to fruition – and sometimes coming to grief. (Radio Times, December 10, 1964 – Article by John McGrath).Read More »

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Anthony Powell’s 12-volume epic “A Dance to the Music of Time” is widely regarded as the most formidable single work of British fiction since the war. It is also largely entertaining: its cast of 400 characters ranges from upper-class drawing-rooms to Bohemian London and a violent death in a hippie commune. They have, in their turn, gathered a devoted set of fans among English-speaking readers.Read More »

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Originally named “The Barbara Stanwyck Theatre”, this anthology series starring the four-time Best Actress Oscar nominee made its debut on September 19, 1960, on the NBC television network. Renamed “The Barbara Stanwyck Show”, the series ran for only one season, despite the fact that its host and star received the Emmy Award as Outstanding Actress in a Television Series (Lead). A total of 36 episodes aired, but the show never went into syndication following its initial run; thus, it has been virtually unseen by the general public for almost half a century.Read More »

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‘Written in 1958 but not produced until 1980, Pinter’s play is an eerily prophetic work about a secretive state institution designed to cure social dissidents. With riotous invention, Pinter shows how the staff are borderline insane, and themselves victims of the bureaucratic machine they’re operating.’
– BFIRead More »

Complete TV series with adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.Read More »

Bernard Pivot hosts Vladimir Nabokov in his TV program Apostrophe no. 21, broadcast on May 30, 1975.
Color, 60 min.

This is a rare televised interview recorded two years before Nabokov’s death.Read More »