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Plot: A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbor as he then discovers his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.Read More »

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In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be. Siren compositions from over 20 contemporary musicians form a resonant voice to ask; Does an alarm have to be alarming?Read More »

John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at a young age, which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition that few people had witnessed.Read More »

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The arrival of Sultan’s daughter Princess Fatima at England’s famous and prestigious ‘School for Young Ladies’ precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father’s horse Arab Boy is due to run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie brother of headmistress Millicent, ensures his own daughter is on hand to report progress. At the same time Barchester police have planted sergeant Ruby Gates as a teacher, and the Ministry of Education are sending a third inspector down after the previous two disappeared without trace.Read More »

When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by an club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.Read More »

This most seminal of stories has given birth to many inferior versions too numerous to count, but it takes the BBC once again to be faithful to the original masterwork.
The underlying theme of which stresses that, not all scientific discoveries are beneficial to mankind.
The eponymous character is a brilliant but obsessive researcher, who’s experiments in Optical Densities lead him eventually into a downward spiral of crime, violence and Death.
Although made in 1984 the special effects are rather good, the scenes of Griffin becoming Invisible, layer by layer are worthy of a big budget film.
This is as close as you’ll get if you haven’t read the book.
And if not why not? it’s excellent.
Produced by Barry Letts, screenplay by Terrance Dicks.
Story first publised 1897. Review: Keith SnowdonRead More »

In 16th-century England, Agnes, deeply attuned to the natural world, and Will defy expectations to build a life together. When the loss of their child shatters the family, sorrow strains their bond, as Will retreats into his work, transforming mourning into the tragedy Hamlet.Read More »

A girl broods over a failed love affair while the camera roves over her.

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)Read More »

A unique concert given to the long term inmates of the famous jail. Johnny and June sing ‘Wanted Man’ (written especially for the concert by Bob Dylan) and ‘San Quentin’ (written by Cash just in time for the concert). Also features the songs ‘I Walk the Line’, ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, ‘Orange Blossom Special’, ‘Jackson’, ‘Darling Companion’, ‘Daddy Snag Bass’, ‘A Boy Named Sue’, ‘Peace in the Valley’, ‘He Turned Water into Wine’. The audience are very appreciative.Read More »