His & Hers is an American independent comedy film which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Written and directed by Hal Salwen, it is a modern screwball comedy, the plot of which centers around the accidental amputation of a finger.Read 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 »
Synopsis
According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.Read More »
A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy’s point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’ (1984)Read More »
Synopsis:
Ana, Patricia and Mayela grow up when sexuality is taboo. Now channeled as one 65-year-old, the protagonist revisits intertwined memories, secrets and desires, giving voice to unspoken past experiences.Read More »
The story of five sisters –
based on the short story collection ‘A Calendar’ by Sakae Tsuboi.
Film was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.Read More »
From his rise to power in 1922 to the coming of WWII in 1939, Benito Mussolini ‘s dictatorial career is documented, with entire unedited speeches from newsreels of the time.
“A beautiful film. But also dangerous.” –Pier Paolo PasoliniRead More »
