British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Français
Description
Two short films made by Hitchcock in 1944 at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon Voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
They were created to be the world's largest, grandest and safest ocean liners. Each were launched and sold as ships that would never sink, but despite this boast, all three were involved in maritime disasters, and two of the three were lost in the most dramatic of circumstances. This compelling documentary investigates the doomed history and flawed design of the White Star Liners Olympic, Titanic and Britannic from inception to disaster.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Set in 17th-century England, an aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman to sketch her husband's property while he is away-- in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
4) Star Wars
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Will Brooker provides a close analysis of 'Star Wars' as a film and argues that it represented a continuation rather than a departure from director George Lucas's early, experimental work. Brooker argues that Lucas is drawn both to the order and control of the Empire, and the energy and creativity of the Rebels.
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan in association with the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Jean Renoir's cinematic masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) tells the story of two French prisoners-of-war escaping through Germany towards France during the First World War. Its themes of loyalties divided by class, racial and national identities and the conflict between patriotism and pacifism made it particularly compelling and controversial on its release in the last days of the French Popular Front. Julian Jackson's study of the film places...
7) Grey Gardens
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A look at American film from the silent movies to movies of the 1970s, including Duel in the Sun, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Searchers, Scarface, Intolerance, The Ten Commandments, A Star Is Born, Cat People, Barry Lyndon, Citizen Kane, Public Enemy, East of Eden, Shock Corridor, Faces, The Naked Spur, Bandwagon, and Force of Evil.
14) Caravaggio
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jarman's gorgeously sensual re-imagining of the volatile life of the 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his rampant flirtations with the underworld.
15) Beautiful people
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful people with everyday lives. A funny adventure that will charm your heart." --
16) Loaded
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
When, for one weekend, "seven free-spirited young adults gather to make their own low-budget horror movie ... they'll discover that friendship, seduction and jealousy can be a very dangerous combination!
17) Supernova
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them." --
18) How I live now
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the near-future UK; Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund. But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting...
19) Under the skin
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An alien in the form of a voluptuous young woman combs the streets of Scotland in search of men. She lures a succession of lost souls into her otherworldly lair, where they are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
