This is the middle story of Satyajit Ray's Bengali trilogy and, after Pather Panchali, we find Apu on the cusp of adulthood. The young lad moves with his family to Benares but with the death of his father, Apu's desire to continue his learning is affirmed and as his passion for knowledge grows so he and his mother find themselves drifting apart, especially as he wants to leave home and go to Calcutta to study. Aparajito is a beautifully drawn film and an immaculate observation of the characters find out more...

Cassandra and Rose are two young sisters living with their dysfunctional but loving family in a crumbling English castle. Little has changed since their novelist father failed to lift pen to paper over 12 years ago, but the arrival of two eligible young Americans throws not only the girls into turmoil but the very continuation of the family. I Capture The Castle is a classy adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel. find out more...