Godard's bleak sci-fi noir, with the stony-faced gumshoe Lemmy Caution turning inter-galactic agent to re-enact the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in conquering Alpha 60, the strange automated city where such emotions as love and tenderness are banished. A brilliantly realised and stylish satire on the dehumanising nature of technology.
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ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Finally! A popular 'indie' movie written and directed by a woman! This film shines with wit and warmth and brains, interesting people, beautiful dialogue and dark, dark humour.
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PI (1998)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bizarre but brilliant mathematical mystery, shot in black & white and set to a nervy, industrial soundtrack. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a bit of an oddball; either a misunderstood techno genius, or just the sort of weirdo who sits with his hood up at the back of the bus, depending on your tolerance levels. Living in a computer-filled slum in a world which, to his eyes, is no more than a series of numerical equations, Max stumbles across a seemingly meaningless 216 digit number. But when two si
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THX 1138 (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
A brilliant sci-fi film about a completely automised/computerised society and one mans disillusion and break from it. Based on Zamyatin's novel "We", the book that got him kicked out of the Soviet Union in 1922 and was also the inspiration for "1984". A movie with brilliant visual style.
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