20th Century Flicks, Bristol

1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t find out more...

BEING THERE (1980)

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Sellers' last film is his masterpiece. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington DC house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. It's find out more...

BETTY BLUE (1986)

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Betty Blue is irresistable: she is a "femme fatale", an emotional H-bomb just waiting to go off. When she falls for a guy who is content with his lot as a handyman, looking after beach side chalets, reads his novel, unpublished, decides he has talent and drags him off to Paris, well...! find out more...

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BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)

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Russ Meyer's story of an all girl rock band's rise to fame under the direction of their transexual manager. A typically brash style is brought to this, Russ Meyer's biggest budget movie, and self-parody is weaved with melodrama to make a great romp spiked with dope, sex and thrills! Watch. find out more...

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BLADE RUNNER (DIRECTOR'S CUT) (1982)

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A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the second version re-edited by Ridley Scott; all the good bits remain, with the onl find out more...

BLADE RUNNER (ORIGINAL) (1982)

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A stunning visual account of man's struggle for survival in the 21st Century, a time when replicant life forms are beginning to surpass humans not just in intelligence but emotions, raising questions about our concepts of self. A post-modern sci-fi classic, THE great Hollywood movie of the '80s, the last great pre-computer film done with smoke-and-mirrors SFX and the definitive cult arthouse Sci-Fi film. This is the originally released version with no unicorns in a dream, a voiceover to keep y find out more...

BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974)

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The funniest, sexiest and most stylish Dracula film ever! Made by Andy Warhol's sidekick, Blood for Dracula follows the tortured, vegetarian Count as he and his menacing manservant set forth for Italy in the early 19th century, complete with coffin on roof-rack, searching for juicy Catholic virgins. Visually stunning and deliciously deadpan. find out more...

BLOW-UP (1966)

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A succesful photograper in swinging sixties London leads an aimless existence. Then one day he apparently witnesses a murder in the park. A slow moving thriller, Antonioni's film is also a meditation on the relationship of film to reality and the relationship of the individual to society. find out more...

BLUE VELVET (1986)

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It's sick, it's weird, it's spooky, but it's compulsive viewing. Forget Brat Packs and Rambo, this is the dark side to America. Beneath the squeaky clean surface lurk neuroses and perversions, degradation and despair. Brilliantly done, this film will haunt you. find out more...

CATCH-22 (1970)

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Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...