Atom Egoyan has created a world within a world, shifting between the contemporary and, through the making of a film about the events, the tragic genocidal slaughter of the Armenians in turn of the 20th Century Turkey. Ararat is a thoughtful and thought provoking drama of the highest order.
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (1971)
Certification12 Our Rating
A young American soldier is wounded by a shell in WWI, losing his arms, legs and eyes as well as his ability to hear, speak or smell. Lying in hospital he is barely able to distinguish if he is awake or dreaming and he relives his story in strange dreams and memories. One day Joe finds a way to communicate with the doctors ...
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PATHER PANCHALI (1955)
CertificationU Our Rating
First installment of "The Apu Trilogy". Apu, the young son of an impoverished family, begins life in a small Bengali village. Here he tastes his first experiences of the world some happy, some sad, but always portrayed with compassion and a realism that's almost painful. Poetic and stunning.
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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
Certification15 Our Rating
A fantastic looking film with a very pregnant atmosphere. Based on a true story of three girls disappearing on a school outing (only one was found and she remembered nothing). The film transforms this into an allegory for the loss of innocence that is associated with virginity and childhood.
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Based on David Low's cartoon character, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC, we back-track over his life, drawing us into sympathy with the prime virtues of honour and chivalry which have transformed him from dashing young spark of the 1890s into crusty old buffer of World War II. Roger Livesey gives us not just a great performance, but a man's whole life, losing his only love (Deborah Kerr) to the German officer (Walbrook) with whom he fought a duel in pre-WWI Berlin, then becoming the latter's
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THE WHITE RIBBON (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
1913; a strict Protestant village in northern Germany and the locals are plagued by a series of malevolences; a farmer's wife falls through rotten floorboards, a wire placed at knee-height has brought down the the doctor's horse, a window is opened exposing a newborn baby to the cold of the winter, cabbages are beheaded with a scythe, one of the Baron's sons is discovered bound and lashed by a whip, a barn is set on fire, a farmer hangs himself, a handicapped child is found tied to a tree with a
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