20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A very deliberate and well crafted document, marking Nick Cave’s 54.79^th birthday. Without doubt how much you think you are going to enjoy this constructed window on Nick Cave’s imagined and real worlds, is much dependent on how much you like Nick Cave in yours … however, the part performance, part trad-doc, part existential exploration, part fairytale, has enough insight into the mind-tank of this contemporary cult figure to turn even the goodest of seeds b find out more...

ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

It's Spinal Tap... no... wait - these poor bastards are for real. These Canadians played with Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and a whole host of other reputable metal bands of the 80s, in fact, they heavily influenced some of them. So what happened? Well, eternal optimist Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and ever patient best bud Robb Reiner just didn't seem to get a break. Now recording their thirteenth album, 'This is Thirteen', the two not so known legends give it one last go. find out more...

BIGGIE AND TUPAC (2002)

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A hypnotic documentary from Nick Broomfield (Kurt and Courtney) investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and "The Notorious B.I.G.". Broomfield delves deep into the rappers world and the apparent indifference of the LAPD to provide some pretty chilling facts. Intelligent, professional and utterly gripping. find out more...

BLACK GOLD (2006)

CertificationE Our Rating

At the end of 2002 Ethiopia faced yet another devastating famine, despite a booming worldwide coffee industry, worth in excess of $80 billion, Ethiopian coffee farmers were facing bankruptcy, extreme poverty and starvation. The Francis brothers spent two and half years following Fair Trade coffee representative, Meskela on his worldwide travels to secure buyers for his co-operative's coffee at a fair price. Black Gold is an affecting, galvanizing and deeply informative documentary without becomi find out more...

BORN INTO BROTHELS (2004)

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A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th find out more...

DIG! (2007)

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A documentary following the contrasting fortunes of indie darlings The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, both hell-bent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry in the mid 1990s. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols achieved major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs, band in-fighting and unchecked egotism. find out more...

ETRE ET AVOIR (2002)

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School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish find out more...

GIRLHOOD (2014)

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GRIZZLY MAN (2005)

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Timothy Treadwell was quite a guy, a self appointed crusader and protector for the grizzly bears of Alaska, his commitment over thirteen summers was without doubt, though his motives and methods were perhaps more confused. What Herzog has created from Treadwell's copious footage is a stunning wildlife documentary in which the observer is as fascinating as his beloved subjects; in fact Treadwell is a perfect real life example of the damaged, obsessive characters in a number of Herzog's films, and find out more...