Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d
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COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating
Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou
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DAGUERREOTYPES (1976)
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Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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DAISIES (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating
The wonderful people over at Second Run DVD have released another hidden gem: 'Daisies' (Sedmikrasky), originally made in 1966 by Vera Chytilova, who has since been called 'the first lady of Czech cinema' and whose efforts also earnt her a screening at the First International Festival of Women's Films in New York in 1972.
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DOUBT (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
It's 1964, St Nicholas in the Bronx; a vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius, the authoritarian Principal. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, an example being the arrival of the school's first black student, Donald Miller. When Sister James shares with the Principal her suspicion that Father Flynn's interest in Donald may not be entirely innocent, Sister Alo
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GIRLHOOD (2014)
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000)
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It is 1962 and a young newspaper editor, Chow, is finding his marital partner is rarely around to share his life; Lonely and lost Chow finds friendship with his neighbour, Li-zhen, whose husband is as absent as his wife. Into this increasingly charged relationship comes a discovery that could release the two of them, but may ironically part them forever. In The Mood For Love is a breathtakingly beautiful film, visually and emotionally faultless.
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OF TIME AND THE CITY (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Revered Brit film director Terence Davies paints a picture of Liverpool life from his childhood days to the modern in this poetic docu-essay memoir. Heavy on poetry and classical music, heavily against the Church and the monarchy, full of newsreel and documentary footage, this is an awesome tribute to a city that he loves.
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THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A gripping, Oscar nominated, reconstruction of the rise of the Baader-Meinhof Group, a bunch of radical terrorists who rose in the mid-70s using military means, arson, bank raids, assassinations and kidnappings, to attempt the overthrow of the German state, many of whose personnel had their roots in the country's Nazi state.
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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating
A highly acclaimed and influential account of Algeria's turbulent past made in psuedo-documentary style. The tense plot surrounds the rise of nationalist organisations in '54 and the French government's attempts to quell them. This film was the prototype for most political thrillers of the 1970s.
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