An aspiring playwright allows his artistic integrity to crumble and quickly sees his marriage go the same way. Fritz Lang plays the earnest film director at war with a producer who has more money than taste. Brigitte Bardot is magnetic as the contemptuous wife whose respect for Piccoli withers as he's seduced by Palance's financial clout. Tres chic. find out more...

A seminal piece of movie-making, a montage of Moscow life in 1929, using all sorts of new techniques, dissolves, split screens, slow motion and split screens. Vertov's exploration of the relationship between camera, actuality and history opened up issues that have been explored ever since by the likes of Godard in particular. This tape includes two versions of the film, the first with music from the Alloy Orchestra and the second with a commentary by leading cinema historian Yuri Tsivan. A radic find out more...

Critically maligned on its release, this tale of a twisted lens-man who lures unsuspecting female victims to their grisly death is an interesting study in the voyeuristic implications of cinema. The killer is an eternal victim whose crimes are cries of rage against his father and stepmother and, at the same time, pathetic rehearsals for his own inevitable death. A Freudian script of notable maturity teases limitless implications from this premise, while maintaining a healthy sense of humour. find out more...

Highly acclaimed spoof introspective of Hollywood, and the film industry in general. Robbins is superb as the arrogant and offish film mogul, Griffin Mill, who is starting to lose grip of reality, and his job. Too many good scenes to mention, too many stars to name. Superb comedy of showbiz in-jokes find out more...

A fascinating and blindingly original movie concept that utilises a four split screen shot continuously over 90 minutes and with a dialogue that is largely improvised. Mike Figgis' experimental drama is set in LA around a casting audition that takes in not only the shallow nature of its subject matter but also romance and even murder. "Timecode" is a movie screaming to be labelled pretentious but Figgis manages to create a tale that is both gripping and ingenious. find out more...