20th Century Flicks, Bristol

From the director of "King of New York", a dark and supremely stylish tale of compulsion out of control. When New Yorker, Kathleen is dragged into an alley and bitten by an elegant stranger, she survives the attack, but is left wrestling with an irresistable appetite for human blood. Stunning. find out more...

THE GARDEN (1990)

Certification15 Our Rating

Using Jarman's wooden shack on the pebble beaches of Dungeness as its visual focal point. The Garden is an allegorical tale that explores Jarman's views on Christianity in relation to homosexuality, and AIDS. A beautiful, ethereal film and a fine epitaph to a man with peerless vision. find out more...

THE HOURS (2002)

Certification12 Our Rating

Three women, separated across the 20th century, held together by the trials of time, love and loss. The first, Virginia Woolf, is in the throes of her first defining novel, Mrs Dalloway, while the second is a 1950s housewife now reading Woolf's book, and drawn towards a momentous re-evaluation of her life. The most contemporary of the trio is Clarissa, a woman who to all intents and purposes is Mrs Dalloway, and it is the gradual intertwining of their stories that comprises much of the film's ch find out more...

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WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL (2008)

CertificationE Our Rating

Director Matt Wolf's portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of very disparate artistic communities. His collaborators and most ardent supporters ranged from Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco scene of Ni find out more...