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I Am Love (2009)Io Sono L'amore
Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian emigre and the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family, lives in a carefully ordered world where duty towards husband and children dominates her life. But after a chance discovery reveals an unspoken love her world is thrown open to sensuality and she embarks on a journey of unbridled passion that will shake her family's foundations to the core. Hailed by critics and lauded by audiences across the world, 'I Am Love' is a breath-taking tour de force of cinematic beauty. As lush, sumptuous and visually arresting as it is moving, heartbreaking and overwhelmingly powerful, this stunning account of the pain and pleasure of desire will leave you gasping for air. - Director:
- Luca Guadagnino
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini
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Written and directed by Jonah Hill, 'Mid 90's' follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a 13 year-old in '90's LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. This movie follows a teenager named Stevie growing up in Los Angeles. He's struggling with his family, including his co-dependent single mom and his abusive older brother, and at school, where his richer friends seem to overlook him. When Stevie befriends a crew of skateboarders, he learns some tough lessons about class, race, and privilege. - Director:
- Jonah Hill
- Cast:
- Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges
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From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of 'Meru', comes 'Free Solo' a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world's most famous rock...the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park...without a rope. Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold's climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge places his story in the annals of human achievement. 'Free Solo' is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph over the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. The result is a triumph of the human spirit that represents what The New York Times calls "a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime". - Director:
- Jimmy Chin
- Cast:
- Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences. - Director:
- Mark Jenkin
- Cast:
- Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd
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The White Crow (2018)Rudolf Nureyev Project
The incredible true story of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko) is brought vividly to life by Academy Awardy-nominee Ralph Fiennes and BAFTA-winning screenwriter David Hare. From Nureyev's poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his nail-biting escape from the KGB and defection to the West at the height of the Cold War, The White Crow is a gripping, revelatory look at a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever. - Director:
- Ralph Fiennes
- Cast:
- Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann
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Claire Denis' first English-language feature sees a group of convicts assigned to a difficult space mission with the belief they will be freed if they are successful. The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), one of the convicts aboard the mission a few years after its launch as he raises his daughter in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards it's final destination... - Director:
- Claire Denis
- Cast:
- Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
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BumbleBee (2018)Brighton Falls
Cybertron has fallen. When Optimus Prime sends BumbleBee to defend Earth, his journey to become a hero begins. Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld), a teenager trying to find her place in the world, discovers and repairs the battle-scarred robot, who's disguised as a Volkswagen Beetle. As the Decepticons hunt down the surviving Autobots with the help of a secret agency led by Agent Burns (John Cena), BumbleBee and Charlie team up to protect the world... - Director:
- Travis Knight
- Cast:
- Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O'Brien, Peter Cullen
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Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley), is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo). 'Wild Rose' is an uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth. - Director:
- Tom Harper
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson
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As Iconic a group as has ever existed, 'The Velvet Underground' were so far ahead of their time, musically, visually and culturally, it's as if they were dropped, ready formed, into New York's avant-garde art scene, from a parallel universe. And in addition to their unique imagery, so perfectly designed by maverick artist and impresario Andy Warhol, their experiments with form and sound that worked in tandem with to-die-for melodies and provocative lyrics, spurred two of the most oft-repeated quotes in the history of rock; the ubiquitous, '50 people bought the first Velvets' record and every one of them went on to form a band', and music-critic Lester Bangs' outrageously perceptive, 'all modern music begins with the Velvet Underground'. This documentary film explores and dissects the roots, formation, recordings, concerts and numerous other activities of The Velvet Underground, across their short career, and features a wealth of rare material. Including live and studio musical performances, seldom seen promo films, footage and photographs from Andy Warhol's private collection, obscure interviews with and footage of, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale, plus interviews given exclusively for this film with Moe Tucker, Doug Yule and Billy Name, plus contributions from such luminaries as ex- Village Voice music editor Robert Christgau, author of From The Velvets To The Voidoids, Clinton Heylin, Total Rock DJ, author and journalist, Malcolm Dome, Luna mainman Dean Wareham and many others. - Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison
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Mirror (1975)Zerkalo
From the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky comes his most autobiographical work and one that is regarded by many as his magnum opus. Reflecting upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people, 'Mirror' is a sublime expression of memory, imagination, thoughts and dreams intertwined with real life and family relationships. A transcendent, inspired and multilayered masterpiece that continues to grow in stature, 'Mirror' has an exceptional resonance and rewards countless viewings. - Director:
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast:
- Margarita Terekhova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Filipp Yankovskiy
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)The Magnificent Rogues / Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Man with No Name 3: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A partnership between two scoundrels, Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) goes awry, only for fate to intervene in the form of information about a cache of stolen Confederate gold buried in a graveyard. Each possessing a different clue to its location, the pair are forced into a distrustful partnership. However, the gold is also sought by Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless mercenary with his own twisted code of honour. Thus begins a desperate pursuit amidst the mass destruction and absurdity of the American Civil War, culminating in an iconic three-way standoff inside the graveyard. - Director:
- Sergio Leone
- Cast:
- Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef
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The Man from London (2007)A londoni férfi
Four years in the making, the new film from the acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr is an adaptation of a novel by thriller writer Georges Simenon. Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) leads a simple life as a railway signalman, barely registering the world around him. His life takes a sudden turn when he becomes a witness to a murder and he is forced to confront issues of morality, sin, punishment and the line between innocence and complicity. Exploring themes of desire, greed and mans indestructible longing for freedom, this hypnotic film bears the distinctive trademarks of Tarrs universe, fluid and stunning monochrome photography, pared-down dialogue and performances, and a hauntingly beautiful score by long-time Tarr collaborator Mihaly Vig. - Director:
- Béla Tarr
- Cast:
- Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Erika Bók
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"All Is True" explores the human story behind a dark and little known period in the life of William Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh). The year is 1613, Shakespeare is the greatest writer of the age. When his beloved Globe Theatre is burned to the ground, he decides to return to his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. There he faces his neglected family. Still haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend broken relationships with his wife, Anne (Judi Dench) and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as an absent husband and father. In the search for peace, he must also finally confront the dark heart of his family's secrets and lies. - Director:
- Kenneth Branagh
- Cast:
- Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen
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From visionary director Terry Gilliam, 'The Zero Theorem' stars two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. Living in isolation in a burnt-out church, Qohen is obsessively working on a mysterious project personally delegated to him by Management aimed at discovering the meaning of life - or the lack thereof - once and for all. Increasingly disturbed by unwanted visits from people he doesn't fully trust including the flirtatious Bainsley (Melanie Thierry), Management's wunderkind son Bob (Lucas Hedges), his unpredictable colleague Joby (David Thewlis), and would-be digital therapist Dr. Shrink-Rom, it's only when he experiences the power of love and desire that he's able to understand his own reason for being. - Director:
- Terry Gilliam
- Cast:
- Christoph Waltz, Lucas Hedges, Mélanie Thierry
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Neil Armstrong' became NASA's most famous astronaut when his small step, and giant leap changed the world forever on July 20 1969. Famously reticent about his accomplishments he preferred to focus on the team that helped to get him on the Moon rather than his own success. This new documentary features never seen before footage from Armstrong's own home movies and insights from those who flew with him and knew him best. - Director:
- David Fairhead
- Cast:
- Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford, Neil Armstrong
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