The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - for the first time on video in the UK - Claude Lanzmann's film that he made as follow-ups to his landmark SHOAH, which explore in further depth specific aspects and events of the Nazis' extermination programme.
The Last of the Unjust
At 218 minutes in length, moves between 1975 and 2012, detailing Lanzmanns mid-'70s Rome interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and the filmmaker's own return to the location 37 years later - providing an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the "Final Solution".
Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, 'The Young Offenders' is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley), two inner-city teenagers from Cork. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy (Dominic MacHale). When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euros, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
In normal bear life, it is frowned upon to make friends with a mouse. But Ernest, a big bear, a clown and musician who lives on the fringes of bear society, nonetheless welcomes little Celestine into his home. She is an orphan and has fled the mouse world down below. These two solitary characters find support and comfort in one another, but in the process, fly in the face of convention, upsetting the established order.
By 1998, Chucky the Doll (Brad Dourif) had established himself as an icon within the slasher genre. A way to make him more sinister? Introduce his girlfriend, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) who's just as murderous as he is. Taking a pair of newlyweds hostage (Nick Stabile and a young Katherine Heigl), Chucky once again makes it his mission to transfer his soul back into a human body- by any means necessary. From writer Don Mancini and director Ronny Yu {Freddy vs Jason) in his debut to the franchise, expectthe highest standard of homicidal anticsfromyourfavourite killer doll, once again proving that "a true classic never goes out of style".
Marius lives in bustling 1920s Marseille where his childhood friendship with fishmonger's daughter Fanny blossoms into love. Despite this he is restless and yearns to run away to sea.
'The Last Projectionist' charts the amazing history of UK independent cinema, taking a tour of some of the most magical picture houses in the world. The story centres on The Electric in Birmingham, the oldest working cinema in Britain. From its silent beginnings in 1909; to a news and cartoon cinema during WWII; a porn cinema in the 70s and 80s; then saved from demolition and restored to its art deco glory in 2004. This fascinating, and as yet untold story, is brought to life by former staff, industry experts and customers, one of whom recounts her first visit in 1917. Accompanied by unseen archive and beautifully shot in HD, the film goes on to explore the rapid advance of digital cinema and the likely demise of 35mm film. Is this really The Last Projectionist?
A criminal is caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse between a London police boss and a crime lord. Set in contemporary London, 'The Deadly Game' is the tale of Riley (Toby Stephens) a high line professional heistmeister hired to pull off the ultimate sting. Caught between Parker (Rufus Sewell) head of a maverick police unit and Joseph Corso (Gabriel Byrne) a renowned and feared crime lord, Riley is unwittingly drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Two young professional soccer players share a hotel room the night before their first big game. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. This 'pass' echoes through the next ten years of both their lives - a decade of fame and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.
A festival favourite with critics and audiences in 2013 - and winner of Best Film at Edinburgh - 'A World Not Ours' is an intimate, humorous portrait of three generations in exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship and family.
Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a counter-cultural revolution, The Stooges powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in the decades that followed. Jim Jarmusch's new film 'Gimme Danger' chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time.
Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin to life inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub. There, starry eyed American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emee (Joel Grey) sound the call for decadent fun, while in the street the Nazi party is beginning to grow into a brutal political force. Into this heady world arrives British language teacher Brian Robert (Michael York) who falls for Sally's charm and soon, the two of them find themselves embroiled in the turmoil and decadence of the era.
'Snowden' is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarising figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in U.S. intelligence history. 'Snowden' opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young patriot eager to serve his country into a historic whistle-blower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to give up in order for our government to protect us.
Michal (Noa Kooler) is due to be married. The hall is booked, the wedding dress has been chosen, but there is one small problem - at the last minute her groom has had a change of heart. Unwilling to return to a life of dating, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding plans. Believing that it is a small task for God to find her a new husband, she embarks on a frequently hilarious matchmaking journey to find the right man.
Based on the bestselling novel by M.L. Stedman and from acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, 'The Light Between Oceans' is a beautiful and heart-breaking reminder of the infinite power of love and the lengths that we'll go to in order to protect it. When lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his adored wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander) discover a baby adrift in a boat off the remote coast of Western Australia they assume the worse that her parents are dead. Determined to give her a happy life full of love they choose to raise the child as their own but it's not until years later that the shattering consequences of their decision will change their lives forever.
Marking a new chapter in the history of one of the world's greatest films, the release of Abel Gance's "Napoleon" is the culmination of a project spanning 50 years. Digitally restored by the BFI National Archive and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow, this cinematic triumph is available to experience on video for the very first time. Originally conceived by Gance as the first of six films about Napoleon, this five-and-a-half-hour epic features full-scale historical recreations of episodes from his personal and political life, that see Bonaparte overcome fierce rivals and political machinations to seal his imperial destiny. Utilising a number of groundbreaking cinematic techniques, 'Napoleon' is accompanied by Carl Davis' monumental score, and offers one of the most thrilling experiences in the entire the history of film.
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