The first in this ridiculously popular franchise where a young girl falls in love with a sparkly vampire whilst a werewolf looks on. Not nearly as terrible as the later films in the series. Features a lot of staring in place of teen angst.
Unorthodox cop shakes up underworld figures in San Francisco. Clint Eastwood's now classic trend setting film about a cop determined to bring in a psychotic killer, even if he has to break a few rules along the way.
Vittorio De Sica's remarkable and moving film about a father and son who search tirelessly for a stolen bicycle that controls their potential livlihood. A seminal film not just in the context of Italian neo-realism, but also within the broader context of film history and these such movements that developed within it. An absolute must see and more than that, a must see time and again.
Bette Davis stars as Margo Channing, an aging Broadway star of a production called Aged In Wood, who is menaced by an overreaching younger actress, played by Anne Baxter. This brilliantly cynical comedy drama also features Thelma Ritter, and Marilyn Monroe.
Legendary hauteur and World War II veteran Samuel Fuller blasts the cinema screen with truth in this classic war movie which contains Marvin’s finest performance and a strong supporting cast. Newly restored and extended version (over 40 mins. of new footage) of Fuller's superb epic, based on his own experiences, following an infantry squadron across the WW2 theatre of War.
Jean-Luc Godard's most popular film. Written by Francois Truffaut, this simple gangster-hero tale broke new ground for the French new-wave cinema of 1959.
Like all cult cinema, Fight Club was not a genuinely favoured movie upon release amongst the masses, quality usually being overlooked thanks to marketing or just misconception. Upon release it was clear that much of the audience was made up of Brad Pitt fans and not entirely fans of the brilliant subversive novel.
When an architectural genius has his design for a public-housing project altered, he dynamites the building; is put on trial, and tries to justify his action with an attack on collectivism and the parasites of the left. A mightily unusual film based on the novel by Ayn Rand. Beautifully stark B&W cinematography by Robert Burks, reminiscent of the style of Citizen Kane. Burks later was a regular Hitchcock cinematographer - including Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds and North By Northwest.
Mitchell directed and stars as Hedwig, an East German teenager who suffered a botched sex change operation and a failed marriage to an American military man in order to flee over the Berlin Wall to the States. Abandoned by her husband in a trailer in Middle America, Hedwig takes odd jobs, baby-sits and jams with future MTV rock god Tommy Gnosis, and starts her own less-than-successful punk band. The film has garnered quite a cult following. Great music.
In New York City, the lovers Miriam and John are vampires that survive through time under the Egyptian symbol of Ankh. Miriam, a centuries-old vampire, and her vampire lover John prey on urban club-goers . When John suddenly ages and wastes away, Miriam casts her spell upon Sarah, a doctor who researches premature aging. This neo-Gothic exercise in style and atmosphere is perhaps most widely known for a lesbian sex scene involving Miriam and Sarah.