Michael Gambon plays the extraordinary French detective Inspector Maigret in this television adaptation of the novels by George Simenon. Intuitive intelligent and creative with a genius for human nature Maigret is like no other detective as he cunningly investigates crime and the human psyche. Episode titles: Maigret And The Nightclub Dancer Maigret And The Hotel Majestic Maigret On The Defensive.
David Schwimmer plays a drifting twentysomething who receives a telephone call out of the blue to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school. Trouble is, the caller has mistaken Schwimmer's character for someone else, but our hapless hero--who still lives with his mother at home--doesn't know how to say no. An encounter with the dead man's mother (Barbara Hershey) leads to a sexual relationship, while an old flame (Gwyneth Paltrow) from high school is suddenly on the horizon if only Schwimmer's loser character can quickly get his act together. The Pallbearer is the umpteenth variation on the Oedipal conflicts made famous in Mike Nichols's The Graduate, but it doesn't have the imagination, vitality, or authority to take classic themes about growing up all the way to the finish line. But in its brooding, comic way, The Pallbearer is honest about the difficulties of crossing the line into adulthood when one doesn't know how. --Tom Keogh
A beautifully evocative coming-of-age tale adapted from the acclaimed autobiographical novel of the same name by Lorena Mazzetti the entire story is viewed through the eyes of the central character Penny and the simple events which take place in the summer of 1944 until the tragic conclusion of the War. These include the friendships established with the peasant children school religious problems the growing awareness of a cruel inescapable reality the discovery of the first furt
Two students making their way through the Nevada badlands are discouraged to find their pit stop at a roadside diner interrupted by a violent gang of racist neo-Nazi skinheads. After offending the gang they've no choice but to head for the hills where a mountain hermit helps them plan to take back the town...
This film is a must-have for fans of Sun Ra and cult film lovers. Sci-Fi blaxploitation cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra returns to Earth (Oakland circa 1972) in his yellow music-powered spaceship to battle for the future of the black race and offer an 'alter-destiny' to those who will join him... Intentionally created as an homage to the low budget sci-fi films of the 50's the special effects outrageous plotline and apocalyptic message harmonize with the improvised score and the climactic live performance by one of the most innovative prolific and profound groups in Jazz history... Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra!
The substitute returns to the classroom to teach a new lesson. Foul play is controlling the Eastern atlantic University campus. If the starting line-up doesn't make the grade the winning football season will be in jeopardy and one professor refuses to play by the rules. After Professor Nicole Potter is brutally attacked Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) goes undercover once again to bring the attackers to justice. Thomasson and his crew of mercenaries soon discover the football te
In this gritty crime thriller brutal gangland boss Darius Deel has more control over the back streets underworld of London than the Queen of England. When he discovers his new young Russian trophy-wife Nadia is having an affair with a small-time hood named Riley he hunts down her lover issues a grim ultimatum...and a deadly game begins.
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John Haloran dies from a heart attack leaving his wife Louise with something of a problem; she won't get to inherit any of the Haloran family money when Lady Haloran dies if John is already dead. So Louise forges a letter from John in order to convince the rest of his family that he has been called away urgently on business to New York whilst she journeys to the ghostly ancestral home in Ireland. It is her intention to ingratiate herself into the family and ensure a cut of the inheri
Bill Douglas' beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 183's for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia Douglas has created a film rich with carefully layered visual illusions and nuances. With lovely profound performances throughout the story - a compelling account of struggle and injustice - becomes an epic tale about history storytelling and the way we see our world.
Don't camp in the woods... Just Don't! Despite the local Ranger's ominous warning a party of three boys and two girls take a camping trip to the mountain. In the steamy backwoods they sense an atmosphere of mounting tension. Soon they realise there is some deadly horror lurking in the woods. The Ranger had been right! They meet a strange girl and her equally strange family. Then one of them is murdered... then another... and another... Will any of them survive those dark hour
Two more cases for Holmes and Watson to solve. The Naval Treaty: Dr Watson's old school colleague 'Tadpole' Phelps needs help with a mysterious problem at the Foreign Office. A top secret treaty has vanished and its disappearance imperils the cause of world peace. Only Holmes can track it down in time. The Solitary Cyclist: For a while Miss Violet Smith's life is quite perfect. However the young heiress soon finds herself being followed by a sinister stranger and Holmes and Watson are engaged in a frantic race against time to prevent her from being kidnapped.
This three disc collection features 12 episodes from the first series of The Big Valley a lavish western drama starring one of Hollywood's greatest female stars Barbara Stanwyck a four times Academy Award nominee. The series began screening in America in September 1965 and soon became a UK hit. It also starred Lee Majors making his TV debut as Heath and Linda Evans recent winner of ITV's Hell's Kitchen with Marco Pierre White. Former Disney girl Evans was previously best known for her role in glamorous prime time soap opera Dynasty. This action-filled Western adventure was set on the Barkley ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s.
Because Of Him: Young and beautiful Kim Walker (Durbin) aspires for the life of a Broadway actress and singer. She devises a scheme which will get her on stage in fact she gets the lead role in a new play through the help of the magnificent John Sheridan (Laughton) even against the writer's objections. Christmas Holiday: A young woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel... Mad About Music: Gloria Harkinson's mother an actr
A tough realistic war film that centers around a small platoon at a remote firebase in Vietnam. The platoon are sent relentlessly on search and destroy missions. On one particular mission the Platoon move into a village catching and killing a band of Viet-Cong they then destroy the arms cache. As the Platoon moves out of the village they discover they are surrounded by a battalion. They make for a rendezvous point where they will be lifted out by helicopter they manage to fight their way to the helicopter pick-up point most of the platoon are now dead and the handful of men left become trapped at the bottom of the ravine.
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978): In this sly social and political allegory an orchestra assembles for a rehearsal under the inquisitive lenses of a TV crew. With their bullish union officials lingering on the sidelines the musicians introduce themselves one by one expounding with wit passion and rancour about the characteristics of their instruments. The rehearsal begins under the baton of an autocratic conductor and soon the musicians' bawdy humour turns to anarchy as he tries to impose his will on this diverse group of players... Featuring a superlative score from Nina Rota (The Godfather 1 & 2 expert cinematography from Guiseppe Rotunno (The Leopard) and ingenious production design from Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York). And The Ship Sails On (1983): Italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) shows that even in his mid-sixties he had lost none of his power to shock entertain and amaze with And The Ship Sails On his haunting and majestic 'comedy of arias'. Made in 1983 the film is set on the eve of the first world war but this matters little to the peacock parade of opera celebrities who cast off on a luxury liner to scatter the ashes of the world's greatest diva near her native adriatic island. yet their gilded world is about to receive a chill blast of reality. The captain has rescued a group of serbian refugees and an enemy battleship looms on the horizon demanding their surrender. Unbeknown to the passengers their old order is about to be eradicated on a global scale and the ship sails on to a fate as inevitable as that of the Titanic. Ginger And Fred (1986: In this wonderfully affectionate and satirical 1986 film italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinem's greatest dance duo and who reunite after 30 years for one final TV dance spectacular. starring two of Italy's greatest acting talents: Cannes `best actress' winner Giulietta Masina (Nights Of Cabiria Juliet Of The Spirits La Strada) and oscar nominee Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita Divorce Italian Style).
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. The DVD release presents the film in its original widescreen dimensions. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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