Film

A British classic of such famous status that it barely needs an introduction. Directed by David Lean and adapted by Noel Coward from his own stage play, this is a poignant and beautifully crafted love story. Laura Jesson accidentally meets a man, Dr Alex Harvey, at a railway station. As their acquaintance grows, so does their love for each other despite both being married with children. On the ... (click to read more)

When Malik, a young French Arab, finds himself in prison with no friends or allies, he goes out of his way to be useful to the dominant Corsican gang and its leader Cesar Luciani. After a gruelling rites-of-passage murder of a new friend, he builds, by slow degrees, a power base of his own. This astounding prison drama is raised to a different level due to the visceral intensity of its ... (click to read more)

This is a documentary portrait of Martin Strel, the four-time world record holding endurance swimmer, and his absurdly ambitious attempt to be the first person to swim the world’s most hostile and dangerous river, the mighty Amazon. Part world-class sporting event, part circus sideshow, we follow the eccentric and celebrated Slovenian across 3,375 miles over 66 days on history’s ... (click to read more)

Play it again Sam! One of the most often misquoted lines. Or is it? There is only one way to find out. The much-loved Casablanca has come to epitomise the classic Hollywood studio picture at its best. With its perfect blend of elements - story, casting and music - this makes for a great movie. The familiar narrative focuses on themes of lost love, honour and self-sacrifice in an exotic wartime ... (click to read more)

Daigo is a concert cellist, who undergoes a transformation following the death of his father and the dissolution of his Tokyo orchestra. Unemployed, he responds to an ad for a company called ‘Departures’, thinking it’s a travel agency, but discovers that the company caters to morticians who perform ‘encoffinments’—highly stylised and meticulous ceremonies to ... (click to read more)

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‘Boggis and Bunce and Bean, one short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.’ Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of the three crooked farmers. The greedy farmers ... (click to read more)

It’s always cheering to encounter a film that defies easy classification, and Ursula Meier’s debut feature is just such a beast. The opening act offers us happy scenes from a rural, scruffy idyll. Isabella Huppert and her husband (Olivier Gourmet) live in rolling fields by the side of an apparently disused road. Life changes suddenly and brutally when the trucks move in to transform ... (click to read more)

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The Year is 1937 and Orson Welles, enfant terrible of the theatre world (before embarking on his film career), is about to stage a Broadway production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Seventeen-year-old Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) dreams of treading the boards and after an impromptu audition he lands a big part in the production. Through Richard's eyes we watch the show take shape, moving from ... (click to read more)

Dany Boon plays the role of Bazil, a man who was orphaned as a youngster when his soldier father was killed by a roadside bomb. Now working in a video store and trying to find his place in the world, Bazil is hit by a stray bullet in a freak drive-by shooting incident. Emerging from hospital, he finds himself jobless and penniless, but good fortune appears in the form of an ex-con, Tire-Larigot. ... (click to read more)

Since 2000, in parallel with the country's deep economic crisis, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has pursued a campaign of aggressive land reform, claiming land owned by white farmers. Government supporters have occupied many white-owned farms, with violence flaring frequently, and a number of white farmers and their black workers have been killed. Filmed covertly in a country where a press ... (click to read more)