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- In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.
- A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower that appears to follow him wherever he goes.
- A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continued interest in him. The sailor and the poet are bonded by sex, but the sailor's frank advances to Jackie make him uninteresting to her. The sailor can get violent, the poet is passive, Jackie is glamorous and detached. The landscape changes, they stop in cities and in the desert. They reach a lake. Who will be left out of a final pairing?
- Looks at our quest for someone to love and something, or someone, to believe in. The tyranny of couples and groups, the pain of not belonging and the fear of being alone are all laid bare in a series of powerful images.
- Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.
- Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson come out of retirement to solve a final case concerning the artist Marcel Duchamp.
- Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably vague directions. The attempt is made over and over because of conflicting interpretations of the instructions.
- A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious.
- What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boh?me? In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.
- Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.
- Based on a true story by the director's father, Chicken Soup is set late at night in an anonymous airport bar. It is the heart-warming story of Khal, a young Arab, whose need for independence and to belong in western society has alienated him from his father. A chance encounter with a mysterious blind old Arab whose revelation of a childhood accident reminds Khal, what his father really means to him and that parents can make mistakes.
- Documentary about the Ballets Nègres, the pioneering Black British dance troupe, founded in London in 1946.
- The film dramatises the imprisonment of Schiele in Neulengbach in 1911, and looks at the authenticity of Schile's prison diary, which was published after his death.
- While Wordsworth found his language of bliss and tranquillity in the sublime landscape of the Lake District, Roy Fisher, poet and jazz pianist, finds his in the foundries, industrial canals and back streets of Birmingham.
- A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves.
- A look at the work of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture.
- This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the form of reading old manuscripts, books and news articles, and also a posthumous narration from poet TS Eliot reading from his own work, The Dry Salvages from the Four Quartets. Engravings, paintings, and archival film are juxtaposed against the contemporary footage, including Pieter Breughel the Elder's "The Triumph of Death" (c.1562) from the Prado Museum.
- Portrait of minimalist composer Steve Reich.
- A beautifully constructed dramatization of the life of Irish painter and decorator Robert Noonan.
- John Berger is one of our most celebrated and respected writers and broadcasters. A former winner of the Booker Prize, he also wrote one of the most influential books on art of our time, Ways of Seeing, which became a landmark documentary series on BBC Television. In Ken McMullen's engaging and accessible film, Art, Poetry and Particle Physics, he travels to the world's biggest particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva. The film charts an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of discussions and collaborations between Berger and the leading theoretical and experimental physicists John March Russell and Michael Doser. Whether discussing particle physics, poetry, the development of the atom bomb, or the ghostly theft of a glove at the grave of the writer Jorge Luis Borges, Berger demonstrates why he is one of our foremost cultural figures as he brings an infectious and inspiring curiosity to each encounter to create a refreshingly accessible new perspective to our understanding of the value of science and culture today.
- A narrative about a young man who is sent to deliver a letter to a Countess is edited into footage and analyses of early, silent cinema.
- How do we relate to and make use of our physical senses? This film examines the mechanics of perception and the still mysterious way in which the brain makes meaning of it all. Includes comments by artists on how they use their senses in creative work.
- Profile of the composer and conductor Alan Dudley Bush who was born on 22nd December 1900 in London, England
- The composition of classical music has been almost entirely a male preserve. In the late 1920's, when Elizabeth Maconchy was turned down for the Mendelssohn Scholarship, she was told it didn't matter because "you will only get married and never write another note." She did get married, to William Le Fanu in 1930, the same year that her piece The Land was performed at the Proms. Neither severe illness nor bringing up two children has stopped her writing many notes since then.
- What is so enduringly funny about a Pantomime Dame and why? The enduring popularity of the Pantomime Dame is explored through the ages and examined as a parody of female behavior. Contemporary Dames explain their views and thoughts on the the Pantomime Dame as well as performing and preparing for their role.
- Presents the landscape of the eponymous river from a mill house on the Isle of Wight, filmed in time-lapse across both the autumn and spring equinoxes.
- Animation. A series of metamorphosing images criticise a society in which dulled minds feed on tabloid scandal. Focuses on the 'shapeless workers fuelling the fires with the bodies of their own kind'. As the workers seek sexual release, the muddy pictures give way to line drawings of the erotic landscape: curves, valleys and mounds becoming the sexual act itself, are whipped up into a charcoal frenzy of chaotic abstract images of frustration. The end brings release and a return to calm.
- Experimental film of the group 'Throbbing Gristle' in concert.
- An extraordinary journey into the work of a lively and controversial duo.
- A documentary series from Channel 4 that looked at five neglected female artists: Winifred Nicholson, Dora Carrington, Laura Knight, Nina Hamnett and Eileen Agar.
- This documentary is related to an art show directors Wollen and Mulvey organized for London's Whitechapel Gallery, attempting to pair the rather different work of two female creators, painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti.
- Documentary that charts the history of advertising from 1897 up to 1960 - as the era of the Mad Men took hold. Specifically focusing on the depiction of work and its gradual disappearance from advertising imagery.
- BBC's retrospective documentary focused on dance from the 1950s to the 1990s with interviews, clips and memorable performances.