Average rating: 3.83   76.6% from 6 members


Wire, The - Season 4

Start from the very beginning of Season One if you can as this show rewards the long-term viewer. Wonderful acting, amazing writing and direction. Truly inspirational and authentic. It is quite simply the best thing I have seen on any screen anywhere. Enjoy!

Werckmeister Harmonies / Damnation

Slow, but never tedious. This excellent meditation on life from Bela Tarr rewards the patient viewer. Also enriched with a superb score from Mihaly Vig. A film that lives long in the memory.
  • Werckmeister Harmonies / Damnation on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla
    Director: Bela Tarr
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A 2-DVD set containing Hungarian director Bela Tarr's tour de force WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES alongside 2000's DAMNATION. In a nameless, frozen, Eastern European village cloaked in fog, Janos (Lars Rudolph) choreographs three grizzly drunks in a pantomime of the earth circling the sun and the moon ..
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 474 members

Werner Herzog Box Set 1

Watch everything this man has made. A true maverick.

Werner Herzog Box Set 2

Same as above. Stroszek is particularly brilliant.

Together

Uplifting and funny. This is as far away from Lilya-4-Ever as possible.
  • Together on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Lisa Lindgren,  Michael Nyquist,  Sam Kessel
    Director: Lukas Moodysson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1975 Stockholm at a communal living house called "Tillsammans" or "Together," this bittersweet comedy revolves around the members of a radical hippie commune as they fight, fall in love, and struggle to stay together. Director Lukas Moodysson perfectly captures the youthful idealism and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,159 members

Lilya 4 Ever

Bleak and downright depressing but truly forces you to accept the inhenrent evil of the human race.
  • Lilya 4 Ever on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Oksana Akinshina,  Artiom Bogucharski,  Elina Benenson
    Director: Lukas Moodysson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    From the acclaimed director of the fantastic TOGETHER and SHOW ME LOVE comes this searing tale of a contemporary Russian teenage girl. Lilya (played by Oksana Akinsha) lives in a small poor town but is on her way to a better life in America with her mother and her boyfriend. But she is shockingly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,693 members

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

As good as British TV has ever got. It is pretty hard to imagine the BBC commissioning a show today that contains the same amount of intelligence and lack of gimmicks. A treat for all true espionage fans.

Smiley's People

Perhaps not as engrossing as TTSS but nonetheless very enjoyable. Get as much of this as you can because it is the last time we see G. Smiley.
  • Smiley's People (2 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Mario Adorf,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Simon Langton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 2,917 members

Goodfellas

"Alll my life I wanted to be a gangster". Every right thinking school boys dream on screen!
  • Goodfellas on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 62,990 members

Sideways

Wonderful, engaging and unsentimental. Hollywood comedy at its best.




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