Au Hasard Balthazar
on DVD
(1966) Starring:Anne Wiazemsky, Philippe Asselin Director:Robert Bresson Certificate:
Traces the life of a donkey, christened Balthazar by children. Throughout his life he is owned by many of the locals, who treat him with varying degrees of kindness. Whatever his task, Balthazar accepts his fate of living a life over which he has no control.
Last Year At Marienbad
on DVD
(1961) Starring:Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff Director:Alain Resnais Certificate:
Considered by many to be Renais' magnum opus, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, is a work of fantasy and experiment in line with the French New Wave films of the 50's and 60's. Renais and co-writer, Alain Robbe-Grillet seem less concerned with the conventional use of character and more interested in ..read more »
Hiroshima Mon Amour
on DVD
(1959) Starring:Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada Director:Alain Resnais Certificate:
A French actress, shooting a film in the city of the title, strikes up an affair with a handsome Japanese architect, but the two of them are haunted with their respective memories of World War II: the bomb that fell on Hiroshima and the Nazi Occupation of France.
Le Samourai(1967) Starring:Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon Director:Jean-Pierre Melville Certificate:
Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.
Le Doulos
on DVD
(1963) Starring:Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly Director:Jean-Pierre Melville Certificate:
This complex down-beat thriller follows the fatalistic relationship between two men: Maurice Faugel, a crook just out of prison and Silien (Belmondo), who may or may not be a doulos or finger man (a kind of high-class informer). Maurice, wasting no time, immediately begins to put himself on the ..read more »
Les Enfants Terribles
on DVD
(1949) Starring:Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dhermitte, Renee Cosima Director:Jean-Pierre Melville Certificate:
Cinema giants Jean-Pierre Melville (UN FLIC) and Jean Cocteau (LA BELLE AT LA BETE) collaborated to create LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, a stunning portrait of surreal perversion and narcissism based on Cocteau's novel of the same name. When teenage Paul, the fragile protagonist, is mysteriously felled by ..read more »
La Regle Du Jeu
on DVD
(1939) Starring:Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain Director:Jean Renoir Certificate:
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a ..read more »
Bande A Part
on DVD
(1964) Starring:Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur Director:Jean-Luc Godard Certificate:
Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with dime store novels and American crime films with BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a free-spirited romp in the same vein as the director's breakthrough smash, BREATHLESS. The story follows two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), who are searching ..read more »
Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 1-5
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1988) Starring:Miroslaw Baka, Henryk Baranowski, Artur Barcis Director:Krzysztof Kieslowski Certificate:
One of the greatest and most ambitious cinematic achievements, Krzysztof Kieslowski's THE DECALOG consists of 10 short films inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each film takes place in and around the same area of late-20th-century Warsaw, provoking timeless ethical and moral questions for this era. ..read more »