| 101 |
Lawn Dogs (1997) #10
FILM
Main
Directed by John Duigan. With Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mischa Barton, Christopher McDonald. Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable ... |
| 102 |
Wilde (1997) #1017
FILM
Main
Directed by Brian Gilbert. With Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle. The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie's father, the enraged Marquise of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labour by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society. |
| 103 |
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) #317
FILM
Main
Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out... |
| 104 |
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) #1154
FILM
Main
Directed by Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson. A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. |
| 105 |
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #223
FILM
Main
Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ... |
| 106 |
The Meaning of Life (1983) #18
FILM
Main
Directed by Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way. |
| 107 |
Fame (1980) #170
FILM
Main
Directed by Alan Parker. With Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean. A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts. |
| 108 |
Cathy Come Home (1966) #1423
TV DRAMA
Main
Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms |
| 109 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) #179
FILM
Main
Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. |
| 110 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) #975
FILM
Main
Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. |
| 111 |
Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961) #468
FILM
Main
Directed by Don Chaffey. With Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae. Scotland, 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye Terrier Bobby go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh ... |
| 112 |
The Guns of Navarone (1961) #1033
FILM
Main
Directed by J Lee Thompson. With David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle. A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel. |
| 113 |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) #813
FILM-ANIMATION
Main
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. 76 mins. Disney |
| 114 |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) #1029
FILM
Main
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. |
| 115 |
Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #533
FILM
Main
Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. |
| 116 |
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #1454
FILM
Main
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. Added 2nd December 2022 |
| 117 |
How Green Was My Valley (1941) #132
FILM
Main
Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. |
PAGE
6
Recent...