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Hockney (2015) #934
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105mins. BBC. Hockney is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of a long life. 'I'm interested in ways of looking and trying to think of it in simple ways. If you can communicate that, of course people will respond - after all, everybody does look.' His is a long-term one-man campaign against the pessimism of the world, mastering new media - whether acrylic paint or iPad digits - in the search for a picture adequate to his sense of what it is to be alive. The film chronicles Hockney's vast career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation to Hollywood, where his life-long struggle to escape labels ('queer', 'working class', figurative artist') was fully realised. David Hockney offers theories about art, the universe and everything. But as Hockney reveals, it's the hidden self-interrogation that gives his famously optimistic pictures their unexpected edge and attack. As one of his oldest friends says of his early work, 'the pictures are not just about men fucking'. The subject matter is a way into the picture to see something else, to open our eyes and our minds. Acclaimed film-maker Randall Wright offers a unique view of this unconventional artist who is now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide, remains as charismatic as ever and at seventy seven is still working in the studio seven days a week. |
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Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance (2015) #935
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3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley uncover the British love affair with dancing, exploring the nation's favourite dances from the 17th to the 20th centuries. 1/3 The Devil's Work?. How dancing came to be celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th century. 2/3 Revolution on the Dance Floor. How our dance floors were revolutionised in the 19th century by faster, freer dances. 3/3 The Shock of the New. How the early 20th century saw the most revolutionary change in British dance history. |
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Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries (2015) #938
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3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a story of faith, sacrifice, violence and corruption. 1/3 How monasteries evolved into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. 2/3 How the monasteries' success and spectacular artistic achievement proved too good to last. 3/3 How the immensely rich and powerful monasteries were annihilated in less than five years. |
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Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake (2015) #942
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137 mins. BBC. Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is an adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today. |
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015) #943
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Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy. With Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Anatoliy Kot. A woman who changed the course of history. aka Bitva za Sevastopol. Essentially true, this does have something of War and Peace about it. WWII action. Impressive. [ed] |
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The Lady in the Van (2015) #958
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway. |
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The 33 (2015) #960
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Directed by Patricia Riggen. With Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days. |
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Colonia (aka The Colony) (2015) #965
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Directed by Florian Gallenberger. With Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey. A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from. |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) #971
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Directed by Matt Brown. With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy. |
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The Surprise (2015) #986
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Directed by Mike van Diem. With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts. aka De surprise |
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Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time (2015) #1005
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1 hour. BBC. The story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science - Albert Einstein's general relativity. When Einstein presented his formidable theory in November 1915, it turned our understanding of gravity, space and time completely on its head. Over the last 100 years, general relativity has enabled us to trace the origins of the universe to the Big Bang and to appreciate the enormous power of black holes. To mark the 100th anniversary of general relativity, this film takes us inside the head of Einstein to witness how his idea evolved, giving new insights into the birth of a masterpiece that has become a cornerstone of modern science. This is not as daunting as it sounds - because Einstein liked to think in pictures. The film is a magical visual journey that begins in Einstein's young mind, follows the thought experiments that gave him stunning insights about the physical world, and ultimately reaches the extremes of modern physics. |
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The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale (2015) #1060
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Directed by Hoon-jung Park. With Min-sik Choi, Man-sik Jeong, Seok-won Jeong, Hong-pa Kim. While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger. aka Daeho |
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Elser (2015) #1082
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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow. In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action. aka 13 minutes |
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Sweet Bean (2015) #1097
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Directed by Naomi Kawase. With Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno. The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. aka AN |
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Victor Frankenstein (2015) #1122
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Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott. Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today. |
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Eye in the Sky (2015) #1127
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi. Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. |
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Spotlight (2015) #1133
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Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. |
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Experimenter (2015) #1441
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Experimenter: Directed by Michael Almereyda. With John Palladino, Anthony Edwards, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Sarsgaard. In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority Thus far no DVD has been burned for this. |
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Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) #1249
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson. Three decades after the Empire's defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Defected stormtrooper Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance's search for the missing Luke Skywalker. |
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Brooklyn (2015) #1339
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Directed by John Crowley. With Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent. An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. |
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