The Boss Of It All
Members’ Rating: 65% The owner of a computer company creates an imaginary boss to take the blame for unpopular decisions affecting the staff. When buyers want to meet the boss, the owner hires an actor to perform the role. This...
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Comedy Of Power
Members’ Rating: 66% A smooth, perceptive political thriller, drawn from a real-life scandal. Isabelle Huppert is captivating as a crusading magistrate exposing massive fraud and bribery that has been carried out by some French oil executives. France/Germany, 2006, Claude Chabrol....
Eat Drink Man Woman
Members’ Rating: 83% – classic feature Retired chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three lovely daughters. Life in the home revolves around the ritual of Sunday dinner, lovingly cooked by Chu. This film is laugh-out-loud...
Fade To Black
Members’ Rating: 61% Whilst filming at Cinecittà Studios, in Rome, in 1948, Orson Welles got involved in investigating the death of a bit-player. Suspecting murder, he found himself dodging would-be assassins in conspiracy country. Danny Huston is completely convincing as...
A Secret
Members’ Rating: 89% – our favourite film of the season (Original title: Un Secret) A complex and moving film, based on an autobiographical novel. The author searches for the long-hidden secrets of his family which struggled to survive during the...
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Members’ Rating: 58% A riveting suspense thriller, about a robbery that turns into a colossal mess. Two brothers of a New York family attempt a heist on their parents’ family jewellery store. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Albert Finney give the...
My Brother Is An Only Child
Members’ Rating: 65% A powerful and subtle drama about two brothers who grow up in the 1960s and are complete opposites in every way. It is also a portrait of Italy at a particularly turbulent time in its history. Italy/France,...
The Secret Of The Grain
(Original title: La Graine et le Mulet – also know as Couscous) Members’ Rating: 73% Set in the southern French port of Sète, this is a heart-warming story of one man’s struggle to save his immigrant family from poverty, by...
In The Valley Of Elah
Members’ Rating: 75% A thoughtful and moving account of the search for a GI who disappears after his return home from Iraq. Based on a true story, the film is buttressed by excellent acting by Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon...
The Conformist
Members’ Rating: 66% – a new print of a classic A new print of this acclaimed 1970s classic film. An insecure man joins Italy’s fascist party and is persuaded to become an assassin. The target is his former professor, but...
