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A Zed And Two Noughts (15) (1985)
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
An extraordinary tale of obsession in which the zoologist twin husbands of two women killed in a car crash start an affair with the female driver who has had a leg amputated. Tirelessly provocative, funny and stylish, the film also pays tribute to the Dutch master of light Vermeer, delves into man?s relationship with animals and explores the attraction of lists. Score by Michael Nyman. (112 Mins)
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Cremaster 3 - The Order (15) (2003)
Director: Matthew Barney
Starring: Richard Serra, Aimee Mullens, Matthew Barney
Barneys unclassifiable but undeniably epic Cremaster cycle finally makes it to the small screen. The race is on to the top of the Guggenheim museum with Barney himself as the tartan-clad apprentice who has to get past a troupe of tap-dancing girlscouts, a pair of duelling hardcore bands, a woman who is half-model, half-cheetah and caber toss a flayed ram before he can encounter a hot vaseline throwing Richard Serra. (31 Mins)
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Grand Theft Parsons (12) (2003)
Director: David Caffrey
Starring: Christina Applegate, Johnny Knoxville, Robert Forster
Following the death of the cult musician Gram Parsons, famed for his rock n roll antics and duets with Emmylou Harris, road manager Phil Kaufman steals the dead body with the intent of fulfilling Grams instructions for its disposal. (84 Mins)
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Irreversible (18) (2003)
Director: Eon
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci
Brutal, raw and uncomprimising film that Memento like constucts a reverse narrative. Difficult and brilliant. (95 Mins)
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Le Samourai (15) (1967)
Director: Rene Chateau
Starring: Alain Delon
This masterpiece has influenced generations of directors from the French New Wave to Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs). (100 Mins)
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Long Goodbye, The (18) (1973)
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliot Gould
Altmans offbeat transposition of Raymond Chandlers noir classic. Chicken Kiev for dinner, followed by Grand Marnier and Steely Dan. (108 Mins)
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Mighty Wind, The (12) (2003)
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy et al
Christopher Guest reunites the cast from Best In Show in a mockumentary following 60`s folk musicians, who, inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on stage for one last concert. Unique, touching comedy. (88 Mins)
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Morvern Callar (15) (2003)
Director: Lynne Ramsey
Starring: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
Morvern Callar is an endearingly matter-of-fact supermarket worker from a small port in the West of Scotland. Shes got a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor, and his unpublished novel on his computer. Thats where it starts. Theres a good rhythm to the film, and its pointed up by surreal touches throughout. Winner of numerous international awards from the director of Ratcatcher. (93 Mins)
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Snake Of June, A (18) (2002)
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Kurosawa Asuka
In an anonymous Japanese metropolis, a mysterious stranger enters the lives of Rinko and Shigehiko, intent on exposing their repressed sexuality. He invades the most private aspects of their lives and soon he sets about controlling their actions. Deliriously perverse. (77 Mins)
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Station Agent, The (15) (2004)
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin
Quirky rural drama. When his friend and co-worker suddenly dies, train enthusiast Finbar McBride (Dinklage) - a dwarf who avoids social contact - inherits an abandoned railway station in rural New Jersey. (89 Mins)
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Vendredi Soir (15) (2004)
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon
Laure is stuck in one of the biggest traffic jams Paris has seen. It starts to rain and motorists start sheltering pedestrians. On an impulse she takes a chance with a stranger. A visually seductive portrayal of a one-night stand. (88 Mins)
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Wisconsin Death Trip (15) (1999)
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Ian Holm (Narrator)
Surreal and dreamlike documentary about the strange and murderous goings-on in Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 1890s. With music from sources as varied as Debussy and Blind Lemon Jefferson and shot in sepia and black and white for a turn of the nineteenth century look, this is a bizarre experience. (75 Mins)
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