Projects matching: ISO

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To re-vitalise his marriage, Lawrence uses CCTV to spy on his wife and place anonymous 'I Saw You' ads in the local paper. Should she meet this mysterious sender?

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eo Rook, the most feared man in Europe, escapes unnoticed from the prison ship Hyperion. Guided by the beam of a lighthouse he heads for nearby Gehenna Rocks. Once ashore, Rook kills the keepers and disables the lighthouse itself. With no beam from the lighthouse to pierce the gathering fog, the Hyperion runs aground. Once safely on the island, the surviving prisoners and crew discover the bodies of the lighthouse keepers. Fear grips them as they realise that Rook is lying in wait for them, somewhere in the dark night. Lighthouse is a dark, brooding nightmare, a descent into hell, set almost in real time over the course of one terrifying night.

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A lonely adolescent girl, living on an isolated farm, creates her own friends to make a magical world to retreat from her violent father and mentally ill mother.

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Bethan is drug-dependent and in prison awaiting trial for a murder she thinks her daughter has committed. We learn of the guilt that underlies their relationship as she explores her most precious bond.

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'All the world's a stage, and all the men and woman are merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven.' William Shakespeare. Merely Playing marries Shakespeare with Modern Britain and defines age through the family. With music from The Waterboys and Naomi.

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A young boy is torn from his American roots and comes to live in a strange world where modern science is being used to free ancient foes, renewing a titanic struggle for dominion over the earth. In ancient times the vast army of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Craig Sheffer) brought the legendary King Arthur Pendragon (Patrick Bergin) and his knights of the Round Table to their knees. In desperation, Merlin, the Wizard (Rik Mayall) used the immense power of Stonehenge to banish Mordred to the Netherworld and consigned Arthur and his knights to a long, dark sleep, promising future generations that Arthur would be on-hand to save the world should Mordred ever escape to threaten it again. Fifteen hundred years later, Merlin's spell is the subject of legend - and is weakening. Scientist Joan Maxwell (Tia Carrere) is experimenting with the magnetic flows of the Earth, the precise source of Merlin's magic. She has made contact with Mordred and in return for his promise of power and freedom from the ethics that constrain modern science, is using her knowledge to free the sorcerer from his prison. American teenager, Ritchie Gould is plunged into the ages-old battle when his father dies and Ritchie's mother moves them to her former home in England. When Ritchie arrives, Merlin's spell is already all but destroyed by Maxwell's meddling. Arthur and his knights are aware, fifteen hundred years out of place, and Mordred is preparing to forge a dimensional gate to freedom. The only thing standing between Mordred and success are the ragged loyalties of Lancelot (Adrian Paul) and Guinevere whom Merlin banished along with him. In a tale of myth, mythology, demons and duels spanning fifteen centuries, the forces of good and evil once more do battle. And at stake is the world as we know it.

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I speak of the Restorer of What Was Lost, The Mender of What Was Broken. Philip K. Dick Mystery Play is an upbeat comic drama about a mysterious company who intervene in people's lives at times of crisis. Sadie meets Jude at her therapists'. While waiting, they get talking, Jude revealing that he is there for a loan. Sadie suggests that Shelby, the therapist, might do financial work as a sideline (it's only her second visit). Jude feels that Shelby does counselling as a sideline . . .. Flashbacks reveal how they both came to be there, and the truth is emerges about the enigmatic Layton Shelby, who is neither a counsellor nor a financial advisor, but something more . . . much more.

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Two boys are caught up their father's grief after their mother's death. But the arrival of their estranged grandmother sets in motion a power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.

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John Wallace stars as a sadistic prison warden spending the last hour with a condemned man. A film noir homage to the American prison films of the 1940s.

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When producer Alison Owen first read the script for Rat, written by 65-year-old Irish writer Wesley Burrowes, she was convinced "it had been written by some post-modernist kid out of film school". An easy mistake to make given that the script she describes as a "Kafka comedy" is about a Guinness-loving man who comes home from the pub only to turn into a rat. "For me, the joke was never that a man turns into a rat, it was more the humorous potential of a clash of perspectives," says Burrowes. "You have an ordinary family to whom this tragic thing happens and the real comedy is in the way they receive it. They're immensely pragmatic, ordinary, decent people and suddenly this calamity occurs and they proceed to treat it as if it's just one of those domestic events that are upsetting... like woodworm in the furniture." Director Steve Barron signed on immediately, as did Stewart Till of Universal Pictures International. Production took place in Ireland in November 1999 with Imelda Staunton and Pete Postlethwaite in the key roles of wife and husband rat. Barron and Owen took the unusual decision to use real rather than animatronic rats. "Our film is sort of opposite to films like Stuart Little or Babe," Owen explains. "Whereas those films are all about the audience imbuing the animal with human characteristics, in Rat the characters are imbuing the rats with human personalities and the audience sees this as completely ridiculous." Rat premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July to great audience acclaim.

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God, dammit, if you're gonna kill somebody have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Roger's house, alright? Bill Hicks, 1990 on John Lennon's untimely death. Bill Hicks was a comedian. He died in 1994 at the age of 32. Who? Julia Menzies, 1994, on Bill Hicks' untimely death. Julia Menzies (22) doesn't know what she wants to do with her life yet, but does know who Bill Hicks is now. In fact, it's her growing obsession with Bill that's fuelling her quest to find a vocation that doesn't demand compromise. Perhaps the pub isn't the best place to look. And maybe her friends and advisors would have a little more credibility if their lives weren't quite so far from what they want them to be. But then this is Edinburgh, and the largest arts festival in the world is on hand to help Julia test if she really has the courage of her convictions. And if not, what's the point?

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Love is eternal as long as it lasts. At the end of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Romeo does not die; the poison he had been sold by the apothecary was cheap and was watered down. Today we find Romeo working at the checkout store that time forgot . . .