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In the first film about the British university experience, beer is drunk, bad food eaten and traffic cones stolen as the new first years of the University of Great Britain get to grips with the student lifestyle. And each other.

A simple story of sex, drugs, nudity and gratuitous study.

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Set in the United States at the height of the Cold War in the fifties, One Of The Hollywood Ten examines the personal struggle and triumph of Herbert Biberman, a film director, in his crusade to continue his filmmaking career in the face of the McCarthy-led Blacklist. At its most personal, Biberman's story is a compelling drama of individual perseverance and familial sacrifice and, at its most political, a conspiracy thriller and ever-relevant testament to societal paranoia and hate-mongering.

The film opens by establishing the historical climate - anticommunist paranoia, Congressional persecution of 'unAmerican activities' and friends informing on friends - that pervaded the early years of the Cold War in Hollywood and beyond. In detail, the various reactions of members of the film community to persecution is explored, from the high-profile trip to Washington, D.C. by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in support of those persecuted that ended in his famous recantment, to the varying tactics of those not so readily remembered in pleading either the fifth or first amendments, or merely pleading to not be asked to speak at all. At the centre of this maelstrom is Herbert Biberman and his wife, Academy Award-winning actress Gale Sondergaard, who refused to name names and who stood by their acknowledged communist beliefs. For this, Biberman was cited for contempt of Congress, becoming in the process one of the 'Hollywood Ten', and was sentenced to serve jail time in a federal prison in Arkansas.

Act two evolves from the more familiar contextual elements of the Blacklist in the first act, to follow Herbert and Gale's attempts to restart their film-making careers on Herbert's release from prison. Herbert, unable to be re-instated to the Director's Guild of America, an organisation he co-founded in the thirties, resolved to strike back in the only way he knew possible: by making a film: The Salt of the Earth.

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One Thursday morning Randall, one of life's natural wasters, awakes to find the door to his flat jammed shut and that his ex-girlfriend, Tabby, wants to buy a kilo of coke, price no object. Enter Phil, Randall's best mate. Dangerous and psychotic some say, unless you live in a permanent drug induced haze and don't notice, as Randall does. Through Tommy, their schizophrenic dealer, they acquire the necessary amount of coke and set things up to sell it on at double the price. A fact they quite sensibly conceal from Tommy and his boss. Randall and Phil wait at the bar for the courier to show up with the gear.

The next morning Randall is wakened by Phil discovering a bloody corpse on the living room floor. This triggers a seemingly incomprehensible descent into confusion and death for them both. Threatened by an American drugs baron, fuelled with a cocktail of drink and drugs and spurred on by the promise of a £20,000 reward they struggle to discover the truth behind this bizarre turn of events.

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Sideshow is Romeo and Juliet meets John le Carre, a romance between two spies that can only end in tradegy.

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In a deserted street stands a box on which are written the instructions 'insert £1 coin'. Various people approach the box to try and unlock its secrets and to discover the strange noise from within.

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Melancholic postcards of beautifully ugly places, old age, anger and bewildering complacency.

A dance film about what it's like to be a Welsh Boy.

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Two lonely-hearted 'web pals' are amazed when their computers seemingly fall in love. They are forced to take the love struck consoles on a quirky double-date of picnics, river boat trips and bizarre restaurants. Eventually, true love blossoms - but for which couple?

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Going, Going is a comic, tragic, bittersweet monologue about fear: the unknown, the dark. It features Emily Woof and 45 houselamps of various shapes and sizes.

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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.





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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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Already the subject of much advance interest for providing the first 'serious' role for comedian Eddie Izzard. The Criminal is an accomplished debut feature, part London neo-noir and part conspiracy thriller. After a night spend trying to impress a beautiful woman in his local bar, Jasper is pleasantly surprised when she agrees to go back to his place. What he has not foreseen is that his apparent good fortune will plunge him into a nightmare world of murder, extortion and corruption. As an intricate web of deception and fear wraps ever more tightly around Jasper, the complexity of what he has stumbled into becames terrifyingly clear.

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At an amateur football match, the linesman takes his job seriously. As he trots up and down the touchline, his actions echo the unseen events on the pitch. Determined to perform his duties in spite of various obstacles, the linesman becomes catastrophically entangled in the game.

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A love story in which various black and white photographs dissolve into one another, mixed with ditial effects, as we hear the final thoughts of a man dying of Aids.