Carroll Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambitions and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments Bailey becomes self destructive – resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love.
After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise. Things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey’s life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fuelled parties Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.
Adapted from Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime.
At the heart of the story is the anti-hero Pinkie's relationship with Rose - an apparently innocent young waitress who stumbles on evidence linking Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing that Pinkie commits. After the murder, Pinkie seduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will not talk to the police. A love story between a murderer and a witness; can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?
An erotic drama that follows Manchester and Noon as they enjoy a long, hot, summer of love, living in a garage on waste-ground in post industrial Britain.
Noon is our narrator, a shy taxidermist who keeps a silent menagerie in the freezer alongside Manchester’s ice pops.
Manchester documents their affair. He rejects lighting, the planning of images or choreography in his photography, creating wonderfully charged images with just a couple of cheap, instamatic cameras.
When Franny, a wealthy pornographer, launches Manchester on an unsuspecting art world, his success destroys the beauty of their once idyllic life. He loses almost everything and only just wins back the one thing he loves, Noon.
By the Grace of God depicts the world of Jürgen, a tormented provocateur without a past or background, whose delusions of grandeur lead him to England in search of his place in history and his sovereign right to the throne.
A tapestry of feelings and ideas reveals a man who is simultaneously illuminated and tragic, who lives in the cracks of reality.
For most Londoners, home is here but also somewhere at the other end of a phone line. Calling Home is a gripping portrait of long distance relationships.
A rare insight into eighty years of cinema through the personal, first-hand recollections of one of Britain's most acclaimed filmmakers.
Since 1918 as a child actor in silent movies alongside Dorothy Gish, Jack Cardiff's life and career in cinematography and directing have been inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema: from Dietrich, Powell and Pressburger's, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, Hitchcock, Huston's The African Queen, Monroe, Bogart, Flynn, Douglas to Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
With interviews with over twenty famous actors, directors and producers, including unique behind-the scenes footage from Jack's own personal archive, the documentary is the most detailed film ever made on a cinematographer. Jack is a charismatic storyteller, whose exceptional experiences are both entertaining and inspirational.
Cangleska Wakan discusses the 'sacred hoop' of the Sioux Lakota with discussions from powerful and respected contributors on Indian reservations in South Dakota.
Ben Gerick is a rising star for a major corporate law firm. By day he dresses in a smart business suit, but at home he takes on a new persona. Catalina - a super hero transvestite.
Separated from his wife and daughter, and teetering on the verge of financial ruin, Joe lives virtually cut off from the outside world. In a suicide chatroom, he meets Aimee, a young girl silently suffering abuse from her mother's boyfriend.
United in their resolve and bolstered by fellow chatroom users, Aimee and Joe make a pact to 'catch the bus' together. When they meet face-to-face, however, Joe is confronted with the reality of what they set out to do. Despite his reluctance, Joe drives Aimee to Margate, and the seaside neighbourhood where he grew up. At a local hotel, Joe succeeds in shocking Aimee out of her resolve to see the plan through that night.
The next day Joe gently probes Aimee, hoping to discover what has led her to such a desperate course of action. Later they visit a tarot reader. Aimee scoffs at the idea of having her fortune told, but when the reader traces her long lifeline she can't help but raise a smile. As they walk along the seafront, she stops at a payphone to call her mum. With a renewed sense of hope, Aimee and Joe make their way home.
Caught on camera is a web 2.0 experiment. Mobile phone footage of a carjacking in london is posted on video blogging website seesmic.com. From this moment the director gives up control. The explosive footage sparks comments from over 50 people from around the world. The evolution of the resulting conversation is captured in this short experimental film.
