An interpretation of the 'nonsense' poem by Edward Lear.
Deep in the forest strange creatures twitter and hum. Panic ensues when a warning cry is heard - 'The Cummerbund is come!'
The story of hard-core villain Danny "The Dealer" Dempsey, who awakes one morning, in his heavily secured home, to find a letter resting on his pillow. The dealer is totally bewildered how it got there, as there are no signs of an intruder or a break in. The mystery of who the letter is from (and what it contains) is something the dealer will not share, even with his closest friends or his very dear sister Sally .
The Dealer, normally a clear headed lateral thinker, is suddenly behaving totally out of character, and so begins the strangest 24 hours any one has ever witnessed from him. A crazy day unfolds in which he succeeds in ruining his sister's wedding, disrupting other gangland leaders and turning his hand to gambling on ludicrous bets. Slowly but surely, the dealer is dangerously offending and taunting everyone around him.
Could The Dealer be on the brink of self-destruction? Or will he somehow succeed in saving his own skin at the final hour, while revealing to all the secrets of the letter that has clearly been dictating his bizarre behaviour?
Decameron, Angels and Virgins, in an Italian-British-French co-production inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic tales, written and directed by David Leland and starring Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton and Tim Roth, is a stimulating and erotic story of innocence, love, sex and lasting friendship told with a humorous modern spin.
Following a horrendous and tragic accident one year, six girlfriends meet for their annual adventure in a remote part of the Appalachians for a caving trip into the arteries of the earth. Deep inside the caves, disaster strikes again when a rockfall blocks their route back to the surface. The girls learn that Juno, the leader of the expedition, who is always pushing herself that bit further, has brought them to an unexplored cave and that no-one is coming to rescue them. The group splinters and each pushes on, praying for another exit. But there is something else lurking under the earth - a race of monstrous humanoid creatures that have evolved perfectly to live in the dark. As the friends realise they are the prey, they unleash their most primal instincts in an all-out war against an unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning, again and again and again.
Searing, visceral, real-time drama following the aftermath of a shooting on an inner-London estate. Angela is the victim and her boyfriend, Jaybee, sets out to avenge her death. But who was really the gunman?
A fireman turned film-maker makes three features in five years, premieres twice at Cannes. This feature documentary give the inside story to the problems he faced and his desire to achieve critical and commercial success.
Abdul is desperate for the perfect family portrait. All he wants is to capture one moment in time when his family appear happy with his new wife, Michelle; even if it is just a 35th of a second.
An Englishwoman wakes up in the middle of the night in a small hotel in a poverty-stricken foreign city where a civil war is being fought. She has a fever, and tries to remember why she has returned to this frightening country.
During the night, she starts to retrace her happy childhood and her relatively happy adult existence as a kind, hard-working professional woman who loved her family and friends, appreciated music and the arts. But she is also retracing the unusual events that have led her to this place, and how the people she has met on that journey began to change her understanding of the world. Now, in this lonely hotel room she is struggling with a new and unpleasant perception of herself and her life.
As the dawn breaks, her fever subsides and with it comes an honest appraisal of herself. With gut-wrenching clarity she has come to understand her responsibility for the violence of poverty and exploitation she sees in the world.
Love. Loneliness. London.
Sacha is the favourite young gigolo of the over-50s of Mayfair and Piccadilly. His clients are wealthy, successful - and pay for sex. Behind the closed doors of late-night London, he works to give pleasure to lonely women. His clients savour one night of male attention; Sacha finds comfort in the darkness.
At dawn, Trevor (the valet) starts work. He collects the dry cleaning, sources clients, books hotel rooms. He takes pride in a job well done.
Across town, Sacha leaves a hotel room, his client sleeping and satisfied. He drives home to Trevor in the early morning light, loneliness creeping over him like a fever.
With Anna Massey, Sian Phillips and Susannah York playing the clients, The Gigolos provokes, stimulates and arouses. With absolute discretion guaranteed.
