Previous Films

A powerful and inspirational story of an American doctor, Tom (Martin Sheen) who comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James.  Rather than return home, Tom decides embark on the historical pilgrimage to honour his son’s desire to finish the journey.  What Tom doesn’t plan on, is the profound impact the journey will have on him and his “California Bubble” Life.

A documentary which addresses the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.  Guzmán focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity’s past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remnants of their relatives (“the disappeared”) executed during the dictatorship.  Guzmán narrates the documentary himself and the film includes interviews and commentary from those affected and from astronomers and archeologists.

On the eve of the 1904 St. Louis World Fair the four daughters of the Smith family learn lessons of life and love.  The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met star Judy Garland on the set and later married her. In this film she premieres “The Trolley Song“, “The Boy Next Door” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas“. Upon its release, Meet Me in St. Louis was both a critical and a commercial success. It became the second-highest-grossing film of 1944 and was also MGM’s most successful musical of the 1940s. In 1994, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Fellini drew on his own circus background for this classic tale.  Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s wife), and clown Matto (Richard Basehart).  Appalled at Zampano’s insensitive treatment of Gelsomina, the gentle-natured Matto invites her to run off with him but Gelsomina, like a faithful pet, refuses to leave the strong man’s side.  Eventually Zampano’s volcanic temper erupts once too often, leading to tragic consequences.  Winner of the first official Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, awarded in 1956.

A lazy politician is forced to resign and has to adapt to a more humble life, finding old friends and pleasures.  A joyous satire, poetic and surreal by turns, from one of the world’s most individual film-makers.

It’s 1895 and the villainous British offer to remove a crippling tax if the local villagers can beat them at cricket.  The best film ever made about cricket with blazing song and dance numbers.  A Bollywood classic.

Davis and Bennett (played by odd couple Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) are psychic cleaners.  They work for a company which visits homes in need of a purge – if marriage guidance, regression therapy or theta healing haven’t worked, you need these spiritual ghost-busters to rattle through the skeletons in your bedroom cupboard.  They possess antiquated-looking gadgets and dress more like Burke and Hare but their results are first rate, even if the secrets they reveal can leave couples in shock.

Spanish artist, Antonio López, tries to make a perfect painting of the quince tree in his garden, struggling to capture a perfect, fleeting moment of beauty on canvas, and the film meticulously chronicles his work. One of the best films about painting by a great film-maker.

Gripping action drama set on the Tibetan plateau as a journalist joins a group of local volunteers struggling against ruthless antelope poachers.  Shot with dazzling visual style to match the majestic scenery.

“I shall never forget the weekend Laura died …” begin’s Otto Preminger’s masterpiece of erotic obsession, jealousy, deceit and betrayal.  Hollywood noir at its best with Gene Tierney as the enigmatic Laura and Clifton Webb as the barbed Waldo Lydecker (“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified.  I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.“)