The debut feature by future Hollywood star director Tony Scott is a dark, surreal piece about a couple who accidentally kill a young man while out driving their car. Taking him home, the woman treats the boy as if he were her own - and as if he were still alive. She finds happiness by talking to him and bringing him cups of tea.
In his first cinema film, made at British Transport Films, John Schlesinger presents a day in the life of Waterloo Rail Station. Now a staple television format, this observational look at the workings of one of London’s key railway hubs was considered innovative in 1961, winning it awards at Veni...
Evocative, stylish and visually stunning, this gently anarchic first feature by the legendary Ken Russell is tremendous fun. Not much happens in the sleepy town of Gormleigh-on-Sea, so modish deckchair attendant Jim (James Booth) decides to stage a Cannes-style film festival with friends Henry (R...
When a young poet (Michael Gothard, the brilliant character actor who excelled in films such as The Devils and The Valley Obscured by Clouds) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary g...
