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New! The Ten Year Plan (extract)
A pre-Carry On Charles Hawtrey gamely promotes the postwar prefab.
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DVD & Blu-ray
A prescient sixties satire about the pop industry directed by Peter Watkins.
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Exploring the uncharted history of British cinema.
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Screening around the UK
One of Yasujiro Ozu’s most bittersweet movies. Now showing.
Screening around the UK
Life in Tibet from the 1920s to the 1940s in this selection of rare footage.
Screening around the UK
One of cinema's most achingly poignant romances, starring Joan Fontaine. In cinemas Fri 12 Feb.
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Revealing and touching interviews with a host of leading international filmmakers.
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Sight and Sound
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Syndromes of a new century
Sight & Sound's selection of the 30 key films of the past decade.
Film of the Month: Still Walking
Trevor Johnston is wowed by a supremely subtle portrayal of the tensions within a Japanese family.
Ozu Yasujiro, tofu maker
Tony Rayns overturns perceptions of Tokyo Story master Ozu as a uniquely Japanese and 'domestic' film-maker.
The best online videos of 2009
Critics and curators recommend the year’s best web viewing.
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