Film Show: The African Queen
Take two legendary co-stars, a rip-roaring boys’ own story, a fearless director and an eventful location shoot in Zaire and Uganda and you get The African Queen – John Huston’s classic adventure movie…
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Film Show: Pride
Introduced by Imelda Staunton
1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners.
Film Show: Manon des Sources (Manon of the Spring)
Marcel Pagnol’s generation-spanning story continues with Jean de Florette’s daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Béart)
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City-bred hunchback Jean (Gérard Depardieu) brings his family to his mother’s old farm in Provence during the 1930s with plans for an idyllic life on the land…
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Fifty years since its original release, Cabaret has lost none of its sinister glamour and remains a glittering landmark in the history of the musical…
Read moreFilm Show: Letter from an Unknown Woman
About to flee turn-of-the-century Vienna to escape from a duel that he wants no part of, philandering concert pianist, Stefan, receives an anonymous, heart-wrenching letter which begins ‘by the time you read this I may be dead’
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