Directed By: Mike Nichols
This is a complex film about two shallow and unattractive men which follows the development of their sexuality from their college years to middle age. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) share a room at College. Both have the usual heterosexual ambitions but seem to be quite green. Jonathan is initially […]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation in association with the National Geographic Society
This is beautifully shot, elegantly scripted and powerfully narrated natural history documentary on The Kimberley. To those who have had the good fortune to visit the Kimberley region in the North of Western Australia it is in many ways ?another country? with unique landforms, flora and […]

Written: Ethan Canin
Directed: Michael Hoffman
William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is a teacher of classical history and Deputy Principal at St Benedict?s Academy for Boys, an exclusive US school. Hundert is deeply committed to his craft, innovative and well-loved, and sees his role as far more than simply teaching. He believes that he must mould his students […]

Directed By Ken Loach
Written By Rob
Set in 1995, in the immediate post-Thatcher years, this British docu/drama deals with a GROUP of South Yorkshire railway gangers who are faced with the realities of the privatization of their employer, British Rail. In characteristic Loach style it is an earthy and depressing story presented in a quite […]

Directed By: Lee H Katzin
A 1971 car flick, which centres on the big race, the 24 Hour Le Mans sports car classic. In the opening scenes Michael Delaney, McQueen, drives through countryside and villages to the Le Mans race track which is set out on public roads. It is between events and Delaney reaches the […]

Directed by Alexander Payne
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) is 66 and retires from his position as Assistant Vice President and Actuary with Woodmen of the World Insurance Company. Sound impressive but in reality a pretty humdrum position. The film opens with him sitting at his cleared and bare desk watching the clock count down the final seconds […]

STARS: ROBIN WILLIAMS, MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO, CLEAVANT DERRICKS, ALEJANDRO REY.
DIRECTED: PAUL MAZURSKY
Story
Made in the 1980s, the film opens in cold war Moscow where Vladimir (Williams) plays the saxophone in a Russian circus. We are introduced to the hardships of life in Russia at the time with queues of a city block or more to purchase […]

Grass Roots Series 1, ABC 8 Part Drama on 2 disks:
STARS: GEOFF MORELL, RHYS MULDOON, SACHA HORLER, JOHN CLAYTON, CHRIS HAYWOOD, ZOE CARIDES, SOPHIE HEATHCOTE and RHONDDA FINDLETON
CREATED and WRITTEN: Geoffry Atherden
Story
A comedy drama where episode by episode we are presented with the scheming play and counterplay of the Mayor, Col Dunkley (Morell), […]

STARS: GUY PEARCE, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, LYNDLEY JOYNER, BROOKE HARMAN and FRANK GALLACHER
DIRECTED (AND WRITTEN BY): Michael Petroni
Story
Son of the local doctor, teenager Sam Franks (Joyner), returns from boarding school to his home in a small Victorian country town for the summer holidays. He soon catches up with his girl friend Sylvy (Harman) with whom […]

STARS: DAVID GULPILIL, GARRY SWEET, DAMON GAMEAU, GRANT PAGE
and NOEL WILTON
DIRECTED: Rolf De Heer
Story
Set in the 1920s, we follow five men (three whites and two aboriginals) across the landscape in what could be simplistically considered a “chase” film. The Fanatic (Gary Sweet) The Veteran (Grant Page) and The Follower (Damon Gameau) are pursuing an aboriginal […]