A thoroughly riveting film about sex, love, loyalty and illusion.
Short: "Woody Woodpecker" USA, 1952. b&w, 6 minutes.
U.K., 1972. 114 minutes. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Post-Carnaby London is terrorised by a rapist-murderer known as the "Necktie Killer". An innocent ex-RAF pilot is accused of the murders and condemned to life imprisonment, but a police inspector continues to have doubts about his guilt.
Short: "Payback" Australia, 1996. 10 minutes.
Germany, 1981. 73 minutes. Director: Wilfried Dotzel
A traveller settles in a full train compartment and starts taking a virtually endless amount of food out of his large suitcase, savouring all of it. "One can never eat enough" he tells the puzzled travellers offering clever if bizarre arguments.
Short: "Marco Coming Home" Germany, 1995. 8 minutes.
Italy, 1948. b&w, 88 minutes. Director: Vittorio de Sica
A man and his son search for his stolen bicycle which he needs to maintain his job as a bill poster. An Italian classic.
Short: "Café of Love" Australia, 1982.
USA, 1976. 117 minutes. Director: Michael Anderson
In a hermetically sealed, post-apocalyptic utopian urban environment in the 23rd Century, citizens can live a life of total hedonism - but only until the age of thirty when they must submit to compulsory euthanasia. Logan is a loyal citizen whose job is to find and destroy "runners" seeking to escape.
Short: "Ugly Little Boy" Canada, 1977. 27 minutes.
Netherlands, 1995. 102 minutes. Director: Marleen Gorris
This film traces fifty years in the life of Antonia, a strong willed matriarch who founds a dynasty after returning to her village in the Dutch countryside shortly after World War 2. The narrator, Antonia's great-granddaughter emphasises the cyclical nature of life in a small rural community.
Winner of the "Most Popular Film" award at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival.
Short: "Melbourne - Southern City"
Japan, 1986. 114 minutes. Director: Juzo Itami
A mouth watering comedy of food and love. A truck driver and expert noodle cook given to wearing a cowboy hat and boots encounters Tampopo the owner of a run down noodle bar.
Winner Sydney Film Critics Circle "Best Film" in 1987.
Short: "Cash n Carry" Australia, 1976. b&w, 10 minutes
China, 1999. 89 minutes. Director: Zhang Yimou
After the death of his father, Luo returns home to his village to help his mother with funeral arrangements. His mother wishes for a traditional and costly ceremony, something that has not been performed in the village for hundreds of years.
Short: "Porklips Now" USA, 1980. 22 minutes
Short: "Two Bob Mermaid" Australia, 1996. 15 minutes
Australia, 1990. 109 minutes. Director: John Ruane
Set in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick this black comedy is about a cook at a seedy nightclub who becomes caught up in the death of a Turkish kitchenhand.
Spain, 1999. 101 minutes. Director: Pedro Almodóvar
A story about a woman's journey to locate her former lover, the father of her only child, a son. She is drawn into a world full of actresses, drama queens and pregnant nuns. Campy, quirky and Fellini-like at times.
Short: "The Music Box" USA, 1932. b&w, 29 minutes