Curzon Richmond

• 1973
• UK
• 1h 43min
• 18

• Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
• Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland

Restoration expert with second sight visits Venice, where he meets up with two old sisters who claim spiritual communication with his recently drowned daughter. Against a Mann-like backdrop of unexplained deaths, he becomes obsessed with a tiny, red-coated figure he spies scurrying through the city's dark alleys. Splendid supernatural suspense movie, as subtly textured and brilliantly edited as any of Roeg's work, with the added advantage that it's a rather good yarn.

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In the 1960s, when Leonard Cohen was a burgeoning novelist and poet, he met young Norwegian Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra. They fell in love and she became his muse, inspiring songs such as ‘So Long, Marianne’ and ‘Bird on the Wire’. In time, their relationship fractured and they lived apart, but as years passed and they grew older, the bond between them remained. Nick Broomfield – who also has links with Marianne and Hydra – tells a love story that is fascinating, tender and memorable. [12A]

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• 2019
• US / UK
• 2h 45min

• Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
• Cast: James Marsden, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio

Past-his-peak actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his stuntman and buddy Cliff Booth (Pitt) are living in Hollywood in 1969; then Sharon Tate (Robbie) and her husband Roman Polanski move in next door. Compelling and provocative, but uneven; for all the fine performances, black comedy and savage violence, Tarantino may have bitten off more than he can chew.

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