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Scathing black comedy about love, sex, family, murder, incest and revenge, based on the 17th-century play by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Middleton and transposed by subversive British director Alex Cox to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. After ten years in hiding, Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) returns to destroy the Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered Vindici's wife on their wedding day. During his absence, Vindici's family fell into poverty - while the Duke, Duchess and their decadent sons acquired wealth and power, ruling over their court obsessed with transient beauty, money, inherited privilege and power. Determined to exact his revenge, Vindici sets out to gain the confidence of the Duke and his villainous heir, Lussurioso (Eddie Izzard). The film was screened at the 2002 Locarno Film Festival.
Gideon Koppel directs this poetically-rendered portrait of Trefeurig, the small farming community in mid-Wales where he grew up. On a practical level, the isolated rural community struggles for survival as the local primary school is threatened with closure, traditional farming methods are rendered non-viable and key services disappear - but the community spirit and strong connection with nature ensure that many of the more intrinsic aspects of the old way of life are kept alive. Reminiscent of the works of Dylan Thomas in its subtle portrayal of rural life, the film combines striking cinematography with an ambient electronic soundtrack by Aphex Twin to pay homage to the filmmaker's birthplace and a way of life that could soon die out altogether.
All 27 episodes from seasons 1-3 of the BBC's comedy series set in and around a hospital, where the newly qualified Dr Andrew Collin (Andrew Lancel) is thrown into a world that is totally beyond him. Episodes are: 'Welcome to the House of Pain', 'Doctors and Nurses', 'The Killing Season', 'You Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Legs', 'Turning Out the Light', 'The Edge', 'The Shallow End', 'A Cold Heart', 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Bad Blood', 'Factor 8', 'The Critical Hour', 'Running on Vapours', 'The Betrayed', 'The Body Electric', 'Open and Shut', 'The Practise of Privacy', 'The Red Queen', 'Trench Warfare', 'Suffer Little Children', 'The Glass Ceiling', 'The Ways of All Flesh', 'The Age of Consent', 'The Holy Triad', 'The Oedipus Effect', 'Breaking Strain' and 'Death Us Do Part'.
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