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James Bond (this time played by George Lazenby) hands in his licence to kill after being banned from hunting down his arch-nemesis Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Continuing his investigations alone, he follows a lead to Portugal, meets and falls in love with Tracey Draco (Diana Rigg), and is told by her crimelord father that Blofeld is now in Switzerland. Pretty soon its snow, kilts, girls, secret bases and ski chases, as Bond chases down his enemy and attempts to foil a plan to unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
All three Christmas specials of the BBC sitcom starring Michael
Crawford as the accident-prone Frank Spencer. Episodes are:
'Jessica's First Christmas', 'Learning to Drive' and 'Learning to
Fly'.
Taking My Time tells both the tall tale of George Baker's life as a
jockey, and the story of a second life emerging from the aftermath
of his horror fall on the White Turf at St Moritz in 2017. As a
rider, George scaled the highest of highs in the saddle with St
Leger victory aboard Harbour Law cementing his place among the
sport's elite, despite having the body of a man surely destined for
another occupation. Tortuous battles with the scales were
ultimately won, popularity among peers and punters was assured and
life was good and getting better. Until the terrible accident which
left him with serious head injuries forced him to restart; he had
to live again. He was the same person but different. New obstacles
had to be cleared and trauma both physical and mental needed to be
met and overcome. The story is told with the wit and wisdom that
has come to characterise George Baker, and his wife Nicola
recounts, with humour and humility, the toll taken on the those
closest to him and the perilous nature of life at his side.
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The Thirty Nine Steps (DVD)
Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, …
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Third big-screen adaptation of John Buchan's classic novel. Mining
engineer Richard Hannay (Robert Powell) is on a brief visit to
England when his neighbour Colonel Scudder (John Mills) warns him
that foreign 'sleeper' agents are at work, planning to pre-empt
global war by murdering a foreign dignitary. When Scudder is
murdered by the agents Hannay finds himself under suspicion by the
police, and goes on the run in a bid to both prove his own
innocence and expose the enemy spies.
How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with
analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major
artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its
ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium
constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary
art, however, photography was moving toward total digitalization.
Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a generation of
artists-focused on the work of Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Sharon
Lockhart, and Moyra Davey-who have collectively transformed the
practice of photography, using analogue technologies in a dissident
way and radicalizing signifiers of older models of feminist art.
All these artists have resisted the transition to the digital in
their work. Instead-in what amounts to a series of feminist
polemics-they return to earlier, incomplete, or unrealized moments
in photography's history, gravitating toward the analogue basis of
photographic mediums. Their work announces that photography has
become-not obsolete-but "late," opened up by the potentially
critical forces of anachronism. Through a strategy of return-of
refusing to let go-the work of these artists proposes an afterlife
and survival of the photographic in contemporary art, a formal
lateness wherein photography finds its way forward through
resistance to the contemporary itself.
Five films from the hugely popular sci-fi franchise. In 'The Fly'
(1958), a scientist (David Hedison) is obsessed with developing a
molecular matter transmitter. When he attempts to test the
invention himself, he is unwittingly joined by a companion - a fly
that has sneaked into the transportation pod with him. The
consequences of the experiment soon become clear, as the scientist
begins to take on fly-like characteristics. 'Return of the Fly'
(1959) sees the original scientist's son reconstructing the matter
transporter which turned his father into an insect, with the young
man's experiments leading him down the same insectoid path. In
'Curse of the Fly' (1965) the plot again revolves around the
Delambre family, although this time it is the scientist's grandson,
Henri Delambre (Brian Donlevy), who becomes obsessed with
transporter experiments to the dismay of his two sons, who want to
live normal lives and forget about their grandfather's invention.
Henri's oldest son, Martin (George Baker), marries a young woman
who just escaped from a mental hospital. After Martin's new wife
discovers a closet filled with deranged humans left over from
failed teleportation experiments, the police are called and Henri
attempts to flee using the infamous transporter. 'The Fly' (1986)
is the Oscar-winning remake of the 1958 horror classic. Scientist
Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), experimenting with transmitting
matter uses himself as a guinea-pig, unaware that a fly has got
into the machinery. As he embarks on a relationship with Veronica
Quaife (Geena Davis), the journalist covering his project, his body
slowly begins to take on fly-like characteristics. 'The Fly 2'
(1989) is the sequel to the 1986 movie. Dr Seth Brundle is no more,
but he has left behind a gruesome legacy: the teleportation device
which transformed him into a human fly, and a son, Martin (Matthew
Moore/Harley Cross). Infected with his father's insect metabolism,
Martin's growth is hugely accelerated, and he is soon a fully grown
man (Eric Stoltz). When he discovers the remains of his father's
experiment, Martin decides to pick up where Seth left off.
All three seasons of Terry Nation's acclaimed BBC science fiction
drama in which 95% of the population have been wiped out by a freak
plague, leaving the remaining survivors to rebuild civilisation.
Episodes are: 'The Fourth Horseman', 'Genesis', 'Gone Away', 'Corn
Dolly', 'Gone to the Angels', 'Garland's War', 'Starvation', 'Law
and Order', 'The Future Hour', 'Revenge', 'Something of Value', 'A
Beginning', 'Birth of Hope', 'Greater Love', 'Lights of London
(Parts 1 and 2)', 'The Face of the Tiger', 'The Witch', 'A Friend
in Need', 'By Bread Alone', 'The Chosen', 'Parasites', 'New
Arrivals', 'Over the Hills', 'New World', 'Manhunt', 'A Little
Learning', 'Law of the Jungle', 'Mad Dog', 'Bridgehead', 'Reunion',
'The Peacemaker', 'Sparks', 'The Enemy', 'The Last Laugh', 'Long
Live the King' and 'Power'.
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