In 'The Damned,' a group of youth-gang motorcycle enthusiasts in England discovers a secret military experiment that has caused the apocalypse. They must navigate the dangerous and mutated world as they try to survive and find a way to reverse the effects of the experiment. With the British army on their trail, they form a brother-sister team to outsmart their pursuers and uncover the truth.
During World War II, a group of British prisoners-of-war are held in a German camp. They devise a plan to escape and return to their homeland, facing various challenges and dangers along the way.
The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black and white camera work by Ian Wilson brings to life this “chilling fable” by Max Steuer, a lecturer (now Reader Emeritus) at the London School of Economics. Avoiding easy answers, The Committee uses a surreal murder to explore the tension and conflict between bureaucracy on one side, and individual freedom on the other. Many films, such as Total Recall, Fahrenheit 451 and Camus’ The Stranger, see the state as ignorant and repressive, and pass over the inevitable weaknesses lying deep in individuals. Drawing on the ideas of R.D. Laing, a psychologically hip state faces an all too human protagonist.
Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completed automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). But things take a nasty turn when A.D.A.M. starts to develop feelings towards Jean...
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
Christopher Mason's documentary presents a retrospective of the arts in the immediate post-war years (1945-51), when patronage for 'public art' was intended to promote a cultural renaissance to complement that in education, health and housing. A dream of universal access to Britain's cultural heritage is shared, with use of archive newsreels, though can the dream be made reality or is art simply a luxury most can't afford?
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