the small back room (1949)

"whats the use."
aka Hour of glory
Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a battle weary bomb disposal expert fighting a private battle with alcohol, whilst trying to crack how a new bomb can be dismantled.
Strikingly directed psychological thriller.

gone to earth (1950)

aka The Wild Heart.
"Will you marry me Hazel, I'll give you a good home, and try and be a good husband..."
A wild and beautiful gypsy (Jennifer Jones), becomes the obsession of the local squire (David Farrar), but his fox hunting ways are diametrically opposed by the gypsy's animal loving beliefs.
A Victorian melodrama lifted by the genius of Powell and Pressburger, and the charisma of Jennifer Jones.

a canterbury tale (1944)

"I'll believe that when I see a halo round my head."
World War II and an American soldier (Sgt John Sweet) bound for Canterbury gets off at the wrong train station. There he meets a young woman (Sheila Sim), a British army Sgt (Dennis Price) and a world that has not essential changed since medieval times.
A paign to a long lost england, wrapped in a mystery, at a time when England looked like it would possibly be lost itself. Watch out as two versions exist, the British (original) and the recut version for the American market.

i know where i'm going (1945)

"Oh we live off the country. Rabbits, deer, a stray hiker or two."
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) wants to live a finer life. To this end she plans to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy, middle-aged businessman, whom she does not love. But a spanner in the works emerges when she gets stranded on the Scotish island of Mull. There she falls for a young naval officer Torquil McNeil (Roger Livesey). But who will win out, her heart or her mind?
Finely judged and executed picture, full of beautiful set pieces and a picturesque atmosphere.

black narcissus (1947)

"Its this place with its strange atmosphere..."
An order of nuns, led by the self-important Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) establish a community in the harsh environment of the Himalayas. They have the reluctant help of Mr. Dean (David Farrar) to do so, but he predicts that they will not last until the monsoons. For they have to fight the high altitude and ever blowing winds, the apathy of the locals, and most of all the isolation that brings forth their inner demons, especially for the wilful Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron). Adding to their troubles is a young nobleman (Sabu) and Kanchi (Gene Simmons), who
are foisted upon the order.
A supurb drama, utilising the brilliant cinematography of Jack Cardiff, all in glorious Technicolor. A triumph of understated repressed sexuality, and Sister Ruth's transformation gave Goths everywhere the look they were after.

the red shoes (1948)

"Well, one might call it the poetry of motion perhaps..."
Successful impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) finds and encourages the young ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) and the composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring). Then on the brink of superstardom, she marries Julian and earns Lermontov's scorn so leaves. A year later Lermontov meets Vicky again and asks her to come back. His request creates turmoil in her, being torn between his demands and her desire and need to dance.
An ode to the beauty that is ballet, this is a sumptuous film, set around the love lives of people in love with, and driven by music and dance, as much as with each other.