WAVERIDERS
Long Live Surfing!
We take you to the formidable waters of Ireland with WAVERIDERS, a Joel Conroy documentary that explores surfing’s apparent Irish (not Hawaiian, not Californian!) roots and follows top-notch surfers like Kelly Slater as they bravely take on the menacing waves that almost always fill up the entire height of the movie screen.
The [...]

ALFIE
Sex, spies and social realism: 1961 – 1969

The 1960s witnessed another boom for British cinema, as the image of ‘swinging
London’ inspired releases such as DARLING (John Schlesinger, 1965) and ALFIE (Lewis
Gilbert, 1966). The bounds of censorship were tested by controversial films depicting an
unprecedented sexual explicitness; most notably WOMEN IN LOVE (Ken Russell, [...]