Art House Cinema
Art House films are critically-acclaimed movies that don't necessarily cause a stampede at the box-office. These so-called 'minor' works are generally seen only at Film Festivals or a few selective theatres, but they stay in the mind, for better or worse. Below is a list of films in Alice's Collection that for one unexplained reason or another, generally didn't quite get the exposure they may have deserved when originally released.
Enjoy finding many of cinema's 'gems' in this section.
Right: Peter Greenaway's 'The Baby Of Macon'.
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Mayer
Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek
Best friends and once teen-lovers Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) reunite after a long separation. Bobby is now a charismatic het... Read more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Joseph Strick
Starring: Bosco Hogan, T P McKenna, John Gielgud
This beautiful adaptation of James Joyce's autobiographical novel is a faithful portrait of the young author and his coming of age. Stephen Dedalus is... Read more
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
6.8/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly, Kevin Kline, Garrison...
The late Robert Altman's swansong is this whimsical tribute to radio shows of days gone by. Scripted by Garrison Keillor (who plays himself in the fi... Read more
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin, Diane Lane
Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin repeat the roles that they took on Broadway in the first uncut film of the Tennesse Williams classic play. Read more
A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
7/10
Director: John Erman
Starring: Ann-Margret , Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
A remake of the much-loved Tennessee Williams classic about family strife in 1940s New Orleans. Strong, vibrant acting by Ann-Margret and Treat Willia... Read more
A Time for Drunken Horses (2001)
7.7/10
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Starring: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi
Lyrical, emotional and bleak drama about several siblings of a poverty stricken Kurdish family desperately trying to find funding for the treatment of... Read more
A Woman Under the Influence (1975)
8.2/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes
Unquestionably one of the greatest films of the 1970s, John Cassavetes' masterpiece centres on a dysfunctional Los Angeles family, and the perverse, h... Read more
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon
From the famed director of 'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Belly of an Architect', this film is an erotic, beautiful, disturbing, absurdist and... Read more
Abigail's Party (1977)
7.4/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski
Mike Leigh delivers in grand fashion with this acerbic social commentary. Beverly (Alison Steadman) is a gin-sodden shrew with middle-class aspiration... Read more
Actress (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Brandy Burre
When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense p... Read more