Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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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
Werner Herzog Collection ( Signs of Life / Even Dwarfs Started Small / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Heart of Glass / Stroszek / Where the Green Ants Dream ) (1982)
Director: Werner Herzog
A collection of six early masterpieces from the director of "Aguirre, Wrath of God" and "Fitzcarraldo". Made during Werner Herzog's formative years be... Read more
Suspiria (1976)
7.5/10
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Alida Valli, Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, Stefania Casini, Udo Kier
A dancing school in a small German town is the setting for unholy terror, as modern-day witches seek to resurrect their coven's long-dead founder, in... Read more
Charley Varrick (1973)
7.5/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Felicia Farr, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Norman Fell, Sheree North, Walter Matt...
Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, i... Read more
Westworld ( Blu-ray ) (1973)
7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: James Brolin, Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel o... Read more
Westworld (1973)
7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel o... Read more
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
7.2/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Alec Guinness, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
Franco Zeffirelli relates the tale of St. Francis of Assisi, an Italian soldier who returns from the Crusades and dismisses his family's material weal... Read more
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ( Blu-ray ) (1971)
4.4/10
Director: Mel Stuart
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole
One of the most memorably strange children's films ever made, equally influenced by the dark underpinnings of Roald Dahl's original book ("Charlie and... Read more
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
4.4/10
Director: Mel Stuart
Starring: Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Gene Wilder, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole
One of the most memorably strange children's films ever made, equally influenced by the dark underpinnings of Roald Dahl's original book ("Charlie and... Read more
Kes (1969)
7.9/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher
A charming, caring chronicle of the boyhood experiences of Billy, a Northern England miner's son who finds an injured Kestrel and nurses it back to he... Read more