Moving and ambitious in scale like nothing else in cinema, Michael Apted’s Up films began in 1964 as a BBC news program exploring an old Jesuit maxim: “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will ...
follows an eccentric middle-class London family as they basically try to get by. Short on plot but long on quirkiness (sometimes a bit forced), the characters generally grate on the nerves. The two ...
Not yet available for streaming. This moving film from Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy) is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an ...