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Highlighted works

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon

    Director Sidney Lumet’s persuasive recreation of a real-life hostage incident is centred around Al Pacino’s touching performance as a comically inept bank robber.

  • Manhattan

    Manhattan

    Filmed in black and white and filled with Ira Gershwin tunes, Manhattan is Woody Allen’s rhapsodic tribute to New York City.

  • Network

    Network

    This scabrous newsroom satire became a cult favourite in an era when criticism of mainstream American corporate media was largely the preserve of the Left.

  • Annie Hall

    Annie Hall

    Woody Allen’s breakthrough as a ‘serious’ filmmaker is a sublimely funny romantic comedy about an overly anxious comedian’s relationship with Diane Keaton’s ditzy eccentric.

  • Bringing out the Dead

    A paramedic struggles psychologically over three turbulent nights in New York.

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