Feb 27th    
The Long Day Closes** 

(GB 1992)   
BFI/Film Four. 95m.

Terence Davies's visual reminiscences of  his later childhood in rainswept Liverpool in the 1950s, more a series of tableaux than a narrative film, with some variable period continuity for some of the film clips that are overheard on the soundtrack, and some beautifully visual moments.

Written and Directed by: Terence Davies.
Producer: Olivia Stewart.
Starring: Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens, Tina Malone, Johnny Wilde.
Photography: Michael Coulter.
Music: Bob Last, Robert Lockhart, and others.
Production Design: Christopher Hobbs.

Feb 18th     
I Know That You Know That I Know**
(Io so Che tu Sai Che io So)

(Ita 1982)
Medusa/Scaa. 118m.

A businessman who has neglected his wife and daughter only realises this when they are put under surveillance by mistake.
Endearing Italian domestic comedy indicative of its star/director, set in wet and windy Rome to deliberately de-glamorise it. Functional at first but it wins over by the end.

Written by: Auguso Caminito, Alberto Sordi, Rodolfo Sonego.
Producer: Augusto Caminito.
Director: Alberto Sordi.
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Isabella De Bernardi, Ivana Monti, Salvatore Jacono, Micaela Pignatelli.
Photography: Sergio D'Offizi.
Music: Piero Piccioni.

Preceded by: 
Palace of 1001 Nights**
(Fra 1905. Pathe. 20m. bw(tinted). silent.; d: Georges Melies.)

Feb 13th   
Dangerous Liaisons** (15)
(Electric Palace, Harwich)

(US 1988)
Warner Bros/Lorimar.NFH. 119m.

The notorious womanising Viscomte de Valmont plays seduction games with a former lover, including the seduction of a woman of virtue...but love plays a hand.
Choderlos de Laclos's dark novel set in pre-revolutionary France, presented as an 18th century film noir, also harking back to Hollywood's costume melodramas of the 1930s and 40s, with lavish costumes and calculating performances. Lots of sex,but not especially sexy.

Written by: Christopher Hampton, from his play.
Producers: Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean.
Director: Stephen Frears.
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Capaldi, Mildred Natwick.
Photography: Philippe Rousselot.
Music: George Fenton.
Costume: James Acheson.

+ followed by a Q&A with director Stephen Frears, as a fund raiser for the Electric Palace

Feb 6th  
Dominique*    
(GB 1978)    
Grand Prize/Sword and Sorcery Productions. 100m.  

A glamorous rich woman is driven mad by her husband and dies, but the tables are turned...
Enigmatic psychological thriller, more cloak than dagger. The resolution is intriguing, although with most of the characters so coldly played it's difficult to care.

Written by: Edward Abraham, Valerie Abraham, based on the story "What Beckoning Ghost" by Harold Lawlor.
Producers: Andrew Donally, Milton Subotsky.
Director: Michael Anderson.
Starring: Jean Simmons, Cliff Robertson, Simon Ward, Jenny Agutter, Ron Moody, Flora Robson, Judy Geeson, Michael Jayston Jack Warner, David Tomlinson, Jack McKenzie.
Photography: Ted Moore.
Music: Paul Whittaker.