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Foundation date 1 january 1976
Curzon Artificial Eye is a British film distributor, specialising in independent, foreign-language and art house films for cinema and home entertainment.
The company was founded in 1976 by Andi Engel (11 November 1942 – 26 December 2006), a German-born film enthusiast, and his then wife, Pamela Balfry, who had a background working with Richard Roud at the London Film Festival. She became Curzon Artificial Eye's first managing director.
Since 2006, Curzon Artficial Eye has been part of Curzon World, a group of companies in the film entertainment industry which also includes the Curzon chain of 11 cinemas plus eight joint venture cinemas, video on demand service Curzon Home Cinema, the retail DVD distributor Fusion Media Sales, and horror film distributor Chelsea Films (launched in 2010).
Curzon Artificial Eye releases some 20 new theatrical films and 30 DVD and Blu-ray titles in the UK each year, as well as digital releases via several platforms, such as iTunes and in-house Curzon Home Cinema.
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(1979)Filmography of Artificial Eye (55 films)
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Add to a movie listAmour (2012)
, 2h6Directed by Michael Haneke
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Vieillesse
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Rita Blanco, William Shimell, Dinara Droukarova
After residents of an apartment building complain of a weird smell coming from one of the apartments, the brigade of firemen and police break down the door of the apartment in Paris to find the corpse of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) lying on a bed, adorned with cut flowers.
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Sally Potter
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Annette Bening, Timothy Spall
London, 1962. Two teenage girls – Ginger and Rosa – are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates in the Cuban missile crisis, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered – by the clash of desire and the determination to survive:
I, Anna (2012)
, 1h31Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan, Jodhi May, Ralph Brown
DCI Bernie Reid's latest case is the mystery of a man brutally murdered in a London apartment building. As an insomniac going through a divorce, Reid's concentration on the case is further complicated after an encounter with Anna, an enigmatic figure. He tracks her down to a party where Anna denies any knowledge of having already met him. Despite her protestations, there is a mutual attraction between them. Bernie's professional ethics come into question as he grows more attached to Anna, who is about to unveil a dark mystery.
Wuthering Heights (2011)
, 2h9Directed by Andrea Arnold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Kaya Scodelario, Oliver Milburn, Nichola Burley, Amy Wren, James Northcote, Steve Evets
En visite à Liverpool, Monsieur Earnshaw, un fermier habitant sur une colline du Yorkshire au nord de l'Angleterre,
Trishna (2011)
, 1h57Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Anurag Kashyap, Roshan Seth, Amit Trivedi, Kalki Koechlin
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Trishna tells the story of a woman whose life is destroyed by the restrictions of social status, complications of love and life, and her development as an individual. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy British businessman, Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed), who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. He sees her dancing at a hotel, and is attracted to her beauty and innocence.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
, 1h52Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about school violence
Actors John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, James Chen, Erin Darke
The story is told out of order, in flashbacks and mostly short scenes. Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school. His mother, Eva (Swinton), a once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know she is Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.
Archipelago (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Joanna Hogg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Hiddleston, Lydia Leonard
Edward (Hiddleston) is in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. He is quitting his job in the city to travel to Africa, doing volunteer educational work to promote safe sex and combat the spread of AIDS. To see him off, his mother Patricia (Fahy) and sister Cynthia (Leonard) have organised a family vacation and bon voyage party on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly in a cottage they often rented years before. An invitation has also been extended to Patricia's estranged husband, who appears to have expressed the vague intention of coming.
Route Irish (2011)
, 1h49Directed by Ken Loach
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, Stephen Lord, Najwa Nimri, John Bishop
The film opens on a ferry in Liverpool, as Fergus Molloy (Mark Womack) remembers the final messages sent to him by his lifelong friend Frankie (John Bishop), whose funeral he is to attend. The night before, Molloy unseals his friend's coffin to see his friend's badly injured corpse. At the funeral, Haynes (Jack Fortune) a director of the private military company that Molloy and Frankie worked for, gives a eulogy praising Frankie and describing military contractors as the "unsung heroes of our time". Afterwards, Haynes and Walker (Geoff Bell) explain to Frankie's family the circumstances of his death, though Molloy remains embittered and closely questions the two men. Later at the wake, Molloy attacks Haynes when he sees him distributing his business card to enlisted soldiers there.
13 Assassins (2010)
, 2h21Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yūsuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki, Sōsuke Takaoka, Kazuki Namioka
In the 1840s, Japan, as the Tokugawa Shogunate faces extinction, a corrupt lord named Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi freely rapes, tortures, and murders his own citizens. He is protected because the Shogun is his half-brother. However, the Justice Minister realizes the threat he poses if Naritsugu should further ascend, and hires a trusted older Samurai, Shinzaemon, to ambush and murder Naritsugu. Unfortunately, the conversation is overheard by the Samurai Hanbei, a childhood friend of Shinzaemon who has persisted in loyalty toward Naritsugu.
In Our Name (2010)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Actors Joanne Froggatt, John Henshaw, Andrew Knott, Mel Raido, Val McLane
Suzy Jackson (Froggatt) is a Private returning from service in Iraq during the Iraq War to be reunited with husband and fellow soldier Mark (Mel Raido) and young daughter Cassie (Chloe Jayne Wilkinson) in North East England. Suffering from recurring nightmares related to her experiences while on tour and displaying paranoid behaviour, Suzy distances herself from her husband and tells her army superiors that she is fine aside from some insomnia due to jet lag.
Antichrist (2009)
, 1h44Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
A couple makes passionate love, as their toddler, Nick, climbs up to the bedroom window and falls to his death.
The Man from London (2008)
, 2h19Directed by Béla Tarr, László Nemes
Origin Hongrie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Tilda Swinton, Miroslav Krobot, János Derzsi, Volker Spengler
The film concerns a middle-aged railway pointsman, Maloin (Miroslav Krobot), who lives in a decrepit apartment in a port town with his highly-strung wife Camélia (Tilda Swinton) and his daughter Henriette (Erika Bók). One night while in his viewing tower at the port's rail terminus, Maloin witnesses a fight on the dockside. One of the shady combatants is knocked into the water along with the briefcase he carries; when the other flees the dark quayside, Maloin makes a clandestine descent from the tower and retrieves the briefcase, which he finds full of sodden English banknotes. Maloin conceals the money and tells no-one of what he has seen. The next morning, he visits a tavern where he plays chess with the barkeep (Gyula Pauer). On his way home, he stops by the butcher's where his daughter works, and finds to his indignation that they have her washing the floor. Later, from the window of his apartment, he notices Brown (János Derzsi) watching him from below. At dinner, Maloin is increasingly irascible, addressing Henriette brusquely and arguing with Camélia. Meanwhile Brown searches the water at the dock's edge without success before noticing the watchtower overlooking the quayside, and Maloin within.
The Last Thakur (2008)
, 1h21Directed by Sadik Ahmed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Tariq Anam Khan, Ahmed Rubel, Anisur Rahman Milon, Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Set in the aftermath of an election in rural Bangladesh in a small, remote town of Doulathpur, a riverside shanty town in the marshlands of interior, rural Bangladesh, which is dominated by two men with a long-lasting feud who contend for power.
The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
, 2h17Directed by Jacques Rivette
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Barbet Schroeder, Julie Judd
L'histoire se passe sous la Restauration. Le général de Montriveau est épris de la duchesse de Langeais, une coquette qui se refuse à lui et qui disparaît. Aidé par les puissants Treize, sorte de franc-maçonnerie aux pouvoirs occultes, il la poursuit jusqu'à un monastère espagnol où elle s'est réfugiée sous le nom de sœur Thérèse. Là, elle accepte de le recevoir en présence de la mère supérieure à qui elle fait croire que cet homme est son frère. Mais au dernier moment, elle avoue sa faute en même temps que son amour longtemps caché pour Montriveau.
You, the Living (2007)
, 1h35Directed by Roy Andersson
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Actors Jessica Nilsson
There is no central plot, but some of the vignettes connect loosely. All the stories show the essential humanity of the characters and address themes of life, existence and happiness.