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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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The Stranger (1991)
, 2hDirected by Satyajit Ray
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Utpal Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Deepankar De, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh
Anila Bose (Mamata Shankar) receives a letter from a man, who claims to be her long lost uncle Manomohan Mitra (Utpal Dutt). He is visiting India after 35 years abroad and Anila is his only surviving relative, so he wants to meet her in Calcutta before he sets off again. Anila looks forward to the meeting, but her husband Sudhindra (Deepankar De) is suspicious. The uncle arrives and stays with the family. He says that he is an anthropologist who has traveled all over the world, and he immediately wins the friendship of Anila's son Satyaki.
Bye Bye Blues (1990)
, 1h57Directed by Anne Wheeler
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Wayne Robson, Chad Krowchuk, Tom Alter, Mohan Agashe
During World War II, Daisy Cooper (Rebecca Jenkins) joins a jazz band as a singer to provide for her family while her husband Teddy (Michael Ontkean) is serving in the Canadian military. The cast also includes Leslie Yeo, Kate Reid, Wayne Robson, Robyn Stevan, and Stuart Margolin.
An Angel at My Table (1990)
, 2h36Directed by Jane Campion
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Kerry Fox, Martyn Sanderson, Willa O'Neill, Andrew Robertt, Elizabeth McRae, Robert Jayne
An Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame. Originally produced as a television mini-series, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent), and Kerry Fox (adult). The film follows Frame from when she grows up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years after her escape.
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
, 1h55Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland, Geoffrey Palmer
Twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) are at work studying the behaviour of animals at a zoo, when their wives are killed in a car accident involving a large swan. The woman who was driving the car, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), is not killed, but has a leg amputated.
A Nos Amours (1983)
, 1h42Directed by Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard, Florence Quentin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs
Actors Sandrine Bonnaire, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Christophe Odent, Jacques Fieschi
The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Despite her age, Suzanne engages in a number of affairs in reaction to her miserable situation at home.
Light Years Away (1981)
, 1h45Directed by Alain Tanner
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Trevor Howard, Bernice Stegers, Henri Virlogeux, Odile Schmitt, Joe Pilkington
Jonas est un jeune serveur de 25 ans qui travaille dans un bar en Irlande, il y rencontre Poliakov, un vieil homme étrange. Celui-ci lui laisse un livre. Peu de temps après Jonas quitte son travail et part rejoindre Poliakov qui vit dans un garage automobile à l'abandon. Jonas va se soumettre à une sorte de rite initiatique afin de découvrir le secret du vieil homme.
City of Women (1980)
, 2h20Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Ettore Manni, Bernice Stegers, Fiammetta Baralla, Donatella Damiani
Snàporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) wakes up during a train ride and has a brief fling with a woman in the bathroom, but it's cut short when the train suddenly stops and the woman gets off. Snàporaz follows her into the woods, through the wilderness and into a Grand Hotel overrun with women in attendance for a surrealistic feminist convention. He winds up in a conference about polyandry, where his presence is rejected. A frightened Snàporaz retreats to the hotel lobby, but the exit is blocked; instead he seeks refuge with a girl who offers her assistance, Donatella (Donatella Damiani), inside an elevator.
Don Giovanni (1979)
, 3h4Directed by Joseph Losey
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Ruggero Raimondi, Lorin Maazel
After an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Donna Anna (soprano Edda Moser), Don Giovanni (baritone Ruggero Raimondi) kills her father Il Commendatore (bass John Macurdy). The next morning, Giovanni meets Donna Elvira (soprano Kiri Te Kanawa), a woman he previously seduced and abandoned. Later, Giovanni happens upon the preparations for a peasant wedding and tries to seduce the bride-to-be Zerlina (mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza), but his ambition is frustrated by Donna Elvira.
Padre Padrone (1977)
, 1h57Directed by Frères Taviani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement
Actors Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Stanko Molnar, Nanni Moretti
The film opens in documentary fashion at a Sardinian elementary school that six-year-old Gavino (Saverio Marconi) is attending. His tyrannical peasant father (Omero Antonutti) barges in and announces to the teacher and the students that Gavino must leave school and tend the family sheep. Under his father's watchful eyes and the victim of his sadistic behavior, Gavino passes the next fourteen years tending sheep in the Sardinian mountains. There he begins to discover things for himself and begins to rebel against his father.
Closet Children (1977)
, 1h45Directed by Benoît Jacquot
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal, Danièle Gégauff, Christian Rist
Un jeune homme qui semble perdu, Nicolas, a rendez-vous avec sa sœur Juliette. Ils sont liés par un lourd secret d'enfance : leur mère s'est suicidée alors que leur père avait chargé Nicolas de la garder. Depuis, le père l'a chassé et a interdit à Juliette de le revoir.