Michael Radford – MRQE

La Musica del silenzio

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.

Elsa & Fred

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it’s never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa’s youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa’s terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

Michel Petrucciani

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A documentary on the late French jazz pianist.

Flawless

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

The Merchant of Venice

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of people who make their living at a strip club.

B. Monkey

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as “B. Monkey” — the top thief-for-hire in London’s criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace’s innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville — and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.

Il postino

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda’s daily mail. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet, learning the art of poetry to woo a local barmaid (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) and tell about the struggles of the working-class villagers. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man.

White Mischief

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.