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An important, often overlooked work in the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s filmography, Smiles of a Summer Night has proven influential and enduring over the past 71 years. Amongst many re-interpretations and homages, it was remade by Woody Allen (a noted Bergman disciple) in 1982 as A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, and by Stephen Sondheim in 1973 as A Little Night Music, a successful stage musical. It’s the Bergman film often cited as giving the lie to the unfair label pinned on the...

There are two Scottish-set films above all others that visitors to our shop ask if we have posters for: Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting (1996) and Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983). These very different but much loved classics of British cinema have firmly embedded themselves in popular culture, and like all the best movies, appeal across the generations. The basic plot of Local Hero is simple. Peter Riegert plays "Mac" MacIntyre, an American oil company representative, sent by his astrology...

I first saw Sergio Corbucci’s cult 1968 spaghetti Western The Great Silence thanks to a BBC2 Moviedrome screening in 1990. Introduced by film-maker Alex Cox, these late-night wonders, often shown in double-bills, were a film buff’s dream. Focussing on cult films, underrated gems, forgotten masterpieces, and the downright weird, it’s a sad fact that there’s little chance of a mainstream broadcaster ever again having the courage to programme a film season such as Moviedrome, and allowing it to...