Lenny

Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Jewish Cabaret entertainer Lenny Bruce who made a career out of redefining the public sense of decency and morality. Not a pleasant business, all things considered, but this film 1974 film manages to show all the corruption and righteousness on both sides of the coin with considerable flair. For jazz buffs there's some excellent music.

Director Bob Fosse's ability to bring out the sordidness of cabaret life in the very midst of its excitment remains from his earlier films "Sweet Charity" and "Cabaret", but gone is the Sentimentality which also characterised those films.

Tuesday 27 February, 2.15pm.

The Man who Fell to Earth

David Bowie falls into place in his old role as a being from outer space with great things to offer and little stamina to give them. Director Nicholas Roeg was a photographer on "Lawrence of Arabia" and went on to make "Performance" (with Donald Cammell), "Walkabout" and "Don't Look Now". The beautiful camerawork and preoccupation with unresolvable enigmas of those films are very much in evidence here. Delightful, puzzling, disturbing and almost without technical blemish, one can almost forget that it's utterly meaningless.

Wednesday 28 February, 2.15 pm