Couple Indemnity

Sherlock Holmes: The Solitary Cyclist (1984)

We are back with another episode covering the Jeremy Brett Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series, this time discussing the fourth episode of the series, first aired in May 1984: The Solitary Cyclist. The plot follows a mysterious man on a bicycle who repeatedly trails a young music teacher as she cycles along a lonely country road in Surrey.
Director: Paul Annett

A Matter of Life and Death (1945)

Today, we are joined again by Scott to review the wonderful British classic A Matter of Life Death (1945) set in England during WWII, where a British pilot (David Niven) who had cheated death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl (Kim Hunter).
Director: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
 

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Izzy's latest choice is the 2007 highly acclaimed Neo Western Crime Thriller No Country for Old Men, that follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a Vietnam war veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money, and Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a Sheriff investigating the crime. 
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen

The Gold Rush (1925)

For Hal's selection this week, we are covering our first Charlie Chaplin movie for the podcast, with The Gold Rush (1925), that we were fortunate enough to view at a London cinema screening in the presence of Paul Merton and Spencer Chaplin.
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl (Georgia Hale) he sees in a dance hall.
Director: Charlie Chaplin

Wild Rose (2018)

Izzy has returned to the musical genre this week and has selected the 2018 musical drama Wild Rose starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters.
Amidst several difficulties, a single mother of two (Buckley) and a former convict from Scotland, Rose-Lynn, tries to pursue her dream of becoming a country singer.
Director: Tom Harper

Vertigo (1958)

Hal has gone big this week and has selected what he deems his favourite film of all-time, with the next movie from our Hitchcock marathon, the haunting and intensely psychological Vertigo (1958).
A former San Francisco police detective (James Stewart) juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman (Kim Novak) he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. 
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Sophie's Choice (1982)

Izzy has selected another classic this week with Sophie's Choice, the 1982 psychological drama based on the novel of the same name by William Styron. Meryl Streep stars as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant who moves to America with a dark secret from her past, who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature-film debut), and young writer Stingo (Peter MacNicol). 
Director: Alan J. Pakula

Brief Encounter (1945)

Hal has gone for another hugely important film classic for this episode with David Lean's romantic period masterpiece Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from the Noel Coward 1936 play Still Life.
Brief Encounter tells the story of two married strangers (Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard) living in pre-World War II England, whose chance meeting at a railway station leads to a brief yet intense emotional affair disrupting their otherwise conventional lives.
Director: David Lean

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Izzy's latest choice is the iconic 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's which saw Audrey Hepburn deliver a career-defining performance as the eccentric and unpredictable socialite Holly Golightly, who is determined to make it big and marry a wealthy husband. But when young writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Director: Blake Edwards

Sherlock Holmes: The Dancing Men (1984)

Hal has gone back to one of his standout TV dramas from the archives and has selected one of the early episodes from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Granada TV series that was broadcast on ITV from 1984-1994.
In this episode, titled "The Dancing Men", a gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes is drawn to the case and soon discovers why.
Director: John Bruce