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UK Shorts 1 James Farrant, Piers Thompson, Harry Wootliff, Paul Gowers, Dan Susman, Felix Wiedemann, UK, 2008Three eclectic programmes with contrasting themes and ideas. From the deep and meaningful questions about love, death and life in the playgound, to the more frivolous side of human nature. This... |
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Gomorrah Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2008A powerful depiction of the destructive and pervasive impact of organised crime on ordinary people, GOMORRAH focuses on five inter-linked stories in the working-class suburbs of Naples. Winner of... |
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Linha de Passe Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Brazil, 2008Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometres of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent... |
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Love Letters and Live Wires: Highlights from the GPO Film Unit UK, 2008In 1933, the General Post Office made history by founding its own film production unit. The GPO Film Unit would become internationally renowned as a centre for creative, exciting public-information... |
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Transmission: Becoming Vera Mieke Bal, Netherlands, 2008This is an exceptional opportunity to see a powerful film by renowned cultural theorist, Mieke Bal. Born of a Cameroonian father and French-born mother of Russian descent, three year-old Vera is... |
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The Wave Dennis Gansel, Germany, 2008Based on the social experiment undertaken by US history teacher Ron Jones in the 1960s when he attempted to demonstrate to pupils how Germany fell under the spell of Adolf Hitler, THE WAVE is a... |
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Summer Scars Julian Richards, UK, 2007In this disturbing British thriller, the fate of a gang of urban kids who skip school to play in the woods with a souped-up stolen moped is changed forever when they crash into Peter. A dishevelled... |
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Caught In The Act Matt Lipsey, UK, 2008CAUGHT IN THE ACT is a heart-warming comedy about deceit and integrity, friendship and folly and the triumph of humanity over greed. Set in the beautiful Welsh valleys, it tells the story of a... |
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Double Bill: Belle de Jour & Belle Toujours Manoel de Oliveira, Luis Bunuel, France, 1967BELLE DE JOUR (18): Re-issued in a new print, Buñuel’s most successful film stars a 24-year-old Catherine Deneuve as Severine, a beautiful middle-class Parisian wife who indulges her... |
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Unrelated Joanna Hogg, UK, 2007With the UK on the cusp of possible transition to a Tory government, do our films reflect this? Forty-something Anna arrives unexpectedly at a friend’s holiday villa in Tuscany minus her husband.... |
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The Old Dark House James Whale, USA, 1932Loosely based on a J.B. Priestley play, an assorted cast find themselves stranded overnight in a sinister Welsh house in this splendidly eccentric comedy. There’s the butler Karloff ("an... |
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