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Hitlist - The best film & DVD releases

  • Source: The List (Issue 573)
  • Date: 11 April 2007 (updated 24 July 2007)
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The Best Film & DVD Releases

The Lives of Others Before the fall of the Berlin wall the East German secret police persecute a radical playwright in this excellent Oscar-winning German thriller. See review. Selected release from Fri 13 Apr.

Curse of the Golden Flower King Lear meets the Tang dynasty in Zhang House of the Flying Daggers Yimou’s latest wirework epic. See review. General release from Fri 13 Apr.

Half Nelson See interview. See Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow from Fri 20 Apr.

French Film Festival Three weeks of delicious Gallic fare includes new films from Costa-Gavras and Claude Chabrol plus hilarious spoof secret agent thriller OSS 117: Cairo- Nest of Spies. See preview. www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk. GFT, Glasgow; Filmhouse, Edinburgh & Vue Ocean, Edinburgh.

Reign On Me Adam Sandler makes the second decent film of his career playing a widower with post traumatic stress syndrome in this comedy of human frailty. See review. General release from Fri 20 Apr.

SunshineThe sun is dying and there is nothing we can do about it in Danny Boyle’s exceptionally fine sci-fi thriller. General release from Fri 6 Apr.

Los Olvidados Luis Buñuel’s stunning 1950 social surrealist masterwork set in the slums of Mexico City. GFT, Glasgow from Tue 17-Thu 19 Apr.

El Topo More Mexican madness with Alexandro Jodorowsky’s long unavailable cult psychedelic spaghetti western. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 13 Apr; GFT, Glasgow, Tue 17 & Wed 18 Apr.

Fritz Lang Box Set Five of the German silent filmmaker’s best, including Metropolis in one DVD set. Out Mon 23 Apr (Eureka).

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