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Film and Issue 613

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Half Moon

Half Moon

18 Sep 2008

DRAMA (PG) 107min (ICA DVD retail) *** Mamo (Ishmail Ghaffari), a brusque Kurdish musician living in Iran has spent months trying to arrange a permit for one final concert in Kurdish Iraq. When this is resolved, his problems really start. He…

The Sick House

The Sick House

(2 stars)18 Sep 2008

HORROR (18) 104min (Showbox DVD retail) Young archaeologist (Gina Philips) finds her research into London’s great plague of 1665 barred when public health officials reveal that the former orphanage she is excavating still contains plague.

Still Life

Still Life

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

DRAMA (15) 109min (BFI DVD retail) Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke (Platform, Unknown Pleasures) hails from the tradition of Asian long-take, observational masters that include Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, but Zhang-ke’s work often has a…

Is That All There Is?

Is That All There Is?

18 Sep 2008

Scotland welcomes neglectful son Lindsay Anderson home this fortnight (despite having Scottish ancestry Anderson never visited Scotland) with the Scottish premiere of Malcolm McDowell’s tribute concert film Never Apologize (see preview, page 43) and…

The Experiment

The Experiment

18 Sep 2008

Another chance to see Oliver Downfall Hirschbiegel’s 2001 psychodrama based on the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in which 20 men are hired to play prisoners and guards in a filmed research unit prison. The Experiment is being shown to coincide with…

Love Letters and Live Wires

Love Letters and Live Wires

18 Sep 2008

This selection of newly restored (by the British Film Institute) General Post Office (GPO) short films made between 1936-39 includes seminal British documentary poem Night Mail, avant-garde animation Trade Tattoo (pictured) and musical comedy The Fairy…

Grease

Grease

18 Sep 2008

This new digital print of Randal Kleiser’s evergreen 1978 high school musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John gets a one day outing in Glasgow while over in Edinburgh it will be shown as part of a double bill with John Hughes’ equally…

Teenage Sex For Sale

18 Sep 2008

As part of September being the ‘month of action’ to raise awareness about child abuse, the Women’s Support Project will present a screening of this BBC Panorama about child prostitution in the UK. The screening will be followed by an audience/panel…

Savage Grace/Far From Heaven

Savage Grace/Far From Heaven

18 Sep 2008

Unmissable Julianne Moore double bill. She plays two very different wives in Tom Swoon Kalin’s underrated wealth and incest real life crime drama and Todd Haynes’ Douglas Sirk influenced melodrama set in the 1950s (pictured). Cameo, Edinburgh on…

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