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Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt

18 Sep 2008

It’s appropriate, given that Then She Found Me is about mothers, daughters and babies, that the film itself is actor Helen Hunt’s baby, and it’s one that has taken over a decade to be born. The film is April Epner’s story, a tale of a woman betrayed by…

BloodRayne II: Deliverance

BloodRayne II: Deliverance

18 Sep 2008

The name Uwe Boll may well strike fear into many a gamer’s heart. The German director is famed for his videogame adaptations, with his myriad of delights to date, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege…

Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson - Never Apologize

Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson - Never Apologize

18 Sep 2008

‘I got a callback for If…. I went in and there was this girl, she was gorgeous. I had to do this scene with her, but unfortunately, I didn’t have a script. I thought, you know, I’ll just wing it. I fall in love with this girl. I see the script says…

LGBT DVD Round-Up

18 Sep 2008

International interest in the sciences may have been piqued by the recent, less-exciting-than-it sounds Big Bang experiment but let’s face it – the most important question is: ‘If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come…

Sound and vision

Sound and vision

18 Sep 2008

Film and music collide in rude style this fortnight with the launch of the inaugural Sounds Film Festival. With a locations spread across the city from the West End to the city centre ABC, the programme of events includes 11 screenings and a string of…

Glasgay! - Highlights

Glasgay! - Highlights

18 Sep 2008

David Trullo’s Ecce Homo & Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals These two rising stars of the European art circuit display their wares at the Q! Gallery. Spanish photographer Trullo unpicks the enduring Western obsession with beauty while Scot Laird…

Profile: Dennis Gansel

Profile: Dennis Gansel

18 Sep 2008

Name Dennis Gansel. Born Hanover, Germany, 1973. Background Gansel studied at Munich where he shot a couple of short films. After graduating he went on to make Phantom, a film for television about the Red Army Faction, the self-styled youthful freedom…

Profile: Baltasar Kormakur

Profile: Baltasar Kormakur

18 Sep 2008

Name: Baltasar Kormakur Born: 27 February 1966 Background: A graduate of Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts, Kormakur worked as both an actor and theatre director, before making his debut feature in 2000 with the slacker comedy 101…

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

When location filming on the Vietnam war movie goes awry, three big name Hollywood actors become embroiled with a heroin cartel run by a tyrannical 12-year-old (Brandon Soo Hoo) and are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Excess is what…

Playlist: Mashup and reworked movies

Playlist: Mashup and reworked movies

18 Sep 2008

Not enjoying the films you’re watching? Why not just re-cut them to reflect your own sick tastes? Reworking or ‘mashing-up’ classic films is a popular internet sport. Millions have already seen how much cuter The Shining’s father-son dynamic would look…

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill

(2 stars)18 Sep 2008

MURDER/MYSTERY (15) 100min When Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had one scene together in Michael Mann’s Heat, the sense of anticipation of these two legendary New York actors sparking off each other (rather than just being in the same film a la The…

Death Race

Death Race

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

After a long gestation as a big budget vehicle for Tom Cruise, Paul W Anderson’s rehash of elements from Roger Corman’s 70s cheapie Death Race 2000 finally rolls into theatres to be met with suitably lowered expectations. It’s hard to cheapen the memory…

Swing Vote

Swing Vote

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

What if the fate of the US presidential election came down to the vote of one man? This is the premise rolled out in this pleasing comedy directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Bud (Kevin Costner) is a trailer-trash father being looked after by his 12…

Linha De Passe

Linha De Passe

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

DRAMA (15) 113min The title, Linha de Passe, refers to a Brazilian game where the players attempt to pass a football to one another without it touching the ground. Yet the phrase also echoes the dramatic structure of this São Paulo-set film…

The Wave (Die Welle)

The Wave (Die Welle)

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

THRILLER/DRAMA (15) 107min A slickly produced examination of how fascism can enter everyday life, The Wave is a peer pressure teen drama where much of the heat comes from above, noticeably Jürgen Vogel’s high school teacher who wonders what will…

Redbelt

Redbelt

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

ACTION/DRAMA (15) 99min David Mamet – master of the con trick and rapid fire verbal jousting, writer of award-winning plays and respected political commentator – pulls a rabbit out of the hat by making a martial arts movie with a moral code and a…

Salo

Salo

(5 stars)18 Sep 2008

DVD (18) 112min (BFI DVD retail) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s loose 1975 adaptation of the Marquis De Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom gets an excellent two disc DVD (and Blu-ray) makeover with a ton of fantastic extras. Pasolini transposed De Sade’s tale…

The Fist Foot Way

The Foot Fist Way

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

Getting a cinema release through the endorsement of Will Ferrell and his Anchorman/Tallegeda Nights director Adam McKay, The Foot Fist Way is a low-budget mockumentary about a small-time martial arts training school. Made in 2006, the central role of…

Jar City

Jar City

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

THRILLER (15) 94min ‘Another typical Icelandic murder - messy and pointless’, sighs Inspector Erlendur (Ingvar E Sigurdsson) following the killing of an elderly Reykjavik low-life towards the beginning of Jar City, a starkly atmospheric detective…

Zombie Strippers

Zombie Strippers

(2 stars)18 Sep 2008

There was a time in 70s cinema, and then again in 80s video, when putting the word ‘strippers’ in the title made for a guaranteed moneymaker. Competition from the super-pornography-highway of the internet has put the kibosh on such suggestive marketing…

Taken

Taken

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

THRILLER/ACTION (15) 93min *** When it comes to his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), retired US secret agent operative Bryan (Liam Neeson) is feeling pretty redundant. Her new stepfather (Xander Berkeley) is wealthy enough to give her everything she…

I've Loved You So Long (Il Y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime)

I've Loved You So Long (Il Y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime)

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

DRAMA (12A) 117min Novelist and screenwriter Philippe Claudel makes his directorial debut with this patient and sensitively shot family drama. Plainly-dressed, middle-aged Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) comes to stay in Nancy in north east…

The Chaser (Chugyeogja)

The Chaser (Chugyeogja)

(2 stars)18 Sep 2008

THRILLER (18) 124min ** South Korean director and screenwriter Na Hong-jin’s festival award winning debut is this year’s largest grossing domestic film in its homeland and, unsurprisingly, Leonardo DiCaprio has snapped up the remake rights.

Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

Adopted, broody April (Helen Hunt) is rocked when her husband leaves her and her adopted mother dies, but everything changes again when her birth mother (Bette Midler) jostles her way into her life. The theme of actress Hunt’s directorial debut is…

The Liar

The Liar

18 Sep 2008

COMEDY/DRAMA (15) 88min (Bluebell DVD retail) *** Written by and starring Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki and directed by his brother Mika, The Liar is an early 1980s monochrome mood piece with the nouvelle vague echoing in the distance. One critic…

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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