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21 May 2007
Lights in the Dusk Finland’s finest filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki rounds off his ‘Loser Trilogy’ with another brilliant piece of miserablist comic cinema. See review . Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Fri 1-Thu 7 Jun. Jindabyne Peerless Australian adaptation of…
DOCUMENTARY There’s just space to mention this fascinating film about one of the great pioneers of science films, Jean Painlevé (1902-1989). Painlevé was a poet in every sense of the word and there was nothing he liked to do more than film fish, foul…
DRAMA Writer/director Bryan Forbes’ second film (after Whistle Down the Wind, released in 1962, remains a bold study of social mores at the dawn of the sexual revolution, and unlike many of the new wave of kitchen sink dramas it hasn’t dated badly.
ACTION/WAR Debut writer/director Amrit Sagar’s factional action adventure, follows 54 Indian POWs gathered from Pakistan’s national prisons and herded into a secret POW camp close to the border, where Major Suraj Singh (Manoj Bajpai) leads a daring…
DRAMA ‘If you like to take the [leading] character as a flattering portrait of the old party before you, you’re perfectly at liberty to do so.’ Thus the great British writer Somerset Maugham himself introduces the third story in this 1950 adaptation…
‘What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding?’ Well apart from the fact that they are all non-existent man-made conceits, quite a lot, actually. Just ask Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose two most recent works Uzak and Climates, take a…
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (12A) 168min (unable to review at time of going to press) The third and final part of this high seas franchise, initially based on a Walt Disney theme park ride, has arrived. Shiver me timbers, old Jack Sparrow…
HORROR Having already flopped under the title Turistas in the US last November, John Stockwell’s limp lettuce of a thriller finally emerges in the UK as little more than a smudged photocopy of Eli Roth’s Hostel. It’s not Slovenia but Brazil that…
ACTION/ADVENTURE Based on true stories about American pilots flying for the French Lafayette Escadrille in WWI, director Tony Bill’s $90m film opens here nine months after crashing and burning spectacularly at the US box office. And despite being…
DRAMA/ROMANCE After 2002’s abysmal effort at cinema fusion Bollywood/Hollywood, Toronto based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta serves up Water, the final part of her elements trilogy. The good news for those who missed Fire (1996) and Earth (1998) is…
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21 May 2007
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