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After Life
Date	Location
May (Duncan) looks after Roberta (Sage), her 21-year-old daughter with Downs. Her other child Kenny (McKidd) is an ambitious journalist. He drifts in and out of their lives, always putting the stress of his workload over spending time with his old mum and sis. But then May discovers she has cancer and Kenny has to re-evaluate his life, as his mother's only dying wish seems to be that he and he alone looks after Roberta. Moving, if fairly predictable, drama whose superb cast manage to transcend…
15 Oct Wed 7.00	Vogue Cinema, Lanark

Cathy Come Home
Date	Location
Loach's seminal docu-drama affected the nation in a way that any TV broadcast is unlikely to do today, causing the issues to be debated and a new realist style to be born. White plays a young homeless woman struggling to keep her family together and, although the lines between victim and perpetrator might be rather simply drawn, it remains an impassioned piece of work.
12 Oct Sun 3.00	Grosvenor, Glasgow

Charlie Wilson's War
Date	Location
Adaptation of George Crile's book which tells the true story of maverick senator Charlie 'Good Time' Wilson (Hanks), who covertly aided the Mujahideen in their struggle against the Soviet Empire in the 1980s. This lightweight comedy drama relies on crude oversimplifications to explain away the later rise of global terrorism, and despite Hank's Gump-ish charisma in the role, the film ends up presenting an arrogantly racialist and superior view of international politics.
15 Oct Wed 7.30	Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate

Dan in Real Life
Date	Location
Rooted in warm, middle-class family values and about as predictable and inoffensive as a TV sitcom, 'Dan in Real Life' is the story of an advice columnist and widower (Carell) who falls in love with his brother's girlfriend (Binoche). Lead-footed and lame but mildly engaging, Carell's pleasantly effortless comedy style manages to save the film from complete mediocrity.
20 Oct 7.30	Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Date	Location
Julian Schnabel's third biopic tells the tale of 'Elle' editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Almaric) who, after suffering a debilitating stroke, authored a slim memoir, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'. This is an unusual, rich, formless and challenging film, which fits perfectly with the triumph of the human spirit theme that runs through Bauby's core text.
14 Nov 8.00	Wynd Theatre, Melrose

Dog Days
Date	Location
Welcome to 'Dog Days', Austrian director Seidl's vision of suburban hell on a sweltering summer weekend. Aiming for authenticity and intimacy, the director follows his lonely characters (played mainly by non-professionals) into bathrooms and sex parlours, where the camera observes their sagging, protuberant flesh. Absent, however, is any real feeling of compassion towards these forlorn individuals. And the painfully protracted torture scene suggests that Seidl himself relishes depicting his…
13 Oct Mon 6.00	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Flashbacks of a Fool (Senior Screening)
Date	Location
Set in present-day California and an English seaside resort circa 1972, Joe Scott (Craig between Bond outings), is a washed up Hollywood star who recalls a traumatic teenage experience that leads to professional success and personal self-destruction. Good supporting performances and rather pedestrian flashbacks make for an interesting, if not outstanding drama about the repercussions of childhood folly.
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon Ayr, Ayr
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon East Kilbride, East Kilbride
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon At The Quay, Glasgow
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon, Edinburgh
14 Oct Tue 11.00am	Odeon: Braehead, Renfrew
14 Oct Tue 11.30am	Odeon Wester Hailes, Edinburgh

From Here To Eternity
Date	Location
Cinematic soap opera with all the necessary love and jealousy, and set in a Pearl Harbour army base before the Japanese bombing. Frank won an Oscar, while Burt and Debbie tangled with more than the seaweed on the beach.
17 Nov 7.45	Mugdock Country Park, Glasgow

Jaws
Date	Location
Cracking shark adventure from the days when Spielberg movies were scary. See the citizens of Amity scream! Watch the bodycount pile up! Hear the authorities declare the water perfectly safe!
3 Nov Mon 7.45	Mugdock Country Park, Glasgow

The Last King of Scotland
Date	Location
Macdonald's first fictional film sees McAvoy playing Nicholas Garrigan as a smooth-talking lovable rogue who accidentally ingratiates himself with 1970s Ugandan president Idi Amin (Whitaker). With a career best performance from Whitaker and an action packed pace, it makes for a commendable action film rather than an astute political portrait.
13 Oct 7.45	Mugdock Country Park Mugdock Country Park Visitor Centre, Nr Milngavie

Little Miss Sunshine
Date	Location
Probably the planet's most dysfunctional family embark on a road trip to that totem of American aspirations: a children's beauty contest in California. An amusing script, impressive acting and memorable fantasy sequences round out the critique of the prevailing win-at-all-costs culture.
15 Oct Wed 6.00	Grosvenor, Glasgow

Sex and the City: The Movie
Date	Location
A few years on from packing away the series, the characters are back and fleshed out, the individual angst of each woman realised enough to engage even the hardened cynics. Like life however, the film isn't perfect, the beginning recap is clumsy, the ending is rushed, and the version of feminist power and female solidarity the film peddles is slightly simplistic.
14 Oct–16 Oct Tue & Thu 6.00	Tower Mill, Kirkstile

Throne Of Blood
Date	Location
It's Shakespeare's Scottish play, Japanese-style, as samurai Mifune is spurred on by his wife and the spirits to murder his best friend and then his master. Although the barest plot and striking images remain from the original, Kurosawa's atmospheric settings in mist-shrouded forests give the film a brooding power.
13 Oct–14 Oct Mon 8.15; Tue 6.15	Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

You, the Living
Date	Location
The bizarre 50 or so vignettes that constitute Andersson's first feature since 2000's apocalyptic 'Songs from the Second Floor' drop a traditional narrative for a series of precisely framed tableaux where the boundaries between dreams and reality are freely blurred. Described as 'a farce about the human condition', it's darkly comic with fleeting moments of hopefulness in its absurdist vision.
21 Nov 9.00	Gable End Theatre, Hoy

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