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Alien Adventure 3D
Date Location
An alien race looking for a planet to colonise find earth and unfortunately enter a theme park where they cause much amusing mayhem.
16 May–18 May Fri–Sun 12.15 IMAX Theatre, Glasgow
Awake
Date Location
Clay (Christensen) experiences 'anaesthetic awareness' (meaning he is fully conscious but paralysed during surgery), which has far-reaching consequences for him and his fiancée Sam (Alba). In lesser hands, 'Awake' would have been a tawdry melodrama, but the film works well on several levels. This is, however, not for the squeamish.
20 May–22 May Tue & Wed 7.30; Thu 9.00 Pickaquoy Centre, Orkney
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Date Location
Lumet's new film returns him to his favourite territory - the heist gone wrong. Gripping, compelling and full of very fine performances this is the director's best film in years.
20 May Tue 8.00 Odeon East Kilbride, East Kilbride
Children of Glory
Date Location
Old-fashioned, melodramatic account of the 50th anniversary of the doomed Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule in 1956, which privileges action and spectacle over analysis and moral ambiguity and is at its best in its visual recreation of the attempted revolution.
16 May–18 May Fri 6.15; Sat 5.30; Sun 7.45 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Date Location
In the Liverpool of the late 40s and early 50s, a working class household perseveres through domestic violence, death and marriage. A brilliantly made tribute to the filmmaker Davies' family experience, and a requiem for a way of life now past, by one of the most gifted cinematic artists this country now possesses.
18 May Sun 8.15 Macrobert, Stirling
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.
18 May Sun 7.30 Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy
The English Patient
Date Location
A mysterious stranger suffering from horrific burns is cared for by a Canadian nurse during the final days of WWII. In flashback, we discover more about the great romantic affair whose tragic climax brought him to this state. Minghella alters the focus of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel to concentrate more on boiling passions in the North African desert.
17 May–18 May Sat & Sun 8.00 Macrobert, Stirling
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Date Location
Herzog's brilliantly bizarre parable about a remote penal colony inhabited by dwarfs, who stage a revolution in the prison warden's absence. This has to be seen to be believed, unmissable.
21 May Wed 6.15 Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
22 May Thu 6.15 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
How She Move
Date Location
Ripping off the premise from last year's 'Stomp The Yard', 'How She Move' focuses on aspiring doctor Raya (Wesley), who seeks to express herself in the world of dance. While choreographer Hi Hat's dance sequences are dynamically shot and edited, this MTV production is hampered by sanctimonious lectures, stereotypical characters and hackneyed plotting, insulting the very culture it seeks to celebrate.
16 May–22 May 6.00 & 8.10; Sat & Sun 2.10, 6.00 & 8.10 The Waterfront, Greenock
Into the Wild (Senior Screening)
Date Location
Robust yet freewheeling adaptation of John Krakauer's non-fiction book about the extraordinary experiences of young American college graduate and society dropout Christopher McCandless (Hirsch), who traded his privileged future for a life on the road. Penn's portrait of McCandless' travels is a poetic and romanticised one, beautifully photographed by French cinematographer Eric Gautier and unspooling as a series of largely life-affirming encounters with nature and fellow travellers.
20 May Tue 12.40 Vue Hamilton, Hamilton
20 May Tue 1.00 Vue Livingston, Livingston
20 May Tue 2.20 Vue Inverness, Inverness
21 May Wed 11.30am Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
The Kite Runner
Date Location
Gripping and moving adaptation of the novel by Khaled Hosseini, about two boys whose ordinary lives become caught up in Afghanistan's tumultuous politics. Spanning three decades and two continents, 'The Kite Runner' is a saga of guilt, regret and redemption. As a meditation on Afghanistan, it will always have to stand in line with Siddiq Barmak's disturbing 'Osama' and Samira Makhmalbaf's 'At Five in the Afternoon', but that is fine company to keep.
22 May Thu 6.30 Pickaquoy Centre, Orkney
The Other Boleyn Girl
Date Location
The 'hidden history' of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne, the second of Henry VIII's six wives. Playing the Boleyn girls, Portman and Johansson are cast against type in less-than-thrilling sibling rivalry, while the usually excellent Bana (as the King) simply looks fed up. But rather than the cast it's probably Peter Morgan's undercooked adaptation of Philippa Gregory's overheated novel that's to blame.
22 May Thu 5.15 Macrobert, Stirling
Pollock
Date Location
Yet another tortured artist story. The life of American abstract expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock, is recreated with a formulaic approach, revealing nothing new about him. Although the acting and directing remain relatively unflawed, the script falls flat. It also requires the audience to be overly sympathetic to a womanising wife-beater. No thanks.
22 May Thu 7.30 Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries
The Queen
Date Location
A behind the scenes glimpse into the relationship between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, after the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning. Beautifully written and performed by all, this is the second part of director Frears' Blair trilogy.
19 May 7.45 Mugdock Country Park Mugdock Country Park Visitor Centre, Nr Milngavie
Son of Man
Date Location
An ambitious new interpretation of the Gospels by the South African theatre and film ensemble Dimpho Di Kopane. The Saviour is born amid a civil war in the fictional African state of Judea. As he grows up he sets out to free his people from oppression through an ethics of non-violent protest and solidarity.
18 May–20 May Sun 1.00; Mon 1.00 & 6.15; Tue 12.45 Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
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.
20 May Tue 6.00 Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
Water Lilies
Date Location
The growing pains of a trio of 15-year-old girls, set mostly in the municipal swimming pool in a Parisian suburb, translate into arrogance and sexual confusion in their games of one-upmanship, social climbing and sexual awakening. This first time writer/director's effort is all too predictable, but is enough to make Sciamma one to watch.
19 May–22 May Mon 5.30; Tue 6.15; Wed 11.30am & 6.15; Thu 8.45 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

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