How Arnold Won the West (PG) 0.. (Alex Cooke. France/CK. 2001) 80min. Documentary following the well publicised campaign of one Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger to become the Governor of Califomia. examining how he went on to beat the other 13-1 hopefuls. some serious. some less so. A critical look at the CS political system from first time director Cooke. A Cinema.\'et Europe presentation. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow; Filmhoase. Edinburgh.
The Importance of Being Earnest (L') O... (AnthonyAsquith. CK. 1952) Michael Redgrave. Richard Wattis. Michael Denison. Edith Evans. 95min. Gorgeous Technicolor print restoration of the feature film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play. Director Asquith employs a fabulous cast and allows the text to speak for itself. Wonderfully camp entenainment. Introduced by The List’s Steve Cramer. Part of the Victorian Film Season. Weston Link. Edinburgh.
In Your Hande(15) .0. (Annette K Olesen. Denmark. 2004) Petrine Agger. Jens Albinus. Sarah Boberg. Trina Dryholm. lOOmin. Newly graduated female chaplain Anna (Jorgensen) has been appointed to a women's prison in present-day Copenhagen. There she encounters an inmate Kate (Dryholm). who's reputed to have mysterious healing powers. The wardens dismiss the talk of miracles as ‘cell-block psychoses‘. but Anna. suddenly pregnant having been told she could never conceive. becomes ever more convinced and fascinated by the healer's gifts. Bleak drama made in accordance with the aUstere Dogme Rules of Chastity. L'GC Rertft‘ew Street. Glasgow. Glasgow; Filrnhouse. Edinburgh. The Interpreter ( 12A) 000
(Sydney Pollock. CS. 2004) Nicole Kidman. Sean Penn. 129mm. FBI agent (Penn) is assigned to protect a translator (Kidman) inside the US after she thinks she has heard something she shouldn‘t have. Silly. derivative and ov er-long thriller which. like the UN itself. promises a lot more than it ultimately delivers. General release.
The Jacket (15) .00 (John Maybury. L'K/L'S/Germany'. 2005) Adrien Brody. Kris Kristofferson. Keira Knightley. Jennifer Jason Leigh. Daniel Craig. 102mm. See review. page ~18. Selected release. Jargo (15) (Maria Solrun Sigurgardottir. Germany. 2003) Constantin von Jascheroff. L'do Kier. Oktay Ozdemir. Josefine Pretiss. 90min. Aimed at a young audience. this is a hard-hitting and honest depiction of a troubled teenager‘s emotional awakening. Born in Saudi Arabia but now living in urban Berlin. Jargo dabbles with drinking. drug-taking. girls and burglary. Living on danger's edge. he runs the risk of making his first mistakes his last. Film/rouse. Edirtbargh.
Jo Bole So Nlhaar (tbc) (Rahul Raw ail. lndia . 2005) Sunny Deol. Thomas Tevana. Gary Castro. Kamaal Khan. 160mm. Punjabi thriller drama about kindly constables. the FBI and terror on the streets of New York. An entertaining. choppy and cheerful roller coaster ride. L'CI Edinburgh. Edinburgh.
Joeh Jarman (15) (Pip Mushin. Australia. 2001) Marcus Graham. Kym Gyngell. Kestie Morassi. 96min. Struggling playwright Josh Jarman's work has just been rejected by producer Stan Billow s. Bttt when Jarman meets Billows‘ daughter Sasha things change and the producer agrees to take on his script — on certain terms. Lttred by sex. money and fame. Josh accepts. An exploration of one artist‘s integrity versus commercialism. Part of the Australian Film Festival. Filmhouse. Edinburgh.
Kingdom ot Heaven (15) 000 (Ridley Scott. L'S/Spain/L'K. 2005) Orlando Bloom. Michael Sheen. Liam Neeson. Kevin
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McKidd. liva Green. Ghassan Massoud. 135mm. \‘isually lavish action spectacular set during the thh century Crusades in the Holy Land. The action takes place in and around the city ofJerusalem. where. as the story opens in the year 1 186. King Baldwin and his liuropean knights maintain an uneasy truce with the neighbouring Arab army lead by the Saracen general Saladin (Massoud). Peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims in the so-called ‘Kingdom of llcav eti‘. how ever. isn't to the liking of the extremist Knights Templar. which plot to begin a religious war. Entertaining. if unsurprisineg trite. take on the crusades from Scott. General release. Kinsey (15) 0. (Bill Condon. LS. 2001) Liam Neeson. Laura Litmey. Chris ()‘Donnell. Peter Sarsgaard. 1 18min. A look at the life ofAlfred Kinsey (Neeson). a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research. On paper. Kinsey’s public and private sexual adventures certainly sound racy. and a few scenes here play well. particularly some comically frank talk around the dinner table. and a more disturbing scene where Kinsey listens to a boasting confession frotn a singularly repulsive sexual reprobate. L'ltimately however Condon‘s loving tribute play s ottt both smugly and superficially. See picture caption. Glasgow l‘ilrn Theatre. Glasgow; Kyaa Kool Hal Hum ( 12A) (Sangeeth Sivan. lttdia. 2005) Tusshar Kapoor. Ritesh Deshtnukh. lsha Koppikar. 172mm. Two friends come to the city of dreams to make something of themselves. Rahul (Kapoor) is sincere. simple and hardworking and Karan (Deshmukh) isjust the opposite. What they do have in common is a hankering for a cool lifestyle. While Rahul aspires to become a famous fashion designer some day. Karan dreams of marrying a girl with a pretty face and a prettier bank balance. but the big bad city has other plans for them. Amiable Bolly wood feature. (Mean :1! The Quay. Glasgow, Glavgott'.
Last Year In Marlenbad (L') eeee (Alain Resnais. France/Italy. 1961) Delphine Sey rig. Giorgio Alberta/Ii. Sacha Pitoeff. 93min. livocative and enigmatic tale of a man who meets a woman in a rambling hotel. and believes he had an affair with her the previous year. Past blends with present to the point where they are indistinguishable. and you can only really enjoy it if you don't worry too tuuch whether they did or didn't. Not one for Blind Date enthusiasts. See picture caption. Glasgow I’llrrt Theatre. G/avgovt.
Laura’s Star(t') O. (Piet l)c Rycker/Thilo Rothkirch. Germany /Bulgaria. 200-1) 80min. Sickly sweet animation about a seven-yea-old girl who finds a lucky star which she must return to the sky before it dies. (ilaigott' I‘ll/m Theatre. Glasgow: The Lavender Hill Mob (1') eeee (Charles Crichton. 1K. 195] ) Alec Guinness. Stanley Holloway. Sidney James. 78min. Chartuing lialing comedy that has mild-mannered bank clerk Guinness being dragged into a gold bullion robbery. Smashing satire and cracking car chase. North Edinburgh Arts Centre. Edinburgh. Letters to All ( 15) (Clara Law. Attstralia. 2004) 106mm. Hong Kong director Clara Law ‘s passionate plea for human rights follow s Ali. a young Asylum seeker from Afghanistan. This fervent documentary proves Law ‘s committneut to tackling how Australia treats refugees. Part of the Atrstralian Film Festival. I'ilrrlltottvt’. Edirtburgh.
Ma Mere ( 18) eeee ((‘hristophe Honore. l“ranee/Portttgal/Austria/Spain. 2004) Isabelle lluppert. Louis Garrel. linima de Cannes. Joana Preiss. l 12min. l‘rench extremist adaptation of an unfinished. posthumous novel front the notorious French author Georges Bataille; w hose writings provocatively blended the philosophical and the erotic. the sacred and the profane. Teenage Pierre (Garrel) is spending a summer with his parents who have a house there. bttt after the sudden death of his father. he is left alone with his beautiful mother Helene (Huppert). She introduces Pierre into a world of transgression. where guilty pleasures don't exist. Although .lla Mere deals with acts of
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sadotnasochism. incest and suicide. culminating in a scene of masturbation ov er a corpse. it shouldn't be dismissed as sensationalist provocation for it's as compelling as it is thought provoking. See picture caption. Glasgow Film Theatre. (iltlv‘gou;
Machuca ( 15) eeee (Andres Wood. Chile/Spain/France/L'K. 200-1) Matias Quer. Ariel Mateluna. Manuella Martelli. 120mm. Santiago. 1973 and Chile is about to lose its democracy. Socialist President Salvador Allende has been in power for three short years and the CS is getting worried that it might have another renegade communist country on its doorstep. As Henry Kissinger is freeing up l'S cash and military to enable right wing General Pinochet to stage a coup. schoolboy (ion/an Infante (Matias Quer) has troubles of his own. His mother is having an affair with some aged millionaire and he is the only one who knows about it. plus the posh school he goes to is peopled by snobs and bullies. Then one day Pedro Machuca (Mateluna). a boy from the slums. walks into his life. Installed in the school with a bunch of other ragged trousered gy pos by the school's Marxist leaning priest and headmaster. Machuca and his sister Silvana (Manuella Martelli) quickly becotne Pedro's conscience. bttt history is soon to overtake them all. Warm. thought prov oking social drama. Glasgow Ei/rn Theatre. Glasgow. Main Asia HI Hoon (tbc) (Harry Baweja. India. 2005) Ajay Dev gan. Sttshmita Sen. lisha Deol. Rttcha \’aidya. 162mm. Hindi musical drama version of Sean Penn's [Am Sam -- crazy but true. Ster- Century Cinema. Edinburgh.
The Man who Stole my Mother’s Face ( 15) (Cathy llenkel. Australia. 2003) 57min. A cottt‘ageotrs search forjustice by the daughter of a woman who was sexually assaulted and beaten in her suburban home 1-1 years ago and is still struggling to recover. The police investigation becomes bogged down. so llenkel seeks ottt and confronts the man identified as her mother‘s attacker. Part of the Australian Filtn Festival. Eilrnhouve. Edinburgh.
The Man Who Would Be King (PG) 0... (John Huston. CS. 1975) Sean Connery. Michael Caine. Saeed Jaffrey. Christopher Plummer. 129mm. Rudyard Kipling's moral fable on the pursuit of power becomes a rumbustious minor epic in the hands of Huston. Connery and Caine. all at the peak of their powers. Set in ludia. it tells the uncomfortable bttt entertaining story of a pair of conmen w ho find themselves elevated by the locals to a rank far above their natural station. bttt falling from grace owing to their innate greed. Rolliclving good fun. Scots/nan Screening Room. Edinburgh.
This might be your last big screen chance to see this interesting biopic about the man who educated America (and the world)
Marla Full of Grace ( 15) eeee (Josh Marston. Columbia/L'S. 200-1) Catalino Sandino Moreno. Yenny Paola \'erga. 100min. Maria Alvarez (Morena) is a cocky l7-year~old from a rural Columbian backwater who wrestles with a predictable life of low wage factory worls‘. family responsibilities and an underwhelming boyfriend. When she accidentally becomes pregnant. she falls in the eye sight of local Bogota biker boy Juan (Toro) who lures her into his den with promises of high earnings and international travel. Impressive Loachian drama from first timer Marston. Dominion. Edinburgh. Mean Creek(15) COO (Jacon Aaron Estes. LS. 2005) Rory Culkin. Ryan Kelly. Trevor Morgan. Carly Schroeder. Josh Peck. 89min. Shy young Sam (Cttlkin) is being bullied at school by backward fat boy George (Josh Peck). Stupidly. Sam tells his over protective older brother Rocky (Morgan). who then arranges a trip up the local creek with some friends. The resulting travelogue is more Lord of the Flies. shall we say. than Deliverance. lnteresting but flawed hybrid horror movie which never quite delivers in the way one wishes it would. Selected release.
=I< Mean Streets ( 18) eueem-arun Scorsese. LS. 1973) Harvey Keitel. Robert de .\'iro. David Prov'al. Amy Robinson. David Carradine. 1 12min. See review. page 51. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow: Melinda and Melinda ( 12A) ee (Woody Allen. CS. 2004) Will Ferrell. Jonny Lee Miller. Wallace Shawn. Radha Mitchell. 99min. Shawn listens to more after-dinner stories as two writers relay to hint the tale of two Melindas (both played by Mitchell). Ferrell follows in the faltering footsteps of Branagh (Celebrity) and Jason Biggs (Anything Else) in the always undignifted task of playing Allen‘s idea of himself on screen. Yet again. Allen is repeating himself obviOUsly and annoyingly in this mediocre offering. Dominion. Edinburgh.
Million Dollar Baby ( 12A) .0. (Clint Eastwood. LS. 2004) Clint Eastwood. Hilary Swank. Morgan Freeman. Jay Baruchel. 100min. Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) is an ageing boxing trainer who takes on 31-year-old Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank) despite believing female boxing is jUst ‘the latest freak show". Told from the perspective of Dunn's partner — Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris (Freeman ) — at a crumbling gym. like the best sports movies. this is not really about sports but human relationships. indeed the film is at its worst when it operates as a boxing movie. A mild return to form for Eastwood. Ster C entth Cinema. Edinburgh.
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