Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (PG) 0.” (Steven Spielberg. L'S. I984) Harrison Ford. Kate Capshaw. Ke Huy Quan. Amrish Puri. l 18min. Again the foreigners find it hard going keeping up with the Jones. as master entertainer Spielberg piles on the action sequences. This time. however. the frantic pace has even less credibility than Raiders had. C electric. Edinburgh.
The Island (12A) .0 (Michael Bay. US. 2005) Ewan McGregor. Scarlett Johansson. Djimon Hounsou. Sean Bean. Steve Buscemi. 136mm. Woeful big budget action adventure sci-f1. a kind of Inga/i 's Run for the GM foods generation. from bang and whistle man Bay. A huge flunk despite the impressive cast. General release.
Jules Et Jim (PG) .0... (Francois Truffaut. France. 196] ) Jeanne Moreau.
()skar Werner. Henri Serre. I05min.
Truffaut‘s early masterpiece. telling the comi-tragic tale of an etemal triangle straddling the World War ll. Bohemian. mercurial Parisienne Catherine (Moreau) divides her affections between Jules
(Werner) and Jim (Serre). whose deep friendship overrides their rivalry in love and their separation by war. But Truffaut has a salutory fare in store for the threesome.
which is both devastating and poetic.
Powerful stuff. Glasgow I'ilrn Theatre. Glasgow.
Kingdom of Heaven (15) “O
(Ridley Scott. US/Spain/L'K. 2005) Orlando Bloom. Michael Sheen. Liam Neeson. Kevin McKidd. Eva Green. Ghassan Massoud. 135mm. Visually lavish action spectacular
set during the 12th century Crusades in the Holy Land. The action takes place in and around the city of Jerusalem. where. as the story opens in the year l 186. King Baldwin and his European 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 Heaven'. however. 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. ()deon, Edinburgh. Koi 1‘th Sa Kahaan (t5) (Rakesh Roshan. India. 2005) Rekha. Hrithik
Roshan. Priyanka Chopra. Much anticipated big budget romantic musical from the team who brought us Koi . . . Mil Gaya.
('lnewor‘ld Rertfr'ew Street. Glasgow:
* Last Days ( 15) «0 (Gus Van
Sant. US. 2005) Michael Pitt. Lukas Haas. Asia Argento. Scott Green. 96min. See
review. page 26. Selected release.
Last Tango in Paris (18) 00000 (Bemardo Bertolucci. France/Italy. 1973) Marlon Brando. Maria Schneider. l30min. A young Parisienne meets a middle-aged man with whom she develops an increasingly violent and purely sexual relationship. ()ne
of the key films of its decade. Bertolucci's powerful drama is a meditation on the expression and communication of personal identity through intense sexual contact. Filrnhouse. Edinburgh.
The List Surprise Movie (tbc) Who knows? ('irteworld Renfrew Street. Glasgow. Glasgow; (‘irieworld Edinburgh. Edinburgh. * Los Angeles Plays ltsell(15)
(Thom Andersen. US. 2003) Encke King (Narrator). 169mm. Documentary
examining the role of the city of Los
Angeles in the movies. Divided into
chapters. writer/director Anderson's film
looks at the city as a background. a
character and a subject and uses almost 200 movie clips ranging from The Music Hot to [A Confidential. Narrated by Encke King.
this is a detailed cinematic essay that's both interesting and entertaining. Glasgow l-‘ilm Theatre. Glasgow.
Love Actually (15) 0” (Richard . Curtis. UK. 2003) Bill Nighy. Gregor Fisher. ; Hugh Grant. Colin Firth. Martine McCutcheon. Liam Neeson. Emma Thompson. 1 |0min. Curtis sets out to prove the fairly anodyne point that love is actually all around us in all its many forms. but to do this he indulges a huge cast and several I different story strands. So we see a new prime minister bachelor (Grant) fall in love with a Number 10 tea girl (McCutcheon).
And then there is the story of the broken- hearted writer (Firth) who falls for his Eastem European cleaner. On top of this Emma Thompson. Alan Rickman. Keira Knightley. Andrew Lincoln. Liam Neeson and Laura Linney all pop up to play out their roles as either object of. or giver of. the sweet gift of love. Lightweight and enjoyable. if a little over-populated. romantic comedy. This is actually fairly impressive considering it is writer Curtis' first time in the director's seat. C electric. Edinburgh. Love is the Devil ()8) 0000 (John Maybury. UK. l998) Derek Jacobi. Daniel Craig. Tilda Swinton. 90min. By no means a documentary-style portrait of the artist. Love is the Devil is concerned with the destructive relationship between Bacon and his lover George Dyer. Far more visual and experimental than most of what passes for British cinema these days. Jacobi has an uncanny physical resemblance to Bacon. but the real acting revelation is Craig (Geordie in Our Friends in the North) who superbly gives life to this human tragedy waiting to happen. Pan of the Francis Bacon season. Film/rouse. Edinburgh.
Machuca ( IS) 0000 (Andres Wood. Chile/Spain/France/UK. 2004) Matias Quer. Ariel N‘lateluna. Manuella Manelli. l20min. Santiago. I973 and Chile is about to lose its democracy. Socialist President Salvador Allende has been in power for three short years and the US 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 Gonzalo lnfante (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 gypos by the school's Marxist leaning priest and headtnaster. Machuca and his sister Silvana (Manuella Martelli) quickly become Pedro‘s conscience. but history is soon to overtake them all. Warm. thought provoking social drama. Glasgow l-‘ilrn Theatre. Glasgow.
Madagascar (t?) 000 (Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath. LS. 2005) Ben Stiller. Chris Rock. David Schwimmer. Jada Pinkett Smith. 86min. Madagascar opens with steak-loving lion Alex enjoying his pampered existence in New York‘s Central Zoo. His friends. Marty the zebra (Rock). Gloria the hippo (Smith) and Melman the hypochondriac giraffe (Schwimmer) discover that the crafty penguins are planning a breakout. and set off for Africa to re-conncct with their inner animals. But interaction with a tribe of lemurs uncovers the bitter tnith about Alex's carnivorous nature. Thoroughly enjoyable. blackly comic DreamWorks animation musical. General release.
* Me and You and Everyone we Know ( 15) C... (Miranda July. [IS/UK. 2005) John Hawkes. Miranda July. Miles Thompson. 91 min. An enjoyably whimsical tribute to love's transformativc powers. Me and You . . . interweaves a number of stories in suburban LA. involving characters from across the generations all struggling to connect emotionally. Me and You. . . challenges among other things. the taboos surrounding the depiction of under- age sexuality. not in a spirit of nihilistic provwation. but with humour and with an honest recognition. And it's clear that the director truly cares about her creations. regardless of their foibles and cccentricities. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow; ('arneo, Edinburgh.
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