REASONS TO GO SEE
MIRRORBALL If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry: The Story of the Oil Factory
1 A piece of music history Oil Factory has been producing music videos in the UK for 18 years.
2 John Stewart
Oil Facto 's managing director (and brother of the Eurytt‘imics frontman Dave Stewart) recruited many exceptional directors before his recent retirement.
3 Sophie Muller
Stewart's biggest and best signing. Muller has directed videos for the Stone Roses. Blur and, most recently. Coldplay.
4 Radiohead
Oil FactOry was responsible for the ‘High And Dry' and 'Just' videos of the Bends era.
5 Annie Lennox
The Eurythmics member was the original owner of Oil FactOry. before Stewart took over in the mid-80s
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GUNNER PALACE (Michael Tucker/Petra Epperlein, US/Germany, 2004) 85min oooo
As the ‘.'rar in Irag ti'iindles ()l‘ .vtth no end in sight. Gun/2 )r R's/ace takes a grassroots look at the US ‘o'ces involved. The Q It l'l(}l(l Ar‘tiieij, haze con‘rmandeeretl one of S; dua'i‘ Hussein's opulent l>a|aces as the! has-(.- of ooerations in Baghdad. It's nos: known as the 'party pa!ac<;-'. a .'."_.'ll stocked fishing pond, pool and golf course. It's a stark contrast to the "est cf their time policing a convnunt, .'.'.".l(Ll‘. both loves and hates then: lneii ll‘.€:f; are split between being reduced to t"e role of policen‘ei‘. bustiig Junkies. iiskii1g their lives for a cause they don" egen understand and rust killing ll'l‘i(:. the, "re not bad guys lust young. marvel,
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One of the highlights of the Rosebud section (for first or second-time filmmakers) of this year’s EIFF has to be Doan Thanh Nghia’s beautifully composed folktale about a
gorgeous young woman who endures the wrath of her strict family and fellow villagers when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. Some years on her son tries to decipher the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his long missing mother. I /. 'in‘ioose. (523 80.30. (’5': Aug. (3’. form). 527.95) d‘foUr.
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(Goran Paskaljevic, Serbia Montenegro, 2004) 95min ooo
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(Brainy fzini. honest acting and steeped in Americana: no '.'.Iondei they loved Jane/Jug at the Stindance Film Festival. Arrericar‘. indie filmmaking is perfect at tackling the differences ll) class and 'egion prevalent in the US. Sooiysticated Chicago gallery owner Mad-:e:aii‘e it nibeth [)avidt/i visits her husband's (Alessandro Nivolai North (Zaioliiia family home for the first time in her search for outsider art. and various fantiiy lllt?llll)(?l't$ View hm \‘Jllll amusement and suspicion. But this is no tale of culture clashes simply drawn ‘.'.'ltll coihedy hillbillies and stereotype yokels It's far more subtle. wrth nicely observed clitir‘acteiisations and an allect:or‘.ate portiayal of different ways of life. Adanis puts If] a beautifully naive turn as the wonderfully optimistic sister in raw rfoi which she deservedly picked up a Speoal tJuiy prize at Stindancei and even lire ()(I's Benjamin McKen/ie displays realistic stumbled emotion. The
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THE WEDDING (WESELE) (Wojtek Smarzowski. Poland, 2004) 109 min 0000
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