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WINTER OLYMPICS, TURIN Wlll our curling team do it again or could Scottish tigureskatrng siblings Sinead and John Kerr become the next tom“ and Dean?
Tinseltown gets teeth
Paul Dale believes 2006 will be the year when Hollywood makes a long overdue stand against President Bush and his foreign policies.
eorge W Bush was actually three years old when the best film parody of his political career was made. Robert Rossen's I‘H‘) lilm All the King's Men. starring the remarkable character actor Broderick
('rawford. was based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert l’enn Warren‘s vituperative tale of a rural politician’s rise to power and the loss of to the current THIS COULD BE see. A new version Men starring Sean Penn and Jude Law. due out in autumn F release delayed for TURNS ITS b)‘ Sony/Columbia. It be shot in New DANGEROUS “Mrshaw Hurricane Katrina political map and there have been whisperings that it is too hot to wing pedigree and (‘linton adviser James (‘an'ille is listed as an executive producer).
Despite this. it does look like 2006 could be the studios in particular finally begin the slow turning circle of their blubber-carrying whaling ships into more dangerous waters. While George and Good Luck (detailing broadcaster lid Murrow’s costly campaign against Joe McCartney and the HUAC). and Spielberg‘s to throw a familiar shadow over the actions of the Bush administration. some are beginning to
innocence and corruption that entails. The analogy
of All the King’s US CINEMA
2005. has had its
was the last lilm to MORE
changed the handle right now (the lilm has an impressive left- year in which American cinema and Hollywood (‘looney’s second lilm as director. Good Night Munich use historical document and revisionism spell things out a little more clearly.
Released in March. the 'l'rrilfic-style political thriller Syriana (pictured) stars (ieorge (‘looney (quickly becoming to modern reformist cinema what Robert Redford was to it in the 1970s). He plays a (‘lA operative who — surprise surprise — discovers that US foreign policy has more to do with keeping oil companies happy than implementing peace in troubled areas of the world. Much has been written of Joe Gremlins Dante‘s straight-to-cable horror flick Homecoming (about a bunch of dead Iraq war (ils who return from the dead and march on Washington so they can register their vote
GREYFRIAR’S BOBBY Edinburgh's loyal silver- haired mutt becomes a movre star in this kids' film directed by John Henderson and starring Christopher Lee.
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL Now Ill its second year. Glasgow aims to put itself on the trlrn festival map. The departure of its; artistic director it; only a short term blow.
against Bush). but satire with a quirkier edge is represented by Stephen Marshall’s thriller This Revolution. set in New York city during the riots that took place at the 2004 Republican National Convention. lilsewhere there are two films from Michael Moore — Sicko (about the state of the US health service) and I'tllil‘t’llllt’ll 9/ll’r,» — plus Sidney J l’urie's free-thinking war tale American Soldiers; a 9/ll cabbie movie called Sorry, Haters: (‘hristine Rose‘s fascinating documentary portrait of disgruntled America Internationally Speaking; and Sean McAllister‘s touching. humanistic documentary The Liberace of Baghdad.
As some kind of pay off to all these Whitehouse-baiting protestations, Paramount has bizarrely offered up Oliver Stone‘s Untitled September 1 1 Project —- an account of all the good work done by Giuliani‘s groundsrnen. Back in I986. Stone released his seminal political llick. Salvador. We have come such a long and short way since then.
Six weird, wilful and wanton events that will worm their way to wide recognition
vision of a loner with hedge-cutting fingers into a dance piece? Best ask Matthew Bourne.
HIDDEN (Jan) Michael Haneke's intriguing and mysterious psychological thriller is this year's History of Violence and needs to be seen to be believed.
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Feb) Why would anyone turn Tim Burton's cinematic
she's been the lot. Her An
JOAN COLLINS (May) Entrepreneur, mother, producer. screen bitch:
7 Evening With show at the Usher Hall will reveal all.
AEON FLUX (Feb) This potty looking sci—fl thriller from the Girtfight director (Karyn Kusama) stars Charlize Theron and Jonny Lee Miller and is about a mysterious secret agent sent to kill a government leader.
Dada was just an in-joke 1 among the lads. That’s the E
L curator David Hopkins, who puts together this Fruitmarket Gallery
i exhibition on male
§ bonding and belonging.
KEN DODD (Apr) A 3 power of puns, terrifying i teeth and daring Diddymen allow us to drink in Knotty Ash's most titifalarious l cash-in-hand comic.
DADA’S BOYS (May)
deadly serious view of
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