Film
Shakespeare was a Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jaclt Clement’s Home Movies (Double Bill with Walk the Line) ( l5) eeee (Roben Gordon/Morgan Neville. US. 2005) Jack Clement. 60min. Very amUsing documentary about Nashville’s tnaverick entrepreneur and madcap singer/producer Jack Clement. Recotnmended. ('arneo. Edinburgh. She's the Man ( l2A) 00 (Andy Fickman. US. 2006) Amanda Bynes. ('hanning Tatum. Laura Ramsey. I05min. When teenager Viola (Amanda Bynes) discovers that football has been taken off the syllabUs in her school she disguises herself as her twin brother and takes his place at a new boarding school. Hilarity ensues when she falls in love with her new roommate Duke (Tatum). and finds herself the object of affection of the beautiful ()Iivia (Ramsey). Anaetnic Twelfth Night update. General release.
Shooting Dogs ( l5) see (Michael ('aton Jones. UK/Germany. 2005) John llttrt. Hugh Dancy. Clare Hope-Ashitey. Dominique Horwitr. I05min. Set during the Rwandan genocide of I994 where over a million Tutsis were massacred in a hundred days. Hun plays a British priest forced to choose whether to remain with his people or to leave them behind. Admirable BBC-funded drama that will probably work better on the small screen. ('ineworld Renjrew Street. Glasgow; Film/louse. Edinburgh.
Show Boat (U) see (George Sidney. US. l95l) Kathryn Grayson. Ava Gardner. Howard Keel. Joe E Brown. l07min. In this classic Technicolour mUsical. performing couple Julie LaVeme (Gardner) and Stephen Baker (Sterling) are forced to quit a Deep South riverboat because of Julie's African ancestry. It's a romping musical with some well-known songs. but the racial theme is piteously underdeveloped. St Bride 's ('entre. Edinburgh.
Shrelt (U) 0.... (Andrew Adamson. Vicky Jenson. US. 200] ) Voices of Mike Myers. Cameron Diaz. Eddie Murphy. 90min. Shrek will have Walt Disney turning in his cryogenic freeze tank. This truly subversive animated film takes pot shots at fairytale mythology. while singling out Uncle Wall's beloved Snow White. Cinderella. Pirtoeehio. et all. Under the guise of a quest to rescue a princess frotn a dragon undertaken by the eponymous green ogre (which kids will love). Shrek also ruthlessly pillages corporate Disney. satirising its theme parks and executives. And who‘s behind all this‘.’ Producer Jeffrey Katrenberg of Disney rival studio DreamWorks. also formerly head of. yep. Disney. Gmsvenor; Glasgow:
Silent Hill ( l5) .0. (Christophe Gans. Japan/US/France. 2006) Radha Mitchell. Sean Bean. Laurie Holden. Deborah Kara Unger. Jodclle Ferland tbctnin. See Also Released. page 45. General release.
Spellbound (PG) eooo (Alfred Hitchcock. US. I945) Ingrid Bergman. Gregory Peck. Leo G Carroll. I l Itnin.
Mon 8th May, 7.30pm
TSOTSI (is)
(Gawn hood UK, South Africa 2005) 1hr 34 .
Afrikaans with English Subtitles, Beautifully shot and deeply affecting drama
Titkets and further information from The Steeple Box office
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54 THE LI8T13-27 Apr 2006
Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling
This hilarious documentary follows a group of deeply dedicated international contestants as they gear up (or
the 31 st International Whistling Contest in Loisburg, North Carolina. Showing as part of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival on Tour. I Filmhouse, Edinburgh (Thu 13 and Fri 14 Apr only). GFT, Glasgow (Thu 20 Apr only).
Complex. not entirely satisfactory suspenser as psychiatrist Bergman comes to the aid of mentally disturbed atnnesiac Peck. who is passing himself off as Dr Edwardes. It transpires that he has witnessed a murder. This is the one with Salvador Dali 's dream sequences. amateur Freudian analaysis. lush Miklos Ros/a music and a particulary wooden performance frotn Peck. Still of interest. Part of Dali season. Filrnhouse. Edinburgh. * The Squid and the Whale ( )5) mo (Noah Baumbach. US. 2005) Laura Linney. Jeff Daniels. Jesse Eisenberg. Owen Kline. 80min. Bernard (Daniels) is a once acclaimed novelist whose star has long since waned and now works as a university professor. When his wife starts to have success with a novel of her own. the resulting demise of their marriage has a profound affect on their two children. Writer/director Baumbach concentrates on characters and moral conundrutns over melodramatic plot points. In doing so he brings a unique angle to depicting divorce on screen. An acerbic and occasionally kooky and brilliant work. Seleeted release. Step into Liquid (U) (Dana Brown. US. 2003) 87min. Surfing and thrill lovers alike will lap up this invigorating ride through the fierce waves of Oahu's North Shore to Ireland and Rapa Nui. Voices of legends join everyday surfers in this film by the makers of Endless Summer. Pan of Big Wave. Filmhouse. Edinburgh.
Syriana ( 15) eoo (Stephen Gaghan.
US. 2005) Kayvan Novak. George C Iooney.
Christopher Plummer. Jeffrey Wright. Matt Damon. I27min. Snapshots frotn the modem day oil industry. from the portly and bearded CIA operative Bob Barnes (Clooney) and his attempts to uphold various political interests to the US investigation into the merger of two oil companies wanting to exploit oil reserves in Kazakhstan. Writer/director Gaghan is not interested in offering a didactical analysis of the oil industry. but through clever editing he argues that nothing is black and white and everything is a compromise. As such Syriana is confusing and a hard watch that will bore as many as it delights. Cameo. Edinburgh.
Take the Lead (12A) 00 (Liz Friedlander. US. 2006) Antonio Banderas.
Rob Brown. Alfre Woodard. Dante Busco, Ray Liotta. I l7min. See Also Released. page 45. General release.
Tarka the Otter (PG) .00 (David Cobham. UK. I978) Peter Bennett. Edward Underdown. Brenda Cavendish. John Leeson. 9lmin. Episodic adaptation of Henry Williamson‘s famous novel describing the adventures of an otter whose parents are killed by hunters. but survives to establish a family of his own. A little too twee for lwee's sake. ('inewor'ld Par/(head. Glasgow:
These Foolish Things ( l5) 0
(Julia Taylor-Stanley. UK. 2006) Joss Ackland. Lauren Bacall. Zoe Tapper. Andrew Lincoln. I05min. This nauseating thespian drama about a young actress' attempts to follow in her Isadora Duncanesque mother‘s footsteps is a cringe frotn beginning to end and is best avoided despite some good performances. Glasgoit' Film Theatre. Glasgow.
Thirst (Atash) ( l2A) OD. (Tawfik Abu Wacl. Israel/Palestine. 2004) Hussein Yassin Mahajne. Amal Bweerat. Roba Blal. I I0min. Somewhere in the ()ccupied Territories. a Palestinian famin ekes out a precarious living by making charcoal at an abandoned military outpost. Bleak and uncompromising drama whose resolution illuminates the way fanaticism gets passed down between the generations. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow.
* The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 15 ) eeee (Tommy Lee Jones. US/France. 2005) Tommy Lee Jones. Bany Pepper. Julio Cedillo. Dwight Yoakam. January Jones. IZImin. Mike Norton (Pepper) has just moved to town tojoin the border patrol with his beautiful young wife Lou Ann (Jones). Around the same time local rancher Pete Perkins ( Jones) finds the body of his beloved ranch hand Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo) in a shallow grave in the desen and
Monti»
Norton and Perkins' destinies are set to cross. Lee's open hearted love letter to l’eckinpah‘s unsurpassable I974 revenge Western Bring Me the Head of xii/redo Gar‘eia demonstrates Lee's gift for
intelligent cinematic reference. brevity antl emotional itnpact. Seleeted release.
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The Tin Drum (Die Biechtrommel) (Volker Schlondorll. West
(iermany/France/Ptiland/Yugtislavia. I979) David Bennenl. Mario Adorf. ('harles
Arnavour. I42min. Fantastic. witty. clever and deeply memorable version of Gunther (irass‘ analgous drama about an intellectual boy who rerses to grow in protest at the
world around hitn (it’s actually an attack of 7 those who stayed passive in Na/i
Germany). Bufiuel favourite Jean-Claude
(‘arriere adapted Grass' monster of a book.
Recommended. Edinburgh I-‘ilrn Guild.
Edinburgh. To Die in San Hilario (Morir en
1 San Hilario) ( l 2A) 000
(Laura Mafia. Spain. 2005) Lluis Homar. Ana Fernandez. Ferran Raine. Ulises Dumont. I05min. The once thriving San Hilario
Used to be at the very hub of Spain's funeral indUstry but titnes have changed and elaborate burials have gone out of
fashion. When an impostor and potential
cUstomcr arrives in the villagehe sees this
as an opportunity to turn around the fortunes of declining village. Likeablc
magic realist comedy. Part of Viva? touring
programme of highlights from the Spanish and Latin American Filtn Festival. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow;
Film/rouse. Edinburgh. Touching the Void ( l5) 0.”
(Kevin Macdonald. Canada. 2003)
Nicholas Aaron. Brendan Mackey. Simon
Yates. Joe Simpson. l06min. Brilliant cliff- hanging reconstruction feature documentary of the terrible events that overtook mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates when they tried to climb a Peruvian mountain in I985. Macdonald pulls every trick out of the bag to make this as heart-churnineg scary as a real climb in blizzard conditions. It is. as they say. quite a ride. Gilmore/tillG/Z. Glasgow. TransAmerica (IS) “0 (Duncan Tucker. US. 2005) Felicity Huffman. Kevin Zegers. Fionnula Flanagan. I03min.
Pre-operative transsexual Bree (Huffman)