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DOCUMP N lAHY FAVELA RISING (12A) 81 min oooe
his innocent brother in a subsequent ALSO RELEASED massacre and decided to work in whatever way he could for peace. The Da Vinci Code (12A)
Matt Mochary and .Jeff Ziiiibalist's AfroReggae — a mad hurtling fusion of 148min (unable to review at fr:.’;l()rallvr:. movrng drmimentary reggae. hip hop, steel band. copeira. time of going to press) Excuse about the rise of the AfroRrxigae agit prop. community prolect. dance us while we stifle a yawn. The moverrient in the sharitytowns of Rio : and Shiva worship — was the result. crappest. most Insidiously riiay rmcaruonally look and feel like a and Anderson was its instigator and readable book of the decade gets Nike advertiseriient. but is; aimed way figurehead. adapted for the big screen by beyond the riierely commercial, Mochary and Zimbalist follow this Ron A Beautiful Mind Howard Centred around cultural coordinating amazing story from the early 19908 to and screenwriter Akiva Cinderella prophet Anderson SA. an ex drugs; . the present day and it's quite a ride. Man Goldsman. Life has got to trafficker turned AfroReggae leading killers. the Rio police launched a AfroReggae was so influential that it be too short to even contemplate light. f-ave/a Rising details how in , vrolent terror campaign in Anderson's actually managed to do what no it. and look at that running time - August 1903. on the trail of some cop favela of Vigario Geral. Anderson's lost government has yet managed; it that's over two hours of your life
saved many shantytown inhabitants down the pisser. What the hell —
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things up a bit but that does not from Fri 19 May.
detract from what is a fascinating Prime (12A) 105min coo
i testament to the power of arts of the Ben Boiler Room Younger's
community. (Paul Dale) I Fi/mhouse. Edinburgh from Fri 15)
sophisticated romantic New York comedy follows the kooky
May. ; matching of Rafi (Uma Thurman), f DRAMA/ROMANCE a recently divorced 37-year-old r STRAYED ’ career woman and long haired
(15) 95min m. E Dave (Bryan Greenberg). a
._ talented 23-year-old painter. If you like your farce urbane and mildly neurotic then this is worth catching. General release from Fri 12 May. When a Stranger Calls (15) 86min 0. Poor reworking of mediocre 1979 horror. about a babysitter who is harassed by a freak caller. It's completely preposterous. but that‘s usually what '3 fun about the teen horror genre. This yarn. however. is an endurance test of predictability. General release from Fri 12 May Waiting (15) 94min 0
DIAMOND DUDE Kaleem Aftab meets Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the star of Brick.
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: Not since Johnny Depp somersaulted off 21 Jump Street has an actor Although it's set against the backdrop : Writer. director and former
I made such a spectacular transition from the small screen to big. of the Fall of France during the l McJobber Rob McKittrick says
3 Joseph Gordon-Levitt played teen alien Tommy Solomon for six summer of 1940. and while it his slacker comedy debut was
' seasons on the extremely popular US sitcom Third Rock From The intelligently incorporates period inspired by Kevin Smith's retail
: Sun. Then roles as an institutionalised young violent offender in newsreel footage. writer-director Andre romp Clerks. Like that film. the Jordan Melamed’s underrated Manic and as a rent boy in Gregg Techine’s Strayed is very much an fast food restaurant-set Waiting Araki's Mysterious Skin established Gordon-Levitt as a rough intimate drama. exploring how human attempts to derive laughs from diamond on the coalface of ubiquitous cheesy young American relationships are redefined under the serial bad behaviour of young actors. exceptional circumstances. l underachievers with attitude.
Now, in the fabulously stylish high-school noir thriller Brick, this Emmanuelle Beart plays Odile. a Where Clerks benefited from a
diamond gets out into quite some rock. The 25-year-old plays a loner widowed teacher fleeing from Paris to sublimer offensive script. Waiting returning to town and discovering that his ex-girlfriend is in dire the south with her two young children. I is about as satisfying a plate of straits. Taking his cue from the performances of Humphrey Bogart When their refugee column is strafed soggy fries. In point of fact. and especially Walter Huston in The Treasure of 019 Sierra Madre, he by enemy planes — a terrifyineg { McKittrick's film has more in sets about unravelling the mystery. The remarkable skill in the realistic scene which powerfully l common with recent. dumber. performance is that throughout the crafted dramatic turns, Gordon- establishes the randomness of survival i not-in-the-Ieast transgressive Levitt remains a geeky teenager. in wartime — the family flee into a ! mainstream ‘slackomedies' like
Meeting Gordon-Levitt for a second time in Venice he reveals that he nearby forest, where they encounter l Old School. Dude. Where '3 My
! still adores Third Rock: ‘It made me the man I am today. I don‘t have a an itinerant. shaven-haired teenager Car? and Road Trip. single bad word to say.’ However in terms of being an actor he says, Yvan (Gaspar Ulliel). The quartet takes Waiting owes its greatest debt to ‘TV and film are not similar at all. We were making a show for NBC refuge at an abandoned house. where an antecedent: the 1980 Chevy and NBC is owned by General Electric, so in the end, the authority is the clocks have stopped and where. in Chase/Bill Murray golfing comedy this nameless faceless hegemonic machine that is also in charge of the days that follow. Odile's parental Caddyshack. Character types - toasters, just as much as it is in charge of you. I believe that Third authority steadily weakens. the psychotic prankster. the Rock was a work of passion, despite, not because of, those Aided by Agnes Godard 's lush workaholic sleazy boss - are lifted circumstances.’ cinematography. the fairy tale-like wholesale from that film. But
Having been paid good money by General Electric he can new quality to the idyllic rural interlude. and : where Chase and Murray's comic
choose roles out of desire. He’d been attached to Brick for a number a screenplay which takes several i genius carried what was of years, as 27-year-old director Rian Johnson tried to muster up the unexpected paths. Strayed is a film of otherwise a series of sketches funds. It was a delay that Gordon-Levitt feels helped his performance. quietly assured intensity. Beart gives l flimsily disguised as a film, their He recalls, “We did a lot of rehearsals at Rian’s house. He would cook one of her best performances in recent i modern-day counterparts just
i and everyday different actors would come in and we would work on years as the strict mother cut adrift don’t have what it takes. It would
getting the lines to sound right. Luckily Rian was a good cook.’ On- from her familiar physical and help. of course, if there was a screen at least, the proof is in the pudding. emotional bearings. who reveals a I decent script. Alas, that's not on I Brick is at Cineworld Renfrew Street, GlangW. Cinewodd. Edinburgh and moving vulnerability. (T om Dawson) the menu. Cameo. Edinburgh from Fri 12 May. See review. page 41. I Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Fn' General release from Fri 19 May.
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