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Documentary film Run Granny Run is about a 94-year-old lady standing as a Democrat candidate for the senate. Here are five other great film geriatrics
Don Ameche In the 20 or so years before his death in 1993. Amerihe had become the Uber OAP in huge box Office hits Trading P/aces and Cocoon. His best late great perfOrmance was as shoe
STARDUST (Matthew Vaughn, UK, 2007) 130mm 0.
Lym‘ This Danish/US co-production is the first authorised Sh'ne' COme 899mg mafia do” in documentary feature about the great enigmatic filmmaker UaV'd Mamet's hugely enloyable
David Lynch. Shot in highly stylised black and white, the film offers 3 Things Change-
glimpse of Lynch at work behind the scenes on his last film Inland Jessica Tandy Veteran London-
Empire while also offering a Iikeable and amusing portrait of this great born actress of stage and screen
surrealist artist who refuses to quantify or explain his work. This film will Tandy was the oldest person ever
be showing with Allan Holt’s poetic animated short Canvas. to Win an Oscar. for her
I Cameo, ($.73; {-i‘iifz‘fl, .".i‘ Aug, .' . " rm. .t‘, .fi" ‘5 iii‘ performance in Driving Miss Daisy. Melvyn Douglas Legendary actor DOuglas is best remembered as the
man who made Greta Garbo laugh
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[his British till ii‘khuster adaptation of (Pedro COSIa/Chantal . Vanna». fltltt‘htl! and Ansha Ati'ahanr, m Nmotchka but hls portraits of Neil (‘iainian’s inanellous [.nglrsh figerwan/X/yangthg/AY'Sha ‘.‘.il|f'lt are intriguing hut rri it a‘l.'.a1.s elderly corruption m The Candi-date i, .- raam icene fantasy llii\.'t'l inks fantastii‘. it s . enearirn; .As '1 ex mat. a tii‘. “if a 4 ‘i rroull rn irri d h ) (\t r' h '1 Fe" AplChatpong weerasethakw' ‘urfite‘ '1 i t it 'it i " ‘hi 'i f( r * and Of course Being There are It} It. ( .3 (kl/IX}. ( ' \I. t 3‘» II f .< ‘.'((_tl ,i "if t ‘) \ Portugal, 2007) 101mm 000 ‘ t l ‘ U ecually unforgettable.
lai‘klustri: si‘ript iio written by Jane t‘ioldnian iMrs Jonathan Ross; and tfirei‘toi Matthew Vaughn. Despite fine art (firetitiorr make up and i‘ostunles. and an iniriressite transatlantii: east that ini‘ludes Sienna Miller; Peter
0' lodle. Hutiert Herett. Claire Danes. [\iIlt‘t‘a'ltt‘ l’feiffer and Robert De Niro_ t3arrnan's flight of tantas\ into the
are protein ri<;t‘.. l<>ri,l\.i1r‘i<it;tiirtr I i] MIN/7t infra}. (SIP-1X3"; .’-o' flag,
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Julien Guiomar The prolific French film and television actor seems to have been playing old
Ex DRUMMER men in the background for his
(Koen Momer whole life but IS hlS role as the 104mm ....' ' mysterious bed- or bath-bound
grandfather in French Canadian Jean Claude Lauzon's 1992 surreal masterpiece Leo/o that makes him a contender.
Edith Bouvier Beale In their remarkable documentary Grey Gardens. the Mayles Brothers
Basel on the degenerate noxel of the saint,- lldllli: h. the hugei, rioriii|ai heguiling niagii‘al land of taerie is all hut grounded and then huned ~ in the ill t‘oni‘eixed idea of treating the rnaterial \‘.‘|IIl the same 'rrioitkrie\'
F'lernrsh rio‘.'elist and poet Hernia.“ Bit sselrnans. I - [J'ux'nnie' is like a (:heifiklist V)? the Belgian '.‘.‘rlti-":.
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