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Films screening this fortnight are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. Film index compiled by Paul Dale
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The Air I Breathe ( 15) oo (Jieho Lee. Mexico/US. 2007) Forest Whitaker. Kevin Bacon. Jon Bemthal. 95min. See review. page 53. Seleered release from Fri If) May.
Alien Adventure 30 (U) coco (Ben Strassen. Japan. 200l ) Voice of John Boyle. Bouli Lanners. 37min. An alien race looking for a planet to colonise find earth and unfortunately enter a theme park where they cause much amusing mayhem. IMAX Theatre. Glasgow.
Billy Liar ( l2) 0... (John Schlesinger. UK. 1963) Tom Courtenay. Julie Christie. Rodney Bewes. 98min. Vintage northem kitchen sink drama based on Keith Waterhouse's popular book. An undertaker's clerk slips in and out of a Walter Mitty—style fantasy world to escape the drudgery of life in a northern town. The spirit of the swinging 60s is captured in Christie. while Courtenay brings a warmth and sensitivity to the tale. Scotsman
Se eenin g Room. Edinburgh. * Caramel (PG) 0... (Nadine Labaki. France/Lebanon. 2007) Nadine Labaki. Jasmine Al Masri. 95min. See review. page 53 and profile. page 60.. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow Cashback ( l5) coo (Sean lillis. UK. 2006) Sean Biggerstaff. Emilia Fox. Michelle Ryan. 102min. See review. page 5|. General release from Fri 9 May. Charlie Bartlett ( l5) 0” (Jolt Poll. UK. 2007) Anton Yelchin. Robert Downey Jr. Hope Davis. 96min. See review. page 52. .S'elei'led release front Fri 9 May. Cinétracts ( 15) (Various. France. 1968) 20min. Deeply entrenched in late 1960s French thought. these vignettes aim to capture the spirit of the May Revolutions. Rather than use documentary footage these films are comprised of stills. a staccato technique used by the supposedly anonymous filmmakers to heighten the effect of their agit-prop. Part of Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film and Video. Film/rouse. Edinburgh. Dead Society ( E) (Thomas 'I‘oivonen. Sweden. 2007) 55min. 'lhis green anarchist film features a telephone interview with anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan who discusses his views on the earth. freeganism. self-defence. wind turbines and the state's war on our bodies. ACE. Edinburgh. Deception (2008 ) oo (Marcel Langenegger. US. I5) iiwan McGregor. Hugh Jackman. Michelle Williams. 1 17min. 'lltis turgid sub-Hitchcockian nonsense features McGregor as accountant Jonathan. who is bored and lonely until he meets lawyer Wyatt (Jackman). Wyatt introduces him to the dark pleasures of a sex club called The List but Jonathan is soon over his head when he becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of a mysterious young woman (Williams). General release. Deep Sea 30 (PG) (Howard Hall. Canada/US. 2006) Voices of Johnny Depp. Kate Winslet. 4lmin. A 3-D digital exploration of the ocean‘s depths and its creatures. IMAX Theatre. Glasgow. Detruisez-vous ( 15) con (Serge Bard. France. I968) Alain Jouffroy. Caroline de Bendren. 75min. Foreshadowing the violent 1968 call to action. Bard‘s arresting film follows a loose narrative interspersed with visual jolts and moving theatrical tableaux. Filmed at month before the student riots. this film derives its title from the revolutionary slogan ‘llelp us. destroy yourselves‘ and was one of the first to be produced by the radical Zanzibar group. Part of Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film and Video. Film/rouse. Edinburgh. The Devil’s Backbone ( IS) 00000 ((iuillenno del Toro. Spain. 200i ) Marisa Paredes. Federico Luppi. liduardo de Noriega. |07min. In del Toro‘s expertly- crafted ghost tale set during Spain's Civil War. a young Carlos is brought to a remote orphanage presided over by an odd elderly
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And it’s farewell to Anthony Minghella (picutred left on the set of The English Patient). Generous, kind and genuinely egalitarian, Minghella was by all
accounts one of the good guys of British cinema. The director died in March at the relatively young age of 54
following complications brought on by surgery. He leaves behind a body of TV and film work from 1990’s Truly Madly Deeply to this year’s The N01 Ladies’ Detective Agency. This one-off screening of his most critically and commercially successful film marks his passing.
I Fi/mhouse, Edinburgh, Sat 70 May.
couple (Luppi and l’aredes). and haunted by the ghost of another orphan. A powerful political backdrop is seamlessly interwoven with a strong religious subtext. and there are numerous cultural references including the surreal imagery of Salvador Dali and the Victorian (iothic writings of MR James. (iloriously photographed by Almodovar‘s cinematographer Guillermo Navarro. this is brilliant visual. allegorical storytelling.
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Dinosaurs Alive 3D (U ) (David Clark/Hayley Silleck. US. 2007) 40min. Follow palaeontologists as they scour the globe for sortie fantastic dinosaur finds. then watch the creatures burst into 3D life. IMAX Theatre. Glasgow:
Doomsday ( 18) oo (Neil Marshall. UK/US/South Africa. 2008) Rhona Mitra. Malcolm McDowell. Bob Hoskins. I08min. See review. page 50. General releasefrom Fri 9 May.
The 11th Hour(l’(i) ooo (Leila Conners Petersen/Nadia Conners. US. 2007) 95min. Leonardo DiCaprio's well researched and compelling documentary about environmental damage. Glasgow Film lllr’tllri'. Glasgow
The Empire Exhibition 1938: Films in Scotland (PG) (Various. UK. Various) 90min. A rare screening of seven of the dm‘umentaries sponsored by the Films of Scotland Committee and produced primarily for the I938 iimpire Exhibition. The purpose of these films was to promote Scotland both nationally and intemationally. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow Enchanted (PG) D. (Kevin Lima. US. 2007) Amy Adams. Patrick Dempsey. James Marsdcn. 107mm. Two fairytale characters struggle to find each other and make it in the ‘real‘ world in this mix of live
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