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Elegy ( 15) O... (Isabel ('oixet. 2008) Ben Kingsley. Penelope Cruz. Dennis Hopper. 1 12min. ('oixet‘s take
on Roth‘s novella The Dying Animal is a fine and delicate adaptation. Ageing college professor and w omaniser [)ay‘id Kepesh (Kingsley) plucks young woman (‘onsuela (Cruz) out of his literature class and embarks on an affair. his growing loye for her forcing him to confront his own future and impending old age. Selected release. Elite Squad (Tropa d’Elite) I Is) 0... (Jose I’adilha. Bra/il. 2007) Wagner Moura. Andre Ramiro. (‘aio Junqueira. ll-tmin. This compelling thriller is set in I997 Rio de Janeiro. months before a visit from Pope John Paul II. The rundown housing schemes are mired in drugs. violence and police corruption. It is time for the city's ultra-Violent B()I’Ii. the city 's militarily trained elite police squad to step up their game. Powerful. mature tilmmaking styled with a brutal clarity. See profile. page 1"? Glasgow l‘tlltl lllt'tlll‘t’. (ilaxgmi _' (tuner). Edinburgh. Female Agents 1 )5) 00. tJean- Paul Salome. Iirance. 2008) Sophie Marceau. Julie I)epardieu. .\larie (iillain. I l7min. Allegedly based on a true story: in spring I944 (‘hurchill oyersees a suicidal sabotage and rescue mission by female members of the I‘rench Resistance - a showgirl ((iillain). an explosiyes expert ([)eboi‘ali Francois). a prostitute (Depardieu). a radio operator (Maya Sansa) and their leader (Marceati). Salome is an arch stylist and copy ist but beyond the handful of great performances this feels like another po-faced TV mini series: interesting but pedestrian. (amen. lz'iliiiliareli. The Fox and the Child it') .00 (Luc Jacquet. Iirance. 2007) Voice of Kate Winslet. Bertille Noel-Bruneau. Thomas Laliberte. 92min. .'\ giggly eight-year-old French child (Noel-Bruneau) strikes up a friendship with a fox she meets on the way home from school. This marks a step forward in narrative storytelling for Jacquet. who successfully depicts the fox as a wild and uncontrolled force in a non-I)isney
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manner. An often beguiling account of how mankind and animals can exist in harmony. (leltel‘al release.
Get Real ( l5) 0.. (Simon Shore. l'K. I999) Ben Silyerstonc. ('harlotte Brittain. 110mm. Sixteen-year-old Stey en who juggles the tw in pressures of home and school life in Basingstoke. while coming to terms with his homosexuality. (‘omparisons with 1995's feelgood comedy li’eaiai/al llIlIIQ are iney itable. Special screening to coincide with I‘ringe theatre adaptation of this film. (amen. lit/iiiliia‘eli.
Get Smarti I2.'\l tl’eter Segal. IS. 2008) Stey e (’arcll. Anne Ilathaway. Dwayne Johnson. I l0min. Remake of the classic I9()()s TV series. ('arrel plays inept secret seryice analyst Maxwell Smart. When the IS spy agency headquarters are attacked. Smart finally gets the chance to proy e himself as a field agent. Prey iew s only. .S't'lt’t‘lt'tl I't‘lt'uu’.
God Tussi Great Ho t 12A) tRumi Jaffery. India. 2008) Amitabh Bachchan. Salman Khan. .\Ianisha Koirala. I25min. \Vhen successful Indian TV anchorman .'\run (Khan) loses his job he blames (iod. So (iod (w ho else but the omnipresent Bachchan) decides to giye him a chance at running things for a week. Bollywood remake of Iiil I'S comedy It’rut‘e .Iliiiielily. (.lIH'HUI'lt/ lt’t’Il/I'eu .Sll‘t't'l. (iltnwm .‘ (‘i/teii'urlil lat/ailiia'glt. [Jam/wry). Hancock I DA) 000 tl’etcr Berg. l'S. 2008) Will Siiiitl). (’harIi/e 'I‘heron. Jason Bateman. 92min. Smith plays a nihilistic superhero who has fallen out of fayottr with the public. Due to this scenario. Ilaneaek dangerously flirts with the status of one-joke film. Ania/ingly. though. Hancock is then rescued iboth as a character and as a film) by PR executiye Ray Iimbrey (Bateman). who belieyes he can turn Hancock's public image from left) It) liL‘l‘t). (it’llt’l’tll I't'lt'tlyt'.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad .00 112A) tSut’ntHlt .-\I\ i/l'xldy .\Ioretti. l'S/(‘anadtr 2007) 84min. In 2003 lire maga/ine ran a feature about Iraq‘s only metal band .-\crassicauda. With the help of
Commendable big screen version of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s children’s fantasy book series. There are
the magazine team the hard-rocking friends put on a sell-out show in the summer of 2005. This film documents the team's lamentable return to Iraq a year later. where they find the band separated by war and a nation in ruin. :I( [cilia/Magi).
Hellboy II: The Golden Army ( IZA) ((iuillermo del ‘l-ot't'o. [8. 2008) Roll I’erlman. John Hurt. Selma Blair. l 19min. The ghoulie-busting red brute is back with new enemies and new friends. This time out director (iuillet‘tito Del Tom has. allegedly. giy'en himself a freer reign oy'er artist and writer .\Iike Mignola's original creations so expect extreme \‘lsllitl madness and much more. Rey'iew ed next issue. (ieneral release. Horton Hears a Who! it‘) .00 (Jimmy llay ward. Stey'e Martino. IS. 2008) Voices of Jim ('arrey. Steye ('arell. 8bmin. .'\nimators Blue Sky take a break from their ongoing lee :tee franchise to colourfully realise the universe of Dr Seuss' text. Both (‘arrey and ('arrell are allowed full rein for their brand of \oeal mugging as co-directors Hayward and Martino skilfully guide Harlan towards a comforting moral about si/e not being all that important. (‘ineimrltl I’arllieail. Glasgow; ('iiiewurltl Ifiliiilmreli. lz'ilinliargli.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown it‘)
0.. ((‘arlos Saldanha. IS. 2000) Voices of Ray Romano. John I.egui/amo. Denis Leary. Seann William Scott. 90min. Iinjoyable follow -up to the (’anadian 2002 animated feature. l.arr\ Sanders and Simpsaas scribe Jot) Vitti picks tip the writing reins with aplomb as Manfred. Sid and Diego face their biggest challenge to date the end DI. the Ice :\ge. lint/ilrt' ('ly‘ilelianls. ('ly'ileliaiik
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I l-lmin. The experiences of a WWII destroy er and its crew are rey isited after the ship has been stink. The tale is told through flashbacks highlighting in particular the effects of bombardment on community spirit. Part of lean season. I’ll/)iliaase. lat/ailmrelt.
Journey to The Center of The Earth (I’(i) 0.. (Iiric Brey'ig. IS. 2008) Brendan Fraser. Josh Ilutcherson. Anita Briem. 92min. Iinjoy ably silly adventure based on the classic Jules Verne noy'el starring Fraser flltt’ .tliminiy) as a science professor whose renegade theories are held in contempt by the academic community. ()1) an expedition in Iceland. he stumbles upon a discovery that is to be the beginning of his journey deep betteth the Iiarth's surface. Selected release. Kidulthood ( 15) .0. (Menhaj Iluda. I'K. 2006) Aml Ameen. Red Madrell. Noel Clarke. Jamie Winstone. 91min. Set in west London. Kala/Ilium! starts off with a girl being bullied at school. Later that ey'etting she hangs herself and from there the film follows the reaction of her classmates in the ensuing 24 hours. Half-arsed. torrid youth drama set amongst the hoodie brigade. Highlights include Jamie ‘daughter of Ray' Winstone's \‘ic‘iotts turn as the school slapper and Brian Billy [filial 'I‘ufano‘s suitany adolescent but llttoblt‘ttsiy‘e cinematography. ('ameo. [cilia/Hugh. Kung Fu Panda (PG) 000 (Mark ()sborne. John Stevenson. ISA. 2008) Voices of Jack Black. Jackie Chan. Angelina Jolie. 91min. ()yerweight panda Po (Black)_joins his heroes. the Iiierce Iiiye. in a butt—kicking adventure when the valley of peace is threatened with the return of bad kung fu master. Tai Lung tMcShane). This is l)reamworks-does-manga animation. oy'et‘laid with an Iiastern \ersion of the fated place-iii-the-uniyerse style philosophy originally trademarked in The 1.1m) Kine. (ielteral release.
The Land Before Time tt') 000 (Don Bltith. I'S. I989) 86min. Animated feature from Disney graduate Bluth follows the fortunes of orphaned Brontosaurus Littlefoot. who loses his mum to the claw s of a nasty Tyrannosaurus Rex before teaming up with a gang of similarly parentless wee dinos to undertake the hazardous journey across country to the safety of the (ireat Valley. ('lassicaIIy drawn and chockful of edifying moral lessons. this
strange goings on at the rundown Spiderwick estate where newly divorced mum Helen (Mary Louise Parker) and her children (Freddie Highmore and Sarah Bolger) have just moved. Wittin adapted by David Elf Berenbaum and the legendary writer/director
John Sayles, this is a cut above your average family fantasy film. The Glasgow screenings are part of the Take 2 Scheme, which means that Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders get in free (with an accompanying adult, who also gets in free). Otherwise all tickets are just £3. The GFT screening