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manages to combine box office success with artistic merit. This cult hip hit of its year has Slater and Ryder starting a suicide craze to muscle in on the cliquey Heathers running the joint. Tune in, turn on, drop dead. Glasgow Film Theatre.
✽✽ Hobo with a Shotgun (18) ●●●●● (Jason Eisener, Canada/US, 2011) Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells. 86min. See review, page 62. Selected release. Holy Rollers (15) ●●●●● (Kevin Asch, US, 2010) Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A Abeckaser. 88min. See review, page 62. Selected release. Home + Find (PG) (Mark Huskisson, Scotland, 2008) 90min. Documentary about Scottish mountain bike riders and their breathtaking tracks and trails. This screening will be followed by Find, a documentary following some of the world’s most passionate bikers in the most beautiful places. Macrobert, Stirling. Honey 2 (12A) ●●●●● (Bille Woodruff, US, 2011) Katerina Graham, Audrina Patridge, Mario López. 110min. Belated sequel to 2003 drama about dancer and choreographer Honey Daniels. Her spirit lives on in talented Bronx girl Maria (Graham). General release. How I Ended This Summer (12A) ●●●●● (Aleksei Popogrebsky, Russia, 2010) Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich. 124min. Thriller/drama about the travails of a meteorological team based in the Arctic. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Hubble 3D (U) (Toni Meyers, Canada, 2010) 44min. Leonardo Di Caprio narrates the latest 3D IMAX space adventure. IMAX Theatre, Glasgow. Huge (15) ●●●●● (Ben Miller, UK, 2010) Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Oliver Chris. 78min. See Also Released, page 64. Selected release. Human Rights Activism and Filmmaking (Various) 30min. This screening, follwed by a panel discussion on human rights activism and filmmaking, features Robert Vas’s Refuge England, featuring the experiences of an Hungarian refugee in 1950s London, and Mobile Men, detailing the experiences of Jaii, a migrant worker from Burma. Part of Journeys of Courage season. Glasgow Film Theatre. The Illusionist (PG) ●●●●● (Neil Burger, Czech Republic/US, 2006) Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel. 109min. The second film in as many months about magic in early 20th century Europe, The Illusionist is odder and more romantic than Christopher Nolan’s superior The Prestige, telling an old fashioned story of a master magician Eisenheim’s (Norton) attempts to beat the violence and corruption of the age he lives in. Part of Magic Cinema season. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. The Illusionist (12A) ●●●●● (Sylvain Chomet, UK/France, 2010) Voices: Jean- Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin. 83min. The product of five years’ work in an animation studio that Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) set up in Edinburgh when he fell in love with the capital after attending its International Film Festival, this is an uncannily accurate portrayal of Edinburgh and Scotland. The story is an unfilmed script from Jacques Tati and the main character, an ageing magician whose beloved act no longer interests the rock’n’rolling 1950s youth, is based somewhat on Tati himself and is carefully and emotively rendered by Chomet and his team. Part of Magic Cinema season. Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
✽✽ Incendies (15) ●●●●● (Denis Villeneuve, Canada/France, 2010)
Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. 130min. Set in the Middle East and dramatising an endless cycle of violence and retribution, this slow-burning detective story dispenses with large chunks
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Selected: Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network and Videoclub
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Selected is a new collection of artists’ films and videos touring the UK, and the first one to reach Scotland will showcase the choices of the four shortlisted artists for the 2010 Film London Jarman Award – Ben Rivers, Emily Wardill, Zineb Sedira and Spartacus Chetwynd. These artists have selected work by up-and- coming filmmakers, and have put them together in a stimulating package. ■ CCA, Glasgow on Thu 23 Jun.
of dialogue from the very talky play and replaces them with a series of striking and very cinematic images. Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Invisible (18) (Roz Mortimer, UK, 2006) 63min. A sensitive portrayal of the lives of Inuit tribes in the High Arctic, looking at how the technological advancements of their southern brethren affect their living conditions. CCA, Glasgow. Island (tbc) ●●●●● (Elizabeth Mitchell, Brek Taylor, UK, 2011) Natalie Press, Colin Morgan, Janet McTeer. 96min. A young woman, scarred by a lifetime in care, confronts the mother who abandoned her as a baby in a journey of revenge. The Hippodrome, Bo’ness. Jason and The Argonauts (U) ●●●●● (Don Chaffey, UK, 1964) Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond. 103min. Totally brill adventure yarn as our hero Jason sets out to retrieve the legendary golden fleece and is helped by a number of the gods on Olympus along the way. Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion effects remain among the best of his career, most notably the final conflict with an army of skeletal soldiers. Part of Bernard Herrmann season. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Jazz on a Summer’s Day (PG) ●●●●● (Bert Stern, US, 1959) Anita O’Day, Thelonious Monk, George Shearing. 85min. Influential film from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival features performances by Chuck Berry, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong and Thelonius Monk. This screening is introduced by jazz and film journalist Alison Kerr. Part of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Glasgow Film Theatre. Jig (PG) ●●●●● (Sue Bourne, UK, 2011) 97min. Though undoubtedly a work of intense research and hard work, this documentary about the Irish dancing World Championships lacks context and conflict and drags when it ought to have you rooting for the winners. The Hippodrome, Bo’ness.
Julia’s Eyes (Los Ojos de Julia) (15) ●●●●● (Guillem Morales, Spain, 2010) Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui. 112min. A woman investigates the death of her twin sister while slowly losing her sight. Does the ‘invisible man’ she senses really exist and is he responsible? Mediocre horror produced by Guillermo del Toro. The Hippodrome, Bo’ness. Kaboom (15) ●●●●● (Gregg Araki, US/France, 2010) Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka. 86min. Smith (Dekker) is a college student in California who lusts after his surfer roommate Thor (Zylka). One night, things take a bizarre turn and he begins to believe he is at the centre of a giant conspiracy. Unbridled fun. Glasgow Film Theatre; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. King Kong (PG) ●●●●● (Merian C Cooper, US, 1933) Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray. 100min. A film producer on safari brings back a souvenir monster which terrorises New York in one of the all time great monster movies. Amazingly, the special effects still impress, but the film achieves classic status by successfully transposing the story of beauty and the beast into a Hollywood blockbuster movie. Sloans, Glasgow. The King’s Speech (15) ●●●●● (Tom Hooper, UK, 2010) Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush. 118min. As war approaches, King George VI (Firth) is suddenly placed in a position of power, so hires a speech therapist to cure his speech impediment. Firth’s affable persona lends an edge to the sheer frustration with which the King stumbles his way through public performances and contributes largely to the film’s feel-good twist. Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh. Kuhle Wampe (15) ●●●●● (Slatan Dudow, Germany, 1932) 74min. Conceived by Bertolt Brecht, this film, the only communist film ever to come out of Weimer Germany, concerns a family who leave Berlin during the height of the depression for a former holiday camp that now houses the dispossessed. Part of New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema season. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Kung Fu Panda 2 2D (PG) ●●●●● (Jennifer Yuh, US, 2011) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan. 90min. Sequel to the popular animated comedy about the martial arts master in a chubby panda body (voiced by Black). General release.
Kung Fu Panda 2 3D (PG) ●●●●● (Jennifer Yuh, US, 2011) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan. 90min. See above. General release. Larry Crowne (12A) (Tom Hanks, US, 2011) Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston. 98min. See Also Released, page 64. General release. Last Night (12A) ●●●●● (Massy Tadjedin, US/France, 2010) Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes. 90min. A husband and wife are each tempted by another on the same night. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Last Year in Marienbad (12A) ●●●●● (Alain Resnais, France/Italy, 1961) Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. 94min. See Also Released, page 64. Selected release. Life in a Day (12A) ●●●●● (Kevin Macdonald, US, 2011) 95min. This YouTube project, directed by Kevin Macdonald, asked people around the world to make a film of their life on a specific day, 24 July 2010. From the 80,000 videos submitted, Macdonald and his army of editors have meticulously crafted this overwhelmingly positive, indeed joyful mix of disparate lives. Selected release.
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