Film INDEX
Gilda (PG) ●●●●● (Charles Vidor, US, 1946) Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready. 110min. New digital print of Vidor’s stunning 1946 film noir starring Hayworth as the sensuous moll and Ford as her old flame. Plenty of innuendo and sexual ambiguity from the lens that was later to bring us Last Tango in Paris. Glasgow Film Theatre; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (PG) (Kevin Tancharoen, US, 2011) Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Matthew Morrison. 83min. Concert documentary shot during the immensely popular TV show’s summer 2011 tour. General release. Goodbye Solo (15) ●●●●● (Ramin Bahrani, US, 2008) Red West, Souleymane Sy Savane Diana Franco Galindo. 91min. Bahrani continues with his highly successful less-is-more approach to filmmaking, using authentic locations and non-professional actors to portray and comment on the lives of those on the margins of American society. His latest effort is an evocative and eventually transcendent depiction of a relationship between an elderly white Southerner (West) and a Senegalese taxi driver (Souleymane). Filmhouse, Edinburgh. The Guard (15) ●●●●● (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland, 2011) Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham. 96min. Cliché ridden comedy thriller about a belligerent Galway police officer (Gleeson) who has to buddy up to a slick CIA officer (Cheadle) in order to catch some ruthless drug smugglers. Selected release. The Hangover Part II (15) ●●●●● (Todd Phillips, US, 2011) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Chung. 101min. Hair of the dog anyone? Those bad boys from The Hangover head to Thailand for more rum, sodomy and the lash. Cameo, Edinburgh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2D (12A) ●●●●● (David Yates, UK/US, 2011) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint. 130min. The end has arrived for Harry and happily the last installment really satisfies with its breakneck pacing, breathtaking set- pieces and a genuinely heart-warming ending. General release. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 3D (12A) ●●●●● (David Yates, UK/US, 2011) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint. 130min. See above. General release. Heavenly Creatures (18) ●●●●● (Peter Jackson, New Zealand, 1994) Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse. 98min. In 1952, New Zealand was shocked by the murder of Honora Parker by her teenage daughter and a schoolfriend. Introduced by a The Light Thief
special guest of Lock Up Your Daughters. Glasgow Film Theatre.
✽✽ The Hedgehog (12A) ●●●●● (Mona Achache, France/Italy, 2009) Josianne Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa. 100min. See review, page 99. Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre.
✽✽ Homegrown (E) (Robert McFalls, US, 2008) 52min. Documentary about
a family living off-grid with their own urban quarter-acre producing food for themselves and their friends and all the biodiesel and solar power they need. This is a special bike-powered outdoor screening, with hands-on food-growing fun and storytelling before the film. Part of Take One Action Film Festival. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Horizontal 8 (8 w poziomie) (18) (Grzegorz Lipiec, Poland, 2008) Ewa Golebiowswka, Tomasz Burka, Ewa Pajak. 90min. Influenced by Dogme and Tarantino, this follows the path of a banknote and the stories of those whose path it crosses. Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre. Horrible Bosses (15) ●●●●● (Seth Gordon, US, 2011) Jennifer Anniston, Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx. 97min. Three downtrodden employees (Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) hatch a plan to kill off their bosses, swapping murders to conceal their guilt. There’s a smattering of blackly comic lines and situations that keep this film watchable but it’s let down by a lack of chemistry between the central trio. General release. Horrid Henry: The Movie 2D (U) ●●●●● (Nick Moore, UK, 2011) Theo Stevenson, Anjelica Huston, Richard E Grant. 92min. Big screen off-shoot of popular British children’s television show about a naughty boy and some pretty scary adults. Selected release. The House of Mirth (PG) ●●●●● (Terence Davies, UK, 2000) Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Anthony LaPaglia. 140min. Davies’ superb screen adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, filmed in Glasgow, makes it clear that beneath the well-bred skin of New York society at the turn of the century lurks a remorseless savagery. Glasgow Film Theatre. Huge (15) ●●●●● (Ben Miller, UK, 2010) Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Oliver Chris. 78min. Mildly diverting comedy-drama about a feuding comedy double act, directed and co-written by comedian and panel show regular Miller. Macrobert, Stirling. In a Better World (Hævnen) (15) ●●●●● (Susanne Bier, Denmark/Sweden, 2010) Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard. 119min. This Oscar winning melodrama juxtaposes the brutalities
of experiences of a Swedish surgeon Anton (Persbrandt) in an African refugee camp with those of his son Elias (Rygaard) who is being badly bullied at school. When Elias is befriended by a new student at school the line between tormentors and tormented begins to be blurred. Selected release. The Inbetweeners Movie (15) (Ben Palmer, UK, 2011) Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas. 96min. School has ended for the hapless teens, so Will, Jay, Neil and Simon take their first boys-only holiday. See review at list.co.uk/film. General release. I Don’t Know How She Does It (tbc) ●●●●● (Douglas McGrath, US, 2011) Sarah Jessica Parker, Christina Hendricks, Pierce Brosnan. See Also Released, page 99. General release. Ironclad (15) ●●●●● (Jonathan English, UK/US, 2011) Brian Cox, Paul Giamatti, Derek Jacobi. 121min. William de Albany (Cox) and his bunch of misfits hole themselves up in Rochester Castle, under siege from King John (Giamatti on gloriously tyrannical form). Set in 1215, this brutal history lesson examines the months following the creation of the Magna Carta. Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh.
✽✽ Jane Eyre (PG) ●●●●● (Cary Fukunaga, UK/US, 2011) Mia
Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench. 121min. See review, page 97. General release. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (PG) (John Schultz, US, 2011) Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham, Preston Bailey. 91min. See Also Released, page 99. General release. Kill List (18) ●●●●● (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2011) Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson. 95min. See review, page 97. General release. Kind Hearts and Coronets (PG) ●●●●● (Robert Hamer, UK, 1949) Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson. 106min. Blacker than black Ealing comedy has a suave and sophisticated Price killing off an entire family tree (all played by Guinness) in order to move himself closer to the d’Ascoyne family title. Low-key cynicism and disarming callousness make it a true gem of British post-war cinema. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Knut Asdam: Tripoli and Abyss (tbc) (Knut Asdam, Various, 2010) 67min. Two shorter films by Norwegian film and video artist Asdam. The first, Tripoli, is part architectural documentary and part historical drama, dealing with the destruction of an ambitious building project during the Lebanese civil war of 1975. The second film deals with the travels of a character through an ever-changing urban landscape. CCA, Glasgow.
Don’t miss these rare screenings of Kyrgyzstan writer/director Aktan Arym Kubat’s tender and thought provoking film about one electrician’s quest to bring light where there is none. ■ GFT, Glasgow on Fri 16 and Sat 17 Sep. 102 THE LIST 25 Aug–22 Sep 2011
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). Selected release. Labyrinth (U) ●●●●● (Jim Henson, US, 1986) David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Thompson. 101min. A teenage girl has her baby brother kidnapped by the King Of The Goblins, and so has to enter the fiendish labyrinth to get him back. Not bad family feature, with plenty of furry creatures to keep the kids happy. Sloans, Glasgow. Last Year in Marienbad (12A) ●●●●● (Alain Resnais, France/Italy, 1961) Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. 94min. Resnais’ seminal abstract 1961 love story gets a new lease of life on cleaned up print in this evocative and enigmatic tale of a man who meets a woman in a rambling hotel, and believes he had an affair with her the previous year. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. The Lavender Hill Mob (U) ●●●●● (Charles Crichton, UK, 1951) Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James. 78min. Charming Ealing comedy that has mild-mannered bank clerk Guinness being dragged into a gold bullion robbery. Smashing satire and cracking car chase. Filmhouse, Edinburgh; The Hippodrome, Bo’ness. The Light Thief (15) ●●●●● (Aktan Arym Kubat, France/Kyrgyzstan/Germany/ Netherlands, 2010) Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov. 80min. Comedy drama about electricity and minor and major corruption in a small village in Kyrgyzstan. Glasgow Film Theatre. A Lonely Place to Die (15) ●●●●● (Julian Gilbey, UK, 2011) Melissa George, Sean Harris, Ed Speelers. 99min. See review, page 98 and profile at list.co.uk/film Selected release. Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (15) ●●●●● (Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach, US, 2008) Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Jean- Louis Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois. 99min. Louise Bourgeois’s work and play is documented here. Her connection with childhood traumas fuelled much of her work, including her famous huge spiders. Glasgow Film Theatre. Mr Popper’s Penguins (PG) ●●●●● (Mark Waters, US, 2011) Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino. 94min. Family comedy starring Carrey as Mr Popper, a humourless businessman who inherits six penguins. The penguins turn his posh New York apartment into a winter wonderland and they change his life in ways he never imagined. This likeable adaptation of popular book was controversially filmed on a refrigerated sound stage with real Emperor Penguins. General release. My Name is Joe (15) ●●●●● (Ken Loach, UK, 1998) Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay. 105min. My Name Is Joe’s blend of comedy, social drama, love interest and tense thriller make for a more accessible movie than we’d normally expect from Loach. Recovering alcoholic Joe Kavanagh (Mullan) meets and falls in love with health visitor Sarah (Goodall), but his well-intentioned scheme to get a young friend out of the grip of a vicious drug dealer looks likely to backfire on everyone he cares for. Glasgow Film Theatre. Mystification (Mistyfikacja) (15) (Jacek Koprowicz, Poland, 2010) Jerzy Stuhr, Maciej Stuhr, Ewa Blaszczyk. 120min. A study of the life of Stanislaw ‘Witkacy’ Witkiewicz, one of Poland’s premier avant-garde poet/artists, who committed suicide in 1939. Part of Play Poland Festival. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. One Day (12A) ●●●●● (Lone Sherfig, UK/US, 2011) Jim Sturgess, Anne hathaway. 108min. Broadly entertaining adaptation of David Nicholls’ much loved novel about student pals and almost ran lovers Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess). An Education director Sherfig sacrifices a lot of the book’s charm and incidental detail for a kind of kaleidoscopic sweep through the last twenty years but it’s still enjoyable. General release.