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on Wednesday the 20th of February, 2008
Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy is the work of a man helplessly in love with the theatre. In a gloriously entertaining period piece, he tells the story of the genesis, preparation and presentation of a comic opera – Gilbert and Sullivan’s The ...
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Sandra Kogut’s first feature, Mutum, explores the spaces and stories that children invent to try to understand the actions and words of the adults in their lives. Based on a popular Brazilian novel by João Guimarães Rosa, Mutum shows us the ...
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I consider this to be my first real video work, where I finally mastered video. I was just collecting footage, just filming because I’m always with a camera in my pocket. And then my friends began asking, “So, how is your life in Greenpoint? ...
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Introvert Joosep is the butt of crude jokes from his classmates who are irritated by his taciturn nature. The only support he has comes from Kaspar, whom he sits next to in class. Anders, the leader of a gang, steps up his behaviour towards both ...
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Jan Díte has one ambition: to be a millionaire. And he has only one notion of how to achieve this: to be the best maitre d’ at the flashiest hotel. Or at least at the best brothel. Or, for that matter, in Nazi human breeding camps… ...
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Sergei Bodrov has fulfilled a long-time dream in bringing the heart-wrenching story of one of the great rulers of the Mongol Dynasty to the screen. The tale of how a young boy ascended to become Khan centres Bodrov’s epic tale of love and ...
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Smoking proves hazardous to a man’s health, but not for the customary reasons, in the rewardingly Kafkaesque Tres Bién, Merci. Compact and pleasingly perverse, this cautionary tale about stepping out of line is a slyly entertaining look at ...
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A towering presence in the world of post-World War II cinema, Andrzej Wajda has spent his career analysing in great detail Poland’s gradual social and political evolution with a considerable amount of sensitivity while maintaining an ...
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The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is delighted to present the European Premiere of U2 3D. For over a quarter-century, U2 has been recognised not only for their musical invention, but for their incomparable ...
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Say the name Maria Callas and a multitude of associations come to mind: diva extraordinaire; one of the greatest opera stars the world has ever known; lover of Aristotle Onassis; fashion icon. Callas was a larger-than-life personality, still ...
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Like his Oscar-winning Kolya, Jan Sverák’s new film stars and is scripted by his father, Zdenek Sverák. Past retirement age, schoolteacher Josef Tkaloun finds he no longer understands his pupils and decides to resign. However, unaccustomed ...
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Husband and wife team Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen may just be the golden couple of Israeli cinema right now following the success of Jellyfish. The film, which was awarded the prestigious Camera d’Or at Cannes for best debut, is a ...
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