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on Sunday the 24th of February, 2008
An impressive example of the vitality and the formal potential of silent cinema, the long-awaited second feature by Esteban Sapir is also welcome proof of the continuing attraction it has for contemporary film makers. Inspired by the cinema of ...
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Michael Jackson (Diego Luna) moonwalks, high kicks and yelps ‘yoo-hoos’ in the streets of Paris. While he is entertaining pensioners at a nursing home, Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) teeters by, and tells Michael of a haven for look-alikes ...
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Three adult brothers have had no contact with their father since he abandoned them in their childhood. The father has other sons by a second marriage. When he dies, bottled up conflicts break out between the half brothers, creating a spiral of ...
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Amidst lush fields and the idyllic landscape of a kibbutz in 1974, 12-year-old Dvir is entering his bar mitzvah year – a time for many initiations and trials. Dvir’s father is dead, his brother is away in the army, and his mother, Miri, ...
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At the age of four, Marla Olmstead became an art-world sensation when in 2004 a gallery in her hometown of Binghamton, New York, devoted a solo show to her abstract paintings. Soon collectors were lauding her talent and paying up to $15,000 a ...
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It’s hard to say quite how much one of the great, late masterpieces of the silent era, G.W. Pabst’s extraordinary, erotic and tragic adaptation/conflation of two Wedekind plays, Pandora’s Box, owes to the electrifying, photogenic and ...
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Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance trilogy – Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy, and Lady Vengeance – transformed him from South Korean cinema’s most promising visionary into an internationally revered auteur. The series also cemented his ...
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It has always been one of my favourite slots in the festival, I am one of many who is addicted to the annual pleasure of booking a ticket for about which I know absolutely nothing. For the uninitiated, the ritual starts with the growing sense of ...
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This years closing gala is the latest collaboration between director Declan Recks and award winning playwright Eugene O’Brien. Following on from the massive success of their television miniseries Pure Mule, Eden manages to sidestep the many ...
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