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Days Of Glory and The Page Turner
Apart From That
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jennifer Shainin, Randy Walker; Writer: Jennifer Shainin, Randy Walker; Stars: Susan Alotrico, Tony Cladoosby,
Kyle Conyers, Alice Ellingson,
Toan Le, Jessica
Marlowe-Goldstein, Kathleen
McNearney, Michael Sheiman,
Gary Schoonveld, Kwami Taha)
An exploration of the lives of a group of partygoers.
The Boss Of It All (Direktøren for det hele)
(Country: Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Germany; Year: 2006; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Lars von Trier; Stars: Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Benedikt Erlingsson, Iben Hjejle, Henrik Prip, Mia Lyhne, Casper Christensen, Louise Mieritz, Jean-Marc Barr, Sofie Gråbøl, Anders Hove, Lars von Trier), Trailer
An IT company trying to sell up hires an actor to pose as its president.
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
(Country: USA; Year: 2005; Director: Tim Burton; Writer: John August, based on the book by Roald Dahl; Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee, Adam Godley, Franziska Troegner, Annasophia Robb, Julia Winter, Jordan Fry, Philip Wiegratz, Blair Dunlop)
Extravagant remake of the Roald Dahl story about a boy who wins a Golden Ticket visit to an eccentric millionaire's sweet factory.
Days Of Glory (Indigènes)
(Country: France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium; Year: 2006; Director: Rachid Bouchareb; Writer: Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle; Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet)
Four North African men join the French army to fight the Nazis, but will their deeds be remembered?
Fast Food Nation
(Country: UK/US; Year: 2006; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Eric Schlosser, Richard Linklater, based on the book by Eric Schlosser; Stars: Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Cannavale, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancon, Luis Guzman, Frank Ertl, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Armando Hernandez, Michael Conway)
Exposing the beef burger industry as bacteria friendly, with blood in the boardroom and illegals in the slaughterhouse.
Scene and The Boss Of It All
Ghosts Of Cité Soleil
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2006; Director: Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic; Writer: Asger Leth; Stars: Winson '2Pac' Jean, Wyclef Jean, James 'Bily' Petit Frère, Éleonore 'Lele' Senlis)
A look at the lives and origins of the young gangsters who control Haiti's shanty towns.
Half Nelson
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Ryan Fleck; Writer: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck; Stars: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Monique Curnen, Karen Chilton, Tina Holmes, Collins Pennie, Deborah Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Bryce Silver, Sebastian Sozzi)
A drug-addicted teacher is befriended by a student.
The House Of Mirth
(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies, based on the novel by Edith Wharton; Stars: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Laura Linney, Anthony LaPaglia, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern, Eric Stoltz)
A New York socialite faces financial ruin after falling victim to the rumour of an affair.
The Holocaust Tourist
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Jes Benstock; Writer: Jes Benstock; Stars: Professor Jonathan Webber,
Miroslaw Obstarczyk, Emmanuel
Elbinger, Wande Hutny, Chris
Schwarz )
A look at how 'tourism' has
affected Auschwitz.
Il Caimano (The Caiman)
(Country: Italy/France; Year: 2006; Director: Nanni Moretti; Writer: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Heidrun Schleef; Stars: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Daniele Rampello, Giacomo Passarelli, Nanni Moretti, Giuliano Montaldo, Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, Paolo Sorrentino, Elio De Capitani, Tatti Sanguinetti, Jerzy Stuhr, Toni Bertorelli)
Italian B-movie film producer attempts to save his marriage, avoid bankruptcy and pitch a movie attacking Berlusconi.
Los Muertos and Il Caimano
Jindabyne
(Country: Australia; Year: 2006; Director: Ray Lawrence; Writer: Raymond Carver, Beatrix Christian; Stars: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Chris Haywood, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard, Leah Purcell, Eva Lazzero, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Alice Garner, Simon Stone, Betty Lucas, Max Cullen, Mala Ghedia, Tatea Reilly, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Stelios Yiakmis), Official Site, Trailer
A close-knit Australian community is rocked when four men discover a murder victim’s corpse and do nothing about it.
Klimt
(Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK; Year: 2006; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Raoul Ruiz and Gilbert Adair; Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton)
A portrait of the artist as a middle aged man.
The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2006; Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Stars: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme)
East German secret police spy on a playwright and follow the course of his life over a number of years.
Los Muertos (The Dead)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2004; Director: Lisandro Alonso; Writer: Lisandro Alonso; Stars: Argentino Vargas)
An ex-convict's journey up river in deepest Argentina.
My Name Is Joe
(Country: France, Germany, Italy , Spain, UK; Year: 1998; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Paul Laverty; Stars: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Anne-Marie Kennedy, David Hayman, Gary Lewis, Lorraine McIntosh, Scott Hannah, David Peacock, Gordon McMurray, James McHendry)
A man struggles to do the right thing after years on the bottle.
Fast Food Nation and Summer In Berlin
The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages)
(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Denis Dercourt; Writer: Denis Dercourt, Jacques Sotty; Stars: Catherine Frot, Deborah Francois, Pascal Greggory, Xavier De Guillebon, Christine Citti, Clotilde Mollet)
A concert pianist's past returns to unravel her present.
Paris Je T'Aime
(Country: Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France; Year: 2006; Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Br; Writer: Tristan Carné; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Steve Buscemi, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Wes Craven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, GCraven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, Gérard Depardieu)
Twenty different glimpses of Paris.
Police Beat
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Robinson Devor; Writer: Robinson Devor, Charles Mudede; Stars: Pape Sidy Niang, Anna Oxygen, Eric Breedlove, Sarah Harlett, Elijah Geiger)
The life of a Seattle cop, who worries more about his personal life than city crime.
Scene
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Alec Boehm & Stephanie Argy; Writer: Bryan Larkin; Stars: Bryan Larkin, Marc Twynholm, Hamish Menzies, Richard Saade)
Someone is causing a scene.
Singin' In The Rain
(Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; Writer: Adolph Green, Betty Comden; Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Dawn Addams, John Albright, Betty Allen)
A silent film idol romances a Hollywood starlet in this much-loved classic.
The Lives Of Others and Jindabyne
Summer In Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2005; Director: Andreas Dresen; Writer: Wolfgang Kohlhaase; Stars: Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl, Andreas Schmidt, Stefanie Schönfeld, Vincent Redetzki)
Two women struggling to get by in Berlin find their friendship complicated when one of them falls for a trucker.
Talk To Me
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Mark Craig)
Twenty years of Mark Craig's life, as told through old photos and Answerphone messages.
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis à Personne)
(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Guillaume Canet; Writer: Guillaume Canet, based on the novel by Harlan Coben.; Stars: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, François Berléand)
Years after the event, a man still haunted by the apparent murder of his wife starts to receive mysterious instructions.
This Is England
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Shane Meadows; Writer: Shane Meadows; Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, Jack O'Connell, Kieran Hardcastle)
A young boy adopted by a group of skinheads struggles to find his own identity in a world dominated by racism and war. Now out to own on two-disc DVD.
Titanic
(Country: US; Year: 1997; Director: James Cameron; Writer: James Cameron; Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde)
An epic disaster movie, with added passion and icebergs. Re-released for its 25th anniversary.
Apart From That and My Name Is Joe
Water
(Country: Canada, India; Year: 2005; Director: Deepa Mehta; Writer: Deepa Mehta; Stars: Lisa Ray, Sarala, Buddhi Wickrama, Rinsly Weerarathne, Iranganie Serasinghe, Hermantha Gamage, Ronica Sajnani, Manorama, Rishma Malik, Seema Biswas, Vidula Javalgekar)
The final part of Mehta's elementary trilogy about India.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
(Country: Germany / Italy / Spain / France / Ireland / UK; Year: 2006; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Paul Laverty; Stars: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane, Orla Fitzgerald, Siobhan McSweeney, Roger Allam, Frank Bourke)
The budding years of the IRA as country boys oppose the brutal suppression of the Black & Tans
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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