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Lady Macbeth and Trespass Against Us
Benny (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andrew Gallimore)
A documentary about Benny Lynch, who was frequently described as the greatest boxer that Scotland has ever produced.
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Bodkin Ras (Country: Netherlands, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Kaweh Modiri; Writer: Kaweh Modiri; Stars: Sohrab Bayat, Eddie Paton, Lily Szramko)
The people in Forres don't work. Between nine and five they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this remote corner of Europe to hide and lay low.
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The Chamber (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Parker; Writer: Ben Parker; Stars: Charlotte Salt, Johannes Kuhnke, Christian Hillborg, Elliot Levey, James McArdle)
A submarine endeavours to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea off the dangerous shores of the Korean Peninusla. When an explosion causes it to overturn and take on water, the four-man crew enter a pressure cooker situation.
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A Change In The Weather (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Jon Sanders; Writer: Anna Mottram, Jon Sanders; Stars: Meret Becker, Douglas Finch, Maxine Finch, Emma Garden, Bob Goody)
The End Of The Game (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: David Graham Scott; Stars: Guy Wallace)
A documentary portrait of a big game hunter who is determined to kill a cape buffalo.
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The Wee Govan Pipers and Bodkin Ras
Housekeeping (Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Bill Forsyth; Stars: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill)
Two sisters try to regain control of their lives after their mother abandons them in the care of their eccentric aunt.
Jawbone (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Thomas Q Napper; Writer: Johnny Harris; Stars: Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley)
After hitting rock bottom, former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team.
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The Levelling (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Hope Dickson Leach; Writer: Hope Dickson Leach; Stars: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore)
A woman returns to her family farm after her brother's suicide.
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Lady Macbeth (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: William Oldroyd; Writer: Alice Birch, based on the novel by Nikolai Leskov; Stars: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Anton Palmer)
A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.
Full Review See: William Oldroyd interview about austerity and colour-blind casting in Lady Macbeth
A Quiet Passion (Country: UK, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies; Stars: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon, Catherine Bailey, Emma Bell, Benjamin Wainwright, Annette Badland, Rose Williams, Noémie Schellens, Miles Richardson, Eric Loren, Stefan Menaul)
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson.
Full Review See: Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion and his upcoming projects
, Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion Part 2
, Terence Davies in conversation on A Quiet Passion
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Jawbone and Benny
The Seasons In Quincy (The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger) (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe; Writer: Ben Lerner, Tilda Swinton; Stars: John Berger, Tilda Swinton)
Four film essays about the much loved artist and storyteller.
Full Review See: Colin MacCabe in conversation on The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger
The Slab Boys (Country: UK; Year: 1997; Director: John Byrne; Writer: John Byrne; Stars: Robin Laing, Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner)
Three working-class lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory.
Stockholm, My Love (Country: Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins, Anita Oxburgh; Stars: Neneh Cherry)
A woman walks through her native city on a journey of recovery from a bad thing that happened to her exactly one year before.
Trespass Against Us (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Adam Smith; Writer: Alastair Siddons; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Killian Scott, Barry Keoghan, Gerard Kearns, Tony Way, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Anastasia Hille, Paul Blackwell, George Russo, Barry McCormick, Billy Cook)
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
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The Wee Govan Pipers (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Cameron)
The story of a group of young Scottish, Nigerian and Chinese pipers from Govan.
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