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David D'Arcy

Fruitvale Station

4-May-2013
Dir/scr: Ryan Coogler. US. 2013. 84mins
Trust Me

1-May-2013
Dir: Clark Gregg. US. 2013. 90mins
The Director

24-Apr-2013
Dir: Christina Voros. US-Italy. 2013. 95mins
In God We Trust

23-Apr-2013
Dirs: Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson. US. 2012. 82mins
The Croods

15-Feb-2013
Dir/scr: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders. 2013. US. 90mins
Dark Blood

13-Feb-2013
Dir: George Sluizer. Netherlands. 2012. 86mins
Salma

10-Feb-2013
Dir: Kim Longinotto. UK-India. 2013. 90mins
Gut Renovation

10-Feb-2013
Dir: Su Friedrich. US. 2012. 81mins
Fifi Howls From Happiness

10-Feb-2013
Dir: Mitra Farahani. US. 2013. 96mins
Lifelong

10-Feb-2013
Dir/scr: Asli Ozge. Turkey-Germany. 2013. 102mins
Fatal Assistance

9-Feb-2013
Dir: Raoul Peck. France-Haiti-US-Belgium. 2012. 99mins
Helio Oiticica

7-Feb-2013
Dir: Cesar Oiticica Filho. Brazil. 2012. 94mins
jOBS

26-Jan-2013
Dir: Joshua Michael Stern. US. 2012. 122mins
Austenland

24-Jan-2013
Dir: Jerusha Hess. US-UK. 2012. 97mins
Sweetwater

24-Jan-2013
Dirs: Logan Miller, Noah Miller. US. 2012. 93mins
The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman

23-Jan-2013
Dir: Fredrik Bond. US. 2013. 108mins
The Way, Way Back

23-Jan-2013
Dir: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. US. 2013. 96mins
Afternoon Delight

22-Jan-2013
Dir/scr: Jill Soloway. US. 2012. 102mins
Stoker

21-Jan-2013
Dir: Park Chan-wook. US. 2012. 98mins
Manhunt

21-Jan-2013
Dir: Greg Barker. US-UK. 2013. 90mins
Kill Your Darlings

19-Jan-2013
Dir: John Krokidas. US. 2012. 104mins
First Cousin Once Removed

25-Nov-2012
Dir/scr: Alan Berliner. US. 2012. 78mins
The Iran Job

12-Oct-2012
Dir: Till Schauder. Germany-Iran-US. 2012. 93mins
90 Minutes

12-Sep-2012
Dir/scr: Eva Sørhaug. Norway. 2012. 92mins
Mr. Pip

11-Sep-2012
Dir: Andrew Adamson. New Zealand. 2012. 130mins
Capital

9-Sep-2012
Dir: Costa-Gavras. France. 2012. 114mins
My Awkward Sexual Adventure

8-Sep-2012
Dir: Sean Garrity. Canada. 2012. 98mins
Road North

8-Sep-2012
Dir: Mika Kaurismaki. Finland. 2012. 110mins
Ship Of Theseus

8-Sep-2012
Dir/scr: Anand Gandhi. India. 2012. 139mins
Gayby

26-Jun-2012
Dir/scr: Jonathan Lisecki. US. 2012. 89mins
Lola Versus

27-Apr-2012
Dir: Daryl Wein. US. 2012. 89mins
Knife Fight

27-Apr-2012
Dir: Bill Guttentag. US. 2012. 99mins
Any Day Now

25-Apr-2012
Dir: Travis Fine. US. 2012. 97mins
The Giant Mechanical Man

24-Apr-2012
Dir/scr: Lee Kirk. US. 2012. 94mins
The Fourth Dimension

21-Apr-2012
Dirs: Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski. US-Poland-Russia. 2012. 106mins
Yossi

20-Apr-2012
Dir. Eytan Fox. Israel. 2012. 83mins
Babygirl

20-Apr-2012
Dir/scr: Macdara Vallely. Ireland. 2012. 77mins
First Winter

19-Apr-2012
Dir/scr: Benjamin Dickinson. US. 2012. 91mins
Cherry

17-Feb-2012
Dir: Stephen Elliott. US. 2011. 97mins
Mommy Is Coming

16-Feb-2012
Dir: Cheryl Dunye. US-Germany. 2012 64mins
The End of Puberty

15-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Kimura Shoko. Japan. 2011. 116mins
Francine

13-Feb-2012
Dirs/scr: Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky. US-Canada. 2012. 74mins
Marley

12-Feb-2012
Dir: Kevin Macdonald. UK-US. 2012. 144mins
Slavery By Another Name

30-Jan-2012
Dir: Sam Pollard. US. 2011. 87mins
Four Suns

27-Jan-2012
Dir: Bohan Slama. Czech Republic. 2011. 105mins
Detropia

27-Jan-2012
Dirs: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. USA. 2011. 90mins
My Brother The Devil

25-Jan-2012
Dir/scr: Sally El Hosaini. UK. 2012. 105mins
Teddy Bear

25-Jan-2012
Dir: Mads Matthiesen. Denmark. 2012. 93mins
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

25-Jan-2012
Dir: Alison Klayman. US-China. 2011. 91mins
Bachelorette

24-Jan-2012
Dir/scr: Leslye Headland. US. 2011. 94mins
The Invisible War

23-Jan-2012
Dir/scr: Kirby Dick. US. 2011. 93mins
Red Hook Summer

23-Jan-2012
Dir: Spike Lee. US. 2012. 130mins
How To Survive A Plague

22-Jan-2012
Dir: David France. US. 2012. 120mins
Robot & Frank

22-Jan-2012
Dir: Jake Schreier. US. 2012. 89mins
Searching For Sugar Man

20-Jan-2012
Dir/scr: Malik Bendjelloul. Sweden-UK. 2011. 85mins
The Queen Of Versailles

20-Jan-2012
Dir: Lauren Greenfield. US. 2012. 100mins
Bunohan

3-Oct-2011
Dir/scr: Dain Said. Malaysia. 2011. 97mins
Lovely Molly

15-Sep-2011
Dir: Eduardo Sanchez. US. 2011. 99mins
The Tall Man

14-Sep-2011
Dir: Tony Krawitz. Australia. 2011. 79mins
Livid

13-Sep-2011
Dirs: Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, France, 2011. 88mins
The Education Of Auma Obama

12-Sep-2011
Dir: Branwen Okpako. Germany. 2011. 80mins
Pearl Jam Twenty

12-Sep-2011
Dir/scr: Cameron Crowe. US. 2011. 120mins
Urbanized

10-Sep-2011
Dir: Gary Hustwit. US. 2011. 85mins
The Island President

10-Sep-2011
Dir: Jon Shenk. US. 2011 110mins
Omar Killed Me

9-Sep-2011
Dir. Roschdy Zem. France. 2011. 85mins
Splinters

27-Apr-2011
Dir: Adam Pesce. US. 2011. 95mins
Artificial Paradises

26-Apr-2011
Dir: Yulene Olaizola. Mexico. 2011. 83mins
Jesus Henry Christ

25-Apr-2011
Dir: Dennis Lee. US. 2011. 91mins
The Bleeding House

25-Apr-2011
Dir: Philip Gelatt. US. 2011. 86mins
Treatment

22-Apr-2011
Dirs/scr: Sean Nelson, Steven Schardt. US. 2010. 84mins
The Union

21-Apr-2011
Dir: Cameron Crowe. US. 2010. 90mins
Jess + Moss

10-Feb-2011
Dir: Clay Jeter. US. 2011. 82mins
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

3-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Madeleine Olnek. US. 2011. 75mins
The Catechism Cataclysm

2-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Todd Rohal. US. 2010. 81mins
Pariah

1-Feb-2011
Dir: Dee Rees. US. 2010. 84mins
On The Ice

1-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. US. 2011. 96mins
Homework

1-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Gavin Wiesen. US. 2010. 84mins
Circumstance

1-Feb-2011
Dir: Maryam Keshavarz. US-Iran-Lebanon. 2011. 105mins
The Bengali Detective

31-Jan-2011
Dir: Philip Cox. UK-India. 2010. 100mins
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75

31-Jan-2011
Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson. Sweden. 2011. 93mins
Flypaper

30-Jan-2011
Dir: Rob Minkoff. US. 2010 85mins
Abraxas

30-Jan-2011
Dir: Naoki Kato. Japan. 2010. 113mins
Life In A Day

28-Jan-2011
Dir: Kevin Macdonald. UK. 2011. 90mins
I Melt With You

28-Jan-2011
Dir: Mark Pellington. US. 2011. 122mins
The Convincer

27-Jan-2011
Dir: Jill Sprecher. US. 2010. 114mins
Little Birds

27-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: Elgin James. US. 2011. 94mins
Lord Byron

27-Jan-2011
Dir: Zack Godshall. US. 2011. 94mins
The Oregonian

26-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: Calvin Lee Reeder. US. 2010. 81mins
Rebirth

26-Jan-2011
Dir: Jim Whitaker. US. 2010. 105mins
Margin Call

25-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: J. C. Chandor. US. 2010. 109mins
HERE

25-Jan-2011
Dir: Braden King. US. 2010. 120mins
THE MILL & THE CROSS

24-Jan-2011
Dir: Lech Majewski. Poland/Sweden. 2010. 92mins
Happy, Happy

24-Jan-2011
Dir: Anne Sewitsky. Norway. 2010. 84mins
Septien

23-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: Michael Tully. US. 2011. 79mins
Hobo With A Shotgun

23-Jan-2011
Dir: Jason Eisener. Canada. 2011. 86mins
The Future

22-Jan-2011
Dir: Miranda July. US. 2011. 91mins
The Redemption of General Butt Naked

22-Jan-2011
Dirs: Eric Strauss & Daniele Anastasion. US. 2011. 84mins
The Guard

21-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: John Michael McDonagh. Ireland. 2010. 96mins
LENNONYC

24-Sep-2010
Dir: Michael Epstein. US. 2010. 112mins
Genpin

16-Sep-2010
Dir. Naomi Kawase. Japan. 2010. 92mins
Pink Saris

14-Sep-2010
Dir. Kim Longinotto. United Kingdom. 2010. 96mins
As If I Am Not There

13-Sep-2010
Dir. Juanita Wilson, Ireland-Macedonia-Sweden. 2010. 109mins
Conviction

12-Sep-2010
Dir: Tony Goldwyn, US. 2010, 106mins
The Way

11-Sep-2010
Dir/sc: Emilio Estevez. US. 2009. 128mins
Katka

7-Jul-2010
Dir/scr: Helena Trestikova. Czech Republic. 2010. 90mins
Marwencol

7-Jul-2010
Dir: Jeff Malmberg. US. 2010. 84mins
William Vincent

27-Apr-2010
Dir-scr: Jay Anania. US. 2010, 108mins
My Trip to Al-Qaeda

26-Apr-2010
Dir: Alex Gibney. US. 2010. 86mins
Dog Pound

26-Apr-2010
Dir: Kim Chapiron. Canada-France. 2009. 88mins
Straight Outta L.A.

25-Apr-2010
Dir: Ice Cube. US. 2010. 51mins
Sons of Perdition

24-Apr-2010
Dirs: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten. US. 2010. 85mins
Kawasaki’s Rose (Kawasakiho Ruze)

17-Feb-2010
Dir: Jan Hrebejk. Czech Republic. 2009. 100mins
Nenette

16-Feb-2010
Dir: Nicolas Philibert. France. 2010. 70mins.
Obselidia

31-Jan-2010
Dir/scr. Diane Bell, US, 2009, 96 minutes
Animal Kingdom

31-Jan-2010
Dir/scr. David Michod, Australia, 2009, 112 minutes.
Winter's Bone

31-Jan-2010
Dir. Debra Granik, US, 2009. 100 minutes.
Abel

29-Jan-2010
Dir. Diego Luna, Mexico/USA, 2009, 85 minutes
Enemies Of The People

29-Jan-2010
Dirs. Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath. Cambodia/UK, 2009, 93 minutes
It's A Wonderful Afterlife

28-Jan-2010
Dir. Gurinder Chadha, UK, 2009. 100 minute
Exit Through The Gift Shop

27-Jan-2010
Dir. Banksy. UK, 2009. 85 minutes
Kick In Iran

26-Jan-2010
Dir. Fatima Geza Abdollahyan, Germany, 82 minutes, 2009
The Runaways

26-Jan-2010
Dir/scr. Floria Sigismondi, USA, 2009, 102 minutes.
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work

26-Jan-2010
Dirs. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, USA, 2009, 84 minutes.
Peepli Live

25-Jan-2010
Dir. Anusha Rizvi, India, 2009, 106 minutes
The Killer Inside Me

25-Jan-2010
Dir. Michael Winterbottom, USA, 2009, 110 min.
Welcome To The Rileys

25-Jan-2010
Dir. Jake Scott, USA, 2009, 110 minutes.
Four Lions

24-Jan-2010
Dir. Chris Morris, UK, 2009, 94 minutes
Splice

24-Jan-2010
Dir. Vincenzo Natali, France/Canada, 2009, 100 minutes
All That I Love

23-Jan-2010
Dir/scr. Jacek Borcuch, Poland, 2009, 95 minutes
The Waiting City

28-Sep-2009
Dir/scr. Claire McCarthy. Australia, 2009, 108 minutes
The Unloved

18-Sep-2009
Dir. Samantha Morton. UK, 2009, 108 minutes
Suck

13-Sep-2009
Dir/scr. Rob Stefaniuk, Canada, 2009, 90 minutes.
Backyard

11-Sep-2009
Dir. Carlos Carrera. Mexico. 2009. 122 minutes.
My Life In Ruins

4-May-2009
Dir. Donald Petrie, Spain/USA, 2009, 95 mins
Tell Tale

29-Apr-2009
Dir. Michael Cuesta, US, 2009, 92 min
The Girlfriend Experience

29-Apr-2009
Dir. Steven Soderbergh, US, 2009, 77 mins
Whatever Works

23-Apr-2009
Dir/scr. Woody Allen, US, 2009, 92mins
Sweetgrass

11-Feb-2009
Dir: Lucien Castaing-Taylor. US. 2009. 115mins.
Fig Trees

10-Feb-2009
Dir/prod/scr. John Greyson. Canada. 2009. 104mins.
Absolute Evil

10-Feb-2009
Dir: Ulli Lommel. US-Germany. 2009. 80mins.
Cherrybomb

9-Feb-2009
Dirs: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn. UK. 2008. 82mins.
All Around Us (Gururi No Koto)

9-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Ryosuke Hashiguchi. Japan. 2009. 140mins.
My Suicide

8-Feb-2009
Dir: David Lee Miller. US. 2009. 105mins.
The Fish Child (El Nino Pez)

7-Feb-2009
Dir: Lucia Puenzo.Argentina-Spain-France. 2009. 96mins
North (Nord)

7-Feb-2009
Dir: Rune Denstad Langlo.Norway. 2009. 78mins.
211: Anna

26-Jan-2009
Dirs. Paolo Serbandini and Giovanna Massimetti, Italy, 2008, 89 minutes.
White Lightnin'

26-Jan-2009
Dir: Dominic Murphy. UK. 2008. 90mins.
The Reckoning

26-Jan-2009
Dir. Pamela Yates, USA, 2009, 100 minutes
The Informers

22-Jan-2009
Dir. Gregor Jordan, US, 2008, 98 minutes.
Cold Souls

22-Jan-2009
Dir/scr. Sophie Barthes, US, 2009, 101 minutes.
Amreeka

21-Jan-2009
Dir. Cherien Dabis, US/Canada/Kuwait, 2009, 97mins.
In The Loop

20-Jan-2009
Dir. Armando Iannucci, UK, 2008, 109 minutes.
An Education

20-Jan-2009
Dir. Lone Scherfig, UK, 2009, 100 minutes
When You're Strange

19-Jan-2009
Dir.Tom DiCillo. US, 2009, 90 minutes.
The September Issue

18-Jan-2009
Dir: RJ Cutler. US. 2009. 90mins.
Big River Man

17-Jan-2009
Dir: John Maringouin. US-UK.2008. 94mins.
The Glass House

17-Jan-2009
Dir: Hamid Rahmanian.US-Iran. 2008. 92min.
The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond

12-Sep-2008
Dir. Jodie Markell, US, 2008, 102 minutes.
Lymelife

11-Sep-2008
Dir. Derick Martini, US, 2008, 93 minutes
What Doesn't Kill You

10-Sep-2008
Dir. Brian Goodman, US, 2008, 100 minutes
Afterwards

10-Sep-2008
Dir. Gilles Bourdos, France/Canada/Germany, 2008, 107 minutes.
Every Little Step

8-Sep-2008
Dirs. James D. Stern, Adam Del DeoUS. 2008. 96 mins.
Adam Resurrected

8-Sep-2008
Dir. Paul Schrader. Germany/USA/Israel. 2008. 106 mins.
Flash of Genius

8-Sep-2008
Dir. Mark Abraham. US. 2007. 119 mins
7-Sep-2008
Dir. Mark AbrahamUS. 2007. 119 mins.Marc Abraham's debut feature about an inventor battling the Ford Motor Company, which steals and markets Robert Kearns's window-wiper invention, puts new mileage on the David-Goliath model. Sentimental but remarkably compelling, the saga of a little man's victory over a corporate giant will ensure that you'll never see your windshield wipers the same way.
Last Stop 174

6-Sep-2008
Dir. Bruno Barreto, Brazil, 2007, 110 minutes.
Bangkok Dangerous

3-Sep-2008
Swing Vote

30-Jul-2008
Dir. Joshua Michael Stern, US, 2008, 120 minutes.
Production - Armenia - The apricot revolution

25-Jul-2008
For more than a century, Armenia's main export has been its people: men like MGM investor Kirk Kerkorian, who fled oppression and settled in Russia, France and North America. The country of 3.2 million people began post-Soviet independence in the early 1990s in the throes of a devastating earthquake and at war with its neighbours. Local cinema was no match for the evening news.
Journey To The Centre of the Earth 3-D (2008)

30-Jun-2008
Dir. Eric Brevig, 2008, US, 92 minutes
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

13-May-2008
Dir: Andrew Adamson. 2008. UK/US. 144mins.
Finding Amanda

29-Apr-2008
Dir/scr. Peter Tolan, US, 2008, 100 minutes
The Caller

29-Apr-2008
Dir. Richard Ledes, 2008, US, minutes.
Lake City

29-Apr-2008
Dirs. Perry Moore/Hunter Hill, 2008, US, 92 minutes .
Trucker

29-Apr-2008
Dir/scr. James Mottern, US, 2008, 90 minutes
Love Pain And Vice Versa (Sexo, Dolor Y Vice Versa)

27-Apr-2008
Dir. Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa, Mexico, 2008, 86 minutes
Paraiso Travel

27-Apr-2008
Dir. Simon Brand, Colombia, 2008, 116 minutes.
Pathology

21-Apr-2008
Dir. Marc Schoelermann, US, 2008, 93 minutes
The Children Of Huang Shi

21-Apr-2008
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 2008, China/Australia/Germany, 125 minutes.
Frozen River

20-Mar-2008
Dir. Courtney Hunt, US, 2008, 97 minutes
Sleepwalking

18-Mar-2008
Dir. William Maher, 2008, US, 101 minutes, colour.
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day

3-Mar-2008
Dir. Bharat Nalluri, UK, 2008, 92 minutes.
Standard Operating Procedure

12-Feb-2008
Dir. Errol Morris, USA, 2008, 117minsWhatever the future brings in Iraq, the US role there will always be remembered for the abuse of prisoners documented in the photographs taken by American guards in 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. Errol Morris's cold Standard Operating Procedure scrutinizes the pictures and what really happened in interviews with those former guards.Morris's distillation of long talks with young ex-soldiers ...
Cherry Blossoms (Kirschblüten - Hanami)

12-Feb-2008
Dir: Doris Dorrie, Germany, 2008, 127minsDoris Dorrie's bittersweet film is a story of mourning and the futility of trying to recover something lost. A Bavarian husband who is nearing retirement loses his wife suddenly, and flies to Japan to visit sites that she never had a chance to see while abiding by his strict routine. Distanced from his own children, Rudi (Wepper) is led to Mount Fuji by an oddly angelic Japanese girl.Cherry Blossoms ...
Love And Other Crimes (Liebe und andere Verbrechen)

11-Feb-2008
Dir. Stefan Arsenijevic, Ger/Serb/Aust/Slovenia 2008, 105minsIn Love and Other Crimes, Anica (Dobra) is a woman approaching middle age who decides to leave her dreary high-rise Belgrade suburb with the money that she plans to steal from a solarium run by an older mobster (Stojanovic) who is her boss and lover. The film takes place in the course of a single day, during which the mass of faceless housing blocks reveals its ugliness and quirks, as well as its ...
The Spiderwick Chronicles

11-Feb-2008
Dir: Mark Waters, 2008, USIn The Spiderwick Chronicles the Grace family find trouble when they move into their creaky New England home - and it isn't trouble with the mortgage. The house smells strange and creatures are heard moving behind the walls.Mark Waters's film is the adaptation of the popular book series by written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi. The Spiderwick books are not a Harry Potter franchise, ...
Chiko

10-Feb-2008
Dir. Ozgur Yildirim. Germany, 2008, 92 minutes.
Pretty Bird

6-Feb-2008
Dir: Paul Schneider, US, 2008, 97mins.The perennial story of Americans trying to get rich quick on a new invention meets the perennial story of Americans betraying each other over property in Pretty Bird. The look, and feel, of the film sing an ode to American kitsch.Pretty Bird's success in the US box office will depend on the draw of its two stars - slick handsome Billy Crudup, as a confidence man determined to peddle a new product, ...
Anywhere USA

5-Feb-2008
Dir. Chusy Haney-Jardine, USA, 2008, 124minsThe portentously titled Anywhere USA is a triptych of Americana by debut writer/director Chusy Haney-Jardine - a trailer-trash farce, an uncle/niece meditation on the death of parents, and a clumsy satire on racial anxiety among the rich and White.
Untraceable

1-Feb-2008
Dir. Gregory Hoblit, US, 2008, 100 minsNeither terrifying nor inspiring, Untraceable is still a curious portrait of a society that struggles to police itself, under siege from one of its own children. The much-feared 'enemy within' that Cold Warriors railed about is now sitting at his basement computer and playing with his chemistry set. It's an odd fit in the marketplace, a boiler-plate Jodie Foster tough-girl story (a Silence of the Lambs, several ...
Bottle Shock

30-Jan-2008
Dir. Randall Miller. US, 2008,112minsBottle Shock is a dramatization of a California winery's rise from obscurity to victory over French wines in a blind-tasting competition in France in 1973. It is based on a true story, and produced by friendly souls from the winemaking region North of San Francisco. The only thing that differentiates this 'movie' from an infomercial is its unbearable feature length. ...
Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)

30-Jan-2008
Dir: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath, US, 2008, 87mins.Even by the standards of independent documentaries, Ellen Kuras's Nerakhoon is the ne plus ultra of ultra-marathons. For her directorial debut, the cinematographer spent 23 years with the family of her co-director, Thavisook Phrasavath (Tavi), as Laotions settled in New York City and adjusted uncomfortably into a new culture after being ousted ...
The Visitor

29-Jan-2008
Dir/scr: Thomas McCarthy. US. 2007, 102mins
Baghead

29-Jan-2008
Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass. USA, 2008, 84 minsIn this their second feature, the Duplass brothers have made a wildly funny parody of low-budget horror cinema, and created a bag-headed monster that has a no-budget franchise written all over it. Baghead should go right to the young audience that made a hit out of The Blair Witch Project, which it mocks shamelessly. Its satire seems likely to draw repeat viewings in theatres and ...
Donkey Punch (2007)

28-Jan-2008
Dir. Olly Blackburn, 2007, UK, 90 minutesDonkey Punch, in young male slang, is a term for a hard blow to the back of the neck during sex, which produces a clench that gives pleasure to at least one person in a couple. This act kills a vacationing girl from Leeds during on orgy onboard a yacht in newcomer Olly Blackburn's thriller, and triggers a desperate scramble to hide any evidence.
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh

25-Jan-2008
Dir: Rawson Marshall Thurber. US. 2008. 95minsPittsburgh in 1983 is the setting of this coming of age based on Michael Chabon's novel about a young man, entangled in affairs, breaks free from the rule of his mafia-boss father in the first summer of his adult life. A genre that's as common as snow at Sundance, The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh may draw Chabon's many readers to the box office but the smothering adaptation is likely to disappoint them. Stars ...
Henry Poole Is Here

25-Jan-2008
Dir: Mark Pellington. US. 2008. 100minsThe skeptical notion that ‘believing is seeing’ is put to rest in Henry Poole Is Here, a new twist on magic realism directed by Mark Pellington. Backyard miracles transform the life of a man who retreats from the world into a dull California suburb after a grim medical prognosis.
Death In Love

24-Jan-2008
Dir: Boaz Yakin. 2008. US. 100min Boaz Yakin's dark drama is about the legacy of pain. We enter it through a smooth-talking scammer in Manhattan whose mother survived the ...
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden'

23-Jan-2008
Dir: Morgan Spurlock. US. 2008. 93minsIn Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden', Morgan Spurlock super-sizes the scope of the one-man quest for truth and goes global, searching around the Middle East for the Al Qaeda leader with a $25 million price on his head. After sitting down with lots of friendly people everywhere he goes, and a few nasty extremists, Spurlock is optimistic. He finds friendship and some real laughs, but the mastermind of the 9/11
August

22-Jan-2008
Dir: Austin Chick. US. 2007. 88mins
Ballast

21-Jan-2008
Dir-scr: Lance Hammer. US. 2008. 96mins.Ballast reminds us that you can find poetry ...
Good Dick

21-Jan-2008
Dir: Marianna Palka. US. 2008. 85mins.
In Bruges

18-Jan-2008
Dir. Martin McDonagh, UK/Belgium, 107mins
Sweeney Todd

4-Dec-2007
Dir. Tim Burton, US, 2007, 105mins
There Will Be Blood

19-Nov-2007
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson US, 2007. 158minsThere Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel Plainview, the monstrous rags-to-riches oil-man. The film's title foretells a trail of bodies and damaged souls in the revaged landscape, quoting the ...
Beowulf

14-Nov-2007
Dir: Robert Zemeckis. US. 2007. 114mins.
Southland Tales

31-Oct-2007
Dir: Richard Kelly, USA, 2007, 144minsSouthland Tales, re-cut since its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, is apocalyptic vaudeville, as politicians, cops, Iraq veterans porn stars and an amnesiac actor scramble to fulfil or forestall conspiracies in Los Angeles, culminating in a world-ending Fourth of July. It's an incoherent cataclysmic comedy, and often a wildly funny one.
Dan In Real Life

22-Oct-2007
Dir. Peter Hedges, USA, 2007, 99 minutes, colour, 35 mm.Dan in Real Life takes on a familiar character, the seemingly omniscient newspaper advice-giver (Steve Carell), whose family life as a widower with three daughters doesn't measure up to the wisdom of his daily columns. Dan's love life is even more of a mess in Peter Hedges's new comedy, which plods through heavy doses of sincerity to get a few laughs. Yet the dysfunction of three generations ...
Battle for Haditha

1-Oct-2007
Dir. Nick Broomfield . United Kingdom, 2007. 94 minsBattle for Haditha dramatises one of the most notorious atrocities of the Iraq War, the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqis by American marines in the city of Haditha on November 19, 2005 , for which five marines stand trial at Camp ...
Feast Of Love

25-Sep-2007
Dir. Robert Benton, US 2007. 102 mins.Feast of Love weaves its way through the frustrated loves of couples in Portland Oregon who don't have much else to do besides reflect on what they have won and lost in romance. Robert Benton's adaptation of Charles Baxter's 2000 novel coats the original with a honeyed sentimentality, without deepening the drama that was already on the page.
Encounters at the End of the World

24-Sep-2007
Dir. Werner Herzog, US, 2007, 99 mins
Man From Plains

21-Sep-2007
Dir. Jonathan Demme. US 2007. 125 mins.Man from Plains follows the former US president Jimmy Carter from his sprawling family peanut farm in southern Georgia to a national book tour on which the earnest man who brokered the Camp David Accords defends his controversial view that Israel imposes rules akin to apartheid on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.Jimmy Carter is hardly an electoral hero these days, ...
Stuck

18-Sep-2007
Dir. Stuart Gordon, Canada/US, 2007, 94 mins.Stuck's protagonist is a homeless man who, for most of the film, is pinned on the bonnet of a car with half of his body extending through the smashed windshield into the front seat. The car's young driver tries to hide the evidence of the bloody accident while the victim is still alive and begging for help. Laced with laughs from its improbability, this is a grotesque moral tale. Clever and far more than competent, ...
The Kingdom

18-Sep-2007
Dir. Peter Berg. US, 110 mins.The Kingdom , about terror against Americans in Saudi Arabia, will confirm some of the worst American prejudices about the Middle East - that most Arabs there hate the US, and that America could eliminate threats there if bureaucrats got out of the way and if a few good men (and a woman) went in with the gloves off and guns ablaze. You can guess who comes out on top in this action movie.Jamie Foxx ...
New York City Serenade

17-Sep-2007
Dir. Frank Whaley. US 2007. 103 mins.The title of New York City Serenade and an opening aerial skyline shot would lead you to believe that the film is an ode to New York . It's really an ode to friendship with a friend who gets you to the wrong places to drink too much and chase the wrong girls. Frank Whaley's comedy about the perils of perpetual adolescence is inspired by the British comedy Withnail ...
Mongol

12-Sep-2007
Dir: Sergei Bodrov Germany/Russia/Kazakhstan/Mongolia. 2007. 120 mins.
Juno

12-Sep-2007
Dir. Jason Reitman, US, 2007, 96 minutes, colour, 35 mm.
Captain Mike Across America

9-Sep-2007
Dir: Michael Moore. US. 97 mins.Move over, Meatloaf. Michael Moore is a rock star, or at least he was for a short season, in an autumn 2004 US tour to exhort non-voting young Americans to register and cast ballots for the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Captain Mike Across America chronicles that tour. More Moore will be welcomed ...
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

7-Sep-2007
Dir: Sidney Lumet, 2007 , US , 123mins.Sidney Lumet is back on familiar territory with this caper gone awry. This time it's a plot by two desperate adult brothers, Andy and Hank (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke), to rob their parents' suburban jewellery store, which ends up killing their mother (Rosemary Harris). As the truth emerges in overlapping flashbacks, we get a portrait of two failed sons, mired in debt, drugs ...
The Nanny Diaries

21-Aug-2007
Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, US, 105 minutes, colour, 35 mm.In The Nanny Diaries, adapted from the best-selling picaresque roman a clef about tending to the offspring of New York's elite, Scarlett Johansson plays a would-be anthropology student immersed in a foreign culture as a nanny to a Fifth ...
Death At A Funeral

18-Jul-2007
Dir. Frank Oz. UK. 2007. 90mins.Death At A Funeral reprises the old formula of assembling a raucous ensemble comedy from the mourners at a respectable upper middle-class funeral that comes unwound. Dysfunction becomes delirium, fuelled here by hallucinogens and the dead man's gay lover, a dwarf. The bawdy farce then turns wholesome, offering some well-meaning lessons about tolerance.
Hairspray

12-Jul-2007
Dir. Adam Shankman. US. 107mins.As an adaptation of an adaptation, Hairspray beats the odds against turning a musical based on a film into a credible movie, with a punchy cast that delivers the musical numbers without sacrificing the comedy. The score also ups the ante with new numbers added to the songs in the stage version.
Evening

18-Jun-2007
Dir. Lajos Koltai. US. 2007. 117mins.In Evening, director Lajos Koltai makes his English-language feature debut with an earnest adaptation of Susan Minot's successful novel about a dying woman looking back at the love of her youth. With a dream-team cast of actresses - Vanessa Redgrave, Clare Danes, Meryl Streep, Natascha Richardson, Toni Collette, Mamie Gummer, and Glenn Close - Evening will draw on the always-underserved women's audience in the US ...
Georgia Rule

13-May-2007
Dir: Garry Marshall. US. 2007. 111mins.Georgia Rule is a comedy about women that comes with stars and a mighty promise -that honesty and humor can heal the most bitter rifts that fray mother-daughter bonds over three generations.
We Are Together (Thina Simunye)

8-May-2007
Dir. Paul Taylor. UK. 2006. 86minsThe young singers in We Are Together (Thina Simunye) are some of the estimated 1.2m orphans in South Africa today, most of whom lost their parents to AIDS-related illnesses. The motivational documentary by Paul Taylor observed them singing and struggling over three years.
Watching The Detectives

6-May-2007
Dir: Paul Soter. US. 2007. 91mins. Watching The Detectives, Paul Soter's feature debut, is intended to be a cinephile's movie, a geek cinephile's movie, where the hapless proprietor of video store and slacker haven is seduced by a femme fatale who walks in off the street. The tale than unfolds from there is every film nerd's unfulfilled dream.
The Air I Breathe

6-May-2007
Dir: Jieho Lee. US. 2007. 97mins.In his debut feature, The Air I Breathe, Jieho Lee turns a Chinese proverb into a story that explores the interlocking fates of four characters, all of whom all are trapped in the grip, literally, of a violent gangster boss called Fingers.
The Grand

6-May-2007
Dir: Zak Penn. US. 2006. 95minsIf you hesitated to believe that gambling casinos were a magnet for misfits, The Grand, an improvised ensemble comedy set at a high-stakes poker tournament in Las Vegas, will confirm that impression. Zak Penn's new film is a high-stakes vaudeville Love Boat with more stars than a Global Warming benefit.
Beyond Belief

4-May-2007
Dir: Beth Murphy. US. 2007. 98mins.Beyond Belief follows two 9/11 widows outside Boston as they rebuild their families. The women move beyond grief and beyond their own experience to start a charity to help the thousands of Afghan women whose hardships from decades of war and discrimination is barely know to most Americans. The documentary is a motivational tale about turning a misfortune into an opportunity for empathy and healing.
Live!

3-May-2007
Dir: Bill Guttentag. US. 2007. 96mins.Bill Guttentag's hilarious satire of reality/game show media culture, Live! takes its subject to the wall with a live televised Russian Roulette competition. Presented as a The Making Of story, Live! also attacks the ghoulish opportunism of independent documentaries.
Smiley Face

3-May-2007
Dir: Gregg Araki. US. 2007. 87mins.Smiley Face opens as a would-be LA actress's pot-induced journey stumbles to an end, with blonde stoner Jane (Anna Faris) reflecting on the binge that, as the omniscient narrator (Roscoe Lee Browne) puts it, took a young woman 'from point A to point Z.'
The Power Of The Game

2-May-2007
Dir: Michael Apted. 2007. UK. 70mins. Michael Apted's new documentary, The Power Of The Game, is a film with a thesis: how football creates a global bond among countries. It also serves as an illuminating reflection of internal tensions within each country that plays the sport, even the United States. It's not a new observation, but it is one that Apted (best known for the The 7 Up series) has leavened with interviews with players and organisers from ...
The Cake Eaters

2-May-2007
Dir: Mary Stuart Masterson. 2007. US. 95mins. Mary Masterson's directorial debut, The Cake Eaters, is a drama in a rainy small town about two families coming to terms with death and misfortune, counterpointed with a young couple tasting love for the first time.
The Gates

2-May-2007
Dirs: Albert Maysles, Antonio Ferrera. US. 2007. 100mins. The Gates takes its name from the 2005 project in which the artists Christo and Jean-Claude lined the paths of Central Park in Manhattan with orange portals draped with orange fabric. The event, which drew thousands of tourists to the park in February of that year, is ably filmed by the artists' friend and collaborator, Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens).
Nobel Son

29-Apr-2007
Dir: Randall Miller. US. 2007. 107mins.A twist on the father-son conflict, and on the hostage drama, Nobel Son brings gore and some surprising humour to the dysfunctional family potboiler as it skewers academic propriety. The gag-filled comedy, which flaunts its quirkiness and improbable situations, could draw on the audience for Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito, and on the growing public for seductive Eliza Dushku.
Taxi To The Dark Side

29-Apr-2007
Dir. Alex Gibney. US. 108mins.Taxi To The Dark Side is a troubling look into torture practiced by the US military, beginning with the beating and murder in December 2003 of an Afghan taxi driver in the wrong place at the wrong time, and ending with a probe into how torture became US policy.
Dark Matter

28-Feb-2007
Dir. Chen Shi-Zheng. 2007. US. 88mins
Madonnas

21-Feb-2007
Dir/scr Maria Speth. 2007. Ger. 100mins.
Alice's House

21-Feb-2007
Dir. Chico Teixeira. Braz. 2007. 90mins.
Poor Boy's Game

20-Feb-2007
Dir: Clement Virgo. Can. 2007. 104mins.
Bordertown

17-Feb-2007
Dir/scr: Gregory Nava. US. 2007. 112mins.
The Walker

14-Feb-2007
Dir. Paul Schrader, USA, 2007, English, 107 minutes, colour.Writer/director Paul Schrader has built The Walker around a gay man of style and superficiality (Woody Harrelson) who escorts rich Washington women to lunch and to the cultural events that their powerful husbands scorn. When a friend's lobbyist lover ...
When A Man Falls In The Forest

13-Feb-2007
Dir. Ryan Eslinger, USA, English, 90 minutes, colour.When a Man Falls In The Forest stars Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton as middle-aged victims of monotony in their marriage and their work. Yet the real victim of monotony in Ryan Eslinger's second feature is the audience. The dull drama, developed at Sundance Institute labs, will face a challenge ...
The Home Song Stories

11-Feb-2007
Dir. Tony Ayres, Australia, 2007, 103 min.,With immigration dominating the headlines in Australia as well as in Europe and the US, The Home Song Stories is a period film that gives a twist on current news - a lively melodrama about a roll-with-the-punches beauty whose long march through marriages and crises in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Melbourne, ...
The Tracey Fragments

11-Feb-2007
Dir: Bruce McDonald. Canada. 2007. 80mins.Canadian Bruce McDonald has moved in a new direction, forsaking gonzo humour for multi-image experimentation in this first-person portrait of an angry persecuted teenager that lurches between tactile realism and fantasy. McDonald (Road Kill, Highway 61, Hard Core Logo) will move beyond his core of fans and into a younger crowd ...
Tuya's Marriage (Tu Ya De Hun Shi)

10-Feb-2007
Dir: Wang Quan'an. China. 2007. 92mins.Tuya's Marriage is a clever and witty tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in a remote part of China in the throes of growing pains. Director and co-writer Wang Quan'an reminds us in his third feature that this quest is as thankless in Inner Mongolia as it is anywhere else. Funny, tender, ...
Chapter 27

3-Feb-2007
Dir/Writer: Jarrett Schaefer. 100 minutes. US.Pointless and confusingly acted by a purposely hefty Jared Leto, this self-indulgent portrait of an insane Mark David Chapman in the three days before he assassinated John Lennon lacks insight or drama. Lindsay Lohan's supporting role as an excitable Lennon fan who befriends Chapman is fine for what it is but is no reason to see the otherwise-dreary undertaking.
Interview

1-Feb-2007
Dir: Steve Buscemi. US. 2007. 86 mins.Interview, Steve Buscemi's American adaptation of the 2003 Theo van Gogh film of the same name, offers a polished but tamer version of the original, coming at its subject without van Gogh's rough raunchy edges. Yet the performances, especially Sienna Miller's, are an asset to this picture. So is marketability ...
Snow Angels

29-Jan-2007
Dir. David Gordon Green. US. 2007. 106mins.
Padre Nuestro

29-Jan-2007
Dir. Christopher Zalla. US. 2007. 105mins.The issue of illegal immigration from Mexico goes beyond the epithets in Padre Nuestro, the tale of a son crossing a border from one squalid place to another to find the father whom he's never met. The twist in this grippingly realistic drama is that en route, the son's property and identity are stolen by a young impostor who sets out after the unsuspecting immigrant father. It's identity theft, the old-fashioned way. ...
My Kid Could Paint That

26-Jan-2007
Dir. Amir Bar-Lev. US. 2007. 81mins.My Kid Could Paint That addresses the sceptical notion that has dogged painting ever since art ceased to depict a pure likeness of its subject - that abstract art often looks like it could have been painted by a child. Amir Bar-Lev's documentary then zooms in on abstract paintings that are said to be the work of Marla Olmstead, an adorable untaught four-year-old girl in Binghamton New York, whose huge canvases brought ...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

25-Jan-2007
Dir: Julien Temple. Ire-UK. 2007. 123minsJulien Temple is the film chronicler of British punk music, first with The Great Rock And Roll Swindle (1979) and twenty years later with the much more accomplished The Filth And The Fury (1999). Temple is still on the upswing with Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, an admiring yet thorough documentary homage to the founder of The Clash, who died in 2002 at the age of 50.
Zoo

21-Jan-2007
Dir: Robinson Devor. US. 2007. 80mins.The much-awaited Zoo will draw enviable publicity (already evident at Sundance, where it premiered) because of the salacious nature of the story that inspired the film: the death from a perforated colon of a man who had sex with a horse in 2005 at a gathering of like-minded animal-lovers in Enumclaw, near Seattle.
Chicago 10

19-Jan-2007
Dir: Brett Morgen. US. 2007. 103mins.The opening film at this year's Sundance, Chicago 10 revisits the violently suppressed anti-war demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the prosecution a year later of the colorful leaders who brought irreverent theatricality to political protest.

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