All Discovery articles – Page 4
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A Brand New Life (Une Vie Toute Neuve)
Dir/scr Ounie Lecomte. France-S. Korea. 2009. 92 mins.
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The Little One (La Pivellina)
Dir: Tizza Covi Rainer Frimmel. Austria-Italy. 2009. 100mins .
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Gigante (Giant)
Dir/scr: Adrian Biniez. Uruguay-Germany-Argentina-Netherlands. 2009. 84mins.
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What Doesn't Kill You
Dir. Brian Goodman, US, 2008, 100 minutes South Boston’s Irish gangland fatalism returns to the screen in Brian Goodman’s debut, a buddies-in-crime drama. Two childhood friends in the Southie slums graduate from petty crime to robbery, murder, drugs and prison, and even to a little self-awareness. ...
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$9.99
Dir. Tatia Rosenthal.Israel/Australia, 2008. 78 mins. Dealing with such lightweight issues as ‘the meaning of life’ and ‘happiness’ may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing ...
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The Stoning Of Soraya M
Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins . This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance ...
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Rain (Lluvia)
Dir: Maria Govan. The Bahamas. 2008. 93 mins. One of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, Maria Govan’s Rain shows a different side to Nassau where, in the shadows of luxury resorts and ocean liners, lives a subset of islanders ...
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Cold Lunch (Lonsj)
Dir: Eva Sorhaug. Norway. 2008. 86mins . A few good scenes, some quirky characters and a striking visual style don’t quite add up to a hot meal in Eva Sorhaug’s bite-sized Cold Lunch . Screening as an out of competition title in this year’s Critics’ Week, ...
