Aug 4, 2014
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hays
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis, H H Hughson, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber
106min Technicolour drama UK RE-RELEASE
In this frothy frolic, Alfred Hitchcock captures...
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Aug 3, 2014
FAUST – EINE DEUTSCHE VOLKSSAGE
Dir.: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Yvette Guilbert, William Dieterle
Germany 1926, 107 min.
Initially it was Ludwig Berger (The Thief of Baghdad) who was...
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Aug 2, 2014
Director: Hong Khaou
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei Pei, Naomi Christie, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles
91mins Drama UK
LILTING, is the feature debut of writer/director Hong Khaou. Made on a shoe-string, this simply-told...
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Jul 29, 2014
Director: Adam Wimpenny
Cast: Grey Wise,
Gothic horror/Fantasy
With a modest budget, a respectable cast of minor British acting talent and a quaint Oxfordshire setting, Adam Wimpenny has made a piece of fantasy...
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Jul 29, 2014
Dir.: Biyi Bandele
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle
Nigeria/UK 2013, 111 min.
Olanna (Newton) and her twin sister Kainene (Rose) celebrate Nigeria’s independence in October 1960 with their...
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Jul 29, 2014
Watching Arthur Ransome's children's classic "Swallows and Amazons" makes you realise just how much the world has changed, even since the seventies, when Claude Whatham's screen adaptation was made. Those...
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Jul 26, 2014
Director: Erik Skoldbjaerg
Writer: Nikolaj Frobenius and others
Cast: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Aksel Hennie, Jonathan LaPaglia, Jorgen Langhelle, Andre Eriksen
111 min Thriller Norway
Erik Skoldbjaerg - best known for Insomnia (1997) delves back...
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Jul 26, 2014
Director: Patrice Leconte
Writer: Patrice Leconte
With its Belle Epoque overtones and hauntingly romantic retro feel A PROMISE is set in a German industrial town before the Great War. It stars Alan...
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Jul 26, 2014
Despite recent successes for Hungarian indie film - the future looks uncertain - Andre Simonoveisz explores the reasons why:
Hungarian cinema has been arthouse-orientated since the mid-seventies when the reformist/revisionist Hungarian...
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