Distant Voices, Still Lives April 14th 2010 Terence Davies 1988/UK
85 mins |  |
Terence Davies' fractured chronicle of the life of a working-class family in the 1940's and 1950's. Drawing on his own childhood in the two part film, the writer-director offers a terrifying tension between the pub sing-songs, marriage celebrations and the horror of domestic abuse and depression. A raw, memorable film. |
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Brick Lane August 11th 2010 Sarah Gavron 2007/UK
101 mins |  |
Based on Monica Ali's novel, Brick Lane portrays the seclusion of a young Bangladeshi woman on the estates of London's Brick Lane. Her life is intruded upon by a young lover and the post- 9/11 era, thus beginning her introduction to the world outside her door. An enlightening tale of the breadth and depth of ordinary lives, how they intersect with history and where they remain hidden away. |
In Search of a Midnight Kiss December 8th 2010Alex Holdridge 2008/US
90 mins |  |
A crude, funny and tender take on romance, set in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Holdridge's script varies between foul-mouthed bawdiness and understated melancholy an odd, but winning combination to which his small cast do full justice. A dating service brings together the two unlikely main characters as they wander around the city, and few movies have paid a more romantic tribute to its lines and curves. |
Mountain Patrol (Kekexili)May 5th 2010 Chuan Lu 2004/China
90 mins |  |
From the director of The Missing Gun this is a story of a journalist travelling with a small mountain patrol group as they track a band of antelope poachers across the unforgiving Tibetan lands of Kekexili, the last great wilderness. Kekexili is an enormously powerful film that should not be missed. |
PersepolisApril 7th 2010 Vincent Parronaud, Marjane Satrapi 2007/France, USA 96 mins
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Persepolis gives us the sheer pleasure of narrative, rarely found in modern cinema or indeed fiction: a gripping story of what it is like to grow from a lonely imaginative child into an adult, and to find this internal tumult matched by geo-political upheaval. |
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