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The Perfect Ten - Edinburgh
Tuesday 18 August, 8.15
For only the second time in their history, Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding come blinking out of their basement studio to recreate a live Perfect Ten podcast, this time at The Cameo.
After wowing / terrifying (it depended on where you were sitting and whether you liked being hit by a flying Mars bar or Laffy Taffy candy) audiences at the Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton in May, they're back for more.
Two live Perfect Tens, with the second set of topics chosen by the audience; Mel Brooks' inestimable BLAZING SADDLES on the big screen; and a DJ set guaranteed to make you ask for something you know, only to find that they don't do requests. But don't take it to heart!
Come one, come all, enjoy the fervour of two middle-aged men with their bell, ten topics and an upturned hat. It's good for what ails you (unless you're hit in the head by confectionary) and all for ten of your English/Scottish pounds! We'll see you down the front... P&P Industries.
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BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY
Plus Live Satellite Q&A
Tuesday 14 July, 8.30
Presented by the Co-operative and Dogwoof from BAFTA
Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling the country.
Compiled from the shaky handheld footage, acclaimed filmmaker Anders Ostergaard's BURMA VJ pulls us into the heat of the moment as the Video-Journalists themselves become the targets of the Burmese government.
The film plays like a thriller, and is all the more scary because it is real.
The screening will be followed by a live satellite Q&A with the director, a member of the Democratic Voice of Burma and a representative of the Burma Campaign UK.
14 July has been designated Saffron Tuesday - come wearing the colour of the Burmese monks' robes to show your support for the oppressed people of Burma.
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35 SHOTS OF RUM (12A) - 10 July
A father and daughter living together in a Paris suburb face up to the changing relationships between themselves and their neighbours.
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (15) - 10 July
A complex portrait of the many facets behind a single name.
Read our Picturehouse Recommends article and see clips exclusive to Picturehouse here
MOON (15) - 17 July
Sam Rockwell is controlling a solo mining operation on the moon. For three years he's been without human company - or has he?
ANTICHRIST (18) - 24 July
The uncut version of the new film from Lars von Trier that caused uproar in Cannes.
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (15) - 7 August
The story of french gangster Jacques Mesrine, before he was called Public Enemy N°1.
ADAM (12A) - 7 August
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
SIN NOMBRE (Cert TBC) - 14 August
Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father to potentially realise her dream of a life in the U.S. |
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Director: Ken Loach Origin: Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom Year: 2009 Duration: 116m Starring: Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, John Henshaw, Steve Evets
The latest film from the legendary Ken Loach is a magical, social-realist work about a football fanatic postman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Salvation comes in the form of a very special life coach, his hero and Manchester United legend, Eric Cantona. With Cantona nicely sending up his footballer-as-philosopher persona, this is an engaging and accessible work that boasts a characteristically fine script from Paul Laverty, whose collaborations with Loach include SWEET SIXTEEN, AE FOND KISS and Palme d'Or winner THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY. LOOKING FOR ERIC is of course also infused with Loach's trademark humanism, humour and compassion.
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Director: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon Origin: United States Year: 2009 Duration: 94m Starring: Hugh Laurie, Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen
When California girl Susan Murphy is clobbered by a meteor full of outer-space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr Cockroach; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President enlists the motley crew of monsters to combat the robot.
Autism Friendly Screening
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Director: Carlos Cuaron Origin: Mexico, United States Year: 2009 Duration: 101m Starring: Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal
Beto (Luna) and Tato (García Bernal) Verdusco are brothers who work at a banana plantation and play football for the village team. Beto dreams of becoming a professional player. Tato's dream is to be a famous singer, and both share the wish to build a house for their mother, Elvira. Their luck changes when a soccer talent scout discovers them. As the possibility of fulfilling all of their dreams becomes very real, the siblings must face their innate rivalry as well as their own demons and limitations. Reuniting the team behind Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, this engaging, vivacious and beautifully played family tale is the first fruit of Cha Cha Cha, the production company created by Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Director: Christine Jeffs Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 91m Starring: Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt
Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Adams) now finds herself a thirty-something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah (Blunt) is still living at home with their dad Joe (Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get-rich-quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime-scene cleanup business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other... specialised situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, each of the sisters finds a new sense of self-respect and healing, and the closeness they had always craved finally blossoms.
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Director: Armando Iannucci Origin: United Kingdom Year: 2009 Duration: 106m Starring: Tom Hollander, Steve Coogan, James Gandolfini
Directed by master satirist Iannucci and written by the team that brought you The Thick of It, IN THE LOOP is a razor-sharp political comedy. The US President and British Prime Minister fancy a war. The British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Hollander), disagrees. But when he accidentally backs military action on prime-time TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington. If he can get in with the right D.C. people, if his entourage of one (Addison) can sleep with the right intern, and if he can stop the UN vote being rigged, he can halt the war. If he can't... well, he can always sack his advisor, whom he never liked anyway. The film pulls no political punches and is both pertinent and wickedly funny.
*Contains very strong language and strong sex references
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| Synecdoche, New York (15) |
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Director: Charlie Kaufman Origin: United States Year: 2008 Duration: 124m Starring: Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Philip Hoffman, Catherine Keener
The directorial debut of acclaimed writer Charlie Kaufman (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH), SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is a hugely ambitious American epic. Theatre director Caden Cotard (Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play in Schenectady, New York but turmoil reigns as his wife (Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. Therapy brings Caden no solace and a new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Morton) has also prematurely run aground. Worried about the transience of his life, Caden heads for New York, and hiring a huge cast, sets about creating a play of brutal honesty. A film that grapples with failure, disappointment and soured dreams, this is a work of great poignancy and import.
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| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (12A*) |
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Director: Gavin Hood Origin: United States Year: 2009 Duration: 118m Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston, Liev Schreiber, Hugh Jackman
Leading up to the events of X-MEN, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE tells the story of Wolverine's (Jackman, AUSTRALIA) epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed (Schreiber, DEFIANCE), and the ominous Weapon X programme. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men world. Brilliantly directed by Gavin Hood (TSOTSI, RENDITION), this is no mere franchise spin-off but a bracing addition to Marvel's marvellous mutant universe.
*Contains moderate fantasy violence.
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Director: Kornel Mundruczo Origin: Germany, Hungary Year: 2009 Duration: 96m Starring: Sandor Gaspar, Felix Lajko, Lili Monori, Orsolya Tóth
A quiet man (Lajko) returns to his village in the Danube delta, a region virtually cut off from the surrounding world. He decides to take over his late father's dilapidated hut on the shore, and he is joined by his sister (Toth) as he undertakes the building of a pier and a house on stilts. As their relationship develops they are rejected by their family and ridiculed by the villagers. Mundruczó makes great use of the delta's waterways, and his slow travelling shots and images of nature capture an encroaching sense of menace. With a minimal plot and arresting set pieces, including a breathtaking sequence of boats in a funeral procession, the atmosphere is heightened by the use of music by Schubert and Popul Vuh.
*Contains strong images of sexual violence
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Director: Barry Levinson Duration: 100m Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche
Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman team up for a political satire centred around the machinations of a presidential advisor and a Hollywood producer. They conspire to stage an event that will take media attention off the president, whose standing in the polls has fallen after he was caught in the arms of a Girl Scout on a tour of the White House. Their plan is to push the country to the brink of war with Albania, fully expecting to defuse the situation before a real conflict ensues. To that end, they fabricate a hero who, much to their surprise, turns out to be an insane soldier (Woody Harrelson). Featured among the ensemble are Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Catherine O'Hara, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Kirsten Dunst.
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