Film

Re-release of 1971 Visconti classic

Disappointing biopic of legendary Mexican painter

Slow-burning but majestic Mexican drama

Nolte kicks smack in Monte Carlo

Seymour Hoffman tour de force as grieving loner

Analytical US-style remake of slow-burning Japanese chiller

DIRECTED BY Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein

Infantile, boorish, dangerous, hilarious, unmissable

Three female big-hitters go on an Oscar hunt

DIRECTED BY Peter Mullan STARRING Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Anne-Marie Duff Opens February 21, Cert 15, 119 mins The opening scene of Peter Mullan's award-winning social drama The Magdalene Sisters unfolds in a Dublin pub in 1964, where Guinness-stained granddads in cloth caps slap their thighs to fiddle-dee-diddle-dee music played by a lecherous priest who salivates suggestively over his bodhran while crucifixes are reflected in whisky glasses and a lusty Irish buck rapes his own cousin.