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OPENS JULY 30, NO CERT, 114 MINS Coming-of-age sports movies tend to adhere to a formula and, in essence, this debut feature from computer-effects whiz Fumihiko Sori is no exception. Familiar setbacks and triumphs are all present and correct, but this adaptation of a five-volume manga delivers enou...

OPENS JULY 30, NO CERT, 114 MINS

Coming-of-age sports movies tend to adhere to a formula and, in essence, this debut feature from computer-effects whiz Fumihiko Sori is no exception. Familiar setbacks and triumphs are all present and correct, but this adaptation of a five-volume manga delivers enough character quirks, visual flair and unique detail to make it the Japanese equivalent of a Wes Anderson film.

Friends since childhood, the wild, outgoing Peco (Y

La Fleur Du Mal

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OPENS JULY 2, CERT 15, 100 MINS Chabrol seems to have a taste for morbid, murderous secrets that ruffle the comfort of bourgeois existence. But his latest, the tale of a wealthy Bordeaux family, seems rather prosaic next to the suffocating, gothic malevolence of predecessors like Merci Pour La Choc...

OPENS JULY 2, CERT 15, 100 MINS

Chabrol seems to have a taste for morbid, murderous secrets that ruffle the comfort of bourgeois existence. But his latest, the tale of a wealthy Bordeaux family, seems rather prosaic next to the suffocating, gothic malevolence of predecessors like Merci Pour La Chocolat.

Fran

1000 Months

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OPENS JULY 2, CERT 12A, 124 MINS The smart feature debut from Faouzi Bensa...

OPENS JULY 2, CERT 12A, 124 MINS

The smart feature debut from Faouzi Bensa

Cold Mountain

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Anthony Minghella's Civil War epic has plenty of razzle: spectacular opening sequence; deserter Jude Law's trans-American journey to Nicole Kidman; leery sheriff Ray Winstone; doughty Calamity Jane farmhand Ren...

Anthony Minghella’s Civil War epic has plenty of razzle: spectacular opening sequence; deserter Jude Law’s trans-American journey to Nicole Kidman; leery sheriff Ray Winstone; doughty Calamity Jane farmhand Ren

The Three Colours Trilogy

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Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy is one of the standard bearers for 'arthouse' cinema. And though the movies occasionally hint at self-importance (in Zbigniew Preisner's intrusive scores and the colour-coded shooting style), Kieslowski's steely control of storytelling always keeps the narratives fiercely compelling

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy is one of the standard bearers for ‘arthouse’ cinema. And though the movies occasionally hint at self-importance (in Zbigniew Preisner’s intrusive scores and the colour-coded shooting style), Kieslowski’s steely control of storytelling always keeps the narratives fiercely compelling

Support Your Local Sheriff – Support Your Local Gunfighter

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Amiable comedy westerns starring James Garner, from 1969 and 1971. In the first he brings order to a lawless gold-rush town; in the second he's a conman passing off his sidekick (Jack Elam) as a deadly gunslinger. Both are droll delights, with amazing supporting casts that include Bruce Dern and Walter Brennan

Amiable comedy westerns starring James Garner, from 1969 and 1971. In the first he brings order to a lawless gold-rush town; in the second he’s a conman passing off his sidekick (Jack Elam) as a deadly gunslinger. Both are droll delights, with amazing supporting casts that include Bruce Dern and Walter Brennan

Venom

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Enjoyably hammy sub-Hitchcock suspense thriller from 1982 in which Klaus Kinski's plan to kidnap the grandson of a wealthy American explorer is thrown into chaos, placing him and co-conspirators Oliver Reed and Susan George under siege by a black mamba. Kinski is suitably unpleasant, as is the wince-inducing moment when Ollie receives a fatal snake bite where no bloke wants to be bitten.

Enjoyably hammy sub-Hitchcock suspense thriller from 1982 in which Klaus Kinski’s plan to kidnap the grandson of a wealthy American explorer is thrown into chaos, placing him and co-conspirators Oliver Reed and Susan George under siege by a black mamba. Kinski is suitably unpleasant, as is the wince-inducing moment when Ollie receives a fatal snake bite where no bloke wants to be bitten.

The Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl

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Made in 1993 and directed by Ray M...

Made in 1993 and directed by Ray M

Dogville

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After pushing Emily Watson and Bj...

After pushing Emily Watson and Bj

Easy Rider: Special Edition

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Peter Fonda's cool Captain America rides across America with the wired Billy (Dennis Hopper), encountering hippies, rednecks and Jack Nicholson as dipso lawyer George Hanson. It looks as mythically beautiful as it did back in '69. And Hanson's campfire speech about Amerika is more chillingly relevant than ever.

Peter Fonda’s cool Captain America rides across America with the wired Billy (Dennis Hopper), encountering hippies, rednecks and Jack Nicholson as dipso lawyer George Hanson. It looks as mythically beautiful as it did back in ’69. And Hanson’s campfire speech about Amerika is more chillingly relevant than ever.

Shadow Makers

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Roland Joff...

Roland Joff

Panic Room: Special Edition

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David Fincher's homage to Hitchcock (the North By Northwest title sequence, Howard Shore's score, the Rope/Vertigo-like apartment-as-stage conceit) finds Jodie Foster as the beleaguered mum trying to stay one step ahead of Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto's housebreakers

David Fincher’s homage to Hitchcock (the North By Northwest title sequence, Howard Shore’s score, the Rope/Vertigo-like apartment-as-stage conceit) finds Jodie Foster as the beleaguered mum trying to stay one step ahead of Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto’s housebreakers

Blazing Saddles

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Mel Brooks' 1974 spoof western isn't a patch on The Producers or Young Frankenstein, due to a lacklustre script. What memorable moments there are come courtesy of Cleavon Little's hip black sheriff, Gene Wilder's alcoholic gunfighter, Madeline Kahn's faultless Marlene Dietrich impression and Slim Pickens busting up that infamous campfire farting scene.

Mel Brooks’ 1974 spoof western isn’t a patch on The Producers or Young Frankenstein, due to a lacklustre script. What memorable moments there are come courtesy of Cleavon Little’s hip black sheriff, Gene Wilder’s alcoholic gunfighter, Madeline Kahn’s faultless Marlene Dietrich impression and Slim Pickens busting up that infamous campfire farting scene.

Boyz N The Hood

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John Singleton's explosive debut lifted the lid on South Central LA in the early '90s, and was arguably as influential as the burgeoning wave of hip hop of the same period in bringing black urban culture to a wider audience. It's characterised by Singleton's unflinching storytelling, plus a career-best performance from Cuba Gooding Jr.

John Singleton’s explosive debut lifted the lid on South Central LA in the early ’90s, and was arguably as influential as the burgeoning wave of hip hop of the same period in bringing black urban culture to a wider audience. It’s characterised by Singleton’s unflinching storytelling, plus a career-best performance from Cuba Gooding Jr.

Intermission

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Cracking ensemble comedy drama set on the mean streets of contemporary Dublin. Colin Farrell is the petty crook out to pull a career-topping scam, Colm Meaney is the cop on the case, and there's fine support from Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy and Kelly Macdonald. Farrell's a ball of manic fury, but it's Meaney?who appears to believe he's living in some US TV cop show from the '70s?who steals the film.

Cracking ensemble comedy drama set on the mean streets of contemporary Dublin. Colin Farrell is the petty crook out to pull a career-topping scam, Colm Meaney is the cop on the case, and there’s fine support from Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy and Kelly Macdonald. Farrell’s a ball of manic fury, but it’s Meaney?who appears to believe he’s living in some US TV cop show from the ’70s?who steals the film.

Triad And Emotional

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When it was belatedly released in the UK earlier this year, Infernal Affairs provoked some surely outlandish comparisons with heavyweight Hollywood crime epics like Heat and The Godfather. Is it really that good? Er, not quite. It looks pretty stylish?much-celebrated cinematographer and Wong Kar-Wai collaborator Christopher Doyle is credited as "visual consultant", and with co-directors Andy Lau and Alan Mak, he gives the film a sleek, often hallucinatory look, which is both modish and dramatically appropriate. There are also suitably intense central performances from Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Andy Lau?as, respectively, an undercover cop who's infiltrated the Kowloon criminal organisation of the ruthless Boss Sam and a Triad mole, planted in the Hong Kong police department by the devious Sam. The parallel narratives that follow the serially frustrated attempts by both cops and gangsters to identify the traitor in their ranks is both clever and often nail-bitingly tense, and there are a couple of outstanding set-pieces?including a complex drug score and a brief but ferocious gunfight?but the conflict between the two leads somehow lacks the vital spark that would have elevated Infernal Affairs to the stature to which it aspires. Smart ending, though.

When it was belatedly released in the UK earlier this year, Infernal Affairs provoked some surely outlandish comparisons with heavyweight Hollywood crime epics like Heat and The Godfather. Is it really that good? Er, not quite.

It looks pretty stylish?much-celebrated cinematographer and Wong Kar-Wai collaborator Christopher Doyle is credited as “visual consultant”, and with co-directors Andy Lau and Alan Mak, he gives the film a sleek, often hallucinatory look, which is both modish and dramatically appropriate. There are also suitably intense central performances from Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Andy Lau?as, respectively, an undercover cop who’s infiltrated the Kowloon criminal organisation of the ruthless Boss Sam and a Triad mole, planted in the Hong Kong police department by the devious Sam.

The parallel narratives that follow the serially frustrated attempts by both cops and gangsters to identify the traitor in their ranks is both clever and often nail-bitingly tense, and there are a couple of outstanding set-pieces?including a complex drug score and a brief but ferocious gunfight?but the conflict between the two leads somehow lacks the vital spark that would have elevated Infernal Affairs to the stature to which it aspires. Smart ending, though.

Television Roundup

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One of the best US TV shows around, a relentlessly kinetic, breathlessly filmed and edited conspiracy and counter-espionage drama starring Jennifer Garner as CIA agent Sydney Bristow, clandestinely placed within the sinister SD6, an organisation plotting global domination. The serial plot twists, constantly shifting allegiances, reckless narrative pace and relentless action make these 22 episodes essential viewing. Brilliant.

One of the best US TV shows around, a relentlessly kinetic, breathlessly filmed and edited conspiracy and counter-espionage drama starring Jennifer Garner as CIA agent Sydney Bristow, clandestinely placed within the sinister SD6, an organisation plotting global domination. The serial plot twists, constantly shifting allegiances, reckless narrative pace and relentless action make these 22 episodes essential viewing. Brilliant.

School Of Rock

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Richard Linklater's warm-hearted comedy is elevated to late-night stoner classic status by a manic central performance from Jack Black, here masquerading as a substitute teacher in a posh American private school who educates his privileged pre-teen charges in matters RAWK. Great, throwaway fun.

Richard Linklater’s warm-hearted comedy is elevated to late-night stoner classic status by a manic central performance from Jack Black, here masquerading as a substitute teacher in a posh American private school who educates his privileged pre-teen charges in matters RAWK. Great, throwaway fun.

The Dirty Dozen

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Robert Aldrich's most profitable movie presents war as mean-spirited farce: Major Lee Marvin offers a bunch of jailed WWII Gls?including John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland?the chance to join him on a suicide mission into Occupied France. The movie wastes its greatest actor, Robert Ryan, but it's a relentless work?violent, funny and deeply cynical.

Robert Aldrich’s most profitable movie presents war as mean-spirited farce: Major Lee Marvin offers a bunch of jailed WWII Gls?including John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland?the chance to join him on a suicide mission into Occupied France. The movie wastes its greatest actor, Robert Ryan, but it’s a relentless work?violent, funny and deeply cynical.

The Cockettes

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San Francisco, 1969: do enough acid and anything is possible. A gaggle of (mostly) gay freaks and flower children (and latterly, disco diva-to-be Sylvester) become the Cockettes, a utopian, ragged-arsed theatre troupe who wow the West Coast but flop in NY. This funny, moving doc eventually unravels in a roll call of deaths, both drug and AIDS-related. They were stardust, but all too briefly.

San Francisco, 1969: do enough acid and anything is possible. A gaggle of (mostly) gay freaks and flower children (and latterly, disco diva-to-be Sylvester) become the Cockettes, a utopian, ragged-arsed theatre troupe who wow the West Coast but flop in NY. This funny, moving doc eventually unravels in a roll call of deaths, both drug and AIDS-related. They were stardust, but all too briefly.

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