Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012
7 films · 5 reviews
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Penny Woolcock; Writer: Penny Woolcock; Stars: Chris Wilson, Dylan Duffus) , Trailer
While Brave may occasionally shy away from darker territory in order to retain its appeal for even the youngest of audiences, there are still plenty of 'big' ideas here for small minds to think about.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell; Writer: Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi, Brenda Chapman; Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Julie Walters, Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Ferguson, John Ratzenberger)
(Country: UK; Year: 1992; Director: Margaret Tait; Writer: Margaret Tait; Stars: Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet, Sean Scanlan, Hilary Maclean, Walter Leask, Sheana Marr, Eoim MacDonald, Jimmy Moar, Liz Robertson)
For all the 3D eyeball-poking efforts, barbershop-quartet singing fish and more colours than an explosion in a paintbox, the thin story never rises beyond merely okay.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; Writer: Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Dr. Seuss; Stars: Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White, Rob Riggle, Jenny Slate, Nasim Pedrad, Joel Swetow, Michael Beattie, Dave B. Mitchell, Dempsey Pappion, Elmarie Wendel, Danny Cooksey, Stephen Tobolowsky)
Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.
(Country: US, Poland; Year: 2012; Director: Harmony Korine, Alexsey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski; Writer: Harmony Korine, Alexsey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, Oleg Loevsky, Yaroslava Pulinovich; Stars: Val Kilmer, Igor Sergeev, Justyana Wasilewska, Pawel Tomaszewski, Pawel Smagala)
Friedkin has fun seeing how far he can push the envelope with swift, bloody violence and frequent full-frontal female nudity.
(Country: USA; Year: 2011; Director: William Friedkin; Writer: Tracy Letts; Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon, Scott A. Martin, Gralen Bryant Banks, Carol Sutton, Danny Epper, Jeff Galpin, Marc Macaulay, Gregory C. Bachaud, Charley Vance, Julia Adams, Blain Sanchez)
What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.
(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)
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