Glasgow Film Festival · 2007
40 films · 40 reviews
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2005; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen, Ole Thestrup, Ali Kazim, Nicolas Bro)
Mesmerising, heart-wrenching, and a remarkably intimate vision.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2006; Director: Sarah Polley; Writer: Sarah Polley, adapted from the story by Alice Monro; Stars: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Kristen Thomson, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson)
A hilarious screwball comedy
(Country: Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Germany; Year: 2006; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Lars von Trier; Stars: Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Benedikt Erlingsson, Iben Hjejle, Henrik Prip, Mia Lyhne, Casper Christensen, Louise Mieritz, Jean-Marc Barr, Sofie Gråbøl, Anders Hove, Lars von Trier) , Trailer
Buenos Aires, 1977 is harrowing at times, terrifying at others.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2006; Director: Adrián Caetano; Writer: Adrián Caetano, Esteban Student; Stars: Rodrigo De la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado, Matías Marmorato, Martín Urruty)
A flawed film but a brave one, taking on subject matter which is rarely addressed this way in British film
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Sean Ellis; Writer: Sean Ellis; Stars: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne, Marc Pickering, Nick Hancock, Frank Hesketh, Irene Bagach) , Trailer
Shakespearian, dynastic tragedy on an operatic scale
(Country: Hong Kong/China; Year: 2006; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Zhang Yimou, based on the play by Yu Cao; Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni)
Days of Glory is a great film, thoroughly deserving of the award attention that it has received.
(Country: France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium; Year: 2006; Director: Rachid Bouchareb; Writer: Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle; Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Mathieu Simonet)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Craig Lucas; Writer: Craig Lucas; Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott)
Despite all the blood on screen, Fast Food Nation is a strangely anaemic movie.
(Country: UK/US; Year: 2006; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Eric Schlosser, Richard Linklater, based on the book by Eric Schlosser; Stars: Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Cannavale, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancon, Luis Guzman, Frank Ertl, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Armando Hernandez, Michael Conway)
Jokes are low-brow but delight audiences easily enough to give the film international appeal.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2000; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sofie Gråbøl, Iben Hjejle)
It is only after leaving the cinema that questions come bursting to the surface, not that they undermine Dr Niro’s magnificent achievement behind the camera
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Robert De Niro; Writer: Eric Roth; Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Michael Gambon, Robert De Niro, Eddie Redmayne, Oleg Stefan, Lee Pace, Billy Crudup, Martina Gedeck, John Sessions, Mark Ivanir, Gabriel Macht, Joe Pesci)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2003; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Nikolai Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Line Kruse, Bodil Jorgensen, Ole Thestrup, Nicolas Bro, Aksel Erhardtsen, Lily Weiding)
The UN describes Haiti as the most dangerous place on earth and this haunting documentary shows us why.
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2006; Director: Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic; Writer: Asger Leth; Stars: Winson '2Pac' Jean, Wyclef Jean, James 'Bily' Petit Frère, Éleonore 'Lele' Senlis)
What rescues A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints from bland conventionality is Montiel's bravura approach to direction.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Dito Montiel; Writer: Dito Montiel; Stars: Robert Downey Jr, Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Melonie Diaz, Martin Compston, Eric Roberts, Rosario Dawson, Peter Tambakis, Anthony DeSando, Julia Garro, Eleonore Hendricks)
Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Ryan Fleck; Writer: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck; Stars: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Monique Curnen, Karen Chilton, Tina Holmes, Collins Pennie, Deborah Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Bryce Silver, Sebastian Sozzi)
(Country: Netherlands, UK; Year: 2004; Director: Paula van der Oest; Writer: Tamara Bos, based on the novel by Renate Dorrestein; Stars: Hunter Bussemaker, Monic Hendrickx, Priscilla Knetemann, Henny Orri, Bram van den Hooven)
Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.
(Country: US/Poland/France; Year: 2006; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch; Stars: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter J. Lucas, Karolina Gruszka, Jan Hench, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, Julia Ormond, Ian Abercrombie, Naomi Watts, Nastassja Kinski, Laura Harring)
(Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK; Year: 2006; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Raoul Ruiz and Gilbert Adair; Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton)
We experience the horror of war as one of the enemy and this is Eastwood's accomplishment.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Clint Eastwood; Writer: Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis, based on Picture Letters From Commander In Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi; Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae Yuuki, Akiko Shima, Lucas Elliott)
A chilling, but ultimately uplifting glimpse into the lives of those trapped within the repressive regime of East Germany.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2006; Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Stars: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme)
A bit of standard-but-creepy Asian horror stapled poorly to a dull-as-ditchwater Hollywood thriller.
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang; Writer: Mark Wheaton, Todd Farmer; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner, Theodore Turner, William B. Davis)
(Country: Italy, France, Switzerland, Singapore; Year: 2006; Director: Gianni Amelio; Writer: Gianni Amelio, Umberto Contarello; Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Ling Tai, Angelo Costabile, Hiu Sun Ha, Catherine Sng, Enrico Vanigiani)
Pretty much a must for anyone who enjoys schlocky Seventies horror.
(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Kevin Connor; Writer: Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe; Stars: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack)
Konrad Niewolski recreates the sensation of paranoia that crawls inside your mind, disturbing the stability of plot devices.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2006; Director: Konrad Niewolski; Writer: Igor Brejdygant; Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Magdalena Cielecka, Robert Gonera, Adam Ferency, Henryk Talar, Grzegorz Warchol)
Despite a running time of barely 90 minutes, this film seems to take an age to get to the point.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: John Stockwell; Writer: Michael Ross; Stars: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Agles Steib, Miguel Lunardi)
It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.
(Country: Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France; Year: 2006; Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Br; Writer: Tristan Carné; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Steve Buscemi, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Wes Craven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, GCraven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, Gérard Depardieu)
Luke Fowler's documentary tribute to the Scratch Orchestra is visually intriguing, politically dynamic, and surprisingly watchable.
(Year: 2006; Director: Luke Fowler; Writer: Luke Fowler; Stars: Cornelius Cardew)
For all its sadness of theme, Prag is a strangely beautiful and moving film.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Ole Christian Madsen; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Ole Christian Madsen; Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Borivoj Navrátil, Jana Plodková, Josef Vajnar)
Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, Brad Carr, François Chau, Craig Gellis, GQ, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy, Toby Huss)
It explores the cheap and trashy yet it's fresh and engaging
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: JT Petty; Writer: JT Petty; Stars: Carol J Clover, Debbie D, Bill Zebub, Fred Vogel, Erik Rost, Kerri Taylor)
There is a menacing undercurrent.
(Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson and Pernille Fischer Christensen; Stars: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel, Elsebeth Steentoft, Christian Tafdrup)
The film feels real, and of the moment.
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Col Spector; Writer: Radha Chakraborty, Col Spector; Stars: Stephen Mangan, Susan Lynch, Lara Belmont, Christopher Coghill, Shaun Dingwall, John Henshaw)
The ladle of light-hearted farce is never far enough from the plot.
(Country: UK, USA; Year: 2006; Director: Woody Allen; Writer: Woody Allen; Stars: Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Geoff Bell, Christopher Fulford, Nigel Lindsay, Ian McShane, Fenella Woolgar, Doreen Mantle, David Schneider, Meera Syal, Kevin McNally)
A vital part of your film education.
(Country: US; Year: 1956; Director: John Ford; Writer: Frank S. Nugent, based on the novel by Alan Le May.; Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Johnston Clayton, Natalie Wood.)
The film is a template for disaster movies and strangers-trapped-in-a-train scenarios.
(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: John Ford; Writer: Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht, based on the short story, Stage To Lordsburg, by Ernest Haycox; Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Louise Platt, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt)
Enjoyable, and well assembled, but the distance in language and setting work against it.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2005; Director: Andreas Dresen; Writer: Wolfgang Kohlhaase; Stars: Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl, Andreas Schmidt, Stefanie Schönfeld, Vincent Redetzki)
This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.
(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Guillaume Canet; Writer: Guillaume Canet, based on the novel by Harlan Coben.; Stars: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, François Berléand)
It is the political overtones that make the movie stand out and also invite forgiveness for the appreciably low budget.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: David Arquette; Writer: David Arquette, Joe Harris; Stars: David Arquette, Richmond Arquette, Courteney Cox, Paz de la Huerta, Ben Gardiner, Balthazar Getty, Jaime King, Rick Overton)
True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.
(Country: Germany, Ireland, UK; Year: 2006; Director: Steve Hudson; Writer: Steve Hudson; Stars: Martin Compston, Peter Mullan, Steven Robertson, Gary Lewis, Angel Li)
This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Shane Meadows; Writer: Shane Meadows; Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, Jack O'Connell, Kieran Hardcastle)
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