Glasgow Film Festival · 2009
A superb selection of documentaries that will make your eyes open wide in wonder.
8 films · 6 reviews
The differing perspectives of the participants show that our relationship with oil is complex.
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Franny Armstrong; Writer: Franny Armstrong; Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Jamila Bayyoud, Adnan Bayyoud, Alvin DuVernay, Piers Guy, Layefa Malini, Fernand Pareau, Jeh Wadia)
Tom Hardy makes other movie hardmen look like they belong on the Muppet Show.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Brock Norman Brock; Stars: Tom Hardy, Matt King, Terry Stone, Amanda Burton, Jonathan Phillips, Hugh Ross, Kelly Adams, China-Black, Joe Tucker, Edward Bennett-Coles, Katy Barker) , Official site , Trailer
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Christopher Bell; Writer: Christopher Bell, Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawa)
What he’s talking about and looking for is oddity masquerading as normality.
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Werner Herzog; Stars: Werner Herzog) , Official site , Trailer
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Raymond Depardon)
A scabrous, at times shocking assault on the more idiotic aspects of religion, and the dangers that they pose in a society capable for the first time of bringing about its own destructive Apocalypse.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Larry Charles; Writer: Bill Maher; Stars: Bill Maher, David Rosen, Kamal Farah, David L Parsons, Shmuel Strauss, Levi Halperin, Aki Nawaz, Jimmy Turkmani, Ferre van Beveren, Fatimah Elatik, Geert Wilders, Reginald Foster, John Westcott, Francis Collins, Dean Hamer, Jeremiah Cummings, George V Coyne, Andrew Newberg, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Brian Weiss, Ray Suarez, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Kathy Maher, Julie Maher, Mark Pryor, Joe Copland, Ken Ham, Steve Burg, Ted Bachman, Bill Gardiner) , Trailer
The directors have an enviable lightness of touch and a serious eye for the cinematic.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Robert Cannan, Corinna Villari-McFarlane) , Official site , Trailer
Like the heavyweight prize-fighter in his prime, this is documentary stripped back to its leanest form.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Toback; Writer: James Toback; Stars: Mike Tyson) , Official site
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