Glasgow Film Festival · 2010
The biggest, the brightest and perhaps the best, these are the sensational new films fronting the bill at this year's festival.
19 films · 12 reviews
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2009; Director: Heitor Dhalia; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Camilla Belle, Laura Neiva)
No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream – and yet at the same time this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: William M Finkelstein, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Abel Ferrara, Zoë Lund; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Brad Dourif, Michael Shannon, Shawn Hatosy, Shea Whigham, Xzibit, Denzel Whitaker, Irma P. Hall, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tom Bower, Lance E. Nichols)
The success of this film is in its attention to the sort of small human details that create the boundaries of our day to day worlds, the things we hang onto and use to define normality.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Breck Eisner; Writer: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright, based on the 1973 film by George A Romero; Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, Christie Lynn Smith, Brett Rickaby, Preston Bailey, John Aylward, Joe Reegan, Glenn Morshower, Larry Cedar, Gregory Sporleder, Mike Hickman, Lisa K Wyatt, Justin Welborn) , Official site
Every bit as quirky, engaging and rebellious as the artwork it aims to celebrate. Sadly, it also shares graffiti's tendency to be energetic but scattergun and ephemeral.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Banksy; Stars: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Rhys Ifans, Space Invader) , Official site
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Kirk Jones; Stars: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell)
Director and co-scribe Christian Carion, adapting from Serguei Kostine’s book, smartly distills the global Cold War politicking into Froment and Grigoriev’s tense relationship.
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Christian Carion; Stars: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kurstica, Willem Dafoe)
It's an old story, but rarely has it been this appealingly told.
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Riad Sattouf; Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Tremoliere)
This haunting ghost story is an old-fashioned family film that will delight both kids and adults. S
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Julian Fellowes; Writer: Julian Fellowes, based on the stories by Lucy M Boston; Stars: Maggie Smith, Dominic West, Timothy Spall, Alex Etel)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Shana Feste; Writer: Shana Feste; Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson, Mike Shannon)
Baumbach has now reached a point where he is parodying himself, yet he still doesn't seem to have found his own voice.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Jennifer Jason Leigh; Stars: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juno Temple) , Official site , Trailer
I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Luca Guadagnino, Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cotroneo, Walter Fasano; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Pippo Delbono, Alba Rohrwacher, Marisa Berenson)
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini; Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan, Aladin Reibel, Alexandre Vidal, Daisy Broom, Berta Esquirol, Gérard Lartigau, Geneviève Casile, Philippe Laudenbach, Michèle Ernou, Jonathan Cohen, Hélène Babu, Sali Cervià)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Todd Solondz; Writer: Todd Solondz; Stars: Ally Sheedy, Allison Janney, Ciarán Hinds, Paul Reubens, Shirley Henderson, Chris Marquette, Gaby Hoffmann, Charlotte Rampling, Michael K. Williams, Renée Taylor, Michael Lerner, Brian Tester, Rich Pecci, Dylan Riley Snyder, Emma Hinz)
The real star here is creator Eromose.
(Country: Nigeria, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Eromose; Writer: Eromose; Stars: Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Richard Brake) , Official site
A riot of slapstick humour, bizarre gadgetry, spectacular stunts and unlikely adventures.
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant; Stars: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon, Michel Crémadès, Marie-Julie Baup, Urbain Cancelier, Patrick Paroux, Jean-Pierre Becker, Stéphane Butet, Philippe Girard) , Trailer
Whilst the story is ultimately fairly straightforward thriller stuff, the things it has to say are anything but. It's also a stunningly beautiful, atmospheric piece of work.
(Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Niels Arden Oplev; Writer: Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg, Stieg Larsson; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson, Peter Haber, Marika Lagercrantz, Lena Endre, Ingvar Hirdwall, Gösta Bredefeldt, Björn Granath, Ewa Fröling, Stefan Sauk, Gunnel Lindblom, Willie Andréason, Tomas Köhler) , Official site , Trailer
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Fatih Akin, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman; Stars: Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt, Orlando Bloom)
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Mottern; Writer: James Mottern; Stars: Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy Bennett, Nathan Fillion)
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut blasts in some girls who just want to have fun - and you'll be happy to join them.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Drew Barrymore; Writer: Shauna Cross, based on her novel; Stars: Elliot Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis) , Official site , Trailer
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