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Glasgow Film Festival · 2010

Glasgow Film Festival 2010

Stranger Than Fiction

True tales from around the world, set to challenge your expectations. Weird, wonderful and distinctly individual.

Programme

9 films · 7 reviews

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American: The Bill Hicks Story

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American: The Bill Hicks Story provides us with a wonderful glimpse behind the curtain of performance and lets us see the sensitive, warm, patriotic and fiercely intelligent man we all suspected lay beneath the act.

Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
Documentary examining the life and legacy of the controversial comic.

(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas; Stars: Kevin Booth, John Farneti, Bill Hicks, Lynn Hicks, Mary Hicks, Steve Hicks, Andy Huggins, David Johndrow, James Ladmirault, Dwight Slade)

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Capitalism: A Love Story

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In sheer entertainment terms this is Moore's best yet.

Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
A documentary about laissez faire capitalism and its effect on American society.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Moore; Writer: Michael Moore; Stars: William Black, Jimmy Carter, Elijah Cummings, Baron Hill, Marcy Kaptur, John McCain, Michael Moore, Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan) , Official site , Trailer

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Con Artist

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This excellent documentary is almost as subversive as its subject.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Profile of Eighties New York art scene enfant terrible, Mark Kostabi.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Sladek; Stars: Wilfredo Arias, Molly Barnes, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Behrman, Pope Benedict XVI, Victor Bockris, Mike Cockrill, Jacob Collins, Adrian Dannatt, Fabio D'Aroma) , Official site

Full review See: Tribeca Film Festival: Diary/Movie/Film reviews - Con Artist, North, Mark Kostabi

Corso - The Last Beat

A documentary following the last surviving beat poet as he undertakes a journey to Europe to explore his past and discovers the truth about the mother he thought had abandoned him.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Gustave Reininger; Stars: Gregory Corso, William S Burroughs, Ethan Hawke)

Expansive Grounds (Ein Weites Feld)

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Particularly interesting in giving a voice to a generation of people who were children when it happened.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary exploring present day feelings about the Holocaust in the context of Berlin's monument to murdered Jews.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Gerburg Rohde-Dahl; Stars: Uta Gille, Lea Rosh, Peter Eisenman, Bernd Hillermeier) , Official site

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His & Hers (His And Hers)

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Concentrated insights (without any complicating distractions) into sex, family, the shifts in generations and the continuities of life.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
Seventy women talk about the men in their lives.

(Year: 2009; Director: Ken Wardrop; Stars: 70 women) , Trailer

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Kicking It

The lives of homeless people are changed forever through an international soccer competition. This film follows six players as they set off for Cape Town, South Africa to play in the Homeless World Cup.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Susan Koch; Writer: Susan Koch; Stars: Narrated by Colin Farrell) , Official site

Old Partner (Wonangsori)

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A thoroughly disarming horse-fly-on-the-wall documentary.

Tony Sullivan · 4 out of 5
Documentary about an elderly farmer, his wife and their loyal ox.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2008; Director: Lee Chung-ryoul; Stars: Won-gyoon Choi, Sam-soon Lee)

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Stolen

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There's almost a Blair Witch quality to this documentary - the naive young filmmakers suddenly out of their depth in a remote region where they've no idea where to turn for help.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Saharawi refugees in the Algerian desert speak out about slavery, and two filmmakers find themselves in unexpected danger.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Violeta Ayala, Daniel Fallshaw; Stars: Violeta Ayala, Daniel Fallshaw)

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