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Filmgoer Duncan Aitchison watches upwards of 55 movies at the Film Festival each year. So, here’s one punter who knows what he’s talking about. Here’s Duncan’s top five for the film fest.
Baadasssss Cinema Hot talking heads wax lyrical on
blaprOitation movies in spellchecker‘s nightmare documentary.
Fi/mhouse, 22, 24 Aug, 9pm.
Cinemania New York film Obsessives make their day and 'they're even more manic than you'. says documentary queen and Film Festival programmer Jenny Leask. Fi/mhouse. 77 Aug. 2.30pm; Cameo, 23 Aug, 9pm.
Morvern Callar Lynne Ramsay back on pole Dosmon again. three years after the brilliant Ratcatcher. GFT, 77 Aug, 8.30pm.
Ten Highly touted and unique Iranian road movie, featuring Just two characters and set entirely Within a car. Fi'lmhouse. 76 Aug, 7.30pm, I8Aug, 5pm.
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Dialogue rich acclaimed US indie ensemble piece — what better way to
spend Sunday night at the esteemed Cameo cinema? Cameo.
78 Aug, 70.30pm: UGC, 27 Aug, 8pm.
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From Turkish existentialism to Aussie ethnic cleansing, the second call on the pick of the filmfest.
I Fate A highly impressive exploration of existential themes in this Turkish film (loosely based on Camus' The Outsider) about a man failing to mourn his mother’s death who finds himself up on a murder charge. See review. Filmhouse, 78 Aug, 8pm, 20 Aug, 4.30pm, 27 (£4.50),
I From the Other Side In this look at emigration from Mexico to the US. Chantal Akerman documents the subtle misery of blighted lives. turning what could have been a merely efficient documentary into a work of slow-burn art. See review. Fi/mhouse, 79 Aug, 5.30pm, 27 Aug,
3. 75pm, £7 (£4.50).
I Irreversible French enfant terrible Gaspar Noé returns with a challenging study of love and revenge starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel that’s guaranteed to divide audiences with its graphic violent content. See feature and review. Fi/mhouse, 75 Aug, 70pm; Cameo, 24 Aug, 8pm, £7 (£4.50).
I Spider David Cronenberg trades physical horror for a more psychological kind in his most fully realised film in years. Ralph Fiennes excels as Spider, a schizophrenic man released from a mental institution into 603 East End London, where his old community reminds him of events that led to him being institutionalised. See review. UGC, 22 Aug, 9.30pm; Fi/mhouse. 24 Aug, 7pm, £7 (£4.50).
I Rabbit Proof Fence Ex- pat Phillip Noyce returns to his roots to tell this true story from a shameful period in Australian histOry when ‘half-caste’ aboriginal children were forcibly resettled with white families as a means of ethnic cleansing. A genuinely moving, poignant. beautiful film. See review. Dominion, 7 8 Aug, 7. 75pm;
. OFF, 27 Aug, 6.30pm, £37 (£4.50).
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