Film index

I Am Sam 1 l2) ... (Jessie .\'elson. 2002) Sean Penn. .\lichelle I’feiffer. Dakota Fanning. 132mm. Penn plays Sam Dawson. a cleaner at Starbucks with the mental age of a child. who is left to raise his daughter. Lucy (Fanning) by himself when the mother deserts them both after the birth. However. when Lucy starts to surpass Sam in her mental abilities. the authorities step in and Sam turns to brittle lawyer Rita Harrison (Pfeifferi in a bid to gain custody. Penn's performance is undeniably showy. but nonetheless impressive the received his third Oscar nomination for it i. There's good support too. btit the film's definitely manipulative. It‘s also extremely funny in places and features a superbly integrated soundtrack of Beatles covers. Selected release.

I Live In Fear (PG) .000 iAkira Kurosawa. Japan. 1955) Toshiru .\Iifune. Takashi Shimura. 104mm. \‘ery line early Kurosawa movie. made between Sci-m Samurai and 'I‘lirmii' (dB/Um]. I Live in l‘t'tll‘ tells the intimate story of a Tokyo family facing the threat of nuclear war. The father t.\lifune. uncomfortably playing a character twice his age) wants to emigrate to a farm iii Brazil. his family don't want to and try to have him incarcerated. This is a little nugget of a movie. a time capsule frotn the Atomic Age. Filtnhouse, Edinburgh.

Ice Age (U 00 t(‘hri.s Wedge & Carlos Saldanha. 2002i Voices of John Leguizamo. (ioran \‘isniic. Jack Black. 81min. There‘s a faint air of cy nicism in this story of a morose mammoth. a bumbling sloth and a wily tiger who join forces. despite all their better instincts. to return a

httman baby to his father. :\s the planet gets Mekhi Phifer and Gary Sinise talk Dick in the lmposter colder. they head in the opposite direction of

the anitnal migration. to battle snow drifts. frosty e\tei‘iors. but they don't dcliyei' that whose village gets visited by a monster who Japan. 1952) Takasha Shimura. .\'ohuo volcanoes. ice caves and predators. all important charm. w it. flair and floats across the sea on a block of ice. Boas Kaneko. Kyoko Seki. Httmin. (ientle

ey entually delivering their charge. The imagination. (ienct'al i'eleasc. tries to find otit about this demon and in the comedy about a terminally ill bureaucrat animators try desperately to make you fall in Ikingut l l 'i ... t(iisli Snaer process finds himself a new friend. Superior w ho‘s seeks to giye his dreary life \ ibrancy love with this tmlikely band of creatures. to lii'lingsson. Iceland. lelllli. N-‘mlll. Iceland. kiddies movie. (EFT. (ilasgow. and meaning. Part of the :\kira Kurosawa make you see the good hearts beneath the hundreds of years ago. Boas is a little boy Ikiru tl’(ii.... (Akira Kurosawa. season. l‘llllllltlthc. lidinburgh.

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