A Summer’s Tale (U) .00 (Eric ; War of the Worlds (12A) .0. f Rohmer. France. I996) Melvil Popaud. i (Steven Spielberg. US. 2005) Tom Cruise. 3 7f; . ‘ Aurelia Nolin. Amanda Langlet. I 13min. I Justin Chatwin. Dakota Fanning. Tim i j ()n holiday in Dinard. young Gaspard 3 Robbins. Miranda Otto. I lbmin. HG Wells’ t 3 stumbles into two-timing complications alien invasion as seen through the eyes of . ‘1 E 3 . while awaiting the arrival of his nominal Spielberg and divorced east coast blue- .1 girlfriend. It‘s astonishing how much , collar dockworker Ray Ferrier (Cruise). : '. , richness of insight and incident the French Despite good atmospheric work in the first I master packs into a relatively confined I half. pyrotechnics and noise render this to i canvas. A witty and touchineg humane f be only an adequate version of the much * portrait of youthful indecision. Grosi-enor, adapted book. Selected release. Glasgow. T Watership Down (U ) .0. (Martin I i Surprise Closing Film (15) (tbc) To I Rosen. UK. I978) With the voices of John 2 end an excellent season of new Pakistani ! Hurt. Richard Briers. Ralph Richardson.
cinema here is a surprise Pakistani film but there are no clues for this one. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow:
T-Rex 30 (U) (Brett Leonard. US. l998) 40min. Amazing looking IMAX movie
bestseller is transformed into this pretty
animation adventure that lacks most of the tension and unique viewpoint of the book. When their warren is threatened by titan. a
Roy Kinnear. 92min. Richard Adam‘s
about a father and daughter in danger from a vicious carnivorous dinosaur. Great fun. IMAX Theatre. Glasgow.
To Catch a Virgin Ghost (15) (()h- jung Kwon. South Korea. 2004) Chang Jung Lim. I02min. A black supernatural gangster comedy. After making off with the loot from a diamond heist. a hit man on his tail. a small time gangster hides out in a remote village. But the town of Sisin hides some dark secrets. Part of Showroom
group of rabbits decide to find a new home many miles away. Remembered (unfortunately) for Art Garfunkel‘s no] hit. ‘Bright Eyes‘. (‘ineworld Park/tend. Glasgow. Glasgow.
Wedding Crashers ( 15) 0.
(David [)obkin. US. 2005) Owen Wilson. Vince Vaughn. Rachel McAdams. Christopher Walken. l I9niin. This boisterous comedy about a pair of divorce mediators (Wilson and Vaughn) who spend
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This is your second and maybe last chance to catch Oliver Assayas’ excellent melodrama set in Canada’s underground music scene. About a recovering drug addict’s attempts to win back
each spring season gate-crashing weddings so they can score babes is merely an ugly second cousin once removed to the low- brow likes of Dodgeba/l and Meet the I'oekers. Seleeted release.
* Whisky ( 12A) eeoo (Pablo Stoll/Juan Pablo Rebulla. Uruquay/ Argentina/Spain/ Germany. 2004) Jorge Bolani. Daniel Hendler. Mirella Pascaul. Andres Pazos. 98min. When cantankerous sock factory owner Jacobo‘s (Pazos) brother Herman (Bolani) announces that he is going to visit. he asks his long suffering assistant Marta to pose as his wife. to save him face in front of his sibling. but in doing so — little does he know what change he is about to bring about in subservient harmless little Marta. Hilarious downbeat comedy drama from Uruguay that's a
custody of her son, Clean stars the mighty Maggie Cheung. l I Film/muse. Edinburgh (Fri 9 Sep- Thu 15 Sep only). '
Cinema. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow. Unleashed ( 18) «0 (Louis Leterrier. France/[IS/IJK. 2005) Jet Li. Morgan Freeman. Bob Hoskins. Kerry (‘ondon. 102mm. French martial arts movie written by Luc Bessson and shot in Glasgow. Li is the top enforcer of Hoskins' small-time hood. who goes about town collecting racket money and unleashing his well-trained kung fu killer. But his doggy gets off his leash and is taken in by Freeman‘s peace-loving blind piano tuner. An enjoyable curio. Selected release.
Vengeance is Mine (18) em (Shohei Imamura. Japan. I979) Ken ()gata. Mayumi ()gawa. Renataro Mikuni. Mitsuko ’ Baisho. l40min. See review. page 40. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow; Film/rouse. Edinburgh.
knife through butter. Here he brings his master strokes to the 19th century Japanese hero Zanichi. a blind swordsman made famous in the Shintano Katsu film series which ran l962—89. The new Zatoiehi is full of Kitano-style tonal changes between comic and violent. tender and graphic. Meanwhile. the fights become ever more dynamic as Zatoichi. helpinga remote mountain town that‘s being terrorised by the Ginzo gang. and his nemesis. the ronin llattori (Tadanobu Asano) who‘s been hired by Ginzo to enforce his rule. draw closer for the final battle. It's cutting edge stuff. ('ameo. Edinburgh.
peculiarly sour poem of mislaid loyalty. grief and pessimism. Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow; l-ilmhouse. Edinburgh. * Won Creek ( 18) em ((ireg McLean. Australia. 2005) John Jarratt. Cassandra Magrath. Andy McPhee. Kestie Morassi 94min. See interview and review. page ~11. .S'eleeted release.
i Zatoichi ( l8) oooo ('I‘akeshi Kitano. Japan. 2003) Beat Takeshi. Michiyo ()okusu. Taka (iatarukanaru. l lbmin. Having reinvented the cops and yakuzas genre. Kitano makes a stab at doing likewise with the samurai film. and once again slices through conventions like a
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