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contributions from Eastern Europe, including Janis Cinermanis' highly entertaining adaptation of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (pictured) and Jan Balej's much darker portrait of life in a Prague tower block, One Night in One City. Unsurprisingly, Jan Svankmajer makes a brief appearance with his excellent 1990 short Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, which is showing as part of a showcase of Russian, Estonian and Czech animation. There’s more puppetry, scatology and madness in Radek Beran’s adult tales from the asylum, The Losers, while the gifted Japanese stop frame animator Kihachiro Kawamoto will be honoured with a retrospective of his short films. www.puppetanimation.org
I Film/101139. Edinburgh. Sat 72-Thu 7 7 Apr.
pursue a little private enterpnse as extemtinators in spook-infested New York. ()f it's time but this is still an enjoyany dated comedy. Grim-(nor. Glasgow.
The Golden Compass 112m ooo 1(‘hris Weill. l'S/L'K. 2007) Nicole Kidman. Dakota Blue Richards. Ian McKellen. Sam Elliott. 105mm. Based on the nosel by Phillip Pullman. this fantasy adyenture follows Lyra tRichards). who has been entrusted with the last remaining 'alethiometer'. or golden compass. which she mUst keep from the power-crazed Magisterium. The world Weill has created is beautifully designed and fascinating. but choppin structured and lacking in much of what makes the book s11 complex and provocative. lt's Paradise Missed. (’mewnrhl Purkheuil. Glasgow: ('ineworltl Edinburgh. Edinburgh.
Grindhouso 1 I81 .0” (Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez/Eli Roth/Edgar Wright/Rob Zombie. l'S. 2007) Rose McGowan. Freddy Rodriguez. Kurt Russell. l9lmin. Tarantino and Rodriguez's salute to the l97()s exploitation movie focuses on an ex-stripper with a grenade launcher- equipped machine gun leg. who meets and greets a troop 11f flesh eating mutating lnttlhies. Taking a step down in tone. Tarantino‘s Death Pmuftraces two groups 11f women tied together only by the presence of a lunatic cit-Hollywood stuntman. Complete with the original imaginary trailers. this ‘double feature' offers the (iriridhmise package up on one delicinmly cultish plate. (when. Edinburgh. Hannah Montana l Mlloy Cyrus: Best ot Both Worlds Concert In 30 (U) .0 (Bruce Hendricks. US. 2008) Miley Cyrus. Joe Jonas. Kevin Jonas. 75min. The titular pop queen on an insanely popular Disney Channel series and the teenage daughter 11f 90s country mUsic star Billy Ray (‘yrus go head to head in this flashy but economical in length stadium concert presented in 3D for their squealing fans. An American phenomenon. Selected release.
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