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Garbage Warrior ( l5)
.0. (Oliver Hodge. UK. 2007) 88min. Hippie. sustainable housing architect and all round recycling guru Michael Reynolds presents his vision of self sufficiency in the future in this absorbing documentary. Part of Take One: Action! festival. Film/muse. Iz'tlt'nburelt.
Get Smart ( I 2A) .0. (Peter Segal. US. 2008) Steve (‘areIL Anne Hathaway. Dwayne Johnson. 1 10min. Segal's tent-pole blockbuster revamp of 1960's spy spoof (iet Smart features Care“ as an over-prepared secret agent whose clumsiness often leads to the apprehension of enemy spies. (liven his
chance to shine. Smart is sent to Moscow
where he elicits the support of co-spy Agent 99 (Hathaway) as they attempt to thwart the terrorist schemes of KA()S megalomaniac Siegfried (Stamp). General release.
Gone Baby Gone ( 15) 0... (Ben Affleck. L'S. 2007) ('asey Aflleck. Morgan l-‘reeman. Michelle Monagahan. l 13min. Beautiful young girl Amanda (O'Brien) goes missing in Boston and local private investigator Ken/.ie (Aflleck) and his girlfriend are hired for their knowledge of the rundown area. Another raw tale of abuse. pride. poverty and a very particular form of unhinged Massachusetts nobility. (amen, lz'tlt'tiluttylt.
The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly ( 15) .0... (Sergio Leone. Italy. 1968) ('Iint liastwood. Lee Van (‘Ieef. lili Wallach. I80min. During the American (‘ivil War. a trio of mean gringos squabble over hidden loot. Most people remember the Morricone score from this Leone extravaganza. bttt the degree of directorial stylisation (just count the number of times extreme close- ups ftII the screen) make it a remarkable
WIN SMART PEOPLE ON DVD
Icon Entertainment are releasing the hilarious comedy Smart Peep/e on DVD on Monday 15 September. Smart People is a Wise and Witty comedy about fathers and daughter. uncles and nieces. students and teachers. and stars Dennis Ouaid. Sarah Jessica Parker. Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church. The List has five copies to giveaway. The DVD also features a ton of special features. including a ‘making of' featurette. a bloopers and out-takes section, deleted scenes. Sundance Film Festival footage and much more. To be in with a chance of winning a copy visit www.|ist.(:o.uk/offers
effort all round. Third and last of the I)ollars trilogy starring Iiastwood. New digitised print. Glasgow l-llm 'l'lteatre. Glasgow.
The Greatest Silence: Rape
in the Congo ( 15) 0... (Lisa I" Jackson. LS. 2007) 76min. Winner of the 2007 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Documentary. Jackson‘s film. set against a desperately bloody backdrop. deftly handles her material with great sensitivity. Part of Take One: Action! festival. Him/muse. Iz‘tlinlmrgli. Happy-Go-Lucky ( l5) 0... (Mike Leigh. I'K. 2008) Sally Hawkins. Alexis Xegerman. Andrea Riseborough. I 18min. Leigh returns with a familiar. yet reassurineg different liliii. an affectionate portrait of carefree 30- something Londoner Poppy (Hawkins) and the minutiae of her everyday life. About everything and nothing. the downtime and the uptime. this is life- affirming sltll‘l'. St'lt’t‘lfld I't'lt'tts‘t'. Hellboy II: The Golden Army ( IZA) 0.. (Guillermo del 'I'orro, LS. 2008) Ron Perlman. John Hurt. Selma Blair. l20min. (luillermo del 'l’oro returns to Hollywood with a second blockbuster adaptation of Dark Horse ('omics’ cult supernatttral title. A new storyline pits the hell-spawned hero against a mighty mechanised legion of unstoppable warriors. The sequel has more of everything monsters. action. humour. character development. supporting cast aitd mythology btit it suffers from an overabundance of riches. (it’ttet'ul release. Hijack ( I5) (Ktmal Shivdasani. India. 2008) lisha l)eol. Shiney Abuja. KK Raina. l50min. l)ebtit feature from Shivdasani. an action thriller about an engineer (Ahtija) at (‘handigarh airport who is given the tmenviable task of
thwarting a group of terrorists aboard an aeroplane. ()(lean At The Quay. Glasgow: Horton Hears a Who! (I?) 0.. (Jimmy Hayward. Steve Martino, LS. 2008) Voices of Jim ('arrey. Steve (‘areIL 8(imin. Animators Blue Sky take a break from their ongoing [(‘(’ Age franchise to colotirftilly realise the universe of Dr Seuss' text. Both (‘arrey aitd (‘arrell are allowed full rein for their brand of vocal mugging as co-directors Ilayward arid Martino skilfully guide lltn'lmt towards a comforting moral about si/e not being all that important. ('i/teit‘nrltl Park/read. (ilasgmv: ('ltteii'nrltl lit/itilturelt.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (l') .0. ((‘arlos Saldanha. LS. 2006) Voices of Ray Romano. John Leguizamo. Denis Leary. Seaim William Scott. 90min. Iinjoyable follow-up to the (‘anadian 2002 animated feature. Larry Sanders and .S'tmpsntiv scribe Jon V'itti picks tip the writing reins with aplomb as Manfred. Sid and Diego face their biggest challenge to date the end of the Ice Age. Film/muse. litlittltittjeli.
If . . . (15)..... (Lindsay Anderson. I'K. I‘Jo8) .‘vlalcolm McDowell. Arthur Lowe. I l Iiiiiii. ()n the
face of it. the story of a student-led rebellion in an Iinglish ptiblic school might be taken as a metaphor for the profound social change that had gone on in the (i0s. btit there‘s a iiiticli broader attack on bourgeois values going on. arid the relevance of the piece to today's political culture remains entirer tindiminished. If. . . is also notable for its narrational esperiiiient with flashback. monochrome arid inversion of the audience's rational expectation. Add to that an outstanding performance by .\Icl)owell. arid it‘s a cttlt classic and a masterpiece. Part of Take One: Action? festival. Film/muse. lz'tlittlittreli.
THE ORCHESTRA OF SCOTTISH OPERA
Sunday 28 September 3pm
Conductor
Francesco Corti
Soloist (Violin) Anthony Moffat
Soprano
Nadine Livingston
SCHUBERT Overture in the Italian style in
C Mater. Op. 170
MOZART
‘Misera. dove son?’ scena and
aria for soprano. l\. 300
‘Non temer. amato bene' seena eon
ion-Clo f‘l' soprai
to arid. \ ioiin. l\_ 400
Symphony No 20 in D Maio'. l\. l3} SCHUBERT Symphony No 4 u“ C minor (7'33: 5‘
Tickets: St 1.50
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