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A new, beautifully restored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's Roman slave epic starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis gets a welcome outing, replete with previously unseen footage.
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Coraline 30 (PG) .0” (Henry Selick. US. 2009) Voices of Dakota Fanning. Teri Hatcher. John Hodgrnan. l()0min. See above. Citteii'orld Renfreii- Street. Glasgow:
7h. Criminal (l5) ”.0 (Joseph Losey. UK. I960) Stanley Baker. Sam Wanamaker. Margit Saad. 97min. Also known as The Concrete Jungle. Losey's critne pic features a stunning performance by Baker as a self-destructive loner catlght between a sadistic prison warden and the underworld kingpin who wants to kill him. The director's American sensibility gives it a visual style that sets it apart from other British movies of the time. Part of Joseph Losey season. I-‘ilmhouse. Edinburgh.
Cut and Run (18) see (Ruggero Deodato. Italy. I985) Karen Black. Michael Berryman. Lisa Blount. 90min. A television reporter becomes embroiled in a spate of grizzly murders and ends up fighting for survival in the Amazon. Shocking thriller featuring a line host of B-movie mavericks. Part of short Italian Horror season. Glasgow I'll/n Theatre.
The Damned (PG) 0” (Joseph Losey. UK. 1961) Macdonald Carey. Shirley Anne Field. Alexander Knox. 87min. Extremely strange Losey outing which begins as a youthful love story set amongst early sixties hiker gangs. but moves to a mysterious cliff-face cave where a dedicated scientist keeps a group of radioactive children sealed off from the outside world‘s corruption. Pompous and consted sci-fr drama. which manages to salvage a few genuinely perverse moments from a weird rnishrnash. Pan of Joseph Losey season. Filmhouse. Edinburgh.
Deep Sea 3D (PU) (Howard Hall. Canada/US. 2006) Voices of Johnny Depp. Kate Winslet.-'1lmin.A 3-D digital exploration of the ocean‘s depths and its creatures. IMAX Theatre. Glasgow. Doctor Strangelove (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb) (PG) 00”. (Stanley Kubrick. UK. I963) Peter Sellers. George C. Scott. Sterling Hayden. 93min. Devastating black comedy on the lunacy of the nuclear age with Sellers ideally cast in three roles (US President. jolly Brit captain. and demented teutonic boffin) and Slim Pickens
the good ole boy heading for oblivion to a chorus of ‘We’ll Meet Again‘. Still alarmingly relevant. Glasgow Film Theatre. Drag Me to Hell (15) ”00 (Sam Raimi. US. 2009) Alison Lohrnan. JUstin Long. Fernanda Romero. l00min. Life is good for ambitious LA loan officer (‘hristine (Lohman). Until that is. she double refuses an ()AP an extension on her home loan. leaving the old lady shamed and homeless. ln return a curse is put on (‘hristine and her life becomes a living nightmare. A must for horror fans. General I't’lt’USt’.
Edinburgh International Film
Festival See previews. page 43 and 56. For full listings see www.list.co.uk/ edfilmfest. Various venues.
The 400 Blows (Les Guatre
Cents Goups) (PG) 0000. (Francois Truffaut. France. I959) Jean- Pierre Leaud. Albert Remy. (‘laire Maurier. l()lmin. Still amazingly fresh after all these years. Truffaut‘s debut about a 13-year-old Parisian boy‘s odyssey throUgh his depressing family life is intensely moving and startlingly perceptive about childhood. A masterpiece. Glasgow Film Theatre.
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(Luis Piedrahita/ Rodrigo Soper‘ta. Spain. 2008) Lluis Hornar. Alejo Sauras. Federico Luppi. 88min. i-‘our maths geniUses are summoned to a remote location by a mysterious puzzle master who has named himself after the 17th century French number theorist Pierre de Fermat and promises to challenge his guests with a great enigma. Gathered in a sumptuous lounge. the four strangers discover to their horror they have been locked inside a death trap. lmaginatively conceived and smartly executed. this makes for enormously enjoyable viewing. Glasgow Film Theatre. Film Discussion Group Meet up with film writer liddie Harrison and lots of other film buffs to swap opinions and perceptions of both an house and big blockbuster recent releases. Held on the second Wednesday of every month. Glasgow Film Theatre. Fireflies in the Garden (l5) 0. (Dennis Lee. UK. 2008) Ryan Reynolds. Willem Dafoe. Julia Roberts. 99min. Novelist Michael Waechter's (Reynolds) autobiographical account of his childhood is
about to put the boot into his mum (Roberts). his frustrated academic dad (Dafoe) and his sister (Watson). Throw in Michael‘s sexy ex-wife. and the discovery of his mother‘s secret lover and you‘ve got an all star soap opera. but one which director Dennis Lee never brings to the boil. A high calibre dud. Glasgow Film Theatre. Francois Truffaut, Une Autobiographle (ii) (Anne Andreu. France. 2004) 78min. Anne Andreu picks through the traces left by French New wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut which include filmed interviews. photos and archival material in an endeavour to understand further the mystery of one of the most admired filmmakers of the century. Glasgoii‘ Film Theatre. Gigantic (15) see (Matt Aselton. US. 2008) Paul Dano. Zooey Deschanel. John Goodman. 98min. Self-consciously quirky US indie starring Dano as Brian. an unassuming New York mattress salesman whose plan to adopt a Chinese baby is complicated by the unforeseen arrival into his quiet life of Deschanel's kooky and carefree Harriet ‘Happy' Lolly. Events unfold in a series of odd off-kilter scenes involving various eccentric characters. delivered at a familiar slow bunting. meandering pace. Glasgow Film Theatre. The Hangover ( 15) em (Todd Phillips. US. 2009) Bradley Cooper. Ed Helms. Heather Graham. 99min. Two days before his wedding. Doug (Bartha) heads to Vegas with his two best friends and future brother-in-law for a final bachelor blow out. Waking up the next moming. however. the trio has no recollection of what happened the night before or. more importantly. where they might have left Doug. This buddy movie really delivers with its riotous cocktail of memorable characters. outrageous situations and explicit humour. General release.
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JJ FEILD Born Boulder, Colorado, US in 1978.
Background Although he was born in the US. the handsome young actor’s family relocated to the UK when he was a baby. Growing up in London, he got the acting bug young and before he left school Field and his mates were performing Shakespeare in their local pub. Feild studied drama. and graduating in 1999, he immediately got some professional work in that starting place for many British actors. television's The Bill. He made his film debut in the Fred Schepisi adaptation of Graham Swift's novel Last Orders. playing a young version of Michael Caine's butcher and bar fly. Since then Feild has played a Russian submariner in Kathryn Bigelow's K: 19 - The Widowmaker opposite Harrison Ford; the bag carrier in Peter Greenaway’s multimedia project The Tu/se Luper Suitcases; and. most recently, Joe Meek’s lover and musical prodigy in Nick Moran's poptastic biopic Telstar.
What’s he up to now? Feild's just finished two action movies. the live action remake of the Japanese anime Blood: The Last Vampire and Neil Dog Soldiers Marshall's Roman-era swords- and-sandals romp Centurion opposite Olga Kurylenko. Dominic West and Michael Fassbender. What he says about Blood and Centurion ‘They’re both very different films. I've done some action/fantasy work before, but nothing on the scale of Blood. It was wonderful to see the size and ambition of the project. It truly fuels your imagination. You become a big kid again. Blood took a huge amount of time because of the enormous scale in the shoot in two different continents. Asia and Europe. Centurion was made on a much smaller budget and we shot it very quickly. So each job is always a new challenge and full of wonderful surprises.’ Interesting tact JJ. which stands for John Joseph, might be a cool-sounding professional name. but it is. in fact, what his family and friends call him.
(Miles Fielder)
I Telstar is out now on selected release. Blood: The Last Vampire is on general release from Fri 26 Jun.
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