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murderous circumstance see him aligned to the Corsican mafia who run the prison. Part of BBC Four World Cinema Awards. Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
✽✽ Rapt (15) ●●●●● (Lucas Belvaux, France/Belgium, 2009) Yvan Attal,
Anne Consigny, Françoise Fabian. 120min. See Also Released, page 59. Glasgow Film Theatre. Robin Hood (12A) ●●●●● (Ridley Scott, USA/UK, 2010) Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew MacFadyen. 140min. Ridley Scott’s fifth film with Crowe never quite musters up the epic power of its predecessor Gladiator, yet still, with Scott going for a gritty take on the legend of the outlaw who robbed the rich to give to the poor, at least Crowe lends the character a level of credability Kevin Costner never attained. Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh. The Runaways (15) ●●●●● (Floria Sigismondi, US, 2010) Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon. 106min. A standard issue biopic of the 1970s all-girl group although following the hope-to- heartache via drink and drugs formual it’s the relationship between Joan Jett and lead singer Cherie Curry that catches the eye, unexplosive as it may be, as it allows Stewart as Jett to finally shed her ‘Bella’ skin. Selected release. Salt (12A) ●●●●● (Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, US, 2010) Phillip Noyce. 100min. Dubbed ‘Bourne with boobs’ but a mere faded facsimile of that groundbreaking franchise, this chase thriller stars Jolie on proficient, humourless, butt-kicking form as CIA agent/possible Russian mole Evelyn Salt. It’s all competently enough done, but bland in the extreme. General release. Scott Pilgrim vs The World (12A) ●●●●● (Edgar Wright, US, 2010) Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin. 112min. The first big-budget blockbuster from serial subverter Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead) doesn’t disappoint. Typecast geek Cera plays Scott,
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UK, 2010) 90min. Documentary shot over the course of a year by Pinder, following three Glasgow schoolchildren growing up amidst trouble and family problems, and observing the care and nurture that their teachers provide. Glasgow Film Theatre. One Way Pendulum (U) ●●●●● (Peter Yates, UK, 1964) Eric Sykes, George Cole, Peggy Mount. 85min. Absurd comedy from the production company behind Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, about a man who decides to recreate the Old Bailey’s number seven court in his living room and his equally bizarrely occupied family members. Selected for the Monorail Film Club by Marc Baines, lecturer in Illustration at the GSA, and followed by discussion in Cafe Cosmo. A Monorail Film Club presentation. Glasgow Film Theatre. The Other Guys (12A) ●●●●● (Adam McKay, US, 2010) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L Jackson. 107min. Pairing Ferrell and Wahlberg as the incompetent cop duo is a good move on director McKay’s part. While it doesn’t hit the mark of previous Ferrell/McKay success story (Anchorman), their chemistry works its low-brow magic to provide a sense of fun much needed in wannabe blockbusters. General release. Peepli Live (15) ●●●●● (Anusha Rizvi, India, 2010) Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa. 107min. Satire from India in which the farmers in a small village have become so desperate that they’re considering suicide, just for the payout it will offer their families. Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Persona Non Grata (E) (Fabio Wuytack, Belgium, 2008) 92min. The story of the Belgian priest, artist and labourer Frans Wuytack who exchanged his luxurious official residence for a small dwelling in the slums and used his position to highlight the plight of the poor and the government’s continual refusal to help them. More than 30 years after his exile for political agitation, Frans returns, and the film captures the ways in which life has changed for the people of La Vega. The film is followed by a discussion with Frans Wuytack and his son, director Fabio. Part of Take One Action! festival. Glasgow Film Theatre; Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Piranha 3D (18) ●●●●● (Alexandre Aja, US, 2010) Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue. 88min. Aja’s remake of 1978 frat comedy horror Piranha is not as cheap, fun, camp or generically incisive as the original but it is a lot of fun. Aja is all too clearly channelling Spielberg’s Jaws rather than Dante’s B movie but the 3D really helps and the stars are clearly all in on the joke. Selected release. Playtime (U) ●●●●● (Jacques Tati, France, 1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte. 124min. Monsieur Hulot, tussling with the modern world as usual, follows a group of American tourists around a garish and hi-tech Paris of concrete and glass. Undervalued later Tati, with the actor Tati’s slapstick of old overshadowed by Tati the director’s masterly control of the widescreen frame. Cameo, Edinburgh. Poison Pen (U) ●●●●● (Paul L Stein, UK, 1939) Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd. 79min. A sleepy village is shocked when its residents start receiving hateful ‘poison pen’ letters in this film based on a play by Richard Llewellyn. Part of Projecting the Archive. Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
✽✽ Police, Adjective (12A) ●●●●● (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009) Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu. 114min. See review, page 59. Glasgow Film Theatre; Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Privilege (18) (Yvonne Rainer, UK, 1990) 103min. Influential avant-garde filmmaker Rainer’s Privilege shifts from documentary to fiction and back as it marries cultural theory with drama in a broad ranging and compelling social critique. Tramway, Glasgow. A Prophet (18) ●●●●● (Jacques Audiard, France/Italy, 2009) Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. 150min. Naïve youth Malik (Rahim) enters prison with a view to keeping his head down, but
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