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The Hippodrome Festival of
Silent Cinema
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Wednesday 13th March – Sunday 17th March 2013
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Films screening in the next four weeks are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. See list.co.uk. for the most up-to-date screening times. Submit details of special screenings at least 10 days before publication to events@list. co.uk. Film index is compiled by Jaclyn Arndt and Gail Tolley. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
NEW RELEASES Acoustic Routes (12A) (Jan Leman, UK, 1992) 102min. Billy Connolly charts the story of Edinburgh-raised guitarist Bert Jansch, who merged blues and folk into a new style using complex guitar arrangements, attracting attention from people like Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Limited release from Fri 1 Mar. Arbitrage (15) ●●●●● (Nicholas Jarecki, UK, 2012) Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling. 107min. See review, page 58. General release from Fri 1 Mar. Babeldom (12+) ●●●●● (Paul Bush, UK, 2012) Youla Boudali, Mark Caven. 80min. Shot in cities around the world, experimental filmmaker Bush presents an homage to modern living as two lovers strive to communicate with each other in a city so large it’s turning into a black hole. See review at list.co.uk Limited release from Fri 8 Mar.
✽ Beyond the Hills (12A) ●●●●● (Cristian Mungiu, Romania/France/
Belgium, 2012) Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta. 150min. See review, page 58. Limited release from Fri 15 Mar. Breath of the Gods (tbc) (Jan Schmidt-Garre, Germany/India, 2013) 105min. This documentary explores
the origins of modern yoga, featuring interviews with its more famous proponents. Limited release from Fri 22 Feb. Broken (15) (Rufus Norris, UK, 2012) Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear. 90min. A young girl’s life is changed forever when she witnesses a violent attack on a man by his neighbour, an event carrying tragic consequences for everyone on the street. See review at list.co.uk Limited release from Fri 8 Mar. Broken City (15) ●●●●● (Allen Hughes, US, 2013) Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones. 109min. See review, page 59. General release from Fri 1 Mar.
✽ Cloud Atlas (15) ●●●●● (Lana Wachowski/Tom Tykwer/
Andy Wachowski, Germany/US/HK/ Singapore, 2012) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant. 172min. See review, page 58. General release from Fri 22 Feb. Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 (tbc) (Anurag Kashyap, India, 2012) Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui. 159min. The first part of an Indian family crime saga, charting the rise of the Khan clan as they rise to prominence from the 1940s to the present day. See review at list.co.uk Limited release from Fri 22 Feb, incl Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2 (tbc) (Anurag Kashyap, India, 2012) Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Zeishan Quadri. 158min. The concluding part of the Indian family crime saga. See review at list.co.uk Limited release from Fri 1 Mar, incl Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. The Guilt Trip (12A) (Anne Fletcher, US, 2012) Seth Rogen, Barbra Streisand,
Julene Renee-Preciado. 95min. Andy Brewster (Rogen) is ready to set off on an epic road trip after one last quick stop at his mum’s house. But Joyce (Streisand) ends up wheedling her way into the passenger seat. From the writer of Crazy, Stupid, Love and the director of 7 Dresses. General release from Fri 8 Mar. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) (Tommy Wirkola, Germany/US, 2013) Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Peter Stormare. 88min. Continuing the trend of adapting Grimm Fairy Tales for the big screen, Norwegian Wirkola’s film imagines the titular siblings – 15 years after the gingerbread house incident – as bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. See review at list. co.uk General release from Wed 27 Feb. Last Exorcism: Part II (15) (Ed Gass-Donnelly, US, 2013) Ashley Bell, Andrew Sensenig, Judd Lormand. The next installment in the backwoods horror fest sees Nell Sweetzer (Bell) try to rebuild her life following the freaky devil-worshipping zealot ritual sacrifice events of the first film. But the evil that once possessed her is not ready to let her go. See review at list.co.uk General release from Fri 15 Mar. Lore (12A) ●●●●● (Cate Shortland, Germany/Australia/UK, 2012) Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs. 109min. See review, page 61. Limited release from Fri 22 Feb. Mama (15) ●●●●● (Andrés Muschietti, Spain/Canada, 2013) Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier. 100min. See review, page 61. General release from Fri 22 Feb. Oz: The Great and Powerful (tbc) (Sam Raimi, US, 2013) James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz. Raimi’s prequel to The Wizard of Oz is based on L Frank Baum’s 1900 novel. See review at list.co.uk General release
NORTHERN LIGHTS After its premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, the kaleidoscopic, crowd-sourced documentary We Are Northern Lights will be shown at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse on Sun 3 Mar before touring across Scotland. The feature- length film is a made up of videos submitted by people from across the nation following a call-out last year. Led by Creative Director Nick Higgins, the much-anticipated project should be a compelling self portrait of Scotland, complete with that famous dry, Scottish wit. ■ We are Northern Lights, Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 3 Mar, then touring across Scotland. See listings at film.list.co.uk
62 THE LIST 21 Feb–21 Mar 2013