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LITTLE WHITE LIES
Glasgow Film Theatre, 17.04.11 A big hit in France last year, it says a lot about the attitude of UK multiplex chains, and the disinterest of the British audience for foreign language films that in Glasgow Little White Lies is not showing in the city’s 18-screen multiplex, whose screens are occupied with multiple showings of the Easter holiday, kid-friendly…
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MEEK’S CUTOFF
Glasgow Film Theatre, 15.04.11 The people at Soda Pictures, the film distribution company responsible for this month’s release of Kelly Reichardt’s revisionist Western, Meek’s Cutoff, know how to win me over. Through the medium of Twitter they ran a competition to coincide with the release, offering followers the chance to win Reichardt’s previous two films, Old Joy…
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SOURCE CODE
Cineworld Glasgow, 08.04.11 Duncan Jones arrived in 2009 with the sci-fi psychological drama Moon, which benefitted massively from Sam Rockwell’s brilliant portrayal of multiple versions of himself, and was a smartly, slickly directed debut. If there was one drawback to the film, it was that it took bits and pieces from several sci-fi films of the…
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LIMITLESS
Odeon East Kilbride, 02.04.11 Limitless is the story of Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), a writer struggling for inspiration, who bumps into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth) one day and is given a pill, which once taken allows him to access 100% of his brain capacity. He instantly becomes smarter, able to write his book in four days, recall…
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LE QUATRE CENTS COUPS / THE 400 BLOWS
MK2 / 2ENTERTAIN / CINEMA CLUB DVD The films of Francois Truffaut have somehow managed to evade me over the years. I can remember catching Jules et Jim on television some years ago, and I was aware he starred in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but despite studying film at university, his…
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