S&S: February 2005

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

February 2005

Vol. 15 No. 2

2046

China/Hong Kong/Germany/France - 2004 - 129m - col / scope

Tartan (12A)

D: Wong Kar-wai
Audio: 5.1

Alexander

USA/Germany/France/UK/Netherlands/Italy - 2004 - 175m/167m/214m/206m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Oliver Stone
The film exists in four different versions: The original theatrical print, and three separate revised home video versions, released in 2005, 2007 and 2013 respectively.
Audio: 5.1

Blade: Trinity

USA - 2004 - 113m - col / scope

Entertainment (15)

D: David S. Goyer
Series: Blade (1998, Nov/1998).
Audio: 5.1

Christmas With the Kranks

USA - 2004 - 99m - col / scope

Columbia TriStar (PG)

D: Joe Roth
Audio: 5.1

Closer

USA - 2004 - 104m - col

Columbia TriStar (15)

D: Mike Nichols
Audio: 5.1

Creep

UK/Germany/USA - 2004 - 85m - col / scope

Pathé (18)

D: Christopher Smith
Audio: 5.1

Criminal

USA - 2004 - 87m - col

Warner (15)

D: Gregory Jacobs
Audio: 5.1

The Door in the Floor

USA - 2004 - 111m - col / scope

Momentum (15)

D: Tod Williams
Audio: 5.1

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

USA - 2004 - 108m - col

Tartan (15)

D: Michael Gramaglia, Jim Fields
Audio: 5.1

G.O.R.A.

Turkey - 2004 - 128m - col

Divafilm (15)

D: Ömer Faruk Saruk
Followed by: A.R.O.G. (2008).
Audio: 5.1

A Hole in My Heart

Ett hål i mitt hjärta

Sweden/Denmark - 2004 - 98m - col

Metrodome (18)

D: Lukas Moodysson
Audio: 5.1

The Holy Girl

La niña santa

Argentina/Spain/Italy/Netherlands/Switzerland - 2004 - 104m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Lucrecia Martel
Audio: 5.1

The Inheritance

Arven

Denmark/Sweden/Norway/UK - 2003 - 115m - col

Swipe (15)

D: Per Fly
Dolby Stereo SR

Ladder 49

USA - 2004 - 115m - col

Buena Vista (12A)

D: Jay Russell
Audio: 5.1

Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand

[see: Turtles Can Fly]

The Last Horror Movie

UK - 2003 - 79m - col

Tartan (18)

D: Julian Richards

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

USA/Germany - 2004 - 108m - col

UIP (PG)

D: Brad Silberling
Audio: 5.1

Levity

USA/France - 2002 - 100m - col

Redbus (15)

D: Ed Solomon
Audio: 5.1

Los Angeles Plays Itself

USA - 2003 - 169m - col

ICA

D: Thom Andersen

Meet the Fockers

USA - 2004 - 115m - col

UIP (12A)

D: Jay Roach
Series: Meet the Parents (2000, Jan/2001).
Audio: 5.1

The Merchant of Venice

UK/Luxembourg/Italy/USA - 2004 - 132m - col / scope

Optimum (PG)

D: Michael Radford
Audio: 5.1

National Treasure

USA - 2004 - 131m - col / scope

Buena Vista (PG)

D: Jon Turteltaub
Followed by: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, Mar/2008).
Audio: 5.1

Ocean’s Twelve

USA/Australia - 2004 - 125m - col / scope

Warner (12A)

D: Steven Soderbergh
Series: Ocean's Eleven (2001, Mar/2002).
Audio: 7.1

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

USA - 2004 - 102m - col

ICA

D: Robert Kane Pappas

The Phantom of the Opera

UK/USA - 2004 - 143m - col / scope

Warner (12A)

D: Joel Schumacher
Audio: 5.1

Ray

USA/UK - 2004 - 152m - col

UIP (15)

D: Taylor Hackford
Audio: 5.1

School for Seduction

UK/Germany - 2004 - 104m - col

Redbus (12A)

D: Sue Heel
Audio: 5.1

Sideways

USA - 2004 - 127m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Alexander Payne
Audio: 5.1

Sleepover

USA/Canada - 2004 - 89m - col

Verve (PG)

D: Joe Nussbaum
Audio: 5.1

Sword of Xanten

Die Nibelungen

(USA: Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King)

(aka: Curse of the Ring)

(aka: Ring of the Nibelungs)

Germany/UK/S.Africa/Italy (TV) - 2004 - 184m/132m - col

Columbia TriStar (12A)

D: Uli Edel
Audio: 5.1

Turtles Can Fly

لاک پشت ها هم پرواز می کنند

Iran - 2004 - 97m - col

ICA (15)

D: Bahman Ghobadi
Dolby Stereo SR

Vanity Fair

USA/UK - 2004 - 141m - col / scope

UIP (PG)

D: Mira Nair
Audio: 5.1

A Very Long Engagement

Un long dimanche de fiançailles

France/USA - 2004 - 133m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audio: 5.1

Wall

Mur

France/Israel/USA - 2004 - 99m - col / scope

Artificial Eye (12A)

D: Simone Bitton
Dolby Stereo

William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

[see: Merchant of Venice, The]

The Woodsman

USA - 2004 - 86m - col

Tartan (15)

D: Nicole Kassell
Audio: 5.1