S&S: June 2005

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

June 2005

Vol. 15 No. 6

Adam & Paul

Ireland - 2004 - 86m - col

Guerilla (15)

D: Lenny Abrahamson
Audio: 5.1

The Amityville Horror

USA - 2004 - 90m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Andrew Douglas
Audio: 5.1

Around the Bend

USA - 2004 - 83m - col

Warner (15)

D: Jordan Roberts
Audio: 5.1

Baadasssss!

(aka: Gettin’ the Man’s Foot Outta Your Baadasssss!)

(aka: How to Get the Man’s Foot Outta Your Ass)

USA - 2003 - 109m - col

BFI (15)

D: Mario Van Peebles
Audio: 5.1

Bombón: El Perro

El perro

Argentina/Spain - 2004 - 98m - col

Pathé (15)

D: Carlos Sorín
Audio: 5.1

Café Lumière

咖啡時光

Taiwan/Japan - 2003 - 102m - col

ICA (U)

D: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Audio: 5.1

The Cat Returns

猫の恩返し

Japan/USA - 2002 - 75m - col

Optimum (U)

D: Hiroyuki Morita
Audio: 6.1

Clifford’s Really Big Movie

USA - 2004 - 74m - col

Warner (U)

D: Robert Ramirez
Audio: 5.1

A Common Thread

Brodeuses

(USA: Sequins)

France - 2004 - 88m - col

Soda (12A)

D: Éléonore Faucher
Audio: 5.1

Duma

USA - 2005 - 101m - col

Warner (U)

D: Carroll Ballard
Audio: 5.1

Five

[see: Five: 5 Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu]

Five: 5 Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu
پنج

(aka: Five Dedicated to Ozu)

Iran/Japan - 2004 - 75m - col

BFI (U)

D: Abbas Kiarostami

Friday Night Lights

USA/Germany - 2004 - 118m - col / scope

UIP (12A)

D: Peter Berg
Audio: 5.1

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

(aka: Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army)

USA/UK - 2004 - 89m - col

Tartan (12A)

D: Robert Stone

Guess Who

USA - 2005 - 106m - col

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Audio: 5.1

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings

Heimat 3: Chronik einer Zeitenwende

Germany/UK (TV) - 2004 - 689m/525m - 6 episodes - col and bw

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Edgar Reitz
Eps. 1 - 2 reviewed: May 2005.
Series: Heimat (1984, Feb/1985).
Audio: 5.1

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

USA/UK - 2005 - 109m - col / scope

Buena Vista (PG)

D: Garth Jennings
Audio: 5.1

Inside Deep Throat

USA - 2005 - 92m - col

Momentum (18)

D: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Audio: 5.1

It’s All Gone Pete Tong

UK/Canada - 2004 - 92m - col / scope

Redbus (15)

D: Michael Dowse
Audio: 5.1

Kingdom of Heaven

USA/UK/Spain/Germany - 2005 - 144m/186m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Ridley Scott
Audio: 5.1

The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse

UK/Ireland/USA - 2005 - 91m - col

UIP (15)

D: Steve Bendelack
Audio: 5.1

Man of the House

USA - 2005 - 100m - col / scope

Columbia TriStar (12A)

D: Stephen Herek
Audio: 5.1

Mondays in the Sun

Los lunes al sol

Spain/France/Italy - 2002 - 114m - col

Feature Film Company (15)

D: Fernando Léon de Aranoa
Audio: 5.1

Mooladé

Senegal/Burkina Faso/Morocco/Tunisia/Cameroon/Switzerland/Germany - 2004 - 125m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Ousmane Sembene
Audio: 5.1

Neko no ongaeshi

[see: Cat Returns, The]

Notre musique

France/Switzerland - 2004 - 79m - col

Optimum (12A)

D: Jean-Luc Godard
Dolby Stereo

Private

Italy - 2004 - 94m/125m - col

Metrodome (15)

D: Saverio Costanzo
Dolby Stereo SR

Sahara

USA/Spain/Germany - 2005 - 124m - col / scope

UIP (12A)

D: Breck Eisner
Audio: 5.1

Sin City

USA - 2005 - 124m - col

Buena Vista (18)

D: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Followed by: Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For (2014, Nov/2014).
Audio: 5.1

Stander

Canada/S.Africa/Germany/USA/UK - 2003 - 112m - col

Momentum (15)

D: Bronwen Hughes
Audio: 5.1

Strings

UK/Norway/Sweden/Denmark - 2004 - 92m - col / scope

Swipe (PG)

D: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Dolby Stereo

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

USA - 2001 - 104m - col

Arrow (15)

D: Jill Sprecher
Audio: 5.1

The Wedding Date

USA/UK - 2004 - 89m - col

Entertainment (12A)

D: Clare Kilner
Audio: 5.1

What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?

USA - 2004 - 109m - col

Revolver (12A)

D: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Audio: 5.1

What the Bleep Do We Know!?

[see: What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?]

xXx: The Next Level
xXx: State of the Union

USA - 2005 - 101m - col / scope

Columbia TriStar (12A)

D: Lee Tamahori
Series: xXx (2002, Nov/2002).
Audio: 5.1