S&S: August 2008

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

August 2008

Vol. 18 No. 8

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

UK - 2008 - 100m - col / scope

Paramount (12A)

D: Gurinder Chadha
Audio: 5.1

Baby Mama

USA - 2008 - 99m - col

Universal (12A)

D: Michael McCullers
Audio: 5.1

Before the Rains

USA/India/UK - 2007 - 98m - col

Metrodome (12A)

D: Santosh Sivan
Audio: 5.1

Berlin

USA/Germany - 2007 - 81m - col

Artificial Eye (12A)

D: Julian Schnabel
Audio: 5.1

Bosta

Bosta - بوسطة

Lebanon/France - 2005 - 112m - col

Maiden Voyage

D: Philippe Aractingi
Audio: 5.1

Buda as sharm foru rikht

[see: Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame]

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

بودا از شرم فرو ریخت

Iran/France - 2007 - 77m - col

Slingshot (PG)

D: Hana Makhmalbaf
Dolby Stereo SR

Cass

UK - 2008 - 108m - col

Optimum (18)

D: Jon S. Baird
Audio: 5.1

Crazy Love

USA - 2007 - 92m - col and bw

Tartan

D: Dan Klores
Audio: 5.1

Death Defying Acts

Australia/UK/USA - 2007 - 96m - col / scope

Lionsgate (PG)

D: Gillian Armstrong
Audio: 5.1

Death Note: The Last Name

デスノート The Last Name

Japan - 2006 - 135m - col

4Digital (12A)

D: Shūsuke Kaneko
Series: Death Note (2005, Jun/2008).
Audio: 5.1

Donkey Punch

UK - 2007 - 99m - col

Optimum (18)

D: Olly Blackburn
Audio: 5.1

The Fox and the Child

Le renard et l’enfant

France - 2007 - 94m - col / scope

Pathé (U)

D: Luc Jacquet
Audio: 5.1

Gin-iro no kami no agito

[see: Origin: Spirits of the Past]

Hancock

USA - 2008 - 92m/98m - col / scope

Sony (12A)

D: Peter Berg
Audio: 5.1

The Happening

USA/India - 2008 - 90m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: M. Night Shyamalan
Audio: 5.1

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

USA - 2007 - 100m - col

Entertainment (18)

D: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Series: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004, Dec/2004).
Audio: 5.1

The Incredible Hulk

USA - 2008 - 112m - col / scope

Universal (12A)

D: Louis Leterrier
Audio: 5.1

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

USA - 2008 - 122m - col / scope

Paramount (12A)

D: Steven Spielberg
Series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Aug/1981).
Audio: 5.1

Kamikaze Girls

下妻物語

Japan - 2004 - 103m - col

Third Window

D: Tetsuya Nakashima
Audio: 5.1

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

USA - 2006 - 86m - col

Revolver

D: Seth Gordon
Dolby Stereo SR

Kiraware matsuko no isshō

[see: Memories of Matsuko]

Kung Fu Panda

USA - 2008 - 92m - col / scope

Paramount (PG)
D: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
35mm, D-Cinema, IMAX and IMAX-D release prints. 15/70 version reframed at 1.44:1 aspect ratio.
Followed by: Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011, Aug/2011), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016, Apr/2016).
Audio: 5.1 / IMAX 6-track

A Letter to True

USA - 2003 - 78m - col

Metrodome (PG)

D: Bruce Weber
Audio: 5.1

Lou Reed’s Berlin

[see: Berlin]

Mad Detective

神探

Hong Kong - 2007 - 86m - col / scope

Eureka (15)

D: Johnnie To Kei-fung, Wai Ka-fai
Audio: 5.1

Man on Wire

UK - 2007 - 94m - col

Icon (12A)

D: James Marsh
Audio: 5.1

Memories of Matsuko

嫌われ松子の一生

Japan - 2006 - 130m - col

Third Window

D: Tetsuya Nakashima
Audio: 5.1

My Friends, My Loves

Mes amis, mes amours

(aka: London Mon Amour)

France - 2007 - 99m - col

Pathé (15)

D: Lorraine Lévy
Audio: 5.1

Origin: Spirits of the Past

銀色の髪のアギト

Japan/China - 2005 - 95m - col

Manga

D: Keiichi Sugiyama
Audio: 5.1

Paris

France - 2007 - 129m - col / scope

Optimum (15)

D: Cédric Klapisch
Audio: 5.1

The Pope's Toilet

El baño del Papa

Uruguay/Brazil/France/Spain - 2007 - 98m - col

Soda (15)

D: Enrique Fernández, César Charlone
Audio: 5.1

Puffball

(USA: Puffball: The Devil’s Eyeball)

UK/Canada/Ireland - 2006 - 120m - col

Yume (18)

D: Nicolas Roeg
Audio: 5.1

Sex and the City

USA/Germany - 2008 - 145m - col

Entertainment (15)

D: Michael Patrick King
Followed by: Sex and the City 2 (2010, Aug/2010).
Audio: 5.1

Shen tan

[see: Mad Detective]

Shimotsuma monogatari

[see: Kamikaze Girls]

Standard Operating Procedure

USA - 2008 - 116m - col / scope

Sony (15)

D: Errol Morris
Audio: 5.1

Substitute

France - 2007 - 73m - col

Fantasia Advertising (12A)

D: Fred Poulet, Vikash Dhorasoo
Dolby Stereo SR

Summer Hours

L’heure d’été

France - 2008 - 103m - col

Artificial Eye (12A)

D: Olivier Assayas
Audio: 5.1

The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama’s Struggle for Tibet

UK - 2008 - 69m - col

Mercury Media (PG)

D: Joshua Dugdale

WALL•E

USA - 2008 - 98m - col / scope

Buena Vista (U)

D: Andrew Stanton
Audio: 6.1

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

USA/Germany - 2007 - 114m - col

Universal (12A)

D: Malcolm D. Lee
Audio: 5.1