S&S: December 2006

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

December 2006

Vol. 16 No. 12

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep: The Story of the Pamir Kirghiz

UK/Turkey/Kyrgysztan/Australia/Finland/Denmark/Canada - 2006 - 87m - col

ICA

D: Ben Hopkins

All the King’s Men

USA - 2006 - 128m - col

Sony (12A)

D: Steven Zaillian
Audio: 5.1

The Aryan Couple

UK/British Virgin Islands - 2004 - 119m - col

Transmedia (12A)

D: John Daly
Audio: 5.1

Big Nothing

UK/Canada - 2006 - 85m - col / scope

Pathé (15)

D: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Audio: 6.1

Breaking and Entering

USA/UK - 2006 - 119m - col / scope

Buena Vista (15)

D: Anthony Minghella
Audio: 5.1

Candy

Australia - 2005 - 108m - col

ICA (15)

D: Neil Armfield
Audio: 5.1

Children of Men

USA/UK/Japan - 2006 - 109m - col

UIP (15)

D: Alfonso Cuarón
Audio: 5.1

Deep Water

UK - 2006 - 93m - col and bw

Pathé (PG)

D: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Audio: 5.1

The Departed

USA/Hong Kong - 2006 - 151m - col / scope

Entertainment (18)

D: Martin Scorsese
Audio: 5.1

Gabrielle

France/Italy/Germany - 2005 - 90m - col and bw / scope

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Patrice Chéreau
Audio: 5.1

The Gigolos

UK - 2006 - 95m - col

Shooting People (12A)

D: Richard Bracewell
Audio: 5.1

A Good Year

USA/UK - 2006 - 117m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Ridley Scott
Audio: 5.1

The Guardian

USA - 2006 - 139m - col

Buena Vista (12A)

D: Andrew Davis
Audio: 5.1

Havoc

USA/Germany - 2005 - 85m - col

The Works (18)

D: Barbara Kopple
Audio: 5.1

Hollywoodland

USA - 2006 - 126m - col

Buena Vista (15)

D: Allen Coulter
Audio: 5.1

Joy Division

UK/Hungary/Germany - 2005 - 105m - col

Kingsway (15)

D: Reg Traviss
Audio: 5.1

Kz

UK - 2005 - 98m - col

V: Shooting People (12)

D: Rex Bloomstein

Lage Raho Munna Bhai

लगे रहो मुन्ना भाई

(aka: Munnabhai Meets Mahatma Gandhi)

India - 2006 - 145m - col / scope

Eros (PG)

D: Rajkumar Hirani
Audio: 6.1

London to Brighton

UK - 2006 - 85m - col / scope

Vertigo (18)

D: Paul Andrew Williams
Audio: 5.1

Middletown

UK/Ireland - 2006 - 89m - col

Verve (15)

D: Brian Kirk
Audio: 5.1

Open Season

USA - 2006 - 86m - col / 3-D

Sony (PG)

D: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi
35mm, D-Cinema and IMAX release prints. Only the LF version was released in 3-D, all other prints were 2-D.
Followed by: Open Season 2 (2008), Open Season 3 (2010), Open Season: Scared Silly (2015).
Audio: 7.1 / IMAX 6-track

The Page Turner

La tourneuse de pages

France - 2006 - 85m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Denis Dercourt
Audio: 5.1

Pan's Labyrinth

El laberinto del fauno

Spain/Mexico/USA - 2006 - 120m - col

Optimum (15)

D: Guillermo del Toro
Audio: 5.1

The Prestige

USA/UK - 2006 - 130m - col / scope

Warner (12A)

D: Christopher Nolan
Audio: 5.1

Puritan

UK - 2004 - 94m - col

Parliament (12A)

D: Hadi Hajaig
Dolby Stereo SR

Requiem

Germany - 2005 - 92m - col / scope

Soda (12A)

D: Hans-Christian Schmid
Audio: 5.1

The Rocket Post

UK - 2003 - 112m - col

Lionsgate (12A)

D: Stephen Whittaker
Audio: 5.1

Shortbus

USA - 2006 - 101m - col

The Works (18)

D: John Cameron Mitchell
Audio: 5.1

Sixty Six: A True...ish Story

USA/UK/France - 2006 - 94m - col

UIP (12A)

D: Paul Weiland
Audio: 5.1

Snuff - Movie

UK/Romania/USA - 2005 - 93m - col

Lionsgate (18)

D: Bernard Rose
Dolby Stereo SR

Special (RX) Specioprin Hydrochloride

USA - 2005 - 81m - col

Revolver (15)

D: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Audio: 5.1

Stick It

USA/Germany - 2006 - 103m - col

Buena Vista (PG) (cut)

D: Jessica Bendinger
Audio: 5.1

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

USA - 2006 - 91m - col

Entertainment (18)

D: Jonathan Liebesman
Series: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003, Dec/2003).
Audio: 5.1

Twelve and Holding

USA - 2005 - 95m - col

Lionsgate (15)

D: Michael Cuesta
Audio: 5.1

We Shall Overcome

Drømmen

Denmark/Norway/UK - 2006 - 109m - col

ICO (12A)

D: Niels Arden Oplev
Audio: 5.1