S&S: December 2013

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

December 2013

Vol. 23 No. 12

Baggage Claim

USA/UK/Australia - 2013 - 96m - col

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: David E. Talbert
Audio: 5.1

Battle of the Year

USA - 2013 - 110m - col / 3-D

Sony (12A)

D: Benson Lee
Audio: 5.1

Blue is the Warmest Colour

La vie d’Adele: Chapitres 1 et 2

(USA: Blue is the Warmest Color)

France/Belgium/Spain - 2013 - 180m - col / scope

Artificial Eye (18)

D: Abdellatif Kechiche
Audio: 5.1

Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson

UK - 2013 - 122m - col / scope

Miracle / Future Leisure (15)

D: Simon Sprackling
Audio: 5.1

Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman

Tráiganme la cabeza de la mujer metralleta

Chile - 2012 - 73m - col

Clear Vision (18)

D: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Audio: 5.1

Child's Pose

Pozitia Copilului

Romania - 2013 - 112m - col / scope

Studio Canal (15)

D: Calin Peter Netzer
Audio: 5.1

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

USA - 2013 - 95m - col / scope / 3-D

Sony (U)

D: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn
Series: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009, Dec/2009).
Audio: 5.1

Computer Chess

USA - 2013 - 92m - bw and col

Eureka (15)

D: Andrew Bujalski
Audio: Stereo

The Counselor

USA/UK - 2013 - 117m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (18)

D: Ridley Scott
Audio: 5.1

Day of the Flowers

UK/Cuba - 2013 - 100m - col

Metrodome (15)

D: John Roberts
Audio: 5.1

Dirty Wars

USA/UK - 2013 - 86m - col

Brit Doc (15)

D: Richard Rowley
Audio: 5.1

Dom Hemingway

UK - 2013 - 93m - col / scope

Lionsgate (15)

D: Richard Shepard
Audio: 5.1

Don Jon

USA - 2013 - 90m - col / scope

Warner (18)

D: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Audio: 5.1

Either Way

Á annan veg

Iceland/UK - 2011 - 84m - col / scope

Filmhouse (15)

D: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Audio: 5.1

Ender’s Game

USA/UK - 2013 - 114m - col / scope

Entertainment One (12A)

D: Gavin Hood
D-Cinema, 35mm and IMAX-D release prints.
Dolby Atmos / Auro 11.1 / IMAX 6-track

Escape Plan

USA - 2013 - 115m - col / scope

Entertainment One (15)

D: Mikael Häfstrom
Audio: 5.1

The Family

Malavita

France/USA - 2013 - 111m - col / scope

Entertainment One (15)

D: Luc Besson
Audio: 5.1

Future My Love

UK/Sweden - 2012 - 97m - col

ICO (12A)

D: Maja Borg
Audio: Stereo

Gravity

USA/UK - 2013 - 91m - col / scope / 3-D

Warner (12A)

D: Alfonso Cuarón
D-Cinema, 35mm and IMAX-D release prints.
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 6-track

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

USA - 2012 - 101m - col / scope

Lionsgate (15)

D: Tom Elkins
Despite the title, this film has no narrative connection with The Haunting in Connecticut (2009, Jun/2009).
Audio: 5.1

How to Survive a Plague

USA/UK - 2012 - 120m - col

Dartmouth (15)

D: David France
Audio: 5.1

In Fear

UK/France/Luxembourg - 2012 - 85m - col / scope

Studio Canal (15)

D: Jeremy Lovering
Audio: 5.1

Jeune & Jolie

France - 2013 - 94m - col

Lionsgate (18)

D: François Ozon
Audio: 5.1

Leviathan

USA/UK/France - 2012 - 86m - col

Dogwoof (12A)

D: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
Audio: 5.1

Love Tomorrow

UK - 2012 - 79m - col

Soda (PG)

D: Christopher Payne
Audio: Stereo

Marius

France - 2012 - 94m - col

Pathé (12A)
D: Daniel Auteuil
Followed by: Fanny (2012, Jan/2014).
Audio: 5.1

Metallica: Through the Never

USA - 2013 - 93m - col / 3-D

Entertainment One (15)

D: Nimród Antal
D-Cinema, 35mm and IMAX-D release prints.
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 6-track

Milius

USA - 2013 - 103m - col

Studio Canal (15)

D: Joey Figueroa, Zak Knutson
Audio: 5.1

Okami kodomo no ame to yiki

[see: Wolf Children]

Pandora’s Promise

USA - 2013 - 87m - col

November (12A)

D: Robert Stone
Audio: 5.1

Parkland

USA - 2013 - 94m - col

Koch Media (15)

D: Peter Landesman
Audio: 5.1

Romeo & Juliet

UK/USA/Italy - 2013 - 118m - col / scope

Entertainment (PG)

D: Carlo Carlei
Audio: 5.1

Runner Runner

USA - 2013 - 91m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Brad Furman
Audio: 5.1

Rurouni Kenshin

るろうに剣心

Japan - 2012 - 134m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Keishi Ōtomo
Followed by: Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014, Feb/2015), Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014, Apr/2015).
Audio: 5.1

Saving Mr. Banks

USA/UK/Australia - 2013 - 125m - col / scope

Buena Vista (PG)

D: John Lee Hancock
Audio: 5.1

Seduced and Abandoned

USA - 2013 - 98m - col / scope

Soda (15)

D: James Toback
Audio: 5.1

Sunshine on Leith

UK - 2013 - 100m - col / scope

Entertainment (PG)

D: Dexter Fletcher
Audio: 5.1

Utopia

UK/Australia - 2013 - 110m - col

Dartmouth (12A)

D: John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Audio: Stereo

uwantme2killhim?

UK - 2011 - 91m - col / scope

Entertainment One (15)

D: Andrew Douglas
Audio: 5.1

V/H/S/2

USA/Canada/Indonesia - 2013 - 92m - col

Jade (18)

D: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard
Series: V/H/S (2012, Feb/2013).
Audio: 5.1

¡Vivan las Antípodas!

Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile/Japan/Russia/Finland - 2011 - 108m - col

Filmhouse (U)

D: Victor Kossakovsky
Audio: 5.1

Who Needs Enemies

UK - 2013 - 91m - col / scope

Ballpark (18)

D: Peter Stylianou
Audio: 5.1

Wolf Children

おおかみこどもの雨と雪

Japan - 2012 - 117m - col

Manga (PG)

D: Mamoru Hosoda
Audio: 5.1