S&S: February 2013

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

February 2013

Vol. 23 No. 2

American Mary

Canada - 2012 - 103m - col / scope

FrightFest (18)

D: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Audio: 5.1

Antiviral

Canada/France - 2012 - 107m - col

Momentum

D: Brandon Cronenberg
Audio: 5.1

Ballroom Dancer

Denmark/USA/UK/Ukraine/Russia/Hong Kong/Japan/Germany - 2012 - 84m - col

Dogwoof

D: Andreas Koefod, Christian H. Bonke
Audio: 5.1

Bullet to the Head

USA - 2012 - 91m - col

eOne (15)

D: Walter Hill
Audio: 5.1

Bullhead

Rundskop

Belgium/Netherlands - 2011 - 128m - col / scope

Soda (15)

D: Michael R. Roskam
Audio: 5.1

Code Name: Geronimo
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden

USA (TV) - 2012 - 101m - col
Studio Canal (15)
D: John Stockwell
Audio: 5.1

Django Unchained

USA - 2012 - 165m - col / scope

Sony (18)

D: Quentin Tarantino
Audio: 5.1

Do Elephants Pray?

UK - 2009 - 105m - col / scope

Bluebell (15)

D: Paul Hills
Audio: 5.1

Everyday

UK - 2012 - 90m - col

Soda (15)

D: Michael Winterbottom
Audio: 5.1

Flight

USA - 2012 - 138m - col / scope

Paramount (15)

D: Robert Zemeckis
Audio: 5.1

Hitchcock

USA/UK/Australia - 2012 - 98m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Sacha Gervasi
Audio: 5.1

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

USA/New Zealand - 2012 - 169m/182m - col / scope / 3-D / 48fps

Warner (12A)

D: Peter Jackson
D-Cinema, 35mm, IMAX and IMAX-D release prints. LF version reframed at 2.00:1 aspect ratio.
Series: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Feb/2002).
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 6-track

Hyde Park on Hudson

USA/UK - 2012 - 95m - col / scope

Universal (12A)

D: Roger Michell
Audio: 5.1

I Give It a Year

UK/France/Germany/Luxembourg - 2012 - 97m - col / scope

Studio Canal (15)

D: Dan Mazer
Audio: 5.1

I Wish

奇跡

Japan - 2011 - 128m - col

Arrow (PG)

D: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Audio: 5.1

Jack Reacher

USA - 2012 - 130m - col / scope

Paramount (12A) (cut)

D: Christopher McQuarrie
Followed by: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016, Dec/2016).
Audio: 7.1

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

USA - 2011 - 82m - col

Soda (U)

D: David Gelb
Audio: 5.1

Kiseki

[see: I Wish]

The Liability

UK - 2012 - 115m - col / scope

Revolver (15)

D: Craig Viveiros
Audio: 5.1

A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman

UK - 2012 - 85m - col / 3-D

Trinity (15)

D: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett
Audio: 5.1

Lincoln

USA/India - 2012 - 150m - col / scope

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Steven Spielberg
Audio: 7.1

May I Kill U?

UK - 2012 - 87m - col

Miracle (15)

D: Stuart Urban
Audio: 5.1

Midnight Son

USA - 2010 - 88m - col

Monster Pictures (18)

D: Scott Leberecht
Audio: 5.1

Les Misérables

USA/UK/Japan - 2012 - 158m - col

Universal (12A)

D: Tom Hooper
D-Cinema, 35mm and IMAX-D release prints.
Audio: 7.1 / IMAX 6-track

Playing for Keeps

USA - 2012 - 106m - col / scope

Lionsgate (12A)

D: Gabriele Muccino
Audio: 5.1

The Punk Syndrome

Kovasikajuttu

Finland/Norway/Sweden - 2012 - 85m - col

November

D: Jukka Karkkäinen, J-P Passi
Audio: 5.1

The Sessions

USA - 2012 - 95m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Ben Lewin
Audio: 5.1

Song for Marion

(USA: Unfinished Song)

UK/Germany - 2012 - 93m - col / scope

eOne (PG)

D: Paul Andrew Williams
Audio: 5.1

So Undercover

USA - 2011 - 94m - col / scope

Warner (12A)

D: Tom Vaughan
Audio: 5.1

UFO

UK - 2012 - 101m - col / scope

Revolver (15)

D: Dominic Burns
Audio: 5.1

V/H/S

USA - 2012 - 116m - col

Momentum (18)

D: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett & Justin Martinez & Chad Villella [as: Radio Silence], Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Followed by: V/H/S/2 (2013, Dec/2013), V/H/S: Viral (2014).
Audio: 5.1

What Richard Did

Ireland - 2012 - 88m - col / scope

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Lenny Abrahamson
Audio: 5.1

Wreck-It Ralph

USA - 2012 - 108m - col / scope / 3-D

Buena Vista (PG)

D: Rich Moore
Audio: 7.1

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Vous n'avez encore rien vu

France/Germany - 2012 - 115m - col / scope

Studio Canal (PG)

D: Alain Resnais
Audio: 5.1

Zero Dark Thirty

USA - 2012 - 157m - col

Universal (15)

D: Kathryn Bigelow
Audio: 5.1