S&S: June 2010

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

June 2010

Vol. 20 No. 6

Agora

Spain - 2009 - 127m - col / scope

Paramount (12A)

D: Alejandro Amenábar
Audio: 5.1

American: The Bill Hicks Story

UK - 2010 - 107m - col

Verve (15)

D: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Audio: 5.1

The Back-Up Plan

USA - 2010 - 104m - col / scope

Sony (12A)

D: Alan Poule
Audio: 5.1

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans

USA - 2009 - 122m - col

Lionsgate (18)

D: Werner Herzog
Series: Bad Lieutenant (1992, Feb/1993).
Audio: 5.1

Beeswax

USA - 2009 - 100m - col

ICA

D: Andrew Bujalski
Dolby Stereo SR

Black Death

UK/Germany - 2010 - 102m - col / scope

Revolver (15)

D: Christopher Smith
Audio: 5.1

The Brothers Bloom

USA - 2008 - 114m - col / scope

Optimum (12A)

D: Rian Johnson
Audio: 5.1

The Calling

UK - 2009 - 109m - col

Guerilla (15)

D: Jan Dunn
Audio: 5.1

City of War: The Story of John Rabe
John Rabe

Germany/France/Italy - 2009 - 134m - col / scope
Metrodome (15)
D: Florian Gallenberger
Audio: 5.1

Clash of the Titans

USA - 2010 - 106m - col / scope / 3-D

Warner (12A)

D: Louis Leterrier
Followed by: Wrath of the Titans (2012, Jun/2012).
Audio: 5.1

Cop Out

USA - 2010 - 107m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Kevin Smith
Audio: 5.1

Einaym Pkuhot

[see: Eyes Wide Open]

Erasing David

UK - 2009 - 80m - col

Picturehouse (12A)

D: David Bond
Audio: Stereo

Eyes Wide Open

עיניים פקוחות

Israel/Germany/France - 2009 - 96m - col

Peccadillo (12A)

D: Haim Tabakman
Audio: 5.1

Four Lions

UK/France - 2010 - 101m - col

Optimum (15)

D: Chris Morris
Audio: 5.1

Furry Vengeance

USA/United Arab Emirates - 2010 - 91m - col

eOne (PG)

D: Roger Kumble
Audio: 5.1

Gentlemen Broncos

USA - 2009 - 89m - col

20th Century Fox (12A)

D: Jared Hess
Audio: 5.1

The Girl on the Train

La fille du RER

France - 2009 - 101m - col / scope

Soda (15)

D: André Téchiné
Audio: 5.1

Give Me Your Hand

Donne-moi la main

France/Germany/Netherlands - 2008 - 79m - col

Peccadillo

D: Pascal-Alex Vincent
Audio: 5.1

The Happiest Girl in the World

Cea mai fericita fata din lume

Romania/Netherlands - 2009 - 103m - col

Soda (15)

D: Radu Jude
Audio: 5.1

Heartless

UK - 2009 - 113m - col / scope

Lionsgate (18)

D: Philip Ridley
Audio: 5.1

Hot Tub Time Machine

USA - 2010 - 99m - col

20th Century Fox (15)

D: Steve Pink
Followed by: Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015, May/2015).
Audio: 5.1

It’s a Wonderful Afterlife

UK - 2009 - 100m - col / scope

Icon (12A)

D: Gurinder Chadha
Audio: 5.1

The Joneses

USA/India/UK - 2010 - 96m - col / scope

eOne (15)

D: Derrick Borte
Audio: 5.1

The Killer Inside Me

USA/UK/Sweden/France - 2010 - 109m - col / scope

Icon (18)

D: Michael Winterbottom
Audio: 5.1

The Last Song

USA - 2010 - 107m - col / scope

Buena Vista (PG)

D: Julie Anne Robinson
Audio: 5.1

Lebanon

לבנון

Israel/France/Germany - 2009 - 93m - col

Metrodome (15)

D: Samuel Maoz
Audio: 5.1

Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang

(USA: Nanny McPhee Returns)

UK/USA/Japan/France - 2010 - 109m - col / scope

Universal (U)

D: Susanna White
Series: Nanny McPhee (2005, Nov/2005).
Audio: 5.1

Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu

[see: Room and a Half or A Sentimental Journey Back Home]

Repo Men

USA/Japan - 2009 - 111m - col / scope

Universal (18)

D: Miguel Sapochnik
Audio: 5.1

Room and a Half or A Sentimental Journey Back Home

Полторы комнаты, или Сентиментальное путешествие на Родину

Russia - 2009 - 130m - col and bw

Yume (12A)

D: Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Audio: 5.1

Salvage

UK - 2008 - 79m - col / scope

Revolver (18)

D: Lawrence Gough
Audio: 5.1

Shelter
6 Souls

USA - 2008 - 112m - col / scope
Icon (15)
D: Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein [as: Mårlind & Stein]
Audio: 5.1

The Time That Remains: Chronicle of a Present Absentee

UK/France/Belgium/Italy/United Arab Emirates - 2009 - 110m - col

New Wave (15)

D: Elia Suleiman
Audio: 5.1

Tooth Fairy

USA - 2009 - 101m - col

20th Century Fox (PG)

D: Michael Lembeck
Followed by: Tooth Fairy 2 (2012).
Audio: 5.1

Videocracy

Sweden/Denmark/UK/Finland/Norway - 2009 - 84m - col

Dogwoof (15)

D: Erik Gandini
Audio: 5.1

Vincere

Italy/France - 2009 - 125m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Marco Bellocchio
Audio: 5.1