S&S: May 2012

Introduction for newcomers

Sight & Sound

May 2012

Vol. 22 No. 5

Albert Nobbs

Ireland/France/USA/UK - 2011 - 113m - col / scope

Entertainment One (15)

D: Rodrigo García
Audio: 5.1

Angel and Tony

Angèle et Tony

France - 2010 - 83m - col

Peccadillo (15)

D: Alix Delaporte
Audio: 5.1

Beauty

Skoonheid

S.Africa/France - 2011 - 105m - col / scope

Peccadillo (18)

D: Oliver Hermanus
Audio: 5.1

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

USA - 2011 - 76m - col

Dogwoof (U)

D: Constance Marks
Audio: 5.1

Blackthorn

Spain/France/Bolivia/USA - 2011 - 102m - col / scope

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Mateo Gil
Audio: 5.1

Breathing

Atmen

Austria - 2011 - 94m - col / scope

Verve (15)

D: Karl Markovics
Audio: 5.1

Buck

USA - 2011 - 88m - col

Revolver (PG)

D: Cindy Meehl
Audio: 5.1

Cabin in the Woods

USA - 2011 - 95m - col / scope

Lionsgate (15)

D: Drew Goddard
Audio: 5.1

A Cat in Paris

Un vie de chat

France/Belgium - 2010 - 65m - col

Soda (PG)

D: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli
Audio: 5.1

Cleanskin

UK - 2010 - 108m - col / scope

Warner (15)

D: Hadi Hajaig
Audio: 6.1

Damsels in Distress

USA - 2011 - 99m - col

Sony (15)

D: Whit Stillman
Audio: 5.1

Delicacy

La délicatesse

France/Belgium - 2011 - 109m - col

Studio Canal (12A)

D: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Audio: 5.1

The Divide

USA/Germany/Canada/France - 2011 - 112m - col / scope

Momentum (18)

D: Xavier Gens
Audio: 5.1

Elles

France/Poland/Germany - 2011 - 99m - col / scope

Artificial Eye (18)

D: Malgoska Szumowska
Audio: 5.1

Gone

USA - 2012 - 95m - col / scope

Entertainment (15)

D: Heitor Dahlia
Audio: 5.1

Goodbye First Love

Un amour de jeunesse

France/Germany - 2011 - 111m - col

Artificial Eye (15)

D: Mia Hansen-Løve
Audio: 5.1

Grave Encounters

USA - 2010 - 93m - col

Metrodome (15)

D: Collin Minihan & Stuart Ortiz [as: The Vicious Brothers]
Followed by: Grave Encounters 2 (2012).
Audio: 5.1

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

一命

Japan/UK - 2011 - 126m - col / scope / 3-D

Revolver (18)

D: Takashi Miike
Audio: 5.1

Hard Boiled Sweets

UK - 2011 - 84m - col

Verve (15)

D: David L.G. Hughes
Audio: 5.1

The Hunger Games

USA - 2012 - 142m - col / scope

Lionsgate (12A) (cut)

D: Gary Ross
D-Cinema, 35mm and IMAX-D release prints.
Followed by: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, Jan/2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014, Jan/2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015, Jan/2016).
Audio: 7.1 / IMAX 6-track

Ichimei

[see: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai]

Iron Sky

Finland/Germany/Australia/Norway - 2012 - 93m/119m - col / scope

Revolver (15)

D: Timo Vuorensola
Followed by: Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2017).
Audio: 5.1

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

USA - 2011 - 83m - col

Paramount (15)

D: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Audio: 5.1

John Carter

USA - 2012 - 132m - col / scope / 3-D

Buena Vista (12A)

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

Le Havre

Finland/France/Germany/Norway - 2011 - 93m - col

Artificial Eye (PG)

D: Aki Kaurismäki
Audio: 5.1

London Paris New York

लन्दन,परिस,नेव्योर्क

India - 2012 - 100m - col / scope

Fox Star (12A)

D: Anu Menon
Audio: 5.1

Marley

USA/UK - 2012 - 145m - col

Universal (15)

D: Kevin Macdonald
Audio: 5.1

The Monk

Le moine

France/Spain - 2011 - 100m - col / scope

Metrodome (15)

D: Dominik Moll
Audio: 5.1

Mozart's Sister

Nannerl: La soeur de Mozart

France - 2010 - 120m - col

Palisades Tartan (12A)

D: René Féret
Audio: 5.1

Oliver Sherman

Canada - 2010 - 82m - col / scope

Cinefile World (15)

D: Ryan Redford
Audio: 5.1

The Other Side of Sleep

Ireland/Netherlands/Hungary - 2011 - 88m - col

Fastnet

D: Rebecca Daly
Audio: 5.1

Payback Season

UK - 2012 - 91m - col / scope

Revolver (15)

D: Danny Donnelly
Audio: 5.1

The Pirates! in An Adventure With Scientists

(USA: The Pirates! Band of Misfits)

UK/USA - 2012 - 88m - col / scope / 3-D

Sony (U)

D: Peter Lord
Audio: 5.1

Project X

USA - 2012 - 88m - col

Warner (18)

D: Nima Nourizadeh
Audio: 5.1

The Raven

USA - 2011 - 111m - col / scope

Universal (15)

D: James McTeigue
Audio: 5.1

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

UK/France - 2011 - 107m - col / scope

Lionsgate (12A)

D: Lasse Hallström
Audio: 5.1

Silent House

USA/France - 2011 - 85m - col

Studio Canal (15)

D: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Audio: 5.1

Town of Runners

UK/USA/Hong Kong - 2011 - 89m - col

Dogwoof (PG)

D: Jerry Rothwell
Audio: 5.1

Two Years at Sea

UK - 2011 - 88m - bw / scope

Soda (U)

D: Ben Rivers

Wanderlust

USA/Japan - 2012 - 98m - col / scope

Universal (15)

D: David Wain
Audio: 5.1

We Are Poets

UK - 2011 - 84m - col

Dogwoof

D: Daniel Lucchesi, Alex Ramseyer-Bache