Ace in the Hole - MatthewHunt
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style and feel are sensual. Bernal and Diego Luna go on a road trip with a sexy older woman<br />
who is escap<strong>in</strong>g from a fail<strong>in</strong>g marriage. Sexual tension burgeons, blossoms, triangulates.<br />
Yaaba<br />
(Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)<br />
The Burk<strong>in</strong>a Faso film-maker composes this folk-tale with simplicity - although several subplots<br />
are woven <strong>in</strong> - and he tells it at a walk<strong>in</strong>g-pace. A young boy Bila (Noufou Ouedraogo)<br />
befriends an old woman Sana (Fatimata Sanga) despite <strong>the</strong> fact that o<strong>the</strong>r village boys<br />
torment her, believ<strong>in</strong>g her to be a witch. Bila stubbornly befriends her and calls her Yaaba, or<br />
Grandmo<strong>the</strong>r, and Sana repays <strong>the</strong> compliment by f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> medic<strong>in</strong>e which will cure <strong>the</strong><br />
fever of a friend of his - an achievement likely only to re<strong>in</strong>force her "witch" reputation.<br />
The Year My Voice Broke<br />
(John Duigan, 1987)<br />
The first of a brace of pictures that paired British ex-pat director with his sometime alter-ego<br />
actor Noah Taylor, here is a pure and tender but never formulaic evocation of teenage<br />
disillusion. The year is 1962 and two childhood swee<strong>the</strong>arts are ripped apart when young<br />
female hormones go crazy, leav<strong>in</strong>g 15 year-old Danny (Taylor) <strong>in</strong> a jealous fix that every jilted,<br />
unrequited lover will recognise.<br />
The Year of Liv<strong>in</strong>g Dangerously<br />
(Peter Weir, 1982)<br />
Weir's story recreates <strong>the</strong> pressure-cooker world of 1960s Indonesia, a turbulent world of<br />
violence and suspected coups. Mel Gibson plays a naive Australian reporter, who befriends<br />
Sigourney Weaver's embassy official and a Ch<strong>in</strong>ese-American cameraman, remarkably<br />
played by a woman, L<strong>in</strong>da Hunt, who received <strong>the</strong> Oscar that year for Best Support<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Actress.<br />
Yellow Earth<br />
(Chen Kaige, 1984)<br />
The film that brought modern Ch<strong>in</strong>ese c<strong>in</strong>ema to <strong>the</strong> world's attention, also focused it on <strong>the</strong><br />
traumas of <strong>the</strong> Cultural Revolution. A lush, beautifully coloured drama about a Communist<br />
soldier's trip to a remote village, it opened up a previously hidden world.<br />
Yellow Submar<strong>in</strong>e<br />
(George Dunn<strong>in</strong>g, 1968)<br />
The acid-drenched visions of hippy-era Beatledom found perfect expression <strong>in</strong> this endlessly<br />
<strong>in</strong>ventive cartoon; luckily enough, s<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong> Fab Four were well beyond do<strong>in</strong>g anyth<strong>in</strong>g as<br />
uncool as act<strong>in</strong>g. Musically, of course, it's <strong>the</strong> Beatles <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir v<strong>in</strong>tage years; <strong>the</strong> trip to<br />
Pepperland is great lark, with or without artificial stimulants.<br />
Young Adam<br />
(David Mackenzie, 2003)<br />
A brood<strong>in</strong>g adaptation of cult Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's existential murder<br />
mystery, set on Glasgow's canals, and f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g room for some of Brita<strong>in</strong>'s starriest actors.<br />
Stirr<strong>in</strong>g up <strong>the</strong> grit are a dour Tilda Sw<strong>in</strong>ton, sexually compulsive Ewan MacGregor, and Emily<br />
Mortimer, who undergoes a gruell<strong>in</strong>g humiliation by ketchup and mustard.<br />
Young Frankenste<strong>in</strong><br />
(Mel Brooks, 1974)<br />
Unfeasibly funny stuff as Gene Wilder plays <strong>the</strong> grandson of <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al monster-maker,<br />
sceptical of gramps's work until he <strong>in</strong>herits his Transylvanian bolthole and resumes <strong>the</strong><br />
experiments. Peter Day's monster, fiancée Madel<strong>in</strong>e Kahn, and - perhaps above all - Marty<br />
Feldman's Igor ("What hump?") are just perfect. As with all <strong>the</strong> best, it only ever gets funnier<br />
and funnier.<br />
Z<br />
(Costa-Gavras, 1968)