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8 New releases/Maybe you missed THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY NEWRELEASE The Forgiveness of Blood Tue 4 to Thu 6 Sep Joshua Marston • USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy 2011 • 1h49m Digital projection • Albanian with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Tristan Halilaj, Refet Abazi, Sindi Lacej, Ilire Vinca Celaj. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, the powerful second feature from Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) tells the story of an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town, with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own small internet business. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father becomes entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law known as the Kanun, Nik’s family owes a life in return. Nik finds himself the prime target and becomes confined to home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Laçej) is forced to leave school and take over their father’s business. Marston transports us into a world rarely seen on screen, where tradition and modernity clash putting young lives in the balance. MAYBEYOUMISSED MAYBEYOUMISSED Searching for Sugar Man Fri 17 to Mon 20 Aug Malik Bendjelloul • Sweden/UK 2012 • 1h26m • Digital projection 12A – Contains one use of strong language and moderate drug references • Documentary Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this engaging documentary follows the improbable-but-true story of reclusive US soul singersongwriter Rodriguez, who, in early-’70s Detroit, was touted as the next big thing. Former Motown boss Clarence Avant signed him and released two albums, but despite good reviews, Rodriguez failed to make the US charts. Further from home, however, his style struck a chord: in Apartheid-era South Africa he was ‘bigger than Elvis’. Stories about the elusive singer abounded – he died onstage, he overdosed – but years later, two dedicated fans decide to track him down. The story that emerges, told against the background of Rodriguez’s standout music, is unbelievably heart-warming. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Tue 28 to Thu 30 Aug Alison Klayman • USA 2012 • 1h31m • Digital projection English and Mandarin with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary At his Beijing studio, internationally heralded conceptual artist and dissident Ai Weiwei oversees an expert staff busily executing his ideas ahead of an upcoming show at Tate Modern; a colony of cats freely roams the grounds (one, marvels Ai, can even open doors); and a bulky surveillance camera squats conspicuously atop a nearby pole – a constant reminder to tenants that the state is watching. The battle between the Chinese government and Ai, a savvy devotee of Twitter and online activism, acquires many forms and shades. Alison Klayman’s camera captures an impressive range of them in this persuasive firsthand portrait, which doubles as a rousing snapshot of the New China.
Maybe you missed/Restored classics SOUND OF MY VOICE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN MAYBEYOUMISSED RESTOREDCLASSIC Sound of My Voice Fri 31 Aug to Mon 3 Sep Zal Batmanglij • USA 2011 • 1h25m • Digital projection 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling, Davenia McFadden, Kandice Stroh. Writer/actress Brit Marling has emerged in the past year as the hot new voice in science-fiction filmmaking. Another Earth, which she co-wrote and starred in, caused a stir, and now the even better Sound of My Voice, again co-written by and starring Marling, is prompting some critics to suggest she is the future of the genre. And that would seem appropriate, given that her character here purports to come from the future... Without spoiling more of Marling and director Zal Batmanglij’s delicious plot, suffice it to say that a pair of documentary filmmakers (Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius), determined to craft an exposé about a cult, end up being drawn into it by its charismatic and perhaps sinister leader (Marling). Gripping drama follows, as compelling mind games play themselves out and the audience finds itself as wrong-footed and unsure of the truth as the intrepid doc makers are. To Kill a Mockingbird Fri 24 to Thu 30 Aug Robert Mulligan • USA 1962 • 2h9m • Digital projection PG – Contains racist language, mild threat and mild sex references Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Rosemary Murphy. Beautifully adapted from Harper Lee’s semiautobiographical, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is a hauntingly nostalgic portrayal of childhood mischief set in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. Gregory Peck plays incorruptible lawyer Atticus Finch, a widower with two children, 10-year-old Jem and tomboyish 6-year-old Scout. During the summer, the kids amuse themselves by rolling each other down the street in a tire or playing in a treehouse. What occupies them most, however, is the creaky wooden house where Boo Radley, allegedly crazy and chained to his bed, lives. Meanwhile, Atticus agrees to represent a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. A number of people try to pressure him into stepping down from the case, but his pursuit of justice is unwavering. As the trial proceeds, Atticus, Jem and especially Scout learn as much about each other as they do about their own fears and prejudices. RESTOREDCLASSIC Woman in a Dressing Gown Fri 31 Aug to Thu 6 Sep J Lee Thompson • UK 1957 • 1h34m • Digital projection PG – Contains mild language and sex references Cast: Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Andrew Ray, Carole Lesley. A decade before kitchen sink cinema became de rigeur, Woman in a Dressing Gown existed as a heartbreaking British melodrama to rival in feeling the women’s pictures of Douglas Sirk and Nicholas Ray. Intensely claustrophobic, with an almost oppressive filmmaking dynamic, the film is a simmering tale of the impact of adultery on the psyche of three desperate characters in post-war London. As the eponymous Woman, hanging from a thread while the dishes pile up around her, Yvonne Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Made with kinetic brio by director J Lee Thompson, whose trade in hard-edged dramas such as Yield to the Night and Ice Cold in Alex led to his later triumph, the brutal thriller Cape Fear, the film offers an innovative social realist approach, touching on the era’s raw divisions of class and echoing the Angry Young Man wave of British theatre at the time, but with a distinctly feminine edge. 9
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