PBQ - Developing Cinema

Restrepo

Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington

USA 2010 93min

8 October 2010

Winner of Best Documentary at Sundance 2010. In 2008 Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington dug in with the men of Second Platoon for a year. Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a stronghold of al Qaeda and the Taliban, has proven to be one of the U.S. Army's deadliest challenges. ...

THE ARBOR

Clio Barnard

UK 2010 90min

Release date: 22 October 2010

With: Christine Bottomley, Neil Dudgeon, Robert Emms

A portrait of troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar and her tumultuous relationship with her daughter. Andrea wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate. When she died, tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, her daughter Lorraine was just ten years ...

THE SOCIAL NETWORK

David Fincher

USA 2010

Release date: 15 October 2010

With: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in ...

CHARLIE ST CLOUD

Burr Steers

USA 2010 99min

Release date: 9 October 2010

With: Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Kim Basinger

Charlie St. Cloud is a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother. So much so that he takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which his brother is buried. Charlie has a special lasting bond with his brother though, as he can see him. Charlie meets up with his brother ...

MADE IN DAGENHAM

Nigel Cole

UK 2010 113min

Release date: 1 October 2010

With: Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson

The film stars the award winning Sally Hawkins as Rita O'Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham ...

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin

UK/Cambodia 2009 93min

Release Date: 29 October 2010

The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ...

METROPOLIS PG

Fritz Lang

Germany 1927 150min

Release date: 10 September 2010

With: Gustav Frohlich, Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm

It’s been called the most important find in cinema history. In 2008, a 16mm print of the complete, 150-minute version of Metropolis - unseen since distributors cut Fritz Lang’s science fiction classic by about 45 minutes shortly after its 1927 premiere - was unearthed in a cinema archive in ...

ENTER THE VOID 18

Gaspar Noé

France 2010 135min

Release Date: 24 September 2010

With: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta

Gaspar Noe pushes the needle further into the red with Enter the Void, a postmortem hallucination likely to induce seizures even in the nonepileptic. Shot almost entirely from the P.O.V. of an American killed in a drug bust, the film floats through the neon miasma of Tokyo like a woozy ghost, ...

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE 15

Daniel Alfredson

Sweden 2010 129min

Release Date: 27 August 2010

With: Noomi rapace, Michael Nyqvist

Race-against-the-clock chase scenes, secret bank accounts and police files, a woman dragged to a barn by a thug who powers up a chainsaw, blackmail by sex DVD... welcome back to 'The Millennium Trilogy' and the thrilling sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. When two journalists working on ...

TAMARA DREWE 15

Stephen Frears

UK 2010 111m

Release Date: September 2010

With Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam

A bright and amusing comedy about the foibles and loves of writers in the West Country, inspired by Posy Simmonds' graphic novel (itself loosely based on Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'). Gemma Arterton plays Tamara Drewe, an ugly duckling who ruffles the feathers of a handful of ...

FIVE EASY PIECES RE 15

Bob Rafelson

USA 1970

Running Time: 1hr 38mins

With: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers

Nominated for four Oscars. Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, ...

THE MAID (LA NANA)

Sebastián Silva

Chile/Mexico 2009

Running Time: 1hr 55mins

With: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Alejandro Goic, Andrea Garcia-Huidobro, Mariana Loyola

Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foriegn Language Film. The story of how a maid called Raquel, who has worked for over 20 years in one affluent Chilean household, rediscovers herself. La Nana is a microcosm of Latin social hierarchy while also focusing on one woman's journey to free herself ...

THE LEOPARD RE U

Luchino Visconti

Italy/France 1963

Running Time: 3hrs 7mins

With: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Ida Galli

Nominated for an Oscar. In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of ...

THE RUNAWAYS

Floria Sigismondi

USA 2010

Running Time: 1hr 46 mins

With: Kristen Stweart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough, Johnny Lewis, Tatum O'Neal, Bret Cullen.

A coming-of-age biopic about '70s teenage band The Runaways is based on lead-singer Cherie Currie's book 'Neon Angel' - a reflection of her experiences as a rock star, but also delivering a strong anti-drug warning to teens and others. David Bowie's "Space Oddity" serves as a metaphor for the ...

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY RE PG

Fred Zinnemann

USA 1953

Running Time: 1hr 58mins

With: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra

Winner of eight Oscars. It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, 'Prew' is adamant that he doesn't box anymore, so ...

PIMP

Robert Cavanah

UK 2010

Running Time: 1 hr 31 mins

With: Robert Cavanah, Danny Dyer, Billy Boyd, Gemma Chan, Hilary Hamilton, Robert Fucilla, Barbara Nedeljakova.

Working for Stanley (Danny Dyer), Woody (Robert Cavanah) is a pimp, hustler and fixer in Soho's sex industry who agrees to be followed and filmed by a documentary camera crew for one week. However, it soon turns out to be no ordinary week; one of his porn directors is behind schedule, he’s ...

BLUEBEARD

Catherine Breillat

France 2009

Running Time: 1hr 20mins

With: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti

An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard. Release date: July 16, 2010 Distributed by NEW WAVE IMDB - REVIEW - TRAILER

THE CONCERT 15

Radu Mihaileanu

France/Italy/Romania/Belgium/Russia 2009

Running Time: 1 hr 59 mins

With: Aleksei Guskov, Melanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov, Francois Berleand, Miou-Miou, Lionel Abelanski.

Andrei Flipov was a prodigy - the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner. During the communist era he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players, ...

LONDON RIVER

Rachid Bouchared

UK/France/Algeria 2009

Running Time: 1hr 27mins

With: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Francis Magee, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Marc Baylis

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks. Release date: July 2, 2010 Distributed by TRINITY FILMS ENTERTAINMENT ...

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE

Tom DiCillo

USA 2009

Running Time: 1hr 30mins

With: Johnny Depp, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Roddy Krieger, Ray Manzarek

A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors, including rare exclusive footage. Release date: July 2, 2010 Distributed by THE WORKS UK DISTRIBUTION IMDB - REVIEW - TRAILER - IMAGES

HEARTBREAKER 15

Pascal Chaumeil

France/Monaco 2010

Running time: 1 hr 45 mins

With: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, Francois Damiens, Helena Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln, Jacques Frantz, Amandine Dewasmes, Jean-Yves Lafesse.

Meet Alex. He’s charming, funny, effortlessly cool, and most importantly, irresistible to women. With his resourceful sister Mélanie and her eccentric husband Marc, Alex offers a professional service – to break up relationships. In just a few weeks, for a fee equivalent to his ...

WHITE MATERIAL 15

Claire Denis

France/Cameroon 2009

Running time: 1 hr 40 mins.

With: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankole, William Nadylam, Adele Ado, Ali Barkai, Daniel Tchangang, Michael Subor, Jean-Marie Ahanda, Patrice Eya, Serge Mong.

French filmmaker Claire Denis, following 2008’s 35 Shots of Rum, turns to exploring the civil and racial conflicts in a story about a divorced French woman running her father’s coffee plantation in an unnamed African country as its political and social stability crumbles. Opening with richly ...

ECCENTRITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRDE GIRL

Manoel De Oliveira

Portugal/Spain/France 2009

Running time: 1hr 4 mins

With: Ricardo Trepa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Doria, Julia Buisel, Leonor Silveira, Filipe Vargas.

In a timeless Lisbon, Macario works as an accountant for his uncle, who owns an expensive fabric store. One day a pretty girl living across the street, Luisa, catches his eye as she plays with a Chinese fan. He instantly falls in love and determines to marry her. The girl and her mother agree, ...

UNDERTOW

Javier Fuentes-Leon

Peru/Colomia/France/Germany 2009

Running time: 1 hr 40 mins

With: Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado.

A Peruvian fisherman is forced to make a choice between his traditional life and a secret love in this debut film from director Javier Fuentes-Leon. Living the life of a respected fisherman in a Peruvian village, newly married Miguel (Cristian Mercado) is awaiting the arrival of his first child ...

CERTIFIED COPY

Abbas Kiarostami

France/Italy/Iran 2010

Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins

With: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell,Jean-Claude Carriere, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti.

Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami presents her most commercial film to date - not only because of the presence of a radiant Juliette Binoche or its photogenic Tuscan settings, but because it is the first of the Iranian auteur’s experiments to conform, at least on one level, to ...

BUDRUS

Julia Bacha

Israel/USA/Occupied Palestinian Territory 2009

Running Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes ...

LEAVING

Catherine Corsini

France 2009

Running Time: 1hr 25 mins.

With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal.

With her idle bourgeois lifestyle getting her down, well-to-do mother Suzanne goes back to work as a physiotherapist in the south of France. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room in their backyard but when Suzanne and the man hired to do the building work meet, their mutual attraction ...

BRONCO BULLFROG RE

Barney Platts-Mills

UK 1969

Running Time: 1hr 26 mins

With: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Sheperd, Roy Haywood, Freda Sheperd, Dick Philpot.

Barney Platts-Mills’s Bronco Bullfrog, originally released in 1969, is a classic of its kind and has become one of the leading cult films of the sixties. Filmed in six weeks, made for next to nothing, shot with non-professional teenagers, it’s set around the bombsites and high-rise flats of ...

BREATHLESS

Yang Ik-Joon

South Korea 2009

Running Time: 2hr 10 mins

With: Yang Ik-Joon, Kot-bi Kim, Man-shik Jeong, Seung-il Hong, Lee Hwan, Sang-won Kim.

Winner of over 13 awards at international film festivals. Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can ...

SHED YOUR TEARS AND WALK AWAY

Jez Lewis

UK 2009

Running Time: 1hr 30 mins

The tourist-magnet of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire may look picture-postcard pretty, but the reality for those who actually grew up there is a different story. Jez Lewis has made a passionate and sometimes despairing documentary about his hometown. After a number of his old schoolmates committed ...