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FILM

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/ 26 September 2008

Festival celebrates local film talent

ON CIRCUIT: <i>Apollo Film Festival </i>, <i>Choke</i>, <i>The House Bunny</i> as well as <i>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</i>.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 September 2008

The eyes have it

MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Hellboy II: The Golden Army, while Peter Bradshaw reviews Colin Farrell’s latest, In Bruges.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 September 2008

Election campaign with a difference

ON CIRCUIT: <i> Space Chimps</i> and <i>Swing Vote</i> make an entrance onto the circuit.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 September 2008

Where love has gone

MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal looks at some of the interesting offerings at this year’s Out in Africa Film Festival.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 12 September 2008

Of non-deserving attempts and silent monks

ON CIRCUIT: The <i>Air France Film Festival</i> is on at Hyde Park Nu Metro. There is also <i>Elite Squad</i> and <i>Into Great Silence</i>.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 8 September 2008

Against hate, in favour of humour

Shaun de Waal takes a look at the South African short films on at <i>Out in Africa</i> festival, tha opened last week.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 5 September 2008

Hammer of the gods

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Tropic Thunder</i>, about the making of a movie about the Vietnam war.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 5 September 2008

A plot gone missing

ON CIRCUIT: Action adventure <i>Babylon AD</i>, which stars Vin Diesel and Gerard Dpardieu.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 4 September 2008

Dropping in on Austen’s own reading group

The notion of testing yourself against Austen’s novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.

By John Mullan
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/ 30 August 2008

The basest patronage

The TriContinental Film Festival in Cape Town features<i>The Choir</i> a film that represents the vilest of colonial anti-black representations.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 30 August 2008

Ziman steals the screen

Andrew Worsdale speaks to the director of <i>Jerusalema</i>, the new gritty crime drama set in Johannesburg.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 29 August 2008

Su-per-per trouper-pers

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the ABBA-inspired musical, <i> Mamma Mia!</i>, starring a singing, dancing Meryl Streep.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 22 August 2008

Prom night prowler

ON CIRCUIT: <i>Prom Night</i>, starring Brittany Snow and <i>Redbelt</i>, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as a jujitsu instructor who needs to get out of debt.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 15 August 2008

Amusing aliens of an Eddie Murphy kind

ON CIRCUIT: <i>Meet Dave</i>, starring Eddie Murphy as an alien, and <i>WsZ</i>, a serial-killer horror knockoff of the Saw franchise.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 8 August 2008

Nothing big about this one

ON CIRCUIT: <i>The Big Nothing</i>, a comedy about good-guys-turned-bad-blackmailers. It stars Mimi Rogers.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 August 2008

Dancing among the clouds

A long-forgotten and inspiring perspective of the Twin Towers emerges in a new documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 31 July 2008

The Godfather, more beautiful than ever

Shaun de Waal finds out more about Francis Ford Coppola’s fully restored <i>Godfather</i> trilogy, out on DVD, and reviews more DVD releases.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 25 July 2008

Dark Knight of the soul

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the latest <i>Batman</i> instalment, <i> The Dark Knight</i>, and likes its sense of realism.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 July 2008

Lock, stock and wild speculation

ON CIRCUIT: <i> The Bank Job</i>, <i>Drillbit Taylor</i> and <i>Journey to the Centre of the Earth</i> are reviewed.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 18 July 2008

Spy who loved me

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <i>Lust, Caution</i> is entirely engrossing, despite its slow pace and its length, with superb performances throughout.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 4 July 2008

Flicks for chicks and chaps

Something for everyone: <i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i>, <i>Eastern Promises</i>, <i>No Country for Old Men</i> … Shaun de Waal reviews new DVDs.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 28 June 2008

An act of manipulation

Tony Bensusan’s documentary on the formation of the United Democratic Front 25 years ago is a voyeuristic journey into disparate moments.

By Sello S Alcock
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/ 6 June 2008

Deception: A supposedly erotic thriller

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Deception</i>, starring Ewan McGregor, and <i>Definitely, Maybe</i>

By Staff Reporter
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/ 30 May 2008

Cannes’s late surprise

Agnes Poirier looks at Laurent Cantet’s film <i>Entre les Murs </i>, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Festival.

By Agnes Poirier
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/ 30 May 2008

Lopez and Anthony in salsa biopic

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>El Cantante</i>, starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and <i>Paris, Je t’Aime</i>.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 23 May 2008

Home-made eccentricity

<b>BLOCKBUSTER OF THE WEEK</b>: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Be Kind Rewind</i>, a film by Michael Gondry.

By Peter Bradshaw
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/ 23 May 2008

Alba goes blind in The Eye

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>The Eye</i> and <i>Married Life</i>, in which Pierce Brosnan stars and narrates.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 16 May 2008

A morbid affair

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Awake</i>, <i>Bricklane</i>, <i>The Forbidden Kingdom</i> and the new Cameron Diaz film, <i>What Happens in Vegas</i>

By Staff Reporter
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/ 9 May 2008

Attenborough directs World War II yarn

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Closing the Ring</i>, <i>Drillbit Taylor</i>, <i>88 Minutes, a thriller starring Al Pacino</i>, and Kevin Spacey’s <i>21</i>.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 May 2008

Beatles and bees

<b>DVD REVIEWS:</b> Shaun de Waal looks at the DVDs to look out for this month.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 2 May 2008

Superhero on screen

<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Iron Man</i>, <i>Made o Honour</i>, <i>Semi-Pro</i> and <i>The Walker</i>

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 May 2008

A pie chart for Wong

<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal looks at the latest work of Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, called <i>My Blueberry Nights</i>.

By Shaun De Waal
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