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Certification15
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A homage to the memory of events that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York. Eleven Directors from around the world put together a series of shorts each one 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame in length and all based around the consequences of that fateful day. 11'09"01 is a thought provoking and often moving experience that covers many cultures and provides a refreshingly honest and diverse breadth of opinions.
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Certification15
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Certification15
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A tragic accident brings three unlikely people together, all already dealing with a past deeply scarred by their own misdemeanours or the vagaries of fate. Obsession, revenge, loneliness, and redemption are all themes dealt with in Inarritu's English language debut, a remarkably powerful and deeply effecting drama, 21 Grams is a grimly beautiful film, carried along by three spellbinding performances.
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Casim is a second generation Pakistani living in Glasgow, and while he may have fully embraced the culture into which he was born, his parents still have certain expectations of him. Casim is due to marry his cousin, Jasmine; a wedding expected and condoned by his Muslim family. But their son has fallen in love with a white Glaswegian Catholic, Roisin, and as their relationship develops so the inevitability of their discovery looms. Ken Loach's film is a thoughtful and, as always, uncompromising
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Juliane is a true Arian mother while Maria is a politically and socially staunch Jewess, the two unlikely friends become lovers, a striking mismatch of ideologies even today but this takes place at the height of Nazi Germany, and the consequences of their affair coming to light will cause an outrage that will cost them their lives. Aimee and Jaguar is a deeply moving and beautifully performed drama, which deservedly won a number of awards at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival.
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Certification18
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Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel.
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Certification15
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Low-key biopic of graffiti vandal turned New York darling Jean-Michel Basquiat. Catapulted to art-world super-stardom after a chance meeting with Andy Warhol, the obscene amounts of money his paintings suddenly command soon sends him down the slippery slope of big-time drug abuse. Enthralling.
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Certification18
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Brandon Teena is a new face in the isolated community of Falls City and it's not long before he has charmed the locals, in particular the women, who find his boyish good looks and gentle charm magnetic. Brandon has a secret though, and while in itself the truth is neither dark nor malevolent, in a place such as Falls City, the revelation of his true identity will have disturbing and destructive consequences. Boys Don't Cry is an incredibly powerful and at times horrifying drama, with some superb
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CertificationU
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A landmark in the history of the cinema; it was ranked Number 1 in the American Film Institute's 100 greatest films of all time in two polls (1998 and 2007) of more than 1,500 film industry movers and shakers and again by UK directors in a BFI poll. "Citizen Kane" narrates the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession and is loosely based round the life of William Randolph Hurst, who tried to have it banned, but incorporates elements from the lives of other fat cats il
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Certification15
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Grace is on the run, and in the small backwater town of Dogville it would seem she has found some safety. But the town's inhabitants are not so understanding when the Mob turn up looking for the errant outsider and as Grace's former saviours begin to turn against her she sets in motion a string of events that may leave the townsfolk of Dogville rueing the day she ever entered their lives. Dogville is the latest from the master of mainstream experimental, Lars Von Trier, a dark, hypnotic, visuall
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