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The boys behind Daft Punk move into experimental art house cinema with this their directorial debut about two robots (oh yes) on a quest to become human. An intriguing, though perhaps not entirely successful, labour of love that, though with a frustratingly small amount of their own fine music, boasts an excellent soundtrack from Mayfield, Eno, Haydn and Chopin. A cinematographically beautiful midnight movie. find out more...

Sam Shepard stars as a jaded Hollywood star, Howard Spence, who walks out of his latest movie to visit his mother who he last saw 30 years before, but his visit brings back more than old memories when he is told that he has a son, the product of a brief affair he had had with a waitress. A sweet romantic drama from the guys that brought you the wonderful 'Paris, Texas' that manages to warm your heart without being over-sentimental. find out more...

British journalist George sneaks into Nanjing during the Japanese atrocities of 1938. Unfortunately, the Japanese catch him and just as they are about to send him to meet his maker fate intervenes in the form of local commie chief Chen, who rescues George and packs him off to an orphanage to assist red US nurse Radha. Fleeing from the nationalists' attempts to conscript orphaned boys into their army, they make a hair-raising three-month journey - the first 900km on foot - across the snow-bound L find out more...

Flanders tells the story of a group of young men, including local farmer Demster, from rural northern France, who go to fight, with brutal consequences, in a war in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Juxtaposing rural images of their home village against the savage and unrelenting landscape of battle, the film charts familiar Dumont territory offering a unique vision against the backdrop of an unconventional love story between Demester and his fragile, sometime girlfriend, Barbe. find out more...

May, hounded by cowboy drifter and half-brother Eddie, tries to hide from him in a seedy out-of-the-way neon-lit New Mexican motel, but he finds her. The film explores the history of their relationship, mainly from their childhoods, that has led them to this point. It's very easy to feel sympathy for the characters and to understand that their complex and passionate dysfunctional relationship is a result of past events out of their control. We mainly watch them fight, make up, fight, make up and find out more...

Sandy is a loud, abrupt, forthright geologist, used to being listened to and more than capable of handling herself in a man's world; Hiromitsu is a Japanese businessman and possible client, and when they find themselves, at his insistence, journeying deep into the Australian desert, Hiromitsu's disdain for his opinionated host becomes quickly apparent. As events unfold the pair's mutual dislike slowly transforms into a friendship, but an unforeseen event is about to shatter both Hiromitsu's and find out more...

This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o find out more...

Taking its cue from Chronicle (2012), Project Almanac is part of the "found footage" sci-fi phenomenon sweeping contemporary teen cinema. A group of friends discover time travel and use it to have a lot of fun; rewriting their entry into the high school popularity charts, partying without wasting time, acing tests and getting even with bullies. But, as science would have it, every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Soon the 'jumps' become a desperate attempt to rewrite the rewrite. G find out more...

Two young aboriginals, bored glue-sniffing Samson and the more together artistic Delilah, who live in a back of beyond run down community, fall out with their elders, steal a car and head off to small town Australia where they exist outside the margins of society. 'Samson and Delilah' never patronises, we see the young teens not so much as victims, more as troubled learners and the aboriginal director allows us to see the world through their eyes, hence humanising their struggles.
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