Atom Egoyan has created a world within a world, shifting between the contemporary and, through the making of a film about the events, the tragic genocidal slaughter of the Armenians in turn of the 20th Century Turkey. Ararat is a thoughtful and thought provoking drama of the highest order. find out more...

Aspirant and amateur French film-maker Guetta wishes to make a film about the successful street artist Banksy, but Banksy, aware of the failings of the film turns the cameras and makes a film about Guetta making street art.
Or does he?
The mocumentary makers pull off a coup halfway through and give the rug under your feet a sharp tug, in the process revealing the contemporary art world as a scene populated by venture capitalists and sociopathic svengalis.
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Christy Brown was an Irish cerebal palsy victim who overcame his severe handicap to become a talented painter and author with just the use of his left foot. Daniel Day Lewis is totally and utterly convincing as Brown - using method acting he became Brown and his thoroughness makes the film a great one. find out more...

On the eve of WW1 famed German art critic Wilhelm Uhde retreated from the pressures of urban life to stay in a small village just outside Paris. Here he noticed some stunningly vibrant artwork only to discover that it was done by his somewhat cuckoo cleaning lady. Thus began an association that propelled the peasant Seraphine de Senlis to fame as an artist, but not before she'd blown her lid and been permanently incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital.
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Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig find out more...

Adam is that no-holds barred, quintessential stereotype of the cinematic nerd, Evelyn is his opposite in every sense, so when the two start dating and Adam begins to transform from dud to dude his friends are not surprisingly intrigued. As you would expect from the man behind ‘Nurse Betty' and ‘In the Company of Men', 'The Shape of Things' has a dark core to its outwardly fun and fluffy heart. Entertaining, but it lacks the quirky genius that marks out some of Labute's previous work. find out more...

A sublime film about the nature of loneliness told through the experience of the eponymous Tony Takitani. Brought up by his musician father, Tony lives a socially secluded life until he meets and falls in love with Eiko, a fashion-obsessed fitty, and the intimacy he shares with her is both tender and, ultimately, tragic. A remarkable film, meditatively paced, touchingly sincere with a fascinating aesthetic style, and the soundtrack is measured and judged to perfection. A deeply humane effort fro find out more...