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There's a peculiar fascination about ambitious unfinished works that listeners, viewers and readers are left to complete in their minds. In cinema there are a string of pictures left in tantalisingly fragmentary form due to illnesses, accidents or deaths, among them Eisenstein's Que Viva ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
This gang warfare movie is set in Birmingham's black community. With aggressive hip-hop figuring as a kind of chorus commenting on the action and raising the emotional ante, it tells the familiar story of a drug dealer threatened with death if he doesn't repay within three hours the £500,000 ...
Other
A gripping French contribution to the cycle of movies about exile and refugees, this centres on the friendship between a swimming instructor at the Calais municipal baths (the excellent Vincent Lindon) and a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd bent on swimming the channel to be reunited with his girlfriend ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
A surprise popular success in the States, this cod documentary features the hugely unimpressive young Chinese-American stand-up comic Charlyne Yi, who claims never to have experienced love. So with her director she travels the country in a haphazard way, asking everyone from fellow comic Seth ...
Comedy
Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi
Seth Rogen
Michael Cera
Faizon Love
Despite the title, this is Dickens's A Christmas Carol , faithfully rendered and extremely frightening, shot in 3D using the "performance capture" technique which transforms live actors into semi-animated figures. There are no inappropriate songs or additional sentimentality, and Jim Carrey ...
Adventure
A Christmas Carol
Jim Carrey
Charles S. Dutton
The star of Emma reflects on love, marriage and why her two-year-old nephew is obsessed with cranes "Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and will happen." This phrase swam into focus as I moved up the escalator at Oxford Circus tube on Tuesday morning on my way to put ...
Action
Romola Garai
Frank Borzage (1894-1962) was one of Hollywood's great romantics, a specialist in lyrical melodrama about love in adversity. But he was the son of an Austrian-born coalminer and his stories were set not in aristocratic circles, but in impoverished rural America or working-class Europe and ...
Drama
Frank Borzage
Seventh Heaven
Like Dr Strangelove , this crazy comedy of military madness is based on a non-fiction work (Jon Ronson's T he Men Who Stare at Goats ), and stars Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton, a frustrated Michigan journalist in search of adventure who heads for the Middle East in 2003. In Kuwait he hitches a ...
Other
Ewan McGregor
George Clooney
Earth
Calculation aims to take risk out of deciding whether follow-ups to cinema hits will be a sure thing, or a disastrous gamble Ever wondered why Spider-Man 2 triumphed and Basic Instinct 2 bombed? Now a group of academics have come up with a mathematical formula to predict the fortunes ...
Action
A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reports Runners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar ...
Comedy
Matt Damon
Steven Soderbergh
Wayne'S World
>> Loach and Menges go to war Ken Loach is making his first film about the Iraq war. Teaming up again with revered cameraman Chris Menges – for the first time on a feature since Kes , in 1969 – Loach is drawing to a close on his shoot of Route Irish in both Liverpool and Jordan. The film is ...
Comedy
After the ill-judged scattershot "satire" of Borat (which hit far too many soft targets – ageing American feminists, for heaven's sake!) Sacha Baron Cohen raises his game somewhat with Brüno (2009, 18, Universal). Fired from his Eurotrash TV show Funkyzeit , the eponymous, gay Austrian ...
Drama
Bruno
Sacha Baron Cohen
The Informers
Jury duty means I'm not allowed to speculate. So stand by for rational thinking Everyone says the recession has ushered in a fashion for the smaller scale. Bicycles not 4x4s, bedsits rather than loft extensions, allotment veg instead of the weekly Ocado. Ever modish, I'm going to offer you a ...
Action
Anthony Minghella
Samuel L Jackson at Marcus Wareing I grew up in a house full of women in Chat-tanooga, Tennessee. All the women in my family were good cooks, and during my early childhood I'd help with the preparation. I'd have to go out and maybe get some corn, pick some peas or string the beans and break ...
Sci-Fi
Samuel L. Jackson
Marcus Nispel
Jane Campion's marvellous ode to Keats is that rare thing – a biopic about a poet that does full justice to its subject Films about poets have a poor reputation, most of them – from Dennis Price as The Bad Lord Byron 60 years ago to Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath six years back – being dull ...
Other
Jane Campion
Scripted by Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for Juno , this is the week's only vampire movie. A semi-serious, extremely bloody affair, it's set in the town of Devil's Kettle, where a band of Goths sacrifice the high-school beauty (Megan Fox) to Satan to take their band into the big time. ...
Drama
Diablo Cody
Juno
Megan Fox
Mamma Mia!
Twilight
Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves. And the results, as seen in the Native Spirit film festival, are remarkable Cinema's relationship with indigenous tribal peoples has not been a happy one. Native Americans helped get the ...
Adventure
The Spirit
'I'm 78. There are a few wrinkles, a few sags, but very sparkly eyes' I see a woman who has aged very well. I'm 78. There are a few wrinkles, a few sags, but very sparkly eyes and a tendency to giggle and smile a lot. People say I look remarkable for my age, which is flattering, and ...
Other
Leslie Caron
Harry Brown sees Caine back on his old stomping ground. Will Connery and co follow his lead? The Old Crowd is showing its age these days. When you see Michael Caine ridding his working-class estate of nasty little asbo 'orrors in Harry Brown , shuffling around in his granddad shoes and his ...
Animation
Michael Caine
Things to do with your family this week At home You either love or hate DIY – if you love it, you may well have a jigsaw in your toolbox. As the name suggests, jigsaws (a mechanical saw with a vertical blade) are useful for making, er, jigsaws. It should go without saying that children ...
