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• Nice Guy [2012]

  
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  The independent film Nice Guy , the assured feature debut of Pascal Bergamin, is a bleak chronicle of an Everyday Joe whose life starts slipping from under his feet after he finds himself unemployed. David (Cavan Clerkin, who, interestingly, was also the film’s writer), t he titular Londoner, stays ...
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• Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers

  
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  Chris is the Charles Kuralt from Hell.  He is determined to show his new girlfriend the British roadside attractions he adores, like the Keswick Pencil Museum—and woe unto those who despoil their tourist experience.  They will pay dearly in Ben Wheatley’s macabre comedy Sightseers (trailer here ), which ...
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• 1st Night: Opera Singers Acting Naughty

  
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  The cultural elite sure can get randy.  Some of England’s greatest opera stars have come to perform in a high paying vanity production of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, but the real action happens after rehearsals in Christopher Menaul’s 1 st Night (trailer here ), which opens today in New York. ...
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• Billy Liar

  
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  Billy Liar Format: DVD & Bly-ray Release date: 6 May 2013 Distributor: Studiocanal Director: John Schlesinger Writers: Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall Cast: Tom Courtney, Julie Christie UK 1963 98 mins Billy Liar (1963) stars Tom Courtney as Billy Fisher, a young man with an overactive ...
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• Daydream Believer: John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar (1963) – Blu-ray review

  
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  Kinnemaniac Schlesinger’s masterpiece was a key formative influence… and, amazingly, it continues to be even now. The dream is more complex, but still one to cherish. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963) Everybody has cherished films that helped to define their love of cinema: geeks have Star Wars , ...
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• MEMORY GAMES

  
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  The emergent conventional wisdom is that Trance has a really dreadful script, and this is something I cannot manage to disagree with, though I think the degree to which its been slammed is a bit exaggerated. Undoubtedly, its silly as hell, and relies on twists that are plainly there more in the spirit of "did we ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Dir. Mira Nair, 2012, US/UK/Qatar) - The Changing Man

  
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  Director Mira Nair’s latest feature is somewhat of an uneven film but it is an important one in the context of post 9-11 cinema. Based on the best selling novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist re-situates Nair’s Diasporic gaze to a post 9-11 geopolitical context in which commerce, politics and ...
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• You’re Human like the Rest of Them: The Films of B.S. Johnson

  
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  Youre Human like the Rest of Them Format: Dual Format (DVD + Blu-ray) Release date: 15 April 2013 Distributor: BFI Directors: B.S. Johnson, Mike Newell, Michael Bakewell Writers: B.S. Johnson, Alan Burns, Samuel Beckett Cast: William Hoyland, Anne Hardcastle, Bill Owen, B.S. Johnson UK 1967-1974 ...
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• Aspen Shortsfest ’13: Room on the Broom

  
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  Evidently, some animals think it’s a good gig to be a witch’s familiar.  One hospitable witch already has the requisite feline, but they will pick up considerable company in Room on the Broom (promo here ) , Max Lang & Jan Lachauer’s animated adaptation of the Julia Donaldson children’s book, ...
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