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WINNER - Grand Jury Prize (Documentary) - Sundance Film Festival 2005
"excellent... alarming... superb"
THE GUARDIAN
"extremely timely and urgently relevant"
TIME OUT
"excellent... powerful... this isn’t a one-sided film"
5 STARS
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"Beautifully shot, extensively researched... the antithesis of Michael Moore"
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Featuring Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and many others, WHY WE FIGHT explores a half century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as President Eisenhower warned in his 1961 farewell address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges in this award-winning film is a portrait of a nation in transition – drifting dangerously far from her founding principles towards a more imperial and uncertain future.
Bonus features include a commentary by director Eugene Jarecki and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, additional scenes, extended character featurettes, audience Q&A with Jarecki, filmmaker TV appearances: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Charlie Rose.
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Official Selection - In Competition - Venice Film Festival 2006
"modern cinema's reigning genius"
NEW YORK TIMES
FILM OF THE WEEK
(5 STARS)
TIME OUT
"superbly haunting"
SIGHT & SOUND
Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture, mood and feel, and featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the vivid, crowded, neon-lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming-Liang can capture...
As with most of Tsai's films, actor Lee Kang-Sheng features, this time in dual roles as both a homeless bum and a paralysed young man.
Bonus features include an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang by the writer and critic Tony Rayns.
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Winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Berlin Film Festival 2005
"high comedy, high-camp musical numbers and a vast amount of hardcore porn."
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"cinematic invention and balls-to-the-wall daring... I loved it."
Tim Robey, DAILY TELEGRAPH
"makes 'Last Tango in Paris' seem very coy"
(4 STARS)
TIME OUT
Internationally acclaimed auteur Tsai Ming Liang helms this outrageous blend of sex, comedy, musical and drama. It went down a storm at the London Film Festival, leaving some audience members completely stunned. Daring, controversial and very funny.
Bonus features include an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang by the writer and critic, Tony Rayns.
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Official Selection - In Competition - Rome Film Festival 2006
Official Selection - Toronto Film Festival 2006
Official Selection - London Film Festival 2006
"another... intelligent, deeply involving piece of cinema... that moment by moment, scene by subtle scene, completely enfolds you."
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
"a master... on a par with Antonioni and Herzog"
EMPIRE
Widely applauded by international critics, and premiering in Official Selection at both Toronto and Rome Film Festivals, BORN & BRED is the latest film from Argentinean director Pablo Trapero. The follow up to the highly acclaimed Familia Rodante, BORN & BRED charts the emotional journey of a father trying to rebuild his life after a terrible family accident. With excellent performances from Guillermo Pfening and Federico Esquerro, it is Pablo Trapero's most personal film to date.
Bonus features include an interview with Pablo Trapero and behind the scenes footage of the making of BORN & BRED.
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"...brains, attitude and blistering performances. Essential viewing."
James King, BBC RADIO 1
"a masterpiece"
THE TIMES
"Just wonderful... A film you’ll remember."
(4 STARS)
EMPIRE
Smart, moving and politically engaged HALF NELSON is one of the most exciting American independent films in years. Outstanding performances from the cast, including an Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling (Fracture, The Notebook, The Believer), Independent Spirit Award winner Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, Million Dollar Baby), with an original score that features Canadian indie rock group Broken Social Scene, enable director Ryan Fleck to weave together a moving story of redemption in an unforgiving world.
Bonus features
Feature-length commentary with filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Fleck and Boden's Sundance award-winning short film "Gowanus, Brooklyn"
Exclusive interview with the filmmakers
Audience Q&A at the Everyman Cinema, London
Outtakes and Deleted and Extended Scenes
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"...black, black comedy... a movie that should not be allowed to disappear... funny and perceptive."
(4 STARS)
EMPIRE
"Shockingly funny"
ROLLING STONE
One of America’s most acclaimed contemporary screenwriters and directors, DAVID O. RUSSELL made his feature film debut in 1994 with the black comedy Spanking The Monkey, which won The Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and caused a stir with its incestuous subplot and portrayal of adolescent restlessness. The film also displays much of what has become Russell’s trademark idiosyncratic, offbeat humour, later seen in Flirting With Disaster, the iconoclastic Three Kings and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, marking him as a maverick director with cult appeal.
Bonus features include a feature-length commentary with director David O. Russell.
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"Good-natured bittersweet tale"
THE GUARDIAN
"Nolte is truly superb"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Premiering in ‘Official Selection’ at the Sundance Film Festival 2006, JAMES PONSOLDT's debut film is an assured and beautifully played drama about a broken man’s redemptive relationship with the son he never had. Featuring an outstanding leading performance from two-time Oscar-nominee NICK NOLTE (Hotel Rwanda, Hulk, The Thin Red Line), the film also stars TREVOR MORGAN (Mean Creek, The Patriot), Oscar-winner TIMOTHY HUTTON (The Good Shepherd, Kinsey) and Oscar-nominee SALLY KIRKLAND (Bruce Almighty, EDTV).
Bonus features
Feature-legth commentary with director James Ponsoldt
"Off The Black" Production Video Diary
Stills Gallery
English subtitles for the hearing impaired
Widescreen 2.35:1 letterbox presentation
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"Superb" (4 STARS)
TIME OUT
“Recalls classic Woody Allen”
LOS ANGELES TIMES
From director DANIEL BURMAN, one of the most prominent and exciting of the young directors forming the "New Wave" in Argentine Cinema, comes this much anticipated, highly acclaimed and award-winning comedy. A story of a first, bittersweet encounter between a father and his young adult son, the film conjures up an ensemble of engaging characters who pursue their humble dreams with witty humour, irresistible passion and an infectious generosity of spirit.
Bonus features
Documentary film "The Making of Lost Embrace"
An interview with Daniel Burman, from ITV's The South Bank Show: Argentine Cinema
Stills Gallery
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"...something approaching perfection."
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
"A gem" (5 STARS)
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
An award-winning and unprecedented film adaptation of the work of internationally-acclaimed author, HARUKI MURAKAMI, director JUN ICHIKAWA brings to the screen Murakami’s emotive tale of solitude and obsession accompanied by a haunting original soundtrack from Academy Award-winning composer and musician, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO. Starring ISSEY OGATA (The Sun) and RIE MIYAZAWA, this unique film is one of the finest adaptations of the work of a major writer ever brought to the screen.
Bonus features
Documentary film "The Making of Tony Takitani" (1'07")
Stills Gallery
Theatrical trailer
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"Performed with conviction and directed with verve, Any Way the Wind Blows rates as one of the most mature and ambitious debuts in years, wafting in a great new talent for Belgium's cinema scene."
FILM4
Belgian musician TOM BARMAN, founder of the rock band dEUS and concept group MAGNUS, with techno phrophet, CJ Bolland, has made a wild, ambitious debut that draws its influences from sources as varied as Woody Allen, P.T. Anderson, Frank Zappa (whose song gives the film its title) and Jeff Wall. Playing out to a killer soundtrack, Barman’s slice of life film is filled with family crises, romantic entanglements and eccentric coincidences. An auspicious and playful debut, this film moves, and doesn’t want to stop.
2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION
Bonus features
"The Making of Any Way The Wind Blows" (25')
"A Portrait of Tom Barman" (60')
Deleted scenes with director's commentary
Radio interview with Tom Barman over a photo assembly
Music Video "Summer's Here"
Theatrical trailer + bonus trailer
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"Atash is undoubtedly a beautiful film. Abu Wael is arguably the most exciting Arab film-maker to have emerged in more than a decade."
SIGHT&SOUND
Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this beautiful and powerful debut feature from the brilliant young Arab filmmaker, TAWFIK ABU WAEL, is also an important groundbreaking collaboration between a Palestinian writer/director and an Israeli producer, financiers and crew - the first of its kind.
Featuring haunting music, stunning cinematography, and incredibly moving performances from the non-professional cast, Atash is a complex, assured and vivid first feature from an exciting filmmaker, and one to watch for the future.
Bonus features
Tawfik Abu Wael's award-winning short film "Diary of A Male Whore"
Interview with Tawfik Abu Wael
Stills Gallery
Theatrical trailer
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"one of the finest films released here this year." (4 STARS)
Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT
A hilarious and charming road movie, Familia Rodante is the latest feature from PABLO TRAPERO, one of the new generation of directors currently revolutionising Argentinian cinema.
The tale begins in Buenos Aries with the 84th birthday celebration of Grandma Emilia, who tells her stunned family that she has been invited to be matron of honour at her niece's wedding and expects them to accompany her on the thousand kilometre trip. One heavy dose of emotional blackmail later, thirteen members of four generations cram into a ramshackle old camper van and set off on the epic journey across Argentina.
As the days pass and the van hobbles towards its destination, emotions within its cramped confines run high and the journey seems set to last a lot longer than any of its occupants had bargained for.
Release Date: Monday 27th March 2006
Bonus features include "The Making of Familia Rodante"
Available on Artificial Eye
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"El Bola comes wreathed in awards... painful, convincingly acted, and well observed"
Philip French, THE OBSERVER
A powerful, award-winning drama from director ACHERO MANAS, featuring an astonishing debut performance from 12-year old JUAN JOSE BALLESTA.
Release Date: Monday 1st November 2004
Bonus features include the theatrical trailer
Available on Drakes Avenue Pictures label
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"The movie offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen on a movie or television screen"
NEW YORK TIMES
"...brilliant" (4 STARS)
BBC MOVIES
Life and Debt focuses on the holiday paradise of Jamaica, providing a searing dissection of the stark inequalities resulting from economic globalisation.
Narrator-writer JAMAICA KINCAID graphically shows how a once vibrant local economy is now finding itself displaced by container ships bearing discounted imports and the pre-fabricated sweat shops of the global brand icons.
Bonus features include additional interview footage and music video
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Release Date: Monday 26th January 2004
Bonus features include "The Making of Petites Coupures"
Available on Artificial Eye
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"...powerful and gripping… this is a classic of the future"
THE GUARDIAN
Release Date: Monday June 30th 2003
Bonus features include interviews with the director and stars
Available through BBC OpusArte
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