10 Oct 2012 Director: John Madden USA 2010 113 min This gripping thriller uses a clever time-shifting technique to keep the audience wondering right until the end just how the events of the past might come to revisit themselves upon the present. The story focuses on a Mossad mission in 1966, when three agents tracked… Continue reading The Debt
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City of God
Cidade de Deus Oct 22 2003 Brazil, France, USA 2002 130 min Directors: Katia Lund & Fernando Meirelles This is the critically acclaimed story of gang violence in Rio de Janerio. Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a poor housing project built in the 60’s, which became one of the most dangerous places in… Continue reading City of God
The Others
3 Dec 2003 USA, France, Spain 2001 101 min Director: Alejandro Amenabar Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a strong-willed woman who lives isolated with her two children in their Jersey Mansion towards the end of the Second World War. Grace, who awaits the return of her soldier husband, is highly protective of her two children,… Continue reading The Others
Bowling for Columbine
4 February 20044 Director: Michael Moore Canada, USA, Germany 2002 119 min Why do 11,000 Americans die each year because of shootings? With its motivation founded in the massacre at Columbine High School, Michael Moore seeks to discover the roots and causes of this bloodshed. Alternately humorous and horrifying, he looks at the culture of… Continue reading Bowling for Columbine
The Motorcycle Diaries
Diarios de motocicleta 21 Sep 2005 Director: Walter Salles USA, Germany, UK, Argentina, Chile, Peru, France 2004 128 min Based on the diaries of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, this is the story of two Argentinean friends who travel across South America on the back of a rickety motorcycle. It is a thrilling and inspirational journey that… Continue reading The Motorcycle Diaries
Sideways
22 Feb 2006 Director: Alexander Payne USA 2004 123 min Miles, a failed writer, arranges a wine tasting trip in California’s wine country to celebrate his friend Jack’s forthcoming Wedding. The comically mismatched pair share little other than their fading youth and failed potential. Miles is watching his writing career slide away and Jack is… Continue reading Sideways
Ray
29 Oct 2005 Director: Taylor Hackford USA 2004 152 min This is the biopic of the blues singer Ray Charles who rose from humble beginnings to become the legendary genius that transformed the world of music. This true life story follows Ray from the time he lost his sight at the age of 7, through… Continue reading Ray
The Station Agent
5 Apr 2006 Director: Thomas McCarthy USA 2003 88 min Finbar McBride has a learnt that isolation is best. With his only a friend dead, he takes up work in a rural town’s train depot. There he hopes to be left alone. However, he reluctantly finds himself enmeshed in the lives of his neighbours. He… Continue reading The Station Agent
Born Into Brothels
2 April 2008 Directors: Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman India, USA 2004 85 min This i a chronicle of Calcutta’s red light district through the eyes of children of the prostitutes who work there. Filmmakers, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, work with these most stigmatised children and inspire them to photograph their world in their… Continue reading Born Into Brothels
Voces inocentes
Innocent Voices 10 Jan 2007 Director: Luis Mandoki Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico 2004 120 min Based on a true story of Luis Mandoki’s embattled childhood. This is a poignant tale of Chava, an 11-year-old boy, who finds he has to grow up quickly in war torn El Salvador. At the age of 12 the government… Continue reading Voces inocentes