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
Tag: USA
Maria Full Of Grace
5 Dec 2007 Director: Joshua Marston USA, Colombia 2004 101 min Maria is a bright and vivacious seventeen year-old. She supports her family by stripping thorns from roses in a flower plantation. She loses her job and is offered the prospect of travelling to the USA. However, to do so she must become a drug… Continue reading Maria Full Of Grace
Little Miss Sunshine
19 Dec 2007 Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris USA 2006 101min Seven year-old Olive Hoover’s family is dysfunctional in the extreme. Richard, her dad, is a failing motivational speaker. His wife Sheryl is a chain smoker. Her gay uncle Frank has attempted suicide following a failed love affair. Her brother has taken a vow of… Continue reading Little Miss Sunshine
Capote
7 Nov 2007 Director: Bennett Miller Canada, USA 2005 114 min November 1959, Truman Capote, the popular writer of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, sets off with his friend Nelle Harper Lee (To Kill A Mocking Bird) to redefine non-fiction writing. He intends to interview Perry Smith who is facing execution for the murder of a Kansas… Continue reading Capote
El Laberinto Del Fauno
Pan’s Labyrinth 6 Feb 2008 Director: Guillermo del Toro Mexico, Spain, USA 2006 119 min Enter Pan’s Labyrinth as Guillermo del Toro leads you into a gothic fairytale of breathtaking originality. Ofelia, a young and imaginative, girl lives in the Fascist Spain of 1944. She travels with her pregnant mother to meet her new stepfather,… Continue reading El Laberinto Del Fauno
The Kite Runner
23 Sep 2009 Director: Marc Forster USA 2007 128 min It is a glorious afternoon in 1970s’ Kabul and the young Amir has just won a kite-fighting tournament. A fearful act of betrayal is about to tear apart his friendship with Hassan. Twenty years later, Amir is a successful writer living in America. He is… Continue reading The Kite Runner
In Prison My Whole Life
20 Jan 2010 UK, USA 2007 90 min Director: Marc Evans William Francome was born on the 9th of December 1981 in London during a snow storm. At almost exactly the same time a Police officer was shot dead in Philadelphia. A prominent political activist and journalist was arrested at the same time. This man,… Continue reading In Prison My Whole Life
Precious
30 Jan 2013 Director: Lee Daniels USA 2009 109 min llliterate teenager Clareece ‘Precious’ Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is about to give birth to her second child, and her prospects are bleak in the extreme. When she is accepted into an alternative school she sees a chance to start her life anew and escape the cycle… Continue reading Precious
Encounters At The End Of The World
4 Nov 2009 Director: Werner Herzog USA 2007 99 min This is a fascinating and visually entrancing documentary by the veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog. The filmmaker travels to the Antarctica community of McMurdo Station. The station is the headquarters of the National Science Foundation. In the Antarctic summer it is home to eleven hundred men… Continue reading Encounters At The End Of The World
A Late Quartet
09 Oct 2013 Director: Yaron Zilberman USA 2012 105 min With its suitably resonant title, this film is a subtle and intelligent observation of the internal dynamics of the New York based Fugue String Quartet. When Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), the founder and cellist, receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in… Continue reading A Late Quartet