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This is the Irish movie that made Colin Farrell famous. He is part of a terrific ensemble including Shirley Henderson, Colm Meany, Cillian Murphy and Kelly Macdonald. Their characters’ lives are portrayed in a series of stories set in modern day Dublin as they search for love, show their anger and commit crimes that will never pay off. Directed by John Crowley who would go on to direct “Brooklyn.”
UK, 2003 (102 minutes)
Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel “The Sense of An Ending” has been brought to the screen with its many complexities intact by acclaimed director Ritesh Batra (“The Lunchbox,” a hit at Mostly British festival). This subtle tale of how memory plays tricks on us and the consequences of decisions made when young stars Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent as a divorced retiree whose quiet existence is uprooted by a letter exposing long buried secrets. It forces him to face unwelcome truths about his first love (Charlotte Rampling). The splendid cast includes Michelle Dockery as his daughter and Emily Mortimer as the mother of his love interest from the past.
Director Ritesh Batra will be interviewed following the screening by film professor Larry Eilenberg
UK, 2017 (106 minutes)
A day in the life of a dusty old pawn shop in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, 12 individuals’ stories unravel before the world-weary owner. The raw humanity of the characters comes alive through strangely moving vignettes – an odd street singer, a duo of homeless wackos, a couple working in the local bookshop – all enmesh in Paul Ireland’s directorial debut to produce a colorful, giddy ensemble piece. Great soundtrack and winning performances.
Australia, 2016 (89 minutes)
An Australian teen goes missing, and a local investigator joins the search started by her anxious parents, played by Radha Mitchell (“Melinda and Melinda”) and Richard Roxbury (“Mission Impossible 2” and the TV series “Rake”). Grace’s absence is a catalyst for other discoveries – narratives of loss and uncertainty that are at the heart of this compelling family drama directed by Sue Brooks (“Japanese Story”). Location shooting in Western Australia.
Australia, 2015 (100 minutes)
The exquisite Indian desert and the village people come alive on the screen and draw you in from the first long shot of this drama about women attempting to escape their plight in a cruel, relentless patriarchy, Their sensual aspirations, feminine solidarity and joy in even small revenge are all vividly expressed, qualifying this as great cinema. The very same themes pervade urban India as well which makes the film topical as well. The screenplay is based on recorded conversations of Indian village women by director Leena Yadav. The enchanting lilt of their dialect comes through loud and clear.
India, 2015 (116 minutes)
Pre-eminent British director Terence Davies (“Distant Voices, Still Lives”, “The House of Mirth”, “Sunset Song”) paints a subtle portrait of the poet Emily Dickinson, employing painterly tableaux to portray a life of supreme intelligence that is undermined by social codes and convention. Davies moves through Emily’s youth, so full of spirited repartee on art, life and women’s place in a patriarchal society, heightened by the use of Dickinson’s wonderful verse as voice-over. As her hopes are crushed, Emily withdraws into herself and darkness slowly descends. Those who know Cynthia Nixon only from “Sex and the City” may be totally surprised by her nuanced portrayal of Emily. “Utterly and gloriously Davies,” Sight & Sound
UK/Belgium, 2016 (125 minutes)
Co-presented by Word For Word. Actors from Word For Word will introduce the film by reading selected Dickinson poems.
The festival’s Noir Evening kicks off with this atmospheric thriller set in and around the tattered precincts of London’s Soho. Bob Hoskins scored an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA win as an ex-con hired to drive an expensive call girl to her assignations. The two become close, and he agrees to help her execute a dangerous plan. Michael Caine is chilling as the local kingpin who they cross at their own peril. Directed by Neil Jordan (“The Crying Game”).
UK, 1986 (104 minutes)
Introduced by Peter Robinson, movie critic for KALW 91.7 FM and editor of San Francisco Books & Travel magazine
Timothy Spall (“Mr. Turner”) teams up with Juno Temple (“Notes on a Scandal”) as a depressed widower and a runaway escaping an abusive partner who discover that despite an age gap they are kindred spirits. Their unlikely friendship is movingly portrayed by Spall and Temple, pondering the question: What is it about another person that touches our heart so completely? Set in the fun-loving English seaside tourist town of Blackpool—Las Vegas without the glamour.
UK, 2016 (110 minutes)
Director Anthony Asquith’s silent classic is a working class love story about an electrician and a porter who both fall in love with a shop girl they meet on the London Underground on the same day. Set in the subterranean entrails of the London Underground in the 1920s with iconic shots of Lots Road Power Station in Chelsea, gentle Bill and macho Bert charge through tunnels and across monumental buildings to fight it out. No one “minds the gap” and passengers smoke, nonchalantly dropping stubs on the wooden carriage floors. The 2009 restoration by the British Film Institute makes the film look fresh and new.
UK, 1928 (84 minutes)
Remarkable silent film documenting the legendary Everest expedition of 1924, the third attempt to climb the mountain that led to the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. The trek ends in controversy over whether they did indeed reach the summit. Filmed in brutally harsh conditions using a hand-cranked camera, the amazing cinematography inspires considering the limited technology and danger of their expedition. Miraculous restoration by the British Film Institute National Archive.
UK, 1924 (85 minutes)