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Gainsbourg
Released: 30/07/2010
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Writer and director Johan Sfar’s biopic charts the life and career of the legendary singer and icon Serge Gainsbourg. Clearly in awe of his subject, Sfar’s debut documents Gainsbourg’s musical exploits - as well as his seduction of Brigitte Bardot, amongst others. A fitting tribute to the French hero.
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Beautiful Kate
Released: 30/07/2010
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Set in Australia's spectacular outback, Rachel Ward's accomplished and affecting debut feature follows Ned (Ben Mendelsohn), a writer who returns to the family home he left 20 years previously to visit his dying father. Old secrets find him there however, including some inexplicable feelings for his younger sister, Kate.
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Separado!
Released: 30/07/2010
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Embark on a psychedelic musical road trip with Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals in Separado!, a fantastical, pan-continental adventure that the Welsh musician describes as "an idea that got completely out of hand". The quest? To find his poncho-wearing long-lost Patagonian uncle...
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South of the Border
Released: 30/07/2010
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Oliver Stone takes us on a political journey through South America in a bid to better understand the region‘s social and political structure, along the way engaging several presidents, including Hugo Chávez, in casual conversation. Of particular interest is the way the Venezuelan president has been portrayed in the US media. An unprecedented documentary.
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Splice
Released: 23/07/2010
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Vincenzo Natali directs this sci-fi horror, produced by Guillermo del Toro. Two brilliant genetic engineers specialise in splicing the DNA of different animals to create a hybrid species, all in the name of scientific advancement. It's when they begin secretly using human DNA that the trouble starts. |
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Ivul
Released: 23/07/2010
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Left-field filmmaker Andrew Kötting heads to France with Ivul, a family drama with added high-wire acrobatics. When the relationship between Alex and his sister starts to get a bit, er, risky, Alex follows his father's orders rather too closely and takes to the trees for a life above ground.
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Toy Story 3
Released: 19/07/2010
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15 years ago, Pixar's Toy Story made film history as the first motion picture to be created entirely with CGI technology. This time around, Woody and his friends return in 3D - and find themselves in a daycare centre when Andy leaves for college. Unashamedly dramatic, hilarious and - surprisingly - exceptionally moving.
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Inception
Released: 16/07/2010
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Dreams have proven a rich subject for sci-fi films, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before ‘serious' actor Leonardo DiCaprio decided to play a fugitive spy operating within the subconscious. It's a surreal and dangerous world, and there's a challenging twist: can he plant an idea in a dream?
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The Concert
Released: 16/07/2010
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Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, a once-famous conductor, is now reduced to working as a cleaner for the Bolshoi. In a quest for glory, Filipov reassembles his old orchestra and sets out to upstage the Bolshoi with a rendition of Tchaikovsky's wonderful Violin Concerto in D Major. Radu Mihaileanu directs.
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Went the Day Well?
Released: 09/07/2010
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Joining the BFI's memorable retrospective of early cinema is Went the Day Well?, originally released in 1942. This surreal WWII thriller reveals a troop of seemingly English soldiers who have infiltrated a sleepy countryside village as Nazi agents. A dark and daring piece of propaganda.
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