All Gala Presentations articles – Page 11

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    The Other Man

    2008-09-08T20:00:00Z

    Director: Richard Eyre. UK/USA. 2008. 90mins.Richard Eyre is fast becoming the new master of unhealthy obsession. After Judi Dench’s creepily predatory school teacher inNotes On A Scandal, it is now the turn of Liam Neeson to play a fool for love inThe Other Man.Well-heeled literary adaptation ...

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    Dean Spanley (2008)

    2008-09-06T14:52:00Z

    Dir. Toa Fraser. New Zealand/UK. 2008. 99mins.New Zealand director Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley overcomes an uncertain and sketchy opening section to register as a moving and visually wondrous evocation of magic and imagination. The movie’s tonal shifts are fairly abrupt and the first third is frustratingly ...

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    The Secret Life Of Bees

    2008-09-06T03:30:00Z

    Dir: Gina Prince-Bythewood. USA. 2008. 110 minsInspirational life lessons abound in The Secret Life Of Bees, a wholesome, heartwarming version of the Sue Monk Kidd bestseller. The mixture of personal heartache and social history is handled with tender loving care, but is so sentimental and sermonising ...

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    Passchendaele

    2008-09-05T01:44:00Z

    Dir: Paul Gross. Canada. 2008. 114minsAnyone confronting the horrors of trench warfare in the First World War has to acknowledge the long shadows cast by seminal classics All Quiet On The Western Front and Paths Of Glory. Paul Gross’s ambitious Passchendaele doesn’t try to compete. Instead, ...

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    Rachel Getting Married

    2008-09-03T13:01:00Z

    Dir: Jonathan Demme. US. 2008. 116mins.

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    The Duchess

    2008-09-01T07:00:00Z

    Dir: Saul Dibb. UK. 2008. 110mins.

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    Burn After Reading

    2008-08-27T14:31:00Z

    Dirs/scr: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. US. 2008. 95mins.

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    La Fille De Monaco (The Girl From Monaco)

    2008-08-11T12:23:00Z

    Dir: Anne Fontaine. France, 2008. 95 mins.

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    Adoration

    2008-05-22T15:30:00Z

    Dir: Atom Egoyan. Canada. 2008. 100mins.