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Film Festivals 2007

Radiant City (2006)

7/10
Director: Jim Brown, Gary Burns

Shot in Alberta, Canada, this mock documentary takes a satiric look at 21st-century suburban sprawl...and dislikes what it finds! Taking a harsh but h... Read more

Rampage (2006)

7.4/10
Director: George Gittoes

Inspired by a comment from soldier Elliott Lovett in Gittoes' earlier 'A Soundtrack to War', the filmmaker follows him home to Miami where he lives wi... Read more

Red Road (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Tony Curran, Natalie Press, Martin Compston, Kate Dickie

Winner of the Cannes Prix du Jury Prize, this startling Scottish noir thriller is about a Glasgow CCTV operator who ends up stalking a man she sees on... Read more

Requiem (2006)

7/10
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Starring: Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier, Sandra Huller, Burghart Klaussner

Based on the same tragic story that inspired "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," this searing psychological drama from Germany finds college freshman Michae... Read more

Rescue Dawn (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Pat Healy

Revisiting the subject he covered in the engrossing documentary 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly', director Werner Herzog's compelling drama boasts a stirr... Read more

Retribution (2006)

4.8/10
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ihara

Detective Yoshioka is called to the site of an ususual homicide. A woman in a red dress has been mysteriously drowned in a pool of shallow water. As c... Read more

Sabah (2005)

6.7/10
Director: Ruba Nadda
Starring: Arsinee Khanjian, Shawn Doyle, Fadia Nadda, Jeff Seymour, Kathryn Winslow, David...

Passionate and independent as a youth, Sabah is now a devout, forty-year-old Muslim woman, living in Canada and devoted to her traditional family. Bu... Read more

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Stephen Kijak
Starring: David Bowie, Scott Walker, Radiohead , Thom Yorke, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Dam...

David Bowie produced this documentary on the music and career of one of pop's most influential yet elusive artists. The film stretches back more than... Read more

Severance (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Christopher Smith
Starring: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens

The classic horror set-up is given a vaguely political context when a group of weapon sales reps are rewarded with a remote weekend away only to be at... Read more

Sherrybaby (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Laurie Collyer
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Danny Trejo, Bridget Barkan, Giancarlo Es...

Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for a Golden Globe for her extraordinary performance as Sherry, an ex-con trying to get her life back on track and est... Read more