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Film Festivals 2008

My Brother is an Only Child (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Starring: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio

Growing up in small-town Italy during the '60s and '70s, brothers Accio and Manrico embody and celebrate opposing political stances, but share an impa... Read more

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Mark Hartley
Starring: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Dennis Hopper, George Lazenby, Gregory Harrison,...

Celebrating a time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and pedal-to-the-met... Read more

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)

7.9/10
Director: Ben Niles
Starring: Harry Connick Jr

Documentary filmmaker Ben Niles chronicles the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037, from forest floor to concert hall, and the vanishing bree... Read more

O'Horten (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Ghita Norby, Baard Owe, Espen Skjonberg, Bjorn Floberg

Now in his late sixties and approaching retirement, Norwegian train engineer Odd Horten (Baard Owe) embarks on a - dare one say it - odd journey of se... Read more

Outsourced (2007)

7.5/10
Director: John Jeffcoat
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Larry Pine

Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) gets the bad news from his boss: his job has been outsourced. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to trai... Read more

Paris (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, Francois Cluze...

Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama with interweaving narratives. Pierre (Romain Duris)... Read more

Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Steven Sebring
Starring: Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Sam Shepard, Tom Verlaine, Jay Dee Daugherty, etc ...

Eleven years in the making, and shot mostly in 16mm black and white, director Steven Sebring began following rock poet Patti Smith as her career took... Read more

Persepolis (2007)

8.1/10
Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: (Voices of) , Catherine Deneuve, Iggy Pop, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn

Based on her autobiographical graphic novels, Marjane Satrapi and co-screenwriter Vincent Paronnaud directed this Oscar-nominated, black-and-white ani... Read more

Planet B-Boy (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Benson Lee

An urban dance style that started on the streets of New York City in the 1970s, B-boying would become an important building block in the formation of... Read more

Rain of the Children (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Taungaroa Emile, Vincent Ward, Miriama Rangi

While still a film student in the late 1970s, Vincent Ward made a documentary called 'In Spring One Plants Alone' about an elderly Tuhoe woman called... Read more