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Film Festivals 2008

Surfwise (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Doug Pray

The amazing true life odyssey of a Malibu doctor who decided to leave behind the lifestyle of mainstream America and seek self-fulfillment by taking u... Read more

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

7.6/10
Director: Alex Gibney

A perpetually shocking documentary exposing the Bush administration's use of torture when dealing with political prisoners, focusing in particular on... Read more

Teeth (2007)

5.4/10
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer, Lenny von...

This updated retelling of the 'vagina dentata' myth (not to be confused with a song from "The Lion King") stars Jess Weixler in a gory, yet comedic ta... Read more

Tell No One (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Fran...

A pediatrician, Alexandre Beck (Francois Cluzet), misses his beloved wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze), who was brutally murdered eight years ago when h... Read more

The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)

8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette

One of cinema's greatest adventure films sees Errol Flynn at his swashbuckling best in a role originally slated for James Cagney. Claude Rains is the... Read more

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Pietra Brettkelly
Starring: Vanessa Beecroft

Kiwi filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly paints an intimate portrait of artist Vanessa Beecroft and her struggle to adopt Sudanese twins in this acclaimed Sun... Read more

The Band's Visit (2007)

7.6/10
Director: Eran Kolirin
Starring: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Shlomi Avraham, Rubi...

A wryly elegant, slice-of-life comedy in which an Egyptian Ceremonial Police Band, due to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Centre in Israel, fi... Read more

The Cool School: How LA Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Morgan Neville
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, etc ..., Narrated by, Jeff Bridges

A fascinating look at the birth of Modern Art in Los Angeles in the 1950s; when most of the population thought it was either a joke or a communist plo... Read more

The Counterfeiters (2006)

7.6/10
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner

In pre-WWII Germany, Salomon Sorowitsch is a world-class counterfeiter, being also a Jew he is soon arrested and put in a concentration camp, but as t... Read more

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

8/10
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick C...

Based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, this is the remarkable true story of Jean Dominic Bauby, wealthy playboy and editor of the French '... Read more