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Film Festivals 2008

CJ7 ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang

Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow directs and stars in this sci-fi family comedy as a struggling single father whose quest to find his son the perfec... 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

Vexille ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.9/10
Director: Fumihiko Sori

By the year 2077, the UN has banned robot technology because of its threat to humankind; but there are fears that such technologies are being develope... Read more

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

I'm Not There (2007)

7/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger...

From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan. As such diverse actors as Christian Bale, Cat... Read more

CJ7 (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang

Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow directs and stars in this sci-fi family comedy as a struggling single father whose quest to find his son the perfec... Read more

Standard Operating Procedure (Blu-ray) (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Errol Morris

Master documentarian Errol Morris takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the '... Read more

Mongol (Blu-ray) (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun

Exploring the rise of one of the world's most feared and fearless warriors, the story of Genghis Khan is still a controversial one. In the West his na... Read more

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

7.9/10
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean

Set in 1980s Bucharest during Ceaucescu's brutal reign, this intense drama centres on two young women, one of whom finds herself pregnant. Her best fr... Read more

Rubbings from a Live Man (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Florian Habicht
Starring: Warwick Broadhead

Filmmaker Florian Habicht ('Kaikohe Demolition', 'Woodenhead') takes veteran performer Warwick Broadhead as his subject matter in this captivating bio... Read more