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Film Festivals 2008

Hunting and Gathering (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Claude Berri
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Francoise Bertin, Alain Sachs,...

AKA "Ensemble, C'est Tout". An uplifting and charming romantic comedy following the lives of several lonely Parisians; Audrey Tautou stars as an anore... Read more

The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Song Fang, Louise Margolin

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien makes his first French-language feature with this homage to, and expansion of, the beloved 1956 short, 'The Red Bal... Read more

The Orphanage (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera

A gothic chiller featuring a woman returning to the now-closed orphanage where she was raised. Laura and her husband plan to reopen it as a home for d... Read more

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

7.5/10
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh

Director Terence Davies reconstructs the lives of a working class family in Liverpool in postwar England through the use of popular songs. Over 40 hit... Read more

The Hollow Men (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Alister Barry

The most explosive book in New Zealand political history is now a film. Don Brash stepped down as leader of the National Party in November 2006, the d... 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

Funny Games (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart

Michael Haneke remakes his own controversial suburban ennui-meets-home invasion thriller with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as the bored couple who find th... Read more

Joy Division (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Grant Gee

In 1976 four young men from ruined, post-industrial Manchester went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band named after the prostitution ring in Na... Read more

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

8.1/10
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day

A terrifically entertaining documentary full of drama, tension, humanity and humour following the world champion of classic '80s video game Donkey Kon... Read more

Young at Heart (2007)

6.9/10
Director: Stephen Walker

Aka "Young@Heart". An international film festival favourite, spending time with the Young@Heart Chorus as they rehearse for their annual Northampton c... Read more