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Film Festivals 2008

Beauty in Trouble (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Ana Geislerova, Roman Luknar, Emilia Vasaryova, Jana Brejchova, Jiri Schmitzer,...

Using recent events in Prague to drive his narrative, Czech director Jan Hrebejk ('Divided We Fall') sets his engrossing romantic dramedy in the wake... Read more

Jar City (2006)

7/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn Gunnarsson

Ancestral bloodlines have deadly significance in this pair of interconnected tales from director Baltasar Kormakur ('101 Reykjavik'). A desperate man... 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

Sharkwater (2006)

8/10
Director: Rob Stewart

Marine biologist Rob Stewart teams up with Sea Shepherd conservationist Paul Watson and sets out on a passionate mission to debunk shark stereotypes,... 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

Strange Culture (2006)

6.1/10
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan

The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife, Hope, died in her sleep of heart failure. Pol... Read more

Southland Tales (2006)

5.5/10
Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Bai Ling, Christopher Lambert, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Mirand...

Richard Kelly's ("Donnie Darko") complex and offbeat blend of sci-fi and comedy focuses on a disparate group of people living in a not-too-distant, po... 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

Mala Noche (1985)

6.7/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Ray Monge, Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate

Writer/director Gus van Sant's debut feature, adapted from Walt Curtis' autobiographical novel. Living an isolated life in Portland, Oregon, slacker s... Read more

The Holy Mountain (1973)

7.9/10
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky

After "El Topo" and with the production assistance of John Lennon and ABKCO Films and the desire to become "the Cecil B. De Mille of the underground",... Read more