Monika’s Pensieve

Before I get to the spotting part of the post, I wanted to recommend Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. It’s coming in on the 13th of November 2009. I saw it at the Planete Doc Review and reviewed it here. It’s even more poignant now after Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland.
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The Tibetan Book of the [...]

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Mammoth (Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 2009)
Seen: Friday, 16th October 2009 (cinema, WFF)
Runtime: 125′
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Marife Necesito, Jan David G. Nicdao, Sophie Nyweide, Martin Delos Santos, Natthamonkarn Srinikornchot, Michelle Williams
Production House: Memfis Film, Film i Väst, Pain Unlimited GmbH Filmproduktion, Sveriges Television (SVT), TV2 Danmark, Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Berlin
Plot: (from imdb)
While on a [...]

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Bridget Jones's Diary (UK/France, 2001)
Seen: Tuesday, 29th September 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Shirley Henderson
Production House: Little Bird, Studio Canal, Working Title Films
Plot: (from imdb)
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which [...]

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The Accidental Husband (UK/USA, 2008)
Release Date (Poland): 2nd October 2009 (Kino Świat)
Release Date (worldwide): 13th February 2008
Runtime: 90′
Director: Griffin Dunne
Cast: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini
Production House: Blumhouse Productions, Team Todd, Yari Film Group (YFG)
Plot: (from imdb)
When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with [...]

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I re-watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix relatively recently, but as I have nothing particularly new to add I’m not going to review them again ;-P Prisoner of Azkaban is still fab to me - I enjoy it a lot every [...]

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I’m not sure if there will be a part two of my WFF film spotting, but there might be ;-P Won’t have time to attend the Warsaw Film Festival properly this year or to read through exactly what they’re showing, but here’s some stuff that caught my eye immediately, just by looking at the [...]

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There’s nothing I’m really desperate to see, so since September is shaping up to be a rather insane month with way too much to do, this might mean I won’t see any of these. Time will tell…
Let's Make Money (Austria, 2008)
Release Date (Poland) 11th September 2009 (Against Gravity)
Release Date (worldwide): 30th October 2008
Runtime: 110′
Director: [...]

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60 years of WFDiF (Poland, 1947-1958)
Production House: WFDiF
Plot: The festival programmed two sets of films commemorating 60 years of activity of Poland’s biggest production house. I watched the first set which included: Powódź (Poland, 1947), Błękitny Krzyż (Poland, 1955), Spacerek Staromiejski (Poland, 1958), Pamiątka z Kalwarii (Poland, 1958) and three shorts by Walerian Borowczyk [...]

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Szegénylegények (Hungary, 1966)
Runtime: 90′
Director: Miklós Jancsó
Production House: MAFILM IV. Játékfilmstúdió
Plot: (from imdb)
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The [...]

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I’ve got 4 days worth of film reviews from the ENH film festival in Wroclaw, but judging by the length of time it took me to write this one it’s going to be a while before I put them up *sigh*
Muukalainen (Finland/Estonia/Germany/UK, 2008)
Runtime: 105′
Director: J.-P. Valkeapää
Cast: Vitali Bobrov, Emilia Ikäheimo, Pavel Liska, Jorma Tommila
Production [...]