Monika’s Pensieve

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Love Actually (UK/USA, 2003)
Seen: Tuesday, 13th October 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 135′
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Thomas Sangster, Alan Rickman, Lúcia Moniz, Billy Bob Thornton, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Olson
Production House: Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films, DNA Films
Plot: (from imdb)
Follows the [...]

My apologies for being so bad with updating this blog of late :-/
First, the BA project got in the way. We were very tight for time and we didn’t get it done yet again would you believe! But at least this time we’ve certainly gone forwards and the quality of work is pretty good… or [...]

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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 [...]

I am finally up to date with my film diary *grin* Which means I haven’t watched any films in over 2 weeks - my BA project is really taking too much of my time *sigh* No wonder I have withdrawal symptoms from not watching enough films…
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Ballet Shoes (UK, 2007)
Seen: Tuesday, 11th August 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: [...]

The BBFC very rarely outright rejects films nowadays, but it’s made an exception for Grotesque - a Japanese horror movie:
BBFC director David Cooke has stated: ??Unlike other recent ?torture?-themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting [...]

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is a Libyan man jailed for the 1998 airline bombing over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. His guilt or innocence has not been proved, it probably never will be proved because he has cancer and does not have much time left.
It’s a very interesting case because it happened way before 9/11 when [...]

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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 [...]