FILM SPOTTING: January 2011 in Polish cinemas

As usual, the beginning of the year (aka exam time) is full of interesting releases ;-P My main list would probably be unmanageably long if not that I’m a bit more picky these days. And my maybe list could have included even more releases if I hadn’t limited myself - really ;)
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J’ai tué [...]

FILM SPOTTING: September 2010 in Polish cinemas

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Even more format changes ;-P Am still using the rating system from last month, but have foregone 0 and -1. Feels like overkill. Am staying with the +0.5 rating though, at least for the moment.
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Tetro (USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina, [...]

Desert Flower - a very moving film about Waris Dirie and her fight against female circumcision

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Desert Flower (UK/Germany/Austria, 2009)
Seen: Wednesday, 31st March 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 120′
Director: Sherry Horman
Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall
Production House: Desert Flower Filmproductions
Plot: (from imdb)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally [...]

FILM SPOTTING: February 2010 in Polish cinemas (and I thought January was bad!)

Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 2:16 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, The British film industry, The Canadian film industry, The French film industry, The German film industry
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This month I actually started out with 13 (!!!) February releases which were of interest to me, but with some effort I’ve managed to cut them down to 8 :] That’s still a lot for an exam month though *sigh*
Leap Year (2010, USA/Ireland)
Release Date (Poland): 5th February 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 8th January 2010
Runtime: 100′
Director: [...]

Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte - a very meticulous sort of film

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Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009, Austria/Germany/France/Italy)
Seen: Monday, 30th November 2009
Runtime: 144′
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Leonard Proxauf
Production House: X-Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), German Federal Film Board, Mini-Traité Franco-Canadien, Deutsche Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Austrian Film Institute, Vienna [...]

FILM SPOTTING: November 2009 in Polish cinemas

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 [...]

Money Makes the World Go Round (Let’s Make Money reviewed)

Thursday, 1 October 2009, 23:52 | Category : Film Diary, Loaves, Other European film industries
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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 [...]

FILM SPOTTING: September 2009 in Polish cinemas

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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: [...]

ENH film festival: Friday, 31st July 2009

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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 [...]

ENH film festival: Thursday, 30th July 2009

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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 [...]