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FILM SPOTTING: February 2011 in Polish cinemas

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Another Year (UK, 2010)
Release Date (Poland): 18th February 2011
Release Date (worldwide): 15th May 2010
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, David Bradley, Imelda Staunton
Plot: (from IMDb)
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average [...]

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FILM SPOTTING: January 2010 in Polish cinemas

Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 12:22 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, J-drama & the Japanese film industry, Loaves, Other European film industries, Other film industries, The British film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Amuse Soft Entertainment, Asahi Shimbunsha, Asghar Farhadi, Australia, Australian Film Finance Corporation, BIM Distribuzione, Blast! Films, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, Canal+, Cattleya, Celluloid Dreams, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Chic Films, CinéCinéma, Conseil Régional de Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur, Daniel Barber, Daniel Day-Lewis, Darbareye Elly, David Bradley, Daybreakers, Dentsu, Dreamlab, Emily Mortimer, Ethan Hawke, Film4, France, France 2 (FR2), France 2 Cinéma, Furst Films, Harry Brown, Hunger, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jacques Audiard, Japan, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Liam Cunningham, Lionsgate, Lucamar Productions, Mainichi Hosu, Marc Platt Productions, Marion Cotillard, Marv Films, Michael Caine, Michael Fassbender, Michael Spierig, Nicole Kidman, Northern Ireland Screen, Okuribito, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Page 114, Penelope Cruz, Peter Spierig, Pictures in Paradise, Prescience Film Fund, Région Ile-de-France, Relativity Media, Rob Marshall, Sam Neill, Sedic, Shochiku Company, Shogakukan, Sofica Soficinéma 4, Sofica UGC 1, Soficinéma 5, Sophia Loren, Steve McQueen, The Weinstein Company, Tokyo Broadcasting System, trailer, UK, UK Film Council, Un proph?te, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), Wales Creative IP Fund, Why Not Productions, Willem Dafoe, Yôjirô Takita

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Every year, my January is busy and every year Polish film distributors sadistically release loads of movies I really want to see during this time ;-P Hope I get to see at least some of these *sigh*
Hunger (2008, UK/Ireland)
Release Date (Poland): 8th January 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 15th May 2008
Runtime: 96′
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender
Production [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - the longest review I ever wrote!

This review is much too long - sorry for that *blush* I hope some of you bear with me anyway…
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (USA/UK, 2009)
Seen: Friday, 24th July 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 153′
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Bonnie Wright, Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory, [...]

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Blow Dry - even more Alan Rickman ;)

Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 23:31 | Category : Film Diary, Hollywood & the American film industry, Slices, The British film industry, The German film industry
Tags : Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, David Bradley, film scene, Germany, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG, Intermedia Films, Josh Hartnett, Mirage Enterprises, Natasha Richardson, Paddy Breathnach, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rachel Griffiths, Simon Beaufoy, UK, USA, West Eleven Films, Yorkshire

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Blow Dry (USA/UK/Germany, 2001)
Seen: 10th February 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 84′
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Cast: Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Hartnett, Bill Nighy, David Bradley
Production House: IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG, Intermedia Films, Mirage Enterprises, West Eleven Films
Plot: A family of hairdressers is broken up when the wife [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - just 6 months to go before it releases so obviously promotion is in full throb ;)

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (USA/UK, 2009)
Polish Distributor: Warner Brothers Poland (24th July 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 15th July 2009
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis, Katie [...]

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Harry Potter Movie-Watching

Friday, 30 January 2009, 16:52 | Category : Film Diary, Hollywood & the American film industry, Loaves, The British film industry
Tags : 1492 Productions, Alan Rickman, Alfonso Cuaron, Bonnie Wright, Brendan Gleeson, Clémence Poésy, Daniel Radcliffe, David Bradley, David Tennant, David Thewlis, David Yates, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Evanna Lynch, film scene, Fiona Shaw, Frances de la Tour, Gary Oldman, Harry Melling, Harry Potter films, Harry Potter franchise, Helena Bonham-Carter, Heyday Films, Imelda Staunton, interview, James Phelps, Jarvis Cocker, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, Katie Leung, Maggie Smith, Mathew Lewis, Michael Gambon, Mike Newell, Miranda Richardson, Natalia Tena, Oliver Phelps, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Griffiths, Robbie Coltrane, Robert Pattinson, Rupert Grint, Shirley Henderson, Stanislav Ianevski, Timothy Spall, Tom Felton, trailer, UK, USA, video interview, Warner Bros, Warwick Davis

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So throughout last week (which was very heavy on the tests and projects and stuff) I found that watching Harry Potter films was a very pleasurable form of escapism :] And so in the evenings if I had time (and sometimes also when I didn’t have it) I would put a Harry Potter film [...]