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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

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What Is This Film Called Love? and Sodankylä Forever: The Century Of Cinema
Anton Corbijn Inside Out (Country: Netherlands / Belgium / Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Klaartje Quirijns; Writer: Klaartje Quirijns, Thomas den Drijver; Stars: Anton Corbijn, Bono)
Documentary following the work and life of an extraordinary photographer
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Don't Expect Too Much (Country: USA; Year: 2011; Director: Susan Ray; Stars: Nicholas Ray, Walter Murch)
Documentary on the life of Nicholas Ray’s, featuring his partner Susan Ray on the director's attempts to finish We Can’t Go Home Again.
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Sodankylä Forever: The Century Of Cinema (Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata) (Country: Finland; Year: 2010; Director: Peter von Bagh; Stars: Peter von Bagh, Milos Forman, Ivan Passer, Jerzy Skolimowski, Angieszka Holland, Elia Suleiman, Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Powell, Francis Ford Coppolla, Jacques Demy, John Boorman, Robert Fleischer, Joseph H. Lewis, Sam Fueller)
The Century of Cinema is a documentary which focusses on World War II in relation to filmmaking.
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We Can't Go Home Again (Country: USA; Year: 1976; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Nicholas Ray, Susan Schwartz; Stars: Nicholas Ray, Tom Farrell, Leslie Levinson, Richie Bock)
A companion piece to Don't Expect Too Much, We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental vision of disillusioned American youth in the Seventies.
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What Is This Film Called Love? (Country: Mexico, USA, UK, Canada, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins)
Together with Sergei Eisenstein, his imaginary companion on a walking tour of Mexico City, Mark Cousins contemplates historical change, shot composition, and his own identity.
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