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3-Iron (Bin-jip)(Country: South Korea, Japan; Director: Kim Ki-duk; Writer: Kim Ki-duk; Cast: Lee Seung-yeon, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Kwon Kyuk-ho, Ju Jin-mo, Choi Jeong-ho, Lee Mi-suk, Moon Sung-hyuk)
The silent love affair between a battered wife and a respectful intruder. Full Review

The Ballad Of Jack And Rose(Country: US; Director: Rebecca Miller; Writer: Rebecca Miller; Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener, Camilla Belle, Beau Bridges, Jason Lee, Ryan McDonald, Paul Dano, Jena Malone)
The dangers for impressionable teenage daughter of living with ex-hippie eco warrior dad. Full Review

The Chumscrubber(Country: US; Director: Arie Posin; Writer: Arie Posin, Zac Stanford; Cast: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Glenn Close, Kathi Copeland, Rory Culkin, Thomas Curtis, Tim DeKay, David Ellison, William Fichtner, Ralph Fiennes)
When Dean discovers the hanging body of his friend, he doesn't even bother to tell any of the patio party of adults, figuring they just wouldn't care. Thus begins a series of events that inclulde drug dealing and kidnapping amongst other things in this parody of suburban existence.

Dear Wendy(Country: Denmark/France/Germany/UK; Director: Thomas Vinterberg; Writer: Lars Von Trier; Cast: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Mark Webber, Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson, Chris Owen, Alison Pill)
Allegorical story of guns and gun culture set in a mythical American mining town. Full Review

Drum(Country: South Africa; Director: Zola Maseko; Writer: Jason Filardi; Cast: Taye Diggs, Jason Flemyng, Gabriel Mann, Tumisho Masha, Moshidi Motshegwa, Tanya Baleson)
Based on a true story, the film focuses on young journalist Henry Nxumalo, who works and plays hard while writing for the historic black magazine Drum. But encroaching on his tantalizing world is apartheid.

Game 6(Country: US; Director: Michael Hoffman; Writer: Don DeLillo; Cast: Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Ari Graynor, Bebe Neuwirth, Griffin Dunne, Shalom Harlow, Nadia Dajani, Harris Yulin, Roger Rees, Tom Aldredge, Lillias White)
Director Michael Hoffman constructs the wonderfully rarefied world of a playwritght whose affairs are crumbling even as he plunges to open a new play.

The Girl From Monday(Country: US; Director: Hal Hartley; Writer: Hal Hartley; Cast: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick, D.J. Mendel, James Urbaniak, Juliana Francis)
In a dystopian near future, counter revolutionaries battle the multimedia conglomerate that runs their lives. Full Review

Happy Endings(Country: US; Director: Don Roos; Writer: Don Roos; Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Laura Dern, Jason Litter, David Sutcliffe, Sarah Clarke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edward Furlong, Ray Liotta)
The complication of mixed gender relationships in a modern American "comedy... sort of". Full Review

Heights(Country: US; Director: Chris Terrio; Writer: Amy Fox, Amy Fox, Chris Terrio; Cast: Chandler Williams, Bess Wohl, Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Daniel Neiden, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Davis, John Light, Isabella Rossellini)
A whirlwind day of chance encounters that profoundly alter the lives of a worldly mother and daughter.

Inside Deep Throat(Country: US; Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato; Writer: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato; Cast: Dennis Hopper, Helen Gurley Brown, Wes Craven, Gerard Damiano, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, Xaviera Hollander, Erica Jong, Norman Mailer, Camille Paglia, Gore Vidal, Dr Ruth Westheimer)
Documentary on the making of the most famous blow job in the history of blue movies. Full Review

Inside I'm Dancing (Rory O'Shea Was Here)(Country: UK/Ireland; Director: Damien O'Donnell; Writer: Jeffrey Caine; Cast: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Brenda Fricker, Gerald McSorley, Tom Hickey)
Anarchic behavior in a care home leads to freedom and independence for two disabled Irishmen. Full Review

The Jacket(Country: US/UK; Director: John Maybury; Writer: Massy Tadjein, based on a story by Tom Beecker and Marc Rocco; Cast: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kris Kristofferson, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Steven Mackintosh, Fish, Jason Lewis, Jonah Lotan)
A casualty of war returns to a world that appears strange and unreal. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival diary - day 2

Kung Fu Hustle (Gong Fu, Kung Fu)(Country: China/Hong Kong; Director: Stephen Chow; Writer: Tsang Kan Cheong, Stephen Chow, Xin Huo, Chan Man Keung; Cast: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Kwok Kuen Chan, Siu Lung Leung, Chi Chung Lam)
A good guy, trying to convince people he's a bad guy, runs into serious trouble. Full Review

Lackawanna Blues(Country: US; Director: George C Wolfe; Writer: George C Wolfe, based on a play by Ruben Santiago-Hudson; Cast: S Epatha Merkerson, Jimmy Smits, Carmen Ejogo, Marcus Carl Franklin, Mos Def, Louis Gossett Jnr, Macy Gray, Hill Harper, Terrence Dashon Howard, Ernie Hudson, Delroy Lindo, Rosie Perez, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Live Schreiber, Henry Simmons, Patricia Wettig)
A celebration of the black communities in New York during the Fifties and Sixties. Full Review

Layer Cake(Country: UK; Director: Matthew Vaughn; Writer: J J Connolly, based on the novel by J J Connolly; Cast: Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Colm Meaney, Jamie Foreman, Michael Gambon, Dexter Fletcher, Burn Gorman, Tom Hardy, Tamer Hassan, Sally Hawkins, Darren Healy, Nathalie Lunghi, Sienna Miller, Peter Rvic)
Cockney drug dealer become enmeshed in gang war over stolen happy pills. Full Review

Loverboy(Country: US; Director: Kevin Bacon; Writer: Hannah Shakespeare, Victoria Redel; Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Dominic Scott Kay, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, Marisa Tomei, Sosie Bacon, Travis Bacon, John Lafayette)
What happens if a mother loves her child too much?

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School(Country: US; Director: Randall Miller; Writer: Randall Miller, Jody Savin; Cast: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen, David Paymer, Donny Wahlberg, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Adam Arkin, Sonia Braga, Ernie Hudson, Elden Henson)
A sad baker helps a dying motorist and discovers that he's not the only one who can't dance. Full Review

The Matador(Country: US/Germany/Ireland; Director: Richard Shepard; Writer: Richard Shepard; Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott, Portia Dawson, Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker, Claudia Lobo, Arturo Echeverria, William Raymond, Guillermo Capetillo, Federico Pizarro)
The last fling of a burned out hitman and his uncommon friendship with a failing businessman. Full Review

MirrorMask(Country: UK; Director: Dave McKean; Writer: Neil Gaiman, based on a story by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean; Cast: Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Jason Barry, Stephen Fry, Dora Bryan, Robert Llewellyn, Andy Hamilton)
A circus girl falls into a fantasy world where darkness threatens the kingdom of light. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival - Day 5

Mysterious Skin(Country: USA, Netherlands; Director: Gregg Araki; Writer: Scott Heim, Gregg Araki; Cast: Chase Ellison, George Webster, Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Lisa Long, Chris Mulkey, Elisabeth Shue, David Lee Smith, Bill Sage, Riley McGuire, Ryan Stenzel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
The wrenching childhood mystery of two indivisually despearte teens.

Nine Lives(Country: US; Director: Rodrigo García; Writer: Rodrigo García; Cast: Elpidia Carrillo, Aomawa Baker, Miguel Sandoval, Mary Pat Dowhy, Andy Umberger, K Callan, Chelsea Rendon, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Isaacs, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Lisa Gay Hamilton)
Nine different characters at emotional crossroads, very different yet hauntingly the same. Nine women who find themselves captives of relationships, both past and present with an undeniable connection.

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical(Country: US, Germany; Director: Andy Fickman; Writer: Kevin Murphy, Dan Studney,; Cast: Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, John Kassir, Amy Spanger, Robert Torti, Steven Weber, Kevin McNulty, Stephen J.M. Sisk)
Film adaptation of the award-winning stage musical.

Snowland (Schneeland)(Country: Germany; Director: Hans W Geissendörfer; Writer: Hans W Geissendörfer, Elisabeth Rynell; Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Mühe, Oliver Stokowski, Beate Abraham, Brigitte Annessy, Martin Feifel, Joachim Król, Susanne Lothar, Alexander Sandberg)
A modern Gothic tale of lives that inhabit the darkest realms of humanity.

The Upside Of Anger(Country: US/Germany/UK; Director: Mike Binder; Writer: Mike Binder; Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt, Evan Rachel Wood, Mike Binder, Tom Harper, Dane Christensen, Danny Webb, Magdalena Manville)
Deflecting the fury of a woman scorned with frequent showers, Bloody Marys and a little light humour. Full Review

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