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Dunoon Film Festival 2018
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Summer 1993 and Jules Et Jim
The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad (Country: UK, US; Year: 1958; Director: Nathan Juran; Writer: Kenneth Kolb; Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango)
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
Anna And The Apocalypse (Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: John McPhail; Writer: Alan McDonald, Ryan McHenry; Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, Ella Jarvis, Calum Cormack, Euan Bennet, Sean Connor, Janet Lawson, Janet Lawson, Kirsty Strain)
When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them.
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Assunta Spina (Country: Italy; Year: 1915; Director: Gustavo Serena; Stars: Carlo Benetti, Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena)
A beautiful woman is caught up in a violent love triangle.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Country: USA; Year: 1982; Director: Ridley Scott; Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Roland Kibbee, based on the story by Philip K Dick; Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong)
The final cut is the deepest for Ridley Scott's remastered sci-fi epic.
Full Review See: Hampton Fancher in conversation on writing Blade Runner for Robert Mitchum and his fascination with evil and beauty
, Hampton Fancher and Michael Almereyda in conversation on Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner and Phillip K Dick
, Blade Runner: The Final Cut
, The Cinema according to Philip K. Dick
C'est La Vie! (Le sens de la fête) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano; Writer: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano; Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Eye Haidara, Gilles Lellouche, Suzanne Clément, Jean-Paul Rouve, Judith Chemla, Kévin Azaïs, Vincent Macaigne, Yves Heck, Hélène Vincent, Jackee Toto, Louis Quinn, Anthony Darche)
A night of surprises unfolds at a wedding party in a chateau.
Full Review See: Eye Haïdara on C'est La Vie, comedy, the #MeToo movement and fighting racial stereotypes
Gregory's Girl Gregory's Girl
Gregory's Girl and Lucky
Cold War (Zimna Wojna) (Country: Poland, France, United Kingdom; Year: 2018; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Janusz Glowacki, Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Joanna Kulig, Jeanne Balibar, Jacek Rozenek, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Martin Budny, Borys Szyc, Tomasz Kot, Philip Lenkowsky, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Adam Szyszkowski)
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.
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Gregory's Girl (Country: UK; Year: 1980; Director: Bill Forsyth; Writer: Bill Forsyth; Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Clare Grogan)
A gangly schoolboy develops a crush on a girl who plays some of the best football he's ever seen - but dealing with girls is even more complicated than it first appears.
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Hearts Beat Loud (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Brett Haley; Writer: Brett Haley, Marc Basch; Stars: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson, Toni Collette, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Alex Reznik, Andrea Morales, Michael Abbott Jr., Harrison Chad)
In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter become an unlikely songwriting duo in the last summer before she leaves for college.
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Isle Of Dogs (Country: US, Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson; Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Liev Schreiber)
In a future world where dogs have been exiled to the giant rubbish dumps of Trash Island, a Japanese boy sets out alone in search of his beloved pet.
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Jules Et Jim (Jules And Jim) (Country: France; Year: 1962; Director: Francois Truffaut; Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Gruault, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Boris Bassiak, Danielle Bassiak, Sabine Haudepin)
A French love triangle, spanning the years. Out on reissue in May.
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Cold War Cold War
Cold War and Hearts Beat Loud
Lucky (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: John Carroll Lynch; Writer: Logan Sparks, Drago Sumonja; Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Beth Grant, James Darren, Barry Shabaka Henley, Yvonne Huff, Hugo Armstrong, Bertila Damas, Ana Mercedes, Sarah Cook, Amy Claire, Ulysses Olmedo)
The spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist.
Full Review See: Article about the work of Harry Dean Stanton
Nae Pasaran (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra)
The story of the East Kilbride factory workers who refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
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Summer 1993 (Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Laia Artigas, Paula Blanco, Etna Campillo, Bruna Cusí, Jordi Figueras, Dolores Fortis, Titón Frauca, Cristina Matas, Berta Pipó, Quimet Pla, Fermí Reixach, Paula Robles, Isabel Rocatti, Montse Sanz, Tere Solà)
A young girl struggles to adapt to her new life in the countryside after the death of her mum.
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Super November (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Douglas King; Writer: Josie Long; Stars: Josie Long, Sean Biggerstaff, Darren Osborne)
A happy couple find their lives turned upside down by political chaos and civil unrest.
Full Review See: Super November première report with Douglas King
Time Trial (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Finlay Pretsell; Stars: Thomas Dekker, David Millar)
A documentary following David Millar in his final season in the saddle.
Full Review See: Interview with Finlay Pretsell about Time Trial
Anna And The Apocalypse Anna And The Apocalypse
Anna And The Apocalypse and Blade Runner: The Final Cut
The Women (Country: US; Director: George Cukor; Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard)
Described by the festival programmers as: "A piercing paean to the weakness of males and the waspishness of females ."
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Wallace And Gromit In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (Country: UK/US; Year: 2005; Director: Steve Box, Nick Park; Writer: Bob Baker, Steve Box, Mark Burton, Nick Park; Stars: voices of Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson, Mark Gatiss, Vincent Ebrahim, Geraldine McEwan, Edward Kelsey, Dicken Ashworth, Pete Atkin, Noni Lewis, Christopher Fairbank, James Mather)
A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.
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