|
|
The British Guide to Showing Off
United Kingdom, 2011, 97 min.
A colorful, exuberant salute to Andrew Logan, the founder of the "Alternative Miss World Contest", a flamboyant, gender-bending beauty pageant which has run in Britain since 1972. A joyful celebration of creativity and difference.... more
|
|
|
|
Eliminate: Archie Cookson
United Kingdom, 2011, 91 min.
This dry-as-Melba Toast, droll British meta-thriller is a wry delight, boasting a fabulously spot-on performance from British character actor Rhys as a washed up spy who comes into possession of a life-threatening secret, and is granted 48 hours to put his house in order.... more
|
|
|
|
Patagonia
United Kingdom, 2010, 118 min.
Young Welsh couple Gwen and Rhys are traveling to Patagonia in hopes of mending their troubled marriage. Elderly Cerys and her nephew are on a reverse course, traveling from Patagonia to Wales in search of her mother's homeland. Their stories blend in intimate moments set against sweeping panoramic ... more
|
|
|
|
Perfect Sense
United Kingdom, 2011, 88 min.
A passionate, carnal love story set against the ominous backdrop of what may be the apocalypse. Just as a chef (McGregor) falls for a medical scientist (Green) the world succumbs to a global virus that causes them to lose their sensory perceptions.... more
|
|
|
|
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
United Kingdom, 2011, 112 min.
A real charmer from veteran Lasse Hallström and Slumdog Millionairescreenwriter Simon Beaufoy, this is the unlikely tale of a fisheries scientist (Ewan McGregor) who is tasked with introducing salmon fishing to the Yemen. The delightful Emily Blunt is the local sheik’s aide who hooks him.... more
|
|
|
|
The Story of Film:An Odyssey
United Kingdom, 2011, 180 min.
The history of cinema gets a long overdue reorientation in this epic documentary series by the avid and engaging Mark Cousins. Tracing the evolution of film styles not only across the decades but across the globe, Cousins unearths countless undiscovered or misplaced treasures and talks film with the... more
|
|
|
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin
United Kingdom, 2011, 112 min.
Two years after her teenage son commits a horrific crime, Eva (Tilda Swinton) tries to come to terms with her marriage, career, and parenthood. A grippingly cinematic, searingly honest film from the director of Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.... more
|
|
|
|
The Woman in the Fifth
United Kingdom, 2011, 84 min.
Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this mind-bending psychological thriller about an American writer in Paris to reconnect with his daughter, whose grip on reality loosens in part due to the influence of Scott Thomas’s mysterious femme fatale.... more
|
|
|
|
Wreckers
United Kingdom, 2011, 86 min.
Urbanites David and Dawn (rising stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy) move to the pastoral village of David’s youth, only to have the arrival of David’s soldier/brother Nick—and his revelations about family secrets—threaten their idyll. A taut, compelling drama.... more
|
|
|
|
You’ve Been Trumped
United Kingdom, 2011, 96 min.
Anthony Baxter's biting and entertaining documentary trails "The Donald" as he seeks to build a massive golf resort on unspoiled Scottish coastline and comes up against a spirited group of local landowners who will not go down without a fight.... more
|
|