The Week in Review

With MIFF approaching, I've been preoccupied with planning for the big event. French classes have resumed (term 2), and I've got lots of homework. I'm also still a little fatigued from the Isabelle Huppert season at ACMI. Consequently, my only film-viewing this week has been the weekly Cinémathèque screenings and a kids' film today. Next week: MIFF starts.

FILMS:

• The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis, 1960)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates, 2007)
  

SHORT FILMS:

• The Frozen North (Buster Keaton, 15 min, 1922)
• Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 44 min, 1924)
  

The Bellboy
Jerry Lewis, as his own man, free from the Dean Martin partnership and captain of his own ship, was brilliant. I always remembered him from my childhood as slapstick, zany and over-the-top. In The Bellboy, his directorial debut, he uses some of the same trademark zaniness but with such restraint and intelligent application that it seems like almost a different Jerry Lewis to the one I remember.

Lewis' loud zany voice used to grate, but in this film it is used to a minimum. In fact he hardly speaks throughout the film, perhaps alluding to the films of Jacques Tati or the greats of the silent era such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton (the film screened after a couple of Keaton shorts). The film directly references Stanley Laurel, with a Laurel impersonator making a cameo. One gag between Lewis (whose character's name is Stanley) and the other Stanley was particularly poignant, a highlight of a film that has no weak spots and is consistently funny and intelligent.

The film beautifully captures both overstatement and understatement in physical comedy. It blends in the absurd/surrealism, self-deprecation, self-parody, subtle critique of the cult of celebrity and more. All done with perfect timing, not just in delivery, but with such skill in knowing when to stop and always with the unexpected. Not a hint of profanity or puerile toilet humour (it has a G rating).

It seems no-one knew better how to utilise Lewis' talents than Lewis himself. This film is one of the best comedies I have seen, ever. Contemporary cinema is seriously denied good comedy, and this film really underscores that. I look forward to discovering more of this great comic genius.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I think you pretty much know what you're getting with any Harry Potter movie, but I found this one a bit tired and not quite up to scratch. The cinematography wasn't overly appealling, the lighting was too dark, there's way too much dependency on CGI, the narrative wasn't very coherent (perhaps it assumes you've read the book, which I haven't), the children have lost their cutesy factor and the film just seemed too long. But my six year old son and three year old niece loved it. For me, it was passable entertainment, but nothing special.

Buster Keaton
These films are a reminder that it doesn't take great technology to entertain the masses. That silent films can be more enjoyable than the vast majority of contemporary cinema, is a pretty sad indictment of how far we have (or haven't come). I don't feel particularly qualified to write about this from any historical perspective, but I did find them immensely enjoyable, intelligent, and funny. The gags were very clever and seemed quite innovative for the time.

Inland Empire clip

As a result of a conversation elsewhere on Melbourne Film Blog, I went to Amazon to confirm the release date for Inland Empire. I found a nice video clip of David Lynch talking about the film specifically and also about film in general. It's eleven minutes long and apparently is only available on Amazon; I recommend it.

I know it's not on YouTube, because I searched unsuccessfully. But I did find there a trailer for Inland Empire and have embedded it below. I've previously posted information about the DVD, and the latest information about the film's theatrical release (updated as information comes to hand).

The 2nd Official US Trailer
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The Official Italian Trailer
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Recommendations for MIFF

When trying to decide what to see at MIFF, I put together a short list of films to see, highlights if you like (currently numbering 48). My criteria varied, such as directors whose work I admire and recommendations from people whose opinions I value. I am also interested to see the Kore-eda and Imamura retrospectives, and as most of those films are on around the middle of the day, I should be able to catch most of them. I’m avoiding films that I know will have a theatrical release, but will be catching some of them, such as Inland Empire and Fay Grim.

In the list below (listed alphabetically), in bold are the films I've given the highest priority and will definitely see as I've booked tickets. The others are titles I’m hoping to see, depending on when they screen but I won’t be able to see them all. I will see other films not on this list if they are at a convenient time and look interesting. I’ve listed the film’s title, director, primary country of origin and the reason it’s on the list.

To see the complete list of films screening at MIFF (and those marked with an asterisk have a distribution), use the link at the top of the sidebar from any page of Melbourne Film Blog.

If there’s anything you’d recommend to others and it’s not on the list below, feel free to post it in the comments, and a brief reason why. Hopefully this will be of value to those who come here looking for ideas on what to see at MIFF (the sheer number of films can be pretty intimidating).

[Update: titles in red have been viewed and confirmed as well-worth seeing]

See also MIFF 2007 reviews

1. After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) - Kore-eda retro
2. Alexandra (Alexander Sokourov, Russia/…) - Recommendation
3. Ballad of Narayama, the (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
4. Beauty in Trouble (Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic) - Director
5. Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/…) - Looks interesting
6. Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
7. Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, USA/…) - Recommendation
8. Breath (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) - Director
9. Bubble, The (Eytan Fox, Israel) - Recommendation
10. Bunny Chow (John Barker, South Africa) - Recommendation
11. Distance (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) - Kore-eda retro
12. Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/…) - Recommendation
13. Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
14. Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, USA) - Director
15. Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran/…) - Recommendation, I like Iranian cinema
16. Hana (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) - Kore-eda retro
17. Holy Mountain, The (Alexandro Jodorwsky, Mexico) - Recommendation
18. Hottest State, The (Ethan Hawke, USA) - Recommendation
19. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/…) - Recommendation
20. Inland Empire (David Lynch, USA) - Director
21. Intentions of Murder (aka Unholy Desire) (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
22. Interview (Steve Buscemi, USA) - Looks interesting
23. Kalaupapa Heaven (Paul Cox, Australia) - Curious
24. Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland/…) - Director
25. Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) - Kore-eda retro
26. Man From London, The (Bela Tarr, France/…) - Director
27. Man Vanishes, A (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
28. Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, UK/…) - Director
29. Monastery, The (Pernille Rose Grønkjaer, Denmark) - Recommendation
30. Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase, Japan) - Recommendation
31. Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia) - Recommendation
32. Out of the Blue (Robert Sarkies, NZ) - Recommendation
33. Pornographers, The (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
34. Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, Spain/…) - Recommendation
35. Scott Walker – 30th Century Man (Stephen Kijak, UK/…) - Recommendation
36. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, USA) - Recommendation
37. Sister's Love, A (Ivan Sen, Australia) - Director
38. Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, Canada) - Recommendation
39. Still Life (Jia Zhang-Ke, Hong Kong/…) - Recommendation
40. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/…) - Director
41. Time (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) - Director
42. Times and Winds (Reha Erdem, Turkey) - Recommendation, I like Turkish cinema
43. Tuya's Marriage (Wang Quan'an, China) - Recommendation
44. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, Japan) - Imamura retro
45. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) - Recommendation
46. Yamamura Shorts (Koji Yamamura, Japan) - Curious
47. Yo (Rafa Cortes, Spain) - Recommendation
48. You, the Living (Roy Andersson, Sweden/…) - Recommendation

Meetin' WA (1986)

I find discussion about the meaning, nature and significance of cinema as an art-form something I never tire of, even when (like now) I am exhausted. It's nice to get a director describing his art, but often interviewers ask puerile questions. What if one artist is asking questions of the other? Surely some gems could be unearthed.

Trent kindly sent me a link to a video clip from 1986 of two greats: Jean-Luc Godard interviewing Woody Allen. I've just finished watching it and was amazed at how much Allen was articulating my own thoughts and feelings about cinema and television. I know little about Godard, but what I know is that he has or is exploring video as an alternative medium. This potentially puts him at odds with Allen. Below the Dailymotion clip, I have quoted verbatim from the accompanying article about Godard, Allen and the interview. Thanks, Trent.

As it turns out, the Dailymotion site is a bit buggy and I'm having trouble getting the script to embed their clip here, so I'm using YouTube instead, which has split the clip into 3. So, if you're interested, check out the three parts here (each about 8 minutes long), or check out Dailymotion using the link above.

Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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One of the least remarked upon attributes of Jean-Luc Godard is how thoroughly he mastered the medium of video production. For him Video was not a mere substitute for film, but something separate and distinct, an aesthetic platform all its own to which he brought a heretofore unrevealed dimension in his art; one that subtly informed the work he would later do once he returned to Cinema.

It is, however, somewhat understandable that this pocket of his career should be so little known, given that his extended video works of the 1970s . . . Six fois deux, for example, or the remarkable France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants . . . continue to languish in the limited access obscurity into which they landed with a thud virtually from the hour of their creation. There are those in the fundamentally class-based universe of cinephilia who would not have it any other way, however. I mean, don't let's kid ourselves here. There is, and always has been, a vast amount of social comfort to be derived for Us (the cinephile class) if You (the vulgar herd) have no access to the works we get to see in the cinephile dungeons of large urban centers (after all, if We can't use film to construct a bizarro-world recreation of High School where we are no longer the geeks we once were then, I ask you, what is the point in all of this?).

So Jean-Luc Godard's video creations remain militantly inaccessible by all but the small number who've been fortunate enough to see them. And more than any of these works, 1986's Meetin' WA stands as testament to the extraordinary facility he developed with this sub-medium; a faciility harder-achieved in the 70s, when video production was a far more dolorous and taxing enterprise than it is today.

At once sublime and witty, the 26 minutes of Meetin' WA consist of an interview Jean-Luc Godard conducted in 1986 with Woody Allen, the director of What's Up, Tigerlilly and Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (and soon to be featured in the final moments of Godard's abortive Cannon Pictures' King Lear). The chat itself is amiable enough; certainly avoiding any conceivable adversarial notes; but this, along with the New York setting (giving Allen the home field advantage as it were) does nothing to prevent a visible anxiety from growing on the part of the filmmaker as the interview goes on.

It's as if it dawned on Allen, right in the middle of everything, that this tape could be . . . used . . . in some way he would not be able to control, that he was talking to a man who long ago demonstrated that he would not be bound to a standard not his own. Gradually, almost anticipating this development, Godard's camera moves in closer and closer, Allen's eyes dart back and forth between Godard and his translator (film scholar Annette Innsdorf) while questions are asked, the expression on his face bordering at times on open worry; like he's waiting, with only marginal patience, for some sign of what it is he's gotten himself into to manifest itself. It is, perhaps, the only occasion where Woody Allen seems as neurotic as the persona he wrote for himself was always said to be.

The Week in Review

The first three titles below were the last three screenings of ACMI's Focus on Isabelle Huppert. I'll post a separate review of Sayles' sublime all-ages fairytale in the next few days.

FILMS:

• La vie promise (The Promised Life, Olivier Dahan, 2002)
• Comédie de l'innocence (Comedy of Innocence, Raúl Ruiz, 2000)
• La cérémonie (The Ceremony, Claude Chabrol, 1995)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles, 1994)
  

MIFF Films - the Full List

I've updated the MIFF Film List by cross-referencing the now-available Full Guide (in last Friday's Age). I found only three new titles: Billy the Kid, Glue and The Sleeping Child. There are now 263 titles, somewhat less than the figure of 278 announced by MIFF. This is because some of the screenings include more than one film. If I become aware of any changes, they will be posted here.

SECTIONS

AA	Africa! Africa!	IP	International Panorama
AG	Animation Gallery	MM	Magnum in Motion
BB	Backbeat	NG	Next Gen
D	Docos	NW	Neighbourhood Watch
ED	Euro Debuts	SD	Stars of David
FMF	Full Moon Fever	SI	Shohei Imamura Retrospective
FP	Forbidden Pleasures	WS	World Stories
H	Homegrown	*	Films with Distribution
HK	Hirokazu Kore-eda Retrospective

ALPHABETICAL FILM LIST

Film	Director	Country	Sect
4	Tim Slade	Australia	H
4 Elements	Jiska Rickels	Netherlands	D
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days*	Cristian Mungiu	Romania	IP
9 Star Hotel	Ido Haar	Israel	SD
Aachi & Ssipak*	Bum Jin Joe	Korea	AG
AFR	Morten Hartz Kaplers	Denmark	ED
After Life	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	HK
After the Wedding*	Susanne Bier	Denmark	IP
Alexandra	Alexander Sokourov	Russia/…	IP
Alimentation générale - The General Store	Chantal Briet	France	D
Animalia	David Scott	Australia	NG
Anita O'Day the Life of a Jazz Singer	Robbie Cavolina et al.	USA	BB
Armstrongs - the Movie, The	Fergus O'Brien	UK	D
Aviva My Love	Shemi Zarhin	Israel	SD
Away From Her*	Sarah Polley	Canada	IP
Azur and Asmar	Michel Ocelot	France	NG
Ballad of Narayama, the	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
Beaufort	Joseph Cedar	Israel	SD
Beauty in Trouble	Jan Hrebejk	Czech Republic	IP
Beauty Knows No Pain	Elliot Erwitt	USA	MM
Behind the Veil	Eve Arnold	UK	MM
Bella*	Gomez Monteverde	Mexico/…	IP
Belle Toujours	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal/…	IP
Best of Norman McLaren, The	Norman McLaren	Canada	AG
Bet Collector, The	Jeffrey Jeturian	Phillipines	NW
Between Heaven and Earth	Frank van den Engel	Netherlands	D
Beyond Eyruv	John Mounier	USA	SD
Beyond Our Ken	Luke Walker et al	Australia	H
Big Dreamers	Camille Hardman	Australia	H
Billy the Kid	Stefan Schwietert	Switzerland/…	D
Black Rain	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
Black Sheep*	Jonathan King	New Zealand	FMF
Black Snake Moan*	Craig Brewer	USA	IP
Blind Mountain*	Yang Li	China/…	NW
Bliss	Sheng Zhimin	China	NW
Blood of Yingzhou District, The	Ruby Yang	China/…	D
Book That Shook the World, The	Con Anemogiannis	Australia	H
Born and Bred	Pablo Trapero	Argentina/…	IP
Boss of It All, The	Lars Von Trier	Denmark	IP
Boxing Day	Kriv Stenders	Australia	H
Boy on a Galloping Horse, The	Adam Guzinski	Poland	IP
Brand Upon the Brain!	Guy Maddin	USA/…	FP
Breath	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	NW
Bubble, The	Eytan Fox	Israel	SD
Bug	William Friedkin	USA	FMF
Bunny Chow	John Barker	South Africa	AA
Buy a Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter. S Thompson on Film	Tom Thurman	USA	D
Cages	O Masset-Depasse	Belgium	ED
Cats of Mirikitani, The	Linda Hattendorf	USA	D
Children	Ragnar Bragason	Iceland	IP
Comrades in Dreams	Uli Gaulke	Germany	D
Con Man Confidential	Alexander Adolph	Germany	D
Congo River: Beyond Darkness	Thierry Michel	Belgium	AA
Control*	Anton Corbijn	UK	BB
Conversations With My Gardener*	Jean Becker	France	IP
Corroboree	Ben Hackworth	Australia	H
Crazy Love	Dan Klores	USA	D
Dark Deer, The	Viesturs Kairiss	Latvia/…	IP
Day Watch*	T Bekhmamabetov	Russia	IP
Deep Water*	Louise Osmond et al	UK	D
Desert Dream	Zhang Lu	South Korea/…	NW
Dirty Carnival, A*	Ha Yoo	South Korea	NW
Dirty Three*	Darcy Maine	Australia	BB
Distance	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	HK
Dog Bite Dog	Pou-Soi Cheang	Hong Kong/…	NW
DOL: the Valley of Tambourines	Hiner Saleem	Kurdistan/…	IP
Dreams of Dust	Laurent Salgues	France/…	AA
Dry Season	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	France/…	AA
Eagle vs Shark*	Taika Waititi	New Zealand	NW
Echoes of Home	Stefan Schwietert	Switzerland/…	D
Eijanaika	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
El Topo	Alexandro Jodorwsky	Mexico	IP
Enemies of Happiness	Anja Al Erhayem et al	Denmark	D
Eve and Marilyn	Eve Arnold	UK	MM
Everything’s Gone Green	Paul Fox	Canada	IP
Ex-Drummer	Koen Mortier	Belgium/…	ED
Exit*	Peter Lindmark	Sweden	IP
Exterminating Angels	Jean-Claude Brisseau	France	FP
Falkenberg Farewell	Jesper Ganslandt	Sweden/…	ED
Falling	Barbara Albert	Austria	IP
Family Ties	Kim Tae-yong	South Korea	NW
Fay Grim*	Hal Hartley	USA	IP
Few Days in September, A*	Santiago Amigorena	Canada/…	IP
Fido*	Andrew Currie	Canada /…	FMF
Forbidden Lie$*	Anna Broinowski	Australia	H
Forever	Heddy Honigmann	Netherlands	D
Forever Never Anywhere	Antonin Svoboda	Austria	IP
Mirrorball	Various	Various	BB
Gardens in Autumn	Otar Iosseliani	France	IP
Ghosts	Nick Broomfield	UK	IP
Ghosts of Cité Soleil	Hger Leth	Denmark/…	D
Glue	Alexis Dos Santos	Argentina	IP
Grace is Gone*	James C. Strouse	USA	IP
Great World of Sound, The	Craig Zobel	USA	IP
Gucha – Distand Trumpet	Milic Dusan	Germany/…	IP
Half Moon	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran/…	IP
Hana	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	HK
Hansel and Gretel	Anne Wild	Germany	NG
Hardcore Chambermusic	Peter Liechti	Switzerland	D
Heartbreak Hotel*	Colin Nutley	Sweden	IP
Hebrew Lesson, A	David Ofek et al	Israel	SD
His Big White Self	Nick Broomfield	England	D
Holy Mountain, The	Alexandro Jodorwsky	Mexico	IP
Home Song Stories, The*	Tony Ayres	Australia	H
Honor de Cavalleria	Albert Serra	Spain	ED
Hope	Steve Thomas	Spain	H
Hot house	Shimon Dotan	Israel	SD
Hottest State, The	Ethan Hawke	USA	IP
How is Your Fish Today?	Xiaolu Guo	UK/…	NW
I Am the Other Woman	Margarethe von Trotta	Germany	iP
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone	Tsai Ming-Liang	Taiwan/…	NW
I Served the King of England*	Jiri Menzel	Czech Republic/…	IP
Ils	David Moreau et al	France	FMF
In Memory of Myself	Saverio Costa NZO	Italy	IP
In the Company of Actors	Ian Darling	Australia	H
Indigenes*	Rachid Bouchareb	France/…	WS
Inland Empire*	David Lynch	USA	IP
Intentions of Murder (aka Unholy desire)	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
Interview	Steve Buscemi	USA	IP
Irina palm	Sam Garbarski	Belgium...	IP
Island of lost souls	Nikolaj Arcel	Denmark	NG
Island, The	Pavel Lounguine	Russia	IP
It Happened Just Before	Anja Salomonowitz	Austria	D
Jellyfish	Etgar Keret et al	Israel	SD
Joe Strummer: the Future is Unwritten*	Julien Temple	Ireland/…	BB
John Peel's Record Box	Elaine Shepard	UK	BB
Joshua*	George Ratliff	USA	FMF
Journals of Knud Rhmussen, The	Zacharias Kunuk	Canada/…	WS
Kalaupapa Heaven	Paul Cox	Australia	H
Khadak	Peter Brosens et al	Belgium/…	WS
Kidz in da Hood	Ylva Gustavsson et al	Sweden	NG
Knowledge is the Beginning	Paul Smaczny	Germany	SD
Lady Chatterley*	Pascale Ferran	Belgium/…	IP
Lagerfeld Confidential	Rodolphe Marconi	France	D
Lake of Fire	Tony Kaye	USA	D
Last Winter, The	Larry Fessenden	USA/…	FMF
Lights in the Dusk	Aki Kaurismaki	Finland/…	IP
Little Red Flowers	Zhang Yuan	China	NG
London to Brighton	Paul Andrew Williams	UK	ED
Lost in Beijing	Yu Li	China	NW
Lost World of Tibet, The	Emma Hindley	UK	D
Maborosi	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	HK
Made in Jamaica	Jérôme Laperrousaz	France/…	BB
Magnum Story I: Decisive Moments	Patricia Wheatley, Rosemary Bowen‑Jones	UK	MM
Magnum Story II: The Savage Years	Patricia Wheatley, Rosemary Bowen‑Jones	UK	MM
Magnum Story III: Close to the Edge	Patricia Wheatley, Rosemary Bowen‑Jones	UK	MM
Making of	Nouri Bouzid	Tunisia	AA
Man From London, The	Bela Tarr	France/…	IP
Man Vanishes, A	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
Man Who Souled the World, The	Mike Hill	USA	D
Manufactuing Dissent: Michael Moore and the Media	Rick Caine, Debbie Melynk	Canada	D
Mapanstula	Oliver Schmitz	South Africa/…	AA
Men at Work	Mani Haghighi	Iran	IP
Mighty Heart, A*	Michael Winterbottom	UK/…	IP
Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden	Gideon Gold	USA	MM
Mister Lonely	Harmony Korine	UK/…	IP
Monastery, The	Pernille Rose Grønkjaer	Denmark	D
Monkey Grip	Ken Cameron	Australia	H
Mourning Forest, The	Naomi Kawase	Japan	NW
My Father, My Lord	David Volach	Israel	SD
My Friend and his Wife	Shin Dong-il	Korea	NW
My Kid Could Paint That*	Amir Bar-Lev	USA	D
My Name is Albert Ayler	Kasper Colin	Sweden	BB
My Son	Martial Fougeron	France	IP
Night of the Sunflowers, The	Jorge Sánchez‑Cabezudo	Spain/…	ED
Night of Truth, The	Fanta Régina Nacro	Burkino Faso	AA
Night*	Lawrence Johnston	Australia	H
No Exit	Dror Sabo	Israel	SD
Nobody Knows*	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	HK
Nömadak Tx	Raul dela Fuente et al	Spain	WS
Old Weird America, The	Rani Singh	USA	BB
On the Rowanlea Trawler	Jean Gaumy	France	MM
Once*	John Carney	Ireland	IP
Opera Jawa	Garin Nugroho	Indonesia	NW
Orbit	Various	Australia	BB
Other Side, The	Alex Webb	USA	MM
Out of the Blue*	Robert Sarkies	NZ	NW
Paprika*	Satoshi Kon	Japan	AG
Paraguayan Hammock	Paz Encina	Paraguay/…	IP
Philip Jones Griffiths Cambodian Odyssey	Richard Traylor-Smith	UK	MM
Pictures From a Revolution	Susan Meiselas	USA	MM
Playing the Victim	Kirill Serebrennikov	Russia	IP
Pornographers, The	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
Prater	Ulrike Ottinger	Austria/…	D
Primo Levi’s Journey	Davide Ferrario	Italy	D
Promised Paradise*	Leonard Rebel Helmrich	Netherlands	D
Radiant City	Gary Burns, Jim Brown	Canada	D
Rebllion: the Litvinkenko Case	Andrei Nekrasov	Russia	D
Red Road*	Andrea Arnold	UK/…	ED
Reprise*	Joachim Trier	Norway	ED
Rescue Dawn*	Werner Herzog	USA	IP
Return to Goree	Pierre-Yves Borgeaud	Switzerland	AA
Robert Capa: in Love and War	Anne Makepeace	UK	MM
Rock’n’roll Outlaw	Lucille Desoto Clements	Australia	BB
Run Rabbit Run	Bob Ellis	Australia	H
Russian Prison: a Separate Life, The	Gueorgui Pinkhassov	USA	MM
Sargy Mann	Peter Mann	USA	D
Savage Grace	Tom Kalin	Spain/…	FP
Scott Walker – 30th Century Man	Stephen Kijak	UK/…	BB
Searching 4 Sandeep	Poppy Stockell	Australia	H
September*	Peter Carstairs	Australia	H
Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic	Babette Mangolte	USA	D
Severance*	Christopher Smith	UK	FMF
Shame	Mohammed Naqvi	Pakistan/…	D
Shotgun Stories	Jeff Nichols	USA	IP
Sicko*	Michael Moore	USA	D
Signal, The*	David Bruckner et al	USA	FMF
Sister's Love, A	Ivan Sen	Australia	WS
Sleeping Child, The	Yasmine Kassari	Belgium/…	AA
Smoking House, The	Jean Gaumy	France	MM
Snoop Doggs Hood of Horror*	Stacy Title	USA	FMF
Snow Angels	David Gordon Green	Canada	IP
Someone to Run With	Oded Davidoff	Israel	SD
Stephanie Daley*	Hilary Brougher	USA	IP
Still Life	Jia Zhang-Ke	Hong Kong/…	NW
Strange Culture*	Lynn Hershman Leeson	USA	D
Submarine	Jean Gaumy	France	MM
Syndromes and a Century*	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand/…	NW
Tasmanian Devil: the Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn	Simon Nasht	Australia	H
Teeth*	Mitchell Lichenstein	USA	FP
Tekkonkinkreet*	Michael Arias	Japan	NG
Think of England	Martin Parr	UK	MM
This is England*	Shane Meadows	UK	IP
Time	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	NW
Times and Winds	Reha Erdem	Turkey	IP
Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, The	Oscar Redding	Australia	H
Train, The	Donovan Wylie	UK	MM
Triple Dare	Christina Rosendahl	Denmark	NG
Tuya's Marriage	Wang Quan'an	China	WS
Two Faces of China, The	René Burri	USA	MM
U	Gregoire Solotareff	France	NG
Ugly Duckling and Me, The	Michael Hegner	Denmark	NG
Ulzhan	Volker Schlondorff	Kazakstan/…	IP
Untouchable, The	Benoit Jacquot	France	IP
Vengeance is Mine	Shohei Imamura	Japan	SI
VHS Kahloucha	Nejib Belkadhi	Tunisia	AA
Video Diaries: Dying For Publicity	Chris Steele-Perkins	UK	MM
Vitus*	Fredi Murer	Switzerland	NG
Viva	Anna Biller	USA	FP
Voices of Bam	Aliona van der Horst...	Netherlands	D
Waimate Conspiracy, The	Stefen Lewis	New Zealand	WS
Waiting For Happiness	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mauritania	AA
Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, A*	Esther B. Robinson	USA	D
War Tapes, The	Deborah Scranton	USA	D
Wasted, The	Nurit Kedar	Israel	SD
We Are Together	Paul Taylor	UK	AA
Welcome to Nollywood	Jamie Meltzer	USA/…	AA
What the Future Sounded Like	Matthew Bate	Australia	BB
Witnesses, The	André Téchiné	France	IP
Wolfsbergen	Nanouk Leopold	Netherlands/…	IP
Woman on the Beach	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	NW
Words from the City*	Natasha Gadd/ Rhys Graham	Australia	BB
Workshop, The*	Jamie Morgan	UK	FP
Wrestling with Angels - Playwright Tony Kushner	Freida Mock	USA	D
Yamamura Retrospective	Koji Yamamura	Japan	AG
Yamamura Shorts	Koji Yamamura	Japan	NG
Year of the Dog	Mike White	USA	IP
Yella	Christian Petzold	Germany	IP
Yo	Rafa Cortes	Spain	ED
Yokohama Mary	Takayuki Nakamura	Japan	D
You, the Living	Roy Andersson	Sweden/…	IP
Your Mommy Kills Animals	Curt Johnson	USA	D
Zoo	Robinson Devor	USA	FP