Film Festivals 2009
Che: Part One - The Argentine (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Jorge Perugorria, Julia Ormond, Vladimir Cruz, Rodrigo Santoro...
Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderbergh's film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its re... Read more
Che: Part Two - Guerilla (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Oscar Jaenada, Antonio Peredo, Demian Bichir,...
In 1965, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) resigns from his role in the Cuban government to take up the struggle against Bolivia's militarist g... Read more
Cheri (2009)
3.4/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Kathy Bates, Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones, Rupert Friend
It's turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The tale begins as the ravishing Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) contemplat... Read more
Coco Avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel ) (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde, Audrey Ta...
Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to... Read more
Coco Avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel ) ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde, Audrey Ta...
Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to... Read more
Coraline (2009)
7.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, Rober...
Vividly animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-seller about an adventurous little girl who walks through a secret door and finds a world that is sp... Read more
Coraline ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dawn French, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, Keith David, Teri Hatcher, Dakota F...
Vividly animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-seller about an adventurous little girl who walks through a secret door and finds a world that is sp... Read more
Dead Snow (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Evy Kasseth R...
Nazi zombies anyone? This over-the-top, blackly comic shocker from Norway begins harmlessly enough with eight med students off to spend an idyllically... Read more
Departures (2008)
8.1/10
Director: Yojiro Takita
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Ryoko Hirosue, T...
When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) decides to start over and moves back to his small hometown. Desperate for work, he secr... Read more
Disgrace (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Steve Jacobs
Starring: John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney
John Malkovich stars in this drama based on the novel by South African author J.M. Coetzee. David Lurie (Malkovich) is a self-absorbed, twice-divorced... Read more