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Flawless
A thriller directed by Michael Radford about a janitor who plans to rob the safe in a company he works for with the help of an executive…
Starring: Michael Caine, Demi Moore
Croatian premiere
United Kingdom, 2007, 1h48, 35 mm
production houses: Pierce/Williams Entertainment, Delux Productions., Future Films
producers: Michael A. Pierce, Mark Williams
directed by: Michael Radford
written by: Edward Anderson
cast: Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker, Shaughan Seymour, Nicholas Jones, David Barras, Joss Ackland
cinematography by: Richard Greatrex
editing: Peter Boyle
set design: Sophie Becher
costume design: Dinah Collin
music: Stephen Warbeck
SUMMARY: Diamonds are forever. Not only in the James Bond film series but also in a new film by director Michael Radford set in 1960s London. Nighttime janitor at London Diamond Corporation Hobbs (Michael Caine) longs for the most expensive ones. Joining forces with ambitious, but disillusioned, Laura (Demi Moore), whose plans about a deserved promotion have just failed, Hobbs thinks of a brilliant plan to get rich literally over night. London has never seen such a thing…
DIRECTOR: Michael Radford was born in 1946 in New Delhi (India). He studied in United Kingdom, first at Oxford and later at the National Film and Television School for a degree in directing. He started his career as a director of documentaries (Van Morrison in Ireland). His first feature-length film is Another Time, Another Place in 1983. Radford first attracted attention with his cinematic adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984, shot in the year from the title. However, he achieved major success with his 1994 film Il Postino, winner of the David Lean Award for best director and two Academy Award nominations, for best director and best screenplay based on material from another medium. In 2004 he adapted William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
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Sleuth
A drama with the elements of a thriller directed by Kenneth Branaghe about an aging rich man matching wits with the lover of his young wife’s…
Starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law
Croatian premiere
USA, 2007, 1h26, 35 mm
production house: Riff Raff
producers: Jude Law, Simon Halfon, Tom Sternberg, Marion Pilowsky, Kenneth Branagh, Simon Moseley
directed by: Kenneth Branagh
written by: Harold Pinter
cast: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Carmel O'Sullivan
cinematography by: Haris Zambarloukos
editing: Neil Farrell
set design: Tim Harvey
costume design: Alexandra Byrne
music: Patrick Doyle
SUMMARY: Selected for the competition programme of the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Sleuth is a new film from a versatile British filmmaker, Kenneth Branagh, a four-time Academy Award nominee in four different categories. A connoisseur of Shakespeare's works, this time Branagh adapted an Anthony Schaffer drama about a cat and mouse game played by a deserted husband and a newly fledged lover. They are an aging author, Andrew (Michael Caine), and a young actor, Milo (Jude Law). When Milo tries to persuade Andrew to sign the divorce paper to his unfaithful wife, Andrew decides to take an untypical revenge…
DIRECTOR: Kenneth Branagh was born in 1960 in Belfast (Northern Ireland / United Kingdom). At the age of 23 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company but soon founded his own theatre company, the Renaissance Theatre Company. In the 1980s he appeared in films, plays, and on television. At the age of 29 he made his directorial debut with the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, in which he played the lead role. The film brought him the BAFTA Award for best director and two Academy Award nominations (for best director and best actor in a leading role). Branagh also made cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and As You Like It. He became popular as an actor with the hits Wild Wild West and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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Before the Devils Knows You're Dead
A thriller by American veteran Sydney Lumet about two brothers who decide to organize a robbery, the consequences of which prove to be fatal for their families...
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke
Croatian premiere
USA, United Kingdom, 2007, 1h57, 35 mm
production houses: Unity Productions, Linsefilm
producer: Michael Cerenzie, William S. Gilmore, Brian Linse, Paul Parmar
directed by: Sydney Lumet
written by: Kelly Masterson
cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan
cinematography by: Ron Fortunato
editing: Tom Swartwout
set design: Christopher Nowak
costume design: Tina Nigro
music: Carter Burwell
SUMMARY: How to commit a perfect crime? Gathering an impressive cast that received numerous awards for their performances, Sydney Lumet is tackling this issue in his new film. The film centres on two brothers. The older one, Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), plans to commit a perfect murder and asks his younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) for help. Their target is their parents’ jewellery store, which at first seems like an easy prey. However, when the robbery turns into murder, and brotherly unity into betrayal, Andy and Hank will not have much choice…
DIRECTOR: Sydney Lumet was born in 1924 in Philadelphia (USA). Having grown up in a family of a filmmakers and with more than 50 films to his name, Lumet is a living legend of American cinema whose directorial body of work includes the masterpieces 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict, and Prince of the City. Five-time Academy Award nominee, Lumet won an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2005. Equally successful as a director and a scriptwriter, Lumet was also acclaimed for the brilliant work with numerous actors and actresses who delivered some of their best performances in his films. One of the founders of the New Hollywood, Lumet is a cineaste that attracts attention with his creative strength and freshness today same as he did half a century ago.
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Battle in Seattle
An action drama directed by Stuart Townsend centring on a group of activists that organize protests against the World Trade Organization…
Starring: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta
East European premiere
USA, Canada, 2007, 1h40, 35 mm
production houses: Insight Film Studios, Remstar Corporation, Proud Mary Entertainment
producers: Kirk Shaw, Maxime Rémillard, Mary Aloe, Stuart Townsend
directed by: Stuart Townsend
written by: Stuart Townsend
cast: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Rade Šerbedžija, Connie Nielsen, Martin Henderson, Channing Tatum, Andre Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, Michelle Rodriguez
cinematography by: Barry Ackroyd
editing: Fernando Villena
set design: Chris August
costume design: Andrea Des Roches
music: One Point Six
SUMMARY: Irish actor with a Hollywood career Stuart Townsend makes his debut as a director and a scriptwriter in a film centring on protests against the World Trade Organization that took place in Seattle in 1999. In only a couple of days Seattle turned from a quiet town into a battleground on which individual destinies and burning world issues intertwined. The film focuses on the protagonists of these events, ranging from young demonstrators (Martin Henderson, Andre Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, and Michelle Rodriguez), to policeman (Woody Harrelson) and his pregnant wife, to the mayor (Ray Liotta)…
DIRECTOR: Stuart Townsend was born in 1972 in Howth (Ireland). He studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and began his career in the 1990s by appearing in short films shot in his home country. He took his first lead role in the British feature-length crime drama Trojan Eddie in 1996. After delivering a successful title role in About Adam, he goes to Hollywood where he appears in the films Queen of the Damned and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He appears in the film Head in the Clouds alongside his life partner Charlize Theron.
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Closing the Ring
Richard Attenborough's melodrama about a ring that is found near Belfast half a century after the Second World War. The ring opens up old wounds and brings back memories of love and friendship...
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Neve Campbell
Croatian premiere
United Kingdom, Canada, USA, 2007, 118 min / 1h58, 35 mm
production houses: Closing the Ring Productions, Prospero Pictures, Scion Films
producers: Richard Attenborough, Jo Gilbert, Martin F.Katz
directed by: Richard Attenborough
written by: Peter Woodward
cast: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Neve Campbell, Stephen Amell, Pete Postlethwaite, Brenda Fricker, David Alpay, Gregory Smith, Martin McCann
cinematography by: Roger Pratt
editing: Lesley Walker
set design: Tom McCullagh
costume design: Hazel Webb-Crozier
music: Jeff Danna
SUMMARY: Love and war are united in yet another epic melodrama directed by Richard Attenborough, a true master when it comes to film adaptations of historical tales. Closing the Ring centres on young American Ethel (Mischa Barton) who wins the hearts of three friends just before the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Falling in love with one of them – Teddy (Stephen Amell), Ethel makes a vow of everlasting love and they get married in secret. However, the young man dies in Northern Ireland as a flyer. Respecting the promise he gave to Teddy, his best friend Chuck (David Alpay) takes care of Ethel. Half a century later, a ring found at the place of the tragedy complicates the relationship between Ethel (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Marie (Neve Campbell)…
DIRECTOR: Richard Attenborough was born in 1923 in Cambridge (United Kingdom). This award-winning director, producer and actor made his West End debut in 1942 while he was still studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Since then he has appeared in a series of plays and films including Brighton Rock, The Angry Silence, Guns at Batasi, Séance On A Wet Afternoon, The Sand Pebbles, Doctor Dolittle, Miracle on 34th Street, and Jurassic Park. He made his directorial debut with the 1969 musical Oh! What a Lovely War and at that time he started making some notable appearances as an actor. The peak of his career was the 1982 film Gandhi that earned him numerous awards, including two Academy Awards (best producer and best director), two BAFTA Awards and the Golden Globe. He directed the award-winning films A Bridge Too Far, Cry Freedom, Chaplin, Shadowlands and In Love and War.
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The Hoax
A crime comedy directed by Lasse Hallström about a man who decides to write a bogus biography of controversial Howard Hughes…
Starring: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden
Croatian premiere
USA, 2006, 1h56, 35 mm
production houses: City Entertainment, Hallström/Holleran
producers: Mark Gordon, Leslie Holleran, Joshua D. Maurer, Betsy Beers, Bob Yari
directed by: Lasse Hallström
written by: William Wheeler
cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy, Eli Wallach, Stanley Tucci, Zeljko Ivanek, John Carter
cinematography by: Oliver Stapleton
editing: Andrew Mondshein
set design: Mark Ricker
costume design: David Robinson
music: Carter Burwell
SUMMARY: Currently the last film from Swedish director with an international career Lasse Hallström, based on a book by Clifford Irving, centres on the circumstances in which the same book, that raised a lot of dust at the time, was made. Irving, portrayed by Richard Gere, wrote a biography of one of the most controversial Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes, claiming that it was based on true, but unknown details from the millionaire’s life. However, the entire book was the fruit of the author’s imagination, which did not have any affect on the popularity of the incredible biography. Clifford Irving himself stated that he had nothing to do with the film centring on him. Yet another controversy…
DIRECTOR: Lasse Hallström was born in 1946 in Stockholm (Sweden). A distinguished film director and scriptwriter, Hallström began his career on television and by making music videos for the group ABBA. He achieved international success with his 1985 film My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) that earned him two Academy Award nominations, for best director and best screenplay based on material from another medium. At the beginning of the 1980s he arrived in the USA where he collaborated with many famous actors. Hallström directed a series of highly acclaimed films, starting with the drama What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993. The 1999 film The Cider House Rules earned him an Academy Award nomination for best director for the second time. His 2002 film Chocolate, screened at the Berlinale, became a worldwide hit with five Academy Award nominations. The Shipping News from 2001 was screened in competition for the Golden Bear. In 2005 Lars shot Casanova.
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Death Defying Acts
A romantic drama directed by Gillian Armstrong about a relationship between the world most famous magician and a charming con psychic…
Starring: Guy Pierce, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Croatian premiere
United Kingdom, Australia, 2007, 1h37, 35 mm
production houses: Macgowan Lupovtiz Nasatir Films Pty Ltd, Zephyr Films Houdini Ltd
producers: Marian Macgowan, Chris Curling
directed by: Gillian Armstrong
written by: Tony Grisoni, Brian Ward
cast: Guy Pierce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan, Aaron Brown, Silvia Lombardo, Frankey Martyn
cinematography by: Haris Zambarloukos
editing: Nicholas Beauman
set design: Gemma Jackson
costume design: Susannah Buxton
music: Cezary Skubiszewski
SUMMARY: Film illusion and the most prominent magician in history, Harry Houdini, unite in the romantic drama directed by Australian director Gillian Armstrong. The story goes back to 1926 when Harry Houdini (Guy Pierce) goes on a world tour. Arriving in Edinburgh, the great illusionist offers a ten thousand dollar award to whoever helps him contact his deceased mother. Local psychic Mary (Catherine Zeta-Jones), assisted by her eleven-year-old daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) in deceiving naïve locals, feels tempted by the offer…
DIRECTOR: Gillian Armstrong was born in 1950 in Melbourne (Australia). Dedicated to film from early youth, the award-winning director and scriptwriter is one of the representatives of the Australian new wave of the 1970s. She won several international awards already with her degree works Satdee Night and 100 a Day. At the age of 29 she participated in the competition programme of the Cannes International Film Festival with her film My Brilliant Career, winner of the Australian Film Institute Award for best director. She received two nominations for the Golden Bear (Mrs. Soffel, The Last Days of Chez Nous) and the Australian Film Institute awarded her for the documentary Not Fourteen Again. She achieved international success with the feature films Little Women, nominated for three Oscars, and Charlotte Grey, and the documentary Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst, screened in the official competition of the Sundance Film Festival.
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WALL·E
An animated feature directed by Andrew Stanton about a robot cleaner, Wall*E, from 2700, who falls in love with an attractive stranger…
Voice cast (Croatian voiceover): Janko Rakoš, Maja Katić, Jasna Bilušić
Croatian premiere
USA, 2008, 1h38, 35 mm
production houses: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
producent / producer: Jim Morris
directed by: Andrew Stanton
written by: Andrew Stanton,
sinkronizorani glasovi / synchronized voices: Janko Rakoš, Maja Katić, Jasna Bilušić
izvorni glasovi / original voices: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver
editing: Stephen Schaffer
set design: Ralph Eggleston
music: Thomas Newman
zvuk / sound: Ben Burtt, Dustin Cawood, Clint Smith
SUMMARY: Do you know what WALL-E, the name of the hero, stands for? It is an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. Behind this long term there is an engaging robot cleaner from the future which is far from bright for the planet Earth. People had to leave their habitat long time ago because their savaging of the environment disabled existence on the planet that once flourished with life. These are the circumstances in which WALL-E has to clean up tonnes of trash. However, his task is interrupted by the arrival of Eve, with which the charming robot falls in love. Does their relationship mean new life on Earth… New Pixar – Walt Disney collaboration created a charming allegory of love, science and nature. Sound designer and two-time Oscar winner Ben Burt voices WALL-E, while in the Croatian version the hero is played by Janko Rakoš. The American Eve is Elissa Knight, and the Croatian Maja Katić.
DIRECTOR: Andrew Stanton was born in 1965 in Rockport (USA). Devoted to David Lean and David Memet films, Stanton made his debut with the short animated film A Story in 1987. Specializing in 3D computer animation, he became part of the team that made the first animated feature produced using this technique, the 1995 film Toy Story, for which he won an Oscar nomination for best script. Stanton joined John Lasseter in the director’s chair to make his first animated feature A Bug’s Life in 1998. In 2003 he conquered world picture theatres with a masterpiece of 3D computer animation, Finding Nemo, which earned him an Academy Award for best animated feature. Apart from directing and scriptwriting Stanton also voices his film characters.
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