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Cornwall Film Festival 2011

Cornwall Film Festival 2011
With a brand new location of the recently built Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay and a strong line-up of films this year, Cornwall Film Festival was bigger and better than ever for its 10th anniversary. This year the festival paid particular attention to some low-budget gems including Sundance sleeper hit...
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We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)
Based on the novel by Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsay’s third feature film is absolutely mesmerising. Presented to us in fragmented non-linear segments we learn of the story of Eva and her extremely troubled son Kevin. Immediately we learn that something terrible has occurred resulting in Eva being an...
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Weekend (2011)

Weekend (2011)
I have heard nothing but positive things about this film and while I don’t disagree with them, I wouldn’t go as far as to say it is one of the highlights in British film this year, which many people have claimed. Weekend tells the story of Russell (Tom Cullen), an introverted lifeguard at a public...
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Tabloid (2010)

Tabloid (2010)
This amusing documentary tells of the bizarre adventures of former 1970s beauty queen Joyce McKinney.  Featuring McKinney herself the film focuses on the story, from the 70s, of her supposedly kidnapping and raping her Mormon boyfriend who had fled from the States to Britain. Joyce followed the man...
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Happy Christmas (2011)

Happy Christmas (2011)
The characters don’t have much to be happy about in Mark Jenkin’s latest feature film Happy Christmas. This is certainly not a feel good cheesy Christmas film, far from it. It is a beautifully shot melancholic film influenced by Godard’s A Bout de Souffle (1960) and John Cassavetes’s...
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Days of Heaven (1978)

Days of Heaven (1978)
Another classic digitally remastered for the big screen, Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven is visually magnificent in large scale, the painterly cinematography a joy to behold. The landscape images that dominate the film, along with the various animals, look gorgeous, there is no denying that. This...
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The Whistleblower (2010)

The Whistleblower (2010)
Based on the true story of Nebraska policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac, The Whistleblower tells of how she went out to Bosnia as a UN peacekeeper and ended up unravelling a sex trafficking ring with links to some very important people actually working at the UN. Rachel Weisz brilliantly depicts Kathryn as...
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Black Pond (2011)

Black Pond (2011)
This bizarre mockumentary tells the fictional story of the Thompson family who were accused of murder after a relative stranger died at their dinner table. The film comprises of traditional talking head interviews with the family members and ‘dramatisation’ of the events leading up to Blake dying...
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Kill List (2011)

Kill List (2011)
I read a lot of good things about this film on Twitter and was very excited to see this British horror film but I felt it didn’t really live up to the hype. Jay (Neil Maskell) is an ex-soldier who lives in a suburban house with his beautiful wife Shel (MyAnna Buring) and their son [...]
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Bellflower (2011)

Bellflower (2011)
Evan Glodell wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in this directorial debut feature film as well as building his own camera using pieces of vintage cameras to shoot the film. Bellflower has a very distinctive look, gritty, dirty, overexposed, soft focus shots depict the California location,...
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